WE WILL BE READING FROM MARTIN LUTHER’S COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF ROMANS. IN THIS MESSAGE MARTIN LUTHER CONCENTRATES ON ROMANS 4:3,7.

THIS COMMENTARY OF MARTIN LUTHER’S IS THE BEST COMMENTARY EVER WRITTEN, IF YOU AREA NEW CREATION FOR MARTIN LUTHER DOES NOT NEED TO STUDY OTHER MEN’S DOCTRINE, BUT HE WRITES EXPERIENTIALLY FROM HIS OWN NEW CREATION. THE NEW CREATION IS PARADOXICAL IN NATURE AND OUR FASTFOOD FREEWILL THEOLOGIANS BEING NATURAL MEN THEOLOGIANS HAVE TO BEND THE SCRIPTURES TO FIT THEIR NATURAL MAN NATURE. BUT A NEW CREATION NEEDS NOT DO THAT BECAUSE HE IS A NEW CREATION AND PARADOXICAL IS NORMAL FOR HIM.

JOHN BUNYAN , ANOTHER HEAVY WEIGHT BONDAGE OF THE WILL PREACHER SPENT 12 YEARS IN PRISON FOR PREACHING THE GOSPEL IN ENGL AND IN PRISON HE WROTE ‘GRACE ABOUNDING’ HIS AUTOBIOGRPHY ON HIS SALVATION AND HIS ALLEGORICAL BOOK, PILGRIM’S PROGRESS OF SALVATION WHICH IS THE MOST DEFINITIVE

AND ACCURATE ALLEGORY EVER WRITTEN ON SALVATION. JOHN BUNYAN IS CLOSER IN THE BONDAGE OF THE WILL DOCTRINE THAN ALMOST ANYBODY ELSE. MARTIN LUTHER IGNITED THE BONDAGE OF WIIL DOCTRINE IN 1517 BY PUTTING ON THE DOOR THE CASTLE IN WITTENBERG, GERMANY. MARTIN LUTHER WAS ALMOST MURDERED BUT DID NOT LOSE HIS LIFE AS DID PREDECESSOR JOHN HUS.

JOHN BUNYAN WROTE PILGRIMS PROGRESS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AFTER MARTIN LUTHER PUBLISHED HIS BOOK ENTITLED ‘BONDAGE OF THE WILL’ IN 1524 IN RESPONSE TO ERASMUS WHO WROTE ‘FREEDOM OF THE WILL’.

LET NOW LISTEN TO HOW MUCH JOHN BUNYAN LOVES MARTIN LUTHERS WRITING ON THE BOOK OF GALATIANS.

“But before I had got thus far out of these my temptations,

I did greatly long to see some ancient godly man’s experience,

who had writ some hundreds of years before I was born;

for

those who had writ in our days,

I thought (but I desire them now to pardon me)

that they had writ only that which others felt; or else had, through the strength of their wits and parts, studied to answer such objections as they perceived others were perplexed with, without going down themselves into the deep.

Well, after many such longings in my mind,

the God,

in Whose hands are all our days and ways,

did cast into my hand (one day) a book of Martin Luther’s; it was his Comment on the Galatians;

it also was so old, that it was ready to fall piece from piece if I did but turn it over.

Now I was pleased much that such an old book had fallen into my hand, the which when I had but a little way perused,

I found my condition in his experience so largely and profoundly handled, as if his book had been written out of my heart.

This made me marvel: for thus thought I, This man could not know any thing of the state of Christians now, but must needs write and speak the experience of former days

Besides, he doth most gravely also in that book,

debate of the rise of these temptations,

namely,

blasphemy, desperation, and the like;

showing that the law of Moses, as well as the devil, death, and hell,

hath a very great hand therein: the which, at first, was very strange to me;

but considering and watching,

I found it so indeed. But of particulars here,

I intend nothing; only this methinks I must let fall before all men—

I do prefer this book of Martin Luther upon the Galatians (excepting the Holy Bible)

before all the books that ever I had seen, as most fit for a wounded conscience.

“May GOD thy gold REFINE

Till ALL SUCCESS

BE NOBLENESS,

And

EVERY GAIN DIVINE.”

