Tuesday, February 24, 2009

"An...Obama-Nation"


Today's GodThoughts will be the last of my comments on our new President...for now.*  Let me go ahead and give you the practical application of today's final message (for now) here at the very beginning lest anyone be misled.
 
The Conclusion is this:
 
#1.  Please join with me in praying daily for our new President, his Cabinet, and our Senate and House of Representatives...
 
"I urge that entreaties and prayers, petitions...
be made...for kings and all who are in authority..."
-see 1 Timothy 2:1-8
 
#2.  Understand that we are called to "obey our leaders and submit to them" (see Hebrews 13:17) only insofar as they are obedient to The Word of God...
 
"We must obey God rather than men."
-see Acts 5:17-32
 
And now...TODAY'S GODTHOUGHTSWIRED!
 
"You shall not lie with a male
as one lies with a female;
it is an a Obamanation."
Leviticus 18:22 (mispelling mine)
 
abomination:  "a vile, shameful, or detestable action."
 
Hopefully you are thinking, "Why in the world is pastor Brad bringing up the issue of homosexuality at such a time as this?"  Is that what you're thinking?  :)  Well, I sincerely wish to God that I didn't have to talk about it.  Unfortunately, however, I just got done reading from our government website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/civil_rights/.  Three-fourths of the entire page is dedicated to the promotion of the LGBT agenda.  Or, let me re-phrase that in a more politically correct manner, "Support of the Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgendered Community."  I sure do encourage you to read for yourself:
 
"President Obama has also been willing 
to confront the stigma --
too often tied to homophobia -- 
that continues to surround HIV/AIDS."
 
Christians!!!!!!  ARE YOU OUT THERE???  DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING? 
 
The most powerful man on earth...
the President of the United States of America
blatantly declares on the White House web-site
that he supports what God calls an "abomination."
 
Our President blatantly, and openly supports what God opposes. 
 
" Even if we expelled every Christian in America, 
whose Christianity would we teach in the schools...
which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?  Should we go with, uhh, Leviticus, which uhh, suggests slavery is ok?  Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child
if he strays from the faith.  Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount, a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own defense department
would survive its application...Now I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice I can't simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. 
 I have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths including those with no faith at all.  Now this is going to be difficult for some who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as many evangelicals do, but in a
pluralistic society we have no choice."
 -President Barack Obama (bold and underline mine)
 
In answer to your question, President Obama, "Whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?"  We would teach the Christianity that we originally taught in our public schools...biblical Christianity.  I personally own a copy of the original public school book, "The New England Primer" which many of our Founding Father's grew up learning from...a book that takes much of its foundation from...THE BIBLE!
 
And then, in response to President Obama's justification, "If I seek to pass a law banning the practice I can't simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will."  WHY NOT, President Obama?  George Washington did.  Franklin D. Roosevelt did.  John Adams did.  Thomas Jefferson did.  Calvin Coolidge did.  Abraham Lincoln did. 
 
"It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge
the providence of Almighty God and to obey His will."
-President George Washington
 
"O Lord, give us faith, Give us faith in Thee...
Thy will be done, Almighty God."
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt
 
"The highest story of the American revolution is this;
it connects in one indissoluble bond the principles
of civic government with the principles of Christianity."
-President John Adams
 
 "The foundation of our society and our government
rest so much on the teachings of the Bible 
that it 
would be difficult to support them 
if faith in these 
teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."
-President Calvin Coolidge
 
The original premise of a "Republic" is to elect leaders who have the courage to lead based on conviction...NOT COMPROMISE!
 
 
*To my African-American brothers and sisters out there let me reveal to you how difficult it is to write a message like this one in light of how profoundly meaningful it is to have our first African-American President of These United States.  

I truly rejoice with you over this. 

Some of my dearest, and closest friends are African-American, and while I cannot relate to having ancestors who have had such heinous and dispicable evils promulgated against them because of the color of their skin,I can rejoice with the entire African-American community over such a victory as having a Black man as President.
As those of you who know me are aware...my comments never have to do with the color of a man's skin, rather the condition of a man's heart.


