Is it Time for America to Divide?

Hi, my name is Rick Bloodworth. This is the Common Sense Christian channel, and I want to start with a question today. Would it be better for America to divide than to remain the way we are? Would it be better for us to no longer be the United States, but to become two separate entities? Well, in order to help answer this question, I want to look at a parable that's familiar to most of us. It's found in Luke chapter 15, and it's the parable of the prodigal son. And you probably remember this parable. Jesus talked about a young man who, who whose father owned an estate. He had an older brother and that young man wanted his dad to divide the estate between him so he could spend the money. Now, this was a very unusual request, because the states were not typically divided until after the parent had died. And yet, here this young man is coming, asking for, possibly even demanding, his part of the estate while his dad's still living. Think about the mindset where you have to be where you would make this type of demand. Here, here you're asking your father for what someday will be your rightful share, but for right now you're asking him for his lifetime of work, the proceeds from what he's done throughout his life, including the things that he inherited from his forefathers. Well, this is the part that, that's really kind of questionable to some of us. So let me just read it. Starting in verse 11, Jesus continued, there was a man who had two sons. The younger one said to his father, father, give me my share of the estate. So he divided his property between them. Not long after that, the younger son got together all that he had and set off for a distant country and squandered his wealth. in wild living. Think about that for a moment. Why did the Father permit this? Why did he go ahead and give his son his part of his future inheritance? Why did he let him go off when he had a very good idea that he was just going to go off and, and waste the money. And I suppose that very knowledge answers the question for us to a certain extent. The father knew, the father knew that this young son of his wasn't going to be satisfied until he had tried to live the life of sin that he thought was going to bring him joy. And so the father allowed him to do that. Of course, there's a parallel in this parable between what happened with the fictional father and his two sons and what happens to us in real life, because God in a very real way allows us to use his possessions, his property in any way that we want to while we live here on earth. It's our choice. If we want to squander it in wild living, well, he'll let us do that for a time. There will be a penalty for it along the way, and eventually an eternal penalty if we don't repent of it. But God wants us to make the choice, and so he gives us a free choice. But notice this, in this parable, the father did not give the prodigal son the free choice of sinning while he was remaining in his household. You don't have to go too far in this parable. In verse 14 it said, talking about the younger son, after he had spent everything, there was a severe famine. and in that whole country and he began to be in need. So he went and he hired himself out to a citizen of that country who sent him to his fields to feed the pigs. He longed to fill his stomach with the pods the pigs were eating, but no one gave him anything. Now understanding something about the Jewish culture, you'll know exactly how humiliating this was. For the younger son, pigs were unclean. They, they were forbidden to, to, to eat the meat of pigs because God had ordained it is, is unclean. And yet now here he is feeding these unclean animals. That's how low he sunk for a while. He lived the high life. He was, he was on top. He had all the money he could hope for. But he squandered it, and once it was gone, all that was left was to forage with the pigs for food. Now let's go back to the father's wisdom in this. The father had a very good idea what the son was going to do, but he was not going to let the son go out amongst the pigs and then come back to his house and track the, the, the contents of the pig pen in his house and pollute everything about his So the sun had to go away. Now, the beautiful part of this parable is the sun came to his senses. And he decided to go back and ask for his father's forgiveness. And as we read this parable, we read the fact that while he was still a long way off, the father saw him and rushed to him to help him come home. You see, the father was looking for the son, but he could not be with the son and the son could not enjoy the fellowship of good people of the father and his family as long as he was involved in his sinful behavior. Well, now let's make the parallel to today. There's a lot that we can talk about as far as our spiritual lives before God, but I want to make the parallel with the nation in which I live and probably most of you live who are listening to this, America. We, we, we essentially have two Americas right now, don't we? We have, we have those who want legalized drugs. We have those who, who want every type of sexual deviancy imaginable. to be available to them. We have those who, who want to live a perverted lifestyle and who even want to be around children to share that perverted lifestyle or infect that them with that perverted lifestyle. We have people who want open borders. They don't care who comes across as long as these people who are coming across will vote for them and the things that they stand for so that they can keep their power. They don't care. We have crime to the point now where it's, it's, it's legal to take possessions that belong to somebody else that rightfully belong to somebody else. But if you speak out against it, then you become guilty of some sort of contrived hate crime by people who hate righteousness, who hate God and everything that God stands for. They may, they may not say that. They may even think in their convoluted mind somewhere that they really do love God, but the hate is commandments. And they hate the restrictions that the Father has put upon us, just like the prodigal son chafed under the restrictions of his father's household, and he wanted to live in any way that he wanted to. Later on in this parable, it's revealed that part of the way he squandered his money was with prostitutes. And so you think about our country today. We have those who love sexual deviancy, who insist that you be able to kill unborn children, who insist that you be able to take of all sorts of drugs, regardless of the consequences that might have on society at large, who insist that you That they be able to steal different things so that they can get by, who insist that the borders are open, who insist now that we worship the created, the, the, the nature instead of the one who created them. Who insisted in our schools that we teach a godless evolution and who outlaw the very idea that anybody could teach that there was a loving creator who has standards. I don't know which side of of the fence you stand on in this particular divide, but you have to admit there's a divide and I can tell you from my perspective. I don't want to live around sexual deviance. I don't want my children, my grandchildren to be exposed to what they have. I don't want to live around illegal drug use and the consequences for that. I don't want our borders to be open. I want us to stop worshipping nature. We need to take care of this