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Israel could send Iran 'back to the stone age' with
electromagnetic bomb
Netanyahu: Iran deal gives nuclear weapons to most
dangerous terror state
Zuckerman: Iran 'Can Do Almost Everything They Want' Under
Framework
Iranian commander: Framework nuclear deal respects Tehran's
red lines
Obama optimistic about Iran nuclear deal despite Khamenei's
comments
Obama to Netanyahu on Iran nuclear deal: What is your
alternative?
Netanyahu Fears World Powers Will Lift Sanctions
'Immediately' to Meet Iran's Demand
Mischief at the U.N. - Obama toys with cutting Israel adrift in the
Security Council
PLO officials: Hamas negotiating with Israel on Palestinian
state in Gaza
UN envoy sees Syria willing to help ease crisis at Yarmouk
refugee camp
ISIS affiliate in Sinai claims execution of Egyptian solider,
beheading of captive
ISIS Militants 'Kill Children in Front of Their Parents;' 'Kick
Around Severed Heads,' Says Palestinian Refugee Witness
Who Fled Besieged Yarmouk Camp
ISIS Completely Blows up Ancient City of Nimrud
Jihadists attack Iraq's largest oil refinery
Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood leader, others to death
500 Yemen rebels dead on border since air war began: Saudi
Turkey's Erdogan reportedly held call with Saudi king, Qatar
emir
Yemeni militiamen say captured two Iranian officers in Aden
Iran state television site hacked, made to announce death of
Houthi leader
Iranians protest in front of Saudi consulate in Tehran
Pro-Russians blast destruction of Soviet statues in Ukraine
Obama meets Venezuela's Maduro at time of high tensions
Obama meets Cuba's Raul Castro in 'historic' talks
Emotional Castro says Cuba blockade not Obama's fault
Jeb Bush: Obama meets Castro, but not Netanyahu?
Right to Bear Arms? Gun grabbing sweeping the nation
U.S. Capitol Locked Down After Suicide Outside Building
No reported indication US Capitol shooting incident was
terrorism-related
Border agents bracing for new immigrant surge
In a cameras-everywhere culture, science fiction becomes
reality
Facebook Blames 'Bug' for Tracking Non-Users
5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Cangkeuteuk Sabrang,
Indonesia
5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Sarangani, Philippines
5.1 magnitude earthquake hits near Neiafu, Tonga
Mass whale beaching fuels 'unscientific' Japan quake fears
Sheveluch volcano on Kamchatka, Russia erupts to 27,000ft
Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador erupts to 18,000ft
California delta's water mysteriously missing amid drought
For Drinking Water in Drought, California Looks Warily to Sea
Empty Ebola Clinics in Liberia Are Seen as Misstep in U.S.
Relief Effort
PM Abbott promises 'no jab, no pay' policy to raise
immunisation rates in Australia
After-Birth Abortion - The pro-choice case for infanticide
Obama Orders Army to Pay Damages to Trans Man Kept from
Women's Bathroom
Philadelphia mom discarded quadriplegic son with cerebral
palsy in the woods and left to visit her boyfriend: police
Bruce Jenner: Transgender advocates wary of spectacle taking
shape
Tax Day extra difficult for many same-sex married couples
Catholic School Teacher - Suspended After
Comments Against Gay Lifestyle Raised Furor All the
Way to Hollywood - Is Reinstated
Florist in gay rights storm: 'I'm a little grain of sand'
Airline Now Offering Homosexual-Only Discounts
83,000 Bibles Sent to Cuba to Keep Up With
'Incredible' Growth of Christianity
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Obama still believes in a nuclear deal, although Iran
is skittish - even against a military option http://www.debka.com/article/24525/Obama-still-believes-in-a-nuclear-deal-although-Iran-isskittish---even-against-a-military-option
In the last two days, the Obama administration has swung between
conflicting signals on the Iranian nuclear deal. Unable to wave away the
tough conditions laid down by Tehran, the US president was nonetheless
optimistic about a final deal to curb Iran's nuclear program in comments he
made at the Americas summit in Panama Sunday, April 12. Obama said he
was not surprised at the way supreme leader Ali Khamenei had
characterized the framework agreement, because "Iran has it own politics
and hardliners who need to be satisfied, but there may be ways to structure
the final nuclear deal that achieve core objectives while satisfying Iran's
pride."
Just Saturday, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said: "We have the
capability to shut down, set back and destroy the Iranian nuclear program."
He referred to the Massive Ordinance Penetrator-MOP, aka the "bunker
buster" which is capable of penetrating fortified facilities up to 200 feet
underground. "My job is among other things to make sure that the so-called
military option is on the table," he said.
