Psalm 37:21, “The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.”
Ephesians 4:28, “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.”
I love these Bible passages! The psalmist said that a wicked person borrows money but they never pay it back! There's a lot of that going on in the world today. If you borrow money from someone, shame on you if you don't pay it back. The Bible warns in 1st Thessalonians 4:6 that God will avenge a Christian who has been defrauded by another—whether it be money they didn't pay back, a promise they didn't keep, gossip that caused you grief, or if they slept with your spouse (which is the sin of adultery)—all sin must and will be punished by God.
Nobody will get away with anything (Romans 12:19-21). Even sins committed in secret will be dealt with by God. A few months ago in the news, I heard a crying woman in Ukraine, telling about a wicked Russian soldier who raped her in a car. She said that God will punish him for what he did, and she is absolutely correct. Woe unto that evil man!!! ...
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
That's an easy passage to remember from the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes—chapter 12, verses 13 and 14 (12, 13, 14).
I have been seeing ungodly YouTube advertisements encouraging viewers to steal things. I saw one video on YouTube that advertised how to steal electricity from your local electric company. I found this video just now about how to steal gas from a gas station...
How to Legally Steal Gasoline from Gas Stations in 2023!
Dear reader, you are a darn fool if you listen to such wicked advice. What saith the Scripture?
Proverbs 1:10-16, “My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.”
I hate the preceding video! Shame on anyone who tries to show you how to “legally” steal from others. It was career criminal Neil McCauley who organized a series of heists in Chicago in the 1960s, that inspired the popular 1995 crime drama film “Heat” by Michael Mann, starring Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino. Neil McCauley is infamous for making this statement during one of his bank heists:
“We want to hurt no one. We're here for the bank's money, not your money. Your money is insured by the federal government, you're not gonna lose a dime. Think of your families, don't risk your life. Don't try and be a hero.”
The truth is that Neil was stealing from the people, because ultimately everything affects society, whether it be good or evil. Neil was attempting to minimize his sins, by rationalizing that it is not as bad to steal from government FDIC insured banks. Don't ever think that when you do something evil that it doesn't undermine society, because it does in one way or another. The abortion industry has perhaps done more to cause the love of many people to grow cold (Matthew 24:12). We've lost our respect for the sacredness of life in America! If a baby is found in a dumpster, one or two people might call to inquire about the child; but if a puppy is pulled from a dumpster, thousands of calls will overload the phone system! We've lost our sanity in the United States!
I actually heard a social worker insanely say that abortion is a good thing, because it ultimately results in a lower crime rate by aborting what would have been otherwise, fatherless children. Isn't that terrible? Yes, it most certainly is awful. I learned a long time ago that anything can be justified. I mean, anything! If you try hard enough, like Eve in the Garden of Eden who found 3 good reasons to disobey God (Genesis 3:6), you can find a reason to commit the most heinous acts of evil. That is how Adolf Hitler in his own mind insanely justified geocoding the Jews during World War II.
We're A Nation In Insanity Because Of Sin
We've lost our respect for the sacredness of the marriage bed (Hebrews 13:4), the human body (1st Corinthians 3:15-16) and family values (Proverbs chapter 31). Youth today have no fear of parents, police or God. The daily news has been flooded with young punks in recent years, who in large groups called "Flash Mobs" have robbed and vandalized thousands of stores across the country. In California, local businesses have suffered tens of millions of dollars in losses from smash and grab rioting (done mostly by teens). Store owners and employees are helpless to stop the crimes because the law prohibits them from shooting the thieves. Did you know that under God's law in the Old Testament, you had permission legally to kill a thief with impunity? Exodus 22:2, “If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.” That is what we need in the United States. If the thieves knew that store owners have a legal right to kill them, the theft would stop immediately!
There are many horrible evil people in this world, ambulance-chasing lawyer types who eagerly take advantage of others for their own financial gain. One of several things that sickens me about living in the city of Pensacola are all the cut-throat billboards posted by lawyers, encouraging drivers to sue each other. No wonder people hate lawyers so much! Lawyers hurt people for money. Kindly said, there's not a more crooked bunch of liars, thugs and thieves than lawyers! I get tired of hearing retired lawyers say that they are “recovering lawyers.” What they are shamefully admitting is that they spent their career hurting people for money. I think they would be better to just keep their mouths shut, and not admit that they are retired criminals in God's sight.
