THOUSANDS OF SPORTS TEAMS MURDERED BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD

 EACH YEAR.

There is a planned diaper drive in DC to protest the 392,000 children murdered by Planned Parenthood under the latest statistics.  They plan to put a diaper for each one of them in DC and then donate them to people in need, as diapers can be rather expensive. Note that MOST diaper companies actually support abortion - talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face. 

Approximately 37% of boys and 29% of girls participate in Youth Sports. With an average of about 15 children per team, this comes out to about 4,800 boys teams and 3,700 girls teams.  Annihilated. Gone.  EACH YEAR.  The equivalent of almost 1000 Boeing 747 Jumbo Jets with 400 children each crashing each year with no survivors.  ALMOST THREE EVERY DAY INCLUDING WEEKENDS! 

Yet people say ho-hum? I heard a "Spirit-filled Christian say God has put abortion on the back-burner. Really? If reported honestly, this would fill the news non-stop with investigations and NO ONE wanting to fly. Yet women who never even looked at an ultrasound and who are scientifically illiterate about what REALLY happens still file into PP, and they are not the ONLY ones killing innocent children before they can even be born - it is beyond the pale. Our nation has a cataclysmic population problem - not too much, but too little - we are far below replacement levels and are dying as a culture.

We have some new leaders who say they want to defund and stop this atrocity, but many who claim to know God are still not on board. What is required to stop spitting in the face of the God who lovingly crafted each one of these little ones?  I am sure glad my mother did not do that. Are you?

HIGH STAKES

We are at a time of very high stakes as a nation and as a church. With the political divide now far greater than any divides over race, where you live, or how much or how little money you make, people are often at each other's throats.  I was in a meeting of Christians last week where they handed out flyers on how to oppose the elected government - the hatred was very thinly veiled, and later one of the attendees who is lock, stock, and barrel into their agenda committed slander, expressed vitriol and hate, and cared nothing for the scriptural mandate to honor the king.

I also hear kind voices telling people not to criticize others. Obviously, some make a cottage industry of being negative and opposing everyone but themselves, but scripture is very clear we are not to accept deviant beliefs or ministers who deviate from scripture and lead people astray. Paul said things probably even the most aggressive blogger would stop short of saying.

I am reading an EXCELLENT book titled WOKE JESUS.  It details the start of totally changing the image people have of Jesus that started in the 1700's with the German theologian Immanuel Kant. The emphasis on the humanity of Jesus and diminishing and then tanking his deity and oneness with the Father continued on with Hume, Tillich, MKL, Jr., and just about every WOKE seminary professor today including those from the Southern Baptist Convention. People have painted on a "Jesus canvas" their OWN ideas and made him either Nordic, Black, married, gay, confused, or an anti-Semite.  That is what happened in Germany - they stripped the favor of the Jews from the Bible and made an Aryan Jesus of their own making. Today, people attribute in blasphemous ways their own sins to Jesus, the sinless one. They seek to demonize actual Christians who love and believe the scriptures and who have a vibrant, intimate, and deeply satisfying relationship with the Son of God Himself. They opposed everything God stands for, and ministers of the gospel MUST warn people about these folks as all others who are wolves among the flock. 

So many like to key on the buffoons on so-called Christian TV who are easy targets, but there are far more of these people in local churches that people attend, defend, and give to. They slowly introduce destructive heresies and with the loyalty of the parishioners in hand, they go deeper and deeper into deception. hey often start by "demythologizing" Genesis. They say God did not create everything in six days despite a direct quote of God Himself in Exodus 20 that He indeed did do exactly that. They say the Bible is not a science book, and of course, it is not ONLY a science book, but the Devil loves to start with things like this. The Devil ALWAYS puts man's ideas above God. Do alleged scientists who indict themselves as fools when they confess they believe there is no God carry more weight to ministers than the Holy Spirit who hovered over the face of the waters and was there with the Father and the Son when all this occurred? I see people talking about "old-earth creationism" which also denies the global flood. Interestingly enough, Peter, who made no claims to bring a scientist, but who wrote under the unction and direction of the Holy Spirit, said people in the last days would be destroyed just as those in Noah's day. clinging to uniformitarianism that would dominate the day. EVERYTHING PETER SAID HAS BEEN TRUE FOR OVER 150 YEARS. 

People do not start off denying the resurrection. The build-up to it can take years, but if never addressed, you will be lost. NEVER DOUBT anything in the Bible. If you have an issue, ASK GOD. If you cannot hear His answer, tap other saints for their wisdom. Never let a difficulty in your spirit go unattended. The stakes are TOO HIGH for that. Faith is a gift. You need to keep receiving it from God. Never stop exercising faith, never stop receiving from God.  He has the answers you are seeking. Do not gamble when there are HIGH STAKES involved. 

FIVE THINGS

Elon Musk raised the hackles of a lot of Federal Employees by sending a pretty simple email. It required the receivers to list five accomplishments over the prior week and if they could not do that they would be fired. He said that was a very low bar and I agree. When working for a large firm many years ago as a manager of projects, having twelve project managers report to me on all their work, it was far more than five, believe me. They had to evaluate all projects under their control and I had to ask hard questions.

In my Sunday message today on station KERI out in Bakersfield, California, today, I dealt with this issue. My message was titled "FIRED!" (You can hear it at KingdomGospelMinistries.org)

The big question, of course, is - does God do this?  Christianity has a diversity of positions on many life issues - some are works-based where your eternal destiny is based on what good you accomplished in your life. Others are faith-based where your eternal destiny is solely based on having accepted the sacrifice for sin offered by Jesus Christ through His suffering, death, and physical resurrection from the dead.

Actually, it is a combination. Ephesians 2 is an excellent chapter to read about this. We are not saved by works but by grace.  We could never please God through works, and to be honest, most works we would come up with would be no more efficacious than those of the Scribes and Pharisees, who would not pluck grain on the Sabbath if hungry but would have no problem plotting to kill the Son of God on the Sabbath.

We are saved by God's grace alone, NOT of works, let anyone should boast. So, does that mean we should laze about and not be active for the Kingdom of God? Ha! Anyone who actually studies the Bible should know better.  Right after that warning in Ephesians, the Apostle Paul writes that GOD has prepared good works for us to walk in! God defines the works we should do! In Ephesians 5 which I preached on this morning on WRDV (Radio Delaware Valley) and also in Galations 5 which details the fruit of the Holy Spirit. REWARDS in God's eternal kingdom ARE based on what we do after receiving the free gift of eternal life from Christ. Jesus taught about what was the result of what people did with the talents they were given. Unequal outcomes are throughout scripture. If two people do not end up with the same, God does not take from the fruitful one to give to the unfruitful one. It is just the reverse. The same with the ten virgins. Paul beat his body into subjection to win the prize. We should do the same. I want to hear, "Well Done,  Good and Faithful Servant! - Enter into the joy of the Lord!"

So, FIVE THINGS.  Looking back on the last week -

1) Received a signed contract from a church in Fox Chase to expand it to 430 seats.

2) Worked on a ground-up new house in Upper Dublin.

3) Dealt with a client non-profit working in foster care and adoption in renovating a building they bought.

4) Talked with one of my sons at length about new business propositions he is contemplating.

5) Met with a Temple Professor I am discipling for about 2 1/2 hours to share a meal, get into detail on mutual concerns and pray for each other.

And many more including my wife, my sister, and producing the three radio shows we do every week.

Five Things?  Not very many when you think about it...  Hard to see how that could be an issue for someone working full-time. We all need the redeem the time, because the days are evil. Spend your time wisely! There is only so much of it!