02/20/21 CHOOSE YOUR GOD CAREFULLY

02/20/21 CHOOSE YOUR GOD CAREFULLY

I use to preach and teach that the USA will not be a major player in the end times. I STILL DO. I hold this view because I don't see anything in the Bible that indicates differently while America has been in the grip of God hating, Christ rejecting and Bible denying since the 1980's. However, many well known and highly respected Bible teachers claimed that the USA will play an important role in the last days.

As we watch world events and especially the free fall of America into anti-Christ, anti-Bible lawlessness, it becomes more evident that America will become a byword among the nations in the future. This is not totally unthinkable, since God foretold that Israel would become a byword among the nations, at least for a while.

As great as the USA has been in the world and as much as the USA has been blessed of God, the greatness and the blessing was due to the relationship God had with US. As the relationship fades and sours, the greatness and blessings of America are disappearing. It appears that America will not be great among the nations of the world.

Still, Americans tend to think that we will always be God's favored nation; that we will always be abundantly blessed with natural advantages, political, military, financial, social greatness. It is a false hope.

Our only hope in in a right relationship with Jesus. If our nation at large will not turn to a right relationship with God, we, individually, need to make our relationship with God the defining reality in our lives.

We need to love what God loves, hate what God hates, do what God commands.
No one can have two allegiances, two masters. Christians must not try to make the State a co-god with the true God.
In fact, such a belief is treason against the true God of the Bible. God is One; God is the Only; God is jealous of His Own honor. God will not share His glory with another.

When we love God as we ought (with all of our heart, mind, soul and strength) we do not want to give His glory to another and we do not want to steal His glory for ourselves.
When we love God as we ought, we obey Him, keep His commandment and do that which is pleasing in His sight.
When we love God as we ought we live for Him.