An Open Letter to Obama

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA Dear President Obama; You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support. You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American. You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll. You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core. You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others. You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail. You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America ' crowd and deliver this message abroad. You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one. You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world. You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations. You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people. You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do. You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Relllys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view. You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years. Lou Pritchett This was emailed to me. Freedom of speech.

Dear Londa, As you've undoubtedly heard, Justice David Souter is leaving the Supreme Court, and President Obama will soon nominate a replacement. Since casting his first vote against life in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, Justice Souter has repeatedly voted to extend the tragedy of abortion -- into all nine months of pregnancy, at any time, and for any reason. In 2000 and again in 2007, Justice Souter voted to make partial-birth abortion a Constitutional right. You and I don’t want another Justice Souter on the Supreme Court, so we have to make our voices heard. People are waiting to see if we will respond. I’ve had countless reporters ask me what the pro-life movement is going to do. That’s why AUL’s work is so important. In everything from the Wall Street Journal to the Congressional Quarterly to the Chicago Tribune, AUL is speaking out against any nominee who intends to implement a radical abortion rights agenda as a Supreme Court Justice. In addition, the AUL Legal Team has put together and is distributing widely a comprehensive report on potential Supreme Court nominees. The report examines those we believe are on President Obama’s "short list," as well as other potential nominees he may be considering. Every potential nominee is pro-abortion and would advance President Obama’s radical agenda to pass FOCA, eliminating every restriction on abortion nationwide. You can read the report to see just how radical the President’s nominee could be. Right now, I need your help to continue this vital work. Already, pro-abortion groups like NARAL and Planned Parenthood are raising money to help them make sure the next Supreme Court Justice will not only uphold Roe v. Wade, but go even further. They want the new Justice to read the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) into the Constitution -- striking down every abortion restriction in the nation. You see, they haven't yet succeeded in getting FOCA through Congress. And their Plan B -- passing FOCA through Congress "by stealth" -- is taking longer than they’d like. In the meantime, they're moving ahead with Plan C -- to have an activist Supreme Court erase every pro-life law nationwide. Unfortunately, a new Justice who would read FOCA into the Constitution wouldn't be alone. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has even written a law review article detailing how she would do it. So you see, the stakes are very high indeed. If President Obama sends a pro-abortion nominee to the US Senate, we will do everything possible to make sure that nominee is rejected. We need your help to make sure we don’t get another pro-abortion Justice. Will you send a generous gift today? Time is of the essence. We must show the US Senate that we will not stand for another Justice Souter who will continue to undermine our right to protect women and children from the tragedy of abortion. Together, we can make our voices heard. Yours for life, Charmaine Yoest, Ph.D.President & CEOAmericans United for Life P.S. -- With a vacancy on the Supreme Court, we must act now to stop Planned Parenthood and NARAL from getting a new Justice who will read the Freedom of Choice Act into the Constitution. Please give generously today to help. Thanks!

