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Prayer for RNC Convention, day two

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Let’s pray together. Father God, in the name of Jesus, Lord we’re so thankful for the life of Donald Trump. We’re thankful that you are guiding him, that you are giving him the words to unite this party, this country, that we together can defeat the liberal Democratic Party, which seeks to keep us divided and not united. Because we are the United States of America, and we are the conservative party under God.

To defeat every attack that comes against us, to protect the life of Donald Trump, give him the words, give him the space, give him the power and the authority to be the next President of the United States of America, in Jesus’ name — if you believe it, shout Amen! – Pastor Mark Burns

The left is all in a tizzy over the above prayer and calling it horrendous, blasphemous, uncalled for and other things.  I can’t help but notice their similarity to the Pharisees of old:  The left, which tends to gravitate towards the Democrat Party, has been trying for years to kick God out of the public square and put Him in a box to be opened and used only for their self-serving agenda, if at all; Jesus wouldn’t compromise to fit the Pharisees agenda and Jesus won’t compromise to fit the Democrat agenda.  In 2012 at the DNC convention they booed God; video can be found on You Tube if you wish to review the details of that.  Suffice it to say, for now: Amen, Pastor Mark Burns, Amen!

Today the focus at the RNC convention is “Make America Work Again” and we will be reminded of the fact that “The Obama years have delivered anemic economic growth, the lowest labor-force participation rate in 38 years, and job-killing regulations and legislation like Obamacare.”  Around 94 million Americans are out of the workforce and job numbers are being manipulated in an effort to obscure that fact.  Obama and Hillary are both Saul Alinsky disciples and closely tied to, if not completely controlled by, George Soros, a One World Government advocate.  A Hillary Presidency would be, at best, a third term of BHO, delivering the same poor results and continuing to crush middle-class families towards the point of extinction.  Most likely we would see a complete collapse into chaos and the rise of something very evil which we really do not want to see with our own eyes.

2Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Let us pray:  Jesus, The Christ, we humbly approach Your throne of grace and ask that You would help us to kneel before You and reject the ways of those on the left who seek to make us compromise Your holy commands and empower us to stand true to Your Word, as found in the Holy Bible, and Your will, as revealed in the Holy Bible and in individuals who truly love You and trust in You, oh Lord, as their Savior.

Oh Lord,we come to you humbly asking that you break the power of the enemy, the devil, who is using George Soros, Black Panthers, BLM, Obama, Hillary, and other anarchists as his puppets.  In Your holy name we render powerless all the plans of the evil one’s schemes, strategies, tactics, lies, deceptions to bring civil war and killing in our nation. In Jesus Holy Name, devil we order you to stand down, we bind your evil works in our nation, we render you and your evil powers impotent and brought to naught, and your evil plans utterly destroyed in the Mighty and Powerful Name of Jesus Amen !!!!!!

Lord, May your hand of protection always surround Trump, Pence, their families and loved ones, as well as their properties.  For all of Trump’s delegates we ask that You protect them also with your powerful presence and special wisdom.  We ask that it will be a peaceful, albeit lively, RNC convention this week.  We ask that your presence will fill the convention hall, much like at the foundation of this nation, and so much so that the lefties will be even more annoyed than they already have been as they sense their schemes being unraveled and exposed.  Open their eyes to Thy Truth and encourage them to embrace it and leave the Democrat Party agenda behind in the ash heaps where it belongs.

We pray for mighty angels to go forth and be stationed all around our police, and the bikers especially, at the convention this week in Jesus Name Amen !  I even request your mighty angels surround all the Anti-Trump protesters and even help them to awaken to Truth, Thy Truth.   We request and speak victory and a successful convention this week.  We ask Lord that You would help “Make America Work Again,” not just in jobs but also in accordance with the founding principles which were based in dependence on You, and that not just for America’s sake but for the whole world’s sake for it is in Jesus Name we pray Amen and Amen !!!

God bless America, land that I love !!  May there be a brand new Great Awakening.

–Pastor Ward Clinton

The Follower of the One True God must be Holy (part 2)

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It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.  –George Whitfield

Lev_11:44  For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Lev_11:45 For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

Lev_19:2 Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

Lev_20:7 Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the LORD your God.

Num_15:40 That ye may remember, and do all my commandments, and be holy unto your God.

Deu_23:14 For the LORD thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

Eph_1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

Eph_5:27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

1Pe_1:16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

God never authorizes us to be sinful, like Muhammad was, but commands us to be holy, like Messiah Jesus is.

