The End of the World.....LOL

I knew right away that the world wasn't coming to an end Saturday at 6PM. Even if the Pope and President and all the major denominational leaders of the world said so.  I'm not using doctrinal or even theological data to base my opinions on, but I do have sound reasoning.  I mean if a man wants to predict when the world is coming to an end and splash it all over the media, then I think the least we can do before we all disappear is to state our opinion on the matter...you know, put what we think out on the table.  I mean why not be as bold in my opinion as he was in his. On top of that, I think my reason for the world not coming to an end on Saturday at 6pm is stronger than that guy's own reason for the world to come to an end. Ok, thats enough of that.

My reason....first and only, and with this I lay my whole rebuttal and all my integrity as a Pastor on this one sole reason.  Its my granny.  Yeah my Granny! She provided me with the reason. You say, "Pastor your granny is gone". I know she is but she left me with some great sound and infallible reasonings.  My Granny always taught me (and she was adamant about it) that after you're done eating, you are to rest and allow your dinner to settle. She would never let us kids cut grass, weed the garden, paint or do a lot of hard or even moderate work right after we ate.  We were to rest and allow our food to settle.  Sure enough, when I heard the prediction of 6pm I knew right there it wasn't happening because from 4 oclock to 6 pm it's the dinner hour.  God isn't going to do some major heavy duty work right after we eat. Right after dinner....is not practical. He would be setting a very bad example. True, it would be a precedent, but God is more predictable than He is precedent setting when it comes to His teaching us.

You might say, 'hey bucko, you're really reaching". I don't think so. Take for example when the Lord gave manna to his children out in the desert...they didn't go to battle or build the tabernacle, or cross the sea right after dinner. No they had a nice peaceful evening enjoying the miracle that they would experience for 40 years till they crossed over the Jordan and camped at Gilgal with Joshua. Jesus fed 5,000 people and again 4,000 people and not once did they go for a big evening event.  He fed them all - every one of them and that was that.  There was no big sha-bang after the meal.

 Look at the big dinner event after Jesus resurrection, Peter and the guys go fishing, they catch nothing and they are hungry. He tells them to have something to eat. Right after they bust a gut pulling in a record 153 fish catch, He feeds them. The LORD doesn't say to them, "I'm going to destroy the world, Jerusalem or at least beat up Herod coz he hurt my feelings - go get your swords. Nope nothing comes of it, nothing, coz Jesus is enjoying his meal too.

Who wants to do something hard right after dinner? I don't! What about you?  I think God might feel the same way to.  Even at the Last Supper when Jesus knew He was about to be crucified, He didn't get all fired up after the dinner hour....no way, in fact where do we find him after dinner? In the garden praying. 

You don't get all fired up after dinner, it's a time to rest and reflect and rub your belly and say "thanks God for today's sustenance".  That guy should have read his Bible!!  Or have talked to his granny. He would have know better.
 Even in the Old Testament, Gideon was found hiding in the threshing floor trying to whittle out a dinner...God finds him there and He tells him what he wants him to do...but he doesn't say.... now
buddy...get going....get a wiggle on it....and he doesn't say right after your done eating, no sir, thats not how God works. When you have a full stomach that is not the time to do hard work!
Come on people....try tying your shoes right after dinner.  When do you loosen your belt the most...right after dinner...?when do you watch the evening news....you got it, right after dinner...when do you feel slumber or a nap coming on?  Yeah...right after dinner!!!!! When is your dogs hair around his face the dirtiest?....Yep. Do you clean old faithful fiddo up at that point?  Of course not...you sit down and let your meal settle, then fiddo goes over in his corner. All you can hear him do for the next hour is lick his face till it's clean. 
 Ever see one of those pictures of a big lion in Africa, holding his head up in a statley fashion? His eyes are bright and his mane is flowing in the African breeze. He is peacful and at rest... Well look under his paw...what do you see...a big juicy carcass...that big smile he is wearing is right after dinner? the only time a lion smiles is right after dinner.

Well that's my reasoning...my Granny learned me right, and I know she was right cause we're still here.  Oh yeah...and when will the end of the world come? In the context of my article, I think the end of the world is going to come when God is really fed up with all that is going on down here and He's hungry...not only can he hear all these people belly aching but his belly is aching.....and that may NOT be very long off!!

Get Up and Go Tell Others!

