In Revelation 3:5 Jesus says: “All who are victorious will be clothed in white. I will never ERASE their names from the Book of Life, but I will announce before my Father and his angels that they are mine.” Does Jesus write their name in His Book of Life after the person says the sinner’s prayer, or after their words have been tested? Again, only God knows the truth about us. Man can assume by what he sees outwardly, but God sees the heart, the truth in us.

We all will fail the Lord, like Peter did those 3 times (then the rooster crowed to remind him what he had professed) but then Peter finished faithfully. God sees the future result of our verbal confessions, so I’m thinking that because God sees the future result of what we say or confess, He can write our name in the Book of Life at the start.

BUT what would cause the Lord to erase our name from the Book of Life? We can start out with a “positive” (good intention) but then fail to follow through (a negative erasing). If I think my commitment to Christ is about how well I do, then my commitment equals nothing to the Lord at the end. I lose what I thought I had with the Lord.

The Bible states that there are more than one Book. Rev. 20: 11 “Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12] And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13] The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 14] Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15] Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.”

If someone wants to believe they can be saved by what THEY DO or DON’T DO, or by mere confessions, they have lost, they will be judged by their own work, and sadly FALL SHORT of God’s glory according to Romans 3:23. Jesus either knows you or doesn’t. It’s all about Him and what He’s done for us, that we could NEVER do for ourselves. If He knows you, then your name is written in the Book of Life. If He doesn’t know you then your name is NOT written in the Book of Life. If He doesn’t know you then your name is NOT written in the Book of Life and the Lake of Fire is your end, forever separated from God and the LIFE you could’ve had with Him forever.

Jesus said (Matthew 7:22-24) that the day will come when people will be banging at His door wanting to come in – reminding Him of all they did for Him. But Jesus says, “Go away, I never KNEW you.” He doesn’t acknowledge them as one of His own. Why? They tried to gain salvation THEIR way, not HIS Way, which is the only way, and only a few will go that narrow path, says the Lord.

The Apostle John writes about us “knowing” that we are saved and with the Lord forever. When I hear so-called Christians say, “Well, I hope I’m going to heaven,” it makes me wonder if they are truly saved ‘in Christ.’ The indwelling Holy Spirit is the One who gives us that solid unshakeable confidence and peace no matter how many times we fall or fail the Lord. Thank You Jesus for all You’ve done for us!

When does the Lord put His Holy Spirit in us? When He sees true a true desire to love Him and serve Him, for we cannot do it in our own strength and with our own limited understanding.

God created “the family” FIRST to be the center of life, living out the government of God (on the earth – as it is in Heaven). God’s Son, Jesus Christ, taught us to pray to our Father God “Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.”

God established the way in which we should live as families (of all races) with our different cultural expressions, yet all united in our worship of God in truth and love, with His principles of life, and with His justice system by which to serve and protect growing communities, states, and nations.

This ‘current’ emboldened anti-God administration feels so free, without consequence or accountability to God, to go after the God-fearing, and all those who refuse to give up their God-given rights. This administration has NO fear of the presence of ‘Christianity’ in this nation. Why?

The breakdown of the family of God, has led to men leaving their role as men (husbands and fathers and community leaders) to lead as God says a man is to lead, which then progressed with women leading, and women not being helpmates of their husbands, women then killing babies in their wombs so they could be free from mothering, women leading men, mothers grooming their sons as to what they want men to be, mothers showing their daughters they should do the same. No wonder men have unnatural sexual relations with men, and women with women, now children are being adopted and raised by homosexuals to go against God’s laws of human life, and now taught in schools that they can’t trust the gender they were born with, and to change the gender they were born with, and on and on it will go – until the return of God’s Son to restore all that God once called “good” that HE created in the beginning.

This White House, on down through all its branches of government, now thinks THEY are the god to be obeyed and supported with the fruits of our OWN labors. They believe they have the right to tell us how to think and live, and if not, to be justified in punishing or killing those who refuse to obey them, the ruling government of evil. (This is the persecution Jesus warned us of when we give over our God-given positions and power to the ungodly!)

So why has the “church of Jesus Christ” allowed Satan (God’s number one enemy) to take over our government as we see with the progressive left having FULL control in government since the last election? Why, when God has given HIS SERVANTS (at the start of this nation’s government) the ruling positions with a government designed by God to protect lawful peaceful people from an oppressive tyrannical government?

