The Paradises Of Hell

I was reading an message by Jonathan Chan. It teaches up a valuable lesson. But only if we heed the warnings.

Hit let promised to usher in a thousand year kingdom of glory for the Aryan people. Stalin promised a workers paradise on earth. Mao, likewise, promised China a people’s paradise. Around 6 million Jewish people perished under Hitler; 9 millions of other nationalities are similarly murdered by the Nazis. Soviet Communism has taken 35 to 45 million lives. And Chinese Communism is responsible for the death of 35 to 64 million people. Why is it that instead of producing hell?

The answer is simple. What links them all together is that they each made the leader, the party, and the state, their god. When you glorify yourself and deny God…. the end of godlessness is death. If God is not the center of what you’re doing, then what you’re doing is empty.

Have we forgotten our past history? Did anyone ever tell you that history repeats itself? The United States want to destroy history. Have you ever wondered why History isn’t being taught anymore?

If you pay close attention to what’s happening in America right now. You can see this is exactly what the Government is wanting to do. Spend some time reading, researching, learning. People are playing right into the Governments hands. They want Communism.

All Propaganda Has To Be Popular And It Has To Accommodate Itself To The Comprehension Of The Least Intelligent Of Those Whom It Seeks To Reach. –Adolf Hitler-

Yom Kippur- Day Of Atonement

Following God’s calendar Wednesday 15th starts the Day of Atonement (Yom Kippur in Hebrew.

It’s the holiest day of the year for the Jewish people. It’s central themes are atonement and repentance. The Jewish people traditionally observe this holy day with a 25 hour period of fasting and intense prayer, often spending most of the day in synagogue services. Yom Kippur completes the annual period known in Judaism as the High Holy Days or the Days of Awe.

While most believers do not celebrate this holiday as the Jewish people do. I think it’s important to stop for a while and reflect and repent on personal sins, the fate of each person is sealed for the next upcoming year.

The definition of Yom Kippur. A Jewish holiday observed with fasting and prayer on the 10th day of Tishri in accordance with the rites described in Leviticus 16.

Wrath Of Abandonment

Everywhere we look we can see God’s hand, His divine power and things about His character, the beautiful landscapes, the flowers and trees, rainbows promises that He will never flood the World. The word says that everything on earth pleases God. The trees with their leaving blowing in the wind. The birds singing. All the earth bows to You. -Psalm 66:4-

He is all around us, but people are too busy to even notice Him. Many people don’t seem to know about conscience anymore. Children were never taught about God, or have not introduced to the Bible. It seems like the world is all about “me, me, me,” as long as their happy nothing else matters. We have so much of this in the world today.

The results of whenever that light and revelation is rejected things happen. So out of the beautiful things we back in the pigpen. It’s not nice reading when you get to the end of Romans 1 but it is a reality and we can’t scoot around the outside of it because we will see that it is the very culture that we are living now.

What happens when you reject God?

Romans 1:21-22 says because, “although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, not we’re thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools.“

Paul is speaking here about what happens to people that reject the evidence of God. The first thing is that they achieved glorify God and not we’re they thankful. The Bible speaks a lot about thankfulness for what God has done for us as His people, and actually having a heart that is thankful towards Him for all of those things. So these people are not thankful at all for all the things that God has provided and Paul says that they come futile in their thoughts and their foolish hearts are darkened, professing to be wise they become fools.

The Bible says a fool is someone who says in their heart that ‘there is no God.’ God calls that person a fool. Once someone begins to reject the light and the revelation this is given, philosophies and vain thoughts start to come into their mind. Evolution is a print example of something that is taught these days within our schools. It is taught as a truth rather than a persons theory. It is taught as ‘the truth’ about our existence and how we got here. It is one of the biggest lies ever to come down to human beings. Vain imaginations, theories, and humanism deny the existence of God who created us for an intelligent purpose. Processing to be wise they became fools. There is a professional.

Romans 1:23 “And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made my corruptible man- and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.”

The order in which Paul starts with is “man” and then he goes down through the animal kingdom right to the bottom of things where things creep along the ground. Bob Dylan sang the song years ago- “You are you going to have to serve somebody.” “You may serve the devil or you may serve the Lord, but you are going to somebody.” Everybody worships something. Idolism has come in and the first thing that Romans talks about is about is that man (woman) is now actually worshipped. So either self is worshipped as an idol or it is someone or is it someone else that is put up in that place and they are idolized and worrshipped. In a lot of Asian and Indian cultures, you see idols everywhere, things that they fashion with their hands and now down to. I heard a missionary from India who said that in Hinduism they have 300 million gods. How you could ever come up with that amount is unbelievable but everything is worshipped as a god. So idolism is rampant in those cultures.

