SODOMY FOR CHRISTIANS?

Many people will jump on you if you criticize homosexuality.  They will call you intolerant, narrow, and what not.  That is to be expected, but a whole lot of Christians are doing the same thing!  It is stunning.   I have long thought that part of the problem is that many heterosexual Christians are engaging in Sodomy themselves and feel hypocritical criticizing those of the same sex who do the same acts.   What stunned me was that Christian counselors dealing with marriage have largely endorsed Sodomy for consenting marriage partners.  While they always say you should not force your way on someone who is uncomfortable with it, they make clear that you should not be uncomfortable with it.
Well, I am!  I have not engaged in Sodomy and have no plans to do so!

This article from the La Vista Church of Christ was refreshing to me as it was direct, Biblical, and witnessed to my Spirit.  Tell me what you think!

http://lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2004/2004-09-23a.htm

Copyright © 2003, 2013 La Vista Church of Christ

Question:

Is anal and oral sex between a married couple a sin? And is my desire for it also a sin? Should I be angry at my wife's unwillingness to participate in anal or oral sex?

Answer:

In describing the decay of the Gentile society, Paul pointed out that it began with a rejection of God and the replacement of God with man-made idols made in the likeness of physical creatures (Romans 1:18-23). Without listening to God's definition of right and wrong, substituting their own desires in its place, it is not surprising that one of the first moral restraints to go was the restriction of sex to only married couples. "Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen" (Romans 1:24-25). The problem is that after time, this becomes common place. Man gravitates toward new excitements and new sins. "For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting" (Romans 1:26-28). The logical result of rejecting God and a freedom to have sex as man sees fit is experimentation in perverted forms of sex, such as homosexuality. I don't use the word "perverted" lightly. Paul points out that sex between two women or two men is not natural. In other words, the human body was not designed for homosexual sex.

Our own society has followed the same path that lead to the decay of the Gentile society. The popular slogan in the 1950's among intellectuals was "God is dead." By the 1960's we find a strong push toward "free love." Laws forbidding living together without marriage were abandoned in the 1970's. Then in the late 1970's to the present day we saw a strong push for the acceptance of homosexuality. Those practicing homosexuality cannot engage in standard sexual intercourse since that requires both a male and female partner. So other forms of sex are substituted, such as anal or oral sex. Because of the increasing acceptance of homosexuality in the society at large, sexual practices that would never have crossed the average person's mind are now presented as legitimate alternatives.

Let us consider anal sex for the moment -- the insertion of the male penis into the rectum of another -- is it a normal act of sex? According to numerous medical sources, anal sex is particularly risky because it causes bleeding. The anus is not normally large enough to accommodate an erect penis. As a result, the skin surface tears as the penis is forced in. The lining of the rectum is not designed to be poked and prodded, and so during sex, it too is damaged and tears. It doesn't take a genius to realize that bacteria present in the rectum does not belong in a person's blood stream. This is why sexually transmitted diseases are rapidly transmitted in the homosexual community. The wounds caused by anal sex gives various diseases easy access to internal systems of the body.

In Romans 1:24 Paul said that God gave the Gentiles up to uncleanness to dishonor their bodies among themselves. The word "uncleanness" is frequently used in connection with sexual sins.

II Corinthians 12:21

lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn for many who have sinned before and have not repented of the uncleanness, fornication, and lewdness which they have practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness

Ephesians 4:19

who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Ephesians 5:3

But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints;

Ephesians 5:5

For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

I Thessalonians 4:3-7

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

Fornication refers to sexual acts outside of marriage. Covetousness or greediness in connection with sexual sins refers to improper desires for things you ought not to have, such as someone else's wife. Passion is the stimulating of sexual desires, such as pursuing pornography. Uncleanness refers to actions that should be disgusting to someone striving to live a godly life.

In the Old Testament, God spelled out several things that were to be considered unclean. For example, contact with a corpse, diseases that caused discharge or decaying of the skin, certain animals, menstrual flows, and semen were all labeled unclean. Many people have puzzled over why these particular things were selected, but basically they are things that most people would find disgusting because of their looks, smell, or with what they come in contact. It just so happens that avoiding many of these things also cuts down on the spread of diseases. God used the laws of uncleanness to illustrate how disgusting sin was. "You shall not eat any detestable thing" (Deuteronomy 14:3). It also placed a barrier between God's people and the nations around them. "You shall therefore distinguish between clean animals and unclean, between unclean birds and clean, and you shall not make yourselves abominable by beast or by bird, or by any kind of living thing that creeps on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean. And you shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am holy, and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine" (Leviticus 20:25-26). Hence, the laws of uncleanness hindered the Israelites from adopting the practices of the nations around them.

