OVERCHARGED WITH SURFEITING

We are living in an Overcharged Time
& it only getting worse, so what do we do? 

There is a warning that Jesus Christ gave his disciples before he was crucified, and the warning is extended to us in this day and age.  The warning seems more relevant for us today than when it was spoken back then.  Jesus said in Luke 21:32-35 we should be careful to not let our hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, drunkenness and the cares of this life and so that day takes us unawares. For as a snare shall it ensnare everyone on the face earth.  He is saying don't let that be your fate.

Jesus was talking with his disciples about their time and the times ahead of them after his departure.  He at the same time is speaking to us concerning the days ahead of us before his return.  And he is warning us to be on guard for what will cause us to miss out on our election.  As if to say, Jesus does not want us to go through or experience the The Great Tribulation.  Why would he? the chances that we would be more faithful in our walk of faith in those times are slim to none.  Chances are most of us wont make it during the tribulation period.  Yes there will be a remnant that will come through the great tribulation but you don't want to be a hero.  You want to be ready for the Rapture.  You want to be accounted worthy to escape the time of temptation, that will try everyone on the face of the earth.

A Time of Wrath
People sometimes make a joke about these things and mark it down to just religious fantasy but we are hard press today to not recognize that the Bible is actually right.  That what God says in his word is not actually happening today.  The fool have said in his heart that there is no God.  We are more ready and accepting of evil and wrong doing than we are of accepting that God sent his son Jesus Christ to redeem us from the wages of sin.  We try to hold on to our sinful nature because in it we love our wicked and corrupt deeds.  Most of these deeds are pleasurable, we enjoy them while they last.  We don't want to be reminded of the consequences, we want our own way, so leave us alone we say.

Overcharged Surfeiting
As i was reading this chapter my concentration was drawn to these 2 words.  As i looked up the words spoken by Jesus in the book of Luke chapter 21.  I noticed that these words speaks of excessive overindulgence.  We are living in a time of just that.  Technology is advancing at an alarming rate, no sooner than we have adopted to one format in comes another one making the previous obsolete.  Unnecessary waste is being accumulated on an unprecedented level. News of minerals and metals are being used to point of Oblivion   Yes i know i am being a bit dramatic but nonetheless it is the truth.  We are full of knowledge and and stuffed to capacity of things, and while we are getting to grips with the last thing, in comes another.  How many social media sites can we all be on at the same time? I have so many passwords now i have to write them down, i don't bother tying to remember them anymore.  Jesus is warning us of a time that will consume our every moment crammed full of input.  And he is warning us to not be overcharged with surfeiting.  He goes on to warn us about drunkenness, and the cares of this life.  On top of all that's happening in the world and in our lives, don't let these things drive you to drunkenness.  Drunkenness can take the form of being made numb to the excessive trials and stresses we face by seeking to be numbed to it.  Drink, drugs and pleasures that only numb us but never give us peace.  The cares of this life, things that take priority in our lives that render us unfruitful and unprepared and overly busy.   So caught up in every new thing, running to and fro to catch this and learn about that and to see whats next.  Overcharged with Surfeiting.  It is those who are caught up in the cares of this life that will not be ready at his intervention.  The intervention is an event you and i are called to be apart of.  Time to leave is the call to be ready.
For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

Roman 1:28
The human condition is that the further away from God we move our hearts, the more reprobate we become   We start calling evil good and good evil, we can no longer tell what is good or evil, it's all seems to have been rolled into one.  Like a backward ideology, like a reverse purity.  God then gives us over to those things we love the most, he allows you to do what you want, even if it kills you, because he wont force us to be holy.  But if we humble our selves then there is forgiveness and healing.  There is newness of life and a fresh start.  God's way is perfect, even when i don't understand or think it is best for me.  His way is best for you and i.  If we trust him with what is most difficult in our lives he always makes a way of escape.  God will never allow us to be tempted above what we are able but will with that temptation also make a way of escape for us, so we will be able to bear it.  There are some things God wont remove from your life but if you will lean on him with all you've got, he will show himself mighty on your behalf.  God is not mean, he is a father.  God is Holy.

