Salt and Light

As my regular readers know, I am embarking on a 3R strategy to Rescue Our Republic. The recipe for rescue is:

1. Reeducation: learning the traditional history and truth behind the founding of our nation, preeminently that this nation was founded as a Christian nation that allowed for freedom of worship or not to worship. It will also require American Christendom to have pastors in the pulpits across this country standing in the gap for Jesus instead of telling the flock to find your best life now.

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The unsaved mind, particularly on the political left, believe that a social utopia can be brought about through governmental collectivism. John Collier was an idealistic social worker whom Franklin Delano Roosevelt appointed in 1933 as the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Collier once wrote:

“If our modern world should be able to recapture this power, the earth’s natural resources and web of life would not be irrevocably wasted within the Twentieth century…..True democracy founded in neighborhoods and reaching over the world become the realized heaven on earth. And living peace, not just an interlude between wars, would be born and would last through the ages.”

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I will be linking to this in tomorrow’s devotional but I wanted to give some of you who do not get my devotional a chance to read this. If you are prone to prayer, please as you read each sentence and clause, look up the bible verse and pray God’s Word of our nation’s founding document by reading the portion of the Declaration and then the scriptural passage.

The Declaration of Independence and the Bible Study Guide

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“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt. He therefore is the truest friend of liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man…The sum of all is, if we would truly enjoy this gift of Heaven, let us become a virtuous people.” (Samuel Adams, February 12, 1779)

The man in the White House today is neither wise nor virtuous.

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But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed
You’re gonna have to serve somebody,
Well, it may be the devil or it may be the Lord
But you’re gonna have to serve somebody.

Those words are from the chorus of Bob Dylan’s song “Gotta Serve Somebody”. It is said that Bob Dylan became born again in the late 1970s, in no small part because of his friendship with the late Keith Green.

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Hat tip to my brother in Christ Gary Gross from Min-uh-soo-tuh, yes the state who now has Senator Stuart Smalley representing the Land of a 10,000 Lakes, but I digress.

Much happening on the health care front with the statists controlling the government and the Obama Media Machine, aka the mainstream media, Americans are going to be sold a total clunker when it comes to health care. We are already being lied to about medical costs with the current system.

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Where do we get our notion of liberty? As a Christian it is a birth right; we have been rescued from the bondage and eternal damnation of our sins. Our liberty, either as a Christian or an American (or both for some) is something we are to defend. We should be continually defending our freedom. This past weekend in Sunday school we studied about Apostle Paul writing the Galatian church:

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)

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Have you seen the headlines this morning? No, I’m not talking about the continued deification of Michael Jackson; I joked on Facebook that I wondered when his body would be laid in state in the Capitol Rotunda. I’m talking about the unrest in Central and South America. We had a coup over the weekend in Honduras and Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez is threatening to intervene. Cuba not surprisingly has condemned the coup because Fidel Castro backed deposed leftist President Manuel Zelaya. Furthermore in Argentina there seems to be a power struggle after midterm elections that could be cause for concern.

Proverbs 29:2 says:

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That is the Greek word for faithfulness. This is a faith, trust, and a belief that implies that actions based on that trust may follow. It is one of the elements of the fruit of the Spirit:

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” (Galatians 5:22-25)

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One thing that amazes me as I look out over the political landscape in America is the level of deception among political, conservative, and Christian leaders. Now I do not know what is motivating this deception, nevertheless it is evil and it is out in the open for the entire world to see. We have a man in the White House of whom no one can tell us what hospital he was born in or who the attending physician was. Now this is simple information to find, however the source of that information is being kept secret at great cost to Mr. Obama. He has spent nearly one million dollars preventing the release of his long form birth certificate.

We have another man who is the master of deception, Mitt Romney. For some peculiar reason, one I think motivated by filthy lucre, too many conservative leaders, many of them representing Christians, have embraced this imposter all the while having received volumes of indicting information.

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My country,’ tis of thee,
sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing;
land where my fathers died,
land of the pilgrims’ pride,
from every mountainside let freedom ring!

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So much is going on in our nation that it seems impossible to keep track. I purposely disengage from the news on Sunday not only because it is supposed to be holy unto the Lord, but also because my brain needs a break from all the hoopla.

I receive on average a hundred emails a day, the majority of them discussing the issues our nation is facing and remedies for our problems. As I have been writing our nation will not experience a revolution until it has revival. And revival cannot come if we continue in our “stinking thinking” and continue trying old tricks for new problems.

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Isn’t my grandson Benjamin just adorable!

But guess what? He owes $31,000 on the national debt!

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Well, Sunday is Father’s Day and many fathers will not be attending church and many of those who do will be expecting a beating from the preacher. Praise God our pastor does not do that. I pray yours does not either. And while it is unfortunate too many fathers are for the most part absent from their children’s lives, many fathers who love the Lord Jesus Christ are there being the protector/provider and priest of their homes. These men are to be thanked and honored.

Well Bro Dave you don’t know my father. No, I don’t, but you didn’t know my father, but I hope you know the Heavenly Father…not of Him, but know Him.

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I just called my two Florida Senators about senate bill 909 - aka Hate Crimes Legislation and this is what I found out:

Senator Nelson:

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I remember the song “Anticipation” by Carly Simon and the chorus was made famous in Heinz ketchup commercials:

Anticipation, anticipation
Is makin’ me late
Is keepin’ me waitin’

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The Lord has seen fit for this devotional group to become mighty prayer warriors and I am so grateful to all of you for your faithfulness in praying for so many across this country who send their prayers requests to me. Prayer is such an important part of our spiritual lives that Paul concluded his paragraph on the armor of God with this admonition:

“…praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints” (Ephesians 6:18)

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I had a short commentary posted today at American Thinker Blog about ABC’s promoting Obama’s health care program.

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“David, do you really believe My Word is living and powerful?” the Lord asked me this morning.

“Yes Lord, you know I do”, I replied without hesitation.

“Do you really David?” God inquired.

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How many lives have been lost because someone riding a motorcycle or bicycle was not wearing a helmet? Now I am not advocating helmet laws, I’ll keep that matter to myself, but equipment that protects life is something that should be given at least serious consideration. When a motor cyclist or bicyclist chooses to not wear a helmet, he or she is saying either, “I’m willing to take a chance with my life” or “Nothing is going to happen to me.”

Whenever a person rejects Jesus Christ as his or her Lord and Savior, he or she is in effect saying the same things. Or worse yet, in their arrogance they believe they will go to heaven on their merits alone. There are only two types of religions in the world: Christianity, which proclaims salvation comes only from grace through Jesus Christ, and then all other world religions which require some type of works on the part of the follower—in other words salvation through works.

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