"Are You For Us Or For Our Adversaries?"

Preface: For the next nine hours....up till midnight....ligonier.org has an R C Sproul sermon up that is very pertinent to today's culture and politics! Please try to listen to this.

The following is from this past February of last year:

             Breitbart is right now posting an article of an interview with a Harvard professor, and the following is a quote from that professor concerning his book....

            "It's not against religion. It is certainly against the belief that God interferes with the laws of the universe and that by praying to him we can make the world better. I think that is a dangerous belief because it is not true. If we want to make the world better, we have to figure out how to do it ourselves. If we want to cure disease, we have to come up with antibiotics and vaccines and not prayer. If we want to stave off global warming, we can't assume God won't let bad things happen......if you're counting on God to make the world a better place you are probably going to make the world a worse place because he is not listening and we saw that yesterday (in Florida)."

             I'm not going to answer this worn-out diatribe against God. Every Christian reading this knows where this man made his mistakes. What I propose to do is warn again of the anti-Christian worldview that is increasingly appearing many places in America and the world today. Folks, this worldview will temper its actions only until it is fully in power....history shows this....then there will be no more need for tolerance. We should know what is ahead!

            Let me segue a little bit here and tell you about Michael Horton. It's been well over twenty years now since I happened to come across a radio program on our local Christian radio station. It was and is still called the White Horse Inn. As the story goes....around 500 years ago men gathered in an inn in Cambridge, England and talked....(I spent a lot of time in college bars and could we ever talk)....and they debated the issues of the day coming out of the Reformation on the continent. So Horton and a few others started a Christian call-in radio show by that same name. The original White Horse Inn is long gone but while in England I did look for and find a plaque at Cambridge designating where the inn once stood. Dr. Michael Horton has written many books....and I recommend every one of them....for he is the closest thing to an heir to R. C. Sproul that we have.

            Anyway, I was listening to an older sermon of his from 2015 titled 'Commander In Chief.' As you certainly recall from Scripture....(Joshua 5)....Joshua was approached by an angel who had his sword drawn. He then asked...."Are you for us or for our adversaries?" The answer should be heeded by all of us today....."No, rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD." Joshua then "fell on his face to the earth" and asked what was required of him. I'm listening to Michael Horton's words and what is going through my mind is the question often implied today....."are you for us (Republicans) or for our adversaries (the Democrats)? The answer would be the same today should an angel with his sword drawn stand before us. That question....inverted many times over the years....and as Horton reminds us as far back as with Abraham Lincoln....is not whether God is for or against America....but whether we are for or against God....and the answer to that today is....we are against God!    

              Joshua was then informed that his adversaries would be given over to God's people coming out of the wilderness. The problem concerning us is that no angel has informed us of this.....on the contrary......many Old Testament prophets speak to us today in that we are to be given into the hands of our enemies! Yet perhaps.....if we turn back to God....He will have mercy upon us. 

              The annual CPAC ....(the Conservative Political Action Conference)....is coming up this week. (about 2 1/5 weeks from this posting) President Trump and Vice President Pence will be speaking there as well as quite a number of his cabinet heads. Many conservatives assume that God....should He truly exist.... is naturally with them....so there are no funds or time spent necessary here. We couldn't be further from the truth.  I suspect that there may be a few speakers at this gathering who actually tell the conference attendees that we as a nation have forgotten and even forsaken God.....but they will most likely be drowned out by another speaker and shouts of USA...USA...USA.         

       

whitehorseinn.org

you might also Google....Michael Horton sermons at SermonAudio.com
and also....R C Sproul's last sermon....or ligonier.org....or refnet.fm...or whitehorseinn.org.