When Jesus told us that we should not be caught UNAWARE of the devil’s schemes, why did “the church of the LORD” become UNAWARE of the devil’s schemes in taking over the blessed design of marriage/family, all religious organizations, and the government of America?

Why is it that God’s own people have not remained at their watch-posts generation after generation (aware of the devil’s schemes and constant onslaught) and in their ruling positions in the home, the Lord’s church, and our nation’s government? Why not that disturbed, as PROGRESSIVES have been progressively (generation to generation) getting away with all their godlessness and lawlessness – so that the wicked are not at all concerned about the consequence or coming judgment on their godlessness? Why?

Yet, PTL, we are starting to see the RIGHTEOUS anger we should have over all that this current administration is at work to do with their ‘attack’ on the biblical family and our parental rights to raise our own children, on law and order (as they defund the police and allow lawlessness to destroy cities); with them shutting down our country’s natural resource industries; with INFLATION that never had to happen; with how they left Americans in Afghanistan to be hunted and killed by the Taliban takeover, with their open border policy and all the evil and disease flooding into our country so they can secure more votes; with their vaccine mandates (with many side-effects more harmful than getting COVID), mandates that oppose the TRUTH about this plague and natural immunities and that have put businesses out and people all the more dependent on their stimulus checks (deception); with their attack on the courts’ verdicts that go against their agenda so that they want to pack the courts to get all their way; with them wanting to take our guns and our property; with their protection of their own party’s lies and corrupt ways as they devise ways to arrest the innocent that expose them, and unjustly imprison others who have evidence of their corruption, etc. etc. and the list keeps growing.

Have God’s people decided they have the right from God to be angry and active against all this? Or, are they just cowardly waiting for the “rapture,” that they think will protect them from the worst to come?

Is our ‘persecution’ here in America because of falling away from God? Or, is it because Christians are standing firm with their faith, hope and love for Christ, no matter what? I believe both! But, one ends ‘eternally’ differently than the other!

There is indeed deep astrological significance to the date of Passover. We celebrate the festival of freedom on the 15th of the Jewish month of Nissan, the night the Israelites were freed from Egypt. This is the full moon of the month of Aries, the ram.

The Egyptians worshipped the ram as a god. Aries is the leader of the star signs, the first and most powerful, and the Egyptians saw themselves as the leaders of the world, receiving their strength and fortitude from their god, the ram.

So the strongest time for the Egyptians would have been the month of Aries, when their god is ascendant, and the strongest day of that month would be its full moon.

Egyptian power would reach its zenith on the 15th of Nissan, and that is exactly when the Israelites left Egypt. Aries was rendered impotent at its very moment of strength.

But there’s more. The Israelites ate a festive meal on the night before the exodus, and the main course was lamb roasted on a spit. They were openly eating the Egyptian deity—the ram—in front of the Egyptians, under the full moon of the strongest month. God’s wisdom is much higher than man’s wisdom. He has used His higher wisdom to confound and shame worldly wisdom.

The message is unmistakable. The world is not run by capricious forces and amoral star signs. There is a GOD who rules heaven and earth, who cares for the innocent and exacts justice upon the corrupt. To the stars, our actions make no difference. To, God, our actions matter tremendously. The zodiac demands nothing from us. God, however, demands we live a life of goodness.

The Israelites themselves didn’t always get this message. After the Exodus, some in the Israelite camp suggested that while the ram of Egypt (Aries) had indeed been trumped, it was not God’s doing, rather the next star sign, Taurus the bull, who had beaten Aries. And so they built the Golden Calf—an idol honoring Taurus. It’s tempting to fall back on idolatrous beliefs because they relieve us of responsibility to God Himself, the Creator of the universe. Idolatrous beliefs also rob us of our freedom, which comes from God.

Passover celebrates not only the Israelites’ freedom from Egyptian slavery, but also freedom from being bound by a destiny that is formed by created things, rather than from our Creator. Our lives are not subject to the impersonal forces of the zodiac. We are free to rise above the limitations of fate and conquer our birth signs. This idea of FREEDOM was brought home on the night of the full moon of Aries. You are free to see the truth about your destiny as God has established and we come to understand this TRUTH from reading God’s own Word.

Many existing medicines have been proven by doctors to be very effective in healing people of COVID-19 and Delta Variant symptoms, and probably these other lines of virus’ they say have come such as D164G and G614m, strains of SARS-Covid.

