Sunday, September 13, 2020
Saturday, September 12, 2020
Beware of the Tricks of the Narcissists
Our president is under attack continually, he has a thick skin for a reason.
The only thing I can figure out is that our president has learned not to take too seriously threats against him, he has had many but the news does not report it.
Also, we do not know whether or not he is part of the whole scheme, this is just my thinking based on what I know about narcissists. They will be "on the side of the people" to gain an advantage but will turn on them when they are no longer useful.
Jude 1:16 "16 These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage."
Trump's entire life has been one of gaining wealth by using threats and flattery, he is still doing this. We know Trump is not a Christian because before the election he was asked if he had repented from his sins and his answer was, "I've lived a good life, I don't think I have anything to be sorry for."
Trump had two wives each of which he cheated on, divorced, and remarried the affairs. Now he is on the third wife and yet he doesn't see anything wrong in his life. Not to mention all the other wheeling and dealing he did over the years that were perhaps legal but unethical. He makes a show of holding up the Bible but has no clue what is in it except what his liberal and apostate preacher Paula White tells him. She is what he loves, a motivational man-centered prosperity preacher.
The liberals use insults and intimidation to accomplish what they want.
Trump promises the goods and often backs up on them when he has nothing to lose, these are typical tactics of narcissists.
Those who believe Trump is a good guy are basing it merely on his words and a few bones he has thrown his supporters.
He knew there was a block of people out there who were not voting so he set out to court them. He learned their verbiage and what they want and began promising these things to them, even doing some of them.
We can see already he first said we do not need a vaccine and now he is saying we must all be vaccinated.
After the next election, if he wins and I think he will, you will see him back up on many of his promises, they were given to entice the "Evangelical Christians" and conservatives who are not Christians, these groups are fixated on saving America far more than they are on spreading the gospel. They are worldly-minded.
If Trump does not win we can expect the liberals to run completely amuk with all their evil agendas. If Trump wins we can expect greater and deeper choas and rebellion than we are seeing now. You see, the liberals hate Trump because they think he is a nationalist and a Christian, of which I believe he is neither. Either way there is going to be growing turmoil and evil.
We are living in the last days of the world. In this time the lying will be constant and rampant and evil will win out over good.
2 Timothy 3:1-8 "3 But realize this, that in the last days DIFFICULT (meaning ragingly insane) times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also."
The Evangelicals today have a "form of religion" but do not obey God. Much of what they say and live are psychological mantras and cliches, not the Bible. In fact, many things they say are against the Bible and yet they will defend them adamantly as though they are the truth.
Many who say they are Christians are easily deceived by words, even shouting "don't judge" while judging constantly people are good when their fruit is not good.
If anyone says "don't judge" then they had better not judge anyone as good either. When someone judges on the basis of words and public kind acts they are foolish.
No one can know the motives of a person who does good but when they do bad we know their heart, a heart that is good cannot do evil. However, a heart that is evil can appear to be good by flaunting their good deeds for others to see.
Matthew 6:1-3 "1“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,…"
Often those who make a show of their good deeds or say good things are manipulating people to love them. Those who spend a lifetime working to be noticed and loved by the world are not people who would obey God.
John 15:19 "19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. "
Do not be so quick to judge a public figure based on what he says or even what he does publically. The clues are there that are often missed by those who judge superficially.
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
These character qualities are those of Christ, they can be discerned by born again believers. However, they can also be seen as lacking by born again believers. Christ lives in us we can see things that unbelievers cannot see.
1 Corinthians 2:14-16 "…14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.…"
Superficial people will often refuse to listen to those who have seen the clues and have consulted with Christ Who lives in them. Christ in us shows us things, warns us about circumstances and people. He communicates with born again believers when they ask Him to show them truth.
The only thing I can figure out is that our president has learned not to take too seriously threats against him, he has had many but the news does not report it.
Also, we do not know whether or not he is part of the whole scheme, this is just my thinking based on what I know about narcissists. They will be "on the side of the people" to gain an advantage but will turn on them when they are no longer useful.
Jude 1:16 "16 These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage."
Trump's entire life has been one of gaining wealth by using threats and flattery, he is still doing this. We know Trump is not a Christian because before the election he was asked if he had repented from his sins and his answer was, "I've lived a good life, I don't think I have anything to be sorry for."
Trump had two wives each of which he cheated on, divorced, and remarried the affairs. Now he is on the third wife and yet he doesn't see anything wrong in his life. Not to mention all the other wheeling and dealing he did over the years that were perhaps legal but unethical. He makes a show of holding up the Bible but has no clue what is in it except what his liberal and apostate preacher Paula White tells him. She is what he loves, a motivational man-centered prosperity preacher.
