Whoopi Golberg believes Hitler was holy...

.. when she says, "Hitler was Christian"!... 

Why is it that people use the expression, "If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck,.. it's a duck"!

And yet, they don't want to use that same formula to know what a true Christian is. I mean, it's pretty easy to define a person (on a human level) by their actions.

A person isn't a Christian because they identify themselves as one - but because they live according to God's Word, The Bible.

A profession of faith might be all you need for other religions but NOT for True Christianity.
This is why the argument that Christians were part of the Inquisition, Crusades, American slavery, etc. has never worked because none of that can be justified in New Testament teaching. Lame arguments use these historical items against Christianity when found in scripture but those arguments fall flat when we see that the mere mention of certain historical events in the Bible does not equate with how the new covenant mandates us to live today as Christ followers.

If Christians are supposed to be "Christ-followers", and Goldberg calls Hitler a Christian, then she's basically saying that Hitler was "Christ-like"... and she just blasphemed the name of Christ.  Because what identifies a Christian is HOW they live, NOT solely what they profess. 


Jesus said, "You'll know them by their fruits".  It helps to know about the Godly fruits that define a child of God by way of knowing scripture because the Bible lays them out pretty clearly on what the fruits of the Spirit are.  And these fruits of the Spirit of God define Jesus' character:

 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law".- Galatians 5:22-23

YET, people like whoopi Goldberg say dumb things like, "Hitler was a Christian".
When Goldberg and people like her say things like that they put over their heads the condemnation that comes on people who blaspheme God's name and character, and falsely accuse the children of The Most High. It's not very wise to align oneself with the judgement that has fallen on all those who by that same manner have bared false witness on God's martyred saints throughout history.

"It's a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the Living God".
The persecution of the saints which we see going on all over the world today and for 2 thousand years, always starts with disparaging, and then all- out calling "good evil and evil good".

God says, "Woe to you who put light for darkness and darkness for light"!
Those that bare the name of Christ ARE NOT those who simply profess to be one with Christ, but those who DO THE WILL OF GOD AND KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD. And "You'll know them by their fruits"...

Jesus said, "Why do you call me Lord, and NOT do what I say"?
The Apostle James said, "Be DOERS of the Word and not hearers only".
It's clear, You're not in Christ by profession alone but by being a physical witness of Him who empowers us to live according to His will through the power of His Holy Spirit (John 3:3)
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Woe to those who incite violence against the saints of God by baring false witness against them! "REPENT, for the kingdom of Heaven is at hand"!

The right foundation...

Worldly believers:

At some point within your religious/carnal perspective on life, you're going to run into the conflict of reconciling your faith to your actual life, and then find yourself questioning the sincerity of your faith to your level of hypocrisy.

"Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, who built his house upon the rock: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and if fell not: for it was founded upon the rock. And every one that heareth these words of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, who built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof."

Matthew Chapt. 7

ONE CHANCE - ONE LIFE:

The Bible says, "NOW is the day of salvation"!  

It talks about a specific time of ones TIME to believe.  We not perceive when that time is for us, but the Bible teaches that this time to REPENT and call out to God is limited.  

Luke Chapter 16:

The Rich Man and Lazarus

19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in epurple and fine linen and fwho feasted sumptuously every day.20 And at his gate gwas laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,21 who desired to be fed with hwhat fell from the rich man's table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores.22 The poor man died and was carried by ithe angels jto Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,23 and in kHades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and lsaw Abraham far off and Lazarus jat his side. 24 And he called out, m‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus to dip the end of his finger in water and ncool my tongue, for oI am in anguish in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that pyou in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been fixed, in order that those who would pass from here to you may not be able, and none may cross from there to us.’ 27 And he said, ‘Then I beg you, father, to send him to my father's house—28 for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’ 29 But Abraham said, ‘They have qMoses and the Prophets; rlet them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, sfather Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 He said to him, ‘If they do not hear qMoses and the Prophets, tneither will they be convinced if someone should rise from the dead.’"

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What "Potty Mouth" reveals...

Today it's everywhere... On the street, on TV, in music, in what we read, and even in common conversation!   Profane language, cussing and cursing!

People will tell you it's normal, it's modern, they'll tell you it's how they express themselves, and some people will even tell you they can't communicate without an occasional case of "sewer mouth".

Comedians can't be funny without "toilet mouth", music can't be cool without "fecal language", and even art can't be artistic without "pornographic smuttiness".   And it's no longer the biker, truck driver or ex-con sitting in prison.

Common folk - modern times!   Far from positive progression in the culture but simply accepted.   So much so, that if one has a problem with it, THEY are the problem not the one with "excrement speech".

