hello, this blog is made up of the thoughts of David Baker. its main purpose is to air out things that i am studying or just random thoughts i might have at any given moment. most times it will be about God or theology, but there maybe times when i just have something else on my mind.... John 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
do you know him?, or just know him
you know your wife, most would say they know their wives better then most 0ther people. what if i where to say that i bet i know a stranger who knows her better then you. you would more then likely think i was crazy. well i do, you see just about any doctor worth his or her salt knows your wife better then you. they know her circulatory system, her bone structure, how she digests food, even how to fix her when she breaks. they know her better then you. BUT! they don't know anything about her. i think a lot of us end up in that kind of relationship with God. we study theology and eschatology and so on. we read book after book studying about God but never getting to know a single thing about him. what a tragic thing this can be. to wake up one day and realize you spent all those hours in the books, in the class, at the church, and you never met Him. i think this happens most times because we do not see God and we think to study about him is getting to know him. it is a simple enough mistake. God does not want us to only know what he does, he wants us to know who he is. God wants to be the biggest part of your life, the closest of any one to you. don't get caught up as a med student for the rest of your life just learning about how a women works, Get married!
Sunday, October 21, 2007
secularism and atheism kills
have you ever heard that more people have died in the name of religion then any other. i have to, the thing is this is just not true. a fast look into history will revel the truth. militant atheism and secularism have always been behind the worlds most horrific massacres. though it is often said to be religion that has been the guilty party. again history proves other wise. according to World Christian Trends AD 30 - AD 2200, by David Barrett and Todd Johnson, the number of Christians killed by atheists is up about one hundred million, that does not include Jewish and other non Christians they have slaughtered. in fact Ravi Zacharias has said that you could take all the people who have been killed by all religions from the start of history till now and it would not exceed the number of people killed by atheists in the last one hundred years. that i can not prove but just knowing who Ravi is i will take him at his word. it is a staggering statement though. history proves over and over that when a government is run by atheists, they come looking for the Christians and kill them.
we know what the bible has to say about the end of days, we know this will not get better. DR.R.C.Sproul says that he believes the time is coming and the church needs to get ready for another large scale persecution. i do not know if that is true but i do know that the more you look around the more you see it's not only ok to hate God..... it's become cool.
this is just a glance at what has become common place in our day. advertisements like this one are printed in your city's papers and all over the web. at what point will we take a stand and say this has become to much!
we know what the bible has to say about the end of days, we know this will not get better. DR.R.C.Sproul says that he believes the time is coming and the church needs to get ready for another large scale persecution. i do not know if that is true but i do know that the more you look around the more you see it's not only ok to hate God..... it's become cool.
this is just a glance at what has become common place in our day. advertisements like this one are printed in your city's papers and all over the web. at what point will we take a stand and say this has become to much!
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