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The Result of 50 Years of Rejecting God - Scandals!

5/21/2013

We Need to Buy a Clue!

America is embroiled in many public scandals today! The expose is growing. The Washington Post has consolidated some of these in "Mr. Obama and his scandals." It lists among other things how that the "Justice Department" leaks documents to attack a whistle blower who expose the "Fast and Furious" debacle, the IRS targeting conservative political and religious groups, the Justice Department violating the First Amendment snooping into Associated Press and Fox News reporters seeking to intimidate, the Benghazi atrocity which is worse than Watergate, and.... the list goes on.

I submit that this is the fruit of more than 50 years of a growing rejection of the Lord and His moral commands. In 1963 prayer was banned by our Supreme Court and one year later the court banned bible reading which was followed as school after school removed the 10 commandments.

President Harry S Truman popularized the saying "the buck stops here." This administration acts like the "buck stops there, and there and there..." anywhere but here. Blame shifting and avoiding responsibility seem to be the protocol of the day.

Here is a dollar for those who need to buy a clue! The rejection and erosion of our relationship with The Lord has undermined our moral fabric. No system, I repeat, NO SYSTEM can survive and function without character. The family unit can not survive. Capitalism will not work. A Justice Department run by people with no morals will not uphold laws. The IRS will not stay within the confines of the law when it is run by people with no internal moral boundaries. Here is another secret for those who believe socialism or communism is a better system. They won't work without moral boundaries either. What do you think led to the downfall of the Soviets?

Judgment began in the household of God as scandal after scandal has been revealed and I have not doubt it will continue as our Lord cleans house. But now this trend has spilled over into other spheres of society.

1 Peter 4:17-18
For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? Now "If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?" NKJV

We are seeing the fruit of a generation who rejected the Lord legally and personally. The decisions our government made in the 60s has encouraged a people to continue to sin (sin = miss the mark). The rejection of our heavenly Father is an unconscious decision to choose another Father. The Father of Lies (Jn. 8:54-56). We should not be surprised by the beating truth is taking.

What is the solution? How do we reverse this trend?

Repent! Turn to the Lord. Our heavenly Father is loving, kind, forgiving and does not desire that any perish (2 Pet. 3:9).

Joel 2:12-13
Now, therefore," says the Lord, "Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning." So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness;
And He relents from doing harm. NKJV

Build a personal relationship with the Lord. Get a Bible and learn about Him. Pray and talk to Him daily. Get involved in good local church. Allow this relationship with the Lord begin to transform you and your character. Don't hide within the walls of a Church building, get out into society. Be a force for good! Love God, show mercy, love truth and speak it. Love people enough to speak the truth in love. Don't hide your light under a basket, but let your light shine before men that they may see your good works.

Join with me in praying for men and women of character that can be sent into every area of society.

Lord I pray send us men and women of character from your Church into the family, business, government, media, education and healthcare. Forgive us of our neglect. Lord, I believe the condition of this nation is the fault of the leaders in your Church. We've failed to model character. We've failed to speak the truth. We've bowed at the altar of mammon, we've embraced a doctrine that discouraged us from reaching out into society (rapture), we have not loved our neighbor and we have not loved you. Forgive us Lord. Have mercy and send us men and women with character, backbone, courage, love and wisdom.

Lord help us to invite your abiding presence back into our cities and states through continual prayer. Help us to restore David's tabernacle and seat the courtroom of heaven. Lord, hear our case, please our cause and deliver us from evil. Help us to pray prayers like David prayed that we might see truth and justice mixed with mercy and love in these days. Glorify your name in this nation. In Jesus name! Amen!

Tim

5/20/2013 11:41:26 pm

The fruit of this decision is punctuated by the restrictions placed on chaplains in the last few years followed by e dramatic rise of sexual assault.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/shameful-and-disgraceful-sexual-abuse-in-military-affected-85000-veterans-in-2012-96294/cpf

Tony Fournier

5/21/2013 01:11:25 am

John Adams, our second President, stated, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people."

Bob Seidensticker link

6/1/2013 07:51:16 am

Why are we talking about God and government in the same post? The Constitution is secular. It defines a secular public square. Christianity has the secure position that it does thanks to the Constitution.

Let's keep it that way and respect the Constitution for defining a clear separation between church and state.

Tim Taylor

6/1/2013 11:40:27 pm

It is clear you are ignorant of history and the context that the Constitution was brought forth in. 1st many came to America because of the intrusion of government (ie. Church of England - King was head of the Church) into the affairs of their relationship with God. Ie. William Penn whom Pennsylvania is named after.

The Constitution has to be taken in the context of the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Those documents which include the first amendment make it clear of the founding fathers intent and view. It was to PROTECT the church, people of faith, from the intrusion of government.

One of the scandals mentioned is the IRS intrusion into not only a political organization but its illegal harassment of people of faith. Tis separation of church you speak of takes some statements of Jefferson in a private letter out of context. Here is an article that sheds some light - http://www.wallbuilders.com/libissuesarticles.asp?id=123

Tim link

6/1/2013 11:44:14 pm

Here is a link to the Declaration of Independence - http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html which include...... When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

6/1/2013 11:45:35 pm

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

6/2/2013 01:13:45 am

“It is clear you are ignorant of history and the context that the Constitution was brought forth in.”

Then thank goodness we have you to make things clear.

“Those documents which include the first amendment make it clear of the founding fathers intent and view. It was to PROTECT the church, people of faith, from the intrusion of government.”

Like I said: the First Amendment keeps government and religion separate. And why would you want it any other way? Is your religion so flimsy and groundless that it needs secular support to keep it viable? Would you want public school kids to hear Satanist or Wiccan or Muslim prayers? Keeping church and state separate helps everyone.

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