tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76005406396154371512024-03-08T04:45:44.522-08:00jgrantswankjrRead TruthInConviction at http://www.citizenlink.org/CLNews/A000006077.cfmGrant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comBlogger645125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-39263893627507729672010-03-05T09:26:00.000-08:002010-03-05T09:27:19.107-08:00US, LEARN FROM JAKARTA HOW TO SPIKE MUSLIM OBAMAJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />America should learn from Jakarta’s protesters how to clog the streets with cries of imploding the Oval Office imposter.<br /><br /><br />Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama is beheading America by throwing our money into the downdrains.<br /><br /><br />He’s a liar. He breaks his promises. He plays dictator. His crook and liar cronies stand to right and left of his every move. His wife is team member with him.<br /><br /><br />There is no doubt that Obama is using every means possible to wipe out this Republic. That is the prime purpose of any Muslim—eliminate the infidels. Beheading is the favorite modus operandi. But if one can behead without shedding blood, so much the cleaner.<br /><br /><br />Read OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs022610_printer.shtml<br /><br /><br />Obama is working night and day with cohorts Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to shred this nation from coast to coast. This is most evident with the Obamangst “care” bill ram-jammed down our throats.<br /><br /><br />Reasonable newsfeeds don’t know how to word their coverage of this insanity. Fox Newscasters in particular are stymied when trying to figure out logical ways to communicate this crazy scene from the White House.<br /><br /><br />Every day they grope for new verbiage by which to state that the present administration is killing our democracy and no one seems to know how to stop it.<br /><br /><br />Well, in Jakarta, protesters fill the air with cries that Obama is not to arrive there because he is not Muslim enough. There you have it. In America, Muslim Obama is Muslim Number One. In Jakarta Obama is not Muslim enough.<br /><br /><br />And that Islamic devotee on Pennsylvania<br />Avenue thought that once in office the Islamic world would fall at his feet, worshiping the anointed one. Not so.<br /><br /><br />Now this brings us to the spiritual analysis. God is at work through this whole mess. Why? Because of the righteous remnant at the time of America’s start and at the present moment. Those prayers match up before heaven’s throne. God answers those sincere petitions.<br /><br /><br />Satan is also at work, evidently. Satan wants to destroy America because it is the only country begun with a Christian stand. America is the Christian-heritage nation of the planet.<br /><br /><br />God wants that to continue. The sincere believers pray that that will continue.<br /><br /><br />At times the spiritual battle will become increasingly severe. However, in the end, God and His grace children will prevail. We must keep faith strong.<br /><br /><br />We must not try to play God. We must let God guide us socially, spiritually and politically—which He will do.<br /><br /><br />Watch how God moves in the future to rescue America from the Marxist Muslim schemes to rid the world of the Christian-heritage United States of America.<br /><br /><br />Jakarta is an example of how to protest Obama at the moment. Other protestations will show up on life’s screen. In each of these, God will work His move.<br /><br /><br />Read “Indonesian students protest Barack Obama's visit” at http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100305/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_obamaGrant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-17671154885910736232010-03-05T04:43:00.001-08:002010-03-05T06:00:37.713-08:00NAZNET CHAPLAIN BARBARA MOULTON = QUIET LIBERAL SUPPORTERJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />While NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff took owner/founder Dave McClung’s web site from holiness/evangelical/conservative to emergent church liberal, former moderator chaplain Barbara Moulton played cheerleader.<br /><br /><br />Whatever Deventer and Cundiff posted that was in keeping with the swing from conservative to liberal Moulton cheered on with comments or posting her name in agreement with their heretical positions.<br /><br /><br />McClung stood by permitting his site to be turned from “friend” to Church of the Nazarene to Judas the betrayer. If there is ever an enemy on the Internet to that denomination, it is NazNet.<br /><br /><br />The Church of the Nazarene Board of General Superintendents, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Nazarene Bible College, countless district superintendents, Nazarene headquarters’ department heads, Holiness Today editors and other personnel have been informed of the NazNet betrayal.<br /><br /><br />Moulton is known for her refusing to take a public witness on God’s abhorrence for homosexual activity. She, a chaplain, stated she would not marry two persons of the same gender. But she emphatically stated that she would not make a public testimony concerning the biblical position on the matter.<br /><br /><br />The latter would be in keeping with Deventer and Cundiff’s posted suspicions that the Bible is in fact without error. <br /><br /><br />Moulton’s refusal to speak in public on behalf of God was posted on the Internet. With that, McClung stated that she was “pained” by the exposure. However, McClung did not appear pained that his chaplain moderator refused to stand alongside God in His revelation in Scripture.<br /><br /><br />Moulton then became known as the gay-mum. She was mum on the gay nuptial issue. That spiked a number of responses from biblical believers asking how a Christian chaplain could be so cowardly.<br /><br /><br />Shortly, Moulton’s name disappeared from the NazNet masthead. Obviously, the “pained” Moulton led to her absenting herself from being moderator. However, she continues to post on NazNet.<br /><br /><br />Deventer and Cundiff still hold their moderator positions though their postings have been exposed far and wide. Deventer calls the exposure all “lies.” However, whatever has been revealed concerning his theological liberalism has been supported by his quotes from his postings. The same with Cundiff.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff, pastor of a small church in Alvin, Texas, knows that clergy and district leaders on the South Texas District Church of the Nazarene know of his double-tongue. They know that he preaches the typical Nazarene message from his hometown pulpit while playing the cavalier theological liberal emergent church enthusiast on NazNet.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff has even stated that the more he studies the Bible the less he knows God. Evidently to get his pastor’s salary check plus benefits, he does know God when preparing his Sunday msesages.<br /><br /><br />Deventer, from the Netherlands, knows his district superintendent has been informed of his liberal postings. Yet there is no sign that he still cannot believe in the Bible, that unsaved souls are annihilated at death, that there is an "intermediate state" for souls upon death, that he hopes God takes all souls to heaven, that there is no eternal hell, and that the emergent craze has a lot going for it as the new church.<br /><br /><br />Moulton, in the meantime, remains on NazNet as a contributor. Her postings are usually quite trivial, not broaching in-depth theological matters. However, NazNet readers cannot but remember that she was the chief cheerleader for Deventer’s and Cundiff’s liberal positions throughout.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-89435464899963031272010-03-04T18:36:00.001-08:002010-03-04T18:36:36.711-08:00WILL BABIES BLOCK OBAMANGST-CARE?J. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />“A little child shall lead them.”<br /><br /><br />It could be that the unborn child could slice and dice the Dems’ so-called “health” care bill.<br /><br /><br />“’Yes. We're prepared to take responsibility,’ Representative Bart Stupak said on ABC's Good Morning America when asked if he and his 11 Democratic allies were willing to accept the consequences for bringing down healthcare reform over abortion.<br /><br /><br />“’Let's face it. I want to see healthcare. But we're not going to bypass the principles of belief that we feel strongly about,’ he said” per Reuters.<br /><br /><br />Those who are pro-choice are for murdering unborn boys and girls. It is murder. One cannot find middle ground. One either murders the unborn child or does not murder the unborn child.<br /><br /><br />Those who are convinced that God does not want mortals to slay their children are convinced that going against that ethic will bring dire circumstances at the Judgment Seat of Christ.<br /><br /><br />Obviously there are those who are merely church people, like Nancy Pelosi who is a renegade Roman Catholic. Being a church person is not being a Christian. One must know the Savior and live by His ethic to be known as a child of Christ.<br /><br /><br />Those Dems who say that they will not give in on the abortion part of Obama’s bill are those who repeatedly inform the media that no amount of political persuasion will change their minds.<br /><br /><br />Of course, the public has been told that before and found these moralists not moralists. Time will tell who is truthful and who is playing word games.<br /><br /><br />But it just could be that in the end the children could block the Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama’s so-called “health” care issue. That would be particularly interesting considering Christ’s high regard for children.<br /><br /><br />Read “UPDATE 2-US Democrats would kill healthcare over abortion” at http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0421749120100304<br /><br /><br />FOOTNOTE: THE BIBLE AND ABORTION<br /><br /><br />It is alarming to realize the nonchalance on the part of many concerning abortion. But it is not new. A popular newsmagazine quoted one medical opinion: "Abortion is finding its place as a perfectly acceptable and valid health measure. We no longer think of it as a crime."<br /><br /><br />There are those who say that every woman has a right to control her own body. That is true. Then, having control over her own body, she should not become pregnant if she does not want children. That is control! When she becomes pregnant, then she has lost her control over that situation.<br /><br /><br />But more importantly, only God has final rights to any person's body. He brought that body into life and someday will take that body out of life. In the meantime He provides the very sustaining power for the body's life to continue.<br /><br /><br />The Bible speaks of a fetus as a person, not simply tissue that can be discarded if found to be a bother or nuisance. Since the fetus is a person from the moment of conception, then the destroying of the fetus is killing a person.<br /><br /><br />“In the past, some people have mistakenly speculated that perhaps the body might be in the process of formation for some time, and then 'God breathes a soul into it.' They had it backward. The life that is present forms matter into a body for itself'” (Joseph Breig, "Life Forms Matter," The Catholic News, Jan. 24, 1974, p. 8).<br /><br /><br />"Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out like milk ... and knit me together with bones and sinews? You gave me life and showed me kindness, and in your providence watched over my spirit" (Job 10:8-12 NIV).<br /><br /><br />"Before I was born the LORD called me; from my birth he has made mention of my name...and now the LORD says--he who formed me in the womb to be his servant..." (Isaiah 49:1, 5).<br /><br /><br />"The word of the LORD came to me, saying, ‘Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations’" (Jeremiah 1:4-5).<br /><br /><br />In the following passages we note that personality is ascribed to the unborn.<br /><br /><br />"For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that fully well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place. When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be" (Psalm 139:13-16).<br /><br /><br />"Sons are a heritage from the LORD, children a reward from him" (Psalm 127:3).<br /><br /><br />Exodus 21:22-25 relates how Israel was to judge a circumstance relating to the death of the unborn:<br /><br /><br />"If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows. But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, wound for wound, bruise for bruise."<br /><br /><br />All of the latter deals with unintentional hurt that comes to a pregnant woman; how much more will divine penalty come upon those who intentionally discard the fetus? The Gospel of Luke ascribes personality to the fetus within Elizabeth:<br /><br /><br />"When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit... As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy" (1:41, 44).<br /><br /><br />Mere tissue does not leap for joy; only personhood leaps for joy. The Bible regards the fetus as having personality. In Galatians, Paul speaks of himself as a person while still in his mother's womb, but more a person consecrated by God for a holy mission (compare Jeremiah 1:5 for the same accent):<br /><br /><br />"But when God, who set me apart from birth, and called me by his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son in me so that I might preach him among the Gentiles..." (Gal. 1: 15-16).<br /><br /><br />Since the Bible regards the fetus as personality, then the aborting of the fetus is murdering personality.