Romans 6:23, “For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Deuteronomy 30: 19-20, “I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing. Therefore, choose life, so that you and your descendants may live, and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For He is your life, and He will prolong your life in the land that the LORD swore to give to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
The title may seem ominous, but it is as true as it gets without being dramatic. In Romans, we have the spiritual reality; in Jesus and Him alone, we can have eternal life. We are NOT good, and God can only have fellowship with what is good. So, you and I, as sinners, cannot have fellowship with God and be a part of His kingdom. Therefore, Jesus came; God in the flesh to be good for us and to die the death we deserve; and in Him, by faith in His death, burial, and resurrection, we can have eternal life.
But in Deuteronomy, this is a physical call. This is a call to the nation of Israel as they are about to enter the Promised Land. Shortly, Moses will die, and Joshua will be the new leader. A new generation of adults will walk over the Jordan and enter the land of Canaan. God reiterates the Ten Commandments to them and calls them to a life of separation. They are not to marry the people of the land, and they are not to take on their religious practices.
We see this in Deuteronomy 7: 2-4, “And when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you to defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. Make no treaty with them and show them no mercy. Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, because they will turn your sons away from following Me to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and He will swiftly destroy you.”
There was no settling, no appeasement with these heathen religions and their people. There was no tolerance and no acceptance as far as God was concerned. Now, there are times when they would convert and were accepted. We see that with Rahab in Jericho; she and as many family members as she could fit into her house were saved, and Rahab trusted the God of Abraham and Isaac. If this happened, then, of course, the Canaanite folks would be accepted. But Israel was not to make any room for their religions to come in and compromise. Sadly, they did compromise. See Numbers 33:54-55:
“And you are to divide the land by lot according to your clans. Give a larger inheritance to a larger clan and a smaller inheritance to a smaller one. Whatever falls to each one by lot will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers. But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you settle.”
These pagan religions will not sit idly by and let the people of God exist. Instead, they harassed and killed many Jews. The entire book of Judges is about what happened to different tribes in Israel because they did not wipe out the Canaanites, the Moabites, and the other persons there. They subjected their children to slavery and poverty because they stopped obeying God. As you can see, the people of Israel eventually incorporated the pagan rituals, including child sacrifice, into their practices.
What does this have to do with us here in North America and the Western worlds? We have appeased the Muslim world in the name of peace, and now they are taking over places in Europe and the UK, and they rule these places. I saw where they have their own police, their own nightly patrols, tell British women how to dress, where to go, and they stop people from entering their areas.
In one very public situation, the police arrived at a home to find two 13-year-old children scantily clad in a home with 7 Pakistani men, and they arrested the girls for being drunk. The police stated that they were in fear of being called ‘racist’ as the reason for NOT arresting the 7 ADULT men in the home with almost naked female children. This has caused an outcry in the UK, but to no avail. The level of appeasement has risen to allowing grown men to rape young girls, and we do nothing. This is also happening in North America, and it will continue to grow. Our political leadership is more concerned with the feelings of the immigrants than the safety of our women, and especially young girls.
The next level is that here in Canada, our government is doing all it can to disarm us, the obedient and tax-paying citizenry. We will be left defenseless should an armed uprising take place. And make no mistake; the police are NOT coming to help you. We have chosen death over life.
In our last election, 41% of our citizens chose death rather than life. They do not understand or see that they will die first. They will be the first to be disillusioned and speak out, thus, as the ‘useful idiots’ they are, they will die first. Canada has allowed more than 800,000 people into the country as immigrants since January 2025, which is equivalent to nearly replacing the population of New Brunswick, which is approximately 975,000.
As a nation, we have abandoned Jesus, and the other option is death. I have no problem with allowing immigrants in (my family and I are immigrants) and that we allow them to practice their religion, but they should not be allowed into office; we should not change our ways to allow them more and more influence. If they do not want to become Canadian, then we can note that, and they are still welcome. But what we have done is to abandon the Judeo-Christian values that built the free world, and we have doomed our children, especially our girls, to be slaves in their own country.
Go and study Iran and truly look and see what is happening in Europe and the UK. If Jesus tarries, we will begin to see a lot of violence here in Canada. Our elites, who think they are inoculated by their money and power, are in for a rude awakening.
Oh Lord, please come quickly and rescue us, we plead.
Dr. Sean Gooding
Pastor of Bethany Baptist Church
70 Victoria Street, Elora, Ontario
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