The CDC can not be trusted, as the CDC director broke with her agency’s scientists to endorse the new booster shot for adults working in high risk jobs. Why would she go against the agency’s panel decision to wait on the booster? Their ‘test trial’ finished quickly and so they are warning to wait at least 3 months or longer on boosters. The FDA panel said it would be especially harmful to young and healthy people, but she endorsed it anyway. Now Biden is pushing for all Americans to get the booster.  We know that when he makes a ‘suggestion’ that it will become a ‘mandate’ soon, which is unconstitutional and lawless on his part.

I remember learning some years ago, although it didn’t get out in most of the media of course, that they had traced Autism and Alzheimer to childhood immunizations. Oh that’s just a myth, not true at all you say? Don’t be a fool. You can’t have all these chemicals and virus’ injected into your body and it have no short and long term effect!

Like most, I believe in the true science of ‘natural immunity’ after getting sick with something – being the best protection. But why is it being ignored by the democrat party, so that they want ALL Americans to get vaccinated. Doctors have said that after getting sick and having natural immunities, that getting vaccinated for what you now have natural immunity for, is harmful to your body.

If you think we will come to the end of this pandemic, you’re wrong. There is an agenda to control people with fear of getting sick. Not just dying from a disease, but any kind of runny nose, cough, body ache, headache, fever. I remember a day when we got sick with whatever and it wasn’t a crisis like it has become today. People have died in the past for many reasons, as well as with previous pandemics. People choose to get vaccines for their own reasons. Rightly so. But what we have today is not about the health and safety of all Americans, or there wouldn’t be a one-size-fits-all solution they are pushing on us. It’s all about CONTROL!  More and more Americans are getting it! Thank God!

Did you know that a simple over-the-counter high salt saline nasal spray reduces the risk of hospitalization by 19 fold? (quoting Dr. Marty Makary, a physician at John Hopkins University, who opposes what the CDC director did by endorsing the booster before it was tested long enough. It’s way too early said half the CDC panel. If there’s any risk seen by half of the expert scientists, why would it be endorsed? That’s why we can’t trust everything we’re told today, especially from those with a political agenda of their own.

I have been doing my own research on COVID and it’s strains, and the vaccines. I’m not against vaccinations altogether. I won’t get vaccinated because of how I believe what God says in His Word to me. I AM FULLY against how it is being used to bring us under the control of the government without the freedom of making our own decisions about vaccinations and everything else they are proposing.

I have people telling me how they and their friends have been vaccinated and have not had any side effects. That means very little, since side effects don’t all show up immediately. When our kids were toddlers and pre-school age, forced to have a handful of vaccines which they call immunizations back then, or they couldn’t enroll into the public school, I just went along with it, as most did and still do today. I remember praying over my children that God would protect them from all that was being injected into their little bodies.

Faith in God and in His Word about sickness, disease and death is far more truthful and preventative than anything the doctors can say or come up with to inject into our bodies. So I am a religious fanatic because I believe that way?! Well, I could turn it on you. Why do you believe what comes out of the mouths of the media of the president, and out of the mouth of the president himself who is being told what to say, without doing your own research, when there is so much expert contradiction to what they are saying and wanting to enforce?

God uses doctors and medicine for sure.  Say what you want but I have peace from my Creator God in how He is having me to see all this today with the pandemic and vaccines.  We will not see the end of this as more and more ‘strains’ pop up with all the more so-called ‘necessary’ vaccines. So whom should I trust? Humans with their degrees of limited knowledge and ability? Or, should I trust my Creator Father God with ALL His knowledge and power?

Those who reject God and His words and His wisdom can take all the vaccines and prescribed drugs they want. And I will not judge them for it. But don’t tell me I have to think a certain way, and believe a certain way. And don’t tell me that these mandates by our current administration, people that has been proven to have no competence to lead the right way with all our nation is going through, we must go along with, without question or debate!

Look what we have under this administration: Rising prices on everything (real estate, food, gas, etc.) open borders and financial funding to illegals bringing in who knows what (drugs, sex-trafficking, gangs, ISIS, diseases), shutting down our natural resource industries so we are dependent on our enemies, economic failure, failed education (CRT and white children told to apologize and pay up for being white, teaching on sexual immorality as if it is healthy and good), raising taxes continually to pay for the things our government has no right in funding at all, and now they want to track what you spend your money on by using the IRS to do this. Oh yes, and they are working so very hard to silence the voices of those with some real common sense on all these issues….. and I’m supposed to trust this kind of leadership and do what they want?!  God says in His Word that His wisdom is higher than the wisdom of the world, but even worldly wisdom is higher than what we have leading our nation now! God help us! He’s the only One who can.

