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Should you be prophetic? And what does ‘prophetic’ mean? Here’s a scripture from the book of James, chapter five:
James 5:10 Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Now you might be tempted to think that as the church is one sphere of God’s government, and the state is another, that the church should not interfere, as you might put it, in the affairs of state. Just ‘let them get on with it and we’ll concentrate on saving souls’, could be your reaction.
But in the NanoSermon ‘Pray for our Rulers’ I showed from first Timothy chapter 2 that God desires godly rule in a realm precisely because he wants men to be saved.
And in the NanoSermon ‘Minsters of God’ we saw in Romans chapter 13 that God expects rulers and judges to enact Godly laws, uphold those who do what is righteous in the eyes of God and punish those who do evil.
Keep out of politics?
If the church ‘kept out of politics’ as some want us to do, then the only people IN politics, influencing policy, will be the ungodly.
Banish Christians and the word of God from the public square and you leave it wide open for every God-hating, God-denying secularist, polytheist, pantheist, satanist, agnostic, every proud, wicked, self-serving charlatan and elitist to have a field day. And the only people who will benefit from the laws they will pass will be, no, not the poor, not the righteous, but them and their friends.
For YOUR society to work it needs a prophetic church, and I mean that less in the ‘foretelling’ sense than in the ‘forthtelling’ sense. Less predicting what will happen and more proclaiming the righteous precepts of God.
Prophets are one-fifth of the Bible!
Look, the books of the prophets form one-fifth of the Bible. That’s even without all the prophets in the history books, all the admonitions in the Psalms and all the exhortation in the New Testament.
Are you investing twenty percent of your time calling national leaders to account in the name of the Lord, urging national repentance, setting up a plumbline with the righteous laws of God as did the prophets of old? (Is the Church as a whole? Is YOUR church?)
And what does the Apostle Paul say in first Corinthians 14?
1Cor 14:1 Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. … 3 … he that prophesieth speaketh unto men to edification, and exhortation, and comfort. 5 I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, …
Bring the word of God to bear
Not just greater, but according to our Lord, who expects us to prophesy, and to receive opposition for so doing, – blessed in the courts of heaven. Here’s Matthew chapter five:
Matt 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. 12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.
So get going with emails to MP’s and captains of industry, letters in the local press, bringing the word of God to bear on the issues of our day. (Join an emerging political party!)
You will always receive opposition for holding up the Lord’s standard in public, for encouraging and exhorting those in power to follow the ways of God, but there’s a great reward coming your way for being prophetic and a blessing for following in the uncompromising ways of the prophets of old.
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