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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

WHY YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE SATANIC BIBLE’S SHOCKING GOLDEN RULE

BREAKING NEWS. SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE.

ALL GOOD THINGS COME FROM GOD THE FATHER, AND ALL WICKEDNESS COMES FROM THE FATHER OF LIES

BY MATT BARBER, CLARION CALL, CHARISMA NEWS

“Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.” —Aleister Crowley, Satanic priest and paragon to Alfred Kinsey, father of modern sex education

Order and anarchy. Good and evil. Truth and lies. Natural sexuality (within marriage) and homosexuality (of any kind).

The contrast is bright as day is to night. While Christ repeatedly condemned all “sexual immorality” as defined in the Old Testament Jewish moral code (which includes homosexual behavior), God’s Word, throughout both the Old and New Testaments, specifically denounces as evil rising to the level of “a detestable sin” all same-sex sexual conduct—be it “loving, monogamous and committed,” or otherwise.

Leviticus 18:22, for instance, admonishes, in no uncertain terms: “You shall not lie with a man as one does with a woman. It is an abomination.”

1 Corinthians 6:9 warns: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals”

Yet deceived they are, and without the kingdom of God they remain.

Indeed, today there persists a burgeoning racket of apostate biblical revisionists who rationalize sexual sin. Notwithstanding a level of deception rooted in a deeply heartfelt and genuinely emotional variety of wishful thinking, the Holy Bible, thousands of years of history and uncompromising human biology nonetheless remain incontrovertible: Unrepentant homosexual behavior is, always has been and always will be 100 percent and irredeemably wrong.

Still, few people realize that there is a “Bible” that not only affirms homosexuality (all forms of sexual immorality, in fact), but that goes so far as to make sin the centerpiece of its doctrine—its “Golden Rule,” if you will.

See ‘Full Article’ link below for this MUST-READ story.

“That last verse from The Satanic Bible,” observes Schott, “reminds me of a powerful proverb on the adulterous woman.” Proverbs 30:20 says, ‘This is the way of an adulterous woman: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, “I’ve done nothing wrong.”’ Again and again The Satanic Bible tells its readers that there is nothing wrong with giving in to your natural sexual desires. The Bible tells us to resist the sexual desires of the flesh,” he concludes. ...

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HOW TO KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GATE

Hint: You’re Never Forced To Enter—God Only Requires Your Free Will

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat”

Jesus Christ, Sermon on the Mount ~ Matthew 7:13

Wednesday, February 24, 2016

AMERICA’S REACHED ISAIAH 5:20 TIPPING POINT

BREAKING NEWS. SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE.

CALLING EVIL GOOD—THAT SUMS US UP

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!”

Isaiah 5:20 ~ King James Version (KJV)

BY MATT BARBER, CLARION CALL, CHARISMA NEWS

What a mess our world is in. What a mess America is in. What a mess the church is in.

Depressed yet?

Isaiah 5:20 encapsulates, I believe, the cultural condition of much of the world, most of America and an alarmingly high percentage of those who belong, or at least claim to belong, to the body of Christ: "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who exchange darkness for light, and light for darkness; who exchange bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"

Calling evil good—that sums us up.

But, hey, "grace," right? I mean, you've seen the bumper sticker. "Christ's grace is sufficient," isn't it?

Well, yes and no. Christ's grace is sufficient to give us His strength in our own pathetic weakness and to impute his perfect righteousness to us, despite our own filthy and fallen nature (2 Cor. 12:9).

But strength to do what, exactly? Strength to continue sinning?

No.

To continue sinning in an unrepentant, guilt-free, "evil is good" manner leads to death. It leads to physical, emotional and spiritual death, whether you call yourself a Christian or not.

It leads to hell.

"Do you not know that to whom you yield yourselves as slaves to obey, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness? But thanks be to God, for you were slaves of sin, but you have obeyed from the heart that form of teaching to which you were entrusted, and having been freed from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for just as you have yielded your members as slaves to impurity and iniquity leading to more iniquity, even so now yield your members as slaves to righteousness unto holiness" (Rom. 6:16-19).

So, in order to be set free from sin, we must "obey." To stop sinning is to obey. To continue sinning is to disobey. To disobey leads to death—it makes us "slaves to sin." To obey, to stop sinning, leads to life. It makes us "slaves to righteousness."

What does it mean to be set free from sin? Well, it means, as Christ admonished, that we are, among other things, to "go and sin no more" (John 8:11). Sin, with its associated chains of bondage, is over there. We are over here. Sin is behind us. We've "put off [our] former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to [our] deceitful lusts," and, thusly, are set free from sin (Eph. 4:22).

God said, "If My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and will heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14).

