Monthly Archives: July 2012

The Nasty Gifts that Surround Us

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Symbol of Christianity, white version.

Symbol of Christianity, white version. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

I wake at 3am.  My truck is parked near the back of a Home Depot.  What do my ears hear?  I hear music coming from the back of the store.   They left the music on all night.  I guess they do that all year long.

I don’t listen to music anymore.  It’s too much of a distraction for the essential thoughts regarding the war between the flesh and the Spirit.  I don’t say that to cause anyone else to do it also.  I stopped listening to music a couple years ago.  Oh I listen to a song now and then.   But I listen to the lyrics more than the melody.  It was the lyrics that caused me to turn away from music in the first place.  Even some Christian songs often get theology a bit askew.   So I turned to pondering the truth of God in my mind more than listening to what everybody is forced to endure in their ears all the time.  Now that is the point of this entry.

Think about something with me, if you dare.  I find it curious that at the beginning of the end of all creation man is being forced to endure distractions on a scale never before seen.  Televisions are on all day long.   Radios blast music in men’s ears constantly.   Cell phones are pressed against the head, threatening to leave an indelible mark.  Fingers are busy typing text even to the point of causing accidents while driving.   I even heard of a woman getting hurt while walking because she was texting.  I don’t know of a store you can walk into that isn’t playing some music.  Billboards announce everything saleable to us as we travel from point A to B.  Information surrounds us like water to fish.

All this becomes utter distraction.  Has anyone asked why?  I have said that the modern world is like a nation of kings.  Only kings enjoyed music like this.  They were the only ones rich enough to retain minstrels on a regular basis.  And their servants constantly brought news about their kingdom.  But even kings desired silence once in a while.  So we have passed from enjoying their riches to a slavery to noise.  And exceedingly few ask why.

We know that there is a force which is trying to get mankind to ignore the call of God.  And, in my humble opinion, he is actually doing a pretty good job.   While people think they are receiving something precious, they are actually being kept from the very precious gift of introspection and reflection on what is pure and good.  They are taught all day long that sex is more important than virtue.  You think that is too harsh?  Listen to the lyrics of the majority of songs.  Listen close and think about it.  We are being taught that the body is far more important than the spirit.  Yet which one will outlast the other?  Where do you think that message might come from?

If I listen to the radio talk shows (which I do quite often), I turn it off when the commercials come on.  All I heard was money, bodily health, and liberal appeals for giving to institutions.  And now that the liberals are in charge of our lives through government, we are told how to eat, walk, run, sit, speak, listen, and think.  It is a sick merry-go-round when it comes to commercials.  So I jumped off while it was still spinning slowly.

I appeal to all who read this to consider what you are being assaulted by all day long.  Where is the moment of silence?  Where did it go?  Where is that “hour of prayer”?  Someone stole it from you.  Even Christian music becomes a distraction from what is true.  You’re being herded into a pen like an animal.   Commercialized music is saying, “Think this.”  And like narrow minded sheep you simply let someone lead you where they want you to go.

To top it all off, have you heard of how the information network is coming under the control of the government?  What was the switch to digital television all about?   Just a couple days ago, the President sent out a request to brainstorm for the sake of an executive order to allow him to take over the internet during a crisis.  How long until all we see on television, billboards, hear on the radio, and see posters everywhere displaying the president’s voice and face?  Propaganda is the instrument of seduction today.  And the masses are silently being embraced by it.  The net is laid.  And someone is about to pull the rope tight.  And who notices?

This isn’t a call to arms because we are being taken over.  It’s already happened folks.  Now it’s just a matter of them moving into our physical lives.  Oh wait, that’s already happening.  Isn’t it?

Break free from it all while you still can.  Just turn off the noise for 4 hours a day.  See how it makes you think.  Give it a try and see if I’m crazy.

P. S. I wasn’t going to post this.  Then I opened my email and found my brother Peter’s post:  http://theagetocome.wordpress.com/2012/07/08/the-fathers-heart/

Just Stick That Seed and Move On.

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English: Seed Time The fields have recently be...

English: Seed Time The fields have recently been ploughed, and I surmise that the machinery is planting a crop. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

It all started with a twist of God’s word, and wickedness among men was born.  Next came murder.  Now I’m not wise enough to know what the next elevation of sin was, and how it progressed to become a fullness of sin among men.  But I can be sure that we reached that point fairly early on.

