AFRAID OF JESUS CHRIST

AFRAID OF JESUS CHRIST

Donald E. Clem kokomo36@direcway.com
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January 28, 2003

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Those who believe themselves above moral disciplines have embarked on a course to deny the truth of Jesus Christ by banning him from public life. Why?

-- Donald E. Clem

He was hung on a cross by the hate mongers of that day. He was laid in a tomb with a big boulder at the opening to keep his remains from being stolen by his friends. He not only escaped, he now lives in heaven, seated at the right hand of God, his father and ours. And now certain segments of humanity are so afraid of him they are trying to banish all mention, if not thought of him, from public life. Those of us who believe in him are branded as bigots, intolerant, and purveyors of hate. Believers are denied rights that those who don’t believe in him are able to exercise. Those who issue the edicts and deny the rights are the same ones accusing believers of intolerance.

To hear the non-believers, the reasons offered for denying believers their rights guaranteed by the Constitution are many and complex, too difficult to understand according to the dissenters. But are they really all that hard to understand? When their spouting is examined the answer is no, they aren’t hard to understand at all. It goes back to the basic premise of who is in control, man or God.

Ungodly judges, those elected to public office, appointees, and the generally ignorant, declare that to allow mention of God in any public forum is a violation of the constitutionally mandated separation of church and a state. The challenge is for them to show where that statement is written in the Constitution; but I am ahead of the thoughts to be presented.

The issue of who is in control is the first order of business. Paul when speaking to the church at Ephesus said:

“Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.
29. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.
30. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.” – Acts 20:28-30

I know that very possibly that not all who read this are believers, but the principles apply none the less. There will be those that won’t follow proper paths of decency, morality, and honor. These will have a following of people that believe that men spouting humanism hold the ultimate answer to all of life’s problems.

Religion formed the basis for the foundation of the nation. The founders knew that the path to freedom and liberty begins with belief in God. Not just any god either, but God who created heaven and earth and all that is in them. They knew that the religion of God contains the paths of right and wrong. Whatever God has said pleases him regarding human behavior and makes right doing the operative words. Whatever God says that displeases him must have the concept of wrong applied. And whether right and wrong are believed, accepted, adhered to or ignored, they stand immutable, having begun in the Garden of Eden, until God decrees otherwise, which he isn’t going to do. That is where man tries to become God by decreeing otherwise to his own folly and destruction.

Our entire body of law is based on the principles of God which guide behavior. Without a standard there is no reliable way to keep an orderly society.

Society would quickly become an existence in which each person would determine what was right to do in his or her own eyes irrespective of the harm that would be caused to others. Society could not exist as we know it; in fact society would be destroyed if that were the case. Even now we are seeing the beginning of such with some segments of society acting as if the laws of universal moral behavior don’t apply to them.

Those who believe themselves above moral disciplines have embarked on a course to deny the truth of Jesus Christ by banning him from public life. Why?

Jesus requires that all men adhere to right doing or suffer the consequences. Jesus points out wrong and makes it clear where that path will lead. Jesus was and is the living example (religion) of the principles by which God wants all to live daily. Religion (not man’s idea of it) has a definition which is found in James 1:27:

“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

The formula is very simple. Take care of those in need and keep oneself from the influence of the world’s way and away from the doing of wrong (sin) by following good. Now we have reached the crux of the matter. Mankind is in love with doing as he or she pleases and Jesus is standing in the way. Since he was disposed of on a cross once for all time and can’t be again, it is imperative to silence those who believe in him and preach his message to the sinners of the world.

Ungodly men and judges have found a way to deny the public utterance of God and Jesus. They have declared it in violation of the separation of church and state. That is a farce for many reasons, not the least of which is that, it is Congress that is prevented from tampering with religion because it is the only one empowered to make law. Neither Congress nor anyone else can prevent the utterance of God in the public place. There is an irony about the denial of God and Jesus Christ in public places, which those who deny God have put in place. By denying God they have established religion of men and they enforce it with more edicts from their ungodly mouths.

Yet, the irony goes deeper. They blatantly deny God and then allow all the phony beliefs to take his place in the interest of fairness and DIVERSITY. They don’t want anyone to be offended so God is banned.

What is strange, they don’t seem to notice, much less care, that those of us that believe in God are offended by being banned from speaking out, and that we are being discriminated against by their rulings, all in the interest of fairness and diversity.

They don’t like not being in control so they banish God or try to do so. The ungodly do the denying and then look at their ungodly followers for approval. They are seeking popularity and the majority is either in sympathy with them or too scared to speak out. There is an old saying that the world is going to Hell in a hand basket. In this case, it is the ungodly ones, in league with the devil that are carrying the basket with many riding along in silence for the sake of getting along.

The sum total of their behavior in trying to silence God is that they are afraid of the power of Jesus Christ. He is the master and requires obedience to his way of right. He has no room for the deliberate doing of wrong. He is the way to the exclusion of all others. God chose him and him alone as the path for a good life on earth and eternal salvation. That the ungodly federal judges, state judges, and local judges know beyond a doubt. If they weren’t scared of him they wouldn’t try to ban him and God from public utterance.

The religion they permit promises nothing and therefore requires nothing in the way of changed behavior. One particular religion allows the heathen practices of adultery, abortion, fornication, pedophilia, bestiality, and homosexuality to name a few. The name of that religion is humanism and it is prominent throughout the land in court rulings and the some of the laws that are passed by law making bodies at all levels.

Again, fear of Jesus Christ is their driving force. They fear that they will have to change their ungodly, sinful ways and give up power. But they are afraid in their arrogance for the wrong reason. They need to heed the words of Paul, II Thessalonians 1:6-8:

Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7. And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8. In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Hopefully they will see the truth before it is too late. For some the deadline for change has passed already.

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