"Hmm," you might say. "I don't recall my pastor ever saying anything about 'turning from my wicked ways' in order for Jesus to 'forgive [my] sin and heal [our] wicked land.' What did Christ mean by 'turn from their wicked ways?'"

Well, after centuries of robust debate—a debate, mind you, that rages on even today within the body of Christ—an ever-so-slight majority consensus has emerged that maintains the following, rather-nuanced and theologically highbrow thesis:

Jesus meant to turn from your wicked ways.

Best-selling Christian author Randy Alcorn once wrote, "Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin; on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth."

We can all agree that, when we repent and ask His forgiveness, Jesus forgives us our past sins. Still, there is a deceptive tendency in much of the church—and by "deceptive," I mean demonic—that suggests Christ came to set us, captives to sin without Him each and every one, free—not from sin, but rather, from guilt for that sin.

This, of course, is yak manure. Jesus did not come, nor was He tortured to death on a tree, so that, by His grace, He could kill our guilty feelings for ongoing, habitual and unrepented-for sins.

Jesus came to kill sin.

"What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may increase? 2 God forbid! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it?" (Rom. 6:1-2).

It is hellacious error to say that, as Christians, we are not supposed to "feel guilty" when we sin. When you sin, you feel guilty because you are guilty. Feeling guilty, otherwise known as "being convicted" of our sin, is a painful symptom of a dying soul. Christ's grace is not spiritual Percocet intended to numb the pain of guilt. Guilt is the warning sign, sin is the cancer and Christ's grace is the cure.

There is a deceptive, deadly and evil brand of false "grace" out there, prevalent within the Christian church. It's a grace that says yes to sin and no to truth, that calls evil good and good evil. A guilt-free, prideful, gay-affirming, gossiping, slothful, pro-choice, "kids will be kids," "always use protection," "God will forgive my abortion," nicer-than-Jesus kind of grace that is leading millions of people who honestly believe they're saved, born-again Christians straight to the flaming pits of eternal damnation.

Too much "hellfire and brimstone" for you, my friend? Well, sorry. I care about your soul. I care about your eternity—even if your false-teacher, likely-bound-for-hell-himself pastor, priest or bishop doesn't.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not self-righteous. To the contrary, under my own power and in my flesh, I lack a righteous bone in my entire body. I'm the worst sinner of all.

Even so, through the amazing and perfect power of the Holy Spirit, I am able to call sin sin, evil evil and good good. I am able to recognize sin in my own life, sin in the life of our once-great nation, and sin in the life of the church. I can then repent and, with and through the Holy Spirit, "go and sin no more."

That's it. That's what God requires. That's true grace.

And that kind of grace is sufficient.

You've heard the old adage, "Love the sinner, hate the sin." Some complain that it's found nowhere in the Bible.

True, not word-for-word anyway. Still, this transcendent truth, this overall concept, is found throughout the Holy Scriptures. We are literally commanded to hate evil.

"Seek good and not evil, so that you may live; then the Lord, the God of Hosts, will truly be with you, as you claim. Hate evil and love good..." (Amos 5:14-15).

So there you have it. That's grace. Love Jesus. Love others. Hate evil. Repent and "go and sin no more."

Now get moving.

And Christ be with you.

Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed are solely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of Charisma Media.

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HOW TO KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GATE

Hint: You’re Never Forced To Enter—God Only Requires Your Free Will

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat”

Jesus Christ, Sermon on the Mount ~ Matthew 7:13

Thursday, February 18, 2016

TWITTER’S ‘SAFETY COUNCIL’ CONSPICUOUSLY LACKS MAJOR GROUP

BREAKING NEWS. SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE.

ENJOY YOUR TWITTER FREE SPEECH WHILE YOU CAN, CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS

BY MATT BARBER, CLARION CALL, CHARISMA NEWS

THIS CANNOT BE GOOD FOR FREE SPEECH AND THE OPEN EXCHANGE OF IDEAS. NOT FOR CHRISTIANS AND CONSERVATIVES ANYWAY.

Twitter announced on Wednesday that it has assembled a new "Twitter Trust & Safety Council" to "ensure that people feel safe expressing themselves on Twitter."

Who's for safety?

Yay safety!

Still, WE NEED ONLY LOOK TO THE SO-CALLED “SAFE SPACE” CRAZE ON AMERICA’S COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO GAIN A GLIMPSE INTO WHAT TWITTER UNDOUBTEDLY MEANS HERE. Understand that, for the Left, the word "safe" has nothing to do with, well, safety, and everything to do with censorship.

Let's define the terms. Safe Space: noun, 1. progressive circle of self-entitled, everyone-gets-a-trophy basement-dwellers sheltered from critical thinking, differing opinions, reality and oxygen.

