HEART ATTACK - SURVIVAL

NATION – MESSED UP OR WHAT?=

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The following article came to me recently and I contended that I should pass it on. It has been slightly edit= ed and a conclusion added.

Dear God:

Why didn't you save the school children at: Moses Lake, Washington 2/2/96; Bethel, Alaska 2/19/97; Pearl, Mississippi 10/1/97; We= st Paducah, Kentucky 12/1/97; Stamps, Arkansas 12/15/97; Jonesboro, Arkansas 3/24/98; Edinboro, Pennsylvania 4/24/98; Fayetteville, Tennessee 5/19/98; Springfield, Oregon 5/21/98; Richmond, Virginia 6/15/98; Littleton, Colorado 4/20/99; Taber, Alberta, Canada 5/28/99; Conyers, Geo= rgia 5/20/99; Deming, New Mexico 11/19/99; Fort Gibson, Oklahoma 12/6/99; Santee, California 3/5/01; and El Cajon, California 3/22/01? Sincerely, A Concerned Student

Reply: Dear Concerned Student:
I am not allowed in schools.   Sincerely, God

How did this get started....
Let's see, I think it started when Madeline Murray O'Hare complained she didn't want any prayer in our schools. And we said, OK...
1) Then, someone said you better not read the Bible in school, the Bible that says "thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbors as yourself," And we said, OK...
2) Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when th= ey misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. And we said, an expert should know what h= e's talking about so we won't spank them anymore...
3) Then someone said teachers and principals better not discipline= our
children when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no faculty member in this school better touch a student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued. And we accepted their reasoning…         &nb= sp;
4) Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if th= ey want, and they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, that's a grand idea...
5) Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're going to do it anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want, so they can have all the fun they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said, th= at's another great idea...        &nbs= p;

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6) Then some of our top elected officials said it doesn't matter what we = do in private as long as we do our jobs. And we said, it doesn't matter what anybody, including the President, does in private as long as = we have jobs and the economy is good...
7) And someone else took that appreciation a step further and published
pictures of nude children and then stepped further still by making them&n= bsp; available on the Internet. And we said, everyone's entitled to free speech....
8) And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and mo= vies that promote profanity, violence and illicit sex... And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes...
And we said, it's just entertainment and it has no adverse effect and
nobody takes it seriously anyway, so go right ahead...
9) Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience,= why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, classmates or even themselves.
10) Undoubtedly, if we thought about it long and hard enough, we could fi= gure it out. I'm sure it has a great deal to do with..."WE REAP WHAT WE SOW…" (Galatians 6:7). By the way – this is the Bi= ble!

Our Nation has been really big in “giving in to the atheist” = in latter years. This seemingly is because many of our leaders have go= tten so big for their pants that they have laid down the age-old book (The Bib= le) that kept this nation on tract since its beginning. Our divorce rat= e, alcoholism/drug abuse rate, and morals have proven this. Seemingly, when one lays down the standard (The Bible) and determines which directio= n to go we end up on the short end of the stick. Jesus said that unless = we REPENT, we perish. (Luke 13:3,5) We need to try His way or we will suffer the consequences.

Plainly, don’t get short changed. Let’s be r= eady to meet our Maker. The Bible teaches that to avoid hell and gain heaven -= one must:

Believe I= n Jesus As Savior (Acts 16:31) 2) Repent Of Sins (Acts 17:30) &n= bsp;
3) Confess Christ Audibly (Acts 8:37) 4) Be Baptized In Water (Acts 2:38)
5) Live A Christian Life (Acts 14:22) 6) Be Active In the Church (Acts 2:= 47)

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