For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1 — English Standard Version
The news article following my comments was in my email this morning and sent to me by a brother in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and a friend.
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
1 Peter 4:17 — English Standard Version
Tragically, understandably, it is we very professed Christians in America who are directly responsible for the spiritually diseased and lost condition our nation is in. Oh, yes, we are where we now are due to evil and its lies, the last of the last day’s Bible prophecies coming to fruition, but the professed light of the world, the salt of the earth has been stuck in neutral, lukewarm, coasting as well as turning to the world, thus listening to Satan, while turning from God and His Word. The light of the world is dim and hidden, difficult to see and the salt has lost its savor, its flavor. Is it any wonder then? Why act so amazed when discovering the reality of what is happening in America, on this earth?
The greater number of professed Christian churches and thus the body has turned to the word of man over the Word of God. If at all going to the Word of God treating it as a dinner menu from a restaurant they go to where they don’t even read the whole menu but pick and choose only that which pleases them and satisfies their current appetite. Which is for what they foolishly think is sweet but in truth is bitter. That which they believe is good, but in reality is bad.
It is we professed Christians who have been asleep, naive, idle, otherwise occupied, placing everything else ahead of living out Christian lives as our priority, our massive gullibility and trusting in man, having delusions about where we live that has brought about the current state of our dysfunctional union that is no union at all. But a pit of ever-increasing darkness and sin turned to Satan imagining ourselves enlightened, progressive and getting better.
Few visit this place. But those that have come here know from the outset over 11 years ago now I have railed and written to the point of making redundancy redundant none of this, none of what is happening is the supposed distracting battle of American politics, the whole left vs right, liberal vs. conservative lie it has been thought — and thought continues to this very moment to be this way BY THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF PROFESSED CHRISTIANS WHO STILL INSIST IT’S POLITICAL as they write and speak the political first rather than being aware and standing firm THAT EVERYTHING — EVERYTHING — ABOUT EVERYTHING IS PART AND PARCEL OF THE ONGOING AND ESCALATING SPIRITUAL WAR!
Yet so many, the overwhelming majority have grown numb and blind to this fact. Again picking and choosing as if seated in a restaurant looking at a menu. Always ordering the same dish and becoming weaker and malnourished as a result because the choices made are to please the moment, the flesh, rather than the spirit thinking eternally.
It’s all about God.
It’s all about the Lord Jesus Christ.
It’s all about the Holy Spirit — which is rarely if ever mentioned or acknowledged!
It’s all about the Word of God!
Which no longer is the Authority supplanted now, even among the majority of professed Christians with the word of man.
Wake up if you’re still slumbering, still on autopilot, still residing in some fantasy delusional realm as most have been and still are!
Do you realize what is actually taking place now? Elections, politicians, and even America have less, much, much less to do with everything than what truly exists in individual hearts and minds.
For it is what truly resides in individual hearts and minds which is now revealed to some that was revealed to what seems a few all along the way as this erosion and turning from God was evident to a remnant while the majority went merrily along their way — ushering in, throwing open the door, not even needing a Trojan Horse, permitting the Enemy to walk right in!
Want to appoint blame for our current condition my friends? Oh, it’s Satan, all his ministers and minions certainly, but he would not have such a foothold were it not for that you see when peering into a mirror and allowing that image to dissipate to seep in deeper to what has been reflected in the individual heart and mind.
Lukewarm equals death.
Otherwise occupied in the world equals weakness and perhaps living on milk at best and never growing.
It’s time as there never has been a time before to gird those loins, and put on the full armour of God and understand what that means. Not on a Sunday morning. Then removing the whole armour of God come Monday morning and going out naked into the world until it’s “showtime!” again the following Sunday.
Wake up.
Stop being so deluded!
Realize the reality in which you live. We live. And know the signs of the times!
Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20 — English Standard Version
if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 — English Standard Version
Don’t believe it begins and ends with the people of God? Then you haven’t really been reading and understanding the Bible, have you? Beginning at Genesis 1 and throughout every single word in the Word to Revelation 22 — all about God, the Lord Jesus Christ, the working of the Holy Spirit — and how God’s people live, believe, react, what God’s people do. Either obey God or get caught up in themselves, in the world remaining in bondage rather than understanding what freedom really means. And it doesn’t mean coasting, increasing your 401k, focusing on your children’s activities and sporting events, becoming bound to the news as presented by the world, thus knowing the source of that information and the how and why it is being delivered as it is — it’s all about God and God’s people. What we do. What we don’t do. And everything in the world then happens accordingly.
The sinners and the evil are always present. But the example of what happens to those chosen by God when they turn from Him is evidenced throughout the word of God. Pick up a copy. Really read it and begin to understand it. All that transpired in the Old Testament isn’t ancient or irrelevant. It all is happening right now this very day to God’s people. For how we are disobedient, loving the world more than really loving God.
