Thinking about an earlier post on morality and courtship, one can easily grow very discouraged, we now live in virtual modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah. It seems almost impossible to escape the evil and filth which is pushed at us every day. It seems as if fornication and every other kind of perversion has been normalized(see: 1 Corinthians 6:17) and marriage is degraded and destroyed. Sadly one comes to the realization separation is about only path available to those who want to live a decent and moral life in the times in which we live. R. J. Rushdoony said family is trust of "blood, rights, property, name... an inheritance from the past to be preserved and developed for the future." The culture around is at war with all of these things. And sadly most churches seem unwilling to fight to protect any of these things
As the late Paul M. Weyrich said:
While conservatives have won many political victories since the election of Ronald Reagan, the Left has continued to win the culture war. Unfortunately, culture is more powerful than politics. Conservatives have thus won tactically while losing strategically, with the consequence that American society has continued to decline into the abyss that opened before it in the 1960s.1
He also earlier pointed at the need to reject and separate ourselves from the vile culture around:
Cultural Marxism is succeeding in its war against our culture. The question becomes, if we are unable to escape the cultural disintegration that is gripping society, then what hope can we have? ...I am very concerned, as I go around the country and speak and talk to young people, when I find how much of the decadent culture they have absorbed without even understanding that they are a part of it... we need to drop out of this culture, and find places, even if it is where we physically are right now, where we can live godly, righteous and sober lives.2
A sadly all too true point from Miss Liberty:
In the younger generation depraved, perverted men lusting after a woman’s body convince her that they “love” her and they need to be together...The women do all in their power to attract the eyes of men. Flirting, exposing themselves, and aggrassive behavior they use to try to draw the lust of the opposite sex. Hoping to draw “love” they give of their most valuable posession...I gasped at the results. Broken hearted/mental children, unclaimed children, adulterers and adultresses and alas, even suicides.3
'Prettiness' gone the way of goodness:
The fact that standards of beauty have taken a sharp turn away from innocence and prettiness toward a kind of wantonness and sluttiness is evident when we look at pictures from the past compared to today's female celebrities and even average women on the street.
And so we are left living in Babylon, but we must make our homes, cultivate our gardens, and live our lives...
"And so we are left living in Babylon, but we must make our homes, cultivate our gardens, and live our lives..."
ReplyDeleteTrue, but we still have the ability to isolate ourselves and our families from much of the rot that surrounds us. We can form virtual enclaves - Christian Enclaves - by carefully choosing who we associate with, where we worship, and most important of all: removing the television sets from our homes.
Lester Roloff, in his radio broadcasts, would use a variation of The Lord's Prayer by saying "...Thy will be done on this piece of Earth, as it is in Heaven." While we cannot change the world, we can change that small part of the world where we live and work and worship and witness.
Think in terms of living in an enclave of Bible-Believing Christians surrounded by the rotting corpse of the world. The scriptural inspiration for the concept is found in Judges 14:8. "...and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion: and, behold, there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion." This picture of the church as existing within the rotting corpse of a lion is, in effect, a Christian Enclave.
Stephen Clay McGehee
ConfederateColonel.com
Well yes and very true, that is the point. Mrs. Sherman's blog has many useful ideas building the enclaves at home: http://homeliving.blogspot.com/
ReplyDeleteAs Paul M. Weyrich said: "We need to drop out of this culture, and find places, even if it is where we physically are right now, where we can live godly, righteous and sober lives."
Home is the perfect place to sheild our families from the prevailing culture, and still teach and grow and develop the character qualities that overcome that culture! Home is where we form our own culture, and that overcomes the world, which is why the forces of evil fight against it so hard. People know how powerful the home really is if allowed to flourish as it should.
ReplyDeleteThe best way to change a culture is through the home, and there is a war against the home for that reason.
Homeschooling is a threat to the enemies of the home, because the ones who control the children, control the culture and the nation.
Lydia, You are very right.
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