JOHN 14:6 states the powerful claim of Jesus Christ, who said, “I AM the WAY, the TRUTH, and the LIFE: no man (person) cometh unto the Father, but by me.” John also wrote, “Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father” (I John 2:23). And again he wrote, “Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son” (II John 9).
Is abiding in Christ’s doctrine important? John tells us that those who “abideth not” in His doctrine are those who do NOT have God! This tells me one can lose his or her salvation by transgression.
DENIAL of Christ’s doctrine completely destroys the divine glory of His Person, tears the beautiful golden crown from His head, empties the glorious virtue of Christ, classifies the Word of God as equivocation (ambiguous language) and untruthfulness, and therefore leads to the indictment of sincere Christians with the crimes of idolatry and vicious mockery and more, for sincere Christians believe and promote the Word of God and the unaltered Biblical doctrine of Christ.
It has become a growing fad to deny the Deity of Christ today—to deny that His doctrine is unalterable and His atonement is necessary for personal salvation. This popular denial often comes as the “many-other-paths-or-ways-to-the-Father” LIE. Let me remind you, dear unbelieving believers, that he who denies the Deity of our risen Lord “believeth not the record that God gave of His (only Begotten) Son” (I John 5:10). Will you now call God the Father a liar?
On the other hand, there are many indeed who profess to believe in the Deity of Christ Jesus, but by their works they deny Him, for they don’t really live for Him and let Him be their Lord. Either way, whether you openly deny Him or deny Him by not truly living for Him, IT IS SIN! Unbelief and the lack of fruitful works will DAMN a soul.
The Church has terribly deviated from the real doctrine of Christ. Let us now contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints, and truly live the life as we do so.
—General James Green
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
Discipline
ART GISH, IN HIS BOOK Living In Christian Community, has written, “[2 Corinthians 3:17—] The full process of Church discipline must be limited to those who have voluntarily committed themselves to this discipline. Never may Church seek to impose her will on anyone outside the community. In fact, the Church does not even have the right to impose her will on anyone in the community.” I believe Mr. Gish is referring to the Corpus Christianum (union of Church and State).
Jeschke, in his book Discipling the Brother, stated, “It is [the Christian magistrates’] most solemn duty to support the ministry in its exercise of the ‘key of discipline’, by every lawful means in his power”.
From reading my share of “Reformation” and “Post-Reformation“ books, I agree it was the sects of nonresistants (to the “Reformation”) which were more “in tune” with the Biblical New Testament process of Church discipline. It was these sects that became “the hunted and hounded” and experienced the sore displeasures and fierce wrath of the Roman Catholic Church (and some Protestant groups too!) that used the power of the State’s sword. The Anabaptists were especially targeted. In previous times, the Donatists in Augustine’s day were marked for “extermination”. And we cannot forget the dark call that sounded loud and clear to officially support the bloody Crusades and the Inquisition.
Things have not changed too much in spirit, for the Organized Church of today still calls for the destruction of sects and “cults”; men in both religion and politics continue to “play God”.
Did Jesus call for destruction of any people? Did He call His own Holy Tribal Nation to “play God”? NO! He called us to be an army alright, but not as the world has armies. Sadly, in the early Church’s transition, the Ekklesia moved from a persecuted people (hunted by Roman authorities), a nonviolent community, to a persecuting establishment—those who will not conform to Churchianity are marked for destruction if the Church can get the State to crush or expel the dissenters.
In the post-Reformation Church, the consistory (the Church court that administrated ecclesiastical law) soon became an arm for the State, forcing conformity (just like Roman Catholicism) . . . or ELSE!
Fear!
IF ONE READS the bloody grotesque story of Church history, one will come to grips with the horrid demon of FEAR—FEAR! You see, “The doctrine of ‘no salvation’ outside the established Church [the Roman Catholic Church] came to mean ‘no existence’ as well,” as one historian put it.
Following is a quote from Henry Townsend’s book, The Claims of the Free Churches. [In justifying the persecution of the Anabaptists, Reformer Martin Luther wrote,] “I, Luther, approve. Although it seems cruel to punish them with the sword, it is still more cruel to damn the ministry of the Word, to propagate false doctrine and spurn the truth...” I have never been a Martin Luther fan for this very reason. Although he stood for religious freedom, per se, in practice he supported the repression and persecution of any movement he thought to be a threat. Another book one may want to read is Studies on the Reformation by Rolland Bainton. The vicious mindset of Luther’s day that was found on both sides, Roman Catholic and Protestant, was persecute, torture and kill for God’s sake.
Freedom of Religion
THE WEST HAS always been a shining light in the darkness for religious freedom, but this freedom is being eroded away, dear Christians. The Beast System is breathing out threats, even as I write, especially if one does not align himself or herself to the Politically Correct (PC) BULL in power. Religious freedom means NOTHING if we are not free to choose our own faith. Our faith as Christians is, of course, rooted in Christ Jesus Himself, not some body of doctrines, or politics.
The State has NO RIGHT or AUTHORITY to grant ANY freedom to the EKKLESIA, God’s Holy Tribal Nation. The right to our freedom was given to us when Christ spoke these words: “It is finished!” The State can only take away our external freedoms or protect them—period!! The State has NO authority in Christian faith or conscience.
World vs. Church
THESE TWO POWERS have been at war (maybe “at odds”—that is a nicer, softer phrase here!) for centuries. In Christian doctrine, the world and Church must be free of any dominion over each other. Hear me, Christian patriots! You cannot force Christian principles upon the world. We must preach the good news and let the world choose.
Christ and Christ alone must be lifted up, not some church or state power. The Roman Catholic Church (and some Protestant churches) work in the realm of carnal power and have devised such concepts as Liberation Theology to force men into submission or free men from the same, but this is not the way of God’s Holy Tribal Nation.
Nazi Party
WE ARE ALL familiar with Hitler’s totalitarian government. Franklin H. Littell quoted the following in his book, The Free Church: ”We [the Nazi Party in Germany] demand the freedom of all religious confessions in the state, insofar as they do not imperil its stability or offend against the ethical and moral senses of the German race.” Is America going to do the same as Germany did? The true Church has almost always stood as a “threat” to the world’s totalitarian governments. You say, “General Jim, America stands for religious freedom!” Yes, dear one, but you know it, I know it, God knows it, and the Devil knows it, that there is an evil change in our government towards true Christianity.
At the Heart
AT THE HEART and soul of true Christianity is LOVE, God’s divine love for a faithful, covenant-people, and our love for Him. But when the State demands love and complete obedience over the teaching of God’s Holy Word, nothing but trouble can come from this.
God’s love desires our desire, not our coercion or forced compulsion. God loves a people who freely love Him. We do not need to be coerced into that love by either State or Church, but led by our own deep heart-desire. The Church may point the WAY but she cannot force us into that way, and the State cannot even point us towards Christ.
“God wants no compulsory service, on the contrary, He loves a free, willing heart that serves Him with a joyful soul and does what is right joyfully” (William R. Estep, in his book, The Anabaptist Story).
This and this alone is what makes the heart and soul of God’s Holy Tribal Nation: the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the servanthood of His people ... in a complex yet cohesive society. This New World Order is what God has established, not a sinful, liberal Church that “says and does not.”
HOLY TRIBAL NATION Theology
MY READERS CAN read what I’ve written along with articles by Lt. Colonel Peter Green, on the Ekklesia. The theology is quiet different than that of Liberation Theology. “Liberation Theology points out all the suffering and injustices in the world—without a minimum of ‘suffering with’ this suffering that affects the great majority of the human race, Liberation Theology can neither exist nor be understood” (Leonardo Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology). What Boff is stating is that underlying Liberation Theology is a “prophetic and comradery commitment to the life, course, and struggle of millions of debased and marginalized human beings”—a commitment to ENDING this “historical-social iniquity” (through carnal force), as it is called.
