Well, the free grace of God truly is amazing. He allows our unsound will to do and write things so vile and offensive to His Sovereignty that I am amazed at the men still walking around taking breaths of fresh air. I mean with so much garbage being blogged out there by so-called Christians it is convicting if I do nothing.
God's plans are in the works we can be sure.
He is going to return one day very soon, of that there is no doubt. However, everything must come to pass before He does. We will most likely see the fall of this once great nation. Did you know that not one scholar has ever been able to identify America in the final days of Armageddon? Interesting.
Now, I have provided a link to a very important piece of news you will not see on CNN. Almost as important as the current push for the establishment of the North American Union. Please watch it. Knowledge is power.(until I get this blogging thing down you will have to bear with me. I cannot post the video. Just go to youtube and enter Lord Monkton for a fascinating speech about the reality of global dominance.)
Soon the internet will be illegal make no mistake about it.
There is too much truth getting into the hands of people like me. People who care about the Constitution. People who care about Second Amendment rights. People who are on the guest list for the Fema camps. Soon, they will no longer afford people to get smart. Because they know as well as I do that they will see a revolution before this is over, probably in the form of a tax revolt, and they will try to eliminate as many of our numbers as they can before it even starts. Now, my thing is the Truth of Christ. His Sword. Bring it. Forget your post-modern thought system! Truth is absolute. I will engage the culture with the gospel of Christ. That is where the battle must take place so that all other areas will fall into proper view. I do not want to run off to the country and start a new Christian nation. I will be prepared for what is coming. I will have right thinking about my surroundings. I will first and foremost proclaim the full gospel. Everything is a theological issue before it is anything else. If we are deceived about the gospel then we will be wrong about our world.
In order to have a revolution the Gospel must go forth. And I'm not talking about "Jesus loves you and He has a wonderful plan for your life" either. I am certainly not talking about pathetic, embarassing attempts at evangelical "green awareness" either. What I am talking about is the full unadulterated GOSPEL OF CHRIST. Just preach it. Let God do the rest. We do not have to couch the Gospel in nice terms, in fact that creates false converts.
Well, the video is Lord Monkton exposing the treaty at Copenhagen and he is a climate expert. So watch it and respond to this post.
I think it appropriate to expound on false teachers as well. It goes nicely with this because it is the reason that the church is so complacent and stuck on inconsequential movements like the environment. We are not going to "usher in" the Kingdom of God, you do know that right? If you disagree then you have spent too much time at the emergents' camp.
We must fight! Raise up a spiritual army of God-fearing men who know what sound doctrine is!!!!!!! Fight like dogs in the spiritual realm and bring a gentle revolution in the physical.
You are fooling yourself if you think that it isn't really going to all burn up! And you are also fooling yourself if you think you will be raptured before most of Revelation takes place. At any rate at least be aware that wolves in sheeps clothing are staring you directly in your face. Shoot the wolf!!!!!!!!
Corinth. 5:12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders? Is it not those inside the church whom you are to judge? God judges those outside. Purge the evil person from among you.
Here is a list. Now get to purging Christian!!!!!! Ed Smith, T.D Jakes, Creflo Dollar, Joyce Meyer, Benny Hinn, The Pope, Todd Bently, "Prophetess" Bynum, Paul and Jan Crouch, Brian Mclaren, Rick Warren, Robert Schueller, Joel Osteen, Jeremiah Wright, Jesse Duplantis, Harold Camping, Kenneth Copeland, John Hagee, Ken Hagin Jr., Fred Price, Oral Roberts, Richard Roberts, John Spong, Robert Tilton, Rob Bell, Paula White, Dutch Sheets, John Crowder, Brennan Manning, Doug Pagitt, N.T. Wright, and Todd Hunter.
Jude 16 These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud -mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.
These are all I could think of right now, but the list goes on and on and Christians happily slop up the putrifaction that these heretics are feeding them. The blame rests soely on the fact that actual doctrine and right theology have not had the mainstage in church for the last 100 years. But that's why I'm giving this call. WAKE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WAKE UP! PLEASE WAKE UP!!!!
I Tim 4:1 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons.
Matt 24:4 And Jesus answered them, "See that no one leads you astray."
