Lions, Power and Batteries, Oh my!

Listening to podcasts is by far one thing that if removed from my life would immediately cause some sort of catastrophic system failure in my body. With that being said I usually consume anywhere from 2 to 4 hours of audio a day. Trunews is one of my favorite shows to daily listen to. I greatly enjoy Rick Wile's passion and his stellar content. The show that shocked me into reality was one last week in which a woman who attended the Texas legislature's vote on abortion.

  The reason this struck me so greatly was the fact that the opposition to the pro life proponents where so zealous. It seemed as I was listening to their chanting of "hail Satan" over "Amazing Grace" that rebellion to God just could just not get any higher. I mean really how much more irreverence to the long time God of the United States can you get? This truly made me feel what Israel must feel like now a days with all their enemies surrounding them. The list of people now overtly antagonistic to Christians is steadily growing. We also appear to have a government that is allowing the this by every means they can. 

  One must remember that all that Hitler did was legal at the time of the execution of such actions. This in turn also means that two very important prerequisites were also then accomplished. The public was groomed to have a disdain for the target of these laws and that the constituency was brought to the consensus that these laws were needed for society to move on as it should. So one may now ask the question no follower of Christ may want to...are we the new Jews? I had to ask myself what exactly was needed to the cocktail in Austin to create a flash-point for mass murder and riot? 

  Well I would gather the only way to answer this question is to evaluate further what all happened at the event. From what we have heard the pro-abortion crowd was caught with radically abusive signs, cursing children, human excrement, urine, and used tampons. The only logical question now is for them to get the the moral position to be able to justify the afore mentioned tactics where is murder and riot on their list? As you may have guessed we are now at the point of speculation. So a certain answer can not be determined. We do know that these people that were driven to this sort of hysteria were in fact supporting the killing of babies over the 20 week period. This if you would do the math equates to a human that is 5 months old. 

  You may not know the gruesome details of this procedure. The bottom line without getting to graphic is they literally cut sections of the baby while still in the womb and take the child out a limb at a time. Sound over the top? Well I would for one say that this is more than that. So if these people are demanding this sort of option to the American woman what else would they be willing to rally around and put their support for as well? One has to see the obvious lack of morality in carrying out such a procedure. The real wizard behind this house of horrors is none other than Planned Parenthood. You know that non governmental agency we all fund with our tax dollars that carries out the bulk of the pre-born child killings here in the states. 

  If that fact doesn't increase your blood pressure maybe the fact that it has been found out that they then sell the babies to biotech companies for research, and worst of all raw materials for other biological workings. So yet again we see the United States transforming into the fascist state that Hitler would have been proud to lead. Unfortunately we may very well have a president in the same lineage. Remember when Obama declared that the United States isn't a Christian nation. Hitler as well as the other communistic dictators either dissolved or nationalized the standing religious powers. Oh and let us now go back to an occasion not to long ago when our lovely president commended the work of Planned Parenthood as they celebrated 300,000 plus k notches to their abortion belt. We must recall that this organization was founded to kill off the black population. This is cataloged in great detail by the film Maafa21. A must watch for anyone wanting to the know the history of this so called bastion of woman's rights. 

  Before we move on I just must state with clarity my point for bringing up this most unsettling topic. We have those so morally depraved that they are willing to chop up their own offspring so they can have all the unrestrained sex they can handle. The uttermost in selfishness as far as I can tell. These individuals are also willing to get behind support and rally for an institution that was designed to insure that there is population decrease for minorities in this country. The future seems to reflect the Nazi era more and more as the years go on. One only needs to muse when the current society will degrade down to the times where a coliseum heard cheering for Christians' being used as entertainment and food for lions. 

  Okay`, so now that we have covered the lions part of the title we must now move onto the power section. Believe it or not these seemingly unrelated topics do weave into something us Christians need to be mindful of. In the first topic we discussed the looming threat of persecution coming to those who truly follow Jesus. Next we place ourselves into another dimension of reality. This very morning we went to Walmart to get some items for the mornings breakfast. While we were at the deli counter the power started going through a series of outages. First it went totally black, next was followed up by backup lights and then onto the regular lighting. This cycled for roughly 5 minutes or so. I immediately went into survival mode and altered my wife to get to the registers with the needed supplies before the power totally killed and we couldn't check out. This may seem like a mondaine incident until we spend some time dissecting what had all lead up to this response. 

