mines the Sovereign Dominion, and Rule of God in the world. On the surface this doctrine claims all power is of God, but in reality it seeks glory in man. 
Pietists look inwardly, denying any responsibility for the world's affairs around  them, effectually making the Gospel an impotent, and irrelevant faith. Pietism emphasizes martyrdom and suffering, rather than conquest and victory. Pietism also voids God's promise of Power and Conquest, and conveniently shuns all attempts at subduing the enemies of the Gospel by labeling them "works related".
Horribly, today's churches advocate this gospel of non-involvement "en masse". According to these Pietistic thinkers, sociologically, there are no longer any real Biblical solutions for the evils of society, and if there were, it is up to some other group to implement them.
  What this tends to develop in the Christian masses is a sense of foreboding and doom. These folks are simply waiting for the day  of their death. Others patiently hope that Christ will come in the clouds of Glory and miraculously spare them from their Covenantal duty of getting involved in the "real world".
Yet, the Prophets and Apostles were very much involved sociologically, politically, and economically  in the events of the world around them. They were zealously "engaging the culture" in a constant attempt to bring the Law of God, and the Hope of Salvation, to a lost and dying world. To those that would hear, there were blessings. To those that would remain hardened against the warnings of the Sovereign LORD, there was destruction. In either case, the saints of old were faithful in their dispensing of the Word of God.
          The Enemies of Duty
The Community of Christianity is being eroded by lack of duty. Modern church folk have more distractions than ever before, and both the church and the nation are significantly showing these effects. The excuses for non-involvement, however, become a sorrowful witness of a people set as kindling for the fires of the wicked.
Consider the many enemies of Godly responsibility and duty.

1. Ignorance: Many are unaware of the real attempt that is ensuing against Christianity. Some folks are legitimately ignorant, while others remain willfully ignorant, in order not to deal with the horrific problems.
2. Unbelief: Christians think that the promises in the Scriptures are only for those in Bible times. They fail to believe that these promises are for the Kingdom of God as a universal  entity. Unbelief has paralyzed the Church
3. Fear. People are afraid. Unbelief and fear and bedfellows and are destroying the church.
4. Pessimism. Since the saints have been convinced that they cannot make any difference in the real world, they are discouraged from their God- Commissioned duty.
5. Distractions: The world is all about distracting the saint from both his faith and his duty. It doesn't take much to be distracted from Godliness in our day.
These and more shall be addressed in our next issue, as we continue to identify, and seek to remedy, the ills of the Church of Our Lord and King, The Lord Jesus Christ. Amen
     RW


 

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