In the New Testament, the term "unclean" is borrowed and applied to sinful acts that are disgusting in nature. Those who practice these acts are not demonstrating a desire to live a holy life, but one that wallows in the filth of the world. Because of the use of the word "unclean" in Romans 1:24, most commentators are inclined to agree that homosexual acts definitely fall under the category of "unclean," though not limited to these acts alone. Other perverted forms of sex, such as sadomasochism, would also fall under "unclean."

It is curious why a husband or wife would desire a twisted form of sex when sexual intercourse is freely available to them. Why seek a sexual expression that increases risks of disease or harm? "Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice with the wife of your youth. As a loving deer and a graceful doe, let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and always be enraptured with her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19).

You asked if it was proper to be angry with your wife when she does not desire to participate in unusual sexual acts. You need to keep in mind that Paul warned, "Do you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who does not condemn himself in what he approves. But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because he does not eat from faith; for whatever is not from faith is sin" (Romans 14:22-23). Paul's was discussing food, but the principle remains the same. A man is blessed if the things he approves of does not bring him condemnation for going beyond God's commands. Yet, if a person is not certain that some action is right, for that person to continue on even though they are uncertain, then the uncertainty itself is a sin. It is improper to attempt to serve God by hoping what you are doing is right. Your service to God should be from confidence that you know that what you are doing is pleasing to God. Hence, unless your wife agrees that unusual sexual acts are fine with her, forcing her to do them anyway, despite her doubts, would be sinful.

Finally, you had asked if your desire for certain sexual acts were wrong. Jesus explained that sin starts from the desires. The actual acts are just confirmation of what the heart has already decided. "And He said, "What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man" (Mark 7:20-23). If you understand and agree that certain actions are wrong, then desiring those actions anyway is also wrong.

CAN WE LEGISLATE MORALITY?

I remember well the days where the refrain “You can’t legislate morality” was the order of the day. You can’t legislate marriage. You can’t legislate against living together. You can’t legislate against homosexuality. You can’t legislate against abortion. The mantra’s were that no teenager could possibly muster up enough self control to stay a virgin when their hormones were in overdrive (funny, I managed and mine were at warp speed); what happens in a bedroom is nobody’s business (except of course when a baby is born and it becomes the grandparents’ job to raise one or more children all over again or when a girl is thrown into depression over killing the life that once grew within her); what your sexual preference is doesn’t matter (except of course that everyone else is expected to pay for the severe physical penalties that often result from this sinful behavior).

What an about face these days – legislation is the key to everything! The push is to legislate against guns. It seems the old saw “If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns” is still true. What makes anyone think that by passing laws criminals will become righteous? Chicago has some of the strictest laws anywhere – AND one of the highest murder rates. North Korea has draconian gun laws that go far beyond what any of the most avid gun control lobbyists are advocating about 164th out of 199 nations – and North Korea's intentional homicide rate is over THREE TIMES that of the United States! 15.2 per hundred thousand vs. 4.8 per hundred thousand. Or how about Brazil?  A staggering 21 homicides per hundred thousand people - and it is almost impossible to get a carry permit there - they tax guns, they do it all.  Simply put, people will kill people - and lots of them REGARDLESS of laws against guns,  In fact, a case could be made that gun control has the opposite effect.

Guns routinely save the lives of people – a grandmother of 10 recently protected her home – and someone very close to me is still alive because he was prepared when mayhem was at the door. THe media ROUTINELY blocks out the massive number of cases people were saved by guns.  The simple fact is that some people are truly evil, and laws can do nothing to change that. In China, a man stabbed 22 elementary school children – 2 more than were killed in Newtown with a gun. Are we going to outlaw knives? Would be hard to cut your meat. Today, a bomb killed and injured people at the Boston Marathon. A corollary to the old saw might well be, “If guns are outlawed, outlaws will use knives and bombs instead”.

 The real answer of course if one that these same naïve legislators are trying to marginalize and outlaw – that is for change to come to human beings through the power of Jesus Christ. The violent, the promiscuous, and the perverted can all find peace in Christ and instead of engaging in behavior to destroy others or themselves or both, can be productive members of society. Teaching that man has been created lovingly by a personal God for a purpose would reap huge dividends over the current mantras in almost every school and university that people are random accidents and there is no meaning to life. They are being taught that a human being is a bunch of chemicals and water worth less than two dollars and the worth of a precious baby being taught in the womb by God (read Psalm 51) is worth so little they are not even worth talking about!

