Posted on 02/20/2024 6:20:07 PM PST by ducttape45
Let that one thought alone sink in. If true, then America is surely doomed.
Thoughts?
What we need are fire and brimstone revivals. Of course, Billy Graham style crusades would work very well too.
There used to be liberaltarian FReepers who would argue that “You can’t legislate morality.”
Thankfully they’ve all gone away.
America has had 4 Great Awakenings. Historical events not promulgated by government that made a huge tremendous and positive impact on America.
We are way overdue for another one. Trouble is - The State has legislated immorality to such an extent that positive social, moral and economic change is impossible.
If our rights come from God, only He can revoke them. If they come from man, man can revoke at anytime.
John Adams said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
The inverse is also correct. Immorality is a necessity for the silencing and subjugation of others, the perversion of the many, and for the fiscal mess in which this nation finds itself.
We are speeding toward a secular, pagan society devoid of values that contribute to virtue and civility.
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We are ALREADY THERE!!! Wake up and smell the judgment!
Executing people publicly who do things like steal Presidential elections would scare some
Probably fairly accurate. Still way better than europe and then everywhere else in the world.
As is written....... wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are MANY who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are FEW who find it.
God said it would be so....and we’re watching it happen just as He sai d- increasingly so.
Interesting watching things develope in Europe with China - and how much they’re alighning on many venues. Even the British Royal William stuck his foot in political affairs of other countries. ‘Lots’ of shifting going round on the World Stage.
Mewhile we’ve got Chinese coming across the border, in the first months of 2023, they had about 33,000 come across the border... military-aged men showing up with military haircuts, clearly in shape, showing up with six packs, and military boots is not an insignificant number... We don’t know where they are going. We’re not following them. We’re not tracking them.
Futher it’s been said the Chinese government or Chinese nationals buying farmland, and it’s all around U.S. military installations. It’s really concerning when you look at what’s happening around those military installations, they have land around. Like stealth bomber training and drone training it’s beyond concerning.
yes, we are founded a Christian nation. a peculiar people and system of gov’t that is designed to restrain the power of gov’t and replace it with the perfect law of Christian liberty (James 1:25). remove the liberty of Christ’s redemption from the compulsion of sin, and of course fallen humanity will immediately return to depravity and run amok, being unable to restrain itself. untold suffering for all must be the result until some sort of order is restored: the devil and tyranny crouches always at the door.
since liberty is the state where men are restrained from injuring or exercising arbitrary and unnecessary control over other men, the Founders knew that this system of radically limited gov’t would fail without the partner of a self-governing man partaking in Christ’s mind and heart, in voluntary and joyful submission to Christ’s Will—living a Christ centered life in service and honor to all his or her fellows: that is the true religion. this is the character of a true Christian man and woman.
Obeying God’s laws is for our own good.
Worshipping false idols is the worst of our sins, in the eyes of God.
I can’t help but think of Taylor Swift and her “Swifties.”
I look at how much people (mostly young women) pay to see and worship this false idol and just shake my head.
The biggest stadium event I ever attended was led by the late Billy Graham, there to speak about what is REALLY important. It did not require my buying a ticket and it was NOT all about him. Billy Graham was there to talk about the Risen Son of God...our Savior...the only path to our Salvation.
Thoughts?
While I wholeheartedly agree with most of this article, I believe the bold statement above is a little misguided. The world is full of believers, Christian or God believers, and they reap the same benefits described in the article.
My point is you don't need to be an evangelist to be a Christian or a believer.
Heck. The Jews are a perfect example. They were God's chosen people, and while a few believed in Jesus as the Messiah, most of them did not and do not. I'm not sure anyone can argue that they have not been a cohesive group for over 2500 years through many, many ups and downs over that time. That's not to say that have not stumbled along the way. But when they did, God seemed to get their attention and bring them back into the fold.
Having said that, we are clearly abandoning the things that made us great, which is a belief in a God up above and for many, his son Jesus Christ.
We are and will pay a big price -- and probably sooner rather than later, with more to come.
Heed these words....
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.
In a sense, they are correct, however, that by no means justifies or rationalizes abolishing the rule of law. Moral character comes from within. Behavior may be able to be compelled by harsh enough enforcement, but it will not change the person morally.
God established Israel on the rule of law, too. THE Law. His. And it was a just and fair system.
I've been reading through Leviticus and am impressed with the detail God goes into to protect the rights of the innocent and deal with the guilty, and for rules meant to ensure a safe and just society.
Which is something we really don't need to worry about.
Romans 5:6-10 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God. For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
If Jesus was willing to do this for us when we were at our worst, then He will NOT love us any less when we become followers of Him.
His love for us is not based on our behavior but on the fact that we are His workmanship. He created us for the purpose of having fellowship with Him and He wants it.
After going to such great lengths to save us and draw us to Himself, He's not going to abandon us when we mess up.
Psalm 103:10-14 He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. As a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.
Take heart. He will NOT abandon you. Nor do I believe He will let us abandon him so easily either.
Morality means putting the well being of others on par with yourself.
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