Saturday, August 23, 2014
Friday, August 15, 2014
Teen Challenge
Teen Challenge is one of the most amazing places I've ever been to. The folks there have a heart for God and are dedicated to raising up disciples for Christ. If you or anyone you know is battling drugs, alcohol or are spiritually bankrupt for any reason Teen Challenge may be for you.
Monday, May 19, 2014
Sunday, April 20, 2014
CHRIST HAS RISEN HALLELUJAH!!!
The tomb is empty... we now have a High Priest acquainted with our afflictions, who bore all our sin and sorrow although He never knew sin or sorrow. He is our Redeemer, our King and our Savior! Praise be to God for sending His Righteous One, His Anointed One to save us from the evil one, from ourselves and from hell, which has been prepared for the devil and his angels and praise be to His Son Jesus Christ!
Friday, April 18, 2014
Teen Challenge Update
Physical complete... two more Dr.'s appts left. One on the 23rd and one on May 2nd then off to complete my 14 month commitment at Teen Challenge... YEA!!!
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Bored....
Sitting here doing nothing and thinking about everything. What's it all for...? Do we just exist then die or is there a bigger picture/meaning? Time is like a vapor... it is here and gone in the blink of an eye.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Sleep Study
Getting sleep study done.... not a happy camper, could find better ways to spend my evening!
Friday, August 09, 2013
Monday, August 05, 2013
Thursday, June 20, 2013
Moving
Well I'm moving again.... something I just absolute detest. BUT I am moving to a nicer location. One thing I really hate though is living out of boxes...
Saturday, November 03, 2012
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Nate Pfeil - The Fire
This is one of the most convicting and amazing videos I've ever seen! It has left me speechless, and ashamed, for I am the very person he is talking about who calls himself "Christian" yet bear no fruit! Lord, have mercy on me any any out there that see this video and feel the same!
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Good?
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Why do we attribute the word "good" to everything in life that we like? He/She is a "good" person... that was a "good" movie... that's a "good" song... etc etc...Here are the definitions of the word "good"...
Dictionary.com... good[good]
Show IPA adjective, bet·ter, best, noun, interjection, adverb
adjective
1.
MORALLY excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
Merriam-Webster
a : something that is good
b (1) : something conforming to the MORAL order of the universe (2) : praiseworthy character : goodness
adjective
1.
MORALLY excellent; virtuous; righteous; pious: a good man.
Merriam-Webster
a : something that is good
b (1) : something conforming to the MORAL order of the universe (2) : praiseworthy character : goodness
Google
good/go͝od/
Noun:
That which is MORALLY right; righteousness.
"Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone." -Luke 18:19 (NASB)
If Jesus is God, why would He say this...? Because the Son is subservient to the Father and does His will through the Holy Spirit. He (Jesus) does nothing on His own but is given authority over all things by His Father in Heaven through the Holy Spirit. So Jesus is correct when He challenges the rich young ruler when He asks “Why do you call Me good?"
good/go͝od/
Noun:
That which is MORALLY right; righteousness.
"Jesus said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone." -Luke 18:19 (NASB)
If Jesus is God, why would He say this...? Because the Son is subservient to the Father and does His will through the Holy Spirit. He (Jesus) does nothing on His own but is given authority over all things by His Father in Heaven through the Holy Spirit. So Jesus is correct when He challenges the rich young ruler when He asks “Why do you call Me good?"
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The Red Lizard of Lust
Although I do not agree with some of Lewis' theology at the end of the story, it is still a wonderful tale of overcoming lust, and sin in general by "dying" to self and submitting to Christ.
The Red Lizard of Lust
C.S. Lewis
From The Great Divorce
Editor’s note: C.S. Lewis wrote The Great Divorce to demonstrate the differences between Hell and Heaven. The people in this story travel to the bright borders of Heaven, and as such, appear as ghosts as they near it. This excerpt metaphorically and poignantly shows how challenging it can be for some people to let go of lust, but it also shows how we are strengthened and advanced once we muster the courage to finally do so.
I saw coming towards us a Ghost who carried something on his shoulder. Like all the Ghosts, he was unsubstantial, but they differed from one another as smokes differ. Some had been whitish; this one was dark and oily. What sat on his shoulder was a little red lizard, and it was twitching its tail like a whip and whispering things in his ear. As we caught sight of him he turned his head to the reptile with a snarl of impatience. “Shut up, I tell you!” he said. It wagged its tail and continued to whisper to him. He ceased snarling, and presently began to smile. Then be turned and started to limp westward, away from the mountains.
“Off so soon?” said a voice.
The speaker was more or less human in shape but larger than a man, and so bright that I could hardly look at him. His presence smote on my eyes and on my body too (for there was heat coming from him as well as light) like the morning sun at the beginning of a tyrannous summer day.
“Yes. I’m off,” said the Ghost. “Thanks for all your hospitality. But it’s no good, you see. I told this little chap,” (here he indicated the lizard), “that he’d have to be quiet if he came -which he insisted on doing. Of course his stuff won’t do here: I realise that. But he won’t stop. I shall just have to go home.”
‘Would you like me to make him quiet?” said the flaming Spirit—an angel, as I now understood.
“Of course I would,” said the Ghost.
“Then I will kill him,” said the Angel, taking a step forward.
“Oh—ah—look out! You’re burning me. Keep away,” said the Ghost, retreating.
“Don’t you want him killed?”
“You didn’t say anything about killing him at first. I hardly meant to bother you with anything so drastic as that.”
“It’s the only way,” said the Angel, whose burning hands were now very close to the lizard. “Shall I kill it?”
“Well, that’s a further question. I’m quite open to consider it, but it’s a new point, isn’t it? I mean, for the moment I was only thinking about silencing it because up here—well, it’s so damned embarrassing.”
“May I kill it?”
“Well, there’s time to discuss that later.”
“There is no time. May I kill it?”
“Please, I never meant to be such a nuisance. Please—really—don’t bother. Look! It’s gone to sleep of its own accord. I’m sure it’ll be all right now. Thanks ever so much.”
“May I kill it?”
