famous last words


famous last words
famous last words

These are the words, the LAST words of some famous men who chose in this life not to believe in God, Jesus or heaven:
Talleyrand Perigord: "I am suffering the pangs of the damned."
Merabeau: "Give me laudanum that I may not think of eternity."
Francis Newport: "Oh, that I was to lie a thousand years upon the fire that never is quenched, to purchase the favor of God, and be united to Him again! But it is a fruitless wish. Millions of millions of years would bring me no nearer to the end of my torments than one poor hour. Oh, eternity, eternity! forever and forever! Oh, the insuf­ferable pangs of hell!"
Thomas Hobbs: a skeptic: "If I had the whole world, I would give it to live one day. I shall be glad to find a hole to creep out of the world at. About to take a leap into the dark!"
Thomas Paine: the noted American infidel and author: "I would give worlds if I had them, that The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help me! Christ, help me! O God, what have I done to suffer so much? But there is no God! But if there should be, what will become of me hereafter? Stay with me, for God's sake! Send even a child to stay with me, for it is hell to be alone. If ever the Devil had an agent, I have been that one.
Francois Voltaire: the noted French infidel. He was one of the most fertile and talented writers and strove to retard and demolish Christianity. His cry in health concern­ing Christ was, "Curse the wretch!" He said once, "In twenty years, Christianity will be no more. My single hand shall destroy the edifice it took twelve apostles to rear." Some years after his death, his very printing press was employed in printing New Testaments.
The Christian physician, who attended Voltaire during the last illness, has left a testimony concerning the depar­ture of this poor lost soul. He wrote to a friend as follows: "When I compare the death of a righteous man, which is like the close of a beautiful day, with that of Voltaire, I see the difference between bright, serene weather and a black thunderstorm. It was my lot that this man should die under my hands. Often did I tell him the truth.
'Yes, my friend', he would often say to me, 'you are the only one who has given me good advice. Had I but followed it I would not be in the horrible condition in which I now am. I have swallowed nothing but smoke. I have intoxicated myself with the incense that turned my head. You can do nothing for me. Send me a mad doctor!Have compassion on me-I am mad!'"
The physician goes on to say: "I cannot think of it without shuddering. As soon as he saw that all the means he had employed to increase his strength had just the opposite effect, death was constantly before his eyes. From this moment, madness took possession of his soul. He expired under the torments of the furies." At another time his doctor quoted Voltaire as saying: "I am abandoned by God and man! I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months' life. Then I shall go to hell; and you will go with me. O Christ! O Jesus Christ!"
Charles IX: This cruel wretch, urged on by his inhu­mane mother, gave the order for the massacre of the Huguenots in which 15,000 souls were slaughtered in Paris alone, and 100,000 in other sections of France, for no other reason than that they owned Christ as their master. The guilty King died bathed in blood bursting from his own veins. To his physicians he said in his last hours: "Asleep or awake, I see the mangled forms of the Hugue­nots passing before me. They drip with blood. They point at their open wounds. Oh! that I had spared at least the little infants at the breast! What blood! I know not where I am. How will all this end? What shall I do? I am lost forever! I know it. Oh, I have done wrong. God pardon me!"
David Strauss: outstanding representative of German rationalism, after spending years of his life trying to dispense with God: "My philosophy leaves me utterly forlorn! I feel like one caught in the merciless jaws of an automatic machine, not knowing at what time one of its great hammers may crush me!"
Sir Thomas Scott: "Until this moment I thought there was neither a God nor a hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am doomed to perdition by the judgment of the Almighty."
M. F. Rich: an atheist: "I would rather lie on a stove and broil for a million years than go into eternity with eternal horrors that hang over my soul! I have given immortality for gold; and its weight sinks me into endless, hopeless, helpless hell."
