Why I LOVE and support Israel

Does Israel matter today? A question on many minds here in America "Land of the confused Christian". With it being voting season, it's a topic that comes up all over the place, specially in this particular season when you got a person like a Ron Paul. Now I know there are a lot of Christians who don't like diving into political issues because they don't want to;

A. offend anyone

B. don't think it really matters where you stand

Well if you want to read such or listen to such or have your ears tickled then go to your local westernized American church, they're not hard to find. I on the other hand live to offend, Jesus is offensive and standing by God's word will offend and piss people off hence why I am offensive(I offend because I stand by His word). I'm not mr.political or anything, but I'll plainly state what is right and what is wrong and I do think it matters who you support. The following is something I wrote and I feel it explains why I love Jewish people and the land God gave to them(Israel). I also included a radio broadcast that I urge you to listen to by Dr.Michael Brown that has to do with the question "Does Israel matter?"  my reasons and his for standing behind Israel and God's chosen people are very much the same, he just explains it better then I could(although If you read my blog consistently you would have already seen my reasons, but i'll explain them here again)

The question "Does israel matter?" I find to be a stupid question. I can't help but to have an overwhelming appreciation for Jewish people, God's chosen people, when I read God's word. Am I insane? Am I missing something? or maybe just maybe we are suppose to have such feelings towards the Jewish people. Jesus(Yeshua) was Himself Jewish(just incase you missed that or were confused by the images portraying Jesus as very roman looking) 

"He did not come to abolish the law or the prophets, but to fulfill them."- by the way that's biblical, Yeshua said it Himself in Matthew 5:17-18. He also said He was sent for the lost sheep of Israel, and almost didn't heal a gentile woman's demon possessed daughter until he saw her faith- that's also biblical it's 

Matthew 15:21-28.

Yeshua doesn't contradict the "old" testament and prophets He fulfills them, He stands by God's word because He was there when it was formed.

Also biblical read John 8:58. 

While Yeshua was Jewish in the flesh, He is also God, not a god.... but GOD.

He and the Father are absolutely unequivocally ONE through the trinity, three distinct persons Father/Son(Yeshua)/ Holy Spirit as GOD.
 That my friends is biblical for several reasons…

1. Yeshua says it Himself: "I and [my] Father are one" (John 10:30)

If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.

Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.

Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou [then], Shew us the Father?

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

(John 14:7-10)

and two because the bible over and over again says there is only ONE GOD

(Isaiah 43:10-11) "Before me there was no God formed nor shall there be after me" is just one example. Now you may be saying something like;

"Oh absolutely I totally agree Jesus is God in the flesh, but what does that have to do with Israel and Jewish people?"

It has everything to do with it, if God is one, Then Yeshua is obviously God and that means they would not contradict each other and when it says that the jewish people are God's chosen people then that means they are Jesus's chosen too. Or are you saying that when God said "I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you" Genesis 12:3 are you saying Christ Jesus doesn't agree with that statement? of course He agrees with it, Jesus was there at the beginning of time, and He only does the will of the Father.

Now, just to make a clarification… if a jewish person doesn't recognize Yeshua as LORD and Savior then just like a gentile they will be forever separated from God. So yes, they must surrender to Christ like everyone else. They however are the roots of the christian faith, God chose them to work through not because they are a superior race, He chose them because He chose them;

For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that [are] upon the face of the earth. The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye [were] the fewest of all people:

But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

(Deuteronomy 7:6-8)

Lets also not forget that the disciples were jewish. Saul or better known as his greek name Paul had a burning desire for the jewish people to turn to Christ, they were his brethren and countrymen. He even wished he himself could be accursed for their sake(Romans 9:2-4) Paul also says God didn't cast away His people who He foreknew(Romans 11:1). That of course is a given to anyone who actually reads the bible, God made promises to Israel and God keeps His promises.

