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By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life. 

Pro. 22:4

I'm just wondering, are you one of those people who think that those who are rich or have more than they need should have it taken away? There are many today on the left that are bent on redistributing wealth and forcing people to do things with their money that they do not want to do and who think awful thoughts toward people who have substance. There are many that harass those who have an abundance all the while acting like they care for the poor and just want equality. They are not to be trusted.

If you read the scriptures you will find more references than you can read in a week concerning riches and the responsibilities that go along with possessing more than necessary. But the mandate is internal and up to each individual what to do about the dilemma of having too much. Of course good advise is to share it, but God has much more interest in how one accumulated their wealth and the hold it has on them than how much wealth they have. It is the love and self-aggrandizement and poor choices that people make that interest God, but God speaks clearly that having wealth or accumulating wealth through a right means is a good thing and to be practiced.

I don't like people who try to take things away from other people. It is a kind of thievery. Wanting what someone else has is a loathsome occupation. And trying to enact laws that take wealth from one person and give it to another is not a godly thing. You can fault the rich if you like, but what I have found in my study/journey is that most wealthy people are far more generous than the non-wealthy, and I don't mean in dollars, I mean is how much of what they have that they give to others in need freely, without being coerced, without being heckled or forced by some law.

It never was man's/woman's responsibility to rob from the rich and give to the poor. That is God's territory. Those who abuse God's territory and try to be a god among themselves have very little insight into the heart of God. But they do it because of peer pressure and to make people think more highly of them than they should. After all it doesn't take much class to take something away from someone else and give it to another someone else at no expense to yourself. I know I don't want that kind of person governing my country.

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The Battle of words has become the new mantra for the irreligious, non-religious, non-spiritual individual.

Those, like myself, that have a strong foundation of learned and experienced Christian principles have developed a set of morays conducive to the basic foundational beliefs of Christian life, faith and behavior. These beliefs have become internalized and have become part of our wholeness, our self. Our way of life fits inside of broad, but balanced parameters that have been built faith upon faith, lesson by lesson, action upon action and we know what we believe and we can explain why.

This doesn't set well with the worldly, because having a lack of any absolutes at all, is the new mantra for the naysaying, church bashings, not God-fearing individual. Here is the new mantra that they live by:

• If you don't believe that men should have sex together or women with women then you are a homophobe. 
• If you don't believe that illegal aliens, that cross into our country illegally have the same rights as American citizens then you are a racists.    
• If you don't agree with Global warming then you are ignorant and should have your right to vote taken away from you.
• If you don't believe that the earth is millions or billions of years old then you are ignorant and don't trust science. 
• If you don't agree that abortion is a woman's right to choose then you hate women and want them to die on the operating table.
• If you don't believe all the lies we make up about people then you are ignorant and your name and address should be published so that more people like us can come and threaten you and say terrible things about you.
• If you  don't blame guns and try to make the case that it is warped minds that use guns to commit crimes then you are responsible for all the crimes yourself.

It goes on and on with those bent on forcing their way on to others; they use false word attacks, make things up, lie, foment others to cause havoc and unrest, create false documents, hide valuable and pertinent information that might help someone, steal identities, thwart or oppose Christians, at any cost and all the time.

I'm sure you've noticed that this group wholeheartedly supports all other religious philosophies with open arms and instant approval. The bottom line is that they oppose Christian belief and will say, do, make up, create, falsify, cheat, steal, crush, terrorize and attempt to destroy those individuals who have aligned themselves with The Judao/Christian belief. There mantra is "Everything and everyone is approved, except Christians. 

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Are you a dabbler? Do you dabble with God?

I have found (through life experience and investigation) that not many people have any real interest in getting to know God better than they already do. We can thank the Church for that. The formula for organized Church to stay in 'business' quite often does not include igniting the fire of inner-man desire to seek and find more and more about God.

I would say that the modern Church teaches the same thing over and over again expecting different results. There is a sort of domination over the parishioners  from the pastorate/priesthood/rabbinical priesthood. Servant leaders are hard to find, but they are the truly loyal and under their teaching/guidance you will learn new things and find new ways to learn new things.

