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After God gave the instructions to Adam, another part of human behavior
introduced by the serpent to Eve reared its ugly head. It was the lie,
which can be called disobedience or failure to follow to the truth.
Jesus told the Pharisees that he came from God (John 8:42-44) they
didn’t believe him and he had some harsh words of truth for them.
43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my
word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
Those were strong words and those who heard it didn’t like it. They
couldn’t comprehend the words of Jesus because their hearts were attuned
to the devil; they heard what he was saying but couldn’t connect what
was heard to the meaning he conveyed. The heart turned away from God to
the pursuits of the devil cannot speak of anything but the work of
Satan.
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We saw the work of the devil with George Tiller, the abortion doctor of
Kansas, who was killed in a church no less. He saw nothing wrong with
butchering the young. Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services
Secretary supported him and she sees nothing wrong with abortion. The
nut job (aka Barack Hussein Obama) supports abortion and is on record
for saying that he would not want his daughters to be ‘punished with a
baby’ if they were to make a ‘mistake’ as teenagers (Washington
Times, 4/2/08) Payment for abortions in
included in the devil inspired health care bill. A majority of Congress
supports abortion and they have the nerve to call those of us who abhor
it and want to stop it, divisive.
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States are allowing homosexuals to
“marry” by creating unions that are in opposition of God’s word.
So-called churches are blessing the unions and many followers in those
churches think that it is okay because God loves everyone. He does, but
he has a moral code that is included in his love and when that moral
code is violated, he deals out the adverse consequences. Remember Adam
and Eve!
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Our resources and tax revenue are
being used in Africa to help that country deal with Aids. Money is being
spent by government researchers to find a cure for sexually transmitted
diseases. As long as government sanctions illicit activities, the
republic will sink farther into the sewer. Congress, Planned Parenthood
and others protest when abstinence is suggested. Why is that? Any
teaching of God is wrong and besides, abstinence works. Any plan that is
godly is verboten from the word go.
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But even worse, the nut job is on
record saying that he follows Jesus. He says he is a “Christian by
choice” … because "the precepts of Jesus Christ" helped him envision the
kind of life he wanted to lead (Telegaph.co.uk, Monday, January 31,
2011) He also said that Jesus Christ isn’t the only way to heaven.
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Worst of all, many people who call
themselves Christians, believers and church members, voted for the nut
job, a man who is pushing for openly admitted homosexuals be allowed in
the military. Rant and rave as you wish at what follows. Anyone who
voted for and will vote again for the nut job is equally guilty of his
evil ways. Jesus said to the Pharisees in Matthew 12:33-35
Either make the tree good, and his fruit good;
or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is
known by his fruit. 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil,
speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth
speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth
forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth
forth evil things.
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The principles in those
verses apply in our modern era. Whatever is in the heart will be
uttered, supported and practiced by those who have their face turned
away from Christ and God. How can anyone who says he or she believes in
God and follows Christ support anyone who advocates evil?
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The evil behaviors of unbelieving humans cannot be blamed on evolution
since it cannot explain the origin of evil. (Evil came in due to man’s
disobedience to God.) Evolution cannot create evil and neither can it
create morals; it is a man made idea that has no foundation in God. The
same people who deny God or claim to know God, and then when whose
beliefs and behaviors are opposite of God, are the agents of evil
whether they believe evolution or not.
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Those who believe that humans are progressing by promoting that which is
evil while calling it good, need to consider what Paul wrote in 2
Corinthians 11:14, And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed
into an angel of light. The evil behaviors that appeal to human
desires will in the end bring death to all who do not repent of their
ways and turn to God. Isaiah wrote 5:20 Woe unto them that call
evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for
darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! God
is a God of love but he will not entertain evil. In
Philippians 3:18-19 we find the result for those turning from Christ,
18 (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you
even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: Whose
end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in
their shame, who mind earthly things.)
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In conclusion, three final verses of warning, For we know him that
hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the
Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people. 31 It is a fearful
thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrews
10:30-31) And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the
ungodly and the sinner appear? (I Peter 4:18)
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