Paul was the one whom Christ appeared to, and Christ told him to preach the gospel to the gentiles. Paul in preaching to the gentiles wished to drive his brethren to jealousy(Romans 11:13). You see as Romans 11 continues to emphatically state….we as gentiles have been grafted into the tree, the tree that has it's roots set in God, the tree that God chose to sprout through Judaism. God has through the Son grafted us gentiles into this tree, and Paul warns us not to mock or boast against the natural branches (The Jews) this is simply stated in Romans 11:16-21.

I've run into plenty of people who completely ignore this and they hate Jewish people with a passion, I shouldn't have to state just how unbiblical that is. Because if you read the bible and then hate jewish people and you become hostile towards them and wish for their death you are a not only completely blind…you're also completely stupid.I personally don't care how much you claim to "know" Jesus, if you hate Jewish people  then you don't have a clue about Jesus.

I have a heart.. a love for my brothers and sisters in Israel and around the world, they need to recognize Yeshua Hamashiach and I pray for them and I support them not because I feel like it, but because GOD tells us to. I'll bless them because we are called to and I refuse to support or stand by those who don't support the lost sheep of Israel.(cough) Ron Paul (cough)

Listen to this awesome broadcast from Dr. Michael Brown on this very subject he explains way better then I can, it's about two hours but it is well worth your time. Reasons like this is why I stay on Facebook, I would like to thank a new friend who sent me this broadcast through a friend request(Rick Estrada) who probably wont read this but still, give credit to where it is do.

Dr. Michael Brown's Radio broadcast on Israel

Did Jesus hate religion?

The video above is from Jared Duba aka Jesus Disciple(www.Depravedwretch.com) his video is a response to Jeff Bethke's video "Why I hate religion, but Love Jesus"


Now for those of you who are not on Facebook, first of all…good for you.

(I've debated several times on deleting my account) anyways if you don't have Facebook you most likely have not seen a video that has gone viral, even if you have Facebook you might of missed it. It's a video by Jeff Bethke, I'm not trying to put down Jeff, for he seems like a pretty legit guy, after all as Kevin DeYoung said in his blog(and I agree with him) Jeff isn't a fan of "Love Wins" the abhorrent book by Rob Bell(Mr.Universalist).

Bethke's new video has him reading a poem he apparently wrote, and the title is "Why I hate religion and Love Jesus". on the surface level that probably seems right on to a lot of you, to be honest doesn't seem that bad to me either. Of course this all depends on what your definition of "Religion" is, I'm not going to get into all the details... simply put because, a few already have and they can write/speak much better then I can on the subject.

Heres Bethke's video… watch and listen, and try to watch and listen as if you were hearing of Jesus Christ for the very first time.

Now ladies and gentleman, if Jeff was speaking directly to you from this video what belief would you come out with? what would your overall thought of this Jesus guy be? well…

1. Jesus Hates religion

2.Jesus came to abolish religion

3. Jesus also doesn't like rules

His video speaks a lot of "Christianese" it suffers from a lack of explaining certain things. It's like going up to someone who has never heard of the gospel and just quoting John 3:16 and walking away. Is John 3:16 true? yes it's scripture after all, but to not expound on it more would be on the dangerous side.

I guess one way to state this is this; Jeff's video doesn't effect me because I know(and even believe he knows) that just believing Jesus was a person at one time and died for my sins doesn't give me the excuse to continue living for myself and sinfulness. However the question is, does the non-christian who watches this video understand that? does this video put into the non-believer a Galatians 2:20 type of faith, a surrendering of self, a changed heart to walk in the light as He is in the light kind of faith? That Christianity literally means "Following Christ" and not "I believe He existed at one point and died so I can continue in sin". 

The kind of people that will like the notion "Jesus hated religion" which to a point I would say is true, but the kind of people that will mis the whole point of why Jesus came and what the gospel means, are the kind of people who think;

1.Jesus was just a good teacher of morals(and preached you can believe and do whatever you want as long as you believe I died so you could)

2.Jesus came to abolish hate

3.Jesus's whole message was a message of tolerance

1-3 are all completely false. The fact is God abhors(HATES) sin so much that He crucified His own perfect un-sinful son on a cross for our sins. God took Jesus who had NO SIN absolutely spotless and perfect and poured out His holy righteous wrath onto Him in the form of the cross. There is no tolerance for sin in the bible, and Jesus was not tolerant of it Himself, for He went to His death for it WILLINGLY. Jesus didn't come so you can continue living in sin, He came to free you from the chains of sin completely! He came to save you from sin, to turn Christ into somebody who tolerated sinfulness and preached the continued living in sin as ok is a complete lack of understanding of scripture.

