Culture Or No Culture--God Will Not Forever Put Up With Sin

But the men of Sodom

were exceedingly wicked

and sinful against the LORD...

And they called to Lot and said

to him, 'Where are the men

who came to you tonight?

Bring them out to us

that we may know them carnally...

For we will destroy this place

because the outcry against them

has grown great before the face

of the LORD, and the LORD has

sent us to destroy it!" But to his 

sons-in-law he seemed to be joking...

Then the LORD rained brimstone

and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah,

from the LORD out of the heavens.

Genesis13:!3; 19:5,13,14,24

     God is patient, but do not expect God to be patient forever, there is a time when His patience is over, His patience is not our permission. We can know that history and the culture of today has had and has an influence upon us, but we cannot excuse ourselves that we sin due to that fact. When the elect of God is finally complete, then and only then will Jesus Christ return and take home with Him all of God's children from the grave and those who are still alive. Some expect a rapture of the Church, but there is no Scriptural proof of that, only that Jesus returns on the last day, and that day God's patience has run its course. We do not know who the elect are, we preach the Gospel to all and allow God to draw to Him His elect. Until death or our meeting with the Lord on the last day we have our lives to account for, and when we have received knowledge of those things that have influenced us, the Church, we are obliged to do something about that sin. Period! Over time exponentially man has become worse in their sins, and they have transferred the honor which is due to God to material objects, such as wood, stone, and to man, and further even more than that they have become so pious that they worship emotions, and even evil spirits as god in satisfaction of their lusts. Yes, through impiety, and lawlessness, men have been lead astray, even to worship the stars, as those those inanimate objects had some power as a god. Yet, the word of God is not unknown, it is everywhere if one was to look, they would be led to God even by the trees, the universe; yet, God is not hidden, as they would like Him to be: No! they continue in their ideologies and those ideologies have affected you and me. 

     Feminism has been one such assault against God as they in every way they could have as one of their main contributions towards modern feminism was to try to eliminate heterosexuality and the nuclear family altogether. This was stated by Kate Weigand who is a feminist historian. December 12-18, 1994 a meeting entitled "The contribution by religions ot the Culture of Peace" organised by UNESCO and the Centre UNESCO de Catalunya that took place in Bacelona, Spain declared in 23 tenents:

#4: We understand that culture is a way of seeing the world and living in it. It also means the cultivation of those values and forms of life which reflect the world-views of each culture. Therefore neither the meaning of peace nor of religion can be reduced to a single and rigid concept,just as the range of human experience cannot be conveyed by a single language.

#6: Religions have contributed to the peace of the world, but they have also led to division, hatred, and war. Religious people have too often betrayed the high ideals they themselves have preached. We feel obliged to call for sincere acts of repentance and mutual forgiveness, both personally and collectively, to one another, to humanity in general, and to Earth and all livings beings.

     On the surface those tenants do not sound so bad, right? Can't we just get along? Ha! We can't, people do not want to give up their culture, they have no desire to be tolerant, but that is the program that this group desires to achieve. Inf act under Article 1: Meaning of tolerance 1.3: Tolerance is the responsibility that upholds human rights, pluralism, (including cultural pluralism), democracy and the rule of law. It involves the rejection of dogmatism and absolutism and affirms the standards set out in international human rights instruments.

     Pluralism is that each and every one has their own truth and we are not to impose upon that truth. This has led to pluralism being applied in the Christian community. Let us see how that has worked out? Looking back a few years I will use some facts obtained by the Alan Guttmacher Institute and Planned Parenthood's Family Planning Perspectives.

Worldwide (1996) Abortions: 42 Million

Number of abortions per day: 115,000

United States:

Abortions per year: 1.37 Million

Number of abortions per day: 3,700

The yearly number has now grown as of 2010 to over 1.5 million abortions per year. This growth has grown from 1900 where reported abortions was 17 per year. 

Who is having abortions?

