The Wise Man – Part 7

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Choose Well

 

Joshua 24:15 “But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your forefathers served beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

 

God created us with a free will. We can choose what we want.

 

Just has Joshua gave the children of Israel the choice to serve whom they wanted, so it is with us. At the end of our life what we have become, what we have achieved, as well as our eternal destination can be summed up in one word: CHOICE. What did we choose? What path did we take? Being able to choose is a tremendous blessing, but also an awesome responsibility with consequences – so choose well!

 

In Matthew 16 Jesus asks His disciple who people say that He is and Peter comes out with the great acclamation that He is the Christ – the Son of the Living God. ‘Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven.’ Matthew 16:17

 

Jesus went on to explain that the path that He had chosen to do His Father’s will (Luke 22:42) was going to the cross. However, ‘Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him. “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!”’ Matthew 16:22

 

What Peter was saying to Jesus was that He should pity himself, and why must HE suffer being that He is the Son of God? But Jesus turned to Peter and rebuked him quite sternly and said: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the things of God, but the things of men.” Matthew 16:23

 

Jesus went on to say: “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.” (Matthew 16:24) What we have here is a choice. We can choose to pity ourselves or we can choose to deny ourselves. The choice is ours. What path do we choose? Choose well. Self-pity is one of the main reasons for depression. Just start feeling sorry for yourself and you will soon feel depressed. God’s way is to choose the cross and deny self. Choose well.

 

We could also ask ourselves: What kind of nation do we want? We have the ability and opportunity to choose.  In God’s Word we are told:  “Choose some wise, understanding and respected men from each of your tribes, and I will set them over you.” (Deuteronomy 1:13) We can choose those we want to govern. Choose well.

 

According to the Word we can choose life or death. The choice is ours. “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.” Deuteronomy 30:19-20

 

We should not make our choice ‘in a vacuum;’ there must be a true foundation that we make our choices from. So, what is the foundation for our choice? I can think of three.

 

  1. We can make out choice based upon what I call the 51%. If 51% of the people are doing it then we choose to go along. However, are the 51% right? Jesus said that the road that leads to destruction is wide and many (51%?) are following it.
  2. Or we can make our choice based upon the ‘popular fad’ of today and so we choose what has become popular. However, tomorrow it will be something else that is popular and so we see that it is a very flimsy foundation for our choices.
  3. We can make our choice based upon our belief system whatever that might be – humanism, secularism, atheism, socialism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, etc.

Or, we can make our choice based upon God’s Word, the Scripture of the Bible. This is what I will choose. First, because it is infallible. Secondly, because it is flawless, and thirdly, because it never changes. It is the solid foundation. God, who has given us His Word is not a man that He should lie.

 

In closing we need to understand the tremendous privilege we have to make our own choices, but also what a responsibility hangs on the choices we make. Choose well!

Daily Devotional

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Proverbs 25:26 The godly have given in to the wicked, and it has polluted our land like a muddying of a spring.

 

Micah 6:12 The rich have become wealthy through extortion and violence. The people are so used to lying that they can no longer know the truth from a lie.

 

Micah 7:3 Our leaders are skilled at doing evil! Our judges demand bribes. People with influence get what they want, and together they scheme to twist justice.

 

If the Godly stand up we will no longer be the silent majority, but the loud majority. We need to hold our leaders accountable for their actions.

 

Is this what has happened to America?!

The Wise Man – Part 6

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His Relationship to His Wife

 

Proverbs 18:22 “He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.”

 

We saw the wise man’s relationship to God, but what about his relationship to his wife?  It is important for us to go back to the beginning when God created man.  We read: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.’”

 

Together we see that they are to rule and reign. Both are necessary for subduing the earth and to rule over God’s creation. Together they are to be fruitful and increase in number. In chapter 2 of Genesis God saw that it was not good for man to live alone and needed a suitable helper and so out of Adam’s rib a woman God formed and brought her to Adam. Out of a man came a woman, but now we see that out of a woman comes a child, men and women.

 

A man will leave his father and mother and cling to his wife. “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.” This is God’s order. Not two men or two women, but a man and woman. This is the main building block for society. Tear this prime order down and soon society will collapse.

 

A wise man will ‘love’ his wife. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” (Ephesians 5:25) The love that is mentioned here is the type of love that God produces and this is the love that we are to have for our wife. There are four characteristics about this love that need to be mentioned and it was this type of love that Jesus had for the church and that He gave His life for.