With its new initiative, TWITTER SAYS IT SEEKS TO “STRIKE THE RIGHT BALANCE BETWEEN FIGHTING ABUSE AND SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER.”

What exactly constitutes "abuse," "truth" and "power" remains to be seen, but, based on Twitter's long history of blacklisting and "unverifying" conservatives from its rolls, I think we all know who gets shafted on this.

“TO ENSURE PEOPLE CAN CONTINUE TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES FREELY AND SAFELY ON TWITTER, WE MUST PROVIDE MORE TOOLS AND POLICIES,” THE COMPANY CLAIMS. “TWITTER DOES NOT TOLERATE BEHAVIOR INTENDED TO HARASS, INTIMIDATE OR USE FEAR TO SILENCE ANOTHER USER’S VOICE.”

Color me über-skeptical, but as Daniel Payne observes over at The Federalist, “TWITTER ALREADY ALLOWS ITS USERS TO EITHER MUTE OR BLOCK ANYONE WHO IS BEING BOTHERSOME OR THREATENING. THERE IS NO PRACTICAL NECESSITY FOR A ‘COUNCIL’ TO MAKE PEOPLE FEEL ‘SAFE’ ON TWITTER. Blocking is an effective tool for anyone who needs it. You can always report to the Twitter staff the rare troll who just won't give up.

"The seemingly superfluous formation of a 'Trust and Safety Council,' then, suggests a kind of procedural overhaul of Twitter's internal speech policy," concludes Payne.

I agree.

Indeed, to the liberal mind, any disagreement with its rigid, and decidedly ONE-SIDED, BRAND OF “TOLERANCE” AND “DIVERSITY” CONSTITUTES “BEHAVIOR INTENDED TO HARASS” OR “INTIMIDATE.” To those who cannot win an argument on the merits, the path of least resistance is to silence all dissent.

Yet, if there was any question as to whether Twitter will be adopting the above-referenced definition of "safe space" in its effort to make tweeters "feel safe," that question is immediately resolved by virtue of whom it has deputized. While there are a handful of legitimate, left-of-center anti-bullying organizations on the "council," the list is likewise comprised of a gaggle of groups like FEMINIST FREQUENCY ANDGLAAD (FORMERLY THE GAY & LESBIAN ALLIANCE AGAINST DEFAMATION).

CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT IS EVEN ONE CONSERVATIVE OR CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION

So, what will GLAAD and the rest of the "Tweet Police" be doing? It's hard to say for sure since Twitter won't, but, considering what GLAAD already does, we can venture a fair guess.

GLAAD IS AN EXTREMIST HOMOSEXUAL CENSORSHIP GROUP that, for its defamatory antics, was certified last year by the well-respected American Family Association as an "openly bigoted anti-Christian organization." GLAAD's primary purpose is to strong-arm the entertainment industry and news media into presenting unrealistically favorable portrayals of the homosexual and gender-confused lifestyles, while at once censoring positive portrayals of natural marriage and the natural family, and silencing those who hold biblical values relative to marriage and human sexuality.

ONE OF GLAAD'S MOST TROUBLING CENSORSHIP EFFORTS WAS ITS ORWELLIAN “COMMENTATOR ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT.” THIS WAS A DESPERATE EFFORT TO “SUPPRESS THE BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW FROM MEDIA.” Various homosexual activists were conscripted to contact, badger and otherwise intimidate media outlets, such as CNN, Fox News, the New York Times, et al., into blacklisting leading Christian cultural analysts (yours truly included) from providing commentary and political analysis over the airwaves and in print.

While the smear campaign ultimately failed, it did betray, for all the world to see, GLAAD's overt designs on anti-conservative, anti-Christian censorship. And now it has its grubby little rainbow-hued fingerprints all over one of the world's largest and most popular social networking sites.

ENJOY YOUR TWITTER FREE SPEECH WHILE YOU CAN, CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS. YOUR TWEETS ARE BIRDS ON A WIRE, AND GLAAD’S GOT THE PELLET GUN.

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HOW TO KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GATE

Hint: You’re Never Forced To Enter—God Only Requires Your Free Will

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat”

Jesus Christ, Sermon on the Mount ~ Matthew 7:13

Tuesday, February 2, 2016

DEBUNKING THE ‘SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE’ MYTH

BREAKING NEWS. SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE.

REMAIN UNDAUNTED BY THE THREAT OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION OR PUNITIVE ACTION BY THE STATE

BY MATT BARBER, CLARION CALL, CHARISMA NEWS

The American church has a problem. It's one part fear, one part confusion and one part apathy. Pastors, priests and rabbis have long swallowed the false notion that all things religious and all things political are somehow mutually exclusive—that never the twain shall meet.