“Honestly, I don’t think there’s the slightest necessity for that. I’m sure I shall be able to keep it in order now. I think the gradual process would be far better than killing it.”
“The gradual process is of no use at all.”
“Don’t you think so? Well, I’ll think over what you’ve said very carefully. I honestly will. In fact I’d let you kill it now, but as a matter of fact I’m not feeling frightfully well today. It would be silly to do it now. I’d need to be in good health for the operation. Some other day, perhaps.”
“There is no other day. All days are present now.”
“Get back! You’re burning me. How can I tell you to kill it? You’d kill me if you did.”
“It is not so.”
“Why, you’re hurting me now.”
“I never said it wouldn’t hurt you. I said it wouldn’t kill you.”
“Oh, I know. You think I’m a coward. But it isn’t that. Really it isn’t. I say! Let me run back by tonight’s bus and get an opinion from my own doctor. I’ll come again the first moment I can.”
“This moment contains all moments.”
“Why are you torturing me? You are jeering at me. How can I let you tear me to pieces? If you wanted to help me, why didn’t you kill the damned thing without asking me—before I knew? It would be all over by now if you had.”
“I cannot kill it against your will. It is impossible. Have I your permission?”
The Angel’s hands were almost closed on the Lizard, but not quite. Then the Lizard began chattering to the Ghost so loud that even I could hear what it was saying.
“Be careful,” it said. “He can do what he says. He can kill me. One fatal word from you and he will! Then you’ll be without me for ever and ever. It’s not natural. How could you live? You’d be only a sort of ghost, not a real man as you are now. He doesn’t understand. He’s only a cold, bloodless abstract thing. It may be natural for him, but it isn’t for us. Yes, yes. I know there are no real pleasures now, only dreams. But aren’t they better than nothing? And I’ll be so good. I admit I’ve sometimes gone too far in the past, but I promise I won’t do it again. I’ll give you nothing but really nice dreams—all sweet and fresh and almost innocent. You might say, quite innocent …”
“Have I your permission?” said the Angel to the Ghost.
“I know it will kill me.”
“It won’t. But supposing it did?”
“You’re right. It would be better to be dead than to live with this creature.”
“Then I may?”
“Damn and blast you! Go on can’t you? Get it over. Do what you like,” bellowed the Ghost: but ended, whimpering, “God help me. God help me.”
Next moment the Ghost gave a scream of agony such as I never heard on Earth. The Burning One closed his crimson grip on the reptile: twisted it, while it bit and writhed, and then flung it, broken backed, on the turf.
“Ow! That’s done for me,” gasped the Ghost, reeling backwards.
For a moment I could make out nothing distinctly. Then I saw, between me and the nearest bush, unmistakably solid but growing every moment solider, the upper arm and the shoulder of a man. Then, brighter still and stronger, the legs and hands. The neck and golden head materialised while I watched, and if my attention had not wavered I should have seen the actual completing of a man—an immense man, naked, not much smaller than the Angel. What distracted me was the fact that at the same moment something seemed to be happening to the Lizard. At first I thought the operation had failed. So far from dying, the creature was still struggling and even growing bigger as it struggled. And as it grew it changed. Its hinder parts grew rounder. The tail, still flickering, became a tail of hair that flickered between huge and glossy buttocks. Suddenly I started back, rubbing my eyes. What stood before me was the greatest stallion I have ever seen, silvery white but with mane and tail of gold. It was smooth and shining, rippled with swells of flesh and muscle, whinneying and stamping with its hoofs. At each stamp the land shook and the trees dindled.
The new-made man turned and clapped the new horse’s neck. It nosed his bright body. Horse and master breathed each into the other’s nostrils. The man turned from it, flung himself at the feet of the Burning One, and embraced them. When he rose I thought his face shone with tears, but it may have been only the liquid love and brightness (one cannot distinguish them in that country) which flowed from him. I had not long to think about it. In joyous haste the young man leaped upon the horse’s back. Turning in his seat he waved a farewell, then nudged the stallion with his heels. They were off before I well knew what was happening. There was riding if you like! I came out as quickly as I could from among the bushes to follow them with my eyes; but already they were only like a shooting star far off on the green plain, and soon among the foothills of the mountains. Then, still like a star, I saw them winding up, scaling what seemed impossible steeps, and quicker every moment, till near the dim brow of the landscape, so high that I must strain my neck to see them, they vanished, bright themselves, into the rose-brightness of that everlasting morning…
“Do ye understand all this, my Son?” said my Teacher.
“I don’t know about all, Sir,” said I. “Am I right in thinking that the lizard really did turn into a Horse?”
“Aye. But it was killed first. Ye’ll not forget that part of the story?”
“I’ll try not to, Sir. But does it mean that everything—everything—that is in us can go to the Mountains?”
“Nothing, even the best and noblest, can go on as it now is. Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death. It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. Flesh and blood cannot come to the Mountains. Not because they are too rank, but because they are too weak. What is a Lizard compared to a stallion? Lust is a poor, weak, whimpering, whispering thing compared with that richness and energy of desire which will arise when lust has been killed.”
Excerpted from The Great Divorce (1946), New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 98-106.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Do you call yourself "Christian"?
How do you think Jesus views Christianity today in view of all the different denominations and infighting and arguing we do concerning issues regarding doctrine and non essential garbage we fight about as so called "Christians"? Here's a couple of quotes from the Master Himself... "11 I am no longer in the world; and yet they themselves are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, the name which You have given Me, that they may be 'ONE' even as We are." emphasis mine -John 17:11 (NASB) and... “I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; 21 that they may all be 'ONE'; even as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me." emphasis mine -John 17:20-21 and again in the very same prayer... "22 The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be 'ONE', j
ust as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me." again emphasis mine -John 17:22-23. Why would Jesus emphasize unity and oneness SO much in one prayer before His death if it were not significant?! Christians in persecuted nations such as Iran and North Korea or China do not fight about doctrine they LIVE Christianity! We ought to be ASHAMED and DISGUSTED with ourselves we are utterly sinful and have become the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus' day, full of hypocrisy!!!! SHAME on us and God help us!
ust as We are one; 23 I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me." again emphasis mine -John 17:22-23. Why would Jesus emphasize unity and oneness SO much in one prayer before His death if it were not significant?! Christians in persecuted nations such as Iran and North Korea or China do not fight about doctrine they LIVE Christianity! We ought to be ASHAMED and DISGUSTED with ourselves we are utterly sinful and have become the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus' day, full of hypocrisy!!!! SHAME on us and God help us!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Can God use you?
