Who Can Forgive Sins?

Mark 2:7, “Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?”

My long time ministry friend Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023) wrote this helpful book titled: 'WHO CAN FORGIVE SINS?.' Only Jesus has the nail-scared hands and feet, and the pierced side. The Pope and Catholic priest didn't die on a cross to pay for your sins, but Jesus did (Romans 5:6-9). The Lutheran minister didn't shed his blood at Calvary to pay your debt of sin, but Jesus did. What saith the Scripture? 1st Timothy 2:5, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” You either go through faith in Jesus to get to Heaven, or else you won't be going; you'll die in your sins and perish into the Lake of Fire.

I learned recently that in Yellowstone National Park there are geysers that spew scorching steam upward hundreds of feet into the atmosphere. They are surrounded by pools of acidic water in which the temperatures can reach 400° Fahrenheit. In a tragic true story, a visiting man's dog jumped into the pool, thinking it was just another lake. To the owner's horror his dog was being burned alive and couldn't escape his tragic fate. The owner instinctively dived in to save his dog, acting on impulse out of love for his best friend, which ended up costing him his life too. That is so sad. But dear friend, this is only a fraction of what Hell's torment and miseries will be like. The inspired Holy Bible horrifically describes Hell as a literal place inside the earth (Isaiah 14:9), a place of brimstone (sulfur) and fire (Revelation 21:8).

Thankfully, Jesus CAN forgive sin. The wicked Pharisees were offended when Jesus forgave the crippled man's sins and healed him. Those ungodly religious Jewish leaders doubted that Jesus was who He claimed to be—God among men. John 10:33, “The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God.” Clearly, Jesus claimed to be God in the flesh. John 1:1-3 and verse 14 make this abundantly plain to see in the Scripture. The inspired Word of God teaches in Colossians 2:9, “For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.” In the earthly spirit, soul and body of Jesus dwelt God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit (all of the Godhead). Jesus was 100% a man, and He was 100% God. Anybody who doubts these truths is evidencing that they are not a born again child of God. That is why the Apostle Paul warned in 2nd Corinthians 11:4 about “another Jesus.”

Paul also warned about “another spirit.” As my long time ministry friend, Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023), used to rightly say: “Any spirit that is not the Holy Spirit is a familiar spirit (a demon).” Beware of the demonic Roman Catholic priest and Lutheran minister who errantly and arrogantly think that they have the power to forgive sins. ONLY GOD CAN FORGIVE SINS, AND JESUS IS GOD!

The Patient Waiting Of Christ

Revelation 1:9, “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.”

I love this MP3 sermon from 1988 by Pastor Jack Hyles. It is called:

“THE PATIENT WAITING OF CHRIST”

Sometimes a heavy burden comes to stay. I was severely rear-ended by a church bus in 1992. I didn't realize at the time that the accident had permanently misaligned my neck (medically called 'Reverse Cervical Curve'). This abnormal alignment of my neck caused undue pressure in the Thorax region of my neck, causing the disks between bones C5, C6 and C7 to slip and place pressure on my spinal cord.

In 2004, my neck finally gave way, and the agonizing pain and tension started in my neck, never to leave. My life has been adversely afflicted by my bad neck pain, burning nerves, both arms feeling inflated with air, tight tension in my neck, et cetera. This heavy burden is here to stay, it will never go away.

In this beautiful sermon, Pastor Hyles teaches: “Bible patience is when the burden is here to stay, and there's nothing you can do about it—it will never leave—and you hold up.” Amen! This needful sermon has my name written all over it, because of my debilitating neck injury that causes constant neck tension and pain which will never leave.

To make matters much worse, my former unfaithful wife selfishly abandoned and divorced me in 2006, leaving me to sink with the Titanic of our marriage, which is now at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. For the past 19 painful years I have had to suffer alone—having no companion, no cheerleader, no nurse, no lover, no friend—but thankfully, Jesus' grace has been sufficient to sustain me (2nd Corinthians 12:9).

The following photo is an actual X-ray of the titanium surgical hardware that is permanently in my neck. My relentless constant neck pain and tension, and related bodily discomforts, make me long to go home to be with Jesus, because I spend a lot of time with Him, my companion in suffering. 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝟭:𝟵, “𝗜 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗮𝗹𝘀𝗼 𝗮𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁, 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝘀𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗮𝘁𝗺𝗼𝘀, 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗼𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁.”

