As we celebrate July 4th many of us find ourselves concerned about how our culture is digressing. We are in the midst of major cultural wars. Gun laws and Abortion currently take center stage. Why are we so polarized? I don’t believe it really is new. Humanity has been in this battle since the beginning of creation.
God created the world, planted a garden and then made man so that he could give them the garden to live in. There is only one rule. The fruit of this one tree is poisonous. Satan comes and says, “God is denying you your rights. You have a right to eat what you want. Taste and see, that the fruit on that tree is just as good as the fruit on the other trees.” Then after they have eaten it, he tells them how God now hates them and is out to get them.
We see this same tactic played out over and over again. I love our country and our freedoms and I am disturbed when we are denied some many freedoms. I have to admit, however, that our American Ideology is rooted in this notion that I have certain “Inalienable Rights” which has and still feeds the idea that I should stand up and claim those rights. This idea leads us down a dangerous path that believes, I can demand my rights even at the expense or pain of others.
So Satan continues his lie. He doesn’t say, “You can get through this God still has it under control.” He says, “You! can fix this yourself.” And then convinces us to fix the wrong things.
True freedom is, knowing God has it under control. “He whom the Son sets free is free indeed.”
Jesus denied His own rights and became subject to death, in order to give us His right to be called the sons of God.
Here is a radical extreme belief. Women can claim the right to have an abortion, but should they not lay down that right, in order to honor their unborn baby’s right to live.
Pastor Mark
God created the world, planted a garden and then made man so that he could give them the garden to live in. There is only one rule. The fruit of this one tree is poisonous. Satan comes and says, “God is denying you your rights. You have a right to eat what you want. Taste and see, that the fruit on that tree is just as good as the fruit on the other trees.” Then after they have eaten it, he tells them how God now hates them and is out to get them.
We see this same tactic played out over and over again. I love our country and our freedoms and I am disturbed when we are denied some many freedoms. I have to admit, however, that our American Ideology is rooted in this notion that I have certain “Inalienable Rights” which has and still feeds the idea that I should stand up and claim those rights. This idea leads us down a dangerous path that believes, I can demand my rights even at the expense or pain of others.
So Satan continues his lie. He doesn’t say, “You can get through this God still has it under control.” He says, “You! can fix this yourself.” And then convinces us to fix the wrong things.
True freedom is, knowing God has it under control. “He whom the Son sets free is free indeed.”
Jesus denied His own rights and became subject to death, in order to give us His right to be called the sons of God.
Here is a radical extreme belief. Women can claim the right to have an abortion, but should they not lay down that right, in order to honor their unborn baby’s right to live.
Pastor Mark
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