THE GREAT AWAKENING IS EXPOSING HIDDEN EVIL
This current Great Awakening is based on revealing TRUTH. When the Lord Jesus brings forth His Light no evil can hide. We are now seeing this in real time.
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It used to be easy for the enemy to have its way. Christians were taught by faux-spiritual girly men to always back down in any kind of spiritual fight as if that was the way of the Lord. But those who are filled with His powerful Holy Spirit know that has never been His way.
The LORD is a warrior; The LORD is His name. [Exodus 15:3]
He just got through destroying the pursuing Egyptian army. Before that the firstborn male of every family in Egypt was struck down. Before that several plagues had decimated Egypt. None of it was enough to cause repentance. None of it was enough to admit guilt. None of it had to happen. The defiance and stubbornness of the Egyptians was off the charts. Sound familiar? The Egyptian king had decided to pursue the Israelites whose time had come to leave Egypt and possess their own land. He had decided to bring them back in chains if he must.
For any Christian paying attention this story has always been indicative of future happenings when the people of the Lord would gain maturity and move on only to be pursued by those attempting to hold them back. Why were they trying to hold them back? The answer is an easy one. The ruling Christian potentates knew they must have ever-present congregants to fill seats and pay tithes or they would never be in business. It also follows that such congregants must remain somewhat spiritually ignorant, Biblically illiterate, and stay dependent.
But for those who progress anyway, through much individual hard work and study, one should realize that spiritual growth must result at some point in spiritual graduation. When graduation day comes, however, few ever graduate. The spiritual graduates are instead coerced through fear to remain in place forever so they can forever support those in control and their non-New Covenant structure and belief system.
These are often no different than Israelite slaves making bricks in the blazing sun.
Whoever did graduate and obeyed the Lord often found the opposite of a ceremony. They were instead trashed and labeled as malcontents and what have you. Think Stephen. The only ones “graduating” officially were the same few sycophants allowed into the inner circles of those in charge. These people rarely got there by the Lord’s appointment and never earned it. They got there because they sold out to become members of an exclusive club and the club took care of its own.
Many Christians on the outside looking in have always known this and experienced the resulting rejection first hand. They knew they were much more qualified and had paid the greater price. If a Christian is oblivious of real Christian history and the historical accounts of the Book of Acts he will never be able to understand this or relate. The early Community of the Lord was composed not of religious appointees but powerful spiritual people who had paid the ultimate price to properly repent and get right with God. It cost them everything but the Lord was relatively quick to get them re-situated in their new spiritual environment, His holy kingdom.
They depended on Him and one another. They supported one another. No one was left out. Every single one of these had been rejected by the higher powers of this world that had no place for them. Unreal Christians have no idea of such truth, which proves their Unreal Christian status. Real Christians know that nothing is gained without a spiritual fight. They learn early on that the enemy will stop at nothing, never plays fair, and can be quite vicious.
We have seen a variation of this play out on the national scene over the last few weeks and days. They pulled out all the stops. They did the most evil despicable things. The devil is a liar and cannot exist without lying about anything and everything. Desperate people on the wrong side of the argument who have knowingly or unknowingly sided with the devil always put everything on the line in pushing forth their agendas because they know they have no faith in a higher power that they would otherwise trust. Christians who trust the Lord know they are not in the fight alone and are therefore never desperate. They remain at peace. They know the Lord is working. They pray. They seek Him. They believe Him. They lean on Him. They trust Him.
When Abraham did these very things the Lord proclaimed him as righteous. Abraham was righteous because he trusted and believed in the Lord. He gave his life to the Lord forever and promised to do his best. He failed on occasion but repented. He thus remained righteous. True righteousness is thus not possible without the Lord Jesus. It is in fact a gift:
But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. The gift is not like that which came through the one who sinned; for on the one hand the judgment arose from one transgression resulting in condemnation, but on the other hand the free gift arose from many transgressions resulting in justification.
For if by the transgression of the one, death reigned through the one, much more those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation to all men, even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life to all men. For as through the one man’s disobedience the many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the One the many will be made righteous. [Romans 5:15-19]
Those who reject the Lord Jesus remain in their sins and there is no other cure. They reject the free gift. Their pride is too great. They are too vested. They have bought into the wrong paradigm. They attempt to protect their investment even in the face of ongoing diminishing returns. When in power they cheat. When out of power they rail against righteousness. They have lost all semblance of understanding eternal principles. They live only for this world. Compared to where they are going this present world is a great place. They have thrown away the Golden Rule. Their violation of it will prove to be their undoing.
