“…You’ll fall for anything.” So goes the saying, and it’s true. Sooner or later — and it’s likely to be sooner — Christians will have to take a clear, Bible-based stand on what is right and what is wrong. Yes, we will be vilified and penalized for doing so, but it will be a choice as to whether we obey God or man.
If we accept this, then why wait till we are threatened? Now is the time to take that stand. As for Paul not standing against slavery: our Lord and his apostles were under Roman rule, and slavery was part of the system. Paul addressed this by teaching that a slave who was a Christian was free from his or her master in the spiritual sense, but as a ‘slave’ of the Lord should serve in love.
It was a ‘best can do’ pragmatic approach. As for His own people, God did not allow them to have slaves because they had been slaves in Egypt. Servants, yes, who were working to free themselves from debt, but slavery was prohibited.
Some things we may not change, but some we will by standing for the truth, instead of waiting for the bureaucrats who run the system to enslave us through enforced edicts that are aimed at overriding our Constitution.
The answer is that we pray the Lord’s will change their minds, or better still their hearts, so that they will stop opposing us but instead stand with us in maintaining the laws and values on which our democratic society is based. Paul the apostle writes: “The weapons of our warfare are not carnal but are mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds…”
Paul was not referring to warring against demonic powers (as he does in Ephesians chapter 6) but rather about praying against those whose minds were ‘thought forts’ of opposition to the apostles — the false apostles so dismissive of his apostolic ministry (2 Corinthians, chapter 10). We too ‘pull down’ the attitudes of their counterparts today, and bring their arrogant thoughts into captivity to the mind of Christ.
We stand for freedom of thought and action. As Jesus said, “free indeed” — free in deed — freedom of action, as well as freedom of thought! And in so doing, we fall for nothing!