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In the world of digital marketing, the numbers tell the story. Want to know if the time your are spending writing those clever Facebook posts is worth it? Check the number of reactions, comments and shares you are getting and see how many of your "Fans" and their friends you are reaching. Are your followers loving your tweets on Twitter? Check the number of retweets you are getting. It seems like every action you take online has a COMPLETE analytics suite to support it. That can be good, but it can also be a little - no A LOT - overwhelming! I will confess, I am a "numbers guy". But, I will even admit that, after awhile, everything runs together and the value of any single "metric" starts to lose its meaning. That's why I focus on just 5 numbers, the 5 digital marketing metrics that will drive your business in 2017. Key Metric #1 - Page Behavior on Google Analytics Google Analytics is a number lover's nirvana. The problem is there are literally thousands of numbers to look at. I go directly to a single screen to see how our website traffic as a whole, as well as any single individual page, is doing. It's the "All Pages" screen. Here's the one for kimgarst.com, one of our two websites. You can get there by entering Google Analytics, then selecting the "Reporting" tab first and scrolling down and clicking on "Behavior". Once there click on "Site Content" and then "All Pages". Look at the wealth of information! I can see our top perfroming pages ranked by "Pageviews" and all of the key data on each. From there I can make decisions about what's working, what's not and what our community wants more (or less!) of. For instance, from the data above I can see that two of our free offers are crushing it (#2 and #4) and that we might want to add a free offer on top Instagram Hashtags (that blog post received 63,000 pageviews and people spent, on average 10:01 on the page!) Key Metric #2 - E-Mail Open Rates What's the point of spending all of the time and effort building an email list if the people on the list never open the emails that you send them? Yes, email open rates are a critical metric that you should be intimately familiar with, but what's a good open rate? That's a question I get asked A LOT! My answer is "It depends", and that answer usually drives people crazy! But, let me explain and you will see why. So far in 2016 we have sent 65,823 "batches" of emails ranging from a single email to a single person to one reaching over 160,000 individual subscribers. Our opens rates ranged from a low of 5% to a high of 68% with an average of about 14%. The massive fluctuation is based on the segment of our entire subscriber base we choose for the mailing and the subject. For instance, the results below are for a follow-up email we sent to people who signed up for and attended one of our open training webinars. A whopping 48% of the subscribers opened the email and 15% actually clicked on one of the links in it. Whereas just 11% of the subscribers receiving one of our recent newsletters opened it and just 2% clicked on a link. However, the "top" performing email had 236 link clicks while the "bottom" performing one had 2,493! My point? Email open rates are a critical digital metric that will drive your business in 2017. Email open rates are a critical digital metric that will drive your business in 2017. CLICK TO TWEET You need to become familiar enough with yours to understand what a good open rate is versus a bad one based on your business, your market and the type of emails you are sending to the different segments of your list. Key Metric #3 - Facebook Post Engagement Our Facebook Fan Page numbers are HUGE. We have 400,000 Fans and our posts typically reach 1,000,000 - 10,000,000 people per week. However, in my opinion, those numbers don't mean a thing! What really matters is the number of people "engaging" (meaning reacting, commenting or sharing) with our Facebook posts. As a rough comparison, the number of Facebook Fans you have is similar to the size of your email list. The number, or percentage of post engagements is similar to your email open rate and link clicks. I know our posts for the week are particularly engaging when the post engagement rate (number of post engagements divided by Facebook Fans) is above 25%. In the screen shot above it's 29%, which is pretty strong. Key Metric #4 - Landing Page Conversion Rate Is this a good landing page? By good, I mean high converting. Let's find out. We have an absolute scale we measure our landing pages performance against. If our landing page conversions rate (the number of people who complete the information divided by the number of people who land on the page) is under 30% we pull the page, work on it and try again. From 30% to 50% is considered "average" for us and we leave the page up while we continue working on it. Above 50% is considered "good" and we pore a disproportionate percentage of our Facebook Ads budget to promote is. How do you calculate your landing page conversion rate? There are lots of ways. Google Tag Manager is free and pretty easy to set up. We use Facebook Ads and fiind the two pieces of data we need in the Ads Manager dashboard. The landing page conversion rate is simply the "Results" (the number of people who made it to the "Thank You" page) divided by the "Link Clicks" (the number of people who clicked the actual ad and were taken to the landing page). In the example above ,the landing page conversion rate is w whopping 60.2% (5,231/8688). So, the answer to my question is "Yes", this is an exceptional landing page. Key Metric #5 - Blog Social Sharing We use a WordPress plugin (Social Warfare) to make sharing our blog content quick and easy. How many people share our blog posts, and where, tells us the relative value of the information we are providing for our online community. For instance, the realtively new post above, a post about the best time to post on Facebook, has been shared 149 times...on Facebook! We have had posts shared 50,000+ times and other shared under 100. By tracking this metric we know which of our blog posts are resonating the best with our community. A Few Final Words about Digital Marketing Metrics What I have presented above are the 5 digital marketing metrics I use on a weekly basis to tell me, in a glance, how our website, email, Facebook, landing page and blog are performing. Each of the above is free and realtively easy to set-up. Don't be afraid of the numbers, embrace them. They provide amazing insights that will drive your entire business in 2017! Don't be afraid of the numbers, embrace them. They provide amazing insights that will drive your entire business in 2017! CLICK TO TWEET What are your favorite and/or the most powerful digital marketing metrics you look at? I would love to hear you answer in the comments section below. Share 20 Tweet 3 +1 4 Share 1 Pin 3 Buffer 8 SHARES 39 41de3b53b7fa1464306263-fb-live-checklist-below-post-optin.jpg Enter your name here... Enter your email address here... SEND IT TO ME! We promise to not use your email for spam! Filed Under: Business Building, Digital Marketing Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website POST COMMENT BECOME YOUR OWN BANK http://icfwealthmanagement.blogspot.com/2016/12/become-your-own-bank.html

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Learn through the Life experiences of others that will make you grow and be enrich. 01/22/20110 A Good Fruit of the Tree of Life Obedience to the Lord God of Heaven is like one planting a Tree of Life. That as it takes root in the Kingdom of Heaven - it anchors his/her age to firm foundation,absorbed eternal Laws of progression. And as its trunk appears,grows in the knowledge of the Kingdom of God. To where the Love for the Son of God Jesus Christ , conducting himself or herself for support - to the growth of its branch, for the growth of that fruit eternal life. Truthfully yours, Oscar del Rosario

During the first six Trumpets, Yahuwah provides everyone living with a final opportunity to accept salvation before human probation is eternally closed.