God has been very clear in His Word that His people are not to obey the laws of men that conflict and reject God’s laws and principles, or else we bring on ourselves increasing curses: plagues, famines, pestilence, civil unrest, lawlessness, hardships, turmoil, division in family, double standards in justice, hatred of truth and righteousness.

My heart goes out to the small businesses that are being forced out because of an administration breaking our laws and trying to force people to live under their fear-mongering and mandates control; making them require all their employees and customers to show proof of vaccinations, or go under weekly tests for COVID at their own expense (and it won’t stop with COVID), or be put out of business. Hello! This is insane tyranny. Look at all that has been going on because of the fear in people and with the unfair mandates by governing officials. People are now going around asking others if they have been vaccinated and if you dare say NO you are attacked. You don’t have the right to ask a person for their health record or about anything personal. But, law and order is under attack to. In fact, this current administration is lawless.

“HIPAA privacy laws ensure that patient data cannot be accessed by unauthorized individuals. Patients must give their consent before their personal health information is shared for reasons other than treatment, payment for healthcare services, or use for healthcare operations, and patients also have the right to obtain copies of their health data.”

“The HIPAA Privacy Standards are intended to protect the privacy of all individually identifiable health information created or held by covered entities, regardless of whether it is or ever has been in electronic form. This includes paper records and oral communications. Covered entities (health plans, providers, clearinghouses) must maintain documentation of their policies and procedures for complying with the standards, and must include a statement of who has access to protected health information, how it is used within the covered entity, and when it would or would not be disclosed to other entities. Providers must obtain a patient’s consent for the disclosure or use of the patient’s health information, even for treatment, payment, and health care operations purposes. Covered entities must make a reasonable effort not to use or disclose more than the minimum amount of information necessary to accomplish the intended purpose of the use or disclosure, except when the information is used for purposes of treatment. An individual has a right of access to his or her protected health information, to request amending or correcting it, and to receive an accounting of all disclosures. The privacy standards were published December 28, 2000 and the compliance date was April 14, 2003. The IHS developed and implemented the required HIPAA Privacy Standards policies, forms and training prior to the compliance date.”

I remember back after Biden/Harris came into the White House, and I asked God why it happened. He said to me, and YES GOD SPEAKS TO PEOPLE WHO GO TO HIM AND TRUST IN HIM AND DEPEND ON HIM….”Now you will see the worst in the democrat party.” What was the point? To wake up Americans to the Deep State ideology and agenda the democrat party of the left were trying to keep hidden because they knew the majority of America would be outraged in knowing what they are up to.

In doing my own research on the pandemic vaccines: “OVER vaccination causes your natural immune system to be suppressed: causing one’s own anti-bodies or immune system to work right.  Less injecting is best for your own immune system to work right.” And now with other strains – more vaccines will come!  Beware. Be wise. And above all, believe in what God says about diseases and death (in His Word, the Bible). With all the new vaccines that are COMING FOR SURE, think about all the virus’ that are being injected into your body through vaccines.  Do you NOT think this will have an effect on your own body’s natural immune system?

Why would I put the knowledge of human doctors and scientists above what God says? God, the one who created our bodies and told us why we get sick and die, and how we can prevent and overcome harmful things in our human life. I DO believe that God can give doctors and scientists the knowledge to produce medicines and vaccines that can lower risk and temporarily heal our bodies, but NOT ALL doctors and scientists are to be trusted to do what is right.  Especially in our day, when so many doctors and scientists have alternative reasons than for our health and safety. Just like NOT ALL media sources can be trusted to report the truth without their political twist.

Do what you want, but know the facts before making up your mind. AND, the government has NO RIGHT in forcing you against your will when it comes to your own health and personal safety.

“The G614 variant may impede (hinder/hamper/delay) vaccine design. One of the immediate questions involves the impact of this and other mutations on vaccine efficiency and the potential need to develop multiple candidate vaccines that cover a range of epitopes and their variants,” the professor of medicine and director of the Urban Community Cardiology Program at New York University, Richard A. Stein wrote in an editorial response to the Langone Health study.”

“Going back to the US study that discovered the G614 variant, the authors stated that “the highly prevalent [G614] variant in the European population may cause antigenic drift, resulting in vaccine mismatches that offer little protection to that group of patients.” This possibility must be considered “in the design of a “one size fits all” universal vaccine to offer protection against the deadliest outbreak in this century.”