The liberals use insults and intimidation to accomplish what they want.
Trump promises the goods and often backs up on them when he has nothing to lose, these are typical tactics of narcissists.
Those who believe Trump is a good guy are basing it merely on his words and a few bones he has thrown his supporters.
He knew there was a block of people out there who were not voting so he set out to court them. He learned their verbiage and what they want and began promising these things to them, even doing some of them.
We can see already he first said we do not need a vaccine and now he is saying we must all be vaccinated.
After the next election, if he wins and I think he will, you will see him back up on many of his promises, they were given to entice the "Evangelical Christians" and conservatives who are not Christians, these groups are fixated on saving America far more than they are on spreading the gospel. They are worldly-minded.
If Trump does not win we can expect the liberals to run completely amuk with all their evil agendas. If Trump wins we can expect greater and deeper choas and rebellion than we are seeing now. You see, the liberals hate Trump because they think he is a nationalist and a Christian, of which I believe he is neither. Either way there is going to be growing turmoil and evil.
We are living in the last days of the world. In this time the lying will be constant and rampant and evil will win out over good.
2 Timothy 3:1-8 "3 But realize this, that in the last days DIFFICULT (meaning ragingly insane) times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also."
The Evangelicals today have a "form of religion" but do not obey God. Much of what they say and live are psychological mantras and cliches, not the Bible. In fact, many things they say are against the Bible and yet they will defend them adamantly as though they are the truth.
Many who say they are Christians are easily deceived by words, even shouting "don't judge" while judging constantly people are good when their fruit is not good.
If anyone says "don't judge" then they had better not judge anyone as good either. When someone judges on the basis of words and public kind acts they are foolish.
No one can know the motives of a person who does good but when they do bad we know their heart, a heart that is good cannot do evil. However, a heart that is evil can appear to be good by flaunting their good deeds for others to see.
Matthew 6:1-3 "1“Be careful not to perform your righteous acts before men to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
2 So when you give to the needy, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. Truly I tell you, they already have their full reward.
3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,…"
Often those who make a show of their good deeds or say good things are manipulating people to love them. Those who spend a lifetime working to be noticed and loved by the world are not people who would obey God.
John 15:19 "19 If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. "
Do not be so quick to judge a public figure based on what he says or even what he does publically. The clues are there that are often missed by those who judge superficially.
Galatians 5:22-23 "22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
These character qualities are those of Christ, they can be discerned by born again believers. However, they can also be seen as lacking by born again believers. Christ lives in us we can see things that unbelievers cannot see.
1 Corinthians 2:14-16 "…14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16“For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.…"
Superficial people will often refuse to listen to those who have seen the clues and have consulted with Christ Who lives in them. Christ in us shows us things, warns us about circumstances and people. He communicates with born again believers when they ask Him to show them truth.
Friday, September 11, 2020
The Kittens That Come
I am reminded of the analogy of the kittens at the pound. God extends a hand to every kitten, the ones that come to Him are the ones He takes home with Him.
1 Timothy 2:3-5 "…3 This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,…"
1 Timothy 2:3-5 "…3 This is good and pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, 4 who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,…"
States that are Burning
900,000 acres have burned in Oregon thus far, in Washington, our state, it is 480,000 acres so far.
Is anyone going to see the significance of this? Two of the most liberal states on the west coast!
Is anyone going to see the significance of this? Two of the most liberal states on the west coast!
America Repent!
The upside-down flag is a symbol of a nation in distress. There is no better time than now to fly the flag in this way.
Our nation is being torn apart but not by the anarchists that are tearing down statues and setting buildings on fire. Our nation is being torn apart by the sin that dwells within it everywhere all the time. God is merely using wicked people to punish us for our sin of rebellion.
When a nation rejects God and His son Jesus Christ God removes His hand of protection and brings consequences. In the case of the consequences we are seeing right now there is no returning to safety. There is no fixing what is broken except repentance toward God about our sin as a nation and trusting in Jesus Christ.
No president or any other leader can fix what is wrong in our nation. Each individual must turn to Christ in repentance desiring to have their heart changed by Him.
We see lots of "patriots" angered by the anarchy ready to fight against their foes but we do not see them bringing the gospel to the people. The patriots want our nation to go back to what it was as though it was once a good nation.
