The Power Of Holy Focus On The Light Vs The Powers Of Darkness

Unholy distractions are Satan's tools ...

Compulsive, fleshly distractions are his sharpest weapons.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." Eph.6:12

A sure way of missing the ball, striking out and losing the game is to keep your eye of the pitcher or first base or the bat or some girl, or boy, in the bleachers. Many a father has told his son or daughter, in a front yard ball game... "Keep your eye on the ball". Among equals, many a ball game has been won or lost by a single player who followed that rule or who, instead, glanced at the runner or the 300 pound tackle bearing down on him.... as the ball passed through his hands.

The same rule applies when shooting a target or an attacking enemy soldier. We must train ourselves to keep our minds  and our eyes focused on the target, on the important things, on the real things and not on trivia, lust, illusion, and distractions.... when we are in the battles of life. One distraction can change an entire battle... or life... or family, church or nation. Keep your eye on the "ball".

Biblical Focus!   "...To the place whither the head looked they followed it; they turned not as they went." Ezek.10:1

I was just thinking about the distractions of Satan, on the sidelines, like a clown, a ruckus, a beauty girl, or a screaming, fanatical fan of the other team. None of which is as important as keeping your eye on the ball through hell and high water. It is true in every life, every home, every church, every organization and every nation. Concentrate, focus on truth, facts, logic, goals, right purpose, the cause of Christ. Do not see people as fat, skinny, ugly, attractive, black or white, but as an eternal soul. Not on how their voice sounds or how they look, but on what they believe, what they do, where they will spend eternity. I confess, I do not like Obama, Hillary, Pelosi, Schumer, and Mueller. Not because they are black, female, Gentile or Jew, but because they are tearing down the best country in the world which took 250 years of sacrifice, work and war to build. And it will never be the same again for our children and grandchildren. Their treasonous and evil actions are ruining the freedoms, the opportunities and the lives of millions of children, men, women, old people and motivated people of all races and both sexes. But, their humanity, their uniqueness, and their eternal souls, created in the image and likeness of God are not the problem, those are worth saving. But what they have made of themselves is not.

The real problem with the kind of people I named above is not their "flesh and blood". That is not what America is wrestling against, but it is the evil force of perversion and corruption which has infected their minds and hearts. All their destructive actions and forces of evil lead back to Lucifer who lost his light and beauty in heaven and simultaneously became darkness, was cast into earth and brought his darkness with him. He is the problem, as he has always been and he is our true enemy, not the puppet people he manipulates. Keep your eye on Christ's truth and justice and throw that ball straight through the devil's eye.

"Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.... Stand therefore...."  Eph.6:10-14

There comes to my memory something I read in "America's Nazi Secret, The Belarus Project" by John Loftus, in which he observed, many years ago, the secularist's view of one area of our national problems. He wrote...

"Well now I am past 60, and absolutely amazed at what goes on in our beloved country.  The level of corruption and and methods of manipulation are outrageous.  We are getting played - right, left and center.  Over forty years of research can be crystallized to reveal the means of control : a leviathan of three levels with three parts to each level. The top level is Mining-Metals-Money.  This operation (which includes all of our major mineral resources, especial the metals gold, and silver, used in wealth quantification) is held very-tight-to-the-vest, and its true dimensions, methods and transactions do not garner much discussion because they are seldom exposed.  It holds the reins on all the rest....
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Everything on earth is manipulated or tainted or shadowed by the darkness of evil powers.

So where is the ball in that worldly game perceived by John Loftus above? He saw the problem but not the answer. It is in God's will as recorded in His word,   "Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness...." Matt.6:33.     Keep your eye on that ball... 

"... Look up ... for your redemption draweth nigh." Luke 21:28
     Keep your eye on that ball...

"Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." James 4:7.

Stand for truth, look to Jesus, and resist all else! RB

Would You Want To Be Judged For Life By What Happened On Your Worst Day?

Have You Judged Someone That Way? 

Would you want to be judged for the rest of your life by a single act or cross word?

Then why do we so often cling to our grudges and unforgiveness of others?