Well, it's the way of the world.   However, when it's also the way of those who profess themselves "Christian", they are misrepresenting God, blaspheming His Holy name, and doing so in His presence.  Perhaps the world doesn't care about the state of their heart before a holy God but "Christians" should.

It's a serious thing if they see no problem with it because it demonstrates severe ignorance of God's Word and warnings.  It demonstrates no fear of God and evidence of false conversion or in the least, lack of Spiritual discernment/maturity.   People who continue to profess to be Christian and continue to use profane language might be demonstrating evidence of a lack of regeneration. 


Here is what God's Word has to say about it:

"O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment."

- Matthew 12:34-36

  

"But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him." -  Colosians 3:8-10

Go through the Psalms and you'll learn that our many ways of expressing anything as humans; whether we speak, sing or play music, our expressions are created by God to give praise to Him.  Our ability to express was not given to us to exhalt evil but to praise, speak His Truth, and glorify God.

 "Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." - Psalm 19:14

All bad habits are able to be broken especially when we are endowed by the gifts of God's holy Spirit who comes to live and dwell within us.   And so we can never exhalt Him who is perfectly holy and pure with profanity.  God forbid. 

"Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called," - Ephesians 4:1



"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers."
   - Ephesians 4:29

And it continues to say:   

"Do not grieve the Holy Spirit". - Ephesians 4:30

"Don't Worry, Be Happy Already"!!! ...

... And I guess if you just can't get "happy", oh how unhappy you'll be!  If only it was as easy as flipping on a switch.

Again, Joel Osteen is a motivational speaker and not a true herald of The Gospel of Christ.   A free floating message like the above, can only come AFTER an even greater message of Biblical Truth that points to Christ Himself.


Denying the reality that it's okay for humans to have crappy days, and even worst, suggesting that we should always be in control of our moods is just plain wrong. 


Being conscious of your mood is one thing but without a source to anchor you to reality, you'll be grasping at the air, and coming back for more "happy" words day after day. 

You can't tell people to be happy - just for the sake of being happy! 


That's like saying "HAVE FAITH"!....  Faith in what???


Haven't we yet learned the "Mind over matter" deal just doesn't work??


This false teaching is obviously from the ancient pagan hindu religions that teach of some super power we supposedly have within ourselves to change ourselves.  But this runs completely opposite to Biblical truth.  



The inability to change ourselves is then the two-edged sword that will then convict of us failing to do so, when we continue to have difficulties in life - or even a normal bad day at the office.  

Sure, there are some people who have strong wills and might even be able to temporarily change their moods with positive thinking. But the greater message (above) should not be about fixing a temporary mood swing but instead having a permanent world view that one can always rely on as a foundation for one's soul in permanent hope for life.

Truth without a foundation is no longer Truth!  We all must have an non-shifting foundation of Truth in order to utilize it as a source.


GOD IS THE TRUTH:

"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of all wisdom". - Proverbs 1.

But the Truth is that God is ALWAYS on the Throne.  So no matter what type of day or mood we're having, if we center our day and our existance, and purpose on Him, and what the Bible states about life and reality, we know regardless, we're going to be okay.

It's pretty much as real as understanding that "IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT US".  .... It's about God... 24/7.  

Notice how the more we make our lives about US, the more worries, pressures, stress, expectations, etc. we seem to have.  

Living a "self centered" life has it's consequences.

This is because many times we depend our "happiness" to be based on how much material resources we have stocked up.   We make our relationships, our incomes, our future, our past, our present, and our self-imposed expectations the center of our universe.   

But knowing that we're RIGHT with God and knowing Him; cultivating a desire to serve Him, we find our contentment in Knowing that we are forgiven and live in His favor.

This is the true source of REAL joy.  


But the issue with God's Truth is that we need to actually KNOW and BELIEVE what the Bible states in order for us to apply it to our lives!    This is advice you probably won't find Osteen giving his followers.  If he did he'd probably have less followers because people would be dealing with their thirst on Godly wisdom and not man's wisdom.  

"On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive,.."

    - John Chapt. 7

 "Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” - John Chapt. 4

But Osteen's adivce is the very popular idea that you have to "pick yourself up by your own bootstraps" - a concept that might not work for someone who has to walk 20 miles every day for a bucket of clean water. 

If a gospel doesn't work EVERYWHERE around the world, it's a false gospel.


The great evil of listening to this man and others like him speak is that for those who can't possibly "pick themselves up by their own bootstraps", they'll feel like they fail every day, and they'll have nothing but self defeat, learned helplessness, depression, and anxiety to follow.


Whereas, a person who understands The Gospel of Christ and who lives by it, finds it necessary to KNOW GOD, abide by His teachings, and loving Him finds a real balance between our every day struggles, shifting moods, and maintains their source of strength from God's Truth and promises -  NOT THEIR personal abilities.


