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Giving God Full Control
by David Wilkerson
 
 
September 26, 2005
 
Most readers know that the Supreme Court of the United
States has ruled the Ten Commandments cannot be displayed
in any government courthouse.
This landmark decision has
been covered exhaustively by the media.
But what does the
ruling mean?
A courthouse is where laws are enforced.
And the Ten
Commandments represent God's moral law, which never shifts
or changes.
It is as fixed as the law of gravity.
If you
defy that law, it's like stepping off a high building.
You
can deny that the law affects you, but there are
consequences sure to be paid.
Simply put, the Ten Commandments are eternal laws designed
by God to keep society from destroying itself.
Yet,
amazingly, many sand-blasting companies are at work right
now grinding away those Commandments  -  as well as God's
name  -  wherever they're engraved in courthouse marble or
concrete.
What a telling picture of the state of our society.
These
unchangeable laws were originally engraved in stone by the
very finger of God.
And now they are being erased from
stone by the law of man.
I hear some Christians saying, "What's the big deal?
We're
not under the law.
Why should this be an issue?"
I cringe
when I hear this.
No, we're not under the Hebrew law,
meaning the 613 additional commandments added by Jewish
rabbis.
But every Christian is under the authority of
God's moral law, which is summed up in the Ten
Commandments.
No believer can justify committing
adultery, theft or murder.
I wonder what goes through God's mind as these
sand-blasters erase his laws from before our eyes.
Again,
some believers claim, "We don't need these displays of the
Commandments.
All that's really necessary is for us to
have them written in our hearts."
That's not what God's
Word says.
Consider the very visible presence God intended
for the Commandments as they were delivered to his people:
 
"These words, which I command thee this day, shall be in
thine heart... and thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy
hand, and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes.
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and
on thy gates...and [thou] shalt talk of them when thou
sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,
and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up"
(Deuteronomy 6:6, 8-9, 7).
The awful fact is, ungodly forces in our society have
rejected God.
All mention of him is now being removed from
our schools, our courts, our public institutions.
And soon
these same forces will attempt to outlaw the words "One
nation under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance.
I believe this madness will not go unanswered for long.
I'm convinced God is going to act quickly.
Take for
example what has happened in Europe recently.
Last year
the European Union tried to force a constitution that
blatantly rejected God and defined Europe as secular.
The
decree failed, but those spearheading it will surely be
back; they won't give up until the name of God is renounced
through all of Europe.
They have made their intentions
clear, stating in essence, "Let God have his heaven.
Give
us the earth.
Keep religion out of our faces."
I wonder what goes through God's mind as sand-blasters
erase his laws from before our eyes.
The fact is, if you don't want God in your midst, he
doesn't simply go away.
Consider what has happened in
Europe since that constitution was introduced.
Germany and
France face massive unemployment.
Welfare costs are
soaring.
Governing bodies are paralyzed, and there is
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