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“So, what do we do about it???”

For the believer:

1) We keep on believing God and loving God and others.

Christ’s commandments (His words spoken in the gospels and the epistles).

John 14:21 He who has My commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves Me; and he who loves Me shall be loved by My Father, and I will love him, and will disclose Myself to him.

How?
- The way He says to love in His Word:
Matthew 22:37-40
John 13:34-35
Matthew 5:44

Faith (Hebrews 11:6)—taking God at His Word and acting, thinking, speaking accordingly

- in the power of the Holy Spirit (John 14:26; John 16:13-15; Romans 15:13)
- in accordance with God’s Will & Word
- in dependence on God
- with humility before God
- realizing we can do nothing of ourselves, it is all of Him; we belong to Him, and He is our satisfaction and sufficiency; He is making us perfect,that is, completing us in Christ, transforming us into His image. One day we will be a finished (perfect) work.

2) Rest in Him, pray to Him; wait for His answer.

3) Read, study His Word to know more and more of Him and His truth, receive His directions for life, be at peace in a world of turmoil and evil.

4) Realize He is able to save forever (completely) those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7:25)

5) Seek to have fellowship with other believers for encouragement, growth, discernment.

6) Treat people the way you want them to treat you. But realize what our relationship is with the world.
(John 17:13-26, Jesus’ prayer for His disciples before His betrayal and arrest)

7) Stand up for what is right; realize that man can kill the body, but not the soul. This does not mean to act in the flesh, but in obedience to what His Spirit tells you in His Word and speaks to your heart.

8) Realize God has a plan and purpose for your life and loves you eternally, will never forsake you.

9) Make disciples by sharing Christ and God’s Word.

10) Persevere in the faith.

Details are in His Word.
God’s Book is practical for daily living ONLY for true believers. In fact, only believers can practice His Word.

“Death is only a shedding of this mortal coil”

Death is an enemy to man. All men will die once (physically)as a consequence of sin. The “second death” is spiritual death. It means eternal separation from God. It is is the consequence of rejecting God’s Anointed One, His Son, the Redeemer—Jesus.

All mankind will be raised from the dead, the wicked to judgment and everlasting torment; the righteous to eternal life in the presence of God and His Son.

Those who have died (fallen asleep) in Christ will be raised up in the order and manner given in 1 Corinthians 15:20-58.

They will be raised up because Jesus Christ was raised up—He was victorious over sin, death, and the devil. (1 Corinthians 15:55-56)

When Christ returns in His glory, every knee will bow to Him and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God.

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For the unbeliever:
Come to the Cross
Believe in Him for the forgiveness of your sins and raising up to walk in newness of life.
1 Corinthians 1:18; 1 Corinthians 2:4-5; John 14:6

Long, and perhaps a feeble attempt to answer your qustion, “What do we do about an abhorrent government”...
and our increasingly wicked generations that have come to exclude and reject the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and His promised Seed who was to come to bless all the families of the earth. (Genesis 12:3)