  God had lead us as you may or may not know into living a life a touch up from the Amish. After living our lives in cubical big city land this was more than a cultural change as you can imagine. Through the last 4 years we have been able to learn how to take care of ourselves in a good deal of ways. Something we only had an illusion of prior to God waking us up. We had to do a good deal of reading to learn the skills we now possess for this sort of lifestyle. I do believe that I have read a good deal of all survival books on the market by both the military and civilian authors. So when something happened to us at the store I knew what I needed to do, how to lead my troops to success and how to manage the difficulty. 

  We must as Christians be ready for all that is set against us. To live in wonderland and place all the responsibility on God is to just plain out not understand the message of the bible. We have to listen to God yes indeed, however it is also our responsibility to keep our lamp stands filled, be ready for the groom, and be obedient to the master's orders. So there is a portion of Christianity that lies squarely on the humans to execute. As we delved into initially we have an opposition immediately upon confessing Jesus as our lord. It is no less than the entire population that doesn't follow God's ways. If you think we are the majority I ask you kindly to redo your math equation. We are out numbered, out gunned, and have an active enemy looking with whom to devour. We all must stand strong, be prepared, and listen to what God leads us to do. 

  The power debacle also reminded me how bad things can happen at any moment. We must always be on the lookout for danger and have what is needed to face whatever twist, turn or disaster is facing us at the time. Without me obeying Christ we wouldn't have ever made the move into the homestead, started studying topics of sufficiency and had no idea what to do when the power went out this morning. The power did come back on, but I would have known exactly what to do if it hadn't. This is the real point. Preparation is an active exercise in proficiency, equipment, execution, and planning. Failure in any of these pieces and it makes the possibilities become small fast. 

  So now we have assessed 2 points in the title. To wrap up section two I must now laced the two topics together so we all understand where I am going. If the Christian's at the event had the correct preparation they would be ready for whatever the possibilities were for that really difficult event with the protesters. I am not saying they were or were not just stating that we must all know what needs to be done in any circumstance. A close relationship with both God and his word is the essential step in being equipped for all the challenges that are to face us in the times to come. 

  If you have done any reading of Revelations you know how this goes for us followers of Christ and it isn't good. Our blood cries out so loudly that Jesus returns to stop all the madness. Which means that there is going to be a great deal of us to die at the hands of those like the protesters in Austin. Before you lose heart we need to remind ourselves that the word of God has an answer for us. We get on our armor, prepare for the battle and..get our battery.

  A battery? What are you thinking you may be inquiring. Well yes indeed. What I mean by battery is to have yourself filled up for the futures challenges. This must occur on different level as we are not just flesh and blood. We must prepare our minds and those of our children to face the persecution gun that is to be turned on us shortly. At the abortion event the crowd was yelling, cursing, berating and inciting the Christians into a reaction. Are you ready for an angry mob to face you and your little ones? Are your precious children tough enough to choose God over the easier way out? 

  Next we must prepare our hearts for the future. We must all know where our true love lies. We can't love this life, anything that is in it over the Lord that we serve. We see this trial over and over again for God's elect in both the new and old testaments. Jesus said that he comes with a sword to divide. We must all be ready for the day that we will need to choose our God over what we hold most dear in this present reality. Are you up for this testing?

  Our battery also must be filled with the word of God. It is both an offensive and defensive weapon. Spend time daily getting the word of your Lord into your memory banks for later use. Bibles have always been burned and banned in totalitarian governments so we know it is just a matter of time before it will be here as well. Learning to remember the bible is no different than running a marathon. It takes willpower, strength and tenacity to do the thing we just do not want to do daily to finish the race. 

  Finally our battery must be charged so we can use our communication device with the only person that can give us the answers we need during this desperate time. Jesus left this wold one day, however he left us a gift. The holy spirit was said to be poured out on all man. We have God everywhere now to speak to us, comfort us, and guide us in all ways. Something the enemy and his minions only wish they had. We truly have the ace in the hole with this card game with Satan. He thinks he may win but all he can do it kill our mortal bodies, we have a God and a spirit that will be with us in this life and the next. 

