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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
BREAKING NEWS:Obama defaults on Federal Lawsuit Jeopardizes Presidential Run - Now ineligible for Candidacy
Obama & DNC Admit All Allegations of Federal Court Lawsuit - Obama’s “Not” Qualified to be President
Obama Should Immediately Withdraw his Candidacy for President
For Immediate Release: - 10/21/08 - Complete contact details and pdfs of this press release and motions filed by plaintiff Berg today are at the end of this article
(Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania – 10/21/08) - Philip J. Berg, Esquire, the Attorney who filed suit against Barack H. Obama challenging Senator Obama’s lack of “qualifications” to serve as President of the United States, announced today that Obama and tbe DNC “ADMITTED”, by way of failure to timely respond to Requests for Admissions, all of the numerous specific requests in the Federal lawsuit. Obama is “NOT QUALIFIED” to be President and therefore Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for President and the DNC shall substitute a qualified candidate. The case is Berg v. Obama, No. 08-cv-04083.
Berg stated that he filed Requests for Admissions on September 15, 2008 with a response by way of answer or objection had to be served within thirty [30] days. No response to the Requests for Admissions was served by way of response or objection. Thus, all of the Admissions directed to Obama and the DNC are deemed “ADMITTED.” Therefore, Obama must immediately withdraw his candidacy for President.
OBAMA - Admitted:
1. I was born in Kenya.2. I am a Kenya “natural born” citizen.
3. My foreign birth was registered in the State of Hawaii.4. My father, Barrack Hussein Obama, Sr. admitted Paternity of me.
5. My mother gave birth to me in Mombosa, Kenya.6. My mother’s maiden name is Stanley Ann Dunham a/k/a Ann Dunham.
7. The COLB [Certification of Live Birth] posted on the website “Fightthesmears.com” is a forgery.8. I was adopted by a Foreign Citizen.
9. I was adopted by Lolo Soetoro, M.A. a citizen of Indonesia.10. I was not born in Hawaii.
11. I was not born at the Queens Medical Center in Hawaii.12. I was not born at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Hawaii.
13. I was not born in a Hospital in Hawaii.14. I am a citizen of Indonesia.
15. I never took the “Oath of Allegiance” to regain my U.S. Citizenship status.16. I am not a “natural born” United States citizen.
17. My date of birth is August 4, 1961.18. I traveled to Pakistan in 1981 with my Pakistan friends.
19. In 1981, I went to Indonesia on my way to Pakistan.20. Pakistan was a no travel zone in 1981 for American Citizens.
21. In 1981, Pakistan was not allowing American Citizens to enter their country.22. I traveled on my Indonesian Passport to Pakistan.
23. I renewed my Indonesian Passport on my way to Pakistan.24. My senior campaign staff is aware I am not a “natural born” United States Citizen.
25. I am proud of my Kenya Heritage.26. My relatives have requested changes to the portion of my birth certificate that identifies my first name.
27. My relatives have requested changes to the portion of my birth certificate that identifies my last name.28. My relatives have requested changes to the portion of my birth certificate that identifies my place of birth.
29. I requested changes to the portion of my birth certificate that identifies my first name.30. I requested changes to the portion of my birth certificate that identifies my last name.
31. I requested changes to the portion of my birth certificate that identifies my place of birth.32. The document identified as my Indonesian School record from Fransiskus Assisi School in Jakarta, Indonesia is genuine.
33. I went to a Judge in Hawaii to have my name changed.34. I went to a Senator and/or Congressman or other public official in Hawaii to have my name changed.
35. I had a passport issued to me from the Government of Indonesia.36. The United States Constitution does not allow for a Person to hold the office of President of the United States unless that person is a “natural born” United States citizen.
37. I am ineligible pursuant to the United States Constitution to serve as President and/or Vice President of the United States.38. I never renounced my citizenship as it relates to my citizenship to the country of Indonesia.
39. I never renounced my citizenship as it relates to my citizenship to the country of Kenya.40. I am an Attorney who specializes in Constitutional Law.
41. Kenya was a part of the British Colonies at the time of my birth.42. Kenya did not become its own Republic until 1963.
43. I am not a “Naturalized” United States Citizen.44. I obtained $200 Million dollars in campaign funds by fraudulent means.
45. I cannot produce a “vault” (original) long version of a birth certificate showing my birth in Hawaii.46. My “vault” (original) long version birth certificate shows my birth in Kenya.
47. The only times I was to a Hospital in Hawaii was for check-ups or medical treatments for illnesses.48. Queens Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii does not have any record of my mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama) giving birth to me.
49. Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii does not have any record of my mother, Stanley Ann Dunham (Obama) giving birth to me.50. I was born in the Coast Province Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya.
51. I represented on my State Bar application in Illinois that I never used any other name other than Barack Hussein Obama.52. I went by the name Barry Soetoro in Indonesia.
53. My Indonesian school records are under the name of Barry Soetoro.54. I took an Oath to uphold the United States Constitution when admitted to the State Bar of Illinois to practice Law.
55. I took an Oath to uphold the United States Constitution when I was Sworn into my United States Senate Office.56. I hold dual citizenship with at least one other Country besides the United States of America.
DNC - Admitted:
1. The DNC nominated Barrack Hussein Obama as the Democratic Nominee for President.2. The DNC has not vetted Barrack Hussein Obama.
3. The DNC did not have a background check performed on Barrack Hussein Obama.4.The DNC did not verify Barrack Hussein Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States.
5. The DNC admits Barrack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya.6. The DNC admits Barrack Hussein Obama is not a “natural born” United States citizen.
