Killing Christians

A man with a gun specifically kills Christians and the main focus of the pundits is religious freedom? Naw! Gun control! Not mental health. Not tolerance. Not terrorism. Not joblessness. Gun control will fix all our problems... Right? WRONG!!!

If gun control would fix our problems, why wasn't it mentioned with the riots of Ferguson? Why wasn't it mentioned when all those people were killed by illegally gained guns in Chicago? How about New York?

The gun did not kill those people. The man killed those people. You need to control the man. How do you combat evil? Only GOD can combat evil! And keeping GOD out of the public life, out of the schools, out of the workplace has accomplished something; it has gotten people killed.

Within the period of two weekends 111 people were killed by gun violence in the city of Chicago alone.  How much did you hear about it?  What world leader spoke of the devastating affect of guns in the hands of gangs and the mentally ill?  Where was the race card played in this travesty of justice?  I should say these travesties of justice since it was not one instance, but several instances of violence.  There were no riots.  One hundred and eleven victims of gun violence were not even a blip on the political radar.  Not a mention of gun control.  Not a mention of a race war.  Not even mention on the national news feeds of any violence at all.  They were, in fact, just 111 local incidents with the unfortunate death of a human being that meant nothing to anyone but family and friends, and not a single politician.  No politician attended their funerals.  How do I know this?  Guess I'm assuming that because there was no media mention and I am certain that the media would have been notified.  You just cannot pass up free advertising if you are a politician with an agenda or an activist of any sort.

What does all of that have to do with the killing of Christians in Oregon?  Not much except that it is senseless in every sense of the word.  

The United States of America has a nasty habit of condoning convenient murder.   We kill babies in the womb for convenience sake; the wrong time; the wrong person; the wrong sex.  We allow the sale of baby body parts for profit and give hundreds of millions of dollars to a tax exempt company to make sure they keep their politicians in office so the money circle is maintained and life styles of the rich, infamous and evil go forward.

Most Christians oppose abortion (the murder of the unborn) for any reason specifically because every human being is made in the image of our Creator.  It is an insult to GOD Almighty to tear apart a child in the womb, suck it's mangled body through tubes into a petri dish to finish the dissection of parts for sale.

We gloss over anarchist takeovers of cities and seemingly forget the victims unless we can blame it on race, law enforcement or a political party.

And the discussion of today is "How can we be safer?"   The reality won't be accepted.   The reality is that it is a moral dilemma.  A dilemma brought on by the failure of the universal moral compass.  The hue and cry of general population is that we should be able to form our own opinions about morality.  And where should that morality come from?   After all I can't impose my morality on you and you can't impose your morality on me.  So where should our morality come from?  Should it be from outside of each of us?   Simple solution people.   Use the morality of GOD Almighty.  Instead of everyone doing what is right in their own eyes, as we seem to be doing now, do what is right in the eyes of GOD.  

There would be no killing of babies in the womb.  We would not be hating our brothers.  We would not be shooting up schools.  We would be spreading the Gospel of THE LORD JESUS CHRIST.  We would have true conversions and not these namby-pamby, lukewarm, ignorant, pretenders calling themselves Christians and continuing to live a life of sin while sitting in the pew on Sunday morning and paying no more attention to the Word of GOD than your average non-Christian.

When the man comes by and asks the question, "What is your religion?" you better make certain that your profession is true and you have a relationship with THE LORD JESUS CHRIST and not just from some "sinner's prayer" said in the emotion of the moment.  Has your life been changed?  Do you love GOD with all your heart, mind and spirit? Do you want all to be saved and have a relationship with CHRIST?  If you cannot answer "yes" to all of these questions, how certain are you of your Salvation?  Scripture says that we can be sure.  Are you?

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!

Why Should I Mind?

"If this goes public, things could get rough for you."

His soft-spoken words were accepted as fact long before I handed him the damning sheet of paper.  I mean, really, what could they do to me?  This was small town USA.  These were reasonable people.  What would they do to me that they had not already done?

