Galatians 25:19-25, “Now
the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery,
fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I
have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not
inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness,
temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ's have
crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let
us also walk in the Spirit.”
I enjoy watching history documentaries, learning about early civilizations up
until modern times. I have an interest in history in general, as it has been
said, “history is HIS-STORY!” (God's story). The future is uncharted waters,
but hindsight is 20/20. It is much easier to look back over history and
realize the mistakes of humanity, than it is to plan ahead for an uncertain
future.
The Cruelty
Of Rome's Ruling Elite
I am shocked as I
study history, of the inhumane atrocities that mankind has done to one
another. In some cases, thousands of soldiers had their eyes poked-out by the
conquering army. Julius Caesar of Rome and his skilled army, when they
conquered the Germanic tribes, gave the conquered men, women and children as slaves to
the triumphant men of his army (as personal property to do with with as they pleased).
I was shocked when I read “KILLING JESUS” by
Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard, where the life of Tiberius is documented.
TIBERIUS WAS A SICKO MONSTER!!! Here is a somewhat lengthy quote from chapter
7 of “KILLING JESUS,”
titled, “VILLA JOVIS CAPRI” . . .
Far away from
GALILEE, THE ROMAN WHO CONSIDERED HIMSELF to be the stepson of god is on the
move. Life in Rome has been hard on Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus—or so he
thinks. So he has exiled himself to this mountaintop island fortress on
Capri to live out his days in pleasure and privacy. Now he reclines in his
bedroom as nude handmaidens and young boys copulate in front of him. They
were handpicked for their beauty and brought from the far-flung reaches of
the Roman Empire against their will to perform erotic sexual acts for “the
old goat,” as the sixty-eight-year-old Tiberius is called behind his back.
Some days the children might be asked to dress like Pans and nymphs, then
flit about the royal garden, offering themselves to one another and to the
emperor's invited guests.
Tonight the
orgiasts remain inside this sprawling palace with its marble floors, erotic
statues, works of art, and stunning views of the Mediterranean Sea far
below. In case the performances of the young girls and boys ordered to
submit to the jaded, pock-marked emperor lack imagination, explicit sex
manuals from Egypt are on hand for instruction.
The young
performers can't help but sneak a glance at Tiberius. If all goes well, he
will join in, perhaps selecting one of the teenaged boys or girls for
himself. But if they fail, and if Tiberius doesn't find their contortions
stimulating, the emperor will not simply leave the room. He will do
something far worse. There is a good chance he will hurl their bodies off
“Tiberius Leap,” the thousand-foot cliff alongside the palace. From that
height, it doesn't matter if a person lands in the sea or on the rocks
jutting out into the Gulf of Naples. There is no surviving the fall.
Which is just
as Tiberius designed it. Perversely, just as he enjoys sex and watching
others have sex, he also finds delight in watching his victims scream for
their lives.
The truth is,
almost all of tonight's players will suffer the terrifying fate of being
thrown off the cliff. Tiberius cannot abide the thought of rumors about his
debauchery making their way back to Rome. The best way to keep these
children silent is to kill them after he uses them.
But the young
players don't know this. They actually believe they will one day make it out
of Villa Jovis alive and return home to their villages. So they perform as
if their lives depend upon it, succumbing to any whim or want of the vile
Tiberius.
Meanwhile,
the aging emperor—a man who once knew true love and happiness—reclines on a
pile of pillows, a cup of wine always within reach, his eyes glazed and his
skin mottled from eczema and boils. Tiberius is a man without a conscience.
SOURCE: KILLING
JESUS, chapter 7, pages108-109; a book by Bill O'Reilly and Martin
Dugard; copyright 2013; publishers: Henry Holt And Company, LLC; ISBN:
978-0-8050-9854-9 (hardback); ISBN: 978-0-8050-9855-6 (electronic book).
If that's not shocking enough, here's what pages 99-100 says
about Tiberius . . .
