We're getting hit by winter storms tomorrow. Please pray the Lord keeps everyone safe.

Also, I'm probably going to have to call in to work because of it. Please pray that goes well.

Thanks in advance.

CNN​

US did not properly track more than $1 billion worth of weapons sent to Ukraine, watchdog report finds​

Story by By Haley Britzky and Natasha Bertrand, CNN • 2d

The Pentagon did not properly track $1 billion worth of military equipment sent to Ukraine, according to a watchdog report released on Thursday.

The report from the Pentagon Inspector General says that while the Defense Department has improved its ability to track military aid sent to Ukraine, it “did not fully comply” with requirements and much of the equipment sent is “delinquent,” meaning it’s not possible to complete an inventory of everything sent.

Please be aware that there are some swear words in that article because of words quoted by those protestors.

I read something and it had the phrase 'under the control' of the holy spirit.
It seems a Christian has the Holy Spirit living in them, but if they are obedient to the promoting of the Spirit, then they are under its control.
It's like you choose to be under its control, but there seems to be a shift in your experience when you do that... gifts? bliss?

Could anybody comment on how it is to live with the holy spirit, and being obedient to it?

New York Times​

Russia Targets Ukraine With Large-Scale Missile Attack​

Jan 13, 2024

The assault was in line with a wider air campaign that Russia began in late December, seeking to wear down Ukrainian air defenses.

Russia attacked Ukraine with several waves of missiles on Saturday morning, the Ukrainian and Russian militaries said, putting the entire country under an air-raid alert and sending people rushing for shelter as bangs were heard in several cities.

The attack, which started around 5 a.m. local time and lasted about three hours, involved nearly 40 cruise and hypersonic missiles fired from different regions, including the Russian-occupied peninsula of Crimea and the Caspian Sea, to the southeast of Ukraine. They were directed at cities including Kyiv, the capital, and Lviv, near the border with Poland.

It followed Russia’s recent strategy for large-scale air assaults: waves of different types of aerial weapons launched almost simultaneously from multiple locations and aimed at various targets, with the goal of overwhelming Ukrainian air defenses.

There's a lot of information and also analysis within this article. What are y'alls opinions regarding this topic and that analysis?

Pedophiles are truly disgusting. They all should be locked up in prison for the maximum amount of sentence possible by law if they are found guilty by a trial jury.

I shouldn't be afraid of an old man on a walker but the other day my dad told me that he would do whatever he could to stop me from going to church and talking to other Christians. It may easier for you to say to "just stand up" or "don't let it get to you" but it affects me differently. I don't think the threats are mortal of course, but I still don't know if he's trying to (or can) conjure up ways to stop me from being able to go to church and talking to other Christians.

Vox Day claims to have mathematically shown that "evolution is impossible". His argument appears to be that simple math shows that there isn't enough time to account for the genetic differences between humans and chimpanzees.

The argument looks badly flawed to me, but I am not a biologist and am likely missing or misunderstanding some things. My question is if I have correctly identified problems or if I am getting things wrong myself.

The JFG-VD Debate - Vox Popoli

We’re told that they [humans and Chimpanzees] are 98% identical in terms of DNA. So that would imply that there are sixty million different base pairs, which would tell us, because it’s two different paths, we’re talking each – they both have thirty million mutations since the common ancestor. And that’s kind of close to that other number, with the thirty-five million plus the five million.

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First, is he confusing the number of base-pair differences with the number of fixed mutations that must have occurred? As I understand this, a single mutation can change many base pairs. It appears that throughout the rest of his argument, when he says "fixed mutations", he is really talking about fixed base-pair changes.

Maximal mutations - Vox Popoli

He averages several estimates the time since the Chimpanzee-Human Last Common Ancestor (CHLCA) to get 9 million years. Using twenty years per generation, he calculates that there have been 450,000 chimp and human generations since the CHLCA. He then uses an average rate of 1600 generations per "mutation" (single base-pair change) to conclude that there could only be at most 562 "total fixed mutations" in this time (the 125 figure appears to be from using 4 million instead of 9 million years). His justification for using the 1600 rate doesn't make much sense to me.

