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Friday, December 31, 2004
Tuesday, December 28, 2004
Warning!
The great Tsunami that hit Asia must have been an awesome sight! Logesh Monoharan my sposored child lives right outside of Coimbatore which is really far south in India. I have heard that they got hit pretty hard with the deaths. The death toll has reached 50,000 today and is expected to keep rising by the tens of thousands. If Logesh is still alive it is only by the mercy of God!
Something that I have noticed over the past few years is this: that people in general refuse to believe that anything is a sign of the 'end of the world'. They refuse to believe that the prophecies in the book of Revelation may actualy be coming to fruition in our lifetime. The Bible speaks of "wars and rumors of wars" "violence will increase" and "natural disasters will increase". With the Tsunami taking the lives of so many people with little warning and tens of thousands of men and women getting slaughtered daily in what we justify as a war, what's next? So many Christians want things to change as far as fighting, wars etc. But they still think that we should go to war! It seems that they will justify war with what the warriors did in the Old Testament and how they prayed for victory over thousands of soliders.. AND got their answer to prayer! Jesus Christ was born and changed all that! He gave us a simple list of "COMMANDMENTS" not suggestions.. commandments.. and they are written very very simple so that even the most un-educated could understand them.. and they do.. It is the elite well educated, with their own agendas that twist it to allow them to do the things Jesus said "NO" to. For instance.... very simple.. "Do Not Kill" ... how much more simple could he have said it? When Jesus gave that command he didn't give any loopholes and their is none now. If you kill for any reason... you blatently disobey the Word of God! But people will ask,, What if it is in self defense.. we have a right to protect ourselves.. right? we have the right to decide our own fate too.. Jesus also said the following.. "Love your neighbor" "pray for those who persecute you" "If anyone 'takes' your hat,, give your coat also" "If someone strikes on one cheek,, turn the other.." So after hearing what Jesus had to say to us.. where do we find the right to kill someone else? There is none.. God's Word says "do not kill" anyone who does will face judgement.. simple as that!!
It seems so easy to be a Christian if we are able to only follow the parts of the Bible that we want to and to just make the other part say what we want it to say.. or to do our best to find a loophole in the Word so that we can do our own thing and still feel like we are in the center of God's will. But the horrible fact is that we are only fooling ourselves and that we will be sorry on the day of judgment where the God who made the universe will judge our lives on earth against the Holy Word that He wrote himself!
People seem to try to push to the back of their minds.. the things that are happening in the world so they do not have to face the fact that the end is coming and it is probably closer than any of us think it is! The thing is, we go on with our daily lives and because are getting steadily worse but at a relatively slow pace.. it is constantly normal to us to have these things happen all around us.
Something that I have noticed over the past few years is this: that people in general refuse to believe that anything is a sign of the 'end of the world'. They refuse to believe that the prophecies in the book of Revelation may actualy be coming to fruition in our lifetime. The Bible speaks of "wars and rumors of wars" "violence will increase" and "natural disasters will increase". With the Tsunami taking the lives of so many people with little warning and tens of thousands of men and women getting slaughtered daily in what we justify as a war, what's next? So many Christians want things to change as far as fighting, wars etc. But they still think that we should go to war! It seems that they will justify war with what the warriors did in the Old Testament and how they prayed for victory over thousands of soliders.. AND got their answer to prayer! Jesus Christ was born and changed all that! He gave us a simple list of "COMMANDMENTS" not suggestions.. commandments.. and they are written very very simple so that even the most un-educated could understand them.. and they do.. It is the elite well educated, with their own agendas that twist it to allow them to do the things Jesus said "NO" to. For instance.... very simple.. "Do Not Kill" ... how much more simple could he have said it? When Jesus gave that command he didn't give any loopholes and their is none now. If you kill for any reason... you blatently disobey the Word of God! But people will ask,, What if it is in self defense.. we have a right to protect ourselves.. right? we have the right to decide our own fate too.. Jesus also said the following.. "Love your neighbor" "pray for those who persecute you" "If anyone 'takes' your hat,, give your coat also" "If someone strikes on one cheek,, turn the other.." So after hearing what Jesus had to say to us.. where do we find the right to kill someone else? There is none.. God's Word says "do not kill" anyone who does will face judgement.. simple as that!!
It seems so easy to be a Christian if we are able to only follow the parts of the Bible that we want to and to just make the other part say what we want it to say.. or to do our best to find a loophole in the Word so that we can do our own thing and still feel like we are in the center of God's will. But the horrible fact is that we are only fooling ourselves and that we will be sorry on the day of judgment where the God who made the universe will judge our lives on earth against the Holy Word that He wrote himself!
People seem to try to push to the back of their minds.. the things that are happening in the world so they do not have to face the fact that the end is coming and it is probably closer than any of us think it is! The thing is, we go on with our daily lives and because are getting steadily worse but at a relatively slow pace.. it is constantly normal to us to have these things happen all around us.
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