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May 21, 2009 · 3:25 pm

“He Who Commits Sin Is a Slave to Sin”

It always comes down to the sin question. The Savior is not going to let us slide on this point.

“Sin is the transgression of the law.” Breaking one of the Ten Commandments is the scriptural definition (I John 3: 4). We all have in the past broken them, but are we still breaking them?

For Christ “shall save His people from their sins.” For “He was manifested to take away our sins, and in Him is no sin” (Matthew 1: 21; I John 3: 5). Are we professing Christians “in Him” or not?

The True Light is come now. We have no excuse for our sin today. If we do not believe in the Light, we reject what the Light can do in our lives. Man is already condemned if this is the case.

Loving Darkness More than Light

Most human beings reject or do not believe in the Light because they love the dark deeds that they get to do, and they do not want to give them up. These actions are evil. And if man is doing evil things, things against God and man–sin, in other words–then he is going to hate the Light that exposes that evil action. That person will not come to the light because he is afraid that his actions will be discovered. Most adulteries, fornications, thefts, murders, and evil in general occur at night.

It is only when a person is truly and completely fed up with being a slave to sin–only then will they welcome the cleansing light of His truth.

A Slave to Sin? Really?

But, a slave to sin? Is man with his old nature in bondage to sin? Is sin his master? The scriptures of truth say, Yes.

Christ was speaking to some who were gathered. “And you shall kow the truth and the truth shall make you free” (John 8: 32-34). The pricked them, for they responded indignantly, “We have never been in bondage to any man. We have never been slaves. How then is the truth going to free us from anything?’

He then told them just what kind of bondage He was talking about. “Everyone that commits sin is a slave to sin. And the slave does not continue in the house forever: the son continues forever.” In the KJV, it says “servant.” But this is rendered from the Greek word G1401 meaning “a slave or bondman.” Its root word (G1210) means “to bind with chains.”

The apostle Paul wrote about this bondage to sin in Romans 6: 16. If you yield yourselves to obey the old master Sin in your life, then you are a slave to sin. You won’t be able to stop. You will obey sins dictates and holds and demands on you. But if you obey God in putting that old sinful nature to death, then you will become a servant unto the righteous Spirit of God that He will place inside you through belief in His resurrection.

God has provided a way for the bondage of sin and sinning to be broken. It is at the cross. To be free, we must surrender and place our old sinful hearts on the cross. It’s the only way to freedom from sin and sinning. KWH

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April 22, 2009 · 12:48 pm

It’s Just Your Great Love That Helps Us–A Poem/Prayer

It is just Your great love that helps us–

That reaches down through the ether,

Invisibly touching our hidden center of being,

That calmly holds us from the precarious perches

That we force ourselves onto.

Your love holds us close–

Now safe from falling,

Now safe from sliding back

Into the mire of mud-soaked sin.

You, who hold the key to our safety,

Have now transported us

On Your very own wings,

On which we now ride

Into the pastures of heaven.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

Taking the LORD’s Name in Vain–What Does It Really Mean?

One of the Ten Commandments reads, “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD in vain” (Exodus 20:16). We were taught that this meant to not curse out someone using the phrase “G—d— you.” That is a sound teaching for all of us to follow. However, upon further investigation, this commandment really does not mean this.

First of all, we now know that the King James translators substituted the title “the LORD” for the Hebrew name of God, YHWH, or Yahweh. So it should read, “Thou shalt not take the name of Yahweh in vain.” “God” is a title and not His name.

But to “take” the name Yahweh—what does that mean? Looking up the word “take” in Strong’s Concordance, we see that it is translated from the Hebrew word nasaw, #5375, meaning “to lift up, to extol.” In too many references to mention, it is translated “to lift up,” as in, to lift up voices to heaven, to lift up hands, eyes, hearts, etc. In one place it is translated “extol.”

