Do Not Retreat!
"Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John,
and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained
men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been
with Jesus."
Acts 4: 13
The eyes of the world are on Finland, where a prominent politician
and medical doctor, Päivi Räsänen, faces criminal charges because
she quoted the Bible on social media.
Räsänen is Christian who holds
a biblical view about human sexuality and defends scriptural position
on marriage.
Now she may go to prison for posting Bible verses on
those subjects online. Someone said, “Truth sounds
like hate to those who hate the truth.”
What happens when a godless society tries to silence the voice of
morality? God is never silenced, and the Bible cannot be chained.
But culture can become corrupt, confused, and alienated from the
God who created us all.
Franklin Graham wrote, “Our nation has slowly and steadily drifted
away from God—perhaps even turned our back on God in so many
ways—and we are now reaping the devastating consequences.”
Still, this is no time for discouragement or retreat.
Let us hold up the cross and uphold the Gospel.
Let us tread ahead with a boldness befitting the
apostolic faith.
"One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost
in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of
boldness."
A. B. Simpson
