Confess Quickly to be Cleansed

Christians ought to care more about how we do life more than what we get out of it. If we get what we want the wrong way then we can expect problems. 

God cares about the way we accomplish things, not just getting things done. 

John 14:6 "6 Jesus *said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me."

There is only one way to the Father and that is through Jesus Christ. Just as there is only one way to follow Christ, His way.

John 14:15 "15 If you love Me, you will keep My commandments. "
Notice something about this passage? It doesn't say its a command to keep His commandments, God says it is the way you walk all the time. You do not have to be commanded to do what you do naturally.
When our nature is changed inito a new creation we no longer think the same way we did before. It is God's heart we seek and His ways.

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."

God will only reveal Himself, His heart to those who want Him. 

1 John 2:3
"By this we can be sure that we have come to know Him: if we keep His commandments."

Our nature must be changed by Christ, it is not something we do to ourselves, we desire it and Christ does it. 

2 John 1:6
"And this is love, that we walk according to His commandments. This is the very commandment you have heard from the beginning, that you must walk in love."

Ephesians 2:10 "10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them."

This change and this walk are not in appearances only, it is an entire character change from the inside out. When our character is Christlike then our walk will also be such. 

Matthew 15:17-19 "…17“Do you not yet realize that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is eliminated? 18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a man. 19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.…"

A born again believer does not have to work hard to live an obedient life, they just do as easily as they breathe, it comes naturally to want to do the right thing. 

New believers at times will walk in fear and try real hard, it is when we do naturally and immediately what we should without having to analyze it that we walk in maturity. 

I recall a story of a Chrsitian woman who was driving a car in a parking lot. She accidently backed into a fence and knocked over a portion of the fence. She looked at her friend who was with her and didn't know what to do. She thought about not telling the owners and then she turned to her friend and asked what she should do. Her friend was a more mature Christian, she told her without hesitation that she should tell the owner apologizing and take whatever comes.

The less mature woman took the advice of the believer and told the owners of the shop that she had knocked over a portion of the fence. A lesson was learned that day, trusting Christ was better than running in fear from our responsibilities. 

The owner of the shop and fence smiled with a kind look on her face and said, "that's alright people do that all the time, no need to pay for it, we will just put it back up easily." 

The more mature Chrsitian asked the less mature believer if she felt better for having told on herself. The answer came back, "yes, now I don't have to feel guilty over it, its all fixed.

God made His principles to fix relationships and resolve probllems the right way. If we follow Him we might have someone rude to us but we will be free of guilt. In this case no one was rude and there was no guilt for hiding it. 

Hallelujah.....God wins again!!!!!! 

It is surprising how many people think refusing to admit our flaws or mess ups will be better, in the long run it is never better. Handling things quickly and honestly has far reaching blessings.

Proverbs 28:13
"Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy."

James 5:16
"Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working."

Proverbs 16:18
"Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall."
The longer we wait to confess sin the more bitter we become on the inside. The more we deny our guilt the worse our character becomes. This happens because in order to justify the sin we must make up lies in our mind why it was alright to sin or that we did not sin at all when clearly we did. 

Those who want to grow in holiness and learn deeply the heart of God must confess sin quickly to be cleansed of it. 

The joyful life is the one that easily confesses quickly and grows in love because of it.

God Puts in Leaders and Takes Them Out

If you know that God puts men in office and takes them out as the Bible says, then he will use our vote for his purposes, even a wicked man. 

Romans 13:1 "13 Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except [b]from God, and those which exist are established by God."

Obama was placed in office by God, I believe to punish us. Now he is doing the same thing with Trump only using Trump's bombastism to make the liberals lose control of their senses making them crazy so they will riot. 

The liberals have been showing their true colors in their blatant display of murderous rage.
I am pondering the idea that Trump knows that he is rattling their cages and likes that they are coming unglued. He feels like it makes him powerful but it will have the opposite effect. He will be less powerful as the raging of the liberals causes more revolt throughout the land. There may even be a civil war when the conservatives can no longer stand the threats of the liberals and they may rise up to meet them. 

I know all this sounds strange but I have seen many narcissists who have operated this way, Trump is no different. No one becomes a billionaire without walking over people while using massive doses of manipulation, intimidation and flattery to gain control over people. And, no one all of a sudden becomes a Christian overnight because they are running for office. 