• In 2007, 84% of all abortions were performed on unmarried women (CDC).
• Women between the ages of 20-24 obtained 33% of all abortions; women between 25-29 obtained 24% (CDC).
• 50% of U.S. women obtaining abortions are younger than 25; women aged 20-24 obtain 33% of all U.S. abortions and teenagers obtain 17% (AGI).
• In 2007, adolescents under 15 years obtained .05% of all abortions, but had the highest abortion ratio, 768 abortions for every 1,000 live births (CDC).
• 47% of women who have abortions had at least one previous abortion (AGI).
• Black women are more than 4.8 times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to have an abortion, and Hispanic women are 2.7 times as likely (AGI).
• 37% of women obtaining abortions identify themselves as Protestant, and 28% identify themselves as Catholic (AGI).
• At current rates, nearly one-third of American women will have an abortion (AGI). 

Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY: The teen pregnancy rate in the USA rose 3% in 2006, the first increase in more than a decade, according to data out today. the data also show higher rates of births and abortions among girls 15-19.
     Divorces by Christians is greater than non-Christians, more than 51%. Homosexuality has increased both for male and females, more children today are running free with no or very little supervision. Yet, we claim that Christianity is growing. It may be in number, but not in devotion to God. So how is all this femininity and demasculation of men working out? Not so good! Men, you and I are at fault! We have allowed the authority given to man to be the authority for the household, to be the leaders in the Church, to women who have not been given this authority. This is not to defame women in any way, in fact, many are smarter, have greater skills, and are capable of holding down jobs that were assigned to men in the past. So what? It is the Bible who claims our allegiance, and it is the Bible that we claim to follow, so follow! We should not look to the world for acceptance, that we are to ignore God's word in favor of the prevailing culture. Men take the responsibility, in love, in God's love, and be the man of the house, and women be the woman of the house. It is not that women can or cannot work, for there is a place for that to occur and the Bible is clear that at times a women such as to be found in Proverbs chapter 31 does work, brings in money, but in all this she finds favor as a wife. We all share as to how culture and history, especially of those who are opposed to Christianity and to God have affected us, we are to blame, but now the blaming is over, we must "hunker" down and do what the Bible declares for us to do. We live life, we enjoy all that God has given us, and we trust Him for everything, so trust Him is this matter, it is from Him. 
     Again, these words are tough, tough to even write and I know some will cavil, object, and turn away, but you are not turning from me, you are objecting to the rule of God, to the Supreme God, to the Providential God, to the God of mercy, to the God who came to save. The writer of Ecclesiastes had this to say: "I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it, that men should fear before Him. that which is has already been, and what is to be has already been; and God requires an account of what is past" (Ecclesiastes 3:14-15). 

When you make a vow to God,
     do not delay to pay it; 
For He has no pleasure in fools.
    Pay what you have vowed--
Better not to vow than to vow
    and not pay.
                                Ecclesiastes 4:4-5

God Will Refresh You

Richard L. Crumb

Christians Are Recreated By Jesus Christ' Death On The Cross

If indeed you have heard Him

and have been taught by Him,

as the truth is in Jesus:

that you put off, concerning

your former conduct,

the old man which grows

corrupt according to

the deceitful lusts,

and be renewed in the 

spirit of your mind,

and that you put on

the new man which was

created according to God,

in true righteousness and holiness.