"Jacob was a cheater, Peter had a temper, David had an affair, Noah got drunk, Jonah ran from God, Paul was a murderer, Gideon was insecure, Miriam was a gossiper, Martha was a worrier, Thomas was a doubter, Sara was impatient, Elijah was moody, Moses stuttered, Zaccheus was short, Abraham was old and Lazarus was dead. Now, what's YOUR excuse? Don't you think God can use you too?!!"
Monday, August 08, 2011
Job 31:1
“I made a covenant with my eyes not to look lustfully at a young woman." For Jesus said "27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY’; 28 but I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lust for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart." Matthew 5:27-28.
Can the Bible be trusted?
If the Bible up to this point has been proven to be 100% accurate in the areas of history, archeology, prophecy, and science (which includes biology, and astronomy)... how is it that after 6,000 years (4000 Old Testament, and 2000 New Testament) not ONE person has proven it to be inaccurate or a lie/fable? I mean it stands to reason that someone somewhere would have found evidence that the Bible was inaccurate or incorrect at some point in history, especially in this day and age of science and technology.
God vs. man
How arrogant is man to think he can know the mind of God? Man, who bleeds, gets sick, can be wounded, and die... how can he think he can possibly know the answers only God knows? The answer is PRIDE! Man thinks he can figure out what only God knows. For God holds not only all the answers but he holds the very atoms of the universe and our existence between His fingertips!
Sunday, August 07, 2011
the still, soft, gentle breeze...
You whom I seek are nowhere to be found... I look above and below and You are not there. I look to my left and to my right, yet I cannot see you. I hear the crash of thunder and look... but You are not there. I see the whirlwind of a cyclone and tornado still, You are not there. In the rage of the fire I couldn't find You. I see tidal waves of destruction and still I cannot see You. I search my heart, my mind, and my soul but I am alone... You are not there. I feel myself drowning in an ocean, the waves overcoming me... I'm in despair. Where are You? And then I remember what You said... I would not find You in the fire, nor the thunder, nor the cyclone, not even in the tidal wave. No, I would find You and hear You in the still, soft, gentle breeze... but only if I sought You with all my heart and with all my strength, and with all my soul. Then You would hear my prayer, and save me.
Jeremiah 29:11-13
11 For I know the plans that I have for you,’ declares the LORD, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope. 12 Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Friday, August 05, 2011
Colossians 3:23
"Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men" Colossians 3:23
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Michael Jackson's Spirtual Life
Having grown up with the music of Michael Jackson, I too was a huge fan of his. After he was accused of molesting not one but two young boys I had to reevaluate who Jackson was and what he represented. It is completely mind-blowing that since his death people seem to have forgotten these charges or don't care, and his fame continues to rise to unbelievable heights. Jesus said "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me." So the question begs to be asked... Do you believe Michael Jackson is in heaven or hell?
Thursday, February 17, 2011
"this is the end... my only friend... The End!"
...and so it is here! I guarantee the United States CIA is behind the destabilization of the entire Middle East! Why you may ask? Because the ruling Saudi gov't is a Sunni gov't, the Iranians, which are the biggest threat in the region are Shiite Muslims. These two groups oppose each other. We've already seen our "President" BOW to the Saudi prince, and believe me folks this guy Obama is a Sunni Muslim. Don't believe me...? Research it for yourself! Now I dont want to sound like an alarmist but this could be the very beginning of the next world war... just sayin'!
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Friday, October 08, 2010
Forgiven...
If I believe that the One True God has forgiven me of all my wrongs then why is it so difficult for me to forgive another who has wronged me? This is especially true in matters of the heart, in which I now speak. You see, I tell others that I have been forgiven for all my wrongs, a forgiveness that is unmerited on my part. It is a forgiveness that is completed by perfect mercy, perfect love, and perfect grace. I have wronged God and broken His heart the same way in which my heart has recently been broken. Yet, He forgives me nonetheless and says I will remember your wrongs no more. And yet, I hold onto my anger, hurt and pain and refuse to let go, forgive and forget... I truly am a despicable wretch!
Chris Tomlin - Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)
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Thursday, September 09, 2010
9/11 Nine Years Later
So we are almost nine years after the 9/11 attacks on Manhattan and D.C. Are we any safer? What has the "religion of peace" been up to over the last decade? Have they sought out peaceful resolutions to their issues, or have they brought on more bloodshed?
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
God’s Purposes in Difficult Times
Read | Romans 8:28-29
If we could design an ideal life, most of us would skip over times of hardship. But Scripture teaches us that God has purpose in the storms of life.
Cleansing. When problems press in on us, ungodly attitudes and habits tend to surface. Impatient behavior, a quick temper, or reliance on something or someone other than God may become
apparent. In a crisis, the bad habits we had ignored can show up in ways too obvious to overlook. The Holy Spirit will use tough times to smooth away our rough edges and produce the fruit of the Spirit in us (Gal. 5:22-23).
Companionship. When life is good, we may spend less time with the Lord and start taking our relationship with Him for granted. We may even drift off His chosen path. Crises help us see our need for Him as well as our inability to help ourselves. Hard times bring us to our knees in prayer and drive us to seek opportunities for His companionship.
Our heavenly Father’s desire is for us to develop Christ-like character and grow in intimacy with Him. He wants us to experience the richness of His love and wholeheartedly show Him devotion. He will use trials and difficulties to accomplish His good purposes for us.
Daily Devotional
If we could design an ideal life, most of us would skip over times of hardship. But Scripture teaches us that God has purpose in the storms of life.