 

  1. Accept: Jesus Christ accepts us where we are and in that acceptance we begin to change. So it is with a husband’s love for his wife. He accepts her because he is accepted by Jesus Christ.
  2. Aware: Jesus was aware of us: our needs, our past, all our pains, every secret desire, etc. and all through our life – His grace will be sufficient. So it is with a wise man. He needs to be aware of his wife’s needs, her pain, her desires and her standing with the Lord spiritually.
  3. Gives: Jesus gave all of Himself. So it with a wise man in his relationship with his wife.
  4. Forgives: While were yet sinners Christ died for us. What He said on the cross He says to us all: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” If we do not have a forgiving spirit, then we will have a bitter spirit and we know how a bitter spirit can ruin and destroy.

 

A wise man, according to Proverbs, recognizes that a good wife is a precious gift from God and understands that a great favor has been bestowed upon him. This in turn leads him to look at his wife as a crowning glory.   “A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.” Proverbs 12:4

 

The wise man looks at his wife as Christ looks at the church in not only praising her, trusting her, but being faithful to her.  I was writing recently to some friends looking back over the past 50 years of ministry and the one thing that we could say is that God has been faithful and that this should be the characteristic of a husband to his wife – to be faithful.

 

This ‘lack of’ faithfulness to wives is a problem in our society today. Proverbs admonishes us to, “Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well,” (Proverb 5:15) and not to be “captivated by an adulteress. Why embrace the bosom of another man’s wife?” Proverbs 5:20

 

We live in a time when our families are under constant demonic attacks and we need wise men and wise husbands to arise for such a time as this.

 

Daily Devotional

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Lord, I read and hear about our politicians and all the evil things they are doing, so why do You allow these wicked people to get away so much evil?

 

Son, I will ultimately prevail as I have mentioned in My Word. This assurance, along with glimpses of My rule, will give you hope to simply trust Me, and My plan regarding the dark days ahead. But understand this that when the wicked are in authority, sin flourishes, and people run wild. This wickedness will rot any nation, and these evil people will never understand justice. But those who follow Me will understand.

 

I AM slow to get angry, and My power is great. I will never let the guilty go unpunished. I will be a refuge for you when the day of trouble comes because you love Me and trust Me. I will be very close to those who trust in Me.

 

 

Abraham’s Journey of Faith – Part 3

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Genesis 16 – Forfeiting God’s Best For What?

 

Continuing in my quiet time in Genesis with Abraham’s journey of faith I saw a “daughter of Eve” giving in to the same temptation of the devil that Eve fell for in the Garden of Eden.

 

Note: All women are “daughters of Eve” in that we are created as “mothers of all living” and that we can be so “easily deceived.”

 

God made a covenant with Abram (Abraham) for the land of Canaan to belong to his descendants. (Genesis 15) Abram and Sarai did not have any children at this time. After they had been living in Canaan 10 years, Sarai gave in to the devil’s temptation to “offer” her husband the “forbidden fruit,” as Eve did Adam. In this case the forbidden fruit was Sarai’s Egyptian maidservant Hagar that she offered to Abram to have a child for him in fulfilling what God said directly to Abram.

 

Questions I have: Why didn’t Sarai believe that God would open her own womb, Abram’s true wife, for that promise to be fulfilled? Concubines are not God’s perfect way. Surrogates aren’t either. Why didn’t Abram remember what happened when he offered Sarai to the Pharaoh in a peace-deal? Why didn’t Abram remember who Sarai is to God so that Abram saw Sarai as God’s means for giving him the son of God’s promise to him? Did Sarai have a low opinion of herself because she was barren for so long, and because off how Abram used her with the Pharaoh? These are all questions that come to me as I ponder “between the lines” of what is recorded in Scriptures; for we know that so much more is true that has not been written in the Bible. But, at the same time we are not to make a doctrine or religion out of what we can only imagine.

 

Abram could’ve shown his wife that he cherished her only by praying for God to open her womb, and then waiting ‘by faith’ for God to do so since God can open and shut wombs. We saw this with Pharaoh’s people when God sent the plague of infertility because Pharaoh took Sarai, another man’s wife, into his house. Note: If you think your adulterous ways, or pre-marital sexual activities won’t have unwanted consequences, you’re wrong. When we go against God’s natural design – bad things happen sooner or later.