So throw away your anti-gospel self help books like "The Pupose Driven Life" and "Your Best Life Now, and "Battlefield of the Mind" and pick up some John Piper instead. Have a fire out back and burn your mystical teachings like "The Shack", and "Ragamuffin Gospel", and "Velvet Elvis" and anything about theophostics and go get some C.H. Spurgeon or R.C. Sproul.
You'll be glad you did. Have a nice day.
A Wretch in His Grace,
Dan
Jude 3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
less of me, More of Christ
This blog is intended to be one that projects the reality of God Almighty onto all things. I have desired to start a blog for so long and have only now begun this exciting endeavor. My first couple of entries are of a personal nature and rightly so as I want this to be a place of growth and revelation for all who visit as well as a sound exposition of the truths God has revealed to us.
The amazing thing is this- God has revealed the how, what, when, why, where, and who of His sovereign free grace. This is perhaps most excellently spelled out in the precious work by the reformer John Owen entitled "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ". I highly recommend it. The frustrating thing is this- The majority of evangelicals today (consequently almost the entire body of youth) confuse the "finding out about oneself" with the reality of God! That is they will tirelessly argue that life is all mystery and God is love. All the while ignoring the clear edicts by a Holy God. They needle the point that scripture can mean something different to different people. All the while missing the fact that it is due to the change in people not in Holy Writ. This is largely due to the influence on the church by the philosophy known as Post-Modernism; a most hideous world-view to be sure. The exposure of that very wrong and demonic view of reality I will address later. Today, I just want to pose the question, "Why are we so wrapped up in self?" We love to study the self. A huge problem in schools today is the high self-esteem. They are in love with themselves and they are severely lacking in the area of learning because of it. The Bible takes for granted that we have high self-esteem,Eph. 5:29-30. "No man ever hated his own flesh.." What we need is to study the reality of God.
News Flash! GOD HAS INDEED GIVEN US ALL THE TRUTH WE NEED!
Many miss this fact because they view truth through the subjective lenses of personal experience instead of the objective revelation of scripture.
The only thing that stands alone is God. So I look to other men who have provided lenses into scripture. I love to read. I enjoy many great authors who have provided vast insights into the Holy Word of God. However, we must be so very careful to discern the wolves from the sheep. Due to the obsession with self many have become very deceived by the likes of Rob Bell, Dallas Wilard, Todd Hunter, Brian McLaren, Rick Warren, and the author of The Shack, Mr. Young. The majority of my favorite authors are dead men. Heroes of the faith like St. Augustine of Hippo, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Abraham Kuyper, Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, Jon Huss, John Knox, Andrew Murray, and my favorite, C.H. Spurgeon. Men who have given their entire lives for the furthering of the gospel; most even to the expense of rejection by their own congregations. One thing that is for sure, dead men have no chance of deviating from the gospel. They are dead. We have their sound record of faithfulness to scripture. So many today seem so blinded to the snakes and doctrines of demons which are in their churches and on their shelves. People will only listen to the truth if God is working in their hearts. If He chooses not to, they will revert to their default ringer. Sin. We hate God. Until He gives us a desire to love Him we will continuously devour the sinful cup. We will always love studies with regards to ourselves. We will forever reject studies that reveal the all-encompassing sovereignty of God. Forever that is, until He gets inside you and fires you up to know Him instead of yourself!!! Please pray for holy fire to consume you.
I will leave you with this. Do yourself a favor and look up the five solas. They are a creed of sorts describing the exclusiveness of Christianity. Most Christians have never heard them, however they define what it is that a Christian must be concerned with. If you are a Christian I promise you a surprise when you study them. If you are not then an even bigger surprise awaits. GOD IS ACTUALLY GOD!
