Your Understanding of Darkenss

I don’t want to be vague about that, I want to be specific. Now let me give you a little bit of just kind of a broad bird’s-eye view of history. The Gospel came, and the Gospel brought the light, and the Gospel flourished in the world in the West. And there was an extension of the Gospel, as you know, from there around other parts of the world. But the fall and the encroaching darkness began to be dominant in two ways. The corruption of the Roman Catholic system, and particularly the papacy, and the corruption of royalty, that is, the people who wielded the power were corrupt.

They were corrupt in the Roman system, and any reading of history will show you that, and they were corrupt in their monarchies all over the West. Corruption in high places was rampant. That corruption did not necessarily overturn the power of monarchs, or the power of the Roman Catholic system, and the power of the Pope. So what happened was the monarchs used lethal power to control people, and the papacy did exactly the same thing. As corrupt as they were, they still maintained power, but at war, on generations of people. And by the time you get to the 16th, 17th, and 18th century, you have the outbreak of rebellion against all of that, which we would include the Reformation, and particularly the Enlightenment.

The reformers legitimately rebelled against autocratic monarchs, and against the corruption of the Roman system. And there was always a faithful remnant. There was always a Church of Jesus Christ, but it blossomed and bloomed and flourished in a fresh, new way under the influence of the reformers in the 16th and 17th century. But it was paralleled by the influence of philosophers in those same centuries. Philosophers who were sick of autocracies, who were sick of demagogues, who were sick of dictators, who were sick of immoral judges, who were sick of the repression that came upon people, insofar as religion could, particularly religion, could suppress their natural desires.

And so you had a litany of philosophers, sociologists and psychologists, who go all the way from people like Kant and Hegel, all the way to Freud. And they basically said this, you need to be freed from repression. The message of those European philosophers was very simple. Very simple. You can’t tolerate any longer the repression of religion, particularly the Christian religion, particularly its moral constraints. They attacked God. Many of them, if not all, were atheists. They attacked morality, and in particular they targeted men, and they targeted fathers, as all revolutions do. The message was clear to men, you should feel free to do whatever you want to do.

Your repression is evil, it is bad. Your lowest, most base sexual desire is true to your humanity, and you shouldn’t have to be repressed at that point. You should be free. There’s no God, there’s no morality. You need to live out your impulses. Reject religion, reject God, reject morality. And of course, all of them had done that already. They were the most lecherous and lascivious of men possible. Stop repressing your desires. Live for lust, choose pleasure, become licentious. Free your desire from religion, tradition and moral bondage. Throw off all restraint.

And they sowed those seeds successfully. You see them in the annals, for example, of the French Revolution, and what Europe became during that period of time. The debauchery to which it descended, debauchery which had always been a part of royalty, and sadly even a part of the corruption of the Catholic hierarchy. They succeeded in planting that philosophy, and it has been around now for 400 years, and its fruit has accumulated. Men were to shake off oppression, particularly oppression by Christian religion. And the target of the revolution, again I say, was men, because Satan knows that it is the sins of the fathers that corrupt society.

Once men are set free to fulfil their lusts, immediately there are victims, and the first victims are women. Women are victims in two ways. Women are victims actively because they become useful to men only for self-gratification, and women become abused by men in a self-gratifying, sexual way. But they are also passively abused, because men who live like that, shirk all real responsibility designed by God to care for women. Corrupt fathers abuse women for their own pleasure, and they become a toxic masculinity, if you could even call it masculinity. They abuse women for their pleasure, women become victims of their desires.

They use women, they use them for the expression of their evil, and they use them to take place in a family, or in a relationship, that shouldn’t belong to the man by ignoring their own fatherly responsibility. What is a father by God’s design? Fathers are designed by God to love, to lead, to feed, to provide, to protect, to instruct, to empower, to discipline, to sacrifice, and to suffer for the love of wife and children. Let me go over that again. God designed men, fathers, to love, lead, feed, provide, protect, instruct, empower, discipline, sacrifice, and suffer for the love of wife and children.

When they decide to live only for their own lusts, everything goes wrong. Women are abused, children are therefore abused, as the family completely disintegrates. The abused women turn to resent the abuse, and so you have a responding hardness that comes on women who were designed by God to be tender and compassionate and caring wives and mothers. They grow hard, they grow callous, they grow vengeful, and they attack back. So you have essentially the conflict between unfaithful men and abused women, which destroys the family and of course the children and the whole society.

Destroy fathers and you destroy an entire society. When the moral character of true manhood, true fatherhood is gone, women and children are threatened, hardened, exposed to abuse, and eventually they become angry and they turn on the men who abuse them categorically. Now the results of this are tragic in our generation. I mean, we see it. Just for example, statistically, the United States is number one in the world in the number of fatherless children, that is children who live in a home with no father, 25 million currently. 85% of youth with severe behavioural issues had no father in the home.

75% of youth with drug and alcohol treatment histories had no father in the home. 90% of youth runaways and homeless had no father in the home. 85% of youth in prison had no father in the home, and nearly half of all children born in this country now are born outside of marriage, and they are five times more likely to be poor and nine times more likely to drop out of school. We all know the fallout of this. They don’t know what a man’s role is. One of the reasons that you see all the civil unrest, all the damage, all these people in the streets doing destructive things, is because fathers teach their children how to suffer well.

Fatherless children don’t think they should have to suffer, and so they revolt. Fathers teach their children that life is hard and challenging, and you need to suffer well, and as we read this morning, if you suffer well, it develops your moral character, your perseverance, and your hope. But if you never learn to suffer well, then you hate all the sources of your suffering, and you blame it on some systemic social problem, rather than accepting responsibility for the fact that life is hard. And if you take responsibility for it, you can rise above it, if you are thoughtful.

It’s not that fathers teach their kids to be criminals. It’s that fathers don’t teach their children how to suffer difficulty, and so they burn things, and tear things down, and destroy things, and kill people. The fallout of this is devastating. You would think the culture would wake up and understand that they have to change things. But instead of that, 65% of Americans recently surveyed are okay with babies born outside marriage, which means you’ve got a fatherless home and a wife with no husband. 65% of people in America are okay with abortion, and you can throw this in.

66% are okay with homosexuality. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of your understanding of darkness. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world. To hear these daily devotions of your daily bread, please log on to goddessgovernment.com. Goodbye, and may your faith always lead the way. [tr:trw].