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Now let us take the contrast. Here are believers in the Lord Jesus Christ who have accepted the grace of God for salvation for both time and eternity.
Jordan Antie: "The chariot has come, and I am ready to step in."
Margaret Prior: "Eternity rolls up before me like a sea of glory."
Martha McCrackin: "How bright the room! How full of angels."
Dr. Cullen: "I wish I had the power of writing: I would describe how pleasant it is to die."
B. S. Bangs: "The sun is setting: mine is rising. I go from this bed to a crown. Farewell."
John Arthur Lyth: "Can this be death? Why, it is better than living! Tell them I die happy in Jesus." Trotter: "I am in perfect peace, resting alone on the blood of Christ. I find this amply sufficient with which to enter the presence of God.
Mrs. Mary Frances: "Oh, that I could tell you what joy I possess! I am full of rapture. The Lord doth shine with such power upon my soul. He is come! He is come!"
Philip Heck: "How beautiful! The opening heavens around me shine!"
Sir David Brewster: inventor of the kaleidoscope: "I will see Jesus: I shall see Him as He is. I have had the light for many years. Oh, how bright it is! I feel so safe and satisfied!"
Charles Wesley: author of over 4,000 published hymns: "I shall be satisfied with Thy likeness. Satisfied!"
John Wesley: "The best of all is, God is with me."
Abbot: "Glory to God! I see heaven sweetly opened before me."
Augustus Toplady; author of "Rock of Ages": "The consolations of God to such an unworthy wretch are so abundant that He leaves me nothing to pray for but a continuance of them. I enjoy heaven already in my soul."
John Quincy Adams: When John Quincy Adams was eighty years of age a friend said to him: "Well, how is John Quincy Adams?" "Thank you," he said, "John Quincy Adams is quite well. But the house where he lives is becoming dilapidated. It is tottering. Time and the seasons have nearly destroyed it, and it is becoming quite uninhabitable. I shall have to move out soon. But John Quincy Adams is quite well, thank you." At death he said: "This is the last of earth. I am content."
Mrs. Catherine Booth: wife of the general of the 'Salvation Army: "The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over. Do not be concerned about dying; go on living well, the dying will be right."
Elizabeth B. Browning: an English poetess who had said: "We want the touch of Christ's hand upon our 'literature.' At death's door, she said: "It is beautiful!"
John Bunyan: author of Pilgrim's Progress: "Weep not for me, but for yourselves. I go to the Father of our Lord ' Jesus Christ, who will, through the mediation of His blessed Son, receive me, though a sinner, where I hope we shall meet to sing the new song, and remain everlastingly happy, ' world without end."
John Calvin: the French Protestant Reformer at Gene­va: "Thou, Lord, bruisest me, but I am abundantly satis­fied, since it is from Thy hand."
Adoniram Judson: American missionary to Burma. He wrote: "Come, Holy Spirit, Dove Divine," and other hymns. He died at sea and his body was committed to the great deep. He said: "I go with the gladness of a boy bounding away from school. I feel so strong in Christ."
A. J. Gordon: As he lay in the chamber in West Brookline Street, Boston, looked up and with one radiant burst of joy cried: "Victory! Victory!" and so he went home.
Dr. William Anderson: of Dallas, Texas: He seemed better though still very ill. His mother was sitting in the room with him. He gently called to her, "Come over here a minute." As she approached his bed, he said, "I want to tell you something. I am going to beat you to heaven." And with a smile he shut his eyes and was gone.
Dr. Sewall: an old Methodist, when dying shouted aloud the praises of God. His friends said, "Dr. Sewall, do not exert yourself; whisper, doctor, whisper." "Let angels whisper," said he, "but the soul cleansed from sin by the blood of Christ, a soul redeemed from death and hell, just on the threshold of eternal glory-oh, if I had a voice that would reach from pole to pole, I would proclaim it to all the world: Victory! Victory! through the blood of the Lamb!"
Samuel Rutherford: When he was dying said: "I am in the happiest pass to which man ever came. Christ is mine, and I am His; and there is nothing now between me and resurrection, except-Paradise."