7. The DNC admits Barrack Hussein Obama was not born in Hawaii.8.The DNC admits they have not inquired into Barrack Hussein Obama’s citizenship status.
9. The DNC admits they have a duty to properly vette the Democratic Nominee for President.10.The DNC admits Lolo Soetoro, M.A., an Indonesian citizen adopted Barrack Hussein Obama.
11. The DNC admits the Credentials Committee has been aware of this lawsuit since August 22, 2008 as the lawsuit was faxed to our Washington D.C. Office on August 22, 2008.
12. The DNC admits their Credentials Committee failed to verify and/or inquire into the credentials of Barack Hussein Obama to serve as the President of the United States.
13. The DNC admits their Credential Committee’s Report failed to address the issues of Barack Hussein Obama’s ineligibility to serve as President of the United States.14.The DNC admits Howard Dean, Chair Person has and had knowledge Barack Hussein Obama was born in Kenya and ineligible to serve as the President of the United States.
15. The DNC admits Plaintiff and all Democratic citizens of the United States have been personally injured as a result of not having a qualified Democratic Presidential Nominee to cast their votes upon.16. The DNC admits Plaintiff and all citizens of the United States have a Constitutional Right to vote for the President of the United States and to have two (2) qualified candidates of which to choose from.
17. The DNC admits Plaintiff and all citizens of the United States have a Constitutional right to have a properly vetted Democratic Presidential Nominee of which to cast their vote.18. The DNC admits an FBI background check is not performed on the Presidential or Vice Presidential Candidates.
19. The DNC admits the United States Constitution does not allow for a Person to hold the office of President of the United States unless that person is a “natural born” United States citizen.20. The DNC admits they collected donations on behalf of Barack Hussein Obama for his Presidential campaign.
21. The DNC admits Plaintiff and Democratic citizens donated money based on false representations that Barack Hussein Obama was qualified to serve as the President of the United States.22. The DNC admits if Barack Hussein Obama is elected as President and allowed to serve as President of the United States in violation of our Constitution, it will create a Constitutional crisis.
23. The DNC admits Barack Hussein Obama took an Oath to uphold the United States Constitution.24. The DNC admits allowing a person who is not a “natural born” citizen to serve as President of the United States violates Plaintiff’s rights to due process of law in violation of the United States Constitution.
25. The DNC admits allowing a person who is not a “natural born” citizen to serve as President of the United States violates Plaintiff’s rights to Equal Protection of the laws in violation of the United States Constitution.26. The DNC admits the function of the DNC is to secure a Democratic Presidential Candidate who will protect Democratic citizen’s interests, fight for their equal opportunities and fight for justice for all Americans.
27. The DNC admits the Democratic National Committee has been promoting Barack Hussein Obama’s Presidential election knowing he was ineligible to serve as President of the United States.
Our website obamacrimes.com now has 50.7 + million hits. We are urging all to spread the word of our website – and forward to your local newspapers, radio and TV stations. Berg again stressed his position regarding the urgency of this case as, “we” the people, are heading to a “Constitutional Crisis” if this case is not resolved forthwith.
Can Christians trust God with the economy?
Psalm 84:11
For the Lord God is a Sun and Shield; the Lord bestows [present] grace and favor and [future] glory (honor, splendor, and heavenly bliss)! No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
It is a breathe of fresh air when I find an article that breathes the breath of TRUTH in this decaying sewer we called "the world" that seem to continue on the WIDE road that leads to destruction. JESUS' echo from the beginning of time continues to overrule the universe since HE created it to show the world who HE truly is and Who is ruling now allowing HIS permissive will to draw everyone to uprightness who will listen to HIMSELF as His echo continues to ring in their ears to reality. IF we draw near to GOD HE will most definitely draw near to US. This is a fact. Thank You JESUS.
RW
Can Christians trust God with the economy?
Allie Martin - OneNewsNow - 10/20/2008 9:45:00 AMBookmark and Share
Bad economyAn international Bible teacher, author, and co-founder of a teaching ministry says Christians in America can and should find hope in the midst of the economic downturn.
Recent news reports of the fluctuating economy and the downturn in the Dow have many people, including Christians, worried about the future. Stuart Briscoe, co-founder Stuart Briscoeof Telling the Truth ministry and author of more than 40 books, believes God's Word instructs Christians how to live in uncertain times.
"[The Book of] James goes on to explain [that] we don't welcome those trials because they make us feel good," he points out. "We welcome these trials because we know what is going on. And what is going on is that these particular situations give us the opportunity of living at a different level -- and that is the reason why we should respond positively to the trials."
Briscoe also suggests that materialism has caused many Christians to focus on the riches of the world instead of true riches found in a deeper walk with Christ.
What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts because of its wickedness becoming full grown.
Acts 13:10
And said, You master in every form of deception and recklessness, unscrupulousness, and wickedness, you son of the devil, you enemy of everything that is upright and good, will you never stop perverting and making crooked the straight paths of the Lord and plotting against His saving purposes?
Here is another FACT that the tyranny of PERVERSION is a reality and a true HATE CRIME. It is sad that this immoral dysfunction has to be an issue especially in a political matter our Fore Fathers never ever dreamed of because Morally sexual issues was never an issue. They new the science of nature and what was between a man and a woman was the natural self evident unity a marriage was recognized and it was a fact that this is reality. But today as we know some are on a fiery quest to reinterpret nature and are desperately wasting their short lived lives to make everyone accept their destructive SIN which when left to a human conscience by itself would perfectly realize that it is a WRONG and is not natural period. In fact SIN is not truly natural and part of GOD's statutes as HE so loving shows the world. But HIS permissive will allows these temporary immoral perversions so WE who are called can run to HIM eventually and realize only GOD can satisfy every human need alone.
