Chris G P wrote:
All I can say is that the USA was granted a stay of execution when Hillary Rodham Clinton was not voted in as the next President of the USA.

I believe God has spared the USA, but maybe only for a season. It is time for the churches to repent and pray, get right with God, and for the Christians to preach the Gospel as never before.

Connor7 wrote:
Thanks y'all for your prayers and encouragement.
Another Michael, I have been writing my own tract, and I get all my tracts from Living Waters, they are a great ministry.
Dave, I'll keep on praying for Paul, my friend had a friend who was a Satanist and he got saved, and I think he went to Bible College. Just thought I'd mention that as an encouragement, God certainly is abundant in mercy.

Walter Kovacs wrote:
Another,

Before you ask another, heal thyself physician.

In fact it is easier to speak with men in prison of Christ, to worship with them, pray with them ... or have them do some serious praying for me and others, then all too often to have real genuine fellowship with high minded "educated" religious church people

Since talk is often so very very cheap please don't be upset with me for daring to want to know your 'bonifides.'

And to be clear to anyone, especially any born again child of God reading this, Jesus Christ has His specific will for you - Peter to the Jews, Paul to the Gentile both preaching the Gospel, both men of prayer, both willing to die for the Gospel, all of us will either be serving Him in what He has called us to ... or being unfaithful disobedient to Him, even a stumbling block to others .... let's NOT be that.

Mike wrote:
Ignorance is bliss, so it is said. Some who are anti-constitution are merely anti-law. Some hold to views which in their minds are godly and biblical, but which are at best a form of fatalism.

Walter Kovacs wrote:
Another,
Truth is a doubled edge sword, it cuts going in and out. Scripture clearly state not to trust in horses or men , the battle is the Lord's. Besides, providence is at work to ferret out the goats and bolster the lambs to forsake the thin shield of human constructs ( Constitution) and live not the Lord . The elect of God are sojourners, strangers in this land. Paul used his citizenship to advance the gospel, not ensure religious liberty. Read history and your bible, Christians who adhere to truth will be persecuted by charlatans and governments alike. Wake up.

And if this Apostle filled with the Holy Spirit did so, don't you think we ought to do likewise with our citizenship and not abandon our rights therein?

"
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

Walter Kovacs wrote:
Pretty sure Amendment 1 of the Constitution is not in the Bible. The scripture guarantees persecution, not religious liberty. To think ...

Do you not know
Or have you not considered

How incredibly important TRUTH, Righteousness, Justice and Peace are to Almighty God, our Sovereign Creator?

Or how frightfully real the Spiritual War we are in right now is? Where Satan is out to do everything he might wickedly do to use religious people to shut up the kingdom of heaven from men?

Primarily by silencing them and their witness of Jesus Christ.

Let me encourage you, to please don't shoot yourself in the foot, or hinder and be a stumbling block to others in their witness by acting like things in the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution are somehow unimportant matters

Are far too many today weak, whimpy, being destroyed for a lack of knowledge (worse because they reject knowledge), perishing because they have no vision? Certainly!

Do you need a little reminder Paul used his Roman citizenship as a part of his ministry?

Dave wrote:
He rang me once wanting to know about getting, christened, I explained it was baptized, but after a lengthy talk he said he was just doing it as insurance, just to cover his bases, I didn't agree to baptizing him back then, I still pray the Holy Spirit inclines his heart and regenerates him.
God bless.
PS. His name is Paul if any feel inclined to pray

I don't know about you but I have so much to learn and grow into.

Good to read you are passing out tracts ... ever thought of writing your own? Living Waters has some excellent ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCyQdpehME

Dave in OZ
Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Jim Lincoln wrote:
Many years ago, Dr. Rugh did an excellent booklet on baptism, I would suggest many of you might give it a look.
--[URL=http://www.biblebb.com/files/GRBAP.HTM]]]http://tinyurl.com/y9my9gac (Baptism: Truth or Tradition)[/URL]
[URL=http://tinyurl.com/j28kmyd]]]http://tinyurl.com/j28kmyd (Martin Luther's Sacramental Gospel)[/URL] :aler

I honestly have to Thank You for the links to 2 excellent articles you gave regarding BAPTISM

IMHO the RCC didn't need "reforming" it needed, and still does, REPENTANCE and Christ's words to believing people in the RCC is "Come Out" and I believe it is safe to say that to for any church/denomination thatou has gone apostate

Question for some: What's the matter are you too proud to humble yourself, renounce your infant sprinkling as not being right (it isn't and must be forced upon and into Bible verses twisted to hold to it) and publicly profess faith in Jesus Christ (give a real testimony of conversion, not a fanciful delusion of "I've always been a Christian") and come fully under the authority of the word of God and be publicly identified as a Christian

Ignominious Emirakan wrote:
&-"Here in America because of the last several years, several decades of evangelism the idea of born again is totally lost. It only means that .......

