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The State of the Union |Letters To My Kids Series PT II~Voting 2020

GETTING READY TO Vote? Let’s Change the country from within too!

Faith is the foundation #1

Kids,

As you have seen, the country is in trouble. It’s not dead yet, but you must be the generation to change things. 

The first thing you must change is the way this society views faith in God. You notice I did not say religion? There’s a reason for this. 

—You see religion, is an external and outward sign that you acknowledge God. 

—But then, religion is something you do on your own. 

—Religion tells God that you are doing your best to get right with Him.

—Religion is going through the motions of earning your way into being rewarded. Or doing community service in order to get into heaven.

—Religion is what people see that you do outwardly. 

—Religion is doing things your own way!

Proverbs 29:2

—Faith, on the other hand, is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see ( Hebrews 11:1 ). 

—Faith is a personal relationship with God through Jesus, our LORD and Savior which must be professed and lived ( Matthew 10:32; Acts 16:31; Romans 10:9-11). 

—Faith can’t be worked for ( Galatians 2:16; Philippians 3:9; Ephesians 2:8-9 ) but freely given by the work of Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross (Read all of Isaiah 53, Isaiah 53:11; Matthew 20:28; Romans 3:24; Ephesians 1:7 ). 

—Faith is shared by teaching others about God’s love and loving others ( Matthew 28:19; John 13:34; John 15:12; John 15:17; Acts 1:8; Acts 2:38; Acts 14:21 ).

—Faith knows that whatever is going on in this world, God has it covered and planned for His goodwill ( Proverbs 3:5-6; Matthew 6:25-34; Philippians 4:6 ), so we are not to worry what’s going on, God will take care of it.

—Faith is letting go of things, and acknowledging Jesus is the Way, Truth, and Life. We become second and do things His way because the world is perilous, Jesus leads us through the narrow paths to safety ( Isaiah 35:8; Proverbs 16:25; Matthew 7:14; Luke 13:24; John 14:6 ).

Kids, you must point others to Jesus! Teach them about His love. Teach them to lead others to Him! Show them the way!

Not by being super perfect, but by showing them God’s love, grace, and mercy. No one is perfect, everyone needs Jesus. No one can try to be perfect, they will all fail, that’s religion.
But everyone can call out to God to save them, that’s God’s gift through His Son Jesus, that is salvation…and everyone who has faith in God’s Son can be saved…that is faith!

The State of this Union must be brought back to unity!
Go out there and change this country one person at a time…no matter who is in charge, God will always reign!

If you don’t know how to have faith, please click the links below to find out. Then go and change your community, your county, your state, your country and the world!:

How Can I know God

Steps to Peace With God

Know God

Paz Con Dios

Pasos para la Salvación PDF

INFORMATION OF VOTING:

Act for America

ACT! for America Education

Family Research Council (FRC)

Wallbuilders

California Online Voter Registration

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The Only Action to Take |Gift of Salvation

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Some people say, “When you do an act of kindness, it’s good Karma!” If someone does something horrible, then you hear, “Wait until his Karma catches up to him!”
We’ve all heard of people saying there’s Karma in every action we take. The definition of this Buddhist and Hindu belief is that a person’s actions in this life or previous existence is a deciding factor in where a person will end up in the next life.

  • Although I don’t agree on the belief of a previous life or recycling into the next, I do believe that a person’s action will, in fact, be the deciding factor of where they spend eternity. You notice I said action and not actions?

The Word of God makes it indisputable in Hebrews chapter 29 verse 27 that it is appointed for a person to die once and then God’s judgment will be passed.

  • Here’s where the total opposite belief of what Karma is, comes in:

As human beings, we can never obtain a perfect balance for our next life on our own. We are never going to be good enough to achieve perfection. Only God, the Creator of the universe is perfect.
He is the only One that can judge us by His standards. And through the eternal measures of the heavens, we always fall short.
Here is where we have the chance to make destiny ours. We can, in fact, receive perfection. But here’s the catch, it’s not by our own actions.
It is by the time action that Jesus the Savior of the world, who is also the Son of God in the Trinity. He came and lived a perfect life. We can’t fathom this because we can’t live this kind of perfect life.
Some like the Buddha, Francis of Assisi, and Mother Theresa of Calcutta,  tried their best to lead good lives. Notice I said good and not perfect?
They through their own actions could never be good enough for their efforts to cancel out their sins.
All people have sinned and are in need of saving grace that is only given through Jesus. All people including Buddha, Mother Theresa, and all the other “beatified” human beings who have passed from this life into the next have died and were buried. None came back to life, except One.
People’s actions will not be good enough for them to enter into God’s heavenly Kingdom on their own accord. Before you tell me that this is extremely harsh to say, I am not the one saying it. The Word of God is clear on this. I wish I could say otherwise but then I would be making myself God and trust me, I am and will always fall short on that measure.
Instead of getting angry or depressed because you realized that you can’t make it into heaven on your own, why not ask the One that can help you. He is the only One that has died, been buried and risen from the dead. His name is Jesus the One they called the Carpenter, The Nazarene, The Way, the Truth, and The Life.