As well Christian you must wake up, get out of your SELF comfort ZONES and Stand up for righteousness on the front lines and do your duty. Christ JESUS our rear GOD is coming quickly will you be in the fold standing firm in the battle?
(Richard White. Oct 2008)
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is slackened and justice and a righteous sentence never go forth, for the [hostility of the] wicked surrounds the [uncompromisingly] righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts
It's far worse than most people realize
October 20, 2008
by Brian Camenker
Anyone who thinks that same-sex “marriage” is a benign eccentricity which won’t affect the average person should consider what it has done in Massachusetts. It’s become a hammer to force the acceptance and normalization of homosexuality on everyone. And this train is moving fast. What has happened so far is only the beginning.
On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its Goodridge opinion, ruling that it was unconstitutional not to allow same-sex “marriage.” Six months later, homosexual marriages began to be performed.
The public schools
The homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across the state started soon after the November 2003, court decision.
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At my own children's high school there was a school-wide assembly to celebrate same-sex “marriage” in early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at the school who announced that they would be “marrying” their same-sex partners and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination. Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was handed out to the students.
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Within months it was brought into the middle schools. In September, 2004, an 8th-grade teacher in Brookline, MA, told National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the floodgates for teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now,'” she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that lesbians can have vaginal intercourse using sex toys.
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By the following year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given picture books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.
Second graders at the same school were read a book, “King and King”, about two men who have a romance and marry each other, with a picture of them kissing. When parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin complained, they were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or allow them to opt-out their child.
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In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children! Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge has ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!
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In 2006, in the elementary school where my daughter went to Kindergarten, the parents of a third-grader were forced to take their child out of school because a man undergoing a sex-change operation and cross-dressing was being brought into class to teach the children that there are now “different kinds of families.” School officials told the mother that her complaints to the principal were considered “inappropriate behavior.”
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Libraries have also radically changed. School libraries across the state, from elementary school to high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and the lifestyle in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
Over the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to distribute a large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled “Courting Equality” into every school library in the state.
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It’s become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently display photos of their same-sex “spouses” and occasionally bring them to school functions. Both high schools in my own town now have principals who are “married” to their same-sex partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the students.
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“Gay days” in schools are considered necessary to fight “intolerance” which may exist against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even middle schools across the state now hold “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender appreciation days”. They “celebrate” homosexual marriage and move forward to other behaviors such as cross-dressing and transsexuality. In my own town, a school committee member recently announced that combating “homophobia” is now a top priority.
Once homosexuality has been normalized, all boundaries will come down. The schools are already moving on to normalizing transgenderism (including cross-dressing and sex changes). The state-funded Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth includes leaders who are transsexuals.
Public health
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The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is “married” to another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a state-sponsored youth event that it’s “wonderful being gay” and he wants to make sure there’s enough HIV testing available for all of them.
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Since homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up considerably in Massachusetts. This year public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS has risen by $500,000.
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Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given to kids at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives “tips” to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other males, and how to “safely” have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex.
Domestic violence
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Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to spend more money every year to deal with skyrocketing homosexual domestic violence. This year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000 from last year.
Business
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All insurance in Massachusetts must now recognize same-sex “married” couples in their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health insurance, life insurance, etc.
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Businesses must recognize same-sex “married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both employees and customers.
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The wedding industry is required serve the homosexual community if requested. Wedding photographers, halls, caterers, etc., must do same-sex marriages or be arrested for discrimination.
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Businesses are often “tested” for tolerance by homosexual activists. Groups of homosexual activists often go into restaurants or bars and publicly kiss and fondle each other to test whether the establishment demonstrates sufficient “equality” — now that homosexual marriage is “legal”. In fact, more and more overt displays of homosexual affection are seen in public places across the state to reinforce "marriage equality".
Legal profession
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The Massachusetts Bar Exam now tests lawyers on their knowledge of same-sex "marriage" issues. In 2007, a Boston man, Stephen Dunne, failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer the questions in it about homosexual marriage.
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Issues regarding homosexual “families” are now firmly entrenched in the Massachusetts legal system. In many firms, lawyers in Massachusetts practicing family law must now attend seminars on homosexual "marriage". There are also now several homosexual judges overseeing the Massachusetts family courts.
Adoption of children to homosexual “married” couples
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Homosexual “married” couples can now demand to be able to adopt children the same as normal couples. Catholic Charities decided to abandon handling adoptions rather submit to regulations requiring them to allow homosexuals to adopt the children in their care.
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In 2006 the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) honored two men “married” to each other as their “Parents of the Year”. The men already adopted a baby through DSS (against the wishes of the baby’s birth parents). According to news reports, the day after that adoption was final DSS approached the men about adopting a second child. Homosexuals now appear to be put in line for adopting children ahead of heterosexual parents by state agencies in Massachusetts.
Government mandates
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In 2004, Governor Mitt Romney ordered Justices of the Peace to perform homosexual marriages when requested or be fired. At least one Justice of the Peace decided to resign.
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Also thanks to Gov. Romney, marriage licenses in Massachusetts now have “Party A and Party B” instead of “husband and wife.” Romney did not have a legal requirement to do this; he did it on his own. (See more on this below.)
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Since homosexual relationships are now officially “normal”, the Legislature now gives enormous tax money to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth is made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups which target children in the schools. This year they are getting $700,000 of taxpayer money to go into the public schools.
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In 2008 Massachusetts changed the state Medicare laws to include homosexual “married” couples in the coverage.
