To Solve Human Violence

It is truly sad to watch citizens of our nation emotionally and legalisticly tearing at each other and vying for political advantage, when we all should be turning to God, repenting, and begging His forgiveness for our lustful, hateful, and selfish urges and tendencies. 

We wail and posture angrily about the children and teachers killed by shooters in Connecticut Texas, and elsewhere, yet we collectively rant and rave about wanting to keep butchering millions of unborn children year after year. God hates our killing of our unborn children. 

We blame parents, police, each other, and inanimate objects (like firearms) instead of blaming our own personal sin natures for all the hate, selfishness, crime, and violence throughout our nation. As the Bible, God's Word, clearly shows, every one of us contributes to the problems caused by our sin, to whatever degree we refuse to stand up to do the work that God appoints for us to do. Our refusal to side with God's absolute moral standards (that He has set for our own good) enables sin to run its unholy course, corrupting us and those around us, generation after generation, spiraling our culture toward collective destruction.

When we do not allow God's Spirit, Word, and the ways of God to fill, direct, and enrich our lives with His purpose, then we have rejected Him and have no one but ourselves to blame for the social and moral disasters that come upon us which we alone have allowed and caused.

We keep telling government to do our jobs. Instead of keeping our families and communities doing right and safe, ourselves, we lazily sit by as government does our work poorly and inefficiently. Then we complain that we don't like how the politicians do things. We are utterly drowning in our sinful hypocrisy against our society and against our offspring. 

Since the days of New York's Sullivan Laws and FDR's gun bans and beginnings of the ATF, one can study through more than 100 years of governmental attempts to try to control human sin and violence by legislative means. Edicts and legalisms do NOT work. God says that law only exposes sin and that godly authority exists to punish sin swiftly. Our legal system, like our citizenry, has drifted far away from God and His ways. The farther we remove ourselves from God's path the worse our social plight shall continue to become. From the beginning of human history, God has always promised to every society that we are all accountable to Him. His Word cannot be broken. 

Let us stop blaming everything else in life for our failures and accept responsibility for our personal and collective sins. Let us not just bewail catastrophes, but, let us also speak about the people who put their lives on the line daily and stop evil, whether they are private citizens or in public service. Let us stop going along with the lies of politicians who seek to foster their careers more than solving social ills. We shall never be free of social turmoil and violence unless we humble ourselves before God in repentance and faith in the only Savior whom God has appointed for us, Jesus Christ. Only His blood can wash away our sin. Only His Word and Spirit can enliven, clarify, and repurpose our lives to godly living. 

As God in the flesh has emphatically said, "Ye must be born again." (John 3:16) "The words that I have spoken unto you shall judge you. " (John 12:48)

God's Way Is The Only Good Way: The World and Our Own Flesh Betray Us

 Jeremiah 6:16-21

¹⁶  Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein.
¹⁷  Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.
¹⁸ Therefore hear, ye nations, and know, O congregation, what is among them.

¹⁹  Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

²⁰  To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

²¹  Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will lay stumblingblocks before this people, and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them; the neighbour and his friend shall perish.  

Let us all take God's Word seriously, for He is in earnest to redeem our souls from sin and our self-centeredness. Without our choice to repent  of our sin and place our faith in God's Christ, we paddle our own canoe to eternal suffering. Eternal never ends. Please choose God's Way.

As It Was In Old Israel, So It Is In The USA Today

 Jeremiah 2:20-28

²⁰ For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burst thy bands; and thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.

²¹  Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto me?
²²  For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
²³  How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a swift dromedary traversing her ways;
²⁴  A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
²⁵  Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.
²⁶  As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets,
²⁷  Saying to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face: but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.
²⁸  But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.    

As it was in old Israel, that the went whoring after all manner of false gods, so our people and Nation do, today, in the USA. We need to repent of our sin and return unto the One True Living God and His only Christ, Jesus.

For People Who Think Their Efforts Can Control Everything

 Isaiah 47:1-15

¹ Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.

²  Take the millstones, and grind meal: uncover thy locks, make bare the leg, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
³  Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
⁴  As for our redeemer, the LORD of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.
⁵  Sit thou silent, and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms.
⁶  I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
⁷ And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it.

⁸  Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children:
⁹  But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.
¹⁰  For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
¹¹  Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.
¹²  Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.
¹³  Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee.
¹⁴  Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.
¹⁵  Thus shall they be unto thee with whom thou hast laboured, even thy merchants, from thy youth: they shall wander every one to his quarter; none shall save thee. 

Please repent of false religion and ungodly living, and choose to accept and embrace the Christ of God for the only salvation that God offers to all humanity.

God's Call. God's love. God's Salvation.

God shows us all the things that the wisest man ever did. King Solomon tried it all and made one lasting conclusion in his life, as you'll see when you read through to the end of what Solomon wrote in Ecclestiastes.

Then, in John, God shows us who our Creator, Lord, and Savior is, and how immense and eternal His love for us, as well as the great price He paid to redeem us, if we would simply turn to Him in repentance and faith.

Thirdly, in Romans, we are shown, by God, the depravity of humanity, the plan of how God wants to save us when we repent and trust His Savior, and then, how we can live in harmony with the Self-existent God of all Creation.

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Come, join me. Learn to walk in God's eternal life, for we must choose it here, before we die. Godly Life starts now, not later. No one can do it for us and we get no second chance once this life is over. Neither can anyone buy or pray us out of the choice that we shall have made for ourselves and our eternal destiny.

Modern Business. Modern Government. Modern People. One God. One Eternal Decision and Destiny.

Proverbs 30:11-14
11 There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
14 There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

We all, everyone, everywhere, need to repent and turn unto the LORD, according to His Word and His ways.

Read the Bible's books of Genesis, Psalms, Isaiah, John, Romans, and Revelation to see why, for there is only one true God to whom we all shall answer. Come and see that we each choose our eternal destiny, so we cannot blame anyone or anything else if we end up in eternal damnation. There is only one life that God gives us to make this decision for ourselves.

Thanks and Contention November 2021

It is Thanksgiving Day 2021 in the USA, today. Yet, while many or most of our citizens rush to the table to share meals, there remains much confusion and contention across our nation. Today, as God's Bible has warned us for thousands of years, wrong is called right and right is called wrong in the lustful and selfish ways of wrongdoers. Our social, personal, and governmental ways often go astray from what God has told us He wants us to do.

Proverbs 29:27 says, "An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked."

The only way for us to truly get along with each other, the way we are told by God, is to do it God's way. Both, those who do wickedly and those who seek to do righteously have much for which to be thankful, for God provides all good things to us in His measure and His timing. Yet, He calls us all to more abundant lives, than we currently are living, whether we have negligently or zealously sought His truth or our own self-justification. 

I urge each reader to seek God's ways in His Word, the Bible. Start prayerfully with the books of John and Romans, asking the Author Himself to show you what He needs you to learn, that you may choose to come to Him in repentance and faith in the only Savior and only plan of salvation that God has ever ordained, that being in and through the Lord Jesus Christ, our Creator.

May you each have a blessed day of thanks unto Him for all His grace and mercies toward us.