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A House Divided

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A House Divided Jesus, at a point in His ministry and being harassed by the Pharisees, (as was normal) and when they seen what He was doing, they said “This fellow does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, (Satan, or ‘Lord of the Flies’).  That is like the liberals of today, making accusations about conservatives and Christians without any fact or foundation, just to make someone look bad, nevertheless, Jesus points to the facts, then covertly accuses them, by way of their sons, of the very same thing in the form of a question, followed by a truism.      Matthew 12: 25b – 27.    v.25). “But Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them: Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.  v.26).  “if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself.  How then will his kingdom stand?”  v.27 “And if I cast out demons by Beelzebub, by who

EVIL TRILOGY

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EVIL TRILOGY What Evil Lurks in the Heart of Man? In two words we can sum up the attributes of manifested evil in three of the most influential people in the United States of America.  Of course, there are more powerful evil people in the country, like George Soros, who is the real power supporting Obama’s ideologies.  However, I did not sit down to write about the evil of George Soros, I did sit down to just call attention to the Trilogy, and why is it that we, (Conservative Citizens) are afraid to call evil for what it is; EVIL?   Actually evil would be best summed as evil relates to the individual’s moral standards.  Think about it, it does not necessarily depend on ones relationship to Christ, most religions and Atheists recognize, (to some degree), evil and the antonym good.  What it does relate to and is part of is the character of the individual in relationship ethical conduct and moral standards of their character.  That is as weak as I can make the imp

INTEGRITY

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Integrity, According to secular terms 1)     Steadfast adherence to a strict moral or ethical code. a.         The state of being unimpaired; soundness. b.         The quality or condition of being whole or undivided, completeness . According to religious terms 2)     Integrity, comes to us in the Hebrew and is found many times in the Old Testament. And is translated from the Heb.<Tome> (tum-mah) which is the fem. of (tom) – tome – a.     Innocence, Innocent, b.     Completeness, full, fullness, upright,                                     i.     Doing right, living righteously, accepting  no evil or wrong,                                    ii.     Sincerity, sincere, honest, and of a moral character. 3)     The word integrity is not used in the New Testament, however, the word virtue is used in it’s place. “Virtue” comes to us from the Greek (Arete), and has a simple translation.  Al