resignation and alarm

Dear US of A,

I didn't vote this year. I won't be voting anymore, either. Why? Because it would have been better for any politician to have lost in a lanslide defeat with integrity, than to accept and descend into the moral ambiguity of today's political world. I know when I sin most of the time, but shall the deceived politicians of Maryland and the USA be other than deceived as to all things? Are they not in the dark regarding the important matters in life, first of which is the Gospel which may save their souls from eternal hell. (Are you laughing at me or at God's promises?) Now we have the democrats again (in Annapolis and the US house), some of whom do outstrip all others in bold sinning, but are not outdone by confusion and the resulting hypocrisy of most republicans and many who call themselves christians. They have overtaken the republicans in their desire to lead us into their lifestyle rather than God's. This is emphatically why the state will do no good for the church, and the church has little or no respect from politicians. You all need to wake up to Him who will have the last word, and who IS the first (Word).

No longer politically yours, D. Severy

PS: to christians who may read this:

You (and I) need to wake up too, for the state is no friend to the church. It may be God's minister by the word of Roman's 13, but God's used Babylon to serve His purposes in taking His chosen people captive. The state IS God's minister, but it is not yours. The state is not the church. Not even some "churches" are God's church. Wake up. Be the thing God has called you to be. Be God's subjects, be subject to him. Do not fit yourselves into republican or democrat or democratic molds, nor the mold of the false church, which is frankly: the wh-re of babylon.

God's government is a Kingdom, and one of love. God nominates and elects those who will trust Him in this life with their souls welfare. They know that their eternal welfare is secure in Him. They need no provision for the flesh, not even the "freedom" to worship, for who will deny any man what God will grant.

We fail to understand that persecution by evil men and Satan often reveals the goodness of what God is doing in His chosen persons. The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church. The North American church prefers the safety of the American dream by it's military prowess to the life of Paul, Peter and the apostles: who did lead the church out from Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria unto the uttermost parts of the earth.

Now the earth is filled with 6.5 billion souls. There are no more lands to conquer, only famlies and nations of men who reside therein. God was never really interested in other than the real estate of the soul anyway. The estate of a man's soul needs to be addressed by the gospel in HIS LIFETIME. It is not enough to guarantee a "free nation" where his grandchildren may or may not hear the Gospel, he must hear it now.

You are free to preach it now, Yes? or No? If you are, why are you not? I fear most do not know it well enough to preach it. I know it well enough, but as with many, I have my troubles living it. And this is the more important part, for it does preach louder than words. So pray for me. I want to do more than excoriate the so called "church" which wallows in the world. For this reason I am not only separating myself from political "life" but am seeking God's grace to also come out from among the thing the unsaved call the "church".

Teach a man to fish and feed his flesh for a lifetime, teach him to be a fisher of men and please God in eternity.

But if you should be a fisher of men, beware the kind of meal you prepare with your catch.

Consider:

Part four of the The Schleitheim Confession:

IV. We are agreed (as follows) on separation: A separation shall be made from the evil and from the wickedness which the devil planted in the world; in this manner, simply that we shall not have fellowship with them (the wicked) and not run with them in the multitude of their abominations. This is the way it is: Since all who do not walk in the obedience of faith, and have not united themselves with God so that they wish to do His will, are a great abomination before God, it is not possible for anything to grow or issue from them except abominable things. For truly all creatures are in but two classes, good and bad, believing and unbelieving, darkness and light, the world and those who (have come) out of the world, God's temple and idols, Christ and Belial; and none can have part with the other.

To us then the command of the Lord is clear when He calls upon us to be separate from the evil and thus He will be our God and we shall be His sons and daughters.

He further admonishes us to withdraw from Babylon and earthly Egypt that we may not be partakers of the pain and suffering which the Lord will bring upon them.

From this we should learn that everything which is not united with our God and Christ cannot be other than an abomination which we should shun and flee from. By this is meant all Catholic and Protestant works and church services, meetings and church attendance, drinking houses, civic affairs, the oaths sworn in unbelief and other things of that kind, which are highly regarded by the world and yet are carried on in flat contradiction to the command of God, in accordance with all the unrighteousness which is in the world. From all these things we shall be separated and have no part with them for they are nothing but an abomination, and they are the cause of our being hated before our Christ Jesus, Who has set us free from the slavery of the flesh and fitted us for the service of God through the Spirit Whom He has given us.

Therefore there will also unquestionably fall from us the unchristian, devilish weapons of force - such as sword, armor and the like, and all their use (either) for friends or against one\'s enemies - by virtue of the Word of Christ. Resist not (him that is) evil.

Therefore there will also unquestionably fall from us the unchristian, devilish weapons of force - such as sword, armor and the like, and all their use (either) for friends or against one's enemies - by virtue of the Word of Christ. Resist not (him that is) evil.