So, with this in mind, we can now read the commandment, “Thou shalt not lift up the name of Yahweh in vain.” Looking up the phrase “in vain” in Strong’s, we see that it means, “false, falsely.” The same Hebrew word is translated “falsely” in many passages.

The More Correct Meaning of This Commandment

Putting this knowledge into the commandment, we now can read it with true meaning: “Thou shalt not lift up and extol the name of Yahweh falsely.” His name is holy—“hallowed be thy name.” So, using His name in a false way, for false purposes, is breaking that commandment and is a sin against Him. His name is to be praised, for our very lives and salvation are coded into His name. Consequently, knowing how precious and powerful His name is, for us to invoke His name for selfish reasons would be breaking this commandment.

A blatant scriptural example of this comes to mind. Someone once said that no man’s life is absolutely worthless; it can always serve as a horrible example. Such is the case of Simon the sorcerer. Simon, who had bewitched the people into thinking that he was a “the great power of God” was witnessing the true ministry of Philip. Philip preached “the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Yahshua, the Messiah” (Acts 8:12). Simon’s followers believed Philip’s message, along with Simon himself, who was baptized, and followed Philip, “beholding the miracles and signs which were done.” The apostles in Jerusalem “heard that Samaria had received the word of God,” and they sent Peter and John, who prayed for the new believers, that they might receive the Holy Ghost. When Simon saw that the people received the Holy Spirit through the laying on of hands, he offered the apostles money to buy this power. Of course, they rejected and rebuked him for his sin and folly. The point here is that he was lifting up Yah’s name in a false manner, for false pretenses and purposes, and it was sin.

I have to ask this question: Seeing that the phrase “taking the Lord’s name in vain” does not mean what we were taught growing up, how many other things about God have been erroneous? Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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April 5, 2009 · 10:35 am

Overcoming by the Word of Our Testimony

Those who overcome the evil do it by “the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony” (Rev. 12: 11) {See March 30, 2009 post}.

Faith in the cleansing power of Christ’s blood will set us into the position of being a testimony of God’s power in the earth. First, to overcome we must be cleansed from sin, and then give testimony that God is real in our lives–that He is in control, that He is all powerful.

In other words, we must be a witness as to what He is doing, where He is going and taking us all, what His plan and purpose is, what He expects from His creation, what is His endgame. We must go on record; we must take the witness stand here on earth and give our testimony as to what God has done in our life, and what He shall do in the lives of His true believers, and to those who will not believe in Him. That takes surrender, study, and prayer.

It Is All About “Christ in You”

The “word of our testimony” is the same thing as this: “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” It is all about “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” It is all about the Spirit of the living God walking around in us. This is the word of our testimony. It is when we grow to a point when our actions are the Spirit of Christ living out His life in us. Then we are poised for the final overcoming, or the final victory.

The first victory is the victory over sin and sinning. By believing this testimony that God gave us of His Son–that those who have faith and believe that God placed mankind’s sins on Christ, and when He died, our old heart and spirit died. And when Christ was buried, our old lives were buried. And when Christ was raised from the dead, we also were raised from the dead! A new life, a new walk, a new way, a new purpose–now poised to receive the ultimate blessing reserved for all of His overcomers–nothing less that immortality!

The Seven Levels of Overcoming

The outline of the seven levels of overcoming are found in the church ages in Revelation 2 and 3. These two chapters detail what we are to overcome in this new life and what the rewards are for the victors.

And those who are victorious to the end have this astounding prophecy given over them by Christ Himself: “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne” (3: 22).

Those that are unafraid and go on to overcome all things–they will sit as princes and princesses on God’s own very throne!

And if that were not enough, we who get this ultimate victory, we who allow God to fully manifest Himself in us–we shall inherit all things. “He that overcometh shall inherit all things” (Rev. 21: 7).

Who Will It Be?

