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The only Gospel that Saves Anyone

What Bible message urgently needs to be heard by everyone in America today?

Why do you think it’s not preached in more churches today?

If I said that a lot of sermons in today’s churches would have sounded completely foreign to Jesus’ apostles in the First Century, some of your friends, and maybe even you, might feel offended. But hang on…  because what you’re about to hear is not an attack on churches, pastors, or modern believers. It’s a wake-up call… A call back to the biblical gospel that shook the entire Roman Empire, turned idol-worshipping sinners into saints, and demanded more than a hesitantly raised hand or a private whispered prayer. What we’re digging into today is the clearly defined biblical gospel that most churches no longer preach. And before we’re done, you’ll see why getting this right is not optional. It’s eternal. If you care about the truth, about salvation, about following Jesus the way the Bible actually teaches, you truly won’t want to miss this.

In God’s providence, you could easily say that it’s not an accident that you’re listening to this today. What you’re about to hear is all over the Bible. But it’s not popular among those who just want to get along with everybody and avoid dealing with the hard parts of Scripture. I’m talking about those strong words that demand that each of us take the time to “test all things” and “search the Scriptures” to see if what we’re hearing is really true or not.

Let’s begin where the problem started. Today, if you walk into many churches and ask, “What is the gospel?” You’ll likely hear something like this. “Jesus loves you. You’re a sinner. Jesus died for your sins. Accept him into your heart. Say this prayer and you’re saved.” That message sounds comforting. It sounds simple. It sounds easy. But here’s the uncomfortable question. Is that the same gospel preached by Jesus, Peter, and Paul? Or has something vital been removed? The Bible never treats the gospel as a motivational speech or an emotional invitation. Scripture presents the gospel as a proclamation, an announcement of divine truth that demands a response of obedience.

In the New Testament, the gospel of the kingdom of God that Jesus preached is “good news”… but it’s not reduced to a feeling, a moment, or a one-time decision. It’s a call to die, to submit, to obey, and… most importantly… to be transformed. Jesus never began his preaching by saying, “Just accept me.” His very first recorded gospel sermon is found in Mark 1:15. Jesus said,

“The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent and believe in the gospel.” Mark 1:15

Notice what’s missing. There’s no sinner’s prayer, no altar call, no assurance before obedience. Jesus demanded two things… repentance and belief. It wasn’t about some personal idea of belief alone, and it certainly was not about belief defined as mental agreement. And the repentance part is one of the most neglected words in modern preaching. Many churches have softened it, redefined it, or removed it altogether.  One thing is for sure… the word “repent,” spoken by Jesus, doesn’t mean feeling sorry for what our conscience might make us feel guilty about. It means a radical change of mind that leads to a radical change of life.

Do you recall hearing in the Bible about John the Baptiser preaching the gospel?  Do you think John told the people that God loved them just the way they were? John’s first recorded words in Mathew’s gospel are:

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand (or has come near).” Matt 3:2

In fact, when he saw a group of Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he publicly exhorted those religious leaders, calling them a brood of vipers, fleeing from the wrath to come. He told them to produce fruit that’s consistent with repentance. In essence, he told them to demonstrate new behaviors that proved a genuine change of heart, and a conscious decision to turn away from sin. (Matt 3:8 AMP).

Don’t forget that Jesus said that John was the greatest prophet who ever lived. Yet in most evangelical churches today, repentance is dropped altogether, and the one thing you hear is a promised reassurance of salvation. People are told they’re saved before they’ve ever had a chance to bring forth any fruits of repentance. But the gospel of the Bible never separates forgiveness from transformation. The apostles didn’t preach an easy gospel.

On the day of Pentecost in Acts chapter 2, Peter preached Christ crucified, resurrected, and exalted. He accused his entirely Jewish audience of killing the son of God. And when the people were cut to the heart, they didn’t ask, “How do we accept Jesus into our hearts?” Under an apparently obvious atmosphere of spiritual conviction, they asked, “brethren, what shall we do?” Acts 2:37

Peter’s answer matters because this is the first full gospel response preached after the resurrection. And Peter said, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit” Acts 2:38. That verse alone would disrupt most modern churches.

Peter didn’t say baptism was optional. He didn’t say repentance was unnecessary. He didn’t say salvation came before obedience. He preached a gospel that required action – obedient faith. But many today are told baptism is just a symbol.  Since repentance is generally left out of the preaching, what are people to think? It must be optional.  And the idea of obedience isn’t even mentioned as having anything to do with salvation. That message would have been unrecognizable to the early assemblies of believers.

Remember, they didn’t have anything like what we call a ‘church’ for another 300 years, when the Roman government officially authorized it. The gospel the apostles preached was not faith alone, as it’s commonly defined in evangelical churches today. The Bible does teach faith, but biblical faith is never alone.

James explicitly says that faith without corresponding works is dead; not weak, not immature… dead. A dead faith cannot save anyone. The apostle Paul’s New Testament epistles are often quoted to support “faith only” theology. But Paul never preached a gospel without obedience. In Romans chapter 6, Paul asked a dangerous question.

“Shall we continue in sin that grace may increase?” Romans 6:1

His answer was not unclear. He said, “God forbid. How shall we, who died to sin, still live in sin?” Ro 6:2. His implied answer is undeniable. It was impossible if our repentance was genuinely borne out by an increasingly transformed life.

Then he tied salvation directly to baptism, saying that we are buried with Christ through baptism into death and raised to walk in newness of life (Ro 6:4). Paul did not preach a gospel that leaves people unchanged. He preached a gospel that kills the old self (Ro 6:6) (Ro 6:11). Here’s the hard truth.

The modernized gospel often offers God’s forgiveness without expecting a daily trust in God to walk consciously committed to God’s lordship. People are led to think that Jesus can be their savior without being their master. But where can you find that kind of deal in the Bible? Jesus never offered it. On the contrary, Jesus plainly said,

“Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I say?” Luke 6:46.

That question still echoes today. The gospel Jesus preached demanded total surrender. He told people to count the cost (Luke 14:28). He said following Him might cost family, comfort, reputation, maybe even life itself (Luke 14:26-27). He never chased crowds by lowering the standard. When people walked away, he let them go. Contrast that with today’s approach. Churches compete for attendance. Sermons are shortened. Sin is renamed as struggle.  Holiness is replaced with becoming religious, whatever that means. And the cross is softened into a mere icon of identification, or worse yet, to some, a symbol of good luck. But the gospel is not about self-improvement. It’s about self-crucifixion. Jesus said,

 “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.” Matthew 16:24-25.

How many Christians actually think of anything like that, when they put on their “Christian” jewelry to publicly show they are a blood-bought child of the living God?

That idea of taking up one’s cross daily is not a metaphor for tolerating the inconveniences of ordinary life. The cross was an instrument of death. Jesus was saying, you must die to yourself… your ego, your self-willfulness, your narcissistic self-centeredness, even your own seemingly righteous agendas. The early Christians understood this. When they obeyed the gospel, they understood they were entering a new life under the authority of a new king. They were baptized, knowing it could cost them their jobs, their families, or even their lives. There was no such thing as a secret Christian or a casual believer. Yet today, many have been given the idea that they’re saved even if nothing fundamentally changes. They still live like the world, talk like the world, love the world, but are assured heaven is guaranteed. That kind of assurance is not biblical. It’s dangerous. The gospel that the Bible preaches is a kingdom gospel. Jesus is not just savior, he is king. The gospel announces that Jesus reigns and demands allegiance to His guidance and His principles. To believe the gospel is to submit to his authority. This is why Jesus commanded his apostles to go into all the world and preach the gospel, making disciples and baptizing them, teaching them to observe all that he commanded. The goal was not just converts. It was disciples. Salvation in Scripture is consistently connected to obedience. Hebrews says Jesus is the author of eternal salvation to whom?  To all who obey him (Hebrews 5:9). Not to those who merely acknowledge him. Not to those who say His name, but to those who obey.

This doesn’t mean we earn salvation. It means we respond to grace properly. Grace teaches us to deny ungodliness and live righteously. Grace does not excuse sin. It empowers holiness. The gospel most churches no longer preach includes uncomfortable truths about sin, judgment, holiness, endurance, and obedience. It warns believers that falling away is possible. It calls Christians to remain faithful to the end. It doesn’t promise heaven without perseverance.

