Whose Rights?

The other day on Capitol Hill, senator Tim Kaine was interrogating a witness during a recent Senate Foreign Committee hearing. During the question-and-answer session, Riley Barnes, whom President Trump has nominated to be assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor, said that human rights are divine rights. In other words, the rights that we all agree every human possesses come, not from the government or any other earthly entity, but from the Creator.

Jesus – YHWH is Salvation

“She will bear a Son; and you shall call His name Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins.” – Matthew 1:21.

Jesus is an English version of the Latin Jesu, which is Latin for the Greek Iesu, which is Greek for the Aramaic Yeshua, which is the Aramaic for the Hebrew Yehoshua. Some people like to put a lot of emphasis on what we call our Lord and Savior, but in every case, be it in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, or English, it has only one true meaning: YHWH (Yahweh) is Salvation.

Promised first in Genesis 3:15, this is the seed of the woman that crushes that foul serpent’s head. This is the root of Jesse, David’s son yet David’s Lord. This is the long awaited Messiah, the one who comes in the name of the Lord, and conquers sin, the grave, and death, and gives the believer newness of life to the one who believes.

He saves HIS people from their sins. What is a sinner? A person who sins it at enmity with, alternatively, one who is an enemy of the Living God. Scriptures tell us, “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8.

In Isaiah 53:5 it says “By His stripes we are healed.” The wound was mortal, the balm immortal. We were enemies of one whose wrath against all unrighteousness cannot be satisfied, so He, in love, sent the righteous one to fulfill the requirements of the law, the curse, sin, death, and the wrath to come.

John 14:6 is the statement of exclusivity. There is only one way to the Father, the God YHWH, and it is through the Son, the Risen Lord Jesus Christ – “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.”

This is a simple truth, Grace, through Faith in Christ, is the only remedy for your separation from God. Grace is the only path to Holiness. To walk humbly with God is to lay the burden of sin on Christ, who took the cross, so that you could take the crown.

Yes, this is the Christ. Look to Him and live. Look to the cross and see your shame, look to the Christ and see your victory. Then, pick up your cross and follow Him.

What's the Harm?

Recently, President Trump signed an executive order that stipulated that all official government buildings were to fly only official flags on all their facilities. That means that only flags that have been determined by the government to be “official” can be flown at buildings such as social security facilities, state and city municipal buildings, court facilities, and such.