 
 
 
 

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Monday, February 16, 2009

Understanding Today's America"


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"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."
Hosea 4:6a
 
In his third "Law of Motion," Sir Isaac Newton stated that "for every action (force) in nature there is an equal and opposite reaction."*  In other words, every action has a consequence.  Newton identified the universal principle of "sowing and reaping" (see Galatians 6:7) in the natural world.
 
Well, the 3rd Law of Motion, or the principle of"sowing and reaping" applies to the spritual world as well.  In other words, there are spiritual or "supernatural" consequences that are set in motion determined by how we respond to the laws of God.  In 1963, Abington v. Shempp, the United States Supreme Court ruled that voluntary reading of the Bible in public schools was "unconstitutional."  They said,
 
"If portions of the New Testament were read 
without explanation, 
they could be and have been 
psychologically harmful to the child."
 
What was once considered a vital part of the healthy develeopment of every american child since the founding of the country had suddenly become "psychologically harmful."  Tragically, now more than 40 years since, the subtle slide of Christianity away from the public square has become a spiritual avalanche.
 
The Bible says, "You will know them by their fruit"(Matthew 7:20).  So, what's the fruit?  According to a recent TIME magazine:
 
"Only half of U.S. adults know the title of even one Gospel.  Most can't name the Bible's first book.  
The trend extends even to Evangelicals, only
44% of whose teens could identify a particular quote as coming from the Sermon on the Mount."
-April 2, 2007

"We have become "a nation of biblical illiterates." -George Gallup

"Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children."  -God
 
 
 
*Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis, 1686.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

"Understanding Today's America"


On May 15, 2001, CBS News Anchor Dan Rather appeared on a show called The O'Reilly Factor.  In an explanation that he gave as to why he thought Bill Clinton to be an upright man Rather said, "I think you can be an honest man and lie about any number of things."
 
Those who are deceived 
don't know 
they are deceived because they are deceived.
 
In order to truly understand today's America, we must first become students of our history.  Only then can we see how far we have "drifted."  In 1778 the 4th president of the United States, James Madison said,
 
We have staked the whole future 
of American 
civilization...
upon the capacity of each and all
of us to govern ourselves according 
to the Ten 
Commandments of God.*
 
102 years later "sin" had taken away our understanding.  In 1980, the "delusion of sin" was in full effect at the highest level of our legislative branch of government, the United States Supreme Court.  Literally ignoring 150 YEARS! of precedents, the Supreme Court ruled in a Kentucky case, Stone v. Graham, that the Ten Commandments could not be posted in schools:
 
"If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments
are to have any effects at all, it will be to induce
the school children to read, meditate upon, and
         perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments...
This is not...a permissible...objective."
 
Tragically, we have forsaken the warnings of our forefathers:
 
"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion.  This is the most essential part of education.  
The great enemy of the salvation 
of men...
never invented a more effectual means 
of extirpation 
(removing) Christianity 
from the world than by persuading 
mankind 
that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."**
-Benjamin Rush, signer of the Declaration of Independence
 
 
*James Madison.  1778.  Beliles and McDowell, Providential History, p.221.
**Benjamin Rush.  Letters of Benjamin Rush, Princeton, New Jersey:  American Philosophical Society, 1951.

Monday, February 9, 2009

"It's Official...USA No Longer a 'Christian Nation'"


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" Even if we expelled every Christian in America, 
whose Christianity would we teach in the schools...
which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?
Should we go with, uhh, Leviticus, which uhh, suggests slavery is ok?
Or we could go with Deuteronomy which suggests stoning your child
if he strays from the faith.  Or should we just stick to the sermon on the mount, a passage that is so radical that it's doubtful that our own defense department
would survive its application...Now I may be opposed to abortion for
religious reasons, to take one example, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice I can't simply point to the teachings of my church
or evoke God's will.  I have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths including those
with no faith at all.  Now this is going to be difficult for some who
believe in the inerrancy of the Bible as many evangelicals do, but in a
pluralistic society we have no choice."
 -President Barak Obama 
(bold mine)
 
Beloved, it is REALLY important that you take the necessary time to understand what the new President of The United States believes and teaches.  I implore you to take the necessary time to study and ponder what the above quotation means for the future of the United States.  "If I seek to pass a law...I can't simply point to...or evoke God's will." 
 
