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Sunday, December 31, 2017
BOAST ONLY IN CHRIST
WHAT A SERVANT
WHAT A SERVANT
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TODAY'S SCRIPTURE: |
“Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. Hide Your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me” (Psalm 51:7–10).
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DAILY FIRE! |
My Jesus, my Savior, has washed me completely from my sins; now I wear His righteousness.
Who is the greatest in the kingdom of God? Maybe the unknown: but certainly, the one who serves without an ulterior motive. Undoubtedly, the greatest of all is the One who took a towel and washed the disciples’ feet; and when water would not do, He poured out His life’s blood for humanity’s cleansing.
Jesus Christ, what a Servant, who came to wash the hearts and feet of all mankind!
Taken from Daily Fire Devotional: 365 Days in God’s Word by Reinhard Bonnke. Copyright © 2016 by Reinhard Bonnke. Use by permission of Whitaker House. www.whitakerhouse.com |
WHAT UNITES CHRISTIANS?
What Unites Us
Toni Babcock
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." (Matthew 7:20 KJV)
In a sermon at Wheaton Bible Church around the time of the second world war, J.C. Macaulay made the following observation, "There are two states in which no differences are expressed - the state of the dead and the Nazi state."
The point being, Jesus did not stamp out freedom of expression within the parameters of saving faith in the gospel. He appears to look past empty profession and a dutiful lockstep behind a particular creed. Instead, He emphasized, "by their fruits ye shall know them."
As Christians of diverse theological persuasions, we take comfort in the fact we are known by Christ, not on the basis of our religious attachments, but on the basis of the fruit of His Spirit in our lives.
Despite our differences, we experience a unity of faith in the Holy Spirit that cannot help but bear fruit. Thus, we resist lording it over one another in a despotic way, while still seeking to preserve the purity of the faith and our shared values in Christ as His body. It's a beautiful thing.
Jesus Christ is the Author and finisher of our faith and the true fruit bearer in our lives.
Empty professions will fall flat on the day of judgment. He won't ask what church we belonged to, or what great deeds we accomplished in His name. What matters most to Jesus is
"he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven." (Matthew 7:20-21 KJV)
As Christians who know and follow Jesus, it's up to us to seek the Lord here and now, and figure out for ourselves His will for our lives.
Toni Babcock is author of The Stone Writer, Christian Fiction for Young Readers and Teens. Contact
WE ARE TO BE POWER CONDUCTORS
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HAS TERROR WRECKED NEW YEAR'S EVE?
Has Terror Wrecked New Year’s Eve?
Security Pens’ for Screening at Times Square – New York City
Unprecedented security measures will be undertaken in New York City to protect the festivities on New Year’s Eve when close to a million revelers are expected to gather around Time Square to watch the iconic ball drop at midnight.
Over a 22-block area, streets and parking garages will be closed. The area will be sealed off with blocker cars and sand trucks. Trucks will also be banned from neighboring avenues.
Access to the area will only be through 12 checkpoints manned with security teams bearing heavy weapons and specially-bred and trained bomb-sniffing (vapor wake) dogs.
The checkpoints will lead to pens. Revelers will be screened a second time while proceeding to the pens. No backpacks, large bags or umbrellas will be allowed.
With these security measures, not to mention temperatures expected to be 13 degrees Fahrenheit (-10.5 Celsius) and even lower due to the wind chill, it remains to be seen if the expected crowds will brave such conditions.
‘Safe Zone’ for Women in Berlin
A “safe zone” for women will be set up at the giant “party mile” in Berlin – an annual event along a stretch at Brandenburg Gate that features fireworks, bands and DJs and parties lasting well past midnight.
The woman-only zone will not only be a place where women can congregate but will be staffed with First Aid workers and psychologists for women who have been assaulted or harassed.
The measure comes after gangs of immigrant men made coordinated assaults on women in Cologne and other German cities at public News Year’s Eve celebrations in 2015 and 2016.
According to leaked police reports, police estimated that 2,000 immigrant men were involved in assaults on 1,200 German women across Germany on New Year’s Eve 2015.
The women’s safe zone is only one of the security measures being taken by German police in Berlin this New Year’s.
Although the measures are necessary, the sentiment in Germany can be summed up in a tweet by Christian Loose, an opposition politician in North Rhine Westphalia, who wrote:
“If somebody had said a few years ago that soon it would only be possible to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Germany with platoons of police officers – and that Christmas markets must be particularly secured – they would have been called crazy. Now it is the status quo.”
Party Cancelled: ‘We Can’t Afford the Security’ – Sydney
An annual family-oriented street party at a church-owned venue in Sydney was cancelled due to the cost to secure the site.
