What Is Right And Wrong?
1/7/06
What is right and what is
wrong?
You wouldn’t think that this
would be so difficult, but it is.
Our society is beyond
slipping, it’s sliding rapidly down into a pit called humanism.
The humanistic definition of
right and wrong is this: whatever
pleases the individual (self-indulgence) is perfectly right. Anyone who stands in the way of individual
freedom of expression is wrong and evil.
Pr. 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin
is a disgrace to any people.
Righteousness is right and
sin is wrong! And only God can define
that!
“The
American Union will last as long as God pleases. It is the duty of every
American Citizen to exert his utmost abilities and endeavors to preserve it as
long as possible and to pray with submission to Providence "esto
perpetua" [may it last forever].
– John
Adams, Aug. 2, 1820
“Our forefathers recognized
that the strength and sustainability of this country depended on one thing: the
continued presence of the providential hand of God. Over the past 50 years,
however, that recognition has been steadily eroded by courts gone out of
control, by left-wing interest groups bent on sandblasting all references to
God from the public square, and by the indifference of ordinary citizens who do
not understand why God matters to the nation.”
Judge Roy Moore
“As the former chief justice
of the Supreme Court of Alabama, I lost my position because I chose to follow
God and the United States Constitution, our rule of law, instead of a federal
judge's unlawful order commanding me to remove a Ten Commandments monument from
the rotunda of the Alabama state judicial building. But my case was not about a
monument and it was not about the Ten Commandments: It was about the acknowledgment
of the Judeo-Christian God as the sovereign source of our law, liberty and
government. The federal judge in my case, Myron Thompson, said as much
in his decision, stating: "[T]he state may not acknowledge the sovereignty
of the Judeo-Christian God and attribute to that God our religious
freedom.” Judge Roy Moore
“As President George
Washington observed in his First Inaugural Address on April 30, 1789:
No
people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts
the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by
which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to
have been distinguished by some token of providential agency.
“Our forefathers knew what
they were talking about, and I believe that the most important issue
facing our country is whether we will choose to acknowledge God and His
sovereignty or continue down the path of destruction paved by secular humanism.
Nearly every issue and every problem we face in this country can be traced back
to what kind of role we believe God plays in our society.” Judge Roy Moore
Pr. 14:22 (NLT) Those who
follow the right path fear the LORD; those who take the wrong path despise him.
If we can’t tell the
difference between right and wrong how can we ever begin to acknowledge our sin
before a sovereign and omnipotent God!
144 years ago Abraham Lincoln
understood this so clearly! The year is
1863.
The great heart of Abraham Lincoln
expressed itself on this subject with saintly
and prophetic vision:
“It is the
duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence 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 these nations only are blessed whose
God is the Lord.
"And
inasmuch 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?
"We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in
peace and prosperity. We have grown in
numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown. "But
we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand that preserved us in peace, and multiplied and
enriched and strengthened us; and we
have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these
blessings were produced by some superior
virtue and wisdom of our own.
"Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel
the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made
us.
"It behooves us, then, to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and
to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
And if that was true
in 1863, how much more is it true now? We can sing "God Bless America"
until we are blue in the face ... but unless we do what God has indicated, His blessings will be
withheld.”
Our unethical values in the
United States of America have reached proportions that 50 years ago people
would never have dreamed possible!
Have you ever heard of an
organization called NAMBLA?
“The ACLU is representing the
North American Man-Boy Love Association in a civil lawsuit. That case proves
that the ACLU is not only misguided, it is dangerous. Here are some details
that prove this point once and for all.
The ACLU believes NAMBLA’s “rights” are being violated. So please
consider the starting point of this terrible situation. On October 1, 1997,
ten-year-old Jeffrey Curley was playing in the front yard of his Cambridge,
Massachusetts, home. A few yards away, two men, Salvatore Sicari and Charles
Jaynes, were watching Jeffrey from their parked car. Sicari and Jaynes talked it
over—could they kidnap the boy and get away unseen? It was risky in broad
daylight, but the men, losers both, decided to try. Leaping out of the car,
they grabbed the boy, threw him inside, and sped off. But Jeffrey fought back
hard. Finally, the men suffocated the boy with a gasoline-soaked rag and drove
to Jaynes’s apartment, where they sexually abused Jeffrey’s body. Afterward,
they drove to Maine, where they dumped the young boy’s corpse into a river. It
does not get worse than this. Massachusetts detectives did a great job on the
case, and both Sicari and Jaynes received life in prison. During court
testimony, Jaynes’s diary was introduced. In the diary was a description of the
NAMBLA Web site and Jaynes’s writing that it encouraged him to act out his
violent fantasies on young boys. Jaynes
accessed the NAMBLA Web site at the Boston Public Library. Remember, the ACLU
and S-P movement want no restrictions on library Internet access.
