God is sovereign over reality. God doesn't call for careful men, he calls for faithful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men lauding them for their courage.
I didn't question your faith. But now I'm definitely questioning your understanding of scripture based off that response.
You know I'm sure there were a few people that were telling Joshua that marching around Jericho and circles and blowing trumpets wasn't very strategic and wasn't going to win the battle. But the walls crumbled. Not because of strategy and planning, because of God. And God did it in such a way that everyone would know it was Him.... when His people were faithful even when commanded to approach a problem in a impossible or improbable way. That's reality.
Oh and I guarantee you if I was trying to insult you, you'd know it.
We win by persuasion, not banning. Banning results in Democrats winning elections.
I disagree. You're not accounting for God.
Unborn children are fully human from the moment of conception. In fact the first person to recognize Jesus was John the Baptist while they were both was still in the womb. The premeditated taking of a human life is defined as murder and scripture calls for capital punishment.
Here's the part that's important... "God curses a nation that sheds innocent blood."
By allowing the slaughter of innocent children we are bringing God's judgment upon our nation. Not just judgment after we're dead, judgment now.
When God wants to judge a nation one of the ways He does that is by sending them wicked rulers. It also appears many other ways from droughts, floods, natural disasters, moral and cultural decline, corruption, degeneracy, and much more.
God is sovereign over everything including elections. God doesn't call us to simply win elections and work top down. God calls us to be faithful and stand in the gap for the innocent.
My Church wrote the amicus brief that overturned Roe v Wade. We run www.EndAbortionNow.com and have equipped churches around the world to fight abortion in a biblical way. We have bills of full abolition pending across the country. We produced the documentaries "babies are murdered here" and "babies are still murdered here" (both free online, go watch them)
Our work is responsible for closing dozens and dozens of abortion facilities. We lost count of how many babies have been saved by this ministry years ago.
We are very much in this fight and we have seen God move an incredible ways time and time again. We have a absolute shoestring budget and are a small church in Mesa Arizona but by being faithful God has used us to move political mountains. We've accomplished more in just a few years than the entire pro-life establishment has accomplished in the last 40 years. How? Being faithful and consistent with scripture.
Outlaw child sacrifice. God will do the rest. This nation would turn around and become righteous and prosperous so fast it would make your head spin.
I'm thankful that at least at this point we've made it a states rights issue. It took a lot of work for us to get here. The next step is getting the first state to criminalize it then others will soon follow. You will see not only the curse lifted off the states that criminalize it but also the blessings that God will pour down on the states. The dichotomy of states that celebrate child sacrifice versus the states that criminalize it will quickly become apparent.
Winston Churchill's Twitter would have been a hoot.
This is one exchange he had when a woman said he was drunk.
“Sir, you are drunk.” “And you, Bessie, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning, and you will still be ugly.”
Go back to that comment. What's the first line?
The Bible doesn't command us to only pray, it commands us to take dominion
That amounts to Prayer < Prayer and action
At no point did I dismiss prayer or disparage it.
Faithfulness to Gods Word is not accomplished by prayer alone. Every example you just listed involved not only prayer, taking an action in faith with the exception of Jesus raising Lazarus. He, as God, commanded him to rise up after giving thanks to God the Father so the crowd would understand this was due to the Father always listening due to an intimate relationship with Jesus that no man shared. This is quite clear in the Greek. It's also a demonstration of Gods sovereignty over salvation. We are dead in our sins and God calls us to new life.
Nothing wrong with using the law to effect positive change in the world. But there is another way to effect change that is infinitely more impactful and infinitely more rewarding. To know the difference is to know God.
You seem to have zero familiarity with my position or my very prayerful church and our work. Our standard is Gods Word and Gods law. I'll respond as so.....
Nothing wrong with praying to effect positive change in the world. But there is a standard God commands us to PHYSICALLY implement (along with prayer) by taking dominion throughout the world to infinitely impact it & bless Gods people and the world as a whole. To know the difference is to know and love Gods Law and the Great Commission.