Again, I don't think whatsoever that Jeff Bethke believes sin is ok, or that it is ok to continue living for it and your self. I just think in his video that can be easily missed by someone who doesn't know that.

I'll let someone more gifted and knowledgable speak further on this, Kevin DeYoung the same man who wrote "Burning down the shack"

go here to read his blog on what he thinks of Jeff's video and also see what he liked about it.

Story of Hannah

The birth of Samuel the judge/prophet of Israel is interesting to say the least. In 1 Samuel 1-11 it talks about Samuels father who's name was Elkanah, and he had two wives one named Peninnah and the other named Hannah. Now Hannah didn't have any children as it says the Lord shut her womb(1 Sam 1:6) but Peninnah on the other hand did have children, and she would make Hannah feel bad because she did not.  It says Hannah would weep and refuse to eat when they would go and make offerings at the house of the LORD because of the ridicule from Peninnah(1 Sam 1:7)

One year Hannah was in such despair that it says she went alone to pray to the LORD in bitterness of soul weeping in anguish(1 Sam 1:10) the word bitterness here in the hebrew is "Mar"  to be in pain or heavy laden/discontent, in this case it is saying her soul was in much pain she was heavy laden weeping in grief. In this moment Hannah asks God to grace her with a son, she makes a vow with God that if he would indeed give her a son she will offer him to God for all his days. (1 Sam 1:11)

Now notice Hannah a woman of God, in all the despair and sorrow she was in didn't curse God, She went before the LORD GOD Almighty and asked to receive His grace and His mercy and promised to give this child to God. Interestingly enough Hannah's name means Grace and God did show her grace by giving her a son which she named Samuel(1 Sam 1:20) [ later He would also show her more grace when Hannah; who had begged for a child..wept and pleaded for one, and the LORD gave her Samuel, she did what she promised and gave the child up, and The LORD blessed her with more children (1 Sam 2:21) ] after Samuel was born Hannah gave all glory to God:

And Hannah prayed and said: "My heart rejoices in the LORD; My horn is

exalted in the LORD. I smile at my enemies, because I rejoice in Your salvation.

"No one is holy like the LORD, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any 

rock like our God.

"Talk no more so very proudly; Let no arrogance come from your mouth,

For the LORD is the God of knowledge; and by Him actions are weighed.

"The bows of the mighty men are broken, and those who stumbled are girded with

strength. Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread, and the

hungry have ceased to hunger. Even the barren has borne seven, and she who has many children has become feeble.

"The LORD kills and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and brings up.

The LORD makes poor and makes rich; He brings low and lifts up.

He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the beggar from the ash heap,

To set them among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory.

"For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, And He has set the world upon them.

He will guard the feet of His saints, but the wicked shall be silent in darkness.

"For by strength no man shall prevail. 

The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken in pieces;  From heaven He will thunder against them. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth. "He will give strength to His king, and exalt the horn of His anointed."

1 Samuel 2:1-10

Amen Hannah..Amen! All glory to GOD!

†..On Your Knees..†

"The Word of GOD brings us to our knees before it gives us peace."

What I mean by this is quite simple, please don't get it twisted…does GOD

and His word bring peace? Absolutely! but before it does that, it better bring you to your knees. Yes, all glory to our LORD and Savior for bringing ultimate peace(everlasting) before we ourselves even realized we needed it. All honor glory and righteousness to the one who was and is and is to come!-(Revelation 4:8)

But if you are seeking peace without falling to your knees you're missing the TRUTH, missing the whole point of the gospels.  Jesus said in Luke and Matthew

"Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it and whoever loses his life will preserve it"

Luke 17:33

"If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it."

