I hear separation of Church and state over and over and over, but I think it is an excuse for lazy, spineless Christians to escape any political drama or responsibility. The First Amendment is where the separation of Church and state comes from. I agree with it. Look at the Church of England, and the Roman Catholic Church. Jesus is the head of the true Church and He came not to be served, but to serve (Matthew 20:28). We are not to have people take a knee before the Church, but the Church to take a knee before Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
There are two different extremes on this matter. One is people believe that our country was a "Christian Country" at the beginning, and has lost its way. They believe that our country was at one time a Christendom, and now has turned its back on God. This is simply not true as to seeing that many of our country's founding fathers claimed to be deists, not to mention the First Amendment was so clear on this country not making any law using religion. Our country was found on freedom, of religion, land ownership, and the freedom of trade. Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It was found on freedom from the church, and the way they saw best fit was to use morality in the making of the laws. You may say, but the laws were based off of Christian morals. I agree, seeing that God said He has written His law on the hearts of all men (Romans 2:15). That is where morality comes from, whether you be Jewish, Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist, that Holy Law of God is written on the heart of all men, and most screw it up like the pharisees did. Evil men know the Law of God. So to say they made the laws of our land based on Christian morals, it is true, seeing it is the only true morality there is. It is ingrained in every ones hearts. But that does not mean that they are Christians, it means they are moral. It does not mean our country was a Christendom but a moral country.So it comes down to your opinion of what true Christianity is, is it morality, or Faith in Jesus as our savior, as the one who did uphold the law for our sakes, and took the punishment for our sins that we may live. Yet I know that there are some of you who would grasp at any little thing, such as the dating on the constitution, to prove that our for fathers were all Christians and tried to establish a Christian country. I was reading an argument where this Christian lawyer was out to prove that our constitution is a Christian constitution. It blew my mind that one would hold so tightly to a phrase, and twist it so badly to prove a false point. He pointed to the dating of our constitution, seeing as it is the only place in the constitution that mentions "Lord", as the place that proves our constitution to be a Christian Constitution. The exact quote is, "...the ninth day of July in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy eight..." It is a date! That is AD, or Anno Domini, or Year of our Lord. It certainly does not give submission to God or Christianity. Come on, don't be ignorant, look at any date on any documents from that time. Secondly, what do you say about the first amendment? That clearly separates any religion from governing our country. So does the dating of the constitution overthrow the first amendment? It is a contradiction. It must be only a date. Do not throw out all context to prove a false point that does not change anything. You who argue that this country was a Christendom at the beginning only wish to show the depravity of our nation and to have this country become submissive to your values. You seem to have greater concern on morality than true Christianity. If we cleaned up the streets of all drug addicts and stopped abortion and homosexuality, to what avail is it besides your own comfort. You are offended and that is your concern, so you say this was once a Christian Country trying to make the point that by us not being a Christendom we are breaking the Constitution. That is not true, its a lie that has been spread by offended Christians. When you see homosexuals, or adulterers, or drug addicts, you have no concern of their souls, you have great concern of your comfort, and in turn wish condemnation on them, not because they are rejecting God as God, but because your ten year old in the back seat has seen such horrible things as these. Your comfort zone has vanished. So in turn you must believe that our country was once a Christian country and you want to bring it back to its roots of Christian morals, and have the right to throw them in jail for such things. They have offended you, intruded on your perfect lolly pop world, and they must pay. Do you not see their greater need? Moral men burn too. Do not lead them to morality but to Jesus.
The second group is the ones who say there is separation of Church and state so they stay away from all political issues all together. They sit back in their homes and hide from the reality that their neighbors are hell bound. These are the ones who put a basket over their light ( Matthew 5:14-16). We are to fight for what is right and Holy. Do not be fooled. We do not just hide away, but we live and fight for what is right that others may see the "Light", believe and be saved. There are political issues like abortion, and homosexual marriages that are worth fighting against. Its not a question of what do we fight, but why do we fight? We must fight that those who are in sin may see the light of Jesus shining forth through you and be saved. We do not fight that our children have morals, or a perfect world to grow up in. Where is your love for the lost? Jesus loved us and died for us even when we were still sinners and and hated Him (Romans 5:8). Who are you to not love them when they are still sinners. You may have it all but without love you have nothing (1 Corinthians 3:13). We do not fight against each other to make a perfect world, but we fight against the devils over the souls of men and women(Ephesians 6:12). Do not hide when there is a war for eternal souls being waged. Do not be a coward! Fight for souls, care about others enough to be offended and wronged by them and practice true love and grace that they may see Jesus shinning through you and be saved. Christianity is not hiding from the world but being engaged in a battle that has been going on since the fall of man. Sitting at home with your children hiding away from crime and the realities sin is not Christian living. Going to church every Sunday and having fellowship is not the only thing we are called to, the greater call is to go therefor and make disciples of all nations (Matthew 28:18-20). You hide from the world because it offends you, and you try to make that perfect lolly pop world at home and Church and ignore your call, all in the name of comfort. Do not ignore the lost, through Jesus, they may be found. Your comfort on earth is of little to no importance compared to the call of witnessing.
There is a perfect balance between these two extremes. It is the concern of your heart. Do you want comfort or men and women and children to be saved from the wrath of God. If you truly want them to be saved, you understand morality is of no avail, and that your comfort is of no value. Pray, preach, live amongst the sinners that they may see the Light. The constitution will bring no one to Jesus, and neither will your hiding. Only the Gospel, the Light shining through you, and in order for them to see it you must be amongst them, with a heart that cares for their eternal state and your own comfort is but rubbish. Their souls is of more importance than your own comfort!!! Your comfort is temporal, but there soul is eternal. The call is to love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and to love your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 22:37-40). So if you love your enemies, neighbors, brothers as yourself, you will wish the same for their soul as you do for your own. That is what we fight for ultimately, and the only reason why we fight. God is not pleased with morality, but only with us seeing our sin, confessing, asking for forgiveness and repenting. That pleases God, when you are saved and washed clean by faith in His sacrifice, not when you are moral or fight for morality, or hide away from sin. If Christians would only spend half the time praying for the lost and telling them the true Gospel as we do fighting for morality or hiding from the world, then we might start becoming the salt of the earth. You are not the salt of the earth because you have morals, but because you have love (John 13:35). You display Jesus by your love, not your morality, neither does your morality bring you closer to Jesus, but your love for Jesus and others does. You must abide in His love, He is the vine, you are the branches and you can do nothing without Him, you cannot bear fruit without Him, so Abide in His love (John 15: 1-27).
So should we fight for what is right in political America? Yes, so that others may see Jesus, not our morality, and not to make a moral country. To save, not correct behavior, or provide a Church called America that our children can grow up in and not be corrupted by sin. The world does not corrupt your children, your children are corrupt and need the true Gospel just like your neighbors ,friends ,relatives, yourselves and everyone born of man. Morality shall not save them, only faith in Jesus as their savior. The world does not corrupt us, but we have corrupted the world. Only Jesus provides the world with what it truly needs, not your wisdom, nor your morals, only Jesus. The only true way to show the lost Jesus, is to demonstrate His love, the only way to demonstrate His love is to Love Him and each other, and the only way to do this is to abide in Him and His love. The best way to demonstrate our love is to care for the things of most impotance, and that is the souls of men, women, and children, by preaching the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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