Martin Luther said, “If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at that moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ.”
Are we as the Church really professing Christ? Have we left the battlefield? It seems that we speak of what is going on at the frontlines, but no one is willing to serve there. With what Martin Luther said, listen to the words of A.A. Hodge over a century ago.
“If Christ is really King, exercising original and immediate jurisdiction over the State as really as he does over the Church, it follows necessarily that the general denial or neglect of his rightful lordship, any prevalent refusal to obey that Bible which is the open law-book of his Kingdom, must be followed by political and social as well as moral and religious ruin. If professing Christians are unfaithful to the authority of their Lord in their capacity as citizens of the State, they cannot be blessed by the indwelling of the Holy Ghost in their capacity as members of the Church. The Kingdom of Christ is one, and cannot be divided in life or in death. If the Church languishes, the State cannot be in health; and if the State rebels against its Lord and King, the Church cannot enjoy his favor. If the Holy Ghost is withdrawn from the Church, he is not present in the State; and if He, the only Lord, the Giver of life, be absent, then all order is impossible, and the elements of society lapse backward to primeval night and chaos. I charge you, citizens of the United States, afloat on your wide sea of politics, THERE IS ANOTHER KING, ONE JESUS: THE SAFETY OF THE STATE CAN BE SECURED ONLY IN THE WAY OF HUMBLE AND WHOLE-SOULED LOYALTY TO HIS PERSON AND OF OBEDIENCE TO HIS LAW.”
Psalms 33:12, “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.” Isaiah 33:22 “For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King; He will save us.”
The real question before the Church in America is; do we really believe that Jesus Christ is King of Kings and Lord and Lords. It would appear that entering into the Lordship of Christ should guide our thinking not only in the spiritual affairs of our innermost man but the Lordship of Christ should guide our thinking and actions even in the mundane affairs of this world. For though we are in the world, we should not be of the world. Let us all make sure that we are professing Christ even where Satan is attacking. The choice is Christ or chaos. The choice is light or darkness. The choice for the believer is already made.
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