Santa Barbara California killer

And yet another mass murderer terrorizes the public.   The demon possessed are growing in number. 

This time in Santa Barbara, Ca.

A 22 year old, incensed maniac named Elliot Rodger.

I'm surprised YouTube has not taken down all of this man's videos to date. 

YouTube has taken down videos with less controversial subject matter in the past. 

But watching his now famous video, the first reaction on this guy is ... "Is this guy for real"?

He seems like either a real maniac or a very bad actor playing the part of "Dr. Evil". 

His sinister laugh is unreal.  And his issue over women and being a virgin is almost laughable if it weren't real. 

He also displays feminine mannerisms in his way of speaking.  

He's not a bad-looking dude. He rides around in a souped-up BMW, well dressed, and comes from a wealthy family

But it has been said that he was once diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome which is sometimes characterized by some obsessive behavior. 

But the main question is was this guy sick (as in mentally ill) or evil?

He wrote a 140 plus page "manifesto" describing details of his life and from there, I understand people have said that his parents divorced, he didn't have much relationship with his dad, etc. 

A lot of people will point to this as causation for things that can lead to this type of frustration in a person's life.  But most people won't excuse murderous behavior because of a person's environmental consequences either and agree he needs to be locked up ....forever!     Kinda inconsistent if it's not the guy's fault wouldn't you think?

The mental health community will still say that he's not mentally ill because he was able to use enough judgment to execute premeditation of his crimes.   But that does not stop everyone from accusing him of being "insane" whenever they describe him and his actions. 

But the other thing is that watching the video, you also can't rule out all the bottled up hatred and bad intentions towards his victims. 

Bottom line, this man might have been EVIL and he also might have been mentally ill but it was his depravity that drove him to be "criminally" insane, and not the other way around.  

The Bible teaches us that we are sinners at birth.   So if a person is also mentally ill, they are depraved before their act of violence.   Indeed, most mentally ill people are not violent but when they are, it's the sin within undisturbed and unhindered that develops into an act of depraved violence.      Unless of coarse, the person is suffering from a form of psychosis which in most cases statistically, doesn't lead the mentally ill to commit violence.     A psychotic state in which a person doesn't know what's going on around them is usually what the psychiatrists and the courts will deem a person who has "diminished capacity" or unable to stand trial.    But that type of psychosis in crime activities is seen more as a result of people under the influence of extreme drugs not mental illness. 

But when a person is filled with hate and happens to be mentally ill, you've got a person who's criminally insane.

And yet, it's not always the case that a mass murderer is deemed "sick" or mentally ill.

More and more, these extreme manifestations of hate and evil are emerging in our society.   Led by extreme selfishness and high pride, anger, frustration, and usually by people who have rejected the concept of a sovereign God that judges evil.   The more a people moves away from God, the more evil is entrenched in the hearts and minds of them. 

Don't reject God in your life.   We must teach the future generation to fear The Lord, God.

Amen.

COMPRAMISING ON TRUE LOVE -

In the Bible we read that if a parent does not discipline his children, he doesn't love them.  Likewise, the Bible teaches that God Himself, chastises or disciplines "those He loves". 
This isn't just in reference to  "correcting" those we love but also, it's obvious that in doing so, you're obeying The Word of God, and doing what's right. 

Consequently, NOT "correcting" those you love means that you don't love them at all. 
So why is it that people have such a hard time with issues of correction, judgment, discipline, holiness, etc.  
Why is it that when people teach further on SIN, REPENTANCE, HOLINESS, JUDGMENT, HELL, etc.,  even "professed" Christians are troubled?? 

Consider the following case examples:

What would you think about a close friend of yours who struggles with alcohol, and his brother who buys him a beer every now and then?
Or a husband who's prone to cheat on his wife, and his friend handing him a porn magazine? 

Do you think the brother of your close friend loves his brother so much and that's why he's giving him more beer?   
Or the husband who's struggling with lust... Do you think his friend fully understands what he's going through or even cares?  