What exactly could they do to me?
Shun me?  They weren't that friendly to me before.  Not too sure I would notice a difference.
Get me fired from my job?  Not working, so that was out.
Ruin my reputation?  I would have to have been socially active and accepted at some level of society for that to matter.
Make my life miserable?  First I would have to care about their opinion of me.
Quit doing business with me?  They would have to have done business with me in order to stop.
Egg my house?  It needs a good cleaning anyway.  Also, we have insurance.
Tear up my car?  See "Egg my home?"

Actually, there didn't appear to be a down side to doing the right thing.

Exactly!  Why should I mind?

I'm on the internet.  I'm on Facebook.  Is there anything truly private anyway?

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!

One Tiny Example

Everything in life is simply a tiny example of either a greater good or a horrid evil.

The person who offers a cup of water to a worker is just an example of a greater mission of building wells in countries where access to clean water is an everyday challenge.

The man who brutally beats a 2-year-old to the point of death is just an example of a terrorist regime that thinks nothing of killing thousands of children in pursuit of their own twisted version of power.

The small town church whose leaders work under cover of darkness in secret meetings to subvert the Word of GOD in order to maintain a level of depravity within the moneyed congregants is just an example of the chaos within the so-called Christian churches worldwide.

As the world descends into the depravity of darkness, the examples become more emboldened.  The death of the 2-year-old becomes a common place occurrence.  In turn the death of thousands becomes the deaths of tens of thousands with the use of man-made plagues and poisons perpetrated upon the citizens who thought the government would protect them.

It would be grand to say that the "cup of water" incident would become even greater and perhaps it might, but the news will seldom report it.  It will be overshadowed by the grotesque, the horrific and the utterly disturbing.

Is there anything that we can learn from these examples?  Of course!  We can either learn from the examples, mistakes or sins of others or learn by committing our own errors in judgement.  It's not so hard on the ego if we are able to learn from the mistakes of others, but the lessons learned are far more permanent if won by personal experience. 

That abortion that was an aberration 50 years ago is now an industry that not only promotes the killing of tiny unborn babies, it harvests and sells their tiny baby body parts even while their heart beats and they are visibly grasping to hang on to their tiny lives.

And the United States of America wonders why they are depraved, indifferent and broke.  Judgement from GOD?  I would say so.  I don't pray that GOD would bless America.  Why should HE?  What have we done to honor HIM?  I only pray for mercy.  No, I BEG for mercy!

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!

The (fill-in-the-blank) That Lies Built

One day a couple of hundred years ago in a wasteland called the South, some people riding through looked at the land and decided that though the insects were plenteous and the red clay dirt wasn't good for much, they would stay and founded a little settlement.

The settlement grew and one day a preacher came riding through and decided that although the people were plenteous and the ground may not be much good, but the Gospel just may take root anyway.

A couple of years passed and a small frame meeting house was built.  It was then that the dynasty started.  It was subtle at first.  In general people who go to meeting on Sunday morning are not particularly interested in actually taking part.  They just want to rest assured that they have met their obligatory worship time and paid their tithes.  There are a few in whom the Gospel has taken root and their whole reason for living is only to serve HIM and spread HIS Gospel.  The resourceful few who see the congregation growing, the contributions increasing and the activities abounding are the ones to watch out for.  Eventually it will be the money that fuels their fire and not the Fire of THE HOLY SPIRIT.

It wasn't long before the pattern began.  The current preacher was unable to increase the congregation, thereby increasing the contribution and a tradition was begun.  It took about 2 years to develop.

Thereafter, about every 2 years, the preacher was gone and the hunt for a new one had begun.  It was the same each time.  They wanted a GODLY man who believed the BIBLE and believed the same way that they did. The only difficulty was that the two beliefs could not be reconciled.  A Preacher who believed in THE BIBLE as the inerrant WORD OF GOD could not compromise and believe as they did.  There would be no room for elves, bunnies, witches, goblins and tooth fairies.  Nor would there be room for alcohol, fornication, adultery, murder, lies and gossip particularly within the leadership, Sunday School teachers, Elders and Deacons.