The first six Trumpets (unlike the seven last plagues) are mixed with mercy; we know this because only one-third of the targets are afflicted. “But the rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent . . .” (Revelation 9:20-21) young people dancing - city lifeIn an effort to awaken the world, what else could Heaven do, give, or offer that has not already been done in the eternal sacrifice of Yahuwah’s only begotten Son, Yahushua? “Even so, Yahuwah Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments.” (Revelation 16:7) By persistent rebellion and refusal to heed the warnings of the first six Trumpets, humanity will in effect be challenging Yahuwah to close probation. “He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.” (Revelation 22:11) The unrepentant will be ripe to taste the undiluted seven last plagues - the 3rd and final Woe. “The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.” (Revelation 11:14) “And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Master, and of His Anointed; and He shall reign forever and ever.” (Revelation 11:15)

4 When a messenger comes saying he has a message from God, offer him your hand and request him to shake hands with you. 5 If he be an angel he will do so, and you will feel his hand. 6 If he be the spirit of a just man made perfect he will come in his glory; for that is the only way he can appear— 7 Ask him to shake hands with you, but he will not move, because it is contrary to the order of heaven for a just man to deceive; but he will still deliver his message. 8 If it be the devil as an angel of light, when you ask him to shake hands he will offer you his hand, and you will not feel anything; you may therefore detect him. 9 These are three grand keys whereby you may know whether any administration is from God.

Spirits are those beings who either have not yet obtained a body of flesh and bone ... to obey the gospel, will not be exalted and will become angels in eternity.

the kingdom of heaven is like Matthew 13:44 "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a ... biblehub.com/matthew/13-44.htm New International Version "The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he ... ‎Matthew 13:45 · ‎Matthew 13:44 NLT · ‎Matthew 13:44 NASB · ‎Matthew 13:44 NIV The Kingdom of Heaven Is Like... The Parable of the Wedding Feast (Matthew 22:1-14) starts out by these intriguing words: “The kingdom of heaven is like...” In the Gospels there are several parables that start with these words. ... The kingdom of heaven is like “a king” — a single, identifiable being.Mar 22, 2014

Study Bible The Parables of the Treasure and Pearl 43Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear. 44The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and in his joy he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

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HOW WILL CRYPTOCURRENCY HELP YOU? The world is becoming more and more economically unsafe. This is not to say we are not growing.

HOW WILL CRYPTOCURRENCY HELP YOU? The world is becoming more and more economically unsafe. This is not to say we are not growing. But as Nassim Taleb states in his book. Antifragile. Our economic machine is like a glass jaw. one small punch to it and it all comes crashing down! Both long term and short term this is not good for you and all of the hard working citizen of the world. “FRAGILITY IS THE QUALITY OF THINGS THAT ARE VULNERABLE TO VOLATILITY.” – NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB So below, I will outline some pros and cons of us adopting a global acceptance of Cryptocuurency. And my hopes with this is…you will walk away with having found new found respect for cryptocurrency. PROS AND CONS OF CRYPTOCURRENCY The benefits of cryptocurrency over current fiat currency tech Example: Central governments can’t take it away Remember what happened in Cyprus in March 2013? The Central Bank wanted to take back uninsured deposits larger than $100,000 to help recapitalize itself, causing huge unrest in the local population. It originally wanted to take a percentage of deposits below that figure, eating directly into family savings. That can’t happen with cryptocurrency/bitcoin. Because the currency is decentralized, you own it. No central authority has control, and so a bank can’t take it away from you. For those who find their trust in the traditional banking system unravelling, that’s a big benefit. Let’s take a look at some of the improvements that can be made to fiat currency by shifting towards digital cash:

Faith is a gift from God, but we must nurture our faith to keep it strong. Faith is like a muscle. If exercised, it grows strong. If left immobile, it becomes weak.