I could write volumes of books about the existing evils in our country today. Corruption is rampant in federal, state and local governments across the country. The Luciferian powers which pull our leader's puppet stings from behind the scenes (who control Washington DC) are living on borrowed time from God. PAYDAY SOMEDAY!!! Ecclesiastes 5:8, “If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.” Dear saint of God, the Lord is still on His throne!
Satan Has Limited Power, Don't Fear Him, Fear God
Satan only has so long of a leash, put on him by God. Perhaps you have never read in Job chapter one that the Devil couldn't touch Job. Job 1:9-10, “Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.” If you are a born-again believer, then the Devil cannot do anything to you without God's express permission. Psalm 34:7, “The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.”
I once heard a Baptist preacher long ago, tell his church congregation not to talk aloud about upcoming ministry plans, because Satan might hear those plans and try to stop you. I totally reject that type of fearmongering. You need not be careful what you say, thinking that the Devil may thwart your plans, because God is in control. Biblically, we ought not fear Satan or the demons. Hollywood in their movies portray demons and Satan as being horrifying, all-powerful and frightening. But in reality it is the demons who live in constant fear. James 2:19, “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” It is important to mention here that belief in God is not the way to be saved. John 6:40 tells us that “the will” of the Father to get to Heaven is to BELIEVE ON JESUS!!! The fallen angels know that there is a God, but they are not saved. They do not trust in Christ.
I do not fear Satan or his imp demons. I only fear God as the Bible teaches. There is absolutely no reason to be afraid of the Devil. 1st John 4:4-6, “Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.” The indwelling Holy Spirit (God in us as His saints) is greater than the Devil, so that we need not fear anyone or anything but God alone (2nd Corinthians 5:11; Ephesians 5:21). Hebrews 13:6, “So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.”
A False Gospel Robs Jesus Of His Sacrifice On The Cross
We're talking about not stealing in this blog. Perhaps the greatest theft of all today are the wicked neo-evangelical preachers who rob Christ of His power to save. John 10:1, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” I love the following picture that my youngest daughter drew when she was 14 years old. It shows that she had a good understanding of biblical salvation, knowing that faith in Jesus is the ONLY way into Heaven.
That is a helpful picture. The adage is true that “a picture is worth a thousand words.” As we just read in John 10:1, a thief tries to climb up “some other way” to enter into Heaven. The great irony is that the door to Heaven has been open for all of human civilization, through faith alone in Christ (Acts 10:43). John 10:6-9, “This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them. Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep. All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.”
I was shocked recently, when Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College literally mailed a toxic counterfeit plan of salvation right to my mailbox at my home. It was a booklet of John & Romans, with a damnable false plan of salvation in the back. On page 60 of their poisonous booklet PCC says that to get to Heaven you must, “follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins.” Oh my! That is the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation!!!
On page 62 PCC says that to get to Heaven you must say:
“I repent of my sins. I realize that sin is something that God hates and I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits in my life.”
SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62
Nowhere in the Holy Bible does it teach to give up our self-serving sins and obey God to be saved. Where does the inspired Word of God tells us that to be saved we cannot hold onto our sinful bad habits? Satan's greatest weapon is to con people into living the Christian life without ever being born again. PCC have wickedly polluted the Gospel, embellishing God's simple plan of salvation to include giving up your sinful bad habits, which is another gospel.
As we have seen in this blog, there are many forms of stealing. Some people steal gas and electricity. Others steal from businesses in Flash Mob Robberies. And some lying false prophets (the list of whom is getting longer each day) steal from credit to save that is due only to Jesus Christ. Shame on PCC for placing the burden to change upon the lost sinner's shoulders, when Christ alone bore the total weight of our sins on the cross of Calvary.
Without Christ you have a hopeless end; With Christ you have an endless hope. There is nothing standing in the records of eternity against any soul that trusts in the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous, it is a gift for the guilty! Salvation is not doing your best, it is having Christ's best put to your account through receiving Him by faith. Turning away from sinful ways would be a work. Faith puts all of the merit where it belongs, on the object of our faith, Jesus and His work. If to “repent” means to forsake our sinful ways TO BE SAVED, but Jesus already paid for our sins by dying on the cross, then what are we repenting from? The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.
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