Quote from Forum Archives on June 26, 2017, 2:39 pm

Posted by: pastorbob <pastorbob@...>

July 2, 2017    Jesus in America   

 

Luke 18:31-34 "And taking the twelve, he said to them, "See, we are going up to Jerusalem, and everything that is written about the Son of Man by the prophets will be accomplished.  For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.  And after flogging him, they will kill him, and on the third day he will rise."  But they understood none of these things. This saying was hidden from them, and they did not grasp what was said."

 

1. Our Country was FOUNDED by a people on their Knees with their eyes of God.
1. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen United States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
2. Over these past 241 years things have changed greatly
3. Today is really not much different than that time thousands of years ago.
1. The politicians seem to against Him
2. The courts seem to be against Him
3. Many "religious leaders" seem to be against Him
4. God's People seem to either be ASHAMED of Him or AFRAID of them

                                                  i.      Afraid of the backlash/persecution they MAY experience if they take a stand for Him

                                                ii.      We are more like modern day Saul's denying Jesus than we are Peters proclaiming His Name and Word!

4. Look at the similarities
5. Jesus knew His fate at the hands of the Temple Elite and the Political Leaders of the day
1. He went anyway
2. Delivered to the Gentiles

                                                  i.      How often have we Christians given up our rights and allowed Jesus to be tossed out of our public life?

1. We have delivered Him to their hands for their evil and unrighteous will to be done.

                                                ii.      Mocked, shamefully treated and spit upon

1. Look at the news and the legal opinions
1. Crosses and 10 Commandment statues ordered removed
2. Speech about Jesus restricted or banned

                                                                                                                          i.      While speech about false gods, ungodly things not only permitted but encouraged.

                                              iii.      Our Lord and Savior is being denied, abused, rejected at every turn and corner

1. It seems our country today still desires to kill Jesus to this day!
5. But there are things our lost world NEED to know
1. Jesus is eternal
2. Jesus loves them

                                                  i.      He bore the shame, abuse, pain and death on the Cross of Calvary FOR THEM

3. They may beat Him down and think they have won

                                                  i.      BUT

                                                ii.      Jesus is coming back again!

                                              iii.      He WILL RISE

1. Martyrs bear martyrs
3. Not only do we KNOW that Jesus is alive and soon returning

                                                  i.      WE also know that His Church remains

1. Maybe a shadow of its former power
2. But we ain't out yet!

                                                ii.      It is up to the church of the living God to RISE UP and stand against the tide of unrighteousness

1. Just as it has had to do for millennium after millennium
4. The lost world AND UNFORTUNATELY many believers today do not understand the power of God's Church

                                                  i.      We don't get it

                                                ii.      We do not have to yield

                                              iii.      We do not have to give up, give in or give out!

7. Our CALLING is to put JESUS Back in AMERICA
1. How?  Glad you asked!

                                                  i.      Prayer

1. Our greatest weapon

                                                ii.      Spiritual Formation

1. Discipleship and Faith lived beyond learning

                                              iii.      Obedience to the Word of God

1. Feet to Faith

                                              iv.      We GO!

2. When we know there will be negative reactions to our professions of faith WE GO!
3. When we know the courts may rule against us and try to silence our speech WE GO!
4. When we fear persecution, pain or death WE GO!
7. It is time we took up the mantle of our Founders, of our early church leaders and of our Biblical Heroes and obey the Word of God
1. Put Jesus Back in America Again

                                                  i.      Trump cannot do this

                                                ii.      No politician can do this

                                              iii.      ONLY GOD can do this

1. He is calling and commanding His people to PRAY AND GO

 

2 Chronicles 7:14-15 "If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.  Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place."    ESV

 

Matthew 28:16-20 "Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.  Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age." ESV

 

Acts 1:6-9 "So when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?"  He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.  But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth."   And when he had said these things, as they were looking on, he was lifted up, and a cloud took him out of their sight."   ESV

   

Isaiah 6:8-9 "And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" Then I said, "Here am I! Send me."  And he said, "Go, and say to this people:…" ESV

 

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