The
Choir is
Asleep
Guy Adams
Dearest
America,
I may be preaching to the choir,
but much of the choir is asleep.
We're
afraid to tear down the wall in order to save the
house.
This
article chastises the Church, even though I know
that I probably don't have the right to do so.
That right more appropriately belongs to others
more mature and more respected. Nevertheless,
although I'm not perfect by any standard, I am
content that we are letting our country be
overtaken by homosexuals, abortionists, and by
those who would dismantle America the Beautiful. I
have recently lost a few friends over my views on
the issues of our day, but I remain compelled to
speak out before it's too late.
To those of you who have been loyal
readers, and to those among you who are reading my
opinions for the first time, I say that I have not
arrived. Let me make that perfectly clear.
Nevertheless, I still have a few valid things to
say. It has been better said by better men in
better times, but let me pour out my heart to
you.
I'm not qualified to comment on the
level of Spirit behind or not behind my words,
but I am completely convinced that God is
most definitely not behind gay
"marriage," special gay "rights," "hate speech"
laws, and abortion. These hate speech laws will
eventually outlaw the church, bit by bit long
before the state might otherwise deem that it need
be so. It'll come maybe next year, maybe this
year, or maybe in ten years, but it will arrive.
One of my main motivations is this: this date
is not set in stone it's a movable target if
God's people speak out and act timely and
forcefully enough.
The
Pilgrims came here to escape religious persecution
AND to advance the Christian faith. Revisionism
aside, this is not in dispute. The Founding
Fathers codified our free speech and religious
freedoms as revealed in the Word (among them:
"Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is
Liberty"), and as they were inspired by the brave
forefathers who took such great risks. What are
enough of us doing against the present tide of
moral relativism and secularism pervading most
areas of American life today? Virtually nothing.
Prayer is good, but God also employs human agents.
Still, most of us remain asleep; some
intentionally, and some unintentionally being
relatively uninformed. Some, but not all of you,
are among the semi-informed, or semi-uninformed,
depending on whether the glass is half full or
half empty. I do and say so because I know that
many of you are not cowards in the faith.
So maybe it is a lack of communication on my part
that the church so complacently walks on. That's
the way I see it.
I often hear preachers say "Wake
up!" As a country, we need to quickly and
completely wake up. We the People far outweigh
We the Offended.
The above issues are our
issues. They are the issues that we as a Church
are mostly ignoring to our peril. Don't you see
that? If you don't see it, where and how have I
failed to communicate it to you? But if you
do see it, what have you done about it? I
know that I am not speaking to all of you. I've
heard that we have "a mandate from God" to address
such issues. What have we as a Church done about
it? The gays are tirelessly working to outlaw us.
Mark my words: though we are called to love and
forgive them, in their minds we are their
mortal enemy. What they cannot obtain by vote,
they seek to procure by federal judicial activism.
Time is so short. To me, it's as clear as anything
I've ever seen.
Regarding the preservation and
reclamation of our religious liberties, I think
that sometimes in the spheres of the kingdoms of
men, we must fight to secure our goals.
I feel that I see things so clearly
on these issues, and let me make this clear on
these issues alone. I feel it is within my
obligatory purview as a Christian citizen to speak
out and act. But apparently a lot of people who
feel otherwise are more likely asleep at the
wheel. Persecution IS coming, but its arrival time
is not set in stone, just as Nineveh's was not.
Possibly you feel that you're not called to
address these issues, but I can't see any
Christian ignoring them and thus thinking that
others, more qualified, will long defer the fight
arrayed against them, since it'll sooner or later
affect us all.
I may be wrong, but I can't help
but think that somehow, to some degree, God is
more or less still behind America. But it's the
America He once knew, and the America most of us
have almost forgotten. Correct me if you think I'm
wrong. Personally, I feel compelled to speak out
and act. I will not be accused of inaction. What
about you? Should the enemy win the battle in the
short term, I will not be forced to ask myself
"Why did you not do something? Why did you not
tell them?"