“Can D164G Strain affect Vaccine Development? Several vaccines against COVID-19 are in a trial phase (some have passed the first trial) and are designed considering the spike proteins of the virus. Recent Oxford’s vaccine has been designed in a way that it helps make antibodies against the virus spike proteins and also helps stimulate the immune system to produce special immune cells to fight against the virus. According to a report published in the journal Cell, the mutated strain might affect the efficacy (worth/value) of the vaccine but only to certain extend.”

“The WHO and other health experts and researchers are still unclear about the nature of D164G. Till now, they don’t have evidence to prove that the new strain could lead to more severe diseases in people or cause problems in vaccine development.”

Read more at: https://www.boldsky.com/health/disorders-cure/what-to-know-about-d614g-strain-of-coronavirus/articlecontent-pf223340-134367.html

Read more at: https://www.boldsky.com/health/disorders-cure/what-to-know-about-d614g-strain-of-coronavirus/articlecontent-pf223340-134367.html

Biden’s current plan of his tax-hike on those businesses that make over $450K or more a year to help cover their 3.5T funding will destroy our economy.

“Tax the Rich!” “Share the Wealth!” It’s ignorance for their followers, but for these politicians it’s both stupidity of some and a scheme to crush our economy by the others. But WHY would they want to crush our economy (by ‘progressively’ raising taxes on those who are prospering in big ways (corporations) and then are able to provide the MOST jobs in our nation? Small businesses provide minimum wage mostly, but gives people a place to start.

I’m interested in this because our family has a ‘Construction’ small family business that is “incorporated.”

The narrative is to hit the millionaires and billionaires, but it WILL have a trickle-down-effect on us all. It’s the working families that will get hit with a great tax increase in the democrat’s 3.5 trillion plan of spending. This plan will hurt small business more than big business, and they know it.

Congress’ own tax committee says that this ‘waste’ funding/spending that raises all our taxes will LAND THE HARDEST ON MIDDLE INCOME FAMILIES.

This administration is punishing investors with this plan from investing HERE IN AMERICA; forces them to invest overseas instead. This destroys our economy. Three million businesses have been killed HERE under this administration, pushing them overseas to help other economies of nations, like China our enemy. What stupidity! Or is it?

We will see with them having their way here: more small businesses not able to survive, less growth in paychecks, less growth in opportunities to prosper.

Mainstream America gets POUNDED in this tax bill with the government taking greater control over our lives: business, paychecks, health, life altogether, and that’s what driving them.

The prosperity we WERE SEEING in 2019 (under Trump): lowest level of poverty in American history; closed racial gap in unemployment; blue collar wages rising more than in one year than in a whole decade under Obama, people weren’t taxed to death, but their taxes cut which led to economic growth, our 401Ks were protected, unlike under this administration’s bill. In the year of 2019 (under Trump) there was more economic expansion than in Obama’s 8 years. There was more economic equality in 2019, the poverty rate the lowest because women and people of color and young people without skills were getting good paying jobs with rising paychecks – because businesses were free to prosper under Trump (a business man with common sense).

The power of economic freedom is letting people KEEP MORE of what they earn! Cut taxes! Common sense! But common sense is being thrown out today! You give businesses incentive to grow and expand with their workers! Part of that is ‘cutting taxes’ on businesses and corporations.

Joe Biden is NOT a ‘capitalist,’ no matter what he says. His plan proves it, punishing working families not only with this tax plan, but with COVID policies and now declaring war on the ‘unvaccinated’ and what that will do to even more working family small businesses. Biden wants the wealthy to pay their share. He has the ignorant in the democrat party thinking it’s NOT FAIR that the wealthy aren’t paying more taxes than they are. They have been made to believe by a false narrative that the wealthy write their own rules for being taxes, for expanding, and for their own growth.

Under this plan, for example: a small business tries to expand doing more of the same in other communities (franchises). But when they reach Biden’s threshold of $400K a year, they come under a huge tax increase, so that they cannot keep growing and creating more jobs. This HINDERS a growing economy, hinders job increase and individual opportunities. Another example: a family business wants to be passed down to the next generation who will have huge taxes to deal with, not able to carry on the business.

When they go after “capital gains,” with increasing taxes you have less investments going on to keep the economy going and growing as our population keeps growing under this anti-American administration. They want a bigger population beholding to them, with their open borders and Afghan refugees favored over our American citizens left behind to suffer under the Taliban. Who is going to support all this funding to support all these illegals and refugees? Not to even mention, all coming into our nation with COVID and criminal plans! OUTRAGEOUS!

