Wake Up Thou That Slumber And Sleep

Wake Up thou that Slumber and Sleep

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

Ephesians 5:14 “Wherefore he saith, Awake, thou that sleepest and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give the light”.

OPENING: - This scripture literally refers to a spiritual awakening from the state of sin and spiritual death into the newness of life that is offered in Jesus Christ. It is the promise that when we accept Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior that we become spiritually awake, we develop clarity, truth, and guidance. We are able to walk with a new point of view, we should be able to live our lives wisely, to walk circumspectly, not as fools, to live with understanding, compassion, empathy because the days are evil and we have been changed.

We should be encouraged to walk in this newness of life affecting others by leading them to Christ so they can be transformed and awaken from the spiritual slumber, death, and separation.

The issue is because of differing opinions, personal interpretations, certain ideologies, theories, beliefs, then prejudices, ignorance, the political climate and a plethora of many other barriers and obstacles we have all the different aspects of society. There was a time when these things along with the people is what made the world go round at least that is what the song says.

This week was yet another horrific week in America and it was capitalized by the assassination (sacrifice) of Charlie Kirk. I wasn’t going to mention it but after seeing all the post I felt I had to just give a little what I felt God place in my spirit concerning about the whole situation.

First, there is never a cause for a person to be killed for making a statement, that literally is the freedom of speech, and everyone has the right to their opinion, and everyone has and is entitled to their opinion.

I personally did not agree with anything Charlie Kirk ever said but that was his opinion, his beliefs, and that is what he was entitled to and he did not deserve to be killed for it. I don’t agree with the rhetoric of the politicians, the president, and of course the radicals that want to start a Civil War in some kind of retaliation against something they incited in the first place, but the saying is true “The chickens have come home to roost and the reactions coming from them is well expected.

The issue I have is with the so-called Christians, the so-called Children of God, the so-called Holy Ghost Filled, Tongue Talking, Baptized believers that know how to worship with uplifted hands and cry rivers of tears yet cannot show LOVE to their neighbor, which is the second commandment and like the first commandment to love the Lord thy God with all the heart, soul, and mind.

To see the preachers, pastors, apostles, evangelist get online, FB, and other media platforms and say how great of a Christian and a Man of God he was and how his values where so inline with the Word of God and he would have made a good president someday and he represents the values of God and America, it really causes you to question just exactly are they calling Christian values. He was a Christian Nationalist that believed, black people were inferior, received what they got only through affirmative action and hand out, that slavery wasn’t that bad and black people benefited from slavery at least they didn’t commit so many crimes. He said racist, sexist things about black people, women, about diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a so-called Christian his stand on empathy goes totally against the TRUE UNADULTERATED WORD OF GOD, not the manipulated, twisted. Slave bible that was used to keep a people hood-winked and bamboozled for centuries with a bunch of made up lies and untruths.

Charlie was an expert, like so many Christian Nationalist, Evangelicals, and so-called Christians today that know how to use the key words like Revival, conservative Christian, and restore Christian morality and cause people to think they are anointed, operating in the spirit and fully Holy. Sure, like so many others today he possessed a strategic mix of evangelical fervor, Mormon pragmatism, and Catholic appreciation and that made it seem as though he and others like him are totally spiritual and walking in the true and righteous pathways of God. WATCH THIS: - What most people are sleep to and totally unaware of is that some of the Mormon beliefs were based on the fact that slavery was ordained by God and the abolishment of it were against the decrees of God. The Catholic church was notorious in the manipulation of scripture to ease their conscience and make slavery work for them. The evangelicals with their emphasis on baptism and immediate conversion would convince the slave that baptism was necessary while assuring the slave master that their actions were justified in the eyes of God. It is this form of Christianity that stills runs America and is trying to become the America of today and this is the Christianity Charlie Kirk was promoting, this is the emphasis and driving force behind the whole MAGA movement not a Christianity that understood and maintained Love the lord thy God with all thy heart soul and mind and love thy neighbor as thyself.