Faith Learn more about what it means to have faith in Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul taught that “faith is the substance [assurance] of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). Alma made a similar statement: “If ye have faith ye hope for things which are not seen, which are true” (Alma 32:21). Faith is a principle of action and power. Whenever we work toward a worthy goal, we exercise faith. We show our hope for something that we cannot yet see. Additional Information Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ In order for faith to lead to salvation, it must be centered in the Lord Jesus Christ (see Acts 4:10-12; Mosiah 3:17; Moroni 7:24-26; Articles of Faith 1:4). We can exercise faith in Christ when we have an assurance that He exists, a correct idea of His character, and a knowledge that we are striving to live according to His will. Having faith in Jesus Christ means relying completely on Him—trusting in His infinite power, intelligence, and love. It includes believing His teachings. It means believing that even though we do not understand all things, He does. Because He has experienced all our pains, afflictions, and infirmities, He knows how to help us rise above our daily difficulties (see Alma 7:11-12; D&C 122:8). He has “overcome the world” (John 16:33) and prepared the way for us to receive eternal life. He is always ready to help us as we remember His plea: “Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not” (D&C 6:36). Living by Faith View More Scripture References Hebrews 11 James 1:5-6 Ether 12:4-27 Moroni 7:20-48 Doctrine and Covenants 63:7-11 Prophetic Teachings “Finding Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ” Only faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and His Atonement can bring us peace, hope, and understanding. ““Help Thou Mine Unbelief”” We promote the process of strengthening our faith when we do what is right—increased faith always follows. “Faith in Jesus Christ” Faith in Jesus Christ takes us beyond mere acceptance of the Savior’s identity and existence. It includes having complete confidence in His infinite and eternal redemptive power. “The Shield of Faith” Never before in the history of the world has the need for faith in God been greater. ““Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ”” View More Additional Study Materials "By Faith All Things Are Fulfilled" Book of Mormon Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual, Lesson 46 "Thy Faith Hath Saved Thee" New Testament Gospel Doctrine Teacher's Manual, Lesson 19 "Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ" Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young, Chapter 8 "Faith: The Foundation of All Righteousness" Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith, Chapter 6 "The First Principles and Ordinances of the Gospel" Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Harold B. Lee, Chapter 4 View More http://piecemealministry.blogspot.com/2016/12/faith-is-gift-from-god-but-we-must.html Faith (Part 3) Lot John W. Ritenbaugh Given 24-Apr-93; Sermon #072; 83 minutes Description: (show) Topics: (show) Faith (Part... 00:00 00:00 Download Series The Faith series: Faith (Part 1) Faith (Part 2) Faith (Part 3) Faith (Part 4) Faith (Part 5) Faith (Part 6) Faith (Part 7) We are going to begin back where we left off in Hebrews 11:24. We are going to review the section there about Moses as a lead-in for what we are going to talk today about faith. Hebrews 11:24-28 By faith Moses, when he became of age, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin, esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and the sprinkling of blood, lest he who destroyed the firstborn should touch them. Last week we took a look at this man, or let us say the faith of this man, and I would have to say that he came about as close as a human being can come to being the perfect model. He had an almost flawless record, at least from the things that are written in God's Word, but even Moses' faith broke down from time to time. Probably the most notable example was the time, where in his exasperation about the Israelites and their continued rebelliousness and stiffneckedness, Moses struck the rock in a very angry attitude. As a result of that, of course, God made the decision that Moses would not be permitted to go into the Promised Land. But Moses was a prime example of a person counting the cost and then casting his lot with the invisible God even though everything that he could see said, "Don't do it! Don't go this way!" It is essential to our understanding of faith to know that his was a deliberate and a reasoned act arrived at through the sifting of evidence. What he did in walking away from Egypt also presupposes a firm conviction about his calling. In other words, there was in him a very strong, as we would say today, "feeling" that God was calling to him for this very purpose, and that God was going to use him, because it does say that when he intervened and tried to stop these two Israelites from arguing, it says there, he supposed they would understand. So there was not only an understanding in Moses' eye or mind about what Moses was going to be doing for God but also, apparently, it must have been general knowledge among the Israelites that Moses was the one that had been chosen to be the deliverer. Otherwise, why would the scripture say that Moses expected that they would understand? They did not understand. They did not reason the same way that he did. They did not sift the evidence in the same way that Moses did. It is in this area that we have so much in common with Moses. Remember I said in last week's sermon that we probably have about as much in common with Moses in regard to this as we do anybody mentioned in this chapter. But we do not have to do the same things that Abel did, or that Enoch did, or that Noah did, or that Abraham did, but every single one of us has to look at the world around us, has to look at our own situation, has to look at our family, look at where we are going because of God's calling of us, and make a choice. Am I willing to step away from this, or am I going to hang on to what I have? Am I going to believe in these things that I cannot see, and yet they are now a part of my thinking—they are becoming more and more a part of my life, and they are beginning to impact on what I am doing with my life—but am I willing to cast my lot with these things that are not yet, but yet they have the promise of Almighty God behind them? It is very interesting to see that others have come to this place in their life and maybe on reflecting back on it they left it for a record like the apostle Paul did in Philippians the third chapter. Philippians 3:7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. Counting is something that every one of us does. We add things up and we subtract things. We say, well I have this much money and I have this much that I am going to spend and I will have this much left over. Now we do that very frequently with money. What about other areas of life? What do we have to lose by following the way of God? By going the way of Christ? By going the way of faith, rather than going the way of sight? Now unlike Moses, the apostle Paul had a very sudden confrontation with these things. Moses apparently arrived at what he did over a period of quite a number of years. He surely understood his origin, that his ancestry was certainly Israelitish. It does not seem as though all that much hidden was from him because he spent a measure of time with his mother. I do not know how much but certainly a couple of years, because she was his wet nurse even though he was in the household of Pharaoh's daughter. Gradually these things and, let us say, the pressure of doing something came upon Moses. Now with the apostle Paul, the decision was virtually forced on him. One day on the road to Damascus he was struck down and he was confronted in a very telescopic period of time. Oh, what am I going to do? Because he certainly had a history behind him of persecuting the church and now he is confronted with, "What am I going to do?" He had three days, as it turned out, of fasting and blindness to make up his mind. Here he is writing the book of Philippians some twenty