The Death Penalty

  I am aware that there has been much battle over something that is a requirement of any system of Justice within a sane nation. This system was that given by God was the right to execute those who inflict severe crimes on others. As stated in the Declaration of Independence, “our rights are endowed by our creator”. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. If I as an American citizen have the right to life, why should it be taken? If I have the right to liberty, then why should I have to live in constant fear of transgressors? And if I have the right to pursue happiness, how can I obtain happiness when retribution is not served to my aggressor? Our right to execute inhumane human offenders comes from the Bible. Andrew Jackson, the 7^th President of the United States said, “the Bible is the book upon which this republic rests”. Noah Webster, a political writer, said, “All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible”.

 Now do not confuse retribution with revenge. My right as an American citizen is to live in a society free from the constant fear of my own life. Freedom does not mean the “abolishment of laws”. People living in the state of anarchy are bound to gangs, predators, and warlords. Laws enhance our freedom to cooperate and work together as a whole. Laws give you choice. Freedom does not mean “entitlement”, freedom is the right not only for yourself, but the security of your community.  If someone offends one, he offends all. And freedom is not for everyone. Those who violate the freedom of another should have a scale of restrictions placed on their freedom. This restriction can mean the right to life.

 According to statisticbrain.com, only 4% of death row inmates are released from their sentence being found innocent. 8% of inmates are granted clemency. This means that 88% of inmates are actually found with evidence to be convicted. Of course in any system of justice we should not expect perfection. If 20% of those 88% are innocent, that means that 68% of convicted murderers, predators, and rapists are being executed justly.

 In our prison system, about 3.6% of prisoners are innocent. If we take 1% of that, that’s 20,000 people out of 2.2 million people being found innocent. That number is now incredibly small. Of course these lives matter and there is always room for improvement.

 The United States of America is the world’s leading nation in incarceration. We have had a 500% increase over the past thirty years. This means more rapists, more murderers, more pedophiles, and more depravity. China is leading the world in the number of criminal executions and their crime level is ranked 83^rd. While the United States crime level is ranked 30^th. That’s three times more crime than China. If we continue to treat crimes of murderers, pedophiles, and offenders by locking them in cages telling them they will have free food, a roof over their head, fresh sheets to lay in, and fresh clothes to wear, then we are not solving the problem. Giving murderers the right to life means they have the right to yours. Solutions do not come from subtle systems but through severe sanctions. Freedom without retribution is a lie, and Justice without death is a compromise. Give me truth, or give me Justice.        

  Now one may argue that the death penalty is not a deterrent to violent crime, and of course that innocent people oftentimes are killed with a sentence pertaining to another man.

  But you must not forget the very reason of the death penalty. It is not to deter crime. The death penalty does not scare inhumane savages. The purpose of the death penalty is strictly for the retribution. Now of course, to the common citizen, fear lies in the midst of one who desires to offend.  The fact is, those who DON’T care for their lives should have their hopes granted. We say that the death penalty is immoral and treats humans like animals, yet locking someone in a cage for the rest of their life to the point of insanity isn’t? Especially if they’re on parole. Then they come out ten times worse than what they started. This idea is absolute mockery. It doesn’t matter what your culture, society, belief system, or common view is. Putting someone in a cage for the rest of his life is torture.

  Now touching the case of innocence. We cannot as a nation expect perfection in anything we do. In every ordinance of man, man is apt to flaw. We cannot and will never have a perfect society. Prohibiting the death penalty will only spot the land with more transgression. In the last 35 years, 4% of death row inmates were innocent. That 4% is 50 people out of 1,250 people who deserve the death penalty.

  When a nation does not keep God’s commandments, God oftentimes punishes that nation for disobedience to his law. Anything and everything as you can clearly see that is outside of God’s law is wrong. The death penalty is a righteous penalty for the atonement for the innocent. The death penalty is in God’s law. I stand my ground.