Cleansing. When problems press in on us, ungodly attitudes and habits tend to surface. Impatient behavior, a quick temper, or reliance on something or someone other than God may become
apparent. In a crisis, the bad habits we had ignored can show up in ways too obvious to overlook. The Holy Spirit will use tough times to smooth away our rough edges and produce the fruit of the Spirit in us (Gal. 5:22-23).
Companionship. When life is good, we may spend less time with the Lord and start taking our relationship with Him for granted. We may even drift off His chosen path. Crises help us see our need for Him as well as our inability to help ourselves. Hard times bring us to our knees in prayer and drive us to seek opportunities for His companionship.
Our heavenly Father’s desire is for us to develop Christ-like character and grow in intimacy with Him. He wants us to experience the richness of His love and wholeheartedly show Him devotion. He will use trials and difficulties to accomplish His good purposes for us.
Daily Devotional
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Tuesday, June 08, 2010
Monday, May 17, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Islamic Extremist vs. Christian hypocrites
Isn't it amazing how the world makes excuses for Islam when it comes to extremist, saying that Islam is a peaceful religion and the extremist do not represent the majority of Islam (even though a quick study of the Koran shows the religion's foundation is steeped in violence, in particular toward the infidel, which by the way is anyone that does not submit to Islam). However, when it comes to Christianity the world judges the entire faith by a few hypocrites. Hmmmm... maybe there's something to that.
Saturday, May 08, 2010
Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Meaning of Christmas
In an era of political correctness it has become unfashionable to say Merry Christmas, and some would rather say "Happy Holidays". So, in saying "Happy Holidays", what holiday are we suppose to be happy about? It is because of "CHRIST"MAS children get vacation from school, and employees get a couple of days off work and business throw parties. Even the federal government has declared the birth of Christ a holiday. However, the celebration of Jesus Christ's birthday has become nothing more than a marketing campaign for retail businesses that celebrate a fat guy in a red suit that promises to bring children toys if they were good for the year. Which let's face it no child receives a lump of coal.
The ACLU has made it its mission to destroy any public display of symbols of Christianity. People have forgotten that the God that made every thing known and unknown, the stars we look at at night, the sun that warms us and every wonderful thing in this world decided to lower Himself and come here as a man for the sole purpose to die at the hands of His own creation so that His perfect justice could be satisfied. His birth in a manger gave all of humanity hope... Hope that we could have a relationship with Him. "He" is the reason for this season we celebrate. He is the Perfect Gift.
So, instead of being so self consumed by what we receive, why not find those people that are the broken, the least, and the last and do something kind for them? Not for our self interest or glory but to bring glory to the Son of God. He came to serve, so let's take His example and serve others this season. Then, lets not stop on the 26th of December but lets do it every day for the next year. Let's see how many lives we can impact and change. Are you up to the challenge?
The ACLU has made it its mission to destroy any public display of symbols of Christianity. People have forgotten that the God that made every thing known and unknown, the stars we look at at night, the sun that warms us and every wonderful thing in this world decided to lower Himself and come here as a man for the sole purpose to die at the hands of His own creation so that His perfect justice could be satisfied. His birth in a manger gave all of humanity hope... Hope that we could have a relationship with Him. "He" is the reason for this season we celebrate. He is the Perfect Gift.
So, instead of being so self consumed by what we receive, why not find those people that are the broken, the least, and the last and do something kind for them? Not for our self interest or glory but to bring glory to the Son of God. He came to serve, so let's take His example and serve others this season. Then, lets not stop on the 26th of December but lets do it every day for the next year. Let's see how many lives we can impact and change. Are you up to the challenge?
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Meaning of the word "martyr"
A martyr (Greek: μάρτυς, mártys, "witness"; stem μάρτυρ-, mártyr-) is somebody who suffers persecution and death for refusing to renounce a belief. During the early Christian centuries, believers who were called to witness for their religious belief, and on account of this witness, endured suffering and death.
Based on the meaning of the word "martyr", which makes more sense... a person who through violent means tries to impose their religious ideology on people and in doing so dies in the process, or a person who through care and compassion tells others of the "truth" of their faith in the one and only true God, who is perfectly merciful and at the same time is perfect justice?
Which makes more sense... a person who believes in a god that says that if a person doesn't submit to the will of said god, then it is OK to KILL the infidel... or a God who loves the world so much that He is willing to give His Son as a ransom for sins and evil He never committed so that those that accept this Precious Gift will find communion, peace, and a relationship with Him? See here what Isaiah 53:10 says about God the Father and His Holy Anointed Son... "But the LORD was pleased
to crush Him, putting Him to grief". Now read the scripture in context to show the love of God for us...
Isaiah 53
1Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
3He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
6All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
7He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
8By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
9His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10But the LORD was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
11As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
12Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.
The sad thing is most people do not realize they are slaves... driven by the things of this world and flesh. We are driven by money, cars, clothes, vacations, homes, careers, relationships, sex, alcohol, drugs, music and the list goes on and on. We are slaves but think we are free. Freedom only comes from surrendering to a new Master. That Master is Jesus Christ. He promises that if we submit to Him and His will, He will free us and call us friends.
If we do not submit to His will then the wrath of God abides on us. The choice is ours. By giving us this choice God has shown us His Perfect Love. Think of it this way... if you could force someone to love you... would you? That would not be true love... would it? God's love is so much more than even this example because He gave us a conscience, con means with and science means knowledge. So we were born with knowledge of right and wrong. He has given us a light within us. Yet we invariably choose wrong every time. So He has given His son as His final effort to show us His love for us. Why? because He doesn't want any of us to die the eternal death in Hell. A place He created for Lucifer and his angels. But, if we do not choose His Perfect Sacrifice Jesus Christ but rather, to live in our sins and the things this world has to offer then we are choosing to take on the punishment for our own sins. so how can anyone say God is unjust or uncaring?
So, in one instance you have an ideology that boasts a god that condones murder, is wishy washy in that the only sure way to paradise is through murdering so called infidels and in doing so die yourself. In the other instance you have the true God that loves with such a Perfect Love that He will not force you to love Him but wants you to love Him from your heart, and He will allow you to make that choice based on what He has done and what He has to offer you against what the world, the flesh and the devil have to offer you.