years later and he says, "I count these things as loss." He wrote them off. He is saying, "I made the right choice. I got baptized by that Ananias." Philippians 3:8 But indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, . . . Is that not saying virtually the same thing recorded of Moses back in Hebrews 11—that he esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt for he looked to the reward? That is what Paul was saying. Philippians 3:8 But indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ. The excellence of the knowledge of Christ...Moses did what he did because he sifted the evidence that was available to him, and he considered the evidence that God gave him—that is, the Word of God—as being of greater value to him than what he could see with his eyes. Now look at what Paul says in verse 8, "the excellence of the knowledge of Christ." The knowledge of Christ is contained for you and me in the Word of God. Paul's was a little more direct. Christ spoke to him directly and there was that fantastic miracle that took place, but nonetheless this Christ spoke to him and began the process of enlightening his mind in the true way that he should interpret and understand the Old Testament and all the prophecies that were there. Therefore the excellence of the knowledge of Christ also was contained in the word of God. I am emphasizing this because I want us to see where the evidence is that we have to sift, because whether we are going to be able to say the same thing with Paul and with Moses is going to be based upon how we analyze and understand the knowledge of Christ Jesus. This expresses, I would say, as clearly as any scripture I know of, what we all have to come to. There must be in us a very clear focus of what is important and what is not. God's Word does that, but it is faith that enables us to process it in the right way. This faith comes from hearing God's Word. It is not something that comes by magic simply because one reads the Word of God. It comes because one analyzes what he is reading, he compares it with what his own experience is, and there are going to be times, are there not, when our experience is not covered with what the Word of God is telling us that we ought to do. For example, up until the time of our calling, it is very unlikely that any of us were keeping the Sabbath, but God began to reveal to us that we were to keep the Sabbath. But we had little or no experience with the Sabbath and it is very likely that our experience that we did have with the Sabbath was one of antagonism. It could be that far or it could reach into that area, or skepticism which would not be quite so far. We might have known some people who kept it, maybe some Seventh Day Adventists or maybe we knew some Jews, and maybe our feeling about that coming from our own experience was not that good because maybe it was associated with Judaism. What do you do in a case like that? You are beginning to be convicted by the knowledge that God is giving out of His Word and your faith is beginning to build, but your own personal experience is entirely lacking in this area except for touching with the lives of some people who did keep it. But what do you do? What do you do especially when you begin to count the cost that if you do keep the Sabbath the way the Bible says, you might lose your job, and so then we have to step out. Doing what? Trusting the Word of God. But you do it after making a counting and an accounting of what it is going to cost, and then you come to the place where you feel that it is worthwhile doing it, you esteem the reward that you are going to get from God even though you do not now have it—the reward you are going to get from God because of your obedience to Him, because of your trusting Him. That is exactly the same process that Moses went through in a much, much more costly way. But it is the same principle. Let us consider God's Word for just a bit because this is the basis of our reasoning. This is where the evidence is contained by which faith comes. In John 17:17 Jesus said that God's Word is truth. Truth there indeed does mean factual, something that is right and good. But we need to understand it in a little bit different way, and so what I am going to give here is a number of contrasts because this word that is translated "truth" is also equally well translated into the English word "real" or "reality." God's Word is reality. Another English word is the word "genuine"—God's word is genuine. Let us make a few contrasts here. God's Word then is factual as compared or contrasted to flawed. Man's word is flawed; some of it is true, some of it is not true. Man's word is corrupted by the fact that even though he may have good intentions, even though there is sincerity in terms of wanting to tell the truth, his experience just does not purport his ability to really give us truth. God sees all things, He hears all things, He knows all things. He is Omnipotent, He is Omnipresent, He is Eternal, there is no beginning of days or end of life, He is the sum total of everything, and if He tells us something it has the weight of everything that He is behind it. So His Word is not flawed because it is impossible for God to lie. So God's Word is factual as contrasted to the word of man which is flawed. In addition to that, God's Word is pure as contrasted to that which is contaminated. God's Word is genuine as contrasted to that which is hypocritical. The word of man may look good on the outside, but it is not all that good and God's Word is reality as contrasted to that which is fantasy or vanity. It is good to understand this because if we are going to use the Word of God in the right way, we have to believe it. We not only have to believe it, we have to trust it. When Jesus said that God's Word is truth and that we are sanctified by that word, we have to understand it from the point of view, or the perspective of God, that God's Word is pure, God's Word is genuine, God's Word is factual, God's Word is reality, and all those things are contrasted to man's word. That even though he has the best of intentions and sincerity he cannot even begin to come close to the Word of God. Whose word are we going to use as evidence upon which to base our life if we are going to live by faith, live by trust? I mentioned also last week that even though we walk by faith and not by sight, faith and sight have elements in common. The using of faith depends on one being able to see. I am using "see" here in three different ways. The first way is the least important of the three and that is using "see" in the sense of literally witnessing something with our eyes. This is the least important of the three ways, but sometimes seeing something with our eyes can give our faith a boost. I know that most of us have heard in the past that very frequently dramatic healings may take place in a person's life very early in their conversion or as the person is on their way to conversion, and God will do that as a gift to people because they really do not have very much faith, not very much trust in Him, and sometimes it is like getting a shot in the arm for a person to actually witness an experience—something dramatic and miraculous. Witnessing something like this is in the long haul not all that important. We have evidence in the Bible that what I have just said is true. Adam and Eve walked and talked with their Creator in the garden. They saw him with their own eyes. You cannot get any closer. You cannot have a more visible witness of God than that. It did not stop them from sinning. We have the example of the Israelites in Egypt. Sure, a couple of thousand of years removed from Adam and Eve, but it did not help them all that much whenever they could reflect back upon what they saw with their own eyes in Egypt. They saw the Red Sea parting, and they walked through on dry land, and they cheered and they sang the song of Moses in great joy, triumphing there with God because of what God did for them. They saw it with their own eyes. They turned right around and in a couple of days they were rebelling. Some faith. How about those people at the time of Jesus Christ? How many people saw with their own eyes somebody receiving their sight, and then turn right around and argue with the man for whom the