He is citing a Nature article that I don't have access to:
Human mutation rate revealed - Nature

Source: Sequencing of 19 whole genomes detected 25 mutations that were fixed in the 40,000 generations of the experiment.
NATURE, 2009

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Biologists REALLY Don't Get Math - Vox Popoli

What JFG is claiming in his clarification is that because sexual reproduction CAN result in faster gene fixation than bacterial cloning when measured in terms of generations, it is possible for the fixation rate to be high enough to account for genetic divergence between chimps and humans since the LCHCA, as well as every other observed genetic divergence over time.

However, this is not true. What JFG and his followers forgot to take into account is that it is not generations that are relevant here, but time. And although bacterial cloning may – or may not – be slower to fixate a gene across a population than sexual reproduction in generational terms, bacteria also have considerably more generations over a given period of time than humans do.

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I used the bacterial model in order to demonstrate that the case for natural selection was impossible even when applying the fastest possible fixation rates ever observed.

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This is 1600 generations per "mutation". How does the number of generations that bacteria have factor into this number that is supposedly being very generous? He is trying to justify using the rate ("generations per fixed mutation") of bacteria for humans and chimpanzees because he claims it is faster due to bacteria having many more generations for a given period of time, but then uses 20 years per generation to calculate the "maximum fixed mutations". Am I missing something or does this just not make any sense?

Also, is 1600 "generations per fixed mutation" way too slow of an estimate of this rate for humans and chimpanzees since they reproduce sexually and have a much larger genome than bacteria?

Christians..
Did you notice any change when the Holy Spirit entered you?
How did you know it had happened?
What did you notice then and since?
Was it primarily intellectual, or attitudinal? Was there a sensation a feeling... what actually happened to you when the Holy Spirit came to you?

I'm beginning this as a discussion so that others outside of the regulars here can post about it also. Let's hope it doesn't turn into a mess.


Last night The Holy Spirit brought a subject up to me that I had not put much thought into before. He brought back to remembrance an experience I had happen just a few days after I was born again. This was back in '92 and I was in the Navy at the time. I was down in one of the machinery spaces at some point during the day and it was like I had this sudden urge to speak something. I thought that I was possibly praying out loud or something, but it was like a fire was rising up inside me and around me as I was speaking. The words seemed flow strongly from my heart and I sort of felt The Holy Spirit moving around me during it. It lasted for about a minute or so.

After this happened, I was reminded about a passage in scripture that I had just read about,...

Rev 19:10 And I fell down before his feet to worship him. And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow–servant with thee and with thy brethren that hold the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

I got to thinking about it again and found that I was prophesying only days after I was born again but had not received the filling of The Holy Spirit. The spirit of Jesus (my regenerated human spirit) was witnessing to the truth in this passage of scripture.

I never really put too much thought into that event as others were happening also to me, but as it was brought back to me last night, The Holy Spirit started teaching about the distinctions between the spirit of Christ (our regenerated human spirit) and The Holy Spirit. I was under the assumption that when we were born again we had a small portion of The Holy Spirit placed into our heart and we were then sealed unto the day of redemption. But I'm being shown differently, that that is not the case, that The Holy Spirit must be sought after so that we are filled with Him after water immersion, and the example I was given was Jesus. He did not have The Holy Spirit until after He was water immersed. The text is clear on this in scripture.

I always wondered why Paul asked the disciples he ran into this,....

Act 19:2 and he said to them, "Did ye receive the Holy Spirit, after having believed?" And they said to him, "Nay, we did not even hear whether there is a Holy Spirit."

I thought it was an odd question since I was under the belief that they had a small portion of The Holy Spirit already in their hearts, but after last night, I'm seeing things in a different manner. They didn't have The Holy Spirit inside, and until they were water immersed and Paul laid his hands upon them, did they actually receive The Holy Spirit.

Thinking about this, this spells out all sort of problems for those born again Christians who refuse The Holy Spirit and His gifts. They are trying to run their race on just their regenerated human spirit and nothing more.

Questions, opinions?

In Memoriam: Archpriest Moses Berry

may his soul dwell with the blessed!

A bit of good news for the new year. The DEI office of Clackamas County, Oregon no less, has been entirely defunded and dismantled. Those employees will hopefully find useful work which doesn't just consist of sitting around doing nothing but fomenting hatred. Let's get this ball rolling, America.

