Is being good good enough?

The announcer on the radio said that America is great because it is good.  But Scripture says, "They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one." Psalm 14:1 & 3 - 4

How are we standing? Just listening and be aware of what transformations this country is going through. For that matter, all of the Americas; "This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away." II Timothy 3:1-5


Do not be decieved, God is not mocked what a man sows, that he will reap." Gal 6:7

So, Who Is Your Father?

God is not partial. His judgments are based on fairness and justice; He judges all: the Jew, the Gentile, the free, the slave, the young, the old, the male, the female by the same standard. God cannot and will not tolerate sin for He is a Holy God. Still, all must know that He does not delight in judgment and wants all to come to salvation; He has made a way for this for all. Having said this, those who turn their backs to Him rejecting His call of salvation, will be judged. The people. the nation, the leaders of a nation who turn their backs to Him, who blaspheme His name; who turn to idols and worship the created will be judged. What makes you think that this western hemisphere can continue denying God and escape judgment? If He allowed the Jews to be conquered, taken in exile, Jerusalem sacked the Temple demolished and expelled from their land for their idolatry from after the time of Solomon to the First Century; what makes you think He will look with special favor on America just because it calls itself a country that believes in God?

Don’t be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction. So will a nation reap what it sows. The nation that does to please its sinful nature will reap destruction.

Through Isaiah the prophet God spoke of His judgment against Jerusalem and Judah: “…People will oppress each other - man against man, neighbor against neighbor. The young man will rise up against the old, the base against the honorable … Oh my people, your guides lead you astray; they turn you from the path. ( Does this sound somewhat familiar today over 2500 years later?).  The Lord takes His place in court; He rises to judge the people. The Lord enters into judgment against the elders and leaders of His people; It is you who have ruined my vineyard…” (Gal. 6:7; & Is 3).

So, where do you stand? Who is your father?

So, Who's Your Father? Prt. 2

   And Jesus said to a group of upright, uptight, religious elite that they couldn't understand what He was saying because they couldn't hear His word.  He told them that they were of their father the devil, that they did his desires, that he was a murderer from the beginning ...John 8:44

    Two States, California and Georgia, define murder in their Penal and Criminal Codes respectively as unlawfully and with malice aforethought cause the death of another human being. California adds a fetus.  Georgia adds that malice is to be implied where the circumstances of the killing show an "abandoned and malignant heart".

   When speaking about inner purity Jesus said that what comes from the mouth, that is what is said, comes from the heart and that is what makes a man unclean because all that comes from the heart are "... evil thoughts, adultry, murder, theft ..." (Matt. 15:18).  God tells us in Jeremiah that the heart is decietful above all else and is beyond cure and that man will give an account for every spoken word and thought to Him. God searches the heart and examines the mind (Jer. 17:9-10)

Now, Jesus said that the Law said not to commit murder, but He adds that anyone who is angry and has thoughts of anger against anyone, that is the same as having committed muder. All thoughts, temptations come from within, from the heart and the heart is decietful above everything and beyond cure.

Bob Dylan wrote You Gotta Serve Somebody.

You may be an ambassador to England or France

You may like to gamble, you might like to dance

You may be the heavyweight champion of the world

You may be a socialite with a long string of pearls.

But you're gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed

You're gonna have to serve somebody,

It may be the devil or it may be the Lord

But you're gonna have to serve somebody

Jesus said

No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. (Luke 16:13a)

So, who is your daddy?

Who is Your Father?

Those who are constantly hiding from the truth, who speak lies; conciously or, though hard to fathom, not being concious of it are following the natural state of the creature - that is of being apart from any grace exerted by God.

When Jesus was confronted by the those that were plotting against Him, they said that the only Father they have is God. Jesus inturn replied to them by saying that they were unable to hear what He had to say, that they belonged to their father the devil; they wanted to carry out their father's desire.That their father had no truth in him and that when he lies he is speaking his native language because he is a liar and the father of lies. You can read it all in context in john 8:31ff.

When a person says something that is not true, even to go as far as to say a true statement with the intention of being deceptive, that person is a liar. That is the natural state of all people.

"Whatever does not proceed from faith is sin." Romans 14:23.  This is a radical indictment against mankind of all natural virtue that doesn't flow from relying on God's grace.  No one can ever recornize the terrible condition of the heart by assessing it only in relation to others.  It is clear from Romans 14:23 that the depravity of man is first and foremost in our relation to God, secondarily in our relation to others.

Apart from God, one is not His child. All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.  There is no one good, no not one. To be a child of God, one must be born of God. "flesh give birth to flesh, but the Spirit give birth to spirit. You should not be surprised at my saying you must be born again... unless a man be born again he can not even see the kingdon of heaven."John 31-21