Iranian media headlines screamed: "US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter
has threatened Tehran with war."
This is exactly what Khamenei was aiming for when on April 9, he laid down
two implacable terms for a deal: the removal of sanctions on the day a final
deal is signed and a firm refusal to allow international inspections of Iran's
military sites.
Both of these provisions contradicted Washington's presentation of its core
conditions for a comprehensive accord as being gradual sanctions relief and
intrusive inspections.
One of Khamenei's objects was indeed to remove all suspicion on his home
front that Iran's negotiators had given ground to the world powers either in
the overt agreement or in any secret annexes.
The Iranian media headlines achieved this purpose.
But underlying the vocal exchanges between the two capitals is Iran's
confidence that President Obama has discarded the option of military force
against its nuclear sites. This confidence gave Tehran the edge in round after
round of diplomacy with the US and the world powers.
Senior negotiator Foreign Minister Javad Zarif boasted on April 7, that Iran
was "capable of producing an atomic bomb at any given moment," and was
contained solely by "religious Islamic injunctions."
His boast was amply illustrated by the 20,000 centrifuges Iran had built up
during the years of negotiations, plus thousands of advanced machines
standing by to further accelerate uranium enrichment - even though its
stockpile of 3.6 percent had soared to 10 tons - enough to build 4-6 nuclear
bombs.
This edge further enabled the Iranians to bring the Arak heavy water plant
capable of producing plutonium to its final stages of construction, without
encountering a prohibition in Lausanne, any more than the Fordo enrichment
site, stealthily installed some years ago, or its ballistic missile program were
sentenced to be dismantled.
That Iran would continue to get away with its tactic of talking while enriching
was borne out by Obama assurance Sunday that ways would be found "to
structure the final nuclear deal that achieve core objectives while satisfying
Iran's pride."
The negotiating tactics pursued by Secretary of State John Kerry in
Lausanne and in the previous round in Geneva not only diluted America's
military option but virtually took it off the table - not only for America but for
everyone else, including Israel. To put it back, much more is needed than
Ashton Carter's reference to the bunker-buster. To make it credible, the
United States must rebuild its military presence in the Gulf and the Middle
East - bringing back two aircraft carriers to reinforce the lone USS Carl
Vinson, for starters.
This, however, would contradict the doctrine Obama expounded on April 2
when he said: "When you hear the inevitable critics of the deal sound off, ask
them a simple question: Do you really think that this verifiable deal, if fully
implemented and backed by the world's powers, is a worse option than the
risk of another war in the Middle East?"
But he failed to explain the multiple versions of the Lausanne deal published
in Washington, Tehran and latterly Paris, whose discrepancies can no longer
be glossed over.
Speaking after his historic meeting with Cuba's Raul Castro Sunday, Obama
rebuked Republican senators for pointing this out, accusing them of
"partisanship which has crossed all boundaries."
Sen. John McCain shot back that discrepancies between US and Iranian
versions of the deal extended to inspections, sanctions relief, and other key
issues. ''It is undeniable that the version of the nuclear agreement outlined by
the Obama administration is far different from the one described by Iran's
supreme leader,'' he said.
This exchange took place two days before members of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee plan to vote on Senator Bob Corker's bipartisan Iran
nuclear agreement review act. This would give members of Congress 60
days after a nuclear deal is reached to decide if they want to waive sanctions
against Iran.
But most of all it calls into question the Obama administration's presentation
of a tentative set of disputed concepts reached in Lausanne as a finalized
framework, which left just a few loose ends for resolving by the next deadline
of June 30. The very real gaps have been highlighted and exploited by
Tehran.
US tactics don't work well in the Persian bazaar, where the carpet seller
pretends to be unwilling to sell his merchandise to an interested customer,
while putting the price up in round after round of haggling.
Khamenei falls naturally into the role of the reluctant carpet seller when he is
confronted with an especially keen American customer.
A bad deal with Iran is worse than war http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-irannuclear-letter-20150410-story.html
Salah al-Mukhtar, a Jordanian columnist who writes for the Amman News,
wrote the following reaction to the framework agreement reached between
Iran and the major powers over its disputed nuclear program:.
"This is a dangerous agreement, particularly for Saudi Arabia," Mr. alMukhtar wrote. "It provides Iran with what it needs most to pursue its wars
and expansionism against the Arabs. Lifting the sanctions is America's way
of backing the dangerous and direct wars against Arabs."
Meanwhile, Nasser Ahmed Bin Ghaith of the United Arab Emirates writes
that "the United States surely does not want to see a more powerful Iranian
hegemony in the region, but at the same time, it does not appear to mind
some kind of Iranian influence in the region."