When you die, on which side of the ledger will your words be?

Petition for the Nullification of Roe vs. Wade
By Executive Order of President George W. Bush

Whereas and because the United States Supreme Court did violate it's Constitutional ordination and mandate in it's 1973 decision Roe vs. Wade, by making new law, and thereby usurping Congress of it's Constitutionally ordained and mandated responsibility to make any and all new federal laws and also to amend any existing federal law when necessary,

And whereas and because in the same decision, Roe vs. Wade in 1973, the same United States Supreme Court unlawfully and summarily nullified the laws governing the practice of abortion and requirements of those laws in each and all the fifty of the United States of America,

We the undersigned call upon you, President George W. Bush, to by Executive Order nullify Roe vs. Wade and all decisions upholding the intent, effect or letter of that decision.

Further, we call upon you to as President declare that all willful human acts of the abortion of human unborn children being also the willful termination of human pregnancies be from the day this Executive Order forward subject again in each of the fifty states to the laws of those fifty states which did govern the practice of abortion in those states prior to the date of the decision of the US Supreme Court Roe vs. Wade, that date being January 22, 1973 AD.


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This petition copyright© 2008 by D. Severy for the sole purpose described within it. It may be reproduced and distributed in print or electronically only in its unaltered entirety, without edit, including this copyright notice, and solely for the purpose of gaining the signatures of those in agreement with its stated goal. draft 11/5/08 by Dave Severy

A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Abortion divides us against each other and against the unborn.

I am a one issue guy. To me the American people have lost their bearings, and are unable to chart a course on either the right or the left. Thirty five years of so called legal abortion have confused and corrupted our minds and hearts. This confusion and corruption is a good part of the reason we are sliding into domestic and international chaos. For the sake of God and the babies I will vote for McCain. Do we think we can just do as we please and not have consequences?


Over this 35 year period we lost our God given common sense, and the milk of human kindness has fled in the face of evil. Our major media are in the hands of the Godless liberal elites. Newspapers, magazines and television spew twisted information, lies and half truths which have surpassed Nazi German propaganda ten times in their sophistication.


The same is our public and some private schools, elementary, secondary and universities. They have fed us Darwin until we have believed that Granddad was an ape. We have dumbed down as a nation, so much that if you are under 50 there is a good chance you don't have the intellectual skills to understand most of what you read. I find the most glaring grammatical errors in major newspapers; professional journalism suffers the dumb-down too.


Adding to the mix up we have the entertainment industry. Homer Simpson, The Family Guy and Two and One Half Men have become role models for us, not for our children but for us. We look like just like them as we mindlessly tailgate at the stadium and swill beer in the stands. We have pornography which is simply the glorification of whores and sex for money. God help the man or woman who sets an example to youth of this. The desire and demand for pornography has pushed the motion picture industry to emulate pornography as much as allowed.


Drugs… why do they continue to influence us so much? I think because we are seeking escape from the reality that we are failing more and more to live as we should. So instead of moral living in the face of present evils, we take refuge in drugs and alcohol. We are cowards. Yet…


Once every four years we go to the polls to vote for what has risen to the top of the boiling pot of our electoral processes. Occasionally a candidate proves to be better than the dross which is found in every place, and every party. This year John McCain is better than dross Barak Obama. A vote for Obama is a vote to continue the unethical, immoral and illegal practice of annihilating our own posterity. That is abortion - I save you from looking up those big words.


A vote for McCain is an opportunity for McCain and McCain supporters to repudiate Roe vs. Wade just as Norma McCorvey has. Norma was the pregnant woman recruited by pro-choice lobby to sue for safe and legal abortions in 1973. Since that time she has become pro life and is now a born again Christian. That is just about what it takes to go pro life, for those who are not Christians will eventually find themselves hating Jesus enough to crucify Him again were it possible. The hatred, greed and malice which allows for a nation to destroy its own children will eventually destroy it also. A house divided against itself cannot stand, and abortion divides us against each other and against the unborn.
© 2008 David Severy

Mixed Motives for Israel???

Isaiah 30:1-5 "Woe to the rebellious children," says Adonai. "They make plans, but the plans are not mine; they develop alliances, but not from my Spirit, in order to pile sin upon sin. (2) They go down to Egypt but don't consult me, seeking refuge in Pharaoh's protection, seeking shelter in Egypt's shadow. (3) But Pharaoh's protection will bring you shame, shelter in Egypt's shadow will lead to disgrace. (4) Though his princes are at Tzo`an, and his envoys have reached Hannes, (5) they all are disappointed with a people that doesn't help them, who give no assistance and no advantage, only disappointment and disgrace."

I wonder why we think Israel gains some advantage today pursuing the help of the US of A (and others?). The help she needs is from God, and our best for her is to present the Gospel of Yeshua the Natzrati (Jesus the Nazarene). I fear that some in the US of A, perhaps even naming themselves Christian, ally themselves with Israel for sinful, compromised motives. Moreover some in Israel are happy to have our nation’s support while knowing nothing of God’s plans for them. I have no objection to loving Israel, God loves every Israeli alive. But should we not declare to Israel Yeshua’s entire prophecy of her future? I fear we want to help her retain her status and even succeed as a nation rather than fail and make peace with the anti-Christ. If all of this were in the control of anyone other than Father, I would be scared witless. But as Father knows the time of the end, I think we need fear no evil befalling Israel. I wish that every Israeli and ever Jew on earth would be exempted from the end time crushing that I believe is coming. God may only be amused or annoyed by human wishes.

