It also seems like the time to pray for individuals, not entire nations, since prophecy clearly says all nations will be against Christ, Christians, and against Israel.
We are to pray for souls, not the preservation of nations. It is the demise of nations that will cause many to see their need for God when things become deeply frightening.
It is rare that anyone comes to Christ because everything is going their own way. The more prosperity in a nation the more it drifts away from the need for God and the more it becomes hostile to Christ.
My prayer is for the souls of individuals, not for this nation. Perhaps great trials and impossible situations would be the vehicle through which many come to the end of themselves and seek Christ.
Much prosperity breeds pride and self-reliance! It is a fearful thing to think we might endure tragedy in our country, we would rather believe people will come to Christ "just because" things are so good. We have seen this is not the case in our own country. The more prosperous we have become the more sin and arrogance grows.
Malachi 4:5-6 "5 "Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction."
Galatians 6:7 "7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap."
May we turn away our hearts from this world and toward Jesus Christ, the only answer to the problem of sin and the broken hearts of the rebellious who have no remedy except Him.
Proverbs 29:1 "He, that being often reproved hardens his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy."
Saturday, March 7, 2026
Biblical Repentance
Biblically, repentance (confession of wrong) and forgiveness are two sides of the same coin for the purpose of reconciling a relationship.
If neither or only one of these things happens, then there is no reconciling of the relationship. We do not hate those who have wronged us, and when having to be in their presence, we show the respect that was not shown to us, but this is not reconciliation; it is just Christian graciousness. However, we cannot be friends with those who cannot be trusted because they thought it was alright ot offend.
Modern Christianity is burdening those who were innocent to forgive when the offender is not sorry. But I don't see them chastising the offender to repent. This is the opposite of what God teaches in His Word.
Luke 17:3-4 "3Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Notice the words "if he comes and says I repent." Why is this always left out of the admonishment to forgive offenders?
God has a reason for His commands on how and when to forgive. When we follow humanistic psychology, we enable people, and even encourage them to sin for lack of chastisement. The innocent one gets pressured to forgive while the perp is let off the hook for his sin. This is backward from God's order and purpose.
Let's be diligent to do things God's way so that people learn to be repentant.
If neither or only one of these things happens, then there is no reconciling of the relationship. We do not hate those who have wronged us, and when having to be in their presence, we show the respect that was not shown to us, but this is not reconciliation; it is just Christian graciousness. However, we cannot be friends with those who cannot be trusted because they thought it was alright ot offend.
Modern Christianity is burdening those who were innocent to forgive when the offender is not sorry. But I don't see them chastising the offender to repent. This is the opposite of what God teaches in His Word.
Luke 17:3-4 "3Watch yourselves. If your brother sins, rebuke him; and if he repents, forgive him. 4Even if he sins against you seven times in a day, and seven times returns to say, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”
Notice the words "if he comes and says I repent." Why is this always left out of the admonishment to forgive offenders?
God has a reason for His commands on how and when to forgive. When we follow humanistic psychology, we enable people, and even encourage them to sin for lack of chastisement. The innocent one gets pressured to forgive while the perp is let off the hook for his sin. This is backward from God's order and purpose.
Let's be diligent to do things God's way so that people learn to be repentant.
Divorce and Remarriage Childish Response to Adult Problems
As I was pondering the mess of divorce and remarriage, God brought to mind relationships between little girls in elementary school. Grade school children are emotional and basically have no filter when it comes to actions and responses to one another.
Little girls will declare they won't be our friend anymore because we didn't give them what they wanted. They will take their toys and go home if they can't win.
Little girls will ignore you in the halls to show you that you are not worthy of kindness and respect because you didn't validate what they wanted to do.
Little girls will friend a new person and flaunt them past you at recess and in the halls to show you they have found someone better than you. And, worse they will gossip about you to the new friend and turn that person against you.
Little girls will treat the new friend better than they did you so you can see their love is only for the new friend and you are irrelevant and unimportant to them.
Little girls will take innocent comments and actions, spinning them to the new source as bad things even if there was nothing at all unacceptable in your activities or verbal exchanges.
In short, little girls can be very petty and mean merely because they were not praised or their perception was that they were not validated in some way. And, often their perceptions are entirely wrong based on their own selfish mindset.
Why do I equate little elementary school girls to divorce and remarriage, you might ask? Divorce and remarriage is elementary school immaturity at best and devastating to families at worst.
