Word at Work August 6, 2011

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Word at Work August 6, 2011

SATURDAY, AUGUST 6
Scripture: Matthew 24:3-6

                 Matthew 24:3-6 says, “Now as He sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately, saying, ‘Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age?’ And Jesus answered and said to them: ‘Take heed that no one deceives you. For many will come in My name, saying, “I am the Christ,” and will deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.’”  It is obvious that the end-times are going to have a significant number of wars.  But the end is not yet.  Verse 6 ends telling us we are going to have to walk through a significant amount of war.  What does that mean for us?  What does that mean for our kids?  What does that mean for those who are in the military?  We need to raise a generation who understand the fact that we are going to have war.  But the liberal left has made war a bad word.  We even find people in the church that think war is a bad word.  Spiritual blindness is prevailing.  There is a word in Greek that defines a growing number in the “emerging church” movement.  That Greek word is id-ee-o-tace.  The reason this word is so appropriate is because it describes people who are uniformed about life and oblivious to the Creator and how He ordains war. Again and again in Scripture, God is called a Man of War.  The most honorable in the nation are often men of war.  God commands war, He ordains war because He is permanently at war against evil.  The modern church movement thinks you must lie down and let evil do whatever it wants to do.  That is one reason that theology is so abominable.  Much of the church today is in danger of self-destructing because of passive theology.  The Jesus of Revelation must be looking at the church today and thinking, “Depart from me you workers of iniquity, I never knew you.”