A law allowing abortionists to kill a baby up to 28 days AFTER birth has just taken effect in California and other States are considering similar bills. Abortion was just a smoke screen to open the door to eliminate unwanted people, including severely injured, terminally sick, the elderly, and the mentally ill. All we have to do is watch what is taking place in Canada, Britain, and elsewhere in Europe. We have watched as they have legalized infanticide, mercy killing of those terminally ill or severely injured (their consent is not required), and assisted suicide, or are in the process of doing so. Margaret Sanger started what has become Planned Parenthood to limit the spread of Blacks and the poor and cashed in on government funds available for women’s health care to make it financially profitable. Planned Parenthood expanded to include abortion once it became legal to back up contraceptives which are terribly unreliable and to cash in on additional government funds which liberal politicians made available for it. A lot of the government funds they receive goes to elect politicians that will protect their cash cow and vote them additional funds. They then expanded into selling body parts gleaned from abortions to add to their income. Now, Planned Parenthood is expanding services in their college-based clinics to include gender transforming drugs and surgery and pushing for government funds. It seems that Planned Parenthood is getting increasingly greedy at our expense. While the media continues to play up every attack on an abortion clinic (which occur only occasionally), they totally ignore attacks on pro-life centers which are occurring almost daily. It is estimated that pro-life centers are attacked 22 times as often as abortion clinics. That doesn’t include churches that are attacked for their pro-life stand.
Eleventh Sunday of Kingdomtide-Nov 20
Freedom and Domination-The prophets were very clear about responsibility. The saying had been, “The fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children’s teeth are set on edge”, implying that the children suffered due to the sins of their parents. While all mankind suffers because of the sins of Adam and Eve, it is because we choose to follow their example and choose our way over God’s way. God gave the law to direct our behavior towards what God had intended but our desire is to obey the letter of the law while getting around it to get our way if possible. Since our heart seeks to disobey, even when we outwardly obey, our heart isn’t in it and we are rebelling against God’s law, and the penalty for sin is death. The people later demanded a king like the other nations but God warned them that the king would tax them and conscript their sons and daughters for his benefit and would lead them away from God. In fact, that is what the kings did. The prophets reminded the people that “the soul that sins will die”. Each man is responsible for his own behavior. Men want to have someone else in charge to make decisions and take the heat for bad decisions. When we appoint leaders over us, we are authorizing them to make decisions on our behalf. We then become responsible for their decisions. If they don’t do what we want, we should remove them if we can. If we can remove them and do not, we are consenting to their decisions. When leaders take power by force and try to force us to do something that violates God’s will, we must decide whether we will obey them or obey God. We cannot claim we violated God’s law because man told us to, because no man has the authority to override God’s commands. Ultimately, God will hold us accountable for our behavior and will hold them accountable for theirs.
Schools-education-I-W
A large number of young people voted in this recent election and the majority voted for liberal politicians. They thought they were voting to protect democracy but were deceived. The only education they get is in schools where they read socialist friendly textbooks and from the media and social media that are heavily controlled by liberals. Most young people have no understanding of the issues involved because they have been fed a continual stream of liberal propaganda. They think the socialism being pushed by liberals is democracy and socialists like Joe Biden continually talk about how they are protecting democracy, while seeking to undermine it. In the early 1970’s, during the Vietnam War, many hippies were upset by the materialism of their parents and were escaping to communes where they lived a carefree life with no laws or responsibilities. The socialists flooded the college campuses with stories about how the United States had invaded Vietnam and was trying to enslave them. The kids had no idea that China had invaded Vietnam and the United States was trying to help Vietnam protect itself. The kids equated Communism (which was really socialism) with their life in the communes. As a result, the young people protested the war and eventually forced the United States to withdraw from the war allowing Vietnam to fall to the Chinese Socialists. Many of the socialists active then like Bill Clinton and John Kerry are still active in government and are now seeking to create a socialist government in the United States. The church must step up and educate the kids in the facts of the issues. That is why I have written the series on the value of life, the value of law, and the value of marriage and gender. (see promos and links to the courses on our blog under Study courses)
Voting-I-AP
It sounded like the liberal politicians were preparing people for foul play. They told people that the races where Republicans are ahead would be just red mirages since Democrats tend to vote later and through the mail. That sounds like they were planning a replay of the Georgia election in 2020. They will wait for most of the ballots to be counted and when they know how much they are going to lose by, a large number of mail-in ballots will show up with no envelope so there is no postmark and no signature to compare against the signature on the ballots so they can’t be verified as legitimate. Under mail-in rules, either lack of signature on the envelope or lack of postmark would disqualify them but the ones in charge of the counting chose to count them anyway and so a win for Trump became a win for Biden and it changed the election. While there may not have been any tampering with the vote, mail-in voting leaves a lot of room for tampering, which raises the possibility that there might have been. A lot of Republicans were ahead in the beginning of this election but as the night wore on, the tallies turned more for Democrats so the Democrats won the Senate though they lost the House. Mail-in ballots do not allow for ID or face verification like a walk-in ballot does. While a signature on the envelope and a postmark show it was mailed and the ballot was filled out by the one that mailed in the ballot, it does not guarantee that the person mailing it is the one registered to vote. In addition, the ballot passes through many hands and any one of them could remove the ballots and replace them with a pre-made-up ballot. Without an envelope, there isn’t even any guarantee that it even came through the mail. It is very convenient to sit at home and drop your ballot in the mail but it is too easy for someone to tamper with the ballot enroute to the polling place.
