We think we’re aliens and so different because of the way the world thinks.  But, we’re also different from the professed church.  We are day and night.  It’s another gospel that these people have embraced.  When you read them a scripture that says that wives are to submit to their husbands, they look at you like you’re an alien, horrified.  How about the rod for the children?  At best, the majority are using a wet noodle.  You teach these things, don’t spare for their crying, dear God, they want to put you in jail.  Amen?  That’s who we are.  This is how they see us.  Recently, on national news, the observation was made that the most dangerous person in America is a white evangelical Christian, and this is the conclusion they’re coming to.  Of course, they’re coming off of, “The Lord told us to invade the Capital building”, or, “The Lord told me to blow up this abortion clinic,” or whatever it might be.  I’m telling you, it’s only one signature away; it can be here that fast.

So, what are we as the church?  Well, I’ll tell you what we’re supposed to do.  Go into all the world and preach the gospel; amen?  We’re supposed to edify one another.  We’re not to forsake the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is.  This is the church.  This is the restraining power.  We were talking about the secret power of lawlessness, and we were saying, “Why is it so simple for you?  Because, see, we’re born-again, Spirit-filled people with renewed minds; amen?”  Yet, some of us in here still struggle with it.  Our boss tells us to do something at work, we have no problem.  An elder tells us to do something in the church, and someone goes, “Well, I have rights.  I’m a king, and I’m a priest, and I can hear from God.”  Have you ever had that attitude?  Now, most of us here over the years, we’ve been able to deal with a lot of that.  I believe that the majority of us in here don’t have a problem.  I believe in the hour that we’re in, and what’s coming, many of us are going to have to deal with that because of this secret power of lawlessness, this supernatural spirit, this attacking the church today, inundating the church with that spirit of independence, and we need to guard ourselves.

We need to take heed what we read; amen?  We see God’s method of order, and we get a little peek at it here in Numbers, Chapter 12.  Here was the question in verse 2.  “Has the Lord indeed spoken only by Moses?  Hath he not spoken also by us?”  Have you ever known any Christians that had that kind of an approach to spiritual authority, to the order of the church?  Look at the next little verse or the ending of that verse, “And God heard it.”  A lot of us here know the doctrine.  We even put ourselves under in practice, but we’re not quite as submissive at the dinner table when we get home, at lunch after Sunday morning, or wherever else it might be when we’re with our closest friends and projecting our theological position.  Let me just remind you that God heard it.  Okay?  That’s sufficient.  We see the conflict here with those.  “God has spoken by us.  God has used me.  I can hear from the Lord,” and we know the story here, so I won’t belabor the point.  Aaron and Miriam are called out of their tents to the tabernacle, and the Lord in verse 6 says, “Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.  My servant Moses is not so...”  “With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude of the Lord shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”