SOLA GRATIA, SOLA FIDE, SOLA SCRIPTURA, SOLAS CHRISTOS, SOLA DEO GLORIA
The amazing thing is this- God has revealed the how, what, when, why, where, and who of His sovereign free grace. This is perhaps most excellently spelled out in the precious work by the reformer John Owen entitled "The Death of Death in the Death of Christ". I highly recommend it. The frustrating thing is this- The majority of evangelicals today (consequently almost the entire body of youth) confuse the "finding out about oneself" with the reality of God! That is they will tirelessly argue that life is all mystery and God is love. All the while ignoring the clear edicts by a Holy God. They needle the point that scripture can mean something different to different people. All the while missing the fact that it is due to the change in people not in Holy Writ. This is largely due to the influence on the church by the philosophy known as Post-Modernism; a most hideous world-view to be sure. The exposure of that very wrong and demonic view of reality I will address later. Today, I just want to pose the question, "Why are we so wrapped up in self?" We love to study the self. A huge problem in schools today is the high self-esteem. They are in love with themselves and they are severely lacking in the area of learning because of it. The Bible takes for granted that we have high self-esteem,Eph. 5:29-30. "No man ever hated his own flesh.." What we need is to study the reality of God.
News Flash! GOD HAS INDEED GIVEN US ALL THE TRUTH WE NEED!
Many miss this fact because they view truth through the subjective lenses of personal experience instead of the objective revelation of scripture.
The only thing that stands alone is God. So I look to other men who have provided lenses into scripture. I love to read. I enjoy many great authors who have provided vast insights into the Holy Word of God. However, we must be so very careful to discern the wolves from the sheep. Due to the obsession with self many have become very deceived by the likes of Rob Bell, Dallas Wilard, Todd Hunter, Brian McLaren, Rick Warren, and the author of The Shack, Mr. Young. The majority of my favorite authors are dead men. Heroes of the faith like St. Augustine of Hippo, John Calvin, Martin Luther, Abraham Kuyper, Jonathan Edwards, John Owen, Jon Huss, John Knox, Andrew Murray, and my favorite, C.H. Spurgeon. Men who have given their entire lives for the furthering of the gospel; most even to the expense of rejection by their own congregations. One thing that is for sure, dead men have no chance of deviating from the gospel. They are dead. We have their sound record of faithfulness to scripture. So many today seem so blinded to the snakes and doctrines of demons which are in their churches and on their shelves. People will only listen to the truth if God is working in their hearts. If He chooses not to, they will revert to their default ringer. Sin. We hate God. Until He gives us a desire to love Him we will continuously devour the sinful cup. We will always love studies with regards to ourselves. We will forever reject studies that reveal the all-encompassing sovereignty of God. Forever that is, until He gets inside you and fires you up to know Him instead of yourself!!! Please pray for holy fire to consume you.
I will leave you with this. Do yourself a favor and look up the five solas. They are a creed of sorts describing the exclusiveness of Christianity. Most Christians have never heard them, however they define what it is that a Christian must be concerned with. If you are a Christian I promise you a surprise when you study them. If you are not then an even bigger surprise awaits. GOD IS ACTUALLY GOD!
SOLA GRATIA, SOLA FIDE, SOLA SCRIPTURA, SOLAS CHRISTOS, SOLA DEO GLORIA
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Bride and Groom
11:30 AM on Saturday morning and the grace of God has never been more amazing. He has blessed me with the woman of His choosing and brought me into the covenant of marriage. The time of courtship was hearty and rich; full of passion and discovering my soul's mate. Some might say it was quick. It seems a lifetime of memories are already ours when I look into her eyes.
The fall of last year found us brought together by no less than God's sovereign grace. Her from Las Vegas and not wanting to attend a crazy function in the Oregon desert and myself from Idaho curious to see what the focus was of an Oregon group of secessionists. What we found was alot more than we had ever planned on. In fact I had resigned myself to a sort of celibacy. A full beard and withrawn attitude gave testament to the turmoil I had experienced back home. I was more than a little dissapointed with what I found in the organization I went to see. I was extremely delighted and blessed to discover a wonderful girl from Las Vegas.
Imagine my surprise when after two months of phone dating she announced her desire to move to Idaho! Now I could not deny that God was at work. Soon after, I proposed to her amongst the snow and hot springs of Cascade. God had decided that she would be my wife as she said yes and we embraced.
After she moved here we ran into many obstacles not the least of which was a troublesome roommate with whom she was living. Our plans for the wedding were for May. We saw God moving us forward much faster. We decided, with help and prayer from our pastor, that we would get married straight away. After all, hadn't God revealed His joy to us? The marriage was held on March 7th, 2010 in front of our church body. What a joyous occasion as all received communion and then participated in covenant before God. My eyes cannot believe, my heart can barely perceive what a mighty thing God has done in the union between my wife and I. Now I understand more fully the depth of relationship Christ has for His chosen, the elect.