The Roman Catholic Church, in the Vatican Instruction (Aug. 1984), under “Some Aspects of Liberation Theology”, stated the following: ”It is not possible for a single instant to forget the situations of dramatic poverty from which the challenge set to theologians springs—the challenge to work out a genuine theology of Liberation.” Yet as we know, part of this “theology” is actual armed resistance, armed offensive. THIS IS MARXISM IN DISGUISE!
God’s Holy Tribal Nation does care for the poor, the oppressed, etc., but we must rely solely upon the Sword of the Spirit, not the sword of steel.
Liberation Theology’s first step: liberating action, “liber-a(c)tion.” The Portuguese word for “liberation” is “liberacao“, which is composed of the root “liber” (“free”) and by chance, the Portuguese word for “action” (“acao”). Yet this coupling cannot be reproduced in English.
True “liberation” is being born-again and receiving the pure truth (God’s written and spoken Word): “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” (Jn. 8:32, KJV).
Freedom In Truth
IN THE CONTEXT of earthly human existence and carnal knowledge, many things are “true”, yet there is only ONE TRUTH that will really set people FREE from sin and Satan’s dominion over us—the truth of Jesus Christ the Lord, found in God’s Word/Spirit. The written Word testifies to the divine truth which frees one from sin, the fallen world, and the Satanic cosmos (see Eph. 2:20).
Saving truth is revealed only from the Lord “by His Spirit” (1 Cor. 2:10) and does not originate from any person or from mere human wisdom (1 Cor. 2:12,13).
Jesus said that “the poor will always be with us”. I will add that the unsaved will always be with us too! They are slaves to sin (Jn. 8:34; Rom. 6:17-20); therefore the unsaved are literally enslaved to sin and Satan, bound in his chains, and thus live according to the lusts of the flesh and the anti-Christ desires of Satan (Eph. 2:1-3).
Romans 6:17-22 and 8:1-17 clearly tell us that a truly born-again believer possesses genuine salvation (eternal life) in Christ with the accompanying divine grace of the Holy Spirit. This power sets man free from the terrible power and cruel dominion of sin and immorality (Rom. 6:17-22; 8:1-17).
A TRANSITION: free from being a slave of Satan to being a “love slave” of Christ. We are freed from the satanic realm to be free in Christ’s righteousness (Rom 6:18,22). But be it known unto you, Christians, this does not mean we are automatically free from spiritual warfare. NO! The New Testament is full of Scriptures concerning the Christians’ warfare. Request our booklets on this subject.
In one sense, we do believe in Liberation Theology, but only in the spiritual warfare aspect, NOT the carnal. Those who do not believe in or do not know the freedom in Christ think that carnal force is necessary to acquire and maintain “law and order”, but I believe in a voluntary decision to freedom. Christ never demanded a following. So it is in the Holy Tribal Nation, the “authentic life of the new society”. We enter the Kingdom of God, not by natural birth, not by joining some church, but by a new birth of Spirit and water.
Our Faith
OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH is based in a sincere voluntary response to God’s grace. It is the Spirit of God that calls us—we respond. Old Testament faith was based on ethnic birth and shown in the sign and seal of circumcision. Preaching the Gospel, really hearing the Gospel, one’s decision for Christ and for joining God’s Holy Tribal Nation—this is all voluntary.
From the World’s Point of View
THE WORLD’S FAITH lies merely in the ability to improve natural human conditions or destroy the same! There are plenty of secular organizations that operate with the express function to “help humanity”—specialized intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are single-purposed or functional, plus non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are always active in political, economic and social development and/or “social cooperation”.
Peaceful vs. Non-peaceful
CONFUCIUS (551-479 BC) DEPLORED violence, and Erasmus (AD 1466-1536) rejected carnal war, considering it “brutal, wicked, wasteful, and stupid”. He wasn’t too far from being right in my estimation.
How does the lost world deal with “the negative” without God? Well, today there is much talk about a One World Government—that will surely solve the problem, men think . . . or will it? Of course, men position themselves in the place of God for a “top down” revolutionary approach to solving the many world problems. Yet as we know, at least I know, this approach would automatically force national states/countries to give up most, if not all of their sovereignty to “a new adjudicating authority”. And the question is asked: “Unitary? (One government over all?) federalism? (a central government with self-governing states/nations?) or confederalism? (merely an alliance between individual states/nations?)”
Enforcement
CRITICS OF THE New World Order worry about the concentration of power that would be necessary to enforce international law and address the world’s “monumental economic and social problems”, not to mention religious problems.
Whatever its diverse characteristics and controversies are, it is said that the real heart and soul of any secular international organization is the role that it plays. We already have the United Nations and many other IGOs and NGOs out there playing God. As for me, I’ll teach/preach the Gospel of Christ, for He and He ALONE has all the answers to life. In fact, it is the Christians’ command/commission to disciple the nations (—order my series of 8 teaching messages on God’s Holy Tribal Nation, taught in Dec. 2006).
Peace?
THERE WILL BE no lasting peace without Jesus Christ being the Lord over all nations! All the world can do and is doing, is promote “International Peace and Security”, create normalized laws against violence/terrorism, provide a “debate alternative” to settle issues, use so-called “diplomatic interventions”, dispatch UN military forces (of course), and blah, blah, blah! ALL humanistic! If man would adhere to God’s Bible, we would at least see a better world.
Peacekeeping vs. Peacemaking
THESE ANTITHESES, ATTEMPTED by carnal means, don’t have much effect in today’s world in terms of effective “conflict-resolution” efforts. We know the battle for and against “arms control” and “disarmament” goes in a continuous vicious cycle. There is also much quarreling over the concepts of “Supra-nationalism” (where the international organization has authority over all its members which are thus only subordinate units), “Independence” (where there is a self-directed “actor” in world politics), and “Interactive Arena” (where member states are said to pursue their “individual national interests”). There are many critics to these concepts, particularly given the unending conflicts in the world and the never-ending economic and social misery. It is ll too easy to dismiss man’s organizations as inadequate, misguided, and merely “idealistic”.
World Discipline?
GOD’S WORD LAYS out what and what not to do. Men’s laws, international or domestic, are “a humanistic combination of expectations, rules, regulations and practices that are supposed to help and govern behavior”. Man’s way does not ultimately work. This is why Jesus emphatically stated that “Ye must be born again” (Jn. 3:1-8). Being “born again” is the same as being “born from above” or having a miraculous “heavenly birth”. (See Jn 3:31).
The World Needs Christ!!
OUR JOB, DEAR Christians, is to disciple the nations (Matt. 28:19-20). If men would “love one another” as the Bible teaches, most of the world’s problems would go away. Yet what we have, dear Christian reader, is that most professors of the faith are lazy and unconcerned. This gives rise to and occasion for evil men to fill the voids. The case of God’s people doing little or nothing is a real crisis in itself!
Let’s face it, most of the things the “Christian force” does are hypocritical and therefore have no real impact. Sure, we can feed a belly, but what about the spiritually starving? I think much of this “Christian humanism” is counterproductive.
The World Goes On...
PROBLEMS THAT COULD be quickly curtailed if God’s people would live right, continue without even the slightest cessation.
Let me use an old literary analogy to describe international relations: it is Shakespeare’s belief that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women...[are] players.” Looking back over time we can see that the world’s “actors”, its “plot”, its “action”, have collectively been a troubled tale.
Some of the “actors” who have been “Christian” have acted out of self-righteousness without the true leading or blessing of the Lord. They have not helped in the least. Some mega-church organizations I know about have knowingly pursued THEIR OWN interests at the expense of others.
Is Catastrophe Certain?
THIS IS A good question. Unless we Christians get RIGHT with God, the world will continue to walk in darkness, yea, gross darkness—and evil men will use nuclear weapons to “settle their differences”. I do not believe for one minute that the U.S. has the answers for the future. God has them. Democratization is really stupid!! What we need, dear readers, is Theocratization, where God, not man/men, is in control. Let this be our goal for the future—to take Jesus to ALL THE WORLD. Amen.