Leading up to Ronald Reagan's landslide presidential victory in 1980, Rev. Jerry Falwell, the founder of Liberty University, captured the crux of the church's apathy problem. "I'm being accused of being controversial and political," he said. "I'm not political. But moral issues that become political, I still fight. IT ISN’T MY FAULT THAT THEY'VE MADE THESE MORAL ISSUES POLITICAL. But because they have doesn't stop the preachers of the gospel from addressing them. ..."

"What then is wrong?" he continued. "I say the problem, first of all, is in the pulpits of America. We preachers must take the blame. For too long we have fearfully stood back and failed to address the issues that are corrupting the republic. I repeat Proverbs 14:34: 'Righteousness exalteth a nation.' Not military might, though that's important. Not financial resources, though that has been the enjoyment of this nation above all nations in the last 200 years. But spiritual power is the backbone, the strength, of a nation."

Indeed, it is not just within the church's purview, but it is the church's duty to insert itself into state matters relating to morality, public policy and culture at large.

CONTRARY TO POPULAR OPINION, THE WORDS “SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE” ARE FOUND NOWHERE IN THE U.S. CONSTITUTION. YET MANY ARE MISLED INTO BELIEVING THEY ARE.

So why the confusion?

IT’S BEEN INTENTIONALLY FOMENTED. IT’S THE BYPRODUCT OF A DECADES-LONG RELIGIOUS CLEANSING CAMPAIGN. The First Amendment's "Establishment Clause," a mere 10 words, is the primary tool secular separatists misuse and abuse to "fundamentally transform" America to reflect their own anti-Christian self-image.

Yet these words remain abundantly clear in both scope and meaning. The Establishment Clause states merely: “CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION. ...”

That's it.

And the founders meant exactly what they said: "Congress," as in the United States Congress, "shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

In a letter to Benjamin Rush, a fellow-signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, often touted by the left as the great church-state separationist, spelled out exactly what this meant then, and what it means today. The First Amendment's Establishment Clause was simply intended to restrict Congress from affirmatively "establishing," through federal legislation, a national Christian denomination (similar to the Anglican Church of England).

As Jefferson put it: "[T]he clause of the Constitution" covering "freedom of religion" was intended to necessarily preclude "an establishment of a particular form of Christianity through the United States."

THE INDIVIDUAL STATES, HOWEVER, FACED NO SUCH RESTRICTION. IN FACT, UNTIL AS LATE AS 1877, AND AFTER RELIGIOUS FREE EXERCISE BECAME ABSOLUTE WITH PASSAGE OF THE 14TH AMENDMENT, MOST STATES DID HAVE AN OFFICIAL STATE FORM OF CHRISTIANITY. MASSACHUSETTS, FOR EXAMPLE, SANCTIONED THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UNTIL 1833.

EVEN SO, TODAY’S ANTI-CHRISTIAN RULING CLASS INSISTS ON REVISING HISTORY. The ACLU's own promotional materials, for example, overtly advocate unconstitutional religious discrimination: "The message of the Establishment Clause [to the U.S. Constitution] is that religious activities must be treated differently from other activities to ensure against governmental support for religion," they claim.

This is abject nonsense. It's unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination—a twisted misrepresentation of the First Amendment. Secular "progressivism" depends upon deception as much as it relies upon revisionism. Yes, "separation" applies, but only insofar as it requires the state to remain separate from the church. That is to say, that government may not interfere with the free exercise of either speech or religion.

FOR DECADES, HARD-LEFT ANTI-THEIST GROUPS LIKE THE ACLU, PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY (PFAW) AND BARRY LYNN’S AMERICANS UNITED (AU) HAVE EMPLOYED A CYNICAL DISINFORMATION SCHEME INTENDED TO INTIMIDATE CLERGY INTO SILENCE ON ISSUES OF MORALITY, CULTURE AND CHRISTIAN CIVIC INVOLVEMENT—issues that, as Falwell noted, are not political so much as they have been politicized; issues that are inherently "religious."

AU, for instance, annually sends tens-of-thousands of misleading letters to churches across the nation warning pastors, priests and rabbis that, "If the IRS determines that your house of worship has engaged in unlawful intervention, it can revoke the institution's tax-exempt status."

THAT’S A LIE.

In reality, THERE IS NO LEGAL MECHANISM WHATSOEVER FOR THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE TO TAKE AWAY A CHURCH’S TAX EXEMPTION. Churches are inherently tax-exempt, or, better still, "tax immune," simply by virtue of being a church. Churches do not need permission from the IRS, nor can the IRS revoke a church's tax immunity.

