Superheroes

Superheroes

Why are we so fascinated with superheroes?

We know that radiation will kill you, not turn you into a green superhuman like the Incredible Hulk.

The Fantastic Four exposed to cosmic radiation, most likely would all get cancer, not acquire each their own individual superpower. Think about it with no direction this random event endows them with great power. What a fantasy!

Children of the Atom, are not X-men, they are still born and/or deformed. There are some children born with extra chromosomes. They have Down syndrome, hardly a great foundation for superheroes.

Why do we think this way? How is it that we are compelled to believe that a radiated spider can endow a teenage boy with superpowers? A total accident might systematically re-map his genetics, and give him the proportional strength and senses of the spider itself.

Isn't that exactly what is taught in school? Radiation met matter and created life. Some how, some way, against all logic we are told that some kind of radiation, in conjunction with perhaps crystals caused life began. HUH? Where is the science? This is mere conjecture. Worse it’s the same conjecture that creates superheroes.

Nuclear accidents don’t create heroes they bring death. If you believe that life sprang forth randomly from lifeless matter perhaps you believe Spiderman is not a stretch. It’s the exact same logic. What incredible faith you have.

Scientist, even now seek to create life in a jar. If and when they succeed they will only prove that intelligent influence is a required element in the development of that life. Strongly indicating that intelligence is required in the beginning of all life.

In the beginning God…
-Genesis 1:1

Share the Gospel

Once I worked with a young woman that took a week off to go to an “evangelism” training workshop. When she told me about this I asked her. “So what did they teach you?”
To which she explained, “To ask things like, If you were to die tonight where would you be tomorrow?.”
“I see”, I said, “Where did they get that from scripture?”
She thought about it for a moment. “ I don’t know.”
The answer of course is that it doesn’t come from scripture. No Biblical evangelist ever asked that question. After explaining that to her I told her, “The fact that a sinner is going to hell is a great motivator for you to share the gospel, but it is simply foolishness to them.”

In fact the Bible says:

1Cr 2:14
But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know [them], because they are spiritually discerned.

That was the end of that conversation.
Sharing the Gospel can be a scary thing, but the sinner already faces something much more frightening, and much more real. Let your knowledge of the sinner’s fate motivate you to share the good news with them. Don’t worry so much about messing up. The sinner is already hell bound, any seed that you plant or fail to plant cannot make his condition any worse. However even the smallest seed you plant can be used by God.

Go out and share the Gospel

God Bless,

Robert

Unpopular Fruit

For years I attended a church that was big into the Spirit, and week after week these people would pray over one another. Most of them for circumstances they controlled. Essentially they prayed that God would undo the results of their own behavior. The Bible is very clear, you reap what you sow.

I want to talk about an unpopular aspect of the Spirit.

Gal 5:22b But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control

Self-control

Did you catch that? A fruit of the Spirit, that all saints have, is self-control. Now many of us are not exercising self control, but we who have His Spirit within us have self-control. It is just part of the beginner pack you get as a new Christian. Unfortunately, its also the part that most of us disregard. For many of us it is the missing element of an abundant life.

Today I would like you to focus on that aspect of the Spirit, and how you can use it for God's glory. There is no reason at all that you cannot experience success in any area of your life utilizing self-control. If you get this, you understand that there are no more excuses. You can study the word more diligently. You can focus more on your family, job, or anything else.You can stay away from junk foods and loose weight. You can do anything, because you have "self-control".

1Co 9:25 And every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self-control in all things. Now they do it to receive a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

If people will exercise self-control in a lesser pursuits like games, how much more should we peruse that which glorifies God. Look at your self, do you glorify God? Do you glorify God in your home, at work, and in all areas of your life? Or do you have no self control...do you give into the flesh every time it calls? Maybe it is time for self reflection.

2Ti 3:1-4 But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

Is that a better picture of you? If so Repent.

Let this verse be a road map to your succes:
2Pe 1:5-9 Yea, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in your virtue knowledge; and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness; and in your godliness brotherly kindness; and in your brotherly kindness love. For if these things are yours and abound, they make you to be not idle nor unfruitful unto the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. For he that lacketh these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins

I pray that you may see that God has given you self control, and that you will exercise it for His glory.

Amen

Have I told you lately that I love you?

Have I told you lately that I love you?
Have I told you there is no one else above you?

These are the first two lines to a lovely and romantic song. They got stuck in my head the other day, and after singing them again, and again, I thought what a wonderful praise to God these lines would be. Instead they speak to a man that has his priorities out of order.

Whenever we put anyone over God we have sinned, and what naturally results is sinful. At times we have elevated people and worshiped them over God. Pharaoh, Caesar, and Nebuchadnezzar are among some blatant examples of that. Other times it is much more subtle…

Men will do that with their women. They may even say they worship her. I would contend this is exactly what Adam did when he partook of the forbidden fruit. After all he was not deceived as Eve was.

1Ti 2:14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.

Adam willfully disobeyed God to follow his wife; as a result he broke the only law given to him. By placing her above God he was easily able to disobey His commands.

And the rest is His story…

The Bible is filled with similar stories, of men with their priorities out of whack. Men who worshiped the created over the creator, that ultimately leads to their destruction.

It is important for Christian men as Christians and Patriarchs in our families that we keep God in the right place in our lives.

-Amen

Mat 4:10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.