Reality check...

A friend sent me this in an email. I can not ‘attest’ to its truth or authorship… BUT, it does focus on the Reality that counts…

Reality check...

After a few of the usual Sunday evening hymns, the church’s pastor slowly stood up, walked to the pulpit and, before he gave his sermon for the evening, briefly introduced a guest minister who was in the service that evening.

In the introduction, the pastor told the congregation that the guest minister was one of his dearest childhood friends and that he wanted him to have a few moments to greet the church and share whatever he felt would be appropriate for the service. With that, and elderly man stepped up to the pulpit and began to speak.

“A father, his son, and a friend of his son were sailing off the Pacific coast.” He began, “when a fast approaching storm blocked any attempt to get back to the shore. The waves were so high, that even though the father was an experienced sailor, he could not keep the boat upright and the three were swept into the ocean as the boat capsized.”

The old man hesitated for a moment, making eye contact with two teenagers who were for the first time since the service began, looking somewhat interested in his story.

The aged minister continued with his story, “Grabbing a rescue line, the father had to make the most excruciating decision of his life:

To which boy would he throw the other end of the life line?

He only had seconds to make the decision.

The father knew that his son was a Christian and he also knew that his son’s friend was not.

The agony of his decision could not be matched by the torrent of waves.

As the father yelled out, ‘I love you, son!’ He threw the life line to his son’s friend.

By the time the father had pulled the friend back to the capsized boat, his son had disappeared beneath the raging swells into the black of night.

His body was never recovered…”

By this time, the two teenagers were sitting up straight in the pew, anxiously waiting for the next words to come out of the old minister’s mouth.

“The father,” he continued, “knew his son would step into eternity with Jesus and could not bear the thought of his son’s friend stepping into an eternity without Jesus… Therefore, he sacrificed his son to save the son’s friend.”

“How great is the love of God that He should do the same for us? Our Heavenly Father sacrificed His ‘Only begotten Son’ that we could be saved. I urge you to accept his offer to rescue you and take a hold of the life line He is throwing out to you in this service.”

With that, the old man turned and sat back down in his chair as silence filled the room…

The pastor again walked slowly to the pulpit and delivered a brief sermon with an ‘invitation’ at the end. However, no one responded to the appeal.

Within minutes after the service ended, the two teenagers were at the old man’s side.

“That was a nice story,” politely state one of them, “but I don’t think it was very realistic for a father to give up his only son’s life in hope that the other boy would become a Christian.”

“Well, you’ve got a point there,” the old man replied glancing down at his worn Bible a big smile broadened his narrow face.

He once again looked up at the boys and said, “It sure isn’t very realistic is it? But, I’m standing here today to tell you that story gives me a glimpse of what it must have been like for God to give His Son for me.”

“You see, I was that father and your pastor is my son’s friend…”

Destroying America… God’s Way!

“We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.”
George Bernard Shaw

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
George Santayana

There is a concerted effort to ‘make’ America bilingual. The campaign is seeking to change America. The campaign is active from local communities to the halls of Congress. It is calling itself tolerant and enlightened. It is in fact either ignorant or malicious.

This is not a new idea. The ‘enlightened activists’ (Liberal Humanists) in America pushing for a “Bilingual-Bicultural” ‘tolerant’ society have either never learned any history, or are purposely attempting to destroy America. This is a strategy ‘invented’ by God. It is sardonically ironic that groups of well meaning people that ‘materially’ deny God, are using God’s methods to destroy a nation founded on God.

Former Governor of Colorado, Richard Lamm, in early 2004, offered a speech in Washington D.C. titled, “I Have A Plan To Destroy America”. He offered a revised written version to Snopes.com, the “Urban Legends” people. In his speech, Governor Lamm points to modern and historical examples of how multiculturalism or as he states “Bilingual-Bicultural” societies fail.

One need only look to the news to see terrific tensions created by diverse languages in modern cultures. Governor Lamm mentions Canada, Belgium, Nigeria and others whose escalating unrest has even caused civil wars. The point is, a nation divided by bilingualism ‘commits suicide’.

Jesus Christ said, “If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.” Mark 3:24. This quote is entirely out of context. The principle however is sound and represents a principle enacted by God, Himself.

God knows that a multi-lingual ‘nation’ cannot stand. He knows by introducing a diversity of languages that are not ‘in common’ into a society, the society fails. Mistrust, bigotry, and isolationism are the direct result of forcing different languages into a united culture. He ‘invented’ the method.

Look at the book of Genesis.
“Now the whole earth had one language and one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar. And they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top is in the heavens; let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.” But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built. And the Lord said, “Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.” Genesis 11:1-9

Therefore, we send a sincere congratulation to the ‘Liberal Humanists’ in America. “The fool has said in his heart, ““There is no God.” They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good.” Psalm 14:1 (Psalm 53:1).

Denying God, and then using God’s methods in an attempt to be ‘enlightened’, they are ‘proving’ the Truth of Romans 1:22, “Professing to be wise, they became fools,”

History shows us from Genesis to the present that a “multilingual-multicultural” society cannot stand…
Governor Lamm has “A Plan to Destroy America”. A ‘Liberal Humanist’ ‘enlightened’ vocal minority is enacting it. This group is either obviously ignorant of history or thinks the rest of us are.

Sorry folks, God thought of it first.

Pray that God uses their ‘stealing’ of His methods as a way of reaching the lost…

“…‘I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live…” Ezekiel 33:11

“…not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9

God still wants to reach those that deny Him… Even those ‘enlightened’ souls that say, “There is no God”.