Ephesians 4:21-24

     Have you forgotten? Do you live as though you are not your own? Is it the truth you desire? Or, do you just want your ears to be tickled? Do you believe that the Bible is God's word? Or do you only believe that the original manuscripts are inerrant, and not the manuscripts that we have today? In other words, do you believe that God would not allow His word to not be preserved even if man attempts to change it according to their theologies, and/or ideologies? Paul wrote to the Corinthians who had allowed corruption to enter into their worship of God and had forgotten that as Christians we do not live for ourselves for we were: "for you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's" (1Corinthians 6:20). Peter adds to this fact: "but there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction' (2Peter 2:1). This is why there is a need to speak frankly, to speak clearly, to use the word of God as it is written, so that there is not excuse for not knowing what God has revealed to His children, the ones He paid for by sending His Son to die for them. We are not our own, we then should be living not as the world, rather as Christians. Remember the word Christian is form by adding to Christ the ending "ian" that means "little ones" or similar ones, so that a Christian is a little Christ, and this is true for we do not belong to ourselves but to God. How serious is this that we are learning? Very serious for God will not and cannot go back on His word, and this in regard to death so that we could have eternal life. God could not falsify Himself! What was God to do? Was God to demand repentance from men for their transgressions? You might think that all that is necessary is repentance, as though this would be worthy of God to just accept our repentance. As is taught by some Churches that by the transgression men became subject to corruption, so then by repentance they return to incorruption. But repentance would not protect the consistency of God, for if death does  hold dominion over men, and if God did not account for sin, God then would be untrue. We know this, repentance is no guarantee that we will not sin, our nature is sinful, we did inherit sin, and by sin we are corrupt, so if we repent the best that we can say is that repentance may keep us from sinning, but has not removed our nature that is corrupt, sin. If our sin had only been a trespass only, and it is a trespass but not the only reason that we are sinful, but a trespass because we are corrupt, repentance then from that trespass would be all that is needed, but when transgression had begun in man, man came under the power of corruption which is now proper to their/our nature and no grace belonged to them as creatures made in the image of God. No! Repentance could not meet the need, the case; so what should be done? How then could man have his transgression, his trespasses removed? It was by God sending His very Wisdom to become incarnate in human flesh to die upon the cross, a perfect man who then could be the propiation for sin of man, and this He did and by doing so bought man, and His death was for all that God had determined to be saved and to become His child. You know you are His child if God has become first in your life. This change, this becoming a new creature, a new creation, and now no longer are you yourself as you were as old creature, you then live, desire to live, make the changes to live, as one of His children. This will require a change in our thinking a change in our living, and the world would then and does notice that something is different about you. Look back on the martyrs and the writing by men of old, and you will see that Christian were persecuted because they did not live, worship other gods, and were different because they lived according to the principles as set forth by God, and by His Son, and were lead by the Holy Spirit. 

     This then begs the question: Are you willing to make the necessary changes when you come to know that what you are under is not of God? While studying for these blogs I came to realize that I was influenced greatly by those men who had secretly infiltrated the school, the Church, and into the very thinking of others. Yes, as a sinner, having the nature of sin then I have no excuse for my sin, I leaned towards sinful things, things that seem to make some sense when I measured what is being taught with the principles of this world. We must become identified with Jesus Christ, and this we can do because He bought us with a price, and has sent to us the Holy Spirit to guide us, and has given to us His preserved word. But we must read it with examining eyes, and be willing to make the necessary changes. If we don't then another question arises: Have you been bought with a price? Are you a Christian? Or, do you just enjoy those good sounding messages that tickle your ears? Men such as Polycarp, Ireneaus , Ignatius, Athanasius, Knox, Calvin, Whitfield, and others were not; just read Foxe's book of martyrs and you will see that people of all ages were not willing to just accept, rather they were willing to put their very lives on the line and not disown God, Jesus Christ. I ask myself, am I willing to die for my faith when confronted by those who in many ways want to destroy the faith, the doctrines that were once given? We must become aware of such men who attempt in every way to bring destruction upon God's children, it is Satan, it is Satanic, and if we are not studying and examining then we will succumb, due to our sinfulness, or very nature not yet fully sanctified to their teachings: "For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. While the promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage" (2Peter 2:18-19). 

