WARNING:  Send this to your Catholic Friends and Family. Americans need to know the extent of the diabolical EVIL of the LEFT. They need to understand that if the LEFT takes the White House in 2020 – They will resume their plans to destroy America.

It was no accident that I stumbled upon this information today. I know that many of us wondered what really happened to prompt Pope Benedict XVI to step down; and then to have the Jesuit/Marxist Francis take his place.

“And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.” Revelation 17:4,5 (KJV)

And remember this: What we see happening in Europe with the forced migration of Muslims WILL begin to happen to us. If Hillary had prevailed in 2016, she would have been streaming in thousands upon thousands of the so-called Muslim refugees.  Our God allowed us a reprieve from the Leftwing Lunacy with the election of Trump.

Plots, Schemes and ANTI-American Plans- THIS is the political LEFT:

We ALL knew that evil was afoot in the Obama White House when he and Hillary Clinton orchestrated the so-called “Arab Spring.”  Did you actually think that the upheaval on the streets of some Middle Eastern countries happened spontaneously?

Of course, George Soros funded this attempt to overthrow secular governments and replace them with members of the Muslim Brotherhood.  Think back to the night when Obama told Mubarak of Egypt “It’s time to go!” Mubarak did ultimately go to save his life, but things didn’t quite work out the way that Obama and Clinton had hoped.

Read my article from years ago to understand what really happened:

Obama Orchestrated the Arab Spring and Failed

But have you ever heard of the “VATICAN SPRING?”

Remember that this article from thenewamerican.com is from January of 2017; right after Trump’s inauguration.

The petition to President Trump to investigate Obama, Clinton et al, was presented to him over two years ago.  The corruption in our intelligence agencies is so blatant, it makes me wonder if the FBI, CIA and NSA knew full well about the part the Obama regime played in getting Benedict to step down, so that their man (Marxist) Francis could take the papal throne. I have wondered why Trump has not addressed this, but don’t forget that he is continuously battling these agencies.  Who knows if this “Vatican Spring” is not part of the ongoing war between our president and the intelligence agencies? I have written so many articles about Pope Francis and how he seemed more like a Marxist politician than the head of the Roman Catholic Church.

I want the reader (in case they did not see these articles) to understand why Francis has shocked the world with his Leftist/Marxist ideologies:

• Pope Francis:  “It is the Communist Who Think Like Christians”
• Pope Francis Embracing Secular Humanism So That the World Will Love and Follow Him

Remember Brethren, the petition was presented to President Trump right after his inauguration in 2017:

• From thenewamerican.com

Catholics ask Trump to investigate Obama, Soros and Clinton for Coup in Vatican

Did billionaire speculator George Soros, President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden, and Obama/Clinton adviser John Podesta conspire to overthrow the conservative Pope Benedict XVI and replace him with a radical, Pope Francis? Did they use America’s intelligence agencies, and our nation’s diplomatic machinery, political muscle, and financial power to coerce and blackmail “regime change” in the Roman Catholic Church?

Lightning Strikes The Vatican Hours After Pope Benedict Resigns

Anyone remember when this happened? Hmm, talk about a sign! 

Far from being some wild conspiracy theory, there is sound prima facie evidence to indicate that this is a serious effort to expose a political scandal of the highest order, involving flagrant, criminal abuse of power at the top levels of the U.S. government. A group of respected Catholic lay leaders have sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to launch an official investigation into the activities of the above mentioned individuals (and others) who appear to have been involved in this alleged Vatican coup. They cite eight specific questions they seek to have answered concerning suspect events that led to the resignation of Pope Benedict, the first such papal abdication in 700 years.

“Specifically, we have reason to believe that a Vatican ‘regime change’ was engineered by the Obama administration,” say the petitioners, in their January 20 letter to President Trump. The five signatories to the letter, first published in the Catholic newspaper/weblog, The Remnant, are: Lieutenant Colonel David L. Sonnier, US Army (Retired); Michael J. Matt, editor of The Remnant: Christopher A. Ferrara, author, attorney, and president of the American Catholic Lawyers Association, Inc.; Chris Jackson, Catholics4Trump.com; and, Elizabeth Yore, Esq., Founder of YoreChildren.