Finally, consider what Hassan al-Barari wrote in Qatar's paper "Al-Sharq":
"Iran has tried to intervene in Iraq, Lebanon and Syria and it is seeing that it's
not paying any price; on the contrary, there are attempts by the big powers to
reach understandings with Iran. There is also a feeling in Tehran that the
U.S. is avoiding a military confrontation with the Iranians and their proxies.
Any kind of appeasement with Iran will only lead it to ask for more and
probably meddle in the internal affairs of the Arab countries and increase its
arrogance."
It seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not the only one
concerned about Iran's apocalyptic plans. The entire area is very nervous
about the true intent of the Iranians.
If Iran was the kind of international player who plays by the Queensbury
Rules and elicited an aura of trust, such fears might be diminished. But that is
not the case. Even as the discussions around Iran's nuclear capabilities have
extended for years, Iran has it has directly or through its proxies taken over
four Arab capitals, in Yemen, Syria, Libya and Lebanon.
As talks focused on limiting Iran's centrifuges, underground nuclear
laboratories and uranium supplies, Iran has been allowed to extend its
influence through powerful terrorist groups whose viciousness, mayhem and
thirst for autocratic Islamist fundamentalist power knows no bounds.
And all this has happened while ISIS and its allies, such as Boko Haram in
Nigeria, Al-Shabaab in Yemen, Al-Nusra and other extremists are charting
their own paths of destruction and murder of innocent civilians, creating huge
population changes as innocents are forced to flee to other countries that
lack the resources to care for them.
To his credit, President Barack Obama does realize the threat Iran poses to
the entire region, if not to the world. But how much has he sacrificed in order
to secure this deal? In his words, it was either this agreement or another
Middle East war.
But that is exactly what the Middle East is experiencing right now - and not
just one war, but plenty of them, all being fought simultaneously. What Middle
East war is the president afraid of that hasn't already brought the entire
region to a state of chaos and hopelessness?
Sanitizing Iran, Demonizing Israel - By Ben Cohen http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/35820/sanitizing-iran-demonizing-israelopinion/#ElwqMv8ZB8fFMfCK.97
As expected, the Obama administration is having a hard time selling the
American public on the feeble understanding-it's not a "deal," since nothing
was signed-that was recently reached with Iran over its nuclear program.
Let's start with President Barack Obama himself. Interviewed by Thomas
Friedman of the New York Times after the understanding was announced,
Obama was confident and buoyant, declaring that there was no formula
"more effective than the diplomatic initiative and framework that we put
forward" when it comes to preventing Tehran from developing a nuclear
weapon.
Then National Public Radio (NPR) turned up. In that interview, an awkwardsounding Obama admitted that a little over a decade after a final deal is
signed, Iran's advanced centrifuges would have shrunk the nuclear weapon
breakout time "almost down to zero." It was a stunning and possibly
unintended confession that sent both the White House and the State
Department scrambling to offer a clarification. State spokeswoman Marie
Harf described Obama's words as "muddled" and "confusing," before
attempting to persuade us that the president was explaining what would
happenwithout a deal. But look at what Obama actually said: "We're
purchasing for 13, 14, 15 years assurances that the breakout is at least a
year... that-that if they decided to break the deal, kick out all the inspectors,
break the seals and go for a bomb, we'd have over a year to respond. And
we have those assurances for at least well over a decade." It's painfully clear
that the scenario he outlined is one with a deal in place.
So, either Obama doesn't know what he's talking about, or he's lying. Either
way, his pledge that Iran won't obtain a nuclear weapon is about as worthless
as, well, an Iranian cleric's signature on a deal. And when you factor in all the
other disputes that have emerged since the understanding was made publicIran ruling out the presence of security cameras in its nuclear facilities, Iran's
insistence that all sanctions will be lifted when the deal is agreed despite
American assurances that these will be removed in a phased manner, the
realization that Iran will continue to operate advanced centrifuges despite
(again) American assurances to the contrary-it's tempting to believe that the
goal of a final deal by June 30 will collapse amidst mutual recriminations and
conflicting interpretations of what was agreed to in the framework.
If a deal with Iran can't be sold on the basis of its substance, how can it pass
muster? There are two factors that Obama and his flock are banking on. The
first relies on scaremongering; if we don't make this deal, we may be
condemning ourselves to further military engagements in the Middle East.
The second relies on a leap of faith; Iran, Obama, told NPR, may well
become a more open society in the aftermath of a deal, focused "on its
economy, on training its people, on reentering the world community." But
even if the Iranian regime doesn't modify its behavior, he added, it is still
"much better if we have this deal in place than if we don't."
