Democracy or a Coronation?

DEMOCRACY OR A CORONATION?

Matt.19: ²⁹ And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.

³⁰ But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.

Jam.4: ¹⁰ Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

I Pet.5: ⁵ Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

⁶ Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

 

There are the great events which laid humans and their achievements. The Oscars, the Globes, The Emmys, the sports awards, the $10,000 a plate fundraisers, the Nobel Peace Prize, and even the Christian world has its Dove awards. And then there is tomorrow’s inauguration. A spectacle to be sure which will cost in excess of 100 million dollars of gratuitous fanfare. This is no democracy; this is a coronation which occurs every four years.

But please take a step back and see the stark difference between what men do and what Jesus teaches. All the regal trimmings that elevate men and their positions, and yet Jesus had nowhere to place His head. “But that was Jesus”, you contend. So now once again we must confine Jesus and His teachings to the church house? We are allowed to parse what He said and make them conformable in different ways to different situations? And if that be so then we have little more than a suggestion box rather than the immutable Word of God.

We are called to be humble servants, not Hollywood idols. Rather than be applauded and even lauded, we are to think of ourselves as unprofitable servants.

But we should expect this from the kingdom of darkness which loves itself. In fact we should pity them. But instead people who profess Jesus support this ungodly system and many even participate in it. While people starve we play. While people lay in utter distress in need of medicine and treatment, we waste one hundred million dollars to sip champagne and dance. This is not following Jesus at all, and if you as a professing believer cannot recognize that fact in the face of such overt hedonism, then you are in great need of a spiritual awakening.

We are no of those who enjoy riotous living. We are called to a humble life of moderation. We are called to live lives that are conspicuous in their humility both of spirit and of material. We must not condemn those that party since we were once numbered among them. But we also must not cast lots with them. They are not of us and we are not of them. But we should pray that they can find life and life eternal through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Of course there are some true believers who will be there, however those who truly wish to follow in His steps should quietly and humbly abstain from such frivolity.

And what would you think if your father told you that he was so indebt that at any moment he might go bankrupt? And what if he said there was absolutely no money in his bank account for anything? And what would you think if as he was saying that he was walking out the front door for a worldwide vacation with all expenses paid? Well, as you see the Inauguration tomorrow, remember, these are the same people who claim we are in a financial crisis.

Oh how the Spirit must grieve because God’s people are falling for a lie. And that lie is that God’s Kingdom can be compatible with the kingdoms of this world. And God does not see out of two human eyes. While we see what we want to see God sees the entire world continually. God see the starving children; God sees the AIDs infected African mother as she dies; God sees the millions and millions of orphans living in squalor; God sees people getting their limbs blown off; God’s sees the infant in Darfur sucking at a dry nipple; God sees how the prosperous party while the downtrodden die in pain. So as people dine sumptuously tomorrow, remember that what you are seeing is a vapor, here today and gone tomorrow.

Only God’s Word is truth.