The actions and words from this nation point to the issue that God is a none –being. The leaders of this nation on the other hand proclaim His name yet in the same breath reject Him by their deeds and words. They hide behind the law when it is of benefit to them. They are liars and hypocrites – "hypocrite," from the Greek “hupokrites” meaning an actor, a pretender under an assumed character, a stage player-
They ask God to bless America, but the question then is what god are they referring to? The gods of Hinduism, Islam, Krishna, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the man who became god in Mormonism? The people blindly follow.
Jeremiah spoke to Judah giving them God’s plea to repent, to return to God – But they refused even after being told that they would suffer exile from the land and Jerusalem be destroyed. God, the Lord Almighty, the great I AM is immutable. He does not change (Mal. 3:6; Mk 13:31; Heb. 13:8)). In that Scripture answers Scripture, and in that all Scripture is God breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking and training (2 Tim 3:16) – What was prophesied to Judah by Jeremiah, to Israel by Isaiah, to those in exile by Ezekiel and Daniel, will hold true for today for those who reject the Lord God Almighty.
What about you? Where do you stand? Who is your first love? Who do you place first? What is truly in your heart? Do you give lip service? Do you place reverence to the “traditions of your denomination” that you learned by rote, to those traditions invented by man? The Baptist, the Methodist, the Lutheran, the Greek Catholic, the Russian Catholic, the Roman Catholic, the Church of Christ, the emerging church, and on and on and on?
Are you one of the people whom the Lord speaks of that comes near Him with your mouth and give lip service but having your heart far away from Him? (Is. 29:3) Are you like the white washed tombs that are painted pretty on the outside but inside are filled with bones of dead men (Matt. 23:27)? Remember that the righteousness of man is nothing but filthy rags to God. These words are strong; filthy from the Hebrew “ayd” soiled from the periodic menstrual soiling. Man looks at himself/herself as righteous but God sees man as being covered by a soiled filthy cloth.
Yet God has given all people a way to put away those filthy rags and be covered with true righteousness. A way to truly repent, to change and that way is through Jesus Christ. He came so that all who come to Him will not perish but have everlasting life (Jn 3:16; Rom. 10:5)
They ask God to bless America, but the question then is what god are they referring to? The gods of Hinduism, Islam, Krishna, Mother Earth, Mother Nature, the man who became god in Mormonism? The people blindly follow.
Jeremiah spoke to Judah giving them God’s plea to repent, to return to God – But they refused even after being told that they would suffer exile from the land and Jerusalem be destroyed. God, the Lord Almighty, the great I AM is immutable. He does not change (Mal. 3:6; Mk 13:31; Heb. 13:8)). In that Scripture answers Scripture, and in that all Scripture is God breathed and useful for teaching, rebuking and training (2 Tim 3:16) – What was prophesied to Judah by Jeremiah, to Israel by Isaiah, to those in exile by Ezekiel and Daniel, will hold true for today for those who reject the Lord God Almighty.
What about you? Where do you stand? Who is your first love? Who do you place first? What is truly in your heart? Do you give lip service? Do you place reverence to the “traditions of your denomination” that you learned by rote, to those traditions invented by man? The Baptist, the Methodist, the Lutheran, the Greek Catholic, the Russian Catholic, the Roman Catholic, the Church of Christ, the emerging church, and on and on and on?
Are you one of the people whom the Lord speaks of that comes near Him with your mouth and give lip service but having your heart far away from Him? (Is. 29:3) Are you like the white washed tombs that are painted pretty on the outside but inside are filled with bones of dead men (Matt. 23:27)? Remember that the righteousness of man is nothing but filthy rags to God. These words are strong; filthy from the Hebrew “ayd” soiled from the periodic menstrual soiling. Man looks at himself/herself as righteous but God sees man as being covered by a soiled filthy cloth.
Yet God has given all people a way to put away those filthy rags and be covered with true righteousness. A way to truly repent, to change and that way is through Jesus Christ. He came so that all who come to Him will not perish but have everlasting life (Jn 3:16; Rom. 10:5)