Isaiah 30:6-15 A prophecy about the animals in the Negev: In a land of trouble and anguish, of lionesses and roaring lions, of vipers and poisonous flying serpents, they carry their riches on donkeys' backs and their treasures on camels' humps to a people who will not help them. (7) For Egypt's help is worthless, pointless; so I call her "Arrogance Doing Nothing." (8) Now go, inscribe it on a tablet, write it for them in a scroll, so that on the final day it will be a witness forever and ever. (9) For this is a rebellious people; they are lying children, children who refuse to hear the Torah of Adonai. (10) They say to the seers, "Do not see!" to those who have visions, "Do not tell us the visions you have as they really are; but flatter us, fabricate illusions! (11) Get out of the way! Leave the path! Rid us of the Holy One of Isra'el!" (12) Therefore here is what the Holy One of Isra'el says: "Because you reject this word, trust in extortion and rely on deceit, (13) this sin will become for you a crack bulging out high on a wall, showing signs it is ready to fall; then suddenly, all at once, it breaks." (14) He will break it like a clay pot, ruthlessly shattering it into pieces so tiny not even a potsherd remains for taking fire from the fireplace or scooping water from the cistern. (15) For this is what Adonai Elohim, the Holy One of Isra'el, says: "Returning and resting is what will save you; calmness and confidence will make you strong — but you want none of this!

(10) They say to the seers, "Do not see!" to those who have visions, "Do not tell us the visions you have as they really are; but flatter us, fabricate illusions! (11) Get out of the way! Leave the path! Rid us of the Holy One of Isra'el!"

And by rejecting Yeshua are not today’s religious Judaists and secular Jews saying: “…Rid us of the Holy One of Isra'el!" ???

(15) For this is what Adonai Elohim, the Holy One of Isra'el, says: "Returning and resting is what will save you; calmness and confidence will make you strong — but you want none of this!”

Lord deliver us from doing anything to encourage any Jew to remain in the unblessed judgment of not being born again from above. If Israel was chastened severely for relying on Egypt, what will God do when she bows to the New World Order?

Rev 14:13 Next I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Write: 'How blessed are the dead who die united with [in] the Lord, from now on!' 'Yes,' says the Spirit, 'now they may rest from their efforts, for the things they have accomplished follow along with them.' "

What Happened to Wall Street?

The way of the world is always guided by self interest; this self interest is acceptable to the man of the world, it is taught in his home, his school, and his marketplace.

The way of God is guided by God. God needs nothing of the creation He has made to authenticate Him, or to authorize His way. It is God’s will that men and angels learn of Him, for that will benefit them, God needs no benefit.

We have to learn to accept God as altogether superior to us, each and all. All power is Gods power, even the power residing in a man, all things belong to Him, and of man He says “all souls are mine.”

If we were to accuse God of acting in His own interest, it would be true, for He cannot act against Himself. But it would not be sin, for God does not sin. God’s self interest is pure, and even generous, which we will learn if we take Him at His Word.

We might feel slighted in some way if God’s way required Him to act in a manner that crossed our will. But that would reveal our shortsightedness, our selfishness, and our unwillingness to submit to God, (who is) our Superior.

The man of the world might vindicate his own self interest were he ever to lead a life free of wrongdoing. But his self interest is contaminated by his sin, by evil; in fact it is so overwhelmed by his sin that it is called selfishness, or greed. It is the man promoting himself always first, and thereby placing God as man’s inferior. This is the sin which Satan sinned by seeking Gods status for himself. It is the sin of pride, the root of idolatry.

Idolatry puts something in the place of God, and God’s place will never allow an equal, for there is no equal to Him. Nonetheless, man is so deceived by the power of sin that to some extent each man makes himself an idol by sinning. All sin is against God, it contradicts God’s will and way, and by sinning a man or woman makes themselves a god.

The marvelous history of mankind proves over and over in the most perverse and sublime ways that man is incapable of living selfishly without dire consequences. History shows that men are inclined to continue in their selfish ways until these consequences force them to submit to someone other than themselves for help. It is our prideful shortsightedness that keeps us from going to God immediately, for His ways are able to save us, to heal us and to deliver us from consequences and from hell itself.