Instead of reaping wonderful results, we are reaping the whirlwind. Remember how the Dems said NOBODY but Timothy Geithner could put Humpty back together again? The same man who could not pay his own taxes or run his own life? Remember how Barack Obama was the most intelligent president we EVER had even though he obviously knows nothing about history, religion, economics, or basic math? We are being run into the ground by those who know very little other than clever political tricks to manipulate public opinion, which despite almost absolute control of the universities, the mainstream media, and mainstream churches, they are finding is harder than they realized. What well-informed people know is that confiscating guns IS the real agenda of the Obama administration, and there is ample paperwork leaked to prove it. They are not concerned about citizens hunting, or engaging in self-defense. The REAL issue is that they know that the grievances of people today run VERY HIGH, and the assault of freedom by these people dwarfs the oppression of the British that led to the first American Revolution. They are afraid that when the people have finally had enough, they will seek to do what was authorized in the Declaration of Independence and have a new American Revolution. Leftist governments gain control when they emasculate the population, both by taking away their weapons and by feminizing their values, and then have a brutal military to enforce their ways on people against their will.  MOre and more people will wake up and smell the coffee, but by then it will be too late. Did you know that 78% of Iranians were pro-American?   When they sought to show their feelings in the streets, Mr. Obama did NOTHING.  That shows you what he REALLY thins about freedom.  He hates it. He despises it.  It gets in his way.

It is no accident that many of our finest are deserting the military, from privates to generals. In their place are homosexual activists and people who have no hesitation on killing fellow Americans when told to do so. This is the nightmare scenario being worked on RIGHT NOW. Mr. Obama is functionally a Communist and old-school as opposed to neo-Marxist at that. He was raised, trained, and placed in power to destroy this nation. Every peaceful means to oppose him and impeach him must be taken. I have talked to people from the former Soviet block. As Yogi Berra liked to say, ‘it is deja vue all over again.” They cannot believe how stupid the American people are – they lived through this nightmare and it is so transparent. The bad guys are so confident that their m.o. will work they scarcely hide it. Keep feeding people D.W.T.S. and trash every intelligent person that opposes them, keep the media as personal campaign affiliates, keep giving money and favors to those who will worship their every move, and change everything as soon as possible and change the rules to make it hard to undo anything when the people DO wake up which they inevitably do. Appoint absurd justices who are not about justice but simply advancing a godless, leftwing agenda. Get their opponents fighting each other and intimidating the “reasonable” to compromise while giving nothing in return.

 You see, you cannot legislate morality. But woe to those to legislate immorality. Where do YOU stand?

GOOD AND EVIL

Some people like to make things more complicated than they are.  When it comes to good and evil it is usually pretty simple. If it is from God or consistent with what God has said, it is good.  If it is against God or consistent with the modus operandus of Satan, it is evil.  Pretty simple, huh? If you doubt anything, take a long, hard look at your Bible. Let the politics fall where they may.

God is against killing innocent life or harming the helpless. In fact, God even teaches wisdom to those in the womb and expects faithfulness from them (Psalm 51:6)

Satan targets innocent life, especially the helpless, even in the womb because he knows God is already at work in the child. If he misses there, he will relentlessly pursue the child and seek to debase and kill them all.

God is against prejudice and dismissive behavior to the alien and the foreigner.

Satan wants to discourage the alien and the foreigner and make him the object of derisive behavior

God is for just laws that are applied evenly.

Satan wants unjust laws with unjust enforcers who will enforce them unevenly to further his own agenda and his own kingdom.

God is against partiality and an uneven balance.

Satan divides people endlessly over every possible issues and has them at each other’s throats so they can destroy each other even before he gets around to it.

God is for giving special help for the poor.

Satan is for making the poor poorer and grinding their faces in the dirt.

God is against giving special treatment to the rich who are the ones who sue poor to average people and drag them into court.

Satan is for enriching the most debased human beings – those with poor character, those who practice and teach immorality, those who corrupt the culture, and those who profane and blaspheme God.

God wants his people to live soberly and modestly in this world.

Satan wants Christians to mimic the world’s values in every possible way and teach that the world’s values are really God’s values (2 for 2 there!)