Rev_22:11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.  And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Thus saith the Holy Word of the One True God; the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

–Pastor Ward Clinton

The Follower of the One True God Must be Holy (part 1)

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It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.  –George Whitfield

George Whitfield (1714-1770)  was an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies. Born in Gloucester, England, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford University, where he met the Wesley brothers. He laid the foundation of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally.  In 1740, Whitefield traveled to America, where he preached a series of revivals that came to be known as the “Great Awakening”.  Whitefield was quite possibly the most famous religious figure of the 18th century. He exercised influence over thousands in Great Britain and America by his oratory. He preached at least 18,000 times to perhaps a total of 10 million hearers.

He was the seventh child of Thomas Whitefield and Elizabeth Edwards who kept an inn at Gloucester.  Because business at the inn had become poor, Whitefield did not have the means to pay for his tuition.  He therefore entered Oxford as a servitor, the lowest rank of students at Oxford.  In return for free tuition, he was assigned as a minister to a number of higher ranked students.  His duties included teaching them in the morning, helping them bathe, taking out their garbage, carrying their books and even assisting with required written assignments.  He was a part of the “Holy Club” at the University of Oxford with the Wesley brothers, John and Charles. He became the leader of the Holy Club at Oxford after the Wesley brothers departed for Georgia.   An illness, as well as Henry Scougal’s The Life of God in the Soul of Man, influenced him to cry out to God for salvation. Following a religious conversion, he became passionate for preaching his new-found faith. The Bishop of Gloucester ordained him a deacon.

Benjamin Franklin attended a revival meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and was greatly impressed with Whitefield’s ability to deliver a message to such a large group. Franklin had previously dismissed, as an exaggeration, reports of Whitefield preaching to crowds of the order of tens of thousands in England. When listening to Whitefield preaching from the Philadelphia court house, Franklin walked away towards his shop in Market Street until he could no longer hear Whitefield distinctly. He then estimated his distance from Whitefield and calculated the area of a semicircle centered on Whitefield. Allowing two square feet per person he computed that Whitefield could easily be heard by over thirty thousand people in the open air.

Franklin admired Whitefield as a fellow intellectual but thought Whitefield’s plan to run an orphanage in Georgia would lose money.  He published several of Whitefield’s tracts and was impressed by Whitefield’s ability to preach and speak with clarity and enthusiasm to large crowds.  Franklin was an ecumenist and therefore approved of Whitefield’s appeal to members of many denominations, but was not, like Whitefield, an evangelical.  In his autobiography, Franklin famously wrote that he was a “thoroughgoing Deist,” which precludes the idea that God is personal, though some suggest that Franklin was actually a bit more traditional in his views, e.g., his speech at the Constitutional Convention where he recited the verse that not a single sparrow falls to the ground without God’s notice; how then could the Constitution convention hope to succeed without God’s careful oversight?   After one of Whitefield’s sermons, Franklin noted the:

wonderful… change soon made in the manners of our inhabitants.  From being thoughtless or indifferent about religion, it seem’d as if all the world were growing religious, so that one could not walk thro’ the town in an evening without hearing psalms sung in different families of every street.”

In terms of theology, Whitefield, unlike John Wesley, was a supporter of Calvinism. The two differed on eternal election, final perseverance, and sanctification, but were mostly friends and co-workers in the salvation of souls.

Whitefield chastised other clergy for teaching only “the shell and shadow of religion” because they did not hold the necessity of a new birth without which a person would be “thrust down into Hell.”  In his 1740-1741 visit to America (as he done in England), he attacked other clergy (mostly Anglican [Calvinists]) calling them “God’s persecutors”. He said that Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London with supervision over Anglican clergy in America, knew no “more of Christianity, than Mahaomet….”

In 1740, Whitefield published attacks on “the works of two of Anglicanism’s revered seventeenth-century authors, John Tillotson and Richard Allestree.

Obama’s Dream

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or VOTE TRUMP and pray 2nd Chronicles 7:14!

–Pastor Ward Clinton

Crooked Hillary is endangering the World, not just America

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FBI Director James Comey basically delivered a coded message to the American People and the world. He said…she is guilty beyond any reasonable doubt, certainly should not be president and should be brought to justice ..however our country has been infiltrated…future is at stake unless congress begins to become outraged and takes action against this administration and the justice department as my hands are tied.

It is time for every American Christian to pray …and support/vote Trump.

–Pastor Ward Clinton

Joe Walsh on Obama

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Vote Trump and pray 2nd Chron 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

–Pastor Ward Clinton

Trust God and Be Holy

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“Now these atheists promoting secularism want to strip God out of America’s past, present and future,” Graham said. “Here’s a warning—if you remove God, you remove God’s hand of blessing. That’s been shown over and over throughout history.”

Graham is urging Christians to share the gospel of Jesus Christ with an ever-growing secular world.

