I got to see the Olympic closing ceremony. They gave honor (or more like worship???) to John Lennon. Erected a huge sculpture in the shape of the former Beatles face. ( An Idol?) As one hundred children wearing "Imagine" t-shirts sang and praised the message contained in the words. A humanistic, heathen, mantra which harkens to the "eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die" ideology which takes God out of the equation. Or the only thing that matters is the here and now.
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
Matthew 18:10 (Jesus) “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven."
John 14:2 (Jesus) " In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?"
Philippians 1:21-23 (Paul) For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. If I am to live in the flesh, that means fruitful labor for me. Yet which I shall choose I cannot tell. I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
Philippians 3:20-21 (Paul) But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself.
No hell below us
Above us only sky
"do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." (MATT 10:28)
"the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, 8 in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power..."(2 THESS 1)
"4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved for judgment; "
13 “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14 But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."(Matt 7)
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
" eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die. "(Ecc 8:15; isaiah 22:13)
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
"God has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord..."(Acts 17)
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
"The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none who does good." (Ps. 53)
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
"In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”(Matt 16:33) Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." (John 16:33)
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
Commendable thoughts but impossible in this present evil age. Peace, real peace will never be achieved in our fallen world. There will always be someone who will want to subjugate people, to control and even in the name of helping enslave.
Peace, real peace, real freedom, real good only comes in and through The Lion of Judah. The Son of David. The Lamb of God. The Son of God. The King of Kings. and Prince of peace.
Now I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. ...And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. But I saw no temple in it, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. "Rev 21)
You can have that peace now through the only name under heaven by which we can be saved. Not only from the wrath to come but from the hopelessness and confusion that confounds this world. A world that tolerates the profane, glorifies the perverse and calls evil good and good evil. The standards of God still prevail. The standard by which all of us will be judged.
Jesus said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life." (John 5:24)
"he who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. "(1 John 5:12)
"if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved." (Romans 10:9)
Saved? From what???
"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
"We then, as workers together with Him also plead with you not to receive the grace of God in vain. 2 For He says:
“In an acceptable time I have heard you,
And in the day of salvation I have helped you.”
Behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Anti-gay/Anti-christ \ To Chick-Fil-A or Not Chick-Fil-A
Liberal media and homosexuals have now taken to calling those who do not approve of same sex marriage "anti-gay." It's not anti-gay. No one is forcing gays to stay away from a particular business. They are making a choice to do so because of another persons values that conflict with their own. That's the thing about liberals. If you do not agree to accept what they believe you are intolerant, narrow minded, hate mongers. Here it is in a nutshell. We believe Scripture. We believe the Bible is really 66 love letters to God's people. And yes God's guide book condemns certain practices not because God is a spoil sport. But because history has proven that when mankind drifts further from His principles he brings about the ruination of mankind and downfall of nations.
Historian Will Durant said, "There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion." Three important trends demonstrate social decay. They are "the crisis of lawlessness," the "loss of economic discipline," and "rising bureaucracy."(Jim Nelson Black, When Nations Die) Sound familiar? Having been on the other side for 42 years, liberal in all my thinking on all issues, I know it's a thin line but a gigantic wall that separates those who believe in the God of Scripture and those who don't. God's will for me is to obey Him and warn all those who do not comprehend the severity of their disobedience. (Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. Acts 4:19-20) Each day the unbeliever walks on the precipice where at any moment they could be flung into the eternal abyss. This is just one issue but it threatens the very fabric of our nation. The sanity of our society.
The protesters today....
