Your Christian Duty:
"Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon the teachings of the Redeemer of Mankind. It is impossible that it should be other wise; and in this sense and to this extent, our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian" (U.S. Supreme Court 1892).
Those words, uttered by our nation’s highest court a little over one hundred years ago, show that the Supreme Court once held the Word of God in the center of our country’s moral and political compass. Now, however, as the gavel falls in that same court, it does not hold that same Book in the esteem it once did. First the court turned its back on the Bible; now it turns its back on the United States Constitution. What lies ahead? Scripture has an answer for everything, but what most may not know is that the Bible even has clear and distinct positions on political issues. If we are to live our lives by the Word of God and obey all His Commands, then we must be acutely aware of what is said in the the Word regarding the world today. Matthew 5:16 presents a profound truth that should be the clarion call for all Christians in America today—to let our light shine. Don’t curse the darkness; let our light shine now!
What does that mean? Simply this: it’s our duty, as Christians, to let he light of the gospel shine in our lives with the power and force that God intended. In an American Religious Identification survey, over 76.5 percent of the American adult population claim to be Christian; if this is the truth, why are we not a dominant force in politics and shaping our country’s moral fabric? It does not require profound intellectual insights to understand that our nation is headed down a pathway of moral and spiritual destruction. In the meantime, the church hides the light of God from a world that so desperately needs to be illuminated. Instead of allowing our light to shine through our lies, we sit idly by and curse the darkness we have allowed to perpetuate. When this is the case, the church is not a dynamic force of change; rather it’s a mere reflection of the decaying culture around us.
We can change our rotting society and restore it to what God intended. We, the people, in these United States have the responsibility to change anything in our society that destroys the moral foundations on which our nation was founded. Our first objective is to change ourselves and let our light shine as the "city on a hill that cannot be hidden.”
Jesus did not hesitate to call leader of His day hypocrites—literally, “mask wearers.” He was against their showy, superficial, and abhorrent religious pretense. They tried to present a public image completely different from whom and what they really were. As Christians, we have no right to demand things from our leaders or fellow brothers and sisters in Christ that we do not demand from ourselves. By putting on a false sense of spirituality we are not fooling God or those around us; we are only turning people away from God.
Devotion from Pastor Hagee's book, Bible Positions on Political Issues
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