The Christian and the Current Culture
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The Christian and the Current Culture
The Christian and the Current Culture
1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Our Nation is in trouble -
We need God...
We need Revival...
We need the People of God to be in prayer and to be engaged in what is going on around us!
Supplications: divine entreaty
prayers: petition
intercessions: formal petition; official petition to the king -
giving of thanks: to be thankful (act) giving of thanks...
Why? vs 2:
“ …that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty”
The Christian and the Current Culture
The Christian and the Current Culture
Pluralism...
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia fo Philosophy -
“Pluralism about truth” names the thesis that there is more than one way of being true”
(first published Mar5, 2012, revision Oct 19, 2018)
According to Mirriam Webster:
Pluralism is
“A theory that there are more than one, or more than two kinds of ultimate reality”
“a theory that reality is composed of a plurality of entities”
What is being stated is:
There are no absolutes
There is no “right or wrong”
We can all be right
who are you to tell me what’s right?
who are you to tell me what’s wrong?
Unfortunately, it is not only a secular crowd that has this sentiment… it is even within the walls of the sacred...
But isn’t it amazing how the world that screams they all have the right to believe whatever they want to believe - is collectively telling us that we are wrong and they are right… and that we cannot believe and have absolutes...
The Democratic convention caucuses: this week
Muslim caucus meeting - left under God out of the pledge
LGBTQ caucus meeting - left under God out of the pledge -
On Thursday 8/20/20 NBC posted a video - during the US Open - that had edited and removed “under God” from the pledge - not just once but twice
Our Nation is under attack - not from without - but from within...
God has not only been removed out of the pledge - He has been removed from the party and it’s platform. A Catholic priest - offered up a prayer in support of former - Vice President Biden - he excused the hollocaust of abortion and the democratic parties support of abortion - likening it to the republican parties immigration laws - come to our country - but come legally - It was sickening to see a Catholic priest endorse a party and excuse it’s platform…
The Catholics as a whole on the side of life - and I commend them for that.
The voice of reason is gone...
The politicians -
The platforms have become so bereft of truth - that as Romans 1 tells us:
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
The Media
The Politicians
The Special interest groups...
How does - planned parenthood - get small business payroll protection loans?
THEY ARE ANYTHING - BUT - A SMALL BUSINESS...
They are a 501(c)3 organization… JUST LIKE CHURCHES
That they recieved Government funds (Annual report - ending fiscal year June 30, 2019)
government given “health services reimbursements and grants - $616,800,000 - income
expenditures:
Advocacy: $149,400,000
Public policy: $48,000,000
Community engagement: $16,000,000
A $1,413,200,000 BIG BUSINESS.... 1.4 BILLION....200,000
ALL TAX DEDUCTIBLE - AND THE LIBERALS WANT THE CHURCHES TO BE SILENT - OR LOSE OUR TAX EXEMPT STATUS
SILENT???
WHILE 345,672 BABIES WERE MURDERED LAST YEAR...
947 PER DAY - EVERY DAY THIS LAST YEAR...
YET THE WORLD GOES ON...
NO GOV’T SHUTDOWNS
NO HEALTH EMERGENCIES
NO MASKS
NO REQUIREMENTS
NO ECONOMIC DISASTER
NO EQUAL RIGHTS MARCHES for these babies
NO CITIES SEIGED
NO RIOTS
*** THESE LIVES… BLACK, WHITE, LATINO… THESE LIVES DIDN’T MATTER...
AND THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION PLATFORM - SOCIALIST PLATFORM -
IS FOR:
THE DEATH OF THE INNOCENT
THE EXPLOITATION OF ANY GROUP THEY CAN CONTROL...
YOUNG MINDS ON COLLEGE CAMPUS’ ARE LURED INTO:
ANTI GOD
ANTI AUTHORITY (OF ANY KIND)
ANTI AMERICAN RHETORIC
on 8/22 - I watched an interview with Hershel Walker - He said that every election cycle the race card is pulled to incite division to create cause in the black community to rally around a party. - But the democratic party that creates the division on the lines of race does nothing to repair or fix policies when they are in control.
