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Years ago Johnny Carson apologized and explained that he used a word on his previous show that was 'inappropriate' that was rejected by the television network sensors. He awkwardly murmured that he instead should have said “A woman is 'expecting' or 'Is with child.'” By the moral standards of the 1960’s and before, use of the word 'pregnant' was not acceptable to use in society.

While there once was a time in our world when we all had a basic sense of right, wrong, and decency about what was appropriate and acceptable, as today’s scripture passage says, evil people’s standards have shockingly and unabashedly become mainstream and embraced by many not only as OK, but acceptable. Since the Supreme Court rulings of the early 1960’s that forbid prayer and Bible reading in schools, as a result there are perhaps three or four generations that have no idea of morality and civility as what was previously regarded in the public sphere.

The grotesque picture alongside this message is from a January 22, 2022 ad for an upcoming movie produced by the Walt Disney company called “FLESH” and is just one example of the consequences of a society lacking a moral compass. This film is being marketed as a romantic-comedy with a morbid backstory about a young lady dating a plastic surgeon who discovers that her boyfriend is a cannibal that sells body parts to other flesh eaters. Hollywood movie reviewers have hailed the movie as 'a breakout hit' and popular movie rating site *Rotten Tomatoes* gave it a rating of 85 out of 100.

This movie — and it’s message about where we are as a society and how far we have fallen morally — speaks for itself. Just as the Bible has prophesied and Jesus said, the hearts of many will (and have) grown cold.

Friend, the only way to escape this madness is to turn back to the last and ONLY standard of truth and morality, and that is God and His Holy Word, the Bible. Turn to Christ today, and “Love Not (this) World” [ 1 John 2:15 ] before IT Consumes You.

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When I was five years old there was a very steep rocky cliff near my house. One day I sat on the edge of this precipice wondering how far I could scoot off the edge, so I moved down a few inches and all was fine. So I slid down a little further and it seemed easy to get back up if I wanted to.

So far so good.

I slid down a LITTLE MORE... but then the rocks under my behind slowly started to be a little slippery! Although I carefully tried to scoot back up, each time I did I slid a few inches more until finally I was going down the slope at a steady - then quick rate until it was as slick as a slide in the playground!

Fortunately I ended up at the bottom, crying hysterically, but safely winding up in an old man’s backyard terrified at what I had done, and wondering how I could get back up to the top. The kindly elder gentleman managed to pry my name out of me between my tears, looked up our home phone number in the white pages (remember those?!?) and called my mother to come pick me up.

Secret sins in our life are just like that slippery slope. While things may start off innocently enough and are 'So far so good ' like flirting with a co-worker behind your spouse’s back, experimenting with drugs, or secretly doing things you know are wrong. Before you realize it, it gets to point where you are in too deep - and just like being on that rocky slope - you can’t get back and it keeps accelerating until you keep sliding down to your doom.

Although you crash into the bottom of your slippery slope and it seems like there is no way back up to the top, there is a solution!

“Then I confessed my sins to you (and) I did not conceal my wrongdoings. I decided to confess them to you, and You FORGAVE ALL MY SINS.” Psalm 32:5

God is quick to forgive and restore you back home. His number is in the book of the 'White Pages of the Bible,' Call on Him, and HE will restore you to the top.

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If you are an old 'Car Guy' then the Chilton’s Manuals were your best friend. Back in the day when cars were purely mechanical, these manuals provided step-by-step instructions on how to repair every part of a car from the distributor to the differential. So in order to fix a car, having this 'car bible' was a must.

However, there is a 'Life Manual' that also provides step-by-step instructions on how to heal everything, from loss to life, and that is God’s “Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth” Manual and that is the BIBLE. In it you will find everything you need to fix everything in life from head to toe.

Like today’s scripture reference exhorts us, keep the Bible in front of you at all times, and speak its words out of your lips because when you decree and declare its Promises and Principles you will indeed have “Great Success”…and no sockets or wrenches are required!

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The great hockey player Wayne Gretsky once said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take,” and in a related thought later also said in essence, “I don’t go to where the puck IS. I go to where IT IS GOING TO BE.” In both of these, there is a strong exercise of faith in both visualizing and believing that he will succeed when he puts both of these strategies into action. This same principle is also true in our spiritual walk.

God has given us many promises in the Bible and if you apply Gretsky’s thinking and don’t take the initiative to seize those promises, they will not just simply come to you. Applying your faith and believing is the spiritual equivalent to 'skating to where the promise is and will be.' Once you do, then and only then will you be able to receive those promises.

Professional athletes are disciplined to work out, go to practice each day, learn their plays, and study the strategies of their opposition. We likewise have to exercise the same disciplines in our life by daily getting into the practice of reading God’s Word, understand His 'playbook' and apply His wisdom and know the pitfalls and dangers of the opposition we all face in life. However there is one last vitally important element that must be present and that is that you have to BELIEVE you are going to win and receive that in your heart!

God has so much to give us, and we can and will receive it, but we have to do our part because –

“Without faith it is IMPOSSIBLE to please him: for He that comes to God MUST BELIEVE that he is, and that He is a rewarder of them that Diligently Seek Him.” - Hebrews 11:6

BELIEVE and you will RECEIVE!

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God Bless Your Day Jesus Loves Youoar is 2022, and a good question that most people never realize is, “Two-Thousand and Twenty Years after WHAT?”

As the picture here shows, many older buildings indicate the year with the letters “A.D.” which is Latin for “ANNO DOMINI” or “The Year of our LORD.” While this was a common practice for centuries in writing and historical documentation, over the last fifty years this often has been slyly and subtly changed to the letters CE.

Why?

We are living in an age that the Bible says are 'The End Times' where the name of God will be blasphemed, mocked, and minimized. Instead of honoring God as the LORD over man, Christ’s coming to earth has merely been marked as the 'CE that is, the — Christ Event.' The definition of “event” is a 'happening, occurrence, incident, or an affair.' In doing so, it has reduced the coming of Christ like to a previous news story that was simply a marker in time - much like we refer to December 7th or September 11th.

Friend, Jesus Christ is THE LORD and He is the FIRST and the LAST of ALL TIME. He was not merely an 'event' but the creator and LORD of all that is — including you and me and all of creation. He is the “Chief Cornerstone.” (1 Peter 2:7)

Are you honoring Him today as LORD, or is this just “2022”?

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