America the Beautiful

HOW IMPORTANT IS A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, AND HOW JOSHUA USED IT, TO CONQUER THE LAND OF ISRAEL, TO OUR AMERICAN MILITARY OF TODAY?

WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HOW IT CAN VASTLY STRENGTHEN OUR MILITARY.

DOES OUR AMERICAN MILITARY BELIEVE THE FOLLOWING VERSE ANY LONGER?

Proverbs 21: [31] The horse(CALVARY-F-47)

is

PREPARED AGAINST

the DAY of battle:

but

SAFETY is of the LORD.

SEE HOW JOSHUA, KING DAVID, KING HEZEKIAH, GENERAL GEORGE WASHINGTON, AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN BELIEVED THIS VERSE IN THIS MESSAGE BY THEIR ACTIONS.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN:

“Whereas

it is the DUTY of NATIONS

as well as of MEN

to OWN

their “DEPENDANCE”

UPON

the OVERRULING POWER of GOD,

to CONFESS

their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow,

yet with ASSURED HOPE

that GENUINE REPENTANCE

will LEAD to MERCY and PARDON,

and to RECOGNIZE

the SUBLIME TRUTH,

ANNOUNCED

in the Holy Scriptures

and PROVEN

by all history,

that THOSE NATIONS

“ONLY”

are BLESSED

whose God is the Lord;

And, insomuch

as WE KNOW

that by HIS

DIVINE LAW

NATIONS, like individuals,

are subjected to punishments

and chastisements in this world,

may we not JUSTLY FEAR

that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land

MAY BE

but a PUNISHMENT

inflicted upon us for

our presumptuous sins,

to the needful end

of our NATIONAL REFORMATION

as a whole people?

GEORGE WASHINGTON:

WHEN ENCAMPED AT VALLEY FORGE IN WINTER OF 1177-1778 GENERAL WASHINGTON, AMIDST MUCH HARDSHIP ASK HIS ARMY CHAPLAINS TO DO THE FOLLOWING:

“Tomorrow being the day set apart by the honorable Congress for public thanksgiving

and praise,

and duty

calling us all devoutly to express our grateful acknowledgments to God for the manifold blessings he has granted us,

the General

directs that the army remain in its present quarters,

and that the chaplains

perform divine service with

their several regiments and brigades;

and earnestly exhorts

all officers and soldiers,

whose absence is not indispensably necessary,

to attend with reverence the solemnities of the day.

AFTER THE FINAL VICTORIOUS BATTLE AT YORKTOWN IN 1781 GEORGE WASHINGTON, COMMANDED:

“Divine service is to be performed

tomorrow

in the several brigades and divisions.

The Commander-in-chief earnestly

recommends that the troops not on duty should universally attend,

with that seriousness

of deportment and gratitude of heart,

which the recognition of such reiterated and astonishing interpositions of Providence demand of us.

IN THIS MESSAGE WE DISCUSS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT IN JOSHUA’S GREAT MILITARY VICTORIES IN TAKING OVER 7 NATIONS IN THE LAND CANNAN WHICH WOULD BECOME ISRAEL.

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO THE 10 COMMANDMENTS AT THE TIME OF JOSHUA?

WHO IS THE LORD OF HOSTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?

WE WILL UNPACK THIS VERSE:

[16] O (1)LORD of hosts,

(2)God of Israel,

that (3)dwellest between the cherubims,

(4)thou art the God,

even

(5)thou alone,

of all the kingdoms of the earth:

thou hast made heaven and earth.

KING DAVID SHOULD BE THE EXAMPLE TO OUR AMERICAN MILITARY: WHAT WAS HIS MOTIVATION IN SLEWING GOLIATH?

LET US FIND OUT:

1 Sam. 37: [47] And all this assembly

SHALL KNOW

that the LORD

SAVETH NOT with SWORD and SPEAR:

for

the battle is the LORD's,

and HE will GIVE YOU into our hands.

[46] This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand;

and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the Philistines this day unto the fowls of the air, and to the wild beasts of the earth;

that ALL the EARTH

MAY KNOW that there is a God in Israel.

