The Sunday Sermon: The End Times

A lot of you are anxious and want to fight the left.  I get more and more complaints these days that I just don’t seem to get fired up in the cultural fight. As I’ve said repeatedly, I think targeting Disney in Florida because it spoke against a law is bad policy, but barring some reasonable alternative, I don’t see how to proceed in any other direction than deterrence.  Taking away its tax improvement district will hopefully deter other businesses from catering to the wokes.

But, and this is a big but, we’re not actually going to win this fight.  The things of the world hate the things of God.  The situation is going to get far worse over time.  That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t speak up and take a stand.  But it does mean we should expect to lose more and more.  The world hates the things of God.  

This is not a call to surrender.  It is a call to acknowledge reality.  Increasingly, we will see people on the right become as ruthless as people on the left.  They will fight each other and use each other’s tactics in pretty worldly and godless ways. We will see people on the right attack those of us who urge a more Christian path because not everyone who professes to be a Christian is with Christ.  The things of the world hate the things of God.  We will see betrayals from the right both for the hedonism of the world and against us for not being willing to deploy scorched earth policies.

God calls us to love our neighbor.  He never said it would be easy.  God calls us to turn the other cheek.  He never said it would be easy.  He called us to pray for our enemies.  He never said it would be easy.  He called us to not be like the world, but to glorify God in a fallen world.  Again, he never said it would be easy.

Ultimately, there’s more.  There is no reason to fall into despair as the world falls apart and we see both the left and the right revealing themselves as pagans. God calls us to love and calls us to Him and in the end, we are on the winning team. The world will seem dominant.  The world will look victorious.  But in the end, we win not because of our arguments, our cunning, or our political strategy.  We win because He wins and we are on His team.  In the meantime, we’re to love our neighbors, even that guy.