Jesus himself said, “He who endures to the end shall be saved.” Mark 13:13. That verse alone contradicts the idea that personal salvation cannot be rejected and lost regardless of how one lives.

Paul warned Christians not to be deceived, saying that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Co 6:9). And he was speaking to baptized believers. The early church preached a gospel that could be tested, examined, and obeyed. Not a slogan, not a formula, not a prayer copied from a screen.

So why has this gospel disappeared? Because it’s costly. It doesn’t fill seats easily. It doesn’t flatter sinners. It doesn’t make people feel comfortable to stay in rebellion to God’s ways. And it surely doesn’t give preachers some kind of emotional control over people by offering them a false assurance of eternal life that costs them nothing.

But truth has never been popular. If you’re still listening right now, it’s because something in your spirit knows this matters. And here’s the key question you have to ask yourself, not emotionally, but honestly.

Have I obeyed the gospel as the Bible teaches it? Or have I believed a drastically simplified version taught by men? The gospel calls you to hear the message of Christ. Believe it. Repent of your sins. Confess Jesus as Lord. Be baptized into Christ for the forgiveness of sins and continue faithfully in him, trusting in His supernatural grace to carry you through the challenges of life. That’s not some institutionalized Church doctrine. That’s New Testament doctrine.

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Before we leave this important discussion today, you might have been reminded of a traditional way of talking about Christian ‘conversion’ that could be confusing or even misleading. I know it was for me when I started seriously reading and studying my Bible.

Let me ask you something.  Have you ever heard a sermon by a well-meaning Christian preacher, who ended his message with an invitation to “Accept Jesus into your heart?”

Is the phrase “Accept Jesus into your heart” actually found in the Bible—or has modern Christianity replaced the clear teaching of Scripture with a misleading tradition? Millions have been taught that accepting Jesus into their heart is the way to be saved—but when we open the Bible and search honestly, the results may surprise you.

What if I told you that one of the most popular phrases in modern Christianity is completely missing from the Bible?  It’s not hinted at, not implied, not even once stated clearly. Millions of people have been told, “Just accept Jesus into your heart and you’ll be saved.” It sounds spiritual. It sounds right. But here’s the uncomfortable truth. You’ll never find that phrase anywhere in scripture. Not in Matthew, not in Acts, not in Romans, not even in Revelation. And if salvation is at least personally the most important subject in the Bible, then shouldn’t we be extremely careful about the words we use to define it?

Now, let’s start with an honest question. Where did the idea of accepting Jesus into your heart come from? Because if it’s not in the Bible, it had to come from somewhere. Most people assume it comes from scripture, but it doesn’t.

The phrase developed much later, especially through relatively recent historic revival movements and evangelistic methods that needed a simple and emotional response to encourage people to ‘come forward’ during an altar call at the end of an evangelistic sermon. Over time, it became a substitute for what the Bible actually teaches about obedience, repentance, and baptism. And that’s the danger. When a nice-sounding phrase replaces scripture, people begin trusting the phrase instead of the word of God.

Let’s be very clear. The Bible absolutely teaches that Jesus must be believed in. The Bible absolutely teaches faith. The Bible absolutely teaches love for Christ. But it never teaches salvation as a silent internal acceptance without action. Not once. Let’s walk carefully through the Bible in the next few minutes and let God speak for himself.

In Acts chapter 2, Peter preaches the very first gospel sermon after the resurrection of Jesus. If “accept Jesus into your heart” were a correct response to the gospel, this would have been the perfect moment to say it. But what happened instead? After hearing that they had crucified the son of God, the people were cut to the heart. They didn’t say, “We accept Jesus.” They didn’t say, “We invite him into our hearts.” They asked a direct question: “men and brethren, what shall we do?” That question alone destroys the idea of passive salvation. They understood that belief demanded a response. And Peter’s answer is even more revealing. He didn’t say just believe. He didn’t say accept Jesus. He said:

“Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy spirit” Acts 2:38.

That’s not my wording. That’s scripture. If accepting Jesus into your heart were enough, Peter missed the biggest opportunity in history to say it. Now let’s go on to Acts chapter 8.

The Ethiopian eunuch is reading Isaiah and asks Philip to explain the scripture. Philip preaches Jesus to him and again something very important happens. The eunuch doesn’t say, “I accept Jesus into my heart.” Instead, he sees water and asks, “What hinders me from being baptized?” Acts 8:36. Why water? Why baptism? Because that’s what preaching Jesus meant in the first century. If modern salvation language were biblical, Philip would have corrected him. But Philip didn’t. He baptized him immediately.

Now, let’s consider Saul of Tarsus. If anyone believed in Jesus emotionally, it was Saul. He saw Jesus. He spoke to Jesus. He fasted and prayed for 3 days. If heart acceptance was all he needed to be saved, Saul already satisfied what most churches preach. But listen to what Ananas said to him.

“And now, why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord” Acts 22:16.

Notice the order. His sins still needed attention. Prayer hadn’t removed them. Faith hadn’t removed them. They were washed away when he obeyed by being baptized. Now, here’s where many people get uncomfortable. They say, “But isn’t that works?” How could that be? Obedience is not earning salvation. Obedience is trusting God enough to do what he says. When Noah built the ark, was that works or was it faith in action? When Naaman dipped in the Jordan River, was that works or was it obedience? God has always required obedient faith, not mental alone. Now, let’s look at Romans chapter 10, a passage often used to defend “accept Jesus into your heart.”

Paul says,

“If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” Romans 10:9

Notice what Paul does not say. He does not say, “Invite Jesus into your heart.” He speaks of belief that leads to confession and obedience. And here’s the key. Romans 10 is not teaching a step-by-step salvation formula. It’s explaining the nature of faith. Faith that responds, faith that obeys, faith that submits. Paul himself was baptized. He taught baptism. He never separated faith from obedience.

Now, let’s address a big misunderstanding. People hear the word heart and think it means emotions. But in the Bible, the heart is the center of decision-making. It’s the will. It’s the seat of obedience. To believe in your heart does not mean to feel something emotionally. It means to commit yourself fully to God’s will. That’s why scripture says:

“For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation.” Ro 10:10

This is why James says “faith without works is dead” James 2:20.

Not weak, not incomplete, dead. A dead faith cannot save. Now let’s ask another important question.

If “accept Jesus into your heart” is the biblical requirement for salvation, why did no one in the New Testament ever respond that way? Not one sinner, not one convert, not one example. Every single conversion in the book of Acts includes hearing the word, believing it, repenting of sin, confessing Christ, and being baptized. Everyone… that’s not coincidence. That’s divine design. So why is the phrase so popular today? Because it’s easy. It demands no repentance. It demands no surrender. It demands no obedience. It allows people to feel saved without being changed. But Jesus never offered salvation without discipleship. He said,

“If anyone wants to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me” Matt 16:24.

That’s not only a heart invitation. That’s a life transformation. Here’s the uncomfortable truth many churches won’t say out loud. When you reduce salvation to a private moment in your heart, you remove accountability, obedience, and transformation from the gospel. That’s why many people say they accepted Jesus, but live no differently from the world. And then many of them express some level of frustration, saying that they don’t feel any different… they often question if they’re really saved.

The Bible doesn’t recognize that version of Christianity. Jesus himself said, “Why do you call me Lord, Lord, and do not do the things which I say?” Luke 6:46.

Calling him Lord without obedience is meaningless. Now let’s be very careful here. This message is not about attacking sincerity. Many people who were taught this phrase genuinely love Jesus. They are sincere. But sincerity does not equal truth. Paul said Israel had zeal for God but not according to knowledge (Romans 10:2). Good intentions cannot replace obedience. So, what does the Bible actually teach? It teaches that salvation is not about a single moment. It’s a covenant. A covenant entered through obedient faith. You hear the gospel. You believe the gospel. You repent of sin. You confess Christ. You are baptized into Christ. And you walk faithfully. That’s biblical salvation. And baptism is not a work of man. It’s the moment God acts, washing sins away, adding you, as a lively stone, to the body of Christ, and placing you into the spiritual temple where Christ dwells. Scripture never says you are saved by accepting Jesus into your heart. But it repeatedly says you are saved into Christ. And how do you get into Christ?

“As many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ” Galatians 3:27.

