Secure Our Freedom

I believe the battle that is raging around our world today is a spiritual battle

. It"s a battle between good and evil. We need to get off of our mentality, get off our rears and get out there and become active. I believe we need to really do what God wants us to do. If you study history and study the Bible, you"ll see that anytime you have God"s people with God"s character just sitting there, evil triumphs. I will say that one more time. Anytime you have God"s people with God"s character just standing there, just twiddling their thumbs and sipping Perrier in the Jacuzzi, you have evil triumphing. There is a time, and this is a whole other message, for war. There is a time to fight. But don"t sit there and think that Jesus was Mr. Passive, Mr. "I"m just everything about peace." He went to battle and spilled his blood to secure our freedom.

Let me continue with this message. I think about creativity. I was just jotting this stuff down this past week. God has given us creativity, and the church should be the most creative entity anywhere. We should be creative because we are connected; we are tethered, to our creative creator. But the world contradicts and counterfeits creativity. Instead of creativity, we have vulgarity.

Just the other night, I was watching television with Lisa and I was channel surfing. I was surfing along and there was this new show called, "Are You Hot?" Then I turned a couple of more channels and Howard Stern was asking another woman to take off her shirt. Then I saw the Osborne"s using the f-word as all parts of speech -- as a noun, adverb, adjective, and pronoun. Then I flipped over to Hell"s Box Office, (Oh, I"m sorry, I meant Home Box Office) and I saw "The Sopranos" and "Sex in the City." I said, Lisa, I"m a pretty cool guy. I even wore Eric Orson"s thumb ring today. He let me wear it tonight. I"m to the point where we ought to just throw our televisions away." I know that sounds crazy, but is there anything good on the television? Then I thought about all the great fishing shows and ESPN, so we are going to keep our televisions. But do you see where I am going here? It"s very evident.

Think about organization. Sexperiment tells us that we should be people of order. God is a God of order, and not a God of chaos. I remember reading Francis Schaeffer . I highly recommend Francis Schaeffer. He passed away several years ago. He was a true prophet. Forty years ago, Schaeffer said, "A culture that has no absolutes tends to base everything on relativism and when you base everything on relativism, the result is chaos. What"s wrong is right and what"s right is wrong." That"s where we are in our culture today. Thank God for God. Thank God for character. Thank God for Jesus. Can you imagine what would happen if God took all of us Christians out of here -- off this planet? Can you imagine what would occur? Chaos would be on a level even higher than it is today.

by: Ed Young Jr.

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