Every day men fool each other into believing deadly folly.  And the truth of God has been accepted throughout the ages with the same percentage: Most don’t, some do.  (quite the mathematically calculated stat huh?)  I can’t speak for any days prior to about 20 years ago.  But I do think folly is becoming far more vocal today than ever before.  It’s not just the advent of radio signals that have promoted more broadly the things of wickedness.  It is the heart of man, as a whole, which is becoming less open to God’s truth.  But isn’t that what we were warned would happen?  “But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.  You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, . . .”  (2 Timothy 3:13, 14)

Should we be concerned about this?  Nah.  Just stay the course and watch what happens.  Maybe they will involve us in the form of a persecution.  But it is they who they destroy.  If you have the truth of Christ within you, relax.  Speak with firmness and confidence.  But don’t let them drag you into the stupid war of man’s ideas regarding the Holy Commands of God.  We answer when asked.  But we should also learn when to refrain from another answer.

Look for the line of questioning.  Does it lead in a linear path?  Or does it do circles around the issue.  Avoidance is one trick men use to circumvent the truth.  Then, if that fails to provide the rotten fruit they are accustomed to eating, they will turn to blame.  For the sake of your partners in conversation, release yourself before they get to that point.  They will chase after all manner of folly regardless your involvement.  Go look for another conversation.  Let the seeds the Lord has given you remain planted.  Let’s see if something grows.

By His Grace.

The Growth of Decline.

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Exponential function

Exponential function (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

What we are to become, after the end of this world, is yet to be seen or announced from the Lord.  We have little glimpses of what God Himself refers to as Glory.  And we know that God is love, perfection, and absolutely steady in Holiness.  So we can easily come to the conclusion that His people will be like wise.

And what we are now is virtually blind, naked, and powerless compared to what is to come.  What is it to us then if we suffer for the time it takes to wink an eye?  I have mentioned this before, but it is worthy of re-mention:  If this place of testing was sufficient to produce the Glorified Jesus, the Christ of God, what are those who overcome the temptations of this world?  And how powerful is the grace and mercy of God that He would come to us to empower us to overcome?

We take great heart in His promises.  We take great heart at the signs of His presence in our activities and attitudes.  Even as the Sun rises in the morning, we know that He will produce in us what is necessary to be pleasing to the Father.

Stay the course with renewed strength.  Look around and take note of how wicked the world has become in just the last 25 years.  The growth of wickedness will become exponential at this point.  Encourage one another to remain steady as we pursue the holiness He is calling us to embrace.

Jesus Loves the Homosexual Lifestyle, Right?

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A bible from 1859.

A bible from 1859. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

A curious hole in the testimony of some homosexuals I’ve talked to has appeared.  It seems they think their lifestyle is “OK” with God.  Can someone tell me then why it’s not “OK” to hand out Bibles at one of their rallies?

“Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.”  (John 3: 20)

P. S.

You people who are promoting your own agenda in the world, tell us that God loves you and your agenda, yet run from the Bible anytime it is poked in your face:

Here.  Why don’t you do this:  Begin to read the Bible for what it contains.  Then turn and promote the agenda of God in Christ Jesus (even when it runs right up your proud backbone). 

You see, we Christians do just that.  We don’t claim to be holy or righteous.  We promote the agenda of Jesus regardless how it offends our sense of pride.  And when it stands against our sins, it is we who cave.  The Lord won’t stand for anyone who uses his own agenda to promote sin.

In case you didn’t get my point:  Go ahead, keep your life of sin going.  But add to it the Word of God.  In time, I promise you, your agenda will diminish and the Holiness of God will begin to enter.  Keep up your charade, however, (of being God loving sinners) and you will be horribly ashamed and surprised when you stand before Him face to face.

You love the Bible when it says “God loves you.”  But you hate to read about how no immoral or sexually perverse person will ever enter eternal life.  You rave that you deserve recognition because you’re a minority.  Did you ever stop to think that murders are a minority also?  Did you give thought to why that is?  It’s because most people understand that immoral behavior does not receive the love of God.  They are the majority.  You are the minority.  hmmmmmm

So bring the Bible before your face.  Go ahead and read the things that please you.  Then, just for kicks, read a little more.  It will scar your conscience.  Isn’t that what you’re running from when you don’t want the Bible in your wicked rallies?