Regarding the future there will be more TRUTH coming forth. More awakening will happen. The Lord will grant greater strength and favor. This is a time many real believers have hoped for and looked forward to for many years and even decades. So many have been praying and preparing. These have thrown in their lot with the Lord long ago. Otherwise successful lives according to a worldly standard have been forfeited for the greater spiritual good. Though no written guarantee of eventual spiritual success was made these believers have trusted the Lord anyway. For all those who stayed in faith their faith is now beginning to pay off in a major way.
“For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil. For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. But he who practices the truth comes to the Light, so that his deeds may be manifested as having been wrought in God.” [John 3:17-21] [1]
© 2018 by RJ Dawson. All Rights Reserved.
[1] Unless otherwise noted all Scriptures are taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.
Posted on October 7, 2018, in Current Events and tagged Abraham, America, Deception, Evil, Gift of Righteousness, Lord Jesus, Real Christianity, The Great Awakening, Truth, Unreal Christianity. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
The Left has still not accepted Trump’s win over Hillary. They’re putting all their hopes on the November elections. They will never let up on Kavanaugh; nor will they ever give up on impeaching Trump. I have never seen such division and hatred, in my lifetime, in the political arena. The Left is becoming more and more obvious in their agenda, even to the point of running people out of restaurants. The one good thing I can say about the Left right now is that they’re becoming more obvious about their real purpose–anti-God, anti-capitalism, anti-family, anti-America.
Maxine Waters, an angry and bitter woman, has recently said that the next Supreme Court pick ought to be an illegal immigrant. Sadly, there are a lot of people who support her and her agenda. And that’s just one example.
And we can’t forget Obama’s part in the division that besets us now, and the “religion” he supports and protects.
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Thanks Linda. It appears that more people are beginning to see that there is no actual substance behind the lying rhetoric which had previously garnered great success. In politics, it is often the mere perception of a thing that matters. Over the last few decades, however, the political puppets and their handlers went beyond mere deception, knowing they still had intelligent people out there to deal with, into outright fraud, knowing, apparently, that much of the population was not so intelligent anymore. Actually, people had become less aware and much more trusting because they no longer did their homework and were brainwashed into thinking that having strong opinions based on fact were no longer acceptable and carried social punishments. Those who went all in on social media slowly became part of a hive mind without realizing it and fell headlong into PC culture. The politicians took full advantage of it. Some say this was the purpose of social media to begin with.
But over the last three years something else has developed. All those who never took the bait and were shunned aside began speaking forth anyway when they realized they had nothing to lose and began using alternative forms of social media to go on the attack against those who tried to silence them and turn them into passive puppies. This caused a counter attack from those who took the bait who no longer thought for themselves. And so it goes.
I remember back about forty years ago someone had a small ad in the newspaper that appeared every day for quite a while, at least a year or two. The little headline in the small block ad proclaimed in bold letters: WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE? The author was quoting David from the second Psalm. The heathen were the “Goy” or “Goyim” (Gentiles). These were always looked down upon by the Jews.
In the Book of Acts, members of the Lord’s new Community who had just welcomed back Peter and John from the trial after the healing of the lame man quote this same Psalm and Luke dutifully recorded it [Note: the NASV uses caps when quoting the OT]:
“O Lord, it is You who MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, who by the Holy Spirit, through the mouth of our father David Your servant, said, ‘WHY DID THE GENTILES RAGE, AND THE PEOPLES DEVISE FUTILE THINGS? THE KINGS OF THE EARTH TOOK THEIR STAND, AND THE RULERS WERE GATHERED TOGETHER AGAINST THE LORD AND AGAINST HIS CHRIST.’ For truly in this city there were gathered together against Your holy servant Jesus, whom You anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur. And now, Lord, take note of their threats, and grant that Your bond-servants may speak Your word with all confidence, while You extend Your hand to heal, and signs and wonders take place through the name of Your holy servant Jesus.” And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak the word of God with boldness. [Acts 4:24-31]
This is the dynamic traditional Christianity has lacked. It is also the dynamic sorely lacking in those who had truth on their side but refused to act upon it for fear of being labeled something that did damage to their preferred decorum. There comes a time, though, when decorum is no longer worth saving, as one’s enemies violate all manner of decorum anyway. The early Church in Acts was certainly concerned about giving forth the proper witness but they also knew they must fight back. We are seeing such fighting back now in the political sphere. Americans are fed up and are fighting back. As a result, victories are being gained that would never have happened otherwise and evil is being exposed.
Be Blessed!
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