The radically racist movement has ascribed to every person who is not of color to be racist… I am expected to be apologetic for being white - when I could help that no more than our black / latino or other people group could help what color or of what nation they are...
reparations are owed to Indians - who have never been forced off property… blacks who have never been enslaved, Homosexual
History is being re-written and even removed from our educational systems - as though that will right the wrongs of social injustices…
I do not have a racial bone in my body - and racism is a sin - but I believe the majority of the protests, and riots have nothing to do with racism - it is a smoke screen to exploit and divide a nation - Injustices are systemic to the human race - not just a race...
I am not condoning the mistreatment, the generalizing, profiling of people groups - what I am saying, is that we are watching a nation and a society being divided in such a grave way -
Bro. Willie Byrd - “The black community is being exploited” A black pastor friend in NC
People are being:
Deluded
Deceived
Demoralized
Rights are being taken away…
not rights that the constitution has given us,
not rights that the government has given us -
rights that God Almighty has given to us...
The Western Journal published a report on 8/22/20 (11.40 am C. Douglas Golden)
“Experts warn that states could levy fines, force jail time for anyone that refuses to get a COVID-19 Vaccine”
The report goes on to show how
Dov Fox, the director of the Center for Health Law Policy and Bioethics at the University of San Diego. He told KGTV-TV that if and when a vaccine for the coronavirus is developed, you could be fined and even jailed for not getting it.
“States can compel vaccinations in more or less intrusive ways,” he told the San Diego ABC affiliate.
“They can limit access to schools or services or jobs if people don’t get vaccinated. They could force them to pay a fine or even lock them up in jail.”
That precedent goes back to Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the court ruled that it was within the police power granted to the states to enforce vaccination laws.
The particular case involved a Cambridge, Massachusetts, law requiring residents to submit to a smallpox vaccination during an outbreak of the disease.
The defendant in the case, the Rev. Henning Jacobson, “refused to submit to vaccination for the reason that he had, ‘when a child,’ been caused great and extreme suffering for a long period by a disease produced by vaccination, and that he had witnessed a similar result of vaccination not only in the case of his son, but in the cases of others,” according to the decision.
In a 7-2 ruling, the court upheld Jacobson’s conviction.
California - a state with a Agressive - power hungry - liberal Governor - already has on the books, that you cannot enter school - public or private without vaccinations...
According to Gallup poll - July 20th - August 2:
65% adults will get the vaccine when it comes available -
35% will not get it...
35% w/o vaccinations is far above the 5% threshold that California has stated as a health hazard
in 2017 - a case with a UK child and his parents - Parents wanted to seek other medical attn in the US - UK denied - it went to court - Ruling:
…As a society, we must choose how to decide such heartbreaking cases. Of course each child is different, but do we accept that there should be principles and rules, whatever the circumstances, that guide us as we try to work out what’s best?
These are the steps. The first is to recognise that children do not belong to their parents. Second, when a claim is made that parents have rights over their children, it is important to step back and examine the language used. We need to remind ourselves that parents do not have rights regarding their children, they only have duties, the principal duty being to act in their children’s best interests.
In 2013, MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry recorded a commercial for the network in which she stated that children do not belong to their parents, but are instead the responsibility of the members of their community.
Pluralism...
“Pluralism about truth” names the thesis that there is more than one way of being true”
No absolutes...
No right
No wrong
Democratic Platform:
Women & Girls - Reproductive health - Abortion (abortion is anything but healthy)
LGBT
Trafficking / modern slavery -
Young people - noted - 30% of world population is under 30 - emphasis on training them to be international leaders...
Religious minorities
Refugee’s - stated 60 million displaced people in the world - emphasize opening up the borders
Civil Society - “we will continue to bolster groups and individuals who fight for fundamental human rights, democracy, and rule of law”
What they say and what they are doing is miles apart - rule of law
defunding the police
protecting the violent, criminal, rioters
Anti-Corruption - end corruption worldwide and increase transparency...
Arrest the clinton’s
Charge VP Biden w/ prid quo - quo
Torture
Closing Guantanamo Bay
Development Assistance - reducing the need for military force - increase global goals - makes us all safer...