We Have God's Word Today Hymn

Stanza 1:




From the mouth of God to the prophet’s pen
Copied down through generations by faithful men
Genesis to Revelation by his providential hand
Were written then preserved through the tool of sinful man

Chorus:




Pure and perfect, true and whole
O God-breathed Text passed down from of old
From the Tyndale Bible to the King James
We have God’s Word today

Stanza 2:
We can hold His Word right in our hands
We don’t need to learn the Greek to understand
He can speak in our own language like the day of Pentecost
As He guides into all truth, by his Spirit we are taught

Stanza 3:




God preserved his Word and we have it now
But for filthy lucre’s sake the counterfeits abound
They change and take away from the Holy Words received
But we have a sure foundation and we will not be deceived

Stanza 4:




Each precious word, not one was lost
And to bring the Bible to us the martyrs paid the cost
And though many now neglect it, let us pick it up and read
For it holds the truth eternal for the heart that will receive

Reprobate

 Many of us as Christians have the opinion that everyone will always have the opportunity to be saved. The Bible does not teach this. The Bible actually teaches that there are people walking on this earth that can never be saved.

Now before you exit this blog post, let me prove to you why I know this to be true based on the Bible.

Romans 1:18-32 gives a clear timeline of what it takes for a person to become a reprobate.
¹⁸ For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
¹⁹ Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
²⁰ For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
²¹ Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
²² Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
²³ And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
²⁴ Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
²⁵ Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
²⁶ For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
²⁷ And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
²⁸ And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
²⁹ Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
³⁰ Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹ Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
³² Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them

If you are saved, then this clear passage should be easy to believe and understand. I don't want to write the explanation all out because I really don't think you would read it. It would be pretty long. I recommend if you want a more in deph explanation of this doctrine, please click on the links below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuvxthaS4Tk&ebc=ANyPxKocyJmODgTcuh_GxEzQO5AGcSNVAaKFH4f4ukSQi-u2hucgq-VZIeiNHLub_gC3jj-iqJrbD-AbMjFwP6oq1SNLJfR0Ew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnV0WnEkmqw

Once Saved Always Saved

I am aware that many people believe that they can lose their salvation. True believers of God believe that they can never lose their salvation. This is because Jesus said in John 11:26-26  "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?"

Jesus said that if you are alive, and believe in him, you will go to heaven. The scripture said they "shall never die". Once you are saved you are forever sealed by the Holy Ghost.

Ephesians 4:20 reads,  "And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption."

 He did not say "unto the day of apostasy" or "unto the day of not going to church" or "unto the day you stop repenting of your sins". He said, "unto the day of redemption".

 2 Timothy 2:13 reads,

 "If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself."

 Even if we were so stop believing, God said that we still have eternal life, "he cannot deny himself".

We as the children of God have eternal life and nothing can take it away. Eternal means never ending or never terminating. A synonym the Bible uses for eternal is everlasting. So if God were to take away our salvation based on our works, that would not be eternal life as it says in John 10:28-29

 ^"And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand."

No matter what we do, if we believe that Jesus died on the cross for our sins, we are saved. John 6:47 reads, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life."

The word "hath" is present tense, meaning that you have eternal life now, not when you get to heaven. The Holy Spirit is living and abiding in you from the moment you believe. 

Titus 1:2 says, 

 "In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;"

 If we for any reason are able to lose our salvation, then God is a liar. He promised salvation to us before the world began; to those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God, trusting in his death, burial, and resurrection to get them to heaven instead of their good works.
 Salvation is available to you today if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God.

Here is a link if you desire to be saved

How to Get Saved

Clarity

I will find you 'til I die,

To sing you a laliby,

Ever looking never seen,

Ever wanting never found,

Abounding in lust temporarily,

Awaking to darkness under the tree,

Beside my searching creeping bound,

Sniffing and searching like a blood hound,

Stuck inside this just for now,

Correct me, oh my Lord I bow,

Give me doctrine clear and sound,

Your tablebearer, you own the crown,

Crazy dreams from deep away,

Haughty findings unto this day,

Stayed from fear of man I'm stoned,

With bloody hands, beating to the bone,

Play your words of wisdom wisely,

Written in a book that lies deep inside me,

Ever wanting, never given,

Ever weeping, never warm,

Ever searching, never found,

Give me doctrine clear and sound,

Clarity,