The "Christians" of our day treat anyone shamefully who speaks about the evils of divorce and remarriage. Not only do they exclude us as though we were evil, they even gossip to turn others against us.
And, they don't even think of these sins as sins at all. They justify their sin because they are uncomfortable if they didn't have this option.
There are many Christians around the world who are suffering for their adherence to the principles of Christ. Some are even dying for their dedication to Christ, but Americans cannot stand one moment of discomfort in minor ways to preserve families.
When the world, "fake Christians" see us as the enemy because they must defend their favorite sin, then how on earth could anyone convince a fallen unsaved world that God's standard is higher than theirs.
How could we convince an unsaved world that we could die for Christ when we cannot die to self to preserve a marriage?! How could our children see Christ as anyone to be desired when they see no change or difference in the lives of those who claim to be Christian?!
Who is the apostate church fooling? Sadly they are fooling most people. They are conveying to the world that sin does not matter, that everyone goes to heaven even if they reject Christ.
Did you know to reject the principles of Christ in the Bible is the same as rejecting Him? YES IT IS!!!!!
Saturday, May 18, 2019
Whatever is in the Heart!
This is true, but we do not have to give into that which plagues us every day.
Romans 7:15-20
"15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me."
There are those who would use this passage as an excuse to continue enjoying sin. The sad reality is that those who use this excuse are probably not born again.
Just take a good look at the attitude of Paul here in the passages. He hates it when he sins, therefore he fights against the sin that dwells in his body.
1 John 3:8-10 "…8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother."
If we sin we have an advocate and can be cleansed of that sin, all it takes is a desire to be cleansed and faith that God will do it for you.
1 John 1:9
:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Our Advocate, that is the Holy Spirit, works in us to sanctify us. The cleansing is an ongoing process as we confess more we sin less. Those who do not believe they sin after salvation will not be confessing their sin, therefore they will not grow in holiness. These people stagnate and even regress over time, their heart becomes hardened to their own conscience.
Those who do not believe they ever sin after salvation are far worse off than those who know they do and confess to be cleansed.
1 John 1:7-8 "…7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
When we keep close accounts, confessing to be cleansed we will have fellowship with Christ. If we do not do this then we will not lose salvation but we will lose fellowship. The Holy Spirit will stop speaking to stubborn hearts.
Psalm 66:18, "If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear."
If we want God to be in constant communication with us, then we must confess sin as soon as we notice it happening within us. Sin does not have to be an action. Sin begins in the heart before it is an action. Temptation is not sin, but giving into temptation long enough to ponder it in our hearts will give birth to it outwardly eventually. Eliminate the sin in the heart before it becomes an action, then we will avoid many pitfalls and much relationship destruction.
Our thought life drives our actions. Whatever is in our thoughts will eventually become actions if we do not confess it while it is still a thought.
Proverbs 4:23
"23 Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life."
If you are raging at someone then there is anger in the heart. If you are blessing those around you with empathy, then there is love in the heart. These things cannot be faked, eventually any pretense will emerge for all to see.
Romans 7:15-20
"15 For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. 16 But if I do the very thing I do not want to do, I agree with the Law, confessing that the Law is good. 17 So now, no longer am I the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me. 18 For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh; for the willing is present in me, but the doing of the good is not. 19 For the good that I want, I do not do, but I practice the very evil that I do not want. 20 But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me."
There are those who would use this passage as an excuse to continue enjoying sin. The sad reality is that those who use this excuse are probably not born again.
Just take a good look at the attitude of Paul here in the passages. He hates it when he sins, therefore he fights against the sin that dwells in his body.
1 John 3:8-10 "…8 The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil. 9 Anyone born of God refuses to practice sin, because God’s seed abides in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God. 10 By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother."
If we sin we have an advocate and can be cleansed of that sin, all it takes is a desire to be cleansed and faith that God will do it for you.
1 John 1:9
:9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Our Advocate, that is the Holy Spirit, works in us to sanctify us. The cleansing is an ongoing process as we confess more we sin less. Those who do not believe they sin after salvation will not be confessing their sin, therefore they will not grow in holiness. These people stagnate and even regress over time, their heart becomes hardened to their own conscience.
Those who do not believe they ever sin after salvation are far worse off than those who know they do and confess to be cleansed.
