by Pastor Bill Randles 

I very recently have been accused of thinking that babies are evil – by Jesse Morrell, an open air preacher, and Moral Government proponent. How did he possibly arrive at such a conclusion?  After all, I have 6 children and 10 grandchildren, (my secret plan for taking over the world…shhhhh!). I love babies, and celebrate the birth of every one of them as gifts of God. Where did Jesse Morrell ever get the idea that I pastor a church that thinks babies are evil?

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“And behold, the whole city came out to meet Jesus. And when they saw Him, they begged Him to depart from their region.”  Matthew 8:34

Hang on … did I just read that right?

Can you believe it? Why were these people upset? Guess I should go back a few paragraphs and read the whole story of what had happened.

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Let me get this straight, Jesus had just delivered 2 men of demons.  That’s a GOOD thing, isn’t it?  But when the people in town heard about it, they weren’t pleased at all. They begged Jesus to leave the region.

The true power of God is to the world only fearful. They would rather their mundane lives than Divine intervention.

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I can’t watch Hallmark movies. Especially those ones where a wife or a child is being abused by an alcoholic husband, or they’re imprisoned or abducted. Why would anyone inflict that upon themselves?  Of course, all these movies seem to have a happy ending, but it’s getting there is the problem!  I just can’t sit down and watch a story that revolves around domestic violence, or some other equally tragic situation, and think that I’m in any way being “entertained”.

Mind you, I have the same reaction to some stories on the evening news.  I have to turn it off and walk away.  The hateful sins that people are capable of inflicting upon one another.

But here’s a shocking realization – have you ever thought that God HAS to witness on a daily basis all of the attrocities of this sin-sick world?

I have the luxury of turning off my TV set and walking away. I can shut it out, and pretend it doesn’t exist. But God has to witness every rape, every murder, every assault. All of the abuse, the lies, the sickening hypocrisy. He is spared none of it.

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