I Am Not Ashamed of Christ or Anything, in His Word

I will not sit idle and silent while the Word of my Lord and Savior is desecrated or blasphemed by anyone, I care not the who or gender. Many commit this perhaps out of ignorance but that still does not justify or excuse the offenses.

 

2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

 

When the very foundational message that is taught from scripture is belittled by those that seek something that is not theirs or latitude is given by weak men with a cultural influence or a domineering wife, I say repent for you are in sin. For to preach is to expound upon and be the audible voice of God. The Word of God is to be held in reverence and awe, not to be clanged like a noisy gong. As a Herald of the gospel, you are to represent Christ in ever aspect, manner and thinking in your life. This is not confined to inside the walls of a building you call church, for the church is the assembly of believers, the saved ones from past, present and future. Or do you not think those that have departed and went on ahead are not still members of the church, which is the body of Christ.

 

Do you know that many an abandoned building that once was a place of sin is now called a church by an assembly of believers. Many an empty tomb littered throughout the United Kingdom are now museums or mosque that once held the label church.

 

Do you still consider these as Holy ground. Is it not the Roman Catholics that consecrate buildings and objects instead of considering the very Word of God the thing which should be considered sacred above all else.

 

I will not argue with those that disagree but will teach from scripture, about scripture, to point to the truths in scripture. If you don't agree with my findings, please only respond with what scripture says. I could care less about your opinion, or my own for that matter. I only care what scripture truly teaches.

 

I can no longer be concerned whether the truths in the Bible are areas that anyone or any culture are not ready to face or admit. I am not ashamed of Christ or anything in His Word. There have been far too many compromises and velvet mouthed coatings of truth by today's evangelicals already.

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"ONLY JESUS"

 

Jesus lifted up is the only atoning Savior in the universe.  He who alone was at the same time God and man, He alone can make atonement for sin; and He has made it, has made a perfect atonement, and God has accepted His atonement and testified to His acceptance of His atonement by raising Him from the dead.  

 

 The Lord Jesus actually meets our need, He actually meets every man's first, greatest, deepest, most fundamental need, and He alone. In all the universe there is no religion but Christianity that even offers an atoning Savior.  

 

Muhammadanism offers Muhammad, "The Prophet," a teacher, but not a Savior; Buddhism offers Buddha, supposedly at least a wonderful teacher, "The Light of Asia," but not an atoning Savior; Confucianism offers Confucius, a marvelous teacher far ahead of his time, but not an atoning Savior. No religion but Christianity offers an atoning Savior, an atonement of any real character.  

 

This is the radical point of difference between Christianity and every other religion in the world, yet some fool preachers are trying to eliminate from Christianity this supreme fact, its very point of radical difference from all other religions. But such an emasculated Christianity will not reach the needs of men and will not draw men. It never has and it never will. 

 

The Bible and history are at one on this. Jesus Christ offers Himself lifted up on the cross to redeem us from the curse of the law by "becoming a curse for us." "Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree'" (Galatians 3:13).  Men know their need; they may  try to forget it, they may try to deny it; they may try to drown their sense of it by drink and indulgence or by wild pleasure-seeking or wild money-getting, or by listening to fake preachers in supposedly orthodox pulpits, like one who in this city declared recently that "the old sense of sin is fast disappearing," and added, "The change is for the better, not for the worse." He spoke also of "imaginary and artificial sins like 'the sin of unbelief,'" and then went on to say, "In this we agree with Christ," apparently not knowing enough about the Bible to know that Jesus Himself was the very one who said in John 16:8-9, "When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me."  But in spite of all our attempts to drown or stupefy or silence our sense of sin, our consciousness of guilt before a Holy God, we all have it, and, it will not disappear.  Nothing gives the guilty conscience abiding peace but the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.  And so Christ lifted up draws all men to Him, and even wicked ministers of Satan, like the preacher I have just referred to, sometimes come to their senses and flee to the real Christ, Christ crucified, as I hope this one may. 

 

Yes, Jesus, Jesus only, Jesus lifted up on the cross, Jesus crucified for our sins, making full atonement for our sins, He and He alone meets the deepest need of us all, and so His cross draws us all men to Himself.  Happy the man or the woman who yields to that drawing. Woe be to the man or woman who resists that drawing; final gloom, despondency, and despair are their lot. Oh, how many men and women who have gotten their eyes opened to see the facts, to see their awful guilt, and who have been plunged into deepest consequent despair, have come to me, and I have pointed them to Jesus on the cross, and have shown them by God's Word all their sins laid upon Him and thus settled, and they have come to Him, and believed God's testimony about Him, that He had borne all their sins in His own body on the cross, and they have found perfect peace and boundless joy.  And that is the only way to find perfect peace and boundless joy.

 

From The Best of R.A. Torrey 

 

Keep in mind R.A. Torrey wrote this in the early 1900's. Does this not sound like what we see being perpetrated today? Within the walls of buildings that are no more a True Church than a pig stall, are filth and slop being spilled upon the eyes and ears of the deceived.

 

 I encourage you, please open the Bible and read the Word of God for yourself.

Empathy and Newtown Shooting

What is truly an expression of a lack of empathy is the actions of some of the media. I have watched some of the coverage on news channels and have seen some of the pictures that reporters posted. One would think that at a time of such a tragedy, there would be a little more compassion and sympathy on the part of media covering the events.
It sickens me to see a microphone shoved in the face of a crying man while cradling his children. It sickens me to see a woman trying to get her children away from the scene and a reporter, who seems to be in pursuit, trying to get a statement from her. It sickens me to see these children who just underwent such a traumatic experience, having photos snapped of them while being lead out of the school.
These same children while being photographed were at times screaming, crying and in a state of hysteria. How many of these children, after this, have had to deal with a plethora of reporters trying to interview them.  
All this epitomizes the truth of man cares not but for his own self interest. If it will benefit them or further their cause, everything is open game. For proof click here:Swarming Vultures

Some of these media outlets are quick to blame everything and everyone for this abominable act. Everyone and everything but the one that is truly at blame.
Man himself.
One reporter stated, "The devil came to Newtown." No he didn't. He's been there all along, just like everywhere else on Earth.

There is but one solution, there is but one thing that will change these types of things from happening. The One True Whole, Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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