WE WILL BE SPENDING MOST OF 2025

ON THE DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN

NOT ONLY BECAUSE

OF ITS IMPORTANCE VERTICALLY

SPEAKING,

THAT IS SALVATION,

BUT ALSO HORIZONTALLY SPEAKING,

THAT IS THE MORAL WELL BEING OF AMERICA,

AND THUS THE PRESERVANCE OF AMERICA.

ORIGINAL SIN

IS INEXTRICABLY TIED,

NOT ONLY OUR PERSONAL SALVATION,

BUT THE PRESERVATION OF AMERICA,

BEING THE LAND OF HAPPINESS AND FREEDOM, AND NOT GOING THE WAY OF ROME.

JONATHON EDWARD’S TREATISE ENTITLED ‘THE GREAT CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE OF ORIGINAL SIN DEFENDED’

WAS WRITTEN TO COUNTER DR. TAYLOR’S WORK DENYING THE INNATENESS OF ORIGINAL SIN.

JONATHON EDWARDS WRITINGS ARE ABOVE MANY OF OUR HEADS AND THUS HARD TO UNDERSTAND, BUT IT IS GOOD FOR US AMERICANS TO ATTEMPT TO LISTEN ABOVE OUR HEADS THAT WE MIGHT GROW. WE MUST PUSH OURSELVES TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFICULT THAT WHEN WE RETREAT BACK WHAT USED TO BE HARD IS NOW EASY.

SO LET PUSH OURSELVES TO LISTEN TO PICK UP AN IDEA OR SO IN EACH MESSAGE EVEN IF MUCH OF IT WAS OVER OUR HEADS, THAT IS HOW WE GROW.

JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES MICROSCOPICALLY AND THUS WE HAVE TO DO THE TELESCOPIC ON OUR OWN.

THE FOLLOWING IS WHAT IS BEING READ AT THE END OF THIS MESSAGE. TO SHOW HOW DEEP JONATHON EDWARDS IS, ATTEMPT TO READ IT AND SEE IF YOU CAN SEE HOW IT APPLIES TO ORIGINAL SIN, HOW ORIGINAL SIN, WARPS OUR REASONING AND THUS OUR TEMPORAL NEEDS OVERRIDE OUR ETERNAL NEEDS.

THIS WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA HOW CAREFULLY YOU MUST LISTEN IN ORDER TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT HE IS PROVING.

These things are often mentioned in Scripture

as Evi|dences of extreme Folly and Stupidity,

wherein Men act as great Enemies to themselves,

as tho' they loved their own Ruin;

And how can these things be accounted for,

but by supposing

a most WRETCHED Depravity of Na|ture?

Why otherwise

should not

Men be as wise for themselves

in spiritual and eternal Things…

If any should say, '

Tis true,

if Men gave full Credit

to what they are told concerning

eternal Things,

and these appeared to 'em as real and certain Things,

it would be

an Evidence of a sort of Madness in them,

that they shew

no greater Regard to 'em in Practice:

But there is Rea|son to think,

this is not the Case;

the Things of another World,

being unseen things,

appear to Men as things of a very doubtful Nature,

In ANSWER,

I would observe, agreeable to what has been cited from Mr. Locke,

Though eternal things were considered in their bare Possibility,

if

Men acted rationally,

they would infinitely outweigh all temporal Things

in their Influence on their Hearts.

And I would also ob|serve,

that the supposing eternal Things

not to be fully believed,

at least by them who enjoy the Light of the Gospel,

does not weaken,

but rather strengthen the Argu|ment for the Depravity of Nature.

For the eternal World

being what God had chiefly in View in the Cre|ation of Men,

and

the Things of this World

being made to be wholly subordinate to the other,

Man's State here being

only a State of Probation, Preparation & Progression,

with respect to the future State,

and so eternal Things

being in Effect Men's All,

their whole Concern:

to un|derstand and know which,

it chiefly was, that they had Un|derstanding

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given 'em;

and it concerning

them infinitely more to know the Truth of eternal Things than any other,

as all that are not Infidels will own;

Therefore,

we may undoubtedly conclude,

that if Men have not Respect to 'em as real and certain Things,

it cannot be for Want of sufficient Evidence of their Truth,

to induce 'em so to regard them;

especially as to them

that live under that Light,

which God has appointed as the most proper Ex|hibition

of the Nature and Evidence of these Things:

But it must be from a dreadful Stupidity of Mind,

oc|casioning a sottish Insensibility of their Truth

and Im|portance,

when manifested by the clearest Evidence.