~General James Green
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Jeschke, in his book Discipling the Brother, stated, “It is [the Christian magistrates’] most solemn duty to support the ministry in its exercise of the ‘key of discipline’, by every lawful means in his power”.
From reading my share of “Reformation” and “Post-Reformation“ books, I agree it was the sects of nonresistants (to the “Reformation”) which were more “in tune” with the Biblical New Testament process of Church discipline. It was these sects that became “the hunted and hounded” and experienced the sore displeasures and fierce wrath of the Roman Catholic Church (and some Protestant groups too!) that used the power of the State’s sword. The Anabaptists were especially targeted. In previous times, the Donatists in Augustine’s day were marked for “extermination”. And we cannot forget the dark call that sounded loud and clear to officially support the bloody Crusades and the Inquisition.
Things have not changed too much in spirit, for the Organized Church of today still calls for the destruction of sects and “cults”; men in both religion and politics continue to “play God”.
Did Jesus call for destruction of any people? Did He call His own Holy Tribal Nation to “play God”? NO! He called us to be an army alright, but not as the world has armies. Sadly, in the early Church’s transition, the Ekklesia moved from a persecuted people (hunted by Roman authorities), a nonviolent community, to a persecuting establishment—those who will not conform to Churchianity are marked for destruction if the Church can get the State to crush or expel the dissenters.
In the post-Reformation Church, the consistory (the Church court that administrated ecclesiastical law) soon became an arm for the State, forcing conformity (just like Roman Catholicism) . . . or ELSE!
Fear!
IF ONE READS the bloody grotesque story of Church history, one will come to grips with the horrid demon of FEAR—FEAR! You see, “The doctrine of ‘no salvation’ outside the established Church [the Roman Catholic Church] came to mean ‘no existence’ as well,” as one historian put it.
Following is a quote from Henry Townsend’s book, The Claims of the Free Churches. [In justifying the persecution of the Anabaptists, Reformer Martin Luther wrote,] “I, Luther, approve. Although it seems cruel to punish them with the sword, it is still more cruel to damn the ministry of the Word, to propagate false doctrine and spurn the truth...” I have never been a Martin Luther fan for this very reason. Although he stood for religious freedom, per se, in practice he supported the repression and persecution of any movement he thought to be a threat. Another book one may want to read is Studies on the Reformation by Rolland Bainton. The vicious mindset of Luther’s day that was found on both sides, Roman Catholic and Protestant, was persecute, torture and kill for God’s sake.
Freedom of Religion
THE WEST HAS always been a shining light in the darkness for religious freedom, but this freedom is being eroded away, dear Christians. The Beast System is breathing out threats, even as I write, especially if one does not align himself or herself to the Politically Correct (PC) BULL in power. Religious freedom means NOTHING if we are not free to choose our own faith. Our faith as Christians is, of course, rooted in Christ Jesus Himself, not some body of doctrines, or politics.
The State has NO RIGHT or AUTHORITY to grant ANY freedom to the EKKLESIA, God’s Holy Tribal Nation. The right to our freedom was given to us when Christ spoke these words: “It is finished!” The State can only take away our external freedoms or protect them—period!! The State has NO authority in Christian faith or conscience.
World vs. Church
THESE TWO POWERS have been at war (maybe “at odds”—that is a nicer, softer phrase here!) for centuries. In Christian doctrine, the world and Church must be free of any dominion over each other. Hear me, Christian patriots! You cannot force Christian principles upon the world. We must preach the good news and let the world choose.
Christ and Christ alone must be lifted up, not some church or state power. The Roman Catholic Church (and some Protestant churches) work in the realm of carnal power and have devised such concepts as Liberation Theology to force men into submission or free men from the same, but this is not the way of God’s Holy Tribal Nation.
Nazi Party
WE ARE ALL familiar with Hitler’s totalitarian government. Franklin H. Littell quoted the following in his book, The Free Church: ”We [the Nazi Party in Germany] demand the freedom of all religious confessions in the state, insofar as they do not imperil its stability or offend against the ethical and moral senses of the German race.” Is America going to do the same as Germany did? The true Church has almost always stood as a “threat” to the world’s totalitarian governments. You say, “General Jim, America stands for religious freedom!” Yes, dear one, but you know it, I know it, God knows it, and the Devil knows it, that there is an evil change in our government towards true Christianity.
At the Heart
AT THE HEART and soul of true Christianity is LOVE, God’s divine love for a faithful, covenant-people, and our love for Him. But when the State demands love and complete obedience over the teaching of God’s Holy Word, nothing but trouble can come from this.
God’s love desires our desire, not our coercion or forced compulsion. God loves a people who freely love Him. We do not need to be coerced into that love by either State or Church, but led by our own deep heart-desire. The Church may point the WAY but she cannot force us into that way, and the State cannot even point us towards Christ.
“God wants no compulsory service, on the contrary, He loves a free, willing heart that serves Him with a joyful soul and does what is right joyfully” (William R. Estep, in his book, The Anabaptist Story).
This and this alone is what makes the heart and soul of God’s Holy Tribal Nation: the Lordship of Jesus Christ, the servanthood of His people ... in a complex yet cohesive society. This New World Order is what God has established, not a sinful, liberal Church that “says and does not.”
HOLY TRIBAL NATION Theology
MY READERS CAN read what I’ve written along with articles by Lt. Colonel Peter Green, on the Ekklesia. The theology is quiet different than that of Liberation Theology. “Liberation Theology points out all the suffering and injustices in the world—without a minimum of ‘suffering with’ this suffering that affects the great majority of the human race, Liberation Theology can neither exist nor be understood” (Leonardo Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology). What Boff is stating is that underlying Liberation Theology is a “prophetic and comradery commitment to the life, course, and struggle of millions of debased and marginalized human beings”—a commitment to ENDING this “historical-social iniquity” (through carnal force), as it is called.
The Roman Catholic Church, in the Vatican Instruction (Aug. 1984), under “Some Aspects of Liberation Theology”, stated the following: ”It is not possible for a single instant to forget the situations of dramatic poverty from which the challenge set to theologians springs—the challenge to work out a genuine theology of Liberation.” Yet as we know, part of this “theology” is actual armed resistance, armed offensive. THIS IS MARXISM IN DISGUISE!
God’s Holy Tribal Nation does care for the poor, the oppressed, etc., but we must rely solely upon the Sword of the Spirit, not the sword of steel.
Liberation Theology’s first step: liberating action, “liber-a(c)tion.” The Portuguese word for “liberation” is “liberacao“, which is composed of the root “liber” (“free”) and by chance, the Portuguese word for “action” (“acao”). Yet this coupling cannot be reproduced in English.
True “liberation” is being born-again and receiving the pure truth (God’s written and spoken Word): “And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free” (Jn. 8:32, KJV).
Freedom In Truth
IN THE CONTEXT of earthly human existence and carnal knowledge, many things are “true”, yet there is only ONE TRUTH that will really set people FREE from sin and Satan’s dominion over us—the truth of Jesus Christ the Lord, found in God’s Word/Spirit. The written Word testifies to the divine truth which frees one from sin, the fallen world, and the Satanic cosmos (see Eph. 2:20).
Saving truth is revealed only from the Lord “by His Spirit” (1 Cor. 2:10) and does not originate from any person or from mere human wisdom (1 Cor. 2:12,13).
Jesus said that “the poor will always be with us”. I will add that the unsaved will always be with us too! They are slaves to sin (Jn. 8:34; Rom. 6:17-20); therefore the unsaved are literally enslaved to sin and Satan, bound in his chains, and thus live according to the lusts of the flesh and the anti-Christ desires of Satan (Eph. 2:1-3).
Romans 6:17-22 and 8:1-17 clearly tell us that a truly born-again believer possesses genuine salvation (eternal life) in Christ with the accompanying divine grace of the Holy Spirit. This power sets man free from the terrible power and cruel dominion of sin and immorality (Rom. 6:17-22; 8:1-17).
