๐จ BREAKING: Victor Davis Hanson Drops a Fiery Truth Bomb! ๐ฅ
โWe didnโt storm the beaches of Normandyโฆ didnโt bleed and die in the trenches of World War Iโฆ didnโt sacrifice everything in World War IIโฆ JUST TO BE LECTURED BY NEWCOMERS on why America is โracistโ and โflawedโ!โ
Do you think Hamilton and Jefferson fought and died for YOU?
250 years of American bloodโfrom Gettysburg to Belleau Wood to Iwo Jimaโonly for first- and second-generation arrivals to march in and declare:
โYour Constitution is garbage. The Founders were racists. When we take power, weโre tearing it all down.โ
ENOUGH.
This is OUR country. We built it. We defended it with our lives.
If you come here, assimilateโor go home.
What do YOU think, America? Drop your thoughts below! ๐
@VDHanson #AmericaFirst #NoMoreLectures #DefendTheFounders
This is an excellent documentary on the life and ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon: Through the Eyes of Spurgeon - Official Documentary https://t.co/ezoAiujlCB via @YouTube
America is the ancestral homeland of American patriots, explorers, and pioneers who bled and died to build the greatest civilization ever known to man.
We are done apologizing for our country.
What did 9/11 reveal about Islam and did the West learn the wrong lesson?
In todayโs episode, I share a keynote address examining the Cross, the Quran, and a conflict of ideas that began long before September 11, 2001 that continues to shape the West today.
So sad to see @GuyattGH flush his career down the toilet by endorsing the quackery of Dr. McNamara. Watch @Miriam_Grossman destroy her testimony in under 5 minutes.
In a recent forum, popular neuroscientist and health guru, Andrew Huberman, revealed his secret for falling asleep in those anxious mid-morning hours when he says you shouldn't believe any thought that fills your mind. He said, "I'm being completely direct with you when I say it's worked every single time."
Huberman: "What I do is I get out of bed, and I pray. And these days, you know, again, I'm just being completely direct with my practice, I just pray to God. I pray, I just ask Jesus, 'Would you please hold me and bring me some peace so I can rest, so I can be my best self tomorrow, so I can serve the world better. And I'm hurting right now, and I can't seem to do it for myself.'
He also referenced techniques for calming the body in this discussion, but he emphasized the relief he has found through prayer:
"It's a great time to pray. I'm serious, many a night, many a night, you will find me on my knees praying in the hours between 3 and 5:00 a.m. simply for peace, simply to get to morning without additional stress, simply just trying to listen for something other than my own anxious thoughts."
As a woman in her late 40s, I found it comforting to know that even big, strong health gurus know what it's like to struggle with sleep, but also to be reminded that ultimately it's the Lord who gives peace and rest to those who cast their anxious cares on Him. ๐ค
Believing you can pray away every storm will make life harder. So why pray? God may not change your circumstances, but He offers the grace to transform your heart posture.
Rosaria Butterfield, a former lesbian turned Christian apologist, shares an uncomfortable reality for Christians navigating transgenderism in their families:
You cannot love someone by lying to them.
Tell the truth. Refuse to celebrate what you believe is wrong. But donโt disappear because the relationship is difficult.
She also warns of the โgothic and dangerousโ realities of transgender surgeries, calling the doctors who perform mastectomies on healthy female bodies โthe butchers.โ
Her message to families: Donโt retreat. Donโt disappear. They need you.
Man does not have a neutral libertarian free will.
We have a will, but that will is in bondage to sin. In our natural state we are free to choose what we want โ but what we want is to sin.
1 Cor 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.
Other than Jesus, no one has ever freely chosen not to sin. It is not possible, because man wants to sin โ and we always choose according to our strongest desire.
Only a sovereign act of God can set a person free from sin's bondage.
Rom 6:17-18
But thanks be to God, that you who were once slaves of sin have become obedient from the heart to the standard of teaching to which you were committed, and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
RC Sproul nails it here:
โ(Your will) is free from coercion, but what itโs not free from is you.โ
We sin because we want to sin โ not because we are forced to.
โGod saves as many people as He possibly canโ ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
Does the Bible teach us to believe in predestination/election?
Deuteronomy 7:7โ8, โIt was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the LORD loves youโฆโ
Psalm 105:43, โSo he brought his people out with joy, his chosen ones with singing.โ
Isaiah 43:10, โโYou are my witnesses,โ declares the LORD, โand my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he.โโ
Matthew 22:14, โFor many are called, but few are chosen.โ
Matthew 24:22, โAnd if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.โ
Luke 18:7, โWill not God bring about justice for His elect?โ
John 6:37, โAll that the Father gives Me will come to Me.โ
John 6:44, โNo one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.โ
John 6:65, โno one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father.โ
John 13:18, โI do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen.โ
John 15:16, โYou did not choose Me but I chose you.โ
John 15:19, โI chose you out of the world.โ
Acts 2:23, โthis Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God.โ
Acts 4:28, โto do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur.โ
Acts 13:48, โas many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.โ
Romans 8:29, โthose whom He foreknew, He also predestined.โ
Romans 8:30, โthese whom He predestined, He also called.โ
Romans 8:33, โWho will bring a charge against Godโs elect?โ
Romans 9:11, โthough they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or badโin order that Godโs purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who callsโ
Romans 9:18, โSo then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.โ
Romans 9:21, โHas the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?โ
Romans 11:7, โIsrael failed to obtain what it was seeking. The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened.โ
1 Corinthians 1:26-29, โFor consider your calling, brothersโฆ God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God chose what is low and despised in the world...โ
1 Corinthians 2:7, โWe speak Godโs wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory.โ
Ephesians 1:4-5, โHe chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will.โ
Ephesians 1:11, โWe have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will.โ
1 Thessalonians 1:4, โKnowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of youโฆโ
1 Thessalonians 5:9, โGod has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.โ
2 Thessalonians 2:13, โGod has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth.โ
2 Timothy 1:10, โI endure all things for the sake of those who are chosen, so that they also may obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus and with it eternal glory.โ
Titus 1:1, โPaul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of Godโฆโ
1 Peter 1:1-2, โTo those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spiritโฆโ
2 Peter 1:10, โbe all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you.โ
Revelation 17:14, โthose who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.โ