"And JUDGMENT (Right Verdicts) is turned away backward, and JUSTICE standeth afar off: FOR TRUTH IS FALLEN IN THE STREET (Public Plaza), and equity (HONESTY) cannot enter. Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil (The LAW ABIDING CITIZEN) becometh a prey (VICTIM): and the LORD saw it, and it DISPLEASED HIM that there was no judgment (RIGHT VERDICTS)". (Isaiah 59:14-15)
HELP ME I CAN'T GET UP
We've all seen them. Those TV adds where a helpless senior falls and while on the ground the poor woman is crying out, "HELP ME, I CAN'T GET UP". But no worries, because she is wearing some small medical device around her neck, that when she presses the button, it transmits a signal and automatically dials a special help line where in short order INTERVENTION will soon arrive.
In AMERICA, I hear TRUTH crying out within the public Square, because it is there, where IT HAS FALLEN DOWN WITHIN OUR STREETS (Public Plaza).
UNLESS we LIFT UP TRUTH and get TRUTH back upon its FEET in the Public Plaza... HONESTY will never find a door of entrance and JUSTICE will also fail. The LAW ABIDING CITIZEN will become the true VICTIM within our nation, because PROPER VERDICTS will have been turned away backward! And all of this will be very displeasing to the Lord.
GOD'S WORD PROVIDES US WITH A MORAL BASE FOR OUR LAWS
From our inception the laws of this nation were predicated upon the TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. We were sure to not make the BIBLE our OFFICIAL NATIONAL RELIGION BOOK, but for all intents and purposes it was our PRIMARY "MORAL CODE" BOOK for sure.
Our NATIONAL MORAL CODE was gained from the ABSOLUTES of God's Word. In fact, there was a day when they were so identified with who we were as AMERICANS, that the phrase "AMERICAN TRADITIONAL VALUES" was easily coined.
Having a proper an absolute standard as to what should be considered TRUTH, MORALLY speaking is an essential and most foundational component for the purpose of making a CIVIL GOVERNMENT and JUSTICE SYSTEM operate properly.
Over the course of the last 40 years, those TRUTHS having to do with a MORAL STANDARD that is contained within God's Word has been mocked and all but removed from the public square. Instead, we have elected to welcome into our class rooms and lecture halls, a new emphasis like SECULAR HUMANISM and SITUATIONAL ETHICS. These have become the primary ideologies that have been shaping the minds of a generation.
Today, that generation has long since walked off their GRADUATION PLATFORMS of the government schools they had attended. And they have walked into our HALLS of GOVERNMENT and a good number have found their way behind the NATIONAL TV NEWS desks, as they visit your home every night, philosophizing through their commentaries. Listen closely and you'll hear mocked what was once esteemed as a nation.
CHURCH IN AMERICA, we must not stand idly by, and remain silent NO MORE!
The TRUTH we hear and applaud and shout 'AMEN' over on Sunday mornings. If that is where it begins and ends for us, that is NOT ACCEPTABLE!! In fact, that is how we got in this mess in the first place. We MUST live and be willing to express what is still TRUE out in the STREETS of our culture!!
Only now, there will be a rising price tag within our nation to do so!
Please, listen and I assure you that what you'll hear is...
TRUTH crying out to the CHURCH in AMERICA, "HELP ME, AND LIFT ME UP BECAUSE I'VE FALLEN WITHIN YOUR STREETS"!!
By the Rev Philip Cappuccio
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