Awake, Awake O People

I see the end of America. It may be a long way off but the seed is a long time planted. I am not so sure of the germination time necessary for our demise to reach full bloom, but I am certain that the sprout has definitively broken the ground and begun to reach upward toward the sun.  You may disagree and hold out hope, and I would hope that you are correct, but the reality of our condition is far worse than you suspect. I only know of the travesty that surrounds life and the hopelessness that has penetrated the heart of a nation. Men of simple ideals are portrayed repeatedly as the enemy of progress, while the progression is leading us into a pit of destruction. Yes, progressives who are smug in their ideas to recreate humanity in their own image and likeness and hold not only no fear of God, but no time for Him, are forcing an ideology that cannot be sustained down the collective throat of America. I am no patriot though, for my hope is not the future of America, though I love the concept, my eggs are all in the basket of God’s Kingdom. I turn my cheek to be beaten by the arrogant evil of our day in order that it can be seen that there is no hypocrisy in God. There is One king, there is One ruler, and no one can overthrow His rule. His day is coming upon the whole earth and I rejoice in His goodness. As for America, I fear you are at your end. Here is a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. One stanza shy of the original.

Oh say can you see, at the end of the light

The glory of your freedom is approaching the night

Now those stripes and those stars are perverting your life

Will you just stand by and watch as they confound all reason

And our pockets are bare, our homes under siege

Most stand dumbfounded that our flag does not care

Oh, say does our constitution still carry any weight

Or are we defeated as cowards by our own halls of justice

The beaches still carry the sand and the seas

Moreover, the wind still blows freely through mountains and trees

However, our hearts are imprisoned by our leaders disease

To destroy from within and make our nation bleed

As our flag is the laughingstock across all the seas

Our enemies emboldened to take over our ways

Time to put down your beer can and begin to pray

Before we are defeated from our own halls of justice

In addition, where are a people who love freedom and peace?

Our imagination by false reason have sorely been fleeced

To pursue degradation as a rite of spring break

“I deserve” has become a mantra for the masses

No longer a nation with an ethic of value

We abort our babies while saving the animals

As we fight in the courtroom to preserve unknown values

We are defeated by deceivers in our own halls of justice

In the Face of Jesus

For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God. For it is God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 4:6


Are you in darkness? What an obscure term, darkness. How would you even know? Darkness cannot define darkness and neither can light define light, it is contrasts that bring definition. For good there must be evil, for right there must be wrong, for up there must be down, for right there must be left, for in there must be out, for truth there must be a lie.

Where does the definition come from? It is God who commanded the light to shine out of darkness. He is commanding us to allow His light to shine out of our darkness. His glory becoming very apparent as His strength is perfected in our weakness.

A child is told to look both ways before crossing the street. Is this right or wrong? The child is not interested in the motive of their instructor; he obeys or disobeys according to his own thoughts. Something else must define the moral or ethical value of their instruction.

While we were yet sinners God sent His Son into the world. Jesus is the visible representation of the invisible God. Everything we know about God must be defined by who Jesus is. If what we know about God is not consistent with whom Jesus is then we must throw it out.

As you look into the face of Jesus you will see the Father and your darkness will be turned into light and you will shine as sons of God.

A Message of Hope

Love. (Period) This is not just the message of God, it is who He is. We know love in that God laid down His life so that we could be restored to perfection. Eventually those who receive the work of Christ our Messiah will receive a new body and all tears will be wiped away. The promises of God in Christ Jesus are fantastic and beyond what we would call grounded in reality (No more sickness, no more disease, no more death).  I thank God, through Christ Jesus, that He has opened a door of Hope in the gospel message of forgiveness and eternal life for all who believe in Jesus. Come to Him today, cast all your cares upon Him, for He cares for you. He is love.

Citizenship in Heaven

In believing that America is an expression of the Kingdom of God governmentally we have in essence shut down the expression of the power of the Kingdom of God.  Being a world power this faith in America has basically polluted the gospel on a global scale in very much the same way Rome did by mandating Christianity as the official religion of the state.  This error was not perceived by our founding fathers in that they established a freedom of religion clause to the charter, yet the “people of God” have attached America to themselves like a prosthetic arm or leg in place of citizenship in heaven.  In this we have failed to stand apart as ambassadors of another Kingdom that will and must consume all the governments of men with the fullness of the glory of God at the return of Jesus Christ.  We ask our lawmakers to pass “godly” laws and demand the respect of the wicked but we do not stand up and speak of repentance and salvation for our leaders.  We cast a ballot for the lesser of two evils while winking at the evil that is still present and compromising the pure good that the Spirit of God in us is pointing to; if His Spirit be in us.   In touting freedom and liberty through our constitution over the gospel of our One true God we essentially empower every false god and hold the value of America above the Kingdom of Him who saved us.  In Acts Herod was struck dead and eaten by worms for not giving glory to God, Ananias and Saphira were struck dead for lying to the Holy Spirit, the sorcerer was struck blind for trying to sway the proconsul from the faith, the apostles were beaten and imprisoned and performed great signs and wonders and we ask why don’t we see these things today?  We have traded the God of heaven for the idol of America and pledge allegiance to the flag of another Kingdom, how can the power of God rightly back our words if we serve another god.  How can the Kingdom of God come at the word of men who honor their citizenship in the earthly nation above the heavenly Kingdom.  I will preach a coming King who will set up His Kingdom and expect that as a representative of the Kingdom of God that His resources will supply me with every power necessary to convert the sinner and destroy the foolishness of the wise according to this age.  We must arm ourselves to suffer for the truth not fight for our rights.

