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This is a short video with music of a drive I take twice a week here in New South Wales Australia.
The car cam was a Christmas present from my eldest son. This was my first trip with it and there is a lot of static but hopefully we have solved that.
This gentleman makes you believe there is still hope for America. On this Christmas Day thank the God of Heaven and earth (the God of the Bible) for the liberty you have and may that liberty continue in spite of what is taking place in America via this administration.
Living in Australia I have never seen 
. However, I do read the news and Duck Dynasty’s Phil has really stirred a hornet’s nest in the USA with his paraphrasing of One Corinthians 6. Here are those words from 1Corinthians 6:9 – 10 which Phil paraphrased. “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind (these are the sodomite, the present day gays or homosexuals), 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.”
Matthew Henry (18 October 1662 – 22 June 1714) said of all these people in those verses as “The scum of the earth are no ways fit to fill the heavenly mansions.” Now, these “abusers of themselves with mankind” of whom Paul speaks are what used to be known as sodomites but today have labelled themselves as “gay”. Gay is certainly is not the appropriate word to use for two men performing an act that God created only for a man and woman! Aside from the fact that there are health consequences to homosexual sex the main purpose of sex is reproduction. There is absolutely no reproduction between two men or two women!
Paul also said to Timothy in his first epistle that “the law is not made for a righteous man, but for the lawless and disobedient, for the ungodly and for sinners, for unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, 10 For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind (these are Sodomites, homosexuals), for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine” 1 Timothy 1: 9 – 10. NOTE, the law was given for the people described here, of which the homosexual is included, and they are said to be “the ungodly’ and “sinners”. It is said here that it was for these that Christ died, Roman 5:6 “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”
The reality is that unless a person admits they are a sinner and repents of their sins, they will not enter the kingdom of God! That is a simple fact of Scripture. Yes, the homosexual is included in this! This is not being unkind or unloving but it is being truthful as to what the Scriptures teach.
The churches need to wake up and begin to preach that Christ died for the all the ungodly before laws are passed prohibiting such preaching! The homosexual crowd have brought this issue into the public forum and the churches MUST reply in the public forum by stating what God’s Word says and not what is politically correct.
Yes, abortion is sin, adultery is sin, stealing is sin, lying is sin and so is homosexuality!!!! Sadly, many of us will probably be affected in someway someday by homosexuality via one of our children or grandchildren. When and if that does occur the Bible hasn’t changed and neither should we. As we love our children and grandchildren no matter what, so God so much more loves the sinner. Yes John 3:16 is still in the Bible; “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” and so is Romans 5:6 “For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.” We were all in that group called the “ungodly” before we were born again.
If I was answering the GQ magazine’s question I may not have stated it the way Phil did but he had (and as far as I know he still has) the freedom to state his beliefs even though they are not politically correct. Some Christians have stated the subject of one’s sexuality is a matter that should not be discussed in a public forum. Well, Phil is a public figure doing an interview with a public magazine that would be read by the public. He was asked a question and he answered the question. So be it. Does he not have the right as an American citizen to answer a question with what he truly believes? Or do only those who agree with the homosexuals have that right?
There is a lot more that could be said and perhaps should be said here but REMEMBER, when Duck Dynasty has run its course (and it will) the world will turn to another programme but God’s Word will remain the same and the homosexual along with all unrepentant sinners will not “inherit the kingdom of God”.
This is an Army recruiting movie produced in my home town of Ottumwa, Iowa around the late 1950’s. Nostalgic to say the least.
The courageous former missionary kids, now young women, who began the blog that lit the fire under the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism’s (ABWE) “Miracle Mountain” now have a facebook page on which they tell those who continue to be concerned enough to read it; that “Eleven months after firing GRACE they have yet to contact us for any reason, let alone regarding their new investigation. Guess they really don’t care for us after all the nice things they said over the past 3 years….sometimes face-to-face and coming from the mouth of their interim president, Al Cockrell. (The new president has made ZERO efforts to contact us. How’s that for godly leadership?)” ELEVEN MONTHS! IS SILENCE GOLDEN OR DOES IT SAY A LOT ABOUT WHAT THE NEW PRESIDENT AND THE ABWE BOARD REALLY THINK ABOUT THESE GIRLS?
Yes, the former ABWE president, Michael Loftis, no longer occupies an office on “Miracle Mountain” which is a good thing. Loftis along with Russ Ebersole and Don Davis have also parted company with ABWE. This is all because a few missionary kids had the courage to speak out. However, these departures from ABWE land only occurred because these former ABWE missionary kids spoke out publicly which got the attention of ABWE and a few others. It is almost certain that if it had not been for these girls NOTHING would have changed at ABWE.
But has enough taken place within ABWE? Oh yes, ABWE has been proud and loud in telling the world they have created a new position of full time child safety officer. Oh yes, ABWE also spent a considerable amount of money to fly their administrators all the way from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and North America to an Investigative Training Conference in Orlando, FL where they “were trained in child abuse prevention and investigation during an intense two-day seminar.”
Nevertheless, with a new staff member assigned to now “protect” the ABWE missionary kids from predators like Donn Ketcham and the purging of several former staff members, Jim O’Neill, ABWE’s new president, “has made ZERO efforts to contact” these courageous girls! UNBELIEVABLE! Doesn’t anyone wonder why Mr. O’Neill hasn’t contacted these girls to just talk to them or to hear their side of the story? Has he been told not to contact them or is he just afraid of what he might hear?