Marriage-III-F
Liberals are determined to use the lame duck session to pass every disreputable law that they can. They passed the “Respect For Marriage Act” in the House and it is to come up in the Senate tomorrow (11/16/2022). Voters supposedly voted many of these representatives back into office for the next session. That is hard to imagine since liberals have been very open about their intent to pass this law. The law would equate belief in traditional marriage with racism and subject parents and those who believe in traditional marriage to prosecution in order to intimidate them into silence. It would further subject adoption agencies, women’s shelters, and other non-profits to lawsuits if they don’t bow to the LGBT agenda, even if compliance with the law would threaten the safety of those they serve. It would also open those agencies up to private lawsuits designed to harass them. These lawsuits would drain the agency’s funds needed to carry out their work and deprive the people they serve of much needed services. It would also require the federal government to recognize any same-sex marriage that was legal where it was entered into. That would overturn the Defense of Marriage Act of 1996 which bars the federal government from recognizing same sex marriages and would overrule the State’s right to set their marriage requirements. It would impose federal control of marriage. That would violate the Constitution which does not give the federal government that authority and states that any authority not granted to the federal government by the Constitution falls under State control.
Tenth Sunday of Kingdomtide-Nov 13-B
Church and State-B Jesus illustrated the real separation of church and State when asked about the taxes. He stated that we should render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s and unto God, that which is God’s. Since God created everything, everything is under His domain, including the government. However, God has established governments to keep the peace and maintain order and taxes and laws are necessary to carry out their responsibility. Since God created life for a purpose, only He has the right to determine when it ends and since God laid down the ground rules in the Ten Commandments, man does not have the right to change them or set them aside. The government is established to enforce them, but does not have the right to abolish them or change them. The Constitution recognizes that we have certain God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and established procedures to protect them through the safeguards it established. The liberal politicians do not recognize God, so they do not recognize anything as being under God’s domain. They believe that their right to pursue happiness takes precedence over other people’s right to life and liberty, and feel they can change the law or set it aside when they wish, in order to pursue their right to happiness. Clearly there is a conflict of world views. Everyone must choose who he will follow, God or man. God has set before us life and death. Following God will result in life and following man will result in death, because disobeying God is sin and the wages of sin is death. Eve chose the fruit of disobedience over the fruit of following God and many people today still choose the way of death. Many today do not know they have a choice and choose death by default. The church needs to teach them the way of life.
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Tenth Sunday of Kingdomtide-Nov 13-A
Church and State-A Liberal politicians cry out when Christians call for protecting life, saying that the Constitution requires a separation of church and State. It does but not like they say. The Constitution prohibits the government from passing laws restricting the free exercise of religion. It does not prohibit the church from voicing its opinion on religious matters. Speaking one’s views on the value of life falls under the Constitution’s protection of free speech. You do not lose the protection of the Constitution simply because you are a Christian. Without God, man seeks only his own best interest. He can say that he wants what is best for everyone, but when it comes to doing it, he puts his interest before everyone else’s. That creates conflict as every man seeks his own interest. If four people have one pie, they cannot all have all of it. God calls us to seek what is best for everyone. True Christians and Jews recognize that and put God’s law before man’s law when the two conflict. Dictators fear true Christians and Jews because the dictator cannot force them to disobey God. There are many that believe they are Christians and Jews and may even attend church or synagogue, but when forced to choose, they choose to obey man and not God. Many who attended Christian churches supported Hitler when he came to power or at least stood by and did nothing when he exterminated the Jews, those who were crippled, and the mentally deficient, because they knew what Hitler would do to them if they opposed him. They put their own interest ahead of God’s law and preferred to play it safe. Many Christians did choose to obey God and spoke out against Hitler, and Hitler put many of them in prison or killed them. Dictators may severely punish those who stand up for God, but God’s people know that the rewards in the end are well worth it. The church today faces a similar choice. It can remain silent as it did in Germany, or it can choose to stand up for God.
Politics-AB-R
It really upsets me to see the liberal media promoting their agenda and realize that a lot of people actually believe them. I saw an article talking about how we can be assured that democracy will prevail this election because a larger than normal percentage of the young people are turning out and they tend to vote for Democrats because they believe in truth, the rule of law, and the freedoms granted us by the Constitution. I had to read it several times to be sure the writer actually said what it appeared to say. I believe him when he says that a larger than normal percentage of young people are going to vote and that they tend to vote for Democrats. What I cannot believe is that he wrote that they vote for Democrats because they believe in truth, the rule of law, and the freedoms granted us by the Constitution. First, liberal Democrats who now control the Democratic Party and most of the media believe that there is no inherent truth, truth is what benefits them and the media is an open demonstration of their lack of respect for truth. Second, they took the Bible, the Ten Commandments, and the Constitution out of our schools, openly pass laws that violate the Constitution, have judges that violate Supreme Court decisions in making lower court decisions, and call for defunding the police, which is why many young people have no respect for the rule of law. Third, they openly trample on the Constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in promoting their agenda. If young people really believed in truth, the rule of law, and the freedoms granted us by the Constitution, they wouldn’t vote for Democrats.
Politics-AB-Q
President Biden has directed the federal bureaucracy to enable government employees to get around the State laws in States banning abortions by assisting them to travel to States that allow abortions. He is also pressuring State Medicaid providers to cover out of State abortions. That is a open affront to the States. Medicaid is a State funded medical plan for welfare recipients in the State. Since it is State-funded, it is for the residents of that State. By pressuring them to cover abortions for non-residents, it is violating the laws governing the program. State residents should not have to pay for elective medical procedures for people from out of State and the federal government should not be telling the States how to run their programs. His intent is to enable residents of States that do not allow abortions to travel to States that allow abortions and still get their abortions paid for, so Planned Parenthood doesn’t lose money. If Planned Parenthood loses money, they will have less money to contribute to political campaigns for liberal politicians.