Since 1934, when the lobbying restriction was added to the Internal Revenue Code, not a single church has ever lost its tax-exempt status. Since 1954, when the political endorsement/opposition prohibition was added, only one church has ever lost its IRS letter ruling, but even that church did not lose its tax-exempt status.

The case involved the Church at Pierce Creek in New York, which placed full-page ads in USA Today and the Washington Times opposing then-Gov. Bill Clinton for president. The ads were sponsored by the church, and donations were solicited. The IRS revoked the church's letter ruling, but not its tax-exempt status. The church sued, and the court noted that churches are tax-exempt without an IRS letter ruling. It ruled that "because of the unique treatment churches receive under the Internal Revenue Code, the impact of the revocation is likely to be more symbolic than substantial." Not even this church lost its tax-exempt status, and not one donor was affected by this incident.

As Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel has observed, “PASTORS CAN PREACH ON BIBLICAL, MORAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES, SUCH AS NATURAL MARRIAGE AND ABORTION, CAN URGE THE CONGREGATION TO REGISTER AND VOTE, CAN OVERVIEW THE POSITIONS OF THE CANDIDATES, AND MAY PERSONALLY ENDORSE CANDIDATES. CHURCHES MAY DISTRIBUTE NONPARTISAN VOTER GUIDES, REGISTER VOTERS, PROVIDE TRANSPORTATION TO THE POLLS, HOLD CANDIDATE FORUMS, AND INTRODUCE VISITING CANDIDATES.”

Since 2008, the Christian legal organization Alliance Defending Freedom has spearheaded a First Amendment exercise called "Pulpit Freedom Sunday." Since then, thousands of pastors across America have boldly exercised their guaranteed constitutional rights by addressing "political" issues from the pulpit. This has included directly endorsing candidates. These pastors have dared the IRS to come after them, and, not surprisingly, the IRS has balked.

PASTORS, THIS ELECTION SEASON FOLLOW THE LEAD OF CHRIST. SPEAK MORAL/POLITICAL TRUTHS, IN LOVE, FEARLESSLY. REMAIN UNDAUNTED BY THE THREAT OF GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION OR PUNITIVE ACTION BY THE STATE. And encourage your congregation to vote for candidates who sincerely reflect, in both word and deed, a biblical worldview and biblical principles.

Be "salt and light."

BECAUSE CHRIST DIDN’T GIVE US AN OPTION TO DO OTHERWISE.

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HOW TO KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GATE

Hint: You’re Never Forced To Enter—God Only Requires Your Free Will

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat”

Jesus Christ, Sermon on the Mount ~ Matthew 7:13

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

WHY EVERY MUSLIM WILL BOW BEFORE JESUS

BREAKING NEWS. SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE.

Not only do Muslims reject Christ, the Son of God, but those who are faithful to the teachings of their “prophet” Muhammad persecute, under flame and sword, His very body: the Christian faithful.

BY MATT BARBER, CLARION CALL, CHARISMA NEWS

MY GOAL HERE IS NOT TO OFFEND. NEITHER IS IT TO PERSUADE. In matters of the spirit, there is but One capable of opening the eyes of the heart. Rather, my objective is to sow seeds of Truth so that the Holy Spirit might, according to His perfect pleasure, purpose and will, cultivate the soul as He deems just.

We Christ followers are admonished to love our enemies and to pray for those who persecute us (Matt. 5:44). This obliges us to love and pray at once for, among other Antichrist subsets, the 1.2 billion Muslims worldwide, including the hundreds of millions who faithfully embrace myriad commands to violence against the Christian, the Jew and all other non-Muslims.

It is impossible to do this in our flesh and can only be accomplished through the supernatural grace and power of the Holy Spirit. IT IS, INDEED, OUR GREAT HOPE AND PRAYER THAT EVERY MUSLIM—EVERY HUMAN BEING—MIGHT SURRENDER SELF AND COME TO THE SAVING KNOWLEDGE AND GRACE OF CHRIST JESUS, who, alone, is "the way and the truth and the life." For "no one comes to the Father except through [Him]" (John 14:6).

To be sure, it is the express desire of both God the Father and Christ His Son that each and every Muslim on earth should abandon Muhammad's broad path to perdition, turnabout and move toward Christ's narrow path to eternal life. "The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness. But He is patient with us, because He does not want any to perish, but all to come to repentance" (2 Pet. 3:9).

God both created and loves, in a way incomprehensible to the finite human mind, every human being ever born or otherwise. He wove us together in our mothers' wombs and numbered our every hair. Yet God the Father has but one begotten Son. The rest of us, in order to become God's children, must be adopted and grafted into the vine by, in and through the One who is the Son—He who is the Vine: Christ Jesus (John 15:5).