Japanese
Unit 731 Torture Labs
In World War II,
Japan captured tens-of-thousands of Chinese people, subjecting them to
inhumane experiments in their Unit 731 Laboratories. Women were raped and
their legs sewn together until pregnancy, to see what happened. Victims had
their fingers, arms, feet, legs and bodies submerged into liquid nitrogen,
instantly solidifying them, and then having their body parts chipped off with
a hammer. Yes, this happened! In exchange for sharing the gory details of their
ungodly experimentation on humans, the United States government overlooked the
matter. The Japanese put Chinese into small cages, injecting gasoline and
biological agents into their veins, tormenting them to death. Some of the
victims were dissected while they were still alive and conscious on the exam
table. Victim's arms and legs were amputated and reattached to the other side
of their body to see what happened. Babies and children were also experimented
on, transfused with the blood of animals...
The
scientists wanted to learn the limits of the human body, and, so, conducted a
number of tests on their victim’s arms and legs. Sometimes, the limbs were
frozen and thawed in order to study how frostbite and gangrene developed. At
other times, limbs were cut off and sewn back onto the other side of the body.
In a few experiments, when the limbs were removed, researchers just observed
the loss of blood.
...Many victims had all or part of their organs removed, and some even had
organs detached, then re-attached, in unique ways nature never intended.
Experiments were also conducted with high pressure, poisonous chemical
exposure, centrifuges, burning, blood infusions from animals, burying and
x-rays. Of course, since the purpose of these tests was to determine how much
a body could withstand, the experiments would continue until the test subject
was dead.
It is not known how many victims fell prey to these types of tests. However,
estimates of the deaths at Pingfang (called by some the Auschwitz of the East)
range from 3,000 to 12,000. Victims included women and men, as well as
children and babies.
SOURCE:
Today I Found Out,
WWII Horror Files: Unit 731; July 26, 2013
Mankind has a very
long ugly history of hating, oppressing, raping and murdering one another...
Can't we all just
get along? The answer is NO, not without divine intervention. God is love, the
only source of genuine true, lasting, love; thus, without becoming a
born-again Christian and having God's Holy Spirit indwelling one's body, a
person cannot disperse God's unconditional love to others. Unsaved people can
still love to some degree, but it is not the love of God shed abroad in their
heart by the Holy Spirit. Romans 5:5, “And hope maketh not ashamed; because
the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy
Ghost which is given unto us.” This is why the
world is so ugly, miserable and messed up, because Satan is the spiritual
father of every unsaved person, because men reject Jesus Christ as their
personal Savior, because they love their sins (John 3:20).
The
Systematic Rape Of Albanians By Serbian Militants
During the
Yugoslavian nightmare in
the 1990's, in which 225,000 Albanians were slaughtered and
tens-of-thousands brutally raped by rape gangs, the United Nations sat back
and did NOTHING! Why do
Croatia and Serbia hate each other??? Ironically the monstrous Serbs
mostly profess to be Protestant Christians, but behave like demons.
Bosnian/Albanian war in the early 1990's, Serb camps were used as rape camps
to systematically rape Kosovo's women and young girls, many of whom became
pregnant by the raping soldiers. Systematic meaning the females were raped on
a scheduled basis, day-and-night, by soldiers waiting their turn.
...an estimated 20,000 women and girls who were subjected to organized
gang-rapes by Serbian and Yugoslav forces during the 16-month Kosovo War.
Human Rights Watch said the rapes — carried out mainly by paramilitary forces,
often in view of the victims' families — were “used deliberately as an
instrument to terrorize the civilian population.” (Kosovar militants were also
accused of rape, although the number of such cases is believed to be far
lower.)
In Kosovo, as in Bosnia-Herzegovina — where as many as 40,000 mainly Muslim
women were systematically raped by Bosnian Serb forces — the object was
humiliation and social stigma.
SOURCE: Radio Free Europe -
Radio Liberty,
How Long Can You Keep A Secret? For Kosovo's Wartime Rape Victims, The Answer
Is: Maybe Forever; May 29th, 2014.
This is the ugliness
of the world's reality friend! As our text passage teaches from Galatians 5:19-21,
these are “THE WORKS OF THE FLESH”!!! This is how human nature behaves without
God's Holy Spirit. Perhaps now you see the importance of the new birth, that
is, being BORN-AGAIN, so that the “FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT” (i.e., the Holy Spirit) will
be present in a person's life. You can only receive the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit by being born into God's family, by believing the Gospel as a sinner.