That’s not tradition. That’s scripture.

Now, let me say this plainly. If the phrase “accept Jesus into your heart” were removed from Christian vocabulary today, nothing would be lost biblically. But if baptism, repentance, and obedience are removed, the gospel collapses. That should tell us something.

As we come to the end of this message, I want you to reflect deeply, not emotionally, but biblically. Have you obeyed the gospel as the Bible presents it? Or have you trusted a phrase you cannot find in scripture? Jesus didn’t die so we could feel saved. He died so we could actually be redeemed, transformed, and obedient.

The question isn’t what have I have always heard. The question is what does the Bible actually say? And that question changes everything.

If this message is challenging you, don’t ignore it. Study it. Open your Bible. Be like the Berean believers mentioned in chapter 17 of the Book of Acts. Examine the scriptures daily to see whether these things are so. And if this teaching is blessing you, share it with someone who’s been told an easy gospel that never changed their life. Because the gospel most churches no longer preach is the gospel that truly saves. And now at the end, I leave you with the same words the apostles preached. Not to entertain, not to give a false sense of comfort, but to save.

Repent and obey the gospel of Jesus. His is the only name under heaven, whereby one must be saved (Acts 4:12).

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Source: The Gospel Most Churches No Longer Preach – Feb 8, 2026 Faith That Saves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sWH7945OfA

Source: Why “Accept Jesus Into Your Heart” Is NOT in the Bible – Feb 3, 2026 Faith That Saves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDHkCfnoy_4

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Resurrection of Jesus Christ – Fact or Fiction?

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There’s no question that the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ, with a body that can never die again (Ro 6:9) and has now been ‘transported’ to another non-earthly realm in heavenly places (Heb 1:3, 8:1), is the most fantastical part of true history that the world has ever known. It should be no small wonder to anyone that that fact became the reasonable justification for all humanity to reset our calendars so that we are now all living in the year of our Lord.. number 2025.  Think about that!  Shouldn’t the fact that most of the human family haven’t heard and don’t believe it yet .. compel all of us who claim to be Christ’s redeemed children .. to reconsider the reasons why we all have a mission to share with others the awesome hope for our own future resurrected and eternal life with our Savior (John 11:25-26)?

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Passover or Easter – Which is the Correct Celebration?

Solving the Confusion over The Days celebrating Easter and Passover

Sometimes, the celebration dates of Passover and Easter coincide, but sometimes they can be weeks apart. Why is this? If Yeshua died at the time of the Jewish Passover, why does the institutionalized Christian church celebrate his death and resurrection on a different date of the year? How did they get separated?

For many Christians, Easter Sunday is the annual celebration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death. The Gospel writers are very clear that His crucifixion took place at the Jewish observance of Passover. Christians understand the prophetic symbolism of the Passover sacrifice. In fact, Paul writes that “Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7). How is it then, that in the year 2025, Easter was on April 20th, occurring on the last day of the Jewish 8-day Passover celebration, whereas in 2024 it occurred three weeks before Passover?

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Nissan – The ‘Month of Miracles’ – Especially the Miracle of Passover #354

In our modern society everyone knows that January First is the beginning of the New Year, Right? But what is really the beginning of the year, biblically speaking?

If you were to talk to a member of the Jewish community about their Rosh Hashanah, you would discover that holiday is the Hebrew name for the first day that begins every Jewish New Year in our Gregorian calendar month of September or October. It’s celebrated at the beginning of their month called Tishri, which is the seventh month according to the ancient Jewish religious calendar. So, that means that the month called Nisan (or Nissan.. ‘NEE-SAHN’) is the first month of the Biblical year. The month of Nisan is the very special time when the historic Feast of Passover is celebrated (it’s called Pesach in Jewish communities). Passover commemorates the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt, about 3,500 years ago.

The Feast of Passover is the Biblical holy day for God’s people to celebrate the liberation of the Israelites from Egyptian slavery in the momentous event that portrays God’s redemptive power in the book of Exodus.

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Wake up Church – Transforming Society means Engage with your culture

By Dennis Petersen

It’s now a fact, recognized by more Americans than ever in this generation – the battle to preserve our society of liberty is a spiritual war against demonic principalities in high places.  And it’s more evident now than ever before in our lifetime.  The question is – will God’s people who are called by His name, not only humble themselves and pray, turning away from their wicked ways, but will they take action to be the preserving salt of influence on our society or will they continue to be ‘trampled’ by society’s mountains of secularized influence?

The Power of Keeping People in Darkness (ignorant)

Can there be any question that the gross darkness of ignorance, prevailing in today’s society, is the result of anything less than deliberate re-education?  Historic disciples of Marx, Lenin and Mao know very well that society-wide ignorance depends on two things:

  1.  the perversion of true history, and
  2. the censoring of moral truth found in God’s Word. 

Paul insisted that Christ-followers “prove .. or test .. all things.” Why?  Faith in God, in the Bible or all truth, for that matter, comes by hearing the Word of God! Without a clear and spoken declaration of relevant, Christ-glorifying words (Greek for spoken word = Rhema) – words of God’s timeless truth – people are lost in confusion, deception, and pop culture entertainment. It’s all empty of any substance that would challenge us to seek God.

Americans face coming elections that are crucial to our freedom and well-being. Many argue they are as important as any election in our nation’s history. Yet, the mountainous influence of public education, main stream media, big tech and big pharma has effectively fashioned voters into the UN-united States of America. It’s a total charade. For decades, it’s been a completely corrupt series of schemes to confuse and divide us. Many citizens have been rendered completely unable to see that we’ve become disconnected from our anchors of morality, historic roots and God’s truth.

Only 4% of Americans now hold to a Biblical worldview (down from 6% in 2023 and 12% in 1994)

Worse yet, only 2% of American millennials actually hold to the basics of a Bible view of their world. That’s pretty disturbing news, since over 80% still claim to believe in at least some biblical principles. (according to reports of Arizona Christian University’s Cultural Research Center).  (Most Americans, over eight in ten, may believe some Biblical principles but often think and live in ways that conflict with the Bible.)

Barna’s definition of a biblical worldview included affirmation of seven basic doctrines:

  • First, the existence of absolute morals communicated through Scripture.
  • Second, Jesus Christ lived a sinless life.
  • Third, God is the all-powerful, all-knowing Creator of the universe and He stills rules it today.
  • Fourth, salvation is a gift from God and cannot be earned.
  • Fifth, Satan is real.
  • Sixth, Christians have a responsibility to share their faith in Christ with other people.
  • And seventh, the Bible is accurate in all of its teachings.

I wish he had included one more – that Christ made it clear that all humans are accountable for their words and actions and will be judged by God in the future.

The 4% of Americans who have a Biblical worldview represents a drop-off from 9% in 2009, according to Barna.

This is a dismal low for citizens of the USA who say they embrace at least some form of Biblical Christianity.  Do you think Genuine Christians need to honestly recognize that our culture has declined to an unacceptably shallow approach to whole truth? Should genuine Christians make some kind of effort to improve that condition?  Almost nobody denies that many Christians today have a lot of misconceptions about Scripture. They establish beliefs about truth based on misquoted verses without full context. That’s because they’ve been taught by preachers who miss things, like the balance of God’s righteous requirements with the amazing mercy of His grace.

Look at some Examples of misguided beliefs

Acts 17:28 says: “in Him we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28).  Many focus this on “me” – with a personal fuzzy feeling about God’s care for His children.  But what happens when we read the whole context?  Begin with verse 23 when Paul preached to the pagan intellectuals at Athens, Greece.

“What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you.  The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.  And he made from one man every nation (ethnos) of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, for ‘In him we live and move and have our being’ as even some of your own poets have said, For, we are indeed his offspring.”

Paul speaking to Athenian pagan intellectuals in Acts 17:23b-28

Does that have a much deeper and profound meaning now?

Another is God’s personal midnight declaration to King Solomon after his dedication of the newly constructed Temple in Jerusalem in 2 Chronicles 7.

“if my people humble themselves and pray and seek my face… then will I hear from heaven and heal their land.”  

2 Chronicles 7:14

No one doubts that repentance from our humble free will is a noble preface to effective prayer for our country… but read the whole context starting at verse 13 and then on to verse 19-22.  God Himself said:

“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence (plague) among my people, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. …

But God had much more to say to Solomon…

“And as for you, (Solomon), if you will walk before me as David your father walked, doing according to all that I have commanded you and keeping my statutes and my rules, then I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father, saying, ‘You shall not lack a man to rule Israel.’