“We were alarmed to discover,” their letter notes, “that, during the third year of the first term of the Obama administration your previous opponent, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and other government officials with whom she associated proposed a Catholic ‘revolution’ in which the final demise of what was left of the Catholic Church in America would be realized.” The letter includes footnote links that take the reader to documents and news stories underscoring their charges and pointed questions. It first directs attention to the Soros-Clinton-Podesta e-mails disclosed last year by WikiLeaks, in which Podesta and other “progressives” discussed ending the “middle ages dictatorship” in the Catholic Church. Regarding the e-mails in question, The New Americanreported last October:

John Podesta, a longtime Clinton adviser/confidante and hand-picked top activist for left-wing funder George Soros, revealed in a 2011 e-mail that he and other activists were working to effect a “Catholic Spring” revolution within the Catholic Church, an obvious reference to the disastrous “Arab Spring” coups organized that same year by the Obama-Clinton-Soros team that destabilized the Middle East and brought radical Islamist regimes and terrorist groups to power in the region. The Podesta e-mail is a response to another Soros-funded radical — Sandy Newman, founder of the “progressive” Voices for Progress. Newman had written to Podesta seeking advice on the best way to “plant the seeds of the revolution” in the Catholic Church, which he described as a “middle ages [sic] dictatorship.” The issue that appeared to be the cause of Newman’s e-mail was opposition by U.S. Catholic Bishops to the federally mandated contraceptive coverage in ObamaCare.

In their letter to President Trump, the concerned Catholics write: “Approximately a year after this e-mail discussion, which was never intended to be made public, we find that Pope Benedict XVI abdicated under highly unusual circumstances and was replaced by a pope whose apparent mission is to provide a spiritual component to the radical ideological agenda of the international left.  The Pontificate of Pope Francis has subsequently called into question its own legitimacy on a multitude of occasions.”

“We remain puzzled by the behavior of this ideologically charged Pope, whose mission seems to be one of advancing secular agendas of the left rather than guiding the Catholic Church in Her sacred mission,” they say, expressing the thoughts, undoubtedly, of innumerable Catholics worldwide. “It is simply not the proper role of a Pope to be involved in politics to the point that he is considered to be the leader of the international left.”

The Catholic quintet began their missive to President Trump with the famous quote attributed to French historian Alexis de Tocqueville: “America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”

“While we share your stated goal for America,” they write, “we believe that the path to ‘greatness’ is for America to be ‘good’ again, to paraphrase de Tocqueville. We understand that good character cannot be forced on people, but the opportunity to live our lives as good Catholics has been made increasingly difficult by what appears to be a collusion between a hostile United States government and a pope who seems to hold as much ill will towards followers of perennial Catholic teachings as he seems to hold toward yourself.”

They continue:

With all of this in mind, and wishing the best for our country as well as for Catholics worldwide, we believe it to be the responsibility of loyal and informed United States Catholics to petition you to authorize an investigation into the following questions:

• To what end was the National Security Agency monitoring the conclave that elected Pope Francis?
• What other covert operations were carried out by US government operatives concerning the resignation of Pope Benedict or the conclave that elected Pope Francis?
• Did US government operatives have contact with the “Cardinal Danneels Mafia”?
• International monetary transactions with the Vatican were suspended during the last few days prior to the resignation of Pope Benedict. Were any U.S. Government agencies involved in this?
• Why were international monetary transactions resumed on February 12, 2013, the day after Benedict XVI announced his resignation? Was this pure coincidence?
• What actions, if any, were actually taken by John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and others tied to the Obama administration who were involved in the discussion proposing the fomenting of a “Catholic Spring”?
• What was the purpose and nature of the secret meeting between Vice President Joseph Biden and Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican on or about June 3, 2011?
• What roles were played by George Soros and other international financiers who may be currently residing in United States territory?