The Works
of The Holy Spirit
Galatians 5:22-26, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such
there is no law. And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the
affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying
one another.”
Carefully notice
that the word “fruit” is singular. That is, you don't get love and then pursue
patience. You don't acquire patience and then seek gentleness. You get them
all at the same time, by the Spirit of God, Who is “holy.” Notice verse 25,
which says “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” To
live in the Spirit (capital S) means to be saved, being indwelt by the Holy
Spirit. But as a believer we have a choice at any given time to either walk in
that Spirit (the new man), or walk in the flesh (the old man). The new man is
Jesus Christ. In Romans 8:9 the Holy Spirit is called “the Spirit of Christ.”
Thus, discipleship
and salvation are two different things. We get saved simply by receiving the
Gospel by faith (Galatians 3:2). Salvation is a free gift that costs us
nothing (Ephesians 2:8-9), but discipleship will cost us everything. Luke
14:33, “So likewise, whosoever he be of you that forsaketh not all that he
hath, he cannot be my disciple.” This Scripture speaks of discipleship,
not salvation. Salvation depends upon God's faithfulness, but discipleship
depends upon man's faithfulness. Romans 12:1-2 pleads with every believer to
become a discipleship, following their Savior, “which is your reasonable
service” (Romans 12:1).
1st Corinthians 6:20, “For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which
are God's”
When a person
repents (a change of mind) from unbelief and believes the Gospel, they are
saved. That new believer's character is exactly the same. Nothing has changed
about that person. The difference is that the Holy Spirit has moved inside
their body to live (Romans 8:9; 1st Corinthians 3:16-17; 1st John 3:24).
Reforming one's ways is not a requirement to receive the gift of eternal life.
God makes the changes, as the Holy Spirit works in the soul of a new believer
(Hebrews 12:6-8). The Gospel is being corrupted everywhere these days,
wrestled by unlearned men to agree with Roman Catholicism's errant view of
repentance as a change of behavior.
Religion produces religious reformation, not the new birth by the Holy Spirit
of God.
2nd Corinthians
7:10, “For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of:
but the sorrow of the world worketh death.” Paul is not saying that sorrow
(a feeling) is required for salvation; but rather, he is saying that godly
sadness about sin leads to changing one's mind, compelling them to believe the
Gospel to be saved. Repentance still means “a change of mind” (Greek:
Metanoia) in 2nd
Corinthians 7:10. Many people, after sin ruins their life, change their mind
and turn to the Gospel by faith. Repentance is not feeling sorry for
your sins. Repentance is seeing yourself as a guilty sinner in the eyes of a
holy God (Romans 3:19). Many preachers wrongly try to use 2nd Corinthians 7:10
to say that a person must “turn away from sins” to be saved, but the Bible
doesn't say that. The Bible says that being sad because of sin leads a person
to “repent” (think differently), so that they get saved. Thus, it is not that
a person must “turn from sins” to be saved; but rather, the sorrow which sin
brings often causes a person to think differently (repent) and turn to Jesus
Christ to be saved.
In Acts 20:21, we
read what we are supposed to repent (think differently) about . . .
“Repentance toward God.” Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also
to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith
toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” John 3:20 says, “For every one that
doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds
should be reproved.” The heathen unsaved man wants nothing to do with a
holy God. Therefore, when a person “repents,” they now acknowledge them self
as a guilty sinner in the eyes of a holy God. Repentance is not a change of
attitude, which involves behavioral changes as well.
"Repentance is the recognition of my
sinnership—the owning before God that I am as vile as He has declared me to be
in His holy Word."
SOURCE:
Except Ye Repent, by Dr. Harry Ironside,
chapter 3
Mankind's history
is filled with horrific crimes against each other. Man's history of intense
hatred, gang rape, inhumane torture, mass murder, savagery and barbarian
behavior is all too well documented. Without Jesus Christ anyone can become a
real monster!!! Reformation is not the answer. Education is not the answer.
Legislation is not the answer. Rehabilitation is not the answer. REGENERATION
is the answer! Christ emphatically said, “Ye must be born again” (John
3:3). END
Psalms 62:6, “He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defence;
I shall not be moved.”