Prophecy? When is it false.

O my God, can you sort out the thoughts of my mind.  They are many and diverse.  I am not so much confused by my thoughts as by what I see.  Many false prophets have gone out into the world to deceive many.  Things have been made so strange.  You are my Hope and strength.

When a man speaks a word from the Lord and it does not come to pass, was that word he spoke really from the Lord?  Do not muddle the question with your many doctrines.  Let me ask another, simpler question.  If a man says he is telling you the truth and it turns out to be a lie, was what he told you the truth?  Why do we make things more complicated than they need to be! 

Is God ever caught by surprise or unaware?  NO.  Does He know the end from the beginning?  YES.  Can God lie?  NO.  The answers to these questions are not debatable, they do not have an exception, nor can they change.  Why then is there so much debate and confusion across the Christian religion. 

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. - Jhn 1:12-13 NKJV

I’ve heard it said that God is releasing a “new breed”, the best of all the bloodlines, and this is the last generation who will usher in the Lord’s return.  This is a false word and should not be listened to.  The above Scripture says it is not by blood (or genealogy).  Being descendent of one of the apostles does not give you any advantage.  All have sinned, all have fallen short.  No man on the entire earth has ever been preferred by God because of genealogy (bloodline).  It has been said that since the legalizing of abortion after Roe v Wade in 1973 that this “new breed” will begin to be born.  This uses the 1973 date as the earliest time for a “new breed” Christian to be born, with the legalization of abortion being Satan’s attempt to stop such a plan.  The problem here is that abortion has been around and legal at much earlier times in history across the globe. 

Before 1803 British Common Law allowed abortion before “quickening” (the time it was then widely thought the soul entered the body—approximately 20-24 weeks.) Abortions after “quickening” were considered an offense but there were no fixed penalties and the woman was not always held responsible. However in 1803 the Lord Ellenborough Act made abortion at any time in the pregnancy a felony under English statute punishable by death.

The Offenses Against the Person Act of 1861 softened this, making abortion punishable by imprisonment of three years to life, even when done for medical reasons. 1929 saw the introduction of the Infant Life Preservation Act, which amended the 1861 law saying abortion was no longer a felony so long as it was in good faith for the sole purpose of preserving the mother’s life. The new law made it illegal to kill a baby “capable of being born live.” It also said the child should be presumed viable at 28 weeks, but gave doctors the power to decide the legality when the mother’s health in danger. 

The article “A Global History of Abortion” on the Life.org.nz website in New Zealand reports that “In 1920 the Soviet Union legalized abortion on demand and the World League for Sexual Reform began in Berlin. The influential 1929 London Congress of the World League for Sexual Reform promoted the Soviet abortion law as an ideal for its pioneering secular ideology,” and that “By 1932, supporters in the medical profession were lobbying the British Medical Association and in 1936, the Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) was established.”

Then in 1938 Dr. Alec Bourne challenged the law with a test case. He aborted a 14-year-old girl who had been raped by four soldiers, and turned himself in to the authorities. He gained great publicity and public sympathy and was acquitted. Life.org.nz reports, “Justice McNaughten told the jury that if Bourne believed that continuation of the pregnancy ‘would make the woman a physical or a mental wreck,’ then he operated for the purpose only of preserving the life of the woman.”

The article continues, “As a result of the Bourne case, more and more abortions began to be practised in Britain in cases where the woman’s physical or mental health was thought to be in danger, a loophole in the law that was interpreted increasingly loosely. This ambiguous legal precedent was adopted by other Commonwealth nations.” (http://www.hli.org/files/sr_jan_08.pdf)

With these above examples, it is very presumptuous to decide that America’s legalizing of abortion indicates the beginning of God’s plan.  He is not working solely on the scale of America but he has died for the sin of the world.  Exactly what plan of God is this belief playing into?  I’ll allow you to seek the Lord.

Well, anyway, it is the year 2012 and the generation of the “new breed” is coming to a close by those who spoke it defining a generation as 40yrs in the context of this word.  There has been almost no change in the body of Christ.  We pump each other up with the “latest” word while so many go unnoticed through our midst just needing a friend.  I want to love and be loved.  Let us quite chasing something and be someone.