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The Triune God of America :: By Grant Phillips

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Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson starred in the 1989 Batman movie. Michael Keaton played Bruce Wayne/Batman, and Jack Nicholson played Jack Napier/the Joker.

When Bruce Wayne was a child, his parents were robbed and murdered by a younger Jack Napier and his buddies. Napier didn’t murder young Wayne, but as he left the child standing in the street, he said to him, “Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?”

Those words have always stayed with me, and they grow stronger and louder every day that I look around and witness this country being destroyed by socialist thugs. In my opinion, we are so far gone there is no turning back. Satan has painted a masterpiece in the artwork of the damned.

For several years now, we have been dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight. He came to us, asked for our hand on the dance floor, and we readily obliged. This conniving genius of evil has filled our hearts with his own triune recipe of a god. We have eagerly accepted his god, and under the pale light of the moon, we dance to his music.

Strangely enough, Satan’s message hasn’t changed a bit. It is still the same ole claptrap he sold Eve in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:1-5).

He got her thinking of pleasing herself (humanism). Then he got her mind on things that could please her, in this case, the forbidden fruit (materialism). Lastly, he had her thinking of the pleasure the fruit would bring her (hedonism). There you have the triune god of hell: humanism (love of self), materialism (love of things) and hedonism (love of pleasure).

Is it any different today? It is the same old package. Satan even uses the same wrapping paper, ribbons, and bows. Nothing has changed.

We, the citizens of the United States of America (generally speaking of course), are for self, things and pleasure … humanism, materialism and hedonism. All we can think about is, “I want that because it will give me pleasure.” We carry armloads of pleasurers in the front door, while Satan hauls our freedoms out the back door.

Christianity is exactly the opposite. In Christianity (TRUE Christianity), we set our minds upon Jesus our Savior, not self. We accept His will, not things, to please us. Our pleasure comes in being obedient to His will.

With Satan’s triune god, all the focus is on us, things to please us, and our pleasure. With the triune God of Heaven, our focus is upon God … the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

  • God the Father gave His Son that we might be saved.
  • God the Son paid our sin debt.
  • God the Holy Spirit guides us to the Son and keeps those who believe.

The love of God grows within us, and we love our neighbor in turn. We begin taking our mind off us and thinking of others. We want others to know Christ.

  • Humanism stokes the selfishness that already exists within us.
  • Materialism gives us quick sugar highs and crushing disappointments.
  • Hedonism gives us a pleasure that never satisfies.

If there is any wisdom at all, you must admit that we are a nation of selfish, materialistic, pleasure-seeking people. We just can’t seem to get enough of Satan’s “freedom” to do as we please.

Every sin known to man is prevalent in this country, boiling over into the lives of millions. Even the churches are not exempt. Most churches in this country are a blight upon humanity, and are just as infested with sin as the world they have allowed to come in.

I am reminded of King Belshazzar, whom God gave a message by writing it on the wall of his palace (Daniel 5). I wonder each day, “Is it today that God will say, “Enough?” He closed the curtain on King Belshazzar. Do we REALLY think we can get by with thumbing our nose at God?

There are perverse atrocities taking place in this country that I would have never dreamed in a thousand years would come to our shores. Yet, here we are. There are no longer just a few rotten apples in the bushel; nearly all the apples are rotten to the core.

Decent Americans are having the excrement from this triune god being shoved down their throats and told to like it. The world speaks of love but vomits out hate.

We are sheep being led to the slaughter, and most don’t even know it. They just keep dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight.

Satan is the god of this world, and his message has been infused into the hearts of all mankind, not just Eve. Satan’s religion has tickled the fancy of most in our society. They come out of the closets. They silence the pulpits. They murder the young. They open the restrooms. They use others to steal, kill and destroy in advancing their cause, but payday is coming. The Lord Jesus Christ is coming soon, and then they will run like scurrying roaches when the lights are turned on.

The masses in our land have given themselves over to the ideas of this triune god of the land. Selfishness, materialism and pleasure are at an all-time high. As long as their itch is scratched, they don’t care that their soul is being drawn away from the one true Trinity of Heaven.

I heard just a few minutes ago that the governor of California is mandating that churches not meet and there be no in-home Bible studies, but it’s still okay to riot, pillage and destroy.

Most of our leadership (political, religious, etc.) is so rotten they seem to have already sold their souls to the Devil. They have no true affection for anyone but themselves. Sadly, most of the populace don’t seem to care as long as they get something in return.

The Hallmark channel we thought would stay the course of decency has now stated it will provide homosexual entertainment. As Ruth Graham once said, “If God doesn’t judge America, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”

The handwriting is on the wall. We must decide now whom we are going to follow. Do we dance with the devil in the pale moonlight, or do we walk hand in hand with the Lord Jesus Christ in the New Jerusalem?

Grant Phillips

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Romans Lesson 30: Israel is Blind for Now :: By Sean Gooding

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Chapter 9:30-33 

“What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith; 31 but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. 32 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumbling stone. 33 As it is written:

“Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense, and whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.”