These men will claim they are Christian, even Obama did, so did the Bush'es. This is the cultural Christianity that uses god-phrases to make us believe they are spiritual but have placed more trust in government and the voters than in God. They are going for that missing block of voters that have not been voting. By their verbiage they can make this group of people believe they are completely on their side, sucking in those who lack discnerment. Evangelicals are still looking for an earthly savior, instead of reflecting godliness for the sake of winning others to the Lord. 

The politicians god is their own belly, their power, their popularity, not Jesus Christ. We know this by the way they are so accepting of every religion as though they are all equal to Christ. 

Sadly the United States is like Israel was back in the day when God was their leader but they wanted a king like all the other nations. America clamored after prosperity and freedom, these two things have been the god of the people. They were and are more concerned about these things than they are obeying God.

This country has been using God like a puppet to get what they want for a very long time. He has been assigned by the people to do their bidding, making them comfortable and rich while they shout "don't judge' or "God knows my heart" when their sin grows exponentially out of control or they are confronted with scripture to expose it. 

NO, God is not going to save America, He is punishing us right now but instead of repenting we are whinning and complaining at the same time fighting to defend our sin.
All I hear a lot of is "look how much good Trump is doing", oh ya, does it matter that he is not an example of righteousness to follow or that he is using God for his gain? 

One last thought, I am interested in the debates because I believe they are going to be a hoot. I am a citizen of heaven watching a play on earth over who will rule a wicked nation. Things are heating up, there are mysteries to be pondered and two people on stage duking it out without any idea what the country really needs, that is a show of repentance and need for righteousness. 

Sorry if this offends those who are counting on someone to save our country. I don't care if we get a wall or lower taxes or better schools, these things might be good if Chrsit were in it, but the politicians idea of good is not mine nor is it God's. 

Jesus Christ did not come to be a leader of Israel when He came the first time. He didn't come to find a leader for the nation of Israel, He came to bring the good news of the gospel to the lost. 

This is also the example we should take to heart, we are not hear to establish a kingdom on earth, we are here to bring the gospel and lives as example of the righteousness of Christ. That is our mission. 

Hallelujah!

Circumstances Do Not Determine Truth!

Circumstances do not determine God's truth. We could make every excuse in the book for disobeying God but He tells us to obey even if it means trials for us. The trials teach us things, they make us stronger and they glorify God.

James 1:2-8 

"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."

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The Hitler Spirit Continues Today!

There are those who think there will never be another Hitler in the world who will do what he had done. His legacy has been 6 million murdered Jews as well as those who were retarded and infirmed in some way that made them, in his mind, useless to society. Adding the 6 million Jews and all the others it has been estimated that he murdered more than 12 million people. 

Think again if you think there has not been another Hitler! Think about this, there have been thousands of Hitlers in our country since the Roe V Wade decision in 1973 that declared preborn babies as non-persons allowing their parents in collusion with doctors to brutally take their lives. 

What has been happening in the past 47 years is far worse than anything the other Hitler did. We are only talking about the United States in this discussion, it is embellished exponentially when we consider the entire world also doing this monstrous deed. 

There have been one in 5 people murdered in our country alone since 1973. The entire population of California, Washington and Oregon would be the same number of abortions that have occurred in the last 47 years. Imagine if a Hitler came along and said everyone in these three states must be killed.

Lets take an easy accounting; Hitler= about 12 million, Abortions in the United States; about 62 million. 50 million more people than Hitler and few people bad an eye at this. 

AND YOU THINK HITLER WAS WORSE THAN THE NUMBER OF THOSE MURDER BY ABORTION?

There have been 200,000 deaths in the United States accounted to the COVID19 virus in just the past few months, a virus that none of us did to ourselves and no one had control over. The media is all over this news about COVID19, constantly ranting every day about those who have died from it but not one word about the 4000 babies a day that are brutally murdered by doctors at the bidding of their mothers. 

A woman who was instrumental in making the killing of babies easily available, paid for by the government, has died and she is being praised by the media and every feminist woman in America.
AND YOU THINK THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANOTHER HISLTER.? THERE HAVE BEEN MANY HITLERS, 

THOUSANDS OF THEM, the doctors, the mothers and people like Ginsberg who ruled over this nation for many years fighting for the right to kill babies. 

These monstrous numbers only apply to the United States, imagine the entire world doing the same thing!

And you think that God should bless America? Even if the entire country repented God would still have to punish this nation for all these deaths, not to mention for all the other monstrous sins that occur every day.

Our leaders are corrupt, every single one of them! A nation does not become this corrupt without compromising men who claim goodness but will not stand strong. These politicians know if they stood strong they would be voted out, what must this say about the voting population? It tells us that the country as a whole is wicked, monstrous, and godless, having a form of religion but living for pleasure and prosperity according to the imaginations of their own hearts rather than by the love of God. 

