Brown Vs. Wilson

When we ignore God and His principles, He may bring terrible times to our life in order to get our attention.

While I believe the Brown family, in the recent shooting incident, is unjust in their lawsuit against an officer who just did his job and was tested in the system and found innocent of wrong doing, he was not living morally, according to one testimony and does not know the Lord.

God can use unjust and wicked people to bring trouble on those He wishes to reach. Perhaps we should pray that both the Brown family and Officer Wilson will become broken over their sin, brought to their knees in repentance and find the saving grace Christ has to offer.

When we are assessing the injustice in the world, at some point we always have to come back to the fact that God has a purpose in all things, even difficult things.

Romans 2:4
"Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?"

Galatians 3:24
"Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith."

Was Officer Wilson any better than the Brown family in God's eyes? The answer is no, even though he did not do wrong in his job in the case of Brown vs Wilson, he has other sin in his life. Chances are good that neither the Browns or Wilson know the Lord.

We do not become born again by our good deeds or lack of bad deeds, we are only born again by trusting Christ. He paid the price for our sin on the cross, all we have to do is believe Him. Then He will send His Holy Spirit to live in us, changing us into a new creation. When He does this we are no longer the person we used to be, but brand new Spirits, although trapped in this body of death.

Romans 3:28 -
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law."

Romans 4:5
"But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness."

Galatians 2:16
"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."

Philippians 3:9
"And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:"

When we become born again by the Holy Spirit of God, He cleanses us, cleaning out all the dross that is trapped in that flesh, showing us areas He needs to change in us through conviction of the Holy Spirit. As we are shown each thing, confessing it will bring healing to our soul and more change in our hearts. Confessing our frailties and obeying God will bring spiritual growth.

Hebrews 12:1-17
"12 Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 [a]fixing our eyes on Jesus, the [b]author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

3 For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary [c]and lose heart.

A Father’s Discipline
4 You have not yet resisted [d]to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; 5 and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons,

“My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord,
Nor faint when you are reproved by Him;
6 For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines,
And He scourges every son whom He receives.”
7 It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? 8 But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. 9 Furthermore, we had [e]earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of [f]spirits, and live? 10 For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. 11 All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.

12 Therefore, [g]strengthen the hands that are weak and the knees that are feeble, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that the limb which is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather be healed.

14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. 15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled; 16 that there be no immoral or godless person like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal. 17 For you know that even afterwards, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought for it with tears."

Now that the dust is settling over this whole matter of injustice in the Brown vs. Wilson case, we can take a long look at the real issues, that being where the people involved are in the matter of eternity. After all, isn't that what really matters?

This life is a vapor and this earth a stopping place until we go to our eternal home, whether it be to everlasting punishment in hell or to heaven to live forever with our Lord in paradise.

Matthew 4:17 "17 From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

Luke 24:40-46
"44 Now He said to them, “These are My words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things which are written about Me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” 45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, 46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,"

John 3:1-21
"3 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.
9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?
11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness.
12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven.
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God."

My prayer for the Browns and Officer Wilson is that when they get to court they are broken in their own hearts over a lifestyle of sin and all would repent and become born again. Perhaps even the judge involved will need to be saved too. It would be a miracle, but God can work in all this mess for His glory. Hallelujah!!

Imagine the mouths that would be shut if God did this miracle in all these people.

May God have the Glory!