 

Sarai might not have offered Hagar to her husband then if Abram stood on the character of God of the word from God. What difference it can make when husbands/fathers are the true “coverings” for their wives and children – that God has called them to be. Maybe there wouldn’t be any divorces and broken homes, and children out doing things they should never be doing. Maybe there would be more wives as true helpmates for husbands. Maybe there would be more children respecting their fathers, listening intently to their fathers, and even following in their father’s footsteps.

 

God has always spoken to the man first about His plans because God has made the man responsible with His direct Word, and responsible for his wife and children. Adam was made first and then the woman as his helpmate. A “worldly” wife will have a different outcome in a man’s family than a “godly” wife has in a man’s family.

 

The devil’s temptations will always sound pleasing, reasonable and wise, but we will regret it if we cooperate or unite with the methods, organizations and schemes of the devil who continually comes up with new ways to go against God’s natural design and laws.

 

When I saw the number 10 (10 years living in Canaan) it came to me that God was going to open Sarai’s womb because the number 10 in God’s definition of numbers has in its meaning: the end of suffering. The devil got to Sarai at just the right time when she was very discouraged. All God’s servants grow weary of waiting on what they have heard directly from the Lord in His Word. It’s our weakness, but God understands it. No wonder God has spoken to us all through His servant Isaiah the prophet:

 

“Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary, and to him who lacks might He increases power.” Isaiah 40:28-29

 

Just like when God spoke to Adam about His will, God spoke to Abram about His will for his family’s future. And just like Eve, Sarai listened to the tempter and did exactly what he wanted her to do. The outcome of both not only affected them but all their descendants.

 

Note: When we come to the Cross of our Lord’s forgiveness and surrender ourselves to God’s will, every hereditary curse upon us is broken.

 

With Adam’s disobedience came God’s curse on all men and the earth. With Eve’s disobedience came God’s curse on all women. (Genesis 3) With Abram’s disobedience came God’s curse of hostility with Ishmael (Abram’s son with Hagar) against Abram’s son Isaac (born to Sarai) and all his descendants. (Genesis 16:12)

 

In the end God will set straight which line is the true line of God’s covenant with Abraham; for that battle is still raging today.

 

What really stands out to me about Sarai is that she blames Abram for the strife now in their house with Hagar having a son for Abram. First Sarai says to Abram, “The Lord has kept me from having children. Go, sleep with my slave; perhaps I can build a family through her.” (Genesis 16:2) Abram agreed. (Just like Adam agreed with Eve about the fruit.) Then later after Hagar copped a superior attitude – Sarai says to her husband, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering!” To which Abram replies, “Do with her whatever you think best.”

 

Note: When we resort to worldly means of getting pregnant or preventing pregnancy – we invite unnecessary trouble and curses into our lives and into the lives of our children. The world’s ways are not God’s ways; for His ways never bring on us unnecessary trouble and hardship. God is very capable of opening or closing our wombs. I speak out of personal experience of seeing Him do so for me.

 

After Abram tells Sarai to do what she thinks best, Sarai mistreats Hagar and Hagar flees from Sarai. Hagar couldn’t depend on Abram’s support or protection from the effects of Sarai’s angry jealousy. But the Lord protected and supported Hagar. He spoke to Hagar near a spring in the desert: “Go back to your mistress and submit to her. I will increase your descendants so that they will be too numerous to count.” Both Sarai and Hagar were wrong in how they handled their situations, but God’s promise to Abram was with Sarai, not Hagar.

 

What Sarai said to Abram is somewhat true, in that he was “responsible for her suffering” under Hagar’s conceited ways in the home of Abram. God has made the man responsible for what happens to his wife and children. The husband/father is to listen to God about important family and national matters. Abram went along with Sarai’s offer of another way for him to bear a son, and they all suffered for it, them and all their descendants.

 

We forfeit the best from God by taking the tempter up on his ‘ungodly’ suggestions. We will live out ‘the best’ from God by going to God and waiting on Him to fulfill what He says to us personally by His Spirit’s revelation, whatever it might be. God’s word to us is for ‘hearing’ what our faith needs to hear – that we are to move with and act on – so that we will come into our blessed insurance and eternal inheritance with Christ.