The Warning
But what of the warning, why heed it? Because we are called to be ready.  The warning is more like advanced knowledge.  Here are the plans and this is how to be ready, all you gotta do is stick to this plan and you will be safe.  If you don't then your putting your life in grave danger and perhaps those around you, so stick to the plan.  When i say we i mean all who are walking by faith in Jesus Christ.  Who have made that decision to live their  lives with Jesus Christ our Lord and personal savior.  Who desire do this thing called life, God's way.  It is not enough to know something about Christ or to have grown up in a christian home.  Or even have righteous values with integrity in heart.  All our rightness is filthiness unless we lay it all down at his feet in repentance.  Unless we are willing to admit that my best is not good enough, we must confess that his best is good enough for us and so we are living in his righteousness.  Not our own.  So when when someone brings pressure on you to prove it, then we point them to the one who did.  We point them to the perfect one.  The one who paid it all for us all to have the gift of salvation.

Get Prepared
Today, if have heard his voice, then don't harden your heart but give in to the love of God that's constantly calling you.  Today is the day of salvation for you.  The fact that you woke up this morning is proof to you that God has allowed you to be alive another day, to come and get to know him.  To be made apart of his kingdom and be made secure in his grace as he keeps you.  Yes God keeps all his children, are you willing to be a son/daughter? are you desirous of a new life and a longing to be transformed as it were?  If your reading this then your next step will determine your destiny.  Just talk with God, pray in your own words and tell him everything, pour it out to the Lord Jesus Christ, he knows your hurts and pains but he needs your permission to start the healing process in your heart and life.  When you finished telling him all your heart then ask him to come into your heart and make you a child of God.  You are guaranteed your prayers will be answered.  Do it today, do it now.  Bless you.

SNOWDEN'S LAW OF DISCLOSURE

Snowden's Law of Disclosure 

Opinion of an onlooker  
All the US has to do is make him the spokesman for how better the Surveillance system can be. Instead of arresting him and adding to the flame which is now the most undisclosed breach of trust any government has committed.  In short, reassign him.  A New job, call it intelligent damage control.  That way they wont loose his skills in prison and they could turn this fiasco around.  Albeit, the Cat is most certainly out of the bag.  Totally pointless to arrest this fellow, they cant make him an enemy of the state, they done that themselves already. Who are they? The powers that be! 

The Woman Caught in Adultery
It's like Jesus and the woman who was caught in adultery.  Jesus said to the her accusers, Let him who is without sin first cast a stone at her....They were so gutted, hypocrites the lot, all they could do is drop their stones and walk away.  Jesus said to her, neither do i condemn you, go and sin no more. That's my Lord Jesus Christ.

Message to Snowden.
Snowden if you read this Blog, i say to you, just give your life to Jesus Christ.  Repent of all your sins and be born again.  The whole ten yards.  Then turn yourself over to the authorities.  You wont lose your life but you will have new life in Christ no matter where you are.  No matter they do to you. You will never be alone.  Because Jesus said, he will never leave you not forsake you.  And if you turn to him with your whole heart, he will not turn you away, he will not condemn you.  You will have great peace and joy in the holy spirit.

What about laws?
If Snowden has broken the law, how about God's law and principle of marriage? that is only meant to be between a man and a woman.  They took and reconfigured it so it promotes a sinful act by making it law.  There is more than one way to skin a Cat. If we leave God to be judge, he will and can do a much better job of hitting evil where it hurts.  The US should be on notice.  It is written that unless God watches the city, the watchmen wakes up but in vain.  Cant even protect ones self from a a few desert guys with with rusty guns.  All the security and surveillance and no one could stop 3 suicide bombers with rucksacks and 2 airplanes. Repent of your evil and seek God's protection, and stop using technology to enslave and entrap the human race.  If you don't repent and change your ways, you will watch as these same systems you set in place becomes your downfall.  Remember Haman, mordecai and the gallows

Acts 17:31
God has chosen a time in which he will judge the earth.  So make the most of this time now to repent and know him who said he loved the world in so much that he gave his only son to redeem us.  To redeem us from the from the hour that will try every soul that lives on the face of this planet. Men seem to forget that God sees all things and if he wants to reveal something........He Can, yes he Can.

