After another heinous act of
murder committed against innocent children and even before the family, friends
and a nation have time to grieve, some are quick to use this nightmare to
promote their political agenda. How so
very tragic. None of us can truly
understand their feelings unless we have experienced something similar and I
pray we will never have to. The cry of the media and many politicians is
to ban guns, but banning the wrong things can have very dire consequences.
For example:
• America has banned God
from our schools
• We have banned
prayer to God in our schools
• We have banned Him from the public square
• We have banned The Ten
Commandments which includes THOU SHALL NOT KILL
• We have banned anything to
do with Judeo-Christianity erroneously siting the First Amendment.
For the first time in our nation, God is no
longer welcome in our society! Make no
mistake there are no vacuums in nature or in the spiritual realm. When something is removed something else
rushes in to take its place and that is exactly what has happened in
America.
When God, the author of life has
been expelled and ushered out the back door, the devil, the author of death walked
right in through the front door. In our
banning of God we have allowed a culture of death to take over our
society. For instance, we have shed the
blood of nearly 60 million innocent babies, and are now butchering and selling
their body parts! We have several generations
of Americans who have been desensitized by movies, video games and music that glorify
profanity, violence, murder and bloodshed.
Euthanasia is the law in some states.
What is shocking is how many people viciously defend these “values” and “rights".
Life has lost its value and respect in America. After all, if we aren’t really made in God’s
image, then we are just the products of evolution; simply, advanced forms of
animal life. Why than is it any surprise
that we are now producing homegrown, desensitized, cold hearted, blood thirsty
mass murderers? The Pandora’s Box of
murder in America has been opened and we are now paying the piper. Terrible? Yes! Beyond terrible! But we have
sown to the wind and now we are reaping the whirlwind, (Hosea 8-7) for God is
not mocked, but whatever is planted will be harvested! (Galatians 6:7-8.) And the crop being harvested
in America is death!
I understand the anger directed
at guns since we must direct our anger at something in times so confusing and
painful, but I ask where is the anger towards the abortion industry, Hollywood
and the video game “creators”? Where is the anger towards the pornographers and
drug dealers that rob our children of their innocence? Where is the anger
towards music that spews vile obscenities against women? And where is the anger
towards the FBI, local police and the four sheriff’s deputies who failed
miserably and cowardly to do their duty? The list goes on and on. Our children have been violated over and over
yet little is said until genuine products of OUR culture murders their
classmates with a gun. Then the gun is blamed and the ultimate solution is
banning the gun. In reality, a gun ban
could never be accomplished in our country.
The facts are that there are too many to confiscate, are borders are to
open for smuggling and any machine shop can mass produce guns. If we are going to ban guns then we had
better ban fertilizer and fuel oil, knives, trucks and airplanes since they
have been working quite well in the hands of some evil people.
The problem is not the weapons of
choice, the problem is that in America a moral rot is taking place and only by
humbling ourselves and calling out to God can our land be healed. God forgive us and grant us mercy as we mourn!
2 Chronicles 7:14 "If my people,
who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face,
and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive
their sin, and will heal their land."
Pastor Gary Smith
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