But then comes the stern warning…

 “But if you turn aside and forsake my statutes and my commandments that I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will pluck you up from my land that I have given you, and this house that I have consecrated for my name, I will cast out of my sight, and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. And at this house, which was exalted, everyone passing by will be astonished and say, ‘Why has the LORD done thus to this land and to this house?’ Then they will say, ‘Because they abandoned the LORD, the God of their fathers who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods and worshiped them and served them. Therefore, he has brought all this disaster on them.’”

God speaking to King Solomon 2 Chronicles 7:19-22

Now, honestly, how often have you heard that sobering kind of exhortation in the context of “God’s promise to “heal our land” if we pray?

One of the most often misquoted Scriptures is Jesus’ declaration that:

“..the truth shall make you free…” in John 8:32.

We’ve got to read the whole statement Jesus said to his disciples, starting at verse 31.

So, Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:31-32

Our society is ruled by a Deranged Strategy of Exalted Demonic Powers in High Places

You don’t have to be much connected with politics to see that today’s Democrat Party is, in all honest reckoning, flat out insane – or as President Trump put it, ‘totally, stone-cold crazy.’

“Democrats demonize and ‘defund’ the police that protects them and then complain when crime skyrockets. They encourage violent communist-anarchist mobs to burn down our cities.  They insist they can change the earth’s weather by adopting a bizarre totalitarian-socialist program that would destroy our economy and annihilate individual rights. They believe convicted terrorists should be allowed to vote from prison. They believe a beautiful, full-term human baby about to be born, can be slaughtered at will. They disagree with God, insisting that there are dozens of different genders – and that men can get pregnant. That is insane.”

What’s happening in the Party of Derangement 

World Net Daily editor, David Kupelian, before the 2020 election, wrote in his essay about the Trojan horse of our time:

 “Today’s Democrat Party has become possessed by the dark revolutionary spirit of Marxism, which in reality is based on hatred and rebellion against God, against His commandments, against His morality, against the very idea of objective truth. Marxists want their own truth, their own laws, their own morality, their own biology, their own science, their own heaven … on earth. They want nothing to do with the Judeo-Christian values that have long served as the moral foundation of America – which they openly hate.  And yet, these are the very people who believe they’re much more intelligent and moral than you, and who, in just a few weeks, fully intend to take over America forever.”

Forever?

Rush Limbaugh, just before the 2020 election, put it starkly: “If the Democrats win, that’s the end of democracy. It’s the end of the two-party system. We’re going to have a one-party government that is going to devote itself to eliminating all opposition. That’s what’s at stake. If they win, I think the Republican Party essentially ceases to exist.”

Isn’t it interesting how, after four years of chaos and only one year of decisive patriotic leadership that it’s the Democrat party that is falling apart while the Republicans are trying to rediscover themselves?

What are all of us seeing more clearly now? The wicked controlling powers of society at all levels of politics, information distribution, and corporate business… mesmerized most of the population for generations. Common sense was almost lost.  Americans were conditioned to not think for themselves.  But with all the exposure of evil in the years since the gross manipulation of public thought during the Covid Plandemic, things have greatly changed. But that doesn’t mean it’s okay for truth-tellers to kick back.

A Clear Prayer for God to Rise Up Against the Wicked!

If we American Christians don’t persistently petition our Lord for His mercy, guidance, and protection for our nation, and do everything in our strength to use our God-given abilities and influence to urge fellow citizens to actively vote, the influential ‘gates of hell’ will corruptly steal the coming election.  If we don’t get deeply serious about being the beacons of light to our communities – ongoing from here on – our feeble testimony will be squelched by tyrants who hate God and hate you.

 “Who rises up for me against the wicked? Who stands up for me against evildoers?  If the LORD had not been my help, my soul would soon have lived in the land of silence.” Psalm 94:16-17

How desperately do all of us need God’s help?

Tyranny requires four things. Truth must be silenced. Real history must be erased and rewritten. Public speech has to be restricted. Even individual thought must be controlled.

In this time of constant turmoil, false flags, wars, civil unrest, and now internal bio-terrorism and manufactured pandemics, a major agenda of the demonically influenced state’s ruling class is to silence all dissent, and mandate conformity.  And remember, the reason many of our fellow Americans live in denial of that reality, is because of the natural human inclination toward “normalcy bias.” They have a hard time believing their state of what they thought was “normal” can never end. Our brains are wired to resist change. But there is a globalist ruling class, whether we want to believe it or not. But, what many of us miss is that Jesus IS King over all earthly kings. He is the one who sets up kings and brings kings down. And Jesus has all authority in heaven and earth. What’s more, is His genuine delegation of that spiritual authority to His disciples. And it’s not to use thoughtlessly, but to exercise on behalf of the direction of the Holy Spirit who lives in us and will never leave us or forsake us.

Considering tyranny’s plan for total control, it’s imperative to stifle criticism and keep the power to control the widely public mainstream narrative, while aggressively eliminating all resistance and questioning. Unless things continue improving, nonconformity will not be allowed if global governance and a global reset are to be successful.

As 2020 unraveled America saw censorship in ways never seen in our history

… and with all the advanced technology we have, this despicable plot to silence thinkers and hide the truth affected all forms of speech.

It’s gotten more challenging to find truthful information, as those like Google, Amazon, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and others are still deleting content and access to content. But, thankfully, more independent researchers are voicing their content on new platforms and are gaining public recognition. 

Our world is overwhelmed by propaganda!  While the state-approved narrative of the Elites is presented on most of mainstream’s easily accessible, highly advertised channels, you have to really dig if you want honest, second opinion sources of information on practically any topic.

A Change in our listening habits must be Top Priority

You Must reset your inputs.  Turn off network media channels and learn to regularly – daily if possible – listen to trustworthy voices reporting what God is sovereignly doing. Hear how He uses His younger servants to speak into our culture.  Access conservative voices like Megyn Kelly, Matt Walsh, Jordan Peterson and Tucker Carlson. Find Christ-honoring voices you can resonate with. You’ll have to establish Internet connections to Free-speech platforms, particularly Rumble and Bitchute, as well as others. Use the free Roku app system to connect with many God-fearing broadcasts we’ve appreciated like “And We Know,” “Flashpoint,” “Man in America,” and Mike Lindell’s Frank Speech channel.  One of our favorite Medical freedom interview weekly broadcasts is the “The Highwire” with Del Bigtree, and there are many others like Dr Lee Merritt, The Medical Rebel, and Dr Bryan Ardis with The Dr Ardis Show.

Find trustworthy conservative daily news channels like Real America’s Voice, Redacted, Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point, and Brannon Howse’s Worldview Tube.  Hear insightful Christian leaders like Mario Murillo’s Fire Power, Lance Wallnau, and The Mel K Show .  Look up their posts and channels on YouTube and spend serious time catching up with truth-filled insights that will inspire you, equip you, and inform you with God’s perspective on what’s going on in your world and how to navigate it.

Our dangerous situation is real because doctrines of demons are out to destroy mankind

It’s especially ominous, considering the fact that through vaccination or other high-tech methods like variable frequencies, much of the population could soon become subject to transhuman experimentation where injectable nanoparticles and chips could be used to alter human behavior.

Corrupted Power is always troubled by any that dare to think and dare to question

This is not a new phenomenon, as tyrants throughout human history have censored writing and speech in order to protect their power structure.

In ancient times and not so ancient times, books were forcibly burned to keep the populace from having access to any material that was not acceptable by the throne or the current political authority.

In cases of resistance to ‘high’ authority, many were also killed by the state, and in many cases these ‘cleansings’ were targeted to the educated class, because they had the capability to think critically and express their ideas publicly. If you’re not informed about the historic period of the Reformation, start watching the historic dramas on RedeemTV.com. The period of European history beginning in the 1300s with John Huss and John Wycliffe going into the 1500s with Martin Luther and William Tyndale, is one of the most heroic periods of God’s providential guidance of human history. It makes you realize more powerfully the fact of the hand of God in human society’s experience as recorded in Acts 17 when Paul spoke about God determining the times of nations and the bounds of their habitation (Acts 17:26).