miracle was done. Let's turn to one example in John 6 because I think that this is important to our understanding of faith. John 6:26 Jesus answered them and said, "Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. Ha! Jesus saw right through their willingness to follow after Him. Their god was their belly. There was not faith there. They saw with their eyes, but they did not respond for the right reason. They were not really sifting the evidence in a spiritual way and so Jesus came back with something that is important to this sermon. John 6:27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him. Jesus confronts these people with a choice. He confronts you and me with a choice. He is telling us that there are two ways that we can go with the evidence that is given to us by our life's experience and part of that experience is having our eyes opened by God and now it is almost like we are double-minded. On the one hand, spiritually, we can look through the eyes of God at things. On the other hand spiritually we can still look through the eyes of man at our own experience. So He says, "Make a choice." John 6:28-29 Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" [Then comes one of the key scriptures in regard to this subject.] Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God [Now what is God doing? What is God working?] that you believe in Him whom He sent." The purpose of the manifestation of the works of God in Christ—the miracles, the feeding of 5,000, of 4,000, the healing of people, restoring sight, giving people hearing—were all done by God to produce faith that you should believe. Let us consider that for just a moment, because if God did that for those people, would He not do the same for you and me? What God is doing in your life is shaping and molding events in order that your faith continually be strengthened. God wants us to trust Him, to trust His Word and to respond in that way. Let us drop down to verse 31. Again these are the people talking, John 6:31-32, 34 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert; as it is written, "He gave them bread from heaven to eat." Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but My Father gives you the true bread from heaven. . . .Then they said to Him, "Lord, give us this bread always." They still did not get it because they were looking at this physically. But now do we get it? Yes you do, you get it and the very evidence of that is that you are here. Now verse 44, that very famous scripture, fits right into this sequence of events. John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. It is the work of God to open our minds so that we are able to respond in a godly way, that is by faith to the manifestation of Himself through His Word. For the manifestation of Christ through His Word, for the manifestation of the works of God through the knowledge that we get from His Word, Christ, so that we can see the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, which means therefore that God has given to each one of us the capacity to do what Moses did. Maybe not as perfectly, not having to trust in exactly the same way or to the same degree, but nonetheless it is the same principle. So even though we have a spiritual capacity by nature because of the spirit that is within us, all of mankind has the spiritual capacity, the true spiritual relationship can really only be made by those whom God is calling. We have been given a gift of God that enables us to have the kind of faith that Moses had, the kind of faith that the apostle Paul had. Now we get back to Moses. I said when we opened this sermon that what he did and the things that are written in God's Word presupposes that Moses had a conviction that he was the deliverer, and he supposed that the Israelites would also see that and understand why he did what he did. But they did not get it. They did not see it the same way Moses did. That is why your neighbors do not see things in the same way that you do. God's Word has an impact on your mind so that you see a necessity, let us say for keeping the Sabbath or the Holy Days or tithing or whatever it is that is a part of the truth of God, and you are willing to count the cost and submit to Him in obedience because of the miracle that He has worked on our mind. So your neighbors can see things that you do and it does not have the same impact as it does on you and me. Undoubtedly, the least important of these three aspects of the word "see" is being able to actually witness something. It is the least important though from time to time it may play a part in strengthening your faith. There are two other aspects that are more important to true faith, the faith of Jesus Christ, than actually being able to witness, because the faith that we are dealing with, does it not say that faith is the evidence of things not seen. The second and much more important is vision. Vision is an aspect of the word "see." Vision here means "the ability to anticipate and to make provision for the future". We might call it having insight, or we might say having imagination. This one is very important to faith, and we will get back to it in just a little bit. The third one I think is the most important of all and when it is combined with vision it is the one upon which true faith is really built and that is, understanding. Do we not say, "Oh I see it. I get it!" We are saying, "I understand it now." We can envision something, but when we really understand it, when we really grasp it, when we really get it, that is when we are really motivated. Vision can give us some motivation but vision, when combined with understanding, can really motivate a person because it is the right comprehension of facts. Romans 1:19-20 Because what may be known of God is manifest in them ["to" them, it should read] for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen [we have sight there, we have vision there], being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and [Divine nature], so that they are without excuse. God is invisible to us, but He has made clear evidence that He is. Of course right at this point Paul is just saying that the creation itself is evidence of the existence of a Creator, and that that Creator is not just Creator, but He is the Ruler and Sustainer and the Provider of what He has created. Other attributes of His also pour open the fact that He is the Creator God, so there is evidence available to everybody who lived that there has to be a Creator. That is the beginning of faith, and it comes from what one can see. But it is the least important because we can see from the records that mankind has left on this earth in his history that even though he can see that there is a creator, because they do not have the right vision, and because they do not understand in the right way so that they can process the facts that they do have, they do not have the faith that really trusts Him either. So they do not live their lives in the right way. But we have this evidence and we have the Spirit of God and this impacts on us and gives us the ability to envision and understand what He is doing and to apply it in the right way. The Word of God, the Bible, is a record that presents us with the evidence of the invisible God and His work. It does this in words. In addition to that it shows us where to look for additional evidence, evidence that we can use to support, or give strength to, or to clarify what might otherwise be a little more cloudy or vague. We can look in what? History. We can look into what else? We can look into geology. We can look into biology. We can look into botany. We can look into archeology. We can look into anthropology. There are disciplines of study that we can look into, and if we are processing it in the right way, everything then points to the fact that there is a Creator God, and that should undergird the spiritual faith that God has made available by means of His Spirit. It gives supporting evidence for what God has given us in His Word, and those other things may not be absolute necessities to us, and those other things that we get out of the secular areas may be flawed in their proof or whatever, there is enough from God to support and enable us to sift out what really is true. We might ask, "Why