How can anyone call a murdering persecuting religious extremist a martyr? A true martyr will never force his/her faith on you... he/she will only share the Truth with you and in doing so will be persecuted by those that are offended by that message.
Based on the meaning of the word "martyr", which makes more sense... a person who through violent means tries to impose their religious ideology on people and in doing so dies in the process, or a person who through care and compassion tells others of the "truth" of their faith in the one and only true God, who is perfectly merciful and at the same time is perfect justice?
Which makes more sense... a person who believes in a god that says that if a person doesn't submit to the will of said god, then it is OK to KILL the infidel... or a God who loves the world so much that He is willing to give His Son as a ransom for sins and evil He never committed so that those that accept this Precious Gift will find communion, peace, and a relationship with Him? See here what Isaiah 53:10 says about God the Father and His Holy Anointed Son... "But the LORD was pleased
to crush Him, putting Him to grief". Now read the scripture in context to show the love of God for us...
Isaiah 53
1Who has believed our message?
And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed?
2For He grew up before Him like a tender shoot,
And like a root out of parched ground;
He has no stately form or majesty
That we should look upon Him,
Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.
3He was despised and forsaken of men,
A man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
And like one from whom men hide their face
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
4Surely our griefs He Himself bore,
And our sorrows He carried;
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
5But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities;
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him,
And by His scourging we are healed.
6All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all
To fall on Him.
7He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He did not open His mouth;
Like a lamb that is led to slaughter,
And like a sheep that is silent before its shearers,
So He did not open His mouth.
8By oppression and judgment He was taken away;
And as for His generation, who considered
That He was cut off out of the land of the living
For the transgression of my people, to whom the stroke was due?
9His grave was assigned with wicked men,
Yet He was with a rich man in His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was there any deceit in His mouth.
10But the LORD was pleased
To crush Him, putting Him to grief;
If He would render Himself as a guilt offering,
He will see His offspring,
He will prolong His days,
And the good pleasure of the LORD will prosper in His hand.
11As a result of the anguish of His soul,
He will see it and be satisfied;
By His knowledge the Righteous One,
My Servant, will justify the many,
As He will bear their iniquities.
12Therefore, I will allot Him a portion with the great,
And He will divide the booty with the strong;
Because He poured out Himself to death,
And was numbered with the transgressors;
Yet He Himself bore the sin of many,
And interceded for the transgressors.
The sad thing is most people do not realize they are slaves... driven by the things of this world and flesh. We are driven by money, cars, clothes, vacations, homes, careers, relationships, sex, alcohol, drugs, music and the list goes on and on. We are slaves but think we are free. Freedom only comes from surrendering to a new Master. That Master is Jesus Christ. He promises that if we submit to Him and His will, He will free us and call us friends.
If we do not submit to His will then the wrath of God abides on us. The choice is ours. By giving us this choice God has shown us His Perfect Love. Think of it this way... if you could force someone to love you... would you? That would not be true love... would it? God's love is so much more than even this example because He gave us a conscience, con means with and science means knowledge. So we were born with knowledge of right and wrong. He has given us a light within us. Yet we invariably choose wrong every time. So He has given His son as His final effort to show us His love for us. Why? because He doesn't want any of us to die the eternal death in Hell. A place He created for Lucifer and his angels. But, if we do not choose His Perfect Sacrifice Jesus Christ but rather, to live in our sins and the things this world has to offer then we are choosing to take on the punishment for our own sins. so how can anyone say God is unjust or uncaring?
So, in one instance you have an ideology that boasts a god that condones murder, is wishy washy in that the only sure way to paradise is through murdering so called infidels and in doing so die yourself. In the other instance you have the true God that loves with such a Perfect Love that He will not force you to love Him but wants you to love Him from your heart, and He will allow you to make that choice based on what He has done and what He has to offer you against what the world, the flesh and the devil have to offer you.
How can anyone call a murdering persecuting religious extremist a martyr? A true martyr will never force his/her faith on you... he/she will only share the Truth with you and in doing so will be persecuted by those that are offended by that message.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Is the Gospel real enough to you, for you to tell someone?
a very serious and amazing video... please watch!
Monday, December 14, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Advisor to Pres. Woodrow Wilson had this to say!
Edward Mandell House had this to say in a private meeting with Woodrow Wilson (President) [1913-1921]
“[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be non the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.”
Woodrow Wilson is credited with starting the League of Nations, the predecessor of today's United Nations... isn't it coincidental that within a few short years America and the world go through a devastating economic depression and the future President Franklin D. Roosevelt institutes the Social Security Administration among "other" governmental agencies that begin to "socialize" or "communize" the United States? American's everywhere desperate to end the depression cling to these new social programs that not only begin to erode American rights but go so far as to issue a "number" or Social Security number for the express purpose of tracking every American's income from the time they are able to work until they are dead... Crafty... aren't they?!
“[Very] soon, every American will be required to register their biological property in a National system designed to keep track of the people and that will operate under the ancient system of pledging. By such methodology, we can compel people to submit to our agenda, which will affect our security as a chargeback for our fiat paper currency. Every American will be forced to register or suffer not being able to work and earn a living. They will be our chattel, and we will hold the security interest over them forever, by operation of the law merchant under the scheme of secured transactions. Americans, by unknowingly or unwittingly delivering the bills of lading to us will be rendered bankrupt and insolvent, forever to remain economic slaves through taxation, secured by their pledges. They will be stripped of their rights and given a commercial value designed to make us a profit and they will be non the wiser, for not one man in a million could ever figure our plans and, if by accident one or two would figure it out, we have in our arsenal plausible deniability. After all, this is the only logical way to fund government, by floating liens and debt to the registrants in the form of benefits and privileges. This will inevitably reap to us huge profits beyond our wildest expectations and leave every American a contributor or to this fraud which we will call “Social Insurance.” Without realizing it, every American will insure us for any loss we may incur and in this manner; every American will unknowingly be our servant, however begrudgingly. The people will become helpless and without any hope for their redemption and, we will employ the high office of the President of our dummy corporation to foment this plot against America.”