The public square
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Since gay “marriage”, annual gay pride parades have become more prominent. There are more politicians and corporations participating, and even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and further. There is now a profane “Dyke March” through downtown Boston, and recently a “transgender” parade in Northampton that included bare-chested women who have had their breasts surgically removed so they could “become” men. Governor Patrick even marched with his “out lesbian” 17-year old daughter in the 2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a “leather” group brandishing a black & blue flag, whips and chains!
The media
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Boston media, particularly the Boston Globe newspaper, regularly does feature stories and news stories portraying homosexual “married” couples where regular married couples would normally be used. It’s “equal”, they insist, so there must be no difference in the coverage. Also, the newspaper advice columns now deal with homosexual "marriage" issues, and how to properly accept it.
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A growing number of news reporters and TV anchors are openly “married” homosexuals who march in the “gay pride” parades.
Is gay marriage actually legal in Massachusetts?
Like everywhere else in America, the imposition of same-sex marriage on the people of Massachusetts was a combination of radical, arrogant judges and pitifully cowardly politicians.
The Goodridge ruling resulted in a complete cave-in by politicians of both parties on this issue. Same-sex “marriage” is still illegal in Massachusetts. On November 18, 2003 the court merely ruled that it was unconstitutional not to allow it, and gave the Legislature six months to “take such action as it may deem appropriate.” Note that the Massachusetts Constitution strongly denies courts the power to make or change laws, or from ordering the other branches to take any action. The constitution effectively bans “judicial review” – a court changing or nullifying a law. Thus, the court did not order anything to happen; it simply rendered an opinion on that specific case. And the Legislature did nothing. The marriage statutes were never changed. However, against the advice of many, Gov. Romney took it upon himself to alter the state's marriage licenses to say "Party A and Party B" and order officials to perform same-sex "weddings" if asked, though he had no legal obligation to do so. Technically, same-sex marriages are still illegal in Massachusetts.
Nevertheless, we are having to live with it. And furthermore, this abdication of their proper constitutional roles by the Legislature and Governor has caused a domino effect as "copycat" rulings have been issued in California and Connecticut, with other states fearful it will happen there.
In conclusion
Homosexual “marriage” hangs over society like a hammer with the force of law. And it’s only just begun.
It’s pretty clear that the homosexual movement’s obsession with marriage is not because large numbers of them actually want to marry each other. Research shows that homosexual relationships are fundamentally dysfunctional on many levels, and “marriage” as we know it isn’t something they can achieve, or even desire. (In fact, over the last three months, the Sunday Boston Globe’s marriage section hasn’t had any photos of homosexual marriages. In the beginning it was full of them.) This is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise. To the rest of America: You've been forewarned.
And said, You master in every form of deception and recklessness, unscrupulousness, and wickedness, you son of the devil, you enemy of everything that is upright and good, will you never stop perverting and making crooked the straight paths of the Lord and plotting against His saving purposes?
Here is another FACT that the tyranny of PERVERSION is a reality and a true HATE CRIME. It is sad that this immoral dysfunction has to be an issue especially in a political matter our Fore Fathers never ever dreamed of because Morally sexual issues was never an issue. They new the science of nature and what was between a man and a woman was the natural self evident unity a marriage was recognized and it was a fact that this is reality. But today as we know some are on a fiery quest to reinterpret nature and are desperately wasting their short lived lives to make everyone accept their destructive SIN which when left to a human conscience by itself would perfectly realize that it is a WRONG and is not natural period. In fact SIN is not truly natural and part of GOD's statutes as HE so loving shows the world. But HIS permissive will allows these temporary immoral perversions so WE who are called can run to HIM eventually and realize only GOD can satisfy every human need alone.
As well Christian you must wake up, get out of your SELF comfort ZONES and Stand up for righteousness on the front lines and do your duty. Christ JESUS our rear GOD is coming quickly will you be in the fold standing firm in the battle?
(Richard White. Oct 2008)
Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is slackened and justice and a righteous sentence never go forth, for the [hostility of the] wicked surrounds the [uncompromisingly] righteous; therefore justice goes forth perverted.
What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts
It's far worse than most people realize
October 20, 2008
by Brian Camenker
Anyone who thinks that same-sex “marriage” is a benign eccentricity which won’t affect the average person should consider what it has done in Massachusetts. It’s become a hammer to force the acceptance and normalization of homosexuality on everyone. And this train is moving fast. What has happened so far is only the beginning.
On November 18, 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its Goodridge opinion, ruling that it was unconstitutional not to allow same-sex “marriage.” Six months later, homosexual marriages began to be performed.
The public schools
The homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across the state started soon after the November 2003, court decision.
*
At my own children's high school there was a school-wide assembly to celebrate same-sex “marriage” in early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at the school who announced that they would be “marrying” their same-sex partners and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination. Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was handed out to the students.
*
Within months it was brought into the middle schools. In September, 2004, an 8th-grade teacher in Brookline, MA, told National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the floodgates for teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now,'” she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that lesbians can have vaginal intercourse using sex toys.
*
By the following year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given picture books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him arrested and put in jail overnight.
Second graders at the same school were read a book, “King and King”, about two men who have a romance and marry each other, with a picture of them kissing. When parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin complained, they were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or allow them to opt-out their child.
*
In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children! Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge has ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!
*
In 2006, in the elementary school where my daughter went to Kindergarten, the parents of a third-grader were forced to take their child out of school because a man undergoing a sex-change operation and cross-dressing was being brought into class to teach the children that there are now “different kinds of families.” School officials told the mother that her complaints to the principal were considered “inappropriate behavior.”
*
Libraries have also radically changed. School libraries across the state, from elementary school to high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and the lifestyle in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
Over the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to distribute a large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled “Courting Equality” into every school library in the state.