“I don’t know how you live with yourself and work here,” “I don’t understand it. This is a horrible corporation with horrible values.”“Anti-gay breakfast sandwich,” the man said. “Always tastes better when it’s full of hate.”The young cashier replied, “It’s my pleasure to serve you.” “Gays and lesbians could start applying for jobs at Chick-fil-A. Get in there. Become managers, take over the places.” MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart urged protesters to bully the restaurant chain.“Find out who is affiliated with Chick-fil-A in any way and put pressure on those folks,” MSNBC host Thomas Roberts said any gay marriage supporter who eats at the restaurant is a “Chicken-eating Judas.” CBS reporter Dean Reynolds reported that Chick-fil-A was serving up “a side order of bigotry.” A columnist for the Los Angeles Times opined, “Shut up and fry”
The protesters 4000 years ago
the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, all the men from every quarter, surrounded the house. They called to Lot, "Where are the two men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sexual relations with them. "This man Lot came to our city as a stranger, and now he wants to tell us what to do!" They said to Lot, "We will do worse things to you than to them." They started pushing him back and were ready to break down the door. (Gen 19)
I suggest those who say we who believe the Bible are anti-gay they are in reality anti-Christ.
"Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 John 4)
The coming of the lawless one (anti-christ) is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess 2)
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6:9-11)
God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (Romans 1)
I was envious of the boastful,
When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge[a] with abundance;
They have more than heart could wish.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They speak loftily.
They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue walks through the earth.
When I thought how to understand this,
It was too painful for me—
Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their end.
Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors. (Ps 73)
I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death . And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
"He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.”’(Rev 2:11)
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith.
Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. (Rev 3)
Historian Will Durant said, "There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion." Three important trends demonstrate social decay. They are "the crisis of lawlessness," the "loss of economic discipline," and "rising bureaucracy."(Jim Nelson Black, When Nations Die) Sound familiar? Having been on the other side for 42 years, liberal in all my thinking on all issues, I know it's a thin line but a gigantic wall that separates those who believe in the God of Scripture and those who don't. God's will for me is to obey Him and warn all those who do not comprehend the severity of their disobedience. (Peter and John answered and said to them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard. Acts 4:19-20) Each day the unbeliever walks on the precipice where at any moment they could be flung into the eternal abyss. This is just one issue but it threatens the very fabric of our nation. The sanity of our society.
The protesters today....
“I don’t know how you live with yourself and work here,” “I don’t understand it. This is a horrible corporation with horrible values.”“Anti-gay breakfast sandwich,” the man said. “Always tastes better when it’s full of hate.”The young cashier replied, “It’s my pleasure to serve you.” “Gays and lesbians could start applying for jobs at Chick-fil-A. Get in there. Become managers, take over the places.” MSNBC contributor Jonathan Capehart urged protesters to bully the restaurant chain.“Find out who is affiliated with Chick-fil-A in any way and put pressure on those folks,” MSNBC host Thomas Roberts said any gay marriage supporter who eats at the restaurant is a “Chicken-eating Judas.” CBS reporter Dean Reynolds reported that Chick-fil-A was serving up “a side order of bigotry.” A columnist for the Los Angeles Times opined, “Shut up and fry”
The protesters 4000 years ago
the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, all the men from every quarter, surrounded the house. They called to Lot, "Where are the two men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so we can have sexual relations with them. "This man Lot came to our city as a stranger, and now he wants to tell us what to do!" They said to Lot, "We will do worse things to you than to them." They started pushing him back and were ready to break down the door. (Gen 19)
I suggest those who say we who believe the Bible are anti-gay they are in reality anti-Christ.
"Every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world. (1 John 4)
The coming of the lawless one (anti-christ) is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. (2 Thess 2)
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. (1 Cor 6:9-11)
God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. (Romans 1)
I was envious of the boastful,
When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Therefore pride serves as their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment.
Their eyes bulge[a] with abundance;
They have more than heart could wish.
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;
They speak loftily.
They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue walks through the earth.
When I thought how to understand this,
It was too painful for me—
Until I went into the sanctuary of God;
Then I understood their end.
Surely You set them in slippery places;
You cast them down to destruction.
Oh, how they are brought to desolation, as in a moment!
They are utterly consumed with terrors. (Ps 73)
I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death . And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
"He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.”’(Rev 2:11)
For whatever is born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith.
Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
He who overcomes shall be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the Book of Life; but I will confess his name before My Father and before His angels. (Rev 3)
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