<br /><br /><br />Some verses from Scripture dealing with murder are then appropriate for study, such as Genesis 9:6: "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed; for in the image of God has God made man." Also, read Exodus 23:7: "Have nothing to do with a false charge, and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty." Note I Peter 4:15: "If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer..."<br /><br /><br />If the Republic returned to the biblical definition of personhood, we would defend every womb child.<br /><br /><br />John Adams said the following:<br /><br /><br />"Our Constitution was made only for a religious and moral people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other."<br /><br /><br />Andrew Jackson said the following:<br /><br /><br />"The BIBLE is the rock on which our Republic rests."<br /><br /><br />Daniel Webster:<br /><br /><br />"If we abide by the principles taught in the BIBLE, our country will go on prospering."<br /><br /><br />"For all the talk of freedom and self-determination, the abortion movement is at its heart a movement denying rights to a silent segment of humanity and soliciting public sanction, support and subsidy to its own cause" (Donald P. Shoemaker, ABORTION, THE BIBLE AND THE CHRISTIAN, Hayes Publishing Co., 1976, p. iv).Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-46578415806412797772010-03-04T14:13:00.001-08:002010-03-04T14:13:53.057-08:00NAZNET LAID BARE TO NAZARENE SEMINARY & BIBLE COLLEGEJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />The heresies posted on NazNet have been communicated to the Nazarene Theological Seminary administration and faculty, Kansas City, MO, as well as the Nazarene Bible College administration and faculty, Colorado Springs, CO.<br /><br /><br />It is imperative that these educational institutions for clergy know the anti-Bible teachings on NazNet, the site owned and founded by Dave McClung. <br /><br /><br />NazNet claims to be a companion to the holiness denomination but is not.<br /><br /><br />NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff, for instance, both disclaim the Bible as the infallible Word of God.<br /><br /><br />They teach emergent church tenets such as the Scriptures not being reliable; therefore, one is left to pick and choose what one believes. <br /><br /><br />They follow the lessons of emergent church guru Brian McLaren who states there are no “objective truths.” That means there are no eternal absolutes. Therefore, write your own religion. McLaren brings all religions under one tent.<br /><br /><br />This kind of heresy is applauded on NazNet among other anti-Bible teachings such as the annihilation of the unsaved at death, there being an “intermediate state” upon death, and a good God not permitting an eternal hell.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS for other disclosures at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-25476718127004530022010-03-04T12:43:00.001-08:002010-03-04T12:43:33.544-08:00NAZNET MAKES A SANCTIFIED GOD CRYJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />It is so very, very sad; nevertheless, it is fact.<br /><br /><br />NazNet, set up as a site friendly to the holiness Church of the Nazarene has gone for anti-Bible teachings such as are popular now in the emergent church. <br /><br /><br />Brian McLaren, stroked emergent church guru, has become the New Age messiah for NazNet and like sites spreading across cyberspace.<br /><br /><br />NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff are two of the prime leaders with founder/owner Dave McClung giving permission for these heresies.<br /><br /><br />A web site that should be teaching the world via the Internet the marvelous life of sanctification has given itself over to being avant-garde theologically liberally.<br /><br /><br />The world is in miserable shape. It needs the biblical call of saving grace and sanctifying grace. In the meantime, we have the likes of Deventer, Cundiff and McClung endorsing the <br />Bible as riddled with mistakes.<br /><br /><br />Deventer states outright that he does not believe the Bible except for his hug with Jesus. Cundiff states outright that the more he studies Scripture the less he knows God. McClung goes on his merry way allowing this blasphemy.<br /><br /><br />There sits a web site telling readers that it is a companion to the Church of the Nazarene when in fact it is the enemy to the Church of the Nazarene.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />Those of us who love the biblical doctrine of sanctification suffer. We would pray for the site to give all energies to explaining God’s Word offering the holy life possibility. Instead, readers go to the site to read trivia, nonsense and heresy—all provided on one NazNet. <br /><br /><br />There is so much that NazNet could do as an instructor concerning the biblical doctrine of holiness. That teaching is rare within Christendom. Therefore, NazNet could pick up on that void to give forth with some of the most amazing scriptural data.<br /><br /><br />Instead one gets the impression when perusing NazNet that it tries everything but holiness as a viable theme. Why? The reason is obvious. If moderators are theologically liberal so that they question the authenticity of Scripture’s divine revelation, they personally have no living relationship with the Holy Spirit.<br /><br /><br />With that, they have nothing to teach that is biblically sound. Their minds have been given over to the reprobate mind. They are captured by the latest fads sweeping across too much of the evangelical church.<br /><br /><br />Would that NazNet would break before God, confess its waywardness and begin the mission of teaching biblical holiness. For instance, the site could begin with the lesson of sanctification being sweet surrender. What a magnificent place to begin.<br /><br /><br />Sanctification, simply stated, is sweet surrender.<br />When one becomes saved, he takes Christ's blood upon his soul. In that, he receives divine mercy. Sins are cleansed. This is a divine act beyond our fondest imaginations.<br /><br /><br />When the saved one then becomes sanctified, he yields his all to Christ. In salvation, one takes grace. In sanctification, one gives all to God.<br /><br /><br />Picture yourself now standing before God. In your hands are all that you have and are: wardrobe, vehicles, properties, family, friends, wallet, health or sickness, desires, reputation, abilities, dreams, future ambitions, finally death and eternal destiny.<br /><br /><br />Lift all of this to God. Give it all to Him without reservation. That is the surrender of sanctification. You received at salvation; you now yield at sanctification.<br /><br /><br />In that moment of submitting completely, the Holy Spirit accepted your all. He then cleansed it in order to return it as holy to you. Now what you submitted is ready for the kingdom's good. <br /><br /><br />Previously, it was used chiefly for your own self-focused "good."<br /><br /><br />At the time of sanctification, you are made pure by the Holy Spirit. He takes away your selfishness, stubbornness and stupidity which clung to things for your own welfare. In place of all that, He gives you grace to abandon to God. Now you no longer live for self but for the Savior alone.<br /><br /><br />When you were first saved, your sins were cleansed. Now that you are sanctified, your sin nature is cleansed. This is the "double cure" of which we sing in the hymn, "Amazing Grace."<br /><br /><br />How does the Christian remain sanctified? Simply put: remain surrendered to the Holy Spirit in everything. Do not take back anything that you yielded to God. Leave all with Him--everything old, everything new—past, present, future.<br /><br /><br />As long as your soul submits completely to the Lord, you are continually cleansed. This is all accomplished by His grace, not of works, lest anyone should boast of his own human achievements.<br /><br /><br />Grace saves us from our sins. Grace sanctifies us from our sin nature. Therefore, God receives all the glory.<br /><br /><br />Can one remain sanctified completely until death? Certainly. By an act of free will, one becomes saved and sanctified. One chooses these opportunities of divine grace. Likewise, the believer may exercise free will for holiness till death. The decision is always left with us.<br /><br /><br />Less than surrender is misery. It is a double-minded life--living for God, yet living secretly (and sometimes obviously) for one's self. This is evidently difficult and trying to the soul.<br /><br /><br />Total surrender is sweet in that it returns one's soul completely to God. Instead of straining to plot one's own benefits, one yields all such maneuvering to God. Therefore, there is a freedom from striving in everything.<br /><br /><br />The on-going life of sanctification then is perfecting the surrender. It is learning from the Holy Spirit how to consecrate the most practical items to God--life's minors and majors. It is being taught how to think with God ("the mind of Christ"). <br /><br /><br />It is discovering that material less is spiritual more.<br /><br /><br />Sanctification in this life has no conclusion but "more." There is always more to come upon in God, more to precision, more to uncover of one's own self and of God's self. That is why it is such an exhilarating adventure.<br /><br /><br />How then does "the law" enter into this sanctifying grace? Is one at liberty to do as one pleases once one comes into this release? No. Instead, one finds that God's commandments are the key to freedom within. Therefore, the sanctified yearn for more of God's statutes.<br /><br /><br />The Bible speaks of the "law of liberty." This is one more aspect of the sweet surrender. It is experiencing being a slave to God in order to be free from sin and self-centeredness. These paradoxes are lived out dynamically in the sanctified walk.<br /><br /><br />When the sanctified read of God's expectations (laws) in the Word, they become as delicacies to be enjoyed. Before sanctification, the double-minded believer shunned God's laws for they appeared restrictive. After sanctification, the believer binds God's laws to his heart for they are indeed liberating.<br /><br /><br />Abiding by God's law releases one from being legalistic. Legalism is adhering to man-made laws. <br /><br /><br />Living by God's laws is not cold, sharp and unkind legalism; instead, it is gentle, understanding and patient.<br /><br /><br />Satan thrives on a legalistic religion. The Holy Spirit tutors the sanctified in the eternally true laws of God. <br /><br /><br />First century Judaism was founded upon legalism. Jesus offered the truth which would set one free from such humanly manufactured bondage. For that reason, Jesus was murdered by the religious system.<br /><br /><br />Live out the law of holy love and you yourself will be set free. Strap the commandments of God to your soul joyfully; in that you will be released from your chief enemy--stubborn self.<br /><br /><br />Sweet surrender not only includes yielding tangibles and inner drives. It also includes pain, confusion, tormented thinking, betrayals of the past, disappointments, ponderings of suicide, doubts and dreads.<br /><br /><br />The true sweetness of this surrender is realizing that the Father is willing to accept these hurts--for healing. Many have been made whole when they submitted those wounds of the heart which they thought they had to contend with till death. No. "Cast all your cares. . ." means all.<br /><br /><br />Frequently, Bible preachers and teachers request their hearers to yield tangibles and inner drives. <br /><br /><br />But it is not that frequently that such speakers get around to the awful burdens that many sincere grace-children carry all the time. Therapeutically, it is needful that we preach the "full gospel"--submit to Him the bleeding souls, too. He can soothe. And He does.<br /><br /><br />Sanctification is one of the most enticing dimensions of the gospel. It is sad that it is not set forth more often. Our souls are made for this opportunity of grace. To lack this experience is to remain partially bound in spirit.<br /><br /><br />When Jesus said that He came to set us free, He meant it. Sanctification is that wide, open door. <br /><br /><br />Have you come to God with your all? Have you stood before Him with everything? Then have you yielded all of this--pain and pleasure--to the One who formed you?<br /><br /><br />Let Him take this package for its cleansing. Satan will lie to you that God will rob you blind, leave you bankrupt. Do not believe the father of deceit.<br /><br /><br />The Holy Spirit will instead make your offering holy, returning it to you for heaven's sake.<br /><br /><br />From that moment onward, keep that package in God's plan. In that, you will experience in the depth of your soul the sweetness of your on-going surrender. <br /><br /><br />Such will continue, if you will it, till you see Him face to face when walking through the door of death.<br /><br /><br />Eternal life will be continuing the sanctification without threat of Satan's intrusion. It will in fact be "holiness forevermore."<br /><br /><br />Read DISCOVER HOLINESS at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs030110.shtmlGrant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-57746402995130640212010-03-03T18:27:00.001-08:002010-03-03T18:54:50.991-08:00NAZNET LACKS THE VOICE OF CONVICTIONJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />NazNet’s froth is overwhelming. That web site is laden with the superficial. Yet if it were true to being “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene, as it states it is, it would fire up the holy convictions.<br /><br /><br />That church was begun in the blaze of conviction—“holiness unto the Lord is our watchword and song.” That was the preaching point. That was the lifestyle. That was the mission. And there was never a doubt about it.