CAN WE AS AMERICANS BE LIKE KING DAVID, A MAN AFTER GOD’S OWN HEART,

LIKE IN THE FOLLOWING PSALM:

Psalm 119: [97] O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

[98] Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me.

[99] I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

[100] I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.

[101] I have refrained my feet from every evil way, that I might keep thy word.

[102] I have not departed from thy judgments: for thou hast taught me.

[103] How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!

[104] Through thy precepts I get understanding: therefore I hate every false way.

[105] Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

[106] I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep thy righteous judgments.

[107] I am afflicted very much: quicken me, O LORD, according unto thy word.

IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL TAKE A DEEP DIVE INTO WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO LOVE THE “LAW” OF OUR LORD IN THE WORD OF GOD, OVER EVERYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD, AND IF IT IS NOT, WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT!!!

IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A HEART AFTER GOD’S OWN AS KING DAVID HAD,

WE MUST FIRST,

BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES,

FOR WE KNOW WE LIE TO OURSELVES THE MOST,

ESPECIALLY ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE.

HAVE WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA EVER ASKED OURSELVES, ESPECIALLY THOSE OF US THAT GO TO CHURCH, DO WE LOVE JESUS MORE THAN OUR SPOUSE OR ANY OTHER PERSON?

DOES JESUS REQUIRE THIS IN ORDER FOR US TO BE ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES?

Dr. Luke 14: 25] And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned,

and said unto them,

[26] If any man come to me,

and hate not

his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters,

yea, and his own life also,

he cannot be my disciple.

[27] And whosoever

doth not bear his cross,

and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

[28] For which of you,

intending to build a tower,

sitteth not down first,

and counteth the cost,

whether he have sufficient to finish it?

[29] Lest haply,

after he hath laid the foundation,

and is not able to finish it,

all that behold it begin to mock him,

[30] Saying,

This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

[31] Or what king,

going to make war against another king,

sitteth not down first,

and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?

[32] Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth conditions of peace.

SO JESUS SEEMS TO GET RIGHT UP IN THE FACE OF US AMERICANS WHO GO TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY, AND THEN LIVE THE REST OF THE WEEK LIKE THE WORLD.

SO THEN WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SAY TO OURSELVES, AFTER READING WHAT JESUS JUST SAID, CAN WE STILL SAY WE REALLY LOVE JESUS?

SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC SAY TO OURSELVES, DOES NOT THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE IS ANOTHER NAME FOR JESUS WHICH IS “THE WORD OF GOD”?

Revelation 19: [13] And he(JESUS) was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood:

and his name is called

“The Word of God”.

and his name.

SO WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC SAY TO OURSELVES,

IF WE GO TO CHURCH AND SAY WE LOVE JESUS WITH ALL OUR HEART, WE SHOULD THEN LOVE “THE LAW OF THE LORD” IN WORD OF GOD AND WE SHOULD LOVE TO MEDITATE UPON IT DAY AND NIGHT, SHOULD WE NOT:

BUT HOW MANY OF US AMERICANS

LOVE “THE WORD OF GOD” (JESUS)

MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IN THIS WORLD AS JESUS SAID ABOVE MUST HAPPEN IN ORDER TO BE ONE OF HIS DISCIPLES.

CAN WE AS AMERICANS BE LIKE THIS:

Psalm119: [97] O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

Psalm 1:

[1] Blessed is the man

that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly,

nor standeth in the way of sinners,

nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

[2] But his delight

is in the law of the LORD;

and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

LISTEN TO THIS MESSAGE AND FIND OUT!!!

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JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES:

SECT. III.

OVERVIEW

That Propensity which has been proved to be in the Nature of all Mankind,

must be

a very evil, de|praved and pernicious Propensity;

making it manifest that

the Soul of Man,

as it is by Nature,

is

in a corrupt, fallen and ruin'd State:

which is

the other Part of the Consequence,

drawn from

the Proposition laid down in the first Section.