The word forgive means, "To give up all claim to resentment or indebtedness". To give it up is to be free of it. To say "I will forgive but I will not forget it" is not to forgive. Only love can grant sincere forgiveness. That is why it is said, "To err is human, to forgive is divine".

Forgiveness Blesses The Forgiver More Than The Forgiven.

For by our forgiveness of others, which is also a blessing to ourselves, we gain forgiveness from God for our own sins, which is a  second blessing to us. So it is a blessed truth that to "give" forgiveness is more blessed than to "receive" forgiveness because it counts double to the giver and once more to the receiver.

Every promise of God has within it such compounding effects, which may only be seen after the fact of obedience to God's commands, and only then are we blessed by the promise. But, we must obey because it is right and holy and honoring to our Heavenly Father, not because we want something in return. It is a way of life, a way to live, a way to be, the essence of Christianity.

Jesus taught it as an essential fact...    

"But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." Matt.6:15.

"So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses." Matt.18:35.

And He taught us to pray for this grace...   

"Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Matt.6:12.

Even the secular world of science recognized the superior experience of giving over receiving. RB
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Giving Makes Us Happier Than Reveiving

By Terra Marquette in Study Finds

CHICAGO — In this season of giving and getting, the findings are in. It is more blessed to give than to receive.

According to two new studies conducted by researchers with the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, giving to others rather than to ourselves makes us happier.

Have you ever noticed that your enjoyment in a repeated activity or event decreases over time no matter how wonderful it is? When this happens, you are experiencing what researchers call hedonic adaptation. The joy of having our own desires met is always fleeting. Perhaps surprisingly, however, giving to others creates a more lasting happiness.

“If you want to sustain happiness over time, past research tells us that we need to take a break from what we’re currently consuming and experience something new,” says study co-author Ed O’Brien, of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, in a release from the Association for Psychological Science. “Our research reveals that the kind of thing may matter more than assumed: Repeated giving, even in identical ways to identical others, may continue to feel relatively fresh and relatively pleasurable the more that we do it.”

Six Customers Pull Guns, Confront Thieves, And Shoot Out Tires Of Getaway Car

This is a story Democrats and their Flunky Media created:

• A story of two flat tires, two left-wing, addicted crooks, 
• and six good, conservative, patriot, all American citizens. 
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• Not every citizen in liberal Washington state is left-wing.

there are even three or four Conservatives in California.

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• By Zachariah Bryan
• Monday, December 24 2018 - Marysville, WA

The plan was to steal tools.... 

Then customers drew their guns

MARYSVILLE — The plan was simple: Steal tools and pawn them for money.

That’s what two men, 22 and 23, reportedly had in mind when they showed up to the Coastal Farm & Ranch store in Marysville on Saturday afternoon, according to a police report. They allegedly took four nail guns, each worth over $400, walked out of the store and got into a Honda Civic.

They didn’t expect to be surrounded by about six customers with guns raised.

One customer was standing in front of the car, yelling at the alleged thieves to get out.

“He won’t shoot, run him over,” one of the suspects reportedly said.

The driver pulled forward, causing the man confronting him to land on the hood, court papers say.

Another customer shot at the driver’s side front tire, according to documents. A third fired twice at the rear tire.

Someone shot at the car one more time as it left the parking lot, records show.

An employee saw the car leaving and drove after the theft suspects. He said he saw one of the men lean out the passenger window and hold up what looked like a gun. The employee stopped chasing the men and went back to the store.

Marysville police found the theft suspects’ car unoccupied about three blocks away, with two flat tires and the tools inside. Both men were apprehended after a search.

They denied having a gun, or seeing the employee follow them. Police found no firearms in the car.

The men also denied hitting anyone with the car.

However, security tape showed a vehicle striking someone, according to the police report.

The two men, who were from Mukilteo and Everett, were booked into the Snohomish County Jail under investigation of first-degree theft. Both remained in custody Monday afternoon.

Marysville police Cmdr. Mark Thomas on Monday said it’s unclear if the other people involved fired their guns lawfully, as they left before law enforcement got there. Security footage showed one of them getting in a vehicle just as the first officer arrived, Thomas said.

