Not a joke

[walkersteelhead]

I don't know how many have seen this. Just thought it was good.

In light of the many perversions and jokes we send to one another for a
laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke, it's
not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.


Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson
asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding the
attacks on Sept. 11). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful
response. She said "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are,
but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of
our government and to get out of our lives.


And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can
we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He
leave us alone?"


In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I
think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body
found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said
OK.


Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school ... the Bible
says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as
yourself. And we said OK.


Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they
misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might
damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an
expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.


Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline our
children when they misbehave. The school administrators said no faculty
member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we
don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued (there's a
big difference between disciplining, touching, beating, smacking,
humiliating, kicking, etc.). And we said OK.


Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want, and
they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said OK.


Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and
they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want
so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their
parents they got them at school. And we said OK.


Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we do in
private as long as we do our jobs. Agreeing with them, we said it doesn't
matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as
I have a job and the economy is good.


Then someone said let's print magazines with pictures of nude women and
call it wholesome, down-to-earth appreciation for the beauty of the female
body. And we said OK.


And then someone else took that appreciation a step further and published
pictures of nude children and then further again by making them available on
the Internet. And we said OK, they're entitled to free speech.


Then the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that
promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. Let's record music that
encourages ****, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said it's
just entertainment, it has no adverse effect, nobody takes it seriously
anyway, so go right ahead.


Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they
don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill
strangers, their classmates, and themselves.


Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out.
I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."


Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the
world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but
question what the Bible says.


Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire
but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice
about sharing.


Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through
cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and
workplace.


Are you laughing?


Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on
your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they
WILL think of you for sending it. Funny how we can be more worried about what
other people think of us than what God thinks of us.


Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one
will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back
and complain about what bad shape the world is in!

[skein]

WOW! :shocked:

I could start babbling about how much I agree, but after reading that I just want to be silent for a few minutes.

Thanks, WalkerSteelhead, for sharing. That's the best read I've had in quite a while.

Wow.

Skein

[fishonksm]

I recall a similar interview of Franklin Graham that was on O'Riley that had the same content as this and made me want to shout AMEN. If felt it aganin as i read this post. Month by month my heart gorws sader by the wickedness this counrty and the world lets into their lives. I keep praying to God asking when will this world end, How much lower will we go. How much further can we remove you from our lives. One day in my bible studies God revieled this passage of scripture to me.
Christians should not be ashamed of the gospel, but proclame the saving grace to the world. It is the faith in grace that all will be saved from sin because God has showed it to them and they believed.
To those who say that they are wiser than God are said to be nothing more than fools and have been given over to their foolish and evil hearts. Having corruptied that which is right, true, and pure have chosen the road to distruction.

This is from a letter of Pauls written to the people of Rome starting with ver.16 chap.1

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 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;

Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed [it] unto them.

Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, [even] his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Rom 1:21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified [him] not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Rom 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Rom 1:23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Rom 1:25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in [their] knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom 1:30 Backbiters, h aters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,

Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them

[King Fisher]

Well said- pass it on.......

[Gun Rod Bow]

You know,

I haven't been on the Anglers Chappel in months. I've been busy with a lot of worldly stuff, and justifying less study and prayer with the fact that I've been doing work for our church, etc...wrong.

The recent removal of the 10 comandments has been heavy on my heart as the latest reminder of this nation's slide.

Thank you for posting this. Thank you Fishonksm for your biblical references.

Remember, that even when you are not getting resonses, people are reading what you post.

I've just forwarded this to some people that I care about, some will eat it up, others...skeptics that I know...perhaps it will help to reach them.

Thank You