Have you ever stopped to consider the fact that you exist at all is a miracle? Science, despite all it’s complicated rhetoric, can’t explain the existence of life. They postulate hard to understand, unprovable theories wrapped in the garb of evolutionary terminology to make it sound as if they know what they are talking about. They do not. It is all linguistic nonsense. They simply can’t explain the existence of life. Life can’t arise from any non-living thing. It has been claimed that a living cell was produced by a collaboration between the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Bits and Atoms. The first cell with a synthetic genone was created in 2010. However, they didn’t build that cell completely from scratch. Instead, they started with cells from a very simple type of bacteria called mycoplasma. They destroyed the DNA in those cells and replaced it with DNA that was designed on a computer and synthesized in a lab. This was the first organism in the history of life on Earth to have an entirely synthetic genome. They called it JCVI-syn1.0. This can’t rightly be called the creation of a living cell. They manipulated cells from an already existing bacteria. This is the best they can do. They did not really create a living cell, as is claimed, they manipulated, under very tightly controlled circumstances, a cell that already existed. They most certainly DID NOT create life! They simply hi-jacked the process that already existed.
Life is a wonderful mystery. Can’t we just set our intellectual pride aside and admit that? Science does not have the answers to everything. Science can’t explain the mystery of existence. The Bible, God’s book, gives us the only answer to that question. The knowledge and understanding of God’s purposes in Jesus Christ is the only real thing that gives life meaning.
Any living thing, be it a salamander, a cat, a horse, a human being, whatever, at one point did not exist. Then, the conception process that God originated, through the sexual interaction of male and female produced the offspring, the living thing in question. It then existed as a living being. All living beings, in the world as we know it, die. Life, in the sense that we currently understand it, is finite. I am speaking in human terminology. The Bible indicates that there is such a thing as eternal life, but that is not what we witness with our five senses within the world as we know it right now.
Life must arise from the union of opposite genders. Every human being that exists and has ever existed has either male or female DNA. That can’t be changed. A baby is either born with XX or XY chromosomes. Gender is even true of plant life. We had several very large Oak trees in our yard. One of them was putting off a ton of acorns. I thought, since the trees were so close together, that the acorns were coming from both of them. One year, lightning hit the “female” tree and it was damaged so bad it had to be cut down. The next season, there were no acorns. I honestly did not know trees had male and female genders. But that is how everything, even plants, reproduce. There is no other way. “Gender transition” as it is commonly called is nothing of the sort. A male can’t be turned into a female, and vice-versa. They may perform surgeries to make the exterior of the body appear as the opposite gender, but the essence of the person, the genetic make-up, is not changed. That is why sexual union between the same gender is such an abomination. It goes against the very order of miraculously created life. The only exception to this rule of sexual reproduction is the conception and birth of Jesus Christ, the God-Man, born of the virgin Mary. This life came about as the result of no sexual union. This was a miracle, because the God of Creation is not subject to the same laws that He instituted to govern His created order. He can do anything. God is the only being, outside of the dimensions of space and time that He created, that can do anything. The Bible says that nothing is impossible for God. Does He do everything? Obviously not, but that is because it is not His will. That is why, and how this miraculous birth proves the existence of an all -powerful Creator God. This act, in and of itself, proves His total and complete control over His created order. The miracles that Jesus Christ performed while on this Earth, prove His deity, His oneness with God. The miracles that the Apostles and Prophets of God performed were empowered by God to do were proof of the power of God on their lives to bring forth His Word. Contrary to what is currently being taught by what is called the New Apostolic Reformation and the Word of Faith movement, Jesus Christ did not perform His miracles as simply a man, to show to us the example that a man or woman who is in right relationship with God is empowered to do miracles. Jesus did not come to be our miracle performing model, so we might be expected to be able to do the same things. This is a dangerous heresy that has crept into the Church and needs to be avoided and eradicated. The charlatans who proclaim this teaching are not even capable of performing the miracles themselves that they proclaim believers should be able to manifest. Everything they do is sleight of hand and parlor tricks to deceive their listeners. Jesus warned us that in the latter days many false prophets and teachers would arise to deceive. We are witnessing this on a staggering level in the times we are living in right now. This is NOT to say that miracles don’t still occur. They do. But the miracles that do occur are the action of God, not by men that claim some special priviledged status. The fact that we exist at all is a miracle. As you read this, contemplate the miracle of your own existence. You exist. You did not create yourself, you did not will yourself into existence. You were created. God did not just instantaneously create you as He did Adam and Eve. He created them, and through them, He instituted the means by which all other human beings would come into existence, the sexual union of a man and a woman.
