"I Will..."

Pastors, in speaking about Satan's rebellion and ultimate fall, will sometimes refer to what they call the 5 "I wills" of Satan found in Isaiah 14 (which I will list in a moment).

I was reading Psalm 101 a while back, and I noticed a series of "I wills" in there as well, and I thought it interesting to contrast the two passages, since they both essentially contain 5 "I will" statements. They seem to be a contrast between "I will" statements of a righteous person, and those of the rebellious, self-loving God hater (sorry for the politically correct, watered down language ;) ). David made the first 5, Satan the second 5. Which list best reflects your heart?

Psalm 101:1-4
The 5 "I wills" of the righteous...
1) I will sing of mercy and judgment: unto thee, O LORD, I will sing (I count these two as one, since they are the same thing)
2) I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when wilt thou come unto me?
3) I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
4) I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; [it] shall not cleave to me.
5) A froward heart shall depart from me: I will not know wickedness.

Isaiah 14:13,14
The 5 "I wills" of Lucifer/Satan...
1) You said in your heart, 'I will ascend to heaven;
2) above the stars of God I will set my throne on high;
3) I will sit on the mount of assembly in the far reaches of the north;
4) I will ascend above the heights of the clouds;
5) I will make myself like the Most High.'

We all have a "will" - we were born with it. How will we exercise it? The choice is ours...

.j.

Veteran's Day

I just wanted to recognize our Veterans, and say "thank you!" to all of those who fought to preserve our freedoms in this Country.

God bless the United States Veterans!

New Link

I add new links every now and then (such as Paul Washer's HeartCry Missions and Brannon Howse's Worldview Matters - both of which I highly recommend), links that I believe have important, informative, and pertinent information. I don't necessarily agree with EVERYTHING on EVERY website I link to, but generally I believe that the ones I have listed have good information.

I especially want to highlight and mention the most recent addition - David Barton's WallBuilders, which I have added under the "Teaching Websites" category. His ministry is invaluable because he shares documented evidence that America was INDEED a Christian Nation from it's founding! The nonsense that we are taught in our Public schools today, as well as in our Universities, and on programming on the History channel, et al, that we were a secular Country from our inception, and that ALL of the Constitution signers were basically "Deist's" and agnostics is simply FLAT OUT LIES (no other way to put it!).

So please take the time to check out the wonderful info. that David Barton shares in his ministry.

Zeitgeist Refuted

About a year or more ago, an online film made the rounds on the Internet (starting at Google video), a film called "Zeitgeist The Movie" (the "Zeitgeist" means the "spirit of the age" - for ex. the Nazi regime under Hitler, with all of Germany falling in line and being swept up in the ordeal would accurately be called the "Zeitgeist" of Nazi Germany). It soon became VERY popular. The second half of the movie concentrated on what many Christians would call the coming One World Government, and the Antichrist system. It does a good job of giving a realistic scenario of where the World very well may be headed. The problem with Zeitgeist The Movie is really found in the first half - an extremely anti-Christian propaganda, based on what I would call very misleading, deceptive, and biased "facts."

If you have not seen the film - good. It has shipwrecked many peoples faith in the bible (though the issues that it refutes are, for the most part, Catholic tradition, and NOT actual, biblical facts). But if you HAVE seen it, Elliott Nesch of holybibleprophecy.org has made a movie to refute the claims of Zeitgeist. If you would like to see a film that addresses the "facts" raised in Zeitgeist, the go HERE.

Potential Loss Of American Sovereignty

I wanted to post this link to an article by Steven Collins, who wrote it after having been sent links to a video of Lord Monckton speaking at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

He makes some good points, and I think we need to let our Senators know that we absolutely oppose the ratification of the Copenhagen Treaty, should our Pres(cough, sputter, gag!)ident sign this unconstitutional treaty.

"Kenyan-born Obama...?"

Take a look at this Newspaper headline from the Sunday Standard Online Edition article from June 27, 2004.

The "birthers" may actually have a case (you know, the ones that are crazy for trying to contest Obama's place of birth in the courts, and show that he is actually not eligible to be President of the USA, and have received much disdain from the "establish media") - just look at the headline and first sentence of the article.

Interesting...

"Hate Speech" Legislation

Berit Kjos wrote a well written article about the issues surrounding the "Hate Crimes Prevention Act" that our President recently signed into law.

"This know also, that in the last days perilous (lit. "dangerous") times shall come." - 2 Tim. 3:1