I don't want any bill to be placed into law without congress approving the bill first. I want them to vote on this bill just to see how they would vote. Subject: FW: Democrats not expected to allow vote on the D.C. recognition of same-sex marriage Make them accountable!!! From: AFA Action Alert [mailto:contact@afa.net] Sent: Monday, May 11, 2009 6:49 AMTo: debi@firstresponse-eta.comSubject: Democrats not expected to allow vote on the D.C. recognition of same-sex marriage Donald E. WildmonFounder andChairman Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your entire e-mail list of family and friends. Democrats not expected to allow vote on the D.C. recognition of same-sex marriage Move would make homosexual marriage bill law without members of Congress having to vote May 11, 2009 Dear Debra, The District of Columbia Council has voted 12-1 to recognize homosexual "marriages" from states where homosexual marriage is now legal - Massachusetts , Iowa , Vermont and Connecticut . The bill now goes to the U.S. House and U.S. Senate for their approval. If approved by both, it will then go to the president for his signature. If Congress does not act on the bill by June 6, it automatically becomes law. It appears that Democrats will not allow a vote on the bill. By doing this, they will keep their members from having to go on record as being for or against recognition of homosexual marriage. All Democratic members of Congress can then go back to their districts and tell their constituents that they would have voted against the bill if they had been allowed to vote. Take Action - Time is Short Take Action! 1. Send an E-mail your representative and two senators today and tell them you want a recorded vote on the D.C. homosexual marriage bill. Tell them if no vote is allowed, then it is clear the Democratic Party is promoting homosexual marriage despite President Obama's public announcement that he is opposed to homosexual marriage.2. After you have sent your e-mail, make a phone call to your representative and senators to tell them that you want a recorded vote. The number to call is 202-224-3121.3. Please forward this to all your friends and family! Time is short so please act today! Thank you for caring enough to get involved. If you feel our efforts are worthy of support, would you consider making a small tax-deductible contribution to help us continue? Sincerely, Donald E. Wildmon,Founder and ChairmanAmerican Family Association Donate with confidence to AFA (gifts are tax-deductible) Please take a few minutes and invite your friends to AFA ActionAlert. AFA is now on SkyAngel Get the AFA and Homeschool channels. High quality content from a Christian perspective. Special time sensitive offer so act now. AFA Receives High Marks Please read this information before you decide to give a financial gift to American Family Association. Spiritual Heritage Tours Join Tim Wildmon and Marvin Sanders for a tour of our nation's capital with a focus on the deep Christian heritage of our country. In keeping with our privacy policy, AFA may periodically contact you regarding issues of concern to the family. Rest assured that your e-mail address will be kept in the strictest confidence. You are subscribed as debi@firstresponse-eta.com. Unsubscribe Update E-mail Address If you are a Federal Civilian, Postal or Military Employee, please consider AFA (#12037) for your annual CFC participation. American Family Association P O Drawer 2440 Tupelo , MS 38803 1-662-844-5036 Copyright ©2009 All Rights Reserved -----Inline Attachment Follows----- Internal Virus Database is out of date.Checked by AVG - www.avg.comVersion: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.16/1928 - Release Date: 01/31/09 20:03:00

Where is it made,

In our current economic situation, every little thing we buy or do affects someone else and perhaps even their job. So, after reading this email, I think this lady is on the right track. Let's get behind her!! My grandson likes Hershey's candy. It is marked made in Mexico now. I do not buy it any more. My favorite toothpaste Colgate is made in Mexico now. I have switched to Crest. You have to read the labels on everything. This past weekend I was at Kroger. I needed 60W light bulbs and Bounce dryer sheets. I was in the light bulb aisle and right next to the GE brand I normally buy was an off brand labeled, "Everyday Value. " I picked up both types of bulbs and compared the stats - they were the same except for the price. The GE bulbs were more money than the Everyday Value brand but the thing that surprised me the most was the fact that GE was made in> MEXICO and the Everyday Value brand was made in - get ready for this - the USA in a company in Cleveland , Ohio . So throw out the myth that you cannot find products you use every day that are made right here. So on to another aisle - Bounce Dryer Sheets....yep, you guessed it, Bounce cost more money and is made in Canada. The Everyday Value brand was less money and MADE IN THE USA! I did laundry yesterday and the dryer sheets performed just like the Bounce Free I have been using for years and at almost half the price! So my challenge to you is to start reading the labels when you shop for everyday things and see what you can find that is made in the USA - the> job you save may be your own or your neighbors! If you accept the challenge, pass this on to others in your address book so we can all start buying American, one light bulb at a time! Stop buying from China ........... = (We should have awakened to this a decade ago......) I agree with what this lady wrote so I'm passing this on. We should read the lables & buy MADE IN THE USA!!! GOD BLESS THE USA AGAIN & FORGIVE OUR SHORT COMING & SINS. MAKE IT A COUNTRY THAT IS KNOWN ONCE AGAIN AS A CHRISTIAN/GODLY COUNTRY!!!!!!!! Rev. Londa Picard