Regardless of what you think about relationships between same gender couples, contemplate for a moment the miracle of conception, the creation of life. God has designed His created order in such a way that He allows us the privilege of partnering with Him in the creation of life! A male and a female create life. A male and a male, or a female and a female can’t create life. It goes against God’s created order. My wife and I had two children, and I was present for the birth of both of them. I was absolutely overwhelmed both times with knowing that God gave us the privilege of partnering with Him in His created order to produce two new lives, and the initiation of this process was highly enjoyable! (Just a side benefit.) How wonderful God is! We all need to stop our life’s busyness and contemplate the miracle of our own life.
As every living being comes into existence, it also goes out of existence (as we know it.) Have you ever been with someone when they died? I have, several times. One minute, they are living, the next, they are not. What happened? There is something that was there, that is no longer there. That is the life, the soul. It has left. What is a soul? The soul is the life force that animated the physical body. We can’t put it back. Despite the Dr. Frankenstein fantasy, we do not have the power to bring a dead body back to life. Physically, it is the same, but the soul has left. Without a Biblical understanding of reality, this can’t be explained. Now, there are many recorded instances of people being temporarily dead who were brought back to life. This should be understood as resuscitation, not resurrection. The person was not actually dead totally. Jesus Christ did, on several occasions raise people from the dead, A few of the Apostles raised people from the dead, and Elijah the prophet raised a boy from the dead and restored him to his mother. It is even recorded in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 27, that when Christ was crucified, “the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and went into the holy city and appeared to many people.” The Bible does not tell us what became of these people. It is a very brief passage of scripture that is rarely, if ever, talked about in church. I have to conclude that all of these events were temporary resurrections, not permanent resurrection as like what will happen at the final consummation of all things. All of these were miraculous events to show that YHWH, the preincarnate Jesus Christ, and the actual incarnation of YWWH in the person of Jesus Christ, was the one and only who held the power of life and death. God is the giver of life, the source of all life, so He, and He alone is capable of restoring life after physical death has occurred.
There are two opposing views of human nature that seek to explain the nature of human life. One of them is called trichotomy. This is the idea that the human consists of soul, spirit and body, making a distinction between what constitutes the immaterial part of a human. It is said that the spirit is the immaterial part and that the soul consists of the union of spirit and body. The spirit must be united to the body to form the soul, but the soul is also seen as immaterial. The other view is what is known as dichotomy. This view also recognizes the immaterial (invisible) and the material (visible), thus soul and body, or spirit and body, depending on the terminology you choose to use. My personal thinking is more in line with the view of dichotomy. To try and differentiate between spirit and soul over-complicates and confuses the matter. Suffice it to say, there is the immaterial and material. While the Bible uses all three terms in different places, spirit, soul and body, it might be rightly argued that the terms spirit and soul can be used interchangeably and are just two different words to describe the same thing. I will not be contentious about it either way, and how you chose to define your terms on this matter will not change anything one way or other but is helpful to know the terms. In our language, the way we use the words mind, soul, heart, spirit, etc. in my opinion all mean the same thing. It is that immaterial part of us, our life that animates our physical bodies. It is what makes us who we are as individuals.
We all live, knowing in theory that one day we will die, but we live and act as if we do not believe that. We should all live with the awareness of our impending death, not in a morbid way, but as the motivation for driving us to the One who can save us from that eternal fate and the desire to be forgiven of our sins, so we do not have to face that judgement. We all, also live with the inherent understanding that we will, one day, face judgement. This is built into our DNA, but is denied by people for the purpose of justifying our own sin, the inbuilt tendency we all have to vear towards doing what we instinctively know to be wrong. This is what is referred to in Christian Theology as Original Sin. This is the reason for all the evil in the world. God did not do it, man did, by disobeying his Creator. By voluntarily choosing to believe a lie.
