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December 31, 2019 @ 11:00 AM
On this New Year’s Eve, let’s take a look at the fundamental of life’s fundamentals. It is a profound truth that must be understood for the purpose of life to be perceived. It is found in the seemingly simple response of our Lord to being called “Good Master” by the Rich Young Ruler (Mark 10:17-18). Jesus asks this young seeker of eternal life, “Why do you call me good?” He then adds these utterly important words that the casual reader of Scripture carelessly passes over rather than seriously ponders: “There is none good but one, who is, God.”
Christ’s intention was to point out to the Rich Young Ruler the two prerequisites to eternal life. The first, which .........
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Ever since the days of ancient Babylon, which was the first great Gentile world power, every Gentile superpower has served as the Babylon of its day. For instance, Peter called Rome, the great Gentile world power of his day, "Babylon" in 1 Peter 5:13. As today's only remaining superpower, America serves as the "Babylon" of our present-day world.
Shortly before his death in 2008, Paul Weyrich, who not only cofounded the Moral Majority with Jerry Falwell, but also coined the name "Moral Majority," wrote a letter to Christian conservatives. It was one of the most honest evaluations of the sad and sorrow state of present-day America that I have ever read. In the letter, Weyrich admitted that there was no moral majority in America, a fact indubitably proven by the American people's election and reelection of Bill Clinton to the White House. Weyrich then when on to assert that the culture war was over and that we had lost, which he claimed to be proven by the fact that our society had become a cesspool into which we were sinking deeper and deeper. In conclusion, Weyrich ...
I’ve never written anything with more trepidation over being misunderstood and maligned than this article. I know thousands are suffering in the city of Houston. I also know that those suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey are from all walks of life. This unprecedented hurricane has proven indiscriminate in its victimization of every age, race, religion, class, and income. Truly, as Christians, our hearts should go out and our prayers should go up for the residents of Houston.
To the open-eyed and open-minded American, of whom I fear there are few, our country is clearly seen as a powder keg about to explode. Civic discord has grown to dangerous proportions and our government has done nothing but douse these contentious fires with flammable fuel for decades. Far from easing social tensions, Washington D.C. has exacerbating them by proving itself to be the hotbed of our civic unrest. For years politicians have pitted one American against another in hopes of gaining votes at the polls. They’ve fan the flames of racial demagoguery and class warfare to the detriment of our country, for which they care not a whit, being solely concerned with the betterment of their political fortunes. 
Henry Grattan Guinness, who was known as the Irish "Spurgeon," acutely asserted that history was the interpreter of prophecy. According to him, "the sufferings and glories of our Lord, foretold in the Old Testament, remained [incomprehensible] until their meaning was revealed by the [historical] events of [the New Testament]." Since "prophecy is history written in advance," Guinness argued that "history...takes the place of prophecy" as "the foretold [becomes] fulfilled."
Do you know the definition of the word enmity? The Bible begins with God's prediction of enmity between the seed of the serpent, the children of the devil, and the seed of the woman, the children of God (Genesis 3:15). Paul teaches that the carnal mind is at enmity with God and incapable of obedience to God (Romans 8:7). James adds that friendship with this world is enmity with God and that everyone who is a friend of the world is an enemy of God (James 4:4). The Bible even teaches us that the world is at such enmity with Christ that worldly foes will lay down their animosities toward one another in order to join forces against Christ (Luke 23:12).