Won’t idols do we have in our culture that we face? Money is huge in our secular society. An idol is anything that takes the place in your heart that God should fill.

The dreaded “giving-over”

Romand 1:24. Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

Paul uses this term…a giving up or giving over. It’s a judicial term, as when a judge gives a sentence. It a a giving over by God of people, nations and cultures because they reject the light and the revelation that they have been given.

“But my people would not heed my voice, and Isreal would have none of me. So I gave them over t their own stubborn heart, to walk in their own counsels. -Psalm 81:11-12-

When Israel wouldn’t listen to His instructions, wouldn’t listen to His prophets, and would have none of the Lord. He gave them over. I feel the same thing happening in our world today. God had given us over to our stubbornness and our foolishness.

We have a progression here and that is why people are in a pigpen. They rejected the light and come up with all sorts of reasonings. Idol worship, persuasion. You may not realize that Paul lived in a time where homosexuality was accepted. The Roman Empire and it’s Emperor we’re either homosexual or bi-sexual and it was accepted and was legalized. They had legal prostitution of boys, there were public holidays for legal prostitution of boys. It was a big part of their culture. This is where our culture is headed today. History repeats itself, we must learn from it.

Out With Genders…

Romans 1:28-31. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to those things which are not fitting.

Here is a list:

Being filled with unrighteousness, sexual immorality.

Wickedness

Covetousness

Malicious, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness, their are whispers.

Backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedience to parents.

Undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, Unforgiving, unmerciful.

All of these things are in the Bible and they are all happening in the world today.

Finally hearty approval Is given.

Romans 1:32. Who, knowing the righteous judgement of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.

They is so much sin in our nation, we will suffer the Wrath of Abandonment, from God, He will take the cover of protection away from us and we will suffer the consequences. And we will be enter the place of “Armageddon” will begin. A place where the last battle between good and evil will be fought.

It’s all written in the Holy Bible. The Prophecies come true. Are you ready for the:

Wrath of Abandonment

Are We Being Swayed By The Evil One?

Is the world controlled by the Devil?

There are a few verses that are sometimes used to defend Calvinistic idea of total depravity. That seem to say that the world is under the control of satan. Here they are:

“If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. – 1 John 1:8-

If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us. -1 John1:10-

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one. -1 John 5:19-

It’s obvious that John is not teaching any sort of doctrine of total depravity, but is simply saying that everyone has sins, and that if anybody claims to be without sin; they are singing by making such a claim. No non-Calvinist disagrees with this.

Almost all Christians of all types believe that everybody sins. It is a straw-man fallacy and non-sequiter to say that if a person denies the Calvinistic idea of total depravity then they don’t believe that a,k people are sinners.

You can deny total depravity and still accept the biblical teaching about the universal sinfulness of humanity.

The third passage quoted above, 1 John 5:19, is sometimes quoted in reference to total inability.

This verse is used to say that people are under control of the devil, and therefore, cannot see or understand the truth of the gospel, nor respond to it, for the devil, who controls them will not allow it.

“The whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one.” -1 John 5:19

John is saying the world lies in wickedness. It is covered in wickedness. This point would be identical to what John wrote earlier in his letter, that everyone is a sinner. -1 John 1:8-10- John is understood to be saying that the world lies under the power, control, or sway of the wicked one, this verse still does not teach total inability for at least two reasons.

The words “power,” “control,” or “sway” are not found in the text, a translator is free to add whatever words he wants to help the reader understand what John is saying.

The entire book of 1 John is engaged in this idea about good and evil, light and darkness, truth and error, and John is intent on showing his readers that based on who God is and what Hesus has done for all people, we can choose to live in love, light, and righteousness, rather than abide in hatred, darkness, and evil. This is how to understand John’s letter.

John is not making a statement about total depravity but is calling upon his readers to “choose this day who we will serve. God or Satan.

Hold Fast And Stay Strong

Hold fast to the truth, for we stand under the judgement of God’s Word. Do not compromise at all cost.

Hold Fast To Truth

What is truth? How important is truth? How do you define truth? Do you believe it is a problem in today’s society?

Dr. R Albert Jr, put it this way in His book, Dishonesty and Deception in Contemporary Life “I think it’s fair to say that honestly is on the ropes: Deception has become commonplace at all levels.”

We no longer tell lies. Instead we ‘Mis-Speak.“ We exaggerate. We exercise poor judgement. Mistakes were made, we say.

Welcome to the age of dishonesty

Fact: Truth is transcultural. If something it true, it has to be truth for all people, in all places, and at all times.

