The Times They Are a Changing

I walked into a Starbucks shop a few months ago. I ordered my drink and moved toward a chair that was available, all the other chairs were taken, and in the other chairs were some men, seemingly associated with one another, I didn't think anything of it and sat in the chair to drink my coffee.

After a couple of minutes in the chair, a young man in his thirties asked me to get out of the chair because he had planned on sitting there near his friends.

Keep in mind that I am a gray-haired 60 year old woman and there were no other chairs available in the shop.

I was astounded, and said, "Oh, alright." I got up and had to leave because there was no place to sit. The man who had asked me to get out of his chair, sat down while I walked out the door to my car.

Is it any wonder why I have such a low opinion of the town I live in. This sort of disrespect happens frequently here.

When I was a young woman, men were still giving up their chairs for the sake of a woman no matter what her age, but especially an older woman.

Not one of those men in that shop gave up their chair for me, nor did they even look to see if they could find one.

I experience this kind of disrespect constantly on the part of those who were raised in this area of the country.

When I was living in South Carolina and Kentucky, a woman was treated with a great deal of respect, never would a man have sat down while a woman was standing. The men even rose from their chairs when a woman entered the room, out of respect.

Thank you women's libbers, you have destroyed all vestige of honor toward women. The men in this are have never been taught basic respect and honor to anyone,let alone for the gentile gender.

I don't know what it feels like anymore to be treated with respect or honor. I have little desire to be around young people anymore. I ask God to help me be individually discerning, so that I do not return evil for evil.

One thing for sure, I desire to be released from this area of the country, please, someone tell me there are other places not so hateful and mean.

2 Timothy 3
King James Version (KJV)
3 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,

4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,

7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

9 But they shall proceed no further: for their folly shall be manifest unto all men, as their's also was.

Lord come soon!!!

Noah Account: a Picture of the Rapture

It was brought to my attention yesterday, that 70% of the babies in our county are born out of wedlock.

There are churches everywhere in this town, what is wrong with this picture?

My guess is that there are many if not all the grandparents involved are "not judging" and not passing on the seriousness of immorality. If they even believe it is immoral.

Too many people have shouted "don't judge" so long that they have forgotten, if they ever knew, that God hates sin and commands us to "abhor evil."

Abhor: to regard with horror, loathing, detesting.

There was a foolish saying when I was a young girl, that the older folks were saying to me and others, for awhile I believed it; referring to out of wedlock pregnancy; "only the good girls get caught, because they are not prepared to be immoral, they just fall into it out of passion on the spur of the moment."

After I grew up I realized how wrong this thinking was. I had several questions that I pondered that brought me to the conclusion that the statement was an unthinking one, coming from a worldly vantage point. And, Christians were saying this.

Notice that the thinking was not based on godliness but the character of the girl without God, based on the social mores at the time.

"Godly girls", do not find themselves alone with a man long enough for intimacy to occur. They guard their hearts and their morals. Our culture fostered this flippant attitude about morals by not teaching the standards of God at home and in our churches.

"What parents do in moderation, children do in excess" Bill Gothard

I would change this phrase a little to say "What parents accept in moderation children embrace in excess."

We were taught that dating was natural and normal, going off with a boy alone was acceptable, but that we had to control ourselves, but if we didn't there was compassion shown and no judgments made.

When I was young, the children of unwed mothers were adopted out often and the young lady was whisked away to another town to have her baby, so as to hide the shame of immorality. In some cases the mother would marry the father to give the child a family.

We see how far this has come, because we have focused on feelings and bailing sinful people out of their sense of shame, we have created a culture that has no shame. There are now baby showers for out of wedlock babies, there is smiling, laughing and revelry associated with the birth of an out of wedlock baby.

Jeremiah 6:15 "Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No! They were not at all ashamed; Nor did they know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time I punish them, They shall be cast down,” says the Lord."

I have a deep compassion for the babies in these situations, because they are being raised to think that anything they want to do is alright. They are being raised in one parent families, often on welfare, with many different men waltzing in and out of the child's life at the mercy of immoral mothers.

Child abuse has risen dramatically since these loose morals have taken root. There is a natural aversion to harming our own children in this way, it is the boyfriends of the mothers that are abusing their live in lovers children.

Then of course there is the problem of abortion, murdering a child because the child happens to be inconvenient, the ultimate child abuse...murder.

I become angry every time I hear a commercial on the radio that says "it is for the children." It it a lie, an advertising ploy to get people to support particular projects and programs. If in fact, "it were for the children", then we would not have so many children who have only one parent, they would have two parents and born within marriage. If we loved the children they would not be shuffled off to day cares and government schools. If we loved the children we would not kill them to spare ourselves a little hardship.

There are more children in foster care than ever before, because these parents who were irresponsible in their behavior are also on drugs and alcohol. They are living lives that are devastating to the children.

What is the solution?

More believers presenting the gospel to these lost people, letting them see that they have sinful hearts and need to be saved from their sin and hell, then showing them that Christ paid that debt of sin that we owed by His shed blood on the cross.

Once a person realizes they are sinful and need to trust Christ, then their way of dealing with life will reflect one of holiness.

I have to admit that I have little hope for this culture, because they have heard the gospel, or a perverted form of it. When a person has heard the perverted gospel first it is very hard to get them to believe a better one, the true gospel. They have become inoculated to the truth through a counterfeit.

We know that God must open their eyes, however we are living in the last days of the gleaning, there will be very few who will listen.

Luke 17:26-27 "And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all."

We are there now friends, we are in these last days, everyone is doing what is right in their own eyes and no one will listen.

For 120 years Noah preached to the people, they would not listen and even laughed at him, but when the rain began and Noah and his family went into the ark, the world knocked at the door to be saved, but it was too late. The world perished without God.