  So as you can see we have allot of work to be doing before the times declare that our options are out. Get on your knees today. Confess your sins to your God. Get your slate clean with him so you can get your orders. He is waiting to renew his commitment with all man and no matter what you have done you are included in his covenant deal. We all have something to do for God and our fellow Christians around the world ask him what he needs you to do, prepare for the trip and set out. Living a Christian life is truly the life of a rebel. The narrow path is your only way of hope in these dark hours. Press on for the battle!

July 24th 2013

Lions, Power and Batteries, Oh my!

  Listening to podcasts is by far one thing that if removed from my life would immediately cause some sort of catastrophic system failure in my body. With that being said I usually consume anywhere from 2 to 4 hours of audio a day. Trunews is one of my favorite shows to daily listen to. I greatly enjoy Rick Wile's passion and his stellar content. The show that shocked me into reality was one last week in which a woman who attended the Texas legislature's vote on abortion.

  The reason this struck me so greatly was the fact that the opposition to the pro life proponents where so zealous. It seemed as I was listening to their chanting of "hail Satan" over "Amazing Grace" that rebellion to God just could just not get any higher. I mean really how much more irreverence to the long time God of the United States can you get? This truly made me feel what Israel must feel like now a days with all their enemies surrounding them. The list of people now overtly antagonistic to Christians is steadily growing. We also appear to have a government that is allowing the this by every means they can. 

  One must remember that all that Hitler did was legal at the time of the execution of such actions. This in turn also means that two very important prerequisites were also then accomplished. The public was groomed to have a disdain for the target of these laws and that the constituency was brought to the consensus that these laws were needed for society to move on as it should. So one may now ask the question no follower of Christ may want to...are we the new Jews? I had to ask myself what exactly was needed to the cocktail in Austin to create a flash-point for mass murder and riot? 

  Well I would gather the only way to answer this question is to evaluate further what all happened at the event. From what we have heard the pro-abortion crowd was caught with radically abusive signs, cursing children, human excrement, urine, and used tampons. The only logical question now is for them to get the the moral position to be able to justify the afore mentioned tactics where is murder and riot on their list? As you may have guessed we are now at the point of speculation. So a certain answer can not be determined. We do know that these people that were driven to this sort of hysteria were in fact supporting the killing of babies over the 20 week period. This if you would do the math equates to a human that is 5 months old. 

  You may not know the gruesome details of this procedure. The bottom line without getting to graphic is they literally cut sections of the baby while still in the womb and take the child out a limb at a time. Sound over the top? Well I would for one say that this is more than that. So if these people are demanding this sort of option to the American woman what else would they be willing to rally around and put their support for as well? One has to see the obvious lack of morality in carrying out such a procedure. The real wizard behind this house of horrors is none other than Planned Parenthood. You know that non governmental agency we all fund with our tax dollars that carries out the bulk of the pre-born child killings here in the states. 

  If that fact doesn't increase your blood pressure maybe the fact that it has been found out that they then sell the babies to biotech companies for research, and worst of all raw materials for other biological workings. So yet again we see the United States transforming into the fascist state that Hitler would have been proud to lead. Unfortunately we may very well have a president in the same lineage. Remember when Obama declared that the United States isn't a Christian nation. Hitler as well as the other communistic dictators either dissolved or nationalized the standing religious powers. Oh and let us now go back to an occasion not to long ago when our lovely president commended the work of Planned Parenthood as they celebrated 300,000 plus k notches to their abortion belt. We must recall that this organization was founded to kill off the black population. This is cataloged in great detail by the film Maafa21. A must watch for anyone wanting to the know the history of this so called bastion of woman's rights. 

  Before we move on I just must state with clarity my point for bringing up this most unsettling topic. We have those so morally depraved that they are willing to chop up their own offspring so they can have all the unrestrained sex they can handle. The uttermost in selfishness as far as I can tell. These individuals are also willing to get behind support and rally for an institution that was designed to insure that there is population decrease for minorities in this country. The future seems to reflect the Nazi era more and more as the years go on. One only needs to muse when the current society will degrade down to the times where a coliseum heard cheering for Christians' being used as entertainment and food for lions. 