God wants leaders in the church chosen because of spiritual maturity, a moral life, a stable household, and freedom from the love of money or the things of the world.

Satan wants church leaders to be untested novices whom he can easily puff up, divorced or in bad marriages with rebellious out of control kids, and who love money intensely so they can better teach his prosperity gospel.

God is for the owner to be able to set the rules for his own business.

Satan is for making business and enterprise as difficult and full of thorns as possible and having unrighteous servants kill management and eventually the Owner’s own Son.

God is for able-bodied people having to work in order to eat.

Satan is for able-bodied people not working but creating mischief and engaging in criminal activity.

God is for having his people armed to deal with the evil in the world and to stand.

Satan is for having Christians defenseless and tortured and/or killed as soon as possible.

God is for alliances and treaties between nations to be honored and for the stronger to help the weaker.

Satan is for broken promises, betrayals, and allowing the weaker to be overrun by evil armies.

God is for us honoring the Jew and blessing them as God blessed Abraham.

Satan is for pulling the rug out from under the Jew, refusing to help him, and giving aid, comfort, and resources to those sworn to his extermination.

God is for wholesome and positive melodious music, scriptural teaching and life experiences, with no unclean thing set before our eyes.

Satan is for perverting music and teaching and everything else in life, with the more unclean things he can expose us to, the better.

God further established male leadership in the church and is quite restrictive about which men can lead. 
Satan pretends he is an angel of light and "calls" women into the ministry and laughs as they emasculate the men under them and teach all manner of false doctrine, bringing disgrace to the church.

God hates divorce.

Satan loves divorce and every type of pain he can inflict on the hearts and emotions of people.

God established the man to be the head of his home and for the woman to to be submitted to her husband.

Satan ridicules every home that runs as God ordained and  works havoc in encouraging women to do as they please.

God shows us himself in his creation and told us the glorious way he made us and the world we live in with a sequence only he could do.

Satan teaches a harsh and random and very violent process of life that seeks to avoid God and make life meaningless and people not accountable to him.

God is for virginity prior to marriage.

Satan is for having kids lose their virginity as soon as possible to establish them firmly in unrighteousness.

God is for lifelong faithful marriages.

Satan is for meaningless hookups, the more the better, the younger the age the better.

God is for heterosexuality and the celebration of love in accordance with his design for the human body.

Satan is for homosexuality and for it to be exalted above heterosexuality. He is for total degradation as he believes the human body is a random happening and not designed in any way (of course only fools believe that).

God is against deviate forms of intercourse (sodomy) and the use of male idols (dildos).

Satan wants people who remain straight to fantasize about others, prefer oral and anal intercourse, and use all manner of male idols to depersonalize the experience and increase violence to their bodies.

God is for people worshiping him in spirit and in truth.

Satan wants people to worship anything or anyone BUT God.

God is for people loving the word of God and memorizing it.

Satan wants people to ignore the word of God and instead concentrate on book studies of works by fallible people.  If they read the Bible, he simply gets them to believe they are simply interesting stories and not the literal truth.

God is for prayer meetings where people actually pray earnestly.

Satan wants prayer meetings turned into gossip sessions with the least amount of prayer possible being offered, and then not in faith.

God wants everyone to submit their tongue and pray in the Spirit.

Satan wants people to withhold the control of their tongue from God and instead use their tongue to slander and destroy others.

God is for his people to combine godliness and contentment.

Satan wants people to be greedy and not content in any way.  He teaches them to love mammon knowing their love for God will still grow cold.

God is for building us up to be his wonderful bride.

Satan is for making us suitable partners for him in hell.

I could go on, but suffice it to say -

God is for us.

Satan is against us.

Q.E.D.

LET'S GET ON WITH IT

Many have heard ad nauseum how great the economy was during the Clinton years. For the last six years he was in office they were right. However, when the spineless GOP was in the minority for his first two years, it was a disaster - maybe not as bad as now, but pretty dismal.  Particularly after the roaring eighties.  BY the way, remember Reagan has the Dems controlling all of Congress so he did not get his agenda through all the way - but even half a loaf was pretty good. 

The Republican Revolution of 1994 changed everything.  THe Dem stranglehold on the House was finally broken.  If you listen to the debate for the 1995 budget, you will hear all the same arguments from the liberals how the sky will fall if anything is cut out (these folks are never original - they simply practice what they preach - they recycle!).  Bill Clinton was among the naysayers then saying the same kinds of  hyperbole that Obama is saying now. 