This movie opened in theaters yesterday. I'm not sure what this guy (Jeymes Samuel) is trying to say, but it certainly (to me) has more to do with current racial politics than it does the Christian Faith.

Clarence is an atheist Black dope pusher in Jerusalem, who competes in chariot races against Mary Magdalene (yes, really), and owes a lot of money to his supplier, "Jedediah the Terrible". He can't come up with the cash because he's underprivileged and disenfranchised (sound familiar?), and he's also being oppressed by the Romans, who are all white and are the equivalent of the po-lice in today's society.

Mary Magdalene, by the way, is Black, as are the Virgin Mary (played by Alfre Woodard), John the Baptist, Judas Iscariot, Barabbas, and Jesus himself. Samuel asks "Who was in the 'hood?" with regards to 1st-century Judea, and apparently decides there was no difference between then and any street corner in Philly or Flatbush five minutes ago.

The review below gives it a positive rating (of course), but also says that Samuel wants to "tread lightly, and respectfully, on our ideas of the messiah myth".

I tend to disagree with that assessment; I don't find anything very respectful about it at all. But I suppose that's because I'm male, white, Catholic, and conservative, which automatically means I am also privileged, patriarchal, oppressive, racist, bigoted, blah, blah, blah, blah, the usual tired bleat.

To those who say this might be an over-reaction, what would they say to a white director making a movie about Martin Luther King, Jr., and depicting him as a Chinese lesbian woman? Think that would go over well?

2024’s Most Unique Movie Is an Anti-Historical Epic With an Identity Crisis​

“On November 5, 2021, Wade’s invoice is for 24 hours of work,” Roman’s legal team noted in a footnote on page 13.
The description next to the invoice is listed as “prepared cases for pre-trial,” though it does not indicate how many individuals were being compensated for the services. He billed for $250.00 per hour, according to the invoice in the motion, equating to a $6,000 charge."

What bothers me the most is not the amount, which is outrageous, but that taxpayer money is being used for political purposes.

The following translator understands the following passage quite well, even to the point that it is the Body of Meshiah which is to judge regarding what is mentioned in the text, meaning that the word order, (which is not all that important in Greek, but more critical in English translations), is not properly rendered in most if not all English translations. The phrase, "the Body of Meshiah" is more properly placed at the beginning of verse sixteen. This is why so many translators find the need to either add to this statement or change the meaning of soma from body to substance: for it does not read properly in English without adding to it or redefining words so as to make sense of it, and the reason why is because it does not belong where it is generally placed in English translations, (the end of verse seventeen).

Colossians 2:13-22 TS2009 W/Footnotes
13 And you, being dead in your trespassesc and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, Footnote: cEph 2:1.
14 having blotted out that which was written by hand against us – by the dogmasd – which stood against us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the stake. Footnote: dDogmas - also see Col 2:20 and Eph 2:15.
15 Having stripped the principalities and the authorities, He made a public display of them, having prevailed over them in it.
16 Let no one therefore judge you in eating or in drinking, or in respect of a festival or a new moon or Sabbaths –
17 which are a shadow of what is to come – but the Body of the Messiah.e Footnote: eThe Body of Messiah is to give ruling on all matters, not the outsiders! See also Mat 18:15-20.
18 Let no one deprive you of the prize, one who takes delight in false humility and worship of messengers, taking his stand on what he has not seen, puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 and not holding fast to the Head, from whom all the Body – nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments – grows with the growth of Elohim.
20 If, then, you died with Messiah from the elementary mattersf of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to dogmas:d Footnotes: dDogmas - also see Col 2:14 and Eph 2:15. fSee Col 2:8 and Gal 4:3 and Gal 4:9.
21 “Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle” –
22 which are all to perish with use – according to the commands and teachings of men?g Isa 29:13. Footnote: gSee also Mat 15:8-9, Mar 7:6-7.

The translator footnote for verse seventeen rightly says that it is the Body of Meshiah that is to rule on all matters, not outsiders: but it appears that the translator misses one thing, that is, the meaning of "the Body of Meshiah" in this context, and almost no doubt the Body of Meshiah in this context concerns the Tanak Body of the Meshiah because he is the Word. The Tanak Body of Meshiah was raised up in Matthew 27:51-53, and entered into the holy city, which means Yerushalem of above, not Yerushalem of below, (see Hebrews 12:22-24).