So–somebody will sit with Christ on His throne and will inherit all things–the greatest of which is immortality. The question, then, is this: Who will it be? Is it you or I who have just met on this page? Will we be there as the immortal possessors of the universe, the sons and daughters of the King of the universe?

Or will we be among the “fearful and unbelieving”–those who will soon be eternally forgotten–those who wind up as just another broken common vessel that the Potter has discarded–broken potsherds having never made it to the kiln, never glazed with glory, never used to beautify His house. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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February 17, 2009 · 1:51 am

Victory Over Sin and Sinning, Confirms Andrew Murray

I’ve written about the cross experience–how putting our old ego, our old self on the cross and letting it die with Christ, puts an end to our old nature and its sinful ways. And then by His in-dwelling Spirit, through our belief in His resurrection, we “walk in a newness of life,” where the old life is “passed away” and His new life in us continues each day*.

Sometimes it helps to hear it from somebody else. Here is a quote from Andrew Murray, a 19th century Scottish minister:

“The question often arises how it is, with so much church-going, Bible-reading, and prayer, that the Christian fails to live the life of complete victory over sin and lacks the love and joy of the Lord. One of the most important answers, undoubtedly, is that he does not know what it is to die to himself and to the world. Yet without this, God’s love and holiness cannot have their dwelling-place in his heart. He has repented of some sins, but knows not what it is to turn, not only from sin, but from his old nature and self-will.

“Yet this is what the Lord Jesus taught. He said to the disciples that if any man would come after Him, he must hate and lose his own life. He taught them to take up the cross. That meant they were to consider their life as sinful and under sentence of death. They must give up themselves, their own will and power, and any goodness of their own. When their Lord had died on the cross, they would learn what it was to die to themselves and the world, and to live their life in the fullness of God.

Our Lord used the Apostle Paul to put this still more clearly. Paul did not know Christ after the flesh, but through the Holy Spirit Christ was revealed in his heart, and he could testify: ‘I am crucified with Christ; I live no longer; Christ liveth in me.’ In more than one of his Epistles the truth is made clear that we are dead to sin, with Christ, and receive and experience the power of the new life through the continual working of God’s Spirit in us each day” ( http://www.spiritoffire.org/ebooks/the%20new%20life/nlife26.htm ).

Let it be established in the mouth of two or three witnesses. KWH

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Conversations With the Seer–What Is Sin in God’s Eyes?

(Formerly in Israel, if a man went to inquire of God, he would say, “Come, let us go to the Seer,” because the prophet of today used to be called a Seer. I Samuel 9: 9)

“Just what is sin then?” I asked the Seer. We had been talking about the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the “sin” question had come up.

“Sin is the breaking of the law,” he said (1).

“Which law?”

“The Ten Commandments. If you are breaking one of them, then you are in a sinful state. The apostle Paul of Tarsus proves this when he wrote, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet (2). Here he equates sin with breaking one of the Ten Commandments. Coveting or desiring your neighbor’s possessions or wife is a sin, prohibited by the Ten Commandments. There are nine others. Breaking any of them is sinning.”

“But I’ve been taught that sin can be anything from dancing to drinking wine, from getting angry to not doing something that I am supposed to do.”

“Shuffling one’s feet on a hardwood floor does not necessarily mean one is sinning. Remember King David, flooded with complete joy, danced in the streets; he did not sin. The Savior Himself drank wine in the homes of sinners and publicans (3), yet He committed no sin. He also got angry at the moneychangers at the temple, yet without sin.”

“Why don’t the preachers teach this?”

“They either do not know the truth, or they have turned from the truth and continued on in man’s traditions. I do not judge them. We all have a Judge who will examine us in light of the knowledge given us by Him.”

“You mentioned dancing and drinking wine. Why would that not be sinning?”

“God looks on the intents of the heart (4). If dancing is used for sinful and lustful purposes, then it is suspect. Same goes for drinking a glass of fermented grape juice. Righteous indignation is not the same as selfish anger.”