Not surprisingly, Jeffrey
Curley’s family was so appalled by the NAMBLA connection that they filed a $200
million federal lawsuit against the group, seeking to put it out of business
once and for all. It fell to the Curley family to attempt to do what the U.S.
justice system has been unable to do—crush NAMBLA. By the way, it is worth
noting that one of the most popular NAMBLA publications is titled “The Survival
Manual: The Man’s Guide to Staying Alive in Man-Boy Sexual Relationships.” This
revolting “manual” explains how to insinuate yourself into a child’s life and
get away with molesting the boy. Sick doesn’t even begin to cover it. After the
Curley family filed its suit, it was answered—by the ACLU. The S-P shock troops
took the case to “protect” the free-speech rights of NAMBLA. ACLU Massachusetts
legal director John Reinstein said in a press release: “Regardless to whether
people agree with or abhor NAMBLA’s views, holding the organization responsible
for crimes committed by others who read their material would gravely endanger
important first amendment freedoms.”
“Once again, a theoretical
argument is put forth to defend active evil. As with the war on terror, the S-P
vanguard cannot come to grips with the fact that NAMBLA has no place in any
civilized society, an organization that appears to be criminal, encouraging child
rape, and should be put out of business any legal way possible. But in the
“anything goes” world of the secular-progressives, theory is much more
important than protecting the kids.”
Bill O’Reilly The Cultural Warrior
Even the church doesn’t know
the difference between right and wrong!
Mic. 3:1 (NLT) Listen, you
leaders of Israel! You are supposed to know right from wrong, 2but
you are the very ones who hate good and love evil. You skin my people alive and
tear the flesh off their bones. 3You eat my people’s flesh, cut away
their skin, and break their bones. You chop them up like meat for the cooking
pot. 4Then you beg the LORD for help in times of trouble! Do you
really expect him to listen? After all the evil you have done, he won’t even
look at you!
How can the church call
itself the church when it ordains homosexuals into the ministry and endorses
the murder of innocent little babies!
If you took today’s church
and went back in a time capsule to Nazi Germany during the holocaust what would
we do? Would we stand by doing nothing
while hundreds of thousands of Jewish people are killed in gas chambers and
tortured in so called medical wards?
Does the church care about
right and wrong?
Is. 59:19 ….(KJV) When the enemy shall come in like a
flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
What
is that standard, who holds that standard?
The church of the Living God!
Eph. 4:17 (NLT) With the
Lord’s authority let me say this: Live no longer as the ungodly do, for they
are hopelessly confused. 18Their closed minds are full of darkness;
they are far away from the life of God because they have shut their minds and
hardened their hearts against him. 19They don’t care anymore
about right and wrong, and they have given themselves over to immoral
ways. Their lives are filled with all kinds of impurity and greed.
Let me show how for we have
fallen and the serious state we are in.
Ro. 2:14 (NLT) Even when
Gentiles, who do not have God’s written law, instinctively follow what the law
says, they show that in their hearts they know right from wrong. 15They
demonstrate that God’s law is written within them, for their own consciences
either accuse them or tell them they are doing what is right. 16The
day will surely come when God, by Jesus Christ, will judge everyone’s secret
life…
Even
without the written law, there is a certain amount of conscience that tells a
person instinctively what is right and wrong!
We
have fallen so far that the conscience is seared from that awareness!
Burlington,
Vermont -- January 4, 2005
There was outrage
when a Vermont judge handed out a 60-day jail sentence to a man who raped a
little girl many, many times over a four-year span starting when she was seven.
The judge said he
no longer believes in punishment and is more concerned about rehabilitation.
Prosecutors
argued that confessed child-rapist Mark Hulett, 34, of Williston deserved at
least eight years behind bars for repeatedly raping a littler girl countless
times starting when she was seven.
But Judge Edward
Cashman disagreed explaining that he no longer believes that punishment works.
"The one
message I want to get through is that anger doesn't solve anything. It just
corrodes your soul," said Judge Edward Cashman speaking to a packed
Burlington courtroom.
Judge Cashman
explained that he is more concerned that Hulett receive sex offender treatment
as rehabilitation. But under Department of Corrections classification, Hulett
is considered a low-risk for re-offense so he does not qualify for in-prison
treatment. So the judge sentenced him to just 60 days in prison and then Hulett
must complete sex treatment when he gets out or face a possible life sentence.
Judge Cashman
also revealed that he once handed down stiff sentences when he first got on the
bench 25 years ago, but he no longer believes in punishment.
"I
discovered it accomplishes nothing of value; it doesn't make anything better;
it costs us a lot of money; we create a lot of expectation, and we feed on
anger, "Cashman explained to the people in the court.
The sentence
outraged the victim's family who asked not to be identified.
"I don't
like it," the victim's mother, in tears, told Channel 3. "He should
pay for what he did to my baby and stop it here. She's not even home with me
and he can be home for all this time, and do what he did in my house," she
added.
Hulett -- who had
been out on bail-- was taken away to start his sentence immediately.
