Posted on 11/11/2015 5:38:57 PM PST by kindred
My dear friends, I know I'm going to get it for this post but in love I must say it (2 Cor. 12:15). Someone has to and it might as well be me. For the past 8 years I have been feeling the spiritual temperature at Free Republic and other conservative forums and have found that moral and biblical relativism, biblical ignorance, conservative optimism, Christian ecumenicalism and the outright rejection of the TRUE Gospel of Jesus Christ (Acts 4:12, Rom. 10:2-4, 1 Cor. 15:1-4, Eph. 2:8-9) nearly dominate this and other conservative forums. Thank God for Free Republic, they do a great job, are sincere and mean well and are a great group of people who truly love America and conservatism as I do, but... that in itself is not enough to aid us in this dire hour. An individual today has to see the complete ETERNAL picture and that includes biblical REALITY and the reception of it. Conservatism without a saving relationship to Jesus Christ as the Holy Scriptures clearly teach is ETERNALLY bankrupt.
American conservatives of today are no different from the Pharisees of Jesus day. These were conservative, moral, go to "church" to put it in our day language and were quite familiar with the Old Testament, but when push came to shove they outright rejected Almighty God's righteousness and saving solution for their souls in SPIRIT and TRUTH and held their traditions and conservatism above the Word of Almighty God.
Thank God for some God fearing, Bible believing, evangelical presence at Free Republic, who help point America's conservatives to the Gospel, the REALITY of the hour and Almighty God's biblical perspective, but sadly these are usually scoffed at and laughed to scorn by American conservatives who are lost and without a saving relationship to Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel (Isa. 53, Matt. 7:21-32, Rom. 10:2-4, 1 Cor. 2:14). Tragically the dominant spirit there is one of unbelief, subjective conservative optimism, spiritual delusion and ETERNAL blindness (Rom. 10:2-4). The temperature and pulse of American conservatives who actually believe the Bible and its saving message is near dead and ice cold. That is a heart breaking reality that God the Father has had to show me these last five years and with tears in my eyes I wish I could change that but I cannot choose for an individual to receive the Savior. American conservatives of today are no different from the Pharisees of Jesus day. These were conservative, moral, go to "church" to put it in our day language and were quite familiar with the Old Testament but when push came to shove they outright rejected Almighty God's righteousness and saving solution for their souls in SPIRIT and TRUTH (John 4:24) and held their traditions and conservatism above the Word of Almighty God (Matt. 15:1-20, Rom.10:1-4).
The temperature and climate of American conservatives who actually believe the Bible and its saving message is dead and ice cold and that is a heart breaking reality that God the Father has had to show me.
My dear friends, oh how we need Divine REALITY today and not delusional optimism and worldly solutions for our EXPONENTIAL global crises. Almighty God cries out to you all day long but will YOU receive Him and His ETERNAL solutions for your life? That is the biggest question ALL must ask themselves in these last days. All these current events and crises of our global community are self induced by the lawless and godless works of fallen man and are driving this world straight into the Day of the Lord (Rom. 1:18-32, Gal. 6:7, Rev. 6-19). These products or fruits of evil men and their consequences are left in place to bring us to the brink of our delusions so that we may come out of our subjective selves and show us our desperate need for the Savior, His pardon, and His RIGHTEOUSNESS.
My dear friends, WHAT WILL YOU DO? Will you continue to look for worldly solutions and conservative human saviors or will you finally come to the end of yourself and receive the KING of kings and LORD of lords who is the WONDERFUL COUNSELOR and PRINCE of PEACE.
My dear friends, WHAT WILL YOU DO? Will you continue to look for worldly solutions and conservative human saviors or will you finally come to the end of yourself and receive the KING of kings and LORD of lords who is the WONDERFUL COUNSELOR and PRINCE of PEACE (Isa. 9:6-7, Rev. 19:11-16). All ETERNITY is before us and our brief existence in this fallen world is about gone. See the ETERNAL, see the Savior, see the REALITY and you will find the liberation and peace of Almighty God that will calm your hearts in America's last hours.
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved!" (Acts 16:29)!
The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
DJP I.F.
Conservatism Without the Righteousness of Almighty God is Bankrupt.
Jesus wants to be an even CLOSER personal friend.
Christ never said not to be engaged in fighting evil in the political arena. He wasn’t a doormat and neither am I. You are judging a whole group of people without even knowing who they are. Congratulations.
Just checked the link and it worked.
My relationship with Jesus won’t be judged by an anonymous poster on a political forum. Thanks just the same.
I think a fair way to view it is: if the shoe does NOT fit, then by all means don’t wear it.
But if the shoe DOES fit... what are you waiting for?
We can even discuss claims of global warming around here (if only to deny them, and the science is terrible to put it mildly) but what do we do with claims of eternal approaching?
We pesky evangelists are urging you to give God a new shout out.
This is in NEWS?
As long as you react that way, you ironically prove that it really is about your view of yourself. THAT’S what you don’t want judged.
Does now. The first time I clicked my browser was captured by a Zales Jewelry pop-up ad. I hate those damned things. If this is not an authorized ad on your page, you’ve got problems.
(If it is authorized, you’ve got bigger problems, IMHO)
Have a lovely evening.
“Evangelism” = “sharing the good NEWS”
We’d expect to see some kind of concurrence (or even dispute) about what you perceive God’s will and role to be, if that were the case.
Instead it’s the liberal answer: ohhhh how OFFENSIVE
Those who mock you have no idea how desperate we really are.
Since they think HUMAN clowns are the solutions to our problems, I guess Matthew 7:6 should be invoked.
Bonnerandpartners.com rocks.
The problem is, kindred just told the ENTIRE forum that they don’t measure up to what THEY believe the forum should without knowing all of us.
And this ain’t news.
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/religion-forum/index
LMAO.
TO BE FAIR... if you make an assertion as a premise, please provide some substantiation of it.
It’s too easy to make cheap accusations in a “religious” context. I try to keep it to what I can demonstrate with a high degree of confidence.
The ONLY persons opinion I care about doesn't post on FR. He takes quiet, wireless calls.
I will grant that it’s easy to trip up around here.
I kind of sympathize with kindred’s spiritual point of view, wanting to see more open expression of faith, but the logic... maybe not so much all the way.
Someone who denigrates feeling is kind of odd to open up with a feeling statement.
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