The Offense of the Cross ... at Penn State

I am constantly flabbergasted by the extreme sensibilities of the educated elite. I'm just glad the six complainants and all involved at Penn State did not choose to burn buildings or behead students wearing the offensive t-shirts at the center of a controversy that turns out to be not-much-of-a-controversy. The "religion of peace" would have heads rolling if the shirts had featured pictures of Mohammed.

The t-shirts, as you will see in the picture in the link, do seem to "sport" a cross on the front when it is actually a likeness of the stripe on the helmets of PU's football team. But it certainly startled the bejesus out of a handful of folks (a "handful" if one has six fingers per hand). The Anti-Defamation League joined in to fight this perceived threat of the resurrection of the crucifixion of you-know-who. There was fear apparently, that tents were going to pop up on campus with Pat Robertson preaching to lost souls.

The problem was some who saw the t-shirts being worn on-campus saw something "that some say resembles a cross." It's kinda like those folks who see Mary in urine in the snow, Jesus on a piece of toast, and Elvis at the 7/11. Yes, it's that serious.

But all in all, the school handled it very well. Go PU!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569665,00.html

More than a Freudian slip? Obama's "Muslim faith."

It flowed from his lips as smoothly and as naturally as spit from a baseball players mouth while sitting on the bench. "My Muslim faith." He said it. And millions of Americans were shocked. But the interviewer, George Stephanopolous, smoothly corrected (?) him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw&feature=video_response

This was not a mistake or a Freudian slip; it was an admission of who and what he truly is.

Such a slip could not come from the lips of a Christian, which Obama professes to be to our nation. Can you say "taqqiya?" Of course, he did not have his teleprompter in front of him nor did he have his blackberry at hie ear.

And his forgetting how many states are in the US? He said, or wondered out loud, "57 states?" And it just so happens that there are how many Islamic states? You guessed it. There are indeed 57 Islamic states. Practicing taqqiya is more difficult than one might think when you have to do it 24/7 in the nation Islam refers to as "The Great Satan." Our puppet president, who must have his teleprompter to keep his facts(?) straight, is paving the way for his Islamist cohorts to bring America to financial ruin and the slow deliberate employment of sharia.

A brief lesson on eternal security

Every work of grace completed by the Lord Jesus Christ has the approval of the Father and the seal of eternity stamped on it.

Every soul saved by the grace of God is eternally saved.

Every sin forgiven by the blood of Christ is eternally forgiven.

The wrath of God satisfied by the death of His Son on the cross is eternally satisfied.

The condemnation, the guilt, the shame, the fear, and death, are all eternally removed from the life of the believer.

The new life we have is eternal life, not "contingent life."

His words from the cross, "It is finished," His words, "And I will give them eternal life," and the words "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes on Him might not perish but have everlasting life," have the guarantee of eternal life within them.

The presence of the Holy Spirit whereby we are "sealed unto the day of redemption" places the seal of eternity upon every believer.

The covenants of God fulfilled by Jesus Christ are eternally fulfilled.

The promises fulfilled by the Lord Jesus Christ are eternally fulfilled.

God's will and God's law are absolutely satisfied and fulfilled for us for eternity in Jesus Christ.

Every believer lives in the eternal state of:

1. Grace
2. Justification
3. Sanctification
4. Righteousness
5. Love
6. Peace
7. Glory
8. Reconciliation
9. Union with God
10. Liberty
11. Completion
12. The Kingdom of God
13. Holiness
14. New Life

The Accounting of Righteousness: Romans 4:5

"But to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness."

In the immediate context of Romans 4:5, we can see that "the ungodly" refers to both Abraham and David ... and indeed, all who have faith in "Him who justifies the ungodly." And this is the argument made by the apostle in the first 11 chapters of this letter: The ungodly, the "all" of 3:23, are justified by faith and faith alone.