“Anytime you’re firing a weapon in a public place, especially a few days before Christmas in a crowded parking lot, it is a grave concern,” Thomas said.

The department is asking those who shot at the car to come forward and provide statements.

Our God's Amazing Pattern Of Creative Perfection

Can Only Be The Supreme Flawlessness Of Deity Not Random Happenstance ... Even Mother Nature has a Creator Father.

One may observe God's accuracy in the hatching of eggs… those of the Canary in 14 days; those of the Barnyard Hen in 21 days; Eggs of Ducks and Geese in 28 days; those of the Mallard in 35 days; Eggs of the Parrot and the Ostrich hatch in 42 days. 

(Notice, they are all divisible by seven, the number of days in a week!) 

See God's Wisdom in the making of an Elephant… The four legs of this great beast all bend forward in the same direction. No other quadruped is so made. God planned that this animal would have a huge body… too large to live on two legs. For this reason He gave it four fulcrums so that it can rise from the ground easily. The Horse rises from the ground on its two front legs first. A Cow rises from the ground with its two hind legs first. 

How wise the Lord is in all His works of Creation! 

Each Watermelon has an even number of stripes on the Rind. Each Orange has an even number of segments. Each ear of Corn has an even number of rows. Each stalk of Wheat has an even number of grains. 

Every bunch of Bananas has on its lowest row an even number of Bananas, and each row decreases by one, so that one row has an even number and the next row an odd number. 

The Waves of the Sea roll in on shore Twenty-six to the Minute in all kinds of weather. 

All Grains are found in even numbers on the stalks.. 

God has caused the Flowers to Blossom at certain specified times during the day. Linnaeus, the Great Botanist, once said that if he had a Conservatory containing the right kind of Soil, Moisture, and Temperature, he could tell the Time of Day or Night by the Flowers that were Open and those that were Closed.

"The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun...." Psm.19:1-4

Keepers: Good Friends, Loved Ones, Precious Children We Never Forget

Some Friends Last A Lifetime And On In To Forever

Bunnie and I have been especially blessed with truly good friends, a lot of sweet relatives and precious children, grands, greatgrands and a couple of great great grands we have never seen. There are very few things in life more important than the "keepers" who come into our lives. And we want you all to know that even though we never see most of you, if you are on this list, we consider you a keeper. And we will still be keeping you in our hearts all the way to heaven and for all of eternity. Bettie and Rayburn Blair

A friend sent this to us and, and since you are one of our "keepers", we send it on to you. Merry Christmas. Keep your hearts on Jesus.

I grew up with practical parents. A mother, God love her, who washed aluminum foil after she cooked in it, then reused it. She was the original recycle queen before they had a name for it. A father who was happier getting old shoes fixed than buying new ones. 

Their marriage was good, their dreams focused. Their best friends lived barely a wave away. 

I can see them now, Dad in trousers, tee shirt and a hat and Mom in a house dress, lawn mower in one hand, and dish-towel in the other. It was the time for fixing things. A curtain rod, the kitchen radio, screen door, the oven door, the hem in a dress. Things we keep. 

It was a way of life, and sometimes it made me crazy. All that re-fixing, eating, renewing, I wanted just once to be wasteful. Waste meant affluence. Throwing things away meant you knew there'd always be more. 

But then my mother died, and on that clear summer's night, in the warmth of the hospital room, I was struck with the pain of learning that sometimes there isn't any more. 

Sometimes, what we care about most gets all used up and goes away...never to return.. So... While we have it... it's best we love it... And care for it... And fix it when it's broken... And heal it when it's sick. 

This is true. For marriage... And old cars... And children with bad report cards... And dogs with bad hips... And aging parents... And grandparents. We keep them because they are worth it, because we are worth it. 

Some things we keep. Like a best friend that moved away or a classmate we grew up with. 

There are just some things that make life important, like people we know who are special... And so, we keep them close! 

Witchcraft's Rise And A Falling Away Of Christians Are Signs Of The End Times

There is demonic power in witchcraft ...

