Loving the Word with the MudPreacher

Boiling Point

Reading the latest flap about John Hagee and now Pastor Rod Parsley’s support of John McCain has scratched me so deep I want to scream. It’s so funny that Preacher’s have become the main negatives in both Obama and McCain’s campaign. However, my pain comes from America’s Anti-God’s Word bias.

Some preacher’s do go too far in giving their own personal interpretation of what God says in His Word. But one thing that the press and many American’s refuse to acknowledge is the Supreme Authority of God and His Word.

McCain rejected the endorsement of Hagee over the latest revelation of his belief about Hitler’s role in returning the Jews to their homeland of Palestine. Hagee said “How did it happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, ‘My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel’.”

Well, evidently that’s not the God that McCain wants to identify with. How could God have ever allowed a creature like Hitler to do His Will? And the reason McCain rejected Hagee’s endorsement is that most American’s don’t believe in that kind of a God. After all, God is kind and loving and would never cause harm. That is why an uproar occurred in the first place when it was revealed that Hagee preached and wrote that America is under the curse of God.

I also read that Pastor Rod Parsley’s endorsement of McCain may be rejected because of statements he made against Islam. McCain had sought his endorsement because he recognizes Pastor Parsley as “one of the truly great leaders in America, a moral compass, a spiritual guide.” Well, evidently America does not want to be guided to a God who would be restrictive and so closed minded that he would seek the destruction of any false religions like Islam, as Pastor Parsley contends. So McCain will probably reject his endorsement as well because of the negative press.

Bottom line, America rejects a God who uses evil to do His Will, and America rejects a God who is prejudiced against any religion or people.

This is where America is headed, because America has rejected the authority of God’s Word. We have made our own God according to what we believe in our hearts is right. A loving, kind, compassionate God who despises suffering and hatred and prejudice. A God who gives us our own space to worship Him in any way we chose.

The True God

God’s Word describes the True God, Jehovah, El Elyon who reigns over all: “I form light and create darkness, I make well-being and create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things. “Shower, O heavens, from above, and let the clouds rain down righteousness; let the earth open, that salvation and righteousness may bear fruit; let the earth cause them both to sprout; I the LORD have created it. “Woe to him who strives with him who formed him, a pot among earthen pots! Does the clay say to him who forms it, ‘What are you making?’ or ‘Your work has no handles’? … But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity. For thus says the LORD, who created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the earth and made it (he established it; he did not create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!): “I am the LORD, and there is no other. I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I the LORD speak the truth; I declare what is right. “Assemble yourselves and come; draw near together, you survivors of the nations! They have no knowledge who carry about their wooden idols, and keep on praying to a god that cannot save. … And there is no other god besides me, a righteous God and a Savior; there is none besides me. “Turn to me and be saved, all the ends of the earth! For I am God, and there is no other. By myself I have sworn; from my mouth has gone out in righteousness a word that shall not return: ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’ “Only in the LORD, it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength; to him shall come and be ashamed all who were incensed against him. In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory.” (Isa 45:7-25 some verses omitted)

America wants to bow their knees to a god that they have created in their own minds. They only want a God who is loving and kind and would never hurt anyone. BUT GOD’S WORD SAYS:

Lift Up Your Eyes and See

Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness. Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name, by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing. Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”? Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. (Isa 40:21-28)

With all the tragedies and economic chaos that is going on, do we really want a god who is only loving and kind, but without Power and Standards of Right and Wrong? Do we want wishy-washy leaders who are afraid to take a stand for righteousness and justice because they are afraid of offending someone? Praise God for leaders like Truman who made tough decisions like dropping the Atomic Bomb to end World War II. We never would have done that today.

God is God, our creator. He is revealed in His Word, and if we are to honor God we must honor His Word. We must Worship Him as Sovereign and ALL-POWERFUL.

Blow the Trumpet

Is a trumpet blown in a city, and the people are not afraid? Does disaster come to a city, unless the LORD has done it? “For the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets. The lion has roared; who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken; who can but prophesy?” (Amos 3:6-8)

What will God have to do to get our attention? Shouldn’t our leaders be blowing the trumpet, sounding the alarm, that we need to return to the God of the Bible? We need a President of conviction, a man not afraid to worship the God of the Bible.

Every Knee Will Bow

Regarding Islam, ‘To me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear allegiance.’ from Isaiah 45 is expounded upon in Philippians:

“Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”(Php 2:9-11)

Any religion that does not honor the Son of God, Jesus Christ, is against God. God’s Word is clear, that God has exalted Jesus Christ as the righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth. He alone is worthy of our worship, for He is God. They may not like it, but one day even Muslims will bow before Jesus Christ and confess Him Lord.