INVITATION TO LIVE FOREVER

North Korea Threatens  

Now is the worst time for a war of this scale to take place.  Bad for struggling nations but perhaps advantageous for Dictators.  Perhaps this is his best window of opportunity.  I think the us will seek to with draw soldiers from around the world sooner rather than later.  They are those who will make a joke out of everything, but this is no joke at all.  Something is going to happen and we all know it. 

But what where and when is a mystery.  But this I know Jesus Christ is coming back in the same way he left and he told us that to expect the world to be in the condition, we all are seeing beginning to unfold. The worst has not begun yet.  But it will, and when it does there will be yet even more to come.  In scripture it speaks of  The Great Tribulation, we know that all kinds of disasters and  wars will take place, but we never think about what will trigger them.  Yes we realize that messing with the ozone layer causes the sun's rays to create an imbalance in weather, not to mention the effects pollution causes on the environment and the ozone.  The effects of the financial crisis has in my belief a trigger to what's coming next.  Some of us know what's going to happen but we are not aware of the triggers, yet there are signs all around us. So in like manor there will be triggers.  

A catalyst

The word spoken in the bible.  Suddenly.  But suddenly won't be all of a sudden, it would have had a period of time leading up to....Suddenly.  So when the unbelieving are mocking and the atheists are laughing, then Suddenly, nothing is the same anymore. It will seem to be a sudden thing, sudden to those who refused to heed warnings and pay attention to signs, those who time after time ignore God's loving warnings.  So I say to all those out there who are listening to the scientists and the politicians and the Atheists and the voice of fear.  Turn to Jesus Christ, read the word of God the bible and know for yourself.  And get yourself into the ark that is called salvation.  Get saved.  Know what it is all about.  Know and understand what it means to be saved.  Ignorance is not bliss neither is it smart.  Give your life now, today, to Jesus Christ.  Repent, meaning turn away from a life of sin and be changed, be secured in God's love and protection.  

Act Now

Don't wait till this life gets worst and the stress kills you.  Today is the day of salvation, if you will hear his voice, harden not your heart. God in his word never tells you to wait till tomorrow to repent and be saved. It is always today, why? because Jesus Christ already paid your debt. He died in your lace because of your sin.  He rose again from the dead to secure your eternal life, both now and after you leave this world. He has prepared a new body for you to have at the point of his return.  For it says that the dead in Christ shall rise first at his return.  So if you die as a Christian, a person who gave their life to Christ. You will be raised from the dead and at that point you will be Transformed, your body will be changed.  The deposit of eternal life you received when you got saved will be kicked into physical reality and you will ascend to meet Christ in the air.  It says that the dead in Christ will rise first, then we which are alive and remain will be caught up together in the are/sky, to meet Christ, as he stands between heaven and earth.  Jesus walked on water and entered rooms with doors closed so this is nothing.  It says that all eyes will see him.  We already have the technology  to pull that off.  The Holy spirit who makes it all possible, the Holy spirit does.  The same Holy spirit that moved upon the face of the deep at creation,  The same Holy spirit that brought Christ to Mary and planted the seed in her womb.  The Holy spirit is your secure down payment on the eternal life you received after you were filled of him.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  Today is your day.  You don't have control of tomorrow or what you will encounter.  So you are invited to live forever.  John 3:16

BE STILL

Be still and know that i am God. Psalm 46:10

In all the hell that's being unleashed upon earth by the evil that man is doing to each other, there is a sense of hopelessness attempting to destroy the minds and lives of people everywhere.  There is no surprise at the times we are living in today, death on every side.  Wars and rumours of wars, earthquakes and pestilences, new types of viruses entering into the chain of other deadly diseases.  Mutations of illnesses long ago cured.  Chemical and mass production of food that no longer meets the recommended needs of the body.  Weaker to resist sickness and trusting completely in the scientists.  What a world it has and is becoming.