In today's world, our answer for the nations and their Godless conditions is to send x-millions and billions of economic aide to them. It's the world's answer to keeping a nation in its borders. If they are poor give them money, don't transform them.  If they are politically riotous, give them advise, advisors, and prop them up with diplomatic visits.  If they are suffering calamities, send them cash, volunteers, big time aide. If they are in war, send them NATO or U.S. technologies, air space coverage or military advisors. If they have famine send them agricultural aide, equipment, AG specialists. The politics of the West always have something to send.
 The problem is we are sending the wrong stuff.
The plight of nations will never be satisfied by money, diplomacy, aide, advisors or the good will of nations wishing to help them. No nation has the cure to another nations misery outside of fixing what is the root cause of that misery.  They may have a temporary fix but not the answer. 
The reason is that most nations problems are rooted in their avariance to God, contrasted with trying to help them by fixing what seems to ail them.  The ailments that we send so much money to fix are more the outcroping of faulty diplomatic philosophy's of those nations.  They have been deliberate to make treaties with sympathetic nations but lack the one political connection that can rescue them - that is to have representation in the 'House of God..
Most of the nations of the world are in ignorance of the blessings of God. They are rebels serving idols. They have no favor with God, they have no ear to the Divine. The evidences of the struggles are economic hardship, moral depravity, godless societal programs, hatred, thievery, murder, war, famine (both earthly and spiritual) and heart breaking misery amongst its people.

God's answer to the world of nations which are lost and suffering is to send men and women who He (God) has placed a picture of their desperate condition on their heart. They have a passion, a burden for that nation and a spiritual strength to rescue it from its own depravity.  The answer to every nations misery is men and women of God. They put the trumpet of God to their lips and sound the divine call of action to rescue that country from its divine bankruptcy.
Our Lord has the answers to the needs of the nations. The Holy Spirit responds to the men and prophets He has called and to those He wants to send. He gave us a Scriptural mandate to carry the message of redemption to all men everywhere... With the message of redemption and the changes it accomplishes on mens heart comes 'redemptive lift'.  The lift is what happens when mens hearts are in line with Gods' purposes.....Matt 28:19-20, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

When He says "Go," He means "Go!" When He says "Go YE," he means "Go YE." When He says "INTO ALL THE WORLD," He means "ALL THE WORLD!" When He says "PREACH The GOSPEL," He means 'PREACH THE GOSPEL!"  Surely God means what He says!

God clearly tells us how to influence and save nations....The command is, "Go and make disciples of all nations." The promise (and it is a beautiful one) is "Lo, I am with you." 

Does anyone have the right to leapfrog the command and then hug the promise? It is time for the church to rouse up from its complacency. God will be with you! Go save the nations! Find a larger canvas, catch a wider vision. Dare bolder programs. God will be with You! Go save the nations! Rouse up and go forth to conquer for Christ, even to the uttermost parts and the isles of the sea."

Heathens will be bombing the world forever till we replace the godless, darkened teachings of devil warriors with the transforming message of the love of Jesus Christ. They don't just need aide, they need preaching, and teaching from anointed servants of God. + We must place love and hope in their hearts and begin to compete in their clouded minds for their thoughts, dreams, ideals and their hearts. No devil or witch doctor, Iman or monk can compete with the powerful, positive life changing message of the Gospel.  It will turn the world upside down.  We need to pray for and send men and women to go and do it...NOW!  Go ye!!

