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Luke 21:35-36 – Pre Trib Support Scripture –Part 2

25 Aug

Yesterday we focused on these scriptures as supporting the pre-trib position.  If you haven’t had a chance it should be read before the rest of this post will be fully understood.

Today I want to speak on the warning.

Luke 21:34-36 –34“Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap. 35For it will come upon all those who live on the face of the whole earth. 36Be always on the watch, and pray that you may be able to escape all that is about to happen, and that you may be able to stand before the Son of Man.”

Our warning comes in verse 34.  One thing it is implying is that the group in verse 34 is in serious danger of not escaping the tribulation.  It’s not saying be careful of not being saved.  It’s saying don’t be caught loving the world more than Me.  It’s saying don’t be getting drunk and paying Me no mind.

Dissipation  – I thought I would copy down what the dictionary had on this.

dis·si·pa·tion [dis-uh–pey-shuh n] –noun

1. the act of dissipating.
2. the state of being dissipated; dispersion; disintegration.
3. a wasting by misuse: the dissipation of a fortune.
4. mental distraction; amusement; diversion.
5. dissolute way of living, esp. excessive drinking of liquor; intemperance.
6. Physics, Mechanics . a process in which energy is used or lost without accomplishing useful work, as friction causing loss of mechanical energy.

Wow, mentally distracted, wasting time and money on amusement or other diversions.  Busy with excessive drinking.   Not accomplishing useful work.  I have to believe the Lord is referring to work in regards to the Kingdom.  This is the group the Lord is warning.  

Seek Jesus and make Him your first love.  Also pray that you may be able to stand in front of the Son of Man and escape all that is about to happen.

 
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There are a lot of Godless Countries Out There

23 Aug

How are they doing?

The reason I ask is because there sure is a lot of motivation to kick Him out of ours.

Why?

I mean it, why?

Are the 10 commandments so corrupt that people just can’t take it anymore?  How about the Bible itself?  Is it really something that is so detrimental to people that they are so better off without it?

No.  So why? 

There is only one logical answer.  Given the option and opportunity to abandon God, man as a majority will eventually do it every time.

It started with the Old Testament and rings true to this day.  Man gets help from God, prospers, and over time the next generations falls away.  You see it’s a spirit thing.  We’re all spiritual beings and your spirit and soul will live on somewhere long after this body dies. 

Where?  A very important question to seek out indeed. 

I have made two pages on the right upper corner of this blog.  One is How to accept Jesus as Savior and the other is why we need a Savior.

 
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Proverbs 19:21 – Reflection

21 Aug

Proverbs 19:21 – 21 Many are the plans in a man’s heart,
       but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.

Our path vs. His path.

 
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What’s Your Life Verse?

19 Aug

I believe every Christian should have a life verse from the Bible.

Why?

Well the first reason is because it means you’re in the Bible looking at it.

Second because it’s taking God’s Word and matching it with what’s important to you in life.  It’s a scripture that has touched you more than any other you have read.  It’s had such an impact, that you want to share it and say, hey, this verse has changed my life.

My life verse is Matthew 7:7-8.  I know, you’re saying, Pat that’s two verses.  To get the full effect of what it means it’s good to add verse 8.

Matthew 7:7-8 – 7“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 8For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

Why is this verse my life verse?  Because I found out that if you want to know God and the Truth, He will give it to you.

If you don’t seek, you won’t find.  This world is full of people that are only seeking what’s best for them.

If you knock, He’s right there ready for you.  It’s like, come on in, I have been waiting your whole life for you.

If you ask it will be given to you.  What will be given to you?  Your wants and your desires?  Not unless they are of God.  God isn’t going to be responsible for giving you anything that pushes you further away from Him, trust me.  Your needs?  Absolutely!  However, your thoughts on what your needs are compared to what they really are, probably aren’t the same thing.

Here’s what I found out.  When you go to God and say, “I want to know You, I want to know Truth, I don’t want my agenda, I want Yours!”

At that time, this verse tells all.                

So what’s your life’s verse?

Share it with me if you have one.  If not, begin your search and enjoy God’s Word!

 
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America- No right and No wrong?

18 Aug

America is so open minded anymore that there is no right and no wrong.

When someone is murdered on and they show it on TV, I’m supposed to feel sorry for the murderer anymore.  The victim isn‘t the voice that can’t speak or the dead person, it’s the person that supposedly has been wronged by society.

This execution of the innocent victim with no voice has been going on since 1972.  We shouldn’t be surprised I guess that it has finally moved on from the unborn to others.

Isaiah 5:20 – Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

Murder isn’t our only problem.  Frivolous lawsuits fill our courts hoping for the right jury.  Others would rather stay on extended unemployment or welfare because it pays the same or better than getting an actual job.

Ah, but America and its media is taking a hard line on something.  They are winning the battle.  That battle is against intolerance.  You want to know why the news media hates Christianity?  Because the Bible when taken literally is about absolutes.

When God says:

Isaiah 43:11 – I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior.

Isaiah 45:5 – I am the LORD, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,

When Jesus says:

John 14:6 – Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

And that there in this country, is intolerance my friends.

Remember one thing that’s very important.

John 15:18 – “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first.

The real comfort is, the victory has already been won.  We know the future and the battle because God shared it with us.  You might not know what tomorrow brings, but if you’re a blood boughten saint of Jesus Christ, you ultimately have victory!

I Corinthians 15:54-57 – 54When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”
 55“Where, O death, is your victory?
      Where, O death, is your sting?” 56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

If you want life’s victory and haven’t accepted Jesus yet, please go to the top right upper corner column of this blog.

God Bless.