Question to be considered, in Order to deter|mine whether Man's Nature is not depraved and ruin'd,

is not,

Whether he is not inclined to perform as many good Deeds as bad ones?

But,

Which of these two he preponderates to,

in the Frame of his Heart, and State of his Nature,

a State of

Innocence and Righteousness, and Favour with God;

or

a State of Sin, Guiltiness and Abhorrence in the Sight of God?

—Persevering sinless Righteousness,

or

else the Guilt of Sin,

is the Alternative,

the Decision of which depends (as is confessed) according to the Nature and Truth of Things,

as they are in them|selves,

and according to the Rule of Right and of perfect Justice,

Man's being approved and accepted of his Maker, and eternally blessed as good;

or

his being rejected, thrown away and cursed as bad.

And therefore

the Determi|nation of the Tendency of Man's Heart and Nature

with respect to these Terms,

is that which is to be look'd at,

in Order to determine whether his Nature

is good or evil,

pure or corrupt,

sound or ruin'd.

If such be Man's Na|ture, and state of his Heart,

that he has an infallibly ef|fectual Propensity to the latter of those Terms;

; then

it is wholly impertinent,

to talk of the innocent and kind Actions,

even of Criminals themselves,

surpassing their Crimes in Numbers;

and of

the prevailing Innocence, good Nature, Industry, Felicity and Chearfulness of the greater Part of Mankind.

Let never so many Thou|sands, or Millions of Acts of Honesty, good Nature &c.

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be supposed;

yet,

by the Supposition,

there is an unfail|ing Propensity to such moral Evil,

as in it's dreadful Con|sequences

infinitely out-weighs

all Effects or Consequen|ces of any supposed Good.

Surely that Tendency, which, in Effect,

is an infallible Tendency to eternal Destruction,

is an infinitely dreadful & pernicious Tendency:

And that Nature & Frame of Mind, which implies such a Tendency,

must be an infinitely dreadful & pernicious Frame of Mind.

It would be much more absurd, to suppose,

that such a State of Nature is good,

or not bad,

under a Notion of Men's doing more honest and kind things, than evil ones;

than to say,

the State of that Ship is good,

to cross the Atlantick Ocean in, that is such as cannot hold together through the Voyage,

but will infallibly founder and sink by the Way;

under a Notion

that it may probably go great Part of the Way before it sinks,

or

that it will pro|ceed and sail above Water more Hours than it will be in sinking:—

Or,

to pronounce thatRoad a good Road to go to such a Place,

the greater Part of which is plain and safe,

tho' some Parts of it are dangerous,

and certainly fatal to them that travel in it;

or to call that a good Pro|pensity, which is an inflexible Inclination to travel in such a Way.

SECT. V.

The Depravity of Nature appears,

in that the general Consequence of the State & Tendency of Man's Nature

is

a much greater

Degree of Sin, than Righteousness;

not only with respect to Value and Demerit,

but

Matter and Quantity.

I Have before shewn, that there is a Propensity in Man's Nature to that Sin,

which in Heinousness and Ill-desert

immensely outweighs all the Value and Merit of any supposed Good,

that may be in him, or that he can do.

THIS MESSAGE WE WILL LOOK AT THE #1 CULPRIT THAT BRINGS ALL TYPE OF MISERY IN OUR LIFE. RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX, THE MOMENT WE ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD, THIS SIN BEGINS TO PLAGUE US, AND WE ARE COMPLETELY UNAWARE HOW DANGEROUS THIS EVIL PROCLIVITY CAN BE TO OUR LIVES, IF IT IS EMBRACED RATHER THAN REPENTED OVER. HANNAH WHO WAS BARREN, FERVENTLY PRAYED, AND GOD EVENTUALLY ANSWERED HER PRAYER AND GAVE HER A CHILD NAMED SAMUEL WHO BECAME A GREAT PROPHET, AND AFTER SHE CONCEIVED SHE PRAYED A PRAYER WHICH INCORPORATED MUCH OF THIS DANGEROUS SIN, AND MARY JESUS’ MOTHER PROBABLY HAD THIS PRAYER MEMORIZED, FOR WHEN MARY WENT TO VISIT HER COUSIN ELIZABETH, WHO ALSO HAD BEEN BARREN AND THEN FINALLY CONCEIVED JOHN THE BAPTIST, MARY CAME TO VISIT HER, BEING PREGNANT WITH JESUS AND ELIZABETH WITH JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND SEEING THE HAND OF GOD IN BOTH HER AND ELIZABETH PRAYED A PRAISE SONG ALMOST IDENTICAL TO HANNAH’S PRAYER. THIS PRAYER ALSO INCORPORATED THIS DANGEROUS SIN AND ITS OPPOSITE.