Matthew 16:24-25

A confusing statement from Jesus, specially if you are one of those who think

the gospel is centered around you and is about your glory and about giving you peace and comfort. The Gospel is not meant to bring peace with yourself it's meant to make you an enemy of self. Peace only comes through Christ, it comes when the gospel makes you see it's not about you, it's about what was done in spite of you. It's all about Christ, and God forbid if I should glory in anything except in the cross of our LORD Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world-(Galatians 6:14)

Do you not know that you are not your own? For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify GOD in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Corinthians 6:19-20

The bible does not say YOU deserve peace & prosperity and a life without tribulation…..

BUT all Glory to Christ God our savior Holy of Holies, King of Kings for His ultimate everlasting peace that far outweighs any tribulation, and far outweighs all the riches of this world. YOU can keep your prosperity and life, just give me CHRIST!

The †GRACE† you don't deserve.-[PART-2]

Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned

Romans 5:12

All have sinned, all fall short of the Holiness required.(Romans 3:23)

Sin entered the world/our human lives by one man(Adam) and sin was defeated and conquered through one man(Romans 5:15) that being Yeshua Ha'Mashiach(Jesus Christ)

We are not all punished because of one mans sin,  we are punished for what Adam brought into Gods perfect creation, the disposition that we all hold on to, and that is we have a right to ourselves and we are our own god. We either realize that we are not our own (Romans 14:8, 1 Corinthians 6:19) and fully surrender to who we ultimately belong to (Christ) or we just continue living in our natural state, our natural disposition which is ultimately selfishness.

Now to fully grasp forgiveness, to understand who Jesus Christ was, His purpose, and why His sacrifice means anything, we first have to understand the need, we need to understand what we are forgiven from right? We say God is a loving God, we say He is fully of mercy, and make no mistake about it.. He is. However at the same time we also say He is a Holy and Pure and a righteous judge.

"The LORD is righteous, For I rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, And behold my sorrow; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.- Lamentations 1:18

We see through out the bible that He is completely both. Holy and pure beyond what we could ever comprehend, He is absolutely a God of justice. The question you should be facing is; 

How can a Holy Pure Righteous God look at us with anything but wrath and anger?" and rightfully so! His word says several things about us that should make us understand just how undeserving of Grace we are…

"the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth"

Genesis 8:21

"Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, And in sin my mother conceived me."

Psalms 51:5

"[There is] none who does good, No, not one."

Psalm  14:3

"The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], And desperately wicked; Who can know it?

Jeremiah 17:9

"For You [are] not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness, Nor shall evil dwell with You."

Psalms 5:4

By our fallen nature we all want what Adam & Eve wanted, and no it's not some fruit from a tree, it's what Satan tempted Eve with back in Genesis 3:4-5.

We want the knowledge of good and Evil, we want to be our own god to decide for ourselves whats right & whats wrong. It's selfishness thats what sin is in a nut shell.

So once again we come to the question;

"How exactly can a righteous God who abhors sin, after all how can God be Holy & Pure/ Righteous if he tolerates Evil, how can He show us mercy? Grace? Love?

remember what Romans 3:23 says..

"for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"

If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

1 John 1:8

"But the Scripture has confined all under sin"

Galatians 3:23

Maybe we can please God by works, earn His Grace & Mercy? a noble concept except for the fact that how can one who is born wretched & Evil a sinner (as the bible plainly states we all are) even begin to do a work that would please a Holy Just & Righteous God? Like the fantastic story "Pilgrims Progress" My iniquities are over my head, they are too heavy for me to carry(Psalm 38:4)

But we are all like an unclean [thing], And all our righteousnesses [are] like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.

Isaiah 64:6

So we can't ourselves follow Gods laws and commands because we are wicked and want to be our own god, our works are like filthy disgusting rags in Gods Holy sight and to top it all off we are living in a world that's fleeting and will soon pass away, all it's pleasures are meaningless under the sun(read Ecclesiastes).

Sounds like we are screwed, and WE ARE! this is what I want you to see, more importantly it's what God and His word wants you to see, that on your own BY YOURSELF YOU ARE SCREWED. 

