God's Gonna Cut You Down !

I was given a Johnny Cash album a few years ago by a good friend of mine.  This was the first I think I had ever heard a Johnny Cash song, and I got hooked on some of his songs and have been accumulating his albums ever since.  This is a far stretch in music taste from my head banging years of  Motley Crue. 

Now a radio program I listen too had a Cash song on it called "God's Gonna Cut You Down",  this is a very good song and I think that it has a great message.  Take a listen to it in the video posted below.

Some of you may recognize the people in the video.  I would argue that most of the people in this video are going to be "cut down" by God on judgement day I would say that somone should be telling the people in the video that God will cut them down.

I am not sure if this video was made posthumously or if Johnny Cash was alive when it was made.  I am taking a guess that Johnny had already passed.

While you are listening to the song, think about the people in you life.  How many are going to be cut down, because you said nothing to them about the gospel of Christ.



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The MESSage !

I started to write a long blog post with problems with The Message bible. Instead I have found a web site that does a much better job than I could explaining problems with the message. Please take a look at it and let me know what you think. When I hear someone tell me that they read the Message, or heaven forbid preach from it I cringe and want to thump them on the head with my NASB.

So click on the link below or click on the picture of The Message and read what he has to say and then let me know what you think.

I have been using Logos bible software to compare many of the passages that have been quoted with the NASB and have found no mistakes in his quotes that I have checked.

The Mystic Mess

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The Highway of Holiness ?

So this post has been one that I have been wanting to post for sometime now. It is so sad that people actually believe this nonsense. Isaiah 35:8 is the passage that they have decided to do some serious Scripture Twisting too. I have not dug to deep into the passage to really understand it that well, however some simple Hermeneutics can be used here. If it did not mean I-35 to the people that it was written to when Isaiah wrote it, it does not mean I-35 today! GET A GRIP! Don't butcher the scriptures to make them accommodate current events. Also note that they interview a woman pastor (I think I have been clear in the past as to what the scripture says about that). who seems to think that this is funny. How about very sad. Also note that this was on the Communist News Network (CNN).



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Truth Wars

I must admit that I saw this on someone elses blog. So good had to add it here. John MacArthur is my favorite Truth Warrior. Listen up and don't be a weak minded Christian. I wonder if there even is a weak minded "Christian", they might not even be a Chrisitian in the first place.



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Good People ?

This one is going to be short and sweet. The other day I heard someone say why do bad things happen to good people. These people need to learn some biblical lessons

Romans 3:12 - "All have turned aside, together they have become useless; There is none who does good, There is not even one."

So bad things don't happen to good people. Bad things happen to bad people, which would include all of us wretched sinners.

There was only one good person in the history of the world, Jesus. If you don't recall what happened to him let me fill you in. All the bad people decided to kill him. So I guess if you want to say Why did a bad thing happen to Jesus a good God, I guess you could. But I would still argue that it was a good reason for his death, becoming the way for us to be able to spend eternity with him after our death.

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Way to Go Germany !

I have a lot of items that I have saved to comment on from times of surfing the Internet. The one I picked today is an article that states that Germany wants to ban Scientology.

WAY TO GO GERMANY! I hope that you succeed in banning this cult religion. I hope that you find the truth in Christ. But even if you don't you are willing to take a stand against a cult, not a religion.

According to the Scientology web site Scientology is:

The word Scientology literally means "the study of truth." It comes from the Latin word "scio" meaning "knowing in the fullest sense of the word" and the Greek word "logos" meaning "study of."

The study of the TRUTH? Well I have a question then. Does anyone besides me think that it is ironic that Scientology is the study of the TRUTH, based on a religion (I use the term religion loosely, really it is a cult) made up by a science FICTION writer. Truth and Fiction are opposites According to the web site again it states:

In Scientology no one is asked to accept anything as belief or on faith. That which is true for you is what you have observed to be true. An individual discovers for himself that Scientology works by personally applying its principles and observing or experiencing results.

OK to me this is getting sillier and sillier, how can one study the truth when the truth is different from one person to another? No one is studying the same truth. At my church we are all studying the same truth. How can you make any reasonable study out of something that is not defined as a constant. The emerging church is right down the same road. What is true for you must be the truth.

WRONG, there is a TRUTH that is a constant and that truth is Jesus Christ as stated in John 14:6

⁶ Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."

The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 (electronic ed.) (Jn 14:6). Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Jesus also makes it clear in two sentences that you will not get to heaven by any other means

I have found another problem with Scientology (surprise, surprise, I could probably go on all day finding problems with Scientology. On another web site right on the front page is this quote, (click the words to see the site)

"Furthermore man is basically GOOD. He is seeking to survive, and his survival depends upon himself and his fellows and his attainment of brotherhood with the universe"

MAJOR Flaw here. Man is not basically good, man is basically a wretched sinner to the core. There is no one that is GOOD. Psalm 14:1-3 makes that quite clear

¹ The fool^a says in his heart,

“There is no God.”

They are corrupt, their deeds are vile;

there is no one who does good.

² The Lord looks down from heaven

on the sons of men

to see if there are any who understand,

any who seek God.

³ All have turned aside,

they have together become corrupt;

there is no one who does good,

not even one.

^a The Hebrew words rendered fool in Psalms denote one who is morally deficient.

The Holy Bible : New International Version. 1996, c1984 (electronic ed.) (Ps 14:1-3). Grand Rapids: Zondervan.

Man is a wretched sinner that needs to repent and put their trust in Jesus Christ for their salvation. Only one way to get to heaven, not a million different ways. If you are not on the narrow road leading to life, you are on the broad road leading to destruction.

I encourage you to make sure that you are on the narrow road.

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What Divides Catholics and Protestants?

Well it has been quite sometime since I have posted anything and I have decided that it is time to get back into the swing of things.

So the title of this post is the actual title of an article that I saw on one of the RSS feeds that I receive. So as I read the article, I came across one part in particular that I thought I would discuss here.

The one paragraph that I thought I would comment on today is shown below.

To Catholics, faith in Christ is only the beginning of salvation, and the individual must engage in good works for eternal salvation. Purgatory, for example, is where man goes after death if he did not sufficiently pay for his sins.

The problem that I have with this. There is no such thing as purgatory. No where in the Bible is there a place called purgatory. This is a made up place. Purgatory also makes the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross, less necessary. As the quote above states it is where a man goes after death if HE did not SUFFICIENTLY pay for his sins. There is nothing any man can do to pay for his sins. Paul makes it quite clear in his letter to the Ephesians 2:8-9

8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.

The book of John also tells us that belief in the son provides eternal life not anything that I have done. It is God's grace that we are saved.

John 3:36 Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life, but whoever rejects the Son will not see life, for God's wrath remains on him."

My Catholic friends you need to do some real study to see what is the truth and what has been made up by the Catholic church. Open the word of God and see what it says, All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness 2 Timothy 3:16

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