Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
Jesus promised His followers tribulation and persecution, because “the disciple is not above his teacher.”
It may be Friday for us now (like Good Friday was for Jesus), but Sunday’s coming forever for us (like Resurrection Sunday was for Jesus).
And now the shortest understatement—the longest lasting truth:
WE END ON A POSITIVE NOTE !
What a transformation—to change from SIN to SING because God came in.
In the First War for Independence, when George Washington needed to cross the Delaware River under cover of darkness to surprise the British, they were not done by daybreak. God sent a benign “storm” of dense fog just long enough for our men to finish crossing the river and experience a miraculous turning point in the war, to save America.
In the Second War for Independence-1812, when the British advanced on Washington, D.C., they planned to burn it down the next day. God sent a storm so severe that the British had to abandon their plans and get out—a miraculous turning point in the war, to save America.
In the Third War for Independence-2012, when momentum before the election had shifted toward change in Washington, God sent Hurricane Sandy at just the right time to strangely turn it the other way—a miraculous turning point in the war, to judge America.
I cannot imagine the sadness of Thanksgiving Day with no God to thank.
And even worse, if you admit your sadness, you lose the argument against God’s reality.
So, atheists become defensive or angry or intolerant of anyone who believes in and gives thanks to Someone they say doesn’t exist.
What does it really mean, then, when atheists try to stop the Christmas message and Christmas symbols?
Well, here’s how I like to think of Christmas celebration, and the war on Christmas.
EVERY YEAR WE GET TO ADD ANOTHER CANDLE ON JESUS’ BIRTHDAY CAKE, AND THE CELEBRATION JUST GETS BIGGER AND BETTER. AND ALL 2000 PLUS CANDLES ARE THE KIND THAT LIGHT BACK UP EVERY TIME SOMEONE TRIES TO BLOW THEM OUT!!!!!!!!!!
(writers are supposed to use exclamation points sparingly, but this is an exception)
HALLELUJAH ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
A quote from Ravi Zacharias yesterday on American Family Radio:
“The difference between warfare in the world and the spiritual warfare of Christians is this:
The purpose of warfare in the world is to destroy the enemy.
The purpose of the spiritual warfare of Christians is to win the enemy over. This is much harder.”
(deeper spiritual lesson here—perhaps for limited audience—but open invitation to all)
I would draw attention to the (s).
There are rightly two prodigal sons in the story.
There is one that gets the attention—but gets right when he gets on the road for home, before he gets the attention.
The other does not get right—even though he has been faithfully working “at home” all the time, he cannot enter his father’s house in response to his father’s pleading invitation.
How about you?
Are you a son or daughter of the Father? Have you accepted Jesus as your King and surrendered everything?
Then what?
Decide which path of the two prodigal sons you will take.
As I said a few days ago (11-16-12 “THE REMNANT REVOLTS”), God’s true followers wander and need to return.
Some of us have wandered into “far countries” and done it all, and gotten broken, and come to our senses, and returned home.
Some of us have been “so good” working outside the house, and think we deserve something for it, and miss the invitation to the party. We think we’re better than the “other”.
The older son had his reasons, and so do we.
Please, don’t miss the party.
Does voting change . . . ?
or
Does voting reflect . . . ?
This time it reflects . . .
It reflects the pervasive influence of evil in America.
It reflects the pervasive influence of evil in the media.
It reflects the spiritual void without Christian influence, that is now filled with unthinkable abominations of killing babies and killing families and killing capitalism.
Culture may influence change in voting.
Voting may influence change in policy.
But nothing changes God’s truths and God’s plans.
America today reflects what our forefathers said was impossible—to rightly govern without God and the Bible.
CHRISTIANS—IT’S GAME DAY!
WAKE UP!
RISE AND SHINE!
This is the day you’ve been training for.
This is the day you’ve been waiting for.
This is not the day to stay home and study the playbook.
This is not the day to show up for practice.
This is not the day to show up in street clothes (camouflage).
This is the day to get your uniforms on and be identified.
This is the real thing.
This is the first real game for most of you (in America).
Don’t get me wrong—you will need your playbook.
This is the day it sure would help if you had your playbook memorized.
This is the day the Coach will not be pushing you through tough drills.
This is the day you will be tested by the opposing team.
This is the day you signed up for.
This is the game day the Coach scheduled.
This is the opponent the Coach arranged.
This is “the game,” and it will get ugly, bloody, and desperate.
This is the day you find out if you’re on the team, or just thought so.
This is the day many will look for another team.
This is the day you find out how much you need the Coach on the field.
Don’t quit.
U.S. Senator Jim DeMint said, “American pastors, you must open your mouths and speak out, or we will lose this country.”
If people who sit in your sanctuary and listen to you for spiritual direction for their life—if they go home and listen to the mainstream media and entertainment for secular direction for the rest of their life, how are they going to vote?
We will all be 100% involved in the consequences of evil leaders.
“Indeed He would have brought you out of dire distress, into a broad place where there is no restraint; and what is set on your table would be full of richness. But you are filled with the judgment due the wicked; judgment and justice take hold of you.”
Why should we not be involved in the promotion of righteousness and righteous leaders and the exposure and defeat of evil leaders?
Preachers of America, come out of the sanctuary in your sermons. Show your people what the Bible says about all the stuff they deal with every day.
It’s time to expose the unconstitutional “separation of church and state” that has perpetrated “separation of pulpit and pew” and “separation of faith and politics.”
Preachers’ silence on any current issue simply confirms everything the audience hears from the anti-God Downstream Media. You can’t assume that preaching salvation (and stopping there) will see the hearer arrive at the right answers to the culture.
In tough times you start checking off what you will stop buying.
Make a list now of everything you get with money.
Number the items in order—things you might do without buying.
Add to your list, and change numbers, as you think about your priorities.
You can also mark items from the other end—things you can’t do without buying.
How many items are on your bottom line list, that you must buy?
May I suggest there are only two items that you must buy, in good times and bad—FOOD and CLOTHES.
“Having food and clothes—be content with that.” —–His Book
You buy food—you buy clothes—you choose contentment, which you can’t buy.
Your treasure determines where your heart is.
Your heart determines your contentment.
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