     Having said all this I wonder, how has history affected me, and what am I willing to do about those things that are not Biblical, or am I just listening to men who are places of authority and I am to take them just at their word? No! We need to have men who are willing to be true leaders, to lead their families, to lead the Church, and to have the true knowledge as given in the Bible, and to use a Bible that is not translated from manuscripts that are corrupt, no matter what others may say, those who publish a Bible for money, and promote them so that they can tickle the ears of those desiring that something more, not willing to use what is and has been the preserved word of God. Do we have true men, who wield the authority given to them by God, in true love, "agape" love, a principled love, knowing that they have been given this authority by God. As a woman are you willing to yield to the words of God, and be under the authority as outlined in the Bible or are you more willing to succumb to the secular definition of what a woman is suppose to be. This succumbing to the ideas of the world affects not only women, but men, and children. Who is your authority? God or man? The world will not understand or approve! Who cares? If God has not called them, given them the faith to believe upon Him, they are the very ones that will be thrown into Gehenna, the Lake of Fire; so why listen to them? 

     These are strong words! Jesus did not hold back when he addressed wrongful ideas, those ideas of what it meant to be a "good" Jew. He called them vipers, snakes, to their faces, He did not hold back, and He taught His disciples to speak the truth, in love, but not to shrink back from the truth. We have the examples, so that as we live our life, we live it according to the Scriptures. It is our lives, living for God that will be a witness to the truth. It is the truth that we must portray, live, and even die by; we as Christian, little Christs, have a hope, a secure and faithful hope, that we will live eternally with Him, in a world prepared for the Children of God; therefore live your life according to that truth. This is said to me as to anyone who might read this blog.

that you may be mindful

     of the words which 

were spoken before by

    the holy prophets,

and of the commandment

     of us, the apostles of 

the Lord and Savior...

                        2Peter 3:2

Grow in the Grace and Knowledge Of Our Savior

Richard L. Crumb

The Christian Becomes Indentified With Jesus Christ--Not Merely Imitate Nor Just Follow Him

I have been crucified

with Christ;

it is no longer I who live,

but Christ lives in me,

and the life which

I now live in the flesh,

I live by faith 

in the Son of God,

who loved me and

gave Himself for me.

