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American Voters are Accepting of Leftist Principles
John R. Houk
© December 3, 2012
I believe there was a time that American voters had a concern about stealth Marxism/Communism transforming America into a Collective in which Liberty and Civil Rights were defined by the State rather than Constitutional Rule of Law. After Election 2012 I now believe Americans could care less about American Freedoms. People are simply willing to have their lives and culture defined by the State.
Feel me, hear me, see me and touch me and tell me what to believe for my own good. The toehold to despotism is the illusion of government dependent beneficence. If the government is the hand that feeds you and the creator of a temporal synthetic existence causing security euphoria, then actual Liberty won and instituted by law by the people and for the people will be lost to an oligarchic bureaucracy that in turn has government policy distributed by a ruling elite.
The polarization in America is between hardcore Leftists that have convinced (apparently most) Americans that a Secular Humanist, Multicultural Diverse and Judeo-Christian destroying society is the path to utopia AND those Americans that have an awareness of fiscal responsibility, Social Conservatism based on Judeo-Christianity as well as the Original Intent of the Founding Fathers revolutionizing the Rule of Law of a Representative Republic.
We Americans on the Right side of the polarized scale must step up our level to communicate to Americans the risks to American Liberty by unwittingly investing in the Socialist-Marxist-Communist journey to the illusion of a man-made utopia. Friends, there is no such thing as a utopia that realizes the greater good for the betterment of humankind when the architect is man.
Yes, I am a Christian. I am a Christian that believes a great debt is owed to Jews. Even though the Jews do not share the Christian sentiment of Salvation in Christ Jesus, the New Testament clearly proclaims that Salvation is of the Jews. Our Savior was born a Jew, raised a Jew and lived as a Jew in His earthly walk that led to the Crucifixion, Death and bodily Resurrection that Christians believe brings Deliverance from bondage of a Satan influenced age and a transference to the Kingdom of God.
The only utopia on planet Earth will be after the Creator forms the New Earth-New Jerusalem and the New Heaven in which the nations that have come to their senses believe in the Kingship of Jesus Christ. The Rule of Law will not be devised by humanity; rather humanity will have the Will of God imprinted in their new creation spirit knowing instantly the good rejecting any evil that separates from God Almighty.
Yes that is correct. I injected faith and politics as the God-Kind of life that government will be like without humanity calling the shots. The Founding Fathers realized that government should not have any business in religion yet that religion (specifically the Christian religion) must be the conscience of government. Robbing America of a Christian conscience has slowly changed our society in which greed, violence and distrust are embedded in our culture.
We Americans of the Right must find a way to reinstill the vision of the Founding Fathers complete with the conscience that keeps government in line and by extension our culture in a better moral state.
You may wonder what set off this line of thought. Well it was an article by Trevor Loudon that exposes the tentacles of the Left forming policy of the Democratic Party as administered by the Obama regime on the USA.
JRH 12/3/12 (Hat Tip: Danny Jeffrey)
Natural Born Sinners
A Youtube friend sent me one of the most awesome sermons I have read for a person to choose Life in Christ Jesus the Redeemer-Savior.
Even if you are a Christian this is a good refresher of the reason you are Born Again. At the end of the sermon CBYakima has a video by TheAbaloneKid. The two may be one and the same person or two good friends. I am uncertain; nevertheless be sure to read and grasp the sermon that is a road map to Salvation in Christ.
JRH 7/7/14
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Natural Born Sinners
By CBYakima
Sent: 7/3/12
From Here To Eternity, my friend on You Tube.
By God’s command I send you the most important message you will ever receive in this life. Take it seriously. Choose the way of God this very day and receive Godly life now and forever.
