By Jim Mettenbrink

Nations rise and fall. That is the term we use – “rise and fall.” When does a nation rise? God promised to make Abram’s descendants into a great nation – “I will make you a great nation; I will bless you And make your name great; And you shall be a blessing” (Genesis 12:2). That implies they would need a territory – land. 400 years before that nation was formed, God told them where the land was located – “ On the same day the Lord made a covenant with Abram, saying: “To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates— the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites” (Gen 15:18-21).

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By Jim Mettenbrink

Such a contrast to Jesus!! We live in an era of Postmodernism. Whereas Secular Humanism advocates that each person makes his own truth. Postmodernism proclaims there is no truth. In stark contrast, Jesus of Nazareth stated that He is THE truth and the only way to God (John 14:6) . The foundation of Christianity is that He rose from the dead, thereby showing He is God and, yes THE truth. Considering the testimony recorded in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the New Testament regarding Jesus’ resurrection – The evidence of His claim to be the living deity. If this is so, then you are obligated to follow His will and be accountable to Him.

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By Jim Mettenbrink

In our task to restore the foundation of the nation that has been eroded we considered the causes of indoctrination of Secular Humanism (man is his own god – primarily via public education at all levels) increasingly for nearly a century, and more recently the influence of its child, Postmodernism (no absolute truth). Actually beginning in the Enlightenment (17th & 18th centuries) the discoveries revealed via science combined with the advance of the Industrial Age (machines – late 1700s), European man (eventually all of the west) became increasingly self-sufficient. G.J. Holyoake, who coined the term “secularism” (1851), stated that the doctrine of morality “should be based solely in regard to the well-being of mankind in the present life, to the exclusion of all considerations drawn from a belief in God or in future life” (1845). We do not need God – we do it ourselves!

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By Jim Mettenbrink

Can we know God exists? And if so how can we know? Yahweh, God, the author of the Bible indicates that God revealed Himself on two levels: General and Specific.

General revelation is by observation of the material creation. Although the notion of the evolution of everything from non-existence become something by itself to non-life becoming alive by itself and non-intelligence becoming rational intelligence begs the question – How? Briefly stated, the struggle to steps from nothing to becoming a rational being is one huge leap of fantasy, an illusionary delusion! Yet people believe it. In an attempt to “rationalize” this evolutionary idea, time has been injected, yea billions of years have pumped into the theory. Over the last 60 years the time required has increased from one billion to 4 or 5, up to 11 billion years. And it is what it is–theory!

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Restoring the Foundations begins with You. First step – Acknowledge God as the Sovereign

By Jim Mettenbrink

Last week we considered that in order to restore the destroyed foundation of our society will actually be a rebuilding of the foundation. And that to establish a nation of real tolerance and liberty, requires theists to have an unwavering commitment to God in the depths of their spirit. That this is a perpetual war to establish righteous nations and for your eternal destiny (heaven or hell) between God and Satan has always been evident. The current battle in the USA has been ongoing for over 100 years – Biblical faith vs Secular Humanism (man made himself his own god).

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By Jim Mettenbrink

Although we tout the USA is the land of liberty, in recent years liberty has been redefined or we have a misunderstanding of what constitutes liberty. Examples are the liberties of speech and religion. The first universities in the USA were established by not only believers in God, but those who revered Jesus of Nazareth as the Lord and Savior of mankind. Harvard was established in 1636 to train ministers in biblical faith. Harvard’s motto became “Truth for Christ and the Church” (1692). As was typical of the genuine university environment, Harvard’s was one of open discourse, honoring the free expression of opposing views. Through time, Harvard changed its motto to “Truth” (eliminating Christ and the church). The university environment has been increasingly atheistic and more and more void of open discourse. Some 15 years ago, a biology professor informed a close friend, that in order to get along in the scientific community, you must give up the premise that our origin was via creation by the eternal God of heaven. That statement indicates the closed mind of the university – discourse not allowed about our origin by God.

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By Jim Mettenbrink

To whom is the responsibility given to build the foundation of a stable society? Although this is a group, yea community effort, it requires the agreement of an objective unchangeable standard and it always begins with one person… one person talking to another and an idea. Honorably this is a forthright and honest proposal to establish a solid foundation for society.

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By Jim Mettenbrink

In our search to determine the traits of you, i.e., the invisible spirit that is you, we concluded last week, that our spirit makes decisions – one’s rational process. Since we can not see it nor, is it tangible, we are not even aware we have a spirit. However the Bible alone informs us that we have a spirit, actually that the “you” are a spirit in a body of flesh and that it is eternal. Upon conception, you are that God-given eternal spirit. In calling Jeremiah to be a prophet, God declared to him, “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations” (Jer 1:5; cf Isaiah 44:2, 24). God created you as a spirit. What are the traits of your spirit?

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By Jim Mettenbrink

Last week we began to consider what the spirit of a person does. Recall that we consist of body (flesh) soul (life force; Leviticus 17:11) and the spirit. We considered that the heart and spirit are either synonymous or inseparably connected. That your spirit is paramount above all else in your life is implicitly declared by the prophet in his brief summary about God’s activity in the creation – “Thus says the Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth and forms the spirit of man within him (Zechariah 12:1).

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By Jim Mettenbrink

In the last article, we considered the Bible’s declaration that humans consist of three separate parts – body (matter), soul (life force; Leviticus 17:11), and the spirit (eternal part) (1 Thessalonians 5:23). (By the way this in contrast to all living non-humans. Although many have accepted the evolutionary ruse that humans are animals, thus animals are our relatives, nowhere in the Bible is an eternal spirit assigned to an animal). The life force and the spirit are not tangible, but literally invisible. They cannot be touched or contained. One looks at his body and says, this is my body. One does not say, this is me. Inherently, a person knows he is actually separate from the body, that it is a container of the spirit. Yet nowhere is your spirit found in the body. It is invisible. As noted in the last article, at the moment of death Jesus and Stephen commended their spirits to the Father (Luke 23:46; Acts 7:59). Other than one’s spirit is the eternal part, what is its character? Note, without the Bible, we do not have a clue that we even have a spirit, let alone its traits.

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