I don't think it is that complicated, really. The excuses I have heard for divorce have been on the level of spoiled little girls who refuse to work through anything, because they have no sense of a deep love for the one they harm.
I knew of one woman who divorced her husband back in the day because he didn't want her to buy a car; he felt a one-car family was enough. While this would be very irritating to some, it is not a reason to throw away a husband.
I laughed at this because we were a one-car family for the first 18 years of our marriage. We worked things out as needed, and we didn't fight over it. We have been married for almost 54 years now and over the years, many things have changed as the finances have improved.
I have heard of situations in which husbands and wives were into some very bad lifestyles. Their spouses divorced them and married someone else and years later their original spouse repented, cleaned up their lives and they were able to reconcile. Keep in mind it takes faith in God to obey Him when things are very hard.
Divorce and remarriage are acts of defiance against God and hatred for the spouse. Not to mention they are as childish as the little girls in elementary school who want harm to come to their former friend.
Christ died for us while we were still sinners. He experienced a brutal and hateful persecution so that we could become saved from our sin and hell.
When Christ makes two people one in marriage, our treatment of our spouse cannot be based on feelings; it must be based on God's truth and faith in His ways. We do not love for what we get out of it, we love because Christ loved us, and we should practice love as a choice with the person who is our other half.
Matthew 19:6 "6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”
Many times I have heard people proclaim they love the one they are dating because they make them feel good or make them laugh. Notice the focus here: "they make me", "they give me", nothing about that love interest being a good companion because they make them a better person or they love God. It's all about how they feel when they are around the one they are thinking of marrying.
Philippians 2:3 "Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves."
No one can separate what God has joined. It is a picture of salvation for the born-again believer; no one can be separated from Christ when He lives in us, has transformed us, and keeps us.
When He died to reconcile us to Him, we trusted in what He did, and that He can keep us, we know that our oneness with Him cannot be undone because it was not something we did; it was His work. Nor can the oneness He did in a married couple be undone by any piece of paper or decree of a human judge.
Because the modern Christian who accepts and defends divorce and remarriage views human relationships as expendable rather than a melding of souls. They continue to treat one another as separate individuals rather than half of a whole. And, worse they use one another until they lose their usefulness.
Malachi 2:16 16 “For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”
God says that if we so much as hate our brethren, we are committing murder. Divorce is an act of hatred, the deisre that the spouse were dead.
1 John 3:14-16 "…14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer. 16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
Matthew 5:21-22 "You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander."
Divorce is hatred and a desire that the spouse never existed. And remarriage is an act of sexual immorality since the first spouse remains alive and God's command was that the oneness union is not severed until death.
John 8:44 "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies."
Mark 10:11-12 "So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
Luke 16:18 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
The mentality of the modern Christian is that if they can find a good reason to defy God's commands, they are free to do what displeases Him. They cherry-pick the things they like to follow and pride themselves in it, but ignore the things they don't like while disrespectfully treating anyone who speaks the truth that exposes their rebellion against God.
These are the end times, truth telling Chrsitians are despised, excluded, and rejected.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"
We are living in apostate times in which very few people attending the institutional church gatherings will endure sound doctrine. Don't let it discourage you, keep obeying Christ, speaking truth as led by the Holy Spirit, and ignore those who are hell-bent on rejecting God's word.
Keep Looking Up!!!!!
Little girls will declare they won't be our friend anymore because we didn't give them what they wanted. They will take their toys and go home if they can't win.
Little girls will ignore you in the halls to show you that you are not worthy of kindness and respect because you didn't validate what they wanted to do.
Little girls will friend a new person and flaunt them past you at recess and in the halls to show you they have found someone better than you. And, worse they will gossip about you to the new friend and turn that person against you.
Little girls will treat the new friend better than they did you so you can see their love is only for the new friend and you are irrelevant and unimportant to them.
Little girls will take innocent comments and actions, spinning them to the new source as bad things even if there was nothing at all unacceptable in your activities or verbal exchanges.
In short, little girls can be very petty and mean merely because they were not praised or their perception was that they were not validated in some way. And, often their perceptions are entirely wrong based on their own selfish mindset.
Why do I equate little elementary school girls to divorce and remarriage, you might ask? Divorce and remarriage is elementary school immaturity at best and devastating to families at worst.