Thus it is the Torah, Prophets, and Writings, the Tanak Body of Meshiah, which is to be our judge in the matters mentioned in that portion of the text above where this is mentioned. If therefore we correct the word order, as it appears to be meant in the Greek text, it should read and be rendered in the following manner.

Colossians 2:13-22
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has made you alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses,
14 having blotted out the handwriting in dogmas that were against us, which were contrary to us: and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the stake:
15 having despoiled the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
16 Let no one but the body of Meshiah therefore judge you in food, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new month or the Shabbat:
17 which are a shadow of the things to come.
18 Let no man rob you of your prize by a voluntary humility and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
19 and not holding fast the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and bands, increases with the increase of Elohim.
20 If you died with Meshiah from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to dogmas,
21 Handle not, Taste not, Touch not,
22 (all of which things are to perish with the using), after the commandments and doctrines of men?

Nowhere in the scripture is the Torah ever called dogmas, and Paul explains at the end of the portion above that he speaks of the commandments and teachings or doctrines of men: that is surely not speaking of the Torah. However dogma does appear in the Septuagint, and is always used for edicts, decrees, dogmas, and proclamations from kings and rulers. In the sense of the Colossians passage herein above it is no doubt the rulers of the people, the Sanhedrin, Elders, Chief Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, and their handwritten dogmas and decrees which were against the people, and contrary to us all: for their interpretations of the Torah were based on a natural minded, outward, and physical understanding of the Torah, which we know from Romans 7:14 is spiritual, just as Elohim Himself is Spirit, (John 4:24), so His Word is Spirit, and likewise the Testimony of the Meshiah is Spirit, (John 6:63).

The handwritten dogmas and decrees of the Sanhedrin, Elders, Chief Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, which were binding upon the whole nation, and which were contrary and against the people, are the same "letter" which Paul says kills.

The letter which kills is not the Torah. The letter which kills concerns the handwritten dogmas of the Sanhedrin, Elders, Chief Priests, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Scribes, which Paul speaks about in Colossians 2:14. Meshiah indeed triumphed over them and their carnal minded rulings, dogmas, and decrees, all over the place in the Gospel accounts for all to see: making a show of them and their hypocrisy openly before all the people, which is one of the main reasons why the rulers of the people had him killed.

Since I'm not a very good writer I'll copy and paste a portion of the talking points of this article. This article describes the effect of the ever-increasing sovereign debt and no money doesn't grow on trees. Everyhousold knows that.

"Imperiling the Safety Net. America’s high debt jeopardizes the safety net and the most vulnerable in our society. If our government does not have the resources and stability of a sustainable budget, those essential programs and the individuals who need them most are put in jeopardy. (Our entitlements?)
Reduced Public Investment. As the federal debt mounts, the government will spend more of its budget on interest costs, increasingly crowding out public investments
Reduced Private Investment. Federal borrowing competes for funds in the nation’s capital markets, thereby raising interest rates and crowding out new investments in business equipment and structures. Entrepreneurs face a higher cost of capital, potentially stifling innovation and slowing the advancement of breakthroughs that could improve our lives
Fewer Economic Opportunities for Americans. Growing debt also directly affects the economic opportunities available to every American. If high levels of debt crowd out private investments in capital goods, workers would have less to use in their jobs, which would translate to lower productivity and, therefore, lower wages.
Greater Risk of a Fiscal Crisis. If investors lose confidence in the nation’s fiscal position, interest rates on federal borrowing could rise as higher yields would be demanded to purchase such securities. A rapid increase in Treasury rates could also lead to higher rates of inflation, which would reduce the value of outstanding government securities and result in losses by holders of those securities — including mutual funds, pension funds, insurance companies, and banks — which could further destabilize the U.S. economy and erode confidence in U.S. currency on an international scale.
(this is happening now with credit rating and countries offloading treasuries)
Challenges to National Security. former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, put it: “The most significant threat to our national security is our debt.” As the national debt grows, we are more beholden to creditors around the globe and have fewer resources to invest in strength at home."

