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"*RISING TO THE CHALLENGE*"
(A Message in Colossians)
 
Westgate Chapel 8~/26~/03                                 Colossians 2:1-5
 
PROPOSITION:  The Church of Jesus in America is on the precipice of unprecedented persecution and will survive only if she has a long range perspective, if she has a growing relationship with Christ, and if she stays in impenetrable battle formation.
! i. introduction
!! -     RISING above the noise of business as usual in post world war England, circa 1932, the solitary voice of Winston Churchill was heard calling the nation to abandon her self-absorption and arm herself against  the threat of Hitler's Germany.
!! -     NOBODY listened.
!! -     THEY were so intent on their own peace and prosperity that they chose to believe that Hitler had no sinister intentions....even though he was running his factories 24 hours a day making war machinery.
!! -     THEY accused Churchill of fabricating the coming conflict just to further his own political ambitions.
!! -     THEY said that he was trying to make trouble.
!! -     THAT he was too enamored with conspiracy theories.
!! -     FOR seven years he begged and pleaded with parliament, the king, and the nation to get ready for war.
!! -     AND for seven years not  one soul paid any attention to the old man.
!! -     UNTIL that dark night of Nazi barbarism finally fell on Austria, then Czechoslovakia, then Poland....and by the time England was awakened to the terror it was almost too late.
!! -     WE are facing a time like that in America right now.
!! -     ONLY the enemy isn't the Al Queda, or Muslim Fundamentalists, or Hamas.
!! -     OUR enemies are the powers of darkness coming in frontal assault against the Gospel and the Church of Jesus right here in the United States...attacking in the form of the growing tide of hatred against the Truth.
!! -     WHEN I interviewed Chuck Colson six years ago on KCIS....Chuck is the former special counsel to President Nixon.....he said that the American Christian is going to face unprecedented persecution.
!! -     DAVID Wilkerson warns of growing hostility against the Church of Jesus in America.
!! -     MOST of us take that as an alarmist reaction to what we think is just a passing public sentiment.
!! -     BUT Chuck Colson quotes a Gallup poll where the American public was given a list of people they would most fear having as neighbors.
50% said they would be afraid having Fundamentalist Christians next door.
!! -     SAN Diego County Supervisors passed an ordinance that forbids prayer groups from meeting in private homes because it is in violation of R1 zoning law in the county.
!! -     MUCH of the Education Reform legislation is tailored as a vehicle for the indoctrination of our children in the humanistic agenda.
!!! ~*     It is designed to prepare our children as citizens of the global village....with values determined not by the Bible but by terms like "cultural diversity."
!!! ~*     Dr.
William Pierce, professor of Teacher Training at Harvard University....speaking at the Childhood Education International Association said,
!!!!       "Every child in America entering school at the age of five is mentally ill because he comes to school with certain allegiances towards our elected officials, toward his parents, toward a belief in a supernatural being, toward the sovereignty of this nation as a separate entity.
It is up to you as teachers to make all these sick children well, by creating the international child of the future."
!! -     GLOBALISM is one of the war cries of our enemy.
He is getting everyone ready to accept a one world government.....the coming New World Order.
!! -     TELEVISION programs portray Christians as irrational fanatics.
!! -     GOVERNMENT is suspicious at best, hostile at worst towards what they view as the "dangerous religious right" who take the Bible literally, are preoccupied with Jesus, believe in prophecy, and meet in homes for Bible study and prayer.
!! -     THE recent move to remove “under God” from our pledge of allegiance, and the ten commandments from a courthouse in Alabama, is further evidence of the battle we are in against the forces of darkness.
!! -     THERE is an anti-God, anti-Bible, anti-Christ, anti-Christian agenda that is coming at us faster with every passing week.
!! -     READ the signs of the times and wake up Church of Jesus!
!! -     PERSECUTION is right around the corner.
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YOU NEED A kingdom PERSPECTIVE
!! -     BUT this shouldn't be a surprise to the Christian today.
!! -     LISTEN to some of the warnings in Scripture about the last days:
!!! ~*     "*But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days*."