The only people who will be persuaded by this fatuous argument-support the
deal whether or not you trust the Iranian regime-are those already
predisposed to a diplomatic outcome regardless of the medium and longterm costs. Those with a more questioning nature will surely understand that
a deal based on the conviction that the Iranian regime is more likely than not
to cooperate is the first step on the road to hell.
This is why so much of the commentary lauding Obama's efforts with Tehran
has avoided the details of the agreement, focusing instead on sanitizing the
nature of the Iranian regime while demonizing the Israelis. Take one of the
more dreadful pieces of late by Obama's cooing admirer, Peter Beinart.
Writing in The Atlantic, Beinart tried to argue that Iran is not a "totalitarian"
regime, just a brutal one-the difference being that not all brutal regimes are
able to exercise complete control over the inner and outer lives of their
subjects.
Is that a reasonable summation of the nature of Iran's Islamist regime?
Absolutely not. Glaring by its absence from Beinart's article was the concept
of velayat e faqih, or "guardianship of the jurisprudent," a method of Islamic
governance devised by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that gives the mullahs
custodianship of the entire society-a totalitarian idea if ever there was one.
The implication in Beinart's article is that it's easier to trust bad regimes that
are not totalitarian, because they are comparatively more sensitive to the
desires of their people as well as the imperatives of the international
community. Of course, Iran's history since 1979 demonstrates beyond
reasonable doubt that neither of these considerations weigh heavily on the
mullahs, precisely because they run a totalitarian regime. That's why they
used extraordinary repression to crush democracy protests in 2009, another
crucial detail missing from Beinart's piece.
In tandem with this polishing of the Iranian regime's image come the appeals
to support the deal because the most "dangerous" leader in the Middle Eastaka Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu-is against it. That was the
core message of an on-air rant by MSNBC host Chris Matthews, who, in
addressing U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's (R-Ky.) decision to seek the Republican
presidential nomination, targeted "neocons and the piggish money behind
them" as the true enemy. All the "neocons" want, according to Matthews, is a
foreign policy that creates "pro-Israel democracies" in the region.
It doesn't require a huge leap of the imagination to figure out that "neocons"
here is code for a different word that starts with the letter "J." (Matthews
shrieked at one point, "Let's just lay out who these people are!") His words
may have been uglier and cruder than the White House would have liked, but
the message is the same: you are either with us or against us, and if you're
not even willing to entertain the idea that Iran's promises can be taken at face
value, then you must be as crazy as Netanyahu is.
There's a little less than three months between now and June 30. We can
expect much more of the above as we head towards the deadline, which is
precisely why pro-Israel voices must not feel cowed or intimidated. Obama
the so-called "peacemaker" is creating a situation that will generate war and
conflict for future generations inside and outside the Middle East. That is
why, even though the president's chorus will mock us for saying this, we
should say it anyway: Ultimately, we oppose this deal because it condemns
our children to growing up in a world where democracies are in retreat, at the
same time as totalitarian regimes (like North Korea and, yes, Iran) possess
weapons of mass destruction.
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As Christians we acknowledge the fact of spiritual warfare. We understand
that this is the world we live in. Yet I wonder if we're always aware just how
close and personal it is. We're often tired of running our races and we tend to
lose our focus. However, the enemy never relaxes. He is always up close
and personal.
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that.
I was a skeptic when the demons came knocking on my door. Back then I
meditated daily and had all sorts of neat positive experiences chalked up. I
don't think I even believed in a literal devil or ghosts for that matter.
Then one night I got up out of bed to go to the bathroom and sensed a
presence which scared me in a way which I hadn't experienced before.
At that time I was regularly lifting heavy weights and proud of my strength. I
would have been less scared had I discovered a burglar in my house. This
happened more than once and I knew enough to invoke the name of Jesus
Christ. Each time I did so, the presence vanished. Other former New Age
Christians have had similar experiences. Satan is real and so are his
demons.
I'm no longer getting nightly demonic calls on my way to the bathroom but I
know they're still around and constantly busy. The devil looks for various
ways to render Christians ineffective. He doesn't always need to scare them
silly in the middle of the night.
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experiences I can relate to.
He woke up one night feeling an evil presence in his room. There was an
intense pressure on his chest; a tightness around his neck which closed his
windpipe and he was paralyzed. Ingram was released after desperate prayer
which invoked Jesus' name. This incident occurred when he was pastor of a
church in Santa Cruz - a region known for its thriving occult activity.
Ingram also relates a bizarre incident which followed the start of his perfect
day. His wife had brought him cups of coffee in bed and he had a
"meaningful time with the Lord." He had a great relationship with God, and
his loving wife, and his family was fine. It was all good.