SO WHAT COULD THIS SIN BE, WHICH IS #1 ON GOD’S HATE LIST OF ORIGINAL SINS, THE #1 EVIL PROCLIVITY OF OUR HEART THAT GOD HATES SO MUCH, THAT WHEN THIS EVIL PROCLIVITY OF OUR HEART RAISES ITS UGLY HEAD, AND WE DO NOT FORBID IT AND REPENT OVER IT, BUT ENTERTAIN IT AND EMBRACE IT AND THIS EVIL BLACK CAT ESCAPES GOD IS SO ANGRY THAT HIS HAND OF DISCIPLINE IS SO HORRIFIC THAT THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE BIBLE WHO RECEIVED THESE PUNISHMENTS NO DOUBT WOULD NEVER AGAIN WANT THAT BLACK CAT TO ESCAPE.

HEAR ARE EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO LET THIS DANGEROUS BLACK CAT ESCSPE OUT OF THEIR HEART.

[10] Now therefore the SWORD shall NEVER DEPART from THINE HEART; Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I WILL

RAISE UP EVIL AGAINST THEE out of thine OWN HOUSE, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. to thee it is spoken;

The KINGDOM is DEPARTED from THEE, And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to EAT GRASS as OXEN, and seven times(years) shall pass over thee, UNTIL THOU KNOW that the MOST HIGH RULETH in the KIMGDOM of MEN, and GIVETH IT to WHOMSOVER HE WILL. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon HIM: and he was driven from men, and did EAT GRASS as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his HAIRS were grown like eagles' feathers, and his NAILS like birds' CLAWS.

22] And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the ANGEL of the LORD SMOTE HIM, because he gave not God the GLORY, and he was EATEN of WORMS, and GAVE UP the GHOST.

He was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the LEPROSY even ROSE UP in his FOREHEAD before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar, and the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was LEPROUS in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had SMITTEN HIM. And HE was a LEPER unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a LEPER; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD

WE AS AMERICANS LIVE IN A FREE COUNTRY, BUT WE ARE ONLY FREE IF GOVERN OURSELVES, BUT WHAT SHOULD WE BE GOVERNING BUT OUR ORIGINAL SIN AND REPENTING OVER OUR ORIGINAL SIN BEFORE IT BECOMES AN ACT OF SIN, THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL WE BE THE MOST MORAL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. LET US HERE FROM SOME OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS.

This constitution is written for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.  John Adams

We have staked the future of our civilization and all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and everyone of us to govern ourselves; to control ourselves; to sustain ourselves according to the 10 Commandments of God"

James Madison

IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL LOOK AT THE #1 CULPRIT THAT BRINGS ALL TYPE OF MISERY IN OUR LIFE. RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX, THE MOMENT WE ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD, THIS SIN BEGINS TO PLAGUE US, AND WE ARE COMPLETELY UNAWARE HOW DANGEROUS THIS EVIL PROCLIVITY CAN BE TO OUR LIVES, IF IT IS EMBRACED RATHER THAN REPENTED OVER. HANNAH WHO WAS BARREN, FERVENTLY PRAYED, AND GOD EVENTUALLY ANSWERED HER PRAYER AND GAVE HER A CHILD NAMED SAMUEL WHO BECAME A GREAT PROPHET, AND AFTER SHE CONCEIVED SHE PRAYED A PRAYER WHICH INCORPORATED MUCH OF THIS DANGEROUS SIN, AND MARY JESUS’ MOTHER PROBABLY HAD THIS PRAYER MEMORIZED, FOR WHEN MARY WENT TO VISIT HER COUSIN ELIZABETH, WHO ALSO HAD BEEN BARREN AND THEN FINALLY CONCEIVED JOHN THE BAPTIST, MARY CAME TO VISIT HER, BEING PREGNANT WITH JESUS AND ELIZABETH WITH JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND SEEING THE HAND OF GOD IN BOTH HER AND ELIZABETH PRAYED A PRAISE SONG ALMOST IDENTICAL TO HANNAH’S PRAYER. THIS PRAYER ALSO INCORPORATED THIS DANGEROUS SIN AND ITS OPPOSITE.

