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“The Price Paid for Our Redemption”

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Ladies and Gentlemen, the following story is why you and I can know God…

The Price Paid for Our Redemption 1“But this One was different.  Some of the soldiers had noticed the way He had taken the scourging without crying out like most men did.  The soldiers who had been at the trials had noticed the way He didn’t answer trumped-up charges; refusing to dignify such accusations with an answer.  The times He did speak revealed His deep inner peace.  He seemed to be drawing strength from a Source they couldn’t identify, but yet was very evident.

“However, the supreme test was about to occur.

“The soldiers get up, shift their armor into place, and start to form a circle around Jesus.  But then they see something that they’ve never seen in all their years of crucifying men.  Jesus, of His own will, moves over to His cross, and stretches Himself out on it.  He then extends His hands and waits for the nails.  They are shocked!  Never, among all the many experiences of crucifixion they’ve had, have they ever had anyone willingly accept a cross.  This Man is different!  Jesus actions seem to say, “No one takes my life from Me; I lay it down willingly.”  But why?  Why would He embrace a cross?

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“Revolutionary War Providential Acts”

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In December of 1776, the American army was battling for its life.  A devastating defeat at Brandywine in September had threatened to destroy the army’s resolve.  In that one battle, nearly one-fourth of our army was killed.  The rest of the fall, General George Washington had worked hard to inflict damage on the vastly superior British force, yet stay out of a full frontal battle, which he was sure to lose.  As winter drew near, fewer and fewer of the men had re-enlisted to fight for the liberty of the young American nation.  In a few days it would be Christmas.  If Washington could not work a major victory before the first of the New Year, his army would almost surely disintegrate.  But the truth was, he had little with which to fight.  Not only was he short on soldiers, he was even shorter on supplies and ammunition for his rag-tag army.

It was then he decided on one of the boldest moves of the War.  He would attack the British force at Trenton, hoping to free New Jersey from British control; and in so doing, greatly boost the morale of his men and the American people.  But it was a bold gamble.  The weather, the lack of supplies and munitions, plus the very well supplied and entrenched British force, all meant that it would take the help and protection of God Almighty if this effort was to be successful.  Abbott, in his biography of Washington says, “One can imagine the fervor with which he pleaded with God to come to the aid of his little army.” (George Washington, J. C. Abott, Dobbs and Mead, 1875, p. 303)  If he lost, Americans would live as slaves to a tyrannical King George.  Washington himself would most surely be hung—if he could even survive the battle!

Knowing all this all too well, Washington made Continue reading →

“Patrick of Ireland”

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It is such an amazing story! Patrick, a young, former slave in Ireland, was called by God in the 400s to go share the Gospel of Christ with those same Irish people who had enslaved him just a few years before! Yet, without fear, he boldly entered again into that realm and became the agent of liberty to those who had once been his agents of slavery.

He developed this boldness because Christ had revealed Himself to him in such a living way. Patrick’s faith in Jesus was no cold orthodoxy; his was a living relationship with the living, resurrected Son of God! In Patrick’s life, Jesus was Lord! We get a glimpse of the intimacy between him and his Lord when he writes of hearing His voice. With great humility he simply states that God said to him:

“He who gave His life for you, He it is who speaks within you.”

(Great Christian Classics, Kevin Swanson ed. (Generations With Vision, 2010), p. 140)

His knowledge of Christ was deeper than most of us today. He understood that Jesus dwelt inside him. He knew Christ, not only as the Continue reading →

“Freedom Lovers”

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Ever hear of Hadrian’s Wall?  It was a wall built across England in the 2nd century.  It was named after the Roman Emperor Hadrian because his Roman armies, while occupying England, could never defeat the people of Scotland in those days.  Though the strongest, best-equipped army on earth, the Romans simply could not overcome these ‘freedom-loving’ mountain people called Picts.  The Roman Commander, in trying to explain to the Emperor why Rome was not occupying Scotland, stated that these “red-headed Picts” would die in a ‘heartbeat’ rather than live in subjection to someone else.  They loved freedom so much they would rather die free than live enslaved.  So the Romans built this giant wall all the way across England for the purpose of keeping out of southern England these freedom-loving Picts; lest they invade the south and stir up the English to rebel against the Romans.

But that’s not the end of the story.  After the Romans left England, several centuries later it became the goal of English kings to conquer the Scots.  King Edward of England marched his armies against the Scots in the early 1300s.  And though he succeeded in executing their popular leader, William Wallace, better known to our generation as Braveheart, Edward’s forces were no match for Scotland’s fierce warriors of freedom.  Not long afterward Robert the Bruce conquered the English army and preserved Scotland’s precious liberty.

