Luis R Lopez

Born again Christian, saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ. #John3v16 #Ephessians2v8-9
Autoimmune Arthritis/Ankylosing Spondylitis Advocate.

[Greg Laurie @greglaurie]

I just interviewed Pastor Chuck Swindoll. Chuck is 91 now, and he is still full of energy and passion, still serving the Lord. He's lost most of his eyesight — but not his insight. What a model he is for me.

Chuck Smith was the same way. I once asked him what an older Chuck would tell a younger Chuck. His response: "Hold the course."

Billy Graham was the same way. I introduced a friend to Billy some years ago, and my friend thanked him for his service. Billy responded, "I wish I had done more."

Here was a man who preached the Gospel to more people than anyone in history — and standing near the end of his life, his only regret was that he hadn't done more.
In the same way, we must be about our Father's business.

Billy Graham said it well: "God never meant for us to be spectators. Every believer is called to be on the field, not in the stands." We never retire from serving God.

[Luis R Lopez @LuRoLopez]

John 15:12 NKJV
[12] This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

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Juan 15:12 NVI
[12] Y este es mi mandamiento: que se amen los unos a los otros como yo los he amado.

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GENESIS.

Giants' pitchers showed up on Pride Night and wrote “Genesis 9:12-16” son the rainbow caps.

Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker, Ryan Walker. MLB issued warnings.

They weren’t making a scene. They were pointing back to the original meaning.

God said to Noah: “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and every living creature... I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and the earth. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.”

A promise of mercy after judgment. Not a celebration of anything else.

Teams push the rainbow for one message. These players quietly reminded everyone of God’s true message.

Same symbol. Two completely different stories.

That’s real conviction.

That’s what the rainbow is actually about!! 🌈

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

PRAISE GOD! Christian San Francisco Giants Pitcher Landen Roupp wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride hat tonight to remind everyone that the rainbow does not belong to the LGBTQ movement; it belongs to the Lord.

The rainbow is a reminder of God’s covenant, not sexual degeneracy.

[Ashley (TeamTrump47) @TeamTrump47]

Boom! ⚾🔥

Giants pitcher Landen Roupp joined Clayton Kershaw by writing Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride hat.

The rainbow’s true meaning? God’s covenant and promise. 🌈🙏

“The rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant with us and I stand firm in that.” - Roupp

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

Two Christian San Francisco Giants pitchers protested Pride Night on Friday night vs Chicago

- Starting pitcher Landen Roupp wrote Genesis 9:12-16 on his Pride hat

- Relief pitcher Sam Hentges refused to wear the hat at all (just like Blake Treinen)

Well done, gentlemen 👏

[Pastor Rich Bitterman @w_bitterman]

He took a rainbow stitched onto a San Francisco Giants cap and placed beside it the first Word God ever spoke over that sign. Genesis 9:11-16.

That was enough for the league to warn them to not write a Bible verse on the pride hat again. A covenant became an offense.

MLB could point to the uniform rule and maybe the rule was clear enough. Still, everyone knew the ink was not the real scandal. The scandal was Genesis.

A verse from the first book of the Bible appeared beside a rainbow and suddenly the old story came walking into the modern room. God had spoken first..that was the wound. Before it was claimed by a movement, it was placed there by mercy.

Landen Roupp said there was no hate in it. He said the rainbow is a symbol of God’s covenant and as a believer he wanted to stand firm. Good!

There are times when standing firm looks less like shouting from a platform and more like refusing to vanish under a hat. Writing the verse in ink was small a small thing. The witness was not.

I admire him. He could have worn the cap and said nothing, carried his convictions quietly back to the clubhouse. Instead, he wrote Genesis 9 beside the rainbow. It was not a spectacle. It was a confession.

To understand why, we have to leave the ballpark and walk back into the soaked world of Genesis 9. God speaks as the world was still wet with judgment when God blessed Noah.

He gave Noah’s family the earth. He sent them out to fill it and placed a holy fence around human life and said, in effect, “Do not treat people like animals. They bear My image.”

Every person carries that mark. The baby in the womb and the old man in the nursing home. The angry critic online and the confused soul wrapped in a flag. Every one of them lives beneath the hand of the God who made them.

Christian courage can never be cruel because every person bears God’s image. Mercy still hangs over this world and sinners still have time to come home.