THE BIBLE talks about the blind leading the blind and in this story, the blind had been leading for well over 200 years.

Fast forward to the last century when a Preacher left because he objected to a Youth Minister being brought in that no one knew anything about.  Besides, his wife was a paragon of virtue and had the misfortune to wear the same outfits frequently.  Then there was the Marketing Executive turned Preacher who had the good sense to fill the coffers to over-flowing.  His run was longer than all of them.  As long as the auctions, bake sales, chicken plates and hamburger sales kept the finances solid, all was well.  It didn't matter that he wasn't quite preaching the Gospel.  What he preached wasn't bad, it just wasn't the whole truth of Scripture. They ran him off.

Then there was the Preacher who thought that Scripture was above all and that Santa Claus had no place in the Christian church.  He also objected to Deacons drowning in sin within the leadership; women who through the subversion of tears and manipulation sought to preach and lead in situations a man should be taking leadership roles.  He objected to the railing mob that cursed him and threatened his life and terrorized his children.  If they could have tarred and feathered him (and gotten away with it) they would have gladly done so.  And thus the sham continues.

The lies have persisted to the point that a permanent Preacher is no longer necessary.  The feel-good messages of an interim Preacher is all that is needed.

Is this your church?   Do you have church discipline?  Do you raise up Men of GOD from within your congregation or do you leave that to the distant Seminary?  Do you know THE GOD OF THE BIBLE?

Do you even care what THE BIBLE says about anything, much less sin?

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!

Christianity vs Islam

Christianity vs Islam

There are some similarities between Christianity and Islam; most of which come from the subversion of Christianity and Judaism by Mohammed in order to create a religion containing portions of both with a dose of avarice and power hunger all mixed together to form a religion. A religion in which the sado-masochistic drives of the inner demons could be unleashed without fear of the TRUE GOD because this new god says that all is possible, legal and legitimate under the guise of spreading Islam to the world and bringing about the end of times.

They, similar to Christianity, believe their way is the only way, They also believe that JESUS will be a major player in the end times but not as the SON of GOD that HE is.

Unlike Christianity, whose believers know that the end times will come in GOD'S timing and through GOD'S machinations of people and events, Islam believes they must bring it on through the use of Jihad, holy war.

Unlike Christianity, all of Islam will unite without regard to political ideology. It matters not if they are Westernized, Socialist, Communist, Shari'a or any combination of the aforementioned. They will all UNITE for they are all in one accord that they believe that Allah is god and what Allah wants is more important than any political stance or any agreement to any non-Muslim country,

To think that a Muslim (it matters not how 'moderate' the person is, they are ALWAYS, unequivocally Muslim) could be President of the United States and publicly deny the tenets of Islam in favor of the political institution is ludicrous, a sheer pipe dream. Sympathy would always be with their counterparts, regardless of how far away from a democratic republic their country is and alliances with these countries would always be a concern.

Muslims are not Muslim in name only. They do not separate their private Muslim life from their public secular life. They do not have a secular life. They are who they are at all times.

Christians can be professors without the possession of Salvation, without the knowledge of CHRIST, GOD nor the BIBLE. There are no repercussions within Christianity. We, Christians, tend to not be as careful to train up our new converts, They backslide or sin and we say nothing. We are not united in our socioeconomic standards and will not unite for our GOD for any reason, This is, of course, a gross generalization. But, when 80% of a country "says" it is Christian and allows the slaughter of babies in the womb, condones the sale of baby body parts procured from living human beings, think that redistribution of wealth is okay (stealing from a productive worker and giving to a nonproductive worker to level out the economic status of all), we can only say that 80% of us are Christian in name only.

If you call yourself a Christian and do not want to know the GOD of THE BIBLE and have absolutely NO interest in attending worship with GOD'S people, you are deluding yourself and that "fire insurance" you think you have to keep you out of Hell is null and void,

Dr. Ben Carson is right:

Shalom!  Pray for the PEACE of Jerusalem!