  Okay`, so now that we have covered the lions part of the title we must now move onto the power section. Believe it or not these seemingly unrelated topics do weave into something us Christians need to be mindful of. In the first topic we discussed the looming threat of persecution coming to those who truly follow Jesus. Next we place ourselves into another dimension of reality. This very morning we went to Walmart to get some items for the mornings breakfast. While we were at the deli counter the power started going through a series of outages. First it went totally black, next was followed up by backup lights and then onto the regular lighting. This cycled for roughly 5 minutes or so. I immediately went into survival mode and altered my wife to get to the registers with the needed supplies before the power totally killed and we couldn't check out. This may seem like a mondaine incident until we spend some time dissecting what had all lead up to this response. 

  God had lead us as you may or may not know into living a life a touch up from the Amish. After living our lives in cubical big city land this was more than a cultural change as you can imagine. Through the last 4 years we have been able to learn how to take care of ourselves in a good deal of ways. Something we only had an illusion of prior to God waking us up. We had to do a good deal of reading to learn the skills we now possess for this sort of lifestyle. I do believe that I have read a good deal of all survival books on the market by both the military and civilian authors. So when something happened to us at the store I knew what I needed to do, how to lead my troops to success and how to manage the difficulty. 

  We must as Christians be ready for all that is set against us. To live in wonderland and place all the responsibility on God is to just plain out not understand the message of the bible. We have to listen to God yes indeed, however it is also our responsibility to keep our lamp stands filled, be ready for the groom, and be obedient to the master's orders. So there is a portion of Christianity that lies squarely on the humans to execute. As we delved into initially we have an opposition immediately upon confessing Jesus as our lord. It is no less than the entire population that doesn't follow God's ways. If you think we are the majority I ask you kindly to redo your math equation. We are out numbered, out gunned, and have an active enemy looking with whom to devour. We all must stand strong, be prepared, and listen to what God leads us to do. 

  The power debacle also reminded me how bad things can happen at any moment. We must always be on the lookout for danger and have what is needed to face whatever twist, turn or disaster is facing us at the time. Without me obeying Christ we wouldn't have ever made the move into the homestead, started studying topics of sufficiency and had no idea what to do when the power went out this morning. The power did come back on, but I would have known exactly what to do if it hadn't. This is the real point. Preparation is an active exercise in proficiency, equipment, execution, and planning. Failure in any of these pieces and it makes the possibilities become small fast. 

  So now we have assessed 2 points in the title. To wrap up section two I must now laced the two topics together so we all understand where I am going. If the Christian's at the event had the correct preparation they would be ready for whatever the possibilities were for that really difficult event with the protesters. I am not saying they were or were not just stating that we must all know what needs to be done in any circumstance. A close relationship with both God and his word is the essential step in being equipped for all the challenges that are to face us in the times to come. 

  If you have done any reading of Revelations you know how this goes for us followers of Christ and it isn't good. Our blood cries out so loudly that Jesus returns to stop all the madness. Which means that there is going to be a great deal of us to die at the hands of those like the protesters in Austin. Before you lose heart we need to remind ourselves that the word of God has an answer for us. We get on our armor, prepare for the battle and..get our battery.

  A battery? What are you thinking you may be inquiring. Well yes indeed. What I mean by battery is to have yourself filled up for the futures challenges. This must occur on different level as we are not just flesh and blood. We must prepare our minds and those of our children to face the persecution gun that is to be turned on us shortly. At the abortion event the crowd was yelling, cursing, berating and inciting the Christians into a reaction. Are you ready for an angry mob to face you and your little ones? Are your precious children tough enough to choose God over the easier way out? 

  Next we must prepare our hearts for the future. We must all know where our true love lies. We can't love this life, anything that is in it over the Lord that we serve. We see this trial over and over again for God's elect in both the new and old testaments. Jesus said that he comes with a sword to divide. We must all be ready for the day that we will need to choose our God over what we hold most dear in this present reality. Are you up for this testing?

  Our battery also must be filled with the word of God. It is both an offensive and defensive weapon. Spend time daily getting the word of your Lord into your memory banks for later use. Bibles have always been burned and banned in totalitarian governments so we know it is just a matter of time before it will be here as well. Learning to remember the bible is no different than running a marathon. It takes willpower, strength and tenacity to do the thing we just do not want to do daily to finish the race. 