1 John 1:7-8 "…7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
When we keep close accounts, confessing to be cleansed we will have fellowship with Christ. If we do not do this then we will not lose salvation but we will lose fellowship. The Holy Spirit will stop speaking to stubborn hearts.
Psalm 66:18, "If I regard wickedness in my heart, the Lord will not hear."
If we want God to be in constant communication with us, then we must confess sin as soon as we notice it happening within us. Sin does not have to be an action. Sin begins in the heart before it is an action. Temptation is not sin, but giving into temptation long enough to ponder it in our hearts will give birth to it outwardly eventually. Eliminate the sin in the heart before it becomes an action, then we will avoid many pitfalls and much relationship destruction.
Our thought life drives our actions. Whatever is in our thoughts will eventually become actions if we do not confess it while it is still a thought.
Proverbs 4:23
"23 Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life."
If you are raging at someone then there is anger in the heart. If you are blessing those around you with empathy, then there is love in the heart. These things cannot be faked, eventually any pretense will emerge for all to see.
The Lovelessness of the Tribulation
The tribulation is going to be completely loveless, hate filled and dangerous all the time. When the Holy Spirit is removed, the restraints on sin will be off.
If you think things are bad now, they are nothing compared to what is coming when God takes out His church.
If non-believers would take a few minutes to ponder prophesy they would realize that it is the Holy Spirit living in Christians that is holding back evil.
I once had a sister in law call a group of people "Bible thumpers" as though they were a big problem. There was a group of Christians who were influencing a small country school to keep something evil out of the school.
I told this sister in law that it is the Christians and the Holy Spirit that was keeping the school safe from ideas that destroy people. Of course I was hated from then on because now I was one of those "Bible thumpers."
I have never "thumped" a Bible, but I want to live by God's principles which are written there. Those who live by the principles of God have a far better life and eternity than those who reject Christ and His Word.
Authentic believers in Christ bring love, the kind of love that lasts for eternity and effects life on earth in a far better way. Those who are bitter and rebellious don't want solutions they just want their own way.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "…16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and temporary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that far outweighs our troubles. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.…"
If you think things are bad now, they are nothing compared to what is coming when God takes out His church.
If non-believers would take a few minutes to ponder prophesy they would realize that it is the Holy Spirit living in Christians that is holding back evil.
I once had a sister in law call a group of people "Bible thumpers" as though they were a big problem. There was a group of Christians who were influencing a small country school to keep something evil out of the school.
I told this sister in law that it is the Christians and the Holy Spirit that was keeping the school safe from ideas that destroy people. Of course I was hated from then on because now I was one of those "Bible thumpers."
I have never "thumped" a Bible, but I want to live by God's principles which are written there. Those who live by the principles of God have a far better life and eternity than those who reject Christ and His Word.
Authentic believers in Christ bring love, the kind of love that lasts for eternity and effects life on earth in a far better way. Those who are bitter and rebellious don't want solutions they just want their own way.
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 "…16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light and temporary affliction is producing for us an eternal glory that far outweighs our troubles. 18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.…"
"Fair" is not a concept in God's Language
Did you know there is no Hebrew word for "fair" in God's Word. Our God does not think in terms of "fairness."
So many people think in terms of "fair"! Where were they when Christ was being nailed to the cross for the sins of others?
Where does jealousy come from? It comes from a heart that thinks it ought to have what others have without having to work for it.
James 4:2-3
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
So many people think in terms of "fair", where were they when Christ was killed for the sins of others?
So many people think in terms of "fair"! Where were they when Christ was being nailed to the cross for the sins of others?
Where does jealousy come from? It comes from a heart that thinks it ought to have what others have without having to work for it.
James 4:2-3
2 You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
So many people think in terms of "fair", where were they when Christ was killed for the sins of others?
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Pat Robertson Off the Rails Once Again
Pat Robertson has gone off the rails completely once again. We knew he had problems in his theology and phony proclamations of healing through the television screen but his last statement that says he thinks Alabama has become too extreme in their latest "ban on abortion" bill, exposes him further for the false preacher that he is.
Years ago Robertson took a question from a man who was married to a woman in a coma. The man asked Robertson if it was alright for him to divorcehis wife and marry his girlfriend, since his wife was not responsive to him.