God has no needs. He is sufficient in Himself. Mankind has nothing but needs. We are always dependent on others, and to a far greater degree that we know. Still our pride and self interest together draw us away from God’s way to self promotion, to greed and to competition which result in strife on every level, often to outright war. So powerful is self interest in the lives of most men and nations that those who have by faith in God conquered selfishness are unable to restore the world to peace. Nonetheless they do what alone can remedy the disaster of selfish living, they live for others. Their live are dedicated to God and to their neighbors. If God needed anything it might be for you and me and all mankind to heed Him and prefer the well being of others before our own well being.

My own country of the United States declared her independence from a King who selfishly exploited economic life of the people. The high ideals of God given equality of all persons, the guarantee of their life, liberty, opportunity, and of their inalienable rights have not always been authenticated in deed. The “playing field” may have been level for some white Europeans, but (notably Africans) many other peoples were not practically included, but treated as unequal. Even today, after we have taken great pains to legislate protections against unfairness on the basis of race, national origin, religious affiliation, gender and age, the United States has only succeeded in making a level “playing field.” What is the result?

Our four major sports are highly competitive (forms of war), and our government has simply succeeded in creating an economic environment for self interest and competition among men and women. It may be regulated by law to protect us from violence to persons, but what is the end of our economic striving? Time will tell.

We must learn from God that His way is to put the needs of others first. This is right and good; it is the practical demonstration of His love working through our hearts. It is the only way in which true peace amongst us can and will arrive. The life and the words of our Messiah, Yeshua of Natzeret (Jesus of Nazareth) are the greatest substantive exposition (and a better exposition by far than this writers) of that fact, and the only exposition of authority. Yeshua is the Way, and God is love. All else is vain, destined for judgment, and unworthy of pursuit. Viva El Camino.




© 2008 David Severy

An Open Letter to Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. and his church.

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Dear Trinity United Church of Christ; Pastors, Elders, Deacons and Congregants,


Ephesians 3:8 Although I [Paul the apostle] am less than the least of all God's people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ, 9 and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. 10 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 11 according to his eternal purpose which he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord. 12 In him and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.

Ephesians 2:15b His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two...

Revelation 5:9 And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation; 10 And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.

1. How many races are there? One, the human race. We all need to start acting in accordance with the truth of this very firm fact.
2. How many God's are there? One, the Creator of the human race. Ditto on behaving accordingly.
3. How many Saviors are there? One, Yeshua, (whom English speakers call Jesus) the Savior of all who will believe.

The Holy Spirit today, as in all times since Jesus resurrection, commands men everywhere to believe and conform themselves to the Son of God.

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

We are to forsake the world.

Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual act of worship. 2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

The pattern of the world is man living according to his flesh.

1 Corinthians 3:3 ...you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?

The pattern of the God's Kingdom is peace. Peace is the absence of strife.

John 14:25 "All this I have spoken while still with you. 26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

God for His purposes had separated His people Israel from the seed of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, from whom the Messiah Jesus came. But after Jesus had accomplished His Father's will, the kingdom was opened no longer on the basis of human pedigree, but on the basis of faith and grace.

Ephesians 2:6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called "uncircumcised" by those who call themselves "the circumcision" (that done in the body by the hands of men)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. 13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.

14 For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility, 15 by abolishing in his flesh the law with its commandments and regulations. His purpose was to create in himself one new man out of the two, thus making peace, 16 and in this one body to reconcile both of them to God through the cross, by which he put to death their hostility. 17 He came and preached peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near. 18 For through him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
19 Consequently, you are no longer foreigners and aliens, but fellow citizens with God's people and members of God's household, 20 built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone. 21 In him the whole building is joined together and rises to become a holy temple in the Lord. 22 And in him you too are being built together to become a dwelling in which God lives by his Spirit.

God established Jesus the new and only Eternal High Priest of all God's faithful (believing) people, no matter if they are Jew or greek. The Kingdom is made up of one new man, the body of Christ composed of every tongue and tribe and people and nation.