*
It’s become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently display photos of their same-sex “spouses” and occasionally bring them to school functions. Both high schools in my own town now have principals who are “married” to their same-sex partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the students.
*
“Gay days” in schools are considered necessary to fight “intolerance” which may exist against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even middle schools across the state now hold “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender appreciation days”. They “celebrate” homosexual marriage and move forward to other behaviors such as cross-dressing and transsexuality. In my own town, a school committee member recently announced that combating “homophobia” is now a top priority.
Once homosexuality has been normalized, all boundaries will come down. The schools are already moving on to normalizing transgenderism (including cross-dressing and sex changes). The state-funded Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth includes leaders who are transsexuals.
Public health
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The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is “married” to another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a state-sponsored youth event that it’s “wonderful being gay” and he wants to make sure there’s enough HIV testing available for all of them.
*
Since homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up considerably in Massachusetts. This year public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS has risen by $500,000.
*
Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century, a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given to kids at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives “tips” to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other males, and how to “safely” have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous sex.
Domestic violence
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Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to spend more money every year to deal with skyrocketing homosexual domestic violence. This year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000 from last year.
Business
*
All insurance in Massachusetts must now recognize same-sex “married” couples in their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health insurance, life insurance, etc.
*
Businesses must recognize same-sex “married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both employees and customers.
*
The wedding industry is required serve the homosexual community if requested. Wedding photographers, halls, caterers, etc., must do same-sex marriages or be arrested for discrimination.
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Businesses are often “tested” for tolerance by homosexual activists. Groups of homosexual activists often go into restaurants or bars and publicly kiss and fondle each other to test whether the establishment demonstrates sufficient “equality” — now that homosexual marriage is “legal”. In fact, more and more overt displays of homosexual affection are seen in public places across the state to reinforce "marriage equality".
Legal profession
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The Massachusetts Bar Exam now tests lawyers on their knowledge of same-sex "marriage" issues. In 2007, a Boston man, Stephen Dunne, failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused to answer the questions in it about homosexual marriage.
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Issues regarding homosexual “families” are now firmly entrenched in the Massachusetts legal system. In many firms, lawyers in Massachusetts practicing family law must now attend seminars on homosexual "marriage". There are also now several homosexual judges overseeing the Massachusetts family courts.
Adoption of children to homosexual “married” couples
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Homosexual “married” couples can now demand to be able to adopt children the same as normal couples. Catholic Charities decided to abandon handling adoptions rather submit to regulations requiring them to allow homosexuals to adopt the children in their care.
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In 2006 the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) honored two men “married” to each other as their “Parents of the Year”. The men already adopted a baby through DSS (against the wishes of the baby’s birth parents). According to news reports, the day after that adoption was final DSS approached the men about adopting a second child. Homosexuals now appear to be put in line for adopting children ahead of heterosexual parents by state agencies in Massachusetts.
Government mandates
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In 2004, Governor Mitt Romney ordered Justices of the Peace to perform homosexual marriages when requested or be fired. At least one Justice of the Peace decided to resign.
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Also thanks to Gov. Romney, marriage licenses in Massachusetts now have “Party A and Party B” instead of “husband and wife.” Romney did not have a legal requirement to do this; he did it on his own. (See more on this below.)
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Since homosexual relationships are now officially “normal”, the Legislature now gives enormous tax money to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth is made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups which target children in the schools. This year they are getting $700,000 of taxpayer money to go into the public schools.
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In 2008 Massachusetts changed the state Medicare laws to include homosexual “married” couples in the coverage.
The public square
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Since gay “marriage”, annual gay pride parades have become more prominent. There are more politicians and corporations participating, and even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and further. There is now a profane “Dyke March” through downtown Boston, and recently a “transgender” parade in Northampton that included bare-chested women who have had their breasts surgically removed so they could “become” men. Governor Patrick even marched with his “out lesbian” 17-year old daughter in the 2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a “leather” group brandishing a black & blue flag, whips and chains!
The media
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Boston media, particularly the Boston Globe newspaper, regularly does feature stories and news stories portraying homosexual “married” couples where regular married couples would normally be used. It’s “equal”, they insist, so there must be no difference in the coverage. Also, the newspaper advice columns now deal with homosexual "marriage" issues, and how to properly accept it.
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A growing number of news reporters and TV anchors are openly “married” homosexuals who march in the “gay pride” parades.
Is gay marriage actually legal in Massachusetts?
Like everywhere else in America, the imposition of same-sex marriage on the people of Massachusetts was a combination of radical, arrogant judges and pitifully cowardly politicians.
The Goodridge ruling resulted in a complete cave-in by politicians of both parties on this issue. Same-sex “marriage” is still illegal in Massachusetts. On November 18, 2003 the court merely ruled that it was unconstitutional not to allow it, and gave the Legislature six months to “take such action as it may deem appropriate.” Note that the Massachusetts Constitution strongly denies courts the power to make or change laws, or from ordering the other branches to take any action. The constitution effectively bans “judicial review” – a court changing or nullifying a law. Thus, the court did not order anything to happen; it simply rendered an opinion on that specific case. And the Legislature did nothing. The marriage statutes were never changed. However, against the advice of many, Gov. Romney took it upon himself to alter the state's marriage licenses to say "Party A and Party B" and order officials to perform same-sex "weddings" if asked, though he had no legal obligation to do so. Technically, same-sex marriages are still illegal in Massachusetts.
Nevertheless, we are having to live with it. And furthermore, this abdication of their proper constitutional roles by the Legislature and Governor has caused a domino effect as "copycat" rulings have been issued in California and Connecticut, with other states fearful it will happen there.