It’s the heart condition that exists which is our problem that stops us. We are natural born sinners. Sinners by nature who have no connection to God who is our maker. It is our inherited condition. Because of this God is strange to us. Jesus Christ on the bloody stick (often called a “cross”) is strange to us! This is our condition. We are born separated from God spiritually. Thus God cannot be the leader in our lives. God cannot shed grace upon grace on us. God loves all humans but cannot act in our lives until by His grace and through faith God gives, we believe God, and then, by faith!, receive all God has for each of us in this life, which is in Jesus Christ.
Sin has deceived us, because it is just as natural to us as looking at our face in a mirror. We do not see what our heart, and mind and soul cannot see is our lost condition. Only God can wake us up. Only God can bring life to us from the spiritually dead condition and separation from God we suffer in our lost state. If God would appear right now God would be a total stranger to us.
The proof of our fallen and dead spiritual condition is in our sins. God cannot accept sins and receive a sinner for GOD is perfect and Holy. ONLY JESUS CHRIST CAN STAND IN FOR US BEFORE ALMIGHTY GOD! We are God’s creation. God has given us a way to overcome this condition. Like symptoms of a disease, our sin is the evidence of our lost condition. And even after we are “born again” we will sin because our old nature remains. But when we truly BELIEVE GOD and His WORD, we will be given a new nature through the Spirit of God who will come and reside in us and we will slowly but surely change and understand God more and more.
That’s why God has said we MUST be born again by Spirit and through His word in the Bible which is the truth. He is our physician. Jesus Christ has told us of our condition. Left unattended we will die in our sins and be judged one day by Him.
This is the TRUTH OF GOD, not our thoughts about life but His TRUTHS. Now they seem foreign to us.
In order to overcome it we must be “Born Again”! Jesus Christ is our only sure hope. He paid the price for our sins. He is God the Son with full authority to pay that price in His perfect life and sinless being. Under false accusations and judgment, HE DIED FOR US AND SHED HIS BLOOD ON THE CROSS THAT IS THE PAYMENT for all our sins. And He rose from the dead to guarantee us eternal life in Him.
By receiving this free gift of God’s grace is the only way GOD can have direct communication with us. This is how we become God’s adopted children: through Jesus Christ who is our Savior. He has saved us from the penalty of our sins. He has delivered us from death which is spiritual separation from GOD that already exists, into a new relationship, as children of GOD, FOREVER!
Pick up a Bible and reread the passages I quoted in my message. Read the other verses that accompany those scriptures. It will help you understand more.
I know it’s strange to hear these things. That is natural to our STATE OF BEING. Our life and the society around us encourage our attitude of being “better”, and “Getting more out of life”, “success” “YES WE CAN!” , and taking “our place” as another sucker for all the lost ways, apart from Christ, of the different world orders and their beliefs and philosophies. But we were made BY GOD a long time ago. God gave His human family LIFE! God owns us and all that makes up the earth and Heavens and Galaxies.
God is not mocked by the lost of the world! Mankind is already under judgment for sin. It turned it’s collective back on God a long time ago. And civilizations have come and they have gone into the graveyard of NO returns. And all types of people that make up nations and states are under judgment excepting those who believe on Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior which is who He is. Let me repeat a short but most powerful verse all should learn:
“For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).
God has a ironclad plan for His creation. GOD WILL HAVE HIS WAY. God calls His human creation! That is God’s way. He is calling you. God is telling you the truth. ONLY JESUS CHRIST SAVES. You must believe WHY AND HOW. If you are destined to be a child of GOD through the Son of God, you WILL understand! GOD will open your eyes and you will see and understand by the Spirit of God. Only the Spirit of God can inform you by the Word of God which is revealed to this world, in the Bible, through Jesus Christ who is God.
May God bless you to be His. I am here to help.
Chaim,
AbaloneKid
VIDEO: This I Believe
START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
Here is an excellent New Year’s word posted by Carolyn Spring-Baker. The Carolyn also refers to a YouTube link attributed to Sanctus Real.