Knowing that IN CHRIST, and in Christ alone, HE IS OUR SOURCE OF STRENGTH if we truly believe.


Believing this gives us a REAL fighting chance because it's not just our struggle anymore but we have BY PROMISE, divine help from above.   When those crappy dark clouds come, they might knock us down but by faith, we KNOW we'll be getting up from them as soon as we remember that He is our anchor to reality. 

Jesus says.... "Seek FIRST the kingdom of Heaven and all it's righteousness, and (THEN) all these things (life's necessities)  will be added to you". 
  - Matthew 6:33

 

Jesus says.... "If you want to save your life, for my sake LOSE IT... and (ONLY THEN) will you FIND IT".
   - Matthew 10:39

The Bible teaches that it was never nor ever will ever be by WORLDLY WISDOM that we can reach the knowledge of God and Truth....  Only through the perceived silliness of the Cross.  (The Gospel).  In humility and only through the Gospel of Christ.
 (1 Corinthians 1:21)


If we look to man's wisdom.... Worldly wisdom, we will ALWAYS be lead astray.   


Our strength WILL indeed sometimes fall short, and that's okay because we are only human. 

But the Apostle Paul said:  "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me".
   - Philippians 4:13

The Lord, Jesus said:  "Apart from me you can do NOTHING".

- John 15:5

"Delight yourself IN the LORD; And He will give you the desires of your heart."- Psalm 37:4

"HAPPINESS", isn't promised to anyone while on this earth... but TRUTH is offered to EVERYONE.  And only in the fullness of Christ's truth is true joy found.

The language used in the scriptures to address suffering is usually regarded to those who suffer loss for the sake of Christ which is no "self-centered" but God-centered.  But indeed, in encapsulates all suffering including disease, famines, nakedness... etc.    Yet none of these things can separate us from the love of God which should be our center or worship. 

"... No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans Chapt. 8

How much time do you think you have??

HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE??

Eternal life is potentially 2 seconds away!

Not all of us lives to a ripe old age... 

NOW is the time to call out to The Lord!

"'AND IT SHALL BE THAT EVERYONE WHO CALLS ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED.'" - Acts 2:21

Every one has an appointed day of death and then the judgment! 

(Hebrews 9:27)

LUKE Chapt. 13:

"There were some present at that very time who told him about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. And he answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered in this way? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish. Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them: do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who lived in Jerusalem? No, I tell you; but unless you repent, you will all likewise perish.”

"UNLESS YOU REPENT, YOU WILL ALL ALSO PERISH".

"... behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation"

- 2 Corinthians 6:2

From Mockers to Murderers! ..

 In the last days, history will repeat itself. Christians will be falsely accused for many sins and crimes in public.  Christians have been characterized as being less than intelligent, backwards, unloving, judgmental, terrorists, anti-American, etc. 

Christian organizations have already been publicly labeled terror groups simply for having a different perspective from the current political establishment. 

And when the sarcasm and disparaging comes directly from the top of our government, all the more you are going to see the ripple effects of anti-Christian sentiment. 


And now we're seeing the increase of Christian demonizing in media and published commentaries, by distorting Christian understanding and indoctrination based on pure lies and false witnessing. 

But from the beginning, anyone and everyone who has lived to abide by God's laws has been accused of evil in order to find the excuse to justify putting a stop to their voice.  This is how Jesus was Crucified, this is how all the apostles were martyred, and The Bible prophesies more of it leading to our Lord's return.


And that is why from the beginning, God stamped it into His law:

Commandment #9:   

"Thou shalt not bare false witness against your neighbor". 

It is absolutely vile to accuse someone of something treacherous they haven't committed or to deceitfully mis-characterize them with evil intent.

The Word of God is filled with warnings to those who bare false witness, and one of the titles of Satan himself is "The Accuser of the brethren".

"For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders."- Matthew 15:19



"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness; Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!"- Isaiah 5:20

Deuteronomy Chapt. 19:  Woe to false witnesses!!

"The judges shall inquire diligently, and if the witness is a false witness and has accused his brother falsely, then you shall do to him as he had meant to do to his brother. So you shall purge the evil from your midst. And the rest shall hear and fear, and shall never again commit any such evil among you. Your eye shall not pity. It shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

"A false witness will not go unpunished, And he who tells lies will [perish) and not escape ." - Proverbs 19:5,9

So what was and continues to be a silly little comedian's joke poking fun at Christianity will one day soon be public beatings in the town square. 

2000 years of Christian history proves that the baring of false witness has always accompanied Christian persecution.   


Pray for more of God's grace of strength, courage and The Lord's soon return!   Maranatha!