That's not what you want to hear is it? and let's be absolutely honest it's not pleasant sounding, and it drives us crazy that we are not in control. This is not something the world is going to advocate, because the world is a self fulfilling place. The world wants you focused on constantly fixing YOU, selling you empty promises of fulfillment and false ways of ultimately fixing yourself, wether that's by giving into selfish desires or taking pills to mask the suffering and struggle you are in. There's no hope and peace in hiding and masking what you are through pills and self help. Again, the fact is YOU  can't help you.

Once again we are stuck with where does Gods grace come in? how can we be saved from our enemy(ourselves)/our very nature(sin). 

Want to know where Gods grace/mercy comes in? His love and grace you don't deserve? Jeremiah 23:6 says "THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS" He is our righteousness(LORD here meaning The Lord Jesus Christ) and lets remember Isaiah 53

"But He [was] wounded for our transgressions, [He was] bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace [was] upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed." Isaiah 53:5

Grace you don't deserve is God sacrificing the undeserved, the spotless ultimate lamb Yeshua Ha'Mashiach (Jesus Christ).

"Who is the image of the invisible God"

Colossians 1:15

"For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."

Colossians 2:9

Jesus Christ Himself said if you know Him you know the father, He also said;

 He didn't come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life as a ransom for many. (Matthew 20:28)

Christ came to be a sacrifice and through Christ we not only see the justice of God(His wrath), but we see His mercy and love too. Justice and wrath in the fact that because of our sinfulness it pleased God to sacrifice His son Jesus Christ(Isaiah 53:10), and   mercy and love in the fact that He was willing to cast all our sinfulness onto Him on the cross instead of giving us all what we deserve.

This and ONLY this is an amazing Grace….a Grace you DONT DESERVE!

All glory to God for His righteousness, His Holiness, His Mercy and Love!

Gods grace, when we ultimately understand it, drives us to want to please Him.

This is a good thing , but it's absolutely insulting when we put "us pleasing Him" above His Grace. Our performance above His sacrifice does nothing but place us above HIM, and it becomes about what we do not what He did.

"Souls are not made sweet by taking [ill tempers] out, but by putting something in - a great Love, a new Spirit, the Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ, interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, transforms all. This can only eradicate what is wrong, renovate and regenerate, and rehabilitate the inner man. 

Will-power does not change men. Time does not change men. Christ does. Therefore "Let that mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus." "

Henry Drummond

The †GRACE† you don't deserve.-[PART-1]

Ridiculous arguments in trying to justify wrong.


…FOR EXAMPLE…


The Pot argument.


"Pots not a big deal, I mean, alcohol is way worse than pot"


As if that justifies the pot smoker, as if that makes it "Ok".
Or arguments that come down to..


"Well everyone else is doing it"


It's asinine. Those are not logical arguments, really they're not even meaningful.
It just shows that you can't justify your wrong doing at all. I could use arguments like that to the same effect


"Murder is way worse than beating someone to a bloody pulp and making them handicap"
So hence I can go around and do that..right?


Or how about a straight "Christian" guy who sleeps around outside of marriage,
and does nothing but gay bash, is being gay wrong? YES! but so is the hypocrite that is sleeping around outside of marriage.


or when people try to justify their sin by saying "Well everyones a sinner"
so that gives us the license to do whatever we want? This is the very problem that we are all sinners! it's a problem..it's not something to celebrate or use as an excuse so that you can continue living the way you want. Jesus didn't say " I come to sacrifice myself so people can continue living the way they want" He didn't tell the adulterous woman "Go and continue living in sin" He didn't tell the rich man who asked how he may have eternal life"Oh, don't sweat it bro…see that cross over there? I'm going to be crucified on it so you can keep what's more important to you in life and thats your riches"


I agree we are fallen by nature but we are not called to continue living for ourselves we are called to live for Christ! The only one who can change and has changed our very nature.
We don't keep willingly live for ourselves with a little Christ on the side like He is the side salad to the meal,CHRIST IS THE WHOLE MEAL!


