Today,
the reply is on the role of the church as an embodiment of divinity,
and whether the church should provide messages on politics and social
issues. Often the concerns and conduct we display surrounding such
issues as crime, employment, poverty, and voting rights arise from
fear, lack of faith, and secular entanglement that oppose the
authentic work of Christian growth and spiritual development. By
continually pursuing its agenda for redemption, salvation and eternal
life the church addresses pressing unmet needs and life priorities
that will be fulfilled by no other agencies, authorities, and powers.
It is written: Isaiah 60: 14-22, King James Version (KJV): 14 The
sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee;
and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the
soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee; The city of the LORD,
The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. 15 Whereas thou has been
forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will
make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations. 16 Thou
shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles, and shalt suck the breast
of kings: and thou shalt know that I the LORD am
thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. 17 For brass
I will bring gold, and for iron I will bring silver, and for wood
brass, and for stones iron: I will also make thy officers peace, and
thine exactors righteousness. 18 Violence shall no more be heard in
thy land, wasting nor destruction within thy borders; but thou shalt
call thy walls Salvation, and thy gates Praise. 19 The sun shall be
no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give
light unto thee: but the LORD shall be unto thee
an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory. 20 Thy sun shall no
more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the LORD
shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall
be ended. 21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they
shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work
of my hands, that I may be glorified. 22 A little one shall become a
thousand, and a small one a strong nation: I the LORD
will hasten it in his time. One of the fighters in the “Yahoo!
Answers” forum on Religion and Spirituality using the ID “JOE”
(Level 6 with 21,612 points, a member since February 09, 2018) posted
the following:
My
pastor at church sticks to the scripture and refuses to make politics
and issues part of his message, right or wrong?
Update:
It's an evangelical church, he's a great orator, but will not go down
the politics/religion messaging.
THE
GOLDEN ARROW: For by him were all things created, that are in
heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they
be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all
things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all
things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the
body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead;
that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it
pleased the Father that in him should all fulness
dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him
to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether
they be things in earth, or things in heaven. And you, that
were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked
works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through
death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his
sight: (Colossians 1: 16-22, King James Version, KJV)
THE
DOUBLE DAGGER: Our Displays of Divinity (06/19/2019); To Be Jesus’
Sheep (06/10/2019); Scripture Has No Ethnicity (05/27/2019);
Commitment To Jesus Christ (03/07/2019); On Diversity and Equality
(05/22/2018); Separation of Church and State (07/04/2014); The Point
of Wisdom? (07/05/2014); Holy Ground (03/30/2014); The Temple Mount
(03/31/2014)
“JOE”,
for many developing and mature Christian believers, the church is to
be acknowledged as a sacred process and a divine tool that is used
to reveal and make divinity knowable, known, accessible, and
approachable by those who are living on the earth. Like divine law
that proclaims and makes present the grace of GOD (we also say,
divine prerogative), eternal purpose, prophecy, and the sovereign
will of GOD, the church is a physical and social embodiment of Jesus
Christ who continues communication, exchange, and interaction with
mankind by imparting fresh endowments of inseparable spirit substance
from the makeup of GOD. Included are balance, faith, forbearance,
holiness, joy, longsuffering, lovingkindness, oneness without
sameness, personhood, wisdom, and wrath against sin.
In
the same way the Bible is a record of GOD appearing through thousands
of human and natural events, within thousands of lives, over the
course of thousands of years, the church is an appearing of Jesus
Christ today through godly character; commandments, determinations,
and principles within sacred law as well as the resolution of
conflicts and settlement of sacred disputes through applications of
divine law; sacred events (we say, miracles); the endurance of
sufferings; and the continuance and fulfillment of divine works. The
members of the church will not be everyone whose name is listed as
enrolled so much as those who voluntarily become sanctified (set
apart to serve divinity) by their commitment, their devotion, their
giving and financial support, their repentance, their lifestyles, and
their daily living routines.
Those
who become “born again” as members within the church must “grow
up again,” and become mature/ripe for harvest from the earth by the
Lord at his coming. Living on the earth as vessels of divine
substance, the offspring of GOD, and heirs with Jesus, the church
will face many intense life challenges and “growing pains.” even
so, the church is reinforced with the promises of GOD. Consider
again the following that uses language from the Bible:
1.
Psalms 34: 17-19, King James Version (KJV): 17 The righteous
cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them
out of all their troubles. 18 The LORD is
nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a
contrite spirit. 19 Many are the afflictions of the
righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of
them all.
2.
John 17: 14-19, KJV: 14 I have given them thy word; and the world
hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not
of the world. 15 I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the
world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. 16 They are
not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them
through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into
the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for
their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified
through the truth.
3.
2nd Corinthians 4: 6-11, KJV: 6 For God, who commanded
the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to
give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ. 7 But we have this treasure in earthen
vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of
us. 8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we
are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 Persecuted, but not
forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed; 10 Always bearing about in
the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus
might be made manifest in our body. 11 For we which live are always
delivered unto death for Jesus’
sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our
mortal flesh.
There
is far more that should be said, correctly examined, and spiritually
apprehended. (For example, 4. Galatians 2: 20, KJV: 20 I am
crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ
liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by
the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.)
Even so, I trust this fragment will be useful. Be it unto you
according to your faith.
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