In conclusion
Homosexual “marriage” hangs over society like a hammer with the force of law. And it’s only just begun.
It’s pretty clear that the homosexual movement’s obsession with marriage is not because large numbers of them actually want to marry each other. Research shows that homosexual relationships are fundamentally dysfunctional on many levels, and “marriage” as we know it isn’t something they can achieve, or even desire. (In fact, over the last three months, the Sunday Boston Globe’s marriage section hasn’t had any photos of homosexual marriages. In the beginning it was full of them.) This is about putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise. To the rest of America: You've been forewarned.
The 'how-to' plan to criminalize Christianity? More Immoral plots by the Perverted
COMMENTARY:(with story below)
Sure desperation continue in the Perversion movements that continue with their immorally funded political groups to continue the lie that it is a "HATE crime" to go against those who force the whole entire world to believe in their lie that same sex perverted relationships is an acceptable natural phenomena and should be accepted as truth whether some like it or not as the Perverted leader and mayor of San Francisco proclaimed after the California Supreme court enforced their wishy washy power and overruled what The People of California voted against Gay marriage with Proposition 22 by a 61 to 39 margin. As I repeat loud and clear again and again in bold caps, IT IS A HATE CRIME TO FORCE MORAL RESPECTING GOD FEARING PERSONS AND MAKING THEM VICTIMS TO ACCEPT WHAT IS UNNATURAL AND PERVERTED ESPECIALLY INNOCENT CHILDREN AND FAMILY'S WHO HOLD TO WHAT IS NATURAL BY COMMON SENSE. AS THOSE SEXUALLY IMMORALLY LOST WHO CONTINUE TO DEFY GOD'S FACTUAL COMMANDMENTS AND STATUTES SUCH AS:
Leviticus 18:21-30
21You shall not give any of your children to pass through the fire and sacrifice them to Molech [the fire god], nor shall you profane the name of your God [by giving it to false gods]. I am the Lord.
22You shall not lie (HAVE PERVERTED INTERCOURSE) with a man as with a woman; IT IS AN ABOMINATION.(B)
23Neither shall you lie (HAVE PERVERTED INTERCOURSE) with any beast and defile yourself with it; neither shall any woman yield herself to a beast to lie with it; it is confusion, perversion, and degradedly carnal.
24Do not defile yourselves in any of these ways, for in all these things the nations are defiled which I am casting out before you.
25And the land is defiled; therefore I visit the iniquity of it upon it, and the land itself vomits out her inhabitants.
26So you shall keep My statutes and My ordinances and shall not commit any of these abominations, neither the native-born nor any stranger who sojourns among you,
27For all these abominations have the men of the land done who were before you, and the land is defiled--
28[Do none of these things] lest the land spew you out when you defile it as it spewed out the nation that was before you.
29Whoever commits any of these abominations shall be cut off from among [his] people.
30So keep My charge: do not practice any of these abominable customs which were practiced before you and defile yourselves by them. I am the Lord your God.
THE WARNINGS ARE TOO CLEAR. WE ARE WITHOUT EXCUSE PERIOD.
1 Peter 4:5
But they will have to give an account to Him Who is ready to judge and pass sentence on the living and the dead.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no one delude and deceive you with empty excuses and groundless arguments [for these sins], for through these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of rebellion and disobedience.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you through and through [separate you from profane things, make you pure and wholly consecrated to God]; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved sound and complete [and found] blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah).
RICHARD WHITE (C)OCT 2008
MEDIA MATTERS
[b]The 'how-to' plan to criminalize Christianity[/b]
'Homosexuals know they must silence the church and that's what's behind this'
Posted: October 18, 2008
12:10 am Eastern
© 2008 WorldNetDaily
A growing movement that experts believe could end up in the criminalization of Christianity in the United States is being exposed in a new documentary being prepared for airing on October 26, officials at Coral Ridge Ministries have announced.
"Hate Crime Laws" is a half-hour exposé that shows how Christians in America, Canada, Australia, and Sweden have been arrested and prosecuted for expressing opinions that are rooted in the Bible regarding homosexual conduct, Islam or other topics about which Scriptures express clear teachings.
"On the surface, hate crime laws might sound like a good idea," said Jerry Newcombe, of Coral Ridge, who hosts the special. "After all, none of us advocates hatred or violence against another person. But if you look below the surface, suddenly you realize that these laws are really thought crime laws."
The program will air on The Coral Ridge Hour time slot and local airing times are available online.
WND has reported previously on hate crimes plans at the local level. In Colorado, for example, Gov. Bill Ritter signed into law earlier this year a plan that analysts believe effectively bans publication of the Bible in the state. The gender "anti-discrimination" law bans publication of statements that can be perceived as being negative toward those individuals choosing alternative sexual lifestyles.
WND also has reported when family groups with alarm have warned constituents about pending plans in Congress to institutionalize nationwide such laws.
Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter
Pro-homosexual advocates long have sought such a law, but opponents fear it would be used to crack down on those who maintain a biblical perspective that condemns homosexuality as sin. Observers note it would criminalize speech and thought, since other criminal actions already are addressed with current statutes.
Canada already has an aggressive "hate crimes" law, and there authorities have gone so far as to tell a Christian pastor he must recant his faith because of the legislation that bans statements that can be "perceived" as condemning another person.
Some states already have similar statutes, too, and in New Mexico, a photography company run by two Christians was fined $6,600 by the state for declining to provide services to a lesbian couple setting up a lookalike "marriage" ceremony.
The documentary cites the New Mexico case, as well as others.