<br /><br /><br />Yet the voice of conviction is fading from today's pulpit.<br /><br /><br />Why?<br /><br /><br />Partly because a premium has been put on appeasement, cordiality, management methods, arbitration, dialog, suave and debonair, political maneuvering, relativism, and "don't make waves."<br /><br /><br />There has been a loss of holiness ethics, biblical understanding, spiritual knowledge and, in general, a washout of black-and-white morality.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, when one does speak today with the voice of conviction, he may be regarded as hyper in personality. He may be labeled as brash or uncouth, out of step.<br /><br /><br />It is rather risky today then to speak without compromise regarding biblical truths: tithing, hell as well as heaven, Jesus as the sole hope of salvation, God's Day kept holy, separation from sin, biblical loyalties, sanctified lifestyles, spiritual discipline, daily devotions, fidelity in marriage, honesty in finances and the like.<br /><br /><br />If and when one does preach on the Bible's fundamental themes, there is the real danger of running into crossfire with certain power plays in the camp.<br /><br /><br />That is why numerous pulpits have acquiesced to the harmless and hilarious, limp and languid.<br /><br /><br />Sad.<br /><br /><br />Yet when one researches the Bible, he discovers a God with the voice of conviction. <br /><br /><br />No wonder there is this staccato throughout Scriptures: "Thus saith the Lord." In other words, God’s declaration is a given; it has been revealed from eternity and therefore is not open to question. With that, such revealed truth is conveyed with conviction, no compromise permitted. Simplicity and forthrightness are absolutely necessary in the communication—clear and clean.<br /><br /><br />When this God pronounces His eternal imperatives, He speaks with gusto through dedicated preachers. Take, for example, the prophets warning Israelis of their backsliding, not tithing, desecrating the Lord's holy day, sexual license, materialistic cravings in neglecting their poor. Not nice topics delivered in soft tones; but all necessary if the prophets were going to be true to God.<br /><br /><br />Further, when this God implanted Himself in Jesus, that voice of conviction took flesh and dwelt among us—with raised voice on occasion. With stern countenance on occasion. With authority always.<br /><br /><br />When a preacher speaks with the Jesus-voice of conviction, those who are behaving under God applaud, encouraging such messages to continue.<br /><br /><br />I can hardly picture Jesus toppling Temple tables in a meek and mild manner. Nor telling hypocrites that they were of their father the devil while wearing a sweet smile. <br /><br /><br />Can one imagine John the Baptist with a Gentleman's Quarterly profile while castigating Herod for sleeping with a woman not his wife?<br /><br /><br />And what about Paul's demeanor when preaching to one congregation after <br />another, warning listeners of zealots plotting to undo his gospel planting?<br /><br /><br />The Bible is electric with power, riddled with zeal, moving and disturbing with a God who means business, refusing to play religious games to placate.<br /><br /><br />Why then does today's church find itself so easily comfortable?<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-17683587025562427162010-03-02T04:01:00.001-08:002010-03-02T04:01:48.534-08:00HERETICAL NAZNET HANS DEVENTER’S BOSS TALKSJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />NazNet moderator Hans Deventer divulged on Dave McClung’s site that Deventer’s Nazarene District Superintendent had contacted him.<br /><br /><br />I had communicated with the Netherlands District Superintendent regarding Deventer’s heresies blatantly posted on the supposed “friend”-to-Nazarene web site.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />These heresies included Deventer not believing in the Bible, holding that unsaved souls are annihilated at death, that souls go to an “intermediate state” upon death, and that there is no immediate entrance into heaven upon death for saved souls.<br /><br /><br />Further, Deventer was quite enthusiastic about the emergent church’s fuzzy teachings, mainly that one does not need “objective truths”—that is, moral absolutes—as long as one has sweet Jesus. Moral absolutes get in the way. Hugging Jesus is the all-in-all. Deventer stated: “I don’t believe the Bible. . .”<br /><br /><br />Deventer also aggressively pushed for a worldwide infant baptism acceptance throughout the Church of the Nazarene, though no infants are ever mentioned being baptized per the New Testament. Deventer expressed that he just could not understand why Nazarenes did not get the message that infant baptism was far more superior than infant dedication. Infant dedication is the traditional mode in that denomination.<br /><br /><br />Deventer definitely leaned in the ritualistic-liturgical “high church” direction of Anglican/Episcopalian when it came to worship style. He delighted in referring to “communion” as the “Eucharist,” the latter term not traditionally used in the denomination. “Communion” is the preferred term.<br /><br /><br />His theology was old-time liberalism cloaked in his own confused entanglement phrases. Deventer’s communication style was the more unclear the more posh, typical of emergent church proponents.<br /><br /><br />Deventer stated on NazNet that his boss had received ten emails in two days concerning Deventer’s various anti-Bible posts, none in keeping with the historic Church of the Nazarene.<br /><br /><br />The District Superintendent told me that he would speak to Deventer about matters. Apparently the boss followed through.<br /><br /><br />The Church of the Nazarene Board of General Superintendents, Nazarene Theological<br />Seminary and Nazarene Bible College administrations and faculties have also been informed of NazNet’s theological liberal positions, Deventer’s in particular.<br /><br /><br />The question then comes down to this: How does Dave McClung, founder/owner of the site, permit these gross theological distortions propagated especially by his two prime moderators—Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff?<br /><br /><br />McClung is a wealthy businessman who has held prestigious positions on various denominational boards as well as being one-time President of Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy, MA.<br /><br /><br />Read “Naznet's Dave Mcclung's Cronyism Ups Emergent Devilment” at http://www.articlesbase.com/blogging-articles/naznet039s-dave-mcclung039s-cronyism-ups-emergent-devilment-1903633.html<br /><br /><br />Why then does he advertise his site as a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene when he allows constant anti-Bible moderator positions expressed? Some individuals have reached the conclusion that McClung was in fact creating his own Internet church in competition with the Church of the Nazarene.<br /><br /><br />Read ” Naznet Hans Deventer's Boss 'Will Discuss Questions'” at http://www.magic-city-news.com/J_Grant_Swank_61/Naznet_Hans_Deventer_s_Boss_Will_Discuss_Questions13076.shtmlGrant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-26027117371269965532010-03-01T17:23:00.001-08:002010-03-01T17:23:49.122-08:00AMERICA: INTERCESSORY PRAYER A MUSTJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Intercessory prayer is one of the most powerful petitions to God that there is available to the sincere biblical believer.<br /><br /><br />It is powerful in that it focuses on that which is beyond the pray-er. Much of our petitions to God are centered on ourselves. They have to do with our needs and wants.<br /><br /><br />Intercessory prayer is the go-between offering to heaven’s throne. We put self aside for the good of another.<br /><br /><br />America’s need right now is for those who truly believe in the power of prayer to be go-betweens for the nation and God’s mercy seat.<br /><br /><br />This means earnest, heart-felt prayer. It is sacrificial prayer. It may call for prayer and fasting. It is more than ritual. It is more than liturgy. It is the agonizing of the soul on behalf of this country.<br /><br /><br />There are many evil forces at work to destroy the Republic. They are working night and day. So it is that genuine Christians need to bring their pleas constantly to the Lord for divine intervention in America.<br /><br /><br />“Pray without ceasing.”<br /><br /><br />“The effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails much.”<br /><br /><br />When believers gather in homes for fellowship, it would be so helpful for these Christians to lift their hearts heaven-ward, beseeching God’s plan for the nation. <br /><br /><br />Pray for those in power who do not know God to come to know Him through Christ. Pray for those who once knew God but are now backslidden to return to total allegiance to the Savior.<br /><br /><br />When waking, pray for America. When going to sleep, pray for America. When going through the day’s round, pray for America. Ejaculatory prayers—dart-prayers that are brief but meaningful—need to be shot upward constantly.<br /><br /><br />Pray for individual states. Pray for legislative bodies. Pray for government office workers. Pray for households and schools and town offices.<br /><br /><br />Picture your eye roving from coast to coast, then offer that land to God for His consecration. Believe that God will honor your intercession for it is from the depth of your soul that you expect heaven to act.<br /><br /><br />“More is wrought by prayer than this world dreams of” said Alfred Lord Tennyson.<br /><br /><br />Then let us put this priority at the top of our list this anxious season. See God answer. And then give Him the honor and all the praise.Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-81840800871279920492010-03-01T15:55:00.001-08:002010-03-01T15:55:48.856-08:00DAVE MC CLUNG: FACEBOOK NIXES NAZNET?J. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Could Facebook have become more popular than NazNet? Maybe.<br /><br /><br />NazNet founder/owner Dave McClung states on his site that Facebook might have magnetized communicators over NazNet.<br /><br /><br />That very well could be the fact. There are so many integrity questions looming about NazNet that persons with an honest heart for biblical truth may just be making a reasonable detour to Facebook.<br /><br /><br />After all, NazNet describes itself as “friend” to the holiness, evangelical Church of the Nazarene while posting anti-Bible reads.<br /><br /><br />Moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff, both listed on NazNet masthead, are chief integrity offenders when it comes to boasting anti-Bible beliefs.<br /><br /><br />Deventer does not believe in the Bible, just sweet Jesus counts. In other words, a hug from Jesus is okay, no matter biblical researching of details concerning this or that.<br /><br /><br />Deventer also holds that unsaved souls are snuffed out at the last breath. In other words, there is no hell, only annihilation of the unsaved.<br /><br /><br />Deventer holds to an “intermediate state” upon death—whatever that means. In other words, “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord” does not hold for Deventer as he constantly types out his doctrinal oddities.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff states on NazNet that the more one <br />studies the Bible, the less one knows about God. Reach your own conclusion on that zinger.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff espouses the emergent church as a springboard for revitalizing Christianity—the emergent church holding to no “objective truths” per prime leader Brian McLaren. Cundiff concludes McLaren’s situation ethics to be posh.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff even goes so far as to say that kind of agnosticism clarifies his “Wesleyan” understanding. If you make sense of that one, let the rest of us biblical enthusiasts know, please.<br /><br /><br />McClung baptizes these heresies by permitting them to reign on his site. If McClung were theologically astute he would have never mastheaded these two left-wingers for theological liberalism—totally contrary to the Wesleyan, holiness base of the Church of the <br />Nazarene.<br /><br /><br />More could be noted. For additional information on NazNet distortions, click onto NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />With the above taken seriously, it could be that biblical loyalists are now sidelining NazNet for other forum opportunities on the Internet. It surely would be a breath of fresh honest air to those genuinely interested in sharing spiritual insights.<br /><br /><br />After all, it takes quite an intense search on NazNet to discover anything of theological or practical Christian living substance. There is froth all over the place. But substance is lacking—obviously so. Irritatingly so to the thinking believer.<br /><br /><br />On alternative forums intelligent Bible-wise disciples can get deeply into doctrine and Christian-applied living without having to sidestep NazNet heresies floating throughout that site.Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-86563839038247858622010-02-28T05:52:00.001-08:002010-02-28T05:52:49.755-08:00EMERGENT CHURCH NAZNET: GOD CAN GET ANGRYJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Sweety-pie emergent church hugs a smiley Jesus. That’s it. NazNet moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff along with former moderator chaplain Barbara Moulton agree. So obviously does NazNet founder/owner Dave McClung.<br /><br /><br />But there is no only-smiley-Jesus in the Bible. That is a figment of the adolescent imagination of theological liberalism.