Those that held power by force of arms would never allow criticism and dissent, because that could lead to hostility and insurrection by the people.

During the totally orchestrated Covid 19 shut-down of society worldwide… known now as the fake plandemic… the details of tyranny changed some, but much was as it has always been through history.

Money, power, and control have always been the key strategies of the ruling class who would dominate mankind. But the methods to keep that power and control have changed. Instead of the sword and guillotine, propaganda and fear have become the primary tools used to fool the people into compliance. In order for propaganda to work, elimination of dissent is imperative.

Censorship plays a huge role in any effort to gain support of the masses, because without the possibility to reach the bulk of the people, the truth tellers become marginalized, and are shunned and ridiculed as troublemakers and conspiracy theorists.

The Broadest Mind Control Effort in Planet Earth’s History

The biggest censorship push in history began in force in 2020.  It was the biggest propaganda push in history, and it’s still underway.

The false flag event called the coronavirus pandemic was not about one king seeking control over his subjects, but it was about the few globalist elitists attempting to take over the entire planet. There’s no question that they are demonically inspired. Bible believers who read their Bible understand this reality better than those who are unfamiliar with the tactics of the Enemy of Humanity, called Satan in the Bible.

This is a global effort that is run by the few top claimed elites, with their tentacles of power reaching almost every country on earth through control of the banks, corporations, foundations, and the entire political class system.

Many have fought and died in order to protect free speech, but all speech continues to be under attack by the forces of evil.

If the globalists were to have their way, free speech would be lost forever.

This is the world of the Internet and computerized system saturation. Censorship today takes on a new sophisticated look through so called “fact checkers” and compliance to “community standards” but it’s meant to accomplish the same goals as in the past.

Blacklisting users, blocking content, and algorithmic manipulation allow for the state to control information. With the control of information, it’s understandable that the general public would then be easier to manipulate and keep in check.

The acceptance of tracking and tracing technology, continued isolation, vaccines capable of altering the DNA structure of individuals, chips and dyes mimicking the mark of the beast, and a continued state of fear are all intended to lead to an end of what our society has long considered the state of normalcy.

The result sought by the world’s Wealthiest Elites is a new world order, a “new normal,” totally controlled by ruling ‘experts’ claiming the ability to sustain you, protect you, meet all your needs, and eliminate your worries.

This system is called technocracy. It’s dependent on a class-segregated society, fully controlled by an upper class.

Does this sound familiar? It should. It’s what all tyrants want. But in this day and age, it will look much different.

All of this relies on a willing public

And in order to achieve that total compliance on a scale globally large, the human spirit must be broken… Love, family, emotion, responsibility, open communication, mass gatherings, and debate must all be squelched.

Once the pathetic masses accept this ruse, and acquiesce to the mandates being planned, they will be transformed into a machine-like state through technological manipulation claiming to make life easier, safer, and more convenient.

A totally digitized system is necessary in order to retain constant control. All this sounds outlandish… like a dystopian science fiction novel.  But it’s exactly what’s happening right in front of all of us.

Will Christ’s Faithful Followers Do What Past Faithful Heroes Did?

A completely new world is planned to come upon us for a limited time.  It can only happen by eliminating truth, eliminating our historical roots, and hiding all that is real and honest.  What’s left is a fantasy, but this short-lived fantasy will be deadly if it’s not successfully resisted.  Only those who, like the Pilgrims of 17th century Plymouth, are willing to form local bonds of true Ekklesia fellowship community and educate their children according to God’s Biblical truth will avoid the fate of Lot’s wife. She was consumed by her own longing for the shiny objects of this world rather than follow God’s escape route into the unknown. Abram followed God to a destination unknown that was predetermined by God alone.  And, through Jesus Christ, we’ve been given Abraham’s faith to trust God for our destination, no matter what happens in the world around us.

Seek the truth, seek honesty, ask questions, and believe nothing unless it can be personally verified. Do not allow the takeover of your lives by the monsters claiming to be your saviors.

In these controversial times, we all must prayerfully think! And think extra hard before we act. I’ll say a bit more on that in today’s bonus segment at ReclaimYourLegacy dot com.

Bonus Segment

We now know the plans of the enemies of freedom – the enemies of God.  It’s absolutely foolish for Christians (the 50% who don’t vote in elections because doing their civic, constitutional duty is somehow beneath their dignity) to think they can continue their worldly guided behavior and not be accountable to God for it. They’re assigned by Jesus to be preservative ‘salt’ to their culture. That takes deliberate effort. They’re modern-day equivalents to Ezekiel’s watchman on the wall.  They’ll be judged for their inaction when they could have prevented the destruction of their peers.

They have failed to think…

What would their family’s life be like IF BLM, Inc or Hezbollah invaded their neighborhoods?

What will they do when tyrannical bureaucrats marginalize honest citizens who conscientiously choose to opt out of arguably dangerous public health mandates?

In controversial times, we must prayerfully think! And think extra hard before we act.

You and I can’t force someone to adopt an opinion against their will. “A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still!”  Don’t even try to do it. Refuse to argue with fools who embrace death over life, license over responsibility, and promised safety over daring to risk our temporal comforts.

Only God’s Spirit Can Open Our Spiritual Eyes that have been blinded by Deception

For years we’ve been seeing publicly the open expression of ‘doctrines of demons’ – hellish teachings popularly accepted as correct for the masses. But you are a chosen generation; a distinct people for God’s own possession; to shine forth His redeeming and purifying light in the midst of darkness. So focus on truth and share it with those willing to receive it. (1 Pe 2:9 and Mark 6:11)

Just ask yourself; what is the chief aim of following Jesus?  Abundant life and knowing God intimately.

Ask; what is the chief aim of the devil?  To steal, kill and destroy.

What is the genius of the US constitution?  God is our King.  We have freedom of thought to be citizens – we the people – free to pursue a life of God’s order under a Biblically inspired nation of written laws – God’s 10 commandments. Righteous truths are eternally self-evident, teaching people to learn self-restraint. The unrighteous require external controls that can’t be enforced without draconian, anti-God restraints.

The plandemic masks and personal physical distancing rules by human governors don’t recognize “natural laws of God’s creation.” Those natural laws are so obvious, that to ignore them, becomes absurdly self-destructive.  Not only do such foolish restraints endanger humans physically amid a sea of constantly changing opinions, they dehumanize personal relationships, leading to all manner of social and mental disorders.  If you doubt the fallacies of such conclusions, take the time to watch censored research reporters like those featured on TheHighWire.com, NaturalNews.com, and HealthImpactNews.com. Be informed by honest dissenters from the mainstream.

God is giving all of us an opportunity to influence the outcome of our nation because He commanded His disciples to actually disciple the nations of the world.  And that’s possible because He proclaimed that all authority had been given to Him when Jesus resurrected. Do you honestly believe that? Then why not make every effort to participate in the process of determining the leadership of your own nation under God?  In upcoming elections, vote for freedom of conscience and the liberty to proclaim the truth of God.  You’re voting for a platform of principles, not for a personality. This is a rare opportunity in our generation. We have a crossroads before us where every vote counts. Who, in their right mind, wants to throw their vote away by either not voting or voting for a platform determined to enslave all humanity by a globalist agenda? 

Only by constant intercession for God’s will to be done on earth as it is in heaven… for His Kingdom to invade our earthly community… for His enablement to guide us to speak the truth to enlighten the darkness… these must be our priorities in each day God gives us breath. 

 Psalm 95 promises us with consolation:

“He who teaches man knowledge—the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath. Blessed is the man whom you discipline, O LORD, and whom you teach out of your law, to give him rest from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.  For the LORD will not forsake his people; he will not abandon his heritage; for justice will return to the righteous, and all the upright in heart will follow it.” Psalm 95:10b-15

Do you have friends who enjoy listening on the go to podcasts? Spotify, Stitcher, Apple and iHeartRadio are some of the platforms where you can find Reclaiming Your Legacy. Go to ReclaimYourLegacy.com to link to the one you like and subscribe. That way you’ll not miss out when I post a new episode. Visit ReclaimYourLegacy.com and take advantage of the scripts and links there to assist in sharing any parts of these programs with friends. While you’re there, if the Holy Spirit impresses you to be part of the valuable supply line to keep this program coming to you, I want you to know that I deeply appreciate your response to His direction in your heart. Free programming, as you know, isn’t really free. So, we all thank God for enabling the small ‘family’ of suppliers that have continued to make it possible for the many hours of research and production it takes to bring our listeners Reclaiming Your Legacy each week.  When we all do our part in the battle, our Lord Jesus gets all the glory and accomplishes His goals in His time. We take seriously that we are appointed “for such a time as this” (Esther 4:14).

