Making a Difference in your Life, in the Parts that are for Keeps!
Starting with Eve in the garden, people expect someone to tell them what God really says.
And learned theologians, and some not so learned, have been quick to oblige, consistently and persistently giving their explanation of what the Bible says—as though the Bible is not clear, to speak for itself.
Read your Bible first.
Read your Bible every day.
When you’ve come to the end of your rope and turn the matter over to God for real, you may have said, “It’s all God, or nothing.”
Actually, if I am obeying God’s call, there is no longer any reason to say, “. . . or nothing.”
IT’S ALL GOD, PERIOD. !
Two biggest, universal, prevalent pitfalls in theology:
1-Quoting man and man-made terms in place of the the Bible.
2-Quoting Bible verses most of the time to back up man-made statements.
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Solutions:
1-Skip man-made terms of theology, not in the Bible.
(The Bible itself has plenty of words to describe God and explain His Word, without elevating our words to doctrinal status.)
2-Let the Bible speak for itself.
Let the Bible speak first.
Get doctrines and beliefs directly from the Bible, not from man.
(“Trust Me” can be as dangerous from a theologian as from a politician.)
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The above title—dual meaning:
Beware of theologians at work.
and
Theologians beware.
Is it “my right” to have an abortion?
OR
Is it “my life” to not be aborted?
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Women scream for abortion.
Little women and little men scream for life, silently.
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How can anyone separate pregnancy from a living human being inside?
Who was in your mommy’s tummy before YOU were born?
How long were you in your mommy’s tummy before YOU were born?
Do you believe YOU had no life for those nine months?
Do you believe YOU had no rights for those nine months, including no right to life?
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Who gives a woman rights—who gives a mother rights—without giving the person inside equal rights?
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Bottom line—little people growing in the womb are just as passionate to live, as big people outside are passionate to kill.
I will do my part to defend the defenseless little people.
How sweet to hold a newborn baby
And feel the pride and joy he brings.
But greater still the calm assurance
This child can face uncertain days
Because He lives.
Because He lives, they can face tomorrow.
Because He lives, all fear is gone.
Because we know, He holds their future.
Their life is worth the living,
Just because He lives.
A basketball coach tells his team the following just before they go out on the court. The same coaching counts for life, especially the Christian life.
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You are going out on that court, five against five, against your peers—the outcome fair game. Give it everything you’ve got, leave it all on the court—start the game with integrity, play with integrity, and end with integrity. You will need that, above and beyond ability, for those times when you will be five against seven.
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In the ‘game of life’, every Christian is in a battle, a war, a spiritual war—and much of it is unseen, and much of it is unfair. How do we deal with that, like the basketball team against five opponents plus the refs? How? We go to the Bible, read it often, so we can quote it out loud to the unseen enemies in the war.
“We do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”
“For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal (physical), but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ.”
“Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”
Use the name of Jesus and the Word of God, and defeat the enemy.
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It is dangerous to believe and agree with everything a preacher or teacher says, even if it is your own pastor, or revered theologians of the past.
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It is even more dangerous to NOT believe everything the Bible says.
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free.
I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing or all the other.“
—–Abraham Lincoln, June 16,1858 after the Illinois Republicans chose him as their candidate for U. S. Senator
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Indeed, how telling is that quote for our country today.
We have quickly become unsustainably divided in America.
The emphasis on race has been used beyond reality to whip up division, because it is an old, convenient means to weaken a country for takeover.
What is far more significant in our current division and the very survival of our divided America, is what God says about our killing babies—for fifty years across the country, and now dividing us state by state for life or death.
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A day after Roe has been overturned, WE THANK GOD ! ! !, and we thank Donald Trump for his three Supreme Court appointees that made yesterday possible ! ! !
We know how much more work is required to abolish abortion across America.
Judgment has already started falling for the blood of sixty million babies.
Now the question, “How long can this country stand, half ‘death’ and half ‘life’?”
Rephrasing from Lincoln’s speech:
“‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.‘
I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half death and half life.”
Disturb us, Lord, when
We are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true
Because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.
Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.
Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.
We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.
—–Attributed to Sir Francis Drake, 1577
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