Weekly
Insight 5.12.8 – 5.18.8
By
Peter J. Peters
Revival is a religious term or at least it use to be.
Churches used to hold “revival” services where lives were rededicated and
changed.
Personal revival has to do with repentance, where one
stops living as one wants or thinks best, and starts living and doing as his
Lord wants and knows is best. National revival is the same. It is where a
nation stops doing what it thinks is the right thing to do and starts doing
what its God says to do. Which is another way of saying that nation does it His
way, which is another way of saying the nation, begins to obey the law of its
God. When it does things change. There is a revival. The economy is revived,
the health, safety and welfare of the citizens are revived, and families are
revived.
The God of our nation is Jesus Christ. When the
revolutionary war was fought the battle cry was “no king but Jesus.” Today,
however, the churches that claim to promote Jesus Christ and Christianity do
not promote nation revival. In fact, they prevent national revival by teaching
the people the law of God has been abolished. They then go through a path line
of rhetoric and theological gyrations to support their false teaching pointing
out that under the new covenant that Jesus established we are no longer under
law but under grace. This teaching prevents national revival and is like rat
poison. Rat poison is ninety eight percent corn meal and two percent poison.
It is true that Jesus established a new covenant and our
righteous standing before him is not dependent upon law but on grace. We are
made righteous by his blood and His righteousness. It is true we are not as far
as our personal righteousness goes, under law but under grace (Rom 6:14). It is
true that Christ is the end of the law, but only the end of the law for
“personal righteousness sake.” “For Christ is the end of the law for
righteousness to everyone who believes.” (Romans 10:4-5 NASB)
It is not true that Jesus abolished the law. He made this
truth clean. “Do not think that I came to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I
did not come to abolish, but to fulfill.” (Matt 5:17 NASB)
The Bible clearly tells us the law is good when used
lawfully “But we know that the Law is good, if one uses it lawfully,
realizing the fact that law is not made for a righteous man, but for those who
are lawless and rebellious, for the ungodly and sinners, for the unholy and
profane, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers and immoral
men and homosexuals and kidnappers and liars and perjurers, and whatever else
is contrary to sound teaching, according to the glorious gospel of the blessed
God, with which I have been entrusted.” (I Tim 1:7-11 NASB)
If our nation does not follow and obey the law of our God
concerning homosexuals, murderers, adulterers, immoral men, kidnappers etc, it
will become full of them and not fit to live in. Thus, for there to be national
revival, there must again be judges put in office that uphold and carry out the
law of God. When that happens, national revival happens, and there will be a
change in our nation for the better.
When that happens we will have a nation blessed as
described in Deuteronomy 28:1-4 “Now it shall be, if you diligently obey the
Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments which I command you today,
the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. All
these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you obey the Lord your
God: Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.
Blessed shall be the offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and
the offspring of your beasts, the increase of your herd and the young of your
flock.” –NASB
Since we have these churches, and the bastardized hybrids
called Judeo-Christians in them, there is no love of country. Through in their
theology they constantly blurt and blurb out love. So it doesn’t really bother
them to see their country going to hell because they are going to heaven (or so
they thing) as a result our nation is cursed as described in Deuteronomy 28.