 

“So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward. You need to persevere, so that after you have done God’s will, you will receive what He has promised. For, ‘in just a very while little, He who is coming will come and will not delay. But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.’ But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.” Hebrews 10:35-39

The Wise Man – Part 5

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His Relationships

 

Proverbs 9:10 “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”

Proverbs 14:16 “A wise man fears the Lord and shuns evil, but a fool is hotheaded and reckless.”

Proverbs 15:33 “The fear of the Lord teaches a man wisdom, and humility comes before honor.”

 

A wise man’s relationship to God is important because we know that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Paul says in 1 Corinthians 1:20 “Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” It is almost as if Paul is saying to the wise man of the world that if he is so wise then come and give us the solutions to the problems that we are faced with in the world today. They have no real solutions! Why? To begin with, it’s because they have the wrong world-view.

 

According to the book of Proverbs a man is wise, because of his fear of God and he has God’s view of the world, what we call a “Biblical Worldview.” A Biblical Worldview is laid out in the first 10 chapters of the book of Genesis which brings out the creation, the fall of man, and God’s solution with the redemption of man. This is why the wise man in his relationship to God has the right foundation to bring solutions to the problems of the world today.

 

The wise man of Proverbs is a man that acknowledges God; that God is exactly who He says He is in His written Word. Because of this he trusts in the Lord to direct his steps and makes his decisions to follow God’s ways, laws, commandments, statues and decrees. “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.”  Proverbs 3:5

 

The problem that we have today is that we depend upon man’s knowledge and experience and not God’s character and revelation. Like the book of Proverbs brings out, there is a way that seems right to a man, but it leads to death. We see this in the 20th century with the rise and fall of fascism, communism as well as humanism “isms” have been responsible for over 150 million deaths. This is the result of man’s wisdom without God.

 

The wise man according to Proverbs is also a man who heeds instructions and does not despise the discipline of the Lord. Because he knows that the discipline of the Lord is leading him not only in a prudent life, but a life of doing what is right, just and fair.

 

One other aspect of a wise man according to Proverbs and his relationship to his Lord – is his quickness to confess his sin. He knows this truth that he “who conceals his sins does not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.”

 

The wise man according to Proverbs is a man that knows that God is slow to move from the seat of mercy to the seat of judgment, but move He will. The wise man has a healthy fear of his God. He rests in the truth that when he confesses sin and rebellion that God is quick to move from judgment to the seat of mercy.

 

Abraham’s Journey of Faith – Part 2

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Genesis 13-15

 

Born-again believers in Jesus Christ are to have Abraham’s faith in God, not Abraham’s fear of man.

 

Pray out of faith, not worry, not fear, but out of faith in what God has directly said ‘to you’ in His Word by His Spirit.

 

Abraham did some dumb things along the way but the Scriptures say that at the end Abraham believed and it was credited to him as “righteousness.”

 

Abraham and Lot had to separate because of the size of their herds; there just wasn’t enough land for food living with each other. As the story goes Lot chose to go live in Sodom, while Abram remained in the hills overlooking the cities. When four kings allied to overtake the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, and 3 other kings (four kings against five kings) they succeeded and seized all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and they carried off Abram’s nephew Lot and his possessions since he was living there. Abram found out about it and during the night with his men – he recovered all that these kings had taken. (Chapter 14)

 

God gave Abram victory in defending the city of Sodom and Gomorrah only because of Abram’s concern and responsibility over his family (Lot’s clan) who came with Abram when the Lord called Abram to the Promised Land. When the king of Sodom wanted to basically pay Abram for what he did, Abram said: “With raised hand I have sworn an oath to the Lord, God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth, that I will accept nothing belonging to you, not even a thread or the strap of a sandal, so that you will never be able to say, ‘I made Abram rich.’” (vs. 22-23)

 

Then the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.” Genesis 15:1

 

I wonder how many of God’s people here in America are looking to the president and the government for what they need and want. I wonder how much longer it will be until God’s people no longer get their non-profit tax relief from the government if they preach against certain things that God calls evil. Who makes the people of God to prosper anyway? Who gives God’s people the freedom to live the way that pleases Him? Man? Man can try to prevent it – but “it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the LIVING GOD!”

