Luke 21:28
"28 But when these things begin to take place, straighten up and lift up your heads because your redemption is drawing near.”
God never said "when you see these things happening look around", or "get busy in politics" or "save your nation." He said "LOOK UP."
What does look up mean: "then look up and lift up your heads; be cheerful and pleasant; do not hang down your heads as bulrushes, but erect them, and put on a cheerful countenance, and look upwards, from whence your help comes; and look out wistfully and intently, for your salvation and deliverance:"
Born again believers are not to spend their last days on earth whimpering or anxiously worried about all that is happening in the world. Our hope is so great and so near that we hardly notice what all the wicked people are doing. Yes, of course, it grieves us at times and we have concern for those who are not yet saved but our daily walk is one of joy and peace in the midst of a wicked generation.
Philippians 2:14-16 "…14 Do everything without complaining or arguing, 15 so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world 16 as you hold forth the word of life, in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain."
When Noah was at the end of his preaching after 120 years God told him to get into the ark.
Genesis 7:1 "1 Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family because I have found you righteous in this generation."
Proverbs 11:4
"Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death."
Noah did not wait around and get busy to save a nation from the wrath of God, he got onto the ark and waited for God to close the door.
Genesis 7:7,13
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood…
Genesis 6:9
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Noah was considered righteous because of his faith in God. It was not his personal righteousness that was counted to him as being righteous, it was His faith in God. He walked uprightly because of his faith in God not to earn his own salvation. As it is our faith in Christ and Him living in us that qualifies us to be rescued from God's Wrath.
Hebrews 11:7 "7 By faith Noah, when warned about things not yet seen, in godly fear built an ark to save his family. By faith, he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness that comes by faith. "
Notice this; Noah by faith condemned the world. He believed God therefore he had the mind of God. He trusted what God said and acted upon that trust.
Are we willing to lose what is familiar to us because we have trusted Christ? Are we willing to let go of our ideas and pleasures to obey Christ?
Something to think about isn't it?!!!
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
If You Don't Want Your Neck Stepped on by the Police!!!!
If you don't want your neck stepped on by an officer of the law, don't commit crimes. If you are falsely accused obey the officers and God will allow it to be sorted out later.
Obeying officers while treating them with respect goes a long way to being treated with respect by them.
Rebellious people will be treated with harshness because they are a danger to those around them. When rebellion against authority is present there is a greater chance the person will become violent, almost a guarantee. Anyone who feels free to fight authority and resist commands has violence in their heart that could emerge at the slightest perceived provocation, it doesn't even have to be real, it can be all in their own minds.
Provocation to the rebellious heart only has to be a harsh word, that's all it takes for the perp to explode in anger, they are unstable in all their ways.
If you don't want to be arrested or slammed to the ground, don't commit crimes. Pretty simple isn't it?!!!!
Smarting off to an officer is clearly disrespect that leads to violence. Those who refuse to be told what to do will become violent when forced to comply.
While there may be some bad cops just because in every profession there are bad people, but I am convinced that most officers want to do their jobs the right way with integrity.
Romans 13:1-7 "13 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
3 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;
4 for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake.
6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
7 Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor."
God is pretty clear here, we are not to resist authority. If something unjust is happening then we can believe God has a reason and will make things right eventually.
To born again believers: If you are unjustly accused and are sent to jail preach in the jail. Sing hymns in the jail and trust Christ through all of it.
Obeying officers while treating them with respect goes a long way to being treated with respect by them.
Rebellious people will be treated with harshness because they are a danger to those around them. When rebellion against authority is present there is a greater chance the person will become violent, almost a guarantee. Anyone who feels free to fight authority and resist commands has violence in their heart that could emerge at the slightest perceived provocation, it doesn't even have to be real, it can be all in their own minds.
Provocation to the rebellious heart only has to be a harsh word, that's all it takes for the perp to explode in anger, they are unstable in all their ways.
If you don't want to be arrested or slammed to the ground, don't commit crimes. Pretty simple isn't it?!!!!
Smarting off to an officer is clearly disrespect that leads to violence. Those who refuse to be told what to do will become violent when forced to comply.
While there may be some bad cops just because in every profession there are bad people, but I am convinced that most officers want to do their jobs the right way with integrity.
