I am saying that it is time for the churches to throw off the chains that they have voluntarily let be placed around them and to speak up, get out on the streets and tell the truth.  It was the churches that put a stop to slavery, that stood with Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights marches. Since then they have accepted the advantage of not paying taxes by stopping speaking and standing for what is right. They have allowed themselves to be chained and those who are against us are tightening those chains everyday, from taking God out of the schools to telling veterans that they can not have a prayer that mentions Jesus Christ at the National Cemetery.
Whitfield and other pastors did not stand by and keep their mouths closed. They were the ones standing in the forefront and telling people what was going on. They were participating and leading their citizens, because they were standing for what they thought was right in God’s eyes.
It is time for our pastors to realize that they are responsible to God and the people that they serve, and not to the government. It is time for responsible Christians to stand for what is right, and not to let a government that is hostile to Christianity, dictate what we can teach, believe, practice or anything else. Above all God must come first, and if we continue to bow our heads to government, they become God and it is time to stand up.

Jesus didn’t give his life in the ultimate sacrifice for the churches to become temples. He came to save the whole world. We are not just to practice Christianity within the confines of the Church sanctuary. But that is how it is being practiced today. We go to church when we are supposed to, we worship and then go home. We don’t speak out when we are told that we can’t have God in the schools or in any public place. This is not how this country was founded, and above all else this is not what Jesus sacrificed for.

We have the responsibility to spread Christianity throughout the world, and yet we let a mortal government tell us what we can say and where we can say it? This is not Christianity, this is religion by government decree, something to simply pacify the people and keep them in their place. Is this what you want? Is this what you are going to stand before God and say that you agreed with? Why?

When did we stop being followers of Christ? Would Christ stop his message because the government didn’t agree with it? He showed us that He wouldn’t and He didn’t. He brought us the message that God wanted Him to bring and told us that this is what we were to continue.

Instead we have let ourselves be pushed in simply using our Church buildings as a sanctuary and thinking that this is what they are there for. It is not! It is a place to encourage others, to teach, to let the glory of God enter, to multiply the force if you will. But it doesn’t end there, and it is not what Jesus wanted us to do.

“Don’t hide your light under a basket”, how many times have you heard this? But isn’t that what we are doing? We are using the Church as the basket, we are hiding, literally. We are letting ourselves be made prisoners of a government that has no desire for people to care about God or the principle that the Bible teaches.

We are allowing ourselves to be chained and it is time that we throw off those chains. God did not intend for us to be slaves, not to any government whose desire is to force us to do their will, and not His. God will judge us by our actions and one of the first things He will probably ask is why we sold ourselves back into slavery when He gave His only begotten Son to free us.