A world without God
There is a effort in a general sense, as if it were to eradicate the consciousness of The creator in the minds of mankind on planet earth.  The book of 2 Timothy 3 talks about the times we seem to be living in right now, and yet it is as if we have not even touched the iceberg yet.  We are at the entering in of the new age, the age of ungodliness and unprecedented wickedness.  As the days of Noah before the flood Jesus said, so shall it be when the son of man returns.  Luke 17 In this chapter Jesus brings to our attention Lot's wife.  Remember Lot's wife he said.  Sounds like Jesus Christ is warning us of the consequences of disobedience.  Warning us of the danger of worldliness. Where your treasure is there will your heart be also.  What do have your heart fixed on, is it on Christ/God, is it on the things of this world, is it tied up in this present dying and decaying age? Are you minding earthly pleasures at the expense of your soul?  That part that God has made to live forever in his presence.  It is amazing that human beings crave to live forever, to stay young and beautiful.  There is all kinds of ointments and creams we use to try and extend the appearance of youthfulness.  But the simple truth is that because of sin mankind started to die from the moment.  The moment Sin entered into the world, and out of God's eternal presence mankind was doomed on a downward spiral.

Created to Live and not Die

We crave to live, because we were created to live and not die. In Genesis the provision for eternal life was present.  The tree of life was in the garden, I believe that if Adam and Eve had passed the test of resisting Satan, and stayed in obedience to God; mankind would be right now living in total peace.  I believe that satan would have been cast into the lake of fire there and then, and that would have been the last ever of his influences on mankind.  I believe the world that man is now trying to attain was partly the embedded dream and some of the purposes of God for human race.  

Beware of Pride

The only problem now is that our man made efforts are all tainted with sin and is corrupt in it's execution.  Why? because the goals of man only brings glory to himself and not to God.  There is  pride and arrogance, selfishness and greed.  Even in small quantities wont be accepted by God, even if our intentions are honorable.  Why? because man was born in sin and shapened in iniquity. Anything we offer without the washing of the blood of of Christ is tainted and filthy.  But works done in Christ and under his blood cleansing is acceptable to God.  Why? because it no longer to our glory we do what we do but to his glory.  The righteousness we have is his righteousness  and to him be all the glory and the praise. This kind  of worship infuriates the devil because he wants the glory for himself, so the person who is prideful wont want to give God the glory.  So it is written God resists the proud but he gives grace to the humble.  Death starts when we are separated from God, when we live without him, his word, his salvation through his son Jesus Christ, when we live away from his presence and out of relationship with him.  When we fail to obey him in making that first step to be born again.  The process of death to life comes by way of new birth.  A new birth, spiritual rejuvenation.  Coming back to life, being raised from the dead in the spirit.  The removal of sin, the death sentence disease of the human race. So whats the cure? 

Be Still
Be still and know that i am God says the Lord God, your one and only true love, the lover of your soul, the real you that you cant see in the a mirror.  That real you that you try to get others to understand and love you for.  God knows you but you don't know him.  He wants you to know him but you cant get to know him if your too busy,  with the weight of the world on your shoulders as it were.  All the pains and stresses, worries and heartaches, rejections and hunger and thirst, not for food most times but hungry to live, to love and be loved, to know your purpose, to be willing to take the journey fearlessly.  For your hand to be held with the look of trust and complete love in the eyes of the one who beholds you.  To rest in that love and never look back because there is no other.  Yes there is such an one.  John 3:16
Know that he is God, he can do what no one else can do, he is greater than all, he is able to turn your life around, he can and will do it in you and for you.  New life now and eternal life after this.  He has already prepared a place for you.  You will live forever in his glorious light and love, you have an inheritance in Christ, there is more with you than there is against you friend.  There is more to life than here and now.  Life in Christ promises more than we can fully comprehend and grasp.
Be still and know that he is God.