There can be no love of God when there is no love for humanity. There is no love for humanity when a culture encourages their young to murder their babies, live in shack up relationships and divorce and remarriage as often as they change their clothes. 

Those who think God is going to save America or has sent someone to save it are living in a dilution. That dilution is that if we just vote the right way all the hearts of the people will suddenly become righteous and stop their evil deeds. NOT!

Jeremiah 11:13-14 "…13 Your gods are indeed as numerous as your cities, O Judah; the altars of shame you have set up—the altars to burn incense to Baal—are as many as the streets of Jerusalem.’ 14 As for you, do not pray for these people. Do not raise up a cry or a prayer on their behalf, for I will not be listening when they call out to Me in their time of disaster."

Anyone who thinks this country can be turned around by the right politician or the clever business man has their head in the sand ignoring all the sin and corruption that dwells in most hearts. They ignore their own wrong attitudes and fight against correction when shown the words of the Bible, God's Words, the very essence of Christ. 

To declare a person a "non-person" simply because they are inconvenient is the height of arrogance and a enormously monstrous attitude. 

The Supreme court of our land did this in the Dread Scott decision in 1857, declaring that blacks were non-persons because they were slaves. They did this with babies in 1973, declaring that babies could be killed because they were unseen. and a blob inside their mothers.
This is what monsters do, they change the verbiage to sound as though they are doing nothing wrong in order to justify the evil done by those who wish to use others. In the case of slavery subjugating people to work for them. In the case of abortion the babies become terribly inconvenient when the couple who conceived them only wanted the pleasure of sex but not the result or responsibility of it.
In the case of Dread Scott, the slave owners wanted the pleasure of owning slaves that could gain them great wealth but they didn't want the burden of considering them in their decisions. They wanted to use them like animals without any restrictions on how they were treated.

The Dread Scott decision and the Roe v Wade decision were exactly the same. In one case the human beings being abused and oppressed were adults and small children. In the case of abortion the human beings are the most helpless members of our society, the preborn babies. 

It is only evil men who can make laws such as these but just as evil for righteous men to allow them to continue. 

Why have we not seen an "Emancipation Proclamation " declared by the previous pro-life presidents? I think its a good question!

It was the "Imancipation Proclomatioin" of Abraham Lincoln that ended slavery. Why can we not do this today? I believe the reason is that every so called "pro-life" president will not openly and swiftly declare preborn babies as human beings protected by thee constitution of the United States.

These politicians all walk on egg shells hoping to win the next election if they remain silent on this issue, but when they are elected a second term they still do not do the bold and godly thing. 

Rightousness by increments is cowardess in my opinion. 

James 4:17
"So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."

Isaiah 1:17
"Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause."

Perhaps those politicians or business men who claim to want to do right ought to pay more attention to the principles of God. They don't because they know they will be persecuted, it would get in the way of winning the next election, or getting the next conservative elected when they lose office. 

Sometimes I get so tired of the rhetoric and the foolishness of slow thinking and spineless leaders who poke their finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing, making sure they have as little opposition as possible. I am convinced these weak kneed leaders do not really believe what they say or they would go for broke, speak truth and be willing and ready to take their lumps as they stand for rightouesnoess. 

For many years I heard over and over again, "we have to take baby steps getting a little here and a little there" in order to push forward in the cause. Balderdash, we have been saying this for 50 years and things are getting worse. Things are not getting better with this strategy, they are getting worse. 

What's that saying; "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result." 

Matthew 5:10-12
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Its time we stop "playing politics" stop "playing Christian" and just stand up for righteousness from God's word where ever we are, leaving the result to God. We are not responsible for the results we are responsible to do what pleases God. If that fails it is not our fault but the fault of those who will not listen, they will be held accountable for their own response. We are held accountable for whether or not we stood for truth. 

Luke 16:13
"No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

We cannot serve God and a rebelliuos people at the same time.

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Withholding Blessing Because of Sin

I am finding myself withholding congratulations from couples on Facebook whom I do not know. Often they say they are on their second marriages, but do not explain that their first spouses have died. 

I cannot congratulate a couple if there is any possibility that they are entering into an adulterous marriage. I feel sad sometimes that I end up raining on everyone's parade. The people doing the congratulating are not questioning anything about the new marriage, just a happy congrats. 

