Are We Willing to Pay the Cost?

The church stood silently by in Germany during WWII, and see where it got them.  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was one of the few that stood against the evils of the Third Reich.  His book, "The Cost of Discipleship" is a reminder of what happens when the church ignores the political reality going on around it out of fear.  Bonhoeffer was one man, who took a stand against the evil of his time, even unto death. 

Sadly, we have returned to those days, in our nation this time.  I see nowhere in scripture where we are told to stand by and be silent as the unborn are murdered, or where homosexuals and transgendered people are dragging down a new generation of youth into their world of sexual confusion and pain.  In what used to be the greatest nation on earth, a nation unique in the history of mankind, which offered people the hope of a better life, we have now created an environment where more and more are being dragged into and trapped in a life of poverty, instead of helping them to lift themselves up and out. 

Jesus calls us to be "World Changers," yes, through the Gospel which changes hearts and teaches love for one another.  Yet, what do you do when you love someone?  Do you stand by as they starve, or are beaten, or robbed?  Is that what Jesus meant by "Love your neighbors?" 

Do we stand by as our nation is brought to its knees through an ever increasingly immoral government, and a society caught up in its own slowly boiling pot of selfishness, immorality, and apathy?  No!  I pray God would never find me only concerned for my own well-being, hiding behind lovely sounding platitudes that tickle the ears of men as we play our fiddles and watch Rome burn. Never! 

I will stand for freedom for my fellow man, and I will stand for the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  Each of you reading today, God has placed you here for a time such as this.  And what we must ask ourselves is this, not what would this man or that church have us do, but what would Jesus Christ have us do? 

We may not like what we hear, but our discipleship has a cost.  The question is, are We willing to pay the cost?   

“Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wants to come with Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life because of Me will find it.” (Matthew 16:24-25)

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