Hebrews 5:1 Every high priest is selected from among men and is appointed to represent them in matters related to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins. 2 He is able to deal gently with those who are ignorant and are going astray, since he himself is subject to weakness. 3 This is why he has to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.
4 No one takes this honor upon himself; he must be called by God, just as Aaron was. 5 So Christ also did not take upon himself the glory of becoming a high priest. But God said to him,
"You are my Son;
today I have become your Father." 6And he says in another place,
"You are a priest forever,
in the order of Melchizedek."
7 During the days of Jesus' life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Although he was a son, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10 and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.

On the word of these and the entire Bible, our only authoritative written record of the events of our Savior, and by the Holy Spirit, I declare the dichotomy between "black" and "white" Christians to be false, and the enmity between them to be sin. It is time to according to God's Holy word and will to forgive, forbear and to love one another and to become one new man. If we do not we will be (remain) opposed God's word and will, and opposed to each other.

2 Timothy 2:24 And the Lord's servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. 25 Those who oppose him he must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.

I do not represent my self as having arrived at heavenly perfection, but I know the Way, the Truth and the Life who is Jesus the Anointed Savior, the only begotten Son and Heir of God.

On Jews and the Gospel

The following statement has been sponsored and published by the World Evangelical Alliance according to Jews for Jesus. I could not find it at the World Evangelical Alliance website, but did find a news report on it at:

http://www.worldevangelicals.org/news/view.htm?id=1742

• We pledge our commitment to be loving friends and to stand against such injustice in our generation. At the same time, we want to be transparent in affirming that we believe the most loving and Scriptural expression of our friendship toward Jewish people, and to anyone we call friend, is to forthrightly share the love of God in the person of Jesus Christ.
• We believe that it is only through Jesus that all people can receive eternal life. If Jesus is not the Messiah of the Jewish people, He cannot be the Savior of the World (Acts 4:12).
• We recognize that it is good and right for those with specialized knowledge, history and skills to use these gifts to introduce individuals to the Messiah, and that includes those ministries specifically directed to the Jewish people (1 Corinthians 9:20-22).
• We deplore the use of deception or coercion in evangelism; however, we reject the notion that it is deceptive for followers of Jesus Christ who were born Jewish to continue to identify as Jews (Romans 11:1).

To see more on it published in the New York Times visit Jews for Jesus at:

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/blog/20080328

God, help me… Amen. I seem to never be without two cents to offer. Grain of salt anyone? My comments follow the text of four points.

1. We pledge our commitment to be loving friends and to stand against such injustice in our generation. At the same time, we want to be transparent in affirming that we believe the most loving and Scriptural expression of our friendship toward Jewish people, and to anyone we call friend, is to forthrightly share the love of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

I have found justice to be a very personal challenge.
Micah 6:8 "What has the Lord desired of thee but to do justly and to LOVE mercy..."

I'm not at all sure we can address injustice effectively at all except by being merciful to the unjust. Isn't that the crowning feature of the cross? Perhaps if I (we) learned how to love and do mercy more, what is just would begin to follow along more readily. If Hitler or the Spanish monarchs had been truly merciful, what they did would have been impossible for them to do.

2. We believe that it is only through Jesus that all people can receive eternal life. If Jesus is not the Messiah of the Jewish people, He cannot be the Savior of the World (Acts 4:12).

Amen.

3. We recognize that it is good and right for those with specialized knowledge, history and skills to use these gifts to introduce individuals to the Messiah, and that includes those ministries specifically directed to the Jewish people (1 Corinthians 9:20-22).

That might ought be recommended as a preeminent desire and goal of the believer. The Old Testament was written for a purpose.
Rom 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. (Might know what is coming!)

4. We deplore the use of deception or coercion in evangelism; however, we reject the notion that it is deceptive for followers of Jesus Christ who were born Jewish to continue to identify as Jews (Romans 11:1).

I think the only virtue in being Jewish is the inextricable association of the Jew with the God and Lord of All. All have sinned, yet:

Rom 3:1,2 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit [is there] of circumcision? Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

God chose Abram, a Chaldean (a gentile?) who was not a Jew except by:
Rom 2:28,29 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither [is that] circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: But he [is] a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision [is that] of the heart, in the spirit, [and] not in the letter; whose praise [is] not of men, but of God.)