"Canadian youth pastor Stephen Boissoin wrote a letter to the editor in 2002 criticizing homosexual activism and offering compassion and hope for people trapped by homosexuality. A human rights tribunal took notice and slapped him with a $5,000 fine, ordered him to apologize in writing, and snuffed out his free speech rights by placing a prior restraint on his public expression of any 'disparaging' opinions about homosexuality," Coral Ridge officials said.
"In Sweden, Pastor Ake Green spoke out against homosexual conduct in a 2003 sermon and was prosecuted for 'hate speech,'" the announcement continued.
In Australia, all it took to bring two ministers into a courtroom on charges of vilifying Islam was a seminar in their own church about Muslim beliefs.
The late Coral Ridge founder D. James Kennedy repeatedly had warned such developments would endanger Americans' civil rights.
"This will silence churches, which is their great desire – that churches ... may not be able to say anything negative about homosexuality," he said in an earlier presentation.
An online presentatiion on the issue features Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council.
"Homosexuals know they must silence the church in this country, and that's what's behind this," he warns.
Robert Knight, director of the Culture and Media Institute, also appears.
The goal, he said, is the "criminalization of Christianity. If you say traditional morality is now a form of hate and bigotry, and bring the full weight of the government, you have criminalized basic Christian moral doctrine."
Other guests include Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention; Matt Barber, director of cultural affairs at Liberty Counsel; and Tristan Emmanuel, a Presbyterian minister who resigned from the pulpit to found the Equipping Christians for the Public Square Centre.
Opponents of such actions note the deceptiveness of some of the proposals. In Colorado, for example, "Section 8 of the bill makes it a crime to publish or distribute anything that is deemed a 'discrimination' against the homosexual and transsexual lifestyle," according to the Christian Family Alliance.
Mark Hotaling, executive director for the Alliance, said initially supporters and even some opponents of the bill explained that there was an exception for churches and church organizations. However, lawmakers then attached to the bill a state "safety clause" which is supposed to deal with laws that are fundamental to protecting the lives of residents.
That, he said, simply stripped away any potential allowances for churches and church groups.
"Anyone who claims that there's an exception for churches really doesn't know the ins and outs of the bill," Hotaling told WND.
"So the religious exemption is purely window dressing and very deceptive," he said. "The Word of God literally now is banned, and that's a legitimate slam-dunk First Amendment issue there."
President Bush has fended off at least one federal plan by deciding it was unnecessary and promising a veto if Congress would pass it.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
What Genesis 50:20 & Philippians 2:1-18 & Gal 2:20 have in common?
I thought this was to wonderful so I posted this for all to hear and read by a Good friend and Pastor that I love. I hope it wakes you up Christian.
May GOD change your heart and renew a right Spirit in you.
RW
What Genesis 50:20 & Philippians 2:1-18 & Gal 2:20 have in common?
By J.P.
"But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good ----in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." - (Gen 50:20)
I am absolutely blown away when I consider the life of Joseph! When I think of all that he had to go through and endure - not really ever understanding why, (during those great moments of trials, tribulations, persecutions, and false accusations & hostilities against himself) why he had to go & grow through so much pain and heartache. Until alas! he finally sees the fulfilment of the dreams given him from above finally fulfilled over the years of pain.
God had shown Joseph as a young boy just a glimpse of what He was going to bring to pass through the life of Joseph effecting and affecting ..."to save many people alive." However when he was given the dream, he did not understand it & in fact misinterpreted it to some degree because a hint of some pride welled up on his part in how he relayed the dream to his family.
Joseph lost his life as he knew it to be from that point forward - stripped & ripped of his cloak of many colors & thrown into a pit for dead & then to be sold into slavery - so much for the family and the world bowing down to him (Joseph the dreamer)!
I am struck with the thought of reputation here. How humbling it must have been for him to lose his way of life to even have your very own brothers tear your very life from you even your reputation of being beloved of the father (think of any reputation you may hold - secular or in Christendom. What if it were torn from you today? Perhaps your "supposed" reputation has already been ripped torn and killed - how do you feel?)! How utterly helpless & worthless Joseph must have felt - but also, if you remember the account, how he made the best of each situation, he didn't just lie down and die - he lived! (If you need to be encouraged today, then read Hebrews 11 & 12, 1 Pet 1-5)
Can you live through your most humbling of circumstances right now? Can you press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus, even if your reputation be at stake?! Are you able to look at the things that you once considered gain to you and count them as loss for Christ?! perhaps even counting them all as dung in exchange for knowing the fullness of the one who has loved you with an everlasting love - the one who has made Himself of no reputation, so that you and I might gain Him and heaven!? Are you and I willing lose what we have for all of our lives striven to gain: our reputation and self worth? If not, then we have not begun to know Jesus Christ and Him crucified for us personally & experientially! We have only known Him in our heads, but have not touched the hem of His garment, nor sat and ate with Him at His table of communion - but have chosen to watch him from the side of the road or peering at Him through the fence of religion!
Will you and I, if asked by God, be willing like Ezekiel to lie on our side for 390 days straight and turn over on the other for another 40 days - in front of your family, friends, peers and strangers to send a message for the Lord to His people?!
Think of all of the saints of old and all the saints of today who have lost everything - even under wicked and evil circumstances - yet in the process have gained Christ and have been used of God to save many people alive!
May we all be so foolish to follow the Lord to this extreme! Only the Lord can take something so ridiculous, some things that may even have the appearance of evil, and turn it out for His glory and good and for the good of the world!
Think about it - what good can come from premeditated torture and murder of the Son of God? The resurrection of Himself and a full train of His children restored to Himself (children that were justly condemned to hell!)
Oh that we would be of no reputation today - not even a hint of religion but may the stamp of being a bond servant of Christ be on our heads today - so that the scripture would be true of each and everyone of us this day as we humbly declare:
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me (kjv).