The GOP then was not full of gutless wonders as it is today, and they prevailed. Clinton had to go along and now that it worked absolutely great with all ships in the harbor being raised, he claims credit for it all.  Just think - if we did the necessary cuts our economy could rebound again as it did then and so many who don't have work could be working and enjoying life again. We need more people with guts like Rand Paul and fewer has-beens like John McCain and Co. 

For sure Obama would claim ALL the credit. Who cares about that? We just want a country that is not spiraling into the abyss.

WORLDVIEW

America is a diverse nation, but diversity in and of itself is not always a positive.  To worship different Gods is not a good idea. To have different moral values does not build cohesiveness. To have opposite visions for a nation does not make for success. Worldview - it is is critical to have one. Unfortunately, we have many.

Our nation was founded based upon the ideal that everyone have a moral compass and that we are self-regulated people.  In other words, we follow conscience and the dictates of a Biblical morality. People who value honesty, chastity and life itself do not need heavy-handed leadership. Those who need that are those who are dishonest, unchaste, and in general at war with the ways of God.

It is no coincidence that those who are pressing for more and more government are also pressing for more and more sin.  Colorado legalized recreational marijuana use.  More people are embracing abortion and homosexuality.

You see, I learned in 9th grade civics that Democracies believe people are basically good.  Communists and other totalitarians believe people are basically bad. Bad people need to be controlled by an enlightened elite.  Even though one could well argue that many if not most government workers could never make it in the private sector, they believe they are inherently righteous and needed to make for a better world.

Now Biblically we believe that man is fallen and all men will go to hell unless they are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. However, we also know that man is made in the image of God and people have a dignity that allows them to achieve greatness.  History teaches us that.  History also teaches us that when man is given great power, it corrupts them and unspeakable atrocities occur.  Tens of millions died in the last century because of statist and totalitarian regimes.

We have seen the power of a personality cult before.  Hitler, Idi Amin, Mao. Now Obama.  These cults put a man above the law.  That is extremely unbiblical. Laws are for the lawless, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The rule of a stable legal system has served us well.

However, we have migrated to an upside down world. Rights absolutely absent from our Constitution are granted by activist judges. Rights absolutely enshrined in our Bill of Rights are chiseled away by those same judges.  What we know is wrong is exalted as right and what is right is now demonized.  That is the result of a severe leftward drift in our nation towards atheistic statism.   I find foreign papers are often more honest than our own. I was reading PRAVDA, the Russian news organ, and one of their commentators noted that the Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics no longer had that word, but with Obama cementing power, America was not the United Socialist States of America! He opined that Obama was doing all the things Russia had tried and failed at and would probably have been arrested had he said the things he said in this country. Socialism is NOT the book of Acts! Liberation theology does not bring liberation at all!   Personal responsibility, freedom, and voluntarily helping others out of ones own resources is Biblical. Redistribution of wealth imposed by the state is alien to Jesus Christ and his teachings.  Jesus was less impressed by government than any Republican I know.  The Kingdom is NOT the State. Rather, the State can readily become a Kingdom of Darkness, which history has repeatedly shown.  People raised in statist nations are appalled at our blindness, and the road to abandon our freedoms is now crowded with people clamoring to trade their birthright for a mess of pottage.  It did not happen overnight, and it certainly did not begin with Obama.

Over the last decades, leftists have gained the upper hand in most universities, seminaries, apostate churches, newsoutlets, and entertainment venues.  Positions opposite to God's are the order of the day. No wonder that "educated" people tend to support leftists more than those who were not subject to that constant indoctrination.

Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of regular churchgoers support candidates who favor less government and more freedom.  The overwhelming majority of atheists support those who favor oppressive government and limited freedom to write, to speak, and to worship.   The world is filled with examples of these contrasts.

We see atheists aggressively trying to control Christian ideas and they desire to stamp out all references to God.   They are not for freedom in the slightest, but want to rule over those they perceive to be ignorant and beneath them.

We recently had a choice - the man who won taught RULES FOR RADICALS and used those techniques successfully on a dumbed-down populace, most of whom know little if anything about what really happened in Libya, Egypt, let alone in Washington D.C.  Saul Alinsky wrote that book which was dedicated to Satan himself, whom he viewed as the ultimately successful leader of a rebellion.   Satan may LOOK like he has won, but Christ has won.

