INVERTING RIGHT AND WRONG

I know it's been quite a while since my last post.  I've been extremely busy taking care of family - vacations, projects, and many other things.  I've also been helping our church with our Vacation Bible School - by leading it.  I am Bi-vocational - at least I have another part-time job as well to supplement our income - and have also been busy during "down-times" with that.  I'm back today, taking time out of other needed things to post this.  I only hope it makes someone think about their position.  Nevertheless, things have gotten to the point that I need to "vent" on some things, and so I must post this - As I See It.

Morality in America is inverted, and it has been for quite some time.  People are posting the craziest things on Facebook, the MSM (Main Stream Media) reports from the most inverted value system I've ever seen, and our governmental leaders are more out of touch with reality than ever before.  Today, I just want to publish a bullet list of these inversions.

• A marine defends himself and others under fire by returning fire on a Muslim extremist seeking to kill them.  He is under investigation and threatened with imprisonment for firing a weapon on a military installation. He is a field grade officer charged with leading and caring for his men and women.
• A protected lion is killed and the world wants his killer caught, extradited, and punished while an entire business is thriving based on the murder, dismemberment, and sale of body parts is protected by MSM and liberal congressional representatives.
• The police are encouraged and honored for their "undercover sting operations" against organized crime mobs, drug rings, etc., while a citizen's group is denigrated as "biased" for conducting its own "undercover sting operation" revealing indisputable proof that criminal conduct is taking place daily in a taxpayer-funded business that sells baby body parts for profit.  
• Police officers who, in the line of duty, have to physically take down a criminal that will not submit are considered racist if the criminal is black and the cop is white.  
• Police officers who, in the line of duty, must use deadly force to apprehend a criminal that is black, are called "killer cops," while nothing is said in the MSM when a "cop killer" uses deadly force to resist apprehension.
• License and Liberty are now synonymous, meaning that freedom (liberty) guaranteed by the Constitution offers complete legal, social, and governmental protection to all who seek an immoral lifestyle (license) regardless of who it may offend, and that protection will include the removal of all who protest for any reason.  This is done through the IRS, FBI, MSM, SCOTUS, POTUS, HSA, BATF, and politically correct liberal professors throughout our land.  
• Criminals have guns, politicos have people with guns to protect them from criminals, and citizens may not defend themselves from neither - the criminal or the overpowering politico.

And the list goes on.  Those in favor of these inversions are also in favor of these perversions.  Our very nation's foundation, the Constitution, is threatened by the ideologies that are behind these inversions.  That, in itself, is the most dangerous of inversions today, with one exception.

• The Bible-believing Christian is now considered as dangerous to our nation as a Muslim Extremist, if not more so - a belief held by those who support the inversions mentioned above.  Why?
• Because the Bible-believer has a moral foundation not found in the immoral, godless, inverted beliefs of others.
• Because the Bible-believer will vote and stand for right and wrong, constitutionally based policies, and demand justice in the case of these inversions.  This threatens the agenda of these liberal, godless, immoral power-hungry people.
• Because the Bible-believer offers a real remedy through peaceful means as the gospel demands.  This is effective beyond the wildest imaginations of the power-hungry, immoral liberals.  Therefore, they must be ostracized, outlawed, and outcast before they actually can influence the masses under the control and sway of the liberal MSM, politicos, and educators.

Ronald Regan's Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork, is quoted as saying, "A society deadened by a smothering network of laws while finding release in moral chaos is not likely to be either happy or stable."  He has hit the nail on the head, and explains what is happening in America today.  He also hints at the answer.

I was asked the other day what I thought was wrong with America.  I was asked by someone who is very conservative - but NOT a Bible-believer.  My answer was simple: We have removed God from the American Marketplace.  Too many people no longer trust the Bible, God, or Jesus Christ.  Instead, each does what is right in his own eyes, thinking that freedom is license to serve self at all costs.  But God says, "Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people." Proverbs 14:34 (NKJV)  If we will not acknowledge the righteousness set forth by God, we will become a nation that sins in the sight of God - and we will be come a reproach to all people.  That is why "our enemies no longer fear us and our friends no longer trust us."  We have left the God who has blessed us, and we expect Him to continue to bless us for leaving Him.  "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" (Psalms 14:1; 53:1).  

Because America has inverted its allegiance to the One True God and Savior of Mankind, America can no longer help but invert its understanding of right and wrong.  Each person will do what is right in his own eyes, having no understanding of the consequences.  Unless we return to the foundation of justice, mercy, Truth, and eternity found in the Bible, we will only drift further from sanity.  That's America As I See It.

IS THE NEWS OVERWHELMING YOU?

I've been reading a plethora of news articles today that I only wish I hadn't read.  Do you ever get that way?  It's tempting to just turn off the news and pretend it all isn't so.  But that's how the ostrich handles stressful situations.  Unfortunately, its also how so many these days in America handle stressful situations.

