Knowing Who We Are

I recently heard a message by David Wilkerson that really encouraged me and I am resolved to not give in to the hopelessness that often attacks us around election time. Many voices are clamoring and 'false prophets' abound with messages of gloom and fear but, to us who believe in the Almighty there is reason to hope. As the favorite Christmas verses say -

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. – Isaiah 9:6, 7

Ladies and gentlemen, the kingdoms of this world are going to become the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ, and that includes the United States! All the political maneuvering, lies, accusations, bribery to get political favor will be exposed for what they are – man’s vain attempt to build his own kingdom. While we have been encouraged by our founding fathers to “prefer and elect” Christians as our leaders, only those endeavors built upon the foundation Christ laid will last. 

The truth is, Satan has a well organized army that is mobilized to defeat Christ 

and us who believe. Although his minions, puffed up with their own importance and position, fine us for having Bible studies in our homes or expel us from school for daring to quote God’s word, such as homosexuality is an abomination to God. Political forces may mock us for believing Biblical principles of righteousness and honesty but they are only following their leader, Satan. There are no political parties that want the truth of Christ to be their ruling standard because they really don’t believe in Him, even though they may profess themselves to be Christians. Remember that both the Republican establishment and Democrat liberals criticized Franklin Graham for praying in Jesus’ name at President Bush’s inauguration. It does not matter, we win in the end! They are like the grass that flourishes for a season but soon withers away. The Prince of Peace has come, and of the increase of His government there is no end. Its increase is an unstoppable force and soon He is coming back to claim His throne. God’s advice to the nations is “kiss the Son while you may lest His anger is kindled and you perish in the way.” - Psalm 2.

For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of His government and peace There will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to order it and establish it with judgment and justice from that time forward, even forever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. – Isaiah 9:6, 7

When Jesus defeated Satan on the Cross, His government not only was established, but it is increasing! How is His kingdom increasing? - in judgment and justice. Those who follow Jesus the Christ are having their senses exercised to discern good and evil. The Holy Spirit is training us to judge every situation, every temptation by holding up to the light of His Word. When we choose God and His standards, true justice is established. We are not only cleansed by the blood of the Lamb but it also gives us judgment, the act of discerning between the good and evil. When we testify of the good, the truth, (and that means act on it) God’s justice is lifted up like a light in the darkness. When we do not give place to any fear but the fear of God – we overcome. Our prayer rises like sweet smelling incense to God. But, remember –

Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour. – Ecclesiastes 10:1

Now the devil knows this so he tempts us to listen to things we shouldn’t, to look at things we shouldn’t, to act in ways we shouldn’t because he knows that “dead flies in the ointment” gives a foul smell to our prayers so we can’t do the work of the Lord! When we were 'born again' in Jesus Christ we became spiritual persons and not natural.

Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God. These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. – 1 Corinthians 2:12-15

God wants to reveal to us what He is doing and how to overcome the enemy’s attacks against us, but we must have spiritual insight to see and hear it. If we feed the natural man, it will grow so strong that we cannot be spiritual. We have to judge the ‘dead flies’ in our ointment, call them sin and turn from them. Otherwise we will be too weakened to do the work of God on this earth. As God said to the prophet Jeremiah - 

“See, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, To root out and to pull down, To destroy and to throw down, To build and to plant." – Jeremiah 1:10

God wants to use us, to speak into situations and see them change. But that will only happen when we are in spiritual relationship with God. After all, it is not speaking our desires into a situation that changes it, it is speaking God’s desires into the situation that changes it! 

Every church in America should be filled with repentance as true believers get rid of the flies in their ointment so their prayers can once again be sweet smelling incense before God. God wants to use us and we are the only hope this country has as God works through us to make a difference once again.

The Prophet Jeremiah Speaks to America

As one calamity after another strikes the U.S. whether they be natural disasters like hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, or drought, or attacks by terrorists and financial downturns, the nightly news seems to be dominated by bad news. We can no longer claim it is just the result of better news coverage as those who keep statistics have now shown that natural disasters of every sort are definitely on the increase. What is the answer?

I dare to suggest that we are the cause. Not like the liberal idiots suggest when they blame America for all the terrorism because we dare to get involved with Islam around the world. I suggest we are the cause because we willfully left our covenant relationship with the God of the Bible. When our forefathers came to this land, they all entered into covenant relationship with Him and as a result we, their children have enjoyed the blessings and prosperity of that relationship. A parallel is written about in the Book of Jeremiah.

