The Answer To Gun Control

The Answer To Gun Control 

The act of murder is as old as the world. Moses recorded the first murder committed by Cain against his brother Abel in Genesis 4:1-10. Lamech bragged about killing a man in Genesis 4:23. The world of Noah’s day was filled with wickedness “and that every intent of the thoughts of [man] was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5). Pharaoh murdered untold numbers of Hebrew babies in Egypt (Exodus 1). Moses himself killed a man (Exodus 2:11-12). The list continues throughout the history of man as lives are taken with evil intent and malice.

Our country is gripped with the fearful knowledge of murderous individuals killing innocent children, movie goers, high school students, families and fellow soldiers. The cry has been raised on the political stage of controlling guns and emotions run deep in defense of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” including the right to bear arms. What answers lay at the root of our headlong plunge into anarchy and death? The irony is found in the forked tongue of man’s wisdom that decries the murders of innocents yet forbids the knowledge of God to supplant the wisdom of men. A society that fills itself with the blood of the innocent is a society that removes the knowledge of God from its pages. The less God possess a people the more the people possess their own evil lusts as god.

Jesus explained the problem in Matthew 15:17-20.  “Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man" (Matthew 15:17-20). Murder comes from a heart devoid of righteousness. The wise man says, “Wisdom rests in the heart of him who has understanding, but what is in the heart of fools is made known. Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:33-34).

Gun control will only have control when the heart is controlled by the Creator. The modern age is little different from ages past when the apostle Paul described the world filled with men who “will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God” (2 Timothy 3:2-4). Sound familiar? The root of what Paul describes is the problem of the heart.

The more we remove the teaching of the Bible from the hearts of our children and build our society on the whims of man’s wisdom the more we will experience the failed policies of human wisdom compared to God’s wisdom. Man would rather worship himself and without fail every time he exalts himself as god he destroys himself. The President can sign into law all the bills the nation will stand but until the imprint of the Creator is impressed upon the heart it becomes an exercise in futility. As people of God we must change our hearts to show forth the light of the gospel to a world darkened by the ravages of Satan’s murderous power. The answer to the plight of man is found in the might of God through His Son, Jesus Christ (John 3:14-21).