Reading

I have been reading a book by Richard Wurmbrand "Tortured for Christ"; it's about the Underground Church in Communism Romania. By reading what the church went through there. It's like a repeat of History in America. Richard Wurmbrand is the Founder fo the Voice of the Martyrs. It shows how the government got into the churches & totally took over. Hitting it's people with mindwashing or brain-washing. A quote from the book. Page 10 & 11 "Working Undercover The secret police greatly persecuted the Undergound Church, because they recognized in it the only effective resistance left. It was just the kind of risistance (a spiritual resistance) that, if left undindered, would undermine their atheistic power. They recognized, as only the devil can, an immediate threat to them. They knew that if a man believed in Christ, he would never be a mindless, willing subject. They knew they could imprision the physical body, but they couldn't imprision a man's spirit - his faith in God. And so they fought very hard." It seems like a repeat of History here in the Free Country of the United States. Romania was a free country but, atheistism moved in. And our ministers today is NOT PREACHING THE GOSPLE. The Word of God has gone by the way side!!! I myself don't understand & know all the mysteries of God. Only God has the answers. I don't understand why some are healed & some are not. They have the same faith, the same belief. In Hebrews 11 not everybody was healed here on earth. Some waited til Heaven. Nobody knows why. I know God wants us healed; He tells us that. So never feel bad or anger towards God. I'm sorry, I felt that was needed saying. Back to the Government & Church leaders. Get into a church that really preaches the Word of God that preaches the BIBLE. Don't just hear oh how it feels so good, let us just go with the flow. God gave warning on this. It's the spirit of the anti-christ. I don't when or where the world will end for the end times. I'm seeing this happening now in our churches. I want people to be taught the Word not just the feel good things & I want. I want, I want. I hope I'm explaining this correctly. Will the Christians in America go underground; I really believe it's going & it will. We are already classified as right wings & haters of Gays, haters of sin. Yes, I am a hater of Sin but, not haters of Gays just the sin that they're in. It's the sin not the person & we will never get them to Christ & to see their sins if we hate them & not the sin. Please, don't hate the person, hate the sin. Even if it pushed down your throat. Pray for them, express to Gays how you feel not in hatred but in LOVE. That is God's way not Londa's way. God tells us to walk in LOVE!!! I am not saying oh let us just let the sin go, no that is not what I am saying. Seperate the Sin From the Person. Just as in the book "Tortured for Christ" Richard Wurmbrand loved the People of the Communist but, not Communism, not atheistem. Even after all the horrible things they did to him. We should become as Christ-like as we can. That is for any Christian to attain this highest Goal of their life. Be Passionate as Christ. See what would Christ do. He would teach that it is wrong to be Gay in the meaning of man today. But, that God still loves them. And haveing that type of sin or any other sin as preist likeing little boys. I can go on & on, sin of porn, sin of using children porn. That is why I will not let people advertise on my site. I was looking on a Christian site & the next thing I knew on was on a porn page not the cute animal pictures I was looking at. Other sins as hating another human because of the color of their skin. You cannot win these to Christ by hateing them. NO ONLY LOVE CAN WIN THEM!!!!!! There is only ONE TRUE GOD, and that God is of the Bible, not the torran, not the books of man, not the gods of man, but the ONE TRUE GOD!!!! I love you IN CHRIST, In Christ name, AMEN & AMEN Rev. Londa Picard

Come unto me

Matthew 11:28 COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT LABOUR I WILL GIVE YOU REST. John 15:4 ABIDE IN ME, & I IN YOU. AS THE BRANCH CANNOT BEAR FRUIT OF ITSELF, EXCEPT IT ABIDE IN THE VINE; NO MORE CAN YE EXCEPT YE ABIDE IN ME. Who has not been laboured? Have you found the REST? His promise to us. Do you believe that the Word of God is true?? Do you believe that His promises are true? Is the Word of God & His Promises can be fulfilled? What about the full pardon He gave you? It didn't cost anything, you cannot buy the full pardon. IT'S FREE!!! Have you came to Him & actually ABIDED in Him? Have you became a part of the branch of the vine? Became a child of God? If you need to please pray & ask God to forgive your sins & believe in John 3:16. John 3:16 FOR GOD SO LOVED ___________ (put your name here instead of the World), THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY SON, THAT _________(place your name here for the word whosoever) BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE. His love is very sweet & precious!!! Experience His word, His blessing, His Joy, His promises, & HIS LOVE!!!! He is our Savior!! Just think about that. You may want to go ahead and praise Him. Go ahead & praise Him!! Abide in God! Your His children & as a child of God ABIDE in Him. ABIDE means - to stick to/to follow. To stand by what you have been promised (Webster dictionary). Abide in His fellowship, enjoy HIM. Keep depending on HIM! REMEMBER GOD SAID COME INTO HIM!!