Mr. Obama won because of a combination of
1) An ignorant electorate too lazy to check out the abundance of available truth.
2) Deceived Christians voting popularity, with their union, or shamefully, even color over morally and fiscally superior ideas,
3) Skillfully applied control techniques,
4) Santa Claus policies,
5) Substantial voter fraud (147% turnout in parts of Florida gave him DOUBLE the votes of the typical 55% to 70% turnout + widespread electronic voter fraud in key states similar to that which devastated Spain),
6) The shortcomings of his opponent in clearly delineating where the gruesome policies will lead a nation.
7) The generally spineless nature of mainstream Republicans to challenge voting results in court as the Democrats did in 2,000.  It may not have changed the election, but it would have purged the severe corruption endemic in machine politics and put the need for universal Voter ID laws beyond question.

I pray every day in depth for our nation, and we need to pray that GOD will change things. NO leader is Lord.  While our nation will surely suffer over the absurd thinking and riotous spending inaugurated by the 2006 Democrat Congress with spiraling debt and millions more people in poverty and dependent on government, we know that in the end GOD wins.   The world will be destroyed by fire, so we know that none of the Utopian babble going on will succeed,  Nonetheless, we need mercy, and steadfast opposition to that which is egregious in order that our nation will survive at all.

ELECTIONEERING

We go to a very diverse church - ethnically, economically, educationally, politically, you name it.  I was talking to a Black lady at church today who used to man a table selling Obama memorabilia. She told me she felt betrayed by the positions he is taking that flaunt the standards of God. She was unhappy because an Obamabot cornered her campaigning for him right AFTER the pastor said not to let political differences divide the people. Yikes, do people hear ANYTHING anymore??? Anyhow, as I was in prayer tonight, I believe the Lord was saying the following:

The Obama spirit makes its way to those who are open to it, You recognize people by their fruits, and the arrogance and pushiness and idolatry of one’s followers is easily seen as not of God. 

You are not electing a pastor or a God here. You are simply looking for the best employee of the people who will look out for the best interests of the country, encourage businesses to hire people and make that possible through rational and dependable policies.  55 percent of businesspeople said they would NOT have started their businesses under the current administration.  Since that is where most jobs come from, that is very telling.

           

You need to choose a man of charity who has a heart of compassion to help people out of his personal resources, and who will encourage in people the will to work, to improve their life, and to be generous to others.

You need to look at character first and make no friends with an angry man. 

MY TWO MINUTE CLOSE

Romney’s close last night was pretty good.  However, since he landed the plum of going last for the night with no chance for rebuttal, I would have gone tougher and included others running – without the House and Senate he cannot repeal Obamacare.  So here is MY two minute close…   What do you think?

 

Tonight you heard a man advocate what we all know does not work.  It is like an American middle class family with two kids where the husband is a trucker earning $45,000 per year and his wife works for the town government for $25,000 per year.  They decided in 2009 to budget $100, 000 to live on including their taxes.  A new pickup for him, new furniture, and some highly speculative stocks.  Plus a student loan beyond that for their daughter.  They borrow the $30,000 shortfall with three credit cards plus the  student loan they have no way of paying.  They do this year after year.  Now their interest is most of what they earn and they have to drastically change their lives and know they will never be able to pay what they owe. Their daughter graduated but is part of the 50% who can’t get a job and lives at home.

The President has been doing this his entire tenure and then wants to further raise taxes.  The President is the one who proposed a budget just as out of step with our nation’s income. It failed in the Senate 99-0.  Even Democrat Harry Reid who leads the Senate did not vote for it.  We are not talking about tweaks in a second term being able to help.  We need someone who knows budgets and will treat your money as carefully as he treats his own.  We cannot get back the $90 billion dollars squandered on ill-conceived Green Energy companies with nothing of value to show for it.  That money would have paid for those 100,000 teachers the President talked about for 15 whole years.  Many times that was wasted with more people falling into poverty than anytime is recent memory.

It will require proportional sacrifices, but as we adjust and get at least 12 million more people working, we will make progress.  We cannot continue having more people give up on work than getting jobs. We cannot consider raising taxes on the middle class and raising their healthcare costs. Obamacare is already triple the President’s estimate, with no end in sight. All this will simply deliver a blow to our nation we may not be able to recover from.  I urge you, my fellow Americans, we are in this fight for our nation together, and I trust you will elect me and like-minded Congresspersons and Senators to apply the experience God has blessed us with to work toward restoration and growth in our beloved country.  God bless you, and good night!