Hello, John and Doves,
People know in their hearts
that judgment is coming.
Unfortunately for some huge
number, their response is not to
confess, repent, ask forgiveness, and live by faith.
Rather, their response is to
paint themselves as being holy, while at the same time
remaining ignorant about the true nature of their
predicament before the living and true God.
As a result, many people will
claim righteousness, knowing that God hates sin.
However, only those who bow the knee of their heart
before God ever gain eternal life.
Some scriptures:
"For
since the creation of the world God's invisible
qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have
been clearly seen, being understood from what has been
made, so that men are without excuse."
"1But
mark this: There will be terrible times in the last
days. 2People
will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money,
boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their
parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3without
love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control,
brutal, not lovers of the good, 4treacherous,
rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers
of God— 5having a form of godliness but
denying its power. Have nothing to do with
them."
"For the time will come when men will not put up with
sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires,
they will gather around them a great number of
teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear."
"1As
for you, you were dead in your transgressions and
sins, 2in
which you used to live when you followed the ways of
this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air,
the spirit who is now at work in those who are
disobedient. 3All
of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying
the cravings of our sinful nature
and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest,
we were by nature objects of wrath. 4But
because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy,
5made
us alive with Christ even when we were dead in
transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6And
God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in
the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in
order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his
grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ
Jesus. 8For
it is by grace you have been
saved, through faith—and this not from
yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can
boast. 10For
we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to
do good works, which God prepared in advance for us
to do."
Baruch HaShem Adonai Roi,
Mike C.
Mary Anna
(2 May 2012)
"Does the Bible
still matter in 2012?"
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/04/29/does-bible-still-matter-in-2012/
After all the very visible fighting about public displays
of religious symbols‹ from 10 Commandments plaques to
graveyard crosses to faith-themed war memorials to holiday
manger displays‹you might have developed the impression
that most Americans don't think the Bible matters today
and they like it that way.
You'd be wrong.
There is a lot of speculation about both the current role
and the appropriate role of the Bible in America. But each
year, American Bible Society puts the guessing aside and
asks a sampling of Americans to tell us how they view and
use the Bible and what they believe its role should be in
America. Recently, American Bible Society released
this year's results from that research in the 2012 State
of the Bible report.
The State of the Bible in America in 2012 can be summed up
in a two words: encouraging and unsettling.
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