In our culture democratic elections and popularly chosen governments are marked as a sign of secure and prosperous societies while dictatorships, communist regimes, oligarchies, and numerous undemocratic forms of government are regarded as inferior as well as corrupting. Such governments are seen as somewhat evil. Yet the biblical pinnacle of Government is a kingdom in which God is king. So, is our culture godly and biblical or is it ungodly and man-made?

Please stand with the Chinese believers.
请与中国的信徒一同站立



Please share this with all your friends and churches and social media platforms.

请把这个信息与你所有的朋友以及教会、社交媒体平台分享。







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JIANGSU PROVINCE

Coastal province , west of Shanghai
上海西部沿海省份
Population 90 million
人口9000万
Christians number between 8-10%
基督徒人数8-10%
This is the province, I live in.
这是我居住的省份。
Please pray as although there is great progress for the gospel, there are also severe challenges. We cannot meet in person so all meetings must be virtual Please pray that creative ways to get round these restrictions are found.
请祷告，虽然福音事工有很大的进步，但也有严峻的挑战。我们不能私下见面，所以所有的会议必须是虚拟的，请祈祷有创造性的方式来绕过这些限制以免被发现。
Please pray that whatever the persecution, the gospel goes forward on a daily basis and that God would call many Chinese people into his kingdom.
请祷告，我们无论遭受什么样的逼迫，但福音事工每天都往前推进，因神会呼召许多中国人进入祂的国度。
Please pray for the major cities of this province especially Nanjing (my home), Wuxi, Suzhou and Yancheng. Please pray that the church would be revived in these places.
请为这个省的主要城市祷告，特别是南京（我的家乡），无锡，宿州和盐城。请为这些地方的教会复兴祷告。
Please pray that the church would become mature and purified during this severe period of persecution.
请为教会在这严峻的逼迫时期能成熟和洁净祷告。
Jiangsu is relatively prosperous, the danger for Christians to be drawn into the world is obvious. Please pray that the church would be salt and light to their communities.
江苏相对繁荣，基督徒被拉入世俗世界的危险是显而易见的。请为教会成为他们社区的做光与做盐祷告。
Continue to pray for deep and powerful revival to touch every area of this province.
恒切祷告，求大能的复兴触及本省的每一个地区。
Please pray that every housing complex, would have it's own bible study.
请为每一个住宅小区，都有自己的圣经学习祷告。

Please pray for me and my girlfriend. I have not been a good boyfriend to her, but Christ has guided me to work on myself in His image. as for now, we are on a break from one another, and i ask for prayers that we both can be reunited in Christ. Thank you for your prayers.

There are several running themes throughout the New Testament writings, and one of the predominant ones is the persecution of the saints of the Lord. It keeps recurring over and over because we need to be reminded that if we follow Jesus Christ with our lives that this is to be expected, so that when it does happen that it does not overtake us, and so that we do not lose heart. And perhaps in a sort of backward way, this serves as an encouragement to us when we are being persecuted, knowing that we are not alone in this.

And another reason we need to be reminded of this is because it appears that the majority of those who are preaching “the gospel” these days are overlooking this fact, and so many of them are presenting only the positive aspects of the Christian faith, and so they are not really preparing the people for this reality. Or if you are being persecuted, then they will try to put you on a guilt trip that it must be your fault, kind of like what Job’s friends did to him in accusing him of sin because of the trial he was going through.

And then there are those who, when you are being persecuted, immediately counsel you to leave and to go someplace else, “because God wants you to be happy.” But Jesus, over and over, kept telling us that we would be persecuted. Yes, there are times when he says to leave, but there are times when he says to remain and to see the salvation of the Lord. If all we do is keep running from persecution in order to be happy, then we will not be able to fulfill the great commission of the Lord in taking his gospel to the people.

And then if you do remain in situations where you are facing persecution, like Jesus did, and the NT apostles did, and the prophets before them did, then they want you to just keep it to yourself, as though that is just your problem. But Paul all the time told the people of his sufferings and of his persecutions, and he asked for them to share in the fellowship of his sufferings, and of Christ’s sufferings, and to pray for him and to encourage him and all other Christians who were suffering persecution.

So, basically if you are staying somewhere where you are being persecuted, but even if God is using this in your life for good in your own life and in the lives of others to whom you are ministering, it appears that most people do not want to hear about it so that they can pray for you, for they assume that is your problem. And I understand that there are people out there who just like to complain and to gossip about other people, but the Scriptures do teach that we are to bear one another’s burdens and to pray for each other.