<br /><br /><br />However, one cannot actually have a Jesus unless He is the historical Jesus as recorded in holy writ. That is the Jesus one must deal with if one is going to say his life is committed to actual Jesus. A huggy, smiley, make-believe Jesus is legendary, to start with.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, to surrender one’s existence to the historical Jesus is to surrender to the God of the Bible—the whole Bible, Old Testament included. And that God is the perfect eternal balance of mercy and justice.<br /><br /><br />The emergent church NazNet only wants the mercy. They don’t want the justice part. This is particularly so in the posts typed by Deventer and Cundiff. They are sappy posts, yes. But they are sappy because they won’t own up to the just God of Scripture.<br /><br /><br />The just God of Scripture must be just if He is going to be merciful. A lopsided God is a deity one does not want to commit to. <br /><br /><br />In Scripture, God can be merciful. God can also be angry. The angry parts include Noah’s day flood. Scores of mortals drowned because an angry God doomed them to their punishment. They had rejected His call to holiness, living in sin purposefully; therefore God wiped them off the planet.<br /><br /><br />Read YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021010.shtml<br /><br /><br />So that is the God of the Bible. That same God appeared in Jesus, dying murderously on the cross in our place as our substitute sacrifice. Jesus took our sins upon Himself, washing them away via His blood when we repent of our wrongdoing.<br /><br /><br />There are countless other examples of divine mercy and anger throughout the Bible, of course. But the point is that if one is going to believe in the God of mercy, one must also hold to the God of justice.<br /><br /><br />What is interesting today is that these emergent church NazNet disciples of the huggy Jesus don’t seem to get that God is angry right now. It is part fulfillment of biblical prophecy. For instance, the Jesus of Scripture predicted that in End Times there would be an increase of earthquakes and pestilence.<br /><br /><br />Sin would increase. People would turn against one another, even within families. True believers would be martyred. And so forth.<br /><br /><br />All of this happens present-tense. The earthquake part in particular is evidence of God’s anger at the tolerated disobedience throughout the world. One does not have to tally those sins for the moralists already are quite sensitive to the list.<br /><br /><br />But the point is this: God is angry now. But right now is the time frame that emergent church willy-nillys are declaring a deity who only hugs and kisses, snuggles and cuddles. Their deity does not get angry, will not tolerate Noah’s day <br />flood, and surely will not permit an eternal hell.<br /><br /><br />These are surely intriguing times to live in. While biblical prophecy is unfolding before our newsfeeds’ eyes, a lame brain segment of religionists proclaim that their god is lovey-<br />dovey sweetcakes.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-76211203905576979192010-02-27T19:16:00.000-08:002010-02-27T19:17:07.023-08:00NAZNET FORBIDS ME TO READ ITS CODE OF CHRISTIAN ETHICSJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />The Internet provides the Code of Ethics subscribed to by Christian web sites, NazNet being one of them.<br /><br /><br />But when I try to get into that site to read the NazNet Christian Code of Ethics, I am forbidden.<br /><br /><br />“Forbidden” in large bold letters is in the left hand corner of my screen. All I want to do is read NazNet’s agreement to live by the Christian ethics code; however, I cannot get to that segment.<br /><br /><br />What does NazNet have to hide? Why are the owners and moderators keeping me from reading their commitment?<br /><br /><br />As far as I can reason, NazNet knows it is not living up to that Christian code of ethics for it describes itself as a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene while cutting right through the Nazarene doctrinal fundamentals.<br /><br /><br />The Church of the Nazarene preaches biblical truth from Genesis to Revelation. NazNet posts moderators’ statements that they do not believe in the Bible or doubt parts of the Bible as being divinely inspired.<br /><br /><br />Further, NazNet touts heresies as reported in NAZNET DISTORTS where these heresies can be researched in exceptional detail: http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />With that, what comes through loud and clear to me is that since I have exposed NazNet to world readers via the Internet, I am not privy to their unethical standing as related to the Christian ethics code on cyberspace.<br /><br /><br />These readers include headquarters’ personnel at the denominational offices in Kansas City as well as spiritual leadership on the South Texas District where moderator Scott Cundiff, Pastor, Alvin Texas Church, preaches one thing while posting heresies on NazNet.<br /><br /><br />In addition, faculty and administration at the Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, MO, and Nazarene Bible College, Colorado Springs, CO have been informed of these heresies on NazNet. Moreover, countless district superintendents throughout the world church have received this data.<br /><br /><br />With this particular post, it is my hope that these persons will read the Christian Code of Ethics as related to NazNet and posted on the Internet. In that, they will see the huge ethical gap between NazNet and the code.<br /><br /><br />Read NazNet.com's Christian Internet Code of Ethics” at http://freechristiancontent.org/NazNet.coms_Christian_Internet_Code_of_Ethics.htm<br /><br /><br />Also, For more information visit the Christian Internet Code of Ethics home page. I am forbidden to reach this site because NazNet has cut me off from reaching it.<br /><br /><br />I receive this message:<br /><br /><br />“Forbidden<br /><br />“You don't have permission to access /ethics/ on this server.”Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-39961209186179654982010-02-27T05:55:00.001-08:002010-02-27T05:55:47.810-08:00ATHEIST MEETING AT WHITE HOUSEJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama lifted atheists on the same level as Christians in his inaugural address. No other President of the United States has done that or would have thought of doing that.<br /><br /><br />However, Obama works hard at eliminating America’s Christian heritage; therefore, to put atheists on the same par with Christians is right in line with his agenda.<br /><br /><br />Now Obama has invited atheists to the White House for a conference. That puts them right there where they want to be. Can an American patriot truly imagine such a move?<br /><br /><br />India has its religions, particularly Hindu and Muslim. Egypt has its religion, chiefly Muslim. And America has its Christian heritage. Let’s keep it that way. To eliminate that heritage is anathema. It is illogical. Further, it is against the God of the Bible.<br /><br /><br />However, since the God of the Bible knows truly where Obama’s birth certificate is and to whom Obama gives allegiance as deity, perhaps God will have mercy with the rest of the American public. At least the righteous remnant petitions that God to do something to rescue the nation from Obama’s beheading the country.<br /><br /><br />Read OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs022610.shtml<br /><br /><br />“The effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails much.” So states the Bible.<br /><br /><br />Biblical believers are counting on that in a very significant way. And their faith will go rewarded. God is not impressed with the large and many. God is taken up with the small and few, per biblical data repeated over and over.<br /><br /><br />Christ Himself stated in the Sermon on the Mount that few are on the road to heaven. Many are on the way to hell. Those who don’t like blunt language can deal with that one in the biblical section often thought of by theological liberals as sweet and poetic.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, when Obama calls for an atheist conclave in his own house on Pennsylvania Avenue, God will take note.<br /><br /><br />Christians will continue to intercede on behalf of the nation’s Christian heritage. And in due course, atheists will go the way of the forgotten.<br /><br /><br />Read “Obama aides to meet with atheists on White House grounds” at http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/25/88475/obama-aides-to-meet-with-atheists.htmlGrant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-18322577007600719492010-02-26T20:04:00.000-08:002010-02-26T20:05:05.262-08:00AMERICANS FOR HEALTH BILL, JUST NOT CRAZY ROUTE TO GET THEREJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />It’s not that Americans are not for an update on health care. It’s just that they are adamantly against a paper stack that no one gets and is jammed down their throats.<br /><br /><br />Barack Hussein Obama has taken the country on such a crazy, egocentric ride that we are all so dizzy we can’t stand up straight.<br /><br /><br />There is such fear in the American heart regarding the future of health care. Add to that utter confusion.<br /><br /><br />The citizenry deserves far better than a Marxist Muslim swinging left-of-left surrounded by a czar shadow government of crooks and liars.<br /><br /><br />Read OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICA at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/gs022610.shtml<br /><br /><br />Why then should grassroots America trust this Oval Office deceiver with their health? They should never trust him. And so they don’t.<br /><br /><br />Nor do they trust his Dem henchmen in Congress who vote themselves his clones. The mob hysteria continues from election day to the Congressional Dems kissing Obama’s feet.<br /><br /><br />Intelligent Americans have had it. They wonder what has happened to their nation. When pledging the flag it is with such sad hearts. This White House dictator is robbing us of our heritage plus putting us into such financial ruin that tomorrows are darkened beyond belief.<br /><br /><br />Those who claim faith in the God of the Bible hold out that this Savior will respond graciously to the righteous remnant’s pleas. I am among those believers.<br /><br /><br />I know that the only hope left is in the God of our first settlers who kept their faith strong midst some of the most trying difficulties.<br /><br /><br />So it is that the moralists still read their Bibles, clinging to the divine promises and looking forward to divine judgment to come upon those seeking to destroy America.<br /><br /><br />Read AMERICA: GOD-THANKFUL SOULS STARTED IT ALL at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021910.shtmlGrant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-85566602404561385002010-02-26T13:39:00.001-08:002010-02-26T13:39:29.551-08:00CAN NAZNET FIND THE HOLINESS HERITAGE?J. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Can the advertised Nazarene-friendly NazNet website discover once again its holiness heritage that sparked its start at Pilot Point, Texas in 1908?<br /><br /><br />Some would have it today that the biblical call to the holy life is too difficult to understand. That is unfortunate in that for decades preachers, teachers and evangelists have given forth on the holiness lifestyle over and over again.<br /><br /><br />There are still those faithful to the holiness truth set forth in Scripture. May NazNet and all those into biblical research uncover this marvelous divine provision, proclaiming it without apology or compromise.<br /><br /><br />The nearly l20 gathered in the Upper Room were “filled with the Holy Spirit” (Acts 2:4)!<br /><br /><br />When the Holy Spirit comes upon a disciple, there are various occurrences which are primary and wonderful.<br /><br /><br />First, the infilling is a GIFT, not an achievement. All that God does in a believer’s life, from alpha to omega, is provided by divine grace. There is nothing which is trophied as an accomplishment by the human vessel.<br /><br /><br />When one receives salvation, it is by divine grace. Even the prevenient grace which precedes saving grace is emptied out upon the human heart by God Himself. So it is with the infilling. It is an act of grace executed by heaven’s powers so that the homo sapien may enter into the holy of holies provided here on earth.<br /><br /><br />Second, the infilling is bestowed by a PERSON, not an institution nor ritual nor ecclesiastical title. The origins of the sanctifying presence are from Him—the Third Person of the Holy Trinity. Therefore, one may be filled by the Holy Spirit anywhere and at any time the Spirit deems it appropriate.<br /><br /><br />Consequently, no attention is focused upon churchly leaders nor rites nor liturgies nor assemblies. All of these are extraneous to the marvel of the infilling presence. God is a jealous God; therefore, He deserves all focus—totally so—for He is the fount of the sanctifying experience.<br /><br /><br />Third, the infilling is an introduction to the HOLINESS of God. It is a holy come-upon by the divine. Why? Because the Indweller is nothing but holiness. There is no sin nor carnality within the divine nature; consequently, when He sets up residence within the human life, that housing is evidenced in the holy life. “Be holy, even as I am holy.”<br /><br /><br />Therefore, the competing spirits of this existence are left to their unholiness. These spirits are the spirits of self, worldliness, Satan, carnality, bigotry, hypocrisy, and so on. No other spirit in planetary sphere can compare with the HOLY Spirit, for all others spirits are less than holy; in other words, they are of this fallen scope.