The shootings outside of Nashville, TN, this week at the Covenant Presbyterian School by a young woman that identified as a male, have been heartbreaking for everyone who has seen the coverage. None of us can imagine what these six families are feeling or how they can cope with such a tragedy. Nor can we imagine what the surviving children and staff are experiencing in the aftermath. I have been unable to stay away from the news updates about these events as details continue to unfold a little at a time. Some of my interest is to see just what the news media will acknowledge and what they will cover up as the underlying cause for this horrific crime. I obviously don’t have all the details, but there is nothing here to suggest to me that this was anything less than a hate crime against Christians and the church.
Whether you recognize it or not, the enemy of our souls is after your children to destroy them whether with guns, indoctrination, perversion, drugs and many other things children should never have to sort through. The abandonment of biblical truth, moral absolutes, the breakdown of the family, and the compromise of many churches is at the center of much of what is happening in our society. The significance of gathering with believers on the Lord’s Day to worship God and learn His Word has been replaced with every other imaginable secular activity preventing children from fully knowing the truth that can set them free. Add to that the addiction problem that is rampant in our society and you see how the devil is working overtime to destroy the minds and lives of a generation that has so much promise. They talk about the exploding increase in mental illness among the young today, but is it any wonder when so much of what keeps a person’s life stable, anchors them in life’s storms, and gives them a foundation upon which to build their future has been undermined, ignored, mocked and dismissed.
Twenty children were killed at a school in Newtown, CT, in 2012. Nineteen were killed in 2022 at a school in Uvalde, TX. We can all recall other school shootings in recent years where children were killed or injured. I still remember that horrible day the children were killed in the Columbine shooting in 1999. Regardless of your position on gun control (and this post is not a platform for opinion on gun control), it is undeniable that the enemy is aiming for our children and coming after them full force.
In what sane world could it ever be thought acceptable to push the bizarre (evil) idea of exposing our children to drag queens, drag queen shows and drag queen story-hours in childcare centers, libraries, etc. To hear the present administration defending such ideas is evil in itself! If you’re unaware of what this is that they do, it’s where men dress up as scantily clad women and Vegas showgirls, put on make-up, and perform sexual dances for elementary children, including lap dances and even crawling across the floor all to “entertain” elementary aged children.
The Bible specifically told us that there would be a day when people would “give heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons” (1 Ti. 4:1) and these are unmistakably present in our world today. Transgender ideology is demonic and is an attack against God’s design of male and female. It is evidence of a warped and deluded mind that needs counseling and mental health assistance. Those who suffer from it need therapy and the freedom the Gospel can bring, not the freedom to live out their false identities. Only harm is done when the rest of us are expected to bear “false witness” by referring to them with pronouns of the opposite gender. We certainly want to be loving, but it isn’t loving to let people go on believing a lie that will damn their souls eternally.
Our greatest weapons against this onslaught of evil that is destroying our children are prayer and the TRUTH. We should be doing everything humanly possible to safeguard our children when they are at school by using every means possible to protect them. Whatever it takes to keep killers out of these schools is what should be done and there is no more time to postpone making these changes. But, if you protect the physical lives of the children and then feed them the lies of our demonic enemy, we have still failed at protecting our children.
We are now living in a time when genders are confused, men are viewed as oppressors, women want to be men, men want to be women, and children are being murdered while attending school. Actually, these kinds of attacks on children go all the way back to Baal worship when babies were thrown into fires to appease the demons. The attack on TRUTH goes all the way back to the Garden of Eden when Satan challenged and twisted what God had clearly said. His Word is still being twisted by many today. We are being duped into thinking all of this is a political battle. It isn’t!!! It’s a spiritual battle and many are falling into the enemy’s hands.
All of us had better start bowing our heads, closing our eyes, as we cry out to the One, True, and Holy God. Christians should be gathering WEEKLY for worship at the local church where God’s word is taught without compromise. We are to bring up our children in the “nurture and admonition of the Lord.” We are to stand for TRUTH in an ever compromising culture, even in the public school where our children attend. We are to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us, but that doesn’t mean we sacrifice our children on the altar of our culture or to killers that try to enter our schools.
Make no mistake about it, the enemy is coming for our children. This is the reason we at LMBC place great emphasis on our children’s and youth ministries. We want to teach them that there is a God who created them, loves them, and knows what is best for them. We also teach that there is evil in this world, but that Jesus Christ has overcome the enemy. We want them to trust Christ as their Savior and live for Him all their days. This is why we teach the Bible from the pulpit rather than give little homilies that placate the excessively time conscious Christians.
Because the enemy is coming after our children we have to put up a fight for them to protect them from his evil grasp. Violence is never the answer (though we will defend our children, if they are physically attacked), but prayer, church attendance, Bible reading, godly love, loving parents, stable families and other similar virtues will save them from the destruction of this present world.
“Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.” (Eph. 6:10-13)