  • Ro 8_38_392018-10-22 at 5.05.06 PM.pngGet to know Him, I promise you will not regret it.
    Below are reference links to most of what I mentioned here. Do your own homework and make the right decision.
  • Once you make a decision to follow Jesus, he will never leave you! Nothing will be able to separate you from His love.
  • Don’t leave it up to your very own “Karma” to find out too late…

 

 

 

 

References:

No human being is righteous in God’s eyes:  

https://biblehub.com/romans/3-10.htm

https://biblehub.com/romans/3-23.htm

Jesus is sinless:

https://biblehub.com/isaiah/53-9.htm
https://biblehub.com/1_peter/2-22.htm
https://biblehub.com/2_corinthians/5-21.htm
https://biblehub.com/1_john/3-5.htm

Christ came to save us:

https://biblehub.com/romans/8-38.htm

He is the Only One that can save us:

https://biblehub.com/john/14-7.htm

Ask Him to be your Savior:

https://biblehub.com/romans/10-9.htm

Welcome to the Family of God:

https://biblehub.com/hebrews/10-22.htm

Got more questions?:

Steps to Peace With God

How Can I know God

Know God

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He is not here!

God sent His son, they called Him, Jesus; 

He came to love, heal and forgive;
He lived and died to buy my pardon,
An empty grave is there to prove my Savior lives!

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Because He lives, I can face tomorrow,
Because He lives, all fear is gone,
Because I know He holds the future,
And life is worth the living,
Just because He lives!…

Because He lives by Bill Gaither

…5 But the angel said to the women, “Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. 6 He is not here; He has risen, just as He said! Come, see the place where He lay. 7 Then go quickly and tell His disciples, ‘He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see Him.’ See, I have told you.”…Matthew 28 verse 6

This was the first morning since coming to Christ that my wife and I were unable to make sunrise service. Mary hurt her lower back about a week ago, and it has been a slow process. She would not have been able to sit for very long and to stand up for too long would have been excruciating. We made it through many battles with the kids’ infancy and teen years being there but a reoccurring herniated disk problem won the battle this year. Both of us were left empty, which brings me to my belief:
— You see, my belief is that since the beginning of time, we have been made to worship God. We come out of our mother’s wombs crying and screaming. I believe this is because we have been taken away from the only genuine heavenly love we will know. When we are taken away from God’s presence in the womb, we are left empty, just like the tomb.

— From the minute we breath for the first time to our last dying breath, we are searching for something. We search for him in school, and sports but He is not there. We search for Him in our relationships with others but He is not there either. We search for Him at large stadiums, wanting to scream to the ends of the earth and yet, He is not there.

–The only way we are fulfilled is by knowing Jesus the Messiah or Christ of the world. When Mary Magdalene went to the tomb, she was searching for the One True Person who had fulfilled her desires. No, not the earthly ones but the spiritual one. The only desire that counts.

— Today, if you have been searching and yet not finding , I would encourage you to go to the empty tomb. The tomb is where you will find the reason why billions wake up and run to praise Him for what He, Jesus, did on the cross and what He, did to come back to life so that death’s sting would not bite those that put their belief in Jesus.

— The tomb is empty, if your heart is empty, that is your spirit screaming to run and search for Jesus. You don’t need to look any further. He is alive and is waiting for you to ask Him to help you commit to a spiritual life with Him. Your spirit will thank you for it. It will finally find rest…

References:

Psalm 22:9 & 10, Matthew 11:28, Matthew 28 verse 6, Mark 16:6, Luke 24:6

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Jesus our Passion

This week most of the Christian world will celebrate Passion Week. To those that may not know what this is, it is the culmination of Jesus the Jewish Carpenter who started His ministry at 33 years of age.
Why did I call him the Jewish Carpenter? BThe Crossecause that is what most of the world knows him by.

You see unless you have intimate knowledge of who Jesus is, you will only know Him as a Jewish Carpenter, who was also a great Rabbinical teacher.

To me, He is much more than this. He is the Creator of the universe. He is the Savior of humanity. He is the One, who took the sins of the world. Through the sacrifice of His life on the cross, He once and for all, brought the spiritual balance of the universe back to where it once was.

Yes, the world is not perfect. Yes, it has gotten worse these last few years. Yes, the world could blow up into a third world war. There is violence on television in almost every news station. There are regional conflicts everywhere. Even in this country, we are divided.
But you see, my confidence in my faith tells me, that no matter what happens here on earth, there is a God’s spiritual world that supersedes it.

That spiritual world is still in chaos but what Jesus did by dying on the cross, was that He, from the day He died, brought back a balance that we are not able to see just yet. The balance was restoring mankind back into oneness in a personal relationship with the Creator of this world.
When Jesus of Nazareth died on the cross, He died for all men and women. He was telling us that He took the punishment that we all deserved and placed it on Himself. He took the brunt of the punishment in order for us to be back on His Father’s grace. The grace that now, is given freely to anyone that will ask for it.
You see, we could be good and try to do our best in our personal lives, but we would still fail God eventually.
Jesus came so that there would not be any question about getting back to God’s grace through His only Son.
We don’t deserve this grace but as this week is all about, Jesus died on the cross almost two thousand years ago so that our spiritual balance would be bought and paid for by Him.

If you are reading this today and are questioning how to get this free grace, all you have to do is ask God.
1. Tell God that you fall short sometimes and do things that are contrary to His ways.
2. Ask Him to take complete control of your life and that you welcome Him to guide your every step.
3. Ask Him to forgive you of all the wrongs that you have done throughout your life.
4. Thank Jesus for taking your sins away on that cross.
5. Stop all the things that you have done wrong in your life.
6. Find a church whose pastor teaches the Bible completely through, from the first book in the Bible which is Genesis to the last book which is Revelation.

I invite you to do this. You will find that Jesus is a great Forgiver. You will find that He is a graceful, loving God that will guide you through this tough journey we call life. You will also find a peace that you will not understand even when you are going through tough times…

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