Contend For Your Faith (Part 2)

“Do what is right and good in the Lord’s sight, so that it may go well with you…” Deuteronomy 6:18

We have too many fake Christians in America who are skewing the grace of God by living however they want to live while saying that all of their sins are “under grace.”God’s Word doesn’t change. No one has the right to edit the Bible. We must defend the foundations of the Word of God.

Interestingly, we as a nation are in the same era that Israel was in at 300 years old, and we have the same things happening in our society, as can be seen in the book of Judges. We, like Israel, are a nation founded and blessed by God. Our nation is 248 years old. There are three significant parallels between ancient Israel and modern America. First, people did not care about what was right in God's eyes. They only did what was right in their own eyes. God gave them warning after warning to obey His Word. For example, Deuteronomy 6:18 says, “Do what is right and good in the sight of God,” but the people continued to do their own thing.

This is where we are in America. Samson, who lived in that generation, saw one of the daughters of the Philistines and said to his father, “Get her for me.” Notice his words, “For she is right in my eyes.” She was right in Samson's eyes but not in God's eyes. Then, later in Judges 16, Samson saw a prostitute and went with her. He liked the prostitute and said, “This looks right to me.” Samson was a Nazarite- he was supposed to be set aside as special and holy for God’s use. But trouble is inevitable when you start going with what is right in your eyes and ignoring what is right in God's eyes. Later in life, there is a tragic plot twist in Samson's story. Because Samson only did what was right in his own eyes, he had his eyes gouged out by the Philistines.

They plucked out his eyes because there are always consequences when you don't do what is right in God's eyes. Then Samson hit rock bottom. And as he served as a slave for the enemy in the prison grinding mill, his hair began to grow back. His anointing and covenant relationship with God started to return. The Bible said they took him to the temple of Dagon to make sport of him, and suddenly, the young lad put his hands on the pillars of the temple, and in a moment of final triumph from defeat, he pushed on those pillars until the entire place crumbled to the ground. The strength and anointing of God enabled him to tear down the temple of the Philistines. Suddenly, revival fell on the nation, later bringing about Samuel, the greatest prophet Israel had ever had. 

The same spirits around 3,000 years ago in the Book of Judges are coming for this generation, but we must decide that we will do what is right in God’s sight no matter what the rest of the world is doing.

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