God Himself has United you with Him

1 Corinthians 1:29-31 29) That no flesh should glory in His presence. 30) But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, & righteousness, & sanctification, & redemption: 31) That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. We are in Christ Jesus. Now the Corinthians were still young & carnel Christians. Now the consciousness of the WHOLE Christians life depended on their position in Christ. That the daily renewal of their's & our faith's assurance. We are in Christ Jesus. Paul taught them that & we should also stand on Paul's teaching of Christ Jesus! One of the ways is to start at the beginning; that WE ARE IN CHRIST JESUS!! Aposostle Paul had an additional thought, greater then that Paul said "Of God are ye in Christ Jesus". Look at 1 Corinthians 1:30 But of Him Are ya in Christ Jesus. Him is God!! This isn't our doing but, God's doing Himself! We cannot do it on our own. Only God! The Holy Spirit teaches us to believe & realize it. This makes our security in Christ Jesus, IN GOD!

Joshua 14:11-13

11) As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war; both to go out, and to come in. 12) Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the Lord spake in that day; for thou hearest in that day now the Anekims were there, and that the cities were great & fenced; if so be the Lord will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the said. 13) And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneth Hebron for an inheritance

God So Loved the World, Part 1 May 3, 2009By John Piper Read, listen, or watch this resource on our website. Subscribe to our sermon podcast in iTunes. John 3:9-18 Nicodemus said to him, “How can these things be?” 10 Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you do not understand these things? 11 Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know, and bear witness to what we have seen, but you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended into heaven except he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in him may have eternal life. 16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.” We focus today, and Lord willing next week, on one of the most famous verses in the Bible and the two verses following it that are given to clarify and support it. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. (John 3:16-18) It is not hard to see why verse 16 is one of the most famous, most often memorized, most cherished verses in the Bible. Packed into this verse are the greatest realities that exist. God. Love. The world. The Son of God. Faith. Perishing forever. Living forever. Whoever—you, or not. These are the greatest things that can be. What could be more important? What could be more relevant for you right now? What could be more urgent for you or momentous for you than to know where you stand in relation to what God says to you in this verse? So here’s what I think we should do with John 3:16. Today we will walk through it once, pausing over each of the big words (except loved) and commenting on each of them: God, World, Gave, Son, Believe, Perish, Life. And we will seek to apply that to ourselves as we go along. Then next week, if God wills, we will go back and devote a whole message to the one great word that we pass over today, namely, the word loved—“For God so loved . . .” The Tension in John 3 We will ask, How does God love us in this passage? How does the love of God for the world in verse 16 relate to the work of the Spirit of God in verse 8? There seems to be a tension here. Many feel it, and many people try to remove the tension in away that dishonors the meaning either of verse 8 or verse 16. On the one hand, verse 8 says that God the Spirit blows where he wills and makes alive whom he chooses. “The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.” God is free. And it is he, and not we, who has the final, decisive say in who among the spiritually rebellious and dead will be raised to new life. None of us deserves to be made alive. And none of us has the power to make it happen. If anybody is rescued, God does it. But on the other hand, John 3:16 says, “God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” This surely means that God is loving all and offering all eternal life—the very life that the Spirit gives in verse 8. That is what we will try to understand next week. And I will tip you off that I have been very helped in this by Don Carson’s book The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God. It’s less than 90 pages. It’s understandable, and it is very good. I hope many of you will read it. (You can listen to Carson on the love of God here.) Seven Massive Realities in John 3:16 But first, there are great and awesome things to be clarified in this verse. Seven massively important words—representing seven great realities—that we need to understand so that the power and preciousness of this famous verse can have its full effect. And O how I hope you Bethlehem believers know that such a foundational verse is not just for beginners. It is high-level, high-voltage shock therapy for marriage struggles and single struggles and teenage struggles. So let’s turn first to the seven big words in verse 16. 1. God “For God so loved . . .” There is no reason to think that Jesus means any other God than the God of the Old Testament. He is the all-powerful Creator and Sustainer of the universe. He is personal and not a mere force, meaning he thinks and wills and feels. He loves, and he hates. And as personal, he is moral—that is, he deals with us in terms of right and wrong and good and bad. And as moral, he is unwaveringly righteous. He only does what is right. And the infinite worth of what he is defines what is right. To do right is to think and feel and act in a way that accords with (is in harmony with) God’s infinite worth. All of us were made by this God, and our first and highest duty and reason for being is to honor him and give him thanks (Romans 1:21). We have all failed, and we are all under his righteous displeasure. This is what makes John 3:16 so needed and so precious. It describes the way God is acting to rescue us from this condition. 2. World “For God so loved the world . . .” The most common meaning for world in John is the created and fallen totality of mankind. John 7:7: “The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify about it that its works are evil.” John 14:17: “. . . the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him.” That is the way John is using world here. It is the great mass of fallen humanity that needs salvation. It’s the countless number of perishing people from whom the “whoevers” come in the second part of the verse: “. . . that whoever believes in him should not perish.” The world is the great ocean of perishing sinners from whom the whoever comes. 