Truth is unchanged, even though our beliefs about change. Society used to believe the earth was flat. When it was discovered that the earth was round, the truth about the earth didn’t change, it was only our belief which changed.

Beliefs cannot change a fact, no matter how sincerely held. Someone can sincerely believe someone m but if his fact is not true he possess false, or a humble person to make the error he possess true.

All real truths are absolute. Suppose that I take a fall, and bang my head on the cement, calling for a helicopter ride to a big city hospital. Suppose someone should not believe it. Does that change the truth,

Truth is still truth. It is living in a much different world today called Post-modern. It’s description says, “ Truth does not exist objectively, it is a product of a person’s culture.

It’s easy to see some very strong problems occurring in our culture today. We also have more problem with intolerance, which does not accept tolerance and is being enforced with varies kinds of punishment.

I have only touched on a few effects which have occurring in our world since this “New Tolerance and its complications. But you can find plenty of them. Dr. D. James Kennedy verbalized the complications with his talk with this warning: Wake up America before it’s too late.

Something To Shout About

If someone asked you to describe forgiveness, how would you do it! Where would you begin? How long would it take?

Forgiveness is something to shout about.

The manufacturers of Tide laundry detergent once has a website for stain remover called “The Stain Detective.” Users could identify the type of stain they were trying to remove, submit a request for advice, and receive information regarding the best way to get the stain out of the fabric. Of course, most of the solutions involved the use of a Tide product.

In Psalm 32, David is our “spiritual detective “ as he counsels us how to remove the stain of sin in our lives. No matter what sin has marred your life. David directs us to the same solution, David directs us to the same solution. Forgiveness is found in God alone.

David is excited about forgiveness and wants everyone to shout about it!

Experiencing Forgiveness

Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord doesn’t count against him in whose spirit is de deceit.

Forgiveness is a state of being that is exciting. It feels good! Notice David writes Blessed is he and Blessed is the man. Look at the meaning of the words used to describe what God does when He forgiveness a person:

A. Forgiven- He lifts up the burden of guilt and carries it away.

B. Covered- He covers the sin from view.

C. Does Not Count Against – God chooses not to think of the forgiven as guilty anymore.

Needing Forgiveness

When I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was upon me; my strength was sapped as in the heat of summer.

Notice first what is not mentioned here. The actual sin is not identified. In this passage David fails to tell us what his sin was. He doesn’t even give us a hint. Why? Because what he did is not the issue. The focus is on God’s forgiveness. The seriousness of the sin doesn’t affect the capacity of God to forgive.

After he sinned, David says, I kept silent. That’s when his trouble began. We try to manage guilt. We try to cope with guilt. We try to rationalize guilt away. We try to blame someone else to minimize our guilt. Observe what happens

Physical Deterioration

He writes my bones wasted away. No one questions the delicate balance between mind and body anymore. Guilt ravages a person physically.

Mental Suffering

David describes a relentless anguish in his soul. It does not stop. He is groaning all day long.

Spiritual Separation

David feels distance between God and himself. It appeared that God was hostile towards him. Guilt warps our perception of who God is and His readiness to forgive us.

Ultimately all enjoyment of life is lost. Our strength and desire for life is transformed into a arid, dry landscape.

Receiving Forgiveness

Then I acknowledged my sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord” and you forgave the guilt of my sin.

David describes how to thoroughly deal with guilt and obtain forgiveness from God.

Sin must be acknowledged. David writes I acknowledged my sin to you. He simply and clearly stated that what he did was a sin. This can be part challenging if we believe others are to blame.

Sin must be exposed. David adds that he didn’t cover up his sin. Literally he is saying, “I have made my sin naked and bare before You.” The word cover refers to the normal function of a garment in it’s natural sense. When we confess our sin, we strip away all the ridiculous attitude we use to “dress up” what we have done. This is an experience of shame. It doesn’t fee, good, but it will not last for long. Remember that whatever we expose and uncover through confession, God will soon cover and hide from view through His forgiveness.

Sin must be confessed. The word confess means to cast or throw something away. Confession is the act of fully casting away our sin, guilt and shame before God.

Do you see the entire pictures hat David has painted for us? We call what we did “sin” as God does. We take full responsibility for the sin. We make no attempt to “dress up” or hide our sin, rather we expose it before God. Then we take that sin and cast it away from us before God.

When we do that, we can confidently join in David’s joy when he writes that God forgave the guilt of my sin.

So, rejoice in the Lord and be glad, you righteous sing, all you who are upright in heart.

In the final verse of Psalm 32, David makes it clear that rejoicing is a non-optional activity for those who really know the forgiveness of God. They have something to shout about.

Psalm 32