Ezekial 33:1-9 states that if a watchman sees the enemy coming and sounds the alarm, but the people do not heed it, they shall die in their sin and their blood shall be on their heads because they did not heed the warning. However, if the watchman sees the enemy coming but does not sound the alarm, then the people will die in their sin, but God will require their blood at the watchman’s hand. There are those today who seek to call evil good and call good evil. They seek to proclaim their evil openly and threaten and seek to silence those who try to expose them. If the pastors who are called to warn their people of danger are silent, their people will perish but God will require their blood at the pastor’s hand. This is a time when the watchmen cannot afford to be silent. Too much is at stake. There is soon coming a time in America when pastors may risk their lives proclaiming the truth, unless the they speak out while they still can. Some say that it will never happen here, but that is what they thought in Russia, China, Germany, and Cuba. That is the normal today in many places like Africa, India, and Pakistan, as well as Egypt, Iran, and Afghanistan. However, pastors can not do it alone. Every Christian who knows the truth must speak up as well. Not just when they vote, but in their everyday conversations.
Rosh Hosanna Sept-25-27, 2022 Study Course Video
Rosh Hosanna signals the beginning of the celebration of the Fall harvest which is the final harvest of the year. After the first day when good people are rewarded. The rest have ten days to repent. This parallels Revelation where the trumpet sounds, Jesus returns and collects His chosen people, and then begins the tribulation where the rest will have one final chance to repent before the close of the final harvest of the elect. This celebration has not been fulfilled but whenever it is, it will probably occur on Rosh Hosanna. Never-the-less, we need to be ready every day because we never know when we will pass out of this world into the next and seal our fate for eternity. (For more on the holidays, see “Before Your Eyes” in “Understanding the Path We Walk”) and Udemy course Celebrations- Promo https://youtu.be/KuLA6uQTqhg
Course URL https://www.udemy.com/course/christian-celebrations/?referralCode=D706C0B4E96819B18699
Fourth Sunday of Kingdomtide-Sept 25
God’s Values vs Man’s values
Man looks at things from his own perspective, while God sees the whole picture. Man’s values are those that appear to benefit him and fail to realize the fact that what benefits others will ultimately benefit him. Without God, we are centered on getting things for us. If there are four people and one pie, man sees the benefit of getting the whole pie, but everyone can’t have the whole pie. There will be a struggle and only the strongest will get the pie. They all will only benefit if they divide the pie. God laid down His values in the Ten Commandments and throughout the Bible, to provide for the benefit of everyone, but they seem foolish to man. Why should we give in order to receive when all we have to do is take it. If we give, the other person may not give back, but if we take it, someone else will want to take it from us. We will only find peace and happiness as we understand the love of God and see things from His perspective. In the weeks ahead, I will be examining the various values and how God and man see them differently.
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President Biden is pushing a massive student loan forgiveness program to buy student votes. It is only one more of his massive spending programs which are fueling inflation due to the massive influx of money flooding the economy. It is estimated to cost almost one trillion dollars. Such a massive expenditure is unfair to all those of us who paid for our educations. It took me ten years to pay off my student loans from college and ten years to pay off my loans from graduate school, but I did it because I felt that it was worth the cost. My wife went back and finished her college. and we paid off her loans as well. That has been the normal for those who chose to go to college in the past. It is also unfair to students and their parents who saved up for their education, and those young people who went into the Armed Services to cover the cost of their college. This doesn’t benefit those who need it most because many of those that needed it did not go to college because they could not afford it and didn’t want to get saddled with massive debts. It benefits those in the middle and upper class who could afford to go to college. In addition, college isn’t for everyone. Many choose jobs that don’t require college. Paying college debts is bad policy because it will lead many to go to college that don’t need it in anticipation of the government covering the cost. In addition, many won’t take their education seriously because they won’t have to sacrifice for it. I saw that while teaching in college. The students that got welfare payments to attend college often were more interested in getting credit for the course than in learning. They complained because half of their grade was based on their attendance, so they had to show up to get a good grade. In addition, government money pushes up the cost of college. It is simple supply and demand. Schools take advantage of the government funds. If colleges charge $1000 a semester and the government offers $1000 a semester, the schools will raise their rates to $2000 to get the government money. We saw that with Obamacare. In addition, the President does not have the authority to order the use of tax dollars to pay private debts because spending bills have to be passed by Congress.
9/11 remembered
There were very few references to 9/11 this year. Each year there are less. Many do not realize that Sept 11, 2001 was on Rosh Hosanna. It is a Jewish holiday celebrating God’s restoration of the earth. God will not allow the evil around us to continue forever. He is very patient, waiting as long as possible so that all who come to Him can be saved, but one day His patience will end and He will return to restore the earth to the former glory it had when He created it. Rosh Hosanna begins with the blowing of the trumpet warning of God’s judgement. The trumpets blew that morning as the Jews read the Scripture 2 Chronicles 7:14. (which reads, “If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” No one realized that terrorists were boarding planes to take out the twin towers and the Pentagon, but God knew and used it to issue a warning. While the terrorists were boarding the plane, trumpets were blowing all up and down the east coast. While there was a great outpouring of faith after 9/11, it was temporarily and since then, it has decreased and many have forgotten. One day Christ is coming back and if we aren’t ready, it will be too late. However, 3000 people woke up that morning expecting a day like any other day, but they died that day and their fate was sealed forever. Some will go to heaven and some will go to Hell. If Jesus comes or you die today, your fate will be sealed, you won’t get a second chance. Will you go to heaven or Hell? If God’s people obey the Scripture and turn back to God, He can still heal this land. The Jews had that choice when Christ came before. They rejected Him and faced over 1900 years of exile. What will America decide?