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition ..." 2 Thess.2:3.

Satan has always used witchcraft even as he has always used every other kind of sin, but, like increasing earthquakes, sin, including witchcraft, is increasing in number and dimensions. Sin crawled in Eden, walked in the Old Testament, ran in the New Testament, has wheels in these latter days, and is growing wings. RB

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law." Gal. 5:19-23

According to the article below, witchcraft now has two primary enemies, true Bible believers and President Trump. Witchcraft is a "religion" and is, even now, protected, like other heresy religions, by ours and other government's. Speaking against them will soon be a criminal offence. RB

This from The Telegraph by way of Yahoo News

Witchcraft moves to the mainstream in America as Christianity declines - and has Trump in its sights

Witchcraft is thriving in the US, with an estimated 1.5 million Americans now identifying as witches - more than the total number of Presbyterians. As Christianity declines across the country, paganism has swung to the mainstream, with witchcraft paraphernalia for sale on every high street and practises normalized across popular culture. In the past two years, it has also become darkly politicized. 

Dakota Bracciale, a 29-year-old transgender/queer witch and co-owner of Catland Books and witch shop in Brooklyn, is pleased with the outcome of the ritual hex placed on US Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in October. The curse, carried out from Catland Books, was well attended by witches, atheists ad humanists - and was followed around the country on social media. 

Millennials, says Bracciale, are looking for spiritualism outside traditional religion. “The hex centres on the notion that we live in a universe of chaos, entropy, destruction, death, decay with a final ending of oblivion - scientists are telling us. So the witch does everything for themselves - there is no other help in this universe of decay and chaos. If you don’t get in the driver’s seat things will just get worse,” the witch said.

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I, Rayburn Blair, place Christ's answer to this self described witch's claim right here:
Rev.22:18-19

"For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."

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Catland Books is replete with Christian images including the Archangel Michael, Christian defender against the demonic, and the Virgin Mary. Bracciale, a self-described sexual abuse survivor, who grew up in a born-again-Christian evangelical cult in Arizona, takes umbrage at the notion that witchcraft and Christianity are mutually exclusive. Witchcraft “has a ton of roots in Christianity”, the Brooklyn witch says. Indeed, in Bracciale’s view, the Bible is a spell book, particularly the Book of Psalms.

Witchcraft is powerful, according to Bracciale, because of the “intersectionality of feminism, sexuality, gender, the fight for freedom, eschewing the patriarchy and having sort of a vitriolic response towards it”. (End of article)
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"The multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts." Nahum 3:4

The face of witchcraft today ... Dakota Bracciale,
 interviewed in the article above. RB ...

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/witchcraft-moves-mainstream-america-christianity-130445984.html

Who Were Those Wise Men Who Came To Jesus From The East?

From Which Nation Came They? Their Nationality?

"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." Matt.2:1-2.   We know they came from the east of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, but from how far east? All the way from India or China? Or was it closer, from Babylon (Iraq), or Persia (Iran)? And how did they already know about the Jewish Messiah, the  "King of the Jews"?   Were they dispersed Jews, remnants of the Babylonian bondage of Jews, or Semites from pre-Abraham ancestors of Shem, Noah's first son, or Gentiles from Japheth, third son of Noah, or  were they descendants of the second son of Noah, Ham? But these last were not to the east but to the south? At that time the various races were not as inner mixed as they are today, though there was some mixing especially in those areas where empires conquered  other lands, whose soldiers left their procreative DNA there. Significantly, Jewish DNA remained most pure, of all nationalities, for centuries, since they historically married within their own race. Many still do. 

There had been several major conquering empires preceding the Roman Empire, which ruled in Israel when Jesus was born. Previously, the Babylonians had conquered the Jews and carried most of them back east, as slaves to Babylon, where their slave-masters found the children of Israel to be "wiser" than normal. Many Jews were still in Babylon when the Median and Persian Empires conquered Babylon. The Persian Empire was followed by Alexander the Great who conquered Persia but by that time the Persian and Babylonian Empires had released the Jews to go back home and rebuild the Temple Walls. None of those, now Muslim, conquering empires were Muslim, back then. Islam wasn't founded until about 600 years after the birth of Jesus, so the wise men weren't Muslim. The Ishmaelites were, already in Arabia, but that vast desert didn't offer much to any of those previous conquering empires so the Ishmaelites were left isolated. That is until their own pseudo "prophet", Mohammad, went out conquering all the surrounding nations, much later.

