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“Walked-On Salt”

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Salt is a powerful agent.  It nourishes, heals, flavors, and preserves things.  Jesus used it as an illustration of what His followers are to be.  He stated,

“You are the salt of the earth…”

walked-on-salt1(Matthew 5:13)

As His life flows through born again believers, He nourishes, heals, flavors, and preserves people of every age and description by them being introduced to Him and His delivering power.  On the other hand, Jesus gave a fearful warning concerning us being the “salt” of this earth.  He went on to state,

“… but if the salt has lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted?  It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.”

In other words, if we, the “salt” of this earth lose our ability to nourish, heal, flavor, and preserve, we will find ourselves being “walked-on” in our society. Continue reading →

“Trump’s Words or Hillary’s Deeds”

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Thomas Sowells is a powerful political commentator.  He is a senior fellow at the trumps-words-or-hillarys-deeds1Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and he happens to be of African descent.  He analyzes the two Presidential candidates the best I’ve seen.  The Bible says,

“He that is first [that is: first to speak] in his own cause seems just; but his neighbor comes and searches him [or cross-examines him].”

(Proverbs 18:17)

Donald Trump has been made to look like the egotist he’s often been because of his bad statement about women.  He deserves it.  However, when you cross-examine Hillary Clinton, she comes out to be the much worse of the two bad candidates.  I urge you to consider Thomas Sowell’s analysis of the two candidates.  He states:

“Donald Trump’s gutter talk about women shows yet again that he is bad news. The problem is that Hillary Clinton is far worse. [emphasis mine] Trump’s talk is indefensible. But Hillary Clinton’s actions as Secretary of State, carrying out the Obama administration’s foreign policies, have cost many lives in many places, including the American ambassador and others killed in Benghazi. Women have a right to be offended by Trump’s words. But women have suffered a far worse fate from Secretary Clinton’s and President Obama’s actions. Pulling American troops out of Iraq, despite military advice to the contrary, led to the sudden rise of ISIS and their seizing of many women and young girls as sex slaves… Continue reading →

“Choose Whom You Will Serve”

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Joshua called together the leaders of Israel and challenged them to finish the work of establishing the Jews in the Promised Land.  He admonished them,

choose-whom-you-will-serve1“…choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served…or the gods of the Amorites…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

(Joshua 24:15)

The nations around them worshipped (through their idols, Psalm 106:37) a god—satan—which produced a dictator for their civil government.  God, our true Creator, had given to the Jews, through Moses, a government where the people chose their rulers through elections.  The first form of government enslaved the people to their king, the dictator; God’s form of government enslaved the government servants to the people, the citizens, giving to the people in government only specifically written powers which they could exercise over them (we call that a “Constitution”).  The nations around them had a dictatorship for their form of government; the Jews had a republic for their form of government.  And the Jews experienced, through their republic, more liberty and justice for their citizens than any nation had ever experienced up unto that time.

This is one of the things that makes voting such an important act.  We will always be choosing more enslavement or Continue reading →

“Voting Is Obedience to God”

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Noah Webster, the Father of America’s original education method, wrote to young people in his U.S. History textbook the following admonition:

voting-is-obedience-to-god1“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers ‘just men who will rule in the fear of God.’ The preservation of [the government of a republic] depends on the faithful discharge of this duty.

“If [the government of a republic] fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

(Webster, Noah. 1832. History of the United States (New Haven: Durrie & Peck, 1832), pp. 307-308, paragraph 49. Stephen McDowell and Mark Beliles, “The Providential Perspective” (Charlottesville, VA: The Providence Foundation, P.O. Box 6759, Charlottesville, Va. 22906, January 1994), Vol. 9, No. 1, p. 6.)

Voting is not an option for born-again people.  If we claim to know Jesus Christ as our Lord, we are commanded by God to vote—and God tells us what kind of men we are to vote for!  When God formed the government of the Jewish nation, He commanded His people to Continue reading →

“Biblical Voting”

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biblical-voting1Samuel Adams, the Father of our American Revolution, stated,

“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present…to please an individual—or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he is executing one of the most solemn trusts in human society for which he is accountable to God and his country.”

(Samuel Adams, The Writings of Samuel Adams, Harry Alonzo Cushing, editor (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1907), Vol. IV, p. 256, in the Boston Gazette on April 16, 1781.)

Why did America’s Founders teach that voting was so important?  First of all, they believed that the Bible taught it.  Indeed, in Genesis 1:26, where God tells why He made man, one of His three reasons was that man might “have dominion.”  “Having dominion” means, first of all, that we rule over our own desires.  We call this “internal self-government” (America’s Founders often called it “virtue”).  But that internal self-government must be allowed to grow out into the culture.  We must also “take dominion” in the institutions of the culture.  I refer to the home, the church, and civil government—for those are the three structural institutions by which God builds every nation.  If we do not lead in those institutions then those who do not know and walk in the truth of the Scripture will lead; they will “take dominion” and lead us Continue reading →

“Americans Are the Guardians of Liberty”

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We should carefully take in the words of the Father of our country, George Washington.  americans-are-the-guardians-of-liberty1In his first inaugural address he stated words of such wisdom that they should sober and inspire every one of us who are Americans.  If heeded, they will inspire us to become an instrument in the hands of Almighty God for the good of our children and the entire earth.