<br /><br /><br />Fourth, the infilling is MULTI-DIMENSIONAL in splendor just as the Holy Spirit is infinitely creative in power, peace and purity. These many facets of the Holy Spirit’s personality have no allowance for evil; however, within the eternal awareness of His being, the Spirit is everlastingly imaginative—far beyond human speculations.<br /><br /><br />Consequently, when the Holy Spirit explores the human personality for kingdom fulfillment, there are endless doings which the Spirit will come upon. That is why it is faulty to circumscribe the Spirit’s work within the consecrated life. That is why it is unbiblical to narrowly define what and how the Spirit is to achievement His plans for and through the dedicated soul.<br /><br /><br />One must permit the Spirit His perfect freedom to do what He wants to do, how He wants to do it, and when He wants to perform it. Openness is the anticipatory key which opens up the infinite possibilities to the loving Spirit’s chartings for good.<br /><br /><br />Fifth, the infilling is DURABLE for the Holy Spirit is God! There is no start nor finish to God. There are no boundaries to God except those which would contradict His holy nature, such as wickedness. There are no “wearings thin” with God.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, when the holy work is begun in the consecrated heart, durability can see <br />through the experience to heaven’s gates. There is the possibility that one can remain true to the indwelling Spirit if one wills such tenacity to be lasting. It is true that the human still deals with foibles, shortcomings, eccentricities, mistakes in judgment and performance—but one does not have to backslide into sin if one determines holiness to be set. It is a matter of persevering with one will in control—that is, the DIVINE will only.<br /><br /><br />Sixth, the infilling is ADEQUATE for the Holy Spirit is all-sufficient. His chief historical proof of such is His raising Jesus from the dead. If there is a power who can raise the dead, then there is nothing which is impossible to that mighty presence. Yes, the Spirit of God is a match and more for any trial in this existence. There is nothing too difficult for Him to conquer—again, in His time and manner.<br /><br /><br />Consequently, in the indwelt soul, “all things work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose”. What is His purpose? It is holiness. That is the chief desire of a holy God for His children of grace. Therefore, there is no testing which God cannot overcome. It is then a matter of faith on the part of the indwelt. One simply believes in the adequacy of the divine, no matter what may arise to threaten, even martyrdom.<br /><br /><br />Seventh, the infilling is ATTRACTIVE in that the Holy Spirit is handsome in His nature and evidence. All the beauty of creation is from the workings of the Spirit who first brooded upon those creation waters. All that is good, clean, delightful and happy finds its source in the Holy Spirit.<br /><br /><br />It is the unholy spirits which are violent, ugly and repulsive. They promise fulfillment, peace, prosperity and all the other human desires for this world. But they cannot produce lastingly any of these offers. That is why Satan is a deceiver, the Father of Lies. Therefore, when one is indwelt with the spirits of worldliness, self, lust, avarice and so forth, one is overcome with the grip of emptiness, finally controlled by these spirits.<br /><br /><br />Eighth, the infilling is HUMBLE in that all focus is upon the Provider. That is why the sermons and testimonies following the Day of Pentecost all point to Jesus, the One whose death upon the cross made Pentecost presence possible.<br /><br /><br />“Wait…until you are overcome from on high,” Jesus commissioned His own when ascending into heaven. It was Jesus who purchased our salvation and sanctification upon Calvary. It was Jesus who breathed His last by taking our sins upon His sacrificial head, becoming scapegoat for rebellious humanity. It was Jesus who rose from the grave. It was Jesus who returned as our Intercessor to the right hand of the Father in glory. It was Jesus who predicted that the disciples would be indwelt by holiness. It was Jesus who then was lifted up by the Early Church as the Supplier of the Pentecost Spirit.<br /><br /><br />Consequently, all self-glory in the work of the holy kingdom is anathema to the truth of Christianity. It must be abhorred. It must be exposed and put away immediately. There is no room for pomp and circumstance when it comes to the fleshly leadership of any Christian institution. All of that will pass as dust. Therefore, only the adorable beholding of the Sanctifying Savior is tolerable in any labor for God.<br /><br /><br />Humility is the most rare gift to be found in any generation. Yet it is absolutely imperative that believers come upon that gift in order for all ego attention to be driven from our midst. It must be a conscious effort. It must be prayed over. It must be set forth more publicly from every pulpit. It must be written across our hearts daily. We are nothing; He is everything. “For without Me, you can do nothing.” And without Him, we indeed are nothing.Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-66244282463686639892010-02-26T06:39:00.001-08:002010-02-26T06:39:36.777-08:00EMERGENT CHURCH NAZNET PREACHER Xs OUT THE BIBLEJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Scott Cundiff fits right in with the emergent church foolishness.<br /><br /><br />God is a “violent and genocidal child killer.”<br /><br /><br />God is deranged when he calls for “Noah’s flood, the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and the slaughter of the Canaanites and Amalekites.”<br /><br /><br />The Old Testament deity is anathema to this Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene pastor who serves as moderator on “friend”-to-Nazarenes web site NazNet.<br /><br /><br />I wonder if Scott Cundiff preaches the above disconcerting suspicions regarding the Bible to his Sunday morning congregation. Of course, it is a small church so maybe those few don’t care what they get for a message.<br /><br /><br />And when it comes to Cundiff’s Sunday evening evangelistic messages, how can he present the biblical God when there are questions buzzing all around his head concerning the scriptural authority? Perhaps God messed up throughout the entire writ.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff writes on NazNet that perhaps there is an “’otherness’” to God. What that means is anyone’s guess. Surely God has declared His persona throughout Scripture for us to get the basic point that He is the perfect eternal balance between justice and mercy. However, Cundiff does not seem to get hold of that.<br /><br /><br />But I would wager that when it comes to preaching biblical sermons in Alvin he sticks to the Word. After all, there is a pastor’s salary check plus parsonage and benefits at stake here. So keep the old holiness preaching going full force. There’s money in it.<br /><br /><br />But on NazNet, Cundiff changes to a kiss up for liberals on site—some young, others older. And of course he can always depend on Netherlands’ favorite Hans Deventer to back up his agnosticism. And then there is NazNet founder/owner Dave McClung who permits the<br />two heretics to post anything they please on NazNet.<br /><br /><br />So there is an “’otherness’” to God that Cundiff can’t understand. Perhaps Cundidff should realize that mortal brains cannot grasp the wholeness of God. Perhaps Cundiff should also conclude that the Word is a divine revelation that will only be totally grasped in eternity when our understanding apparatus is perfect.<br /><br /><br />In the meantime, believers read the Word by faith. They live the Word by faith. They evangelize concerning the Word by faith.<br /><br /><br />And those who have not given up on the Word get to see more clearly the God of Scripture as the Holy Spirit gives understanding to the humble. For instance, read the footnote to understand how God can do what He did in the Old Testament time frame. There is reason to it all; but Cundiff gives up too quickly—as does Deventer and McClung plus their clique on NazNet.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff writes on NazNet: “Writing from a devotional point of view my take away is that there’s that about God, an ‘otherness’ that is beyond us and that passages like that (Old Testament verses) are reminders of that fact.”<br /><br /><br />However, Cundiff’s suspicions are okay for they keep him in line with his Wesleyan theology. He states that outright. As soon as someone can tell me how agnosticism with such disbelief in the God of Scripture lines up with holiness Wesleyan doctrine, let me know. But Cundfif has come upon the twosome wedding one another quite nicely.<br /><br /><br />“I find a solid Wesleyan perspective that helps me deal with the issue.” Again, what is the issue? It is that Cundiff cannot believe in the God of the Bible. Yet that baseline brings him closer to his Wesleyan understanding.<br /><br /><br />Truthfully, there is no tie between John Wesley’s teaching concerning the Bible’s God and Cunciff’s “’otherness.’” None.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff continues: “And van de Beek is right. No matter how hard one tries, it is impossible to reconcile the many commands to kill enemies in the Old Testament with the commands to love our enemies in the New.<br /><br /><br />“Even more difficult is the portrait painted of God as a violent and genocidal child killer in the Old Testament (Noah’s flood, the fiery destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the slaughter of the Canaanites and Amalekites), and in Christ the lover of children in the New.<br /><br /><br />“Van de Beek admits as much. He confesses that ‘The more one wants to let all of Scripture speak for itself . . . the more unclear the Bible becomes. The more we believe that the whole Word is revelation, the less we know who God is.’”<br /><br /><br />Cundiff states his belief in this Bible-throw-away. Sad, but true. And he’s right there in the Texas Bible belt (South Texas District/Church of the Nazarene) supposedly ministering the gospel to the unsaved.<br /><br /><br />So there you have the bottom line: Don’t read the Bible. Don’t study it. If you do, God dies on you.<br /><br /><br />FOOTNOTE: YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD<br /><br /><br />In the Old Testament, God commanded the death penalty in twenty-some cases. This was not because God was barbaric, but because God was civil. The Israeli twelve tribes had no law enforcement agencies. Further, they were surrounded by barbarisms of strange magnitudes exhibited by neighboring pagan nations.<br /><br /><br />Consequently, for God to establish an Israeli civil community, He set forth stringent punishments--some being the death penalty. He Himself became, in other words, the Law Enforcement Agency for the new nation of Israel. That chosen community thereby was to model morality / civility to the surrounding nations.<br /><br /><br />Extremely severe penalties then were commanded by God in order to bring in line an Israeli community which tended to be unruly like its neighbors. If God had been lax in penalties, human nature, being what it is, would have tested gladly the boundaries. But when penalties were severe, human nature thought twice before testing the boundaries, hence the death penalty prescribed by God in some instances.<br /><br /><br />However, once Israel lost its nationhood by "going a-whoring after other loves", Israel's civil structure disappeared. Israel as a nation lost its temple, its government--that is, its two primary components of culture--religion and politics. Pagan nations then ruled over the heretofore nation of God. In this loss was the disappearance of death penalties previously prescribed by God. The death penalty period as dictated by divine revelation, in other words, ended near the close of the Old Testament era.<br /><br /><br />That is why when Jesus appeared as flesh-and-bones divine revelation, He pronounced, "You used to say, 'An eye for an eye', but now I say to you: Love your enemies." Jesus pronounced a civility of love toward one's enemies. "Love your foes, pray for your foes." This was the New Testament for it was now a new way of dealing with others--all others.<br /><br /><br />Government was now established primarily within the believer rather than under Israeli kings. "The Kingdom of God is within you." Law was now primarily of the heart. "My law will be written on your hearts." That was the new politic. Further, the tabernacle was now primarily the human frame: "Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit." That was the new religion.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, for the New Testament Church Age, it is the law of love toward all--friends and foes. Jesus provided a simply stated ethic. He refused to garble it with amendments. But, one may ask: "What about these atrocious crimes and the death penalty?"<br /><br /><br />The biblical answer is still the same: love your friends and foes in Jesus. What kind of Christian love then can be shown to a multiple-murderer / rapist / arsonist / child molester? What kind of Christian love can be meted out to a Hitler?<br /><br /><br />It is a Christian tough love. Tough love keeps<br />the exceptional criminal alive but consigns that one to supervised environs without parole. Hopefully, even that exceptional criminal then may come upon redemption through Christ, yet never be placed in tempting circumstances whereby he again may do others and Himself harm.