SO WHAT COULD THIS SIN BE, WHICH IS #1 ON GOD’S HATE LIST OF ORIGINAL SINS, THE #1 EVIL PROCLIVITY OF OUR HEART THAT GOD HATES SO MUCH, THAT WHEN THIS EVIL PROCLIVITY OF OUR HEART RAISES ITS UGLY HEAD, AND WE DO NOT FORBID IT AND REPENT OVER IT, BUT ENTERTAIN IT AND EMBRACE IT AND THIS EVIL BLACK CAT ESCAPES GOD IS SO ANGRY THAT HIS HAND OF DISCIPLINE IS SO HORRIFIC THAT THE INDIVIDUALS IN THE BIBLE WHO RECEIVED THESE PUNISHMENTS NO DOUBT WOULD NEVER AGAIN WANT THAT BLACK CAT TO ESCAPE.

HEAR ARE EXAMPLES OF INDIVIDUALS WHO LET THIS DANGEROUS BLACK CAT ESCSPE OUT OF THEIR HEART.

[10] Now therefore the SWORD shall NEVER DEPART from THINE HEART; Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I WILL

RAISE UP EVIL AGAINST THEE out of thine OWN HOUSE, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbour, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun. to thee it is spoken;

The KINGDOM is DEPARTED from THEE, And they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field: they shall make thee to EAT GRASS as OXEN, and seven times(years) shall pass over thee, UNTIL THOU KNOW that the MOST HIGH RULETH in the KIMGDOM of MEN, and GIVETH IT to WHOMSOVER HE WILL. The same hour was the thing fulfilled upon HIM: and he was driven from men, and did EAT GRASS as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his HAIRS were grown like eagles' feathers, and his NAILS like birds' CLAWS.

22] And the people gave a shout, saying, It is the voice of a god, and not of a man. And immediately the ANGEL of the LORD SMOTE HIM, because he gave not God the GLORY, and he was EATEN of WORMS, and GAVE UP the GHOST.

He was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the LEPROSY even ROSE UP in his FOREHEAD before the priests in the house of the LORD, from beside the incense altar, and the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was LEPROUS in his forehead, and they thrust him out from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because the LORD had SMITTEN HIM. And HE was a LEPER unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a LEPER; for he was cut off from the house of the LORD

WE AS AMERICANS LIVE IN A FREE COUNTRY, BUT WE ARE ONLY FREE IF GOVERN OURSELVES, BUT WHAT SHOULD WE BE GOVERNING BUT OUR ORIGINAL SIN AND REPENTING OVER OUR ORIGINAL SIN BEFORE IT BECOMES AN ACT OF SIN, THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL WE BE THE MOST MORAL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. LET US HERE FROM SOME OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS.

This constitution is written for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.  John Adams

We have staked the future of our civilization and all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and everyone of us to govern ourselves; to control ourselves; to sustain ourselves according to the 10 Commandments of God"

James Madison

HOPEFULLY THE READING OF JONATHON EDWARDS TREATISE ON ORIGINAL SIN WILL PUT QUESTIONS INTO OUR MIND TO HELP US AS AMERICANS TO AGAIN HAVE A NATIONAL DISCUSSION ON ORIGINAL SIN, FOR WE CANNOT BE SAVED APART FROM FEELING THE GUILT OF ORIGINAL SIN, THAT WE MIGHT SEE THE FUTILITY OF OUR FIG LEAVES OF MORALITY, AND THUS HUNGER AND THIRST AFTER THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD BY WHICH IS OUR TICKET INTO HEAVEN, WHICH IS THE ONLY TICKET INTO HEAVEN.