“Sin then is a spiritual condition.”

“Yes. It is a spiritual condition of the heart, of the core of a person. But sin does not have to be permanent in the human being. A ‘new heart’ composed of His Spirit can be transplanted into the human being through repentance and faith toward God (5).” He saw that I had enough to chew on, so he stopped speaking.

I thanked him for the visit and walked away with some answers, but they seemed to germinate and sprout into more questions–questions for another day. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

1. I John 3:4

2. Romans 7: 7

3. Luke 19: 2

4. Hebrew 4:12

5. Ezekiel 36: 26-27

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November 16, 2008 · 1:09 pm

Conversations With the Seer–What is the Light of God?

(Formerly in Israel, if a man went to inquire of God, he would say, “Come, let us go to the Seer,” because the prophet of today used to be called a Seer. I Samuel 9: 9)

I came to the Seer with a question about the Light. I was reading the words, but I just could not wrap my mind around it. So I asked, “What is the Light?”

“The Light is the life of God,” he said with a smile. “Whenever a person receives His life, then they are receiving the Light.”

“How does this tie in with Christ being the Light of the world?”

“Eternal Life was and is in Christ. The fulness of the very life of God dwelt bodily in Christ, and it is this Eternal Life that is the Light. His Life enlightens natural man. Man sits in darkness, drifting aimlessly, a victim of kneejerk responses that oftentimes land him into trouble. When unregenerate man runs into this Eternal Life, a light shines brightly into his dark soul. His “heart of darkness” is exposed. He sees that someone is leading a righteous life, revealing his life to be unrighteous and sinful. He doesn’t understand at this point how all this happens. This is how the Light shines into darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not (1).

“How does this work?”

“God’s Life in Christ is Light. The very nature of Light is to shine into darkness. But to understand this spiritual Light, we must examine natural light that enters our earthly eyes every morning. Just like the light from the sun searches out and dispels corners and pockets of the darkness of night, even so the Life of God in Christ searches out and reveals the darkness in the hearts of sinful human beings. The positive creative goodness of His Eternal Life can’t help but go where sin, evil, and darkness resides.”

“I understand this, but why does it do this?” I ask.

“It hinges on why God created human beings in the first place. Mankind was created to house the Eternal Life of God. Nothing less. And since what God does, He does forever, He still is seeking out a place to reside. He’s looking for a home. Our bodies are designed to be His temple. And He has not stopped searching for a people to live in.”

“Yes. ‘He seeketh such to worship Him–in spirit and in truth.’ Christ and the woman at the well” (2).

“Exactly. This incident actually shows us what true worship is. He told her that God is a Spirit, and those who worship Him will have His Spirit, His very Life, living in them. God is searching the hearts of men and women everywhere as sunlight searches out darkness.”

“But why doesn’t everyone surrender to the Light when it enters into their thinking?”

“When the human heart is doing evil, it shies away from the Light, which is His Life. The sinful heart is selfish and does not want to surrender to God’s Life, which demands a change. Most prefer to continue to live their old lives. But He wants His temple clean of all the evil because He can’t dwell where evil is. But some persist in their evil ways. The scriptures say, For everyone that does evil hates the light, neither comes to the light, lest his deeds should be discovered. But he that does truth comes to the light so that his deeds may become known” (3).

“So everyone makes his or her choice.”

“Yes. This one thing all must realize. This Eternal Life which trumps death, which is the key to immortality, the thing that everyone wishes for–this Eternal Life is in Christ. When someone rejects Him and His words, they are not rejecting some nice man who taught good principles in Galilee 2,000 years ago. No. They are rejecting Life and their chance at immortality. He said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. When we believe that God (Yahweh), the supreme Creator, dwelt bodily in Christ, we have LIFE. And His LIFE is man’s Light that shines into the selfish heart and drives the darkness out (4). Those that receive the Light, those who receive this Eternal Life into their hearts, these are the ones that He will give power to, to become the sons and daughters of God, which is believing what His name means. But that’s another day” (5).