A TRANSITION: free from being a slave of Satan to being a “love slave” of Christ. We are freed from the satanic realm to be free in Christ’s righteousness (Rom 6:18,22). But be it known unto you, Christians, this does not mean we are automatically free from spiritual warfare. NO! The New Testament is full of Scriptures concerning the Christians’ warfare. Request our booklets on this subject.
In one sense, we do believe in Liberation Theology, but only in the spiritual warfare aspect, NOT the carnal. Those who do not believe in or do not know the freedom in Christ think that carnal force is necessary to acquire and maintain “law and order”, but I believe in a voluntary decision to freedom. Christ never demanded a following. So it is in the Holy Tribal Nation, the “authentic life of the new society”. We enter the Kingdom of God, not by natural birth, not by joining some church, but by a new birth of Spirit and water.
Our Faith
OUR CHRISTIAN FAITH is based in a sincere voluntary response to God’s grace. It is the Spirit of God that calls us—we respond. Old Testament faith was based on ethnic birth and shown in the sign and seal of circumcision. Preaching the Gospel, really hearing the Gospel, one’s decision for Christ and for joining God’s Holy Tribal Nation—this is all voluntary.
From the World’s Point of View
THE WORLD’S FAITH lies merely in the ability to improve natural human conditions or destroy the same! There are plenty of secular organizations that operate with the express function to “help humanity”—specialized intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are single-purposed or functional, plus non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that are always active in political, economic and social development and/or “social cooperation”.
Peaceful vs. Non-peaceful
CONFUCIUS (551-479 BC) DEPLORED violence, and Erasmus (AD 1466-1536) rejected carnal war, considering it “brutal, wicked, wasteful, and stupid”. He wasn’t too far from being right in my estimation.
How does the lost world deal with “the negative” without God? Well, today there is much talk about a One World Government—that will surely solve the problem, men think . . . or will it? Of course, men position themselves in the place of God for a “top down” revolutionary approach to solving the many world problems. Yet as we know, at least I know, this approach would automatically force national states/countries to give up most, if not all of their sovereignty to “a new adjudicating authority”. And the question is asked: “Unitary? (One government over all?) federalism? (a central government with self-governing states/nations?) or confederalism? (merely an alliance between individual states/nations?)”
Enforcement
CRITICS OF THE New World Order worry about the concentration of power that would be necessary to enforce international law and address the world’s “monumental economic and social problems”, not to mention religious problems.
Whatever its diverse characteristics and controversies are, it is said that the real heart and soul of any secular international organization is the role that it plays. We already have the United Nations and many other IGOs and NGOs out there playing God. As for me, I’ll teach/preach the Gospel of Christ, for He and He ALONE has all the answers to life. In fact, it is the Christians’ command/commission to disciple the nations (—order my series of 8 teaching messages on God’s Holy Tribal Nation, taught in Dec. 2006).
Peace?
THERE WILL BE no lasting peace without Jesus Christ being the Lord over all nations! All the world can do and is doing, is promote “International Peace and Security”, create normalized laws against violence/terrorism, provide a “debate alternative” to settle issues, use so-called “diplomatic interventions”, dispatch UN military forces (of course), and blah, blah, blah! ALL humanistic! If man would adhere to God’s Bible, we would at least see a better world.
Peacekeeping vs. Peacemaking
THESE ANTITHESES, ATTEMPTED by carnal means, don’t have much effect in today’s world in terms of effective “conflict-resolution” efforts. We know the battle for and against “arms control” and “disarmament” goes in a continuous vicious cycle. There is also much quarreling over the concepts of “Supra-nationalism” (where the international organization has authority over all its members which are thus only subordinate units), “Independence” (where there is a self-directed “actor” in world politics), and “Interactive Arena” (where member states are said to pursue their “individual national interests”). There are many critics to these concepts, particularly given the unending conflicts in the world and the never-ending economic and social misery. It is ll too easy to dismiss man’s organizations as inadequate, misguided, and merely “idealistic”.
World Discipline?
GOD’S WORD LAYS out what and what not to do. Men’s laws, international or domestic, are “a humanistic combination of expectations, rules, regulations and practices that are supposed to help and govern behavior”. Man’s way does not ultimately work. This is why Jesus emphatically stated that “Ye must be born again” (Jn. 3:1-8). Being “born again” is the same as being “born from above” or having a miraculous “heavenly birth”. (See Jn 3:31).
The World Needs Christ!!
OUR JOB, DEAR Christians, is to disciple the nations (Matt. 28:19-20). If men would “love one another” as the Bible teaches, most of the world’s problems would go away. Yet what we have, dear Christian reader, is that most professors of the faith are lazy and unconcerned. This gives rise to and occasion for evil men to fill the voids. The case of God’s people doing little or nothing is a real crisis in itself!
Let’s face it, most of the things the “Christian force” does are hypocritical and therefore have no real impact. Sure, we can feed a belly, but what about the spiritually starving? I think much of this “Christian humanism” is counterproductive.
The World Goes On...
PROBLEMS THAT COULD be quickly curtailed if God’s people would live right, continue without even the slightest cessation.
Let me use an old literary analogy to describe international relations: it is Shakespeare’s belief that “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women...[are] players.” Looking back over time we can see that the world’s “actors”, its “plot”, its “action”, have collectively been a troubled tale.
Some of the “actors” who have been “Christian” have acted out of self-righteousness without the true leading or blessing of the Lord. They have not helped in the least. Some mega-church organizations I know about have knowingly pursued THEIR OWN interests at the expense of others.
Is Catastrophe Certain?
THIS IS A good question. Unless we Christians get RIGHT with God, the world will continue to walk in darkness, yea, gross darkness—and evil men will use nuclear weapons to “settle their differences”. I do not believe for one minute that the U.S. has the answers for the future. God has them. Democratization is really stupid!! What we need, dear readers, is Theocratization, where God, not man/men, is in control. Let this be our goal for the future—to take Jesus to ALL THE WORLD. Amen.
~General James Green
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA NOT GROUNDS FOR LEGALIZATION
The Columbus Dispatch/Forum
MEDICAL USE OF MARIJUANA NOT GROUNDS FOR LEGALIZATION
By Paul W. LeithhartThe news media have given extensive coverage to marijuana's possible medical uses. Probably many people now believe that these possible medical uses of marijuana constitute sufficient grounds for its legalization. They do not. Should we legalize heroin because the opium poppy has produced some useful painkillers? Should we legalize cocaine because it is used as an anethstetic in the medical industry? Most people who have ever faced the cruel reality of drug addiction would say "NO!"
Most people who use marijuana ocaisionally for recreational purposes do not want to face the tragic fact that immeasurable damage is done to youth across the country who cannot "control" themselves when it comes to drugs. Multitudes of young people start out on marijuana in their teens and even pre-teens, many of them for the sole reason that everybody else is doing it. Marijuana becomes their way of life, and soon it is far from "recreational". If marijuana is legalized, it is these young people who will suffer and die in greater numbers than ever before. It is bad enough that alcohol is so readily available to our youth. It is very selfish of those who would want marijuana to be legalized so that they could enjoy it without fear of the law. They take no thought of all the poor kids who suffer and are damaged because marijuana came into their life at a young age.
A clever campaign has been staged across the country by the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) featuring demonstrations, anecdotes of pot users and NORML national advisers Dr. Lester Grinspoon, a psychiatrist, and Dr. J. Thomas Ungerleider, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of California at Los Angeles Medical Center. These biased people have apparently convinced many legislators and media representatives that pot may be of use in treating some diseases.
In 1979, Keith Stroup, then director of NORML, stated the organization would use "the issue as a 'red herring' to give marijuana a good name". The goal of NORML is to legalize pot. The next stage is the current petition drive to get the issue on the ballot in 1998. NORML advocates allowing marijuana users to grow their own. Is it possible that some growers might give some away or sell it? Most people have some medical problem and would be able to grow their own marijuana; thus, use would increase dramatically.