And the reason that I am bringing all of this up is that the persecuted are often being persecuted by those who are supposed to be supporting them and encouraging them and praying for them. And so they are being abandoned and forsaken and cast off by the people who are to be praying for them. And so they end up not only being persecuted by those who are supposed to love and encourage them, but then they are abandoned, too, especially by those who think they should just live for their own happiness.

But Jesus didn’t call us to live for our own happiness. He didn’t call us to run away from suffering so that we can be happy. He called us to suffer for the sake of his name and for the sake of his gospel, and for the sake of righteousness, and that we are not to be ashamed to suffer for Christ. He called us to lay down our lives and to be willing to suffer and to die to see others be set free from their bondage of sin and to now walk in holiness and in righteousness and in obedience to our Lord.

But this doesn’t mean that if we are suffering for the sake of Christ and for his gospel that we are to keep silent about it and that we are not to ask for prayer. We need prayer! And the solution is not always to abandon ship, especially just so that we can be happy. For the Lord sometimes puts us in such situations to make us into the people he wants us to be so that he can use us in the ways he wants to use us, and running away would be abandoning his calling on our lives. But we still need prayer.

For when we make that decision to follow Jesus with our lives, we are choosing to be persecuted for the sake of righteousness. But this is the choice that all of us who call upon the name of the Lord are making for ourselves if our faith in Christ is genuine God-persuaded faith in Christ. For this is a decision to take up our cross daily to follow Christ in obedience and to be willing to be hated and persecuted in order to share with others the gospel of our salvation so that they can come to know him, too.

And yes, sometimes our fiercest opponents and enemies may be the people of our own families, even in our own households. But what did Jesus say? He said that whoever loves father or mother more than him is not worthy of him. For if we choose the acceptance and approval of our family members over the will of God for our lives, we are not worthy of Christ. We are not fit for the kingdom of heaven because we loved our lives more than we loved Christ. We have to be willing to be hated by people in order to love God.

And if we are not willing to die daily to sin and to follow our Lord in obedience to his commands, and if we are not willing to suffer for the sake of his name and for the sake of his gospel and for the sake of righteousness, for our own comfort and enjoyment and happiness, then we are not worthy (suitable, fitting, deserving) of our Lord and his salvation and eternal life. For we are called to suffer for the sake of his name, not to abandon all suffering for our own comfort and enjoyment.

So don’t be ashamed or afraid to suffer for the sake of Christ and for his gospel. And don’t believe the lies which tell you that you should live for your own comfort and enjoyment, even if it means abandoning the call of God on your lives. For we are called of God to deny self, to take up our cross daily (die daily to sin and to self) and to follow our Lord in obedience wherever he leads us. But if we hold on to our own lives for our own comfort and enjoyment, we will lose our lives for eternity, no matter what we profess.

[Matt 5:10-12; Matt 10:16-25; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 6:22-23; Lu 21:12-19; Jn 15:1-21; Jn 16:33; Jn 17:14; Ac 14:22; Rom 5:3-5; Phil 3:7-11; 1 Pet 1:6-7; 1 Pet 4:12-17; 2 Tim 3:12; 1 Thess 3:1-5; Jas 1:2-4; 2 Co 1:3-11; Heb 12:3-12; 1 Jn 3:13; Rev 6:9-11; Rev 7:9-17; Rev 11:1-3; Rev 12:17; Rev 13:1-18; Rev 14:1-13; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Matthew 7:21-23]

Why Are You Afraid?

An Original Work / December 5, 2013
Based off Various Scriptures

Do not be afraid.
Your Lord is always by your side.
Serve the Lord in righteousness
Before Him all your days.

Those who hate the light
Will not come to the Lord.
They fear their deeds
Might be noticed.
So, they hate the light,
And they embrace the night.

Do not be afraid,
Although your enemy attacks.
Dare to share your testimony
Of God’s saving grace.

Do not fear their threats,
But honor Christ, your Lord.
Be prepared to give an answer
For the hope you have,
With gentleness; respect.

Why are you afraid?
For all that’s hidden will be shown.
What I tell you, speak in daylight.
Let the truth be known.

