FAITH!

The Canary in the Coal Mine

A canary had escaped from its cage and was flying over the roofs of the houses opposite mine. It was being chased by about twenty sparrows, along with other rough birds. Then I thought of this verse: “Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her” (Jer. 12:9). ~ Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare

The greatest threats to man are those things he cannot see. To coal miners, death comes in the shapeless form of methane and carbon monoxide. That’s why coal miners would use canaries to warn them of the danger. They would die before the gas levels became dangerous to the men in the mine. To all men, and churchmen in particular, there is an even deadlier threat he has lost the ability to detect, posed by an enemy that seeks the eternal damnation and enslavement of all mankind.

“When a person becomes a Christian, he immediately becomes different from the people around him.” Hence Spurgeon’s canary/speckled bird analogy above. Faith is the Christian’s canary. Faith is that powerful force of His nature in us that protects us from all threats, natural and supernatural, seen and unseen.

“When the Church does not feel pain with those that are part of them, the Church’s nerves…become dead.” ~ Sabina Wurmbrand, Co-founder of The Voice of the Martyrs

But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead (James 2:20)?

“Hey ChatGPT, if you were the devil, how would you destroy men in the 21st century?” I’d remove sense of purpose, distort masculinity itself, make strength seem toxic, and make them ashamed of being men. I’d make them comfortable with mediocrity and strip them of their natural role as protectors and providers. Listen to the entire response at the 47:30min mark. Are They Already Gone?

“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.” ~ Thomas Sowell

Up until this very moment we have allowed ourselves to become the men ChatGPT described above; canaries seeking the acceptance and approval of the sparrows…blinded to the snares of the enemy…in the deepest trouble of our 250 years as freest nation the world has ever known.

Come, poor soul, you who are in the deepest of trouble—God means to glorify Himself by you! The day will come when you will comfort other mourners by telling your happy experience. The day will come when you who were outcasts will preach the Gospel to outcasts. The day will yet come, poor fallen woman, when you will lead other sinners to the Savior’s feet where you now stand weeping! You who have been abandoned by the Devil, whom even Satan is tired of, whom the world rejects because you are worn-out and stale—the day will yet come when, renewed in heart and washed in the blood of the Lamb, you will shine like a star in the sky, to the praise of the glory of the grace of God, who has made you to be accepted in the Beloved (Eph. 1:6)! ~ Poem and following passage from Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare (Real Prayer)

It’s never too late to Come To Jesus (Danny Burns & Sam Bush)

Happy Father’s Day…and please men…SNAP OUT OF IT!