I turned into our church parking lot yesterday morning and God gave me a Revelation preparing me for what the Pastor was going to say! This has happened before at this church over past three years! I had not received the church bulletin yet and had no idea what our Pastor was going to preach on? It is like this church is standing on Holy ground! My Christian progression over this past 70 years has much to do with this Bible I have been carrying around most of my life! When I was a child in Sunday school it was just a bunch of stories like any other story! Then as I grew it just became a book like any other book! Something to read, forget and move on with your life just like any other school book! Then my Bible became to me a list of Books! Sixty six books all in one Book! Then these books became chapters to me! Distinct and unique yet in unity with each other! Then these chapters had paragraphs! These paragraphs had sentences! These sentences had words! Today my Bible has become the Word of God to me! So powerful! One word can part the sea or calm the storm! Can heal the sick or raise the dead! Can pluck the flaming soul out of Hell! Can call angels down from Heaven! Can deliver you out of the lion’s mouth! Can flood the earth but save you by the same water! Can speak to you in an unknown language! Can slay a giant with a small stone! In the beginning was the Word——–. His word is more precious than silver or gold! It is eternal and immortal for Jesus is the one and only expression of God’s word! No wonder they ban this Book from our schools! Our Pastor Cope brought the message to us out of the Book of Revelation Chapter Ten. In this scripture a “Little Book” is mentioned! This angel or evangelist asked the Apostle John to take this little book and eat it! It was sweet as honey when he put it in his mouth but became bitter when it reached his stomach! When we come to Christ there is no sweeter experience found on earth for it is a Heavenly experience! His love and affection shown to us will last for an eternity! Unconditional love and forgiveness! We experience God’s acceptance to us and for us! Then we carry this love to others for we cannot keep this a secret! It would be selfish! Then we discover over time that this world is not in love with God like God is in love with us? In fact the world is at war with God! This is the bitterness John experienced in this Revelation! John they will boil you in oil! They will intern you in a slave labor camp on the Island of Patmos! The world hates God and the only way to get to him is to attack his followers or disciples! We are defamed, persecuted and killed for his name! Like the recent attack on the Sri Lanka Christian’s! This is the sweet bitter of redemption! What puzzles me most is that God still loves them? Stranger than fiction! Two sides to God’s love! Redemption and judgment! You can have one without the other but you cannot have it both ways! The worst sin on earth is to reject the love of God! In fact the Book of Revelation during the seven year tribulation period is all about God venting his anger on those on the earth that have rejected his love! To reject his word and his son is to reject him! The only news you can trust today is in your Bible! We have a political party who call themselves progressives? Progress towards what? Who? Progress towards Heaven or Hell? Your Bible will lead you towards God because he authored it! There is only one way to Heaven! All other roads lead to Hell! Follow the navigation or GPS which God has given you and it will lead you to Heaven! Follow His Word! I was lost but now I am found! God is looking for you! Are you looking for him? What road are you on? James and Hamsa Sasse. GodWhoisGod.com
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Christian American Foundations
Who Was the Most Christian American President? If all you ever knew about this was what you were taught in a public(government) school in the United States you would not have a clue! You might think Lincoln or Washington but the most out spoken president about his Faith in God was Theodore Roosevelt! He was running for president in 1912 which is exactly 100 years from this year. He walked softly and carried a big stick! He was a rough rider horse calvary kind of guy. His favorite Bible verse was Micah 6:8. What doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God. Roosevelt was of the Dutch Reformed Church. He participated in missions work with his father, a noted philanthropist. He taught Sunday School classes during his four years at Harvard. He wrote for Christian publications. He called his bare-the-soul speech announcing his principles when running in 1912, “A Confession of Faith.” Later he closed perhaps the most important speech of his life, the clarion-call acceptance of the Progressive Party nomination that year, with the words, “We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord!” He titled one of his books, Foes of Our Own Household(after Matthew 10:36) and another, Fear God and Take Your Own Part. He once wrote an article for The Ladies Home Journal, Nine Reasons Why Men Should Go to Church.” After Theodoore left the White House, he was offered University Presidencies but refused all and chose to become a Contributing Editor of The Outlook, a relatively small Christian weekly magazine. He lectured at many Christian Theology School across America. Source: Mondayministry.com/blog2012/02/19/who-was-the-most-christian-president