This is not just about the Billionaires; it will GREATLY affect ALL America’s hard working families – as it trickles down. But the simple-minded don’t seem to get this, or they are simply afraid to see it and then be responsible to provide for themselves, instead of government nursing them through life.

So I go back to my original question: WHY IS THIS WHITE HOUSE ADMINISTRATION WORKING SO FAST AND AGAINST OUR CONSTITUTION – TO DESTROY AMERICA’S ECONOMY? WHO or WHAT is really behind it all? Clearly it’s about transforming American into a different country where we work for the government instead of the government working for us “we the people” who have more power than they do, ACCORDING TO OUR CONSTITUTION! And that’s why this party in the White House is breaking our constitutional laws in so many ways. But who will hold THEM accountable? They have the WH, the Senate and the House, right now. They want to pack the Supreme Court – so they can control that accountability also!

It’s something we better understand and deal with FAST! May these next two elections show that Americans of all ‘parties’ have finally seen what they need to see, hear what they need to hear, understand what they’ve needed to understand – so we can DO WHAT WE NEED TO DO!

God help us!

In the book of Acts (in the Bible – chapter 16) teaches Christians to hold the authorities accountable for their injustice. After Paul and Silas were thrown into prison for telling people how to be saved through the Gospel of Jesus Christ, then beaten and severely flogged, God used them in prison.  God uses the persecution of His saints to bring more to Himself.

“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.” I’m sure many of these prisoners began to call on the Lord. God did an amazing thing for Paul and Silas in prison, opening the prison doors, where they could’ve escaped, but chose to stay put. Integrity! The Jailer almost killed himself fearing the authorities over all the prisoners escaping, but Paul and Silas stopped him, “We are all here!” The Jailer and his family were saved by the grace of God through this miracle and the message of the Gospel by Paul and Silas.

Paul and Silas’ crime: “These men (Jews with Roman citizenship) are throwing our city into an uproar by advocating CUSTOMS unlawful for us Romans to accept or practice.”  Their accusers called the TRUTH of the Gospel, an UNLAWFUL custom that should not be accepted or practiced in Rome.

As I read this passage this morning it hit me how here in America the GOSPEL of JESUS CHRIST has become UNLAWFUL to accept and practice. Why? Because to those who worship other gods – the Gospel of Jesus Christ threatens them; holds them accountable to their Creator God for their sins (but also shows them way of salvation!).  In this particular account in Acts – the threat was how a female slave who foretold the future was being used by her owners to make money.  Hum. Has our government been using our abilities (with outrageous taxation and costly penalties) so they can live in luxury, not really serving the people, but themselves? I’d say yes, for most.

Here we have a pastor right now, of an L.A. church suing L.A. for injustice, and winning by way of our Constitutional rights.

Rev. Franklin Graham, in a Facebook post, celebrated John MacArthur’s victory, saying “Thank you for standing firm. This is a huge victory for religious liberty—it’s a win for all of us! The Constitution has the last word. This situation was an abuse of power by those making the decisions in their county and their state.”

Both the State of Calif. and the L.A. County EACH must hand over to this church $400K, totaling $800K.

My point in bringing up Paul and Silas in the Bible? The authorities (magistrates) told the Jailer to release Paul and Silas from prison, and to leave the city. BUT Paul said to the officers: “They beat us publicly without a trial, even though we are Roman citizens, and threw us into prison. And now they want to get rid of us quietly! NO! Let them come themselves and escort us out!”  The officers reported this to the authorities and they came to appease Paul and Silas, and personally and humbly escort them out of the prison. BUT Paul and Silas did not leave just yet, but went to the home of a woman they had led to Jesus, and met with others there that they had led to Jesus to encourage them. “THEN THEY LEFT.”

To me, this teaches us that as American citizens who are Christians – we have every right to hold our government ACCOUNTABLE for what they do that goes against the Constitution of the United States of America! Just as Paul did in Rome as a Roman citizen Christian. The only difference is that Rome never had a Constitution like America that is rooted in the ‘biblical’ principles of governing This is why they regarded the Gospel as a custom not to be accepted nor practiced by LAW.

