FOUR R’S

By Rick Mathes

Romans 1:25 for they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

A favorite study of mine is to immerse myself into the works of Francis Schaefer and his, “How Then Shall We Live?” He lists reform, revival and revolution as our only hope of salvation for our nation. I have added what he assumed to be necessary, regeneration. We must be “born again” before we reform our doctrine or have a revival. It is only then that our churches will explode in an authentic awakening and point our swords in the same direction.

It all begins with mighty men in the pulpits that fear God and hate sin. Satan knows he conquer the church from the pulpit for a season so he has all his demons infiltrating the Bible colleges, seminaries and weak churches. There are too many preachers and teachers that smell like sulfur. Where there is smoke there is fire!

There is only one objective truth. Even the statement, “There is no such thing as an absolute” is itself a relative statement if it be true. He law of non-contradiction, A cannot be non-A, cannot be contradicted. A fact is a fact. A truth cannot be part true and remain truth. The Bible’s sixty-six books are seamless and the original manuscripts are without error. No man could have done this remarkable work much less even conceive of it. The Word is supernatural and only understandable through the Holy Spirit’s teaching.

My question is, “How do you revive a corpse?” or “Why revive a body that is already alive?” The whole concept of “having a revival” baffles me. It’s like have a house warming in a house in flames. Either you are born again or you are deader than a doornail in sins. Here isn’t a purgatory for you to work it all out. What passes for revival is nothing more than a spiritual pep rally. Real revival is a commitment to repent of your sins, submit to His lordship and obey His commands.

Will the real Christian men with “spiritual T” please stand up, put on the armor and lift up your sword to the enemy? We can’t let children; women and homosexuals do a man’s work for the Lord. We’ve been sitting on our holy butts far too long. It takes a man of God to take a nation back for God. So get with it, will you?