The question that came to me this morning as I was reading this one verse, 4:5, was "how long does this accounting last?" How long will my faith as the justified ungodly be accounted to me as righteousness? The answer is, forever.

Justification is God's way of telling us that we have eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ. And that life that we now possess is indeed "eternal."

Islam at our doorstep: Muslims pray in Washington

Islam has declared itself the enemy of democracy and of our Republic. The voice of Islam has been for years represented by terrorists and radicals, why would we believe that the Muslims in Washington today are any different. I am assuming that these men gathered on our capitol's steps are praying for the overthrow of our government; why not assume such?

How is it that our nation has come so far as to allow our enemies access to our nation's capitol? This is insane! Our president and our Congress have betrayed us by not protecting us according to the Constitution, Article 4, Section 4, and have in fact given Aid and Comfort to our enemies, the definition of Treason given in our Constitution, Article 3, Section 3. And our president, Barack Hussein Obama, panders to this enemy of the free world.

The rise of Islam in America amounts to no less than an invasion from which we are to be protected. They have invaded our public schools and universities and private businesses. They have successfully invaded our government institutions such as the Pentagon and managed to squelch opposition from American patriots working in the Pentagon. They have also intimidated Hollywood into changing plots in some of its movies so as to remove any negative reference to Islam ("The Sum of All Fears," for instance).

With the recent resurgence of patriotism in our nation, I hope that it will not be long before someone finally moves to impeach this lying dog in the White House.

What did "Noah's Flood" change?

Besides the landscape and population, not much.

However, "hope and change" was not the purpose of the flood. The flood did indeed change the earth's population and landscape (it was very muddy for a while for the eight inhabitants). But what the flood was designed by the Creator to do it in fact did; it sent messages to the next generations through Noah (a "preacher of righteousness") and his offspring concerning the nature of God and the nature of man.

The flood proclaimed that God sees all (Gen. 6:2)

The flood proclaimed that God hates sin and the sinful nature of man (vv.3-7).

The flood proclaimed that God declares man totally depraved (vv.11-12).

The flood proclaimed that God will punish sin with severity (v.13; 2 Pet. 3:1-9).

The flood proclaimed that God will have mercy upon whom He will have mercy (vv.13, 14a; 7:1; Roms. 9:18).

The flood proclaimed that God is sovereign over all His creation (6:6-7, 13; Roms. 9:19-24).

The flood proclaimed that God is no respecter of persons "but in every nation whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him" (Gen. 6:9; Acts 10:34). (*Righteousness is worked by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, through the preaching of the gospel alone, for God's glory alone, not works of the law. Noah had faith in God; Abraham had faith in God; Lot had faith in God, etc.)

http://www.shepherdsfellowship.org/pulpit/Posts.aspx?ID=4371

The flood proclaimed that salvation is God's and His alone (7:1).

The flood proclaimed that God's every act is intentional, with His glory and the elect's good foremost in His eternal scheme (8:20-9:17).

The flood proclaimed the gospel of the Christ, the Son of God, as it did later to Abraham as well, whereby the ungodly would be justified (Gen. 9:8-9; Roms. 4:5; 5:6; Gals. 3:5-9).

The flood proclaimed the faithfulness of God to His creation through the sign of the rainbow. (Rainbows are not miraculous. But in that they are formed out of the once mysterious never-before-seen falling rain, God proclaimed them as a reminder to man of His sovereignty, ever-watchfulness, mercy, longsuffering, and faithfulness).

God's flood in the days of Noah did nothing to change the nature of man; it wasn't designed to do that. But it accomplished precisely what God wanted it to accomplish. It points mankind to his desperate need for grace and mercy and a Savior. And that Savior to whom it points is Jesus Christ ... and Him alone.

Pseudo-Christians joining Muslims in Ramadan prayers

Fitting in with my just-finished series, "Stop being deceived," is this bit of news. Brian McClaren, of the Emergent Movement, is one of the false teachers spearheading this abomination.

http://www.boundlessline.org/