Pressing On!

We have many things in which to be thankful for.  Just don’t forget who to thank, Our Father which art in Heaven.  Our nations leaders have always shown gratitude for what the Lord has blessed us with, I pray that our leaders today will keep that tradition going. 

     31 and 0.  If a basketball team started off a season 31-0 it would be all over the news.  If a baseball player got 31 hits in a row we would hear about it.  Well something more important than that has happened and we should hear about it.  Recently I received an update from the OneNewsNow group about the latest elections that took place and some of the voting results from that election.  The following is a clip of the article that was submitted by OneNewsNow.  It makes some very good points about what the majority of the people really think concerning gay-marriage.  Here is the article.

PORTLAND, Maine- Voters in Maine have rejected an effort by lawmakers there to impose homosexual “marriage” in that state.

Gay marriage has now lost in every single state – 31 in all – in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine – known for its liberal-minded electorate – and mounted an energetic, well-financed campaign. With 87 percent of the precincts reporting, proponents of traditional marriage had 53 percent of the votes.

“The institution of marriage has been preserved in Maine and across the nation,” declared Frank Schubert, chief organizer for the winning side.            
Gay-marriage supporters held out hope that the tide would shift before conceding defeat at 2:40 a.m. in a statement that insisted they weren’t going away. “We’re in this for the long haul. For next week, and next month, and next year – until all Maine families are treated equally. Because in the end, this has always been about love and family and that will always be something worth fighting for,” said Jesse Connolly, manager of the pro-gay marriage campaign.

Five other states have legalized gay marriage – starting with Massachusetts in 2004, and followed by Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Iowa – but all did so through legislation or court rulings, not by popular vote. In contrast, constitutional amendments banning gay marriage have been approved in all 30 states where they have been on the ballot.

Romans chapter 1 is very clear about the Christian view of homosexuality.  In verse 32 it states and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give approval to those who practice them.

     We played this video in Church on Sunday as a reminder of our freedoms in this country and for those who give them to us.  Praise the Lord for the U.S.A. and God Bless America. 

     Something we all need to be reminded of from time to time is something called an attitude adjustment.  We can read in the Bible out of    2 Chronicles 33:1-13 about just such an event. 

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he reigned fifty-five years in Jerusalem.  He did evil in the sight of the LORD according to the abominations of the nations whom the LORD dispossessed before the sons of Israel.  For he rebuilt the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; he also erected altars for the Baals and made Asherim, and worshiped all the host of heaven and served them.  He built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD had said, “My name shall be in Jerusalem forever.”  For he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD.  He made his sons pass through the fire in the valley of Ben-hinnom; and he practiced witchcraft, used divination, practiced sorcery and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.  Then he put the carved image of the idol which he had made in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen from all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever; and I will not again remove the foot of Israel from the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them according to all the law, the statutes and the ordinances given through Moses.”  Thus Manasseh misled Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to do more evil than the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the sons of Israel.  The LORD spoke to Manasseh and his people, but they paid no attention.  Therefore the LORD brought the commanders of the army of the king of Assyria against them, and they captured Manasseh with hooks, bound him with bronze chains and took him to Babylon.  When he was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.  When he prayed to Him, He was moved by his entreaty and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.

            There is an important lesson to be learned from this passage and that is this:  Even though Manasseh was on e the most vile reprobates you can think of, after God gave him an attitude adjustment, Manasseh repented of and turned completely away from the evil he had committed.  The end result was the best Manasseh could have hoped for.  God accepted him back.  Sadly many of the same despicable acts that were mentioned in our text are being committed in this nation today, the sacrificing of children through abortion, the practicing of witchcraft, talking to the dead and idol worship just to name a few.  Given the fact that there is no variation with God, as we can read in James 1:17, it will only be a matter of time before America receives a serious attitude adjustment.

            The same lesson Manasseh learned in the Old Testament still applies to us today.  As the Bible states in Hebrews 12:6 “Whom the Lord loves He chastens”.  So if the Lord corrects you for doing wrong just remember He is giving you an attitude adjustment.