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The Elders Duty in the Face of Tyrants: Take Heed

 " Why do we live in a fallen America? It is because of the failure of modern day Christianity. Their compliance and false piety has led to our current circumstances.” Thoughts to consider: https://rumble.com/vsgqhk-the-failure-of-christians.html About the speaker: Derek Carlsen is a pastor from South Africa. He experienced firsthand the oppression of a tyrannical government. He confronted the killer tyrant Mugabe with the Word of God. In this speech he confronts the failure of Christian elders to address the tyranny they see in society. He gives you – the people – actionable items to bring to your leadership. SHARE this Talk, especially with your Pastor and Elders!   Share this:

Dwelling among mine own people...

"And he said unto them, Say now unto her, Behold; thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people." -II Kings 4:13  [KJV] What an interesting account, though short, is here given of the Shunamite. The sacred historian calls her "a great woman," and certainly, she here manifests that she had a great mind. What she had done for the prophet, she sought no recompence for. Neither the favours of the king, nor the captain of his host, were of any value to her and her husband. Dwelling with content in what she had, and "among her own people," was in her view enough of earthly enjoyment.    But is there not a spiritual improvement to be made of the passage? Do not the people of our God "dwell alone?" And have they not been from everlasting so appointed, in the purposes of God their Father, and chosen in C...

To Silence All Murmuring

"I will bear the indignation of the L ORD , because I have sinned against Him." - Micah 7:9 [KJV] It is a view of our sins against God that enables us to bear the indignation of the Lord against us and them. As long as we are left to a spirit of pride and self-righteousness, we murmur at the Lord's dealings when His hand lies heavy upon us. But let us only truly feel what we rightly deserve: that will silence at once all murmuring. You may murmur and rebel sometimes at your hard lot in providence; but if you feel what you deserve, it will make you water with tears of repentance the hardest cross. So in grace, if you feel the weight of your sins, and mourn and sigh because you have sinned against God, you can lift up your hands sometimes with holy wonder at God's longsuffering mercy that He has borne with you so long; that He has not smitten you to the earth, or sent your guilty soul to hell.   You    will see, too, that the heaviest strokes were but fatherly   ...