Proverbs 26:23-28
23 Like a coating of silver dross on earthenware
are fervent lips with an evil heart.
24 Enemies disguise themselves with their lips,
but in their hearts they harbor deceit.
25 Though their speech is charming, do not believe them,
for seven abominations fill their hearts.
26 Their malice may be concealed by deception,
but their wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
27 Whoever digs a pit will fall into it;
if someone rolls a stone, it will roll back on them.
28 A lying tongue hates those it hurts,
and a flattering mouth works ruin.
Christians should be the hardest people in the room to manipulate with fear.
God rules history.
Christ conquered death.
Our sins are forgiven.
Our future is secure.
What exactly are we supposed to panic about?
A fall from an inversion table left me with a life-changing spinal cord injury. But what mattered most in that ICU room wasn't whether I would walk again, it was that two men heard the gospel and surrendered their lives to Jesus Christ.
God used this experience to deepen my conviction that life is short, our souls will live forever, and the gospel of Jesus Christ is our only hope.
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Muhammad coming 600 years after Christ and rewriting every single detail of every single prophet story to hide Christ is one of the most disrespectful things I’ve ever seen. My boys Abraham, Moses, Adam, and Ishmael, David, Saul, and Lot are ROLLING in their graves.
A perspective I’d like to offer:
Muslims see America as collectively pagan.
When I was Muslim, I felt a theological mandate to invite people to know Allah.
Now that I’m Christian, that mandate hasn’t changed. But we have a severe problem…
According to data from the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, only about 4% of all U.S. adults possess an integrated biblical worldview.
That means we are losing the fight as a Christian collective in our nation.
Talk is cheap, we need to bring more people into the Body of Christ flat out.
I wrote this because we need to start asking a simple question: Who is funding Islam in America—and why?
From a $20M mosque in Dearborn Heights funded largely by Iraq to billions flowing from Qatar, foreign influence is hiding in plain sight.
Here is a question for advocates of libertarian free will that rarely gets a straight answer:
Two sinners hear the same Gospel.
Both are fallen.
Both are spiritually dead in sin.
Both receive the same outward call.
One believes in Christ.
The other rejects Him.
Why?
If you say, “Because one freely chose Christ,” you have only restated what happened. You haven’t explained why.
Was the believer wiser? More humble? More spiritually perceptive? Did he make better use of grace?
If the decisive difference is ultimately found in the sinner, then something in the sinner distinguishes him from the one who remains in unbelief.
But Paul asks:
“For who maketh thee to differ from another?” (1 Corinthians 4:7)
The Reformed answer is simple:
God makes the difference.
The sinner believes because God graciously opens the heart (Acts 16:14), grants repentance (2 Timothy 2:25), and grants faith in Christ (Philippians 1:29).
We believe willingly, but the reason one fallen sinner comes while another remains hardened is not that one used his autonomous will better.
It is grace.
“So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.” (Romans 9:16)