Words from the Rising Republics

August 06, 2018

 

Yesterday, I viewed Death of a Nation. Illustrated was the immense importance of individual faithfulness.

     The movie displayed morally glorious results reached by individual faithfulness to the true God. There were times when America’s national glory was gone; their city and churches in ruins.

     It is in the Book of Daniel that we see three worthies who refused to worship the golden image. They dared to face the wrath of the king, to withstand the universal voice of the empire, yea, to meet the fiery furnace itself, rather than disobey. They could surrender life, but they could not surrender the truth of God. It is a sin to have respect to persons.

     And what was the result? A splendid victory! They walked through the furnace with the Son of God and were called forth from the furnace as witnesses and servants of the Most High God. Glorious privilege! Wondrous dignity! And all the simple result of obedience. Had they gone with the crowd and bowed the head in worship to the national god, in order to escape the dreadful furnace, see what they would have lost!

     But, blessed be God, they were enabled to stand fast in the confession of the grand foundation truth of the unity of the Godhead — that truth which had been trampled under foot amid the splendors of Solomon's reign; and the record of their faithfulness has been penned for us by the Holy Spirit, in order to encourage us to tread, with firm step, the path of individual devotedness, in the face of a God-hating, Christ-rejecting world, and in the face of a truth-neglecting Christendom.

     It is impossible to read the narrative and not have our whole renewed being stirred up and drawn out in earnest desire for more deep-toned personal devotedness to Christ and His precious cause.

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