 

We know God and Abram were not defending the wicked lifestyles in the societies of Sodom and Gomorrah because later we see that God sent His angels to Abram with the warning of judgment upon Sodom and Gomorrah and for the increasing torment upon Lot and his family there. Lot sat at the city gate each day to welcome visitors into his home so they would be protected from hostility. God favored Lot for this. (Chapters 18 and 19)

 

In America we (of the Christian faith) have slowly (progressively) been brought into slavery by America’s enemies, those who have been elected and placed into powerful positions of our governing branches that are NOT God-fearing and that are working against America’s Constitution. God is not going to defend the wicked lifestyles of our culture today. God will although defend His people who have repented of their own wicked ways and returned to Him, trusting in Him and what He says to them directly.

 

Then the Lord made His covenant with Abram, and you can read about it in chapter 15. But in a nutshell God ‘sealed’ His promise to Abram. Do you have a promise from God? Did our founding fathers have a promise from God? From what I have seen in the Bible, a promise from God always follows what He is asking us to do, or commanding us to do. When we are faithful to God – God rewards the faithful. When God is pleased – God is generous. And God was certainly generous to Abraham.

 

“Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to Abram as righteousness.” (15:6)

 

Lot and his family were told by the angels of the Lord who came to destroy Sodom and Gomorrah – to leave Sodom, but where on earth can the righteous flee today and be free to live out their faith in the Lord without any hindrance or enemies. America was pretty much the last place of religious freedom.

 

God said to Abram in a dream that “his descendants would be strangers in a country not their own and that they would be enslaved and mistreated there.” And He went on to say: “But I will punish the nation you serve as slaves, and you will come out with great wealth.” Genesis 15:13-14 (“you” meaning Abram’s descendants who became Egypt’s slaves)

 

Are we losing our country as it was? Old America is being transformed into a new America with strange thinking and abnormal lifestyles that never used to make up our culture. We are fast becoming the strangers in our own country, enslaved by a government that has removed Jesus Christ and the Bible out of everything – with the thinking that they are gods in control of how to live, who lives and who dies, and even the future of mankind.

 

Do we as disciples of Jesus Christ have a land with a promise from God?

 

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy, He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, who through faith are protected by God’s power for the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1:3-5

 

Daily Devotional

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One thing we have learned from history is that we have learned nothing from history. Therefore we will make the same mistakes as past generations. Look into why so many Jews were killed in Germany, and you will see why Christians are hated with a vengeance and killed; why Christians won’t be prepared like the Jews were unprepared: believing the lies they were told.

 

The Lord clearly tells us in His written Word what is coming and the world events and natural disasters that lead up to the Day of His glorious return:

 

Matthew 24:9-12 NLT

You will be arrested, persecuted, and killed. You will be hated all over the world because you are My followers. And many will turn away from Me and betray and hate each other. And many false prophets will appear and will deceive many people. Sin will be rampant everywhere, and the love of many will grow cold.

 

Revelation 6:9-11

When the Lamb broke the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of all who had been martyred for the word of God and for being faithful in their testimony. They shouted to the Lord and said, “O Sovereign Lord, holy and true, how long before you judge the people who belong to this world and avenge our blood for what they have done to us?” Then a white robe was given to each of them. And they were told to rest a little longer until the full number of their brothers and sisters-their fellow servants of Jesus who were to be martyred – had joined them.

 

So are you ready? It’s very wise to be prepared spiritually, mentally and physically – for what is certain to come. Listen to the Holy Spirit, for He will show God’s people how to be ready and prepared.

 

 

Daily Devotional

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2 Peter 2:7 “Lot was a righteous man who was sick of the shameful immorality of wicked people around him – where he lived.”

 

“My burden for the United States of America” I want to apologize to all the family, friends and associates that are offended by what I’ve written concerning my understanding of what has happened to America.  But, I think it is necessary to understand why I believe the way I do, because we are NOT fighting against flesh and blood, but against rulers of the unseen world. These unseen rulers are the ones behind all of the changes in our land, behind the new policies, and behind our civil warring, and behind America’s destructive path – that I write about below.

 

The United States of America as it used to be – is gone; for we are not united by any means. For unity to return it would mean that the older generation has to die out. The older generation sees where America is headed and is not at all interested in supporting that in any way.  This ‘new’ America will be in the form of socialism with the government in complete control of every part of our lives; a government designed to ‘supposedly’ meet your needs; which God calls a “false god” because this is not what ‘government’ is supposed to do. These progressives of new America will teach all children their new thinking that sounds good but is pure evil. This mindset of new America is opposite of the thinking of the older generations who trusted in God.

