Many new creation children of God still see themselves as who they were before being born-again, with the distinction of going to Heaven when they die. They believe they're "just old sinners saved by Grace," whore are still unrighteous and unworthy. Many of today's churches could exist without God by the laws and rituals they've established. The Super-natural things of God have been removed and replaced by man's ideals of what is required to serve Him.
Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane just prior to His death in John 17:15-26 (Amp). He prayed for those who were there with Him and for everyone who would come to follow Him, saying in Verses 16-18, "They are not of this world (worldly, belonging to this world), Just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them, purify, consecrate, separate them for Yourself, make the holy by the Truth, Your Word is Truth. Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world."
Jesus wasn't saying that the things that happen in the world aren't important to God. He was saying that we're not limited to what the world has in order to function, but we're now unlimited by the function of God's Kingdom. John 3:16 tells us that, "God so Loved the world, that He sent His Only Begotten Son, so that whosoever believes in Him might be saved." We read this, but fail to involve ourselves int the laws and politics that run and rule the world. The earth and the world are two separate things. The world or world system aren't the same things in God's eyes and shouldn't be the same in our eyes.
When we were living in the world, we were without the power and Wisdom of God to change and save that which was lost. We were created new and are living in the council and ability of God's Kingdom, so we're no longer limited in what we can do to change the way the world functions. Laws are being established in America, which should be passed or canceled by those who are operating by Kingdom Laws. Abortion isn't a Kingdom Law in any nation and the new creation people should have raised the Voice of God concerning these ungodly laws. These laws hold the lost under the world's standards, instead of "God's way of doing and being right," according to Matt.6:33. Who will give voice to the world, if the Body of Christ doesn't?
Many Christians have been taught that politics and voting are carnal and worldly, so they abstain from what they consider to be "secular." We Christians are "in this world, but not of the world." This doesn't mean we must be controlled by the things of the world, but we're to change them, like Jesus did. Jesus didn't overthrow the rule of the Romans, but He birthed a people of God's Kingdom who changed the rule of Law, by God's Word and His Holy Spirit.
Jesus prayed in the above scripture, saying, "Just as You have sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world." Jesus' entry into the world,, changed the way mankind thought and acted, for "whosoever would believe." Acts 4:16-17 (Amp) tells us what happened on the Day of Pentecost, when Jesus' followers emerged from the Upper Room. Thus it says, "What are we to do with these men? For that an extraordinary miracle has been performed by (through) them, is plain to all the residents of Jerusalem and we cannot deny it." Even the ungodly people couldn't deny the Super-natural intervention of God, through His people who were no longer of this world. The thing that sets the early Church apart from today's Church, is the demonstration of what the Name of Jesus was. This wasn't just "lip service," like many today do at the end of their prayers, when they say, "In Jesus' Name, Amen." Many add this as a P.S. at the end of their prayers and have very little faith that their prayers will be answered.
We read about many miracles that the early Church performed in Acts, and how these changed things. After receiving a miracle at the Gates of the Temple, the once crippled man jumped up and ran leaping into the Temple and praising God. The people asked about the miracle they were seeing in Acts 3:16 (Amp) and Peter answered, "And His Name (Jesus) through and by faith in His Name, has made this man whom you see and recognize well and strong. Yes, the faith which is through and by Him (Jesus) has given the man this perfect soundness of body before all of you."
Like Jesus was sent into the world by His Father, the early Church changed the known world, even until today. We've functioned by man-made ideas, instead of functioning like Jesus functioned, believing that the Super-natural things of God's Kingdom "have passed away and are no longer for us today." The world didn't need another religion. It needed the Very Presence of the Almighty God Himself.. There were already thousands of religions in the world, which put people back into bondage, but Jesus came to take the people out of bondage. He came to set the captives free, not to enslave them into another religion which is powerless to set them free.
The divorce rate in today's Church is as high as that of the world. Many are still in the same bondage they were in, before being saved. The Power to break the chains of addiction and the other things that bind them, has been reduced to therapy and other hopeless programs the world offers. The voice of one atheist woman removed prayer from our schools, while the voice of the Church was silent and without power to stop it. There are laws and statutes ruling our nation that are Anti-God and Anti-common sense. Even the unsaved are groaning under the bondage of an Anti-God government rule. Prov. 6:9-11 (Amp) says, "How long will you sleep, O sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to lie down and sleep-So will your poverty come like a robber, or one who travels with slowly but surely approaching steps, and your want like an armed man making you helpless."
The enemy has been coming, "Slowly but surely," and we haven't waken up in time to prevent what is happening now. This is the Great Awakening that we've been praying for and the new creation Church of Jesus must wake up from our religious slumber. We must use the Authority given us by Jesus, in order to bring our nation back to God. The world wasn't given this Authority, but the Church was. Many of our leaders don't know God and lack the wisdom and/or inclination to rule in Godliness and Righteousness. It's not too late for God's people to do like 2Chron.7:14 (Amp) where God says, "If My people, Who are called by My Name, shall humble themselves (pray, seek, crave and require of necessity), My Face and turn from their wicked (or twisted) ways, Then will I hear from Heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land." Our nation has become sick and only God can heal it and He will do it through His people.
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