<br /><br /><br />Keeping the individual alive also allows the possibility that, realizing human justice systems to be flawed, that person in truth may be found innocent though originally pronounced guilty. Indeed, the future may prove this to be fact if new evidence is forthcoming. History has case files on those in the aforementioned category.<br /><br /><br />Reason this moral / ethical situation from God's perspective: Adam and Eve slew God's love when they played loose with Eden's snake. However, God did not slay them. Instead, God banished them to their own solitary isles of remorse, hoping at least for their eternal redemption.<br /><br /><br />You once slew God's love by going your own stubborn way. In reality, you pronounced yourself Lord of your life. It is a hurtful truth to you now that you are a believer; nevertheless, living once in sin and for sin, you were once that callused toward your own loving Creator. However, did God obliterate you? No, instead God searched you out, loved you even while you were enemy, in hopes of redeeming what was left of your destiny.<br /><br /><br />He now invites each Christian to live out that same kind of persevering, at-times-tough love toward all others--especially those who are Enemy. God has already walked for us the path of love-for-foes. We, of all creatures, should know this for sure. Praise be to a loving, merciful God!<br /><br /><br />He then invites us to join Him on that love path. He has walked it for us. He asks us now to walk it for others.Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-33125370093882775312010-02-26T05:26:00.001-08:002010-02-26T05:26:38.814-08:00SYRIA THUMBS ITS NOSE AT HILLARYJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />“Ahmedinejad accused the U.S. of attempting to sever Iran-Syria ties in order to ‘dominate the region,’ and said American diplomats should ‘pack their things and leave.’”<br /><br /><br />Why would America trust Syrian President Bashar Assad?<br /><br /><br />Hillary Clinton asked him to distance himself from terrorist regimes, hoping Syria would become more peace-focused toward all nations.<br /><br /><br />Just after that request from the U.S. Secretary of State, Assad had Hisbullah head Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian thug head Mahmoud Ahmadinajad for dinner.<br /><br /><br />“The trio of terror-supporting leaders denounced Israel and America and discussed ways to aid ‘resistance groups’” per Arutz Sheva’s Maayana Miskin.<br /><br /><br />On Wednesday Clinton made her peace offer. The next day the murdering-threesome sat around the evening table eating their victuals.<br /><br /><br />So it is that Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama, U.S. President states he will appoint an American ambassador to Syria.<br /><br /><br />“President Obama has decided to send a U.S. ambassador back to Syria, a dramatic sign of reconciliation between the two countries, senior administration officials tell CNN” per CNN’s Elise Labott.<br /><br /><br />“’It's in our interests to have an ambassador in Syria,’ a senior administration official told CNN Tuesday night. ‘We have been having more and more discussions, and we need to have someone there to engage.’”<br /><br /><br />Read “U.S. to send ambassador back to Syria” at http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/06/23/US.syria.ambassador/<br /><br /><br />Read “'Terror Trio' Meets to Talk Shop” at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136220<br /><br /><br />And so the beat goes on.Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-78992848128324242952010-02-25T14:59:00.001-08:002010-02-25T14:59:56.407-08:00EMERGENT CHURCH: JESUS BELIEVED SCRIPTURE AS ERROR FREEJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />What did Jesus believe about Scripture?<br /><br /><br />He believed it to be inerrant--that is, without error. Therefore, Jesus would not agree with today's emergent church fad that holds to no "objective truths." That is the two-some used by emergent church false prophet Brian McLaren when he says that loving Jesus alone is okay to being a religious person.<br /><br /><br />Forget the biblical absolutes, he proclaims They don’t really count for anything. One can even bring under the Jesus tent every other world religionist for anything goes when you’re in McLaren’s blowing-in-the-winds mindset.<br /><br /><br />In other words, McLaren discards the exclusivity of Scripture as God's infallible Word in favor of McLaren’s situation ethics and subsequent universalism, the latter concluding all souls are bound for eternal bliss no matter what.<br /><br /><br />McLaren cavalierly questions the Bible. It’s a willy-nilly kind of feeling for him. Because of that he discards God’s Word blithely. So do his happy-time adherents who enjoy the loose fitting emergent church song and dance.<br /><br /><br />Not like unto the emergent church heresies, Jesus never questioned the divine inspiration or accuracy of Scripture.<br /><br /><br />On the Road to Emmaus, Jesus informed two travelers about Himself according to the Old Testament record. He took those scrolls’ details historically seriously. He related them to His own persona.<br /><br /><br />Further, Jesus warned in Scripture more about hell than providing detail about heaven. Hell is not really considered a matter that matters to emergent church larks.<br /><br /><br />In addition, Jesus never spoke of an “intermediate state.” Jesus referred only to heaven and hell as the options for souls upon death. Some emergent folk say there is the mysterious in-between-state after the last breath.<br /><br /><br />Jesus accepted the historicity of Old Testament detail. For instance, Jesus accepted the actual reality of Abel’s existence. Further, He accepted without suspicion Noah and the flood as having existed. He never questioned the existence of Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Lot, Jonah, Daniel, and Sodom and Gomorrah. Emergent know-it-alls have trouble with some of the aforementioned.<br /><br /><br />Jesus accepted the fact that Moses wrote the books of law. Most emergents don’t really care one way or another about Moses or the law.<br /><br /><br />Jesus stated that Scripture was penned by mortals inspired by God. In other words, the Bible is not a man-made document in which humans scratched a few myths, mistakes and mayhems. The Bible is God’s perfect communication. God being God can communicate perfectly. Note Matthew 19:4, 5; 22:31, 32, 43; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37.<br /><br /><br />Jesus castigated those who remained ignorant of the Divine Word. Some emergent enthusiasts state that the more one researches the Bible, the more God fades away and away and away. Note Matthew 22:29; Mark 12:24.<br /><br /><br />Jesus warned against slicing and dicing Scripture. Emergents have large scissors by which to cut out huge passages that are distasteful or nasty to their definitions. Jesus however taught that one accepted by faith the entire Word of God as is, not adding to or subtracting from. Note Matthew 5:17; 15:1–9; 22:29; (cf. 5:43, 44); Mark. 7:1–12.<br /><br /><br />Jesus lived out Old Testament prophecies regarding Himself. In other words, Jesus personified the accuracy of Scripture. One cannot go further than that—living out via one’s own bodily existence the eternal truth of holy writ.<br /><br /><br />First and last, Jesus Himself IS the Word. “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us.”<br /><br /><br />Is Jesus the Word errant? Is Jesus the Word prone to mistake? Is Jesus the Word riddled with suspicion? No. Jesus is the perfect image of God. He is the incarnation of deity.<br /><br /><br />Yet emergent gurus as Brian McLaren want to toss out Scripture in favor of a love hug with Jesus alone. That cannot be done without inviting divine wrath. One cannot have Jesus without Scripture for Jesus is the Word in flesh and bones.<br /><br /><br />How clever of Satan to fool some in tagging McLaren as the new religious Pied Piper. The fact is that the emergent heresy is nothing other than the old-line theological liberalism that has been around for centuries.<br /><br /><br />Read YES, YOU CAN BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT GOD at http://www.michnews.com/J_Grant_Swank_Jr/jgs021010.shtml<br /><br /><br />ADDENDUM: JESUS THE WORD AS GOD<br /><br /><br />Jesus calls Himself God<br /><br /><br />Matthew 12:8<br />For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.<br /><br /><br />Matthew 28:19<br />Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.<br /><br /><br />Mark 2:5-12<br />When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, "Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee'; or to say, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?' But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) "I say unto thee, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.'" And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, 'We never saw it on this fashion.'<br /><br /><br />John 5:17-18<br />But Jesus answered them, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.<br /><br /><br />John 8:58<br />Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, 'Before Abraham was, I am'." [compare with Exodus 3:14 - And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM," and he said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'I AM hath sent me unto you.'"]<br /><br /><br />John 10:30-33; 36-39<br />[Jesus said,] "I and my Father are one." Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" 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." [Jesus said,] "Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, 'Thou blasphemest'; because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand...<br /><br /><br />John 13:13-14<br />You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.<br /><br /><br />Revelation 1:8<br />"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending," saith the Lord, "which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."<br /><br /><br />Jesus is called God by others or by the Bible<br /><br /><br />Isaiah 9:6<br />For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.<br /><br /><br />Matthew 1:23<br />Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, "God with us".<br /><br /><br />John 1:1<br />In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.<br /><br /><br />John 20:26-29<br />And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be unto you." Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." And Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God." Jesus saith unto him, "Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed."<br /><br /><br />John 21:17<br />[Peter said to Jesus], "Lord, thou knowest all things."<br /><br /><br />Acts 20:28<br />Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.<br /><br /><br />Romans 9:5<br />Of [the Israelites] as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever.<br /><br /><br />Revelation 17:14<br />These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.<br /><br /><br />Colossians 2:9<br />For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.<br /><br /><br />All things created through Jesus (and thus He existed before everything)<br /><br /><br />John 1:1-5,9-14<br />In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.<br /><br /><br />Colossians 1:12-20<br />Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.<br /><br /><br />Hebrews 1:1-8<br />God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, 'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?' And again, 'I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?' And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, 'And let all the angels of God worship him.' And of the angels he saith, 'Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.' But unto the Son he saith, 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.'Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-6656221293796417802010-02-25T12:14:00.001-08:002010-02-25T12:14:28.876-08:00OBAMANGST’S ‘HEALTHCARE’ = ALL ABOUT EGOJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Barack Hussein Obama has failed. For over a year he’s done nothing but confuse America and ruin what we had going right.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, when Obama rams Obamangst not-healthcare, it’s all about his ego. He’s totally politically opportunistic with that issue, per usual.<br /><br /><br />What needs to be done is cut Obama off at the political knees by forcing him to burn that paper stack no one thoroughly understands, then start all over.<br /><br /><br />Obama has done so miserably that his dictatorial nature is bound to force his bill even if it implodes this democracy. Obama not losing face is his all-in-all.<br /><br /><br />America’s grassroots must stage the revolution of forcing a fresh start to legitimate, reasonable health care. Nothing else is acceptable.<br /><br /><br />To force such health care detail into a supposed “summit” is so infantile as well as horrifically dangerous that it brings the shudders to millions of intelligent patriots.<br /><br /><br />What other complicated issue could be reasoned out properly in such a tense time frame—with the back drop of arrogance of Dem power? All of a sudden, Obama seems to get the message that his despotism is in big time trouble, causing countless Dems to be scrapped at election time. All of a sudden, Obama then pushes emergency<br />surgery on his bill.<br /><br /><br />If this whole babyfied scene were not so destructive, it would be the sickest joke of the century.<br /><br /><br />Here is another thought: Could it be that Marxist Muslim Obama has staged this whole nightmare for the furtherance of Islam World Rule? It just could be that is the prime motive driving the Chief Enemy seated in the Oval Office.