There are other issues besides the
ones that I bring before you. Maybe they're not
bigger issues, per se, but they're certainly of
great importance, because the loss of the fight
over them will determine the scope and breadth of
your life: free speech and religious liberties.
Prior to a year and a half ago, I didn't see it
either. But now I do, and it compels me.
Maybe I'm now a bit too harsh. How
can any intelligent and oft-informed Christian say
that these pre-persecution events are not really
happening, and that they are not threatening our
existence? For, if you acknowledge them, then you
must act. And if you're not acting, why not? What
are you then? You're no better than the unsaved.
You see, it's one thing to say "God is in charge."
Yes, of course He is, we all know that. But it's
another thing altogether to say "God is in charge,
so I'll just hide my head."
The emperor has no clothes, yet
we're afraid to speak the words that could help
him. There's an elephant in the room, but we're
afraid to tear down the wall in order to save the
house.
After hearing Judge Roy Moore speak
last night, I came away even more convinced of the
rightness of the cause that many good men have
outlined before us. I'm not saying that I have The
Answers or that I present the only true solution
(I don't), but I am exposing a significant part of
the puzzle mostly as it was explained to me by
better men. Prior to meeting Dr. Alan Keyes in the
summer of 2004, I too, was somewhat asleep, but I
now see that there is indeed a covert yet
aggressive war going on out there. It wars against
America. It wars against Christians. It wages war
against you and me. It gets closer with every
passing day that we delay.
I
will not be accused of not doing something. We can
"save" all the people we want, but if their faith
is outlawed before it's ordained to be, where's
the fullness of life? We do them a tremendous
disservice by our inaction. That's one of my main
motives.
One reader said that occasionally I
sound angry Yes, over these issues I am, but
some of YOU are not angry enough! God is angry
over these perverted deportations from His plan
for America once enjoined, but now departing.
Well, maybe I don't see everything I never
claimed to. But how the Church at large, so
well-informed, could continue to ignore these
issues by virtue of inaction is beyond me.
I dare say that God is not pleased
with America and the nearly helpless spot that the
Silent Majority has put herself in. As with most
affairs of human agencies and God, I'm sure
there's some element of less than pure motive or
message in what I say. I admit that. Another
reader said I displayed "unrighteous anger" with
regard to my articles. Is it unrighteous to speak
out against the destruction of America before it's
too late? Not at all.
Here's what I hope to avoid: that
our individual and collective silence will soon
lead to the criminalization of Christianity and
more importantly way before it's time,
according to the Bible. So then, what's the gain?
It's a loss to you, me, and America. It's also a
loss to those who'll follow us.
The longer we prevail, the more
souls will be saved. Even though we'll win in the
end, we'll lose much along the way, and long
before we need to.
Rev. Martin Niemoller said this in
1945 and it most appropriately applies to us
today: "First they came for the Communists, and I
didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak
up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the
Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a
Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that
time there was no one left to speak up for
me."
We need to hold the line.
~Guy
P.S. I owe a debt of
gratitude to the following people, books, and
websites, in no special order except to especially
thank Dr. Alan Keyes for his fortitude, integrity,
inspiration, persistence, and courage:
PERSECUTION by David
Limbaugh (outstanding); The ACLU vs.
America by Sears & Osten; A Country I
Don't Recognize by Judge Robert Bork;
Courting Disaster by Pat Robertson; One
Nation Under God by David Gibbs; Who's
Looking Out For You and The No Spin
Zone by Bill O'Reilly; Slander and
Treason by Ann Coulter; The End of
Racism by Dinesh D'Souza; The Attack on
Christmas by John Gibson; Our Character,
Our Future by Dr. Alan Keyes. I've read them
and they are among the best books out there on the
Liberal attack on America. (2 Chronicles 7:14,
1 Corinthians 15:3, Nehemiah 9:9-31 & 1
John 1:9)
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© Copyright 2005 by Guy
Adams
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