It is likely that very few Americans, including American Catholics, are aware of these matters, in the slightest degree. Although the WikiLeaks, DCLeaks, and Snowden revelations have made most of this planet’s inhabitants aware that the NSA routinely (and illegally) has scooped up billions of phone calls, e-mails, and text messages, very little media coverage has focused on the revelations concerning the NSA spying on Pope Benedict and the cardinals of the conclave that elected Pope Francis in 2013 (see here and here).

Architects of Subversion

What about the secret “Cardinal Danneels Mafia” referred to above? According to the Catholic blogspot Rorate Caeli, “The election of Jorge Bergoglio was the fruit of secret meetings that cardinals and bishops, organized by Carlo Maria Martini, held for years at St. Gall in Switzerland.” That is the claim of Jürgen Mettepenningen and Karim Schelkens, the authors of a recently published authorized biography of the Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels, who refer to the group of cardinals and bishops as the “Mafia-club.”

Cardinal Danneels himself, in a video recorded for the book, admits to taking part in the secret club of cardinals that were in opposition to Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict). He refers to it as “a Mafia club whose name was St. Gall.” In addition to Danneels, this “Mafia club” reportedly included Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Dutch bishop Adriaan Van Luyn, German cardinals Walter Kasper and Karl Lehman, the Italian cardinal Achille Silvestrini, Britain’s Cardinal Basil Hume, and other liberal-left churchmen. Cardinal Danneels, a Belgian, has long been viewed as a key subversive in the Church prelature for undermining traditional Catholic teaching against abortion, homosexuality, and “gay marriage,” as well as for his efforts to protect pedophiles in the clergy.

One name not mentioned in the recent letter of concerned Catholics to President Trump, but certain to surface as a key culprit in any substantive investigation, is former chairman of Goldman Sachs International Peter Sutherland. Mr. Sutherland, an Insider’s Insider among the globalist banking establishment, was brought in to help “reform” the Vatican Bank, which was akin to putting Dracula in charge of the blood bank.

Like Joseph Biden, Jerry Brown, and Nancy Pelosi, Sutherland is a prominent political figure who is regularly described in media accounts as a “practicing Catholic,” which means he wears his religion when it is expedient to do so. As attorney general of Ireland, Sutherland helped to scuttle that Catholic country’s legal restrictions on abortion and favored the “LGBT rights” movement. He has served as a commissioner of the European Union and  headed the Global Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Here are some of his other globalist credentials, as previously in The New American:

• He is a regular attendee and former Steering Committee member of the ultra-secretive, ultra-elite Bilderberg Group;
• he was European chairman of the Trilateral Commission;
• he is past chairman of British Petroleum (BP);
• he is honorary president of the Transatlantic Policy Network (TPN), one of the principal corporatist insider organizations promoting EU-U.S. merger through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP);
• as a top Eurocrat, he played a lead role in destroying national sovereignty by replacing national currencies (and national monetary control) with the euro, as well as engineering the “borderless Europe,” which the current migrant crisis is now proving to have been so destructive.

For the past decade, as the United Nations special representative for International Migration, Sutherland has been a key architect, along with George Soros, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and other globalists of the global scheme that has flooded Europe with the disastrous tsunami of Muslim migrants. (Their plans, which called for a similar migration deluge for the United States, got started under President Obama, but have been scuttled by the election of President Trump.)

The investigation that the concerned Catholics are requesting of President Trump should be of interest to more than just Catholics. Peter Sutherland, George Soros, and the world government movement they represent will, if successful, wreak unimaginable havoc and devastation upon the entire planet. The investigation — and prosecutions — cannot begin too soon. source

An Excerpt from spectator.org

THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE BETWEEN GEORGE SOROS AND POPE FRANCIS

Leftists frequently turn up at the Vatican, often invited by one of Pope Francis’s closest advisers, the socialist Honduran Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga. Before the pope’s visit to the U.S., a group of left-wing activists and officials from unions and organizations such as the SEIU and PICO (an Alinskyite group founded by the liberal Jesuit Father John Baumann) descended on the Vatican to confer with curial officials about the trip. Around the same time, over 90 members of the U.S. Congress sent Pope Francis a letter, urging him to focus upon politically liberal themes. The leader of this group was Rosa DeLauro, a Catholic who supports abortion rights.

