It’s Not My Concern

Mike Schroeder

I was listening to some pundit being interviewed on the Glenn Beck radio show the other day (I tuned in during the middle of the show, and didn’t catch the guy’s name), expressing his astonishment over the lack of concern of most Americans for what is about to befall this country; at how people are so willing to place their futures in the hands of the elitists in Washington, D.C., the very people who are responsible for the peril in which we now find ourselves.

It brings to mind the infamous platitude, made by former Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams, in a candidate’s debate: “If it’s inevitable that you’re (a woman) going to be raped, you might as well relax and enjoy it.”

I’ve found this “que sera, sera” attitude to be particularly prevalent among fellow Christians. In a discussion of politics with a couple of them a few years ago, one moved to chill the discussion with the statement: “it’s not our concern.”

I’m here to say it is our concern. While we Christians know our true citizenship is in heaven, we are, nevertheless, still citizens of this country, and to harbor this kind of cavalier attitude is really a bad example to present before the world.

From where does such an attitude derive it’s foundation? I can’t find it in the Holy Scriptures, the Bible, which most Christians claim to be their final authority in faith and practice.

Passages like Micah 6:8 (KJV) surely challenge us to cast it off:

“He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?”

Or Proverbs 24:10-12 (KJV)

“If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.
If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?”

Of all people, Christians should be the most aware of the rampant injustice (lawlessness) fraud, deceit, prevarication and equivocation that exists in and among the halls of our¹ government, and should be the loudest of voices condemning these things.

But, more often than not, here is the response one hears:

“Let’s just preach the gospel, mind our own business, seek to ’lead a quiet and peaceable life’² and let the secular world take its course.”

What makes those of you who adopt this attitude think “they” are going to allow you to “preach the gospel” when they have ushered in the totalitarian, socialist state, without a word of protest from you, when the nature of this system is to set the state up as the supreme and highest authority? Are you so naïve to believe that they will allow you to continue to hold open meetings–even home Bible studies–without their permission and their authorization of what you can and can‘t preach/teach?” Indeed, what leads you to believe you will have any business to mind when this comes about?

The following Proverb issues a sober admonition:

“I went by the field of the slothful, and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding; And, lo, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof, and the stone wall thereof was broken down. Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction. Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man.”
“Prov 24:30-34 (KJV)

Working hard and minding your own business will not save you from the travail and poverty which is coming our way.³ If you think this does not concern you, or that you will somehow escape it, you would do well to consider the words of 20th century philosopher/economist Ludwig Von Mises:

“Everyone carries a part of society on his shoulders. No one is relieved of his share of responsibility by others. And no one can find a safe way for himself if society is sweeping towards destruction. Therefore everyone, in his own interest, must thrust himself vigorously into the intellectual battle.”

We in America are about to enter into the dark night of the Marxist/Socialist slave state, indeed, the gears are furiously turning right now to bring it in. I will admit that it is altogether possible that it will happen despite any efforts to oppose it. Yet oppose it we must, because to do anything else is unthinkable.
The Prophets of old, in their decrying of the sin that the nation Israel had fallen into, and in their calls for repentance of this sin, did not succeed in getting the nation to “turn from their wicked ways.”⁴ Yet this did not stop them from their God appointed duty to warn the people, and neither should a scant prospect of success to turn the tide in America stop us.

“Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.”
James 4:17(KJV)

“And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.”
Gal 6:9-10(KJV)

Mike Schroeder is Pastor of the Amazing Grace Bible Study Fellowship in Corpus Christi, Texas. He is the author of the book, “85 Pages In The Bible.” Send him a message at: jmschroederster@gmail.com

Postscript:

While I think we should indeed seek to live peaceably with all men, and to have a system of government that promotes this, true individual peace can only be achieved through Jesus Christ, who died for our sins… and was raised again for our justification. His sacrifice made the way for “everyone that believeth…to be reconciled to, and at peace with God. “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved…Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.”⁵ Have you done this? If not, why not now?

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