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2. Learn Your Duty
The church has forgotten that it has a mission to defend and promote God’s laws in the world. It has
retreated into the church buildings and given all of its attention to the more feminine ministries:
caring for the poor and broken hearted, healing the sick, strengthening families. These are all
necessary ministries, but only part of our duty.
We also have the duty to go out into the world and fight the agents of sin. It is like the example of
David, the shepherd who became King of Israel and is known in the Word as “a man after God’s own
heart.” Much of the time, David stayed with his sheep to guide and nurture them. But when he saw
an enemy of the flock prowling in the area, he went out and killed it. These were not easy battles.
He fought lions and bears, who could, instead, have killed him. He was a MAN of God and he shows
us the example of masculine Christianity.
Now we know the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (2 Cor. 10:3-5). I am certainly not talking
about physical battle with the “gays.” That would be stupid and un-Christian to do. But the weapons
of our warfare are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every
high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
Our duty to pull down strongholds and cast down arguments is not with carnal weapons like guns
and bombs, but by our prayers, our intellects and our physical service in God’s work.
We are told in Ephesians 2:10 that we, each of us, are created in Christ Jesus to do good works that
God has prepared in advance for us to do. The works do not give us salvation: we have that by belief
in Jesus alone. The works give us purpose and a practical means to help build God’s kingdom while
we are on this earth.
What works are we to do? Only the Holy Spirit can tell you which works God has prepared for you
to do, but I suggest that if He has brought this message to your attention, it is the work of rebuilding
the Godly foundations of this society.
It is like the story of Nehemiah and the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. Every family was
assigned its own section of the wall near where they lived.
The need today is for believers to compete for influence: in government, in education, in media, in
business, so that the rules that are made and the conclusions that are reached reflect godly values.
Proverbs 29:2 tells us that when the righteous rule the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule they
mourn. We know this is true, but do we understand that it is our obligation to promote righteous
rulership?
In Romans 13:3-7 we learn that the purpose of government is to be a terror to evil.
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