MARRIAGE OF THE SAME

TRUSTING GOD WITH THE MARRIAGE THING. 

We are no more mightier than our willingness to fully trust and obey the Father, 

Son and holy Spirit...Jlvp

There are a few men spoken of in the bible that tells us a lot about their character. These men all had one thing in common, they all had a relationship with God. Meaning they were close enough to God as to hear his voice. They were given instructions and told what to say on most occasions. In Fact they were men called by God and given a mandate or a purpose to fulfill.
Might i just say that everyone who fulfilled their mandates and went on to be examples to follow, all had one thing in common too.

They obeyed God fully.
There is nothing worst than giving instructions to some who knows more about what your trying to impart to them, without them even hearing what your gonna say in the first place. That's just one example. How about the person that no matter what you say or how you say it, they just don't believe you at all. How long can you go on trying to convince them that you are trust worthy. They seem to not have any confidence in your plan or way forward. Despite the fact that you both have proven all the obvious failings. With proof of past disasters that both of you have experienced. They still don't get it.

So what do you think is going to happen next? there is going to come a time perhaps sooner than later when you will have to part ways. Trust is important in every relationship. Especially when your in relationship with God.

Jeroboam
You are living on his his word and trusting in his person. All that God is rides on the fact that God is the only one who really knows you and i. He knew you before you were born. So what is the problem with trust? The problem is innate. And i believe that's why God puts up with our tantrums from time to time. We know he is able, we know he is faithful, we know he wont let us down, but for us it has to be a progressive time of learning to trust the Lord. And God is patient to walk us through the years of learning to know him.

Learning to know God well enough that we know that under no circumstances is he going to change his mind on Sin. And if we knew him well enough, even if only to know this, then we can claim to have some understanding of who God is and what he stands for.
Few days ago i witnessed what is shaping up to be a turning point in this nation and no doubt other nations are looking at this one in many ways as an example. Internally the views of some may render a totally opposite view, but that's to be said anywhere one goes. The turning point i speak of is none other than that of the same sex marriage bill.

Let me save digital ink and cut to the chase here. When a nation who has been given a directive from God to be a light and to be salt, turns from that directive and starts copying the other nations around them. That nation falls under judgment. When that nation claims in God we trust but then starts to exert it's own way of dealing with matters, that nation falls into a path that only leads to judgement. Judgement can come in various ways. Economic collapse social unrest, war.

1 Kings 3
Solomon was one of those mighty men of God who was given untold wealth, because his heart was in the right place in the beginning. He started out in the right place and like his father David, knew he needed God in all his dealings with the children of Israel. A nation whom he realized that there was no way he could govern them on his own. To humble himself before God and wait on God for wisdom would be his way of life as a leader. So God blessed him abundantly, far above any other kings has ever been blessed. Solomon had riches untold and peace of mind in the kingdom to boot. No point having millions and stress to go with it too. God had warned him though. We all like to quote this line and sometimes in a joking way....'With great power comes great responsibility.' Well Solomon had only to stay faithful to God. Of course, to the one who put him in power to begin with. That was not too much for God to ask. When your in a relationship, your asking the silent question too. You know that the future of your relationship and it's longevity depends on fidelity.

So what was Solomon warned about concerning which would bring about his downfall? It was the M word. Marriage is the uniting of two opposites that have come into unity thus making one, opposite in nature/body one in spirit.

Unnatural marriages
Well this was to be quite some deep look into the workings of the word which yielded some truths i found to be closer to home in this present day than i first realized. There were a type of mixed marriages going on that at the time before the God's wrath with the flood, that was unnatural. It should not have been happening but it was. The end result was after a period of time when every imagination of mankind was only evil continually, and after 120 years of Noah's preaching and building the ark, there could be no repentance from the people. His lifestyle of following God's principles was met with utter disdain. Judgement came and as a result the earth was cleansed. You see, sin is of such that it never stops. It keeps on going and asking for more till you are dead. What the governments fail to to see and know is that this situation if allowed to continue will bring the nation down as a whole. Sexuality is the main menu on the list for spiritual perversion. It's part and parcel in occult worship and idolatry. It's apart of apostasy and the one thing that brings about the heart corruption of the heart when used and not honored. Hebrews 13:4

1 Kings 11:1
But Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh. It goes on to list the nations from whom these strange women came from. Not that they were strange in gender or some weird type of female, but strange in their differing lifestyles of spiritual worship. They all had idols whom they worshiped. God had warned Solomon not to marry into these women because of their idolatry practices.