Then about an hour before he was about to teach that same day, he was
attacked. Sinister thoughts overwhelmed him: He didn't want to live anymore;
he didn't want to teach his curriculum; he was "a terrible person" and he
didn't want to be the president of Walk Thru the Bible. What was going on?
The subject he was teaching on was spiritual warfare. He was encroaching
on enemy territory and the enemy retaliated. Prayer quickly delivered him
from the attack.
He notes that he's normally upbeat and not prone to depression. While
everyone gets discouraged occasionally - and while there may well be
psychological and medical reasons for sudden depression - when it strikes
suddenly for no obvious reason, it might be a spiritual attack. Ingram
identifies five specific times when Christians can expect these attacks:
1) During spiritual growth
2) When invading enemy territory
3) When exposing the enemy
4) When one is breaking away from the world
5) When God is preparing an individual or corporation for a great work
Charles Spurgeon warns that we may also get attacked as we pray:
"My soul is in prayer, so it would be unnatural that I should then blaspheme,
yet then the blasphemy comes. Therefore it is clearly satanic and not from
my own mind."
How often have I been distracted by obscure thoughts in the middle of prayer
and how quickly have I forgotten that prayer upon rising from my knees! Why
attack during prayer? - Because it is a major spiritual battleground.
Satan's strategy is to blind people from the truth of the gospel. There are
correlations between intercessory prayer, acceptance of the gospel and
invisible war. When people are coming to Christ, someone somewhere is
doing prayer work, and this is why prayer and the prayer are attacked.
Ingram cites Elisabeth Eliot's comparison of an accomplished skier to
someone who is a pray-er. Prayer isn't a sport one participates in for the fun
of it. Eliot wrote:
"Prayer is the opposite of leisure. It's something to be engaged in, not
indulged in. It's a job you give priority to. It's performing when you have
energy left for nothing else."
Another story recounted by Ingram is that of a missionary who was serving
as a medic in Africa. A man admitted to him that he and his friends had
visited his camp one night to rob and kill him. But when they got there they
spotted 26 guards. The missionary explained that he had no guards; yet the
man insisted that they had counted them.
When this missionary went home he was informed that - at the same time of
the incident - a member of the congregation suddenly felt a leading by the
Lord to pray for him. He got on the phone and asked others to pray as well.
There were 26 in all!
How often have we been prompted to suddenly pray for someone or do
something which takes us out of our comfort zone? Did we take heed?
The Acts Era Church was characterized by bold, strategic and consistent
prayer. Prayer was so important to that church that the apostles even
assigned deacons as administrators in order to free themselves to prayer and
preaching the word (Acts 6:3-4).
Ingram suggests using the ACTS acronym as a guide to effective praying.
Our prayers should be saturated with Adoration; express honest Confession;
always Thankful, and contain Supplication for ourselves and others.
It is important to remember that Satan has been defeated and we are already
victors in Christ (John 12:31; 1 Cor 15:55-57; Col 2:15). We have the power
to resist the devil and demonic attacks, and we need to learn to use the full
armor of God (Eph 6:13-16; 1 John 4:4).
Satan wanted to crush the early church out of existence. He tried to do it from
within and through external means. The same dynamics apply to the church
today. Now, as before, we are confronting serious Spiritual Warfare and
persecution. Time is running out for this world's powers, and the devil still
wants to destroy the church.
So let us all put on our armor and get busy praying.
And remember that the Lord has already won the battle.
Why Are You Still Here? - By Andy Coticchio http://www.raptureready.com/soap2/wc39.html
In the span of just a few days I heard expressed the thought that the reason
we, as believers, are still here in this world now is because God is not
finished with us (each of us as an individuals), and that He still has some
work for us to do here for His purpose-to His glory.
This was stated by two different people in two different contexts, and not
within the hearing range of each other. Looked at with slightly different
perspectives but the same essential thought, that if there wasn't something
that God had for us to do here in this life, He would have taken us home to
Him already.
For the believer in Jesus Christ, having this attitude is a faithful and obedient
way to live. As the apostle Paul described himself in the opening of his
epistles, we, like he was, are bondservants of Jesus Christ. The Greek word
used here, doulos, has the meaning of slave or servant, on either an
involuntary or voluntary basis.
But in the context of Paul's self-description (or those of Peter in 2 Peter or
Jude in his epistle), one need use it in the context of voluntary servitude; for
these are men who came to a saving faith in Jesus Christ and sought to
serve Him, even unto death. And as privileged by the grace of God (as we
are through our faith in Christ to be in a place to serve Him), I believe any
disciple of Jesus should view it in the voluntary sense of service to the Lord.
And now to the heart of the matter:.