The Persians and Babylonians were not Ishmaelites but were descended from pre-Abraham Shemites as were the ancestors of Abraham, father of the Jews and of the Ishmaelites of Arabia.

My point is, that the "Wise Men" who came to Jesus in Bethlehem could have been dispersed Jews who were of the descendants of the Babylonian bondage and some Jews had even stayed in Babylon though set free. They could also have been Persians or Babylonians converted to Judaism by those bondage Jews like Daniel. Jews, Babylonians and Persians all had ancestors descended from Shem, Noah's first son, and were Shemites or a mixture including descendants of Noah's third son, Japheth. Alexander the Great, a Gentile, descended from Noah's son Japheth, defeated the Persians and his thousands of troops also left their procreative seed all over those nations east of Israel. 

There may still have been some Ishmaelite DNA in Babylon and Persia, though these nations were not descended from Ishmael who was half Egyptian and half Shemite as Abraham's first son and by Hagar, an Egyptian. So Ishmael and Isaac were half brothers and Shemites to different degrees as descendants of Noah's son Shem.

I speak of this because it is interesting to me, not that it has any great spiritual importance. But far more interesting is the fact that those wise men came from the East, probably Babylon or Persia, and they already knew of the Jewish prophecy of a coming Messiah, and were believers in the Jewish God, Jehovah, and the Christ (Messiah). Therefore their faith may have been inspired by the witness of Daniel and the Hebrew Children, to the wise men's ancestors many years previously, while in bondage there. 

That is my opinion, which I cannot prove by Scripture. But somehow, they already knew of the prophecy and had faith to follow the star to Jesus. We too can be wise men and women and believe enough to follow God's leading to Jesus the Christ who is available to all nations and all people whether descended from Shem, Ham, Japheth or a mixture of all three of Noah's sons. Salvation is for   "Whosoever believeth". "For God so loved the world ..."

Reverence To God Is The Root Of Wisdom And Spiritual Knowledge

Irreverence Of God Is A Fool's Profession

Where did wise old King Solomon get his wisdom and knowledge? He was taught it, believe it or not,  by his mother Bathsheba and father, King David. After the death of their first son, of their sin, God gave them a son of grace. Solomon was their second son within whom they laid the foundation of his knowledge. Upon this foundation Solomon built his successful life of wisdom, knowledge, and even wealth fame, and power. His father, David, taught Solomon at least two basic things about knowledge. The first of those is that a teacher of knowledge must first have knowledge.          "... He that teacheth man knowledge, shall he not know? Psm.94:10.   The second thing is, that men's ability to comprehend is limited. Much of knowledge is God's alone and is unattainable by humans.    "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it." Psm.139:6.

David, himself, was taught by Samuel, the prophet, and by "the Spirit of the LORD". Even though David slipped, from time to time, and sinned against the Lord, as with Bathsheba, God gave him much grace.  So wisdom and knowledge do not make a flesh and blood human totally immune from occasional moral failure.  Neither does sin, repented of, hinder us from wisdom and knowledge.   "Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him (David) in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the Lord came upon David from that day forward." 1 Samuel 16:13.     "From that day forward"   means the rest of his life. 

So the Spirit of the LORD was upon David from his boyhood throughout his life, long before and after his sin with Bathsheba. After the son of their sin was born and died, God gave them Solomon, who would be raised by both of them and then inherit his father David's throne. As King, Solomon became known as the wisest human who ever lived, though he was not perfect by any means. Still, he was used of God to write the the Songs of Solomon and the two books of wisdom and knowledge, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.   

So wise king Solomon began the book of Proverbs with this introduction to wisdom and knowledge in the first verse...