In 2016, it was revealed through disclosures by WikiLeaks that the billionaire socialist George Soros bankrolled much of this lobbying. He spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in an attempt to shape the pope’s visit to the U.S. According to the leaked documents, Soros’s Open Society Foundation sought to create a “critical mass” of American bishops and lay Catholics supportive of the pope’s priorities. The documents made special mention of Maradiaga, a champion of PICO, as a useful ally for ensuring that the pope’s speeches in the U.S. pushed socialism

“Further disclosures from WikiLeaks confirmed the plotting of Democratic officials to infiltrate the Catholic Church in order to “foment revolution” beneficial to their radical causes. In 2012, in the midst of Catholic backlash over Obama’s contraceptive mandate, John Podesta received a note from Sandy Newman, president of Voices for Progress.

“There needs to be a Catholic Spring, in which Catholics themselves demand the end of a middle ages dictatorship and the beginning of a little democracy and respect for gender equality in the Catholic church,” Newman wrote to Podesta. “I don’t qualify to be involved and I have not thought at all about how one would ‘plant the seeds of revolution,’ or who would plant them.” Podesta replied that the Democrats had set up Catholic front groups to plant those seeds: “We created Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good to organize for a moment like this. But I think it lacks the leadership to do so now. Likewise Catholics United. Like most Spring moments, I think this one will have to be bottom up.” Podesta was wrong. It would come from the top down, as the following year Francis rose to the papacy and began politicizing the Church in the exact manner that the progressives had envisioned. Indeed, Podesta would later encourage Hillary Clinton to enlist the pope’s leftism in her campaign. In one hacked e-mail, he advised that she send out a tweet to “thank him for pointing out that the people at the bottom will get clobbered the most by climate change.” source

Read entire spectator.org article HERE

Whomever God allows to win the 2020 Presidential Election could change the course of our Nation forever.  Sometimes events occur and we cannot understand why our Lord allows them. We MUST understand that God uses such events to further fulfill Bible prophecy!

How Can I Be Saved?

Shalom b’Yeshua

MARANATHA!!

In the midst of the race baiting, and all of the hate filled rhetoric that we are hearing on the news – a wonderful and precious thing happened to me today. It was a “God” thing — arranged by Him, and I’ll never forget it.

Many of you know that my husband has been diagnosed with cancer. We are committed to using a natural way to starve these cancer cells, and to that end, I was in a store purchasing a Juicer. I was waiting in line, and was suddenly overcome with sadness and began to cry.

“For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.” 1 John 3:11 (KJV)

The lady in line behind me, approached me and offered a tissue. I looked in her eyes and I saw the compassion and love of Jesus. She was a beautiful black woman named Margurite,  just a bit older than me — and she waited outside for me. I said to her “You love the Lord, don’t you?” And her face lit up as she nodded. I said I love Him too, and we hugged and cried.

What cures racism? New life in Jesus Christ.

We talked about the Lord Jesus for almost an hour. It was a glorious time. She shared events from her life, and how He had seen her through those times. I shared many stories with her about how He has been my everything, and how my family rejected me when I got saved. We exchanged phone numbers, and she told me that when she gave her number to someone, that there were no restrictions.

She said that if I woke up in the middle of the night and needed to talk or pray, that I should call her. Her name is Margurite, and I’m in awe of the Creator of the Universe to think of me today, and to bring this angelic lady into my life.

We both expressed our love for one another. It’s hard to explain that kind of love to a person who does not know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. It’s Agape love. It is love that is of and from God. It is a sacrificial love. It’s the love that sent Jesus to the Cross for us.

