Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †
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The Logic of the Plan of Salvation
By Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
In I Cor. 1:22 we are told that “the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom.” This is doubtless why God chose Paul, with his profound intellectual background and acumen, to proclaim “Christ crucified,” the “wisdom of God” as well as the “power of God” (I Cor. 1:23,24).
Paul was a gifted logician as well as a theologian, and nowhere is this more evident than in his epistle to the Romans, where, by divine inspiration, he presents the logic of God’s plan of salvation. Again and again, throughout the epistle, he uses that word so prominent in mathematics and in logic: “therefore.”
“Therefore thou art inexcusable…” (Rom. 2:1).
“Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in His sight” (3:20).
“But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested…. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith, without the deeds of the law” (3:21,28).
“Therefore being justified by faith we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; by whom also we have access…” (5:1,2).
“There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus” (8:1).
“Therefore, brethren, we are debtors…” (8:12).
“I beseech you therefore… that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service (Rom. 12:1).
It is an inexorable, unchangeable law that sin results in death. But the Lord Jesus Christ, “who did no sin,” took our place and “died for our sins.” Thus it is also an unchangeable law that “He that hath the Son hath life.” “The law of the Spirit” is “life in Christ.” The moment one trusts Christ as Savior the Spirit gives him life, the life of Christ, which is everlasting — indeed, eternal life (Rom. 8:2; I John 5:12).
https://www.bereanbiblesociety.org/the-logic-of-the-plan-of-salvation/
1 Corinthians 1:22 For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
24 But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.
Romans 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin. :21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets;
Romans 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Romans 8:12 Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
1 John 5:12 He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.
We are indeed under grace rather than under the law. Our standing before God has nothing to do with keeping the law or personal merit rather it is based on the imputed and perfect righteousness of Jesus through the faith, who at the cross once and for all paid for our sin. Our Christian duty is never to work our way into God’s approval rather our responsibility is to “walk worthy of the high calling we have as adopted brothers and sisters in union with Christ forever” and to take the gospel message to the ends of the earth. How? 1. Love God with all our heart, mind, soul and body. 2. Love our neighborhood as our self. Thanks Pastor Stam, “the Word of God is alive and powerful….“
Now is the time to pray people of God for our country and our president.Rest assured the forces of darkness,satanists/witches/warlocks are praying for the destruction of our nation and this president.Let God arise and His enemies be scattered.Father ,we thank you that your hand is upon our president mightily,we cover him with the precious shed blood of Jesus Christ,and decree and declare Zachariah 2;5 over him and his family..Let the fire of your glory surround them and that no witchcraft,no voodoo,no hex,no vex,no curse no power,no principality and no demon in hell shall prosper against them.Father we ask that you dispatch legions of your warring angelic hosts to destroy every plot and plan of the enemy.Father let your anointing rest strongly upon him at all times and our nation is brought totally back to you.Father ,we praise you,we glorify you in the name above all names ,Jesus Christ,King of Kings,Lord of Lords and soon to return Messiah,Amen.
Amen
A jam session at Daryl Hall’s house with Smokey Robinson ,” Ohh, baby, baby.”
What’s the deal behind Sheryl Atkinson asking SD to retract a tweet about “false information”?
As I see it…SD explains it very well on his twitter link 😛
Sharyl denied ever receiving the Biden laptop information months ago, as Rod Bishop asserted in a Facebook post of his. . At the moment there’s no way to corroborate her story versus Rod Bishop’s assertion (made in his Facebook post) in which Sharyl’s name is completely misspelled. SD always tries to not post unverified rumors versus verified fact. The facts will eventually ooze out……
On the Bishop’s Facebook page Sheryl Atkinson asked him to take down the post as well. The times and dates and addresses of the emails in March 2020 are provided. Possibly Atkinson gets so many that she never read about Hunters laptop back then??? Same with John Solomon and others.
One VERY big aspect of the Biden Laptop scandal that seems to be missing IMHO: “What did China, Ukraine, etc. expect from Hunter and Joe Biden for the $$$ billions in kickbacks?” Importantly, what did they receive?” An honest media would ask and investigate both questions.
All good questions you ask. Lots of people are asking the same questions.