Christ refers to Himself as the "Door." John 10:9 "I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture."

The evil is all around us now, we are hanging on by the power of the Holy Spirit, however we hate all that we see us and desire to go home soon, in the mean time we must tell the truth to those God shows us to speak to, and continue growing in holiness ourselves, that the world not have an influence on us and that the world does not be led to think evil of Christ.

The account of Noah and his family is a picture of Christ and the rapture of His church, figuratively speaking the ark is leaving soon, Christ is returning to snatch away His church will you be going too?

Want to learn how to become born again, saved from your sin and hell, send you a private message and I will give you my phone number or you can give me yours and I would love to have a conversation with you.

May all those hearing this message seek the Lord!!!!

Have We Obeyed God?

There are those who think that they have stayed staunchly to the Bible, reading daily and seeking God for particular leadings of the Holy Spirit, not realizing they have incorporated into their thinking and actions the worldly philosophy they say they don't believe.

What many of these people do not realize is that they have bought into much of the new age movement end times thinking without realizing it.

Many believers have raised their children on self esteem thinking they were not. Some of the practices of self esteem teaching are "time out", sending a small child to their room to be isolated from the rest of the family, is one of the most common elements used as "discipline." This concept is not found in the Bible, but comes from worldly psychology. There is the philosophy of praise, continually and for everything. There is the attitude that the child should reach for fame and glory in his sports and academics. Then there is the expectation that rewards would come every time there is any form of accomplishment.

God says this;

Proverbs 22:15 "Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; The rod of correction will drive it far from him."

Proverbs 13:24 "He who spares his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him promptly."

God mandated that we discipline our children quickly and with the rod, this allows for the child to remain with his family while seeing the sinfulness of his actions.

I am convinced that isolating a child to "think about his action" is sin, causing bitterness and anger in the child. Quick discipline and returning to normal activity show the child love while accepting him, he will see that a spanking comes with disobedience, but that we love them and want them with us.

Self esteem has taught children that they are not loved because of their actions. Christ teaches we are loved in spite of our actions and that our discipline will be to restore us to family relationships.

Other forms of self esteem teaching promotes excessive praising, even for everyday duties. God teaches us to do our duty even if there is no praise for it.

Romans 12:1 "I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service."

Luke 17:10 "So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do."

Often these days we praise children to such an extent, that they think they must be praised and thanked for every action, even the slightest responsibility carried out, deserves praise. We thank them for obeying us, we thank them for taking a cup to the kitchen, making them think that they are special every time they merely do what is expected of a humble reasonable person.

I do think there are times to thank a child, but our culture has done this ad nauseam. Parents as saying things like "please Johnny will you do as I say", leaving a child thinking that his parents have to beg him to get things out of him. When the child is in control then the parent has to beg. When the parent is in control the child must obey at the simple command to do so.

When we are parents, we teach the children by our expectations, we teach them how we should respond to God. The modern child has learned from the modern parenting, that he has the option to obey or not, that he should be rewarded for every single thing he does and that if God will say please nicely, then we will obey.

What a disgusting picture of our view of God. He is one to be feared and revered, never at any time did God treat us as though we had as much value as He does, quite the opposite. Equality with parents has taught children to feel equal to God, therefore His is only to be acknowledged when He gives us what we want.

God does not beg us to obey Him, He merely gives us the command and expects obedience. With every command often are given the consequences if we do not obey.

An example: "Johnny it is your turn to clean up the kitchen, I want you to start now." If Johnny argues then he is disciplined and the command is repeated.

Never say to a child who has obeyed, "thank you for obeying." This places the child in a position of authority and gives him the option to resist obeying in the future.

The child in our day, is also being trained that he should be thanked for doing what is normal human responsibility. We carry out many daily activities that we do not get thanked for, the reward of our actions comes with knowing we pleased God.

Perhaps a better way to treat obedience in a child is to express that we are pleased that they obeyed God in obeying us. Teaching a child that obedience to God and parents is its own reward, the relationship is enhanced and there is accomplishment when everyone does what is their duty. Then the matter becomes about obedience rather than a task.

We need to be diligent about our tasks and do things with an attitude of excellence, however that even pales compared to the attitude of obedience. An obedient attitude is far more important than the accomplishment of the task.

Self esteem techniques of today foster arrogance in the children. They think they deserve things instead of being grateful for them.

We can be grateful for finishing a task, and the praise will not be very important.

Proverbs 29:21 "Pamper a slave from childhood, and later he will be ungrateful."

The modern child is indulged in every sort of fun and play, so much so, that they have become ungrateful. If we want our children to be grateful, we do not train them to love personal enjoyment or think of themselves as special.

Proverbs 12:9 "He that despises himself and becomes a slave is better than he that honours himself and lacks bread."

Proverbs 15:33 "The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility."

It is not love to follow the tenets of the self esteem movement, but rather hate, carefully and slyly executed by satan. He has fooled many people into following principles that sounded....OH sooooooo good! but in fact are have devastated our culture and ruined the testimony of the church.

God showed us what the self esteem teaching would produce in 2 Timothy 3:2-5, here is what it looks like;

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!"

God's Truth or The Culture

So many people are steeped in the indoctrination they received in government schools over the past 50 years, that they are no longer able to reason a matter through for themselves.

It is only through Christ that they will be able to think out of the box that was created by their culture.
Our culture has intimidated us into thinking that if we see something in a different way than the masses, then we are worthy of shunning. So we try to assess how others will perceive us and soften our ideas to placate those we wish to impress.

I would rather be right with God and think outside the cultural box then be manipulated and controlled by those who do not love Christ.

Notice the word "culture", also contains the word "cult."

1 Corinthians 2:14-16

"But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. For “who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?”fn But we have the mind of Christ"