Thus says the LORD: "What injustice have your fathers found in Me, that they have gone far from Me, have followed idols, and have become idolaters? – Jer. 2:5

Israel began with a covenant relationship with God but then they turned against Him and God asked them why? Israel didn’t realize their blessings were caused by God and not their own intelligence or industry. They wandered from God’s commands and looked to other nations. They began to depend on ‘the arm of flesh’ and it failed them!

For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewn themselves cisterns--broken cisterns that can hold no water. – Jer.2:13

The United States of America is doing the exact same thing and we are beginning to experience the same results. We have forsaken the God of the Bible; no longer mentioning Him in our schools turning instead to the idolatry of Humanism. The 10 year anniversary of the terrorist attack on 9/11 was recently memorialized in New York and the mayor would not let God be a part of it. His excuse was ‘He didn’t want to offend any other religion!’ He didn’t even know enough about the true God to differentiate between Him and all the false gods that are so freely celebrated in our land!

Also on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things. Yet you say, 'Because I am innocent, surely His anger shall turn from me.' Behold, I will plead My case against you, Because you say, 'I have not sinned.' – Jer. 2:34, 35

As a nation we offend God regularly as we kill 1.6 million babies a year by abortion – the total count is now up to 60 million. And then we wonder why a spirit of murder is released on our nation! We are giving our country to Mexicans and Muslims because we kill our babies and they keep them, often using tax-payer dollars to care for them.

Our church families surrender their most precious gift, their children, to the public school where they teach against God. The churches say, ‘We have a great Sunday School program’ where they teach the children about God for ½ to 1 hour a week but then turn the children over to the public schools where they are taught 30 or more hours a week the doctrines of humanism, homosexuality, promiscuity, evolution and socialism. This says nothing about the so-called ‘socialization’ process that is going on from the other kids who do not practice the teachings of Christ. If my math is correct, that means the public school has up to 60 times more influence on the children than the church has. And yet, I do not see Pastors teaching against this practice or encouraging home schooling.

 Our politicians promise anything to the people just to get elected, full knowing they cannot fulfill their pledges. Washington DC is filled with self-seekers and liars and no party is exempt from them. The news media which claims special rights in our system because they were supposed to be the messengers of truth for the electorate are mostly concerned with their own power and agendas. Jeremiah speaks loudly to this country -

“Your own wickedness will correct you, and your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing that you have forsaken the LORD your God, and the fear of Me is not in you," Says the Lord GOD of hosts. – Jer. 2:19

America is losing its foundation, the family, as divorce now exceeds 50%. This is a deadly statistic for any nation as almost every institution is based upon the family. Psalm 11 verse 3 asks, “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The answer is, NOT MUCH! When over 52% of our children are living in single parent homes there is not the proper teaching of faithfulness, of commitment, of kindness, of honoring your word, and a whole host of principles a society depends upon.

We have opened the gates of our country and allowed a ‘Trojan Horse’ to be brought in. The judgment of our own wickedness is indeed upon us and we will see that it is an evil and bitter thing. We have made money our god and we are about to see our financial system come collapsing down around us. All the other things that we have made more important than our relationship with God and His Son Jesus Christ will not save us from the calamity ahead.

But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble; for according to the number of your cities are your gods, O Judah. – Jer. 2:28

Our only hope is the word the prophet Hosea gave to a backsliding Israel,

Come, and let us return to the LORD; For He has torn, but He will heal us; He has stricken, but He will bind us up. – Hosea 6:1

I, for one, intend to do just that. If we do not do this, who we elect for leaders will matter little.

Remembering 9/11

As we remember 9/11, let us not forget those Americans who died as a new kind of war was declared on America. Let us also remember those brave firemen and policemen who entered the valley of the shadow of death to try and save as many as they could and sometimes losing their lives in the effort.

Today, a short ten years after the event, there are those among us who call the attack an “unfortunate incident”. They try to tell us that it was our fault because our troops in other parts of the world are encroaching on Muslim sensibility or that our businesses are robbing the resources of Muslim countries. But, they don’t say that our troops are engaged at the request of those very governments mostly at our own cost. They never mention that those countries enjoy our markets for their resources making millions in the process. They never mention that it is the fault of Islam that those countries do not enjoy the freedom we have or that not one Muslim country is a democracy. Instead we hear the cry for accommodation of Islam coming from Hollywood and other liberals in the media. The doctrine of Political Correctness tries to forbid us from pointing out that over 95% of all terrorist actions against the United States come from Muslims or that Palestinian Muslims danced in the streets and handed out candy at the news of the 9/11 attack. Instead of rising up with righteous indignation our leaders give millions of dollars in aid to them trying to buy friendship! President Obama even brings many Palestinian Hamas “refugees” to America at our cost. While we are expected to honor their religious beliefs giving them full freedom to call for Jihad against us in their mosques, they will not allow a Bible to be brought into their land, even though our soldiers are shedding blood to protect them! This cannot be the remembrance of 9/11.