JRH 12/31/11
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START THE NEW YEAR RIGHT
Posted by Carolyn Spring-Baker
December 31, 2011
“Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye” ~Colossians 3:13~
To start the New Year right you must let go of any old grudges that are weighing you down. Philip Yancey describes forgiveness as an UNNATURAL ACT and says, “You don’t find dolphins forgiving sharks for eating their playmates. It’s a dog-eat-dog world…not a dog-forgive-dog world.”
Grudges come naturally when you’ve been hurt, whereas forgiving requires God’s enabling grace.
Jesus said, “If you do not forgive…your Father will not forgive your sin” (see Matthew 6:15).
Humanly speaking, there’s not one single reason God should forgive your sins, yet the offenses He pardons you for every day far outweigh anything you’ll ever be asked to forgive others for.
By forgiving, you change the whole dynamic. You open the door of a prison where you are both prisoner and jailer, setting yourself and the other person free. Grudges not only isolate you from people who were once friends, they actually shorten your life by producing deadly enzymes that contribute to a host of physical ailments.
One man told his counselor, “I wish my brother could come to my wedding, but we haven’t spoken in years.” The counselor asked, “How come?” Pausing, the man replied, “It sounds ridiculous now, but I don’t even remember.”
Drifting apart is the natural result of an unforgiving spirit; forgiveness reverses the trend by restoring and healing broken relationships.
It’s a medical fact that forgiveness adds years to your life. As a rule, when you talk to people who’ve passed the eighty-year mark you find they are at peace with themselves – because they’ve learned to forgive and let go.
Can you FORGIVE AND LET GO?
Thank You Father for the mercy & grace You show to us on a daily basis. Forgiving us for the simplest sins and even when we do what we think is unpardonable. Father I ask today that you will convict the hearts of all who are reading this, let them see what it is that is in need of forgiveness, and then Lord lead them to the act of forgiving everyone that they hold a grudge against. Father this I know You can do as You did this for me the other night, and I feel so much better now and want to see my brothers & sisters in Christ feel the weight of the world lifted off of them. In Jesus name we pray Amen.
Love to all my brothers & sisters in Christ
Carolyn
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Two Horses
Here is an awesome Christian parable that should evoke all Christians to check their heart this Christmas season.
JRH 12/11/11 (Hat Tip; Vicki)
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Two Horses
By Unknown Author
Sent Dec 6, 2011 at 4:05 PM
Just up the road from my home is a field, with two horses in it.
From a distance, each horse looks like any other horse. But if you stop your car, or are walking by, you will notice something quite amazing….
Looking into the eyes of one horse will disclose that he is blind. His owner has chosen not to have him put down, but has made a good home for him.
This alone is amazing.
If you stand nearby and listen, you will hear the sound of a bell. Looking around for the source of the sound, you will see that it comes from the smaller horse in the field.
Attached to the horse’s halter is a small bell. It lets the blind friend know where the other horse is, so he can follow.
As you stand and watch these two friends, you’ll see that the horse with the bell is always checking on the blind horse, and that the blind horse will listen for the bell and then slowly walk to where the other horse is,
Trusting that he will not be led astray.
When the horse with the bell returns to the shelter of the barn each evening, it stops occasionally and looks back, making sure that the blind friend isn’t too far behind to hear the bell.
Like the owners of these two horses, God* does not throw us away just because we are not perfect or because we have problems or challenges.
He watches over us and even brings others into our lives to help us when we are in need.
Sometimes we are the blind horse; being guided by the little ringing bell of those whom God* places in our lives.
Other times we are the guide horse, helping others to find their way….
Good friends are like that… You may not always see them, but you may trust that they are always there.
Please listen for my bell and I’ll listen for yours.
And remember…
Be kinder than necessary – - – Most everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
Live simply,
Love generously,
Care deeply,
Speak kindly…….
FOR WE WALK BY FAITH AND NOT BY SIGHT!