  Finally our battery must be charged so we can use our communication device with the only person that can give us the answers we need during this desperate time. Jesus left this wold one day, however he left us a gift. The holy spirit was said to be poured out on all man. We have God everywhere now to speak to us, comfort us, and guide us in all ways. Something the enemy and his minions only wish they had. We truly have the ace in the hole with this card game with Satan. He thinks he may win but all he can do it kill our mortal bodies, we have a God and a spirit that will be with us in this life and the next. 

  So as you can see we have allot of work to be doing before the times declare that our options are out. Get on your knees today. Confess your sins to your God. Get your slate clean with him so you can get your orders. He is waiting to renew his commitment with all man and no matter what you have done you are included in his covenant deal. We all have something to do for God and our fellow Christians around the world ask him what he needs you to do, prepare for the trip and set out. Living a Christian life is truly the life of a rebel. The narrow path is your only way of hope in these dark hours. Press on for the battle!

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Belief; God's magical fairy dust part 2

So now is the time I get to you smarty pants. Indeed it does also seem that those who have enough faith, like those pygmies, can do great works as well on their own. I guess you just don't need to be a professional. For the disciples actually brought a case of these unlicensed practitioners to Jesus's attention. It seems as though this fellow was healing folks using the name of Jesus. His answer to this misuse of regulations was simple. He simply stated that not everyone that says "Lord, Lord" will enter into the kingdom of heaven. For it appears there will be those who actually also prophesized and cast out demons that just plain out never read the fine lines in the contract.  As we have stated prior there are rules and you have to actually have to maintain a relationship with Jesus for the whole salvation thing to work. For Jesus will one day tell these people that "he never knew them."
  It does however do explain how some of the crowds were able to receive healing by just believing in the power of God and touching Jesus's clothing. We even see the power of faith being exercised on a Roman guard who says Jesus just needs to proclaim the healing and the act will be carried our without Jesus even needing to be present.
  So to wrap this up we need to understand how this whole Christian thing works. In fact we need to actually it seems return to an earlier stage in our development. One that we can actually believe in the wondrous again. We need to believe that Jesus can do these mighty works through us. For this to happen however we need to firmly trust in who his is and what he is capable of. Finally we need to trust that he can use us as the instrument of this action. The simple fact is the reason why they is not happening in American any more is because we have limited what God can do. It takes these new believers in Africa, India and China to show us that when it says we can raise the dead and heal it actually means what it says. We can indeed do greater works if we simply believe in the power of God and allow it to flow through us. So do not think you are jipped for choosing the Godly path any more. We to have power and we do not need to go to Hogwarts to gain it! Praise God.

