In 2004 my wife and I led a small group for young married couples, and during one of the sessions, I read a portion of Corrie ten Boom’s The Hiding Place out loud to the group. It was a section where Corrie’s father, Casper, confronts his family’s pastor, who is unwilling to help conceal a Jewish baby from the Nazis. The pastor was outraged that Casper would risk his family and their Christian community by defying the Nazis. Casper looked the cowardly pastor in the eye, held up the baby, and said:
“You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that is the greatest honor that could come to my family.”
The Hiding Place, Chapter 7
Our small group members gave murmurs of approval for Casper ten Boom’s courage to live out the greatest commandment: love your neighbor as yourself. My goal in reading them the story was to spur on a conversation about the sacrifices a Christ follower might be called to make. Were they ready to take difficult stands regardless of where that took them, even if it put their families in jeopardy?
I expected that innate warrior spirit to activate. To my dismay, I ended up spending the better part of an hour debating with them about the Christian man’s responsibility in the face of adversity. Guy after guy affirmed that personal security was more important than standing on principle, even when lives were at stake. It was a motivation steeped in fear, plain and simple. They didn’t yet understand that fear is the greatest impediment to Christ followers living out their purpose. Essentially, they confirmed that if it came down to it, they’d turn those Jews away.
They were afraid of what might happen if they didn’t comply.
It broke my heart a little, but I learned a lot about the state of the modern American church, and the men in particular: They weren’t ready for a fight.
By 2020 they still weren’t. This became evident through the course of that year. Christian men seemed conspicuously absent and quiet. From racial politics to church closures, from medical tyranny to election integrity – the American Christian church looked a lot like the world, trying to roll with the punches while keeping as many people happy as possible. There should have been a sharp contrast in what the world was doing versus what Christ followers were doing. With a few notable exceptions – Sean Feucht, Mario Murillo, John MacArthur, and others – there wasn’t.
On the contrary, a massive number of Christians fell right in line. Many are still doing so. Every day a new tyrannical measure comes down from Washington D.C., a state’s executive officer, or from an employer. The latest atrocity is mandated Covid injections – an idea that is both unconstitutional and immoral. Vaccine mandates are also criminal. But even worse, we can now say with scientific confidence that the Covid injections are demonstrably dangerous, and sometimes deadly.
Let me say that again: the Covid injections are demonstrably dangerous and sometimes deadly.
And yet Christians are getting them. Why?
I think there are two reasons that cover most Christians in the pro-vaccine camp: Ignorance, or fear. Either they’re uninformed of the widespread dangerous side-effects, or they’re afraid of Covid-19 and think the vaccines are worth the risk to protect them and others from it.
But underlying those is another reason, and it goes back to that small group discussion from years ago. A great number of Christians, especially Christian men, are worried that refusing the Covid injection will cost them their jobs.
Remember, if taking care of one’s family is the most important thing (as those young men once argued), then why risk one’s job over a stupid vaccine?
Fear is the greatest enemy a Christian will face. It grips nations, communities, and individuals. It drives people to do things they’d never fathom in their proper mindset – like traumatizing their own children and lying to their spouses.
Are you afraid of contracting the latest variant of the latest disease the media is telling you to fear?
Are you afraid to tell the person at the check-in counter that you won’t wear a mask?
Are you afraid of pulling your child out of a school?
Are you afraid of what might happen if you don’t comply?
This is not where the Lord intended for you to live. He’s
given you the assurances that He will never leave you nor forsake you. He will
provide for you in all things when you follow His lead, listen to His voice,
and have the courage to obey His direction.
Are you doing that?
There may be a subset of the elderly population for whom some vaccines might seem like a wise decision. But was that vaccine derived from aborted children and sold seasonally for astronomic profit? Are those annual vaccines actually keeping you healthy? There are safe and effective drugs for Covid-19 that the medical establishment is keeping from us. Why?
“I trusted science for 15 years! I’ve held the hands of patients dying, I have given chemo… I am an advocate of my patients, so right now I will be an advocate to all of you! On February 3rd, I had my second Pfizer in the Cancer Institute. Within 6 minutes, my arms and legs went numb. I had hives, my face went numb, my heart rate went to 160 to 180. I was rushed to the emergency room…. We are being censored, we are being diminished. Who is okay in here that there are over 13,000 deaths from the vaccine? That is a fact!….My 7 months of my life were taken away from me. For 2 months, I couldn’t function, they thought I had multiple sclerosis. On February 3rd, a 35-year-old healthy woman, who works out 4 times a week, that can take care of 8 and 4-year-olds, and can go to work and take care of cancer patients, and all of a sudden I’m at home in bed. My head is spinning and my blood pressure is 70 over 30. I’m standing here right now with sinus tachycardia. My heart rate is at 100 or above all the time. I’m standing here in front of you because if there is a risk of harm, there should be a choice in the matter!
West Virginia University employee. September 13, 2021
Why do you think Ivermectin has been suddenly banned? Why are doctors and nurses walking out on their careers in protest against the injections? Test the issue against the Holy Spirit and ask for His direction.
Is that “safe and effective vaccine” needed to protect you and your family from a disease that has a 99% survival rate for 99% of the population? Or is it going to make you, your spouse, or your children infertile? Will it create a blood clot, or destroy a heart, or disrupt reproductive systems, or dismantle a central nervous system, cause paralysis, create a skin disorder, cost a limb, or kill someone you love?
What is the greater risk? Is it telling your boss you refuse to comply, letting the chips fall where they may, and having to rely on God to provide the next step? Or is it ignoring the warnings and getting the vaccine so you can keep your job for a little while, until the next wicked demand, perhaps?
Can God protect you from the dangers of the injection? Of course. If you jump off a building God can keep you from hitting the ground, but I wouldn’t test Him on it.
What you should test is the message you’re receiving. Are you listening to voices that are in alignment with the Holy Spirit, praising His name and promoting His truth? Or are you watching a lot of talking heads on tv, or accepting the words of politicians and pundits who’ve lied to you time and time again?
Once it was lockdown, yesterday it was masks, today it’s a vaccine. Hear me brothers and sisters, this will not end unless we take a stand. Ask His direction and stand where He prompts you. The American church wasn’t ready for a fight in 2003, nor was it in 2020.
Ready or not, the fight is upon us now and it’s likely to get much worse in the days ahead. It’s harder today because so few were willing to stand a year ago. For those in Christ Jesus, the process needn’t be devastating. We will endure, and even prosper. It might even be the case that this period of tribulation ushers in the greatest victory you’ll ever experience. I’m pretty sure I’ve read that somewhere before, so long as we make agreements with God and stop making hasty decisions out of fear.
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