From Abraham by the will of God sprang Judah (whose name some persons have co-opted "Jew" as a curse, others as a badge of honor) and Yeshua ha Mashiach. The nations have ever since found themselves in a place of having to bow to His choices of specific persons. Nevertheless it is now as deceptive for Jews to ignore, reject and defame the person of Yeshua of Bethlehem Judea, as it is deceptive for the nominal gentile Christian to ignore the family tree of the Messiah. I really identify with Judah's dad, Jacov. He received a new name.
Rev 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth [it].
Rev 3:12 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, [which is] new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and [I will write upon him] my new name.

Call me Israel !!!

In my (humble) opinion, we must (justly) see that being Jewish is to be of the human lineage first to be adopted by God. We gentiles are also able to be adopted by the Almighty (!!!). We ought to be humble and savvy enough to acknowledge that the tree we are grafted to has grown through Abraham to this present day!!! Are we not in position as Jews to become Messianic, and as gentiles to become Christians? Has human pedigree any importance in the visitation of the Holy Ghost to our humanity as individuals? It is I think important. But as in most of life, we do the believing (in Yeshua) and God does the heavy lifting (graciously accepting us in our present Jewish or non Jewish humanity). TY Yeshua!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As in most things I (we) must decrease. Notwithstanding, the facts of our human lineage stand as significant. The "art" is to use it in the ministry of reconciliation. The "gentile" often needs to be instructed by the same tutor given through Moses!!! The Jew needs to "graduate" from "Professor Law"!!! Ultimately The Lord must crush all our objections and opposition to His Holiness. The stuff is so simple, but we are so complex. What a tangled web has been woven!!!

John 1:12, 13 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, [even] to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

"History" shows clearly that there were, are, and will yet be persons and a people of God to be His sermon illustration in time and space if not throughout all eternity. With all my heart, soul, mind and strength I believe God wants to exalt His Way of childbearing.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; And to make all [men] see what [is] the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly [places] might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him. Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, Eph 3:8-15

For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition [between us]; Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, [even] the law of commandments [contained] in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, [so] making peace; And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner [stone]; In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. Eph 2:14 -22

Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Rom 10:12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
Gal 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Col 3:11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond [nor] free: but Christ [is] all, and in all.

God did not replace Israel with the gentile church, but He did change the priesthood from the Levitical priesthood to the Kingdom priesthood. It is a permanent change. In the Kingdom, He is the Eternal High Priest and we are all His (lowly) priests. We are all to walk in the works of the priesthood to which we are appointed. The ministry of His priests is to carry out His service, His ministry, that is the ministry of reconciliation. I honestly do not see any other ministry; reconciliation to God is the ministry of the Gospel. It is a multifaceted ministry, and we have been given diverse gifts with which to serve. Even and especially, the five fold ministry is specifically designed by God so that we His priests be equipped to carry out the greater ministry of reconciling men and women to God for all eternity!!!

There is no Jew or greek (gentile) any longer except by human blood, by the will of the flesh, or by the will of man. Neither Jewish believer nor gentile believer may exclude the other on grounds of human ancestry. It has been said God has no grandkids, only sons and daughters. All must be born again from above. We accomplished our physical birth by submitting to the womb of our mother. We can only accomplish our spiritual birth by submitting to the will and work of our Savior Yeshua and the Holy Ghost.

In my (humble) opinion we must repent and return to the teaching of the "Old Testament" to advance our understanding of the necessity the Gospel, that is, of being reconciled to God. This Gospel reconciles and saves all who call upon the Savior, and this Gospel is not at all of human design. We have no wiggle room at all to preach the gospel in order please the flesh of our intellect, or please the pride of our human pedigree. Doing that will only interfere with the results God is after. It will muddy the waters and lead us astray from the will of God and the power of God.

Therefore, being Jewish or gentile are now interesting facets of our past. Other than this we risk exalting ourselves rather than God, whose will, purpose and pleasure it was to give jacob a son named Judah. This is I fear, far less than being a member in good standing of the Kingdom of the Messiah. Our royalty, our present and our future is granted to us not on the basis of our human pedigree, but virtue of the gift of life God has communicated to us graciously, that we might trust in Him above and before all others. By this we continue to receive the effect and rest of His work of salvation, deliverance and healing accomplished for us (!) by His death and resurrection. This is all we need and all we ought ever to desire.

Matthew 6:33,34 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day [is] the evil thereof.
John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

I love you all, please pray for me. I sense both by my sin and foolishness, and by no small opposition of the adversary I have been prevented from more fruitful service than is God's plan.

David