I don't think it is that complicated, really. The excuses I have heard for divorce have been on the level of spoiled little girls who refuse to work through anything, because they have no sense of a deep love for the one they harm.
I knew of one woman who divorced her husband back in the day because he didn't want her to buy a car; he felt a one-car family was enough. While this would be very irritating to some, it is not a reason to throw away a husband.
I laughed at this because we were a one-car family for the first 18 years of our marriage. We worked things out as needed, and we didn't fight over it. We have been married for almost 54 years now and over the years, many things have changed as the finances have improved.
I have heard of situations in which husbands and wives were into some very bad lifestyles. Their spouses divorced them and married someone else and years later their original spouse repented, cleaned up their lives and they were able to reconcile. Keep in mind it takes faith in God to obey Him when things are very hard.
Divorce and remarriage are acts of defiance against God and hatred for the spouse. Not to mention they are as childish as the little girls in elementary school who want harm to come to their former friend.
Christ died for us while we were still sinners. He experienced a brutal and hateful persecution so that we could become saved from our sin and hell.
When Christ makes two people one in marriage, our treatment of our spouse cannot be based on feelings; it must be based on God's truth and faith in His ways. We do not love for what we get out of it, we love because Christ loved us, and we should practice love as a choice with the person who is our other half.
Matthew 19:6 "6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”
Many times I have heard people proclaim they love the one they are dating because they make them feel good or make them laugh. Notice the focus here: "they make me", "they give me", nothing about that love interest being a good companion because they make them a better person or they love God. It's all about how they feel when they are around the one they are thinking of marrying.
Philippians 2:3 "Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility consider one another as more important than yourselves."
No one can separate what God has joined. It is a picture of salvation for the born-again believer; no one can be separated from Christ when He lives in us, has transformed us, and keeps us.
When He died to reconcile us to Him, we trusted in what He did, and that He can keep us, we know that our oneness with Him cannot be undone because it was not something we did; it was His work. Nor can the oneness He did in a married couple be undone by any piece of paper or decree of a human judge.
Because the modern Christian who accepts and defends divorce and remarriage views human relationships as expendable rather than a melding of souls. They continue to treat one another as separate individuals rather than half of a whole. And, worse they use one another until they lose their usefulness.
Malachi 2:16 16 “For I hate divorce,” says the Lord, the God of Israel, “and him who covers his garment with violence,” says the Lord of armies. “So be careful about your spirit, that you do not deal treacherously.”
God says that if we so much as hate our brethren, we are committing murder. Divorce is an act of hatred, the deisre that the spouse were dead.
1 John 3:14-16 "…14 We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love our brothers. The one who does not love remains in death. 15 Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that eternal life does not reside in a murderer. 16 By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers."
Matthew 5:21-22 "You have heard that it was said to the ancients, ‘Do not murder’ and ‘Anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to his brother, ‘Raca,’ will be subject to the Sanhedrin. But anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be subject to the fire of hell.
Matthew 15:19 "For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander."
Divorce is hatred and a desire that the spouse never existed. And remarriage is an act of sexual immorality since the first spouse remains alive and God's command was that the oneness union is not severed until death.
John 8:44 "You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies."
Mark 10:11-12 "So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”
Luke 16:18 "Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
The mentality of the modern Christian is that if they can find a good reason to defy God's commands, they are free to do what displeases Him. They cherry-pick the things they like to follow and pride themselves in it, but ignore the things they don't like while disrespectfully treating anyone who speaks the truth that exposes their rebellion against God.
These are the end times, truth telling Chrsitians are despised, excluded, and rejected.
2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"
We are living in apostate times in which very few people attending the institutional church gatherings will endure sound doctrine. Don't let it discourage you, keep obeying Christ, speaking truth as led by the Holy Spirit, and ignore those who are hell-bent on rejecting God's word.
Keep Looking Up!!!!!
Living in Prophetic Times
Amen, we are living in prophetic times right now! Watching events and the attitudes of people match with what the Scriptures say will happen is a blessing to us, it builds our faith as we navigate through all of it.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
Dead Rituals that Produce Pride in Men Who Follow Them
Answers I have heard when a woman was asked why she attends church.
"I get to dress up."
"Church makes me feel safe."
"Because it is the decent thing to do."
"I want to be a better person."
"I like the music and get to sing."
"Its family time and the relatives will be there."
"I enjoy the holidays with a group of people who sing Christmas songs."
"It's what we have always done and seems like the right thing to do."