It was not just King Solomon God was concerned about but he was concerned about the nation whom he had given King Solomon to lead. His example would directly influence the nation on a whole. God said, 'Ye shall not go in unto them, neither shall they come in unto you:for surely they will turn your away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

Idolatry-Like Adultery
The fundamental fact is that there is only one God to whom we must worship. To say anything else besides that would be to teach a lie and a deception. To say that God is pleased with same sex marriage would be to lie and to teach a deception, and to say it's ok to practice idolatry. If i love anything more than i love God, that thing whatever it is has become an idol to me. And if i done put it away, i bring God wrath upon me. Perhaps like a husband to his wife when he finds out she has been or is being unfaithful, and likewise. I am not condoning a husband who take rage against his wife, I am just sating the obvious outrage that is felt by mere man. How much more God's heart. So what of the same sex marriage proposal? I don't think words can describe the enormity of such apostasy in our midst today.

Marriage
Keep your heart pure before God my friends. God say to keep the marriage bed pure and undefiled. You may not be perfected yet but God is working on you and with you. Your marriage may not be the one it started out to be, but that doesn't mean it's not going to be what God wants it to be. Keep God in the middle and the top of your marriage and everywhere possible you can let God be involved and your marriage will have no other choice but to be successful. Keep yourselves free of idols, let your heart always seek after God's heart, individually and as a couple.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible. Genesis 6

FIRE IN THE CLUB

FIRE IN THE CLUB 


Are we asking the obvious question...Why?

THE WARNINGS THAT SPEAKS TO THIS WORLD 
Seems we as God's children are all suffering from a form shortness of memory.  Is it not written in
1 Peter 4:12-19 concerning the things that pertain to Godliness and living in light of trials and sufferings, that the child of God will face sufferings? And if judgement begins in the house of God, and the righteous scarcely be saved, then where will the sinner and the ungodly appear? Have we all gone soft are have we all gone silly? is there a blanket of denial that covers our eyes as we think and act like the world? That now our expectations mirror that of this world too?

 BETHEL
When i was a young christian we use to say at certain times in our relationship with God, that we need get back to Bethel. It was during those times we realized that we were slipping into a type of worldliness or losing closeness with God.  It was a time were renewed our commitments to God and strengthened our dedication to walk with God.  It was a time when we got back to the fundamental place our relationship with God and each other.  Like in the case of Jacob and Esau, a restoration of brotherly love.  It speaks of the place of reconciliation.  Forgiveness and returning to sweet fellowship.
(Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called the sons/children of God.) 

1 John 2:15-29
The spirit of worldliness is rampant and we must get back to Bethel, and get out of the way of Balaam. Just before Christ left he commissioned us to go into all the world and preach the good news, you know the rest. But he also said that we must take up our cross and follow him.  That all that will live Godly in Christ will suffer persecution. That we must die to self.  Romans 6:20-23 The wages of sin is death, there is no in between. So in the fear of the Lord i must do like the apostle Paul. We must press towards the mark. Know who you are and whose you are, and do his will. Mark 16:15-18 I encourage every child of God today to shake off the spirit of this worldly mentality.  That blinds us and binds us to conformity.  That causes us to think, act and desire to be so comforted that we lose our identity in Christ. that we humble ourselves and turn from our wicked ways and seek his face. Then.