I know that the Lord appointed that time for me to meet this special sister today. She reminded me so much of my best friend in the Lord, who fought bone cancer for three years, and then Jesus brought Carol home. As I listened to Margurite, I thought to myself that God had brought another “Carol” to me. Carol and I would spend hours on the phone, talking about the goodness of God and praying for one another.

When Jesus is the focus, love will replace hate every time

Margurite and I even talked about the riots, and how wrong it was for people to hate because of the color of skin. We laughed as we agreed that skin color is purely pigment or lack of pigment, and that it had nothing to do with the heart. She said to me “God made you and God made me, so what does that make us? Sisters!”

We hugged goodbye and promised to call one another. She got into her car, and I was standing next to mine, trying to get the juicer into the back seat. All of a sudden, I see a big SUV headed right for me! The woman driving had not looked to see if someone was there. She stopped about a foot away from me! With my heart pounding, I saw Margurite sitting in her car, and she yelled to me “I saw her almost hit you, and I cried out to the Lord to keep you safe!”

Well, I just wanted to share my blessed day with you. I believe that when people are born again, and have God’s Holy Spirit indwelling them, there is no room for hate or prejudice. Love…….Only Love.

MARANATHA!

I can think of no other parable of Jesus which illustrates God’s grace more than the story of the Prodigal Son.

EDITOR’S NOTE: Salvation is not simply a prayer, it is at the heart of it a legally-binding transaction. Jesus Christ died on the cross in your place, and He died to purchased your sins by His own blood. That’s salvation. Your come to Him with nothing, no works of any kind, and your give Him your sins in exchange for His Righteousness. You are not saved from your sins, you are saved from the consequences of your sins, which is an eternity in Hell.

Being restless and prone to wander, he receives his inheritance early and is off to travel the world. I have a feeling that he was very excited when his father agreed to give him the money early.

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Psalm 51:17 (KJV)

But then reality sets in. He is in the middle of a famine. He has squandered his inheritance and must find work. The only job available is that of feeding pigs. (As a Jewish Christian, I find humor in this). He realizes that the pigs are eating better than he is!

“Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.”

He remembers his father and the comforts of his home. Then he realizes that even the servants have enough to eat. He makes a decision to go home, not as a son, but as a servant. He is truly repentant and sincerely believes that he should not be considered a son any longer. It’s interesting to me that he was very willing to work for this father.

He goes back home. It doesn’t say, but I imagine that he was quite nervous and anxious. When he sees his father, possibly thinking that he will be rebuked and perhaps rejected, he says:

“Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.”

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Psalm 51:17 (KJV)

When the son confessed his sin and his words clearly showed a “broken and contrite heart” all the father could think about was how happy he was to see his precious son! Perhaps his son expected an I told you so lecture, or at least stern words. I imagine that this overwhelmed the son with joy, love and gratefulness.

“Amazing Grace,

How sweet the sound

That saved a wretch like me.

I once was lost

But now am found,

Was lost, but now I see!”

The son did not merit this welcome from his father. The father had every right to discipline his son and make him feel the weight of his sin. But the joy and love that filled his father’s heart washed away all else. Clearly, this is a picture of God our Father, and how He yearns for His children to come home!

God knows that we are incapable of keeping all of His commandments. He gave us those Commandments to show His holiness and standards, all the while knowing that we will fall short.

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” Romans 3:23 (KJV)

He yearns for reconciliation with those He has created. His plan from before the foundations of the earth were laid, was that His precious Son Jesus would pay for our sins by the shedding of His own blood; the Perfect sacrifice.

John the Baptist said this:

“The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.” John 1:29 (KJV)

The blood of Jesus was vastly different from that of sacrificed animals. This was the blood of God Himself; the final atonement for all sin. The Word made flesh had come into the world to shed His blood, so that whosoever believes (trusts) in Him will be saved.

“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.” Hebrews 9:22 (KJV)

He brought us a better covenant: GRACE. He lavished His love and grace upon us, and those who were drawn and answered Yes, would be reconciled to Him for eternity. We are born- again. Hallelujah!

Have You Changed?