 

It is my belief that for the progressive agenda to succeed it has to destroy the family unit, remove Jesus Christ from everything except cursing, and to remove God’s Word (the Bible).

 

The progressives with their agenda first needed to change what a true family is as God designed the family, which is the strength of any nation. They needed to replace a family by new ideas that come from the real enemy behind the progressive agenda. The best place to start this new thinking is in our schools, and teach our children at a very young age that they need to open up their minds to this new thinking of what a family is. Therefore, the Bible is no longer the source of truth on this subject.

 

Birth control and abortion has attacked the family, with Margaret Sanger in the 50’s and 60’s forming Planned Parenthood primarily to extinguish the black race. But, birth control and abortion has spread like a disease everywhere. Then came the sexual revolution in the 60’s with the younger generation coming against the older generation’s ‘morality’ so that they could continue living a lifestyle of no rules or consequences for sexual activities. They coined the idea that love is about sex.

 

The progressive leaders of our day came out of this moral breakdown of the true family which had always been the strength of America under God’s blessings. So they got to work removing God/Bible/prayer schools and from public places saying that it offends some people, which grew to offend more and more people under the influence of America’s real enemy and his cohorts. The real enemy didn’t want America’s children influenced by the teaching of the Bible and by openly praying to God, so schools were no longer allowed to teach the Bible, or to pray and now children are not even allowed to say the Pledge of Alliance to our flag in school because of the words: “one nation under God.”

 

Then the “progressives” went about taking away the rights of parents to discipline and teach their children the way God tells us to, and if we do not surrender to their thinking – we are threatened with arrest if we do what God tells us.

 

Then began the propaganda of making any wife/mother who stayed at home with her children to be regarded as “less” than what a woman is; that a real woman is one who can have a family and a career outside the home. Women began competing with men going after their leadership positions. The purity of marriage started breaking down with adultery and divorce. Adultery no longer a crime. Divorce no longer shameful. Women wanted to fight like men and were allowed into the military branches. Children being left for others to care of and teach. This caused a redefining of what a man or woman is, and led to unnatural mixtures with men acting like women and women acting like men, even men wanting to have sex with men and women with women; all unnatural and destructive. The victories of the real enemy in our lives.  Now children are growing up to think this is all right and good; going against their conscience, which comes from God, to harden them against godly conviction. Therefore, it’s all working to destroy the America God started with our founding fathers; a nation God wanted to use to bless people.

 

Then came the arrogant idea and humanistic teaching that man has the answers and solutions to everything in the world. A modern generation has grown up to think men working together in unity can come up with the solutions to anything happening in the world. (Tower of Babel all over again!) All this “progression” away from God has caused a spiraling effect of corruption, injustice, a holocaust of babies in the womb, bold sexual perversions brought before the eyes and ears of children, and the redefining of marriage, family and culture.

 

This new progressive thinking is not about the truth at all, and not about consequences for any wrong doing, and it’s not about helping people live the way they want either, but rather it is a growing society of people thinking self-centered thoughts all the time – influenced and led by the REAL enemy who has been working day and night to bring good old America down to her knees. These “progressive” teachers and leaders keep coming up with ideas, plans and policies that will allow their agenda of a “new” America to work for them.  But sadly, nothing will work for the good except God’s design for family and government.

 

This “progressive” thinking is simply setting up America, like all nations, to welcome in a despicable man that the real enemy will embody. He will slip in when least expected and take over by flattery and intrigue. With deceitful promises, he will make various alliances. He will become strong despite having only a handful of followers. He will distribute among his followers the plunder and wealth of others – something his predecessors had never done; but this will last for only a short while.

 

Do I believe we can turn America back? No! If we could then we would have to take over the schools and teach the children the truth according to God and get going sharing the Gospel of Jesus of Christ who is the Hope of all nations, and do it at any cost. We would have to stand as strong pillars in our society as to what a real marriage and family is all about. We would have to see godly mem taking over governmental positions. We would have to uphold righteousness in our personal lives as well as holding our own children to being responsible for truth and righteousness, and accountable for their bad choices. We would have to rally together in prayer to our God – asking Him to help us bring this nation back to Him. For this to be done it would take at least 50 – 60 years to bring about.