Global health
expanding healthcare for all
They will prepare for future pandemics -
bird flu
swine flu -
HIV - Aids
International labor - Growing economy and protecting jobs -
they aren’t doing any of that -
under Obama / Biden
Definitely not w/ Pelosi - Shumer...
There are not multiple realities - There are not multiple truths!
There is Truth - and it begins with God -
There is error - and it is the absence of God
1. Life -
1. Life -
The unborn
The Aged
Abortion
Euthenatia
2. Marriage / Family
2. Marriage / Family
Husband
Wife
Man
Woman
Gender is God given and it is genetic - DNA tells whether you are a man or a woman...
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
Marriage did not originate w/ Gov’t - It began with God...
He started it
He defined it
the courts have no right to re-define what they did not define to begin with.
Family
Education - family / home
4 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord:
5 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
6 And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
7 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
God gave the children to the Parents...
They do not belong to the community -
They do not belong to
the Gov’t
health and human resources
dept. of Education
child welfare services
God ordained the family unit!
The LGBT movement -
The promotion of this Godless lifestyle - in the workplace
in the school systems
in the media
in the entertainment world -
It is a destructive relationship -
statistically -
More broken / casual relationships
higher suicide / mental instability
Suicide is the 2nd leading cause of death among young people ages 10 to 24.
1. LGB youth seriously contemplate suicide at almost three times the rate of heterosexual youth.
2. LGB youth are almost five times as likely to have attempted suicide compared to heterosexual youth. Of all the suicide attempts made by youth, LGB youth suicide attempts were almost five times as likely to require medical treatment than those of heterosexual youth.
3. Suicide attempts by LGB youth and questioning youth are 4 to 6 times more likely to result in injury, poisoning, or overdose that requires treatment from a doctor or nurse, compared to their straight peers.
4. In a national study, 40% of transgender adults reported having made a suicide attempt. 92% of these individuals reported having attempted suicide before the age of 25.
5. LGB youth who come from highly rejecting families are 8.4 times as likely to have attempted suicide as LGB peers who reported no or low levels of family rejection.
6. 1 out of 6 students nationwide (grades 9–12) seriously considered suicide in the past year. [5]Each episode of LGBT victimization, such as physical or verbal harassment or abuse, increases the likelihood of self-harming behavior by 2.5 times on average.
SOURCES:
SOURCES:
[1] CDC, NCIPC. Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) [online]. (2010) {2013 Aug. 1}. Available from:www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars.
[2] CDC. (2016). Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
[3] James, S. E., Herman, J. L., Rankin, S., Keisling, M., Mottet, L., & Anafi, M. (2016). The Report of the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey. Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality.
[4] Family Acceptance Project™. (2009). Family rejection as a predictor of negative health outcomes in white and Latino lesbian, gay, and bisexual young adults. Pediatrics. 123(1), 346-52.
[5] CDC. (2016). Sexual Identity, Sex of Sexual Contacts, and Health-Risk Behaviors Among Students in Grades 9-12: Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
[6] IMPACT. (2010). Mental health disorders, psychological distress, and suicidality in a diverse sample of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youths. American Journal of Public Health. 100(12), 2426-32.
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3. Religious Freedom
3. Religious Freedom
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
5 For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.
15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Freedom to worship
Freedom to assemble
Freedom to express and share our faith
We have a President who has done more for religious freedom in less than 4 years, than any other president in my lifetime
We have a president who has protected and expanded religious freedom...
the left
the liberals are looking to take that away!
This is not a healthcare emergency - it is a manipulation of people’s emotions to create:
fear
panic
submission - so they can grab CONTROL
CHRISTIANS
CHURCHES
CITIZENS ARE UNDER ATTACK
4. Personal Freedom
4. Personal Freedom
2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
What do we need to do?
What do we need to do?
Pray
Pay attention - wake up
Participate -
VOTE
VOICE
PROCLAIM THE TRUTH -
JESUS IS LORD
ACCEPT THE GIFT OF SALVATION
WORSHIP AND FOLLOW THE LORD
AMERICA HAS BEEN THE LIGHTHOUSE OF THE GOSPEL -
IF AMERICA GOES DOWN - THE GOSPEL OUTREACH WILL BE
There is not multiple truths -
There is One Truth
Truth is exclusive...