The Bible records very plainly in the opening chapters of Genesis that when God created man and breathed into him the “breath of life” (the creation of the spirit, or soul of man), He made it known to man that disobedience to Him would result in death, the cessation of their lives. God gives us life, and He can take it away. It is His to give, and it is His to take away since He made it all anyway. We have no say so in this matter. Humans act like children who get an allowance from their father every week. If they do their choirs (obey), they get the money, if not, they don’t. The children are in no position to argue. They either do what they are supposed to and get their allowance, or they choose not to, and they don’t get the benefit. Obey the life giver, or get your life taken away. Plain and simple.
The Apostle Paul writes the following in Romans Chapter 1, beginning in verse 18, (the text is plain, my comments are in bold):
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse. (We must all decide for ourselves if we choose to acknowledge God as the Creator of all. All people who have ever existed can see the marvel of God’s glorious Creation. We live in it, we move in it, we exist in it. We did not create it. We depend on it to sustain our existence. We all have this ability to see this, we just choose not to. God gives it to us to see the reality of His existence by what He has made. His Creation testifies to us of Him. It doesn’t matter what we have, or have not been taught about religion, or anything else. It does not matter what our life circumstances are, whether we are rich or poor, whether we live in a free country or communism, whether we are sick or well, whether, whether, whether. We all have the ability to see the glory of God in His creation. We choose, individually whether or not we choose to recognize this. This stands at the core of how we choose to interpret reality. We have no one to blame in this regard other than ourselves. You can either choose to believe that the existence of everything has no meaning, or reason, or believe that a marvelous, creative mind is behind it all. As far as I am concerned, no other explanation of it has ever been postulated by the mind of man that can explain our existence. Our society has been infected by the nonsense explanation of evolution, which has no reason for beginning or purpose for anything except random chance. This seems like the most bleak outlook possible for any human being to have.)
21 For although they knew God, (We inherently know. We choose to block it out.) they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. (Although the ability to know God as Creator is built into us by God Himself, we will remain in darkness unless we choose to glorify God and give Him thanks for our lives and all the good things He has provided for us.) 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. (Mankind has always concocted its own ideas about what God is thought to be like, and we compare Him to things we see on the earth. This is the height of foolishness and gives no hope. God has, through the course of years, given us the written record of all His significant dealings with mankind, specifically through the nation of Israel. We have the ability to know what we need to know, we just choose to ignore it.) 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. (God has given us the marvelous gift of sexual love between male and female, for the re-creation of the race, and we have turned it into something perverted, shameful and ugly.) 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen. (Everyone worships something or someone. God is the only One deserving of our worship, but we give it to people, animals, things in the cosmos, statues of things represented in the spiritual realm, etc. Anything that you give your attention and devotion to is your idol.)
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. (Homosexuality, and now, transgenderism. Both are perverted distortions of God’s beautifully crafted reality and order.)
28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.”
Psalm 19: 1-4 states the following:
1 The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
2 Day after day they pour forth speech;
night after night they reveal knowledge.
3 They have no speech, they use no words;
no sound is heard from them.
4 Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.
Nature itself cries out to us, it shouts to us of the glory of God. We have no excuse if we choose to close our minds and souls to it.
Our lives are based on what we choose to believe, what we choose to think, and who and what we choose to listen to. Listening is not just audio. It also involves reading. Writers speak to us through the written and printed word. The Bible explains the meaning of our lives to us, if we choose to listen to it. God has orchestrated the creation of the Bible for us down through the ages, through the writing and recording of His Word, through the Scribes, and those who record the words and acts of God. This is a miracle, a set of writings that could not have been concocted in the mind of a man, or men. There are 66 different writings in the canon of Scripture as it exists today. The writers are men from all walks of life, all different places, all different times, different social and political settings, and yet the common thread runs through it from start to finish. We are privileged to have this wonderful gift. Psalm 19 goes on to say:
7 The law of the Lord is perfect,
refreshing the soul.