Romans 13:1-7 "13 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.
2 Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God, and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves.
3 For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same;
4 for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil.
5 Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath but also for conscience’ sake.
6 For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
7 Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor."
God is pretty clear here, we are not to resist authority. If something unjust is happening then we can believe God has a reason and will make things right eventually.
To born again believers: If you are unjustly accused and are sent to jail preach in the jail. Sing hymns in the jail and trust Christ through all of it.
Placing Your Trust in a Man is Dangerous
I will preface this article with this: I voted for Trump and I will vote for him again, not because he is a Christian, because he is not, nor because he is doing things conservatives like. I am voting for him because God is leading me to do so for His purposes, however not the purposes so many think. He will not save this nation, He is being used of God but not in the way most Christian voters think. Having said that I explain more in the article below.
I wanted Trump to be what he said he was in the beginning, but I had reservations so I prayed for God to show me the truth and He did.
Clifton Greene that's no surprise! (pertaining to the poster below) Trump is not what people think he is! He is a person who loves Norman Vincent Peale. He called Peale his mentor. Peale's teachings were the "power of the mind." When Trump says "pray for the country he means we should pray to ourselves, if we think real hard on what we want it will come true. There is such a thing as "collective consciousness" in which everyone thinks the same thing at the same time and it will come to pass.
Trump courted the Christians by using their words and phrases but they mean something different to him. He accepts all religions but claims to be Christian, his religion of choice. He has surrounded himself with prosperity preachers who encourage health, wealth, and prosperity because that is what he has clamored for all his life. He fits well with the prosperity preachers who accept any religion, they just happen to prefer theirs.
Trump is not a Christian, he is a ringer courting the Christian community for the voting block he knew was not voting before. He got them to vote by using their terminology. I am convinced you will see a huge change in him after the second election when he has nothing to lose since he cannot run again.
Trump is a test of what it will be like when the antichrist comes on the scene and uses manipulation and verbiage to gain the trust of the people in the first 3 and 1/2 years. Then in the second half of the tribulation, he will literally unleash hell on the world.
Just because the media is against Trump does not mean he is what he appears to be. The media thinks he is ultra-conservative and that he is a Christian because they do not know what a Christian is supposed to look like.
So many people fell in love with Trump because he said things that made them feel proud. He is a master schmoozer from Queens New York. He has written a book called "The Art of the Deal" if you want to know how he maneuvered people to get what he wanted you will learn it from this book.
Yes, we like some of the things he is doing but make no mistake he is not a brother to the born again believer.
Don't get angry with me, just pray about it. Remember the antichrist will use the same techniques with the added false miracles that will deceive many. Many people who believe Trump is a Christian now, will fall for the deception of the antichrist who will claim to be Christ.
The antichrist will fool many because the Christians in name only who do not know their Bibles will fall for him hook, line and sinker. They will become enthralled with him because of the promises he will proclaim but will not keep.
It is time for born again believers to stop looking to this world for their salvation and begin looking up. It was a command of God that we look up when we see all the mess in the world escalating. He told us what to look for. If we are looking up we will clearly understand and stop looking to the world for our peace. Saving our nation is not important to God, many repenting and becoming born again is what is important.
When Christ will come for His Church
Matthew 24:33-34 "33 So also, when you see all these things, you know that He is near, right at the door. 34 Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened."
2 Thessalonians 2:8-10 "…8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will slay with the breath of His mouth and annihilate by the majesty of His arrival. 9 The coming of the lawless one will be accompanied by the working of Satan, with every kind of power, sign, and FALSE wonder, 10 and with every wicked deception directed against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them.…"
God has given us a picture in this administration what it will look like when the antichrist comes. Nearly everyone will flock to him believing all his promises and even attacking those who will warn them.
I am not saying Trump is the antichrist, I am saying he is being used of God to show you how gullible and easy it will be to fool those who say they are Christians. Trump is only saying he is a Christian, the antichrist will claim to be Christ and the false Christians will fall right in line to take his mark.
Pray for Trump to become saved before he dies rather than fawning all over him while he is still a false Christian. Hate me if you must but at least pray and ask God if these things are true.
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