Do not be afraid
Of those who’ll take your life.
Fear the Lord with understanding.
Trust Him with your life,
And give not up to strife.

Do not be afraid.
Take courage, it is I, your Lord.
Bow before Me; now adore Me.
Oh, why do you doubt?

Listen to the Lord.
Get up and bear His name!
Run and tell the world He loves them.
Jesus came to save.
Give Him your all today.

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There are possibilities of financial collapse in my lifetime. I believe the Anti-Christ will use this opportunity to set up his kingdom. Even after Wednesday’s announcement, SEC chair Gary Gensler said in a statement that despite the approval of the ETF listing, "we did not approve or endorse bitcoin." I personally have no intentions of investing in bitcoin and spend time worried over what I have invested in the form of the US dollar.

What is the role of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

Is He given to us as a teacher and a guide?

Can we reasonably learn to hear His voice of counsel?

Is He only active when we read the bible?

Does He want to guide us on the best path as we walk in the way?

Why did Jesus come to earth to accomplish and there many answers .

And in Matt 10:34 is just another reason why he came to earth .

In Matt 10:34 is another reason what Christ came and will accomplish and that will happen .

#1 Think //NOMIZ0 is an AORIST TENSE , ACTIVE VOICE , and in the Subjunctive Mood , and in the PLURAL

#2 NOT // is a DISJUNCATIVE PARTICLE NEGATIVE

#3 I AM COME //ERCH0MAI , in the AORIST TENSE , ACTIVE VOICE , INDICATIVE MOOD , means better believe it , in the SINGULAR .

#4 TO SEND // BALLO , in the ACTIVE VOICE , means Christ will be using man to carry it out .

# 5 PEACE // EIRENE is in the ACCUSATIVE CASE , in the SINGULAR

#6 ON EARTH // GE , is also in the ACCUSATIVE CASE and in the SINGULAR

# 7 I CAME // ERCHOMA , is in the Greek AORIST TENSE , ACTIVE VOICE , in the INDICAIVE MOOD in the SIINGULAR

#8 NOT // MU is Greek a DISJUNCATIVE NEGATIVE , and it means NOT ever to bring peace until earth is His Foot stool !!

# 9 PEACE // AIRENE is in the ACCUSATIVE CASE , in the SINGULAR .

#10 A SWORD // MACHAIRA , also in the ACCUATIVE CASE , in the SINGULAR


Luke 12:: 49 - 56 is what will be happening when that SWORD will be used .

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The state of Ohio has taken the first step to overturn the Republican governor’s veto of a bill that protects children from permanently harmful transgender procedures and assures privacy and fairness for female athletes. Conservatives praised the action, while Democratic opponents accused its supermajority of promoting “a political, hateful agenda” due to “money given by radical Christian groups.” One Democrat screamed, “You are literally killing our children!”

On Wednesday afternoon, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted 65-27 to override Governor Mike DeWine’s veto of Substitute H.B. 68, more than the 60 votes required. The measure combines the Save Adolescents from Experimentation (SAFE) Act — which shields children from transgender puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone injections, and surgeries — with the Save Women’s Sports Act, which prohibits men from competing in girls’ sports or sharing their locker rooms. It also prevents courts from denying or limiting custody to a parent who refuses to “affirm” their child’s transgender identity and safeguards state taxpayers from funding minors’ transgender procedures through Medicaid.

The bill earned four more votes on the override than it did when the House passed it on December 14.

Overwhelming Republican support came as no surprise to the bill’s sponsor. “Our momentum is very good,” said State Rep. Gary Click (R-88) on “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” Tuesday. “My colleagues were clamoring to come back and vote on this. They’re very upset,” with some flying home from as far as Florida to protect children.

Transgender activists in the House gallery briefly screamed in protest and defeat after Wednesday’s results were announced. But Christian pro-family advocates praised the outcome.

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) thanked the state house for opposing the “politicized and harmful practice of pushing minors towards irreversible drugs and surgeries in favor of compassionate mental health care that gives them time to grow into comfort with their bodies and true identities,” in the words of ADF Senior Counsel Matt Sharp. “No one has the right to harm children, and, thankfully, states have the power — and duty — to protect them.”