The social engineers manipulate people to their own evil ends.  People today are driven, weary and without hope.  The dark leaders of the cosmos world system promise people the "good" life but in the end there is nothing.  Jesus promises that those who build their lives upon the solid rock of His Word will have lives of superabundance.

Job was not a victim.  He never thought of himself as a victim.  He was a man of God.  He was tested by God through the instrumentality of the satan.  Job's friends were not privy to the divine council that decided the parameters of his trials.  They assumed that that knew the reason of his trials.  Carefully note they never prayed for Job.  They pelted him with pseudo-learned accusations devoid of divine insight.  Job found no help in man.  He found rest in the knowledge that his Redeemer lives, and that one day he will see Him as He is!

Racist Ideologies are demonic.  The goal of racist ideology is to create a psycho-spiritual split within the soul. It is spiritual schizophrenia.  The devil is the author of this species of self-hate and hatred toward toward others.  The one who hates is filled with spiritual poison.  Such a person is brain-washed to think that hate will fill the soul with wholeness when it produces nothing but spiritual rot. Jesus can free the hate-stained soul with His Love that produces true wholeness.

There are those who want to destroy the lives of those who do not share their skin color.  There were those who attempted to destroy the lives of the people of Yahweh in the Book of Exodus and Yahweh led them out of that oppressive and destructive bondage.  The satan is the god of this age and he is destroying humanity through the cultural lie of racism.  What is racism?  It seems racism is the intense hatred of those one chooses to hate.  It is not dependent upon an objective set of standards or metrics.  It is the flesh exercising its decayed and decaying will aganist others in Prideful Arrogance.

The world of psychology and therapy likes to talk about evidence-based practices and their effectiveness in helping to solve the problems of living.  The Biblical documents do not speak of human psychology as a panacea for the problems of living.  The Word of God does not rely upon human theories nor observational studies about the human condition.  The Word of God speaks the eternal truth about the human condition.  The flesh (Gr. sarx) is the element of the human condition that is radically opposed to God.  The flesh is inherently controlled by atheistic nihilism. The Word of God tells believers that the only way to defeat this enemy is to crucify it!

Jesus said that in the cosmos we would suffer tribulation.  It is important to note that he said these poignant words in the Upper Room to his disciples.  He wanted them to know the cost of discipleship.  Jesus proclaimed no cheap Grace.  Jesus is the Grace of God Incarnate.  There is nothing cheap about Jesus. Jesus has been attacked by so-called scholars and self-proclaimed intellectuals but he has weathered the temporal storms of their poisonous words.  Certainly more prideful minds will arise who believe to their destruction that they have found the golden thread that will unravel the eternal garment of Jesus but they will fail too.  Paul knew Jesus as his Lord and Savior.  He gave himself fully and completety to Jesus and Jesus revealed himself to Paul as the Mystery of Godliness!

What did the Church cost God?  What did God sacrifice in order to redeem us?  God so loved the world (people) that He gave is only begotten Son.  The Church is the Body of the Lord Jesus Christ.  He is the Head of the Body that He purchased with His own Blood.  The sacrifice of Jesus on the cross is the central theme of the Bible.  Biblical History points to the pivotal event of the death of Jesus that culminates in the resurrection event. If Christ be not risen fron the grave we are of all men most miserable.

We are living in the Eschaton or Last Days of this age.  Knowledge has been increased as foretold by Daniel.  Invasive technologies have redefined what it means to be human.  The classical idea of man as man has vanished along with classical moral norms.  Moral relativism is the order of the day as espoused by the social controllers.  They themselves operate according to norms that contain no belief in God or man except for their dark designs.

Predestination and Foreknowledge are very profound and poignant theological doctrines. All constantly believing ones must know that God has determined the end of history because history is HIS-STORY! Men have tried to fathom the reality of history without God and therefore have missed the real meaning of history.  The language of the New Testament leads one to confidently conclude that God has predetermined the end of history.  Human attemps to avoid that predetermined end are doomed to fail.

Jesu laid out the ultimate antithesis for all of us.  Jesus laid before each of us the ultimate demand.  The demand to take up the cross and follow Jesus is not for the religious or the faint of heart.  It take extraordinary courage to follow Jesusand mean it. He brooks no rivals. He will never accept any rivals!  He and He alone must beour ultimate concern.Those who take up the cross to follow Him are never disappointed or ashamed of their decision.  In Him was/is Life and the Life was/is the Light of mankind.