Those who are not adopted by God are not children of God.

And so the Muslim is not a child of God.

Indeed, to become a child of God, we must ask God, through Christ, to adopt us. We mustn't just believe upon Him—for "even the demons believe that" (James 2:19)—but, rather, we must also receive Him as Lord and Savior. We must follow Jesus, the one true God, as our only God. "Yet to all who received Him (Jesus), He gave the power to become sons of God, to those who believed in His name" (John 1:12).

THE PLURALIST NOTION THAT, “THERE ARE MANY PATHS TO GOD,” IS AN INSIDIOUS LIE SPREAD BY THE FATHER OF LIES HIMSELF. Jesus said, "Enter at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who are going through it" (Matt. 7:13).

Jesus is the "narrow gate."

Merriam Webster defines "pluralism" as "a theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality."

To embrace pluralism is to embrace certain death.

The aim of pluralist philosophy is to muddy the waters and divert mankind from the "narrow gate" that leads to eternal salvation (Jesus), while, at one go, herding us along the "broad road" to eternal damnation (anything and everything that denies the singular and exclusive deity of Christ, or that rejects the certainty that He alone can save us from hell).

Pluralism is a non-starter. It is inherently self-contradictory and, therefore, self-defeating. EACH OF THE WORLD’S MAJOR RELIGIONS FUNDAMENTALLY CONTRADICTS THE OTHER. THEY CANNOT ALL BE TRUE. Either one is true or none is true. Pick your "ism," be it Muhammadism, Hinduism, Buddhism, humanism, atheism and so on, and serving to undo each, you will find the leavening lie of pluralism.

Christ is both tolerant and intolerant, utterly exclusive and wholly inclusive. Romans 10:13 promises, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord (Jesus) shall be saved.” And John 3:36 warns, “He who believes in the Son has eternal life. He who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.”

NOT ONLY DO MUSLIMS REJECT CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD, but those who are faithful to the teachings of their "prophet" Muhammad persecute, under flame and sword, His very body: the Christian faithful.

As I've said before, Islam is Christianity's photo-negative. While Christianity brings eternal life to those choosing to surrender to Jesus, who, as He declared in no uncertain terms, is alone "the way and the truth and the life," Islam brings eternal death to those who surrender to Allah, who, as declared Muhammad, is "the best of deceivers" ["(A)nd Allah was deceptive, for Allah is the best of deceivers" (Surah 3:54)].

It's worth again mentioning here that the Bible similarly calls Satan a deceiver. Revelation 12:9, for instance, explains that he "deceives the whole world." EVEN THOUGH IT IS OFTEN CLAIMED THAT MUSLIMS, CHRISTIANS AND JEWS “WORSHIP THE SAME GOD,” THIS IS SO VERY MUCH NOT SO. Allah is not God. Allah is the deceiver, and, insofar as Christianity, true Christianity, spreads peace, love and truth—Islam, true Islam, spreads violence, hate and deception. Allah definitely exists. He's just not God. Though he wanted to "ascend above the tops of the clouds" and "make [himself] like the Most High" (Is. 14:14), Allah, most assuredly, is not God.

Indeed, the "best of deceivers" cares not whether we worship the idol of self, as do the secular "progressives," the deceiver himself, as do the Muslims or some other false god. The deceptive one cares only that we deny God the Father, Christ His Son and the Holy Spirit, three in one.

To the Muslim, to everyone, know this: You may deny Christ until the day you die. But soon after, you will deny Him no more. Hate Him you may still, but deny Him you will not. Philippians 2:10-11 assures us, “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”

The die was cast before time began. Every Christian, Jew, atheist and pagan, to include each and every Muslim on earth—or, like Muhammad, who once walked the earth—will, in the end, bow a knee in worship to Jesus.

Because "in the end" is just the beginning.

Yet, whether you bow first in this life, or first in the next, you will bow.

And the when and how will mean much.

For it will decide the where and how of your eternity.

Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed are solely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of Charisma Media.

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HOW TO KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GATE

Hint: You’re Never Forced To Enter—God Only Requires Your Free Will

“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat”

Jesus Christ, Sermon on the Mount ~ Matthew 7:13

Thursday, January 7, 2016

DOES THE ‘MODERATE MUSLIM’ EXIST?

BREAKING NEWS. SPIRITUAL PERSPECTIVE.

Muslim men pray outside Donald Trump’s office in protest.

“When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters
wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them,
and lie in ambush everywhere for them.”
– The Quran, Surah 9:5

BY MATT BARBER, CLARION CALL, CHARISMA NEWS

When it comes to the global scourge of orthodox Islam, the Western world—which Islamists expressly seek to "destroy from within"—is an upside-down realm wherein objective facts, logic and reason must yield to multiculturalist make-believe, and "progressive" propaganda and political correctness run amok.