It is not difficult to ascertain the degree of token understanding that the modern person has concerning Christ when you look at what means most to organized Churches go through to sustain themselves. I know you don't want to hear it, neither do I, but today, men, women and children are mostly just barely trying to hang on to some tenuous belief system by a tattered tether. Week after week they go through motions of religiosity without the inner-man driving them. They have become wanderers inside the Church, not even looking for answers anymore, satisfied to be told that they are doing the right thing; hanging on by a thread to a concept of God and not God Himself.

There is no satisfaction under this premise, no forward movement, no advancing the Kingdom of God, no progress, no unction, and little light, if any being shown. The will to stand up and be recognized as a person who loves God and a person who is willing to go as directed has been replaced by organized programs designed to keep everyone in  a straight line. It doesn't matter if the real work doesn't get done as long as everyone involved feels good about it and they keep in a straight line. Because of leadership impotency it is easier to neuter the flock than to feed them.

If that is your current experience, get out or get in and change it. You are a child of God and have within you all that is necessary to complete the tasks that you can clearly see are being overlooked or ignored altogether. Drive yourself deeper into the Word of God and quit riding in the backseat. If you don't believe you have it in you or that you just aren't competent enough to do this or that it is not because God didn't give you the necessary tools, it is that you have decided not to use those tools.

Yes we are part of the Church, but first you are a child of God designed as an individual with a direct line to God through the inner man. Man/Woman up.

Joh_16:13  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 

Eph_3:16  That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; 

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Why would you want to know God better?

• Isn't it true that the closer you get to God the more God expects from you?
• Isn't it true that the as you become more spiritual in your life you have less worldly options?
• Isn't it true that the more Bible you know the more guilty you feel about being imperfect and sometimes disobedient?
• Isn't it true that if you go to Church many people puts on airs and most people are superficial, and you feel uncomfortable acting like something you are not?
• Isn't it true that the pressure put on you to do your duty and tithe and teach and do mission work and to be a part of this program and that program feels cumbersome?
• Isn't it true that if you acknowledge that you are a Christian you are demeaned and sometimes left out because many people today look down on Christians as being lemmings, ignorant, not too smart, etc?
• Isn't it true that Christianity is one of the lesser religions today and to really be with it, you need to dabble or try other religious philosophies, systems? 

First of all, Getting To Know God Better is not about religion. It is about personal spiritual relationship with the creator. Christianity, as in, Christ centered beliefs, is the impetus to getting to know God better because Christ/Jesus is the Son of God and very God. But if you are thinking that you have to be a Baptist to know God you are mistaken. Sometimes a person comes to a real awareness of the presence of God prior to coming to a religious relationship with God through an organized Church.  The inner man desire is so strong that a person might reach out to a Church to find out more or to find fellowship among like minded individuals, but they found God through the leading of the Holy Spirit/Inspiration.

Don't think for a minute that God, the Holy Spirit is not reaching out to every human, born and unborn. Don't think that God isn't as concerned as you about the salvation of souls. Also don't get the idea that without our help, God can't get the job done. Mission work and spreading the gospel is a voluntary effort on part of those who have found a love for Jesus. It was never a mandatory, duty bound, punish you if you don't act right or say the right things, kind of works. Telling others is a faith work, brought on by an inner unction to share with others what you have found out for yourself.

Structured Christian Churches are all a good thing, but not to be confused with the necessity of personal relationship with Jesus. I can tell you from much experience that many people know their pastor and friends much better than they know Jesus. It's not because God has not made a concerted effort to be a part of their life. It is that people have made a concerted effort to keep God out of part of their life. I call it selective spiritual experience; select the parts that you really like and deny the parts that don't meet your personal bents/whims/indiscretions.

Isn't it true that you have chosen to keep a distance from yourself and God? 

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Are you having difficulty talking with someone of another political bent? Hey, I thought politics was off limits for pastors? Really?