I chose the word disciple instead of believer because I feel that if you are a
true bondservant to Christ, you are a disciple. As a disciple you are a faithful
follower of the Risen Lord, and not just simply a believer who has trusted and
believed in Him as the only way to one's salvation. As disciples, we should
live our lives as if the Lord has work for us to do, living as if there is
something He would have us do today for the glory of His Name and the
growth of His Kingdom.
If not, there truly is no earthly purpose to our lives. If His plans and purpose
for us are complete, (or if we no longer actively serve the Lord; for we must
remember we still have a sinful nature which rebels against Him at times), we
might as well be called home to be with Jesus. He is a loving God, He wants
us with Him for eternity, so why not start that life of service today?
But He has not called us yet and we are still here. So let us serve the Lord.
We may wish to be with Him (nothing wrong with that), but we should want to
do His bidding first. As Paul noted in Philippians 1:21-26:
"For to me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this
will mean fruit from my labor; yet what I shall choose I cannot tell. For I am
hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ,
which is far better. Nevertheless to remain in the flesh is more needful for
you. And being confident of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with
you all for your progress and joy of faith, that your rejoicing for me may be
more abundant in Jesus Christ by my coming to you again."
Paul even goes on in Philippians to talk about letting one's conduct be worthy
of the gospel of Christ; so Paul is looking for service to the Lord in a way that
is honoring to the Lord. Good words to follow for the true disciple of Jesus.
Scripture has more guidance for us:
"...being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in
you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ" (Philippians 1:6).
The Lord is doing a work in each of us, and is doing a work through each of
us. If you are still here among us there's something God has for you to do,
and it may be something that someone, somewhere needs to experience in
his or her life.
In our work for Christ we each have a race to run.
"Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of
witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily
ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,
looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that
was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat
down at the right hand of the throne of God" (Hebrews 12:1-2).
Running with endurance while looking unto Jesus, the author and Finisher of
our faith. We are to run until He decides our race has finished and His will
has been done. This is why we are still here; Jesus hasn't decided that our
particular race is over. It is a race which involves obedience to Him, bringing
glory to the Father, and growing the Kingdom by reaching others with the
love of Christ and the Good News of His gospel.
You are still here and I am still here. Our Lord has not yet stepped out on the
clouds to call His Bride up to meet Him, so for now we all remain here. There
is something for each of us to do for the Lord today. We need do it with the
love of Christ; not hating others. (He didn't hate anyone although He took
false teachers and religious leaders to task.) We are not to be complaining
about life. (He didn't do that either, instead He encouraged others to live
godly and obedient lives), and with a lot of prayer even for those who are
doing evil. (He did a lot of that type of praying.)
We remain, to proclaim Christ and speak His gospel into a world that
desperately needs it. Let's get to it and be about our Father's business.
Andy Coticchio
Rafter Cross Ministries
www.evensocome.org
ancoti@gmail.com
When guilt can be good for you - Greg Laurie http://www.wnd.com/2015/04/when-guilt-can-be-good-for-you/
Pastor Greg Laurie notes, 'Sometimes we have to feel bad before we can
feel good'
Years ago I used to have a German shepherd named Irlo. (He came
prenamed.) One evening when were taking a walk, a cat ran by. Off Irlo went,
chasing after the cat. Then all of the sudden, the cat stopped. Irlo stopped
too. I thought, What kind of cat is this? Then the cat lifted its tail, and I heard
a sound: Psheww!! It wasn't a cat at all. It was a skunk, and Irlo had taken a
direct hit to the face.
Irlo turned around, running straight toward me as I sprinted away from him.
The front door was open, and I wanted to make it back to the house before
he did. I knew that if Irlo got inside, he would stink up the entire place. But Irlo
passed me and ran through the house. When I caught up with him, I put him
in the backyard, where he rolled around on the grass, trying to rid himself of
the smell. The stench was so bad that it woke my wife from a sound sleep. It
took a long time to get that odor off of Irlo.
Maybe you are carrying around a heavy load of guilt. And maybe, like Irlo's
attempt to rid himself of that smell, you have tried to rid yourself of guilt.
You've tried to talk yourself out of it. You've said that it isn't real, that it isn't
something you need to concern yourself with. But you know it is real.
Guilt is not always a bad thing, however. Guilt is a symptom of a deeper
problem, and the deeper problem is sin. We feel guilty because we have
sinned. It means that our conscience is working. And sometimes we have to
feel bad before we can feel good. Jesus said, "Blessed are those who mourn,
for they shall be comforted" (Matthew 5:4 NKJV). A more modern translation
puts it this way: "How happy are those who know what sorrow means for they
will be given courage and comfort!" (Phillips) First, we have to see our real
condition. Our conscience is telling us that something is not right.
