Now is the time for all good men..
- davidukis0
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min read
Apologies for the delay, here now, hear now. For too long I've been at the nexus of apathy and thinly veiled contempt for a society ripe for judgement, not a sustainable position for a penitent Christian vis-a-vis a holy God. So then, to somehow become involved in a more public life in order to serve Him in my generation. The title of my previous post back in February indicated what I and many others have been considering of late, the degree to which civil disobedience is warranted by godly men in any given situation, day or age. Thankfully there's no need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to such matters, for others have gone before us into this territory. As a starter Bill Muehlenberg in Melbourne has a great site, CultureWatch, with numerous well-considered articles as to what Christians should be prayerfully considering before acting, for it matters. Par example:
I responded to the second of two Spectator articles by SA Liberal Senator Alex Antic:
Want cultural change in politics? Rescue politics from the political class | The Spectator Australia.. and attended a couple of conservative political gatherings with strong attendance by Christians and decided to join the Liberal Party after reading their Constitution, seeing nothing in writing there that did not make for a good fit with practicing Christian beliefs. I am also aware that their personnel, policies, legislation and governance over the last quarter century or more have gradually become at odds with both the spirit of that document and a significant rump of the long suffering base that vote them in. Still, it's a crowded field Conservatives just moaning about taking hits from the cultural Marxist regressives, so in the end I think it worthwhile to develop a political role in Christian activism, retake the public square and fight the culture war.
My understanding of why the Western world, the developed countries have descended into cultural madness is that the Lord has given us over to judgement, for our mass apostasy. He is Author of space and time, the whole show is his, He is long suffering in patience but our slow gradual descent away from Him is now accelerating rapidly, and many now feel the effects though most cannot adequately explain why it is occurring.
Broadly Western society was characterised historically by acknowledgment of the God of the Bible being our God. Now that is certainly no longer the case. We have taken on the gods of surrounding nations, and I include such false teachings as secular humanism and Marxism which emanated from within to accompany those idolatries without.
Our only hope is revival, a mass turning to Him again in repentance, all of us, the smugly self righteous Evangelicals first would be a good start. No we technically do not claim a righteousness of our own, that of Jesus' sinless perfect righteous life in exchange for our own utterly inadequate righteousness, the life required of us that no matter how hard we try we can never attain, His being tortured by the Romans then executed by crucifixion which fulfilled the eternal death penalty of Hell each human being faces who fatally does take genuine self righteousness to God after physical death, His resurrection being raised to life as God eternal and with God, our living intercessor and High Priest justifying our existence before the Father, demonstrating His power, capacity, will and zeal to accomplish His return visibly triumphant second time around, having successfully achieved His mission objectives first time around in the flesh. Evangelicals fully believe all this. We just don't live it. At least, I'm telling you baby there's a great opportunity at the moment, and has been for quite a while, to boldly, fearlessly and lovingly proclaim the foursquare Gospel to a peoples who sure know their Far Left from their Far Right, but are as dumb as the proverbial re Up and Down. Time to man up and retake the Public Square, thereby allowing men and women of freewill to make an informed choice to choose or reject the Saviour, at least from that point their blood would be on their own heads as Scripture says, meaning they would only have their selves to blame when arriving before the Holy Sovereign God under the Old (Contract-Covenant-Agreement) Testament. They need to know why the Gospel means Good Spell hence Good Story, because it enables through the Person of Jesus Christ entree into the New Contract, and that's the one you want in your breast pocket when the big meeting takes place, let me tell you.
Have you noticed nowadays there is fundamental disagreement not only on how to interpret facts and thereby develop objective knowledge and analysis and forward planning, but on even what a fact is, and why does that even matter when it may prove a stumbling block to the desired narrative, often referred to now as variously Progressive or culturally Marxist. This is not a question, for this is not an entry level course, you're in the room either because you've already done the time by degrees of lived experience, or your background readings as a student of History fastforwarded your learning, or a Spirited skillset to not shrink back at this crucial stage is giving you the nice heart burn, whatever or however your unique combination brings you to this point, may I kindly suggest now is the time to get off our backsides and move. With apologies to those who've been fighting the good fight for years, decades now with seemingly little to show, you know that nothing has escaped our Lord's gaze and ken, you know the reward that awaits, and wait patiently and faithfully we shall. But action, a sense of urgency, as always measured by wisdom and tact according to the grace given you, may I kindly suggest Now is the Time for all Men and Women of Goodwill to come to the aid of the Party.
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