 
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We Need To Die To Ourselves

16 Aug

When Christians accept Jesus they are supposed to live a new life in Christ.  In these last days, the Church as a whole has struggled terribly. 

Galatians 2:20 – 20I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

I no longer live but Christ lives in me.  Christians today do a good job of sifting through the world and the Bible trying to pick out the parts they like best and then paste them altogether.

We need to quit confusing ourselves and others with this kind of thinking.

Jesus died on the cross for your sins.  If He hadn’t done so as the perfect sacrifice, you would still have to pay the price yourself.  The difference is Christ’s death and sacrifice will SAVE you from eternal death.  If you die without accepting His blood atonement for your sins, your death is really at the Judgment Seat in front of Christ.  If your name isn’t in the Lamb’s book of life, you will then suffer the second death.   The Bible says the lake of fire is the second death.

If you don’t know Jesus, don’t waste another minute.  I have put a page on “How To Accept Jesus As Savior”.  Please go to it and accept Him as Lord before it is too late.

 
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Proverbs 11:2 – Reflection

14 Aug

Proverbs 11:2 – 2 When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
       but with humility comes wisdom.

The most evil men on earth were full of pride.  God’s wisdom certainly wasn’t with them.  We need to humble ourselves in the sight of the Lord.

Great spirit filled song.  Click here to see the lyrics and listen.

 
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A Mosque Right Near Ground Zero Approved

12 Aug

Wow!  Are you kidding me?

Anybody find this a bit bizarre?

Less than a decade later a mosque is getting built right at Ground Zero.  You know what’s even more troubling than that?  Read the comments on MSN or another opinion page.  Overall, America is officially at least half spiritually blind.  We have people sticking up for Islam like it’s some sort of peaceful religion.  They are so bent on tolerance and coming together that they won’t take the scriptures of the Koran seriously. 

The people in this country who don’t want one Christian to tell them what is right and what is wrong and has declared war in the name of intolerance and hatred, is sticking up for Islam.  ???????????

There’s no freedom in Islam!  That’s a fact not an opinion, just look at the countries that are 90 Muslim and under sharia law.  Yet the same people that scowl at Christianity and the Bible and its intolerance, fight for the right of Islam.  How can this be?

2 Corinthians 4:4-5 – 4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

I continued to read the comments and the ones arguing for it, that I could tell weren’t believers of Islam, were crusaders for no intolerance.  They try to be people right down the middle.  Believe whatever you want as long as it doesn’t affect anyone else’s life. 

Of course we know that is fallacy.  My desire to live in a moral Christian society ran by God gets stepped on by the ones who don’t want Him to run this country at all.  The hunter steps on the animal rights activists’ rights and vice-versa. 

It’s impossible to have a successful country that way and we see that right now.  That’s why when it’s all said and done, what everyone thinks besides the True God isn’t going to amount to anything, except judgment.

He made the heavens, earth, universe, you, right, wrong,…..everything.  He has the final say above all.  These are few things He has to say.

Romans 3:23 – 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

John 14:6 – Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

John 3:16 – 16“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

The time is getting short.  Most End Time scriptures are continuing to take form and others are being fulfilled.

I want to encourage you to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior if you haven’t.  I have a page to click on over on the upper right part of this blog that will run you through how to do so.

 
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Here I Am Lord….Here’s What I Didn’t Do

11 Aug

When you ask people why should they be allowed to go to heaven, what’s the most common type of response?

Well I tried to be a nice person.  I didn’t try to hurt anyone.  I didn’t do this, I didn’t do that.

Ponder that idea, because it’s more popular than you think.

The Bible is full of Do’s and Don’ts. 

Maybe the most alarming anymore is not only do Christians not know what the do’s are, but with a lack of reading the Word they’re missing on the don’ts now also.

So you’re standing in front of God!  He says, “What did you do for Me?”

Oh Patrick that’s works.  No!  No hiding behind that one.

James 2:26 – 26As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.

This country has gotten complacent in many areas including in its faith.  You are saved by grace and that’s where most people quit. 

Is that what God wants?  Acknowledgement only?  Hey Big Guy, I know You’re there.  I’ll just be down here doing my thing until it’s time to check out.  Oh and if I run into a few problems along the way, I’ll give you a holler.  We good?  Alright!

The Word of God is full of Do’s.  They are just as important as the don’ts.

What are YOU going to do for God?  There’s lots of things you can.  The biggest detractor of doing these things is because were too busy on ourselves.

 
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Intelligence vs. Wisdom

09 Aug

Intelligence is how well the mind can process material and facts.  It’s how well the brain can solve things and recall other information it has taken in.  Some people are so intelligent it is actually mind boggling.  On the flip side there are others who struggle and it can be boggling to the mind as well.

Wisdom is the ability to decipher rather something is a good idea or not.  Wisdom is usually characterized to be with those with a lot of experience and have learned from those experiences.  They have already attempted to do certain things and suggest to others that it wasn’t that good of an idea.  On the flip side they have done some things also that have worked out real well and can share those successes to.

Who could possibly be wiser than the Creator of the creation?

Proverbs 2:6 –  6 For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.

In my own life I can vouch that I was smart enough to know that something was terribly not right with human beings.  However, until I sought wisdom from the Lord, I didn’t know what was actually wrong.  Wisdom does come from seeking God. 

Intelligence has no bearing on rather one is capable of accepting Jesus.  If it is, then the Judge of all the earth will be fair I can promise you that.  I will say this though; some people have become too smart in their own minds to accept Jesus.  Call it pride, call it wanting to be god of their own lives, call it what you will, but some of the most intelligent minds won’t be wise enough to accept God’s sacrifice and pardon of their sins.

Don’t be too smart for God.  Choose to seek Wisdom.  Choose Jesus and choose life.

 
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