Don’t think so? Refuse to believe that? Maybe it’s then time to look around intently, listen intently, inhale deeply and let the acrid stench of the rising evil enter, and time to wake up Christian and enjoin the war at hand which there is no peace treaty coming until the Lord Jesus Christ once again sets His foot upon the Mount of Olives…
Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Monday, August 22nd, 2022
Christian school refuses to change long-held policy excluding sexual behavior despite alleged death threats
“We’re not going to abandon this policy. God has spoken on these issues,” a school leader says
August 21, 2022
By Emma Colton
Reprinted from Fox News
A private Christian school in Florida is not backing down from a long-held policy that students not partake in sexual behavior outside of marriage despite alleged death threats against school leaders and accusations that the school is targeting gay and transgender students.
“If I backed down from something like this, I’m abandoning what God has said is the truth. I …. kind of rack my brain to like, ‘How is this hard for people to understand? This is what God said.’ This is one of the many reasons we have a Christian school, and we’re not going to abandon this policy. God has spoken on these issues,” Grace Christian School Administrator Barry McKeen told Fox News Digital in a phone interview Sunday.
The interview followed national news coverage of an email McKeen sent to the school community earlier this summer highlighting that students will only be identified by their “biological sex” and said that students who are found “participating” in gay or transgender lifestyles will be asked to “leave the school immediately.”
“We believe that God created mankind in His image: male (man) and female (woman), sexually different but with equal dignity,” the email McKeen sent to the school community in June reads, according to NBC News.
Compilation photo of Grace Christian School administrator Barry McKeen and exterior of the school. (Barry McKeen )
“Therefore, one’s biological sex must be affirmed and no attempts should be made to physically change, alter, or disagree with one’s biological gender — including, but not limited to, elective sex reassignment, transvestite, transgender, or non-binary gender fluid acts of conduct (Genesis 1:26-28). Students in school will be referred to by the gender on their birth certificate and be referenced in name in the same fashion,” the email continued.
McKeen said he was prompted to send the email as a reminder to parents that “although this is being celebrated and encouraged by the country, it is condemned by God. And at this school we’re gonna follow God instead of man.” He added that no students have been booted from the school over their sexual orientation.
One mother said she has pulled her daughter, who identifies as lesbian, from the school following McKeen’s email. She told the media that even though there are “loving teachers at that school” and she respects the school’s opinion, she removed her high schooler for the girl’s “wellbeing.”
McKeen told Fox News Digital that the policy is hardly new, explaining that the school has had a “human sexuality policy since day number one” back in 1975, and such a policy is common for Christian schools.
“We don’t expect any of our students who are not married to be sexual, whether it be bisexual, heterosexual or homosexual. I tell people, if a kid came in the doors, exclaiming how he was having sex with his girlfriend, that student would be expelled, as well,” McKeen said.
The school administrator, who has refused to speak to media outlets until the Fox News Digital interview, said that he and his family have since faced death threats following press coverage of his email on the policy. He added that he was even forced to beef up security at the school.
“It’s funny for us to … be painted as hateful. We have fielded hundreds, probably thousands of phone calls Thursday, Friday over the weekend, with just some of the most outrageous things: People threatening to burn my house down, threatening to kill my family,” McKeen said.
He added that the school was forced to have a “massive law enforcement” presence on Friday and hired armed security guards to bolster protection for the students from any potential threat.
But amid the outrage from some, McKeen said the school community and people across the country have wholeheartedly stood behind the policy, with one man even donating $5,000 to the school with a note telling school leaders to “stay strong, keep the faith.”
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“Our parents are so supportive. Many of them came to church this morning. They go to other churches normally, but they were here this morning to support. And we’re seeing tremendous support from all over the country even though we’ve been getting a lot of hate calls and hate mail,” he said. He also noted that the school currently has a wait list of more than 100 students.
A huge multi-colored flag flies over Ocean Drive as people participate in the Pride Parade, during the Miami Beach Pride Festival, in Lummus Park, South Beach, Florida on September 19, 2021. ((Photo by Giorgio Viera / AFP) (Photo by GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images))
McKeen published a response video following the news coverage last week and said that he was prompted do so because people were portraying the school as “hateful.”
McKeen relayed to Fox that he told the congregation at church on Sunday morning that the outrage over the policy “is just showing you where our country’s at. They either don’t understand God… or they’re just so rejecting of Him that they want to fight on every level about everything that He says.”
“Maybe God has picked us for this particular time to just encourage [like-minded people] that, ‘Hey, there are things worth standing up for, and we’re going to do that,'” he added.
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