And with that, I thanked the Seer for sharing his thoughts on the Light. I went out, wondering if I would ever be able to contain the Light. And then the thought came, I will not put on you more than you are able to bear. And that made me smile. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

(1) John 1: 4-5 (2) John 4: 23-24 (3) John 3: 19-21 (4) I John 5: 10-12 (5) John 1: 12

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November 11, 2008 · 3:02 am

Gay Marriage–An Oxymoron, Biblically Speaking

The gay blogger was blasting the “bigots”–those who voted in California against legalizing gay marriage. Hypocrites even, he said, especially blacks who voted 70% to 30% against. “Now you are discriminating against another minority–gays,” he wrote. He implied that the majority thought of gays as less than human.

This was my response to his rant:

I agree wholeheartedly that gays are human beings–people with rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. However, “holy matrimony” or marriage is a spiritual and physical joining together by God of a male and female. These two become one and are the only two human beings that “God hath joined together” scripturally. God has not changed His position on this. He did say, “I am the same yesterday, today, and forever; I change not.”

Marriage between male and female is a moral right granted by the Creator. It was never granted to those of the same sex. You are trying to forge gay marriage into a civil right, erroneously basing it as a moral or inalienable right. “…That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights…life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” According to the Declaration of Independence, it is the Creator that gives the moral or unalienable rights to mankind. He gave “holy matrimony” to males and females. Civil rights are manmade laws; a civil union, therefore, should be the route you should attempt at equality.

For you see, this male/female spiritual union is in the internal genetic fabric of human society with roots going back thousands of years, planted there by a purposeful Creator. That is the reason that “gay marriage” was rejected, first by the Creator and now by the people of CA and FL. It doesn’t set well in the human heart and psyche because it never was part of the divine plan, according to the scriptures.

To get extra legal rights that married couples have, gays should call it civil unions, etc.

“Gay” and “marriage” is the ultimate oxymoron because of the Creator’s plan; they cannot go together. Marriage is a spiritual thing that God does with males and females.

I do say this in love: the God of the Bible rejects homosexuality in the strongest of terms (See Genesis 19 and Romans 1: 26-27).

But I do not condemn you; I just want to inform you as to the reasons you are running up against a brick wall, or rather, a Rock wall…Marriage is a spiritual thing, a religious institution in the eyes of God. Calling your relationship a “marriage” is at the root of the problem many heterosexuals have with it. And most people still sense this though our national sins are separating us from Him more and more. Biblically, God’s got His own thoughts about what marriage is. We all are commanded to pray and seek His will in all matters, including holy matrimony. KWH

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October 28, 2008 · 2:43 pm

Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden–The True Story

Their cries cut through the trees of the garden. “Help us, please! Don’t cast us away. Please forgive us, for we’ve sinned against you. We are sorry. We want it to be like it was before. Don’t forsake us!” Thus Adam and Eve did moan their fate after their sin and banishment by God from Eden. Where once they walked in splendid innocence with their Creator in paradise, they had found themselves in solitary anguish, awash in tears of guilt and shame.

And what really had they done to bring such swift retribution by the hand that yesterday had been so kind? Yes, they yielded to temptation and disobeyed the only commandment that God had given them, albeit through the auspices of one smooth character. For the serpent had convinced them that they needed the knowledge of good and evil, that experiencing this knowledge was the road to real wisdom. And so they partook and sinned. Why was the anguish and alienation of this sin the direct fruit of their gaining knowledge? The transformation from happy innocents to sin-guilty initiates took place because it was supposed to take place; it was in the master plan of the Creator.