It wasn't bad enough that Robertson fielded the question on the air, then he gave clear direction to the man that since his wife was in a coma and not responsive it would be alright to divorce her and marry his girlfriend. He declared to the man that his wife was "dead to him", another lie to justify sin.
Robertson went so far as to foolishly declare that a man has sexual needs and cannot be without a woman.
There was no rebuke for the adulterous man for having a girl friend while his wife still lived. There was also no rebuke that the man should stand by his wife until she dies.
Robertson said the woman was dead to the man because she was in a coma and could not respond.. This is as wicked as it gets. That was only one clue that Robertson had problems, there were many others but the fact that he could be so blatantly secular in his view of marriage, divorce and remarriage showed his rebellion against God.
Robertson is a false teacher full of selfishness and lies, so much so that he would refuse to impart dignity to the man with the comatose wife, by suggesting to him that he stand by his wife to keep his vows, "until death do us part."
This is a good example of how Pentecostals and Charismatics twist the scripture to make them say what they want. God was never talking about a comatose woman as dead to her husband. A comatose woman is still alive.
Another very big clue was that Robertson didn't rebuke the man for committing adultery while his wife lay ill in a hospital bed.
May the Lord discipline and rebuke Robertson for the lies he tells others and his phony false Christianity.
And, now there he goes again justifying the murder of innocent babies through his rebuke of Alabama for declaring that infants are human beings to be protected.
My thanks to Alabama for taking the bold step that every other state should have taken and that the Supreme court should have taken many years ago, in the protection of the unborn.
If you still listen to Pat Robertson after hearing these things then you are foolish and self diluted, worshiping a man rather than Christ. Any preacher who says and does these things is an abomination to the Lord.
Years ago Robertson took a question from a man who was married to a woman in a coma. The man asked Robertson if it was alright for him to divorcehis wife and marry his girlfriend, since his wife was not responsive to him.
It wasn't bad enough that Robertson fielded the question on the air, then he gave clear direction to the man that since his wife was in a coma and not responsive it would be alright to divorce her and marry his girlfriend. He declared to the man that his wife was "dead to him", another lie to justify sin.
Robertson went so far as to foolishly declare that a man has sexual needs and cannot be without a woman.
There was no rebuke for the adulterous man for having a girl friend while his wife still lived. There was also no rebuke that the man should stand by his wife until she dies.
Robertson said the woman was dead to the man because she was in a coma and could not respond.. This is as wicked as it gets. That was only one clue that Robertson had problems, there were many others but the fact that he could be so blatantly secular in his view of marriage, divorce and remarriage showed his rebellion against God.
Robertson is a false teacher full of selfishness and lies, so much so that he would refuse to impart dignity to the man with the comatose wife, by suggesting to him that he stand by his wife to keep his vows, "until death do us part."
This is a good example of how Pentecostals and Charismatics twist the scripture to make them say what they want. God was never talking about a comatose woman as dead to her husband. A comatose woman is still alive.
Another very big clue was that Robertson didn't rebuke the man for committing adultery while his wife lay ill in a hospital bed.
May the Lord discipline and rebuke Robertson for the lies he tells others and his phony false Christianity.
And, now there he goes again justifying the murder of innocent babies through his rebuke of Alabama for declaring that infants are human beings to be protected.
My thanks to Alabama for taking the bold step that every other state should have taken and that the Supreme court should have taken many years ago, in the protection of the unborn.
If you still listen to Pat Robertson after hearing these things then you are foolish and self diluted, worshiping a man rather than Christ. Any preacher who says and does these things is an abomination to the Lord.
Defying God Brings Serious Consequences
Mutilating ones body in defiance of God does not change a gender, its insanity.
Here again is an example of the "just think it and it is so" mentality. Nothing has be real or truth as long as one wants to believe it.
We are living in an irrational generation full of fantasy and lies!!!! Next they will be telling others what they have to be to placate them. They are already declaring what we can say to them, so much for freedom of expression.
Here again is an example of the "just think it and it is so" mentality. Nothing has be real or truth as long as one wants to believe it.
We are living in an irrational generation full of fantasy and lies!!!! Next they will be telling others what they have to be to placate them. They are already declaring what we can say to them, so much for freedom of expression.
The suicide rate has increased dramatically since the acceptance of gender mutilation. No one can defy God's creation without a sense of hopelessness.
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