Revival is in You – Revival Begins in Us
The AbaloneKid is a person that is friended on YouTube. He is a Christian that has the appearance of a New Age Native American shaman. Every once in a while he sends a personal message that has awesome spiritual nuggets of truth. He always includes a video with his PM. The videos are not quite as enlightening as the words; nonetheless below are those words with the video included for cross post integrity.
JRH 11/27/11
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Revival is in You
AbaloneKid
Sent: 11/17/11
Beloved Brethren, Friends The Lord Has Called;
We know that God always has His Elect Saints in every generation. This is His will and He executes it in the midst of rank apostasy as well as all world conditions in any time.
People speak of “Revival” coming! They are even believers! But I say to them:
Revival has never left any generation.
It is a personal miraculous event.
It is fashioned through the power of the Holy Spirit in each of God’s chosen.
It manifests in the service of a saint as well it should, in our maturation, knowing our Father’s will for us.
And the convicting power of the Spirit proves it in our refreshed and empowered walk as we shed our sins before His mercy seat above and the blood of Jesus keeps cleaning us so we can be empowered to REVIVE again and again, manifesting in WORKS OF FAITH for His Glory.
Revival is ongoing in each of us. This is what God sees. And anoints. And empowers each of us to GO OUT and exercise His Gifts in His love. There is no “Look over here” “revival is in this building” or “revival is in this group” “this nation”. NO!!
REVIVAL IS IN EACH OF US AND THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING! Each of us is blessed to partake of with God’s fullest power given us as much as we are chosen to serve according to His perfect will for us.
“YES LORD, I AM HERE TODAY! LEAD ME LORD, AND MAKE ME A LIVING SACRIFICE IN SERVICE IN LIFE FOR YOUR GLORY FORGIVE MY SINS AND FILL ME AGAIN AND AGAIN AS I OBEY YOUR TRUTHS”
Thank God for you, Beloveds. Your family is standing daily in the light of the Lord wherever you reside, and even if God deems it His will to remove you from where you are now, that Glorious Light of Jesus and His truths remains as a love gift FROM GOD who first moved you to where you were needed, and then elsewhere IF that is His will.
A TESTAMENT REMAINS THAT GOD WILL USE OVER AND OVER IN THAT HOUSE, AS IT IS HIS GOOD PLEASURE TO SEND HIS LOVE AND GRACE IN MANY WAYS, AS A REMEMBRANCE OF HIS ELECT WHO HE HAS SENT TO OFFER UP THEIR LIFE FOR THOSE HE SENT TO. IT CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN. GOD STAMPS IT ON THE LOST SOUL AND THIS GRACE WILL NEVER LEAVE, BUT HAVE IT’S DAY OF RECKONING, BY THE PERFECT WILL OF HIM WHO SENT HIS OWN.
There are no vain attempts God makes. His word will never return void of some impact He ordained, yet in TIME, His time, it will be according to His will. BUT THE SENT ELECT SHALL NOT HAVE SERVED IN HIS LOVE IN VAIN! NEVER!
REVIVAL HAS ENTERED THIS HOUSE! This coffee shop! This sidewalk or back ally…this part of the world we are positioned in.
And so too your labor of love has, by His predetermined will, gone out beyond the borders of your personal life, and I thank God we could have had this blessing together here AND in THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST REVIVAL!
For in each house, apt, Starbucks, etc someone is moved by God, in the few hours in a lifetime of a multitude of days, God willing, that they experience this unified and faithful collective event, they will NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. GOD MAKES REVIVAL WHERE HE MAKES IT, AND IN THOSE HE CALLS AND CHOOSES… AND IT WORKS!
And everyone who loves the Lord can COME! And Use.
Chaim
http://www.theabalonekid.com/id103.html
Revival Event.
Receive the blessings of a faithful work. Make this video yours and share with saved and lost. Revival Event is ongoing around the world. JUMP IN!
The Gospel of Jesus Christ set forth in scriptures encourages all humans to believe on Jesus Christ for remission of sins and eternal life. A revival has the purpose of encouraging believers to be dedicated, confess sins, and live in Christ and to the lost to come to Him for forgiveness of their sins.