“One day each of these people is going to stand before the God that they disown, and they will face an eternity in hell if they have not trusted Christ as their Savior,” Graham said. “That’s where this kind of ‘reason’ will get them. The Bible says, ‘There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death’ (Prov. 14:12).” – (Franklin Graham)

Although God invites everyone to be part of His forever family, those who are hostile to God and His ways will not be allowed to enter in to His heaven.  Ladies and gentlemen that includes militant homosexuals and antagonistic atheists as well as many who call themselves Christian.

It is actually somewhat understandable why many people mistrust certain Christians; however, there are other Christians whom it is quite hazardous to your own well-being to despise.  Those Christians and their way of living may make you feel a bit uncomfortable regarding life-choices you may have made or may currently be making but if they are actually embarking upon the spirit-walk we are all called to travel in then it is wise to take note and, perhaps, move in the same direction and along the pathway and in the same manner they are.  Those Christians are actually much nicer than you may have initially realized.

There is a Christian doctrine which holds that the soul of the fully committed Christian may attain a high degree of virtue and holiness and become Entirely Sanctified with the help of the divine grace of Jesus.  That term is not to be confused with the late Dr. Charles Stanley’s erroneous accusations that those who believe Entire Sanctification is a present possibility in this life are actually claiming to have attained “Ultimate Sanctification.”  The Reverend Doctor may have merely misunderstood and not been guilty of maliciously maligning that grace of Jesus which he couldn’t quite comprehend.  In some of his sermons I heard him come so close to teaching and embracing Entire Sanctification, often while using slightly different terminology that meant the same thing, and then, just as it seemed like he was about to have his “eureka” moment, suddenly he was running back away from it.

I can remember at least a couple of times, sitting in front of the television saying, “C’mon Doc, you’re only a hair’s breadth away from your breakthrough.”  Unfortunately, every time I heard Charles Stanley speak of Entire Sanctification correctly and get really close to actually comprehending the command from God for us to be holy in this life I would hear him turn around and run back toward hyper-Calvinism much like Gollum seeking out his “Precious.”  Please understand, I do not lump together all those who hold John Calvin in high regard.  I tend to see it as something along the line of:  Hyper-Calvinist … Calvinist … Wesleyan-Calvinist.  An example of the latter might be Charles H. Spurgeon who said, “There is a point of grace as much above the ordinary Christian as the ordinary Christian is above the world.”  He also said of them, who are enjoying that grace, “They are rejoicing Christians, holy and devout men doing service for their Master all over the world, and everywhere conquerors through Him that loved them.”

Now the concept of Entire Sanctification may initially come from the Roman Catholic Church’s doctrine of theosis.  The critic may pounce at this point and loudly proclaim, “Aha!  It’s not a biblical thing!”  My response is, “Sorry, charlie; go back and reread the paragraph above which starts with ‘There is a Christian doctrine…Jesus.’ because the foundation of that doctrine is God’s command to be holy.”

Thomas Aquinas defined a perfect thing as one that “possesses that of which, by its nature, it is capable.”

“Perfection is that which it is better to have than not to have.” – Duns Scotus

Christian Perfection is another term used to speak of Entire Sanctification.  It is a doctrine that is chiefly associated with the followers and adherents of John Wesley’s theological understanding.  Sometimes the concept is referred to as “sinless perfection,” although a better and more accurate phrase is “blamelessness before God.”

John Wesley, in his book, “A Plain Account of Christian Perfection,” wrote “…sinless perfection is a phrase I never use, lest I should seem to contradict myself.”  He also explained that he viewed it as “purity of intention, dedicating all the life to God” with “the mind which was in Christ, enabling us to walk as Christ walked.”  This assists us in “loving God with all our heart, and our neighbor as ourselves.”

Wesley did not use the term “Christian perfection” to claim sinlessness nor did he advocate it as a state of being unable to sin but rather the being far more readily capable of choosing not to sin through finding empowerment from the Spirit of God to abide in holiness of heart and life in accordance with our high calling.

Thereby we may experience a freedom from willful rebellion against God, as well as impure intentions and pride.  As we followers of Jesus function at that level of Christian living the world then sees the type of Christian that assures them that God still works in His followers in our day.

Entirely Sanctified Christians remain subject to temptations, and have a continued need to maintain a prayer life that keeps them connected to the One who empowers them to fulfill His command to “Be ye holy, for I am holy.”  Charles Stanley correctly understood we cannot attain Entire Sanctification in our own power, and as long as we try to do it that way we’ll never get it; when we understand that the Spirit of God empowers us to live that way then and only then we may be empowered to receive that point of grace.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. — Jesus

–Pastor Ward Clinton