{"id":85,"date":"2013-06-22T01:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T04:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2013-06-22T01:34:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-22T04:34:36","slug":"americas-got-talent-and-american-idols-but-not-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2013\/06\/americas-got-talent-and-american-idols-but-not-god\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s Got Talent and American Idols, But not God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible says Blessed is the nation who&#8217;s GOD is the LORD.\u00a0 The Bible says THUS SAITH THE LORD many times in the blessed book I can hold in my hand.\u00a0 It is true from beginning to end, sin kept me from it, now it keeps me from sin, goes the song we sing in church.\u00a0&#8221; I love the old Bible, the precious old Bible, the light of my pathway to shy-eye-ine. It keeps me so happy, always so happy, God&#8217;s wonderful book divine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Author is God himself, penning his words through men like this HP laptop is penning my words.\u00a0 God used men from all walks of life and occupations and languages and social classes and geographic locations to merge 66 individual books into 1 glorious book with a beginning, middle, and end and a common theme throughout.\u00a0 When you look closely at this book the fingerprint of God is there.\u00a0 God uses various checks and balances, but these are the icing on a wonderful cake that has satisfied the very hunger of the marrow of my bones.\u00a0 It is a life giving book, a life changing book, a life enhancing book, a life supplying book, a life saving book, and an eternal life transforming book!\u00a0 It is alive! Be careful, and read it to let it judge you, not you to judge it.\u00a0 There is the rub.\u00a0 The response of this wonderful love letter from God is determined by the attitude of the reader.\u00a0 Come agnostic, come atheist, come Buddhist, come catholic, come stripper, come drunkard, come adulterer, come child molester, come murderer, come priest, come pope, come President, come CEO Executive, come waitress, come Mom, and come Dad.\u00a0 Come to Jesus weary sinner, he from sin can set you free, look to Jesus Christ as Saviour, he who died on Calvary.\u00a0 Jesus is the WORD that became flesh.\u00a0 Jesus is God manifest in the flesh.\u00a0 Jesus created all things and all things were made by him and for him declares the bible.\u00a0 God&#8217;s word is quick and powerful sharper than any two edged sword.\u00a0 Peter heard the voice of God audibly.\u00a0 He says that in the Bible, GOD&#8217;s word on paper,\u00a0WE HAVE A MORE SURE WORD OF PROPHECY\u00a0(then even audibly hearing the voice of God).\u00a0 God&#8217;s word from a God that cannot lie.<\/p>\n<p>What keeps us from it?\u00a0 Sin, pride, intellectualism, stuff, the business of life, mind numbing activities,\u00a0time wasters, and NEW\u00a0PERVERSIONS.\u00a0 Meaning the new Bible versions, counterfeits and phonies and watered down poisonous conglomerates of truth and lies.\u00a0\u00a0Men took a perfect book, the King James Authorized Version and said it is too strong for modern man.\u00a0 So they watered it down and they have new\u00a0and improved versions.\u00a0 Ultra light, mediocre, softer, toned down, not as divisive, not as authoritative.\u00a0 Not that\u00a0offensive THUS SAITH THE\u00a0LORD.\u00a0 Instead it is God might be trying to say that, or if\u00a0that is what you want\u00a0it to say, or however you want to read it is fine with us.<\/p>\n<p>TRUTH.\u00a0 Exchanged for a lie with the new versions.\u00a0\u00a0They traded in a perfectly good 2012\u00a0Chevy Corvette for a $15 rusted 1978 bicycle because it is older and easier to ride.\u00a0 Yes, it has no power.\u00a0 Yes the more you look at it the more junk you see.\u00a0 Yes, there are a lot of key components missing.\u00a0 Yes, it&#8217;s value is removed.\u00a0 Yes, it is no longer intimidating to possess.\u00a0 But look at the wonderful advantages.\u00a0 It will not make much noise to get the neighbors mad at you.\u00a0 You won&#8217;t be worshipping a junky bike so when another option becomes available to purchase you won&#8217;t feel any guilt.\u00a0 And it fits right in with everyone else&#8217;s junk!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take my King James any day.\u00a0 THUS SAITH THE LORD.\u00a0 HE maketh me lay down in green pastures , HE leadeth me by the still waters.\u00a0 YE MUST BE BORN AGAIN.<\/p>\n<p>The blessed old book that I hold in my hand.\u00a0 Sin kept me from it.<\/p>\n<p>Now it keeps me from sin.<\/p>\n<p>The only reason I keep my old versions, whether it is the NIV or the NEW King James is in case one day I do get a chocolate lab.\u00a0\u00a0 Or a canary.\u00a0 To line the cages.<\/p>\n<p>At least I would be opening my new version.<\/p>\n<p>You have one and don&#8217;t care, either, do you?<\/p>\n<p>I would die for my King James Bible. I don&#8217;t know anyone who would give\u00a0their canary for their NIV.<\/p>\n<p>If your Bible had\u00a0some life you\u00a0just might cherish it like\u00a0I do.\u00a0 Do you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible says Blessed is the nation who&#8217;s GOD is the LORD.\u00a0 The Bible says THUS SAITH THE LORD many times in the blessed book I can hold in my hand.\u00a0 It is true from beginning to end, sin kept &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/2013\/06\/americas-got-talent-and-american-idols-but-not-god\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/etvfc.org\/wp-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}