Rome’s early days: “In the early days of the fledgling settlement, Rome was governed by kings. Similar in many ways to the emperors that came later, these individual men had complete authority over all aspects of the lives of their subjects. A challenge to the king’s authority would almost certainly lead to severe punishment, typically death. As kings and rulers of other countries and civilizations throughout history have found (often paying the price with their life), such totalitarian rule can only last so long. The end of the road came with Rome’s seventh king, Tarquinius Superbus (Tarquin the Proud) who ruled from 534-510 BC. He repealed several earlier constitutional reforms and used violence and murder to hold on to power. His tyrannical rule was despised by the Romans and the final straw was the rape of Lucretia, a patrician Roman, at the hands of Tarquinius’ son Sextius. The Tarquins and the monarchy were cast out of Rome in 510 BC in a revolt led by Lucius Junius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus, who would become the first two consuls of a new form of government – the Roman republic.”

We have our American roots in God and His Word. Therefore, every Christian and Church (who preaches the Gospel of Jesus Christ) has EVERY RIGHT to hold our government and all officials (mayors, governors, senators, representatives, and even our president and vice-president) ACCOUNTABLE TO THE LAWS OF THE LAND.

To our own shame: We’ve allowed new laws to be made by the legislature that go against righteousness and justice by God’s design. We even see how some Courts think they have the right to make new laws, which is the right of the legislature branch only according to our Constitution.

I have heard Christians say that our only duty is to God in preaching the Gospel and sharing our testimonies of what Jesus means to us; to stay out of politics! You know, “the separation of church and state!” This is not about the church (Christians) not taking government seats of authority, in order to hold to our Constitution, but rather about the government not being allowed to force its citizens to come under any one religion, like it was in Great Britain under the Roman Catholic church, which is why Christians left and asked God to lead them to where they could worship Him freely and live by the principles that bless all peaceful people of any race.  And so America was born.

I thank God for this example of Pastor John McArthur holding Calif. authorities accountable to our Constitution. May we begin to see more of this. LET FREEDOM RING! MAY GOD BE GLORIFIED!

Father God, I ask of You because I believe in You. I know You can do all things and that nothing is impossible for You to do. You are Creator! What is it that You CAN NOT do, or maybe WILL NOT do?

You will not MAKE US love You because of how You created us with free-will. Animals have not been made like us; made in Your image. You made man to rule over them, to use them for our needs and enjoyment. They just do what You made them to do. But we are free to choose ‘whatever,’ as we live out our life on earth in these male and female bodies that You gave us along with all the ways we are made in Your image.

You will not MAKE US choose what to believe or to believe in. BUT! You have NOT left us on our own limited understanding and knowledge; for You have created all things in such a way that Your creation reveals that there IS a Creator. Your Word also tells us this. But atheist scientists who have tried to prove Your Word (the Bible) false, and who didn’t want to believe in a “Creator” such as Yourself (that they are accountable to), have come to believe, after all their ongoing scientific research and discoveries, that You are the Creator of the universe and of all living things; therefore we are all accountable to You. Most have become believers in Your Son! Others do their best to keep trying to prove that You do not exist.

Father God, You could MAKE US obey You, but then that would contradict who You are: You are love. It would go against Your ‘laws’ of love “do not murder, do not cheat or steal, etc. and against Your ‘principles’ of love: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.  It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.  Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-8

We read this passage about ‘love’ and apply it to how WE should love one another. But since love originated with God, then this passage in 1 Corinthians defines who God Himself IS. “We love because God FIRST LOVED US!”  He has said in His Word that He created us FOR HIS LOVE; to “pour out His love into our hearts by His Holy Spirit” when we believe in what Jesus Christ did for us on the Cross out of His love for us.  God wants children out of love and for no other reason. People have children for so many reasons, other than true love, but God has only one ‘pure and holy’ reason: the wonderful glorious eternal family of God Almighty. “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind can conceive or imagine – what God has planned and prepared for those who love Him.” (1 Corinthians 2:9)

God is patient and kind; that’s what His grace and mercy are simply all about. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” (John 3:16-17) How many of us have cried out (more than once) to God to send His Son and end all this evil on the earth?! “Come Lord Jesus COME!”  But Jesus told us to just put our faith in Him who strengthens us and in His promises that keep us faithful with hope, and to learn from Him how to ‘patiently’ endure the evil day – as His Day approaches – making sure our love (kindness) does not grow cold. We are seeing and experiencing what happens when people live by fear and hatred and a hunger for power.

“God does not envy; what is there for Him to envy when He has it all as Creator and can create anything He wants? God does not boast; He simply gives us the truth when we ask Him for it, seek Him for it. God is not proud: He is not SELF-gratifying; He is not SELF-pleased but rather He is ‘pleased’ with us – His children who love Him by our own choice to do so, day by day. It’s His desire to give us all things good in life to completely sustain us and profit us.