Because marriage is held in such low regard these days by Christians there is a sense that I cannot join in their happiness when there is a possibility of the new marriage being an adulterous one.

Luke 16:17-18 "17 But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for a single stroke of a pen to drop out of the Law. 18 Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery."
Adulterous marriages usually come with a host of excuses as to why they were justified in divorcing their first spouses. God does not give any reason to get out of a marriage, not even for adultery. 

The passages in Matthew that is always used to justify divorce and allow for remarriage has nothing to do with the marriage relationship. The word in the KJV of the bible is translated "fornication." It is translated that way because it has to do with the law of the Jews that required a certificate of divorcement for the betrothal time that we call engagement.
The betrothal was nearly as binding as marriage in the Jewish law except if one of the parties was unfaithful. The never did pertain to marriage. 

Everyone knew this principle for the past 1900 years until the seminaries became liberal teaching the false doctrine of divorce for adultery, that is unfaithfulness within marriage, began being taught. 

When Christ makes two people into one at the ceremony of the promises they are no longer two but one, that is a spiritual oneness that cannot be broken by a law of the land that liberally allows divorce pretending to dissolve the marriage. 

No matter what that certificate of divorce signed by the judge says, it does not dissolve the union that God glued together. A sort of spiritual super glue only God can undo through the death of a spouse. 

Satan has managed to twist the minds of many in the liberal churches to believe they can claim anything they like and God will place His stamp of approval on it. There are serious consequences for disobeying God, some are lifelong. 

There is an old Amish saying; "when two divorced people get married there are four people in the bed." 

2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For 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. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"

In this 2 Timothy 4 passage, we see that we are living in those times when the Bible is merely a book of good suggestions rather than the very words of God. Many people completely disregard the passages they do not like to embrace what they do like. Even words they take away from and add to the words of God to justify sin. 

Those of us who speak the truth from God's word as He has written it will be called names, accused of lacking knowledge, told we are mean spirited and even told we refused to discuss things when we tried hard to bring the scriptures to bear but it was rejected.
I have had people accuse me of the very things they were doing but I was not. This is a favored tactic of the devil. The devil wants us to defend ourselves and fight back bitterly to have our say. 

The best thing for the believer to do when they are accused of things and our character is maligned is to realize it is the devil in these people using their mouths to cause anger in us.
God says "be angry and sin not." When we see the tactic being employed to outrage us we can ignore it knowing who is behind it and make an effort to avoid such a person. 

Romans 16:17-18 "17 Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who create divisions and obstacles that are contrary to the teaching you have learned. Turn away from them. 18 For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.…"

There will even be times when these rebellious ones will attempt to gain others on their side by their gossip and through half truth, even out and out lies. We must also avoid anyone who listens to the gossip. 

Remember we do not need to run after trouble makers. Those are the ones who want to fight to win over us, they want us to be like them and refuse to allow us our views.
Scripture is not important to these problem people, only getting their way and surrounding themselves with those who validate their false religion of compromise. 

Matthew 7:15
Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

Galatians 1:8
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be under a divine curse!

Galatians 1:9
As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you embraced, let him be under a divine curse!

Someone might say, "marriage is not about doctrine", the answer is sure, marriage is a picture of Chrsit and His relationships with His church. The union of Christ and His children cannot be severed. God disciplines His children but He does not remove the relationship. 

Hebrews 12:5-7 "…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. 6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” 7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…'

God also tells us that those who belong to Him obey Him. When someone refuses to obey the Bible, adding what they wish and crossing out what they don't like they are in rebellion against God. 

Even worse these people are deliberately antagonizing God''s children to convince them to disobey God. 

Galatians 4:16-17 "…16Have I now become your enemy by telling you the truth? 17Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them. "

I probably can't count the number of times I have encountered those who thought their anger at me would cause me to follow their ungodly thinking. These people want us to feel intimidated, embarrassed and ashamed for believing God and His Word.

They do not understand that God's Word is more than a saying we call the book we read. God's word is the very essence of Who Christ is, His Word is above all other writings a perfect truth. 

All the disobedience I see among pretenders is based on their feelings and circumstances, not on God's Word. They never seek God in prayer to learn the truth, they simply defend their ignorance. 

Those who say they are Christians but do not have the Holy Spirit will interpret things the way they wish to see them and not by the power of the Holy Spirit. Keep this in mind when you encounter these people, do not take them seriously, pray for their salvation, and keep moving forward in truth and holiness. There is nothing to gain by remaining with argumentative people who care only about winning without truth.

Hallelujah!

Let Go and Let God!!!!