The Pastor's Pen

It is quite apparent that the life of Paul brought many problems to him and those with him

throughout his entire ministry. Things are not much different today; actually we are coming full circle

back to the way things were during Paul’s ministry. Think about it, the religious crowd (the Jews)

rejected Christ, and the Gentiles were so caught up in their polytheistic will-worship that they had no

idea who God was. Unfortunately things are not much different now.

America has drifted away from God and may never return if it remains on its current course.

The rights and freedoms that we now enjoy are either diminishing before our very eyes or they are

proving to be the instruments in which we die from. What a sad thought, is it not? Imagine for a

moment the very freedoms and liberties that great Americans died to provide, preserve, and perpetuate

are quickly becoming the means in which we will die.

Some may ask, why? Others may not even understand where I am coming from, therefore it is

very important that we stop and explain just briefly just what I mean. As most of Christendom would

agree, Jesus is coming soon and with His coming some radical changes are taking place around this

world. The establishment of an “Authoritarian Government” is on the way. Much of the foundation is

already laid and many people have been programmed through secular education to receive such

thinking.

Keep in mind, there are some things in this present world that have been proposed that may not

be all that bad in and of themselves, but they must have parameters and guidelines that are absolute.

However, we are a society that has all but removed absolutes and have made them arbitrary. The

liberties we have been graciously given in this nation are quickly slipping away to the highest bidder. All

the politicians have to do for most is to promise to keep their personal peace and affluence in good

standing and most will give up anything. This mindset is producing an Authoritarian Government whose

absolutes are certainly arbitrary. Mind you, this cannot work under the system in which our forefathers

have given us. Our liberties and freedoms can only work under the consensus of Christianity. There

must be absolutes in which to govern by. As Francis Schaeffer profoundly put it, “If there are no

absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.”

This can only breed chaos as we can see all around our land today. People claim it is their right

to murder their unborn child, it is their right to fill their minds and the minds of others with

pornography, and it is their right to honor every culture that floats upon our shores at the expense of

our own. It has become the right of Americans to burn our flag, to cease praying in our schools and to

remove God from our way of life. Now with society deciding what is absolute and not the Word of God

it will not be long before a man or an elite group has an opportunity to step in and offer order. The

order offered always comes with a cost. The cost will be the loss of even more of our liberties until one

day we are completely at the mercy of the state.

The choice set before us is very clear: 1). Get back to the Bible 2). Imposed Order. With this in

mind I want to know, “Where are the pestilent fellows?” Paul stood in a day much like our own that was

filled with false polytheism and philosophies of men among many other things and he went in the power

of Christ and delivered the message that so many needed to hear. It eventually cost him his head, but

praise God for men like Paul who has the backbone to speak the truth. Society as a whole could not

accept Paul. His entire world-view was far from their world-view. How about you? Do you find yourself

fitting in and accepted or do you see more and more the need to let our light shine in this world of

darkness come what may? Are you one of those pestilent fellows or just among the apathetic out there

who really have no care for truth? I am thankful to among men here at Trinity Missionary Baptist

Church and Antioch Baptist College who do not fit into this world’s system and do not care to. They

follow the Lord Jesus Christ at all cost. Will you?