God is not SELF-seeking; He FULLY KNOWS WHO HE IS and that there is no one or thing that He fears! He does not ‘dishonor’ us in this life; we dishonor ourselves and each other. He wants to honor us by rewarding us for our humble faith in Him. God wants us to have all that He has to give!

God is amazingly ‘patient,’ doing all He can to show us the way to His love and Life in His Son.

God ‘keeps no record of wrongs,’ meaning that He has provided us a Savior (His own perfect Sacrificial Lamb to die in our place) so that He can and WILL forgive us of all our wrong-doing. The only records He keeps is the book of all we’ve done with this life, good and bad, but He also has another book called “the Book of Life” that has written in it all the names of those who have CHOSEN Jesus Christ as their Savior and Lord. This Book does not allow God to keep a ‘record of wrongs’ since the disciples of Christ have all their sins covered by the blood of God’s own beloved Son, Jesus Christ. What God forgives God forgets.

God does not delight in evil because there is NO EVIL in Him nor in His Kingdom will evil be allowed to enter. Is God evil because He created Hell, eternal torment and separation from all the goodness of God; the place He created for the devil and the angels that followed Satan out of heaven? Why did God’s number one angel (Lucifer he was called then) get kicked out of heaven by God their Creator? “Love does not envy!” Lucifer envied God’s Son, and the honor and authority that the Father gave the Son. Satan tempts us to envy and to take what doesn’t belong to us. God is jealous, but God does not envy.

Jealousy is something altogether different; for it has to do with “relationship” and “vows.” A man becomes jealous when his wife becomes interested in someone else. A wife becomes jealous in the same way. A parent can become jealous of a person their child seeks to replace them with, or a child can become jealous when they feel their mom or dad has made someone else or something else more important than them. Jealousy is about relationships. Envy is about power and covetousness (wanting what others have and even setting out to take what doesn’t belong to you), as Lucifer did in heaven.

God rejoices with the truth; He rejoices over those who seek the truth from Him ‘in His Word’ and when we ask Him for the supreme wisdom of truth; for when we ask, “He will give it generously and without finding any fault in us.” (James 1:4-5)

God always protects; He protects what is good and holy; He protects who His Son, our High Priest, loves and defends. The Father completely trusts the Son; for they are one in all things. Jesus told us to pray to our Father, “…and do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from evil.” God also protects the earth. People are so afraid of the earth running out of what we need to stay alive and prospering, and of the earth becoming over-populated, but the earth belongs to God. No matter what man thinks and tries to do in order to “save the earth,” HE CAN NOT! That is God’s doing. All man ends up doing is make things far worse on the earth when he rejects God and what God says in His Word about what is still to come, and why.

God always hopes! What does He hope for? God hopes that people will come to know Him by the truth in His Word that He has made available to all; by His Son that He sent to show us Himself and the Kingdom that is to come. God not only hopes, but He has done GREAT THINGS and WONDERFUL THINGS (even beyond our understanding) for all the human race – in order to see HIS PERFECT HOPE REALIZED.

God perseveres. What God started – God will complete. God has His “redemption” plan that can NOT be thwarted, but WILL BE COMPLETED in His own time, and with perfect exactness of His good purpose. God will not change His mind. God Himself never changes or evolves. That’s why the false-belief of the evolution of man from the ape or whatever – is a lie. God made man in HIS IMAGE. God is not an ape or whatever else God has created. God WILL HAVE HIS WAY!

God always trusts.  Does God trust everyone? Yes! He trusts each of us to do what is in our hearts, whether right or wrong, evil or good. And because He trusts in that way – God uses the wicked as well as the righteous to do His will and purpose. Does God trust everyone with His Word? No, but He does allow people to do what they want with His Word,  and believe what they want about His Word, and to say what they want about His Word and Himself. Which takes us back to the beginning of this article that God has given us all FREEWILL. Now if that’s not love, I can’t imagine what is! And, although hard to swallow, the love of God includes how we WILL ALL FACE consequences and His final judgment for our freedom to choose, to do and say, and believe in whatever and whoever.

“The LORD GOD has set before us life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore, be wise and good to yourself, choose His life, so that you and your children and grandchildren may live, and that you may love the LORD your God, obey Him, and hold fast to Him. For HE IS YOUR LIFE, and He can even prolong your life in the land.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20