“Even though the child is
devastated for life, the criminal must be “healed” in order for true justice to
take place. This is what America will come to if the secular-progressives ever
take over—and if you think I’m exaggerating, you’re wrong. The states of
Minnesota and Vermont have been heavily influenced by secular-progressive
thought. It is no accident that those two states are the only ones in the Union
that officially sanction the philosophy of “restorative justice.” Bill O’Reilly The Cultural Warrior
The secular-progressives hate
Christianity because it attacks the very core of their humanistic thinking. Any opportunity they have to insult Jesus
Christ and the Christian faith they take it….
“Remember in February 2006,
when a Danish newspaper published some political cartoons mocking the prophet
Muhammad. The intent of the cartoons was to show the Islamic world that killing
innocent people in the name of religion is insane. The New York Times refused to print the cartoons, but then, in a
sidebar article explaining the power of visual images, the Times printed a
picture of Mary, the mother of Jesus, covered with dung. That picture was taken
at a disgraceful “art” exhibit in the Brooklyn Museum in 1999, which occasioned
well-deserved controversy and outrage. So wasn’t printing that image insulting
to Christians? The paper declined to insult Islam but was more than willing to
show an image that might offend Christians.”
Bill O’Reilly The Cultural Warrior
The ACLU is one of the
biggest leaders in the secular-progressive thinking…
“All over the country, the
ACLU has sued the Boy Scouts, seeking to have them denied public assistance and
access, such as having a jamboree on city property. It is a jihad against the
Scouts, no question. Once again doing the math, I have come up with this
equation: NAMBLA gets ACLU support. The Boy Scouts get ACLU attacks.” Bill O’Reilly The Cultural Warrior
You remove God, the Living
God, Jesus Christ the Savior of the world, and you have nothing!
You remove the Word of God
and you have no definition of what is right or wrong.
2 Tim. 3:16 (NLT) All
Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make
us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to
do what is right. 17It is God’s way of preparing us in every way,
fully equipped for every good thing God wants us to do.
Is.
5:18 (NLT) Destruction is certain for those who drag their sins behind them,
tied with cords of falsehood. 19 They even mock the Holy One of
Israel and say, “Hurry up and do something! Quick, show us what you can do. We
want to see what you have planned.”
20
Destruction is certain for those who
say that evil is good and good is evil; that dark is light and light is
dark; that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter.
21
Destruction is certain for those
who think they are wise and consider themselves to be clever.
22
Destruction is certain for those
who are heroes when it comes to drinking, who boast about all the liquor they
can hold. 23 They take bribes to pervert justice. They let the
wicked go free while punishing the innocent.
“The world is, and always has
been, a struggle between good and evil. The Bible and the stark reality of the
world teach us that. But as we all know, the Bible is not on the
secular-progressive recommended reading list.”
Bill O’Reilly The Culture Warrior
“The restorative justice
concept is picking up steam in the S-P ranks—the “disease” excuse is featured
prominently in S-P criminal philosophy.”
Bill O’Reilly The Cultural Warrior
If you don’t acknowledge sin
then this becomes the logical conclusion…
Ÿ
Homosexuality--born that
way
Ÿ
Any sexual perversion is
either a disease or you are born that way
Ÿ
Alcoholism--disease
Ÿ
Stealing--you are born
that way, it’s a disease
Ÿ
Pyromania--you are born
that way, it’s a disease
Ÿ
Lying--you are born that
way, it’s a disease
Ÿ
Cheating--you are born that
way, it’s a disease
You
get the picture!
Why is there such blindness
in our society? I believe the answer is
found in this verse…
2 Thess. 2:7 (NASB) For the
mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do
so until he is taken out of the way. 8Then that lawless one will
be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to
an end by the appearance of His coming; 9that is, the one
whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs
and false wonders, 10and with all the deception of wickedness for
those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to
be saved. 11For this reason God will send upon them a deluding
influence so that they will believe what is false, 12in
order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took
pleasure in wickedness.
Pr. 29:18 (KJV) Where there
is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is
he.
The
word “vision” means revelation.
(NASB) Where there is no vision, the people are
unrestrained, But happy is he who keeps the law.
(NLT)
When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the
law is happy.
Jesus is on the throne! He is Lord!
He is Supreme and that will never change!
His righteousness rules
forever. He is still in control when
everything else is out of control!
Is.
51:4 (NLT) “Listen to me, my people. Hear me, Israel, for my law will be
proclaimed, and my justice will become a light to the nations. 5My
mercy and justice are coming soon. Your salvation is on the way. I will rule
the nations. They will wait for me and long for my power. 6Look up
to the skies above, and gaze down on the earth beneath. For the skies will
disappear like smoke, and the earth will wear out like a piece of clothing. The
people of the earth will die like flies, but my salvation lasts forever. My
righteous rule will never end!
7 “Listen to me, you who know right from wrong and
cherish my law in your hearts. Do not be afraid of people’s scorn or their
slanderous talk. 8For the moth will destroy them as it destroys
clothing. The worm will eat away at them as it eats wool. But my righteousness
will last forever. My salvation will continue from generation to generation.”