When asked what the real deep spiritual reason for going to church was, the woman had no answer; there was total silence. The word God was not used, nor was the name of Jesus Christ uttered.
Sadly, the husband was asked why he attends church and his answer was, "because my wife goes."
It is sad how few "church attendees" utter the name of Jesus Christ or even discuss His principles. Mostly, they repeat what they are commanded by the pastor to say without deeper conversations after the "service."
Often you will hear cultural standards repeated but never connected to the Bible.
Church attendance is treated like a "holy day of obligation" rather than a love for Christ and the edification of one another.
Our instructions in God's word for gathering together have nothing to do with pews all facing forward toward an elevated pulpit dominated by paid men who have special degrees.
Our instructions were for us to gather to edify one another in the Word. Every person in attendance shared from the word, praying or calling for a song, completely led by the Holy Spirit. There are no pre-organized programs that everyone should follow. There are no instructions as to the day to meet, the hour to meet or even that we should attend in the same place every week.
Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
God's heart, according to His word, was not that we meet together to follow the instructions of others in a ritualistic form to obey men. God wanted us to come together in small groups, each one speaking, singing, and teaching as led by the Spirit of Christ, not by man's mandates but through Christ.
If you were wondering why the church has entered the apostate age full of terrible doctrine and harsh man-made rules, the answer is that many hundreds of years ago, men full of pride developed their own ways to do things. They decided on their own, without the Holy Spirit, to follow rituals they think will please God.
However, in so doing, they neglected consulting the Bible and the Holy Spirit in favor of developing their own religion and ruling system to keep the people under their control.
The leaders in these false systems were more concerned about controlling the congregants than they were about the Holy Spirit leading in the hearts of each person who was filled with the Holy Spirit.
born-again
They oppress born again believers with their rules while silencing the Holy Spirit. Modern churches find it strange when someone is led by the Holy Spirit because they do not fit into the edicts of the men who love their control.
Those who have been led by the Holy Spirit think very differently from those who are accustomed to following men.
1 Corinthians 2:14 "But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Because the gospel of Christ has been so watered down and distorted, many of the people in those pews for hundreds of years were not born again. They were following a religion not indwelt by Christ.
This is why we are now living in the times of "religion" rather than the power of Jesus Christ.
Religion; a manmade system of rituals and practices largely based on culture more than a god.
When someone becomes born again, they are transformed by a Person, that is the Person of Jesus Christ Who is also God. He communicates with us, directs us, and convicts us of sin to cleanse us as we move through this life. It is a living relationship Who is with us all the time, no matter where we are and no matter what circumstances in which we find ourselves.
Dead rituals destroy any relationship with God. Mankind tends to become proud of the things they do for God. Instead of inquiring of God what He wants for us, mankind determines to God what he will do for God. Religion promotes arrogance and reduces dependence on the One True God.
If there are any rituals you think you are doing for God, ask Him if it's His idea or just your own or worse the idea of others who tell you what you should do. Then be willing to discard anything that God never commanded to follow Him.
His Word, the Bible will give you everything you need with the counsel of the Holy Spirit. You will be amazed at how many things will fall away from your thinking and your life followed by a great sense of relief and peace that comes from having the dross fall off that was weighing you down and bringing false guilt over things that God never commanded.
"I get to dress up."
"Church makes me feel safe."
"Because it is the decent thing to do."
"I want to be a better person."
"I like the music and get to sing."
"Its family time and the relatives will be there."
"I enjoy the holidays with a group of people who sing Christmas songs."
"It's what we have always done and seems like the right thing to do."
When asked what the real deep spiritual reason for going to church was, the woman had no answer; there was total silence. The word God was not used, nor was the name of Jesus Christ uttered.
Sadly, the husband was asked why he attends church and his answer was, "because my wife goes."
It is sad how few "church attendees" utter the name of Jesus Christ or even discuss His principles. Mostly, they repeat what they are commanded by the pastor to say without deeper conversations after the "service."
Often you will hear cultural standards repeated but never connected to the Bible.
Church attendance is treated like a "holy day of obligation" rather than a love for Christ and the edification of one another.
Our instructions in God's word for gathering together have nothing to do with pews all facing forward toward an elevated pulpit dominated by paid men who have special degrees.
