The Difference Between a Mirage and Reality Part 5
February 1, 2016
The Word of God is reality and it lives in the lives of His new people as they create the new culture and institutions. The world owes much to Christianity as it grew since the first century B.C. Christians created orphanages, programs to aid people in need; they opened schools and universities, developed the arts; composed great music like that of Bach or Handel, great works of literature, and the fathers of science flourished because of the impact of the Reformation, a biblical economic system was developed, and new forms of civil government. In the 17th century, a new movement of biblical Christians started in the New World, and thus the United States of America was born. We have a wonderful opportunity to say to future generations, "We were here."
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America has easily embraced a mirage because she has forgotten the past. Abraham Lincoln said "...we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace – too proud to pray to the God that made us."
January 29, 2016
The only one with the authority to assess if a culture is a mirage or a reality is God by His Word, which is very thorough and never holds back; it always goes deep in its confrontation of sin. Sin is seen through thoughts, feelings, speech and actions. We must understand and communicate God’s displeasure of a culture in decadence.
January 28, 2016
Man looks at the outward mirage but God looks at the condition of the heart where the realities of man’s motives reside. If they are unacceptable they will lead to a careless life. Jesus was very clear about the importance of paying attention to God’s moral law and His prophets. The Moral law is the standard for God’s people throughout generations and they are not going away. Those who say differently are leading people into a mirage and away from God’s reality.
January 27, 2016
What is a mirage? It is an optical illusion caused by atmospheric conditions, especially the appearance of a sheet of water in a desert or on a hot road caused by the refraction of light from the sky by heated air. It does not exist as people perceive it. It is not a mirage but reality to know the difference between right from wrong.
January 26, 2016
"God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." Thomas Jefferson. God abhors murder, and He has laid out His law to bring punishment upon the murderer; He executes vengeance.
January 25, 2016
On January 22, 1973, the Supreme Court legalized the choice to murder unwanted babies in the mother’s womb, better known in its polite and not so offensive term or shocking name, abortion. In a 7-2 decision the Court ruled that a right to privacy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees a woman’s right to kill the baby she carries in her womb. Since January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court is waiting for the U.S. Congress to tell them that the law qualifies babies as persons. In the meantime, close to 60 million babies have been slaughtered in the mother's womb. How long will this be allowed by God?
January 22, 2016
The church needs to understand the value of using strong, firm and emphatic language. It is not going to be nice or feel nice, but whom do we want to please man or God? Evil must be exposed for what it is and not to be called anything different; God’s people are not called to be politically correct but Scripturally correct. Preachers are not called to be nice where strong Scriptural words are needed. Reality is that America’s condition is so far removed from her original foundation and for the first time in her history a sitting president tells the world “America is not a Christian nation.” Christian America’s did not respond with strong outrage or push back. Jesus was not always nice and neither should we be when it is imperative to defend God’s truth.
January 21, 2016
The examples we are analyzing of Jesus' treatment of the religious leaders who say they represent God, don’t get a pass from being exposed as to the quality of the fruit they produce; neither do those who are in civil authority. Honor and respect are due only when they imitate God’s character and abide by His moral law. Otherwise, they must be exposed for who they really are; neither God nor Jesus is with the politically correct crowd. Get it, once and for all, America!
January 20, 2016
Jesus was “not nice” to the religious leaders who were regularly offended by His insults when He would call them names such as "hypocrites," "blind guides,” “serpents,” "brood of vipers," "white washed tombs" and "fools". Remember that He called them all those names in front of the crowds and blasted their authority. But Jesus had a good reason for doing it.
January 19, 2016
What does the expression “be nice,” mean nowadays? A lot of things are expected from others. But, when it comes to Christians they are expected to be “nice” at all times regardless of the circumstances that come against them. They are expected to be nice especially if it means to go against God’s moral absolutes, because if they don’t accept others’ standards they are singled out for not being loving and tolerant like Jesus, or so they say. Are we called to be nice as we represent God’s values?
January 18, 2016
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