Dec. 10, 2014
MY FRIENDS, DO OUR VALUE SYSTEM AS A COUNTRY, RUN CONTRARY TO GOD’S?
July 4, 1776 the Declaration of Independence “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.”
My friends when you read the details in The Senate Committee’s Report on the C.I.A.’s Use of Torture, you begin to ask yourself what really is the foundation of our country’s existence and what was the Declaration of Independence all about and was God ever a relevant factor on what direction this country based its mission statement on?
The president told the country “We took some steps that were contrary to who we are, and our values,” My friends People were paid 80 million dollars to torture other individuals, how many people could have been feed with that same amount of money.
Senator Feinstein report says “Aspects of the detention and interrogation of al Qaeda suspects, included: detainee’s becoming unconscious during the simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding, which would sometimes lead to convulsions and vomiting.
A detainee dying from exposure to extreme cold shackled to the floor in what government observers later described as a dungeon; 
detainees’ injuries being allowed to deteriorate as part of interrogation; and psychological effects from interrogation including hallucinations, paranoia, self-harm and self-mutilation.
You have, Forced Rectal Feeding and Worse which is rectal hydration which at times would be used as a form of behavior control. Standing on Broken Legs. Sometimes a detainee who had been held partially nude and chained to the floor died, apparently from hypothermia. My friends, these are methods used on detainee’s, from a country where a black man is expected to be treated with equality.
How far does lawlessness have to abound, and the coldness of man’s heart have to get too, before we recognize that we need to 
focus all of our attention on preparing ourselves and others on Christ second coming and our residing in our new home above.
Because in this world, where the god of this world reigns for the moment “we do not have an enduring city [or a real place we can call home, but we must have a heartfelt passion to look for that city that is to come. That we can call home]” Hebrews 13:14 (NKJV Paraphrased)
And once we have done this our next responsibility is to tell the world that has lost sight of the saving grace of Christ that this is not there Home, equality for all will never happen in Satan’s domain. But we are equal only in the sight of God.
For “There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for [we] are all one in Christ Jesus. Paul also says “our citizenship is in heaven” So as Christians our minds must stay focus on things not of this world, as we look towards the future and what our God has prepared for the redeemed.
Christ words in
John 14:1-4 (KJV) tells us “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in me, In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you……that where I am, there you may be also…..”
That place my friends, where Christ went to prepare for His faithful Children, that is where our permanent home is, but only if we believe and endure. For today we are just passing through. Though we travel as temporary residents, our mandate as Christians is to tell others also, of the good news of a new home, with the remaining time we have left here on this earth.
My friends this is the season where we focus on the birth of Christ, which is a great thing, but I suggest today, along with our focus on the birth of Christ that we center our concentration, not on scandal, the voice, walking dead, The Big Bang Theory or DWTS, or anything else that will keep our attention on this world and not centered on the presence of Christ and his soon return.
In addition, we begin to tell the world, “we can now count the months as day’s” when we will be with our Savior throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity.
So my friends today. Stay focused, remain faithful, love one another and endure till the end and never forget to STUDY&PRAY
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