When you came to God, were you broken? Did you sincerely ask Him to be your Lord and Savior? Did you agree with Him that you are a sinner? Did you repent of your sins, and tell Him that you need Him for the forgiveness of your sins?

Is the fruit of the Spirit evident in your life?

Do you use grace as an excuse to keep sinning? Grace is often misunderstood. It is not to be used to have one foot in the world and one foot in the Bible. True salvation and repentance go hand in hand. We cannot have one without the other. Immediately upon salvation, the brand-new Christian is nearly overwhelmed by the urging of the Holy Spirit to repent. Repentance is not a condition for salvation but it is surely a fruit of it.

When we come to Christ and sincerely repent we yield to the Holy Spirit so He can accomplish the regenerative work within.

Galatians 5:22-25 says:

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

When a person is born-again from above, there is evidence of the Holy Spirit dwelling within. Good works come naturally; they come out of a grateful heart in the child of God. This doesn’t mean there will be instantaneous recognition of a redeemed soul. But there should be change in behavior and attitude..A child of God begins to love the things that God loves, and hate that which He hates.

Does the child of God still sin?

As long as we live in these bodies, we will sin. Paul spoke about this battle within him in Romans 7:15-24

“For that which I do I allow not: for what I would, that do I not; but what I hate, that do I.  If then I do that which I would not, I consent unto the law that it is good. Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good I find not. For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”

Until we receive our glorified bodies, we will still sin. But we have the assurance from God that we may come to Him and confess the sin:

“If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” 1 John 1:9 (KJV)

Sanctification is the process of being set apart from the world. Believers are in the world but not of it.

John 17:15-19 says:

“I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.”

Are you a different person since you asked Jesus to be Lord and Savior of your life? I’m not asking if you are perfect. None of us are, except Jesus Christ. I am asking you if you have changed since you made a profession of faith. Have you begun to love what God loves, and feel an aversion to what He hates?

Are you living with a person to whom you are not married? Do you come under conviction that this doesn’t please God? Do you get defensive and angry when someone points out Scriptures that hold us accountable for a changed life in Christ?

When you think back to the time before you asked Jesus to come into your heart, do you see yourself growing in Him? Do you love to read His Word? Do you love to be with other Christians and feel more comfortable being around them than your unsaved friends? Do you share the salvation message? These are questions that each of us should be asking ourselves.

2 Corinthians 13:5 says:

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”

Grace Is Not Cheap, salvation is not simply saying “the prayer”

Through the years, I have watched the same people walk down the aisle as the pastor does an altar call – over and over, again and again. Some of these people I have known personally. It is difficult to understand why they feel the need to repent and believe all over again. But that is between them and God.

I have seen others who walk that aisle as if it’s a path to a heavenly insurance policy. You can see these types who continue to live in sin, but if anything is said, they point you back to the day that they “Said the prayer” and in their minds that sealed the deal. I must tell you that this makes me very sad and angry.

I call that cheap grace. There is nothing cheap about the suffering our Savior endured on that horrid cross. He suffered an excruciatingly painful death, and spiritually He came to a point where He cried out “My God, why has thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:14) because at that moment He had become sin and His Father had to turn from Him.

Now before you say that I’m getting legalistic, let me assure you that I am NOT legalistic in any way. I see many people who claim to be in the faith, but whose lives scream “I’m of the world” Where is the fruit? Saved, yes, but with nothing to show at the Judgment Seat.

If you are a Christian, then you should be following Christ. You should NOT look like the world. You should be able to look back and see that you have changed.

We do not read about the life of the prodigal son after he returned home. I believe that his repentance and coming home changed his whole life. I believe that if Jesus wrote the rest of that story, we would see a completely different person in the prodigal son. I think that the moment that his father kissed him and showed that unconditional love, he was forever a new person. Not perfect, but changed.

I know I’ve changed. He is still working on me and refining and smoothing out rough edges. But the person I used to be is definitely not who I am today!. How about you?

Maranatha!

Praise Yeshua Ha Mashiach!