The impotence of Christianity is due to its being infected with the rival religion of humanism. The pure Humanists, best represented by the ACLU in the United States, chase around Christians and whip them in every battle even though they are outnumbered by 10,000 to 1 (Deut. 32:30).
How can you fight a thing when it is part of who you are?
It is difficult to preach repentance to people who think they have arrived and are in full obedience to God.
Listen, how could you be whipped 10,000 at a time by two of your enemy “unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up”? And why has God given you up? Because you have forsaken His law; you have reduced His law to a small corrupt thing and exalted your own self-righteousness.
- Deut. 32:46
- And he said unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you this day, which ye shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.
This is the key to defeating the enemy without: get rid of the enemy within through obedience – enthusiastic, wholehearted, immediate obedience. Men want it from their wives, parents want it from their children, and God wants it from all of us – especially fathers.