Belief; God's magical fairy dust

Belief; God's magical fairy dust
By Rob Roath

  Today I decided to spend some quality time with the Lord, my dog and a couch. Sounds like a beginning of a fantasy novel already, doesn't it? Well what else can you do in the blistering cold or Texas? Anyhow so I decided I would just snuggle up with my dear old Chihuahua and listen to all the gospels. Ya, I know what you are thinking now. Rob this just isn't what I expected from you from this title. Well wait my friends and we will soon get to the magic I promised!
  As the words continued to dance around my head as I listened something truly remarkable did happen. I was able to see a theme that had somehow totally escaped me prior. Over and over again you hear about this need for faith and belief. This was the cause of a good deal of activity to go wrong during the time of Christ's ministry. I might also add for those biblical scholars out there that this was also the cause of something抯 to go totally right for some as well, but you are getting ahead of me smarty pants!
  We see the same formula happen multiple times to the disciples of Jesus. For some reason when they were making that magical potion of fairy healing juice it just didn't go right. The strange thing is that they had no idea what they had apparently done wrong. You almost see them going through the steps they took to heal the person to see if they had all the techniques down correctly.  This actually gave me sort of a chuckle really as it reminded me how Wile Coyote would do the same thing when one of his plans were foiled yet again by the roadrunner.
  What went wrong for these mighty healers of old? Did they forget the eye of newt in the caldron while preparing the potion? Obviously not as we do not practice magic as the occult do. However this does bring to the foreground something I have found out while living in both the light and dark worlds. You see there are rules you know.  Both sides must actually follow these rules of the game for the desired results to prosper. I have always thought this is how Satan has been able to convince himself that he wins in the end. One way of another he thinks he has found a loop hole in the rules and the end will actually sort itself out differently to the surprise of God...snicker. Sorry just had to laugh at that one. Vanity and pride have taken out even the best plans.
  However what I say is actually true here. In the occult world you have to do everything a certain way. There are rituals, spells, glyphs that must be carried out just so for them to pull off correctly. Well it seems that we have these same sort of steps that need to be followed by the follower of Jesus as well. I would think that this is one of the major reasons why this or that goes seriously wrong in our lives. We just weren't careful enough to go through all the steps needed to preform what needed to be done for its success. God is into details, if you couldn't tell. If you disagree do yourself a favor and go through Leviticus.
  So now we know that Christians have some rules that must be followed as well. This actually may be quite enlightening for some of us out there. We cannot just guess our way through life anymore and get the results we were looking for. We must actually now take following Jesus a bit differently now. We must now then use our spellbook (not harm meant here God) and do some studying here. I have always been sort of astonished on how little the average Christian actually reads the bible. I remember the days I was a long way from God debating people who followed Jesus and correcting them on their own passages. I would love to see a survey done on this matter. I am sure that the heathen has the scriptures down a good deal better than those that warm the pews faithfully every time the church is open.
  For we know from the temptations that Lucifer himself is well versed in the holy scriptures as well. How better to understand how to Shanghai followers of Christ, right? It worked for him in Eden and has ever since. He just needs to turn truth one degree off to have someone ending off bowing before a tree before long. This may seem comical until you understand that there are far worse things being done. Remember the gold foil wrapped roasted baby they found being shipped in the far east? We can truly get off course if we do not know what we believe.
  Ok, ok enough of all this! I need to get back onto the original subject here. You have to keep yourself in line as well you know? So anyhow back to the subject of the bible. In short you must read it. To expound on this matter I would also include daily. There just is now way that we can get this whole following Jesus thing right without it. So what exactly did these bumbling disciples get wrong? Well it is simple they didn't understand the recipe correctly.
  If you have studied chemistry at all you immediately find out that you just can't start splashing chemicals about. That is a great way to have one or two things happen. Either your clothes are going to melt or you are going to create some variety of an explosion.  The revelation I received here is simple however very difficult to execute. Faith and belief are the two components that need to be combined into our magical dust. When you think about it that all sounds pretty obvious right? Well we will see how this is not as easy as it is billed to be on the side of the jar.
  One of the times that the disciples healings went wrong it was because they just didn't have enough faith to cast out the demon. What does this practically mean though? We all believe that Jesus is Lord and savior right? How much more must they have thought that actually walking with him day and night. Well that can be answered as well. In the gospels there are all kinds of sightings of them bickering on who this Jesus fellow was anyhow. Can you believe that? Here they are hanging with him and they had no idea who he was! Maybe his is Elijah one would say. Nah! He is obviously Moses come back from the dead one would correct his compatriot. Simply astounding right?
  As it is really easy for us to poke fun at the apostles we must also realize that we are not causing any mountains to fall into the ocean either with our faith. I remember listening to a series of Prophecy Club shows on this lady that was reaching out to the Pigmy's in Africa. If you have never heard them you just must track them down. A must listen to my friends. Anyhow there they are with 3 foot people that were being harvested as tonight's dinner still to this day raising the dead!  Yes my brothers and sisters these amazing feats do happen in modern times.
  Our natural question then is why is this not happening in our lives? Well I think Jesus himself answered this most candidly. We must trust and love him like the little children do. What does this coding mean though son of God? Well it is my friends the whole reason I have used this magical theme for this article. Have you ever seen a little child see something they were sure was magic? Have you ever asked yourself why you lost the ability to imagine as an adult? We just lose it as a result of what we Americans call "growing up." What we lost is our ability to not have boundaries on things in life. Anything is possible in the mind of a child. That is what is so remarkable about that period in our lives. We must have this same sort of wonder about our Lord. We simply just do not think he can do it.
  The best example I can think of to how this works is to not surprise a children's movie I forced myself to sit down and watch one day. Yes I know, I have lost the wonder of my childhood long ago, thank you very much for reminding me. The movie had Ed Asner playing Santa. For the life of me I can not remember the actual title now.  Anyhow the sleigh crashes in central park and they can't get it going again. Santa then lets everyone know that the reason for this is that the world is no longer believing in Christmas and that is actually what powers the magical craft. Well it turns out that is exactly how things work in the Christian realm. Don't believe me? Let me convince you.
  Jesus goes to his home town of Nazareth and finds out a remarkable thing. For some reason his healing finger is just not working as well as it does in other places. Why is this? Well he goes on to explain that it is because a lack of faith. He was only able to get off a couple of healings before they threw him out of the church and for that matter the town. So it seems as though our faith works the same in both the light and dark realms as well. Just for those not in the know Santa is actually a representation of Odin which represents Lucifer. Sorry to burst your wonder here folks, but it is true.
So now is the time I get to you smarty pants. Indeed it does also seem that those who have enough faith, like those pygmies, can do great works as well on their own. I guess you just don't need to be a professional. For the di