Over the past 30 years, marijuana has been intensively studied. Millions of dollars have been spent on research and hundreds of scientific articles on marijuana have been published in medical literature. In February 1997, there were hearings in Washington with 30 experts testifying. The verdict: The legitimate medical uses for marijuana do not constitute grounds for its legalization. It is a major health hazard.
But marijuana users are under the delusion that they are helped. Users report they "enjoy the side effects of marijuana better than the side effects of prescription drugs." It is the "high" they desire. How does this mixture of 421 compounds harm the user?
Pot interferes with the memory and causes confusion, a progressive inability to concentrate, pathological thinking, decreased motivation, anxiety, depression, paranoia and suicidal thoughts. It also causes changes in electroencephalograms and does permanent brain damage. Schools report higher dropout and failure rates and increased promiscuity among pot users. Marijauna use is almost always associated with gang activity and criminal behavior in young people.
Pot has been found to damage the immune system, which is important in fighting cancer, AIDS, infections and similar ailments. Smoking pot harms the lungs at 10 times the rate cause by cigarette smoking. Pot users show increases in sexually transmitted diseases. Males have lower sperm counts and testosterone levels and females have reproductive difficulties.
And use of pot is dangerous for drivers because it diminishes search and recognition ability, impairs traffic signal recognition and impairs memory, coordination and reflexes. These effects persist for hours after the high wears off.
All of the conditions the pot users promote marijuana for are a sham. For example, pot is recommended for glaucoma but it increases eye pressure in some users, and when it lowers pressure, it must be used every two to four hours. The public is misinformed about marijuana. Polls and voting returns show that many people consider it a safe, recreational drug. This misconception is dangerous. It sends the wrong message to the adolescents: If it is OK for the sick, it is OK for them.
American poet and editor James Russell Lowell said, "Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne." If the youth of our generation are to survive Truth must prevail.
Paul W. Leithart is a Columbus Physician and a founder of Talbot Hall (Park Hospital) and Parkside Treatment Center for Drug Dependence.
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
BEWARE OF FALSE HUMAN COMPASSION CONCERNING THE JUDGMENTS OF GOD!
It is a wonderful, beautiful, glorious thing to be knowing our God, to be knowing that our God knows exactly what He is doing. We are living in times when we are seeing the mighty acts of God revealed, when we are seeing His glory, His might, His power, His triumph, His victory. It is important that we realize that it is God who is doing these things in the earth.
As you know, we are living in a time of great natural disasters when God is bringing forth His vengeance, His wrath, His fury, His indignation upon the unrighteous. We need to realize and appreciate that God’s judgment is here and that God is showing that He is the one who reigns victorious.
Actually this is not the time to mourn but this is the time to give thanks and praise unto our God, because God has lived with and tolerated men’s sins long enough and now He says that the cup is full. Therefore God is bringing forth His vengeance in such a way that men will know that it is by Him that these mighty acts are performed. We need to realize that our God is doing these things and He is doing them because He is cleansing the earth. He is doing them because He wants men to pay heed unto Him and realize that He is the one true God. When God brings nations down and shakes up the earth it is that men would pay heed unto Him. God desires that we would realize that He is fully in control, that He is the omnipresent, that He is the one true God.
There are multitudes, vast multitudes of men and women who worship idols throughout this earth, but their idols cannot help them in the day of calamity, their idols cannot keep them in the day of evil, their idols cannot keep them from the wrath of an indignant God. God is full-up of the vileness, the wickedness, the corruption that men have exhibited in His sight. Because of that, God is vindicating Himself through His judgments and we need to rejoice in the same.
Turn with me to Psalm 96 and let us read verses 1-3. I’m reading from The Amplified Bible. “O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless [affectionately praise] His name; show forth His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is to be reverently feared and worshiped above all so-called gods.” So we see that it is the time to sing a new song. It is the time to sing unto the Lord. It is the time to praise His name and show forth His salvation from day to day. Notice it says we are to declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all people.
Continuing in verses 4-8, it says, “For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is to be reverently feared and worshiped above all so-called gods. For all the gods of the nations are [lifeless] idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Ascribe to the Lord, O you families of the people, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due to His name; bring an offering and come (before Him) into His courts.” So we see that it is the time to give honor, to give glory, to magnify the Lord for who He is. It is the time to know that it is He who is worthy to be praised, that it is He who is worthy of all offerings and that it is the time to come before Him.
Verses 9-13 tell us, “O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; tremble and reverently fear before Him, all the earth. Say among the nations that the Lord reigns; that the world also is established, that it cannot be moved; He shall judge and rule the people righteously and with justice. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar and all the things which fill it. Let the field be exultant, and all that is in it! Then shall all the trees of the woods sing for joy before the Lord; for He comes, for He comes to judge and govern the earth! He shall judge the world with righteousness and justice, and the people with His faithfulness and truth.” Oh, what a wonderful thing to know that it is the time to praise our God! It is the time to thank our God that He is judging, that it is Him who has come, that it is Him who will govern, that it is Him who will show forth His righteousness once again, that it is Him that we can look to for His faithfulness and His truth, that it is Him that we can give praises unto continually. This is not the time to weep and mourn but it is the time to give thanks unto our God, for it is God who is bringing forth His wrath, His fury, His indignation in His judgments of righteousness and truth, for our God is just and His way is perfect. If we will but yield unto Him we will see that it is the time of great glory, it is the time of The Acts of the Spirit of the Living God.
It is the time for us to worship Him in the reverential fear of who He is and what He is able to do. It is not the time to argue against God and defend those who are idol worshipers, defend those who are full of evil and iniquity, defend those who are despisers of the way of the Lord, simply because they are human beings. But it is the time to realize that it is God who is executing His judgment against the wicked, against the idolaters, against those who are false in their relationship towards Him. It is God’s timing that He is bringing down the haughty, the proud, the high-minded; that He is bringing down the belligerent, bringing down the arrogant, bringing down those who have made a mockery of His name. It is the time to rejoice when our God does these things and not the time to mourn. It is the time to be praising our God, to be rejoicing in Him, to be singing a new song, because it is the time that our Lord is coming in His judgment. If we look around us, if we listen to what is happening throughout the earth, we can see that it is the time that our God is judging and judging and judging. WE ARE NOT TO OPPOSE THE LORD. WE ARE NOT TO PLAY GREATER THAN GOD. WE ARE NOT TO GROW HUMANISTIC BREASTS OF FALSE COMPASSION AND ASK THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO NURSE ON THE SAME. But we are to stand in the righteousness of the execution of the judgment of our God and to be glad that it is Him who is bringing it forth.
The Scripture says that it is the time to sing a new song unto the Lord, to rejoice and give praise unto Him. Oh, how wonderful it is that our God has come in His judgments and that He will continue to come, bringing forth the same in justice and in truth! How wonderful it is to know that we can rely upon Him that His ways are righteous, that His ways are blessed, that His ways are perfect! How wonderful it is to know that we can believe in our God, trust in our God, again and again and again!
Dear people, it is not the time to live in a bubble of false humanistic assumption as to what God can and cannot do, but it is the time to realize that our God has come, that He is performing His righteous judgments, that He is bringing forth that which He has threatened to do unto the sons of men if they would not turn from their wicked ways. It is not the time to mourn the loss of idol worshipers, but it is the time to celebrate the judgment of our God. It is the time to be glad, to give thanks unto Him that He is bringing His judgments against the evil, against the iniquity, against the corruption, against the vileness that is prevalent in these times. It is the time to be thankful day by day by day that we can look to our God, that we can believe in our God, that we can trust that His way is righteous.
For indeed it is a good thing and a sweet thing, it is a blessed thing, to be able to look to Him, to be able to rely upon the light, the strength, the power, the glory that He alone can provide. It is the Lord who will provide the way for the righteous that they can rejoice and be giving thanks and praise continually that He is our God. It is the Lord who will bring His judgment against the wicked, against the corrupted, against the vile who continue to violate His truth.