The problem I'm having is processing all the news.  It's not trying to figure out what right and wrong is. It's trying to figure out how to handle the news in a Christian manner without sacrificing any of my Christian beliefs.  

So I pray.  I pray for wisdom to respond.  I pray for strength to do so in a loving way.  I pray for the truth to be light in a growing darkness.  I pray others would be effectively articulate in defense of our Constitutional rights - where God is acknowledged as the source of Civil Liberties and unalienable rights, not government.  I pray voters would stand up for our Constitution and hold our leadership accountable for squandering their trust and our freedoms.  I pray for peace between God and our nation (I believe we have effectively told Him to take a hike, but for the many grassroots Christians that remain).  I pray our country would step back and consider the gospel.  I pray that the gospel would be preached with power from pulpits across the country, and many would receive Jesus as their Savior.  I pray for a deeper holiness within my own life.  Sometimes, I don't know WHAT to pray, so the Lord prays for me!

Then, after I've prayed, I must face a world that continues to march against my faith.  I face a world that thinks we have a greater right to sin than we do to preach.  I face a world where my rights are less important than the rights of others because I'm a Christian.  I face a world where I am supposed to sacrifice MY beliefs and way of life to celebrate the beliefs and way of life of others.  If I stand for my beliefs, I am faced with the likelihood of a prison sentence or worse.  My fellow countrymen who stand for beliefs they share with me lose their businesses, homes, and more.  This affects their progeny as well.  I face a world that is increasingly Anti-Christ.  My brothers in the faith around the globe are losing their very lives for their faith.  In some parts of the world, there is an active effort to butcher or expel all vestiges of the Christian faith.  I face an evil world.

Then I am reminded that Jesus lives in me.  He is greater than the world I face, and He has overcome the world.  Whatever the world brings to me for my faith, it brought worse to Him, and He won.  The story is told.  The victory of Jesus Christ means I am more than a Conqueror in Christ Jesus!  I win!  This life is not all there is.  There is much more.  Those who have been martyred have been eternally and gloriously rewarded for their faith.  Blessed are they who trust in the name of the Lord!  My enemies are Jesus' footstool!  This world will pass away, but in Christ, I shall live forever!  I shall not fear what man can do to me, rather I fear what God can do to me.  If God be for us [Christians], then who can be against us?  Glory to God in the Highest!

And that how it is As I See It today!

Deception is Rampant

Bush restates belief that Muslims, Christians pray to same God

Chad Groening
OneNewsNow.com
October 10, 2007
The head of a pro-Israel ministry is frustrated that President Bush recently reiterated a statement he made four years ago -- that all religions, including Islam, pray to the same God.

When the President is deceived, he makes statements to the nation - deceiving those who follow him. This is a prevailing belief that is countered by the Scriptures. Allah is NOT the I AM. Jesus Christ IS. There are huge differences in not only beliefs, but the truths that underlie Biblical Christianity - which, mind you, predates Islam by a few thousand years. The loving message of Christianity is not found as part of Islam.

The thought that all roads lead to heaven is a folly and a lie. Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father but by me" (John 14:6). Eastern Mysticism (Hinduism, Buddhism, Shinotoism) denies the Father AND the Son. So do the beliefs of primitive cultures (Native Americans, Africans, and tribal portions of South and Central America), who worship nature in one way or another. Many other religions claim a god, but they don't claim the God of the Bible as their own - therefore they have their own OTHER god.

Some think that this concept is setting the stage for the return of Christ (one world religion). I'm not sure they are wrong. It is certainly part of the great darkness, deception, and falling away that is predicted biblically. It's not hard to see through the deception - unless you are unwilling to.

The Death Penalty

Death penalty reinstated despite juror's use of Bible quotes

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has reinstated the death sentence for a convicted murderer, even though a juror used Bible quotes during sentencing.

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This issue is so volatile in our nation.  Those who read the Bible know that God instituted the death penalty thousands of years ago because it is good for society.  Those who do not read the Bible consider themselves to be smarter than God.  Consider what else the Bible says of them:

Romans 1:20-23 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: (21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. (22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, (23) And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

These same people who are too smart for faith profess themselves to be wise - and so are fools.  They also declare that any form of religion is a good as another, accepting corruptible gods as equal or greater than the incorruptible, eternal All-wise One.  Pray that their darkened hearts may truly see the light before it is too late for their souls and the souls they will destroy.

Back to the death penalty.  It is simple.  Those who kill should be killed.  We should not prolong their lives in a jail where they get more rights and privileges than the poor in our society.  For many criminals, jail is a boost up in lifestyle.  Three meals a day, cable TV, routine exercise, free healthcare, and time to think.  It's a better life than they have on the streets.  Where's justice in that?