 

So what do we do then? I say get ready for judgment because this nation’s cup of inequity is full – according to God. The rotting of a nation starts from the head down. Study the Word of God so that you will understand what is to come and how to be prepared both spiritually and physically; how to teach your children and grandchildren so that they are trusting God and following through with what He wants them to do in their time – before our King comes to reign on the earth, just as He promised. The last kingdom of the earth – will be the everlasting Kingdom of God!

 

“As it is in heaven – it will be on the earth!” This is the truth, according to the Savior of the world: Jesus Christ – Son of the Living God and Creator of us all.

 

 

Abraham’s Journey of Faith – Part 1

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Genesis 12 starts Abraham’s journey of faith with God’s call to him:

 

“Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you. I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”

 

Abram left his father’s home in obedience to God and with his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot and his household they set out on pilgrimage to the Promised Land of Canaan.

 

“The Lord appeared to Abram and said, ‘To your offspring I will give this land.’ So he built an altar there to the Lord, had had appeared to him.”

 

A famine came into the land and so Abram went down to Egypt to live there awhile. Abram became fearful – telling his wife to act as his sister not his wife. He told the Pharaoh that Sarai was his sister out of fear of the Pharaoh wanting to take such a beautiful woman into his house. So he instructed Sarai to go along with his lie, and she ended up in Pharaoh’s house as his wife. “God inflicted serious diseases on Pharaoh and his household because of Abram’s wife.”

 

So Pharaoh found out that Sarai was Abram’s wife, but how he found out the Scripture does not say. He called Abram in to rebuke him and command him to go with his wife and all his belongings. Abram was humiliated by Pharaoh as he sent them all on their way with everything Pharaoh had given Abram for his offense with Sarai.

 

The result of Abram’s fear was cowardice in doing that which is right; that which of faith and not of fear.

 

What comes to me is the question: Have Christians in America (the Lord’s people) made decisions for their families based on fear of what they think the government will do to them if they stand up and speak the truth? Maybe all that has been happening in our land is because God’s people, for the most part, have been living in fear (lying to themselves) instead of living by faith in God, holding firm to the truth and speaking the truth on all occasions; afraid of what will happen to their physical life and possessions. Why not leave the results in God’s hands for our obedience and courage? Has the Lord’s church in America become like Abram and Sarai when they first started on their journey of faith?

 

I wonder what Abram was willing to see happen to his wife in the house of Pharaoh, as one more wife of the Pharaoh? Why does a man use his wife, or children, to protect himself from what he thinks ‘might’ happen, if not because of the lies of the devil to put fear in all of us?

 

Abram’s lie only humiliated him, but it caused a plague of infertility in the whole land and a disgust for the people of God, so that they were all glad to see Abram leave with everything that belonged to him. Is this what we have brought on America as well because we as God’s people have cowered down with fear and unbelief in our God?

 

Pregnancy being prevented – was the plague that came because of Abram’s fear. Marriage with infertility is not God’s design. Marriage and fertility IS God’s design, and if anyone or anyone’s plan of disobedience to God’s natural design – tries to come against God’s natural designs – bad things happen.

 

Of course, God was in control of this plague of infertility to put fear into the king because of taking another man’s wife into his house, but the devil can put fear in people also, but for an evil agenda. When God puts fear in us – it is for a very good purpose in our life; it will always have a good outcome to bless us. But when the devil puts fear in us – it is for evil; it will always have a bad outcome to hurt us and to harm others by what we do out of fear.

 

Here in America birth control and abortion is a plague in our land because the devil has been able to put fear in women and men: fear of not being financially capable of or emotionally qualified to raise a child or another child, fear of raising the child alone, fear of having a ‘not so perfect’ child, fear of what our kids do behind our backs, fear of ‘what will people think?’, etc. and I’m sure the devil has many more lies and schemes than I’ve mentioned.

 

When we live by fear instead of by faith in God and His Word, the result is not good: self-deception, sickness, distress, depression, paranoia, indifference, selfishness, unnecessary hardships, relationship problems and divisions, broken marriages, children confused and fearful, drug and alcohol addiction, suicide, crime, etc. (as if this wasn’t enough).

 

Abram feared man, instead of God in the early part of his journey, but God was still with him to raise him up to be exactly what God told Abram he’d be.

 

Job 28:28 “And to man God said, ‘Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.’”