Purity, A Powerful Weapon

I was thinking about the nation over the past few weeks and came to a startling realization. When you look at how the people have become so indifferent to common sense, how the leadership has become so corrupt, and how even the opposition has lost their focus where they fail to have any effect on the direction we are moving, it has become obvious that there is a considerable amount of supernatural influence driving our nation towards its destruction.

I believe that the United States is currently under a spell. We have become bewitched as a nation to do the bidding of evil forces and principalities, and the Church has blinded her eyes to what is really going on. This of course is not surprising, because most of the people who call themselves Christians in the United States do not really believe in the supernatural, so to suggest that our nation and government is under supernatural control is crazy talk.

But it’s not crazy talk.

Ephesians 6:12 - For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (NIV)

It is time for the Church to wake up and start acting like the Church is supposed to act. We need to drive the evil influences out of our government with a powerful spiritual weapon that most of the Church seems to have forgotten about.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5 - For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (NIV)

The weapon I am talking about is something Christians seem to take for granted. For our salvation God grants us the gift of righteousness. Our sins are blotted out enabling us to experience the presence of God without being consumed. But too much of the time we depend on God’s grace to sustain us as we continue to do things that we shouldn’t, and so we are still separated from the power that God wants to wield through us.

If righteousness is God’s gift to us, then purity should become our gift back to God.

Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. (NIV)

It isn’t complicated at all. The reason our nation is not “seeing” God move in His power to restore us, is because we are not bearing our weapon of purity like we should.

What is purity? What does it mean to be “pure in heart”? If the Church is the bride of Christ (Revelation 19:7), then purity means that we are faithful to Him, forsaking all others. While the Church walks in the idolatry of sports worship, musician worship, special speaker worship, wealth worship, program worship, possessions worship, vacation worship, etc., etc., etc., we are not walking in purity.

Purity means refinement. When you forge an item out of impure metal it is not able to carry the weight it was designed for; the object cracks and falls to pieces. This is what today’s church has become, and why we are unsuccessful at driving out the spell over our nation. When the metal is pure it has the opposite effect, the molecules become aligned and tempered to achieve their greatest strength. Purity is the key to an effective Church.

Philippians 1:9-11 - And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ—to the glory and praise of God. (NIV)

James :)