THE CULTURAL MANDATE: God Used Christians to Make the World a Better Place. Matthew 5:14-16.

Posted bySteven WalesPosted inGovernance/Politics/Law, The Bible is Not a Children's Book, the Cultural MandateTags:, , ,

Today my Bible reading included a king who punished his enemies by “ripping open all the pregnant women,” and another who captured 10,000 men, then drove them off a cliff to be “dashed to pieces.” Other Bible stories speak of cannibalism, being thrown to lions, burned in a furnace, eating newborn children and fighting over the afterbirth, tossing an evil queen out a window to her death, collecting enemies’ heads as trophies, burning one’s children as a sacrifice, gangs of men threatening to rape other men, the gang rape of a woman and the mutilation of her body, 12 pieces of which were mailed to cities all over Israel, torture and death on a cross.

World history includes more: bestiality, pedophilia cults, gladiatorial contests to the death—for entertainment, public nudity and orgies, organizations like NAMBLA, the “North American Man-Boy Love Association,” whose members travel to Bangkok every year to buy time with little boys, and more.

We live in a fallen world.

Adam and Eve broke God’s paradise. This world is FILLED with evil—not “funny” evil but NIGHTMARE evil.

But the Judeo-Christian ethic changed that. God’s people changed things. Christians became leaders, and many evils were stopped. Christians stopped gladiatorial contests. Christians outlawed crucifixion and torture. Christians passed laws protecting women and children. Christians abolished slavery (eventually). Christians slowed the tide of evils described above.

Today those evils are roaring back (see 2 Timothy 3:1-5). The Devil’s time is short; he is desperate. Don’t be deceived. You must choose a side. Line up with Jesus, and fight the evil that is trying to destroy you and the world around you.

“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” John F. Kennedy.

“You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden… LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE BEFORE OTHERS, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” Matthew 5:14-16.

Ask Jesus how you can make a difference.

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Published by Steven Wales

Dad's Daily Devotional began as text messages to my family. I wanted my teenagers to know their father was reading the Bible. But they were at school by then. Initially, I sent them a favorite verse or an insight based on what I read each day. That grew into drafting a devotional readng which I would send them via text. I work as an attorney and an adjunct professor, and recently wrote a book called HOW TO MAKE A'S.

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