I want to talk about this a little because this issue greatly affects our effectiveness as Christians in a non-Christian society. I say Non-Christian and with regret. I don't mind so much if someone spouts off about their grossly irresponsible political position if they truly believe in what they are saying. But have you noticed that on the left, politicians and their lemmings are spouting off about issues that they have little or no understanding of and taking sides with those who believe in opposition to basic Christian principles.

Here's where I hear the yelling, "my political views have nothing to do with my religious affiliation."  Wow, you have a deep belief in God through Christ and your political ambitions/bents/beliefs/positions have nothing to do with your faith. What kind of faith is that? It certainly is not Christianity. Of course your personal faith is integrated into your political beliefs. Of course your decision are made from the internal leadings of the Holy Spirit in your life and may or may not be contrary to your political parties stand on certain issues.

Christians are saved from the necessity to follow after pitiful, unreliable, unsubstantiated and outright ridiculous Societal notions. Christians are empowered to stand firm in their core beliefs and defend them with integrity and understanding. Christians are empowered, not emaculated, able to discern the false from the truth with knowledge and understanding, separating fake science gimmicks from real scientific fact. Christians can overcome the ignorance of their political party. They can bring to the table sound doctrine, sound advise, sensible actions and make hard and reasonable decisions.

To the group of humanist, atheist, agnostics:

• You do not have the upper hand. You just say you do. 
• You do not possess superior scientific understanding. You just say you do. 
• You do not have a better handle on the needs for the masses. You just say you do. 
• You do not handle racial differences better than others. You just say you do.
• You do not have the best interest of all Americans at heart. You just say you do.
• You do not know more than everyone else. You just say you do. 
• You do not strive to empower everyone equally. Oh that's right you don't even want to do that, you are more than satisfied with exploiting ethnic diversity and racial tensions. Even more so you purposely encourage separitism while waving the flag of equality.
• You blame the sons for the father's sins. Oh that's right, there is no sin, so why do you want the sons paying for the father's insensitivities/ignorance.  Two faced at best.
• You think you are better than Christians because you don't fall prey to the ridiculous notion of God having something to do with our lives. But you are not better or smarter or more informed. You just think you are.

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Politics and personal faith. I hear it all the time that you shouldn't let your political bent be influenced by your personal faith or religious affiliation. Really? Only someone that does not have any personal faith could even entertain this kind of thinking. Of course your personal faith does and will have an impact on your political view/bent/decisions.

The socialists and the humanists, the agnostics and the faction-oriented religious sects make strong statements about how religion and politics should be kept separate, although in their case it doesn't have to be that way. What they mean is, if you believe in Jesus as Lord and Saviour, you shouldn't let that affect the way you do things or the decisions you make, but if you believe anything else it is OK to let it affect your decisions and influence the way you think.

The anti Christ movement is not subtle anymore. They now have cable, entire journalistic circles, networks and even nationalized platforms to spew their slow-working poison; 'to keep people with faith from having any say or influence on the political system.'

What is so ironic about this whole thing, at least in our country, is that Christians have been open to people of any faith being part of our political system. We have opened our mind and hearts to people of all faiths, even agnostics and atheists. Every person despite their religious proclivity has the right to vote and hold office. We trust that every individual understands the importance of civil law and that every person seeking office is desiring to seek public office to better their community and mankind as a whole. So you've got to wonder, why the battle against Christians having the same rights as non-Christians when it comes to politics.

If you are thinking that Christians have the same right to speak their mind as non-Christians you are mistaken. The stage has been set to trap all Christian minded political minds to agree to leave their religious beliefs at the door, when entering in the political arena. Of course we can rebel and do and say what we want anyway, but don't expect a fair assessment from the press. Immediately we are branded as; homophobic, racists, intolerant, deplorable, all with a smile and all under the guise as just reporting the news.

No, Christians have to either hide the fact concerning their faith or be ostracized as 'out of the mainstream,'  or bend and yield to the demands of the politically correct. Politically correct is the new mantra for the anti-religious, socialist.