Each of these people THINK they're engaging in acts of loving, understanding, not judging, supporting, uplifting etc....  but the Bible says otherwise.  
The Bible teaches about a diff. type of love than what we see coming from the world.     The world will hold back TRUTH in order to appease a LIE OF SIN for the sake of emotions rather than SACRIFICE in TRUTH in order to free from the bondage of sin.     It's a major difference.  

TODAY the Truth teller, is the villain because he offends, he chastises, he disciplines and judges right from wrong.   

Someone once said -   "Your best friend is the one who tells you what you need to hear over what you want to hear". 

Kinda sounds like Jesus doesn't it?


I tell you ... If something inside of you gets heated at the mention of God's judgment, God's law, repentance, sin, etc.,  You might be a false convert. 
Because the True disciple of Christ moves QUICKLY to the Word to examine themselves, to confirm that they're in line with God's teaching.  In fact, his/her main objective to be holier every day, and be more like Christ. 
The false convert is the one who's pricked in the conscience, and resists Biblical Truth even after they read it for themselves.     They're the ones who feel judged, ridiculed, etc.

But God says He resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.  

People who compromise The Word also compromise their own loved ones.  They don't know what love is because they're stuck on what they perceive is love based on their emotions.  When God has clearly stated that  "The heart is evil and desperately wicked, who can know it"?   

Bottom line, Christ died for ALL our sins.  He's manifested Himself clearly in His Word.   We either believe it and live according to Biblical righteousness or we reject His Word, and continue in condemnation.    God has clearly said what is sin in His revelation.   It's about believing and obeying.  That's it.  It's not much more than that.  God will forgive a broken and repentant spirit, but a proud and stubborn heart, He won't hear.    They're not the words of any man but His.     Many will say on that last day, "Lord, Lord" ... and will be shut out from His presence for ever.     Many will THINK they know Him but they don't.     If you're rejecting anything that immeasurably pushes deeper into God's holiness, if you're rejecting anything that pushes deeper into the explanation of the deepness of our depravity, .... if the words REPENT, SIN, HELL, JUDGMENT, JUSTICE, bother you ....
You might be following a gospel that is not Biblical.     The Word is filled with parables and examples and teachings Jesus gave regarding false assurance of salvation.   For Heaven's sake, open the book and study what the scriptures say.  

LOVE those around you for real by telling them TRUTH.  
Love without Truth is actually HATE.  Because knowing what God says about the Truth, if we willingly decide to hold back the Truth, we deceive not just ourselves but those who need to hear the Truth from you as well.     So you're in disobedience to God's Word, and you're helping condemn the person who you "claim" to love. 

Who says this is easy to do?  No one.  But I rather obey God than men.   Selfishness is determined not by great obedience to God's Word but by people who want to be accepted by the world in the face of compromising God's Word, the Christian faith, and God's commandments.   When you reject Truth, you reject God

"The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day".  -  John 12:48

God bless.

What was once in "the closet"...

.. has "come out", and wants to now push YOU in the closet!
Don't think so?   Anyone who thinks or ever tries to argue that the homosexual agenda is about "love",  and it won't affect you personally, .... watch this video.









While it's true that the sexual freedom and culture changes of the 60's was the origins of all of this, the recent rapid decline of morality in the minds and hearts of people I believe, are the direct result of spiritual decline, and God's judgment coming upon us.  How else can a country go from constitutional freedom to fascist hedonism SO FAST in the last decade alone??  

We have to open our eyes, those of us who can. Prayers and fasting for our country and our children is in order.  

The Answer to the Hope that is in you (playlist)

If you can't say the Truth...

... Then tickle me instead! 

If you're not Christian, I can understand.  If you're part of a "works for righteousness" religion, it also makes sense to me..    But if you call yourself "Christian", you claim to read your Bible, and are offended by the preaching of REPENTANCE for the forgiveness of sins ...  then shame on you.
 

Because the Gospel of Christ preached to a sick and dying world is found entirely throughout the scriptures; old and new testament.  In fact, it's the central message of the scriptures in its entirety. 

