Monday, December 15,
2014, 1:23 p.m. – The Lord Jesus put in mind the song, “Only In Him.” Speak, Lord, your words to my heart. Between
yesterday and today I read Psalm 2-7
(ESV).
Breaking Boundaries
In context, nations, peoples and rulers are raging, plotting
and taking their stand against God and against Jesus Christ (and against his
followers). They say,
“Let
us burst their bonds apart
and cast away their cords from us.” ~ Ps.
2:3
The Lord Jesus gave me a picture of this particularly here
in America, although this certainly applies to the world as a whole, as well. This
has to do with breaking away from God’s/Christ’s commandments (his
instructions), his boundaries he has set for us, and us throwing them off as
though they don’t matter, and even hurting others in the process without
concern or care. And, yet we are not hurting others only, but ourselves and our
relationships with God, and with others, when we willfully throw off those
limits (controls and regulations), thinking we are exercising our freedoms. In
fact, many who call themselves Christians are doing this very thing in the name
of “freedom in Christ.”
Law-makers-breakers
One of the ways this is presently happening here in America
is within our government, which I believe very much so is setting itself up and
is taking its stand against the Lord Jesus and against those who hold to his
testimony, who do not deny his name, and who keep the commandments of
God/Christ, i.e. his word. They are breaking down God’s moral laws, are
changing the laws, and are even breaking their own laws that have been
governing this nation for many years. This recent move with the Obama
administration in granting some type of amnesty to nearly 5 million illegals in
this country was just another step in breaking down laws and sending a message
that says it is ok to break the law.
I believe our leaders also create crisis situations just so
they have an excuse to change the laws – changes which are not in our favor. This
amnesty situation could be one of those cases, as it appears possibly to be
leading to individual states seceding from the union, so to speak – history repeating
itself, perhaps. If you couple that with the recent flare-up in racial
tensions, which I also believe was orchestrated by our government, then it is
looking a whole lot like they are trying to initiate some type of civil war
(uprising) within our nation, pitting American against American. Obama has been
promoted as a double (clone) of Lincoln, after all. I believe they are also
willfully bankrupting this nation, i.e. they are on a course to destroy America
from within in order to make way for the rule of the beast.
I have seen this M.O. played out in various nations
throughout the world in recent years. First they knock the squirrels out of the
tree, and then they go in to “save” them, but not really to save them. If we
believe the Bible, and if we believe the book of Revelation, we have to know
this is coming. It is inevitable. If we open our eyes, and pray for
discernment, I believe we will see that our government is not who we think they
are, and they are not doing the things they say they are doing, but they are
liars and deceivers of the worst kind playing on the naivety and ignorance of
many people while they do their dirty work behind closed doors. They are
working for the beast. There is no right and left. Right and left is just
another game they play to keep us divided and distracted. They are one force
united. And, they are taking their stand against God and against us who believe
in Jesus.
In The Church
Yet, this is not just taking place within an ungodly
government, but within the worldly church here in America. “Church” has become
a corporation of humans under the government of the US – a business of human
origin run just like any other business. Yet, the true church of Jesus Christ
is not an organization but an organism, as a young pastor in our area reminded
people lately. These organizations call themselves “church” but so many of them
barely resemble what God intended his body to be. So much of what we see in
these “church” meetings is marketing 101 at its finest, with game playing, manipulations
of emotions, twisting of the Word of God, a diluted gospel, feel-good messages,
and entertainment for the masses being what is served up every Sunday morning.
As well, the “church” promotes government worship, which I
believe leads to people here in America giving unquestioning allegiance (loyalty
and devotion) to an ungodly government so that they are easily deceived and
duped into believing their lies. The media is controlled by this one-world
government beast, so they promote the government’s lies and deceptions, and the
American people (a vast majority) just buy into whatever they hear without
asking themselves if it is really true. As a nation, we have been dumbed-down
by TV, I believe, and the sad reality is that this is a good picture of a large
percentage of the church here in America, too.