If foreigners want to come to America, let them come legally and let come as Americans. They should learn our language and our ways and they are not a separate country to themselves within our country!

I recently received this article and believe it should be passed on to as many as possible. Keep in mind although some Republicans are responsible for this problem, that it is mostly Democrat liberals who have brought about this problem by their vote-buying schemes. Now Hispanic students riot chanting "Give CA back to Mexico". As you vote in this next election, illegal immigration should be one of the key issues to question candidates on. If a candidate will not pledge to severely restrict it, they don't deserve our vote! While the economy is important, if you don’t have a country, it matters little!

HISPANIC LEADERS SPEAK OUT 

Augustin Cebada; Brown Berets; "Go back to Boston! Go back to Plymouth Rock, Pilgrims! Get out! We are the future. You are old and tired. Go on. We have beaten you. Leave like beated rats. You old white people. It is your duty to die. Through love of having children, we are going to take over." 

Richard Alatorre, Los Angeles City Council: "They're afraid we're going to take the government institutions and other institutions. They're right. We will take them over . . . We are here to stay."

Excelsior, the national newspaper of Mexico: "The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot." 

Professor Jose Angel Gutierrez, University of Texas: "we have an aging white America. They are not making babies. They are dying. The explosion is in our population ... Ilove it. They are shitting in their pants with fear. I love it. 

Art Torres, Chairman of the California Democratic Party: "Remember 187--proposition to deny taxpayer funds for services to non-citizens--was the last gasp of white America in California."

Gloria Molina, Los Angles CountySupervisor: "We are politicizing every single one of these new citizens that are becoming citizens of this country. . . . I gotta tell you that a lot of people are saying, 'I'm going to go out there and vote because I want to pay them back."

Mario Obledo, California Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and California State Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Governor Jerry Brown, also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom  by President Bill Clinton: "California is going to be Hispanic state. Anyone who doesn't like it should leave."

Jose Pescador Osuna, Mexican Consul General: "We are practicing 'La Reconquista' in California . . . ." ( meaning-The Reconquering)

Professor Fernando Guerra, Loyola Marymount University: "We need to avoid a white backlash by using codes understood by Latinos. . . "
 

When I was young, I remember hearing about the immigrants that came through Ellis Island... They wanted to learn English. They wanted to breathe free. They wanted to become Americans. Now too many immigrants come here with demands. They demand to be taught in
their own language. They demand special privileges--affirmative action. They demand ethnic studies that glorify their culture.

Remember when you vote next year that we need someone in the White House who will balance the budget and control illegal immigration. If we make all illegal’s, legal, then we have lost our country forever. Liberalism will have won and you will have a one party system forever. Redistribution of wealth will be the law. It is called socialism. Our country is heading in the wrong direction and we are doing it to ourselves without serious protest.
ALL AMERICANS SHOULD BE DISTURBED, VERY DISTURBED BY THIS. WHAT A SHAME, THAT NOT ENOUGH AMERICANS HAVE THE BACK BONE TO STAND UP AND SAY, “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH". IT IS TIME WE TOOK OUR COUNTRY BACK!

Whether it is Muslim, Hispanic, or any other ethnic group, part of the remembrance of 9/11 is that we are proud of our heritage as Americans and we believe our form of government is the right one. If you want to come and join us, then come as Americans. If that is not good enough for you, if you think your culture is better – then go home! Here in America, one of our freedoms is the freedom to leave.