Galatians 2:20

     Many of those claiming to be Christian, even "feeling" Christian are only desiring what God will give to them. They want the promised eternal life, they want God to give to them things in this life, they want God to give to them health, happiness, in this life, they want, want, and want. As has been said, hold out both your empty hands, wish in one and want in the other and see which one gets full the quickest! So many attend Church to get the "feeling" a "feeling" that they are serving God, and worshiping God, and they "feel" inside that they are doing just that, a warm, fuzzy, sort of feeling, a swaying of the body, a shouting in some gibberish form of speech, and then its over, and they go about their life as usual, oh! they may do good things, but even pagans do than, oh! they may attend Bible studies, even non-Christians attend at times, oh! they are doing so much for Jesus! Ha! This is not Christianity, this is far from what makes a Christian. A Christian is one who is so identified with Jesus Christ that nothing else in the world is satisfying. We are as Christians to turn over to Jesus Christ, to God all disposition to sin, all emotional expressions and intellectual beliefs into a simple moral verdict against sin. When we have become identified with Jesus Christ, that is to be identified with His death on the cross is the heart and crux of a Christian. When it comes to making a moral decision and we have become identified with Jesus Christ we will act upon it as being one with Jesus Christ. It is this free committal of yourself to God that God will send to you the Holy Spirit who will impart to you the holiness of Jesus Christ. We are still individual persons, with all of our talents, and gifts, but our disposition is altered and the right to ourselves is destroyed. Christians do not put their faith in faith, but faith in Jesus Christ and this faith then as Paul said: "That the life he lives in the flesh" not the life I hope to live in the future, but now, the life that men can see, this is the life a Christian lives. The Galatians had begun to be mislead by others and this has and is happening in many Churches today: "O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you that you should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed among you as crucified"(Galatians 3:1)? How has the Christian been bewitched? One important manner was the leveling of the sexes so that they are not different but have some form of equality with each other, so that the roles are the same and this has occurred by the emasculation of men and the masculinizing of women. This is the fact as was pointed out in the last blog by the Humanist Manifesto I, II. 
     Make no mistake about what I am saying, we are not speaking of equality among the sexes, yet that is what is being destroyed, rather we are speaking of authority as outlined by the Scriptures, and as Christians we are not our own, it is not our decision to make as to how the Church is governed, it is God's and He has revealed it to us. But, there are forces as was mentioned in the last blog that have another agenda, and today I will mention another force that has had its impact upon the Church, the family. It is the force of Communism. I have lived through what was the cold war with America and Russia, against Democracy and Communism. It seems as with the fall of the Berlin wall that Communism was defeated at least in some manner: it has not, they are willing to "boil the frog." 
     On Thursday, January 10, 1963Fritz Springmeier, author and lecturer from Oregon, spoke to the House of Representatives for Mrs. Patricia Nordmand of De Land, Florida, who who was set forth to expose the dangers of Communism, and addressing Mr. Herlong, the speaker of the House and which was recorded under unanimous consent the "Current Communist Goals," which were 45 items, I will only quote those that pertain to our subjects:
#24: Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
#25: Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and T.V. (My note: Notice the shows on T.V. alone, such as the newest show called "Scandal," it is a scandal, nothing but sex and pornography, but this is shown to children not only in the home, but in advertisement, movie theaters, etc.)
#26: Present homosexuality,degeneracy and promiscuity as :norman, natural, healthy."
#27: Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. discredit the Bible and emphasise the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
#28: eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
#36: Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
#37: Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
#38: Transfer some of the powers of the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioural problems as psychiatric disorders which no-one but psychiatrists can understand or treat. (My note: Notice the use of Prosaic in the schools, and the sudden increase of those children diagnozed with ADH, etc.)
#40: Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
#41: Emphasise the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. 
#42: Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interests groups should rise up and use united force to sove economic, political or social problems.(My note: notice what is and has been happening with those groups called "Occupied Movement.")
     If that is not enough Rules for Communist Revolution were captured at Dusseldof in May 1919 by Allied Forces.
#1. Corrupt the young; get them away from religin. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness.
#2. By specious argument cause the breakdown of moral virtues, honesty, sobriety, continence, faith in the pledged word, ruggedness. ( My note: We can see this has and is happening with such things with college students and "Spring Break", heavy drinking, and the breakdown of marriages and the forsaking of marriage vows)
#8: Cause the registration of all firearms o some pretext, with a view to confiscation and leaving the population helpless.
     There are eight tenets and I just gave those that are germane to our discussion. Yet, with these few tenets you can see that this is a frontal attack upon the family, moral values, etc. This attack is not just targeting the nation, it is targeting Christians, for it is Christians who apply moral values to their lives, those values that were ordained and revealed to man in His word. We cannot be naive and say that the Church has not been affected by such men who are anti-Christian. John wrote this warning: "Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour"..."Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son" (1John 2:18,22). In John's second letter he wrote: "for many deceiver have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist" (2John 2). John advises the Church: "Look to yourselves, that we do not lose those things we worked for, but that we may receive a full reward. Whoever transgresses and does not abide in the doctrine of Christ does have God. He who abides in the doctrine of Christ has both the Father and the Son. If anyone come to you and does not bring this doctrine, do not receive him into your house nor greet him; for he who greets him shares in his evil deeds" (2John 8-11).
     We are to guard the Church and this we do be examination. We examine what is being taught and by whom, and then if we find that they are not teaching the Doctrines of the Bible, rather they are teaching "good" sounding words, philosophical jargon that makes for "good" feelings, we are to remove ourselves from that Church or out from under that teacher or pastor. We are to be identified with Christ. We do not have a notion of who Christ is, we know that He is God, God incarnate, come to die for the sins of all those God would give to Him. Is this important? Yes! We cannot sit back and tacitly accept what is and has happened to the Church, to the people, the call-out ones, Christians. 

Grace, mercy, and peace
     will be with you from 
God the Father and from
     the Lord Jesus Christ, 
the Son of the Father,
    in truth and love.
                  2John 1:3


God Has Given Us Understanding--The Truth


Richard L. Crumb