did God ever decide to work His purpose by faith?" I am sure that we are never going to know every reason, but one of the more obvious is that faith, better than any other method than I can think of, reveals a person's character. Out of sight, out of mind. If a person will trust God, yield to Him, submit to Him, obey Him, when God cannot be seen, and he shows himself to be loyal and trustworthy and faithful when carrying out responsibilities, eventually that person's character is going to be in himself at the time because he is living it. And he does not have a gun to his head, he is not being forced or controlled, but by his own will he is setting himself to obey this One whom he cannot see, and obey Him on the basis of the evidence that he is able to process. One of the major themes that runs through Hebrews 11, especially when it is combined with a scripture that we are later going to look at in Romans 4, shows us that faith is not founded on imagination. But it is not, as we might say, "sheer" in the sense of being vaporous or easily seen through as a nylon stocking is sheer, but rather it is founded on good solid evidence. What Hebrews 11 does is that it approaches it this way, by showing us how important vision is to faith, that is trust, and how important analysis of evidence that produces right understanding is. We are going to look at a series of phrases mostly, probably read most of the scripture, and the first group is going to be focused on vision. Look at how this is taught by the apostle Paul. Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. But if a person is going to go towards that which he hopes for and he does not see it yet, he is envisioning so. He is envisioning the possession of it. Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. If it is not visible, it cannot be seen and it has to be envisioned. Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, God said to Noah, "Build an ark. There's a flood coming!" One hundred and twenty years later it came. Noah envisioned, though, that it was going to occur and that vision was the motivation for what he did. So he spent the next 120 years building that big boat. Hebrews 11:10 For he [Abraham] waited for [or looked for, as the King James says] the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. He had to envision it, the New Jerusalem. Hebrews 11:13 These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off [in their mind's eye] Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense. Figuratively—he envisioned it. What did he envision there? The resurrection of Isaac. We will get back to this verse in just a little bit. Hebrews 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king; for he endured as seeing Him who is invisible. He envisioned the mighty God. We will stop there and turn to vision. Here we are in the faith chapter and vision—being able to perceive something in the mind's eye, being able to put form and shape on something in your thoughts from the evidence that is given in God's Word. What these people all looked forward to, the city whose builder and maker is God, the New Jerusalem, the kingdom of God, they envisioned it in their mind's eye. Now how did they do this? They processed the information that was given in the Word of God. They compared it with the kind of world that they looked at with it. So they compared the two, the reality of the one with reality of the other. The one they envisioned, the other they could see with their own eyes. But the one they envisioned motivated them to do what they did in their lives, that is trust in God. Let us look at the other and, I think, the most important of the three. These people all analyzed the evidence that was given to them and understood it. Hebrews 11:3 By faith we understand . . . That is, processing evidence, analyzing it, comprehending the fact, evidence that is given, and reaching a conviction about something. In this case, it is whatever it is that God has promised the kingdom of God. Hebrews 11:11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised. See where faith comes from? It does not happen by magic. Hebrews 11:19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead, from which he also received him in a figurative sense. What did Abraham do? The word "accounting" tells us a great deal. In the Greek language it is an accounting term. Do you know what an accountant does? He adds up figures. He puts them all in a row. He puts all of the receipts on one side, and he puts all the expenditures on the other side. He adds one total. He adds the other to get another total. And, then, he has an accounting of his net worth. Now the numbers are evidence of what his net worth is. That is what Abraham did, only instead of it being numbers, he was adding up evidence. His evidence came from the words that God told him: "You shall have a son." It took 25 years, but he had a son. Then a number of years later God said to him, "Abraham, I want you to go out and sacrifice that son." "Uh oh, there's evidence there that I didn't count on," Abraham could have said. But it says that Abraham took off. What evidence did Abraham have that could make him do what he was about to do in faith? The evidence that Abraham had was the Word of God. The Word of God had told Abraham that the promise was going to come through his son Isaac. Not through Ishmael, not through any future son that Abraham might have, but the promise was going to come through Isaac. Now what did Abraham do with that evidence? He knew that there could be only two possible things that might occur. If Abraham was required by God to put Isaac to death, then God would either resurrect him or, the other part of the evidence was that if God was not going to require Abraham to kill Isaac, then God would give him a substitute. He added up the evidence and that is where the motivation came from for what he did. That is what Moses did. That is why he did what he did and why he is such a towering example of faith. This is what we do not do so many times, but on the other hand, this is what we have done to permit us to be motivated for what we have done in obeying God, in yielding to God, whether it is in keeping His Sabbath or whatever it is, we have processed the evidence just like Abraham did, just like Moses did, and then we made a choice that we were going to do what God said. In verse 26, we will just touch on this, it says in regard to Moses, Hebrews 11:26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt; for he looked to [or had respect to] the reward. Moses esteemed—he judged, and he placed a value upon—the evidence that he received from God as being far greater and worth more than all of the riches and all of the honor and glory that was available to him in Egypt if he just made the choice to go that way. But he turned his back on it because the evidence that was presented to him motivated him to go in the direction that he did. Let us go back to Romans, and we will look at that other scripture just briefly, talking about Abraham. Romans 4:21 And being fully convinced that what He [God] had promised He was also able to perform. If you have the King James, it says there that Abraham was fully persuaded. He allowed the evidence given by God to convince him that he should trust God. He added up the evidence and he did what he did. Now this does not mean that Abraham never had doubts. He did have doubts. The Bible makes it very clear that he had doubts. The book of Genesis clearly shows that there were times that he turned aside from the path. In the case of producing his son, Isaac, he tried to do it through Hagar, and God had to show him that, "No, Abraham, your faith has broken down here. Ishmael is not the promised seed." So his faith broke down on occasion and he, at times, had doubts creep in his mind so that he did not do things exactly right. Yet one thing we can learn from him, and I am sure this is one of the major reasons that God chose this man to be considered the father of the faithful, is that his overall trust in God never wavered. He, like you and me, from time to time processed the information, the evidence, in the wrong way, and he went the wrong way, and I am sure that there was a lot of emotion involved in his choosing the wrong way. But God