WHEN FEAR REIGNS
By Pastor Butch
Paugh
August
22, 2009
NewsWithViews.com
We
have all heard it said that silence is golden. There are times however;
when silence can become the most vile, contemptible and cowardly evil
that could ever permeate a society; when silence is the fruit of fear.
When through silence a society condones any evil, silence becomes
sin! When a societies laws become corrupt and the power (civil
authorities) that pass and enforce these laws becomes so totally invasive
and seemingly so powerful, that the evil perpetrated by them is quietly
and meekly accepted by the people in that society, then “fear
reigns”! Justice, judgment and truth are destroyed, evil is, at
first tolerated, and eventually and inevitably embraced! The longer
the deafening silence remains, the greater becomes the fear and evil
and the embracing of them. And the greater the fear, the greater the
silence! Fear and silence are cancers that will slowly devour the very
conscience of man and will surely destroy his soul.
The scriptures tell us that fear is bondage, (Rom. 8:15) and that Christ
came to deliver us from it (Heb. 2:15). Fear brings torment (I John
4:18), and will eventually cause us to be cast into eternal damnation!
(Rev. 21:8) All manner of evil, unspeakable atrocities, detestable,
despicable, vile and decadent evils become accepted as healthy and good!
As the twins of fear and ignorance are nurtured and grown, so grows
the immoral, putrid filth of what reprobate mankind will accept and
embrace! Without the absolute unchangeable laws of natures Creator,
nature itself becomes perverted! Mans debauchery knows no limits when
once he is allowed to break the eternal immutable laws of God, and no
man has the courage to correct, punish or destroy that evil! (Jer. 17:9
– Rom. 1:28)
A wise man once said, “That which we tolerate today, we will embrace
tomorrow”. I think it could be safely stated that, “that
which we tolerate today, we will embrace tomorrow, and that it will
eventually become politically correct and “legally” protected.”
At that point, society is doomed if the righteous cease being righteous
through the silence of sin!
Evil can only reign through fear! Fear can only control the people when
they become part of that evil through fear itself! Ignorance, fear and
tyranny, both spiritual and physical, are the fruit of a complacent
and cowardly society! The only “salvation” for a nation
(society) that has turned from righteous foundations and started drifting
toward evil, is for the righteous people of that nations society to
rise up in whatever means necessary to “cut” that
evil root out of their society, lest that root grow and destroy their
nation! History and scripture are replete with accounts of righteous
men, whether few or many (righteous men rely on God’s strength),
who have protected the innocent, overthrown tyrants and destroyed
evil from among them for the glory of their Creator and the sake of
their future generations! A reverent fear of God will allow a “righteous”
people to do no less!
Our founding fathers, which are now called “terrorists”
by the wicked, vile and hateful powers that now rule by force,
prove the above statement. These righteous few were willing to lose
all their “stuff” and sacrifice their very lives to restore
and preserve a righteous society for future generations!
If
we truly are the lovers of liberty as we proclaim to be, if
we are part of “the” called (Rom. 8:28), and if
we are truly the sons and daughters of God, we can do no less! The blood
of untold numbers of righteous men who went before us and the
pure, righteous blood of our Saviour is crying out to us to stand, to
speak out, to fight, and if need be, to die standing against evil, no
matter what “form” it may take. Evil may appear as a masked
figure seeking to steal, kill and destroy! Or it may appear in a uniform,
wearing a badge, a black robe or a three piece suit! It may appear in
the halls of Congress in the halls of “justice-judgment”,
or in the church sanctuary posing as a minister of light (II Cor. 11:15).
If those that call themselves the church (called out ones) are sincerely
seeking to do righteousness they will not be silenced! They will grow
into the maturity and in the mind of Christ, and will be able to discern
between good and evil (Heb. 5:14). If they are His bride, they
will expose evil (Eph. 5:11), hate it (Ps. 37:10, Job 1:1, Rom. 12:9,
I Pet. 3:11), and destroy (purge) it from themselves and their nation
or it will destroy their nation.(Deut. 17:7-19, 19:20-21, 22:21,
24:7, Rom. 1:32)
I know how a lot of people who read this will think to themselves that
you have quoted all, but one of the scriptures, out of the Old Testament.
There are many other scriptures in the writings of the New Testament
that most definitely make reference to the death penalty. One very
important point that most people do not consider when studying the New
Testament, is the fact that Israel was under bondage to a foreign conqueror,
namely the Roman empire, because they had sinned by not following
the laws of God written to them in the Old Testament! There was
no New Testament when the Christ came, nor for decades after
He went back to His Father. We must indeed be very careful to rightfully
divide the Word of Truth (II Tim. 2:16).
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By their fruits you shall know them! A truly born again individual cannot remain silent. If he does not stand for truth (John 14:6) then he knows that hell is his doom! (Mt. 10:33) Many will cry, “Lord, Lord!” and honor Him with their “lips” but their hearts are not with Him! (Mt. 7:22-23, 15:8)
Through
the fear of man shall the masses be deceived into Hell! (Mt. 15:28)
Let’s get back to discussing the paralyzing fear that now grips
and controls our society, including the modern day church in America.
