By Jack Chick:
Soul winners today should consider the famous saying,“Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”America is ignoring the history of other nations who have strayed from the Bible. King David observed in Psalms 9:17:The wicked shall be turned into hell,and all the nations that forget God.
An Israeli news article in 2007 by Paul E. Marek,brings current events into sharp focus. He remembers a wealthy German who survived World War II describing the situation that led up to Hitler. He said very few of the German common people were actually Nazis. They were quietly going about their lives,considering Hitler’s crowd just “a bunch of fools.”“So,”he said,“The majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then,before we knew it,they owned us,and we had lost control,and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”
Marek goes on to describe how we are told that Islam is a peaceful religion. He says that the “peaceful”Muslims are irrelevant:“The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb,behead,murder,or execute honor killings. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard,quantifiable fact is that the “peaceful majority”is the “silent majority,”and it is cowed and extraneous.”
Besides Hitler,the “peaceful majority”slept while the communists took control of Russia and China. Marek further reminds us of history. Peace-loving Germans,Japanese,Chinese,Russians,Rwandans,Bosnians,Afghanis,Iraqis,Palestinians,Somalis,Nigerians,Algerians and many others,have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us,watching it all unfold,we must pay attention to the only group that counts:the fanatics who threaten our way of life.
Soul winners,we cannot be part of that “silent majority.”Too many Christians are like the German common people:going about their lives oblivious of the gathering storm. Americans have been given a freedom to witness that is rare in history. Most Christians over the centuries,have had to hide their faith,or risk imprisonment or death to share it. Today,more than half the world is basically hostile to the gospel. Some have estimated that over 50,000 Christians are martyred every year.
The burning question is:what are we doing with the precious freedom that we have? History tells us that that freedom was bought with blood and lost fortunes. Many Christian leaders are beginning to question how much longer we will have that freedom. Only God knows but His commission still stands to go and make disciples.
Sharing our faith with another person is our top priority as believers. But Satan has us moving so fast that it is difficult to stop long enough to personally share the gospel. But it only takes a second to hand someone a gospel tract or plant it where it will be noticed. We must share the gospel with anyone who will listen,and not forget to put a copy of the good news in their hands if they are too busy to listen.