Lies and deceptions are everywhere! God has been reduced to
a doting grandfather in the sky who is there to grant our every request, but
who requires nothing of us, but does everything for us. He even lives out the
Christian life through us without a need for our cooperation whatsoever. Yet,
this makes no sense. So, they devise a concept that says that there are two of
us, i.e. the real us and the flesh, which is not the real us, so when we sin,
that is not the real us doing it for the real us is righteous and thus when God
sees us he only sees good and thus he smiles on us all the time, he never gets
upset with us, he will never punish us, but he is pleased with us no matter
what we do. And, so, when they sin they just focus on how they believe God sees
them, and thus it removes any kind of guilt over sin, and consciousness of sin,
or any need to even repent of sin, because nothing is required of them. They
have their ticket into heaven and so they are good.
I suspect this false theology has its roots in Paul’s words
in Romans 7:17, yet Paul’s teachings definitely show us that we are to take
personal responsibility for our sin, and the whole of the New Testament teaches
us that God does see when we sin, that he gets grieved over our sin, that he
does discipline, rebuke and punish (chastise) us for our rebellion, and that he
will judge his adulterous church (See: Rev. 2-3), yet not to destroy her but to
deliver her out of the grip Satan has on her and the grip the world has on her,
I believe.
In Our Individual
Lives
In America we have been brought up on TV, which I believe
has greatly influenced the thinking, reasoning, behaviors, standards, beliefs
and philosophies of many people in America, including or most especially so
many Christians. Then came home computers and the internet, and suddenly the
whole world of evil was available to all right at our fingertips in the privacy
of our own homes. But, that was not enough. Then came tablets (like IPads) and
smart phones, so now most Americans have absolute private internet access
around-the-clock, even our children and grandchildren, whose parents or schools
give them to them. It is not a wonderful thing that schools are handing these
out to our children!
And, so many parents are blind to the dangers or are fooled
into thinking their kids would never go bad places or that their “net-nanny”
will alert them if their kids wander off to the wrong locations, not realizing
that kids are a whole lot smarter in these areas than us adults, and they know
ways around things, or their friends do. It breaks my heart to see smart
phones, tablets and personal computers handed to children and them allowed to
have complete privacy with them in their bedrooms. We might as well hand them
an X-rated movie or a playboy magazine, only much worse. As a grandmother of
12, this concerns me greatly! I weep over this!
What is happening here is what this verse in Ps. 2 is
talking about. All restraints are being tossed aside in the name of freedom, including
“freedom in Christ,” and so very many of the people of God are living in
rebellion against their God and Lord by discarding what God has put in place
for us for our protection. So many people are loving delusions and are seeking
after the false gods of this world. So many people are believing and are
telling lies. So many people are “pregnant with evil” and conceive trouble and
give “birth to disillusionment” (See: 7:14). I believe we are living in that
time of “rebellion” spoken of by the prophets that must precede the rise of the
antichrist. And, so much of it is so subtle.
America is on the decline. The church in America is on a
decline. Yet I believe with all my heart that God intends to revive his church
here, but that he will do it through suffering and through persecution, because
that is the only way the church in America, for the most part, is going to live
in the fear of the Lord. When we have hit rock bottom and we have nowhere else
to turn but to God, and we, as a nation, cease fighting against God’s
authority, and we, as the church in this nation stop giving our allegiance to
humans, and we stop trusting in our own resources, but we finally let go and
let God, then he can deliver us out of Satan’s grasp, and he can renew his church
and can make her into the holy people he intended her to be all along so that
she will have purified herself and made herself ready for her husband for when
he returns.
ONLY IN HIM / An
Original Work / February 19, 2014
Based off Isaiah 30
Woe to those who look
to man’s help;
Who turn away from Jesus
Christ;
Forming an alliance
not in step with God;
Making their own
plans, and praying not.
Willing not to listen
to truth,
They close their ears
to what is right.
Pleasing words are all
that they’ll hear;
Feel good messages
that bring cheer.
Trust in your Lord;
turn from your sin.
Put your faith now ONLY
IN HIM.
Do not turn to idols.
They’ll not satisfy.
Jesus will save you.
That’s why He died.
Your Lord will be
gracious to you.
He cares all about
you, ‘tis true.
He forgives you all of
your sin
When you give your
life up to Him.
Oh, how truly gracious
He’ll be
When you bow to Him on
your knees;
Turning now from your sin;
walking in his ways.
He’ll lead and guide
you all of your days.
Now you will sing
praises to Him.
He delivered you from
your sin.
You’ll tell others now
of His grace,
So they may see Christ
face-to-face.
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