Don’t these girls deserve a hearing from the new ABWE president? Again, why the silence? Yes, there were some changes made but is that all that is required? Do these changes really mean ABWE has changed and can now be trusted to “protect” the present and future ABWE missionary kids when the new ABWE president will not even communicate with the girls who lit the fire on “Miracle Mountain”? One can only speculate!
Before closing it is also very confusing as to why there was not more noise, LOUD NOISE, coming from the churches over the Ketcham, Kempton, Ebersole and Davis collusion and cover-up!? Have the churches arrived at the place where a para-church organization like ABWE is beyond reproach? Also, where was the out-cry from the pastors and the missionaries!
It seems many may hold the view that as long as ABWE missionaries are still “preaching” the gospel, it is permissible to over-look the cover-up of pedophilia and the collusion that took place between the then field administrator, mission president and field council who allowed the guilty pedophile to return home and practice medicine while the abused girl and her family suffered. All the changes ABWE has made will never make up for the mishandling of the pedophile incident on the Bangladesh field! Collusion, favouritism and cover-up was the name of the game then and only time will tell if it has been totally eradicated from ABWE.
After all the personnel and policy changes made at ABWE one would have assumed the new president in his first year would have at least communicated something to these former missionary girls but that assumption would have been wrong. Why, why, why? The present ABWE board and new president do not seem to have learned much if anything from the sinful mishandling of Donn Ketcham and his pedophilia. This lack of communication with the very ones who exposed the ABWE pedophile sore opens the door for speculating that perhaps all the changes at ABWE are just simply superficial. A person just might think the Good Ole Boy’s Club is still alive and well within ABWE.
SHAME on the ABWE’s new president and the board for their lack of communication to the very ones who should have been kept abreast of things regarding the protection of missionary kids from missionary abusers and pedophiles! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME!
A friend sent this to me. How did this silly plan of OB’s get this far anyway? One can only hope it will end up in the hearse dead with no chance of being brought back to life!
Does anyone today really know what the difference is between these two party’s?
Recently I was sent a sermon preached by a man who is filling in for another minister who is on “a 3 month vicar swap”. I read the sermon and almost immediately this man openly declared where he was theologically. In the third paragraph of his “sermon” he mentions positively The Jesus Seminar’s Marcus Borg. Borg is a fulfillment of the words of 1Timothy 4:1 “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils”. Borg and all apostates preach another gospel.
There are several other things this visiting minister said in that sermon that shows he is in the same theological apostate camp as Borg. He said “salvation is occasionally about an afterlife-but most of the time it is not.” He goes on to say “So also saved and saviour are not primarily about being saved from our sins so we can go to heaven.” Basically what this man believes is that the main thrust of salvation is political and as such “has two focal points justice and peace.”
Considering the justice of which he speaks; he says that some justice issues today are “human rights, gender equality, sexual orientation, and the environment”. This is typical of one who has departed (apostatized) from the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. In fact this visiting minister had a billboard placed in front of his own church the Christmas of 2012 which depicted the baby Jesus in a crib with a halo of rainbow colours. This man was asked about this depiction and he said Jesus may have been ‘gay, maybe not. Does it matter?’” That is blasphemous but typical of apostasy!
Men such as Borg and a multitude of others like him are described by Jude in his small but practical and pointed book. Jude describes the apostate well. In verse 4 Jude tells us that these apostates are men who have “crept in unawares”. These three words are one Greek word and is only used here. It speaks of one who settles alongside, to lodge stealthily, unnoticed. They act like and look like a believing Christian.
These are those of whom Paul speaks in Acts 20: 29 who are “grievous wolves” and “enter in among you, not sparing the flock.” These wolves have crept into the churches via the side door unawares with the very intent of teaching another gospel. The apostates are “ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Their gospel according to Jude is “the way of Cain” which is a bloodless and faithless gospel. The writer to the Hebrews said “By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain”. That “more excellent sacrifice” was by blood and faith.
God’s Word tell us in Genesis “that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect.” Why? It was because Abel had faith whereas Cain did not and Abel’s sacrifice was a blood sacrifice whereas Cain’s was not! Today’s apostate is the same as Cain!
As Jude says these apostates are likened to the Israelites which the Lord destroyed because they “believed not.” The apostate lacks saving faith. They know intellectually the truth but willingly reject it. Then Jude compares the apostate to “the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation”. They openly rebelled against God and because of that they are “reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.” There is a judgment day coming for the apostate. They do not have saving faith for they have rebelled and denied “the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ”. The apostate may be the most likeable person in the crowd but they are a rebel and in open opposition to God and God’s Word.
The apostate is also like “Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” They defend the sodomite life and many of them give themselves over to such “strange flesh”. As we draw closer to the coming of our Saviour in the air the the louder will some who claim to be evangelical defend the sodomite life; showing by this that they themselves are apostate. Note 1Co 6:9 – 11 “Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.” NOTE, “such WERE some of you BUT” you are no longer. This includes no longer being effeminate not an abuser with mankind. There has been a heart and life change through faith in the person and work of Christ.
Surprisingly the apostate is also a separatist. Yes, you read that correctly. Jude says they “separate themselves, sensual, having not the Spirit.” The apostate is a separatist but the wrong kind. He has separated from godliness and from God’s Spirit but is separated unto sensualness and have “the spirit of this world”.
However, Jude does not leave those of us who know the Lord Jesus Christ in despair. As the apostate so often receives the accolades of the world Jude tells us to be “building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.”
To God be the glory!