Radical Muslims want to kill you, and faithless progressives seem all too happy to help them along. Look at the ongoing Muslim invasion of Europe. This progressive paradise, a burgeoning multicultural dystopia, is beginning to look pretty awful (warning: link contains explicit language).

Islam is about control. The word itself means "submission." It is a socio-political pseudo-religion based upon the incoherent scribblings of one man—the "prophet" Muhammad, a warring tyrant who, as even the Quran concedes, was a murderous misogynist and pedophile. This unholy book is loosely plagiarized from the Bible's Old and New Testaments—Scriptures that, by contrast, were seamlessly transcribed over centuries by roughly 40 men under the direct and divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit.

Muhammad taught, and the Quran stresses, that a central tenet of Islam is to convert, enslave or kill the infidel. An infidel is anyone who is not Muslim or, depending on who's doing the killing, belongs to a different sect of Islam. Those who fall into that elusive, perpetually mute category tagged "moderate Muslim" are also infidels. They're bad Muslims and so, according to the Quran, not Muslims at all.

To be sure, “moderate Muslim” is a contradiction. It is intrinsically oxymoronic.

Whereas "moderate" (read: liberal) "Christians," such as those belonging to the PCUSA, embrace certain apostasies that run directly counter to the biblical teachings of Christianity (e.g., the pagan embrace of homosexual sin and abortion), "moderate Muslims" likewise embrace an apostate version of Islam that runs directly counter to the clear teachings of the Quran.

While devout followers of Jesus Christ, who is Life—God incarnate—are, like Him, characteristically peaceful; devout followers of Muhammad—the dead, woman-beheading founder of Islam and perhaps a demon incarnate—are, like him, characteristically violent.

Whereas "Muslim extremists,"—faithful Muslims—kill people extremely; "Christian extremists,"—faithful Christians—love people, including their enemies, extremely.

ISLAM EXPLICITLY REQUIRES A WORLDWIDE CALIPHATE (GLOBAL DOMINATION AND THE VIOLENT IMPOSITION OF ISLAMIC SHARIA LAW).

This fact is not open for serious debate and is available for all to read, hear, see and, tragically, experience. Islam, therefore, is inherently at odds with freedom, democracy and the United States Constitution. While devout followers of Muhammad readily admit this reality, the suicidal left yet remains hellbent, head in the sand, on "tolerating" itself and the rest of us to death.

According to the Islamic watchdog group TheReligionofPeace.com, "The Quran contains at least 109 verses that call Muslims to war with nonbelievers for the sake of Islamic rule." The aim of these verses is to dehumanize all non-Muslims, making it easier for Muslims of every stripe to slaughter them with impunity when the time is right. In addition to Surah 9:5, cited above, here are but a handful of Muhammad’s bloody calls to arms:

• "Strive hard against the unbelievers and the hypocrites and be unyielding to them; and their abode is hell, and evil is the destination."—Quran (9:73)

• "O you who believe! Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find in you hardness."—Quran (9:123)

• "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so We destroy it with utter destruction."—Quran (17:16)

• "Muhammad is the messenger of Allah. And those with him are hard (ruthless) against the disbelievers and merciful among themselves."—Quran (48:29)

From the Hadith (sayings of Muhammad):

• "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. 'O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.'"—Bukhari (52:177)

• "Fight everyone in the way of Allah and kill those who disbelieve in Allah."—Ibn Ishaq/Hisham 992

• "Allah's Apostle said ... 'I have been made victorious with terror.'"—Bukhari (52:220)

"But the Bible says to kill unbelievers too!" cry the Muslim apologists. Nonsense. "Unlike nearly all of the Old Testament verses of violence," observes ReligionOfPeace.com, "the verses of violence in the Quran are mostly open-ended, meaning that they are not restrained by the historical context of the surrounding text." (Christian theologian Dr. Michael Brown has penned a brilliant contrast/comparison between the Quran and the Old Testament, which thoroughly debunks manipulative, false equivalencies often drawn by those who wish to sow confusion.)

Still, we need only look to the many polls to affirm the alarmingly high percentages of Muslims (hundreds-of-millions in number) who seek, through the most violent means imaginable, Islamic world domination. Again, here are but a few:

• 83 percent of Palestinian Muslims, 62 percent of Jordanians and 61 percent of Egyptians approve of jihadi attacks on Americans (World Public Opinion Poll, 2009).

• 1.5 million British Muslims support the Islamic State, about half their total population [ICM (Mirror) Poll, 2015].

• Two-thirds of Palestinians support the stabbing of Israeli civilians (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 2015).

