| The biggest proponents of rabid opposition to gun control are professing Christians! If you, for whomever this applies, clutched and clung to the Cross at least as tightly as you do to the gun you'd realize that God said: ~ Micah 4:1-4 [1] In the last days the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established as chief among the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and peoples will stream to it. [2] Many nations will come and say, “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us his ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” The law will go out from Zion, the word of the Lord from Jerusalem. [3] He will judge between many peoples and will settle disputes for strong nations far and wide. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore. [4] Every man will sit under his own vine and under his own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid, for the Lord Almighty has spoken. [5] All the nations may walk in the name of their gods; we will walk in the name of the Lord our God for ever and ever. God was not speaking about the distant future in Micah. He was not speaking of the end of the world. He was talking about when the kingdom of God would be established here on earth. Christians know that the Bible teaches that the kingdom of God is here now. It came in Acts chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost. So why are we the main ones leading the fight to build our plowshares back into swords, and our pruning hooks into spears? Do we care what God said? Or are we just going to be bull-headed and go with what our selfish wants demand? The Christian nation is composed of many nations. God's word is what settles disputes among these nations within the kingdom, not the sword, nor the spear, nor the knife, nor the gun! Christians who lead the fight for the right to own guns should be ASHAMED! Usually it's the Liberals who want to allow everything and the Conservatives who seek stricter controls. But in this case it's actually the so-called conservative Christians willing to sell their soul for the right to allow every type of arm to be available on the market for the common citizen in the United States. Christians love to scream about the 2nd Amendment. Since when are we to put man's law above God's law? Since when? I don't care how many amendments there are, we don't now nor have ever had authority from God in the Scriptures to supercede His commands with our own. Anything you say in an attempt to justify ordinary citizens in purchasing oozies, glocks, machine guns, bulletproof vests and bullet-resistant head gear - that's between you and God, and you will have to answer Him for it. Answer me this though: Do you believe Jesus would be leading the fight on this issue if He were here in the flesh today? ~ 2 Timothy 2:4-5 [4] No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. [5] Similarly, if anyone competes as an athlete, he does not receive the victor’s crown unless he competes according to the rules. That's God's rules, not man's rules usurping God's rules. The soldier being spoken of here is the Christian soldier. Civilian affairs are those of the world - outside of the kingdom. The commanding officer is God Almighty. What are the weapons we are authorized to employ today? The Armor of God ~Ephesians 6:10-18 [10] Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. [11] Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. [12] For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. [13] Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. [14] Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, [15] and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. [16] In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. [17] Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. [18] And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the saints. Most of those who departed Europe in the 1500's - 1600's to explore foreign lands were conquerors, and they conquered with the gun - an arm unknown to the natives in America at the time. They raped and murdered the native Americans with the gun. They sailed over the Atlantic to Africa to conquer and enslave blacks with the gun. They sailed back over the ocean and kept the newly acquired slaves in line with the gun. These same bandits wrote into the constitution the right to bear the gun and to kill with gun. And today Christians ... I said Christians - so-called disciples of Christ - are the loudest ones to be followers instead of leaders in advocating the weapon of lawbreakers, the gun. For those of you Christians that cantankerously push the agenda advocating no gun control, realize that the gun is your Cross. You are fighting a worldly battle rather than a godly one. You are fighting Satan's battle, not God's. The devil has cleverly mounted his assault on gun control with droves of unwitting Christians doing his most incensed bidding, and you don't even realize it. All you know and care to know is that the 2nd Amendment allows for the bearing of arms, and doggoneit you will fight to the death for it no matter how many innocent citizens are sprayed with bullets and mowed down at will. ~ Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. Your consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. You are beyond the capability of listening to reason on this issue, and you cannot feel for the victims enough to change your mind. ~ 1 Timothy 4:2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. You can rationalize it all away if you like. It's your own conscience that will be called to the carpet when it comes time to give an account. As for me, I will serve the Lord. HAILE NKRUMAH GAULT |
Friday, July 27, 2012
CHRISTIANS FOR BEARING ARMS
Saturday, July 07, 2012
JESUS LOVES ...
 Whoever you are, whatever you've done, no matter how many times you've hurt or been hurt, been thrown away, used or been abused ... He loves you just as you are, but He loves you too much to leave you the way you are. ~ Jesus |
Friday, August 21, 2009
THE PRICE FOR LOOKING BACK!
GENESIS 13:13 "NOW THE MEN OF SODOM WERE WICKED AND WERE SINNING GREATLY AGAINST THE LORD." GENESIS 19:12-13 "THE TWO MEN SAID TO LOT, 'DO YOU HAVE ANYONE ELSE HERE—SONS-IN-LAW, SONS OR DAUGHTERS, OR ANYONE ELSE IN THE CITY WHO BELONGS TO YOU? GET THEM OUT OF HERE, BECAUSE WE ARE GOING TO DESTROY THIS PLACE. THE OUTCRY TO THE LORD AGAINST ITS PEOPLE IS SO GREAT THAT HE HAS SENT US TO DESTROY IT.'" GENESIS 19:14 "SO LOT WENT OUT AND SPOKE TO HIS SONS-IN-LAW, WHO WERE PLEDGED TO MARRY HIS DAUGHTERS. HE SAID, 'HURRY AND GET OUT OF THIS PLACE, BECAUSE THE LORD IS ABOUT TO DESTROY THE CITY!' BUT HIS SONS-IN-LAW THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING." GENESIS 19:15 "WITH THE COMING OF DAWN, THE ANGELS URGED LOT, SAYING, 'HURRY! TAKE YOUR WIFE AND YOUR TWO DAUGHTERS WHO ARE HERE, OR YOU WILL BE SWEPT AWAY WHEN THE CITY IS GENESIS 19:16 "WHEN HE HESITATED, THE MEN GRASPED HIS HAND AND THE HANDS OF HIS WIFE AND OF HIS TWO DAUGHTERS AND LED THEM SAFELY OUT OF THE CITY, FOR THE LORD WAS MERCIFUL TO THEM. AS SOON AS THEY HAD BROUGHT THEM OUT, ONE OF THEM SAID, 'FLEE FOR YOUR LIVES! DON'T LOOK BACK, AND DON'T STOP ANYWHERE IN THE PLAIN! FLEE TO THE MOUNTAINS OR YOU WILL BE SWEPT GENESIS 19:26 "BUT LOT'S WIFE LOOKED BACK, AND SHE BECAME A PILLAR OF SALT."