"The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity .... A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...." Prov.1:1-7.    Here, in this last sentence, V.7, is the key to the foundation and root of wisdom and knowledge ...    "The fear (reverence) of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge ...." 

Solomon expanded upon this truth in Prov. 9:10,      
"The fear (reverence) of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding."    (His father, David taught him that in Psm.111:10)

Following that dynamic introduction to wisdom and knowledge, Solomon, inspired of God, downloads a thousand yards of it ... 31 chapters of Proverbs and 12 chapters of Ecclesiastes, teaching the accumulation of knowledge and its proper use in wisdom for every setting. Here are some examples in my paraphrasing language... not direct quotes...

Prov.1:22 ... Fools slander and hate the knowledge of truth, with an attitude of  "Don't confuse me with facts; I know what I believe."

Prov.2:5 ... The highest of high knowledge is "To know God" That is what Theology means. 

Prov.2:6 ... Only God can give us that preeminent knowledge with the wisdom to use it properly.

Prov.8:10 ... Wealth cannot produce wisdom and knowledge but wisdom and knowledge can produce wealth.

Prov. 8:12 ...Wisdom's mate is Prudence and together they find knowledge and "witty inventions".

Prov.9:10 ... The father of wisdom is "reverence" of the LORD..."

Prov.10:14 ... All wise people lay up knowledge.

Prov.11:9 ... Knowledge delivers the justified.

Prov.12:23 ... The prudent person does not broadcast but conceals embarrassing knowledge of others.

Prov.14:7 ... Separate yourself from ignorant fools.

Prov.14:18 ... Knowledge of God is a royal crown upon the prudent.

Prov.15:2 ... The wise use knowledge rightly but fools use it wrongly. An educated mean man is a danger.

Prov.15:14 ... The wise teach knowledge but fools feed on foolishness.

Prov.17:27 ... Knowledgeable persons, with wisdom, know when to shut their mouths.

Prov.19:25 ... Punishment of evil prevents more evil, cautions everyone and educates the wise.

Prov.24:4 ... Knowledge produces wealth and more knowledge.

Prov.24:5 ... Knowledge is strength.

Prov.24:14 ... Knowledge is its own reward and expands itself throughout life.

Ecc.2:21 ... Leaving inheritance to ignorant, lazy, or spendthrift fools is vanity.

Ecc.7:12 ... Wisdom with its wealth is protection and knowledge of God preserves the life of those who have it.

Ecc.9:10 ... So work hard and do things right before death cancels opportunity.

Ecc.12:9 ... All of those benefits motivate the old preacher to never cease to teach knowledge and wisdom to people.    

"And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs." Ecc.12:9. 

Those two books of wisdom and knowledge contain a host of other lessons on the subject. Read them often. RB

The White, Left-Wing, Socialist Wedge Between Blacks And Whites

Race Baiting, White Wedge, Keeps Blacks Voting Democrat...
the party of abortion, same sex marriage, open borders, free money and other examples of political and moral insanity.

Aretha Franklin's funeral was an open demonstration of the Democrat wedge of race baiting  contradictions among black Americans saddled on them by white Liberals. Republican leaders weren't invited but Louis Farrakhan was. What happened there recently, in Detroit, a city ruined by an ingrained, local, Democrat government, was almost unavoidable. It had all the elements of a gold mine full of explosive gas with a nightwatchman striking a match to light a joint and find his bottle. A royal battle among family and friends followed the funeral. 

Many black, and white, Democrats, today,  think President Abraham Lincoln was also a Democrat and the Confederate south was inhabited by hateful, Ku Klux Klan, Republicans, when the opposite is true. Somehow, it had to be the Democrats who set them free. ... but History shows it was Republicans. Those are small examples of another, more mammoth contradiction among blacks. Blacks switched their allegiance from Republican to the Democrat party in the 1960's under the illusion Democrat politicians would benefit them most. Like a wealthy father trying to buy his son's love and co-operation by giving him an allowance of a thousand dollars a week. Will that help or hurt the character and attitude of the son? The son thinks it will help him. But wisdom knows it won't. It will motorize his flaws.

