MOVING FORWARD

One thing that I understand intuitively is making progress requires going forward. Going forward implies, not looking back. Remember Lot’s wife. The Lord told us that once we put our hands to the plough, if we look back, we are not fit for the kingdom of God. A Christian’s focus must be forward looking. There is a reason that God did not give us eyes in the back of our heads. We are not to be looking from where we came but to see where we are going.

Numbers have a starting point and advance sequentially. Adding and multiplying is increasing numbers. They are progressing upward. Time moves in a linear fashion. We add to each year from 1 A.D. to present 2009 A.D. This should tell us that we should be making progress in our lives spiritually. Christians make progress because they have the life principle in their hearts. The Lord Jesus came to give Christians life and life more abundantly.

We know that if something is true, the opposite is also true. Non-Christians have the opposite principle working in their hearts. They are motivated to commit acts of death. Death is not progressive. It is a regression. Whenever and wherever sinners have the ascendency over public policy, the result will be those policies will bear the mark of regression and death. Abortion and homosexuality are regressions and are based upon the principle of death. This means that our present civil government’s policies are regressive and based upon death.

The only reason that regression and death have been codified in this country is because of the failure of the church. Most Protestants in America are Baptists. Baptists do not have any theory of civil government. This means that they support the Establishment, no matter the kind of Establishment. Baptists reject the law of God and by definition, they accept whatever civil law they find themselves under. Baptists are doctrinally regressive. Baptist theology is Pharisee theology.

When I talk about moving forward, most people imagine that I am talking in physical terms. This is not what I mean at all. I am talking about moving forward spiritually. The only way that you can move forward spiritually is to do it doctrinally. So what I mean by moving forward is moving forward doctrinally. This is what true progress consists of. We are presently living in a day when the second Reformation is being launched.

Some of us are not satisfied with the status quo i.e. the Establishment. The present Establishment needs to be disestablished because it is built upon the principle of death and the Pharisees. This disestablishment is going to take place spiritually. The pen is mightier than the sword. It will also happen because life overcomes death and light overcomes darkness. As the Lord told Moses to tell the children of God to go forward, God is once again calling His remnant to move forward doctrinally. We are well able to possess the land doctrinally.

FALSE WITNESSES

One thing that I have learned recently that I find to be absolutely so is that the direct method of doing anything is inefficient. Better results are obtained by using the indirect method. The indirect method requires thought before action. The indirect method uses understanding to solve issues. Most people do not do much thinking about how to approach a problem. They think if they tackle it head on, they will get the results they desire. They soon find out that things do not work out the way they intended.

We have to put ourselves in other people’s shoes. The Lord Jesus said that we are to go the extra mile. To get what we want, we have to see what the other person wants. It is always best to think of other people’s needs. Paul said that we were not to consider only our needs but other’s even to the point above our own. By doing this, we will also get what we want in a roundabout way. The roundabout method lets us escape the perception that we are only involved in an activity for selfish reasons.

We are living in an age of heresy. Most religious people do not know what heresy is. This is because they do not know what orthodox Christianity is. Orthodox Christianity has been under attack for centuries and now cults have gained more than a foothold. Some consider Jehovah Witnesses, Seventh Day Adventists, and Mormons to be orthodox Christianity. This is because there are not enough Orthodox Christians that are willing to confront these heretics.

Heresy falls under the Ninth Commandment which says, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor." Noah Webster’s 1828 Dictionary’s second definition of heresy is "Heresy, in law, is an offense against Christianity, consisting in a denial of some of its essential doctrines, publicly avowed and obstinately maintained. Blackstone." Denial of essentials can only be accomplished by being opposed to truth. False doctrine is spread by false witnesses. Heretics look religious but inwardly they are liars.

The other day I was taking a nap on my couch when I heard a loud knock on the door. I answered the door and there was a large black lady standing on the porch. I immediately knew she was a Jehovah Witness. I did not let her try to tell me about what she believed. Since I am aggressive by nature, I told her that I knew more about her doctrine than she did. She asked me if I had studied with the Witnesses. She did not know that I am an orthodox Christian preacher.

What makes Jehovah Witnesses false witnesses? Jehovah Witnesses deny the doctrine of the Trinity. God is one God in three persons. Orthodox Christianity proclaims God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Jehovah Witnesses deny the divinity of Christ. They believe that Christ is a creature and not divine. This is heretical to the core. The Jehovah Witnesses deny eternal punishment. This is convenient for them. The truth of the matter is that Jehovah Witnesses are going to spend eternity with all other liars in the lake of fire which is the Second Death. All false witnesses deserve eternal punishment. God will make sure that the Jehovah Witnesses get what they deserve.

ARGUING WITH STUPIDITY

We are living in an age of increasing stupidity. The stupidity that I am referring to is based on ethics. Most people are ethically stupid. The Bible refers to stupidity as foolishness. From this frame of reference, most people are ethically foolish. The worst problem in the world is antinomianism. Antinomianism is anti-ethical. These people are anti-law. They will not follow rules unless they are to their liking or they can gain an advantage from a particular law. Then they are wholly for rules.

It must be hard to live by a double standard. Double standards are characterized by double minds or schizophrenia. Being double minded ensures that a person will be inconsistent in their behavior. These kind of people can be nice one minute and inconsiderate and rude the next. You never know what will set them off. When these double minded people are confronted with their inconsistency, they assume an aura of piety. They will say such things as, I am going to pray for you. Question is, who is going to hear their prayer? God certainly won’t.

James 1:8 reads, "A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways." The word double-minded means two spirited or vacillating in opinion and purpose. Unstable is inconstant i.e., inconsistent. Double mindedness leads in one direction, that of being unstable ethically. James 1:7 says this of the double minded man, "For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord." The double minded can pray but God does not hear nor answer their prayers. Their prayers are therefore, an exercise in futility.

A recent example will suffice in driving home the point of being double minded. I went to Wal-Mart the other day to pick up a few items. I ended up in the express check out which is 20 items or less. This is the rule for express check out. The good lady in front of me (I think she was a Baptist) clearly had more than 20 items. In fact, she had a shopping cart full of items. I kept repeating the rule to her about 20 items. She must have been feeling guilty because she responded back to me. She told me to shut up.

At one point, she became pious and said that she would pray for me. Others in line also commented about her behavior and she responded back to them that basically they should mind their own business. Through the whole ordeal of checking out she had many things to say about me and how I dared to call her to account. People like this lady always try to confuse the issue and make it appear as though you are in the wrong. People like this lady have no conscience. They see everyone else as wrong and them always right. People like her become dictatorial. When she told me to shut up, she was dictating to me what I could and could not do.

The stupidest thing that she called me was immature. For a Baptist, she sure is judgmental. How was I immature? The real child in this situation is her. She purposely refused to follow the rules of the express check out. It is clear that she is the immature one. She is also inconsiderate and rude. Actually, I was walking in love toward her by pointing out her ethical lapse. She had the opportunity to confess her wrong but she like her father Cain refused to humble herself and repent.

Another stupid thing she said to us in line was that the way we treated her was going to come back to us. She is not bright enough to realize that she is going to get into continual arguments with people when she pulls the same stupid stunt again. Fortunately, there is a place for this woman and it is called the lake of fire. This woman is going to experience eternal punishment and she will deserve it for the way that she treated others.

She did not know that she was arguing with a preacher. She would have been shocked. She is used to wimpy Baptist preachers who would never offend an ethical rebel. In fact, most Baptist preachers would have told me I should have minded my own business. This is because they are like this woman in ethical rebellion against God’s law. Occasionally, you have to argue with the ethically stupid. They are not going to change their behavior but at least the law is preached.