If you're embarrassed by someone exposing the evidence of aberrant sin so as to bring to light the shame that should be resident among people in our society, then shame on you!  You're a coward!

Why?  Because you're more embarrassed about the Gospel of Christ than you are about where the culture is heading. 

Shame on you if you think that a true Christian preaching repentance on the corner is more concerned with his/her self-righteousness than on meeting the spiritual and eternal need of the perishing.    This is evidence of the state of  your cowardly heart.

"EXAMINE YOURSELF" to see if you're even in the faith or more concerned with tickling people's ears while you shut your eyes to the reality in which Christ died for us on the cross.   

And then REPENT and read The Word to truly learn what Christ's message is.     I assure you, if Christ where to be preaching the message of Joel Osteen today, He wouldn't have been crucified.

But remember, this isn't entirely about the message you're sending out but about the state of your heart before Jesus Christ.

"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions," - 2 Tim.4:3

INCINERATED BABIES...

For me personally, this is the "straw that broke the camel's back".   I am more than ever convinced that we're living in the last days.  

But even MORE SICK, SAD AND TRAGIC than the above news is the fact that many will see this, and say "Pass the salt"!   They won't ponder any more on this and other abominations than what clothes they're going to wear tomorrow.     Their consciences are seared and dead to these things happening around us. 

There's nothing else to say but "Come Lord, Jesus... Come quickly"!


The Bible instructs us to say that in the book of Revelation.   It instructs us to love "The Appearing" of The Lord, and to continue to look up, and wait for Him with patience.     And truly He will come quickly.  "A day is like a thousand years to The Lord and a thousand years like a day".  



And yet people cannot see what's going on around them and right before their very eyes!  
I'm convinced that there is a SUPERNATURAL BLINDNESS over-taking people everywhere.  They're mesmerized by what's on TV, entertainment, music, the cares of this world, technology, etc. ...
And this spiritual blindness is in fact, the judgment of God towards an indifferent and unholy people.

They compromise their relationship with God by keeping silent in the face of evil.   They stay quiet while the wolves enter into the midst of the flock and scatter.   And then they themselves end up drifting away from the holiness of God because they can no longer hear or see God.   They can't identify holiness because they've harkened too long unto the lies of the enemy.   They didn't obey the command of God when He said "SEPARATE FROM THEM MY PEOPLE", and  "DON'T TOUCH THE UNCLEAN THING", and because they didn't seek His face in His Word so as to gain knowledge of Him and His instruction, they've become unprofitable and useless to God.

The only thing that will turn things around is REPENTANCE, and a turning to God.   But these are the last days, and God's will be done regardless.    

We can only pray for our country, our families, and pray for strength while we continue to watch and love the appearing of our Lord, Jesus Christ.

 God's free gift of salvation is through genuine REPENTANCE for the forgiveness of sins; freely offered to all those who want to place Christ FIRST in their lives - above all things.    Because the one who will judge the living and the dead in all righteousness is on His way coming as a thief in the night to those who aren't looking for Him.   And anyone who isn't looking for Him has proven to be Spiritually blind and under judgment already. 

 And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.    He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.       And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.       I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.    Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city". - Rev. 22

Grace and Peace be multiplied!

The price of Refusing knowledge

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4:6 KJV)
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Whenever we step off the line of Truth, we risk losing God's protection for us; we risk going at it without His strength, and wisdom.

This is why we need to search the scriptures for the Truth of God's direction.

Man's wisdom is no wisdom at all in comparison with God's wisdom. And that is why all the wise men of the past are now buried and gone, and God and His words remain. In fact, Jesus said...

"Heaven and earth shall pass away but my words will never pass away".


Many believers struggle in their walk with God because they've been taught to expect God to continually GIVE but they never give of themselves. The Scriptures teach that we are to give OURSELVES as a "living sacrifice" to God. We belong to Him and were bought with a price. ....

Despite the utopia being preached in today's mega- churches about all you can EXPECT from God, what are we giving Him every day as our appropriate worship?

May God bless us with Biblical understanding.