patiently worked with him and turned him back on the right way. You know the time that Abraham went down into Egypt, everything turned out wrong there. He should have never gone there. There is nothing in God's Word that said he had to go there. Abraham chose to go there and he almost lost his wife over it. What God is showing us in that experience is do not go back to Egypt, like Abraham did. So even though we may have doubts arise from time to time we can still trust God to bring us back on the path because He will patiently work with us. When a doubt does arise sometimes it clarifies, does it not, because when there is a doubt, is it not implying that we are asking questions about whether or not what we are doing, or this course of action, is the right course? When doubts arise, do not feel as though you should never doubt, because there are going to be doubts arising because of our experience we have had in the world. But if we are patient and if we continue to trust God in an overall sense, it is going to clarify things. But let me warn you, sometimes reaching the clarification is going to be painful because God may take us through an experience to give us the understanding that we need to get things straightened out in an overall sense. We do not have God speaking to us directly like these men had from time to time, but we still have God's Word, and we still have God's calling. We can reach a bit of a conclusion here and that is that faith—Godly faith—comes from the combination of God's Spirit working in our mind, plus studying God's Word (the excellency of the knowledge of Christ), plus related experience from the world, and then it is further strengthened by putting it to work. We are going to take a look at a portion of a man's life whose name does not appear in Hebrews 11, because he was not a hero of faith, and yet there is evidence that he did have faith. He is such an interesting personality because of this. This man stands as a warning beacon to all of us because of his failure and his major failure, I think, was in failing to look at life through the eyes of God, that is, through the eyes of faith like Moses did, like Paul did, like Abraham did. But this example is also encouraging to us because it reveals to us the immensity of God's mercy toward us. Because even as God was merciful to this man, he will also be merciful to us. But nonetheless his life stands as a warning to every one of us that God does not want us to go in this direction and I am sure that is why the warning is there. This man is Lot. Lot did not have a lot of faith. We are going to begin at a critical point in Lot's life because it makes a very significant statement about him there. This is just about the time that Sodom and Gomorrah are to be blasted into kingdom come, as we might say. Genesis 19:16 And while he lingered, . . . This was not his whole life, of course, but I think as we move along here you are going to find that this statement seems to catch the essence of what was a dominant characteristic in this man's life. It is the characteristic of a person who is not really focused on the Kingdom of God. Remember Jesus said, "Seek you first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all of these things shall be added unto you?" Lot was not focused like his uncle, Abraham, was. Do you not think that a person who was really focused on the Kingdom of God and was living in the city of Sodom, and two angels (which we are going to see very clearly that Lot knew that these men were angels) came to you and you were really focused on the Kingdom of God and they said, "Get out!" would you get out or would you linger? Does that not begin to tell you something about him. It does begin to tell you something about him because he was a man who was distracted. He was distracted by other things or interests which catch the eyes and, thus, the attention. He lingered—remember that phrase. Let us go back into the New Testament and establish something else about him that I think is keenly interesting. II Peter 2:6-9 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly; and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed with the filthy conduct of the wicked (for that righteous man, dwelling among them, tormented his righteous soul from day to day by seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)—[and then comes this phrase that is really so comforting] then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment. Here is what is so interesting. Lot is three times in that section called righteous and one time he is called godly, and yet when we look back at the story that is written beginning in Genesis 11 and going all the way through Genesis 19, everything that is written about that man is negative. It is not good. It is not put in a good light at all, and yet he is called "righteous" and "godly." I think that it is even more shocking to consider what I think is Peter's very obvious inference that he was righteous while all these bad, evil, wicked things were going on in Sodom. From that we can then conclude that he did not become righteous by and through repentance and faith in Jesus Christ after the shock of events that occurred with the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, but that he was deemed righteous by God before then and through the event. That righteous man, it says, was troubled with what was going on within the city. Therefore, Lot was not what we consider a bad man. He was not an evil man. He was not a wicked man. He was what we would consider to be a converted man. He had received the grace of God, and by the grace of God righteousness was imputed to him, even as it is to you and me. It says that he was tormented by the things that he saw in Sodom and Gomorrah. What does that mean? That means that he clearly understood about sin. It does not seem as though the Sodomites were concerned at all, but Lot was. He understood sin. He understood that these people were off the mark, and though he was not wicked, he did nothing to remove himself from it. There is the problem. He lingered. See, he was willing to coexist with it. Genesis 13:13 But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord. Pay very close attention to this because Lot knew, he knew when he made these choices, he knew of the awful conditions in the city even before he got there. Let us go to Genesis 19:13. The angels are on the scene and they say to him, Genesis 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown great before the face of the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it. He knew it was going to be destroyed and yet he lingered, and he knew that there was a God who kept His word. He could hardly not do that and understand that because he was Abraham's nephew. He knew the God of Abraham because that God had become Lot's God as well. Genesis 19:14 So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, "Get up, get out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city!" There is further proof that he knew. He believed in the danger. Okay, we have got to tie this to ourselves. Do we live in a spiritual Sodom and Gomorrah? Is the end coming? Is Christ returning? Is the Kingdom of God fairly close to us? Are we lingering in the worldliness that surrounds us? It is going to take faith to walk away. Lot believed to such depth that he urged his sons-in-law and yet he lingered. Lot knew the angels were there standing by and waiting for him and his family, and they even tried to hasten him out and yet he lingered. He was slow when he should have been quick. He was backward when he should have been forward. He was trifling when he should have been hasty. He was cold when he should have been hot. He was loitering when he should have been hurrying. We might say today, "Was this man out of it, or what?" In a major sense he was, and yet he was a converted man. The world around us is, we might say at the very least, smoldering embers that are soon going to burst into the flames of the greatest tribulation that has ever hit the entirety of the earth. Unfortunately, many linger while the world is getting ready to burn. What we have here with Lot is an example of two Christians, who appear to know far more than they live up to, to be able to see and understand