Our instructions were for us to gather to edify one another in the Word. Every person in attendance shared from the word, praying or calling for a song, completely led by the Holy Spirit. There are no pre-organized programs that everyone should follow. There are no instructions as to the day to meet, the hour to meet or even that we should attend in the same place every week.
Romans 15:4
For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how to spur one another on to love and good deeds. Let us not neglect meeting together, as some have made a habit, but let us encourage one another, and all the more as you see the Day approaching."
God's heart, according to His word, was not that we meet together to follow the instructions of others in a ritualistic form to obey men. God wanted us to come together in small groups, each one speaking, singing, and teaching as led by the Spirit of Christ, not by man's mandates but through Christ.
If you were wondering why the church has entered the apostate age full of terrible doctrine and harsh man-made rules, the answer is that many hundreds of years ago, men full of pride developed their own ways to do things. They decided on their own, without the Holy Spirit, to follow rituals they think will please God.
However, in so doing, they neglected consulting the Bible and the Holy Spirit in favor of developing their own religion and ruling system to keep the people under their control.
The leaders in these false systems were more concerned about controlling the congregants than they were about the Holy Spirit leading in the hearts of each person who was filled with the Holy Spirit.
born-again
They oppress born again believers with their rules while silencing the Holy Spirit. Modern churches find it strange when someone is led by the Holy Spirit because they do not fit into the edicts of the men who love their control.
Those who have been led by the Holy Spirit think very differently from those who are accustomed to following men.
1 Corinthians 2:14 "But a natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Because the gospel of Christ has been so watered down and distorted, many of the people in those pews for hundreds of years were not born again. They were following a religion not indwelt by Christ.
This is why we are now living in the times of "religion" rather than the power of Jesus Christ.
Religion; a manmade system of rituals and practices largely based on culture more than a god.
When someone becomes born again, they are transformed by a Person, that is the Person of Jesus Christ Who is also God. He communicates with us, directs us, and convicts us of sin to cleanse us as we move through this life. It is a living relationship Who is with us all the time, no matter where we are and no matter what circumstances in which we find ourselves.
Dead rituals destroy any relationship with God. Mankind tends to become proud of the things they do for God. Instead of inquiring of God what He wants for us, mankind determines to God what he will do for God. Religion promotes arrogance and reduces dependence on the One True God.
If there are any rituals you think you are doing for God, ask Him if it's His idea or just your own or worse the idea of others who tell you what you should do. Then be willing to discard anything that God never commanded to follow Him.
His Word, the Bible will give you everything you need with the counsel of the Holy Spirit. You will be amazed at how many things will fall away from your thinking and your life followed by a great sense of relief and peace that comes from having the dross fall off that was weighing you down and bringing false guilt over things that God never commanded.
Always Obey God First
There is a false doctrine moving through the church that a woman should obey her husband even if he commands her to do evil. This is a monstrous doctrine and not at all Biblical.
Ezekiel 3:18-20 "18 When I say to the wicked, ‘You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person shall die for wrongdoing, but his blood I will require from your hand.
19 However, if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die for wrongdoing, but you have saved yourself.
20 Again, when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require from your hand."
Remember Ananias and Sapphirah? When the wife agreed with her husband to lie, God said that they "conspired together." This means that if Sapphirah agreed to obey her husband, she too was at fault. God killed them both. God would not have killed the wife if she refused to sin with her husband; the husband alone would have taken the penalty. We know this from the story of Abigail.
Acts 5:1-11 and 1 Samuel 25
Abigail did not obey her husband to do what was wrong, she defied her husband to do what was right. and not only did God bless her, but He also killed her husband, and she became the wife of David for her protection of him.
Any time we take passages out of context in short sentences or phrases to make them say what we think works for us, it is called sin.
A woman who wants to use her husband as an excuse to avoid conflict, to obey a husband who will give her grief if she does not sin with him, is a very weak woman. She does not understand the principle of enduring hardship to remain faithful to God.
In our world, there comes a time when husbands are going to sin, but this does not mean we support it or go with him. We must support a husband whenever he does not disobey God, but not when he refuses to obey God.
Ezekiel 33:8-9 "If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life."
Acts 20:26-27 "Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God."
God also said that wives may win their husbands by their quiet and respectul lifestyle. This is not only respectful toward the husband but also toward God.
1 Peter 3:1 "In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wives,"
A simple ""no, I cannot disobey God", spoken respectfully, will be what may win your husband. We will not win our husbands to God's way of thinking about Him by obeying our husbands' wickedness.