3. Gave “For God so loved the world, that he gave. . .” Two things need to be said about this giving. One is that it is a giving from heaven. And the other is that it is a giving, not just to come to earth, but to die. Verse 17 replaces the word give with send. “For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.” So the giving of verse 16 is God’s sending his Son into the world on a mission from heaven. In John 10:17-18, we see what the climax of that mission from the Father is. Jesus says, “For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.” That last sentence shows that the reason the Father sent the Son was so that the Son would lay down his life. “I lay it down of my own accord. . . . This charge I have received from my father.” So when John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that he gave . . .”, the giving is God sending his Son to earth on a mission to die. It’s just as amazing—only a million times more so—as if you should say to your son, “There is something I want you to do for me: I have some enemies that deserve to perish, and I want you to go and die in their place, so that they can have eternal life.” Whatever else you know about God, make sure you know he is like that. 4. Son “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son. . .” Muslims and others stumble over the idea of God having a Son. So let me say a few things that are crystal clear in John’s Gospel, even though mysterious. God did not have sexual relations with Mary in order to have a Son. Turn back to chapter 1 where John gave us our basic understanding of the Son of God. John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” So here we are introduced to the Word. And we are told three things about him. One, he is God. “The Word was God.” Two, he is with God, and therefore distinct from God. “The word was with God.” And third, he was therefore always in existence and never came to be. “In the beginning was the Word.” Then look at verse 14: “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father.” This verse clarifies three things for us. First, the Word of God referred in verse 1 is the Son of God. “The Word became flesh and . . . we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son . . . .” Second, God, with whom the Word was, and from whom he is distinct, is God the Father. He is “the only Son from the Father.” “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.” He was with God the Father. Third, therefore, Jesus is the Son of God not because the Father had sex with Mary, but because the Son has always existed, without beginning, as “the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature” (Hebrews 1:3). He is fully God. And the Father is fully God. And along with God the Spirit, they are one God, one divine nature. One essence and three persons in an eternal, perfect, joyful relationship. 5. Believe “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes . . .” Four observations about this believing. First, it means that not everybody will benefit from what Jesus came to do. But “whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” The rest will perish—and not have eternal life. Second, the word itself means to embrace something as true; and when it’s a person, it means to trust them to be what they are and do what they say. Third, John 1:11-12 shows that another word John has in mind to explain believe is receive. “[Jesus] came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.” So receiving Jesus and believing Jesus explain each other. Fourth, if we ask, “Receive him as what?” the answer would be, “Receive him as what he is.” For example, in John 6:35, Jesus says, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.” So here believing means coming to Jesus and receiving him as the food and drink that satisfies our souls. That’s one of the reasons I talk about receiving him as our Treasure (Matthew 13:44). And this is why faith is so transforming. 6. Perish “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish . . .” What’s most clear and most important is to see that perish is the alternative to eternal life—“. . . not perish but have eternal life.” So if you perish, you don’t get eternal life. Another thing that’s clear here is that verse 18 describes perishing as being condemned. “Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already.” And that means that God’s judicial sentence of wrath is on us as sinners and remains on us. We see this in John 3:36: “Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.” So we are already under condemnation because of our sin and unbelief. And perishing means staying there forever under God’s wrath. There is nothing you can imagine worse than having the omnipotent God oppose you with righteous wrath forever. That’s what perishing means. 7. Life “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” This does not simply mean you exist forever. Everybody exists forever. But not everybody has eternal life. This life is first that we are born again and have spiritual life. We know from John 6:63 that “it is the Spirit who gives life.” And we know from 1 John 5:11 that “this life is in [God’s] Son.” This is life to God—life that can see and savor God as glorious and all his creation the way he meant it to be enjoyed. So what happens in our believing is that, by means of believing, the Holy Spirit is uniting us to Christ in whom is life. And in that instant, we are born again, we believe, we are united with the Son of God, and we have his life. And because it is the life of the Son of God, it does last forever. “I am the resurrection and the life,” Jesus said, “Whoever believes in me, though he die, yet shall he live, and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die” (John 11:25-26). Jesus Gives Life—And Dies in Our Place And at this point, don’t forget what we saw under the word gave—“For God so loved the world that he gave . . .” Meaning gave to die. We don’t perish under the wrath of God because Jesus died in our place under the wrath of God. He was “the Lamb of God”—the sacrifice given in our place—who bears our sin and our punishment (John 1:29, 36). So we have eternal life both because Christ died in our place and because in him is life. He removes the great obstacle of God’s wrath, and he supplies the everlasting life that we don’t have in ourselves. Is This Your Life? Which leaves just one question: Do you live in the forgiveness and life and freedom of John 3:16? Are you free from the fear of death? Does the wonder of being loved like this shape your relationships? I’m not asking if you give lip-service to this verse. But do you live it? Is this your life? Is everything you do permeated with this verse? May God grant you such faith. Believe this promise of John 3:16. Receive the treasure of Christ—and life.