How wonderfully blessed we are to be able to sing praises unto our God, to be able to sing the new song of praise and honor and glory unto His name! It is our God who does wield the sword of His righteous judgment, who does bring down those who are opposers of the truth. There are many mockers and scoffers throughout the earth who are proud in their contempt for the Living God, but it is God who will render them helpless and useless, it is God who will vindicate Himself upon them, it is God who will bring them even unto death in an instant, for it is God who is the Almighty. He is the God who is to be held in reverent fear. How wonderful it is to see that our God is restoring His righteousness in the earth, that He is restoring His Kingdom, that He is declaring to all nations that He is God!
Oh, let us exalt our God, let us praise our God, for He is mighty. Do not be caught up in a bubble of false human compassion, feeling sorry for those whom the Lord does smite through His fury; but rather rejoice that it is the Lord who will put the wicked in his place, who will render them useless, who will render them helpless, who will bring them to nought. It is the time to rejoice that our God shall be glorified in His majesty, in His glory, in His strength and His might. It is the time to know that we are seeing the mighty ACTS of the Almighty God that His Spirit is pouring forth, for He is bringing forth the Spirit of judgment in this hour. It is the time to give praise and honor and glory unto Him, for He is ALMIGHTY. It is the time to worship Him, to adore Him, to know that He is the one that we must depend upon. No longer will men be able to flaunt themselves in their wickedness, flaunt themselves in their exaltation of other gods. Now is the time that the one true God has taken His throne. It is the time to declare Him, to worship Him, to proclaim Him unto all nations. It is the time to be glad that we can serve Him, that we can sing unto Him the new song of glory, honor and praise.
How blessed we are to be in such times, for our Lord has come, our God has come in the glory of His judgment wrath, in the glory of His fury, His indignation against the wicked, the vile, the corrupted! How wonderful it is to know that it is our God who does these mighty things and it is not the work of any man! Let us thank Him and praise Him, let us sing unto Him a new song that will glorify His name. Indeed it is a blessed and a beautiful thing to exalt our God, to worship our God, to bow down low before Him. It is a glorious and a wondrous thing to know that our God does prevail, to know that our God is the conquering King, to know that we can count upon His name, that we can count upon the power that is invincible, that is enduring, that is everlasting; to know that we can rely upon Him day by day, that we can exalt His name and worship Him forevermore.
How wonderful it is to know that as we sing a new song of praise and honor and glory unto our God—as we magnify Him, as we glorify Him, as we lift Him up before all men—that He will show forth His power! He will show that it is He who will set the nations to trembling, set the nations in fear once again, that they will recognize and know that He is God. He is indeed the Almighty, the one true God who reigns supreme. How wonderful it is to be serving Him! It is the time to rejoice, it is the time to give thanks, it is the time to be glad, FOR OUR GOD REIGNS. And as He shows forth His judgment hand, let us sing unto Him the new song of praise and honor and glory.
HAVE YOU BEEN SAVED? JESUS IS REAL!! PRAY LIKE THIS.
Dear Jesus, I come to you with all the sins I've committed and I beg you to forgive me. Rescue me from eternal damnation in Hellfire. I confess that I am a sinner and that I cannot save myself. Don't let me die in my sins. Please cleanse my body, soul and spirit with your precious blood. I need your help and I ask you to come and live in my heart. I want to serve you, obey your commands and do what is right. I want to live for you everyday and receive everlasting life. Please lead and guide me by your Spirit into righteousness. Help me live a clean and holy life that is pleasing unto God. Thank you Jesus for hearing and answering my prayer. Amen! Read the BIBLE!
As you know, we are living in a time of great natural disasters when God is bringing forth His vengeance, His wrath, His fury, His indignation upon the unrighteous. We need to realize and appreciate that God’s judgment is here and that God is showing that He is the one who reigns victorious.
Actually this is not the time to mourn but this is the time to give thanks and praise unto our God, because God has lived with and tolerated men’s sins long enough and now He says that the cup is full. Therefore God is bringing forth His vengeance in such a way that men will know that it is by Him that these mighty acts are performed. We need to realize that our God is doing these things and He is doing them because He is cleansing the earth. He is doing them because He wants men to pay heed unto Him and realize that He is the one true God. When God brings nations down and shakes up the earth it is that men would pay heed unto Him. God desires that we would realize that He is fully in control, that He is the omnipresent, that He is the one true God.
There are multitudes, vast multitudes of men and women who worship idols throughout this earth, but their idols cannot help them in the day of calamity, their idols cannot keep them in the day of evil, their idols cannot keep them from the wrath of an indignant God. God is full-up of the vileness, the wickedness, the corruption that men have exhibited in His sight. Because of that, God is vindicating Himself through His judgments and we need to rejoice in the same.
Turn with me to Psalm 96 and let us read verses 1-3. I’m reading from The Amplified Bible. “O sing to the Lord a new song; sing to the Lord, all the earth! Sing to the Lord, bless [affectionately praise] His name; show forth His salvation from day to day. Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples. For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is to be reverently feared and worshiped above all so-called gods.” So we see that it is the time to sing a new song. It is the time to sing unto the Lord. It is the time to praise His name and show forth His salvation from day to day. Notice it says we are to declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all people.
Continuing in verses 4-8, it says, “For great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised; He is to be reverently feared and worshiped above all so-called gods. For all the gods of the nations are [lifeless] idols, but the Lord made the heavens. Honor and majesty are before Him; strength and beauty are in His sanctuary. Ascribe to the Lord, O you families of the people, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Give to the Lord the glory due to His name; bring an offering and come (before Him) into His courts.” So we see that it is the time to give honor, to give glory, to magnify the Lord for who He is. It is the time to know that it is He who is worthy to be praised, that it is He who is worthy of all offerings and that it is the time to come before Him.
Verses 9-13 tell us, “O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness; tremble and reverently fear before Him, all the earth. Say among the nations that the Lord reigns; that the world also is established, that it cannot be moved; He shall judge and rule the people righteously and with justice. Let the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; let the sea roar and all the things which fill it. Let the field be exultant, and all that is in it! Then shall all the trees of the woods sing for joy before the Lord; for He comes, for He comes to judge and govern the earth! He shall judge the world with righteousness and justice, and the people with His faithfulness and truth.” Oh, what a wonderful thing to know that it is the time to praise our God! It is the time to thank our God that He is judging, that it is Him who has come, that it is Him who will govern, that it is Him who will show forth His righteousness once again, that it is Him that we can look to for His faithfulness and His truth, that it is Him that we can give praises unto continually. This is not the time to weep and mourn but it is the time to give thanks unto our God, for it is God who is bringing forth His wrath, His fury, His indignation in His judgments of righteousness and truth, for our God is just and His way is perfect. If we will but yield unto Him we will see that it is the time of great glory, it is the time of The Acts of the Spirit of the Living God.
It is the time for us to worship Him in the reverential fear of who He is and what He is able to do. It is not the time to argue against God and defend those who are idol worshipers, defend those who are full of evil and iniquity, defend those who are despisers of the way of the Lord, simply because they are human beings. But it is the time to realize that it is God who is executing His judgment against the wicked, against the idolaters, against those who are false in their relationship towards Him. It is God’s timing that He is bringing down the haughty, the proud, the high-minded; that He is bringing down the belligerent, bringing down the arrogant, bringing down those who have made a mockery of His name. It is the time to rejoice when our God does these things and not the time to mourn. It is the time to be praising our God, to be rejoicing in Him, to be singing a new song, because it is the time that our Lord is coming in His judgment. If we look around us, if we listen to what is happening throughout the earth, we can see that it is the time that our God is judging and judging and judging. WE ARE NOT TO OPPOSE THE LORD. WE ARE NOT TO PLAY GREATER THAN GOD. WE ARE NOT TO GROW HUMANISTIC BREASTS OF FALSE COMPASSION AND ASK THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO NURSE ON THE SAME. But we are to stand in the righteousness of the execution of the judgment of our God and to be glad that it is Him who is bringing it forth.