Unfortunately none of them are Democrats or in the MainStream Media
Johnny Carson’s end-of-show theme song, “Li’ll Darlin'” was written by Count Basie. The Tonight Show Orchestra faithfully play the Count’s arrangement.
Lovely.
Johnny Carson had such a classy, great late night show. I don’t know his politics to this day. I wish there was someone with enough talent to replace him.
He was and remains the King of his genre, the late night variety & talk show. Carson’s wit, comedic timing, and panache were all perfectly balanced and highly developed.
To this day, even watching videos of his show as a now-senior aged adult, I detect a humble, genuinely respectful and intellectually bright human being, far from the sophomoric arrogant ignorant and blatantly biased twerps that have infested that genre since Carson’s retirement (excluding Jay Leno, who I also liked and respected but who IMHO just wasn’t able to equate Carson’s brilliance at the craft).
“a humble, genuinely respectful and intellectually bright human being, far from the sophomoric arrogant ignorant and blatantly biased twerps that have infested that genre since Carson’s retirement (excluding Jay Leno, who I also liked and respected but who IMHO just wasn’t able to equate Carson’s brilliance at the craft).”
EXCELLENT!
I agree 100%
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Lil Darlin–probably played by every high school jazz band. Great song.
Yep.
SJW “wokeness” is on the path to Sheol.
Top 5 Famous Shooters of the Old West
October 19, 2020 – pewpewtactical.com
The Old West is something uniquely and iconically American and it’s become an essential part of the American mythos.
Gun owners especially seem to feel a connection to this particular era of American history, presumably due to the important role that firearms played.
https://www.pewpewtactical.com/famous-shooters-old-west/
So delicious to experience the October surprise with the Zapata on the other pata…………
nanner nanner na na
And thank you Saul…….
🙂
Great fun seeing some of the behind-the-scenes goings-on. A beautiful album was the result. It’s a daily listen for me.
Luka Sulic – The Making of “Vivaldi: The Four Seasons”
November 8, 2019
Donald and Melania Trump as newlyweds (2005 CNN Larry King Live full interview)
Donald and Melania Trump talk to CNN’s Larry King Live just months after their extravagant wedding about the couple’s relationship and what the future has in store. (From May 17, 2005)
That was awesome.
They are such real people.
This is our FLOTUS in the Aflac ad.
This really changed my perception of her. Smart lady.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — One of the deadliest accidents in recent U.S. maritime history was the fault of owners of a Southern California dive boat whose lack of oversight resulted in a fire that swept through the vessel and killed 34 people in their bunks below deck, federal safety officials ruled Tuesday.
https://apnews.com/article/labor-day-fires-transportation-california-55958fced5e71dc0e208aba142006697
horrific
Indeed, tangled.
Imho, a blatant disregard by the Company and Captain for the lives and safety of ALL those aboard.
Blaming the Coast Guard, again, imho, is a travesty…..
The comments are enlightening…
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/09/02/four-bodies-recovered-four-more-bodies-located-30-people-missing-during-horrific-dive-boat-incident/
“Politicizing the efficacy of a vaccine is shameful,” Sen. Melissa Melendez tweeted.
Newsom is “suggesting we can’t trust the FDA (but) Of course, we’ll continue trusting the FDA for every other drug whose distribution doesn’t threaten his hold on power,” tweeted Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, who has a court hearing this week challenging the governor’s authority to impose virus restrictions.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-public-health-elections-california-gavin-newsom-e84304c65f0f95f96ade7438f425d9d9
. . . but deliver us from the Evil One.
Prayer of Saint Ioannikios the Great (+ 846)
My hope is the Father, my refuge the Son, my protection the Holy Spirit. O Holy Trinity, glory to Thee.
Baby Lives Matter.
Lord, Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon me, a sinner.
Today is Wednesday and, since Apostolic times in the Orthodox Church, it is a day of fasting from meat, fish, dairy foods, olive oil, and wine because the Lord Jesus Christ was betrayed on a Wednesday.
A link to info and articles on fasting.
http://www.orthodoxinfo.com/praxis/pr_fasting.aspx
https://twitter.com/Gabriele_Corno/status/1318822031190839296
https://twitter.com/Eni87857188/status/1318681056090804225
https://twitter.com/Cathbads_dun/status/1288566171273502720
Verse of the Day for Wednesday, October 21, 2020
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“Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.”
