Does this mean we should not have restrictions and boundaries for those who are rebellious? Sometimes we cannot know that someone is rebellious until we place a boundary or consequence on them.
When we speak truth to the rebel they cannot endure it, their response is often rage or revenge or both to assert themselves against any restriction or correction that would expose their heart or restrict their activities.
America has elected a man who is attempting to place restrictions on certain sins that he perceives as destructive to the country. However, other sins that are devastating to the souls of Americans, he is not addressing. The restrictions he promotes have more to do with the physical and monetary safety of the United States, without addressing the sinfulness and depravity of the heart.
Imagine the outcry and hatred that would emerge if the president were to outlaw divorce and remarriage, since half the couples in the churches across this nation are in this state.
What if the president removed the option of abortion completely, or disallowed the production of pornography and movies that promote promiscuity, what would be the response?
I am convinced that our president was not installed by God to "save America" nor to "make America great again." What has been happening is strong evidence of what I say, the increasing rioting in the streets, the attempts to ruin any efforts of our president to make us safe are being met with great rebellion.
What if the president spoke against publications such as "the Shack", or movies such as "the Passion of the Christ", produced by a drunken Catholic movie star. Books and movies that have terrible doctrine in them have been widely accepted by the Christian community.
When I have exposed the false Catholic doctrine promoted in the "Passion of the Christ", or the book "The Shack" as heresy, those who attend church every week have called me names and accused me of heresy for exposing these evils.
We know the pulse of America when there are reasonable and logical restraints on foolishness, that bring rioting in the streets as well as continual lying against those who will place restrictions on behavior.
Our country as a whole is not only lawless against the government but also and more importantly against God's principles, yes and even the Christian churches.
I am hearing more and more "Protestants" calling "Catholic" Christian, without even knowing what the Catholic church actually teaches.
We have more rebellion in this country than we realize, on every level.
God placed an ungodly man in office to bring about a few restrictions that have nothing to do with godliness and the country is rising up against him in alarming numbers. Doesn't this show us that the country, even believers, would rise up when their favorite ungodly books and movies would be removed?
When a believer will demean and mock another believer for exposing their favorite book or movie, imagine what they would do if their freedom to use these things were removed!
The rebellion against God is enormous on all fronts, liberals and conservatives alike, stand in opposition to Christ, every day growing more hostile.
2 Timothy 3
"3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the [e]knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."
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