In todays world the answer for the nations and the Godless conditions of the nations is to send them x-millions and billions of economic aide. That is the worlds answer to keeping a nation in its border. The plight of nations will never be satisfied by money, diplomacy, or good will of nations wishing to help them. No nation has the cure to another nations misery.  They may have a temporary fix but not the answer.  The reason is that most nations problems are rooted in their avariance to God.  Most of the nations of the world are at war with God, they are rebels serving idols. The evidence of the war is economic hardship, moral depravity, godless societal programs, hatred, thievery, murder, and misery amongst its people.
God's answer to the world of nations lost and suffering is to send men and women who He (God) has placed a picture of their desperate condition on their heart. They have a passion for that nation and a spiritual strength to rescue it from its own depravity.  They put the trumpet of God to their lips and sound the divine call of action to rescue that country from its divine bankruptcy. Our Lord has the answers to the needs of the nations.  He gave us a scriptural commission for us to carry the message of redemption to all men everywhere... Matt 28:19-20, Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.
When He says "Go," He means "Go!" When He says "Go YE," he means "Go YE." When He says "INTO ALL THE WORLD," He means "ALL THE WORLD!" When He says "PREACH The GOSPEL," He means 'PREACH THE GOSPEL!"  Surely God means what He says!
God clearly tells us how to influence and save nations....The command is, "Go and make disciples of all nations." the promise, and it is a beautiful one is "Lo, I am with you." 
Does anyone have the right to leapfrog the command and then hug the promise? It is time for the church to rouse up from our complacency. God will be with you! Find larger canvas, catch a wider vision. Dare bolder programs. God will be with You! Rouse up and go forth to conquer for Christ even the uttermost parts and the isles of the sea."
Heathens will be bombing the world forever till we replace the godless, darkened teachings of devil warriors with the transforming message of the love of Jesus Christ.  We must place love and hope in their hearts and begin to compete in their clouded minds for their thoughts and ideals. No devil or witch doctor, Iman or buddist monk can compete with the powerful, positive life changing message of the Gospel.  It will turn the world upside down.  We need to pray for and send men and women to go and do it...NOW!

Osama bin Laden

Most of us in America have gladly received the news of this man's death.  Much of the world sees him as a hero but those closely alied to the West see him as a tyrant.....I would like to say something concerning this man as to the way I see him and his demise. 
Osama bin Laden is the by-product of really bad U.S. policy's. He is a casualty of those failed and uncalculated policy's.  Chavez of Venezeula is another man caught in the web of badly botched U.S. policy. Cambodia is an example of a sovereign country that got caught in the vaccuum of failed American policies.  The list really goes on and on and on.  Our government has failed in its leadership and foreign policies and today many existing leaders and emerging future leaders are now afraid to embrace American policies because they are so unstable.  That being said, I want to focus these next few lines on the death of the world's most recognised terrorist.......Osama bin Laden.
First, I applaud our Armed Forces...they are always so spectacular, whether it's as visible as OBL or any of our troops doing their everyday work on a base in planet earth ...they all in some way contribute to US success.
Secondly, I do not look at Osama bin Laden's death as something in the form of revenge.  This man was a murderer. Worse than that, he would kill women, children, elderly or the young in the prime of life, with no remorse. I am not happy that Osama is dead in the sense of a person being killed or shot to death.  I don't think as a Christian I am thrilled about anyone being killed.  It is a sad thing whether it is a terrorist, a public enemy number one, or a person gone berserk who the police have to take down to defend the public; it is a sad thing that someone has to extinguish that persons' life.  GOD HAD MUCH MORE FOR THAT PERSON.  They were not, nor ever meant to be, the resting place for a piece of lead. 
Please do not include me in those who cry for revenge.  I simply wish to see justice, and justice only, to be served.  Osama was a man on the run, not because the U.S. was looking for revenge, because if that was the case then those who love Osama will be ready to get their piece of revenge to feel justified.  No the U.S.A. was simply carrying out the fulfilling of justice.  This individual committed crimes against Muslims, Americans, and the brainwashed "minds" of men destroyed before their bodies meant their end.  The U.S. simply executed a warrant against this man for crimes. Legitimate crimes against human kind.  With his death it is over.  There is nothing more that anybody should do.  The crimes' punishment has been fulfilled. Justice has been served, it is finished.  Anything more is revenge and another crime and that person or government committing it should be held responsible for that occurance as a separate offense, and that offense will bear its own punishment.  Justice completes and closes out a crime, that is called satisfied justice. Revenge is evil, and selfishly continues a crime with an illegal and unsatisfiable perpetuity.  It just goes on and on. The World doesn't need that.
 It is a shame that Osama's death has so polarized the world. His death can do nothing for them or us. Yet in the spiritual darkness of the world, Christ died for all mankind to wash away their sins and remove the reproach off of their lives. Yet many in the world still do not know what Christ has done for them.
It is time to put away the guns and send missionaries...let's start conquering hearts instead of nations.  The British did it and it worked....the sun never went down on the British Empire....They sent missionaries through the London Missionary Society.  Read about Tahiti...no guns, just the mouth of a missionary and the whole murderous island and later all the surrounding islands came to peace!