"Obeying our husband's in all things" must be measured in light of the rest of the scriptures not merely one phrase taken out of context.
Ephesians 5:22-24 "Wives and Husbands
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands."
Notice we are to submit to our husbands "as to the Lord", our Lord would never tell us to submit to sin to please any person not even our husbands.
Ezekiel 3:18-20 "18 When I say to the wicked, ‘You will certainly die,’ and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way so that he may live, that wicked person shall die for wrongdoing, but his blood I will require from your hand.
19 However, if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die for wrongdoing, but you have saved yourself.
20 Again, when a righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits sin, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require from your hand."
Remember Ananias and Sapphirah? When the wife agreed with her husband to lie, God said that they "conspired together." This means that if Sapphirah agreed to obey her husband, she too was at fault. God killed them both. God would not have killed the wife if she refused to sin with her husband; the husband alone would have taken the penalty. We know this from the story of Abigail.
Acts 5:1-11 and 1 Samuel 25
Abigail did not obey her husband to do what was wrong, she defied her husband to do what was right. and not only did God bless her, but He also killed her husband, and she became the wife of David for her protection of him.
Any time we take passages out of context in short sentences or phrases to make them say what we think works for us, it is called sin.
A woman who wants to use her husband as an excuse to avoid conflict, to obey a husband who will give her grief if she does not sin with him, is a very weak woman. She does not understand the principle of enduring hardship to remain faithful to God.
In our world, there comes a time when husbands are going to sin, but this does not mean we support it or go with him. We must support a husband whenever he does not disobey God, but not when he refuses to obey God.
Ezekiel 33:8-9 "If I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his way, and he does not turn from it, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved your life."
Acts 20:26-27 "Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God."
God also said that wives may win their husbands by their quiet and respectul lifestyle. This is not only respectful toward the husband but also toward God.
1 Peter 3:1 "In the same way, you wives, be subject to your own husbands so that even if any of them are disobedient to the word, they may be won over without a word by the behavior of their wives,"
A simple ""no, I cannot disobey God", spoken respectfully, will be what may win your husband. We will not win our husbands to God's way of thinking about Him by obeying our husbands' wickedness.
"Obeying our husband's in all things" must be measured in light of the rest of the scriptures not merely one phrase taken out of context.
Ephesians 5:22-24 "Wives and Husbands
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands."
Notice we are to submit to our husbands "as to the Lord", our Lord would never tell us to submit to sin to please any person not even our husbands.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
Our Leaders do not Represent My Values
Our leaders do not represent my "values"; they only give a few things conservatives like that make them feel safer, that's it, total dedication to self-preservation.
It is entirely possible that more people would come to Christ under persecution than when they feel safe.
This continual banter about saving America or bringing it back to God is an illusion. "Make America Great Again" has only to do with making everyone feel prosperous and safe.
Our president chose a "prosperity preacher," a woman and a violator of most of the Bible, to appoint as the spiritual leader of our nation. She was the worst example of Christianity anyone could name, and yet was chosen because she represents his values of wealth, health, and prosperity.
I never hear this president, who claims to be a Christian, mention anything about holiness or repentance, nothing about submitting to Christ or turning from our selfish ways. Everything he says is based on pleas to God to do things our way, blessing us, but never any talk of blessing God to please Him.
Just saying!
It is entirely possible that more people would come to Christ under persecution than when they feel safe.
This continual banter about saving America or bringing it back to God is an illusion. "Make America Great Again" has only to do with making everyone feel prosperous and safe.
Our president chose a "prosperity preacher," a woman and a violator of most of the Bible, to appoint as the spiritual leader of our nation. She was the worst example of Christianity anyone could name, and yet was chosen because she represents his values of wealth, health, and prosperity.
I never hear this president, who claims to be a Christian, mention anything about holiness or repentance, nothing about submitting to Christ or turning from our selfish ways. Everything he says is based on pleas to God to do things our way, blessing us, but never any talk of blessing God to please Him.
When is the last time you heard a legislator or our president agree to outlaw gambling, make drunkenness illegal, disallow divorce and remarriage, or outlaw shacking up with someone outside of marriage? How about making it illegal for women to wear bathing suits that reveal nearly everything? I see no laws proposed to promote morality or decency, only safety and finances, so that everyone is free to be as immoral as they please without challenge and in perfect protection to sin.
Just saying!
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