“We just couldn’t do it,” said Reverend Craig Potter, rector of the St Aidan’s Anglican Church that owns property overlooking the famous Harbour Bridge.
The annual and increasingly popular family New Year’s Eve event attracted 4,000 people last year to listen to bands, partake of a sausage roast and watch fireworks.
New laws require such public celebrations to hire security guards and put up concrete or water-filled bollards (thick posts used to stop a vehicular attack).
In November, authorities arrested man suspected of planning a New Year’s Eve attack in Melbourne.Police say the attack was planned for Melbourne’s city center, which last year drew a half a million people to its celebration.
‘We’re Stretched” to the Max — London
Police resources in the UK are stretched thin, resulting in a smaller number of police officers on duty in London and other locations this New Year’s Eve – despite the fact that terror attacks have been on the rise in the city.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick has called for more funding for the force.
At the peak, 6,000 officers were deployed on New Yera’s Eve in 2015 and all leave was cancelled for armed officers. This year, 3,000 armed officers will be on duty, an “appropriate number” based on the threat, according to a spokesperson for the police, speaking to The Independent.
After Foiled Christmas Attack – San Francisco
Police have added backup to their security teams after an Islamic-State-inspired attack planned for Christmas Day in San Francisco was foiled.
Everitt Aaron Jameson, a 26-year-old tow truck driver who was arrested right before Christmas, was allegedly plotting a large-scale terror attack on the city’s Pier 39, a popular tourist attraction.
Jameson, a convert to Islam who now goes by the name of Abdallah abu Everitt ibn Gordon al-Amriki, was trained as a sharp shooter before being discharged from the Marines for failure to disclose his asthma.
Although there are no known threats for New Year’s Eve in San Francisco, additional police will be deployed to secure the large crowds that traditionally gather in the city to watch fireworks and drink champagne to herald in the new year.
https://clarionproject.org/has-terror-wrecked-new-years-eve/
My comments: The Failure of the West to acknowledge the Inherent Evil of Islam, and to respond accordingly, will mean many more Deaths and Maiming of many, many more people. The West will live in Fear from now on. The West that abandoned God and His Word.
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CALIFORNIA IMAM DEMANDS MASS MURDER OF AMERICANS
ISLAM AT WORK: California Imam DEMANDS Mass Murder Of Americans On American TV- WATCH
Ammar Shahin was recently captured on camera talking to a group of Americans in northern California.
Shahin was asking that Muslim Americans kill Jews despite the fact they are in the United States.
Although he is a well educated man amongst many Americans, you would think he had human morals. Instead Shahin continues his sermon seeking to inspire Muslims in America to terminate the Jewish people in the name of the Prophet Muhammad.
With this message of hate and complete destruction towards Americans, Shahin’s violent intentions are the farthest thing from equality of all.
Reported by freedomdaily:
Muslims throughout America are beginning to become bolder with their disdain for the country they live in by publicly expressing their immediate plans for destruction from within. Either they are used to getting away with spreading such hatred after eight years of Barack Obama supporting it, or they have become desperate in realizing that with President Trump in charge, things are not in their favor.
There’s no more hiding from their violent intentions now after one Islamic leader in northern California went on television to call all Muslims out of hiding to start a total annihilation of certain Americans that Muslims hate the most.
This proved to be a bad move for the murderous Imam despite the mainstream media refusing to cover this story adequately after it happened. Liberal politicians are still claiming that Islam is a religion of peace regardless of this Imam’s own horrific words which happened in nearly the same time frame as a Somali Muslim saying he could kill anyone he wants.
After getting his bachelor’s degree in Islamic studies from Egypt, Imam Ammar Shahin came to America in 1999, got a computer engineering degree, and is now a hate preacher with the Islamic Center of Davis in northern California.
The center records their rhetoric, seemingly not hiding what liberals refuse to see and that Islam is a death cult and not a “religion of peace.” Proof of this was when Shahin was “allegedly encouraging American Muslims to eliminate Jewish people and praying for the death of Jewish people during a sermon on Friday,” The Blaze reported.
Israel National News reports:
“In it, he cited a hadith, according to which the Muslims would fight the Jews on Judgment Day, and prayed to Allah to ‘liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Jews’ and to ‘annihilate them down to the very last one,’ not sparing any of them. ‘Oh Allah, make this happen by our hands. Let us play a part in this,’ he prayed in the sermon, which was posted on the Davis Masjid YouTube channel.”
The call for the elimination of Jews starts with those in America but extends into other areas where Jewish people are most prevalent around the world. Shahin preached what he said was the teaching of the Prophet Muhammad who said that it’s the responsibility of all Muslims to deal death to the Jewish people.
