Heaven Is Our Destination Where We Will Be ONE With The Lord Forever

Today, we are in The Season Of The Last Generation. The Birth Pains that Christ Jesus spoke about are currently under way, including natural and unnatural disasters. They will be ever increasing. Because of the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold. Social, economic and political turmoil will be ever increasing, causing people's hearts to be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life. An apostasy within the Church of God is currently under way. This will all reach a climax with Satan revealing his Antichrist and requiring that everyone worship him; That every one receive his "mark" in order to buy or sell; The new currency of the New World Order, the New Tower of Babel.

Today, it is critical that those who have a heart for God are aware of what God is doing and speaking today. God is opening up His Word like never before in preparation for The Time Of The END. I exhort you to open up your heart and your eyes to see what He is doing and your ears to hear what God is speaking at this time. My prayer is that we will be able to stand before the Son of Man at His appearing, without fault and with great joy. I encourage you to read David Wilkerson's book, America's Last Call at davidwilkersontoday.blogspot.com. Also, Google, Tommy Hicks Prophecy, 1961 for a view of the End Times.

Tom's books include: Called By Christ To Be ONE, The Time Of The END, The Season Of The Last Generation, Worship God In Spirit And In Truth, Daniel And The Time Of The END, and Overcoming The Evil One. They are available at amazon.com. They can also be read without cost by clicking on link: Toms Books.

To receive Christ Jesus as a child by faith is the highest human achievement.

Today, the Bride Of Christ is rising up in every nation in the world! Giving Glory to Her Savior and King, Christ Jesus!
Today, the world is Raging against God, Rushing toward Oblivion! Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation!
Today, America is being ground to powder because of it's SIN against God!

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

MARRIAGE: THE DREAM THAT WILL NOT DIE

FOR GOD AND COUNTRY

MARRIAGE: THE DREAM THAT WILL NOT DIE

Exclusive: Jerry Newcombe on how 'the romanticist delusion' has harmed institution

June is the month of weddings. Now that the dust has completely settled from the mid-May wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, it’s interesting to note that the eyes of hundreds of millions around the world were looking at this whole event with great interest. 
Why is that – in light of the notion that marriage is just an antiquated institution these days?
The charismatic American Bishop Michael Curry of the National Cathedral made a worldwide impression in his impassioned speech at the royal wedding. John Sorensen, president of Evangelism Explosion International, said, 
“The bishop’s message, which focused on love, would have been a wonderful opportunity to share what biblical love really means. Sadly, we were presented with a Beatles version of ‘All You Need is Love,’ whereas, biblical love is Jesus Christ laying down His life for us.”
Sorensen added, 
“The bishop’s message on love clearly resonated with many people because we’re created for love, but true love comes from God.”
Marriage is ultimately a picture of Christ and His bride. Perhaps that is why the enemy of our souls hates it so much.
Meanwhile, why did the wedding itself garner so much attention? It’s almost the stuff of fairy tales. The answer is: 
“Marriage is the dream that will not die,” as my wife of 38 years often likes to say.
Sometimes, it seems like marriage is on virtual life support in the Western world. It is battered and bruised. It’s fine for the old folks, but not trending for millennials.
Writing for Bentley University, Meg Murphy observes, 
“Millennials are saying no to traditional marriage in record numbers.” She adds: “The marriage rate might drop to 70 percent – a figure well below rates for boomers (91 percent), late boomers (87 percent) and Gen Xers (82 percent).”
I think part of the dearth of marriage in our society is because of what could be called, “the romanticist delusion.”
The romanticist delusion has done a lot of damage to love in the Western world. Feelings come, and feelings go. But commitment remains the same.
In our book, “Lord of All,” D. James Kennedy and I address this romanticist delusion: “The idea that if we can just find that one soul mate, that single person, then we will have the pitter-patter of our heart, the flip-flapping of the wings of the bird of paradise, and we will sail off into the sunset. 
That is until one or the other does not treat his spouse like 1 Corinthians 13 says, and then all of a sudden the bird falls like a dead owl, and we wonder that happened. 
We have been led down the primrose path. 
No. Marriage is not based so much upon love (and this may startle some of you) as marriage is based on commitment – commitment to believe that marriage is a permanent, indissoluble relationship between two who have become one and who are no longer one any longer. 
Until we have that commitment, we do not have the fertile ground for the seeds of love to take hold.”
I know some young people who really want to get married. But they make the criteria so hard for a potential spouse. They raise the bar so high that virtually no one can reach it.
Specific things couples do can greatly increase the chances of their staying together. This includes praying together, going to church together and developing hobbies together. Being quick to forgive and to overlook faults contributes to a healthy marriage.
What’s happened to marriage? 
The New York Times once called America a “post-marital society.” Tragically, that seems to be accurate.
I say tragically because marriage is good. 
It’s good for your spiritual health, your mental health, your physical health, your fiscal health, your sexual life. 
In short, it’s good all around. And it’s good for society.
And yet marriage is under attack in America – seemingly from all quarters, such as:
  • No-fault divorce laws, which make it easy to get divorced, even if only one wants out. Imagine trying to do business with someone, where the other person can simply opt out whenever he/she feels like it;
  • Living together before marriage, which generally better prepares a couple for divorce than a happy marriage;
  • The feminist assault. One of their leaders said (long before she herself got married) that a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle;
  • The attempt to redefine marriage in same-sex terms;
  • The Marxist hostility toward it. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels declared in the “Communist Manifesto”: “Abolition of the family!”
Despite the attacks, marriage – which has a lot to offer, no matter how hard our culture tries to deny it – continues. And the world even stops to watch a fairy-tale version of the dream that will not die.
http://www.wnd.com/2018/06/marriage-the-dream-that-will-not-die/

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