In his sermon, Brother Hyles quotes from 𝗟𝘂𝗸𝗲 𝟮𝟭:𝟭𝟵, “𝗜𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘆𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗼𝘂𝗹𝘀.” Do not allow your burdens to control your behavior; you decide how you're going to act, don't react. Be your own man! If you too are suffering with a permanent burden dear reader, like I am, congratulations, because you are a member of the Companionship Club with Jesus Christ and all those who suffer with a burden that will never leave; it will never go away. Revelation 1:9, “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Jesus is precious!

The Disappearance Of The Male Role

I frequently read recent articles by Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. I love his prolific style of writing, his wisdom and hard hitting truthful writings. I recommend that you check out his website and stop be regularly to read his stuff.

I found this needful very true article today...

The Disappearance of the Male Role

December 30, 2024 | Categories: Articles & Columns

Paul Craig Roberts

Over the course of my lifetime I have watched the role of men taken away. The role of the male as provider, defender, and disciplinarian is no more. It was destroyed by feminists.

To clarify “feminist”: In the past when I have criticized feminists older women who had careers asked why I thought women shouldn’t have careers. Their idea is that a feminist is a woman who has a career. But women have always had careers as mothers, homemakers, grandmothers, school teachers, nurses, secretaries, writers, artists, musicians, scientists, and even spies such as Eve Gordon who made during World War II 112 parachute jumps into occupied Europe. Even in pre-feminist days, one of my aunts despite being married had a career outside the home. She enjoyed the discipline of getting to work on time, the interaction with other people, and meeting new ones.

By feminist I mean a person with an ideological agenda of obliterating the difference between men and women. When I was young men were raised to respect women. When a woman entered a room, the men stood. Doors were opened for women and their entrance proceeded the man’s. Car doors were opened for women who were helped in and out. At the dining table men stood until the women were seated. In those days men still wore hats. A gentleman passing a lady on the sidewalk was expected to tip his hat in respect. A man who struck a woman or used a four-letter word in a lady’s presence suffered a ruined reputation.

Feminists derided the many ways in which respect was shown to women as “placing women on a pedestal.” Showing respect for women was somehow undervaluing them and treating them unequally. Feminists insisted on women being pulled down into the gutter with men.

Big brothers were taught to protect little sisters. It was little brother’s job to learn to protect himself, and fights on the school playground was part of the learning process.

Today men are no longer taught to protect women. But it is a natural inclination in men. Studies have concluded that the introduction of women soldiers into conflict causes a loss of cohesion and focus, because men become distracted by concern for the women.

Feminists were not happy until they destroyed men’s colleges, male leadership in politics, military, and business, men’s clubs and male organizations such as the Boy Scouts which was forced to take in girls. Even the military has been taken from men. How is there a band of brothers when the commander is female?

Men have lost their role. They are no longer the provider. The wife might have, thanks to gender preferences in university admissions, employment, and promotion, the better job bringing in more income. Studies conclude that boys suffer depression from loss of a role. Reportedly, the suicide rate of boys and young men has been rising.

What the feminists have established is a new form of male deference to women. Males must stand aside and give up their role to women.

Feminist were not content to only destroy men. They destroyed women also. The idea of a chaste woman was objectionable because it held women to a higher standard than men.

Helen Gurley Brown, editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, used the magazine to encourage women to be harlots. In the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s Cosmopolitan was a fixture in the waiting rooms of doctors and dentists. I often wondered what my mother and grandmothers would have thought of a woman’s magazine, the cover of which heralded articles titled “How to be unfaithful to your husband without being caught,” “how to find a sex partner when on vacation without your boy friend,” “how to manage multiple sex partners.”

Today young women support themselves with their porn sites. Women brag on social media about having had 150 sexual partners, sparking rivals to vow attaining higher levels of wantonness. Female school teachers get themselves pregnant by their under age students. Mothers have 12-year old daughters on birth control pills. School children are sexualized at an early age to get them ready for the legalization of pedophiles, now euphemized as “minor attracted persons.”

I often refer to the United States as a Sodom and Gomorrah Tower of Babel, which is what we have become. It will be a big chore for Trump to rescue us from this predicament. READ MORE

I thank God for wise men like Paul Craig Roberts.