<br /><br /><br />Read “Obama beheads America” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100224Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-76908045953254982882010-02-25T11:37:00.000-08:002010-02-25T11:38:14.769-08:00NAZNET ZAPS JESUS’ ACCEPTANCE OF SCRIPTUREJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />NazNet posts the Bible thrown out in favor of sweet-Jesus-only. No place for moral absolutes.<br /><br /><br />NazNet posts that when believers study Scripture God blurs out.<br /><br /><br />NazNet posts the Word error-riddled.<br /><br /><br />NazNet posts hope that all souls go to heaven—Unitarian’s universalism.<br /><br /><br />NazNet posts no hell but unsaved souls being burnt up at death.<br /><br /><br />NazNet posts an “intermediate state” after death.<br /><br /><br />NazNet posts writing your own religion according to your subjective whatevers, in other words “situation ethics” / moral relativism.<br /><br /><br />Question: What did Jesus believe about Scripture? Answer: He believed none of the above NazNet positions.<br /><br /><br />Jesus never questioned the divine inspiration or accuracy of Scripture. <br /><br /><br />On the Road to Emmaus, Jesus informed two travelers about Himself according to the Old Testament record.<br /><br /><br />Jesus warned more about hell than providing detail about heaven.<br /><br /><br />Jesus never spoke of an “intermediate state.” Jesus referred only to heaven and hell as the options for souls upon death.<br /><br /><br />Jesus accepted the historicity of Old Testament detail. For instance, Jesus accepted the reality of Abel’s existence. Further, He accepted Noah and the flood as having existed. He never questioned the existence of Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, Lot, Jonah, Daniel, and Sodom and Gomorrah.<br /><br /><br />Jesus accepted the fact that Moses wrote the books of law.<br /><br /><br />Jesus stated that Scripture was penned by mortals but inspired by God. Note Matthew 19:4, 5; 22:31, 32, 43; Mark 12:26; Luke 20:37.<br /><br /><br />Jesus castigated those who remained ignorant of the Divine Word. Note Matthew 22:29; Mark 12:24.<br /><br /><br />Jesus warned against slicing and dicing Scripture. He taught that one accepted by faith the Word of God as is. Note Matthew 5:17; 15:1–9; 22:29; (cf. 5:43, 44); Mark. 7:1–12.<br /><br /><br />Jesus Himself lived out Old Testament prophesies regarding Himself. In other words, Jesus personified the accuracy of Scripture. One cannot go further than that—living out via one’s own bodily existence the eternal truth of holy writ.<br /><br /><br />Jesus Himself IS the Word. “And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” <br /><br /><br />Is Jesus the Word errant? Is Jesus the Word prone to mistake? Is Jesus the Word riddled with suspicion? No. Jesus is the perfect image of God. He is the incarnation of deity. <br /><br /><br />Yet emergent church gurus as Brian McLaren want to toss out Scripture in favor of a love hug with Jesus alone. That cannot be done without coming under divine wrath. One cannot have Jesus without Scripture for Jesus is the Word in flesh and bones.<br /><br /><br />How clever of Satan to fool such individuals as McLaren and hysteriacs who follow him as the new Pied Piper. The fact is that the emergent heresy is nothing other than the old-line theological liberalism that has been around for centuries.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />ADDENDUM: JESUS THE WORD AS GOD<br /><br /><br />Jesus calls Himself God<br /><br /><br />Matthew 12:8<br />For the Son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath day. <br /><br /><br />Matthew 28:19<br />Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. <br /><br /><br />Mark 2:5-12<br />When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, "Son, thy sins be forgiven thee." But there was certain of the scribes sitting there, and reasoning in their hearts, "Why doth this man thus speak blasphemies? who can forgive sins but God only?" And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, "Why reason ye these things in your hearts? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, 'Thy sins be forgiven thee'; or to say, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?' But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins," (he saith to the sick of the palsy,) "I say unto thee, 'Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.'" And immediately he arose, took up the bed, and went forth before them all; insomuch that they were all amazed, and glorified God, saying, 'We never saw it on this fashion.' <br /><br /><br />John 5:17-18<br />But Jesus answered them, "My Father worketh hitherto, and I work." Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God. <br /><br /><br />John 8:58<br />Jesus said unto them, "Verily, verily I say unto you, 'Before Abraham was, I am'." [compare with Exodus 3:14 - And God said unto Moses, "I AM THAT I AM," and he said, "Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, 'I AM hath sent me unto you.'"] <br /><br /><br />John 10:30-33; 36-39<br />[Jesus said,] "I and my Father are one." Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. Jesus answered them, "Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?" 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." [Jesus said,] "Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, 'Thou blasphemest'; because I said, 'I am the Son of God?' If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand... <br /><br /><br />John 13:13-14<br />You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. <br /><br /><br />Revelation 1:8<br />"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending," saith the Lord, "which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty." <br /><br /><br />Jesus is called God by others or by the Bible<br /><br /><br />Isaiah 9:6<br />For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. <br /><br /><br />Matthew 1:23<br />Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, "God with us". <br /><br /><br />John 1:1<br />In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. <br /><br /><br />John 20:26-29<br />And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, "Peace be unto you." Then saith he to Thomas, "Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing." And Thomas answered and said unto him, "My Lord and my God." Jesus saith unto him, "Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed." <br /><br /><br />John 21:17<br />[Peter said to Jesus], "Lord, thou knowest all things." <br /><br /><br />Acts 20:28<br />Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. <br /><br /><br />Romans 9:5<br />Of [the Israelites] as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. <br /><br /><br />Revelation 17:14<br />These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. <br /><br /><br />Colossians 2:9<br />For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. <br /><br /><br />All things created through Jesus (and thus He existed before everything)<br /><br /><br />John 1:1-5,9-14<br />In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. <br /><br /><br />Colossians 1:12-20<br />Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: and he is before all things, and by him all things consist. And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; and, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven. <br /><br /><br />Hebrews 1:1-8<br />God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high: being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they. For unto which of the angels said he at any time, 'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee?' And again, 'I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?' And again, when he bringeth in the firstbegotten into the world, he saith, 'And let all the angels of God worship him.' And of the angels he saith, 'Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire.' But unto the Son he saith, 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.'Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-91371111998224434972010-02-25T04:50:00.000-08:002010-02-25T04:51:02.712-08:00NAZNET’S SWEET JESUS EMERGENT CRUCIFIES JESUS AFRESHJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Emergent mess-up guru Brian McLaren says that “objective truth” is to be discarded for a Jesus all-in-all love fest.<br /><br /><br />Does McLaren think this kiss up to Jesus is pleasing to Jesus?<br /><br /><br />McLaren stands on extremely dangerous ground when he makes Jesus is to be the Nice Guy Max so that Jesus’ own divine revelation can be canned. In other words, someone needs to warn McLaren that there’s a hell.<br /><br /><br />To make this whole diabolical scheme worse, a holiness denomination is in danger of imploding via NazNet, a web site founded by a political opportunist named Dave McClung.<br /><br /><br />NazNet, unofficial “friend” to the holiness Church of the Nazarene, endorses via moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff in particular the sidelining of Scripture. Deventer states outright that he does not believe the Bible. What then is important to Deventer? Jesus only.<br /><br /><br />Does Deventer do Jesus a kindness with that devil’s doctrinal blasphemy? Obviously not.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff goes so far as to state on NazNet that the more he reads the Bible, the less God comes into focus. God fades out the more biblical research is engaged. In other words, invite dust to cloak the Scriptures while God goes fish.<br /><br /><br />Both Deventer and Cundiff disparage Scripture to such a hellish degree. And all the while McClung baptizes these moderators as legitimate.<br /><br /><br />From what I read in the Bible, McLaren and clique sidelined, Jesus does not like that kind of religiosity. In fact, Jesus considers it hypocrisy.<br /><br /><br />Jesus is, frankly, angry this moment because of the McLaren crowd, including Deventer, Cundiff and McClung.<br /><br /><br />Judgment Day is coming down on this wayward crew. They will burn and burn some more forever, though none of them admit even the existence of an eternal hell. Deventer dismisses hell completely, unabashedly. The others do so by companionship with the heretics.<br /><br /><br />There is no Sweet Jesus apart from Scripture. There is no Nice Guy Jesus apart from divine revelation.<br /><br /><br />And for McLaren, who claims all religions are under the Jesus umbrella if one wants them to be, Jesus is not in agreement with that “exegesis.” It was Jesus who stated no one goes to God the Father but by Jesus, that HE is the Way, the Truth and the Life.<br /><br /><br />Holding to Jesus is an exclusive cling, not a swing-and-sway your way with Jesus and Buddha and Confucius.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-78490959203939921972010-02-25T04:32:00.001-08:002010-02-25T04:32:52.036-08:00MUSLIMS: JEWS CAN’T PRAYJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />When my wife and I toured Israel in 1966, we prayed wherever we wished. But now it is quite different for both Jews and Gentiles, except controlling Islamics.<br /><br /><br />Jews are planning a tour around the Temple Mount gates.<br /><br /><br />Muslims dictate that Jews making the tour cannot make any attempt to pray. No prayers. Absolutely no prayers.<br /><br /><br />One would think the Jews were making the tour with rifles. Or bombs. Or machetes.<br /><br /><br />No. Muslims prohibit Jews walking around the sacred area to offer any words to Jehovah. No nod of the head heavenward. No lips moving as in petition or praise. Over and out.<br /><br /><br />Prayer then must be quite powerful just as the Bible states: “The effectual, fervent prayer of the righteous avails much.” So even the enemy admits the might in prayer to the God of Scripture. Prayer’s dynamic is so moving that it is emphatically negated.<br /><br /><br />Muslims have told tour planners that those taking the walk cannot number more than 15. They cannot sit on stools while listening to any guides’ explanations. All must appear totally secular at all times. No prayers.<br /><br /><br />Muslims despise Jews going near the Temple Mount, the place where Abraham was willing to offer Isaac as a sacrifice. God prohibited that happening for God will not tolerate human sacrifice. However, the Lord wanted to test Abraham’s obedience, hence the divine command.<br /><br /><br />That area is where the father of the faithful, Abraham, followed God’s command to the letter. Since then believers have taken to heart God’s call to obedience. God stated in Scripture that he desires obedience rather than sacrifice.<br /><br /><br />But now when Jews yearn to pray while touring the gates, they must obey Muslims rather than Jehovah. Yet Muslims’ deity is the antithesis to the biblical deity. The Koran’s Allah demands slaughtering all non-Muslims. Allah demands the horrific, dreaded sharia for so-called societal justice. Read the Koran at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.html<br /><br /><br /><br />Biblical Christians know that peace will not come to the Temple Mount or all of Israel until Christ returns as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. Christ, the Prince of Peace, will usher in a millennium of holiness on Earth.<br /><br /><br />Christ, leaving the right hand of God the Father, will descend through space with a host of angels and the redeemed of all time. He will speak the word to win the Battle of Armageddon waged in the Valley of Megiddo.<br /><br /><br />Christ’s first stop on the planet will be at the Temple Mount. His two feet will touch it, splitting it in half, signifying the start of His mighty reign on His rightful turf. Christ created the planet; Christ will then rule on His planet.<br /><br /><br />Until then such strife as is going on concerning this Temple Mount gates tour will continue.