April 25, 2018

God Is God There is no Other

Hello, my friends, grace, and peace to you in the name of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I hope you are doing well. You’re always in my thoughts. God is good as you know, I have no complaints but I do have some concerns that I would like to share with you.

We live in a country that was founded on Christian values. The dominant culture in this country is Christian. Just as with other countries that have a dominant culture that regulates how its citizens coexist with one another, there are also subcultures that coexist with the dominant culture that share some of the same values, and not others. This is especially true in this country. In the United States, there are hundreds of subcultures.

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Each race is a subculture that shares the values of the dominant culture. The first amendment to the constitution of the United States protects religious freedom. The declaration of independence recognizes that people are created with unalienable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. As I said before there are hundreds of subcultures in the United States. I just wanted to draw attention to the cultural divide that exists in this country to show how it correlates with the evil that has dominated the black community.

Here is the bottom line, God is God today, yesterday, and tomorrow. It doesn’t matter what your culture is God Is God. It doesn’t matter what your race is God is God. Now we can try to make sense of things and talk about things like slavery, murder, rapes, mutilations and other atrocities that happened to African Americans in the past. It may or may not help us to understand why as a people we are in the position we are in.  However, it won’t change anything. God in His great wisdom has given us the instructions on just what to do. We call Him Lord but we don’t do what He told us to do. The subculture that African Americans have allowed to develop in our communities is gangs. Murder is something gangs have always done along with drug dealing, rape, robbery, you get the picture. Now the gangs kill five to, ten people at a time. People driving on the expressway get killed on their way to work. Little children playing in front of their homes get shot and killed. If that is not enough, entire families are being murdered by people in their own families.

The worst part about it is that we pretend not to know what to do. We must stop making up excuses. God gave instruction for parents to be wise and educate their children. God wants you to talk to your children or any young person that you influence. Cultural changes have a lot to do with our children and the moral values that have been instilled in them by their parents. Parents, you get these instructions from God. You cannot wait until your children become teenagers before you teach them. If you wait until they are teenagers you more than likely waited too long.

My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; let us swallow them up alive as Sheol  and whole, as those that go down into the pit; we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse: —my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path; for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood. For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings, and these lay wait, for their own blood, they lurk secretly for their own lives. So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors (Prov1:10-19) The wise parents in this passage, is attempting to warn their son about the company he keeps. They warn him not to let the gangs tempt him by their enticing. Young people always find something attractive about being with the crowd. Just like today, these parents knew the type of people that were trying to attract their children into joining them. They don’t believe in God, they don’t have any moral values, some of them are terrorist, looters, hijackers, and murderers. These parents warn their son not to get involved in such violent ways. The gang tells him how much money they can make and share from the same purse. But his parents in their wisdom, tells him that such wickedness will only lead to disaster (18-19). They know that these things will never yield all sorts of valuable things. It is their blood that will be forfeited, their own lives that will be waylaid (18). The enticement to follow the gang and take part in the violence and intimidation will not make them feel that he is a part of the whole, a sense of belonging, and happiness. In his adolescent mind, there will be only confusion and destructive behavior, and death. This is not what God wants for our children. God wants us to raise our children to be Godly Men and women. People that care about each other, people that love and respect God.

The eyes of the world are on our children. Satan shows our children their heart’s desire. Satan tells them, I will give you your heart desire if you will sell these drugs if you will commit this murder if you will rob these people. Only to find out that they have been fooled and the cost is high. As a people in this country, God has brought us a very long way, in a relatively short period of time, a little more than 150 years. God expects us to be obedient to His word. He has given it to us to live by and be successful in life. When we are obedient to God, He turns things around, Amen!

My friends are you disappointed in the way your lives turned out so far? Does it look like you can’t do any better? Do you feel as though you have let everyone down? Are you feeling sorry for yourself? Do you feel as if no one loves you, and nobody cares? This I can tell you God loves you. God loves you so much that He sent his Son to die for your sin and mine. The scripture said in John 3:16 “God so love the word that He gave His only begotten Son that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life”, Amen. If you believe that Jesus Christ died for your sin and you ask God to forgive you based on Jesus. God will forgive you and cleanse you from all unrighteousness. God will give you the gift of eternal life, and He will help you put your life back together, and you will be better than you were before. If you have made up your mind to believe in Jesus and you don’t know what to do contact me, blog my post-https://fromtimetoeternity.com/ allow me to help you. To my friend who knows Christ concerning their salvation, I hope this message has encouraged you and has increased your understanding If so Let me know blog my post and subscribe, Join me lets get the word out about Jesus.

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Rev. Reginald Stevens

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