It is a great truth: REVIVAL BEGINS AT THE CHURCH ON OUR KNEES.
Hats off to YOU TUBE for it’s genius of providing a vehicle for freedom of expression, through these videos of biblical topics. Without this blessing through their creation this Revival would not be possible.
I gratefully acknowledge the faithful and anointed contributions of ministers, evangelists, teachers and recording artists. Without the Lord’s blessings upon them this revival would not be happening.
KNEELING SOLDIER PHOTO CREDIT
North MT Zion Church of God
423 Scataway Rd
Hiawassee, GA 30546
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Revival Begins in Us
AbaloneKid
Sent: 11/17/11
We know that God always has His Elect Saints in every generation. This is His will and He executes it in the midst of rank apostasy as well as all world conditions in any time.
People speak of “Revival” coming! They are even believers! But I say to them:
Revival has never left any generation.
It is a personal miraculous event.
It is fashioned through the power of the Holy Spirit in each of God’s chosen.
It manifests in the service of a saint as well it should, in our maturation, knowing our Father’s will for us.
And the convicting power of the Spirit proves it in our refreshed and empowered walk as we shed our sins before His mercy seat above and the blood of Jesus keeps cleaning us so we can be empowered to REVIVE again and again, manifesting in WORKS OF FAITH for His Glory.
Revival is ongoing in each of us. This is what God sees. And anoints. And empowers each of us to GO OUT and exercise His Gifts in His love. There is no “Look over here” “revival is in this building” or “revival is in this group” “this nation”. NO!!
REVIVAL IS IN EACH OF US AND THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING! Each of us is blessed to partake of with God’s fullest power given us as much as we are chosen to serve according to His perfect will for us.
“YES LORD, I AM HERE TODAY! LEAD ME LORD, AND MAKE ME A LIVING SACRIFICE IN SERVICE IN LIFE FOR YOUR GLORY FORGIVE MY SINS AND FILL ME AGAIN AND AGAIN AS I OBEY YOUR TRUTHS”
Thank God for you, Beloveds. Your family is standing daily in the light of the Lord wherever you reside, and even if God deems it His will to remove you from where you are now, that Glorious Light of Jesus and His truths remains as a love gift FROM GOD who first moved you to where you were needed, and then elsewhere IF that is His will.
A TESTAMENT REMAINS THAT GOD WILL USE OVER AND OVER IN THAT HOUSE, AS IT IS HIS GOOD PLEASURE TO SEND HIS LOVE AND GRACE IN MANY WAYS, AS A REMEMBRANCE OF HIS ELECT WHO HE HAS SENT TO OFFER UP THEIR LIFE FOR THOSE HE SENT TO. IT CANNOT BE FORGOTTEN. GOD STAMPS IT ON THE LOST SOUL AND THIS GRACE WILL NEVER LEAVE, BUT HAVE IT’S DAY OF RECKONING, BY THE PERFECT WILL OF HIM WHO SENT HIS OWN.
There are no vain attempts God makes. His word will never return void of some impact He ordained, yet in TIME, His time, it will be according to His will. BUT THE SENT ELECT SHALL NOT HAVE SERVED IN HIS LOVE IN VAIN! NEVER!
REVIVAL HAS ENTERED THIS HOUSE! This coffee shop! This sidewalk or back ally…this part of the world we are positioned in.
And so too your labor of love has, by His predetermined will, gone out beyond the borders of your personal life, and I thank God we could have had this blessing together here AND in THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST REVIVAL!
For in each house, apt, Starbucks, etc someone is moved by God, in the few hours in a lifetime of a multitude of days, God willing, that they experience this unified and faithful collective event, they will NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN. GOD MAKES REVIVAL WHERE HE MAKES IT, AND IN THOSE HE CALLS AND CHOOSES… AND IT WORKS!
And everyone who loves the Lord can COME! And Use.