Paul Washer
Satan hates truth!

IMHO preachers ought to make the words "Born Again" sing with Biblical mean, contend and to be so urgently desired, lost men and women are simply unable to mouth an empty 'sinners prayer' but seek God with everything within them until they know they are saved by God and for God or they die ... I picked up on this attitude from Paul Washer

I am all in favor of sinners who having heard the Gospel, having come under the convicting power of the Holy Spirit ... I am very much in favor these praying! praying with/along side them and for them as they are praying until serious business has been done before the Throne of God above
If we are not careful rejecting empty sinners prayerism can hobble real pouring ones heart out praying ... let's NOT do that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3A29JanL0

Ignominious Emirakan wrote:
James Hudson Taylor ways to train mind & heart to beat evil sport-
"God uses men who are weak and feeble enough to lean on him.” — JHT
“Do not have your concert first, and then tune your instrument afterwards. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.” ― JHT
“God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.”― JHT
“When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.” ― JHT
All God’s giants have been weak men who did great things for God because they reckoned on God being with them.”― JHT
“I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.”― JHT

“There are three stages to every great work of God; first it is impossible, then it is difficult, then it is done.” ― J. Hudson Taylor

“It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies — whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.”

I really like Ray Comfort
I believe his exhortation to rightly use
The 10 (immeasurably good for all of us) Commandments in our evangelism "Hell's Best Kept Secret"
is spot on

In the providence of God, I am so thankful for men like Jeff Durbin, Jon Speed, and Ray Comfort and also woman like faith and passion to see souls saved, who see abortion not as a moral issue but what it really is a Gospel issue

And approach both the mothers and the fathers and also those who work at abortion clinics in a humble loving compassionate way WITHOUT watering down the Truth to plead with them about both salvation and the lives of babies

But they don't just stop there but also preach the Gospel to Mormons and Muslims, to regular everyday people and those caught up into all sorts of causes and protests ... loving them enough to treat them as precious human beings and humbly tell them the Gospel as sinners themselves saved only by the mercy and grace of God who is mighty and willing to save any of us no matter how great or seemingly small (no sin is small) our sins have been.

"No Excuses"
If we say abortion is wrong, evil an abomination, lets do more than put up 2 white roses on the pulpit for 1 sermon a year on "Pro-Life Sunday"

Let's pray, go and preach the Gospel
(and not just at abortion clinics either)

Dave wrote:
So what.
Who are these pastors' and what do they preach, the word, Protestant and Christian gets thrown around now days with little regards to what God says.

If I may approach this topic from a bit different direction. If there is a group of serious believers seeking to be faithful to Scripture, to real mountain moving intercessory prayer, to real outside the walls of the church building soul winning and disciple making, the stand in the face of men and devils for the truth of the world of God ... who desire a pastor

It might be a very good starting point to interview the pastor's wife to see where she is or isn't in her faith because she will either be a godly helpmeet or a hinderance to the depth of his faithfully serving Jesus Christ, and her faith will either encourage the church or discourage it

Dr. Tim wrote:
The Protestant movement has been flawed from its inception. God didn't command His people to "protest" the great whore of Babylon. He told them to "come out of her," and not one Protestant denomination ever came all the way out. The true remnant has always been that very small and despised group of Christian believers who were never a part of Catholicism at all.

ladybug wrote:
Roman Catholicism is NOT biblical

And then go on and be used by God to win them to Christ? I am really not asking anyone for anyone to feel they have to give an answer to this, as in my humble opinion it is something we must seek God for and about until He makes real His answer and we see Him using imperfect people like us to see sinners soundly saved.

Although, I can give a brief word of testimony ... while preaching outside the local abortion clinic, using the 10 Commandments as a loving school master, for preaching the Gospel (the greatest need is to see sinners there saved) a RC Monk who was there in my words was so touched for this "Baptist" he wanted to pray for me (and not to be RC either), he also wanted to come herar me preach in Church but his boss (priest) sent him to Ohio before he could hear me. Probably not a perfect example but a learning one for me.

Are you denying then the One most responsible for "Climate Change" is Holy God because of sin against Him?

IMHO no body in their right mind ought ever listen to you as any kind of credible teacher or authority.