His Unspeakable Love

Quoting John Owen:

“Christ’s offering Himself was the greatest expression of His inexpressible love! To imagine that there is any cleansing from sin except by the blood of Christ is to overthrow the gospel. We are never nearer to Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at his unspeakable love!”

The Foundations

Quoting Calvin Coolidge, 1923:

“The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.”

Calvin Coolidge provides us with a very profound observation in this statement. I believe this is why those who wish to practice a political tyranny over our country have been merciless in distorting the meaning of the First Amendment. They have made it a priority to drive Christian values out of the public forum and marketplace of ideas.

According to Professor Paul Johnson, 1917 saw the birth, in Russia, of the first atheist state dedicated to the destruction of religion of all kinds and of Christianity in particular. Great physical power was now in the hands of men who had no fear of God and who believe themselves restrained by no absolute code of conduct. Lenin, who devoted his life to violence, and who created the Soviet Union in his own violent image, hated Christianity.  He absolutely hated and feared the saints. Lenin insisted there was no such thing as a Christian code of conduct; the only true guide to the behavior of the individual and of the state was what he termed ‘the revolutionary conscience’ – dictated by himself, in his quasi-divine wisdom, as he saw fit.

Hitler, too, hated Christianity with a passion which rivaled Lenin’s. In 1933, he told Hermann Rauschnig that he intended ‘to stamp out Christianity root and branch’. Hitler went on to create a “German (false) Christianity” which was based on race and the blood of Germans rather than Christ. Lenin and Hitler are dead but de-Christianization continues.

Secular-progressives and the socialist-left in our country secretly and often openly display a hatred for Christianity in America that rivals Lenin and Hitler.   They have rewritten American History to exclude the story of the powerful influence of Christianity in the forming of our nation. Under the guise of political correctness, they have promoted laws and policies with the specific purpose of suppressing the present-day influence and growth of Christianity.

The important question for the modern-day Christian is: “Will I allow the Christian Faith, my country, and my family to suffer the fate of Communist Russia and Nazi Germany?”

Increasing Faith

On whose authority are you commanded to believe in Christ? You are commanded to believe upon the authority of God Himself. He bids you believe in Jesus Christ, and you must not refuse to obey your Creator. You have an absolute authority for coming to Christ – the Lord Himself bids you trust Him. Charles H. Spurgeon writes:

HOW CAN WE OBTAIN an increase of faith? This is a very earnest question to many. They say they want to believe, but cannot. A great deal of nonsense is talked upon this subject. Let us be strictly practical in our dealing with it. Common sense is as much needed in religion as anywhere else. “What am I to do in order to believe?” One who was asked the best way to do a certain simple act, replied that the best way to do it was to do it at once. We waste time in discussing methods when the action is simple. The shortest way to believe is to believe. If the Holy Spirit has made you candid, you will believe as soon as truth is set before you. You will believe it because it is true. The gospel command is clear; “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” It is idle to evade this by questions and quibbles. The order is plain; let it be obeyed.

But still, if you have difficulty, take it before God in prayer. Tell the great Father exactly what it is that puzzles you, and beg Him by His Holy Spirit to solve the question. If I cannot believe a statement in a book, I am glad to inquire of the author what he means by it; and if he is a true man his explanation will satisfy me; much more will the divine explanation of the hard points of Scripture satisfy the heart of the true seeker. The Lord is willing to make himself known; go to Him and see if it is not so. Repair at once to your closet, and cry, “O Holy Spirit, lead me into the truth! What I know not, teach Thou me.” Furthermore, if faith seems difficult, it is possible that God the Holy Spirit will enable you to believe if you hear very frequently and earnestly that which you are commanded to believe. We believe many things because we have heard them so often. Do you not find it so in common life, that if you hear a thing fifty times a day, at last you come to believe it? Some men have come to believe very unlikely statements by this process, and therefore I do not wonder that the good Spirit often blesses the method of often hearing the truth, and uses it to work faith concerning that which is to be believed. It is written, “Faith cometh by hearing”; therefore hear often. If I earnestly and attentively hear the gospel, one of these days I shall find myself believing that which I hear, through the blessed operation of the Spirit of God upon my mind. Only mind you hear the gospel, and do not distract your mind with either hearing or reading that which is designed to stagger you. (All of Faith)