It's like the smoke alarm we had in our house years ago. It was so sensitive
that it would go off when my wife was making a scrambled egg. We couldn't
cook anything in the kitchen because of that overly sensitive alarm. So one
day I couldn't take it anymore. I climbed up on a stool and ripped it out of the
ceiling, and that was the end it.
Don't do to your conscience what I did to that smoke alarm. If your
conscience is working, if you're feeling bad about some things you have
done, then that is a good indication.
The bottom line is that every one of us has sinned. And what does it mean to
sin? It means to cross a line. The Bible speaks of being "dead in trespasses
and sins" (Ephesians 2:1 NKJV). It's like seeing a "no trespassing" sign and
choosing to ignore it. That's what it is to sin. You cross a line.
God has given us absolute standards for right and wrong. They are called the
Ten Commandments. We all have broken them. We all have crossed the
line. We all have fallen short of God's standard, which is perfection. Hence,
we have guilt. But here is the good news: No matter what sin you have
committed, God can forgive it and remove it from you forever.
Have you ever lost anything in the ocean? You can pretty much kiss it
goodbye. You probably will never see it again. Here is what the Bible says:
"[God] will again have compassion on us; [he] will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea" (Micah 7:19 NIV). God
also promises, "For I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no
more" (Jeremiah 31:34 NKJV).
God will forgive our sins. He will forget our sins. And we should not choose to
remember what God has chosen to forget. Our God has a big eraser. It is
forgiven. It is forgotten. It is behind us.
The Bible tells the story of two thieves on the cross who were being crucified
on the same day Jesus was. In the original language, the word thief is a
much more intense word. They were not just guys who stole things; they
probably were murderers and insurrectionists who revolted against Roman
tyranny. We might call them terrorists today. So here was this thief, hanging
on a cross, and next to him was Jesus Christ. The thief was hanging there
because of his own sins. But Jesus was hanging there because of the sins of
others.
When the crowd began to mock Christ, both thieves joined in the chorus of
mockery. But then Jesus said something that stunned one of them: "Father,
forgive them, for they do not know what they do" (Luke 23:34).
One of them said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your
kingdom" (verse 42). He believed on the spot.
Do you know how long it takes to become a Christian? About as long as it
takes to snap your fingers. You can believe in Jesus that quickly. It doesn't
take a year. It doesn't take a month. It doesn't take a week. It can happen in
an instant.
The thief on the cross was hopeless up to that point, but he found hope that
day. Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in
Paradise" (verse 43 NIV). Talk about being at the right place at the right time.
Imagine how his heart must have leaped with joy.
Have you lost hope? It's been said that a person can live 40 days without
food, three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only one
second without hope. Jesus Christ can give you hope today, just like he gave
to that thief on the cross.
Do you have a heavy sense of guilt hanging over you today? God can forgive
you. Because with God, all things are possible.
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You Must Be Born Again - A Bible Study by Jack Kelley http://gracethrufaith.com/topical-studies/spiritual-life/must-born/
Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God
unless they are born again" (John 3:3)
This started out as my response to someone asking me to defend my view
that children who die before reaching the age of accountability go to heaven.
As you'll see, it became much more.
Born Once
We came into this world when our mother physically gave birth to us. This
physical birth is what Jesus called being born of water in John 3:5 and flesh
giving birth to flesh in John 3:6. It was our first birth.
Although we were born to earthly parents, we belonged to God in the sense
that if our physical life ended for some reason, our soul and spirit, the eternal
parts of us, would go to be with Him. We had what the Bible calls eternal life.
We continued to enjoy this position with God until we reached a state of
intellectual maturity sufficient to understand the sinful nature of our behavior.
Throughout our young life we had committed various sins, but since we were
unable to comprehend the nature of sin, God did not hold us accountable for
them.
In referring to sins, I'm not talking about being disobedient to our parents,
although some acts of disobedience are also sins. I'm talking about violations
of God's laws. Until we became intellectually mature enough to understand
that violations of God's laws are sins that carry eternal consequences, God
did not hold us accountable for these violations, because to do so would be
unjust. (We have similar provisions in human law where young children are
not held to the same standards of accountability as adults are in matters of
the law.)
Once we were capable of understanding the sin issue, God began holding us
accountable for our sins. At that point we no longer belonged to Him and no
longer had eternal life. Our sins had separated us from Him.
We see this transition, and its consequences, in Romans 7:9 where Paul
wrote, "Once I was alive apart from the law; but when the commandment
came, sin sprang to life and I died."
Obviously, Paul was still physically alive at the time. By saying, "Once I was
alive apart from the law" he was referring to the eternal life he had before he
became accountable for his sins. During that time, he was apart from, or
outside, the Law and exempt from its provisions.