<br /><br /> <br />Read “No Prayer Permitted on Temple Mount Gates Tour” at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136197Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-8431382727011179082010-02-24T17:41:00.001-08:002010-02-24T17:41:17.314-08:00NAZNET’S DAVE MC CLUNG’S CRONYISM UPS EMERGENT DEVILMENTJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />NazNet’s founder Dave McClung furthers the emergent church fracas by way of his ongoing ecclesiastical power cronyism within the Church of the Nazarene.<br /><br /><br />McClung is wealthy as a successful businessman. At the same time, he has been a stroked layman placed on denominational prestigious boards, even serving as past-president of Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy MA.<br /><br /><br />That political opportunism permits McClung his favored status as NazNet founder in upping the emergent evil. McClung’s web site states he wants to foster “community.” He says NazNet is a “friend” to the holiness church.<br /><br /><br />Bosh.<br /><br /><br />NazNet squashes holy community within an evangelical church that is founded upon God’s call to the holy life. <br /><br /><br />NazNet does not enhance holiness of heart and life. The site disclaims biblical holiness by endorsing the emergent church’s claim that the Bible is sidelined while sweet Jesus is all that’s necessary. One can even bring under the Jesus tent all world religions, embracing whatever in Jesus love.<br /><br /><br />This is a blatant prostitution of the Jesus reality.<br /><br /><br />Do you see how far flung McClung’s cronyism within the Church of the Nazarene has brought the denomination into heresy via NazNet? It is blasphemy. It is diabolical. <br /><br /><br />Will the denominational leadership bring McClung to a “come to Jesus” agreement to expunge NazNet of heresies posted especially by moderators Hans Deventer and Scott Cundiff? If those denominational leaders do not do that, God will take care of the Church of the Nazarene in a most severe disciplinary manner. God being God, He is justice as well as mercy.<br /><br /><br />The emergent mess says that eternal absolutes are foolish, in the way, a nuisance. Emergent fuzz guru Brian McLaren states: “I believe people are saved not by objective truth, but by Jesus. Their faith isn’t in their knowledge, but in God.”<br /><br /><br />By “objective truth” he means “eternal, biblical absolutes.” In other words, McLaren and disciples believe in moral relativism—situation ethics. There are no “object truths.” None. Religion is all about being subjective—whatever you make “truth” to be, it is. <br /><br /><br />That is anti-Bible, antiChrist, anti-scriptural Christian theology. That is in-your-face old-time theological liberalism believed by Unitarians and all others disclaiming the Bible as the Word of God.<br /><br /><br />McClung’s site actually encourages this widespread devilment. How does he get by with it to this very moment? Why has he not been brought to task?<br /><br /><br />Remember: He is one of the power structure’s cronies. It’s politics, not truth, that counts with McClung and his clique. <br /><br /><br />That is being Pharisee groupie present-tense. McClung and colleagues stubbornly stand fast against God’s divine revelation.<br /><br /><br />I think there will be numerous Nazarenes standing quite stark naked, frosted in fear, at the Judgment Seat of Christ. Yet today they claim to be “holiness people.”<br /><br /><br />Such is the confusion of the times when it comes to holiness as defined by Scripture.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-76076023268923247512010-02-24T13:35:00.001-08:002010-02-24T13:35:20.120-08:00OBAMA BEHEADS AMERICAJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />Marxist Muslim Barack Hussein Obama is carrying through with Islam World Rule by destroying the most powerful nation on Earth.<br /><br /><br />He does this by beheading America financially. Our economic head is being cut from the neck and it is going on every day and night via Obama’s czar shadow government.<br /><br /><br />Congress’ Dems join in the beheading by siding up to Obama, not realizing that they themselves are losing their heads.<br /><br /><br />Muslim slaying of infidels does not have to be a physical beheading. Obama has taken it to the more subtle level. In any case, once the head is gone, death is the vogue.<br /><br /><br />Americans daily wonder about their future. They question Washington’s ability to govern. They worry about their wallets and their health coverage.<br /><br /><br />In other words, America is feeling the awful pain of being beheaded by those in power to see through the act.<br /><br /><br />Obama knows exactly what he is doing. So do his henchmen from yesteryear who attend to his every command. Dems bow and scrape to be party to the atrocity.<br /><br /><br />Common sense politics is nowhere to be found in Washington. Civility has been tossed. Insanity, particularly regarding budgets and deficits, is the mode. Put it together and one has the beheading of the Republic.<br /><br /><br />This will last as long as Obama continues double-talking, breaking promises, lying as an Islamic virtue, and getting by with time served in the White House. After all, he has three more years to last as resident of the Oval Office.<br /><br /><br />Obama is the most exemplary Muslim on the planet in that he has reached the pinnacle, weighs in against grassroots intelligent citizens and threatens with the most caustic retaliations if one crosses his plots.<br /><br /><br />Read the KORAN at http://jgrantswankjr.blogspot.com/2009/12/koran.htmlGrant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-76054792176726043192010-02-24T06:09:00.000-08:002010-02-24T06:10:03.651-08:00NAZNET’S EMERGING CHURCH POSITION: NIX BIBLEJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />NazNet goes the way of the emerging church debunking of the Bible’s absolutes. Brian McLaren, popular voice for the emerging church, discounts what he calls “objective truth.” In other words, God’s absolutes in Scripture do not matter.<br /><br /><br />NazNet is parroting that blasphemy. Yet the Bible calls for faith in its being divine revelation, not to be added to or subtracted from. Therefore, those who sideline the Word of God will answer beneath the heel of divine wrath.<br /><br /><br />John 17:17: “Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.”<br /><br /><br />That is one of the chief verses that the Church of the Nazarene has been based upon since 1908, its founding year in Pilot Point, Texas.<br /><br /><br />The Nazarenes have proclaimed holiness of heart and life. The Nazarenes have preached without apology that a mortal can not only be saved from sins but saved from the carnal nature—sin.<br /><br /><br />How can one come to know about this divine grace potential? Through the entire Word of God—from Genesis to Revelation. God’s Word is truth.<br /><br /><br />The Church of the Nazarene has given forth faithfully the glad tidings that the Bible can be trusted. God’s Word is “truth.” All of God’s Word is “truth,” not just parts of it.<br /><br /><br />However, NazNet site founder Dave McClung says just the opposite. It states through such staffers as Scott Cundiff and Hans Deventer and cheered on by such former staffers as Barbara Moulton that the Bible is error-laden.<br /><br /><br />In other words, one must be careful when reading the Bible for there are landmines in it that can lead one astray. Therefore, one must be clever enough to pick and choose what is to be believed and what is not to be believed.<br /><br /><br />Cundiff goes so far as to state that the more one reads the Bible the more God fades. The more one researches the Scriptures, the less one knows about God. Deventer states on NazNet that he concurs.<br /><br /><br />This is exactly what the NAZNET DISTORTS site exposes about NazNet. NAZNET DISTORTS lays bare the heresies propagated by NazNet and permitted by founder McClung.<br /><br /><br />Why is NazNet up to this? Who knows? But it is there on the Internet for anyone to research. NAZNET DISTORTS has done much of the homework for the wise and discerning.<br /><br /><br />Click onto http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/<br /><br /><br />It is part of the “great falling away” for the Church of the Nazarene to be attacked by its own. The General Superintendents have been informed of this intrusion. What have they done about it? I don’t know but I have at least informed them.<br /><br /><br />I have also informed the District in which Cundiff’s Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene resides. What that officialdom does about it is under God’s surveillance. The last move they should make is to turn upon the truth giver—NAZNET DISTORTS.<br /><br /><br />God’s Word is reliable from cover to cover. Christians have witnessed that to be practical truth throughout their lifetimes.<br /><br /><br />Now come along doubters McClung, Cundiff, Deventer, Moulton and naïve posters who have lauded their positions on NazNet. It is a shame. It is blasphemy. It must be exposed far and near.<br /><br /><br />Read “Yes, you can believe in the Old Testament God” at http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/swank/100209Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7600540639615437151.post-23634864594780234122010-02-23T13:16:00.001-08:002010-02-23T13:16:44.046-08:00NAZNET’S GURU BRIAN MCLAREN = ALL RELIGIONS OKJ. Grant Swank, Jr.<br /><br /><br />When a NazNet moderator posts that the Bible is not important, that’s apostasy.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DEBUNKS SCRIPTURE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-rejects-gods-infallible-word.html<br /><br /><br />When that moderator claims Jesus is The Only Item, downplaying Scripture, that’s apostasy.<br /><br /><br />Further, it is also old-fashioned theological liberalism, the type that I was taught long ago when a student at Harvard Divinity School.<br /><br /><br />Therefore, when NazNet moderators adopt Emerging Church Brian McClaren as their prime guru, they are embracing Unitarianism, the foundational theology that governs Harvard Divinity School.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET = MORE UNITARIAN THAN NAZARENE at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-more-unitarian-than-nazarene.html<br /><br /><br />How far then a “friend” to the Church of the Nazarene, namely NazNet by its own advertisement, attempts to swing this holiness church into blasphemy.<br /><br /><br />Read DISASTER AREA: NAZNET DAVE MCCLUNG AXES COMMUNITY at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/disaster-area-naznet-dave-mcclung-axes.html<br /> <br /><br />If Nazarenes go for the blasphemy, God will level His wrath upon the denomination. It will crumble. If Nazarene leaders do not weed out this demonic intrusion, the structure will disintegrate globally in short order.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET SNUBS GOD'S BIBLE TRUTH at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-snubs-gods-bible-truth.html<br /><br /><br />McClaren states: “. . . help people become followers of Jesus and remain within their Buddhist, Hindu or Jewish contexts. . .”<br /><br /><br />That is theological liberalism—plain and obvious. It is not what evangelical biblical disciples hold to. Liberalism’s anti-Bible dogma is at the very opposite end of the evangelical spectrum. <br /><br /><br />Therefore, when NazNet claims moderators Hans Deventer’s and Scott Cundiff’s pro-McClaren conclusions as posh doctrine, NazNet betrays God, the Bible and the Church of the Nazarene.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET’S LOVE AFFAIR WITH EMERGING CHURCH at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznets-love-affair-with-emerging.html<br /><br /><br />Not only does Deventer betray his own church, but Cundiff betrays his own pastoral vows for he is the minister at the Alvin Texas Church of the Nazarene. <br /><br /><br />His church’s web site portrays Cundiff as a “holiness preacher;” however, his NazNet Unitarian-type doctrinal positions are just the opposite of Nazarene teaching. In other words, Cundiff lives theologically a “double life” kept secret from his small congregation.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET PASTOR SCOTT CUNDIFF’S ‘DOUBLE-LIFE’ EXPOSED at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/2010/02/naznet-pastor-scott-cundiffs-double_15.html<br /><br /><br />Garbled McClaren continues his mix-and-match beliefs with such nonsense as the following: “To help Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, and everyone else experience life to the full in the way of Jesus (while learning it better myself), I would gladly become one of them (whoever they are), to whatever degree I can, to embrace them, to join them, to enter into their world without judgment. . .”<br /><br /><br />Do you get the wishy-washy feel of this swing-and-sway McClaren give-forth? It is gibberish. It is whatever-makes-you-feel-fuzzy religion. This infantile approach to doctrine is mirrored by the likes of Deventer and Cundiff on NazNet.<br /><br /><br />It is, however, more than that. It is a collection of belief statements that will damn McClaren’s soul, a popular false prophet in these confused times.<br /><br /><br />NazNet moderators who adopt McClaren’s false teachings are likewise in danger of damning their souls for they have wedded into his apostasy. They do more than that, however. They proclaim same on the Internet for the world to read, hoping the readers will agree with their devilment.<br /><br /><br />Read NAZNET DISTORTS at http://naznetdistorts.blogspot.com/Grant Swankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14725809187153960952noreply@blogger.com