On June 14, 1940, residents of Paris, France, awoke to the sound of a German voice on loudspeakers announcing that the city was being taken over by Hitler’s Nazis. The people were instructed to abide by an 8 o’clock p.m. curfew. Read the story here.Some two million residents had already fled the city; however, the German Gestapo wasted no time in making arrests, holding interrogations, planting a spy network, and hanging a monstrous swastika over Paris. The Paris that its residents went to sleep enjoying was gone and was replaced by an evil so horrific that both city and country were immediately overtaken with despair–and rightly so.
Although America has certainly not been overtaken by another country, we have positively been overtaken with evil. America is fast sinning itself into oblivion. The gutter-level immorality, the never-ending assault on traditional family values, the out-of-control government, and the liberal-led agenda to completely remove God and every vestige of Christianity from society have combined to open the flood-gates of evil.
The time is now for the Christian Church to “shine like stars in the universe as [we] hold out the word of life” (Phil. 2:15-16). The forces of evil we face are not greater than the God we worship. We need God in America again; therefore, we need a resurgence of Judeo-Christian values, a re-commitment to the authority of the Bible, and a resurrection of faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.
How can we, as American Christians, be a part of spreading the gospel of Jesus from here to the utter ends of the earth if we sit idly by and watch America turn away from that gospel? Christian, will you commit to pray, sacrifice, and serve to see that God’s will is done on American soil again and then follow through on your commitment?
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