Ref. https://healthimpactnews.com/2020/many-have-fought-and-died-in-order-to-protect-free-speech-but-the-biggest-censorship-push-in-history-is-taking-place-today/

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Noah was A Real Man in A Real Lost World #372

By Dennis Petersen

As the evidence is unearthed for world-wide catastrophe, hidden in plain sight, Global Flood deniers are being exposed for their outrageous lies to innocent school children!

What if the flood, recorded in the book of Genesis, wasn’t just a Bible story or fable? What if it’s actually part of humanity’s shared human memory?

Have you ever heard how cultures that never met, separated by oceans for centuries all tell the same story? A world-demolishing flood, a few human survivors, a floating vessel, a complete reboot of humanity’s beginning – a catastrophic reset. And now archaeology, ancient sites and discoveries buried underwater, are forcing an uncomfortable question. Could there have actually been more than one watery catastrophe that almost obliterated humanity?

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Spiritual Warfare in a Corrupt Society

God’s People are Rediscovering their Divine Legacy in such a time as this by Dennis Petersen

You’re not alone if you feel horrified by the perverse and corrupt wickedness being exposed openly in our society’s mountains of influence.

Truly, the manufactured political crisis of a highly questionable health emergency is tragic.  But God has been using it to expose unimaginable corruption and ignorance.  Now, He’s using all of it to generate awakening and repentance.  

In the post-Civil War generations, Christian pastors en masse, began failing their Biblical assignment. What’s that? Ephesians 4:12-14 tells us.  It’s for…

“…the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ…”  And that is expected to result that we would all grow up to maturity… no longer children… being tossed around by the trickery of deceitful men.

Doesn’t it make sense that should mean that the saints should all be actively prepared to disciple their own young people to be the influencers for righteousness in THIS nation?

But think of what happened.  The generation that survived the Civil War created the industrial revolution, ushering humanity into the Space Age.  It took only a century of growing, but eventually unimagined national prosperity reduced a spoiled and entitled generation to face the possible disaster of becoming another third world socialist country.

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Strangers in a Foreign Land

How does the God of the Universe want His People to think about Protecting our Civil Society?

What is the morally righteous mindset for mature citizens to have about national border security and public treatment of aliens?

All of us today are aware and sensitive to the reality that Scripture is often misquoted, misapplied, or weaponized, in public discourse, to push political agendas. Millions of conscientious believers are trying to navigate the tension between compassion and the rule of law, between loving the stranger and protecting the vulnerable.

Everyone knows that we live in a climate of political correctness. With the left-leaning attitude of the main stream media, Christians often face moral dilemmas. The issue of immigration is a big concern.

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The Legacy of A Stress-free Life

I’d like to talk with you today about one of the most important legacies that every one of us would love to pass on to the next generation.

I’m reading in Psalm 55, where it says…

“My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death assail me. Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me.”

Psalm 55:4

You know, one of the realities of life that our current physical science-based medical system has had to admit in recent years is that there are non-physical causes to poor health and disease. One widely accepted non-physical cause is “stress.” It’s quite well known today that the presence of stress in one’s life, and how one deals with that stress, has a direct impact on our health. Unfortunately, the solutions the medical system most often prescribe today for mental and emotional health are expensive drugs. And they often have serious side effects. So many people are “stressed out” that anti-depressant drugs have become a growing and prosperous business for pharmaceutical companies.

Well, King David, the second Jewish king, lived a thousand years before Christ.  He was a man who faced tremendous stress in his life. Few of us today will ever face the kind of anxiety David experienced for more than 10 years of his life when he was constantly on the run from his enemies who were trying to kill him. As he wrote in Psalm 55, it wasn’t just his enemies that caused problems. It was his “friends” and fellow believers. He said…

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In Crisis Times God’s Priorities Don’t Change #342

Like the separatist Pilgrims who fled religious persecution in their homelands to courageously face an untamed wilderness 400 years ago right now, we are facing a challenge of giant proportions. Can we dare to proclaim, “Thank you Almighty God for your abundant mercy and your grace to lead us on?”

When I asked the Lord – in view of our historic atmosphere of national and global anxiety and fear – how then shall your people pray and think and act, He led me immediately and serendipitously to a historic event in the leadership of His people.  I believe He wants to talk with us about that today.

Let’s set the stage a bit

There is no way that anyone can convince you that we are not living in what is probably the most universal time of chaos, uncertainty, deception and tragically painful human suffering since God’s interruption at the tower of Babel, over 4000 years ago. Even in our affluent North American experience of relative freedom, which is another world to billions of the human family, we see all around us devastating struggle between good and evil. We are at war for the future of our children. Many Christians are saying in their feelings of desperation, “certainly, the coming of the Lord must be near.”  The conflict of the ages between the Devil’s kingdom of darkness and God’s Kingdom of light have been drawn into sharper contrast than perhaps any time in our lives.

Despite the dismal failure of our generation’s Christian leaders to teach us to disciple our own nation and amplify the knowledge and authority of God’s Holy Word in our current society, God is working behind the scenes.  It appears that He is using the multi-faceted crisis whirling around us to inspire His true disciples to seek the face of God more fervently than ever. This is good.

Have you ever caught yourself tolerating an annoying irritation for many moons sometimes before finally stopping to take the time to fix the problem?  The classic example is tolerating a small pebble in your shoe while you limp along for many steps before finally removing it.

The Holy Spirit is particularly good at reinforcing to us God’s eternal principles that are relevant to our immediate situations when we take the time to prioritize personal intimacy alone with God and His word.  As you look into His word for guidance, correction, and instruction in how to lead a life of living in right standing with your Creator/Savior, meditate on the plain meaning of the words you read and hear yourself say out loud.

“I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.”

Romans 16:19-20

Before we look at some of the specifics about the things that are causing the epidemic of fear and confusion in our world, why not pray to God right now – a prayer that you know is divinely perfect? And while asking God for the supplications of your prayer and declaring the confessions of your prayer, let Him adjust your thinking and your feelings to bring them into harmony with the way that you can absolutely know is God’s perfect will.

Psalm 31:14-24

14 “O Lord, You are my God.”

15 My times are in Your hand; Deliver me from the hand of my enemies and from those who persecute me.

16 Make Your face to shine upon Your servant; Save me in Your lovingkindness.

17 Let me not be put to shame, O LORD, for I call upon You;

Let the wicked be put to shame, let them be silent in Sheol (Or the nether world).

18 Let the lying lips be mute, which speak arrogantly against the righteous with pride and contempt.

19 How great is Your goodness, Which You have stored up for those who fear You,

Which You have wrought for those who take refuge in You, Before the sons of men!

20 You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the conspiracies of man;

You keep them secretly in a shelter (Or, pavilion) from the strife of tongues.

21 Blessed be the LORD, For He has made marvelous His lovingkindness to me in a besieged city.

22 As for me, I said in my alarm, “I am cut off from before Your eyes”; Nevertheless, You heard the voice of my supplications when I cried to You.

Then our prayer ends with an admonition – an invitation – that gives us a model of what to declare to others around us as we walk our path with the Lord.

23 O love the LORD, all you His godly ones! The LORD preserves the faithful and fully recompenses the proud doer.

24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in (Or, wait for) the LORD.

God is just… and He expects us to pray according to the patterns of His word. His word gives us a perfect pattern of how to pray.  And yes, you need to pray that God would cut off, from before your eyes, those who would be alarmed and those hiding from His justice.

How many times have we heard our mothers and others who love us, like Jesus Himself, warn us to not listen to those subtle voices that try to tempt us to sin morally or even sin by giving in to fear, rather than staying on target with God’s voice of peace and wisdom?  And fear is a sin. We need to face that. Let’s stay on target with God’s voice. It’s always a voice of peace and wisdom.