Woodrow Wilson is credited with starting the League of Nations, the predecessor of today's United Nations... isn't it coincidental that within a few short years America and the world go through a devastating economic depression and the future President Franklin D. Roosevelt institutes the Social Security Administration among "other" governmental agencies that begin to "socialize" or "communize" the United States? American's everywhere desperate to end the depression cling to these new social programs that not only begin to erode American rights but go so far as to issue a "number" or Social Security number for the express purpose of tracking every American's income from the time they are able to work until they are dead... Crafty... aren't they?!
Monday, November 16, 2009
Redistribution of wealth or communism
There exists today a culture with the mindset that all men should be on the same financial level playing field. This should not be confused with the ideas of the founders of "all men are created equal". All men are created equal but to every man, his just worth... This means all people work for what they get. Redistribution of wealth is not a solution, it is COMMUNISM! This is the subtle mindset of most American's today. The rich keep getting richer and the poor keep getting poorer. But is this by design? There is enough evidence that the ruling financial elite have behind the scenes orchestrated economies around the globe to bring about these very circumstances... they have orchestrated recessions, depressions and control the very financial markets that the world depends on. They have been behind conflicts and wars, and the control heads of state as well as their corresponding governments. Our "President" has traveled the globe more often than any other President in history and it is only his first year in office. This week he is in China. China owns a considerable amount of our national bonds, which means China in an essence owns the United States. If China were to ever call on payment for these bonds it would create financial disaster for this country. President Obama's agenda is not one of repairing U.S. relations around the globe, it is to foster international harmony by subjecting U.S. citizens to the governing of the United Nations. Mr. Obama has already taken steps that concede U.S. sovereignty over to the UN. He is circumventing the U.S. Congress and Senate. He has chaired a meeting of the UN Security Counsel, an act that is a high crime and treasonous according to the U.S. Constitution. No sitting president may sit on any other governing body while in office. Mr. Obama is trying to repair relations with Islamic republics while turning his back on our long time ally Israel. American's will lose their rights under the Patriot Act even more than they've already lost. The United States will stop coining and printing money in order to establish a world currency and anyone that speaks or acts out against this New World Order will be imprisoned because Habeas Corpus will be suspended. Here is the definition of Habeas Corpus:
"Habeas Corpus, literally in Latin "you have the body" is a term that represents an important right granted to individuals in America. Basically, a writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate requiring that a prisoner be brought before the court to determine whether the government has the right to continue detaining them. The individual being held or their representative can petition the court for such a writ.
According to Article One of the Constitution, the right to a writ of habeas corpus can only be suspended "in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety." Habeas corpus was suspended during the Civil War and Reconstruction, in parts of South Carolina during the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, and during the War on Terror."
The borders of the United States will no longer exist in a few years combining the U.S. with Canada and Mexico. Mexican president Vicente Fox has already stated on Larry King that this is the ultimate aim that he, President George W. Bush and the the Canadian Prime Minister agreed to before Dubya left office. this is why Bush was against any type of wall going up to control the influx of illegal aliens. This is also the aim of NAFTA. NAFTA will place all three nations on the same economic playing field when the U.S. agrees to move to a one world currency. Americans need to wake up. For the first time in U.S. history American troops from the 3rd Infantry brigade have been given orders to patrol U.S. streets with arms, tanks, helicopters and aircraft in the event of martial law. What would it take for martial law to be declared? Another terrorist attack, a natural disaster, or civil unrest. Once martial law is declared U.S. soldiers will have orders to shoot anyone that disobeys martial law... no trial necessary. PEOPLE IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP! Even writing this could be seen as treasonous making me an enemy of the state. Communism didn't die when the Berlin Wall came down... it went to sleep for a little while. It is back, and it is in the disguise of social justice. It is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I guess if I'm wrong then we can all sleep soundly for the rest of our lives... but if I'm right, then the oppression of a boot stamping on the human face forever is not far off.
"Habeas Corpus, literally in Latin "you have the body" is a term that represents an important right granted to individuals in America. Basically, a writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate requiring that a prisoner be brought before the court to determine whether the government has the right to continue detaining them. The individual being held or their representative can petition the court for such a writ.
According to Article One of the Constitution, the right to a writ of habeas corpus can only be suspended "in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety." Habeas corpus was suspended during the Civil War and Reconstruction, in parts of South Carolina during the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, and during the War on Terror."
The borders of the United States will no longer exist in a few years combining the U.S. with Canada and Mexico. Mexican president Vicente Fox has already stated on Larry King that this is the ultimate aim that he, President George W. Bush and the the Canadian Prime Minister agreed to before Dubya left office. this is why Bush was against any type of wall going up to control the influx of illegal aliens. This is also the aim of NAFTA. NAFTA will place all three nations on the same economic playing field when the U.S. agrees to move to a one world currency. Americans need to wake up. For the first time in U.S. history American troops from the 3rd Infantry brigade have been given orders to patrol U.S. streets with arms, tanks, helicopters and aircraft in the event of martial law. What would it take for martial law to be declared? Another terrorist attack, a natural disaster, or civil unrest. Once martial law is declared U.S. soldiers will have orders to shoot anyone that disobeys martial law... no trial necessary. PEOPLE IT IS TIME TO WAKE UP! Even writing this could be seen as treasonous making me an enemy of the state. Communism didn't die when the Berlin Wall came down... it went to sleep for a little while. It is back, and it is in the disguise of social justice. It is a wolf in sheep's clothing. I guess if I'm wrong then we can all sleep soundly for the rest of our lives... but if I'm right, then the oppression of a boot stamping on the human face forever is not far off.
Obama green-lights Arab land grab
This will be the beginning of World War III... think I'm exaggerating? Watch what happens when the Palestinian's declare a sovereign state in Israel... Israel will retaliate against them and when they do, Russia, Iran and other Islamic nations will try to wage an all out attack against Israel. The United States will not come to Israel's aid and will stand down and will not lend any military aid to Israel. However, Israel will not be destroyed. Watch as these events unfold!
Obama green-lights Arab land grab
Obama green-lights Arab land grab
Sunday, November 15, 2009
An Infinitely Powerful God...