Since blacks switched, more than half a century ago, it has been proven a ruinous misconception. Truth is, you cannot buy friends or wisdom or love; but you can buy votes and the Democrats bought the votes of a great majority of blacks.  Thank God for the good character and honesty of blacks and whites who see the Democrat Party for what it is ... vastly deceptive and manipulative of both blacks and whites to increase their number and gain power for the cause of Socialism.

Here you have a sweet and talented little black girl, Aretha, raised in a Baptist Church, pastored by her father, who was also a leader in the civil rights movement. I, as a pastor, cannot fault him for that. If the rolls had been reversed, and I were in his place, and we whites were suffering unjust and unequal treatment, I too would have been fighting for equal rights, as he was. So the Franklins were living in a very prosperous and safe Detroit neighborhood ... back then. Now it is the most undesirable neighborhood of the most undesirable city in America ... What happened?  A beautiful little flower of a girl was arising, back then, in a Christian garden where now is a cracked and broken sidewalk covered with garbage in a ghetto plagued by drunks and drug pushers, made that way by Democrat Politicians' policies of greed. That was not the goal of pastor Franklin. But still the black population of Detroit votes for the same vile breed of culprits who ruined their city. From whence cometh such obsession? That contradiction is a city sized microcosm of a national problem among most blacks, put there by white, Socialist, Leftists. If you think my summary of the problem is patronizing ... tough. It is simply the truth, and it is   "the truth that will make you free"   and solve these problems (Jesus said it, John 8:32).  Denying the truth and hiding the truth, to pacify the naysayers, got us into this mess and facing the truth is the only thing that will get us out of it. I no longer care what the majority or minority think of me ... if I can strike a spark of light in the darkness.

Why do U.S. prisons and jails have more blacks than whites incarcerated (487,000 to 470,000) when blacks are only 12% of the U.S. population? And why are blacks, percentage-wise, killing off blacks at a rate far greater than black on white or white on white murder?  The root cause is not because of black genes or their DNA, or their black skin, it is plainly the Left-wing, political policies initiated and passed by the white Leftist Socialists, of the Democrat Party, that began under President Lyndon Johnson, in the 1960's, to win their votes. The ruse worked but the outcome has proven to be a mammoth failure. Can anyone think that blacks, in general, are better off today than they would have been, today, without the hundreds of billions of dollars spent over the last 54 years to raise their standard of living? No! The good improvement is due to a change in erroneous white attitudes toward blacks. The other is just another contradiction making up the wedge of contradictions that has literally torn black families apart. You can't expect the average citizen, black or white, to comprehend what has happened, as well as the Politicians who devised those ruinous policies or maintain them. Politicians who were and are  surrounded by power, prejudice, wealth, and high tech resources, with a large, highly educated staff, and a friendly News Media are responsible.  They have the expertise and resources to frame good sounding pie in the sky legislation that, in the end, has devastating, eventual consequences, and they use it constantly. So the wedge of contradictions among blacks is more the fault of white Socialist Left Wingers and their "joined at the hip" news media than of black people. Black people are as capable as white people if not hamstrung by Left-wing, white Democrats. We must  re balance

the scales of justice and self-reliance in this country and Democrats will not help get that done but will continue to fight it til Jesus comes.

Democrats have ruled Detroit for the last 56 years, and Chicago for the last 150 years, two examples of the dismal failure of Democrat rule. Consider also the dismal deterioration of Los Angeles and San Francisco since Democrats have been in political control of them.

This from Front Page Magazine - March 2013, and the same calamity continues today...

Detroit's downward spiral has been legendary. Once the fourth largest city in the nation, and home to its largest industry, Detroit's population has been cut in half, from 1.5 million in 1970, to less than 700,000 in 2012. Median household income is $27,862 compared to the state median of $48,669. The poverty level is 36.2 percent compared to a statewide level of 15.7. The murder rate is 11 times that of New York City, and the unemployment rate is above 18 percent, more than double the national average. Detroit Public Schools (DPS) have been under emergency management since 2008. In late February, the state review board revealed that the city faces a short-term cash $327 million budget deficit and an estimated $14 billion in long-term debt, primarily driven by unfunded pension and retirement health care obligations.