Gay Rights
Liberals are continuing to push their agenda in spite of overwhelming opposition to it. They are burying a provision to legalize same sex marriage in a spending bill to sneak it in without anyone noticing it. Spending bills are large bills and it is easy to hide things in it you don’t want people to notice and when the spending is needed, conservatives are afraid to vote against them because they have popular support. Contact your Congressman and ask them to support an amendment to remove it from the bill. It has no place in a spending bill. Since insurance companies, Social Security, and others allow special privileges for spouses. Revising the marriage code to include gays would add a lot of people in those privileges. Social Security is already stretched to the max and adding large numbers of “spouses” who could then receive Social Security benefits, even though many of them would not be paying into the system, would further drain the fund. The same thing would occur with insurance companies who would have to include large numbers of recipients who are high risk because of homosexual behavior. In addition, homosexual relationships are far more unstable than heterosexual ones. Most heterosexual individuals have one or two partners at most in their lifetime but homosexual individuals often have numerous partners over their lifetime. All of those partners could potentially be eligible for Social Security or insurance survivors benefits, drawing on payments made by one individual.
Third Sunday of Kingdomtide-Sept 18
organized teaching-In addition to a firm foundation, members need organized teaching. Often, the preaching and the adult Sunday Schools of many churches are very haphazard with no master plan. Sermons are often chosen week by week or from a series that hits the pastor’s fancy. Adult Sunday School classes are often chosen for each quarter at random. Without a basic foundation of knowledge and without organized instruction, bits and pieces of knowledge are tossed together in a heap. Many adult church members know many things about the faith but have no way to pull it together and do not understand how it applies to their life. The church needs to draw up a blueprint of what its members need to know and teach them in an organized manner. Using the Christian calendar gives structure to teaching and helps the church provide organized teaching. By going through the Christian calendar, it goes through all the major teachings of the church each year. I have a series of courses on Udemy to teach Christian beliefs. It begins with a course on Basic Christian beliefs. Next is a course on the Celebrations and how they help members understand the faith. Next I have courses on the values laid down in the Ten Commandments., including the value of life, the value of the rule of law, and the value of the family. See promos and links under “study courses”
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The liberal left is up to their old tactic of lies and misinformation to discredit conservatives. There is a case before the Supreme Court that is not being discussed for an important reason. Liberals want to make a move and are afraid of conservative opposition. A resident of a county run nursing home wasn’t getting the care he deserved so the family sued the nursing home to get him the care. The question is whether they have a right to sue. Federal law allows lawsuits when individual rights are being violated so under the law, the family has a right to sue. The nursing home is contesting it saying the family should not be allowed to sue. The media is saying that since conservatives are opposed to individual rights, as seen in striking down Roe vs Wade, the conservative court could abolish your right to sue the government when your rights are violated. That sounds logical but is all a total lie. Conservatives are fighting for individual rights. They are fighting for the right of the baby to live against those who seek to violate that right. The mother has no right to kill the baby just because she doesn’t want it. There is no such right in either the Bible or the Constitution. Liberals want to do away with the right to life for unborn babies, the elderly, the sick, the critically ill, and those with mental disturbances because they are (In liberal terms) “a burden on society”. Obamacare spelled it out in clear terms. A government panel would be established to determine if care was economically worthwhile. If care was determined to be not economically worthwhile, the care would be denied, and the patient would left to suffer until death released them. To avoid undo economic hardship caused by a lingering death, they are pushing for laws to allow them to terminate the patient. The decision would be final and could not be overruled by the patient or their guardian. We are seeing this play out in Canada and Britain, as well as other European countries who are under liberal governments. We are starting to see this in the United States from a President and Congress who don’t care what the American people want, they are determined to force their will on the people through executive order or legislation. It is liberals who feel that they should decide and the individual has no right to decide for themselves so they will side with the nursing home in striking down the families right to sue. Liberals pose the real threat to individual liberties, not conservatives.
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Gays however, realize the importance of marriage and are fighting hard in just about every State to legalize marriage among Gays. Gays are intent on getting the right to marry because that will show that society recognizes the union of two men or two women and therefore it is a legitimate lifestyle. Marriage also has benefits. When society recognizes two people as married, it bestows on them certain benefits. It protects the woman’s rights to Social Security and the right to the couple’s possessions to the survivor in the event one of them dies. Without a legal marriage, the woman has no right to any possessions they hold in common unless he wills them to her which requires probate of his estate and can be very expensive. It also protects her rights if he decides to leave her by granting her child support to help her care for any minor children she has. Unmarried people have no such protection. Gays want those benefits.