"These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will* have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."
John 16:33


YES while we are still living in this world we will have "tribulation" in a word we will "struggle" we will have affliction, pertaining to we will be fighting, and in Romans 7 Paul says:


For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) nothing good dwells; for to will is present with me, but [how] to perform what is good I do not find. For the good that I will [to do], I do not do; but the evil I will not [to do], that I practice. Now if I do what I will not [to do], it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
Romans 7:18-25


Paul hated his sin, and at the same time realized though he battled his flesh the only way to victory was through Jesus Christ. Paul wasn't advocating, which some do, "I'm a sinner but saved by jesus so I can continue living in my sins, because Jesus died so I can enjoy my flesh" Romans 6 clears that up pretty quick.


What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not! Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin [leading] to death, or of obedience [leading] to righteousness?
Romans 6:15-16


Now many fall down but seek to get up themselves by works,and it is only by Grace that you can get up…LOOK UNTO CHRIST! Yet still there're many who have fallen down like a pig in slop and convince themselves they are fine where they are at. Satisfied in the filth they don't belong in, and were never meant to belong in.


The question is, are we struggling? or are we oblivious to our sinfulness
to the point where we are convinced we are "fine". Lets say we have two men, and both.. being human, struggle with sin. The first man, who we will call Jack, is overwhelmed with his sinfulness and spends his life trying to be a good person.
Jack is a nice enough guy, he joins a church and on the outside looks like
a very moral and religious person, on the inside though he is tormented and
doesn't really have a relationship with Christ, because he doesn't know Christ, Jack has a relationship with a religion that tells him he needs to earn salvation by works.


The second man, who we will call Jim, looks like the world and unlike Jack, Jim doesn't bother putting on the "religious suit". Jim claims he said a prayer one time and accepted Christ, so now Jim who is neck deep in sinfulness doesn't care, and Jim says he is fine where he is... because Christ died so he can continue living in sin.


Which man is right? go ahead think about it it for a few minutes..


want the answer?


are you sure?


Ok, the answer is…………
they are both wrong, it was a trick question. It was really a way to explain what I was saying, you see… Jack is the man who tries to gain salvation by works, Jack is a pharisee what Christ Himself would call a whitewashed tomb.


Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead [men's] bones and all uncleanness.
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
Matthew 23:27-28


Just for future reference, when you have a Mormon/Jehovah Witness come to your door that's exactly what they are, whitewashed tombs.


What about Jim? Well Jim is the pig in the slop. Jim could actually be an "Atheist" but in this case I am describing Jim as one who claims to believe in the ONE true GOD. Jim in some aspects seems like he has it right, because indeed it's not about works and Jim knows this. However Jim slaps God in the face by abusing His grace, He claims to know God, but at the same time willfully lives a selfish life, that revolves around living for the flesh. Jim doesn't know Christ at all, because he thinks Christ died so he can continue living in sin. Jim doesn't "struggle" there's no tribulation in Jim's life because he doesn't care about his sins, hence he lives like the world so why would they persecute him? What would Christ say about Jim?

Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!'

Matthew 7:22-23


Psalm 40:8 describes how a man of God should be, it described Paul pretty well.


I delight to do Your will, O my God, And Your law [is] within my heart.


And to clarify it's all to the glory of God, and His mercy and grace that you or I am saved PERIOD. Christianity(Following Christ) is admitting we by ourselves can do nothing, we are wretched wicked sinful beings that rely completely on Christ.Christ is the unspotted lamb..we are far from unspotted and all hope relies
on Him. Christianity is not a ten step program, it's not following some rules to receive breakthrough or freedom. Breakthrough and freedom are already yours , Repent and surrender to the only one who can offer it.


For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:3


Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:35


For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39


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and for those of you who live in North Idaho, specifically speaking the Coeur D' Alene area you can help Open Arms/Real Choices clinic. They help women who are pregnant, showing them alternatives to abortion. Their website is http://www.realchoicesclinic.com/ you can also donate online! please consider doing so, and also stopping by to see if you can offer any other help if God is leading you to do so. Ask to see Nancy