The
miracle of God's power as manifested through Jesus Christ is in the way
this power exercises itself so as to completely deceive the enemy.
The blindness of the unbeliever is so complete that he is never prepared
for the miracle of God's power as exercised through Christian faith.
Just when the enemy thinks he is victorious he is completely undone.
At the very moment when the enemy expects to gloat over a triumph and fawn
in sadistic glee over an abused and persecuted enemy, the dynamic of God's
power acting through the spirit of Jesus Christ confounds and confuses
the entire evil project of the foe.
The
humble man of Galilee had no military force. He had no political
power, but His words indicted the evil doers of the time and all who had
committed treason. Under the most humble and unpretentious circumstances,
Jesus Christ not only indicted the hypocrites and the Pharisees of their
sins and their blasphemies, but convicted them in the eyes of the people.
There was nothing for them to do in harmony with their evil standard of
conduct except to respond with persecutions, abuse, smear, misrepresentation,
and false witnesses.
Imagine
the watery mouthed glee with which the anti-christs rubbed their hands
and gloated over the violence of the mob in Pilate's Court. This mob had
been worked up by subtle rumors and deliberately spawned propaganda.
The evil instincts which pressed for the conviction of an innocent man
poured out from the same blasphemous hearts which now campaign day and
night to make commentaries like this impossible and in a conspiring effort
to silence the voices of the fearless as we attempt to preserve the rich
traditions which grew out of the sacrificial divinity of this man of Galilee.
With
Christ condemned, His painful walk to the crucifixion place was only a
sadistic detail. Those who had been driven out of the Temple as thieves
and robbers and money-changers while posing as religious authorities of
the community were only too happy to stand by while the incited ones beat
the flesh from His body and forced Him to fall under the weight of the
Cross.
After
Christ's physical body had died, in these dark hours, God moved.
He shook the earth. The veil of the Temple was torn in two and the
blasphemous and evil sinners trembled in the presence of these acts of
God. The greatest victory was still to come, a victory literally
born of defeat. Here was a man completely defeated-penniless, impoverished,
without political influence, with no physical force to support Him, reduced
to ridicule and death. All this added up to what might well be called
the ultimate in defeat, but defeat became the womb in which victory was
conceived, and the life which was lost was reborn with power and dramatic
demonstration of God's destiny for His Christian children, namely resurrection
and immortality.
Thus
it is with us. The enemy rises with power. He threatens our civilization.,
He subverts our public officials. He perverts our citizens.
He poisons our education. He floods our entertainment with pornography.
He takes legal steps to enforce the adultery of race mixing upon the people.
The shades of Sodom and Gomorrah descend upon us. Surely Satan is
laughing, and we all know that the enemies of Christ are gloating over
their victories.
They
have outlawed the name of Christ in our public institutions. They
have made it a criminal offense to praise God in certain public places.
They have denied us the right to set up Nativity Scenes and resurrection
symbols on public property. They have compelled the Government of
the United States to blaspheme the name of Jesus Christ and have gleefully
stripped Christians of their rights. They seem to be thinking, "We
have won a victory."
But
they have not learned their lesson. These behaviors, these victories
of the evil ones, these powerful demonstrations against Christ and his
dedicated followers have stimulated within the hearts of believers and
courageous souls a dynamic reaction. They have stimulated a faith
and a prayerful concern that cannot be defeated. At a moment least
to be expected by the foes of Christ, there will be spiritual and miraculous
manifestations that will shake the earth and the veil in Satan's temple
will be torn, and those of us who have dared to speak and dared to write
and dared to believe and dared to be fearless will be rewarded with the
victory that is inevitable. What the enemies of the Christians call
our defeat is the womb of victory for our people and our enemies ultimate
undoing. This is the undeniable fact.
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