The student of United States history will immediately recognize how contrary and divergent these statements are.  Consider the words of the 4th President of the United States, James Madison,
 
"We have staked the whole future of American
civilization...upon the capacity of each and all
of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten
Commandments of God."+
 
And signer of The Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Rush,
 
"Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion.  This is the most essential part of education.  The great enemy of the salvation of men...never invented a more effectual means of extirpation (removing) Christianity from the world than by persuadingmankind that it was improper to read the Bible at schools."**
 
"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice,encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful,applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe." -Frederic Bastiat, The Law, 1848*
 
"Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind and makes flesh his strength, and whose
heart turns away from the Lord...
Righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a disgrace to any people...
It is an abomination for kings to commit wickedness,
for a throne is established on righteousness...
Loyalty and truth preserve the king, and he upholds his throne by righteousness...
Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne will be established in righteousness."
Jeremiah 17:5; Proverbs 14:34; 16:12; 20:28; 25:5
 
 
*Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) was a French economist, statesman and author.  He did most of his writing during the years just before-and immediately following-the revolution of 1848, a period when France was rapidly turning toward complete Socialism, much like the United States of America today.
 
+James Madison.  1778.  Beliles and McDowell, Providential History, p.221.
 
**Benjamin Rush.  Letters of Benjamin Rush, Princeton, New Jersey:  American Philosophical Society, 1951.

Monday, February 2, 2009

"It's Official...USA No Longer a 'Christian Nation'"


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"There is no attack on American Culture
more destructive and more historically dishonest than the secular Left's 
relentless effort to drive God 

out of America's public square
."
 -Newt Gingrich, 
Rediscovering God in America, p.6
 
One of the spectacular gifts that theGodThoughtWired! ministry affords me is an honest and real understanding of the varied cultural perspectives that are a part of today's 21st century reality.  And one thing's for sure:
 
The 21st Century is an...
AGE OF DELUSION.
 
"God will send upon them a deluding influence
so that they will believe what is false."
-2 Thessalonians 2:11
 
Consider the following responses to our current series, "It's Official...USA No Longer a 'Christian Nation.'"  Under the category of:
 
ARROGANT IGNORANCE:
 
"An odd title to your article, "It's Official...USA No Longer a Christian Nation".  When were we ever 
a Christian nation?  Yes, maybe the majority 
of citizens have been Christian but 
the founding fathers certainly were not."
 
"We have never been a Christian Nation." 
 
There is an ever-increasing group of "ignorant multitudes" who sincerely believe that "We have never been a Christian Nation." This perspective is so "historically illiterate" that it can only be attributed to "last days delusion."  Consider the following statements by some of our "Founding Fathers:"
 
"Providence has given our people the choice of their rulers.  It is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select
and prefer Christians for their rulers."
-John Jay, the original Chief Justice of the USA
(October 12, 1816.  The Correspondence & Public Papers of John Jay)
 
"This great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians-not on religion, but on  the gospel of Jesus Christ."
-Patrick Henry, 
America's Providential History, p.184.
 
"In this age there can be no substitute
 for Christianity...
That was the religion 
of the founders of the Republic, 

and they expected it to remain 
the religion of their descendents."
-United States House of Representatives 
Judiciary Committee, 1854
 
In fact, books have been written solely devoted to the preservation of the truth of the history of The United States of America as having been founded and established as a "Christian Nation."  The following are three such books (that I have read, studied, and wholeheartedly recommend):
 
1.  Rediscovering God in America, by Newt Gingrich, Thomas Nelson, 2006.
2.  One Nation Under God, by Dr. David C. Gibbs, Christian Law Association, 2005.
3.  Freedom Tide, by Chad Connelly.  Executive Books, 2002.
 

GODTHOUGHTSWIRED! 


"EVANGELIZING 
THE CHURCH 
IN THE AGE 
OF DELUSION."


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