Their Fall Was Not an Accident

However, conventional wisdom teaches that the Fall in Eden was an accident, that somehow the experimenting Creator had the wrong mix of variables present and things went bad. A deadly accident occurred unforeseen by the Architect, and his prototype house fell down. Now He would have to change His original plan in order to fix what He did not get right at the first. That does not sound like the omnipotent and omniscient Being the ancient Hebrew writers portrayed their God to be. In fact, the Genesis account shows a Creator with an acute and meticulous hand, setting everything in perfect order. “And he saw that it was good…it was good…it was good.”

It was good at every phase of creation. Are we to believe that a smooth talking serpent figure, made also by God (3:1), could accidentally appear in Eden to thwart the plan of the Almighty? This is not the case of the farmer fretting about the fox in the henhouse. This is the Creator of the fox, the hens, and the henhouse. He knew the vulnerability of Adam and Eve because He made them that way, and He created the serpent to be a lying seductive trickster. In effect, God had put the fox in the henhouse, for he certainly would not have been there without God’s tacit approval.

Furthermore, the serpent lied to Eve and enticed her to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Some writers such as Garrison Russell in SonPlacing propose that the serpent was a man and was the tree of knowledge of good and evil. “Trees” are types of men throughout the Hebrew literary tradition (Daniel 4 with Nebuchadnezzar as the “tree whose branches reached the heavens”). Since when does a white oak or an ancient apple tree “know” anything? The Hebrew prophets continually rant against idol makers who carve their gods from the dumb stump of a tree, “that can neither hear nor see.” Also, the Savior, “who was the expressed image of the invisible God” of creation, called the Pharisees of His day, “Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers.”

And so they both partook and were initiated into a carefully prepared hothouse of emotions, “and the eyes of them both were opened.” And the first thing that they “knew”—the first jewel of knowledge taken from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil was that “they knew they were naked.” To be frank, they became aware that their genitals were exposed and opened to the world. And the first action that they took after gaining this knowledge was that “they sewed fig leaves together” to cover the shame of their nakedness.

And like the picador enters right on cue for the second act of the bullfight ballet, they heard Yahweh’s voice as He called out to them in the garden (“YHWH,” the tetragrammaton, the Hebrew name of the Creator, translated “LORD” in most translations). “Where are you?” was the rhetorical question spoken by the All-Knowing. Adam responded, “I was afraid, because I was naked; and hid myself.”

Wait a minute, Adam. “Naked” was not even in your vocabulary before all this knowledge you just gained. “Who told thee that thou wast naked?” God asked. Somebody has been talking about sex to you, haven’t they? Did he tell you about getting naked?

And then Adam blames the woman, and the woman blames the serpent. Yet all this does not surprise Yahweh in the least. For it was all in His plan and purpose for mankind to sin and to suffer that vacuum of fear, alienation, sin, and shame. For then mankind would need someone to save them from this abyss of depravity. They would need a Savior.

He set them up to fall in order to save them? The irony is rich in this mother lode of wisdom. God’s nature is love, for “God is love.” But He could not express the perfection of His essence unless He had something to forgive. He would incarnate Himself later in history and provide Himself as the Lamb sacrifice for Adam’s sin. This is alluded to in Genesis 3:15. Speaking to the serpent, He said that He would put hatred between the serpent and his offspring and Eve and her offspring. As almost universally accepted, Eve’s offspring is Christ, who would “bruise the head” of the serpent, thus “destroying the works of the devil.” And yet, the serpent’s offspring would bruise the heel of the seed of the woman, indicating the death of the Lamb at the hands of the Romans and Pharisees and his subsequent resurrection.

Yahweh’s plan was all along to reproduce Himself. The law of “each seed bears its own kind” attests to this. He likens Himself to the Seed, the Word. But in order to reproduce Himself, He would have to create a need in mankind for Him. Innocent fleshy robots have no need of a Savior, and Yahweh is the Savior (“I, even I, am YHWH, and beside me there is no Savior,” Isaiah 43:11).