When is the last time you tore your clothing?

When is the last time you tore your clothing?

By Rob Roath

  My son is doing a paper on the rebellious king of Israel. It has come to mind to me as we have been discussing what is learning on this journey that we just are missing something valuable that former followers of God once knew. So I ask you as the title did as well. When is the last time you tore your clothing?

  Was it yesterday friend that you last plucked the hairs from your beard? Or possibly last week is it when you placed ashes on your head and wore a burlap sack? I know it has been a long time for me too, unfortunately. This in fact is when I realized there was something seriously broken in myself. When was the last time I truly lamented to God for the wrongs I have done to him?

  Today I sit here writing with a heavy heart. I believe in transparency so here it is my friends. I have sinned. After a total let down in my faith this spring I strayed yet again from my Lord. The sad thing is this. We spent an entire week the end of last year repenting, crying out to Jesus for help, and the like. The result, well we cleaned our act up for a couple of months. Alas it only took one major event to test my faith for me to wonder off in shame and get temped into the wilderness once more.

  This unfortunately is a constant occurrence for me. I step out on a radical branch trusting God only for things to go seriously wrong and I am left with the cleanup mission that follows. To tell you the truth I am just never sure where I went wrong. I as far as I know truly desired to follow God and do what he wanted me to do. Why this blows up in my face over and over again is seriously beyond my comprehension.

  Now my friends I do not write for your sympathy, I merely am giving you background information so you can understand what has occurred until this point. So I sit here now with this heavy heart because I understand yet again I have strayed from the love that I return to over and over again just to sleep with the enemy in the end. Sounds a good deal like Hosea’s plight huh? Well I would say there is a good deal of similarities between the storylines.

  Why do we do this? Why is it that we stray off and betray the one we have told ourselves we care for? Why do we find ourselves yet again disheveled and at the door step begging to be let into the house we stormed out of? I say that we must return to who we truly are. We are sheep, nothing more than that. We will go our own way every time because as I have stated over and over again we love to be bad. There is a part in us redeemed sheep that loves the one that saved us yes, however the song of the siren just seems to be something we just cannot resist.  Readers of this blog will know I call this “our mountain.” The one or maybe two things that we just can’t seem to resist when the enemy swings them in front of our snout. We go running after it every time.

  This reminds me of a friend I had a good deal ago. I do feel that he truly did Love the Lord. The problem you ask? Well alcohol just screamed louder than Jesus did in his life. I would get calls in the middle of the night from this man letting me know how much he loved Jesus. Was he lying? I think not. What is merely was is that he had a mountain that he just was not able to climb over. As sad as this fact is many of us struggle over this same thing. Maybe it is not alcohol, but like my mom always said “Christians just exchange big sins for small ones.” So maybe our siren swoons you with lying, gossip, or stealing instead of what we consider “big sins.”

  So what is the answer for those of us out there that go round and round on this cycle of destruction?  Can hope be found in these souls? Well as one that just seems to love the wilderness and all it can offer I would hope so. One would truly think I have learned my lesson by now. I think that the key is the whole reason why I make this article. We have lost our sorrow. We have lost our ability to truly feel pain for what we have done. We have become dulled to the mass of sin that surrounds us in everyday life. I call this the “law of normality.”

  In this little know law we find that humans have in them to judge themselves based on the society they live in. What this means is that we look around and see how we “grade ourselves” compared to those we see in our vicinity. Now any thinking person could tell you that this is a formula for disaster. Why is this? Well it is simple we seek out the extremes to set ourselves beside prior to such a calculation. We look at the news and say “wow that guy is really jacked up” or “can you believe that mother did that.” These people are then use as the x in your calculation. No wonder we come up looking so good.

