The Daily Word of Righteousness

Jude, #5

If you love me, you will obey what I command. (John 14:15—NIV)

If we do not keep His commandments we do not love Him; we will not bear the fruit of His image; and we will be cut out of Vine, out of Christ. This is what the Bible says.

The Christian churches in America are on dangerous spiritual ground. If we do not have nation-wide repentance, a turning to God in sincerity, a change in our doctrine to conform to the Scriptures, our nation is lost and we are going to face an angry Christ. We have no one to blame but ourselves if we do not go back to the New Testament, particularly but not only the Epistles, and see whether they press a sovereign intervention of God that ignores our behavior, or if they teach that if we continue to walk in our sinful nature we shall not inherit the Kingdom of God, we shall reap destruction.

What will God have to do in America to make this change in doctrine and practice? If I am hearing the Lord correctly, He is going to slap America hard. Then He is going to raise up our country in righteousness so we may send the Gospel of the Kingdom to the ends of the earth, not the gospel of lawless-grace, but the Gospel of the soon coming of God's righteous Kingdom to the earth.

We bear the name of Christ, we Americans, and for this reason Christ shall keep us from being completely destroyed. But we must remember that in the present hour, instead of the Gospel of the Kingdom coming forth from our supposedly Christian nation, the waters of moral filth are pouring out in the motion pictures, the television, and the Internet.

God wants America to preach righteousness, holiness, and obedience to God. He wants us to live it and preach it. If we will do this, we will continue as a nation. If not, our end is in sight.

Our government is in tremendous moral confusion today with each politician seeking his or her own interests, it appears. It is the lawless-grace preaching in the Christian churches that has produced this immorality in the government. God wants our preaching to be Bible-based, not based on our unscriptural traditions.

I am not crying "Ain't it awful!" I am stating I believe God is telling me that He is going to punish America severely, and then raise us up so once again we can portray to the Muslim world, the Jews, and everyone else on earth that Jesus Christ requires righteous, holy, obedient behavior from all men. The Kingdom of God is at hand and neither the churches nor the nations of the world are prepared. He is not only the Savior of the world but also the Lord of the world.

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. (Jude 1:6)

We know we are wrestling with fallen angels in the heavenlies, as Ephesians tells us. It must be that many of the angels were cast down into the darkness while God permitted some to remain in the air above us in order that we might learn how to fight against wickedness.

To be continued.