Proverbs 4:7 (KJV)
Thank You, Jesus, for blessings received and prayers answered!!!
Wednesday Blessing
Jesus Loves Babies…Pray for the Unborn
Jesus Loves the Little Children – Pray for the Little Children
Jesus Loves You – Come to Him
Be My Voice
Mornin’ infidels!
https://twitter.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1318743006556508160
Mornin’ WeeWeed!
Good one this “hump day”…
Mornin’ DI!
DIRECTION BY IMPULSE
“Building up yourselves on your most holy faith.” Jude 20
There was nothing either of the nature of impulse or of cold-bloodedness about Our Lord, but only a calm strength that never got into panic. Most of us develop our Christianity along the line of our temperament, not along the line of God. Impulse is a trait in natural life, but Our Lord always ignores it, because it hinders the development of the life of a disciple. Watch how the Spirit of God checks impulse, His checks bring a rush of self-conscious foolishness which makes us instantly want to vindicate ourselves. Impulse is all right in a child, but it is disastrous in a man or woman; an impulsive man is always a petted man. Impulse has to be trained into intuition by discipline.
Discipleship is built entirely on the supernatural grace of God. Walking on the water is easy to impulsive pluck, but walking on dry land as a disciple of Jesus Christ is a different thing. Peter walked on the water to go to Jesus, but he followed Him afar off on the land. We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God; but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.
Oswald Chambers
October 21st Devotional
Unseal and release all of Obama’s personal life history documents/records from the time of his birth through to his election to the Senate.
Requesting for an avid Obama supporter.
Report from the field: My coed daughter’s rabid liberal roommate and another liberal student friend have announced they will not be voting for Biden in this election. I cannot overstate what a huge development this. If Biden couldn’t get these rabid Orange Man Bad students (who could not wait to cast their first presidential vote) out, he’s in big trouble.
Boldly claim America’s Christian heritage.
Lamentations 5:21 – Restore us to yourself, O Lord, that we may be restored!
Pray the Vote
Presidential Prayer Team
https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/pray-the-vote/
Pretty good conversation on this approx. 26 minute Tim Pool video with Allum Bokhari who wrote the book “Deleted: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election” :
“The Shape of Things to Come”
https://russian-faith.com/shape-things-come-n3851
Very good piece.
snip:
“Tolerance is simply a debasement of the supreme Christian virtue of love. Love means to embrace all people despite their sins, but tolerance means to embrace all people for the sake of their sins, which are now held to be not sins but virtues. And this is made so much the worse because the reason that sin must be called virtue, the reason that people must be loved for their sins, is because the devil has so thoroughly convinced people that they are their sins. And therefore if sin is not blessed, then I can never be blessed. If sin is not virtue, then I can never be virtuous. And if sin is not loved, then I can never be loved. It is one of the most cunning and most destructive of all the lies that the devil ever told.”
Tolerance today = you MUST embrace them for the sake of their sin.
LGBTQ in a nutshell.
lilbirdee12’s prayer:
Our Heavenly Father, Your children come to you tonight to ask for healing and peace throughout our country so that we may return to being One Nation Under God. Guide us to be leaders in Your Kingdom, spreading Your Love and Salvation to all. Forgive us our sins and deliver us from evil.
Lord, we ask for a blanket of protection over all our troops and law enforcement who serve to defend and protect us. Bless our representatives with the strength and wisdom they need to achieve the path You have chosen for us.
Please place Your Guardian Angels of Protection around Donald Trump and Mike Pence and their families as they seek to lead America back to You. Also, we pray for Angels to protect and support our Sundance as he works for justice and peace.
Grant us patience, Lord, as the evil ones try to anger us and cause us to fall.
Spread blessings over Israel and Netanyahu.
We humbly ask that You please comfort those who are grieving and in pain.
Thank you Father, for Your Love and the gift of Life.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen.
A prayer for Justice Kavanaugh and Gen. Flynn:
Prayer to St. Michael
St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle;
be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the devil.
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do you, O prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
thrust into hell Satan and the other evil spirits
who prowl about the world for the ruin of souls.
In Jesus name, we pray. Amen.
Amen
Amen.
Amen.