Vets don't want to pay their own medical OBAMA IS SURPRISED VETS DON'T WANT TO PAY THEIR OWN MEDICAL EXPENSES Here is Obama's RESPONSE WHEN HE BACKED OFF FROM HIS DECISION TO LET THE MILITARY PAY FOR THEIR WAR INJURIES........ (SEND THIS TO EVERYONE TO SHOW JUST WHAT HE THINKS OF OUR MILITARY WHO FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY AND GET HURT PROTECTING OUR FREEDOM ! ! !) Bad press, including major mockery of the plan by comedian Jon Stewart, led to President Obama abandoning his proposal to require veterans carry private health insurance to cover the estimated $540 million annual cost to the federal government of treatment for injuries to military personnel received during their tours on active duty.. The President admitted that he was puzzled by the magnitude of the opposition to his proposal. "Look, it's an all volunteer force," Obama complained. "Nobody made these guys go to war. They had to have known and accepted the risks. Now they whine about bearing the costs of their choice ? It doesn't compute.." "I thought these were people who were proud to sacrifice for their country," Obama continued. "I wasn't asking for blood, just money. With the country facing the worst financial crisis in its history, I'd have thought that the patriotic thing to do would be to try to help reduce the nation's deficit. I guess I underestimated the selfishness of some of my fellow Americans." I guess OBAMA just doesn't get that the American people love and appreciate our military guys and gals who lay their lives on the line so we can lay our heads down at night in peace. That's because he is not an AMERICAN at heart. That much is obvious. Why in the world people voted for him I'll never know, but we all will surely pay the price and rue the day that he took office. America is getting change but not the change they were looking to get. It's a shame but the people have been had again. ( AS FOREST GUMP SAYS : "Stupid is as stupid does".) I don't know if this is true.