creation that God has given us. I don't know of anybody that's for dirty water or dirty air. But remember that when God put Adam and Eve in the garden to care for them, or to care for the garden, he put them in charge. The garden was for them. They weren't there for nature. We've gotten it twisted. And we've gotten it so twisted that we have a different type of religion in America, an animism, where people worship animals rather than people. We just have so much perversion, and I have to tell you. I'm tired of putting up with the consequences of this perversion. Just as, just as those who are engaged in this, these things that I consider to be perverse are tired of hearing that they're doing wrong. And so maybe the best thing to do is to divide. It won't be easy, will it? Just think about what that would entail. I don't know exactly what it would look like, but let's say it eventuated in something like, those of you who want this lawless lifestyle, you, you go to the east of the Mississippi. Those who want to have standards that are godly, you go to the west of the Mississippi. And that border's a firm border. And you live the way you want to, and we will live by the standards that we believe we need to be living by. It's not going to be easy. It would take years to do such a thing. You just look at Brexit and how difficult it has been for a sovereign nation to leave the European Union. And it will give you an idea of how difficult it will be, but I would suggest to you, it's no more difficult than the righteous continuing to suffer at the hands of the wicked. We have a bureaucracy that is so embedded and so tangled that it's almost impossible to take apart now. We have so many regulations to prevent people from doing things that they've always been permitted to do, and now we have laws that are permitting people to do the vilest of behavior, and those who disagree with them are being prosecuted for this. If we had a marriage where you had one individual who wanted to, to, to sleep with whoever he wanted to, while the other one wanted, wanted their husband to be faithful to them, but the husband refused to. Wouldn't you say at some point they had irreconcilable differences? Wouldn't you say at some point that the only possible peaceful solution would be divorce, and let the husband go off and live his filthy lifestyle if that's what he wants, and let the wife try and go and, and have a righteous lifestyle that's free from that type of filth, and whose children are no longer influenced by that type of filth? I believe that's the type of irreconcilable differences we have in America today. I don't have a perfect solution for it, but I can tell you this. If we keep going the direction we're going, and we keep having the hateful speech that each side has for the other one, there's going to be violence in the streets. There already is to a certain extent, but nothing by comparison to how bad it's going to get. We have irreconcilable differences, and we have to do something. And I believe the only two realistic possibilities are either a civil war, which none of us wants, or a division, which really none of us wants to have to go through, but sometimes you just have to do things you, you don't want to. I have a very strong feeling that the father of the prodigal son did not want his child to go off into this foreign land to sin, but he knew that the child was determined to sin. And he knew that that child could not pollute the entire household. So he went ahead and he gave his sinful child his sinful head and let him go. and, and live the life that he wanted to. And he couldn't come home, by the way. He was no longer welcome home until he had repented of that. You see, there is always a possibility that wicked people will repent, but how possible do you think it is for our nation to have to come to an agreement to live by God's standards again. And for those who have not to repent, how realistic do you think that is? Probably not very realistic, is it? These are unpleasant things to think about. And most people would prefer not to. I imagine most people that have tuned in today have already turned this off because this isn't exactly their cup of tea. I have to tell you, it's not mine either. But I can also tell you this, we find ourself living in a nation that is becoming more and more ungodly. And for those of us who are trying to be godly, who desire to live godly lifestyles, who desire to follow Christ and to live as a Christian should live. We're finding it more and more difficult to do so because the ungodly will not permit us to do so. There's going to have to be a point of division or a point of war. And I want to be very quick to say again, none of us wants the war that I believe is inevitable. if we do not do something about this division that we have now. Either go ahead and rip the band aid completely off and divide completely and let each side start as they wish over again and live as they wish and let each other keep out of the business of the other one or continue to live where wicked men continue to insinuate themselves and their lifestyles into the lives of you and your children and your grandchildren. and continue to pay the consequences for having to live amongst such filth. One of the things that's truly bothered me in recent years, I live in a, in a state that's been inviting those from other states who don't want to put up with it anymore to come here, and they've been coming to this state. After they fouled their own nest in the state they were in, they came here, but they didn't see themselves as part of the problem, so they continued to vote the same way they were voting. They continued to vote for things like legalizing drugs, making sexual deviancy. the norm, making drunkenness and, and you name it, the, the acceptable to do. They came and brought that type of a mindset with them and they're polluting our house. They knew something was wrong where they lived. But they didn't think they were the problem. We're going to have to do something about these irreconcilable differences one way or another. We certainly need to start with prayer. And I'm not suggesting for a moment that, that we turn to violence. We, we still need to love our enemy as ourself, just as we are to love our neighbor as ourself. And those who are enemies of the cross, those who have stood firmly with their fists in the air against us for taking righteous stands, who have declared themselves to be our enemies, whether we like it or not, they are our enemies because they're enemies of the cross. We still need to love them, but we don't need to put up with their behavior. And there's going to come a point where we either have to just compromise with evil, as we've been doing, and pay the consequence for that, or go through the difficulty of division. The father, who loved the prodigal son, went through the difficulty of a separation in his family for a season. knowing that that was going to be the best thing to bring them back together in the end. Do we have the same wisdom today? These are things to think about, I think, and I believe we need to start considering them now, because things are starting to get out of hand. Wouldn't you agree? Appreciate your listening today. This is something that you think would help others. Please share it with them. But until next time, I pray that God will give you the wisdom that you need to make the right decisions, to do your best, to live as he wants you to live. God bless.