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Insight's to the Word with Pastor Teague!
“Let’s not make today most days!”
Dallas Police Chief David Brown
We all bleed red. Our blood binds us together as human beings – not our skin color, the uniform we wear or the religion we represent. All lives matter because we all bleed red.
What happened in Dallas, TX this on July 6-7 is despicable. The execution of police officers by, at this writing, what seems to be a lone gunman, is senseless and destructive to our nations attempt to bring racial healing across the land.
I want to say first of all that it is time for the church to stand strong. Only the church can make the difference in this nation that needs to be made by being living witnesses to the grace, healing and love that is found in Jesus Christ. While spontaneous revival is breaking out all over America, Satan is doing his best to throw every counter productive scheme he can at America to bring her to her knees in humiliating shame. I challenge all churches across the nation to “stand strong” and pray for our nation.
I want to commend Dallas Police Chief David Brown for his strong, bold and passionate statements after losing five of his officers to the execution that occurred only hours before his press conference. Chief Brown said, “All I know is that this must stop — this divisiveness between our police and our citizens. We don’t feel much support most days. Let’s not make today most days. Please, we need your support to be able to protect you from men like these, who carried out this tragic, tragic event.”
America needs to listen to this man!
Our nation is facing some critical crossroads. Our government is overwhelmed with the spirit of chaos and disillusionment. Our politicians wane in their concern for the American people who put them in office with a sense of trust that has been prostituted for self serving agendas. Our military has been stripped almost naked and forced to operate with pseudo weapons. Our local, state and federal governing officials are running frightened to caves of political correctness in similar fashion as Israel did when Goliath paraded himself in front of God’s people. We need leadership. We need honest men and women of integrity to lead us. We need men and women who make laws to abide by the same. We need men and women of all ages to honor law. Period. On both side of the fence – regardless of the color of our skin, religion or nationality. Law must once again be revered in our nation. Otherwise we perpetuate lawlessness. When we do then anarchy will follow.
I want to say that the problem with the spirit of homicide in America is not a gun issue. It is a heart issue. Man’s heart is moving further and further away from God. The result is what you’re currently watching unfold in America. You can take a gun away from a man with murder in his heart and he will find another way to kill those he hates. America’s problem is not a gun problem. It is a heart issue. It is a sin issue. You can’t change the heart of a godless man by punishing the Godly. You can’t legislate sin with sit-ins by adults who demonstrate childlike behavior. You can only change a man’s heart by Godly spiritual influence found in relationship with Jesus Christ.
Political pundits won’t want to hear what I and millions of others are saying – but running from the truth doesn’t disqualify it. Politically robed leaders will attempt to legislate sin with more laws and even attempt to dismantle the Constitution that governs our rights to bear arms for protection against the “bad guys” of our nation – won’t change the heart of an evil man. You can’t legislate a Godless heart into righteous behavior. Man has already tried that for thousands of years and it hasn’t worked nor will it. God gave man 10 laws to regulate human behavior of which one is simply “Thou shall not kill”. If a man will disobey the laws of God how much more do we think a Godless man will obey the laws of human government? When America returns to God, righteousness and the pursuit of holy living – America will be revered once again around the world as nation who honors God and is to be feared for her Godliness.
Romans 13 defines for us the plan of God to confront lawlessness. God saw the potential of the wickedness of a heart void of God’s love. He gave us “ministers” to carry out justice when laws are broken.
Romans 13:1-4 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. (2) Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. (3) For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; (4) for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
Here is the background to what lead up to the Dallas execution of law enforcement officers.
someone resisted civil law and in so doing opposed the ordinance of God who established law in the first place
when humanity opposes the law of God they by default bring condemnation upon themselves
to arrive at a place of not fearing authority established by God we must engage “doing good” not evil
if you break the law you should fear the sword of the minister of law – i.e.: law enforcement personnel
law enforcement personnel are authorized to avenge the one who practices evil
After you read Romans 13 you should ascertain that what make law enforcement work is what happens on both sides of the fence.
First of all, law enforcement officers are not authorized to be lone carriers of justice. They have been appointed by God for the purpose of “ministering” care, concern and conscious respect for the law they engage to protect us. Any law enforcement officer who does not respect the law they are charged to enforce should turn in his/her badge and weapon. Law enforcement personnel are ministers of God. In other words they are not mere wild west gun slingers who operate independent of law. They are carriers of justice ordained by God. They themselves should recognize, respect and be responsible for the law they enforce.
Second, we as civilians should practice abiding by the laws of the land. Evil is what motivated God to ordain law enforcement. If you break the law you should be aware that you will be accountable to law in a just and practical manner. When man breaks the law he should have an innate fear of the one charged to keep the law. Part of the problem is that some people don’t have a righteous fear or respect for law enforcement. They have become a law unto themselves. They assume they can live the way they want, behave the way they want, treat others without respect and practice law subjective to their interpretation of it. No can do without consequences of the enforcer of the law.
I am asking, begging and pleading with the church to stand strong. Stand strong together. Link up are in arm. Wrap one another up in love, grace and forgiveness. And pray. Pray for our nation. Pray for law enforcement. Pray that man’s heart will be changed by the grace of God Almighty. As a nation we can no longer kill the unborn and expect the “born” to have a sense of righteous law keeping. We will become global hypocrites in doing so. We have to stop all killing in this nation. From the abortion clinics to the streets of Chicago to the road side traffic stops to the sidewalks where law is enforced – we have to stop the killing.
Paul the apostle wrote the church at Galatia 5.15 and said this: If you bite and ravage each other, watch out–in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?
In the words of Dallas Police Chief David Brown let’s not make today most days. Let’s work together to stop the killing. Please! Join me and call the church to “stand strong” against the racial and law enforcement violence overtaking this nation.
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Pastor, I agree with you 100 percent BUT, until our Law Officials stop all the senseless shooting from their own group, and until they dismiss anyone who is prejudice from their group, it will be hard to bring peace. The blacks have struggled for years to be equal to the whites. Some are still struggling . To tell those who have lost loved ones to a senseless cop killing, (and we know there have been several) to respect the Law Enforcement people and learn to accept them and be at peace with them is like pouring salt on an open wound. That will make rage erupt like a wild fire. These dirty cops can not be allowed to continue to be cops and should be held up to the same standards as any man that breaks the law. Also, it was a crime to tell a woman she can kill her baby while at the same time, if a man hits a pregnant woman and kills her he gets charged with 2 counts of murder. When either one of the next 2 people selected to be our President takes office, may GOD have mercy on all of us.