Then God lifted His sign into the clouds.“ I have set my bow in the cloud,” He says, “and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth” (Genesis 9:13).

The word is bow. That is easy to miss because we have turned the rainbow into greeting-card weather with soft colors after rain. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon. It belongs in the hand of a warrior. Scripture’s bow is often a weapon, bent with judgment, strung with arrows, aimed by wrath.

In Genesis 9, God hangs the bow in the clouds with no arrow in it.

Look at that again. The bow is there, but the string is quiet. The storm has spent itself. Sunlight breaks through the wet air. Color bends across the sky and creation receives a sermon without a single human word. God remembers. He keeps His promise. The world deserves judgment, yet mercy still hangs over our heads. The rainbow is a sermon.

Long before flags, merchandise, corporate campaigns, political speeches, or team uniforms, God placed the rainbow above a guilty world and made it preach patience.

That is why Genesis 9 belongs in this conversation. Christians do not need cruelty to speak clearly. Sneering never strengthens truth. When believers say the rainbow belongs to God, we are saying more than “our symbol came first.” We are saying the world is still being held together by the promise of a holy God who gives sinners time to repent.

The rainbow is beautiful because mercy is beautiful.

It also warns because mercy delayed carries a clock inside it. Peter tells us the Lord is patient and calls sinners to repentance. The same God who set His bow in the clouds has appointed a day when every mouth will close and every knee will bow.

That makes the cross shine brighter. At Calvary, judgment did not stay in the distance. It landed as the arrow we deserved struck the Son of God. Christ stood beneath the wrath sinners earned and mercy flowed from His wounds. Genesis 9 gives us the empty bow in the clouds. Golgotha gives us the Savior on the tree.

So yes, be thankful for these players. Be thankful for men who can stand beneath public pressure and say, with open eyes and a steady voice, “I belong to Christ.”

Christians should learn from that. Stand firm when the culture demands your silence. Hold your ground when conviction is called hatred. Do it with tenderness, clean hands, tears for the lost, love for your neighbor and your Bible open.

A rainbow appeared on a baseball cap and a few men remembered the God who set it in the sky.

That is enough reason to be grateful. The rainbow is still preaching and let the church stand firm under it.

[Luis R Lopez @LuRoLopez]

Micah 6:8 NKJV
[8] He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?

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Miqueas 6:8 NVI
[8] ¡Él te ha mostrado, oh mortal, lo que es bueno! ¿Y qué es lo que espera de ti el Señor? Practicar la justicia, amar la misericordia y caminar humildemente ante tu Dios.

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I Peter 4:8 NKJV
[8] And above all things have fervent love for one another, for “love will cover a multitude of sins.”

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1 Pedro 4:8 NVI
[8] Sobre todo, ámense los unos a los otros profundamente, porque el amor cubre muchísimos pecados.

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Romans 8:31 NKJV
[31] What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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Romanos 8:31 NVI
[31] ¿Qué diremos frente a esto? Si Dios está de nuestra parte, ¿quién puede estar en contra nuestra?

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Isaiah 43:2 NKJV
[2] When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.

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Isaías 43:2 RVC
[2] Cuando pases por las aguas, yo estaré contigo; cuando cruces los ríos, no te anegarán. Cuando pases por el fuego, no te quemarás, ni las llamas arderán en ti.

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[Luis R Lopez @LuRoLopez]

@davidjeremiah I am trying to be part of the Great Commission: Matthew 28:19-20. I am turning to you for help.

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[Luis R Lopez @LuRoLopez]

@RealJackHibbs I am trying to be part of the Great Commission: Matthew 28:19-20. I am turning to you for help.

Estoy tratando de ser parte de la Gran Comisión: Mateo 28:19-20 Estoy recurriendo a ti para solicitar tu ayuda

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[Luis R Lopez @LuRoLopez]

@SpaceX Congratulations to SpaceX, Mr. Musk and all the staff!!! I am going to a mission trip to Alabama, anyone willing to donate here is the link:

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Estoy tratando de ser parte de la Gran Comisión: Mateo 28:19-20 Estoy recurriendo a ti para solicitar tu ayuda

[Luis R Lopez @LuRoLopez]

1 Corintios 13:4 RVC
[4] El amor es paciente y bondadoso; no es envidioso ni presumido, no es orgulloso;

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