Just after Washington took the oath of office to defend and uphold the newly written Constitution of the United States, he spoke these words of wisdom:

“We ought to be no less persuaded that the…smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained; …the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government are justly considered as…perhaps finally, staked [with] the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people….” Continue reading →

“The Epic Battle – Part 7”

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Why did the Roman soldier beneath Jesus’ Cross feel afraid to face God at the Judgement?  He may, just then, have realized the repentant thief had the answer.  “We, indeed, suffer justly,” the thief had said.  That was it:  We were wrong!  Doing things the way we wanted was not right after all!  It was our Creator’s right to tell us—His creation—how to live.  After all, only then would we know how to fulfill His purpose for us.  We were guilty of “insubordination”!  This a soldier could understand.

1the-epic-battle-part-7By now it was noon, and a strange thing began to happen.  The sky began to darken with an eerie blackness.  For a few brief moments, the air was so still it seemed to choke you as the darkness deepened.  Then the earth began to tremble.  Lightning bolts were exploding against the ground.  Then, unexpectedly, the voice of Jesus pierced the darkness.  In a loud, wrenching voice Jesus cried out,

“My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me!”

(Matthew 27:46)

The level of emotional pain expressed by this outcry was incomprehensible.  All who heard it were arrested by its intensity.  They temporarily forgot the present danger to themselves and turned toward Jesus’ cross.  While the light produced by the lightning bolts was short-lived, Continue reading →

“The Epic Battle – Part 6”

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As the soldier at the foot of the Cross wonders if Jesus really could be God’s Son—wonders if this death could be something more than hundreds of others he’s 1The Epic Battle-Part 6seen—Jesus suddenly breaks in with another statement.  As He looks down from the cross, He sees His mother standing there beside one of His most devoted followers, whose name is John.  Looking into the eyes of His mother with those amazing eyes of peace, He says, “Woman, behold your son.”  (John 19:26-27) Then looking into the face of the youthful John, He says, “Behold, your mother!”  Thus, He has fulfilled His last earthly obligation.  Being the oldest son in the family, it is His responsibility to see that His mother is cared for in her latter years.   He is dying, thus, He gives her to a trusted friend (and John fulfilled that obligation).  Watching all of this, the soldier is becoming more convinced that Jesus is Who He says He is.  And if He is God’s Son, then that fact demands He be listened to.  If He was God’s Son, then He would be right about everything.  And if there was only one God and He sent His Son to earth to be a man that would prove He cared about us.  If this was true, the Creator was evidently trying to communicate something to us humans.  What could it be?

Quite some time elapsed as the soldier thought about this.  Then a different voice was heard from a cross.  It was one of the men condemned to die alongside Jesus that day.  In a desperate attempt to get loose from the cross, he tries Continue reading →

“The Epic Battle – Part 5”

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A powerful blow of the mallet forces the spike through Jesus’ crossed feet.  His body contorts and His quivering lips reveal the pain He’s absorbing—yet no sound is heard from His lips save the gasps of quickly taking in air as a reflex to the impact of the nails.  His blood is now running onto the ground at a steady rate—the earth soaking up the 1The Epic Battle-Part 5blood of its Creator.

Yet in all this word-defying scene of horrendous torture, there is an unmistakable presence of peace surrounding this middle cross.  Though unseen, it is undeniable.  This Man is like no other that has ever hung on a cross.  There is a Presence about Him.  In spite of the cruelty, the ghastly sight of blood, and the stark disregard for human life, dignity pervades this scene!  Something is happening here which defies description.  A transaction is taking place between heaven and earth that will profoundly affect all of history.

Suddenly, as He looks to heaven, Jesus breaks his silence,

“Father, forgive them. They don’t know what they’re doing.”

All eyes quickly turn toward Him.  What did He say? “Father, forgive them?”  Forgive those who had driven nails through His body?  Forgive those who had ripped His flesh with the whip?  Forgive those who were wasting His very life’s blood on the ground!  Forgive them?  Did they really hear Him right?  Yet, the words were unmistakable.  He was asking God to forgive the very ones who were torturing Him. Continue reading →

“The Epic Battle – Part 4”

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The Roman soldiers had nailed two men to their crosses; ignoring their shrieks of pain, the soldiers rest.  It was hard work to kill a man on a cross.  One more Man—and the 1The Epic Battle-Part 4hardest part of this hideous work would be done. One more…

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, 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 have 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 Continue reading →