Jesus found great blindness in Israel as He walked the streets and by ways of Israel. There were, of course, the physically blind, and there are many accounts of Jesus healing blind men. But what broke His heart was the spiritual blindness of the people whose job it was to help others see Him. Sadly, many who are spiritually blind prefer to stay that way. Such was the case in Jesus’ day as well. We have an example of Nicodemus in John 3 who wanted to see; and when he saw Jesus, he believed, but many of his colleagues in the Pharisees and Sanhedrin refused to see Jesus for who He was.

I fear that we have a similar thing today in the Lord’s churches. We have substituted fame for substance. We have watered down the Gospel for the sake of popularity, and we have made the Lord’s churches too comfortable. Jesus made life uncomfortable for the people to whom He ministered. From the woman at the well and her admission to having 5 husbands, to Mary and Martha and the importance of listening to Jesus over being busy, to admonishing Peter not once but three times, calling him ‘Satan’ one time, we find that Jesus did not pull a lot of punches when dealing with people. He was lovingly blunt; we would call Him offensive in our politically correct culture today.

Israel was already blinded when Jesus got there. They had so polluted the truth with traditions that one could hardly see the truth anymore. Wow! I am having this very discussion with some brothers in the Lord right now. There are so many traditions in the North American churches that we have a hard time separating preference from precepts. I grew up in Barbados, a beautiful little island in the Caribbean. I was saved at 14 years old one Monday night in the spring of 1981 at an outdoor service hosted by the Billy Graham ministries. My younger brother was saved the next night after we moved indoors because of rain. The salvation that was taught those nights was the same Gospel I teach today, that one is saved by faith in Jesus only.

One can be saved only by trusting in the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus for salvation. It is the same Gospel that many local churches all around the world teach daily under trees in Africa, in homes in Japan, in garages in South America, and all around the world. However, once one is saved, then where you live is fraught with tradition that can thwart one’s growth. There are a lot of religious things that are not of God, even seemingly good things. Once we begin to put these manmade, tangible things into place as landmarks, they can take over and choke the true spiritual growth.

We are all different. Things like learning to forgive, being a good servant, loving unconditionally and being selfless, learning to give financially to the Lord, and things like being available to the Lord at all times – these are the true spiritual growths that are universal to all cultures and peoples. But things like haircuts, whether the ladies wear pants or skirts, or if they wear makeup, if the music is contemporary or traditional, whether you meet in a building or a house or under a tree, these things do not matter.

We have built a Christianity that has made being a Christian cheap. We have traded external change for true genuine change; we have traded the spiritual disciplines of humility and sacrifice for whether we hold our hands up and cry at the watered-down and repetitious singing that we call worship. We are blinded; even the saved are blinded for the most part. Every day I listen to interviews with lost people of all ages who are completely sold on evolution, abortion on demand, that men and women are the same, and that being a man or woman is subjective and not a matter of science-based on XY and XX chromosomes. They believe that their gender is fluid and they can be anything they want to be.

They don’t fear answering God one day and think they will school God on His mistakes. They are blinded by the lies of this world. Sadly, many Christians have fallen into the trap that they are the Social Justice Warriors (SJW) of the world as well. They think that loving people means accepting them and their sinful lifestyles; who are we to judge? This is hogwash, and we are called to call out sin; we are called not to be hypocrites but to admit first that we are sinners and then to call out sin.

Many of our churches are no longer separated unto Jesus and thus offer no real refuge from the world system. Many pastors interpret the Bible in today’s words and not as it was written. They want the Bible to be relevant; well, it is written by an ever-present God; thus, its teachings are as relevant today as they were then. They do not need to be reinterpreted; they need to be taught and applied.

I have just read through the book of Romans in my personal devotions, and once again I see the promise to Israel that their blindness is temporary. The time of the Gentiles is coming to an end. The end of the church age is quickly coming to an end; and soon, the eyes of the Jews will be opened, and they will see Jesus. 144,000 Jewish men will be called as missionaries in Revelation 7 to go throughout the world and call the Jews from all corners of the world to come home. Once the Jews’ eyes are opened, the Gentiles of the Tribulation world will be, for the most part, blind. But for now, we can see; you need to be saved from your sinful condition, and Jesus is the only answer.

He will send His Holy Spirit to open your eyes if you are tired of being blind, and like Paul in Act 9:18, the scales of blindness will fall off, so to speak, and you will see Jesus as He was crucified and glorified. This is the Jesus that you need, the Jesus that calls out sin, the Jesus that convicts the heart of right and wrong, the Jesus who breaks us and then remakes us in His image, the Jesus who calls for the total surrender of both ourselves and our possessions for His Kingdom. That is the Jesus that you need. The one who gave His all for us and continues to stand for us and with us daily. The Jesus who carries us when we cannot carry ourselves, and the Jesus who never changes.

God bless you,

Dr. Sean Gooding

Pastor of Mississauga Missionary Baptist Church

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