The phrase "When the commandment came, sin sprang to life, and I died"
means that as soon as Paul became old enough to be accountable for his
sins he was immediately scheduled for death, death being the wages of sin
(Romans 6:23). Paul knew that although he was born with eternal life, he was
not born immortal, so he would eventually experience physical death just like
everyone else. Therefore, he was talking about losing his claim to eternal life.
The Greek word for "sprang to life" indicates Paul's sin nature had always
been there, but for accountability purposes it's as if it was dormant while he
was a child. As soon as he came of age, it was revived, and when that
happened everything changed for him.
The Bible does not give any exact age at which a child becomes
accountable. Among the Jewish people this age has been established by
tradition as being 12 for girls and 13 for boys. But the point of this study is not
to determine at what age we become accountable for our sins. Rather, it's to
confirm that we began life as a child of God with the assurance of eternal life,
and to show how we can qualify for that assurance again as adults.
Born Again
Jesus said, "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little
children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 18:3).
The are two important points here. The first is the confirmation that if they
die, little children will enter the kingdom of heaven because they don't have
to change to do so. And the second is that we must change and become like
them in order to enter ourselves. Remember, all children are born with
eternal life and their sins are not counted against them. Therefore, as adults
we have to somehow regain that same status we had as little children.
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave
the right to become children of God- children born not of natural descent, nor
of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God (John 1:12-13)
God gives each one who believes in what Jesus did for us and receives Him
into his or her life, the right (power, authority, permission) to become a child
of God just like we were when we were born. Here's how it happens.
But when the set time had fully come, God sent his Son, born of a woman,
born under the law, to redeem those under the law, that we might receive
adoption to sonship. Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son
into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer
a slave, but God's child; and since you are his child, God has made you also
an heir. (Galatians 4:4-7)
Both this passage and Romans 8:15-17 convey the idea that adoption into
the family of God is truly the most important event of our lives. God sent His
son to die for our sins so we could receive the right of adoption into His
family. According to John 1:12-13 belief in Jesus gives us the authority to
claim this right and when we do God adopts us as His children and we
become heirs to his estate. At that time, the penalty for all our sins is
transferred to Jesus (Isaiah 53:5) and we're no longer responsible for them.
That's what it means to be born again as a child of God and have eternal life.
According to 2 Cor. 5:17 we actually become a new creation from God's
perspective. The old has gone and the new has come. This is our second
birth, what Jesus called being born again in John 3:3 and the Spirit giving
birth to spirit in John 3:6.
Like the little children we once were, we still sin. And like them, God does not
hold us accountable for our sins. But this time, it's not because we don't
understand the sin issue, it's because the penalties for all the sins of our life
have been transferred to Jesus. They were nailed to the cross with Him, and
when He died we were forgiven for every one of them (Colossians 2:13-14).
Now, just like the children we once were, God doesn't hold us accountable
for our sins but attributes them to the sin nature that lives within us. Here's
how Paul described it.
I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I
hate I do. And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is
good. As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. For I
know that good itself does not dwell in me, that is, in my sinful nature. For I
have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For I do not do
the good I want to do, but the evil I do not want to do-this I keep on
doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is
sin living in me that does it. (Romans 7:15-20).
Like He does with little children, God has separated the sins from the born
again believer and no longer counts them against us.
Are You Born Again?
The phrase "born again" has picked up a lot of baggage over the years, to
the point where some more "sophisticated" Christians don't even like to use
it. And the liberal denominations that follow reformed theology don't even
recognize the need to be born again. They teach that since you didn't choose
God but He chose you, there's no need to be born again. All you have to do
is become an official member of one of their denominations to receive your
salvation. This is by far the cruelest falsehood of reformed theology because
it has resulted in millions of sincere people attending church every Sunday,
believing that God chose them and actually obtained salvation for them, not
knowing that they aren't saved and never will be unless they undertake a
personal effort to find the Lord and be saved apart from their denomination's
teaching.
But the Bible is very clear on two points. The first is, we must be born again
to enter the Kingdom of God (John 3:3). And the second is, we become born
again by believing, 1) that we are sinners in need of a savior, 2) that Jesus
came to die for our sins, and 3) that He rose again on the third day as proof
that His death was sufficient to save us from our sins. Otherwise we have
believed in vain (1 Cor. 15:1-4).
By becoming born again we have become like little children in God's sight
and are therefore qualified, just like they are, to enter His Kingdom and enjoy
eternal life with Him.
Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are
covered. Blessed are they whose sin the Lord does not count against them
and in whose spirit is no deceit (Psalm 32:1-2).
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