Now, let’s be honest. We can’t stop our ears from occasionally hearing the loud noises of evil in our world. But we CAN choose whether or not we will continue to voluntarily turn on those channels of destruction. Why not ask God for His help to courageously stand firm against the emotionally persuasive wiles of the Devil.  If we are truly owned by Christ as His bond-servants, we’re supposed to not let Satan take advantage of us, nor be unaware of his devices (Or schemes) 2 Corinthians 2:11. So, just decide now to stop listening to evil reports from those who have proven to be enemies of God.

Yes, you will be a “peculiar people.”  You’ll be thought by the carnal ones as being strange. So what?  Get over it.  What is being proclaimed in your real home? Your eternal home? Do you suppose that is why Jesus said “I only do and speak what I hear my father say?”  Is He helping us take this walk of serving Him more seriously than before?  If we’re willing, do you just suppose He is able to keep you steady on that path?

I asked the Lord: What’s true and critically important for us to know about our chaotic times that make us feel so uncertain and troubled?  I listed a few of them, and you might have a similar list.

  • The instability of human governments
  • The plague that surrounds us
  • The choices we each have for our health and safety
  • The plans you expect us to participate in for the world you have redeemed
  • The priorities for the community of your chosen followers with whom you have assigned us to dwell
  • The confidence with which we must pray in praying according to your will

Here is the prayer that the Lord opened serendipitously for me as I began to write down these comments. It’s from the man whom God’s word declares was given greater wisdom than any natural man who has ever lived, Solomon.  And he uttered this prayer at the dawn of Israel’s golden age… at the dedication of the place where God chose to make His earthly home in the very heart of His world… the temple in Jerusalem. It had taken 7 years to construct that temple… and this is what King Solomon prayed…

Solomon’s Prayer of Dedication

12 Then Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the entire community of Israel, and he lifted his hands in prayer.

13 Now Solomon had made a bronze platform 7½ feet long, 7½ feet wide, and 4½ feet high and had placed it at the center of the Temple’s outer courtyard. He stood on the platform, and then he knelt in front of the entire community of Israel and lifted his hands toward heaven.

14 He prayed, “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in all of heaven and earth. You keep your covenant and show unfailing love to all who walk before you in wholehearted devotion.

15 You have kept your promise to your servant David, my father. You made that promise with your own mouth, and with your own hands you have fulfilled it today.

16 “And now, O LORD, God of Israel, carry out the additional promise you made to your servant David, my father. For you said to him, ‘If your descendants guard their behavior and faithfully follow my Law as you have done, one of them will always sit on the throne of Israel.’

17 Now, O LORD, God of Israel, fulfill this promise to your servant David.

18 “But will God really live on earth among people? Why, even the highest heavens cannot contain you. How much less this Temple I have built!

Think about that. God, will you really live on earth among people? Of course Solomon couldn’t see it, but we realize that God, through Jesus, is actually living through His Holy Spirit IN us. Solomon went on in his prayer.

19 Nevertheless, listen to my prayer and my plea, O LORD my God. Hear the cry and the prayer that your servant is making to you.

Do you think that God is hearing your prayer? Really, even Solomon was asking God, beseeching Him, to hear his prayer.

20 May you watch over this Temple day and night, this place where you have said you would put your name. May you always hear the prayers I make toward this place.

21 May you hear the humble and earnest requests from me and your people Israel when we pray toward this place. Yes, hear us from heaven where you live, and when you hear, forgive.

Now we understand that the place that he was focusing on was the temple. Now, it’s the place where God is right here in our in our presence. He’s among us. Listen to what Solomon prayed and described some things, very much like what we see going on in the world in which we live. See if it doesn’t resonate in your own heart as an adequate and appropriate prayer for us in some ways.

22 “If someone wrongs another person and is required to take an oath of innocence in front of your altar at this Temple,

23 then hear from heaven and judge between your servants—the accuser and the accused. Pay back the guilty as they deserve. Acquit the innocent because of their innocence.

24 “If your people Israel are defeated by their enemies because they have sinned against you, and if they turn back and acknowledge your name and pray to you here in this Temple,

25 then hear from heaven and forgive the sin of your people Israel and return them to this land you gave to them and to their ancestors.

Doesn’t it seem that that would be an appropriate prayer? Of course, taking into consideration that we live in a different environment today, but certainly we can expect that God would be merciful if we will repent and ask Him to return us to the land of our ancestors. In other words, the land that our ancestors have spent these last centuries building and developing, even though they’ve gone astray many times? Listen to what the prayer goes on to say.

26 “If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and if they pray toward this Temple and acknowledge your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them,

27 then hear from heaven and forgive the sins of your servants, your people Israel. Teach them to follow the right path, and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as their special possession.

Now again, can we justly and in faith, ask God to do similarly for us today, as He was, through Solomon’s prayer, was imploring God to do for the nation of Israel. As God’s own people, we are grafted into the nation of Israel and we can certainly appropriate God’s grace and mercy, can we not?

28 “If there is a famine in the land or a plague or crop disease or attacks of locusts or caterpillars, or if your people’s enemies are in the land besieging their towns—whatever disaster or disease there is—

29 and if your people Israel pray about their troubles or sorrow, raising their hands toward this Temple, 30 then hear from heaven where you live, and forgive. Give your people what their actions deserve, for you alone know each human heart.

31 Then they will fear you and walk in your ways as long as they live in the land you gave to our ancestors.

Now, stop right there. When you look at that prayer and pray it from your own fervency, doesn’t it make complete sense that God in his biblical honest mercy and consistency… doesn’t it stand to reason that he will answer our prayer. And when you see millions of people across our land, praying … fervently calling on God for his mercy. Yes, we don’t deserve it. Yes, we’ve gone astray as a culture. But certainly, there are more people in our nation than the 10 that Abraham asked God if He would spare Sodom because of those 10 righteous. Listen to what Solomon continued to pray…

32 “In the future, foreigners who do not belong to your people Israel will hear of you. They will come from distant lands when they hear of your great name and your strong hand and your powerful arm. And when they pray toward this Temple,

33 then hear from heaven where you live, and grant what they ask of you. In this way, all the people of the earth will come to know and fear you, just as your own people Israel do. They, too, will know that this Temple I have built honors your name.

Can we pray that God would use our nation, once again, to be a beacon of light to the world? Why not? Can God give us the faith to do that?

34 “If your people go out where you send them to fight their enemies, and if they pray to you by turning toward this city you have chosen and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name,

35 then hear their prayers from heaven and uphold their cause.

36 “If they sin against you—and who has never sinned? — you might become angry with them and let their enemies conquer them and take them captive to a foreign land far away or near.

37 But in that land of exile, they might turn to you in repentance and pray, ‘We have sinned, done evil, and acted wickedly.’

38 If they turn to you with their whole heart and soul in the land of their captivity and pray toward the land you gave to their ancestors—toward this city you have chosen, and toward this Temple I have built to honor your name—

 39 then hear their prayers and their petitions from heaven where you live, and uphold their cause. Forgive your people who have sinned against you.

Can we not pray that? That God would have that same mercy and forgiveness for His people, even now?   

40 “O my God, may your eyes be open and your ears attentive to all the prayers made to you in this place.

41 “And now arise, O LORD God, and enter your resting place, along with the Ark, the symbol of your power. May your priests, O LORD God, be clothed with salvation; may your loyal servants rejoice in your goodness.

I look at that closing part of Solomon’s prayer, and I can’t help but see that God is saying to us – we are a kingdom of priests, you know – may your priests be clothed with salvation, and may they rejoice in your goodness. May we make that a constant confession and dedication of our lips, to rejoice in God’s goodness… and at this time of thanksgiving, how can we not be thankful to God? And say openly to God, expressing to anyone even those on the street who may not know God, ‘god is so good.’ At this season of the 400th anniversary of the providential orchestration of our nation’s millions of families. We must remind ourselves that God is rich in mercy.

42 O LORD God, do not reject the king you have anointed. Remember your unfailing love for your servant David.”

2 Chronicles 6:12-42

“I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.”

At this season when our attention is drawn to the 400-year American tradition of giving thanks for God’s providential orchestration of our nation’s millions of families, we must remind ourselves that God is rich in mercy

1 Peter 2:10 “for you once were NOT A PEOPLE, but now you are THE PEOPLE OF GOD; you had NOT RECEIVED MERCY, but now you have RECEIVED MERCY.”