The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy,
making wise the simple.
8 The precepts of the Lord are right,
giving joy to the heart.
The commands of the Lord are radiant,
giving light to the eyes.
9 The fear of the Lord is pure,
enduring forever.
The decrees of the Lord are firm,
and all of them are righteous.
They are more precious than gold,
than much pure gold;
they are sweeter than honey,
than honey from the honeycomb.
11 By them your servant is warned;
in keeping them there is great reward.
The Bible is unlike any book that has ever been written. The Bible does not answer all our questions about everything. That would be impossible for any book. The Bible is not a chronology of world history, but it does contain the history of God creating and dealing with mankind over the course of the years. It is very specific history for a very specific purpose. The purpose is the eventual revelation of God of Himself in the person of the God/Man, Jesus Christ, and the history of the people that God chose to bring forth this revelation to the world. The Bible is not a science book, but it does address some of the issues that science grapples with and provides the framework through which we can understand our lives in this world that was created by God for a specific purpose, and the eventual outcome. The Bible answers the basic questions everyone wrestles with at some point in their lives. Is there a God? What is He like? Why was mankind created in the first place? Why is man so noble, yet so weak and sinful, all at the same time? What can be done about it? How should people behave? Does history have any meaning? Is it heading anywhere? All of the Bible is directed to the relationship between God and man. At the risk of sounding like an oversimplification, although the issue is simple, the issue plays out in a messy and complicated way. I would summarize the message, in my own words as follows:
Since God’s essence is love, He desires to love and be loved. We desire to love and be loved. There is no such thing as coerced love, real love must always be an act of freewill. If the possibility of choosing to not love is not an option, then there is no real love. At love’s core, it is not an emotion, although it can create emotion, love is a choice. God created mankind with freewill, which means the option to not love had to also exist. For me, that in a nutshell is the reason for the test of the option to partake of the Tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Two distinct paths were laid out for mankind to choose. The Tree of life, choosing to love and obey our good and holy Creator, and enjoy being in His presence forever, or to partake of the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, which represents man’s choice to decide for himself what is Good or Evil. God is the ultimate Judge of all things. So, in essence, man has chosen to be his own god, to set himself up as the ultimate judge. This is the root of all sin: We don’t want to listen to God and obey His instructions, but instead we do what we choose to do.
Many, many people refuse to read the Bible and contemplate its words of life. Why? People read all kinds of books, books to learn and books to entertain, but refuse to read the Bible. Think of all the books you were required to read and study during your years of school. If you are a college graduate, think of all the many thick books you were required to read and study. Think of all the papers you were required to write. I am looking at some of my Bibles right now. The comprehensive NIV Study Bible I have beside me right now has a total of 2480 pages. This is one of the largest Bibles I have because it has lots of notes, commentary, study tips, maps, diagrams, table of contents and concordance. (Probably only about 2/3 of it is actual Scripture.) Most of the Bibles we have access to are not this long. Some might say, “It’s too much!” But think about this: I have read many books that are 500 to 1000 pages long. Moby Dick is a very long book and I read it in about a month, reading on and off every day. Stephen King’s popular novel, “The Stand” is well over 1000 pages long, and I would venture to say that there are tons of non-Bible reading people that have devoured it. (I am NOT encouraging you to read this novel! It would probably give you nightmares! I am just making an example of book lengths people read.) I would say, generally speaking most Bibles will average about 800 pages or so, provided there is not a lot of additional material included in the pages, the size of the print, etc. There are also what they call Yearly Bibles that allow you to read through the entire Bible in one year if you follow the daily reading plan and stick to it. If a person has no knowledge of God’s Word, it is their own fault. You can even listen to the Bible in audio format. You WILL be required by God to give an account of yourself on His day of judgement, so it might be in your best interest to find out the truth so you can align your life accordingly. In this day and age, people have no excuse for not studying God’s Word. It is available everywhere mostly, in many different formats. You can even get it now on many different, excellent Bible apps for your phone, iPad, laptop, whatever digital media you use.