It was good in the sense that we had the freedom to do as we pleased but the nation used that freedom to grow deeper and deeper into sin. If the mantra of the patriots is "freedom" then they have missed the whole point.
There is only true freedom in Christ and without Him, the nation will implode as it is doing now. God will not bless a nation that hates Him.
John 14:15-16 " 15If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. 16And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—…"
John 14:21
Whoever has My
commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. The one who loves Me will
be loved by My Father, and I will love him and reveal Myself to him."
Getting and keeping a
country free is not the objective of a Christin who is born again. The objective
is to bring Christ to those who are lost that they might be saved from hell.
John 14:23
"Jesus replied,
"If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and we
will come to him and make Our home with him."
1 John 2:3
"By this we can
be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments."
Is God angry with
this nation as a whole......You bet He is and the blessing will not come to the
nation. It will only come to individuals who bow the knee to Him in repentance.
Psalm 7:11 "God
judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day."
God had already
blessed this nation because of the believers who dwelt here. Since those who
say they are Christians have profaned the Word of God and disregarded it, He
has lifted His hand of protection from the nation.
The unbelievers
benefited from the Christian's faith who lived in this country, but even those
who say they are Christians have defiled it disregarding God, He has now
removed His covering shield.
Do not shout anymore; "God Bless America", how dare we demand more blessing when we did not appreciate it when it was plentiful.
Our mantra today
ought to be "America Repent", this is the only phrase we ought to be
repeating over and over again.
Perhaps the Fires will make People Ponder Eternity
The smog is so strong we cannot see a mountain across the river a half a mile away. We woke up smelling smoke every day now for weeks.
Across the river, from us in Oregon, we are hearing about towns I grew up around that are going to be wiped out because of the two fires that are raging toward one another ready to merge into one horrific firestorm, headed toward those towns.
The wind died down some but if it had not they predicted that the massive fire would have reached Portland Oregon in a matter of an hour where we grew up. Portland and Gresham together make up a population of about 1.5 million people.
I don't know what has happened since this report last night as we were traveling up the freeway from Vancouver WA. We had dinner there for my birthday. On the way home, we spotted a grass fire along the freeway and called the police to report it. They had already been alerted by others who saw it.
The dispatcher didn't even let me talk as she answered the phone. She said quickly, "are you calling to report a fire on" and she named exactly where I was on the road because of tracking on my cell phone. I answered yes mam and we hung up.
There were no lightning storms, nothing along the freeway that could have started that fire. It must have been man-caused.
Some of the fires were caused by wind-breaking power lines that ignited sparks, and others were caused by human carelessness.
We see now the kinds of trials that seem to be increasing during these end times. We have always had fires at this time of year but never like this!
My prayer is that God will protect the believers and cause the unbelievers to evaluate their need for Christ.
James 1:2-8 This is the perspective of a born again believer!
"2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
Those who do not know Christ might want to appeal to Him to have this salvation and perspective. May all those who do not know Him during this tumultuous time turn to Him in repentance.
Across the river, from us in Oregon, we are hearing about towns I grew up around that are going to be wiped out because of the two fires that are raging toward one another ready to merge into one horrific firestorm, headed toward those towns.
The wind died down some but if it had not they predicted that the massive fire would have reached Portland Oregon in a matter of an hour where we grew up. Portland and Gresham together make up a population of about 1.5 million people.
I don't know what has happened since this report last night as we were traveling up the freeway from Vancouver WA. We had dinner there for my birthday. On the way home, we spotted a grass fire along the freeway and called the police to report it. They had already been alerted by others who saw it.
The dispatcher didn't even let me talk as she answered the phone. She said quickly, "are you calling to report a fire on" and she named exactly where I was on the road because of tracking on my cell phone. I answered yes mam and we hung up.
There were no lightning storms, nothing along the freeway that could have started that fire. It must have been man-caused.
Some of the fires were caused by wind-breaking power lines that ignited sparks, and others were caused by human carelessness.
We see now the kinds of trials that seem to be increasing during these end times. We have always had fires at this time of year but never like this!
My prayer is that God will protect the believers and cause the unbelievers to evaluate their need for Christ.
James 1:2-8 This is the perspective of a born again believer!
"2 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials,
3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
4 And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
5 But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
6 But he must ask in faith without any doubting, for the one who doubts is like the surf of the sea, driven and tossed by the wind.
7 For that man ought not to expect that he will receive anything from the Lord,
8 being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways."
Those who do not know Christ might want to appeal to Him to have this salvation and perspective. May all those who do not know Him during this tumultuous time turn to Him in repentance.
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