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With the election only a month away, the candidates are fervently pushing their agenda, trying to convince us we should trust them with the future of our children. That is what’s at stake, you know. They promise us ‘all will be well’ if we give them our vote. But with all the lies politicians have told us throughout our lives, why should we even bother to vote? Well, the last two generations, many have decided not to. We now think we’ve had a good voter turnout if 50% of those registered to vote get to the polls. Not to mention the huge numbers who haven’t cared enough to even register. How sad!
Why has this happened? Since the 1920s most of our universities have been teaching that there is no God and life is all about us, and our pleasure. Without knowing that the God of the Bible created us in an instant of time, we have no association with Him, which means we have no reason for self-worth, or for committing our lives to worthwhile tasks. We simply “live for the weekend” as many put it.
This spills over into the governmental realm. People who live for pleasure are Continue reading
Many people wonder why America is going downhill morally. Why is there so much drug use? Why are the gangs with all their violence growing so rapidly? Why is homosexuality capturing so many of our young people? Why do so many people refuse to marry, and instead just “live” with someone? Wrong living comes from wrong thinking; and wrong thinking comes from wrong listening!
I cannot tell you how very disappointed I’ve been with church leaders in recent days. The so-called “pandemic” revealed some very interesting things about our lack of understanding of the Biblical principles of civil government. This is not to say that, in the beginning of it, there was not the need for caution. There certainly was; since we didn’t know what we were dealing with. But the way church leadership just bowed down to the so-called “medical experts” and were willing to stop most ministry just because some governor said they had to, reveals a tremendous lack of understanding as to how Communists, and the many groups which work with them, work to take over free nations. This lack of understanding is scary. It shows that we’ve let our minds be shaped by socialist ideas: That we haven’t known that Karl Marx, the father of Communism, stated that his whole aim in establishing worldwide communism was for the purpose of destroying Christianity. What kind of ignorance does this reveal in us who lead the church? Remember the Bible says,
Liberty or Security? Which is most important in the long run? It is impossible to have 100% of both liberty and security in this natural world. Liberty, of necessity, must involve some risks. The major one is that you have to trust your neighbor to respect your God-given rights of life, liberty, and ownership of property. Likewise, your neighbor must be able to trust you in the same way. This is why our Founders warned us that we couldn’t maintain this Republic, with its great amount of liberty for the individual, without most of our people knowing the religion of Jesus Christ in the pure way that Jesus gave it. If I know that I will “reap what I sow”, both in this world, and in the world to come (Galatians 6:7), I have a strong reason to respect your rights; knowing that God Himself is judging me in my actions. If I’ve had those truths hidden from me both in the home and the school, then I don’t know that I will surely “reap what I’m now sowing”; thus, I have no deterrent to my own selfish desires, leaving your rights at risk.
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