When you come and hear any instruction against any sinful way and refuse it, you despise your own soul, as if your own soul was worth very little. - Jeremiah Burroughs (1599-1646), The Evil of Evils, p. 167 @RHB_Books
Whatever your circumstances, and however difficult they may be, the truth is that God has ordained all our days — with all their ups and downs, blessings and disappointments — as part of His overall plan for your life.
This is one of the best illustrations of what socialism (in any form) does to the poor. It promises a ladder of programs & benefits but can’t lift people out of poverty. No country on earth has made the poor better off under socialist governments.
“Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but to the unmitigated wrath of God.” —@RCSproul
From ‘The Hunger For Significance’
What’s going on in our culture today?
It’s the battle between good and evil, light and darkness, and those who build their house on the rock and those who build their house on the sand. It’s the battle that began in a garden 6,000 years ago.
And why is it infiltrating the church? I lay a lot of blame on much of the church that has supported generations being educated in an anti-God education system, compromised God’s Word in Genesis, and in essence, allowed generations to have the wrong foundation of man’s word instead of God’s Word.
A lukewarm compromising church, compromising Genesis with evolution and millions of years, has greatly contributed to the younger generations being captured by the world and permeated with a worldview of moral relativism.
The answer is a return to the truth and authority of God’s Word!
Human relationships are unable to provide us with life, contentment, happiness, and joy, so when we ask them to be our source of identity, it's only a matter of time before they fail us.
We can never be reminded of this enough: our identity is only safe in one Person - Jesus Christ!
“Just anger is a holy and reasonable desire for revenge against sin. … Anger is just and righteous when it:
[a] is occasioned by a just cause,
[b] is expressed in a godly manner,
[c] is fixed on the proper object,
[d] endures for the appropriate time, and
[e] is directed toward holy ends.”
— John Downame
🚨MUST-SEE: Al Sharpton held a DEI convention, but NONE of the attendees knew what DEI meant🤣🤣
“DEI will help you with all of your office work” 🤖
“DEI is a BAD thing”🤫
But they’re all TEAM KAMALA! 🤪
Chuck Swindoll preaching powerfully on the only way we can find hope in death:
“But Job. What a man. I just read again his words. Listen to them:
‘I know that my Redeemer lives and at the last He shall stand on this earth, and though after worms destroy this body, in my flesh, shall I see God.’
What a great, great statement. He believed he would be raised whole and complete because of his Redeemer. Interesting word—Redeemer. It’s from the Hebrew goel. It means ‘defender.’ Don’t you love that?
I know that my Defender lives. You see, at death, we don’t need a priest, a preacher. We don’t need an attorney or physician, a warrior heavily armed. Does us no good. We need a Defender, someone to acquit us before a holy God because even as Job may have been a fine man, he was not sinless. Nor is any one of us.
And knowing that we are sinful, how can we stand before a holy God when we are raised? We must have a Defender. One who paid a price for us on a cross…
Death will not win. Death has no sting. The grave has no victory when you have a Defender…”
There was a time in America when sin was condemned, and even sinners knew better than to celebrate it.
Today, sin is celebrated, and those who call it what it is are condemned.