As we let go of our lives and live by the will of God, we too will find that we won't be far from finding out what Joseph found out -
"But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good ----in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." - (Gen 50:20) And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose... (Ro 8:28 & read through 39)
Of course we look at Jesus who made Himself of no reputation to the highest degree and was exalted to the highest degree as well - making salvation available to all! Awesome. And we are to pick up our cross and follow Him!
Lord, I / we are not asking for trouble - however, we are asking that the only reputation that we would hold is the reputation of being nothing before You! & You being glorified through us as vessels fitted for Your service and purpose! Strengthen us in these days that remain ahead to exhibit the faith of & in Your Son our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ and be found pleasing to you! Should we be found wearing sheepskins and goatskins and wandering about living in dens and caves - perhaps find ourselves on the blocks of men being sold, tortured and killed for thy great name - let us not shrink back during the day but allow us to gaze into thy holy face and live! May we too be able to say Father forgive them for they know not what they do - & into thy hands I commit my spirit...may we trust You beyond this degree into your most precious presence! In your name Jesus I/we ask these things to Your glory! Amen! and Amen!
Help us Lord - Help us and teach us to trust you (at all times)!
AMEN.
May GOD change your heart and renew a right Spirit in you.
RW
What Genesis 50:20 & Philippians 2:1-18 & Gal 2:20 have in common?
By J.P.
"But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good ----in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." - (Gen 50:20)
I am absolutely blown away when I consider the life of Joseph! When I think of all that he had to go through and endure - not really ever understanding why, (during those great moments of trials, tribulations, persecutions, and false accusations & hostilities against himself) why he had to go & grow through so much pain and heartache. Until alas! he finally sees the fulfilment of the dreams given him from above finally fulfilled over the years of pain.
God had shown Joseph as a young boy just a glimpse of what He was going to bring to pass through the life of Joseph effecting and affecting ..."to save many people alive." However when he was given the dream, he did not understand it & in fact misinterpreted it to some degree because a hint of some pride welled up on his part in how he relayed the dream to his family.
Joseph lost his life as he knew it to be from that point forward - stripped & ripped of his cloak of many colors & thrown into a pit for dead & then to be sold into slavery - so much for the family and the world bowing down to him (Joseph the dreamer)!
I am struck with the thought of reputation here. How humbling it must have been for him to lose his way of life to even have your very own brothers tear your very life from you even your reputation of being beloved of the father (think of any reputation you may hold - secular or in Christendom. What if it were torn from you today? Perhaps your "supposed" reputation has already been ripped torn and killed - how do you feel?)! How utterly helpless & worthless Joseph must have felt - but also, if you remember the account, how he made the best of each situation, he didn't just lie down and die - he lived! (If you need to be encouraged today, then read Hebrews 11 & 12, 1 Pet 1-5)
Can you live through your most humbling of circumstances right now? Can you press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus, even if your reputation be at stake?! Are you able to look at the things that you once considered gain to you and count them as loss for Christ?! perhaps even counting them all as dung in exchange for knowing the fullness of the one who has loved you with an everlasting love - the one who has made Himself of no reputation, so that you and I might gain Him and heaven!? Are you and I willing lose what we have for all of our lives striven to gain: our reputation and self worth? If not, then we have not begun to know Jesus Christ and Him crucified for us personally & experientially! We have only known Him in our heads, but have not touched the hem of His garment, nor sat and ate with Him at His table of communion - but have chosen to watch him from the side of the road or peering at Him through the fence of religion!
Will you and I, if asked by God, be willing like Ezekiel to lie on our side for 390 days straight and turn over on the other for another 40 days - in front of your family, friends, peers and strangers to send a message for the Lord to His people?!
Think of all of the saints of old and all the saints of today who have lost everything - even under wicked and evil circumstances - yet in the process have gained Christ and have been used of God to save many people alive!
May we all be so foolish to follow the Lord to this extreme! Only the Lord can take something so ridiculous, some things that may even have the appearance of evil, and turn it out for His glory and good and for the good of the world!
Think about it - what good can come from premeditated torture and murder of the Son of God? The resurrection of Himself and a full train of His children restored to Himself (children that were justly condemned to hell!)
Oh that we would be of no reputation today - not even a hint of religion but may the stamp of being a bond servant of Christ be on our heads today - so that the scripture would be true of each and everyone of us this day as we humbly declare:
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me, and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and delivered Himself up for me (kjv).
As we let go of our lives and live by the will of God, we too will find that we won't be far from finding out what Joseph found out -
"But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good ----in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive." - (Gen 50:20) And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose... (Ro 8:28 & read through 39)
Of course we look at Jesus who made Himself of no reputation to the highest degree and was exalted to the highest degree as well - making salvation available to all! Awesome. And we are to pick up our cross and follow Him!
Lord, I / we are not asking for trouble - however, we are asking that the only reputation that we would hold is the reputation of being nothing before You! & You being glorified through us as vessels fitted for Your service and purpose! Strengthen us in these days that remain ahead to exhibit the faith of & in Your Son our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ and be found pleasing to you! Should we be found wearing sheepskins and goatskins and wandering about living in dens and caves - perhaps find ourselves on the blocks of men being sold, tortured and killed for thy great name - let us not shrink back during the day but allow us to gaze into thy holy face and live! May we too be able to say Father forgive them for they know not what they do - & into thy hands I commit my spirit...may we trust You beyond this degree into your most precious presence! In your name Jesus I/we ask these things to Your glory! Amen! and Amen!
Help us Lord - Help us and teach us to trust you (at all times)!
AMEN.
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