(II Timothy 3:1)
!!! ~*     "*Because of the increase of wickedness the love of most will grow cold*...." (Matthew 24:12)
!!! ~*     "*If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive*....." (Matthew 24:22)
!!! ~*     "*Watch out that no one deceives you*."
(Matthew 24:4)
!!! ~*     "*Whenever you are arrested and brought to trial, do not worry beforehand about what to say.
Just say whatever is given you at the time, for it is not you speaking but the Holy Spirit.*"
(Mark 13:11)
!!! ~*     "*All men will hate you because of Me....but he who stands firm to the end will be saved*."
(Mark 13:13)
!! -     FROM the inception of the Church of Jesus, almost two thousand years ago, the enemy has been opposing the work of God in us.
!! -     AND it only makes sense that as his time runs out, he is going to step up the intensity and frequency of his attacks against the Christian and the Church of Jesus.
!! -     PAUL was no stranger to opposition.
!! -     THE moment that Paul was converted on the road to Damascus, the opposition began.
!!! ~*     At first the Christians in Jerusalem had a hard time accepting him.
!!! ~*     Just about every town he went to tried to stone him and throw him out.
!!! ~*     Religionists tried to shut him down and corrupt his message of grace.
!!! ~*     Demon-possessed detractors tried to heckle him and stop him from preaching the Gospel.
!!! ~*     Alexander the silversmith tried to kill him.
!!! ~*     The Sanhedrin tried to silence him.
!!! ~*     Demons tried to drown him in the Mediterranean.
!!! ~*     The Roman Empire tried to chain him down.
!! -     BUT all that the opposition served to do was to give Paul a kingdom of God perspective.
!! -     LISTEN to him in Colossians 2:1,
!!!       "*I want you to know how much I am struggling for you and for those at Laodicea, and for all who have not met me personally.*"
!! -     THE opposition in Colosse was in the form of the false teachers within and the hostile pagan culture from without.
!! -     THE church was under tremendous attack.
!! -     CHRISTIANS were suffering.
!!! ~*     Disowned by their families.
!!! ~*     Cut off from their culture.
!!! ~*     Some had even laid their lives down for the Gospel.
!!! ~*     Those who stayed faithful were being told that salvation was only for a small elite who were intelligent enough to understand deep spiritual truths.
!! -     AND in the middle of this persecution, Paul wants them to know in Colosse, in Laodicea, in nearby Hieropolis......*and all those who have not met him personally*.....how much he is struggling for them.
!! -     WHO are those who have not met him personally?
Most of the believers in that area....AND you and me.
!! -     PAUL faced all that he did for YOU.....so that you would have the pure Gospel handed down to you.
!! -     NOTHING slowed him down from the objectives of the kingdom of God.
Nothing deterred him from that goal.
!! -     AND he did it for people he had never met and would never meet.
!! -     *HE faced the persecution with a kingdom perspective.*
!! -     HE was living his life for the generations that would follow the trail that he was blazing.
!! -     WHY was it so important to Paul that they...and we know about his struggle?
!! -     BECAUSE when we face persecution, we need a kingdom perspective.....for the sake of people who follow us, people we may never meet.
!! -     THE Bible and history books are full of men and women who faced persecution that way.
!!! ~*     Stephen...whose death impacted Paul for the rest of his life.
!!! ~*     Polycarp, pastor of the church in Ephesus who was burned alive for refusing to declare “Caesar is Lord.”
!!! ~*     Martin Luther.
!!! ~*     Hudson Taylor.
!!! ~*     Pentecostal church planters in the 1930's and 40's.
!!! ~*     Our own missionaries in India.
!!! ~*     Our young people who meet at the flag pole on public school grounds to pray.
!!! ~*     College students who have the courage to speak truth in their classrooms.
!! -     THIS is not the time to wimp out, Church.
!! -     THIS is the time to rise to the challenge and live and speak truth to a dark and dying nation.....for the sake of people we may never meet.
!! -     LET the enemy belittle us in the press.
!! -     LET the enemy try to undermine our children's faith.
!! -     LET the enemy try to corrupt the values of the Bible that made this nation great once.
!! -     LET them mock Christ.
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