  In the beginning of the article I mentioned the Jews. They truly were some actors right? Going around screaming, throwing wood ashes on themselves, what showmen! Well I think I have found another way to look at this point of view. As opposed to us modern followers they had a set of laws that they would do their calculations against. Have you ever read these things? Good grief! How could you possibly measure up to such things? Well the fact is that Paul explains that the commandants were only given to the Jews to show that they could in fact never measure up to such standards. What they point to is one thing and one thing only….sinlessness.

  What I do want to point out in all of this preloading is that we just have no good way to measure ourselves as modern believers. The Jews at least where able to look at the laws and see how awful of a job they were doing. When they saw the inevitable sum of their math work they would lament unto God, and in a fit of total despair do these outlandish acts to express their dismay. Well in fact we do have such a “plumbline” that we can measure up to for us modern followers of God. As you may have guessed this is Jesus. Actually a completion of the laws we had mentioned earlier. This was a man that was actually able to follow all the law without ever breaking them.

  As I have stated to my kids many times “if Jesus sinned just once we would not be talking about him.” The fact is that he was able to survive the gauntlet of this fallen world unscathed. So we do have someone to base our life upon. Now that is good news! Everyone in this world likes to follow a winner anyhow don’t they? So let us then compare ourselves to the one we are supposed to be following shall we?

  Well as you may have guessed our score card would look pretty bad if we set out lives against the holy one of God. This fact is sort of my point though with all of this. We have a savior that was a much nicer chap than the one that the Jews had to deal with. Now please do understand I am not saying Jesus isn’t part of the trinity or some other religious belief. However you must agree that Jesus is a better pill to swallow than God that was presented to the Jews. Grace, kindness and love were just things you really had to struggle to see in that being killing everyone for not exactly following his rules.

  Thank God he had mercy on us gentiles huh? Well sort of I would say. I grew up catholic and one thing that gets drilled into you is a healthy fear of God. Honestly the God that is presented to the Catholic is pretty much the same one the Jews were. One of the reasons I left that faith looking for a better God. As far as I was concerned there had to be a better one out there that that one. However we did get Jesus as born again believers and how my friends do we treat this “buddy Jesus” of ours? Well I would look at your life and ask you to answer the question yourself.

  I was talking to a friend on the subject of this article and she had a good insight into us Christians.
She said “we have no shame.” A good way to put it I think. What can God do to really get any reaction from us. What even can make the modern American blush? Again we are to berated by violence, sex, and corruption from every direction that we have become numb. We plain out just can’t feel anything anymore. This is the core point I am out to make on this. What sin could you commit that you would actually get to the point that you wanted to tear your clothes?

  What would it take us to shed a tear for how we hurt the one we say we love? Paul says we were bought with a price and we just do not care about righteousness. Bonheoffer called this “cheap grace” how else can we put it? We no longer depend on a God to save us from anything. We much to busy making sure we have all the contingency plans set ahead of any action we make. What faith do we need to live the live we have? The fact is that the average American has little going wrong with their lives. The natural result of this cushy lifestyle is that we just never need to break the emergency glass and call for help. Isn’t that really the issue here?

  Our hearts are hardened to the point that we just have no need to have a savior to give us a hand. We have it all taken care of don’t we? We need a change my brothers and sisters. We need to call upon our God and ask him to soften our hearts before we have no ability to hear him any longer! Does it need to come to the point that he just gives us over to this sin that we demand to remain in our lives. Paul clearly states that we shouldn’t continue to sin that grace should more abound. The problem is that we do not see how far off to sea we are.

  Join me this day in crying out to our ever living Lord and savior to help us! We need you Jesus! Forgive us and lead our sorry butts to repentance. We need to be cleansed, refined and disciplined. We are wayward children that refuse your instruction. Sheep that demand to take our own way straight into our own demise. May your you have mercy on the believers that cry out our name for help king! Oh help us Lord we have no hope without you. We confess our desire to so another way. We are the whore that always returns after a wild night on the town. Forgive us! Mighty father hear the prayers of your followers and set us on the right path. Give us a desire to want you! Help us to feel again so that we can be sensitive to the sins that hurt both of us so very much. Come Lord Jesus come!