I was born in 1942; my mother in 1913. She would have turned 100 years old this year. The Federal Reserve System went into effect in the last days of the year in which she came into this world. What a sinful disaster this banking system has been! But there was something else that happened the year that she was born and I want to tell you about it today.
Once again the Holy Spirit has brought someone else’s commentary to bear fruit on our understanding of perfection with Paul’s description of the armor of God and specifically verse 19 with the phrase “the mystery of the gospel.’ The brother said this, “Paul was explaining how the scriptures in his day had been manipulated to hide the one fundamental principle of the message from God's word. Paul flatly said he was chosen to reveal this mystery to the nations of Adam. Almost nobody in the Identity movements know, or can say whaft this mystery is, because it was sealed up again until the latter time: Paul tells us this mystery is so important, it is the ONE thing a believer must learn and believe in order to a) be "established in the faith," b) be "made complete in Christ."
It’s been quite a week: Fires in eight Western States that are burning in an uncontrollable manner—the judgment of God against the United States for no longer keeping the Laws of God; the President of the United States trying to figure out what lies he can tell to convince the America people so that he can have the Armed Forces provide a military strike in Syria—another judgment of God against the United States for no longer keeping the Laws of God; and then honoring the speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a ceremony remembering what happened in this nation exactly fifty years ago; another judgment of God against the United States for no longer keeping the Laws of God.
I had another sermon prepared as I had a busy week, but I was so disgusted by the jewMedia that I had to comment on the event that happened fifty years ago. The “Dream” speech given by the person who practically no one will call a Communist: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fifty years ago; I was 21 years old. It was 1963. Michael King, Jr. went to Washington, D. C. and with the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the background gave the speech that many said changed the nation. The majority now say that it changed the nation for good; but back then there were many who said that it changed it for evil.
Last week, there were 250,000 people who went to the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial and down the National Mall on Saturday, commemorating the 50th anniversary of his famous speech and pledging that his dream includes equality for gays, Latinos, the poor and the disabled. For whom? Gays, whose behavior our God says is an abomination to Him, are equal with a straight person? Equal to whom?
The United States: The Background Information of How It Began; The Battle Between the Two Seed Lines
When did the United States begin? Was it “In fourteen hundred and ninety-two when [Christopher] Columbus sailed the ocean blue?” Did he discover America? Well, Columbus didn’t even set his foot on the land that became the United States of America. He landed in four separate voyages in the Bahamas, Jamaica, Haiti, Puerto Rico (which eventually became an American territory), Cuba, and other islands in the Caribbean and in South America and Central America. So how did Christopher Columbus discover America when he never set “his big toe” on that continent that became the United States?
I don’t mean for the title to sound pretentious, but this is a Bible study on perfection. To assuage any misapprehensions and to state my case early, I won’t be talking about sinless perfection, for “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His word is not in us” I John 1:10. In today’s reading of Matthew, the point in question is not the sinlessness of God or His Creation of supernatural perfection, but rather our growth into a maturity of godliness; not to be Christ, but to be like Christ. We’ve seen the bumper sticker ‘We’re not perfect – just forgiven.’ If we were perfect, there would be nothing to forgive. So what does it mean to be perfect like God? Do we become gods? God forbid, that would be the deification of man and there is only one God in Christianity, “There is none else” (Isaiah 45:5). Obviously, God knew the future and made the #1 commandment to preempt anyone, “Who is opposing and exalting himself above everything said to be a god” (II Thes. 2:4) with “Thou shalt have no other gods before Me” (Ex. 20:2).
