April 30
Judg 11:1-12:15 | PS 101:1-8 | Prov 14-13:14 | John 1:1-28
In 1956, Russia's Communist leader, Nikita Khrushchev said, "We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within...". The book the "Naked Communist" written by Cleon Skouksen in 1958, gives point by point details on how to fulfill Khrushchev's comments. Let's look at a few of them and with chilling revelation see how they have all unfolded: 15: Capture one or both political parties in the U.S. 16: Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights. 17: Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put party line in textbooks. 19: Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. 20: Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions. 21: Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures. 22: Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms." 24: Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press. 25: Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. 26: Present homosexuality, degeneracy, and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy." 27: Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch". 28: Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state." 29: Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis. 30: Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man". Welcome to our America. Sixty years later, what did our nation actually look like? We allowed truth to be removed and this is the result.
We read in John 1:1-5, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it." Read this carefully. Jesus is the Word, the Creator, the life and the light. Remove Him from the private and public arena and you lose all truth. We read further in 1:10-14, "He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name: who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became 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." Again, could these words possibly be any more clear.
Within 60 years we have allowed our nation to be transformed as we relinquished truths to be replaced by lies. Then these lies are taught as truths, and those who hold onto the real truth are labeled as ignorant, unenlightened, conspiracy theorists, anti-progressive, etc. This is only 60 years. Jesus came 2000 years ago. Imagine what Satan has been able to do with this length of time and the reach of his disinformation campaign. Our nation has chosen to ignore its own history and its founding documents to its own peril. As a Christian our founding document is the Bible, and our leader is Jesus Christ. Marginalize these and you could find yourself exalting a god of your own making. Jesus said in John 8:31-32, "Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, “If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” If we want truth, Jesus told us where to find it. He also said in 14:6, " Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." Yes, He is the only way. As an aside, I forgot the name of the source of what was written in the first paragraph and had been looking for the information for months now, not realizing that such information is censored from mainstream search engines. Also, don't be surprised if "fact-checkers" which are anything but this, question portions of what was written. Yes, they control what is and what is not called "fact".
Messages from Pastor Lloyd Pulley: