Celebrities

Ok I realize I haven't posted in a little while so here I am.

Celebrities act like they care about the poor or disenfranchised. They act all concerned when they are asking for our money to send to another nation. They talk about us as if we don't care or don't do our share for the world. Now while they do all this they are making all kinds of money making movies, TV shows, playing sports, or just pretending to be special and even cursing God with their actions. But why are they still rich if they truly care as they act? Why do they have expensive play toys? Why do they have humungous houses? Because truly, they only care about themselves.

Satan

As you might be able to tell I have been studying and researching on homosexuality. Recently I purchased the book "Torn" by Justin Lee. It is a good book and Justin seems to be a sincere author and Christian but what I see missing in his book, or just haven't seen so far, is the reference for our fighting with "powers and principalities" another words Satan and his demons.

Years ago I was fighting with a few sins of my own and researching other sins that seem to be inherited or inborn. My Dad and Granddad both died of alcoholism within a year of each other and the following year my youngest son was born, on my Granddads birthday. So two tragedies and one blessing. But back to my research, I was digging thru the Bible, several different translations, concordances, commentaries and one thing kept popping into my mind, Satan.

Yes I said Satan. He tempted Eve, he tried to ruin Jobs faith, he even tempted Christ and possessed Peter and Judas. Temptations are found through out the Bible and Satan and his demons are the ones who love to destroy the faithful. So I thought about it and came up with a theory. We are all born into a fallen world and born with a sin nature, so with this in mind from conception till death Satan and his demon study us and see things in us we do not even realize until it seem like its no way out. Now if we are born with leaning toward certain sins like alcoholism, gluttony, theft or murder just to name a few, what is to say we become targets for these type of sins, Satan constantly tempting and influencing us until we actually start believe we are a certain way and start acting the certain way and feel as if we can't help ourselves believe the lies from the great liars and then we start acting on them thinking we cannot help it completely forget Jesus always give us a way out while Satan is telling us He is the liar. We start drinking to much or eating to much or even stealing or murdering all the while believing the great deceiver.

Apply this to homosexuality and start understand why the believe they are born that way, why not we are told the other sinners are born a certain way. An alcoholic is born that way, a thief, a murderer and so on. How do we approach them? With love and help or rejection and incarceration depending on their sin. Homosexuals are no different in that they need support, not for their sin but for their struggle.

This has been hard for me because I have been so focused on the sins and not the cause. We all struggle with sin and Jesus said Himself that all sins are equally punishable, all are still unclean and make us just as filthy whether we tell a little white lie or murder someone and all require the same antidote, Jesus Christ. Remember God love us all just the way we are, but do we love Him the way He deserves, "If you Love Me keep my commandments". Do you have true love or false love? Read the Bible and accept it for what it says. 

Apostate

We run into them all the time, self-serving, prideful, arrogant, intolerant, bearers of bad fruit, changers of Gods word, misrepresenters of Jesus Christ and all this to seem superior. Many are over educated, and even are ordained but they still sin against God with their sly little changes or reading more into scripture than is actually there based on a few words.

I know there is an appropriate definition but this is my observation of many so-called Christians who abandon the truth of God for the lies of the world. 

Distractions

I don't completely understand how between 2% and 5% of the population can have so much hold over the rest of the country. Now I am not here to bash anyone and I will be up front and say I am a Bible believing Christian.

Now I love and care about those who label themselves as homosexual, but what concerns me is the political pull the have. They seem to have the courts on their side while the public is not. The voters vote one way and the courts rule the opposite. Biblical Christians are forced to remain silent by threats of lawsuit or IRS investigation while the gays sling mud. 2% of the population can silence over 75% of the population.

They demand equal right, which they already have, so they demand special rights which degrades the rights of others.

20 years ago the merely wanted to live and let live without being harassed, they declared it was all they wanted. 10 years ago they wanted civil unions and swore they would never ask for marriage while at the same time wanting to adopt. 5 years ago they started demanding to be able to marry. All the while silencing the Christians to the point of many actually falling away from the faith.

So help me understand how something that God says is sin can dominate what is righteous.

Modern Slavery

Yes I said it, Modern Slavery, it has many faces as in entitlements such as food stamps, welfare, Obama phones, forced insurance, we are all slaves to something some more than others. Now the want to take away our right to free speech making it a hate crime, trying to destroy any form of Christian faith from the inside as well as out, they want to take away our guns, they promote what is bad while destroying what is good. Marshal Law is soon to follow with FEMA camps(internment camps), public executions. The tribulation will not be far behind and none will be prepared for it not even those defined as preppers, but you should still prep.

Anger

Anger, there is self-serving anger, self-pity anger, righteous anger, barbaric anger, call it what you will we all have anger even Jesus had anger, I have anger. The world around us is a cesspool of anger and I know my anger and I must control it or I hurt those I love, or those I respect, or even those who deserve it, but I control my anger and I focus it into more creative ways like art, or writing, or my job there are many ways to focus ones anger and be productive. But there are time when anger needs something else to satisfy it and unfortunately I cannot bring myself to do what I need to do.

I like to fight, show my strength, my power over others yet I am older and more fragile and fighting would have to be quick and that is my dilemma because I know how to be quick with a fight but it mean crippling or even killing others to win and even though I am prepared I have others around me that are not so I cannot afford prison. So I draw pictures, build things from wood, write these blogs, work my job better than most, bow from fights like a coward for the sake of those I love. 

Hate

Hate is a powerful and very inappropriately used word much like anti or tolerant. Anti make you seem extreme much like hate does and if you aren't tolerant then you are anti something or a hate monger. I hate stuff, action, even people, but I can learn to get over my hatred without tolerating. I hate cigarettes and I have difficulty tolerating them because I am allergic. I hate when someone constantly misunderstand me either on purpose or by misunderstanding. Now for people I don't really hate them but what they do yet when I show my distaste of what they do I am called a hater of some sort like I hate cigarettes and I hate when someone smokes around me, it doesn't mean I hate the person but that I am allergic and would prefer to breath without coughing or sneezing uncontrollably. Some people respect that I am allergic while others are so addicted they actually tell me to just deal with it. Needless to say I try to avoid people like that because they have no respect for other or themselves and they don't even realize it.

Now the cigarette analogy is true, I am allergic to them and it doesn't mean I hate anyone just as I hate that people over eat, or are out of shape, or give into temptations like alcohol, sex, drugs, porn and so many things that are addictive. Many give in to temptations and justify them like being born a certain way, or being genetically prone to certain things or number of other reasons yet I am a hater and they are just born that way. Why can't I be born the way I am? Oh wait a minute, I was born and I learned a little, and I have been tempted a lot and given in plenty but my temptation do not define me but I do deal with them.