But America has a modern-day link with the Scots.  Due to English oppression, as well as economic woes caused Continue reading →

“Teaching Children Who Is Their Creator”

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Few ministries in America have been attacked more than Answers in Genesis. From the day they started to build the Creation Museum they have been constantly harassed by the liberal media and socialist organizations which hate the message of mankind having a Creator. These groups know they have to control the mind of the next generation in order to teach them socialism. The first Biblical truth they must remove from the eyes of children is that God made them in His “image, after [His] likeness, to Teaching Children Who is Their Creator1have dominion.” Unless they can convince them of the lie of evolution, they will lose the war to change America to atheism and socialism.

America’s Founders were not fooled by the teaching of evolution. Others, before Darwin, had put forth the theory for centuries. But America’s Founders were men who had already considered the arguments against the Bible’s explanation of man’s origins—and had rejected those arguments. George Washington revealed his thinking on the subject when he stated:

“It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe, without the agency of a Supreme Being…A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to.” Continue reading →

“Why the Pressure?”

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The winter of 1623 had been especially hard for the Pilgrims.  At one point they had been reduced to five kernels of corn per person, per day.  That’s right; only five kernels of corn each day to live on!  Somehow, they had survived.  Spring finally came and they anxiously planted their crops.  They now had great hopes of having a good harvest and storing it up to avoid hardship this coming winter.

But then, the rain stopped.  Twelve weeks would go by with hardly any rain at all.  They finally realized God was trying to get their attention.  They called for a day of fasting and prayer to seek God’s face to find out the cause of the drought.  They worshiped and prayed earnestly for God to show them their sin.  As He did, they began to confess their wrongs toward Him and toward one another.  As they honestly opened their hearts and revealed selfish attitudes toward a neighbor and ask them to forgive them, the joy began to flow.  They knew they were meeting with God and He was pleased with their confessions to Him—and to one another.  It was then they simply asked Him to let the rain return.

When they left the meeting house that afternoon about 5 p.m., the clouds had already gathered on the horizon and by the next morning, were Continue reading →

“Why so Much Talk about Government?”

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The newscast is full of it.  The newspapers’ main stories are about it.  Bestseller books are often discussions of it.  Why is there so much talk about government?  What’s so important about government?

Well, like most things in today’s world, we generally talk around the topic instead of defining it.  Why not go to the root of the issue and actually learn what we’re talking so much about.

The word government comes from the word govern.  The word govern is defined in Noah Webster’s original American dictionary as control.  Thus, government is the exercising of control.  The first form of government we must learn is self-government.  The art of governing ourselves means we control our appetites of the mind and the body.  Self-government in the mind means we exercise control over our thoughts and think on what is “…noble…just…and pure…” as the Bible teaches us to (Philippians 4:8).  This necessarily means we must Continue reading →

“Restoring America from the Bottom Up”

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Can we stop abortion in America?  Can we stop the homosexuals from forcing their lifestyle on our children?  Can we ever turn the divorce rate back?  What about our economy?  Can we get it going again?  Is there any hope that we can see our education system once again teaching our children both academics and discipline?

I want to say a resounding “YES!” to these questions.  But the method I want to put forth to accomplish this may surprise you.

First, I urge you, as a citizen, in America, stop looking to Washington to fix things.  Most people in our national government don’t have a clue as to what it will take to solve these overwhelming problems.  Their answer generally is just to throw money at it; that fixes nothing and creates a whole new set of problems.  So how do we go about restoring our nation to the greatness it once knew?

Are you ready for this?  We fix ourselves!

We choose to come back to the Biblical foundation on which America’s Founders built this nation.  This means I start—and you start, as an individual, to Continue reading →

“Let His Kingdom Come”

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Recently a young friend of mine sent me an article he was disturbed about.  A man who, no doubt, is a sincere believer, was saying Christians should not be involved in government because, as he said, “God’s kingdom isn’t here on earth”.  He went on to put forth the idea that our work as Christians is to share the Gospel with the lost, not to lobby in government.

This is a common mistake I hear believers make.  They divide life into the ‘spiritual’ and the ‘secular’ parts.  In their thinking, neither is supposed to affect the other.

Is God’s kingdom only in heaven?  If that were true, why did God say in Genesis 1:26 that the reason He made us was so we would be “…in His image, after His likeness, and have dominion over…all the earth” (emphasis added)?  If we were made to look like God, live like God, and rule like God, as this verse teaches, whose kingdom did He desire to be on this earth?

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“Education Determines the Nation’s Thinking”

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One of America’s most important Founding Fathers made the following statement about education:

Education Determines the Nations Thinking 1“We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education…We’ve become accustomed of late of putting little books into the hands of children containing fables and moral lessons…We are spending less time in the classroom on the Bible, which should be the principal text in our schools…The Bible states these great moral lessons better than any other manmade book.”

Thus spoke Fisher Ames, the Founding Father who authored the wording of the First Amendment to the Constitution.  Could this Founder have possibly wanted the “separation of church and state” that liberals now say that Amendment supports?

But to continue with our thoughts on education:  Since education teaches children how to think; and since those thought processes become Continue reading →