Chaim
[Same video as above]
Father Abraham has Many Sons, Many Sons have Father Abraham
John R. Houk
© May 2, 2011
A friend on my AC2C social network found a couple of YouTube videos as a response to my post entitled, “Discourse on the Reality of God”.
In the YouTube videos is part 1 and 2 of a sermon by Frank Turek of a five part break down on YouTube. It is entitled, “I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist Show”.
Part 1 and 2 Turek discusses Abraham and faith. Part 1 Abraham’s time life is told when God Almighty instructed Abraham to take the only son by his legitimate wife Sarah to be sacrificed to God. Thus Abraham embarks on a journey to Mt Moriah with Isaac and a couple of servants.
Just as a side-note Mohammed words recorded in the Quran plagiarizes this moment and has Ishmael on this journey of faith. You can tell it’s plagiarized by the fact that Isaac was a young teenager by this time and Ishmael had long been banished from Abraham’s tribal family along with Ishmael’s mother the Egyptian handmaid to Sarah which was Hagar.
In case you have not read your Bible in awhile, just as Abraham was to kill Isaac in sacrifice, God Almighty spoke up audibly telling Abraham to hold up. Abraham had proven his undying faith and because of this all the nations of the world would be blessed in Abraham through the son of promise Isaac’s descendants. Christians know those descendants as those that led to Jesus’ birth. By faith in Jesus’ death on the Cross and the Lord’s bodily Resurrection to life and re-glorification of His entire Godly attributes all who believe will have life in Christ in this walk on earth and in the future; the full redemption of spirit, soul (mind attributes) and body (which is clothed in glory rather than man-made clothing). The blessing of Redemption to those who Believe transcends the blessings promised only to the Hebrew Tribes of Israel thus by extension to all humanity who believe.
This transcending beyond the 12 Tribes of Israel is not a replacement. Rather the transcending of blessings is an engrafted adoption into the Tribe of Judah by the Blood of Jesus that mystically joins Believers to the Body of Christ. For clarity’s sake there is no Christian Gentile replacement but rather a joining of Christian Believers to Judah enabling all that Believe to be sons of Abraham and also inheritors of the blessings of Abraham.
JRH 5/2/11
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I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist Show Part 1
I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be An Atheist Show Part 2
Discourse on the Reality of God
Between My Son and John R. Houk
April 28, 2011
There has been an ongoing dialogue between my son My Son and I. Below is latest that I have responded. The discussion has been ongoing on my Facebook page that was highlighting the SlantRight post of “Go See ‘Atlas Shrugged’ the Movie”.
On Facebook others have been involved in the conversation. Some of those conversant on the Facebook discussion have had insight that I agree with and disagree with. Since My Son is my son I will focus on him.
I should note that My Son is very adamant in his atheism and has a difficult time letting loose of a dialogue which I sense is due to a desire to be right and everyone else wrong. When things get repetitive I will simply and unilaterally quit responding.
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MY SON SAYS: “You’re saying that god transcends evidence, science, reason, critical thinking, etc. The list goes on. I can understand that you have faith that god exists but let’s not put god in a conversation involving the things I just mentioned.”
JOHN SAYS: Why? God is existence.
MY SON SAYS: “The only reason you aren’t locked up in a mad house for your beliefs is that a lot of people are delusional.”
JOHN SAYS: LOL My Son you are dipping a little into the old ad hominem well are you not? God says the delusion is on the part of those who can see the marvel of creation and yet deny God’s involvement. Romans 1: 18-25 NKJV (
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201:%2018-25&version=NKJV
)
MY SON SAYS: “God is not involved in this reality at all.”
JOHN SAYS: Reality is more than the five senses of … READ THE REST at SlantRight.com.
Man Raised from the Dead – Incredible Story
God still raises the dead in the 21st Century.
JRH 4/10/11 (Hat Tip: Joel Chavady of Keep CHRIST in CHRISTmas!)