If you would have asked for clarification instead of coming out swinging and missing wildly with your personal jabs we would have both saved some time.
Wow nice ad-hominem attack and misrepresentation.
I don't lack faith in the power of prayer, I was pointing out that's not the only thing Christians are commanded to do.
I take great pride in the fact that God used our faithfulness to end Roe v Wade after years of fighting for the unborn and saving countless children by doing outreach in front of abortion clinics as well as training and equipping christians around the world to do the same.
That's called sharing Gods accomplishments to encourage others to do the same. The Bible is full of things just like that.
You seem to be taking a pretty haughty attitude. What have you and your church done that's has measurably affected the nation or world?
The Bible doesn't command us to only pray, it commands us to take dominion.
Christs blood bought everything and every day. From government, to schools, to entertainment to Toyotathon.
My church doesn't sit around and bitch and pray. We get out and fight. We wrote the amicus brief that overturned Roe v Wade. We have bills of full abolition pending across the country.
Plenty of Christians died horrible deaths immersed in God's love including most of the Apostles.
If you find yourself saying something that sounds Christian that SOUNDS good like "God would never...." that you couldn't say to a Christian being fed to a lion during the reign of Nero for not saying "Cesar is Lord" then it's likely not Biblical.
Christians are not promised safety or security on Earth. We are promised eternity.
I agree. I didn't go into too much detail because I just wanted to keep it simple for the 90% of people that are completely unfamiliar with this fact.
But yeah, there's a lot of weird stuff attached to the shift in biblical eschatology.
It definitely feels like a push from a person or group that had an agenda to change the way Christians think and interact with the world.
There is no rapture. That end times position was completely fringe and virtually unheard of until about 200 years ago with the publication of the Schofield reference Bible which was the first Bible that had any type of footnotes in it that spread this ludicrous position into the mainstream that's known as darbyism.
Unfortunately this Bible was widely adopted by pastors, preachers, and seminaries.
In my opinion that's the greatest lie the devil ever told. Churches and people that have been thinking they're going to be swept up in the sky for the past few generations haven't been taking Dominion over every aspect of the world as they were instructed. No one polishes brass on a sinking ship. Christians just operate in their little cul-de-sacs.
All we have left is final judgment where the wicked is removed from the earth just like in the days of Noah while those that were in Christ which is clearly symbolic of the ark, remain in the world is restored to the garden.
All of your destruction language in the book of Revelation (written prior to 70 AD) which is approximately half quoted from the Old testament, was about the upcoming destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. That's over.
Let's go back to what Christians believed for about 1800 years and reject this lie that we lose down here. We don't.
God's favorite Bible verse is the Father saying to Jesus "sit in my right hand while I make all your enemies your footstool" That verse appears more times in scripture than any other. Basically "God wins"
Few people will understand this unfortunately.
Spot on.
FYI people... Israel has NOTHING to do left in Biblical prophecy besides continuing to reject Christ and continuing to be cut off from God.
There's no 3rd Temple in Scripture. There's no need for a red heifer. God doesn't want a new sacrifice. That was something that was only supposed to point towards Christ's perfect sacrifice. It. Is. Finished.
They are under judgment for rejecting and killing their own Messiah.
Christian nationalist here....
Yes it's pretty awesome. Our founding fathers were by any definition, were Christian nationalists.
Also the Bill of Rights and Constitution was taken directly out of the general equity of God's law in scripture.
Christian nationalism just means that Christ is king and he has all authority and that every law and every leader should recognize that standard.
Here's the thing, if God's not the objective standard of truth and justice and his word doesn't define what love is and what that looks like, then it becomes an ever-changing subjective standard that changes on the whims of whoever's in power.
You're right, I should have said shadow of the moon.
Too much Pink Floyd on the brain while quickly skimming story on mobile.
But my comprehension couldn't suck-start a Harley like your mother did at Sturgis. I'd be angry she showed me up too if I were you.
Ass.
If they can't get the name of the book right, you can almost guarantee they won't interpret it correctly.