The Scripture says that it is the time to sing a new song unto the Lord, to rejoice and give praise unto Him. Oh, how wonderful it is that our God has come in His judgments and that He will continue to come, bringing forth the same in justice and in truth! How wonderful it is to know that we can rely upon Him that His ways are righteous, that His ways are blessed, that His ways are perfect! How wonderful it is to know that we can believe in our God, trust in our God, again and again and again!
Dear people, it is not the time to live in a bubble of false humanistic assumption as to what God can and cannot do, but it is the time to realize that our God has come, that He is performing His righteous judgments, that He is bringing forth that which He has threatened to do unto the sons of men if they would not turn from their wicked ways. It is not the time to mourn the loss of idol worshipers, but it is the time to celebrate the judgment of our God. It is the time to be glad, to give thanks unto Him that He is bringing His judgments against the evil, against the iniquity, against the corruption, against the vileness that is prevalent in these times. It is the time to be thankful day by day by day that we can look to our God, that we can believe in our God, that we can trust that His way is righteous.
For indeed it is a good thing and a sweet thing, it is a blessed thing, to be able to look to Him, to be able to rely upon the light, the strength, the power, the glory that He alone can provide. It is the Lord who will provide the way for the righteous that they can rejoice and be giving thanks and praise continually that He is our God. It is the Lord who will bring His judgment against the wicked, against the corrupted, against the vile who continue to violate His truth.
How wonderfully blessed we are to be able to sing praises unto our God, to be able to sing the new song of praise and honor and glory unto His name! It is our God who does wield the sword of His righteous judgment, who does bring down those who are opposers of the truth. There are many mockers and scoffers throughout the earth who are proud in their contempt for the Living God, but it is God who will render them helpless and useless, it is God who will vindicate Himself upon them, it is God who will bring them even unto death in an instant, for it is God who is the Almighty. He is the God who is to be held in reverent fear. How wonderful it is to see that our God is restoring His righteousness in the earth, that He is restoring His Kingdom, that He is declaring to all nations that He is God!
Oh, let us exalt our God, let us praise our God, for He is mighty. Do not be caught up in a bubble of false human compassion, feeling sorry for those whom the Lord does smite through His fury; but rather rejoice that it is the Lord who will put the wicked in his place, who will render them useless, who will render them helpless, who will bring them to nought. It is the time to rejoice that our God shall be glorified in His majesty, in His glory, in His strength and His might. It is the time to know that we are seeing the mighty ACTS of the Almighty God that His Spirit is pouring forth, for He is bringing forth the Spirit of judgment in this hour. It is the time to give praise and honor and glory unto Him, for He is ALMIGHTY. It is the time to worship Him, to adore Him, to know that He is the one that we must depend upon. No longer will men be able to flaunt themselves in their wickedness, flaunt themselves in their exaltation of other gods. Now is the time that the one true God has taken His throne. It is the time to declare Him, to worship Him, to proclaim Him unto all nations. It is the time to be glad that we can serve Him, that we can sing unto Him the new song of glory, honor and praise.
How blessed we are to be in such times, for our Lord has come, our God has come in the glory of His judgment wrath, in the glory of His fury, His indignation against the wicked, the vile, the corrupted! How wonderful it is to know that it is our God who does these mighty things and it is not the work of any man! Let us thank Him and praise Him, let us sing unto Him a new song that will glorify His name. Indeed it is a blessed and a beautiful thing to exalt our God, to worship our God, to bow down low before Him. It is a glorious and a wondrous thing to know that our God does prevail, to know that our God is the conquering King, to know that we can count upon His name, that we can count upon the power that is invincible, that is enduring, that is everlasting; to know that we can rely upon Him day by day, that we can exalt His name and worship Him forevermore.
How wonderful it is to know that as we sing a new song of praise and honor and glory unto our God—as we magnify Him, as we glorify Him, as we lift Him up before all men—that He will show forth His power! He will show that it is He who will set the nations to trembling, set the nations in fear once again, that they will recognize and know that He is God. He is indeed the Almighty, the one true God who reigns supreme. How wonderful it is to be serving Him! It is the time to rejoice, it is the time to give thanks, it is the time to be glad, FOR OUR GOD REIGNS. And as He shows forth His judgment hand, let us sing unto Him the new song of praise and honor and glory.
HAVE YOU BEEN SAVED? JESUS IS REAL!! PRAY LIKE THIS.
Dear Jesus, I come to you with all the sins I've committed and I beg you to forgive me. Rescue me from eternal damnation in Hellfire. I confess that I am a sinner and that I cannot save myself. Don't let me die in my sins. Please cleanse my body, soul and spirit with your precious blood. I need your help and I ask you to come and live in my heart. I want to serve you, obey your commands and do what is right. I want to live for you everyday and receive everlasting life. Please lead and guide me by your Spirit into righteousness. Help me live a clean and holy life that is pleasing unto God. Thank you Jesus for hearing and answering my prayer. Amen! Read the BIBLE!
THE POWER OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS
by H.A. Maxwell Whyte-ACMTC
JESUS was the only begotten of the Father (John 1:14) and His body was formed and fashioned wonderfully in the womb of Mary His mother; but the LIFE that was in Jesus Christ came alone from the Father by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, this life which flowed in the veins of the Lord Jesus Christ came from God. No wonder He said, "I am the LIFE." God imparted His own life into the Bloodstream of Jesus. Adamic blood is corrupt and was carried by Mary, who declared that Jesus her Son was "God my Saviour" (Luke 1:47). Mary was the chosen carrier of the body of her Son, but all the Blood came from God. I do not know how many categories of human blood have been catalogued by medical science, but I do know that the "Blood type" of the Lord Jesus Christ was entirely different. The Blood that flowed in His veins was perfect, for it was not contaminated by Adam's sin which brought sin and sickness into human blood.
If Adam had not sinned, he would not have died. But by his sin, he introduced death into the human family. The human body, therefore, became subject to corruption and decay, and death ultimately comes to each one of us. It is at the time of death that the life that is in the blood takes its departure with the spirit and soul of man.
Jesus Christ has no sin in His body, but He allowed Himself to die for the sins of a sinful humanity. He gave the perfect life that was in His perfect Blood to redeem poor mankind who carried death in their bodies -pure Blood for imperfect, contaminated blood. Life for life, for the life is in the blood. This is why Jesus is described as the last Adam. God sent Him to earth in the likeness of sinful Adam, but with pure uncontaminated Blood in his veins. God sent Him so that He might shed that pure Blood of His for the life of humanity. It is highly important for us to understand that the category of Jesus' Blood was different. Peter rightly describes it as "precious blood" (1 Peter 1:19). It is not possible to evaluate the Blood of Jesus by human values. It is priceless. It is God's price for the redemption of the whole human race.
A great miracle takes place when a man trusts in Jesus and accepts Him as his personal Savior. Immediately, a great cleansing takes place, and the sin that is in the blood stream is purged. "For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed: for the Lord dwells in Zion" (Joel 3:21). When we receive Jesus, the Bible declares that the heart is cleansed by the Blood of Jesus. This may be more literal than some would dare to believe. If the sin which is in our blood stream is purged and spiritual filth is washed out, then certainly the very heart which pumps the blood may be spoken of as being cleansed. By the miracle of salvation, we receive both eternal life and the divine health of the Son of God. The greatest disinfectant in the world is the Blood of Jesus Christ. It carries the eternal life of God in it.
In this connection it is interesting to note that Satan's nickname Beelzebub means "Lord of the Flies," or "Prince of the flies." Dead blood will quickly attract to itself flies, which will breed corruption in the coagulation blood; but the Blood of Jesus has exactly the opposite effect: it repulses Beelzebub and all his demons. When you put the Blood of Jesus on something, or place someone or something under the Blood by faith, Satan will flee because the Blood of Jesus is alive. The life is in the Blood. So, do not underestimate the power of the Blood of Jesus. In Leviticus 17, we read, "For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the BLOOD THAT MAKETH AN ATONEMENT FOR THE SOUL." The Apostle, therefore, made no mistake when he wrote, "Without shedding of blood is no remission" (Hebrews 9:22).
