"Setting the Gospel to Music"
We Still Have A Vote
The Faith of our fathers,
And the faith of the saints,
Fashioned this nation
And God made it great.
But those hallowed precepts
Are challenged today,
Being ripped down,
And being thrown away.
Words like Bible and Church
Jesus and Christ,
Are being chased from our culture,
Mocked and despised.
Political correctness,
Is the creed of the Left,
While they tell the church
To keep their creeds to themselves.
So it’s time to stand,
And it’s time to fight,
While it’s still day,
While it’s still light.
Hell’s on the march,
Your faith’s on the line,
If we lose this battle
There may be no “next time.”
Take a look at the stakes,
Take a look at the trends,
God’s on the way out,
Sin’s on the way in.
But its not too late,
There’s still cause for hope,
We still have a voice,
WE STILL HAVE A VOTE!
Ray's Rantings Archives
Unless you've been under an extremely large rock for an extremely long period of time, you have most certainly heard the controversy over the "separation of church and state." Which, when you stop to think about it is not a controversy at all, since the definition of "controversy" is, according to Webster, "the expression of opposing views." The only view afforded to the masses is that the church has no right to exercise their beliefs or convictions anywhere other than within the confines of the church walls. How dare we pray in public, talk with co-workers about our faith, or God forbid that we vote or take any kind of moral stand motivated by our "Christian convictions." (Not so with atheistic, immoral, ungodly crowd. They have a perfect right to stand and make their perverted opinions public from the schoolhouse, to the marketplace and on to the hollowed halls of congress. The Constitution of the United States of America gives them that right while, according to them, it restricts us from having the same privileges because of the separation clause.) They've taken prayer out of school, Christ out of Christmas and morality out of society, all in the name of "separation of church and state."
Now it's pretty common knowledge, to the Christian at least, that Satan is a liar. In fact, that Master called him "...the father of lies" in John 8:44. He lied to Adam & Eve and lies have been his trademark through the ages. The separation of church and state is one of his biggest yarns yet. In case you haven't read the First Amendment of our Constitution, which has come to be known as the "Separation Clause," please take five seconds to read it in it's entirety. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, (please note the comma, not period, after religion.) Unless my English teachers taught me wrong, this infers there is more to be said on the subject. The rest of the sentence says, "OR PROHIBIT THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF." How many times have you heard the media, politicians or the Christ-haters complete that sentence? Forgive me for answering for you.....NONE! My question to the church - to those of us who claim to be blood-bought Christians, who still claim to hold the teachings of the Holy Bible as absolute truth, we who are mandated by Jesus Christ to "go into all the world and preach the Gospel, ...to be a city set on a hill that cannot be hid, ....a light to the world, ...the salt of the earth...." is: How long will we allow the ungodly to stifle our testimony? How long will we cow down to the threats and ridicule of a God-hating society's demands that we obey them, rather than the commands of Jesus Christ?
I fear we must "speak now or forever hold our peace." In case you haven't noticed, sin is progressive. It's never satisfied with the status quo. Like an obsessed bloodthirsty tyrant it continually marches to invade, to conquer, and to enslave all who dare to stand in opposition. Prayer out of school, gay marriage, abortion, pornography, filth in the name of free expression, sexually-explicit music that is damning the souls of our children, drugs, profanity of the most base type as normal communication. And if you think it's gonna stop there, just hang around until tomorrow. Hell will not be content until every visage of Godliness is eliminated from this society. Unfortunately, you can be rest assured it will happen sooner rather than later unless the church rises up and becomes what God intended us to be. The atrocities of moral decay are already too numerous to mention. Those of us whose memories span a half-century or so can see painfully clear just how far we have sunk into the sea of moral corruption. Right now might be a good time to either wake up and trim our lamps like the five wise virgins in Matthew 25:1-10, or do as the disciples in the garden did and roll over and go back to sleep. When Jesus came and found them asleep for the third time, he said, "sleep on" (Matthew 26:45). It's time to either wake up and stand up for what we profess to believe or to sleep on and lose whatever few religious freedoms we have left, not to mention the very heart and soul of a once Godly nation.
I'll see you on the battlefield. And if you don't show up, pleasant dreams! (May God have mercy on you when you wake up.)