OUR LESSON GOD SAID IT! BELIEVE IT! AND DON'T LOOK BACK! I HAVE DECIDED TO FOLLOW JESUS! NO TURNING BACK! |
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
OBEYING THE GOSPEL: Repentence & Baptism
You must obey the Gospel of Jesus Christ in order to be born again in Jesus Christ.
| Who must obey the Gospel? 2 Thessalonians 1:4-10 4 "Therefore, among God's churches we boast about your perseverance and faith in all the persecutions and trials you are enduring. 5 All this is evidence that God's judgment is right, and as a result you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering. 6 God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you 7 and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. 8 He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. 9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power 10 on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you." |
| Well, what does 'Gospel' mean? Gospel means "Good News" deriving from the Old English "god-spell," translated from Greek åõáããÝëéïí (euangelion) used in the New Testament. |
| Then what is the Gospel? 1 Corinthians 15:1-5 1 "Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. 2 By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain. 3 For what I received I passed on to you as of FIRST IMPORTANCE: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve." |
| OK, how does one obey the Gospel? I mean, how does one obey the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ? Romans 6:3-7 3 "Or don't you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death? 4 We were therefore buried with Him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life. 5 If we have been united with Him like this in His death, we will certainly also be united with Him in His resurrection. 6 For we know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin — 7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin." |
| Hebrews 11:16 "And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him." |
HEAR ..... [or be otherwise informed of] the Gospel
| Romans 10:17 "Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ." |
BELIEVE ..... the Gospel & CONFESS ..... Jesus as Lord
| Romans 10:9 "That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." |
REPENT ..... of all your sins
| Luke 13:3 "I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish." |
Then ..... Be BURIED in WATER BAPTISM
| John 3:3-5 In reply Jesus declared, 3 "I tell you the truth, no one can see the kingdom of God unless he is born again." 4 "How can a man be born when he is old?" Nicodemus asked. "Surely he cannot enter a second time into his mother's womb to be born!" 5 Jesus answered, "I tell you the truth, no one can enter the kingdom of God unless he is born of water and the Spirit." |
| Acts 2:38 3 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." |
| Titus 3:3-6 3 "At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit 6 whom He poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior ..." |
| 1 Peter 3:18-22 18 For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit, 19 through whom also he went and preached to the spirits in prison 20 who disobeyed long ago when God waited patiently in the days of Noah while the ark was being built. In it only a few people, eight in all, were saved through water, 21 and this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also — not the removal of dirt from the body but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at God’s right hand —with angels, authorities and powers in submission to him." |
| Mark 16:15-16 15 Jesus said to them,"Go into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation. 16 Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned." |
If one does not believe the Good News, What point is there in obeying the Good News? That person, as the Scripture teaches, is condemned! |
realize this:
| 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 9 "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God." |
| What initially makes us no longer wicked; what initially makes us no longer guilty of being sexually immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or a male/female prostitute, or a homosexual offender, or a thief, or a greedy person, or an alcoholic, or a slanderer, or a swindler, or any other sinful type is the fact that we've repented of our sins and have been washed - buried in water baptism in the name of Jesus! |
realize this:
| Galatians 3:26-27 26 "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, 27 for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ." |
| When you are baptized (buried) into Christ you become clothed with or in Christ. If you are not baptized into Christ you do NOT have Him on ... you are naked, still in your sins, unclothed, unsaved, unforgiven. |
realize this:
| Colossians 2:11-12
11 "In Him you were also circumcised, in the putting off of the sinful nature, not with a circumcision done by the hands of men but with the circumcision done by Christ, 12 having been buried with Him in baptism and raised with Him through your faith in the power of God, who raised Him from the dead." |
| When you are baptized (buried) with or into Christ you undergo a circumcision. It is not the circumcision done by a physician, the cutting away of foreskin from the penis as it was for the male Israelites. It is not even the removal of dirt from the physical body [1 Peter 3:21]. No, it is the cutting away of sin from your soul done by Christ while you are buried in the water; and being raised up out of the water afterward through faith in and the pledge of a good conscience toward God who raised Jesus Christ up from the dead when He was lying buried in rock within the tomb. If you do not receive this circumcision your sin remains; you are unsaved. |
realize this:
| Revelation 1:5 "To Him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by His blood ..." |
Therefore, the water of baptism represents His blood where we receive forgiveness of our sins. It is His blood that cleanses us, yet this cleansing takes place in the water! |
(IN CHRIST JESUS)
UNTIL YOUR DEATH!
... Be faithful, even to the point of death, and I will give you the crown of life. |
Click here to find out: What did the early church believe about how to become born again?
Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on His name."
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