This morning as we discuss a large ceremony and reception for September I am once again reminded that God is actually God. God is Sovereign. God is in control. God knows what is going to happen, therefore it can't not happen! The future remains constant because God said so. What a glorious comfort this is, to know that our loving Saviour is always with us. He can never leave us. Whatever happens, He will be glorified. We will enoy Him forever.
The fall of last year found us brought together by no less than God's sovereign grace. Her from Las Vegas and not wanting to attend a crazy function in the Oregon desert and myself from Idaho curious to see what the focus was of an Oregon group of secessionists. What we found was alot more than we had ever planned on. In fact I had resigned myself to a sort of celibacy. A full beard and withrawn attitude gave testament to the turmoil I had experienced back home. I was more than a little dissapointed with what I found in the organization I went to see. I was extremely delighted and blessed to discover a wonderful girl from Las Vegas.
Imagine my surprise when after two months of phone dating she announced her desire to move to Idaho! Now I could not deny that God was at work. Soon after, I proposed to her amongst the snow and hot springs of Cascade. God had decided that she would be my wife as she said yes and we embraced.
After she moved here we ran into many obstacles not the least of which was a troublesome roommate with whom she was living. Our plans for the wedding were for May. We saw God moving us forward much faster. We decided, with help and prayer from our pastor, that we would get married straight away. After all, hadn't God revealed His joy to us? The marriage was held on March 7th, 2010 in front of our church body. What a joyous occasion as all received communion and then participated in covenant before God. My eyes cannot believe, my heart can barely perceive what a mighty thing God has done in the union between my wife and I. Now I understand more fully the depth of relationship Christ has for His chosen, the elect.
This morning as we discuss a large ceremony and reception for September I am once again reminded that God is actually God. God is Sovereign. God is in control. God knows what is going to happen, therefore it can't not happen! The future remains constant because God said so. What a glorious comfort this is, to know that our loving Saviour is always with us. He can never leave us. Whatever happens, He will be glorified. We will enoy Him forever.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Bless God
Well Hello,
This blog has been a long time coming. Writing is a passion I do not exercise enough. I am excited to see what God does with this and how He will be discipling me through it.
As it was made very clear to me by someone just today, I am only a tool to be used by the perfect will of my heavenly Father. At least he conveyed the tool part. It is my understanding that he meant it for a chide remark. You see, I was repelled from someone's blog today. I was automatically directed to a website called Tool Shelf; the reason for the administrator's actions? Why do men become so defensive when their world views are challenged if they are confident in that world view? That is a better question. I love questions. They stimulate.
It is for this very reason that I will endeavor to remain faithful to God and to His Holy Word here on this blog. By that I mean I intend to thouroughly write about the how, what, when, where, who, and why of God's sovereign grace in action. Worldwide yesterday, today, and tomorrow His glory is on display for all to see. Unfortunately, there are many who do not see this mighty Glory of God. Of these, many exist right in the visible church. So, my heart is for all who read to post and comment. In so doing we can debate what it is that we call truth. For by its very nature truth is exclusive.
This blog has been a long time coming. Writing is a passion I do not exercise enough. I am excited to see what God does with this and how He will be discipling me through it.
As it was made very clear to me by someone just today, I am only a tool to be used by the perfect will of my heavenly Father. At least he conveyed the tool part. It is my understanding that he meant it for a chide remark. You see, I was repelled from someone's blog today. I was automatically directed to a website called Tool Shelf; the reason for the administrator's actions? Why do men become so defensive when their world views are challenged if they are confident in that world view? That is a better question. I love questions. They stimulate.
It is for this very reason that I will endeavor to remain faithful to God and to His Holy Word here on this blog. By that I mean I intend to thouroughly write about the how, what, when, where, who, and why of God's sovereign grace in action. Worldwide yesterday, today, and tomorrow His glory is on display for all to see. Unfortunately, there are many who do not see this mighty Glory of God. Of these, many exist right in the visible church. So, my heart is for all who read to post and comment. In so doing we can debate what it is that we call truth. For by its very nature truth is exclusive.
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