People have all kinds of crazy ideas about things they think it says in the Bible. They might have gotten their ideas second hand from what someone else said, or something they heard on a podcast, or youtube video, or read in a magazine or book. Who knows? But the bottom line is that there will be a day of judgement, and your guilt or acquittal will be based on what is written in the Bible.
God’s book initially explains to us the nature of reality. It is the way things really are, not how we imagine them to be, or how we desire for them to be in our minds.
As I mentioned earlier, the heresy of the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR for short) contains disturbing and destructive element in what is called “Word of Faith”. This tells people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. This will tie in with what I want to examine about reality. I will see if I can summarize the gist of it without getting overly complicated:
1. They teach that “faith” is a quantifiable substance. You can have none, a little, or a lot. It’s like magic; the more faith you have, the more you can twist God’s arm with your prayers to make Him do what you want (demand of Him.) They use words like “Decree” and “Declare” to make it sound official. They teach that with your plethora of faith you can bend the fabric of reality and basically do whatever you want. They teach that God made everything through HIS faith. They say God has faith in the same way we have faith, and He is dependent on it to get stuff done. They teach that God depends on us. It is a twisting of, and horrid manipulation of the text that says, “Faith is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things unseen.” This is obviously a metaphor, not an insinuation that faith is like some kind of “super elastic bubble plastic” that you can just bend and shape to make whatever you want. To believe and teach such nonsense is utter blasphemy. And to say God has faith is blasphemy. Who, or what would the Omnipotent Creator have faith in? There is nothing and no one higher than Him.
2. NAR teaches the Health and Wealth, Name it, Claim It heresy. Who doesn’t want to be healthy and wealthy? That is what we, in our fallen nature want. We think that is what we need for our lives to be good. According to their teaching, it is always God’s will for His people to be financially secure and healthy. This is based on the twisting of 3 John 2:2 KJV: “Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health, even as thy soul prospereth.” This is NOT a prescriptive text stating God’s will for followers of Jesus Christ. It is a common greeting, along the lines of “I hope you are doing well” that could be included in any written greeting. It is just a greeting, not a Biblical formula for being healthy and wealthy. The health and wealth preachers lead people to believe if they are sick that it is their own fault because they do not have enough faith to be healed. That takes the blame for the lack of healing off of the heretics that teach this idea and places it squarely on the shoulders of those seeking the healing and not finding it. It leaves the heretical teachers totally unaccountable. They are free to teach all the lies they want to. They teach the idea of “seed giving”. You will hear that term used a lot. That is the idea that if you give to their rich “ministries” God will bless you for your giving and give back to you ten-fold. They become rich by peddling empty promises, and those giving to them are left empty-handed and disillusioned. Some people will finally catch on and stop coming to their crusades and giving to their “ministries”, but it doesn’t matter. As they leave, new victims will enter, and the cycle of heretical preachers just rolls on as their bank accounts grow larger and larger.
3. The third thing, but certainly not the last and only issue with the NAR is their promotion of what is called the “Seven Mountains Mandate”. The gist of the teaching goes something like this: There are seven “mountains” (spheres of influence) in society that the “church” must gain control of in order to straighten out the mess that has been made of them to prepare the way for the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. In other words, we better get our act together and get this mess straightened out, or Jesus won’t come back! This would be comical if it wasn’t for the fact that this absurd heresy is so negatively affecting so many gullible Christians. The seven spheres of influence, or “mountains” are: family, religion, education, media, arts and entertainment, business, and government.
Don’t get me wrong on this one. I do agree that, as Christians, we should be a positive influence for Christ in all these areas of society. We should, as Christ said, “Let our light shine.” We should not hide our faith out of the fear of being ridiculed or disliked. But this “mountain mandate” thing goes way beyond that. Jesus plainly said, “My Kingdom is not of this world.” And Jesus plainly rejected the Jewish notion during His time that the Messiah would be a conquering king in this world’s sense of the word. The Jews of Jesus’s day wanted a political Messiah to overthrow the Roman oppression. Jesus refused to assume that role. It was not his purpose. Nor is it the Church’s purpose to overthrow world systems of power. This is just a continuation of the original lie that led to the curse and fall of man in the Garden. The desire of sinful man wanting to usurp God’s throne of power over His Creation and be his own god, wrapped in the garb of a false gospel pretending to be Christianity.