How will this end? How can it be stopped? How can we bring peace to our streets again? How can we fix it?

It's a lot like a broken radio a little, elderly, Georgia lady once sent me in the mail. She had heard me say, on her radio, in a sermon, that "Anything that can be built can be fixed". Well, she could no longer listen to my radio messages because her radio wouldn't work, so she sent it to me ... quoting my comment that "Anything can be fixed", and asked me to "fix it". I opened it up and saw a fragile, ancient, irredeemable piece of junk. There was no way anyone in our town could fix that radio. Yes, it could have been fixed by it's maker with brand new guts in the old shell, but that would have cost far more than buying her a new one.  So I sent my apology ... with the new radio.

So yes, our maker can fix the problem by removing the wedge and inserting new, internal parts, but some radios can't be converted so He sometimes concentrates on those who can be, and lets the irredeemable ones crash under the weight of their own stubborn rebellion, faults and failures. Things like enslaving others, abusing others, hating others, and refusing to be saved. America allowed kidnapping Africans, enslaving them, abusing them, and many Christians went along with it. That is the biggest mistake and sin a nation ever committed .... before Nazism, Communism, and abortion came up out of hell.  So why should our maker fix the racial problem? My judgment is... this radio can't be fixed ... by us. It will all have to crash in ruin and then, maybe our maker will send us a new one or maybe just come and get us and leave all the irredeemable, broken things here.... in a world full of corruption .... if they can't be fixed either. God knows.

The Left-Wing Flutters...The X In Xmas Means "Anybody But Christ" Its Santa's Birthday

Even unbelieving, non-Christians celebrate Xmas, and Santa's real life existence. Nearly everyone loves his sweet little reindeer, Xmas songs, Xmas trees, Xmas alcohol and Xmas gifts to each other. What other words do you know with the main sylable... or any sylable removed and replaced with an X ?  The Left-Wing and Muslims, but few Jews, demand no nativity scenes, no Christmas carols or brazen "Merry Christmas" greetings in public or in schools.

One of the great mysteries, unexplainable except for the reality of Satan, is the contrary opposition to the Christmas celebration of the virgin birth of the Son of God who died for sinful souls and the salvation of believers. Everything possible has been done to cover up and distract from that true meaning of Christmas. There is a world of illusions and beguilements drawing the focus away from Jesus Christ, at Xmas time. These illusions are a counterfeit of what Christmas really means. Even as Satan has created counterfeit Bibles, counterfeit Churches, counterfeit Prophets and Preachers, counterfeit Messiahs, counterfeit Healings, counterfeit Doctrine, and counterfeit gods, he has also created a counterfeit Xmas and inspired attacks on any mention of Jesus at Xmas. That "mystery" arises from what God's word identifys as "the mystery of iniquity".    "For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth  (the Holy Spirit)   will let, until he be taken out of the way   (to heaven with Raptured Christians)." 2 Thess.2:7.

But Left-Wing Media, Left-Wing politicians and and other Xmas lovers and Christmas haters can't change the fact that at least most Americans still have the comprehension that the birth of Jesus is important and is the reason for the season. Here, below, is the most recent survey of Americans on the subject.... I am a bit surprised that two thirds of Americans are still pro "Christ in Christmas". If you Deduct the poll's strangly "undecided"19%, all that is left is a measly 14% who prefer Santa to Christ in Christmas. That angry 14% are making all the noise of objection and law suits to stop Christmas caroling, nativity scenes, Christ and His Churches in general, for celebrating what Christmas really means. 

The New Rasmussen National Survey

Jesus Vs. Santa, And The Winner Is....

Monday, December 10, 2018

Most Americans still believe Jesus is the reason for the season and prefer commercial Christmas greetings over generic holiday ones.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that two-out-of three American Adults (67%) believe Christmas should be more about Jesus Christ than about Santa Claus. Just 14% think the holiday should be more Santa-focused, while 19% are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)