THUS IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS AFTER LISTENING TO JONATHON EDWARDS, POUND AWAY ON EVERY NUANCE OF ORIGINAL SIN, THAT IS A GOOD THING, FOR WE AS AMERICANS NEED AGAIN TO GET THIS DISCUSSION ON THE FRONT BURNER IN AMERICA, FOR WITHOUT FEELING THE WEIGHT OF ORIGINAL SIN NO MAN CAN BE SAVED.

SOME QUESTIONS WE CAN BE MUSING UPON:

THOSE WHO DENY THE SELF EVIDENT TRUTH OF ORIGINAL SIN, WILL ASK THE QUESTION SOMETIMES: IF MAN DOES MORE GOOD DEEDS THAN EVIL DEEDS HOW COULD A MAN BE TOTALLY DEPRAVED AND EVIL BY NATURE?

OR HOW IS IT A MAN CAN DO ANY GOOD AT ALL IF HE IS TOTALLY EVIL?

WHAT IF A SHIP’S MISSION WAS TO TAKE ITS PASSENGERS FROM NEW YORK HARBOR TO ENGLAND BUT THREE QUARTERS THE WAY THROUGH THE JOURNEY, THE PASSENGER SHIP SINKS AND ALL DIE, WOULD THE JOURNEY, BECAUSE IT MADE MORE THAN HALF WAY TO ENGLAND BE CONSIDERED A GOOD JOURNEY, OR BAD JOURNEY?

WHAT ABOUT THE JOURNEY OF LIFE? WHAT IF WE LIVED THE FIRST 3/4’s OF OUR LIFE WITHOUT SIN, AND AT THE 3/4’s MARK WE SINNED, WOULD OUR LIFE JOURNEY BE CONSIDERED A SUCCESSFUL JOURNEY BY GOD, MAKING US FIT FOR HEAVEN?

DOES GOD DEMAND PERFECTION OR DOES GOD BELIEVE IN PARTIAL CREDIT?

Jonathon EDWARDS is writing this Treatise on Original Sin against a man with a P. H. D., DR. TAYLOR. HOW CAN THIS DOCTOR TAYLOR BE SO IGNORANT AND USE SUCH FALLIBLE ARGUMENTS IF HE IS THAT SMART?

JONATHON EDWARDS WRITES:

Surely that tendency,

which in effect,

is an infallible tendency

to eternal destruction,

is an infinitely and dreadful and pernicious frame of mind.

It would be much more absurd to suppose,

that such a state of nature is not bad,

under a notion of men doing more honest and kind things than evil ones:

the state of that ship is good, for crossing the Atlantic Ocean, though such cannot hold together through the voyage, but will infallibly flounder and sink, under a notion that it probably will go a great part

of the way before it sinks….

More absurd, than it would be to affirm, that a wife is a good wife to him, though she committed adultery, and that with the slaves and scoundrels sometimes, yet she did not do this so often as she did the duties of a wife.

SECTION III OVERVIEW

That propensity, which has been proved to be in the nature of all mankind, must be a very evil, depraved, and pernicious propensity; making it manifest, that the soul of man, as it is by nature, is in a corrupt, fallen, and ruined state; which is the other part of the consequence, drawn from the proposition laid down in the first section.

SECTION 3

THE question to be considered,

in order

to determine whether man’s nature be depraved and ruined,

is not,

Whether he is inclined to perform as many good deeds as bad ones?

But, to which of these two he preponderates, in the frame of his heart, and the state of his nature,

a state of innocence and righteousness, and favor with God;

or a state of sin, guiltiness, and abhorrence in the sight of God? —

Persevering sinless righteousness,

or else the guilt of sin,

is the alternative,

on the decision of which depends —

according to the nature and truth of things,

as they are in themselves,

and

according to the rule of right, and of perfect justice —

man being approved and accepted of his Maker

and eternally blessed as good;

or

his being rejected, and cursed as bad.

And therefore

the determination of the tendency of man’s heart and nature, with respect to these terms,

is that

which is to be looked at,

in order

to determine whether his nature is good or evil, pure or corrupt,