As citizens of the United States of America, we should love and support our country. However, we should NEVER worship it. We should, in humility, be grateful for the blessing of being able to live in a land that is relatively safe and prosperous compared to many other places in the world. We should steward our citizenship well and appreciate it. We should not be proud and arrogant and think that it is because we deserve it. We do not. We were just fortunate that in God’s providence, and in circumstances beyond our control, we were allowed to live here.
Along with the dangerous doctrinal errors of the New Apostolic Reformation there is another dangerous and heretical movement that is massively influencing the Church. That is what is referred to as “Christian Nationalism.” The danger of Christian Nationalism is that it makes bedfellows of the Church and the State, and the Seven Mountains Mandate is the framework through which this takes place. Many forms of this idea have existed throughout the course of time, such as Constantine’s Rome, the Roman Catholic Church’s influence in world affairs, and even, to some extent, Hitler’s Germany. The Christian churches that existed in Germany during the time of Hitler’s holocaust should have put up a much greater resistance to Hitler’s evil plans instead of just going along with it for the sake of trying to stay out of trouble with the government. (Self-preservation can put us in hell.) The Old Testament prophetic writings should prove to us time and time again that ALL nations eventually fall. (Read God’s words against Tyre in chapter 26 of Ezekiel as just one poignant example among many.) Mankind’s systems of government always, without exception, because of the greedy and power-hungry nature of human sin, lead to narcissistic, greedy men manipulating the systems and economies to their own personal advantage under the guise of “serving the people”, which they do not. Christian Nationalism is subtly creeping into our doctrines and practices to the point that the nation is taking a higher place of honor in our thinking than God. Ultimately God is the only savior, not our government. God’s purpose for all mankind, “all nations” is spelled out time and time again in the words of the Old and New Testaments. God’s purpose for Israel, was for Israel to demonstrate, through their covenant relationship to YWHW that it was, and is, His will, His Salvation (Redemption) for all nations, all of mankind, and ultimately all of creation, that would join in His New Covenant (Testament) through the shed blood of Jesus Christ for the remission of our sins, and know Him as both Savior and Lord of all. Israel, time and time again, failed miserably at accomplishing this because of their proclivity to return to idol worship through the bad influence of nations that they should have been influencing for YHWH. Instead, they fell prey to the idolatrous practices of those nations. There are a lot of manipulative ways that Christian Nationalism is being promoted for the purposes of political power, rather that the spread of the Gospel. The Gospel is seen as a means to a political, not a spiritual end. It is being used as a pawn for political purposes, under the guise of spiritualism. One of the ways this can be seen is in the increasing prominence of the syncretism of religious doctrines and practices of very differing religious camps for the purpose of political ambitions. For those with discerning eyes this was evident in the recent memorial service of Charlie Kirk, and many of those speaking at this memorial service. Along with many doctrinally sound speakers, there was also many within the ecumenical camp that represented decidedly non-Christian ideologies and systems of spiritual belief. This is not to speak disparagingly of Charlie Kirk himself. He was, during his time on this earth, taking on the task of engaging many destructive ideologies adhered to by the college age youth of our nation, and the world for the purpose of constructive debate.
There are a lot of complicated pieces to this puzzle. I can’t hope to tackle all of them at this point in time, but having said what I began with, the marvel of our own existence, I think now is the time for cooler heads to prevail as we sort through all this. We begin this process by finding peace within our own hearts. This begins with each of examining and contemplating, with gratitude and thankfulness to our marvelous, and complex Creator for His love to us, and His desire that none should perish, and that all should come to repentance and forgiveness of our sins through Jesus Christ our Lord, for now and evermore. Perhaps we all need to shut off the media for a while, get in touch with our own hearts, and first find peace with God, and then with each other. Amen.
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