Abraham Lincoln read the draft of a speech to a dozen chosen Republicans as he prepared to run as their candidate for Senator from Illinois in 1858. Every listener opposed it as "too radical" and "ahead of its time." Much as President Reagan's counselors urged him not to include, "Mr. Gorbachev, Tear down this Wall" in his Berlin speech, June 12, 1987.
Nevertheless, at the State Convention in Springfield, June 16, 1858, Lincoln read from a manuscript his "House Divided" speech. It offered an unmistakable call for a permanent solution to the country increasingly divided over slavery. That speech, and his later Cooper Union speech, made him President in a crisis as dangerous to the nation as the American Revolution had been to the Colonies. Never has the speech been more relevant to America than now. For in our crazed pursuit of diversity, hastened by a nation of Biblically-illiterate citizens, Jesus Christ is simply too dangerous, too exclusive, too intolerant and too offensive for the diversity national leadership now mistakenly demands. Point of fact. Jesus had no tolerance for spiritual neutrality when he confronted and bludgeoned Satan to a pulp in the Wilderness temptations Matthew 4:1-11. The apostles had no tolerance for spiritual neutrality when they preached Jesus as the Only Name/Person in all history by which "we must be saved" Acts 4:12. And on and on in every page of the New Testament. Abraham Lincoln afterwards said: if he had his choice of but one speech to bequeath to history, he would choose "House Divided", unedited, unabridged, unerased! Reader's Digest Biography, 185-187. Christians, THINK:
When Jesus said he was God's Son, and the only way humans can ever enter heaven, John 14:1-14, what is there about it we wish he HADN'T SAID? NOTHING! Just because America has more people than ever who don't want to hear it, we refuse to substitute Islam, Moses or Buddha for the great I AM! We now need Christians in the workplace:
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