I have been told by many that I am a brave man, but to be bluntly honest,
I am just an ordinary man with all the weaknesses of others. The only
difference is the strength and courage that comes to me from an absolute
faith I have in my Saviour and sovereign God! Courage is not the absence
of fear, but rather the overcoming of fear through faith!
The complacency and compromise we see in the church today is the result
of generations of false teaching, both outside and inside the church
walls. Government controlled public schools and seminaries
have, through lies and false teachings, destroyed the knowledge of truth
in scriptures and history. We now have the product (fruit) of generations
of a deliberate dumbing down of society. An
ignorant, apathetic, spineless, mindless, soulless, mass of humanity
that only desires one thing (Hos. 4:6): security! They have sold themselves
into a total tyranny for a bowl of “soup.” Now we have become
a people that are willing to accept anything the powers that be determine
to be “good.”
Our
civil leaders and ignorant or perhaps willfully ignorant pastors have
taught us that to obey man’s laws is the only way to
please “God.” Civil government has become totally decadent
because the “social” church has become complacent and has
sinned unto silence! Not only has civil authority ignored and tried
to destroy the eternal law of God, but the church itself has become
totally antinomian, (without law). They have taught that the law has
been done away with, contrary to scriptures themselves! (Mt.5:12) Without
law, there is no sin (Rom. 3:20, 4:15, and 5:13). Christ did not free
us from the law, but rather from the curse of the law, sin and death!
(Rom. 8: 1-15) To break God’s law makes you a sinner
even if you go to church and profess Christ! (I John 3:4, Rom. 3:31)
Fear itself is a fruit of sin! (Rom. 8:15) We who walk after the Spirit
and are of God overcome the spirit of fear! (II Tim. 1:7) Perfect (mature)
love cast out fear and the torment that comes with it! (I John 4:16)
So then, why are those who call themselves the redeemed of God, afraid
to even speak the truth? We have become a people so fearful
of offending evil, fearful that we may be persecuted and or
prosecuted for even speaking the truth that we have fulfilled Mt. 5:13
because of our sinful silence!
We are so pleased to speak of forgiveness, meekness, humbleness and
“love” that we have forsaken teaching the very essence
of forgiveness and salvation! Repentance! How does society
know to repent if no man has the Godly courage to expose their sin!?
Why has the church become so politically correct, which is simply a
term for complacency and compromise, that we don’t call sodomy,
murder, adultery, fornication, stealing, covetousness, and all other
things contrary to the righteous laws of God what they are!? Sin! Abominations!?
Evil!? Decadence and immorality!? Why does the “church”
remain, in reality, silent on these matters!? Do we not know that we
are going to give account for the evil that we tolerate!? Because
we say that we know God and call ourselves the people of God, and confess
that we love Him with our lips, but we fail to stand against evil it
will bring a greater damnation on us!? Are we not just making pretense
of righteousness? (Mt. 23:14, Pro. 24:10-12, Luke 12:47-48) How are
we not like the Pharisees that Christ called the sons of Satan? (James
4:17, Mt. 23:24-33)
We have become such a wicked and perverse generation, just as spoken
of in the scriptures, that we now call good evil and evil good (Is.
5:20). Why does our society, and even most “Christians”
lament the death of a murderer of 60,000 innocent children (abortionist
Tiller), and condemn the one who had the Godly courage to stop the slaughter
of the innocent while weeping and wailing over the early death of a
man who help “pervert” the minds of millions?! A man who
paid at least one family $15 million in hush money so they wouldn’t
expose his perversion with children! These two instances are irrefutable
proof of the conditions of society in America!
The “church” today prefers to “pick and choose”
the scriptures they want to believe and live by! They ignore
the manifold scriptures that condemn murderers, sodomites, lesbians,
adulterers, fornicators and others to death! Both in the Old and New
Testaments! They choose to ignore the scriptures in Numbers 25 where
one man had the courage to do what was right while the civil and church
authorities sat by and did nothing! And by doing what was right, saved
an entire nation. Or when the head preacher of his day (high priest)
in II Kings chapter 11, overthrew the civil authority even with being
charged with treason and reinstated “lawful” government!
The “preachers” stepped up to the holy call to stop an unrighteous
civil government and set a whole nation free from an ungodly tyrant!
Just like the preachers and clergy of the Revolution in America!
Our time is fast coming to close for a chance of repentance in America! We may have already crossed the line according to II Kings 24:4 with the holocaust of abortion (killing) of 60 million children! Be that as it may, we are still accountable to a Holy God for our sin of silence! Our silence and inaction has been and will continue to be, judged both now and in eternity!
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The choice is ours! We will all answer individually on the Day of Judgment! (II Cor. 5:10)
It
is the whole duty of all men to obey God!
(Ecc. 12:13-14) How much more to those who confess Him as Saviour!?
Accountability to a Holy God is not optional! America, repent
or perish!
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