Obeying God Rather Than Man

“We must obey the law of God rather than the unrighteous behests of party (political party), to chose out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness, and place such over them to be rulers, or God will assuredly avenge Himself for our violated allegiance to Him.” – Robert Lewis Dabney, 19^th Century American Theologian

Dabney, while he had many talents and skills, was best known for his work as a theologian and a soldier. While he argued against the Civil War and was against slavery, he was a loyal Southern son and championed states rights. He excelled as a military tactician and was General Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff throughout the Civil War. But, more importantly for us, he saw the great danger to our country from the philosophies of Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, John Dewey and Sigmund Freud. He predicted they would result in science divorced from God, Scripture from the University, patriarchy (men as the head of the family) from the family, and the common law (Biblically based law) from our judicial system. All these predictions have come to pass in our day and those who believe the Bible is the truth “make themselves a prey” as Isaiah prophesied (Isaiah 59:15).

While he wrote and warned about many topics, I want to emphasize in this article what he said concerning politics. The Bible warns us that Satan often comes disguised as an angel of light and the realm of politics is especially susceptible to this habit. Today, we are presented images of the one running for office. They must look good on television and they must say the things the most people want them to say because the image is what is important. It does not matter that they may not actually believe the things they say or what they have actually done – only the perception they create.

I have talked to many in my small Midwestern village that say they are going to vote Democrat because “the Democrats are for the people”, or because their family has always voted Democrat. It does not matter that Democrat policies are turning the country over to socialism, or that their policies are bankrupting America, or that their policies are costing Americans jobs. More often than not, their vote is based on ignorance of the issues, or on the greed for what the government will give them. Now the same could be said of Republicans who vote Republican for the same type of reasons, or any other party.

Dabney spoke into this situation when he said “We must obey the law of God rather than the unrighteous behests of party”. In other words, the true Christian does not vote for someone simply because they are Democrat, or Republican, or any other party. They vote for the candidate that follows God’s laws! If they do not, then they are idolaters, placing party before God and it is time we speak plainly – no idolater will inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9).

I recently read a communiqué that the Catholic Church sent to its parishes on voting for someone who supports abortion. Paraphrasing, they said while the Catholic Church does not condone abortion, it is alright to vote for someone who does as long as you yourself do not believe in it. This policy is ungodly and shows that money and power are more important to them than God’s truth!

Evangelical Christians are no better. Recent polls show that approximately 60% of Evangelical Christians voted for President Obama in the last election even though his stand on abortion was well known and publicized. Holy Scripture calls taking the life of these innocent ones – murder! They should know that it takes more than church membership to enter the gates of heaven; it takes loyalty to God and His laws above loyalty to any political party or candidate!

If you want to be a Christian, you must obey God to the best of your ability. Jesus said, “If you love Me, obey My commands.” That extends to the world of politics and work as well. God is sovereign over all areas of our lives. When President Obama lectured Republicans that they must keep a civil tongue while debating Democrat policies, he was right. But the same applies to him, and when he recently stood shoulder to shoulder with Jimmy Hoffa as he called Republicans and Tea partiers SOB’s and threatened to “take them out” and then followed by praising Hoffa and saying nothing about the threats – he makes himself a liar! These are the things Christians must stand against and vote accordingly, if we want Godly morality to once again rule in our land.

This country must be based on Christian principles or it will not stand. It can only do this if Christians today confess, along with Peter and the other Apostles, “We must obey God rather than man!”

Every true shepherd will warn his sheep from the pulpit against putting political party loyalty above loyalty to God and His laws. A true shepherd will not place a tax-free status above speaking the truth. He will encourage his membership to prefer those for leaders who honor God and His word. And every true Christian will embrace the same political preferences. If not, they will answer to God for their actions.

Pastor Charles Cooley

Unions Further Demonstrate Why They Should Not Be In Charge of Education

As a former teacher, 33 years in public High School and college levels, I am alarmed at the un-American actions of Wisconsin teacher's unions and their protests of Governor Scott Walker visit to a successful 'Choice' school in Milwaukee, WI. We are a Republic with democratic principles not a socialist mob. We had an election and Walker won. If they don't like it, they can vote him out in the next election - that's the way responsible Americans act!


The following video gives evidence that our children would be better off without the WEA and NEA in charge (click here for video).


One protester,  a former member of the Milwaukee School Board, was there because she wanted to have another chance to yell at the governor. She said that as a mother, she was offended that Walker used a child-serving institution for political purposes."This guy has no business being around children," she said. After watching video shots of the protest, it is obvious who "has no business being around children"!

The police had to arrest several protesters and the school was vandalized by 'super-gluing' the door locks to block entry. 

These 'socialists' need to know that our children do not belong to them, but to us parents! Government and their union cronies should not be given control over our children or their education. If parents in Milwaukee want to have their children attend a "choice" school that is their right and no union should have a say in the decision.