What amazes me is an infinitely powerful and awesome God would think so much of someone as insignificant as me that He would willingly die a shameful death on the cross to pay for my crimes against God for which He had no part or guilt... that while He was dying on that cross He thought of me through the tunnel of time and still didn't think it was too high a price to pay... He also thought of you... are you thinking of Him?
Netanyahu Threatens to Retaliate if Palestinians Declare Statehood - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com
Friday, November 13, 2009
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Megiddo II - The New Age Part 1 of 3
This part one of a three part series in the second installment of the Megiddo series.
Megiddo I - The March To Armageddon
This film is fantastic... If you want to be entertained and learn something, this film is a must see!
Riddles In Stone - Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings Vol. 2
Vol. 2 of the series "Secret Mysteries of America's Beginnings"
Friday, October 23, 2009
The New Atlantis - Secret Mysteries Of America's Beginnings Vol. 1
Check out the first a three part series dealing with America's beginnings. Part 2 deals with Washington D.C.'s architecture and Part 3 deals with the U.S. dollar. This stuff is extremely informative and will give you a new perspective on the United States!
Fall Of The Republic - The Presidency Of Barack H Obama - The Full Movie HQ
EXCELLENT!!! A MUST SEE!!! This movie shows how big business controls our government, politics, and the economy... the name of the movie is a bit misleading... although much time is spent on the Presidency of Barack Obama... it is equally as harsh on republicans and is more a film on the Fed and banking... find out what really happened to tax payer money that went to bail out AIG... THIS IS SCARY STUFF FOLKS... NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART!
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
The Watchman (Ezekiel 3:16-21) Got It?
Great video excerpt from the movie/documentary "Megiddo II The New Age"
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Do you live a fullfilled life...?
Have you ever pondered the thought that mankind has an emptiness that can never be satiated... a hole that never seems to get filled... no matter how much we pursue wealth, fame, or power... it is never enough...
All of us have been born this way... it drives a Donald Trump to continue to build bigger and more elaborate buildings... a politician to seek higher office, and a captain of industry to seek more money... it propels men who are already wealthy beyond measure to steal from those less fortunate and a drug dealer to sell to children, or a pornographer to exploit women and children for money... the sad news is that we will never... ever... find fulfillment. We lack one thing... GOD!
If God is love... if God is happiness and He is the very center of these things... which He claims to be, and that His Son Jesus Christ is the center of that center... then rationally speaking we must start with Him to find what it is that completes us... namely... HIM and His Chosen One... JESUS! If we seek Him with all our heart.. we will find Him... once we find Him, we find fulfillment. just a thought...
All of us have been born this way... it drives a Donald Trump to continue to build bigger and more elaborate buildings... a politician to seek higher office, and a captain of industry to seek more money... it propels men who are already wealthy beyond measure to steal from those less fortunate and a drug dealer to sell to children, or a pornographer to exploit women and children for money... the sad news is that we will never... ever... find fulfillment. We lack one thing... GOD!
If God is love... if God is happiness and He is the very center of these things... which He claims to be, and that His Son Jesus Christ is the center of that center... then rationally speaking we must start with Him to find what it is that completes us... namely... HIM and His Chosen One... JESUS! If we seek Him with all our heart.. we will find Him... once we find Him, we find fulfillment. just a thought...
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Government Prepping "Clergy Response Teams"
We're taking a break from a scripture study to bring you this announcement... The government is prepping "Clergy Response Teams" in the event of martial law. To do this the government had to repeal the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. They did this last year. Here is some info on the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878...
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.
The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act during peacetime...
...The original Posse Comitatus Act referred essentially to the United States Army. The Air Force was added in 1956 and the Navy and the Marine Corps have been included by a regulation of the Department of Defense. The United States Coast Guard, when acting in its peacetime capacity (originally as part of the Treasury Department, later the Department of Transportation, and now within the Department of Homeland Security), is not included in the Act. However, if in wartime, a portion of the Coast Guard were subsumed within the Department of the Navy, as it was during World War II, that portion would lose its federal police power authority and responsibility over the federal law enforcement duties of its civilian mission. This law is often relied upon to prevent the Department of Defense from interfering in domestic law enforcement.
PLEASE WATCH...!
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction, with the intention (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) of substantially limiting the powers of the federal government to use the military for law enforcement. The Act prohibits most members of the federal uniformed services (today the Army, Air Force, and State National Guard forces when such are called into federal service) from exercising nominally state law enforcement, police, or peace officer powers that maintain "law and order" on non-federal property (states and their counties and municipal divisions) within the United States.
The statute generally prohibits federal military personnel and units of the National Guard under federal authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within the United States, except where expressly authorized by the Constitution or Congress. The Coast Guard is exempt from the Act during peacetime...
...The original Posse Comitatus Act referred essentially to the United States Army. The Air Force was added in 1956 and the Navy and the Marine Corps have been included by a regulation of the Department of Defense. The United States Coast Guard, when acting in its peacetime capacity (originally as part of the Treasury Department, later the Department of Transportation, and now within the Department of Homeland Security), is not included in the Act. However, if in wartime, a portion of the Coast Guard were subsumed within the Department of the Navy, as it was during World War II, that portion would lose its federal police power authority and responsibility over the federal law enforcement duties of its civilian mission. This law is often relied upon to prevent the Department of Defense from interfering in domestic law enforcement.
PLEASE WATCH...!
Thursday, September 03, 2009
2 Timothy 3:1-2
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
ok... so these two verses give specific characteristics of what people will be like in the last days. We know the verse is referring to the last days because it specifically says "in the last days difficult times will come" So are we in difficult times? Are these times any more difficult than the times of the past? The answer in my estimation to both of these questions is YES. Yes, we are in the most difficult times in world history. You may be saying "How are these times more difficult that the Great Depression, World War II, the Black Plague, Communist Russia, Nazi persecution of the Jews, or any number of other difficult 'times'?" The simple answer is... these times only effected regions of the world and had specific beginnings and specific endings. However, these current times are progressively getting worse and have no end in sight. For example, the world is going through climate change. Whether this climate change is global warming or global cooling it is definitely global and the changes cannot be stopped by any effort of man. The effects of these global climate changes will effect all the earth and all who dwell on the earth. Some of these climatic changes have been cataclysmic... Hurricane Katrina, massive earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, and massive fires in areas not known to have fires in the past (ex. Florida). The loss of life and property in these events are staggering compared to times past.
