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Mar 26, 2024 - Uncategorized    No Comments

Why Honor God?

Revelation 4:11 “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honor and power; for thou has created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”

The universe, the grass of the field, the beasts of the earth, the very dirt God used to fashion us, were created for one thing, God’s pleasure. We think we’re special because we were created in the image of God; many teach that God passed His creativity to us and indeed we are creative. However, since the fall of Adam and Eve, we’ve become creative in one thing, sin or disobedience to the perfect God. We, collectively, have become unprofitable, and willingly unredeemable to God.

We couch our repentance in excuses and if we profess any allegiance to God, self-righteousness is the flag we wave in God’s face. We actually believe we can attain a state of perfect righteousness without the burden of the cross on our backs. We flaunt our supposed goodness and declare we’re achieving our best life now. Furthermore, anyone not focused on the crosshairs of prosperity, and are very possibly, unsaved or at best will suffer loss for their willing lack of wisdom. Saying this isn’t meant to question anyone’s faith but only to remind us of how serious God takes our confession.

Obviously the disciples missed the “best life now” teaching of Jesus. As we languish out here in fly-over-country (the notorious Bible Belt), I take note that Christ was telling us to be all about the gospel, and not selfservice, working the evangelical field to obtain a good harvest, and taking care to love our fellow believers amongst the many other tenets of love.

God receives honor and glory through his greatest work, our salvation. We give him power through our submission to him.

Mar 10, 2024 - Uncategorized    No Comments

The Past vs History

It’s amusing that people are so adamant about what they believe and support, and yet for the most part, are merely mimicking the talking heads that they’ve decided are telling them the truth. The unique and wonderful thing about America is that for a season we could disagree with the talking heads without losing our own heads.

It’s bewildering to witness how we, a people with unlimited access to history, have forgotten the past. America was a new concept; men could be free to govern themselves and benefit or suffer from their own actions. Property was personal in America’s infancy and everything you produced was yours and not, through taxation, the property of the state. Today we have no control over banking, property, or personal rights.

We, along with everything we “own”, are the property of the state. The IRS was created to finance World War One. Created crisis, whether war, climate change, pandemic, or otherwise, is the cornerstone of the Almighty State’s reason for usurping our personal founder-given rights. There’s always a good reason for more taxes.

We Americans have set ourselves free of the past, rewritten history as needed, and pursued the passionate path our politicians have set for us. We’ve sent our children to colleges brimming with Marxist professors who relish their opportunity to teach our youth to unwittingly ready themselves for the final Bolshevik Revolution.

Self-righteousness is the overriding underpinning of this cult-like support for the religion of Communism. We elected a “community organizer” to be our president for eight years. His stated goal was to fundamentally change America, or in other words, make it like the rest of the world where personal rights are given by the whims of the state. He has been successful.

It should seem obvious that a community organizer has the sole purpose of pitting one part of the population against the other. Hence, as bad a curse as slavery was, racism is now the sermon preached from Mount Washington D.C. Slavery had been a normal part of society for thousands of years. It was defeated by Western thought expressed in the Constitution of the United States. British common law and the fruitful planting of Christianity broke the back of the age-old custom of slavery.

Wrestling slaves away from their final owners was contentious and brutal. But let’s be clear; it was white men who put an end to this outdated way of surviving. Our young are taught to learn history and revisit the shortcomings of great men of the past and disparage their achievements, one of which was setting men free of the state. Were the men of the past sinners? Their struggles were the same as ours. The problem lies in the reality of our collective pride. We believe we are without sin and therefore have the right to cast the first stone. We now witness the Bolsheviks assaulting every good thing with a barrage of stones.

Like the Leninists of a hundred years ago, these ungrateful “intellectual” citizens of hell, are wildly flailing their stones and in true Bolshevik fashion hasten the demise of the free man. It’s noteworthy that our political elite attribute the crimes of Communism to Vladimir Putin, a boogieman, an evil who must be defeated. Having an archenemy is a prerequisite to war. The relentless hateful rhetoric from our leaders and the lapdog media have convinced us that it’s in our best interest to pursue a nuclear conclusion to the current conflict.

So, we’re supposed to believe that combatting Putin is a necessary action whilst at the same time funding Marxist teaching kindergarten through higher education.

Putin at one time wanted to join NATO, in other words, join Europe. Nope, archenemies aren’t allowed to change. It’s doubtful that many have listened to what Putin has said in the past. He, as to be expected, wanted Russia to be a major influence in Europe. Somehow we Westerners have forgotten the German atrocities and allowed Germany to be the leading power in Europe. Could it be that the thirty-five thousand troops we have in Germany eighty years after the war play a role in our powerplay over Europe’s economy? Through NATO we’ve guaranteed our power is omnipotent in Europe. Allowing Russia to partake in European affairs as a full partner would diminish our hegemonic power.

I could drone on about the ravages on our sensibilities that the power-seekers in Washington D.C. are perpetrating on the American people, but then I realize that the fewer words written or spoken make for better communication.

Talk too much, and at some point, a stone will come your way. That’s OK. For evil not to prevail, the truth must be preached loudly from every corner, taught to our children, as we acknowledge the Creator who showed us the way. Take the abuse of stones today because we know the proclivity of tyrants, once power is seized, is to eliminate all dissent with bigger stones.

Mar 1, 2024 - Uncategorized    No Comments

Three Days Three Nights

Jesus told us that Jonah was in the belly of the fish for three days and three nights (Matthew 3:20) This dispels the idea that the story of Jonah is a parable or an allegory except to those who deny the resurrection of Christ. But to us who need a savior, a buffer to the one true God, Jonah’s story is the plain simple truth.

The Ninevites worshiped Ishtar and Dagan the “fish” god. I think it’s interesting that God got the people’s attention by having a great fish spew Jonah onto the beach. Spectacularly Jonah was suddenly someone to be reckoned with. Surely he was sent from one of their gods; there was no previous time that a god had spoken. So listen up Nineveh.

What is especially interesting to me is that Jonah went down into the sides of the ship during a terrifying storm and went fast asleep. This is exactly what Christ did when the storm was about to destroy his disciple’s boat. Apparently, Jonah knew what Christ knew; it was God who controlled the storm. The disciples knew of the power of God. They read the Torah over and over again. But the Jews suffered from the same thing followers of Christ suffer from today, unbelief.

Jonah knew God, what God was like, and not just God’s control of creation. But God was kind, compassionate, and not willing that any should perish. God is so unlike us, even those who prophesy.

Like Jonah, concerned about the well-being of the gourd, we fret over the most minor of things, the bad drivers on the road, impatient with the inconvenient simpletons who just aren’t as smart as we are, and look with disgust at those who struggle with sin.

I haven’t forgotten I was a wretched sinner and except for the grace of God, I would still be in bondage to this world and its empty future.

There are eight billion people on this planet, eight billion who need to meet their needs at the foot of the cross. They just need someone who will empty themselves of self and focus on eternity. I pray that would be me.