California Sermon: Imam Cites Hadith, Prays for Annihilation of Jews, Calls to Liberate Al-Aqsa Mosque from 'Filth' memri.org/tv/california-…
The Imam’s televised hate-filled sermon came on the same day that violent riots broke out in Jerusalem over Israeli officials putting metal detectors around the Al-Aqsa Mosque, an Islamic holy site in Jerusalem. This was out of concern for Jews’ safety, for obvious reasons since they are perpetually targeted by Muslims trying to honor Allah by killing them.
The riots resulted in a terrorist attack at this specific location which killed six people. As a result, Shahin prayed specifically for Allah to eliminate the Jews around the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
With the same obnoxious, droning, and repetitive sounds of the daily call to prayer, Shahin repeated the call to kill Jews, in all locations throughout the world, in his sermon.
“Allah does not change the situation of people ‘until they change their own situation.’ The Prophet Muhammad said:
‘Judgment Day will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews, and the Jews hide behind stones and trees, and the stones and the trees say: Oh Muslim, oh servant of Allah…’
They will not say: Oh Egyptian, oh Palestinian, oh Jordanian, ohSyrian, oh Afghan, oh Pakistani. The Prophet Muhammad says that the time will come, the Last Hour will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews.”
http://www.americanjournalreview.com/mass-murder-americans-american-tv-1-b/
My comments: That this Muslim can spew this Vile Rhetoric, with Impunity, in America is a testament to the Gross Ignorance of those who Refuse to acknowledge the Inherent Evil of Islam.
THE WANTON LUST OF A HARLOT
(Nahum
3)
Woe to the city of
blood full of lies,
Full of plunder,
never without victims!
2 The crack of
whips, the clatter of wheels,
Galloping horses and
jolting chariots!
3 Charging cavalry,
flashing swords and glittering spears!
Many casualties,
piles of dead, bodies without number,
People stumbling
over the corpses--
4
ALL BECAUSE OF THE WANTON LUST OF A HARLOT
ALLURING,
THE MISTRESS OF SORCERIES
WHO
ENSLVERD NATIONS BY HER PROSTITUTION
AND
HER PEOPLES BY HER WITCHCRAFT.
5 'I am against
you,' declares the Lord Almighty.
'I WILL LIFT THE
SKIRTS OVER YOUR FACE.
I WILL SHOW THE
NATIONS YOUR NAKEDNESS
AND KINGDOMS YOUR
SHAME.
6 I will pelt you
with filth, I will treat you with contempt
And make you a
spectacle.
7 All who see you
will flee from you and say,
'Nineveh
(Babylon)
is in ruins--
Who will mourn for
her?'
Where can I find
anyone to comfort you?'
8 Are you better
than Thebes, situated on the Nile,
With water around
her?
The river was her
defense, the waters her wall.
9 Cush and Egypt
were her boundless strength;
Put and Libya were
among her allies.
10 Yet she was taken
captive and went into exile.
Her infants were
dashed to pieces at the head of every street.
Lots were cast for
her nobles,
And all her great
men were put in chains.
11 You too will
become drunk; you will go into hiding
And seek refuge from
the enemy.
12 All your
fortresses are like fig trees with their first ripe fruit;
When they are
shaken, the figs fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Look at your
troops-- they are all women!
The gates of your
land are wide open to your enemies;
Fire has consumed
their bars.
14 Draw water for
the siege, strengthen your defenses!
Work the clay, tread
the mortar, repair the brickwork!
15 There the fire
will devour you;
The sword will cut
you down
And, like
grasshoppers, consume you.
Multiply like
grasshoppers, multiply like locusts!
16
You have increased the number of your merchants
Till
they are more than the stars of the sky,
But like locusts
they strip the land and then fly away.
17 Your guards are
like locusts,
Your officials like
swarms of locusts
That settle in the
walls on a cold day--
But when the sun
appears the fly away,
And no one knows
where.
18
O king of Assyria (Babylon),
your shepherds slumber;
Your nobles lie down
to rest.
Your people are
scattered on the mountains
With no one to
gather them.
19 NOTHING CAN HEAL
YOUR WOUND;
YOUR INJURY IS
FATAL.
Everyone who hears
the news about you
Claps his hands at
your fall.
FOR WHO HAS NOT FELT
YOUR ENDLESS CRUELTY?
(Nahum
3)
This
is virtually the same thing
That
God says about the End Times Babylon.
Why?
Because
they are motivated by the same spirit
And
in that, they are the same.
(Revelation
18)
This
is the woman who rules over the kings of the Earth.
(Revelation17:18)
The
bride of Satan—The World System—
Personified
in the City of Babylon,
Which
in this Last of the Last Day of Time,
Is
probably New York City,
As
it is the only City that meets the description
Given
us in Revelation 18.