Volume 27, Issue 1
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WisconsinChristianNews.com
Finding Rest in a Hurried World – (Part 3)
By Dr. Mike Spaulding April 2026 EDITOR’S
were. You were made to believe you were — it’s time to wake up. The day is almost over. We have work to do. We have work to do as the Church. We’ve sat back and gotten fat and lazy as the Church, and we believed the lies that the culture has told us — that we’re not permitted to share our faith in
let the world go its course.” No, we need to be sharing Jesus. There is salvation in none other than Jesus. And so, I share all of that to encourage you, actually — to encourage you to remember a cou- ple of different things. Number one: God is sov- ereign. How many of you understand that none
good, you should be thinking about this stuff. Stop skipping down the yellow brick road and acting like everything’s going to be fine tomor- row, just like it is today. Things aren’t fine today. Wake up, come out from under the delusion. We need to understand something: God is sov- ereign. When we see all these things going on, and we ask, “What is the world coming to?” how do we rest and have peace in the midst of that? Well, here’s the answer: Understand that God is sovereign. We don’t need to race around trying to — and I don’t know who I was talking to; maybe it was at the men’s study recently, we were talking about Preppers. The day and age that we live in is not like the 1800s. Yeah, you could go some- place far away off in the woods and hide, and nobody would find you for years. Live off the land, all that good stuff. There’s not a lot of places you can do that. But folks, with the tech- nology that’s out there today, you’re not hiding from anybody. And you can put up a whole year’s worth of food if you want to, but when the government comes down, they’re going to con- fiscate that. God is sovereign, brothers and sisters. And so, dealing with the times that we live in, that’s the starting point — by understanding that He’s in control of all of this. Examining The Text Of Psalm 7 Now let’s read through this, and then we’ll camp out. Notice it says, there’s a preamble to Psalm 7, it says, “A Shiggaion of David, which he sang to the Lord concerning Cush, a Ben- jamite.” A Shiggaion is a song with high and low notes. High and low notes. The idea is this — it is a song of life, and that’s life, isn’t it? Life has high notes; life has low notes. Sometimes we’re up, sometimes we’re down. Sometimes things are going well, sometimes they’re not going well. So, this is a song of life. It’s just a real song about real issues. Notice it says it’s sung to the Lord concerning Cush, a Benjamite. Now, we don’t know anything about Cush other than he’s listed here, and that he’s a Benjamite. Why is that important? Well, David had issues with the Benjamites, didn’t he? Why would he have issues with them? Because of his predecessor, do you remember who David’s predecessor was? King Saul. Saul was from what tribe? The tribe of Benjamin. So, he was a Benjamite. The Benjamites didn’t really look on David with favor. They looked on him as a usurper, that he had taken away what rightfully belonged to Saul. They never recognized David’s anointing. Continued on Page 15
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Christian News website. Antisemitism is on the rise. We recently wit- nessed a murderous rampage by two Islamist men, a father and son, in Australia. Of course, the Australian government gave a weak and woke response. Jews in the Ukraine have to reg- ister now. You know, this happened before back in the 1930s. They made them register, and then they brought them out, and they machine- gunned them down in ditches. Hostility toward Christianity is on the rise. The world is being pre- pared to accept a “Mr. Fixit,” somebody who seems to have the answers to all the problems, is going to fix things, and make everything good. The Bible calls that personage or that personality the Antichrist. I could go on and on and on, but I think you understand that we live in some pretty interesting times. But listen, I don’t share all of that for you to wring your hands because that’s what some people do. There’s a danger in sharing this kind of stuff because people, when they get their eyes open for the first time, think, “Wow, we’re not in Wonderland anymore.” No, you’re not; you never
public because that might be offensive to people. Well, my Savior and Lord said, “I am an offense, I am a stumbling block. All those who reject this message of salvation in Christ alone will perish.”
of what I’ve talked about — none of what is tran- spiring currently, none of the evil that’s currently in the works and will transpire in the days ahead — is a surprise to God? How many of you un- derstand He knows all of this? How many of you understand that He equips us, His children, to face and deal with all of this? Jesus is both the Author of our faith, and He is the Perfector or Finisher of our faith, and He will cause us to per- severe. Now, we’re facing some challenging times, and if the Lord tarries in His return to take the Church out of here — my personal view is, and you may have a different view — but my personal view is, it’s not going to be long. It’s not going to be long. It can’t possibly be much longer. As I look at the evil today — at last count, and I may be wrong, but you can correct me — just since Roe v. Wade, is it like 70 million? Seventy million chil- dren have been murdered in the womb. Seventy million. Do you understand that that is more peo- ple murdered than in all the wars that we’ve ever seen? Murdered in the womb. And we think God is okay with that? I’ve got to tell you — He’s not okay with that. And America, brothers and sis- ters, has blood on its hands, and we will not es- cape the judgment. How Do We Live A Godly Life In The Midst Of Global Upheaval? God is on the throne. Read Psalm 7. How do we live a godly life in the midst of this? Now, some of you may be disturbed already, and I haven’t even gotten into the text yet. You may be thinking, “Thanks for making my day, Mike — now I’ve got to think about all this stuff.” Well,
Brothers and sisters, we don’t have an option to step back and say, “Well, we’re just going to
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