Oct
10
Christians Good Citizens?
Filed Under Apologetics, Christian Living, Puritans
This morning I had reason to reflect more on my sermon from this past Sunday evening. As is our custom in opening our staff meetings, Phillip read us a portion of Thomas Brooks’s Precious Remedies Against Satan’s Devices. This morning’s selection was on Satan’s tactic of urging rulers to persecute Christian’s in their countries. The fourth remedy to this tactic that Brooks mentions is that rulers should consider the divine benefit of having Christians in their country interceding for their country. I include an excerpt below.
If it were not for the saints’ sake, God would quickly make the heavens to be brass and the earth as iron; God would quickly strip thee of thy robes and glory, and set thee upon the dunghill with Job. They are the props that bear the world from falling about thy ears, and that keep the iron rod from breaking of thy bones. ‘Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destory them” (Psalm 106.23). Ah! had not the saints many a time cast themselves into the breach betwixt God’s wrath and you, you had been cut off from the land of the living, and had your portion with those whose names are written in the dust. Many a nation, many a family, is surrounded with blessings for the Josephs’ sakes that live therein, and are preserved from many calamities and miseries for the Moses’, the Daniels’, the Noahs’, and the Jobs’, sakes, that dwell amongst them.
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