• 38.6 percent of Western Muslims believe 9/11 attacks were justified (Gallup, 2011).

• 45 percent of British Muslims agree that clerics preaching violence against the West represent "mainstream Islam" (BBC Radio, 2015).

• 38 percent of Muslim-Americans say Islamic State (ISIS) beliefs are Islamic or correct—43 percent disagree (The Polling Company CSP Poll, 2015).

• One-third of British Muslim students support killing for Islam (Center for Social Cohesion, Wikileaks cable).

• 78 percent of British Muslims support punishing the publishers of Muhammad cartoons (NOP Research).

• 80 percent of young Dutch Muslims see nothing wrong with holy war against nonbelievers. Most verbalized support for pro-Islamic State fighters (Motivaction Survey, 2014).

• Nearly one-third of Muslim-Americans agree that violence against those who insult Muhammad or the Quran is acceptable (The Polling Company CSP Poll, 2015).

• 68 percent of British Muslims support the arrest and prosecution of anyone who insults Islam (NOP Research).

• 51 percent of Muslim-Americans say that Muslims should have the choice of being judged by Shariah courts rather than courts of the United States—only 39 percent disagree (The Polling Company CSP Poll, 2015).

• 81 percent of Muslim respondents support the Islamic State (Al-Jazeera poll, 2015).

Even as we hear of the occasional sighting of the moderate Muslim, most reasonable people remain skeptical as to whether, in reality, these mysterious creatures even exist.

Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed are solely the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views of Charisma Media.

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HOW TO KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT GATE

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“Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate,
and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat”

Jesus Christ, Sermon on the Mount ~ Matthew 7:13

GUN REVOLUTION 2016

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OBAMA’S INFRINGMENT ON 2ND AMENDMENT RIGHTS HAS BEGUN

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Obama’s last act against America will be a massive push to strip away 2nd Amendment rights. Despicable new regulations give the IRS police powers over privately owned guns, BANK ACCOUNTS AND HOMES WILL BE SEIZED FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY. The Obama administration says they intend to make an example out of anyone who protests or refuses to comply. Standard dictator tactics and we’ve all known that the liberal left would sooner or later try to force a dictatorship on free Americans. That’s what liberalism is all about.

SECOND AMENDMENT TO
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THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS
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REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: JANUARY 7, 2016

BECAUSE MUCH REWRITING OF THE BIBLE
& HISTORY IS OBSCURING THE TRUTH

KING DAVID

RULER OF ISRAEL & JUDAH
1010 - 970 B.C. (Before Christ)

The Inspired Word of YAHWEH: The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
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The Book of Psalms: Chapter 27

DAVID’S BIOGRAPHY

Corroborated by Archaeology and Documented by More
Ancient Manuscripts Than All Other Books Dating From Antiquity

The biblical KING DAVID OF ISRAEL was known for his diverse skills as both a warrior and a writer of psalms. In his 40 years as ruler, between 1010 and 970 B.C. (before Christ), he united the people of Israel, led them to victory in battle, conquered land and paved the way for his son, Solomon, to build the Holy Temple. Almost all knowledge of him is derived from the books of the Prophets and Writings: Samuel I and II, Kings I and Chronicles I.

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THE TEL DAN INSCRIPTION:

THE FIRST HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF
KING DAVID FROM THE BIBLE

9th-Century B.C. Tel Dan Inscription
References The “House of David”

Few modern Biblical archaeology discoveries have caused as much excitement as the Tel Dan inscription—writing on a ninth-century B.C. stone slab (or stela) that furnished the first historical evidence of King David from the Bible.

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ALL THE EARTH IS GOD’S...BUT ONLY
ISRAEL DOES HE CALL HIS OWN

The earth is Yahweh’s, with its fullness;
the world, and those who dwell therein.
~ Psalm 24:1, World English Bible

GOD WARNS END TIMES NATIONS AGAINST
PARTING “HIS” LAND ISRAEL

“I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted MY LAND.”

Joel 3:2 KJV ~ Written c. 800 B.C. (Before Christ)

THE FINAL BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON WILL ENSUE

ISRAEL & JERUSALEM

“Facts Are Stubborn Things”

THE GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB REGARDING ISRAEL

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people:
all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces,
though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”

End Times Bible Prophecy ~ Zechariah 12:3, KJV

Jesus Briefing His Disciples Regarding the Last Days...

Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?

And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many false prophets shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places. All these are the beginning of sorrows.

And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake. ~ Matt 24

The Siege of Jerusalem by the Beast and his Armies...

Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. ~ Zechariah 12:2,3

The Burden of Damascus...

Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap. ~ Is 17:1

The Return of the Lord in Glory...

And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;

Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
~ Luke 21:25-28