Let's look at the world pandemic situation for a moment... We are currently undergoing a H1N1 virus (swine flu) alert that has the entire world panicked while it prepares for massive outbreaks of flu this season. The world has also been braced for H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) that has a 50% mortality rate. If these two super-flu virus' combined they would create a virus that would be devastating to the entire planet, and we haven't even looked at the HIV/AIDS virus that has plagued the world for the last 30 years.
How about the world financial situation...? The standard by which the world measures its currency is against the U.S. dollar. Currently the U.S. dollar is extremely weak. The American economy is the worst its been in decades and there is no short or long term solution to bring the U.S. out of its current depression. Unemployment is at a national all time high, and the government is now in the business of buying out corporations to bail them out of certain failure. This includes the banking system. As I write this I am still currently on unemployment after being laid off of my job in July 2008 and there are zero job prospects in my field, especially in the area in which I live. World leaders in Russia, France, and China have called on the United States to create a world currency in the same manner as the Euro was created. The mindset is that a one world currency would be stronger than the U.S. dollar currently is. Although the United States and Barack Obama in particular have said they would not entertain any ideas of a one world currency, it is being very carefully examined as a remedy to the current decline of the American dollar.
How about Islamo-fascist terrorism? Certainly this is felt on a global scale and effects every person on the planet. Since 9/11 the world has faced the possibility of radical Muslims attacking ruthlessly in the name of Allah. The U.S. military has been engaged on two fronts combating terrorism and the nations that support terrorist. Whether you agree or disagree with the U.S. policy is not the issue here, only that the lone world super-power is engaged militarily, and politically in a global issue.
So, we've looked at a few things that support the current time as the last days spoken of in the first verse. I will leave you with the words spoken by our Lord from Matthew 24:4-14...
"4And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
5"For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
6"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
7"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
8"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
9"Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
10"At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
11"Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
12"Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.
13"But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.
14"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."
We will look at verse 2 tomorrow...
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
ok... so these two verses give specific characteristics of what people will be like in the last days. We know the verse is referring to the last days because it specifically says "in the last days difficult times will come" So are we in difficult times? Are these times any more difficult than the times of the past? The answer in my estimation to both of these questions is YES. Yes, we are in the most difficult times in world history. You may be saying "How are these times more difficult that the Great Depression, World War II, the Black Plague, Communist Russia, Nazi persecution of the Jews, or any number of other difficult 'times'?" The simple answer is... these times only effected regions of the world and had specific beginnings and specific endings. However, these current times are progressively getting worse and have no end in sight. For example, the world is going through climate change. Whether this climate change is global warming or global cooling it is definitely global and the changes cannot be stopped by any effort of man. The effects of these global climate changes will effect all the earth and all who dwell on the earth. Some of these climatic changes have been cataclysmic... Hurricane Katrina, massive earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis, and massive fires in areas not known to have fires in the past (ex. Florida). The loss of life and property in these events are staggering compared to times past.
Let's look at the world pandemic situation for a moment... We are currently undergoing a H1N1 virus (swine flu) alert that has the entire world panicked while it prepares for massive outbreaks of flu this season. The world has also been braced for H5N1 avian influenza (bird flu) that has a 50% mortality rate. If these two super-flu virus' combined they would create a virus that would be devastating to the entire planet, and we haven't even looked at the HIV/AIDS virus that has plagued the world for the last 30 years.
How about the world financial situation...? The standard by which the world measures its currency is against the U.S. dollar. Currently the U.S. dollar is extremely weak. The American economy is the worst its been in decades and there is no short or long term solution to bring the U.S. out of its current depression. Unemployment is at a national all time high, and the government is now in the business of buying out corporations to bail them out of certain failure. This includes the banking system. As I write this I am still currently on unemployment after being laid off of my job in July 2008 and there are zero job prospects in my field, especially in the area in which I live. World leaders in Russia, France, and China have called on the United States to create a world currency in the same manner as the Euro was created. The mindset is that a one world currency would be stronger than the U.S. dollar currently is. Although the United States and Barack Obama in particular have said they would not entertain any ideas of a one world currency, it is being very carefully examined as a remedy to the current decline of the American dollar.
How about Islamo-fascist terrorism? Certainly this is felt on a global scale and effects every person on the planet. Since 9/11 the world has faced the possibility of radical Muslims attacking ruthlessly in the name of Allah. The U.S. military has been engaged on two fronts combating terrorism and the nations that support terrorist. Whether you agree or disagree with the U.S. policy is not the issue here, only that the lone world super-power is engaged militarily, and politically in a global issue.
So, we've looked at a few things that support the current time as the last days spoken of in the first verse. I will leave you with the words spoken by our Lord from Matthew 24:4-14...
"4And Jesus answered and said to them, "See to it that no one misleads you.
5"For many will come in My name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will mislead many.
6"You will be hearing of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not frightened, for those things must take place, but that is not yet the end.
7"For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes.
8"But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs.
9"Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name.
10"At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another.
11"Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many.
12"Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.
13"But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved.
14"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come."
We will look at verse 2 tomorrow...
2 Timothy 3
Let's start a dialog on 2 Timothy 3... Let's look at versus 1 through 13 specifically. Let's see if these versus specifically speak of these current times, or could they be applied to most any time in history... please feel free to comment on these versus with anything you feel is pertinent. Let's try to use examples that build a solid foundation for our positions... I will post my position as to how each of these verses can only relate to these current times and my hope is that you the reader will post your views.
2 Timothy 3
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.
10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
2 Timothy 3
1But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes's and Jambres's folly was also.
10Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
MacArthur on the Purpose Driven Life
Although I dont subscribe to all of John MacArthur's teachings, I do believe he is a man of God with, for the most part a solid message... please watch and enjoy this excerpt from one of his sermons...
Sunday, August 30, 2009
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