"At this same place, build an altar for offering sacrifices to the Lord your God. But don't use stones that have been cut with iron tools." (Dt. 27:5, CEV-- from yesterday's reading)
In other words, "Use only what I have made. Do not alter it in any way." After I had preached many years ago, a young couple came to me and said that it was the best sermon they had ever heard. That morning I just read through the whole Book of Ephesians. "Selah."
At the Presidential Pray Breakfast Obama had the nerve to lecture Christendom on moral history, comparing ISIS to the Crusades. Forgive me, but it has appeared to me that Barack Obama's loyalty is to his African Islamist father, not to America. It can in reality be said of Obama and other humanists what the Bible declares of those who refuse to believe Jesus, "For they willfully overlook and forget...." Forget the superficial moralizing of those, "who know not the truth." They are just the cliche-people of, "If they were really Christian." If you take the superficial reasoning to its logical conclusion of those who self-righteously attack the Crusades, then "Christians" should just have allowed Hitler, Stalin, and Mao to overrun the world.
In response to the Islamists persecution and near destruction of the Church in the Middle East, nearly 1000 years ago Pope Urban II sent out this response to a plea to free Eastern Christians from Muslim rule: "From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth and very frequently has been brought to our ears, namely, that a race from the kingdom of the Persians…has invaded the lands of those Christians and has depopulated them by the sword, pillage and fire; it has led away a part of the captives into its own country [as slaves], and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures; it has either entirely destroyed the churches of God or appropriated them for the rites of its own religion …. What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women? To speak of it is worse than to be silent….On whom therefore is the labor of avenging these wrongs and of recovering this territory incumbent, if not upon you? You, upon whom above other nations God has conferred remarkable glory in arms, great courage, bodily activity, and strength…." If we are not led by the Holy Spirit and the Words of Jesus, if we are not submissive to Jesus and His purposes in history, we will be submissive to something and someone else--------- and they will rule us.
Lies have gone forth to mankind from the Garden. Global television and other media are filled with outright as well as disguised lies. These lies and deceptions are uttered by those who, "build an altar," but use tools, "that have been cut with iron tools." There are two "weapons" which will help us continue to walk in the truth, the Bible and a knowledge of history. I repeat a statement of Brother Charles from many years ago, "Without a sense of history the People of God cannot go on," viz., in the purposes of Jesus Christ, His Church, His Kingdom. Watch Obama and the other humanists in the American Government as well as those in the governments of other countries. I pray for their conversion, but there is an alarming declaration about those who refuse to Follow Jesus, obey Jesus, and worship Jesus. They will, "go from bad to worse."
Be alert. Watch. Beware. Keep vigilant. Abide in Jesus, and keep His words abiding in you. As we do this, we will be kept from the Evil One and those who serve him. I pray for many things, but I pray primarily that I recognize what Jesus has done throughout history and what Jesus is doing in the earth today. Only those who know Jesus and obey Jesus' Words will navigate the torrential waters of Earth's remaining days.
Father, in Jesus' Name, help me to not, "use stones that have been cut with iron tools." Amen.
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The First Nations People Group (Indians) comprise 1% of the population------ and 8% of the homeless.
In other words, "Use only what I have made. Do not alter it in any way." After I had preached many years ago, a young couple came to me and said that it was the best sermon they had ever heard. That morning I just read through the whole Book of Ephesians. "Selah."
At the Presidential Pray Breakfast Obama had the nerve to lecture Christendom on moral history, comparing ISIS to the Crusades. Forgive me, but it has appeared to me that Barack Obama's loyalty is to his African Islamist father, not to America. It can in reality be said of Obama and other humanists what the Bible declares of those who refuse to believe Jesus, "For they willfully overlook and forget...." Forget the superficial moralizing of those, "who know not the truth." They are just the cliche-people of, "If they were really Christian." If you take the superficial reasoning to its logical conclusion of those who self-righteously attack the Crusades, then "Christians" should just have allowed Hitler, Stalin, and Mao to overrun the world.
In response to the Islamists persecution and near destruction of the Church in the Middle East, nearly 1000 years ago Pope Urban II sent out this response to a plea to free Eastern Christians from Muslim rule: "From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth and very frequently has been brought to our ears, namely, that a race from the kingdom of the Persians…has invaded the lands of those Christians and has depopulated them by the sword, pillage and fire; it has led away a part of the captives into its own country [as slaves], and a part it has destroyed by cruel tortures; it has either entirely destroyed the churches of God or appropriated them for the rites of its own religion …. What shall I say of the abominable rape of the women? To speak of it is worse than to be silent….On whom therefore is the labor of avenging these wrongs and of recovering this territory incumbent, if not upon you? You, upon whom above other nations God has conferred remarkable glory in arms, great courage, bodily activity, and strength…." If we are not led by the Holy Spirit and the Words of Jesus, if we are not submissive to Jesus and His purposes in history, we will be submissive to something and someone else--------- and they will rule us.
Lies have gone forth to mankind from the Garden. Global television and other media are filled with outright as well as disguised lies. These lies and deceptions are uttered by those who, "build an altar," but use tools, "that have been cut with iron tools." There are two "weapons" which will help us continue to walk in the truth, the Bible and a knowledge of history. I repeat a statement of Brother Charles from many years ago, "Without a sense of history the People of God cannot go on," viz., in the purposes of Jesus Christ, His Church, His Kingdom. Watch Obama and the other humanists in the American Government as well as those in the governments of other countries. I pray for their conversion, but there is an alarming declaration about those who refuse to Follow Jesus, obey Jesus, and worship Jesus. They will, "go from bad to worse."
Be alert. Watch. Beware. Keep vigilant. Abide in Jesus, and keep His words abiding in you. As we do this, we will be kept from the Evil One and those who serve him. I pray for many things, but I pray primarily that I recognize what Jesus has done throughout history and what Jesus is doing in the earth today. Only those who know Jesus and obey Jesus' Words will navigate the torrential waters of Earth's remaining days.
Father, in Jesus' Name, help me to not, "use stones that have been cut with iron tools." Amen.
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The First Nations People Group (Indians) comprise 1% of the population------ and 8% of the homeless.