Adam and Eve’s shameful fall into sin and despair was carefully choreographed by a loving Creator. He set them up to Fall so that they would have a need for His forgiving love. “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends” (John 15:13). He would become Immanuel, “God with us,” coming “to take away the sins of the world.” This would fulfill the Edenic promise of Genesis 3:15. As in the parable of the creditor and the two debtors in Luke 7:41-48, the one who owed the most when the debt was forgiven, was the one who loved the most. Hence, sin and guilt entered the equation so that forgiveness could come, yielding gratefulness and love in the heart of the forgiven. Each seed (love and forgiveness) bears its own kind (gratefulness and love). Kenneth Wayne Hancock

“Blind Leaders of The Blind”–Obama, McCain, and Our Need for a Hero

“If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch”–Matthew 15: 14

And are we falling right now. Just look at this time in our history. McCain got booed by his own supporters at a town hall meeting yesterday for not being tough enough on Obama. But McCain doesn’t realize that they are only crying out for true leadership in these dark times. They want a hero, someone who is brave, noble and courageous, who will save them from the fear of perilous times. It is “innate and written in divine letters” in the heart of people to look for a champion during hard times.

But our leaders are selfish and inept at best, or at worst, just plain evil. 10% of the public approve of Congress, the place where three of the candidates work (Gov. Palin is approved by 85% of Alaskans no matter what the media says about her). Heads of drug cartels have a higher approval rating than 10%! President Bush sits at 29%.

And so 50% of the voting populace are desperately looking to Barack Hussein Obama. The masses are so in need of a hero/leader that they are falling for the smooth operator/orator. They cannot see the obvious faults in his character, for they are blinded by the hunger for a trustworthy leader. They cannot see that his past associations with shady characters is the norm for him, not the exception.

Obama kicked off his political career in the domestic terrorist Bill Ayers living room, as well as serving on boards with him. Rev. Jeremiah Wright, his pastor and mentor for 20 years, hates America and is virulently racist ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWRs6avkm4s&feature=related ). Louis Farrakhan fully endorses him, calling him the “Messiah” ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha5HEc-vOJs ). Then you have the Rezco connection, ACORN, et al.

Why doesn’t John McCain hammer Obama on all this? Because McCain’s hands are dirty, also. He carries the guilt that all of the world leaders share; they all are guilty of not seeking the living God for the people. Both are caught in lies, lies, lies.

Some are turning to God through prayer over the economic, political, and religious abyss we are being thrown in. Our leaders have failed us because they call not on God. But is God hearing us?

The prophet Isaiah saw this very day we are living in. He says that God wants to hear us, but He won’t because “your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. For your…lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies…” (59: 2-4). We have been told lies by our pastors who have said that we will never stop sinning, never stop telling lies, in other words. And so we go on each day with little hope of the true change of the heart. But that is a lie. Check out I John 3:9.

We are swimming in lies and falsehoods about everything–the political, the spiritual, the economic. And so “we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes…we are in desolate places as dead men…Our sins testify against us…Yes, truth fails…” (Isa. 59: 9-10).

There is no hero, no righteous, noble, and courageous person to lead us. “And God saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor…” (v. 16). So the great Spirit Creator came down into mortal flesh and became the “arm that brought salvation” (v. 16). And His name is not Obama nor McCain.

We as a people are in the same spiritual state as our leaders. We are being railroaded into a socialistic one world government (It will come a bit faster with Obama, but come it will). It is destined scripturally to be. It has always taken jackboot heels on necks to get God’s people to cry out to Him.

When our hearts turn to Him, He will hear from heaven and come down this time wearing “the garments of vengeance for clothing” (59: 17). Christ will be kicking tail and taking names when He comes back. He will uproot and destroy the current world system, Mystery Babylon, and will set up His everlasting government.

The world is clamoring for their hero/leader. He will come as a counterfeit messiah. After his fall, Christ will return and be the true righteous Deliverer that the people of the earth are beginning to cry out for.

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