THE RESISTANCE FORCE

Greetings and welcome to THE FAMILY FEUD...the game show that pits one family against the other. In the past there have been the Hatfields versus the McCoys...Elliot Ness versus Frank Nitty...Hitler versus the world...blacks versus whites...illegal aliens versus America...dictatorship versus the free world, the devil versus YOU...Republicans versus Democrats...Socialism versus Democracy. What's a BELIEVER to do?

BELIEVER: Someone who BELIEVES in the Death, Burial, Resurrection of Jesus (God is Salvation), Immanuel (God with us)...the Christ (God's Anointed One...anointed with yoke breaking, burden lifting, oppression removing power of the Holy Ghost).


The question is...in this crazy, mixed up world...how do we mix our FAITH...with the WORLD that we live in...that is diametrically opposed to what we believe?

Are we as Christians to become MODERATES....PASSAFIST...who rolls over and allows EVIL MEN...who in turn run EVIL GOVERNMENTS. NO!! As one brother points out..."If we Christians continue to adopt the "hold the fort" mentality...it will cost us a lot more. It's almost as if being POLITICALLY PASSIONATE is mutually exclusive to DEVOUT FAITH." The answer to the question is NO! Just like we are not called to commit INTELLECTUAL SUICIDE...we are not called to go down quietly.

"All that is necessary for triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

On Larry Norman's 1972 MGM/Verve record called ONLY VISITING THIS PLANET...the songs about Jesus were mixed in with commentary of the times with songs like SIX O'CLOCK NEWS...THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL...and READER'S DIGEST. These songs did not sugar coat the state of America...but spoke out against injustice, war, state of the union. When we become citizens of heaven...and are placed in colonies of heaven here on planet earth...we are called to be SALT and LIGHT in a tasteless and dark world.

As my brother continues to point out..."I contend they (being politically passionate and devout faith)...were historically, scriptural, and need to be now, two cornerstones in the house of liberty GOD GAVE US in 1776." He questions..."Why are we ambivalent to the Christian faith being further marginalized in a society GOVERNED BY POLITICS?"



Back in the old day...in Israel...there were no ELECTIONS...there was no talk radio...there was no political process that the people were allowed to speak into. They spoke you jumped. If they called for a census...you packed up and moved...even if you were pregnant with child.

In the good old U.S. of A...we have a vehicle by which we can participate in the political process. Heathens, pornographers, homosexuals, adulterers, child molesters, murderers, illegal aliens, socialists/Marxists, good people, bad people, Muslims, atheist, agnostics, multiple polytheistic religions, denominations, fundamentalist, racists (on all sides of the color spectrum), KKK members, Black Panther members, Nation of Islam members (with their glasses and bow ties), rednecks, and even followers of Jesus...can participate in the process.

The thought is...if I am a Christian...I cannot voice my opinion...or stand against the flood of EVIL that is washing through America. On the contrary...WE MUST STAND UP...SPEAK OUT...and enter into the process...HOWEVER...our motivation cannot be fear, hatred, or the tactics used by the non-believer. We have been given the forum of FREE SPEECH to speak out against corruption...and if we don't utilize that...if we don't do good when we know to do good...then it is sin (James 4:17)

As someone who has been involved in the political process before...I have seen believers overtaken by the passion of the battle...and loose focus of the ATTITUDE that we have been called to...IN THE STEPS OF JESUS. I have seen those who take a stand against the evil...but the politics become their religion.

Jesus was a radical. He stood against injustice...he spoke out against evil...especially in corrupt religion. He spoke out against the stiff necked and uncircumcised of heart...and turned over the tables in their corrupt temples and wielded a scourge to drive out EVIL.


We are called to a RESISTANCE FORCE.

RESIST: To stand against, oppose, resist, withstand.

As we walk in our Resistance to evil...we must be tempered with Jesus' directives.

"You have heard that it was said, an eye for an eye...and a tooth for a tooth...but I say to you...DO NOT RESIST him who is evil..but whoever slaps you on your right cheek...turn to him the other also. And if any one wants to sue you, and take your shirt let him have your coat also. And whoever shall force you to go one mile, go with him two. Give to him who asks of you...and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you. You have heard that it was said...you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy...but I say to you love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you...IN ORDER that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the EVIL and the GOOD and sends rain on the RIGHTEOUS and the UNRIGHTEOUS. For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax-gatherers do the same? And if you greet your brothers only., what do you do more than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:38-48)

As we walk in this world...that we are just passing through...we are called to be REPRESENTATIVES...AMBASSADORS...MINISTERS OF RECONCILIATION...of the Kingdom of God. (II Corinthians 5:17-21)

Can the age old teachings of Jesus...be used in modern day politics? Can the laws, rules, regulations of the political process be walked out in conjunction with the laws of the Kingdom and the teachings of Jesus...OR...are the teachings of Jesus only good for the politics of the age he was living in? Can the principled of God be utilized in a Democratic society?

I believe that we CAN walk in this world...and utilize principles of the Kingdom of God.

"A disciple is not above his teacher, not a slave above his master. It is enough for the disciple that he BECOME AS HIS TEACHER...and the slave above his master. If they have called the head of the house Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household. There do not fear them for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, and hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the darkness, SPEAK IN THE LIGHT...and what you heard WHISPERED in your ear...PROCLAIM/SHOUT UPON THE HOUSETOPS. And DO NOT FEAR those who KILL THE BODY...but are unable to KILL THE SOUL...but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (Matthew 10:24-28)

King David had his Nathan to out his evil...King Herod had his John the Baptist to condemn his sin...religious people had Jesus to shake them up...and where ever we are...we are called to take a stand for GOD....and speak the truth when it goes against the grain of right.

Love and Politically Incorrect Kisses
Rodney "Take A Stand For God" Boyd