Toys Must Go Confession Must Begin

God would bring hardship to bring the people to their knees in repentance. Many people have been praying for our country, it could be that all this calamity is the answer to these prayers. The only way we will forsake our sin is if we confess them first.

As long as this nation remains basically narcissistic and materialistic, then we will continue the downward slide.....in answer to those who have been praying.

Can you imagine our children and grandchildren giving up all their play things when things are pleasurable and easy? Not on your life. They will hold onto them until things get so tough they don't have time to think about fun.

Discipline is nothing to cry over.

We all want to be blessed don't we? Perhaps one of God's greatest blessings is to discipline us. When we confess our sin and begin to live for Christ, we are then back on the path to growth again.

I used to hear ladies lamenting that they had to discipline their children. I never thought of it as a bad thing. Babies cry when they come out of the womb, the doctor slaps their bottom to get them to breathe, and no one thinks anything bad is happening.

When we have jobs to do that produce something good, we should never feel bad about doing them. During the day we do the dishes, wash the cloths, spank the children and mop the floor. I never saw my jobs as bad, because they produced a cleaner kitchen, cloths and floor. Spanking produced a friendlier more obedient child. Just a part of the job of raising children.

Proverbs 22:6 "6 Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."

When we say "no pain no gain" concerning exercising our bodies, we can think that way about raising children or any other duty in our household. The surgeon has to cut on a person to heal them and God has to prune us as one prunes a rose bush, to make us healthier, producing more and better blooms.

When we can stop basing our actions on our emotions, then our emotions will change too, it is barely possible that many mothers wouldn't feel emotional about discipline if they were not listening to the culture they live in. The culture makes them think they should feel bad.

When we go with God, in our decisions of life, we can rise above the culture and do what is right, because remember the culture is not following God, for the most part the culture is following psychology concocted by the heathens and we can see where that has led us, deeper and deeper into 2 Timothy 3.

2 Timothy 3:1-9

"3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will PROGRESS no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."

If we can see the tasks we have to do as producing better fruit and greater human beings, then we can do them with confidence and even hope in our hearts.

Without Doctrine We Have Nothing!

I was raised in a social Christianity based on never judging anyone so that we could all get alone. I was once told that we should forgo doctrine for the sake of unity. Even as a new believer, I knew that couldn't be right, since God gave the doctrine, how could human unity be better than God's doctrine?

Those who desire a social club rather than yearning after truth will only bring us to a place of frustration, if we are seeking God in all things. It is very difficult to have fellowship with those whose greatest goal in life is to enjoy one another in a happy setting.

The Bible is full of doctrine, instructions from God on what to believe and how to live what we believe.

Definition of Doctrine: "Doctrine is defined as a principle or group of principles which are taught by a religion or political party." (Your Dictionary)

If we are to ignore doctrine for the sake of unity then we would have to ignore all the scriptures concerning Christ, that He is God, that He created all things and that He was crucified to pay the penalty for our sins.

If we are to ignore doctrine for the sake of unity, then we would have to accept into our gatherings those who believe in other gods and allow them to preach from our pulpits.

Since unity is paramount over doctrine to many these days, then our relationship with non-believers must be one of unity, choosing to ignore all the doctrine in the Word to be able to be friends with those who would even deny Christ.

We can see where diminishing doctrine can lead and how foolish it is to say that doctrine does not matter. The apostate church today is operating as a social club ignoring any doctrine they don't like while bringing into the body sin and evil, even embracing it as though it does not matter to God what we do as long as we are all friendly to one another.

Many churches today ignore sin in the body. There are those who are living together in sin outside of marriage because they are accepted without challenge in the body under the guise of "just loving them."

There is no love in one who would allow a brother or sister to remain in sin without correction or challenges. This is the world's love which is no love at all.

This is what comes from diminishing or removing doctrine from it's place of importance, at the very top of the list of things to uphold and seek.

What Does A Born Again Blood Bought Believer Look Like?

Matthew 7;14-20
"15 “Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. 16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them."

Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law."

1 John 3:14 
"We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death."

1 John 3:16 
"We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."

1 Thessalonians 4:9-12
"But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more; that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing."

NO Way To Destroy Israel!

The only way Islam can destroy the nation of Israel is in this way, mentioned in Jeremiah 31. We know that they cannot do what God speaks of here and neither will God choose to do it. Israel will always exist no matter how hard her enemies attempt to destroy her.

Jeremiah 31:35-37

"35Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for LIGHT by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name: 36“If this fixed order departs From before Me,” declares the LORD, “Then the offspring of Israel also will cease From being a nation before Me forever.” 37Thus says the LORD, “If the heavens above can be measured And the foundations of the earth searched out below, Then I will also cast off all the offspring of Israel For all that they have done,” declares the LORD"