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America Likes Tailor Made Religion

07 Oct

With American’s exercising their freedom what else would one expect?

Today’s post is a link to the USA Today’s article on this very thing.

The problem is people don’t know the Bible.

Have you ever heard a song you really like the first time?  You really liked it, but one time through and
you may know the chorus, but nothing else.  So you sit around at it plays in your head.  You just go with it because you don’t know the words.  Pretty soon you just make up your own.

Many Pastor’s today have led a congregation to just repent.  Don’t worry about anything else.  So the congregation as a whole doesn’t.

It’s when one reads the Bible that we know that kind of Christianity isn’t good.  In fact we know it’s downright dangerous.  I’ve written on Truth for the last three days.  Do you think the God of Truth cares rather people are making up their own religion or Christianity?  The Bible indicates that He does care.

Here is the article.  Just click here. 

 

 
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Truth Doesn’t Change – Part 3

06 Oct

We’re going to finish up on the truth doesn’t change.

Who is the truth?  God and Jesus are the truth as we have read the last couple of days.

I want to write on one of the most important promises that God has made that hasn’t changed and yet many in the church want to think He has.

Psalm 33:11- 11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.

God doesn’t believe in replacement theology.  God didn’t make a plan to Israel only to change His mind.  He is faithful and we can count on Him to keep His word.

Malachi 3:6 – 6 “I the LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

In the last days God told Ezekiel that His promise would be fulfilled to Israel.

Ezekiel 37:21-23 – 21 and say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. 22 I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms. 23 They will no longer defile themselves with their idols and vile images or with any of their offenses, for I will save them from all their sinful backsliding, and I will cleanse them. They will be my people, and I will be their God.

God doesn’t change.  Man tries to change God.  God’s promises are truth and truth doesn’t change.

 
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Truth Doesn’t Change – Part 2

05 Oct

We’re sticking with a theme of Truth doesn’t change.

Who is the Truth?

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

So now the question is does the Truth change?

Hebrews 13:8 – 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Jesus according to scripture doesn’t change.  We read yesterday that God doesn’t change, so not surprisingly that Jesus doesn’t change either.

John 10:30- 30 I and the Father are one.”

Political correctness is always changing.  What’s acceptable today won’t be tomorrow.  Why?  Because man is always changing his mind on what’s right or wrong.

Tomorrow we will finish up on the fact God and Truth do not change.

 
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Truth Doesn’t Change – Part 1

04 Oct

I’m going to do a few short posts using scripture that our God does not change when it comes to truth.  If someone repents such as Nineveh did he will hold off His wrath, but that was a condition of the warning from Jonah in the first place.

However God is not like man that he is wishy-washy or changes His mind or His truth.

Numbers 23:19 – 19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind.  Does he speak and then not act?  Does he promise and not fulfill?

One of the reasons I say this is because there are certain religions that will change their so called truths as time goes on.  If something isn’t viewed as politically correct a modern day prophet suddenly has a revelation and it changes it all.  However, does God say in His Word that it works that way?

1 Samuel 15:29 – 29 He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a man, that he should change his mind.”

Pretty much another identical verse.  God doesn’t change His mind on His promises.  That’s one of the reasons we can trust Him.  We can take Him at His Word.

If God changed things around 180 degrees and something meant the opposite of what it did before, how would you know He wasn’t going to do it again?  Yet that happens today in the name of convenience for people.

Tomorrow we’ll carry on with this theme.

 
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Bad Company Corrupts Good Character

03 Oct

1 Corinthians 15:33-34- 33 Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.” 34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.

I wrote a short blurb on this last week and came across this scripture that could have been part of it.

Each one of us is a sinner.  That means we have to seek God and ignore our normal sinful ways or intentions.  Getting around things and tempting ourselves or putting ourselves in bad situations will pull on us.

We need to stay strong in the Word.  Those who are not are not in tuned into the Spirit of the Lord.  They want you to join them.  It’s kind of a mentality of hey if I can get Joe, Ralph, Susie, and Loretta to all do this then I must be in the majority of those I like.

Everything we do is important.  Every path we choose is important.  If we try to reach people for the Lord it’s important and if we don’t try at all it’s important.  IT ALL MATTERS.  We all have to have that mentality.  Even with that mentality we still struggle, but we are at least in the right mindset moving forward.

 
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Earthly Tent Will Soon Be Destroyed

30 Sep

2 Corinthians 5:1-5 – 1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. 2 Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, 3 because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked. 4 For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

The truth is inevitable.  Our bodies are going to grow old and pass away.  Nobody has taken worldly goods with them.  They are still here. 

These are scientific facts, not faith.  Yet man still tries to find the fountain of youth and obtain riches in this temporary life. 

Why?

What’s neat about the Bible is it explains why.  It explains who we are as fallen creatures.  It explains what God expects and wants from us and that it takes His strength and spirit working through us to get it done.

The Bible is full of the words of life.  It is full of how to live and warnings of how not to live.  

Growing up in High School, many people strived for good grades.  They weren’t happy for just barely passing.  In the spiritual realm concerning their relationship with the one true God, just barely passing or getting a D- works just fine for them.

 We need to seek our Lord and all that He wants in our lives.  If we do our best we have a tendency to fall way short.  Just think how bad it is when we don’t try at all?

 
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Don’t Be Enticed

29 Sep

Proverbs 1:10-10 My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.

One thing we have to remember is we are all sinners and we can’t allow friends and family to sway us either from what’s right concerning the Word of God.  We always look at people we don’t know and hang around with, but they really aren’t going to entice you anyway.

Stand true to the One True God.  Nobody loves you more! 

 
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Just Felt Like A Rapture Verse

28 Sep

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 – 51 Listen, I tell you amystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

I look forward to it with excitement.  To be taken in an instant to be with the Lord in the Air and forever be with Him.  Exciting indeed!

 
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Choose A Side; Wars On

27 Sep

Matthew 12:30- 30 “He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.

We don’t want to be undecided or caught in the middle.

Daniel 7:13-14- 13 “In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. 14 He was given authority, glory and sovereign power; all peoples, nations and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed.

This is the side to be on.

Those who have chosen and will continue to choose the devil’s coup, will lose in the end.

Revelation 20:10-15 – 10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence, and there was no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. 14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15 If anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

The idea isn’t just to choose the winning side.  We need to seek the loving Creator.  This world is full of people that haven’t taken ANY time to so.  We don’t want to be one of them.  Seek the Lord.  Study the Word.

 
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He Loves Us And Forgives Us

26 Sep

Psalm 103:8-12 – 8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious,
slow to anger, abounding in love.
9 He will not always accuse,
nor will he harbor his anger forever;
10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve
or repay us according to our iniquities.
11 For as high as the heavens are above the
earth, so great is his love for those who fear him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far has he removed our transgressions from us.

We need to thank the Lord more often that He does not treat us as we deserve.

Praise our God that removes our transgressions from us.  He is worthy of our Praise.  Not just because He made us, but because He is slow to anger and wants His children to love Him.  He constantly shows love to a bunch of fallen people who are full of things detestable.

The war is for your heart.  You can be on the winning side guaranteed.  Choose Him that loves you, cares about you, and made you.

 
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