Some people say that it is enough to have just the name of Jesus. But this is not so. We need the Name and the Blood, for the life is in the Blood. There is power in the name of Jesus only because He shed His own Blood and offered it to His Father, who thereupon gave His power and His authority to His Son (Matthew 28:18). This same power and authority is given to all believers (Luke 10:19), but it only becomes operative as we honor His blood.
When Jesus died upon the cross, His own Blood was shed and sprinkled by Himself as God's High Priest on behalf of the people. He was crucified at the time of the feast of the Passover, the feast the Jews kept to remember the time when God said, "When I see the blood I will pass over you" (Exodus 12:23). At the very time when the jews were celebrating the first exodus, Jesus was making atonement for the second exodus. To all who will believe in this sacrifice and the efficacy of His precious Blood, there is an exodus from sin and the penalty of sin, which includes sickness. Jesus sprinkled His own Blood and fulfilled the following types: on the altar (the cross) (Exodus 24:6-8); round about the cross (Exodus 29:12-16); on the High Priest's garments (Exodus 29:20-21). Jesus' Blood was sprinkled seven times (or the number of perfection) (Leviticus 4:6-7); on the bottom of the cross (Leviticus 4:6-7); on the side of the cross (Leviticus 5:9); round about the cross, i.e. on the earth beneath (Leviticus 7:2); sprinkled before the tabernacle seven times (Numbers 19:4). This last was fulfilled in that the cross and the hill of Calvary were within sight of the temple in Jerusalem, for Calvary was outside the city wall. All these Old testament types were fulfilled in the crucifixion of Jesus, who made Himself our Passover, our vicar, our Savior, and our Blood sacrifice. His Blood alone covers our sins.
If we honor the Blood of Jesus Christ, the Father will smile upon us with forgiveness and cleansing. But this must not be a dull theological honoring, but a continual, active and vital embracing of His Blood. We do not offer our own works; we offer only His Blood. When God sees the Blood of His Son, which we offer as our covering, pardon and plea, God does not see our sin at all; He can only see the covering -the Blood. Therefore we understand that "It is the BLOOD that maketh an atonement for the soul" (Leviticus 17:12).
The Life of God is in the Blood of Jesus, thus, we can not be surprised at the strong reactions from demonic spirits. As soon as the Christian takes the precious Blood of Jesus on his tongue and sings it, talks it, or pleads it, the devil gets terribly disturbed. The devil understands the power of the Blood of Jesus, and he has done everything possible to blind Christians to this truth. Many of the people today who are Christians in name only, will have nothing to do with what they call "a slaughterhouse religion." Theirs is a religion without the life of God in it, and the devil has no objection to our participating in this kind of religion. But as soon as we honor the Blood of Jesus IN AN ACTIVE SENSE, we stir up demons to a fever pitch. It is like fire in a hornet's nest.
It is surprising that so little has been taught about the Blood and so little is known about the activity of demon spirits, even within the Christian church. No wise Christian would dare try to cast out demons without faith in the Blood of Jesus. As Christians living in today's exceedingly wicked world our only hope and salvation is by walking continually in the Blood of Jesus. The fact is that Jesus' Blood says something to God. The Blood cries out to God, "Our sin is covered! The penalty is paid!" We are redeemed.
SALVATION? YES, JESUS CHRIST IS REAL!!
Dear Jesus, I come to you with all the sins I've committed and I beg you to forgive me. I confess that I am a sinner and that I cannot save myself. Please cleanse my body, soul and spirit with your precious blood. I need your help and I ask you to come and live in my heart. I want to serve you, obey your commands and do what is right. I want to live for you everyday, please lead and guide me by your Spirit into righteousness. Thank you Jesus for hearing and answering my prayer. Amen! Read the BIBLE!JOIN US IN THE WAR TO SAVE SOULS!
ARE YOU tired of a dead church existence? Are you sick of the once a week, song and dance routine? Are you being told the TRUTH by those who call themselves "Men of God"? Why not get bold, why not get radical, why not go ALL THE WAY FOR JESUS!! What are you waiting for, the "rapture"? Souls are slipping Christless into Hell all around you, what are you doing about it? We offer a wide range of newspapers, booklets, tracts and tapes to equip the Christian soldier in the war for souls. Write us today for more information about how you can join the SPIRIT REVOLUTION!Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The Gay Revolution Is Underway!
DANGER, FANTASY, ROMANCE!
Was it your search for love that led you into bondage, and has that which promised to be the fulfillment your heart longed for led you instead into activity that has you in chains? Are you one of many who has become a slave to the lifestyle that has deceived you in your search for love? You may be questioning what is a love slave?
A Love Slave is one who has been searching for meaningful love but instead has become a slave to the deception of homosexuality and lesbianism.
The devil has and is leading thousands upon thousands of men and women, boys and girls into the sin of sexual deviation. The invitation into deception is so enticing, offering love as the bait, but what is the consequence once one is caught and bound in the chains of darkness?
Once the trap has sprung and the shackles are fastened -- where is the love? Is love one physical exhibition after another, or does love go beyond what parts of the human body can be manipulated? Is love men lusting for other men and boys and women burning with inordinate desire for other women and girls? Is it a subculture with its' own language, customs, and set of behavior patterns trying to establish its' own definition of love? Is love the continual cycle of searching through the gay crowd for that special one who will offer the night's satisfaction?
With the affected behavior, and the affected appearances, many are masquerading themselves as "gay" when on the inside, their hearts are broken, expectations are shattered, and lives are ruined.
Outside of God's order there can be no peace, no real love, no real fulfillment, no lasting satisfaction.
In this era of deception, so many are buying the lies of Satan and are burying themselves in the degradation he offers. Little do you realize when you have become a love slave to Satan that you are the slave of a hard cruel master who motivates you to lead others into the same bondage that you are in. What you are is what your master has made you, you are a pawn in his game, for not only does he have his chains upon you, he has a whip on your back and you are driven to perform as he directs.
"Know you not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"
Romans 6:16
SODOMY IS SUICIDE!
WHY DO YOU WANT TO DIE?
Was it your search for love that led you into bondage, and has that which promised to be the fulfillment your heart longed for led you instead into activity that has you in chains? Are you one of many who has become a slave to the lifestyle that has deceived you in your search for love? You may be questioning what is a love slave?
A Love Slave is one who has been searching for meaningful love but instead has become a slave to the deception of homosexuality and lesbianism.
The devil has and is leading thousands upon thousands of men and women, boys and girls into the sin of sexual deviation. The invitation into deception is so enticing, offering love as the bait, but what is the consequence once one is caught and bound in the chains of darkness?
Once the trap has sprung and the shackles are fastened -- where is the love? Is love one physical exhibition after another, or does love go beyond what parts of the human body can be manipulated? Is love men lusting for other men and boys and women burning with inordinate desire for other women and girls? Is it a subculture with its' own language, customs, and set of behavior patterns trying to establish its' own definition of love? Is love the continual cycle of searching through the gay crowd for that special one who will offer the night's satisfaction?
With the affected behavior, and the affected appearances, many are masquerading themselves as "gay" when on the inside, their hearts are broken, expectations are shattered, and lives are ruined.
Outside of God's order there can be no peace, no real love, no real fulfillment, no lasting satisfaction.
In this era of deception, so many are buying the lies of Satan and are burying themselves in the degradation he offers. Little do you realize when you have become a love slave to Satan that you are the slave of a hard cruel master who motivates you to lead others into the same bondage that you are in. What you are is what your master has made you, you are a pawn in his game, for not only does he have his chains upon you, he has a whip on your back and you are driven to perform as he directs.
"Know you not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants you are to whom you obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?"
Romans 6:16
SODOMY IS SUICIDE!
WHY DO YOU WANT TO DIE?
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