The last OEA update took a look at some things that American’s trust in. It talked about the fact that our trust and hope should be in God, for His name is holy and only through God comes salvation and deliverance.
But when our nation has turned aside to other gods, living for the one true God becomes a great challenge. What are some things that will be challenges to us?
One of the things that Christians will be facing this year is the rapid spread of socialist/Communist propaganda and the effect it will have on the general public. It is important that we protect ourselves and our loved ones and our children from being brainwashed.
Our President is a promoter of Communism. This is not meant to be disrespectful to him. He does not call himself a communist, but he makes no secret of his policies, stands on issues, programs, and methods. His blog http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hqblog plainly describes President Obama’s stand and his intentions for America. He calls his blog, “Organizing for America.”
As an avid promoter of Communist/socialist propaganda, what is one of President Obama’s chief tools? Education of the masses. He starts with the common people and works his way up. On his blog, he states, “Beth Kimbriel, a mother of four from Richmond, Virginia, has no formal political experience. But every week, as an OFA "Community Organizer," she trains and manages other volunteer leaders to organize effectively around the President's agenda. Hundreds of her fellow OFA Community Organizers around the country have already volunteered more than 200,000 hours doing similar work. Thousands more have taken on other leadership positions in every single state. And we're still growing -- nearly a million people who had never volunteered for the presidential campaign have signed up with OFA this year.
Supporters spread the word throughout our communities, with more than a million conversations with neighbors on the phone and at the doorstep, and 250,000 letters to the editor about how President Obama's policies would help ordinary Americans.
And when Congress was making crucial decisions, you spoke out more powerfully than the special interests ever could.”
Many years ago in England, there lived a godly lady often known as “Holy Hannah.” Ungodly propaganda began to fill her country. She knew of only one way to stop it - counter propagandize. She wrote many, many tracts. These were given away, sold, and so forth. Any means possible was used to get God’s word into the hands of the common people. One preacher said that the only prevention for brainwashing is heart washing.
Christians in America face this same challenge today. We have the challenge to counter-propagandize. Perhaps this would be better called “evangelize.” The only way to prevent people from being brainwashed is to teach them how they can be heart washed.
Does it really work? Here is an excerpt from a Communist student’s challenge to the church,
“The gospel is a much more powerful weapon for the renewal of society than is our Marxist philosophy, but all the same it is we who will finally beat you… We communists do not play with words. We are realists, and seeing that we are determined to achieve our object, we know how to obtain the means. Of our salaries and wages we keep only what is strictly necessary, and we give up our free time and part of our holidays. You, however, give only a little time and hardly any money for the spreading of the gospel of Christ. How can anybody believe in the supreme value of this gospel if you do not practice it, if you do not spread it, and if you sacrifice neither time nor money for it… ? We believe in our Communist message, and we are ready to sacrifice everything, even our life… But you people are afraid even to soil your hands.”
(Quoted from Bringing ‘Em Back Alive, by Danny Lehmann © 1987 , p.21)
Is this the way the unsaved world views us? Do they think that we do not care about God and His message? Do they think it does not matter to us? Do they think that it must not be worth believing in because we seem to have little desire to convince others of its truth and power? If so, then we are not Jesus’ disciples. For Jesus said, “If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple… So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:26,33) If people are so willing to be disciples of Satan, why are we not willing to be disciples of Jesus.
President Obama grew up in a home without true religion. His father was a Muslim who turned atheist. His grandmother was religious, possibly a Christian. His pastor did not know the true gospel. Is it possible that President Obama has spent most of his life seeing very few real Christians? Is it possible that America has many more disciples of Marx than disciples of Christ?
Christians this year face this challenge? Will we be disciples of Jesus, or will we not?