We are at a historic moment in our republic and many people are about to understand increasingly that this present battle between honesty and treachery is a nationwide assault on the integrity of our system. The thoroughly corrupted corporate media maggots are doing all they can to ignore the crisis in our election system, but the crisis is speaking very loudly to citizens. 

The more important reality is the increasingly obvious nature of the conflict between good and evil. Our country has been gripped by apathic disinvolvement that has produced our current surreal dystopian crisis, the source (or cause) of which they simply don’t understand.  As conservative news reporter, Lou Dobbs, asserted so well, “We have a fierce demand in the leftist establishment for conformity and silence. If that is not resisted, we lose the republic.”

Thanksgiving today, gives us an opportunity to thank God for what is happening now.  By God’s mercy, He is giving us all a wakeup call, without which we would continue to sleep.

When people on the left sneer at us, it tells you some things. They are less than polite. They think they are superior to us. The first test for any American is, “do you believe every citizen of America has equal rights and is deserving of equal respect?” The answer is absolutely, because that concept is enshrined in the constitution. And that constitution is God-sent. It’s that straight forward and why we must fight this fight with every ounce of energy and courage we can muster. It’s a fight we cannot afford to lose. As we know, as sinners, we don’t deserve to win. But that isn’t the reason we win.

We have been a nation of nations for others – that’s what has made the United States of America great.

We must first look to ourselves. We’ve lost almost 70 million babies to abortion since Roe v Wade. We are a nation who talks about the family but we don’t always support the family – whether R or D.  We must be a nation who asks, do I mean what I’m saying and will I stand up for what I mean. And this is the time to do so.

Remember that Joshua’s conquering army 3500 years ago was commissioned by God to destroy the exceedingly wicked occupants of God’s promised land to Abraham. God would accomplish the victory, but the heirs of the promised land had to valiantly fight for every inch of it with their wholehearted personal commitment.

Witnessing is work. Disciple making is even tougher. But in order for a free people to have a just society to do the work of discipling the nation?… Now, that’s risky business. And it’s downright warfare – spiritually, emotionally, mentally and even physically.  We must throw off the deceptions of our misguided traditions and alliances with ungodly institutions that embrace secular humanism – the number one idolatry in our nation that has displaced wholehearted commitment to our One True God.

“I want you to be wise in what is good and innocent in what is evil. The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.”

Romans 16:19-20

The Holy Spirit is breaking through fears and doubts as we meditate on His Word and truly take it to heart. But we need to take action. Do our part. Parents need to be the primary influence in their children’s training and discovery of what is true. Listening to the corrupt media’s evil reports and constant assault on divine truth and morality has NO PLACE in the life of ANY follower of Christ. There are many good news sources if you care to be informed and encouraged. Start with people like Jay Seculow of the ACLJ, and Charlie Kirk of Turning Point USA. You can see them on YouTube and their web sites. Get more links on our website ReclaimYourLegacy.com.

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Bonus Segment

This episode of Reclaiming Your Legacy was first broadcast for Thanksgiving week in November of 2020. I thought it timely to share again now as we continue a time of historic uncertainty, when assessing things with a natural mind. I hope you joined me in mentally praying through the Bible prayers of Psalm 31 and 2 Chronicles 6.  Like many of the prayers we find in our Bibles, they are taking on more profound applications in today’s times than perhaps we’ve ever imagined before.

I want to add an extra bonus for you today that I believe you’ll find useful in times to come.

For many listeners who may not be familiar with finding various recordings they’d like to access on the Internet, it’s helpful to have a list of favorite sources handy. That’s why I’ve posted an alphabetized list of some of the key content providers in the transcript for today’s show at ReclaimYourLegacy.com.  I invite you to look it over. And copy and paste it into a document that you can print out if that helps you to find these websites later on.  Most of these gifted speakers, presenters, authors, and podcasters were completely unknown to most of us before the 2020 Plandemic.  Now, many of them are becoming household names… especially to God-fearing believers who love their country and want to do everything possible to share the truth with the next generation.  I’ve highlighted some that I particularly appreciate for the profound insights they’ve enabled me to discover through their determined efforts.

Print this out – File it – Keep handy for later access to your favorite shows.

Check out websites and commentary Channels that I highly regard:

Alex Newman – Sentinel Report – https://rumble.com/user/AlexNewman  https://frankspeech.com/channel/alex-newman  https://rumble.com/c/LibertySentinel

Ann Vandersteel – https://rumble.com/c/AnnVandersteel

Black Conservative Patriot at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu3lxLxp3ZuJRga7gF9KIyg/videos

Brannon Howse – WorldviewTube –  https://worldviewtube.com/

Charlie Kirk’s Rumble channel –  https://rumble.com/c/CharlieKirk

Charlie Kirk – Turning Point USA – https://www.youtube.com/@turningpointusa and at https://www.tpusa.com/ and https://www.youtube.com/c/RealCharlieKirk

Christie Hutcherson – https://rumble.com/c/WomenFightingforAmericawithChristieHutcherson

Clay Clark – Thrivetime Show – https://rumble.com/c/ThrivetimeShow

Dane Wiggington www.geoengineeringwatch.org

David Sorensen – Stop World Control – https://stopworldcontrol.com/

Dr Eric Nepute – search his name on https://www.brighteon.com/ and https://rumble.com/

Dr Lee Merritt – Medical Rebel – https://rumble.com/c/LeeMerrittMD

Dr. Brian Ardis – https://thedrardisshow.com/  https://rumble.com/c/TheDrArdisShow 

Flyover conservatives – David & Stacy Whited – https://rumble.com/c/FlyoverConservatives

Gary Franchi – Next News Network – https://www.youtube.com/@NextNewsNetwork

Gateway Pundit – News daily article/video links – https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/

Glen Beck – Blaze TV – https://www.youtube.com/@BlazeTV

Greg Reese Report https://gregreese.substack.com/

His Glory – Dave Scarlett – https://rumble.com/c/HGTV

Jay Seculow at https://aclj.org/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialACLJ

Jeff Dornik – Jeff Dornik show – https://rumble.com/c/TheJeffDornikShow

Jonathan Cahn – https://www.youtube.com/@jonathancahn.official

Lance Wallnau at https://lancewallnau.com/ and search re-posts on Rumble channels https://www.youtube.com/@lancewallnaushow

Maria Zee – ZeeeMedia – https://rumble.com/user/ZeeeMedia

Matrix Groove show with Jeff and Shady – https://rumble.com/c/MGShow

Mel K – https://rumble.com/c/TheMelKShow

Melissa Red Pill – https://rumble.com/user/RedpillTheWorld

Mike Adams – Health Ranger Report and Brighteon Broadcast News – https://www.brighteon.com/channels/hrreport/videos/all

One America News – https://rumble.com/c/OANN

Pastor Jack Hibbs at https://live.calvarycch.org/category/speaker/jack-hibbs/ and https://www.youtube.com/user/RealLifeJackHibbs

Pastor Rob McCoy at http://godspeak.com/sermons and https://vimeo.com/godspeakccto

Pastor Scott Lively at https://www.scottlively.net/

Real America’s Voice – https://rumble.com/user/RealAmericasVoice

Resistance Chicks – https://rumble.com/c/ResistanceChicks

Scott Kesterson – BardsFM podcast – https://www.bards.fm/ 

Seth Gruber – White Rose Resistance – https://www.youtube.com/@SethGruberShow

Seth Holhouse – Man in America – https://www.brighteon.com/channels/maninamerica/home

Steve Bannon – https://frankspeech.com/channel/war-room

Steve Cioccolanti & Discover Ministries  https://www.youtube.com/@discoverministries

Thrivetime Show – Clay Clark – https://www.brighteon.com/channels/thrivetimeshow/home

Tucker Carlson – TCS – https://rumble.com/c/TuckerCarlson

Clearly, there are many more podcasters and good sources of information to find, but these are some that I’ve especially appreciated in recent times. I invite you to browse through these channels and ‘like’ the shows you want to be reminded of again. Subscribe to those you particularly find helpful. As the world’s traditionally respected channels for newsworthy information have degraded to a state of complete untrustworthiness, these citizen journalists, most of whom are independent of any corporate sponsorship, have become notably crucial for all people to be truthfully informed.