THE WARNING THAT SPEAKS TO THE CHRISTIAN ( Follower of Jesus Christ)
Romans 2
After reading and an article and being prompted to write this blog, i noticed i had made a mistake in one of the scriptures i had included.  Romans 2:20-23. So went to see what my mistaken scripture reference said.  Seeing i could not recall the reference nor could i correct it.  But lo and behold it could only be God guiding my fingers as i frantically typed.  I wont try and reinterpret the passage because it speaks for itself.  Only to say to myself as if looking in a mirror...Be careful how you judge, for with what measure you meat, it shall be measured back to you. Matthew 7:1-5

LOOSING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Religion (The freedom to choose. Truth or Dare?) 

Choose you today who you will serve  

After the death of Moses God had already chosen the next leader to take the children of Israel into the promised land.  God informed Moses about his plans and he told him the reason why he, Moses was not going to be the one to lead them any further. It came to a pivotal point in the life of Moses and he made a few mistakes that God deemed enough.  God was protecting his people and his servant, who was his friend too.  Moses was considered to be a friend of God. But even humble respectable people and close friends can fall out of line.  Sometimes our zeal can get the better of us and our bright ideas can be a disaster in the making. Sometime we as friends or our friends can miss the meaning and purpose by which they seek our good.  Or they or us can fail along the way, to see us in the progressive journey our individual lives are on.  Someone or something has to pull back from the brink.  God always sends a man or woman to either tell us or help us out. So now I am cautious when I seek to give advice, because I am aware that God has a much higher purpose for my friend than I can see. Or may understand at the moment.

The good news is, is that God will never change his will or word.  he wont change his character to suit the world.  It is the world that has to change and by God's help.  With man it is impossible but with God all things are possible. We can count on the Lord Jesus Christ to be faithful.  So in knowing this unchanging God, we then seek to stay humble before him.

Religion in the spiritual sense has a way in telling us that any and everything is allowed, as long as no body gets hurt.  But that is a lie and a great deception.  True religion is actually the practice of charity and maintaining a holy life style before God.  James 1:23-27
In regards to the system of the world and the direction governments are going in, it is clear that bible prophesy is being fulfilled as we speak.  The current religious 'Freedom' we see today that is being eroded, is merely a foretelling of things to come.  Christians may seem surprised but it is no surprise at all.  We all knew from the day we got saved what kind of world we would be living in, still somehow we are not prepared for the kind of situations we will find ourselves in.  It all just seems to be happening a lot sooner than we think, and we know it will get mind blowingly worst.  Alas the day is far spent and the time is drawing nigh.  So let us cast off the works of darkness and lay aside every weight and the sin that so easily besets us. Hebrews 12:1

Hebrews 12  (The Encouragement) 
It will mean that in the future any Christian preaching the gospel in the streets will be arrested. How bad do you think it will get, have we all lost our minds, have we all been bewitched? Did not our Lord said that these will be the signs of the times to come? why are Christians trying to build a utopia on earth? have we forgotten the examples of the past kings who made alliances with ungodly kings only to face God's judgement?  Did he not say to come out from among them? If we love the world, we have become an enemy of God. Do we think that we will win the world after we have joined the world? Do we not realize that every relationship will be tested to reveal what it really is? There will be friends that we will have to part from, as our stand in Christ will be in direct conflict with the nations on a whole.

Salt & Light  
No man can serve 2 masters....it is impossible. Matthew 6:24 God wont allow it. not now not ever. What will be like when the nations implement The Mark of the beast? We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.....We are children of God, and that is who we are.  The world does not know us because it does not know him. But when he comes, it will be revealed who we are, for we shall see him as he is.  Beloved now are the sons of God. and does not yet appear what we shall be.  Everyone who has this hope in him, purifies himself, even as he is pure. 1 John 3:1-3.  Meaning, be ready, get ready. We are not here to stay.  So let us quit trying to fit in.  We aere not called and chosen to fir into the world's system.  We were called to be Light and salt.  Matthew 5:13-16. The voice of many crying out in the Modern world, prepare thy self to meet thy God.  It can be a banquet or a banishment. May we now consider the times and judge ourselves lest we be judged along with the world.
1 Corinthians 11:27-31 Self examination.