far more than they practice. They are people who love to hear good sound preaching. They believe in the doctrines of God, and yet they are constantly doing things that disappoint others around them. They believe in the Kingdom of God, they even seem to yearn for it. They hate Satan, they believe in the Lake of Fire and yet it almost looks like with their life that they do things to tempt Satan into testing them, putting the screws to them. These people believe that time is short, but they act as though they wish it was long. They know that holiness is a beautiful thing. They like to read about it in books. They love to see it in others. But they have the notion in their mind that it is impossible for them to be holy in that way and to be so spiritual. Lot represents those people who dread personal sacrifice. They shrink from self-denial. They have a horror of being considered narrow-minded and so they tend to go to the opposite extreme and are so tolerant they would try to please everybody and be agreeable to everybody and they forget that they should first of all please God. These are the people who are trying to keep up with the world and they are ingenious at discovering reasons for not separating from it and so they will give themselves all kinds of justification for attending questionable amusements—wild, violent, sexy movies or whatever, holding on to questionable relationships. They persuade themselves that it does good to mix a little bit with the world. Do you know a whole body of the church that is going in that direction? I know you know. They cannot find it in themselves to sternly do battle with their besetting sin whether it be laziness, a bad temper, pride, excessive self-concern, vanity, impatience—they allow it to remain in their mind, justifying, “Well, that's just the way they are. My daddy before me was the same way, and that's the way mama was, and I guess that's the way I'll always be.” They are lingering while the world is beginning to burn down. These people are not really happy. They know too much and they are conscience-stricken. It bothers them. They are not really committed and they know it. Remember that I said last week that faith is the act of commitment. It is. Let us look a little bit further into Lot's background because his pedigree, as we traced Moses’ last week, is even in a way more interesting than Moses' was. Genesis 11:26-31 Now Terah lived seventy years, and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. This is the genealogy of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. Haran begot Lot. [Haran was Abram's brother and Lot was Abram's nephew then.] And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. Then Abram and Nahor took wives: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and the father of Iscah. But Sarai was barren; she had no child. And Terah took his son Abram and his grandson Lot, the son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai, his son Abram's wife, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan. . . . Drop down to chapter 12. We are refining it to Abram's relationship with Lot. Genesis 12:4 So Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot went with him. And Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. Very early Lot is associated directly with what the scholars call the holy line. That holy line came through the flood in Shem. Remember from last week’s sermon that Adam's life overlapped Methuselah's by 243 years. So we start all the way at the beginning. Adam, we jump to Methuselah, and Adam still lived another 243 years. Now Methuselah lived right up to the flood. He died in the flood, but while he was alive that last 98 years Shem was alive. Shem, then, was a direct connection, along with his father Noah, from the beginning with Adam all the way to the flood. Now Shem lived for another 500 years after the beginning of Arphaxad who came when Shem was 100 years old. Shem lived to the ripe old age of 600 years. The last 150 years Abraham was alive. Now we have a direct connection from Adam to Methuselah to Shem to Abraham, and 150 years that Shem could relate things directly to Abraham that took place even before the flood. All of that experience, all of that personal history could be passed on directly to Abraham who was the uncle of Lot. Haran died and Abram became Lot's adopted father, I guess you might say his guardian. But do not think that Lot was young, because I have calculated that even if Lot was only 25 years younger than Abram, (and he might have been very close to his age), when they left his own land and went to Caanan, Lot was already 50 years old, and for 100 of those years he had lived side by side with Shem. So the righteous Shem could pass on the history and the purpose of God right to Abraham and right to Lot directly. Moses was a couple of generations removed and yet his faith was far greater than was Lot's who lived right during those times. We are not dealing with somebody who had no background and had no access to hearing these things directly. Genesis 13:5-8 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. [They are coming out of Egypt and they were so wealthy] Now the land was not able to support them . . . And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's. . . . [And they began to quarrel with one another] So Abram said to Lot, [proposes a solution] "Please let there be no strife between you and me," [he tried to be a peacemaker] "and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren." He magnanimously gives Lot the choice of choosing the land that he wanted for his herds and flocks. Notice carefully what God records about Lot. Genesis 13:10 And Lot lifted his eyes [a very revealing statement] and saw . . . What is the least important aspect of seeing the faith? Eyesight. What is God beginning to tell us here? He is beginning to tell us that Lot lived by sight, not by faith. And even though God saved him, the man was what we would call today "carnal." Converted, but carnal. Just like Paul called the Corinthians in I Corinthians 3, he told them, "You are yet carnal." These were converted people. That is the way Lot was. So Lot lifted up his eyes, he saw the beauty of the land, saw that it would produce wealth, and he chose to ignore the evil that was plainly visible to anyone who cared to look at it. Genesis 13:12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. Genesis 14:12 They also [the five kings, this is an amalgamation of the kings, maybe it was four, but anyway the kings] took Lot, Abram's brother's son who dwelt in Sodom. . . . We have moved one chapter. He is no longer outside the city, he is now living in the city and chapter 19 confirms that he was living in the city whenever the angels showed up. Step by step Abram lived his godly life and God chose him, separating himself from the people of the land. Lot lives his life by faith, and even though he is converted, even though he knows the work of God, he chooses to mix himself in with the people of the land and we see him sucked right into the midst of it. Now maybe he never intended when he made that choice—“Well, we can live there but we won't live in the city. We'll be in the outskirts and we'll kind of live the kind of life that we live out there,” but he ended up in the city. So he did not do it right away. We do not know exactly why he did it. Perhaps Mrs. Lot had a great deal to do with it because the Bible seems to show her about as converted as a jackrabbit. Maybe he was a man with an unconverted wife. Maybe it was the daughters because if Lot was even 50 years old he could of had daughters who were in their 20s and 30s, the ripe, prime marrying age whenever this choice was made to go there and maybe the argument would have been, “Well, Mr. Lot, our daughters don't have anybody to marry out here on the plain. If they were in the city there would be plenty of young men there and they could get hitched and they could settle down into life.” And Lot, being carnal and not walking by faith said, “Well, God can't supply out here on the plain. He's got to supply somebody in the city. Yeah, let's go in there.” Maybe it was Lot's idea because Lot seems to have his mind on making money and maybe Lot said, “You know, I'm out here and I really don't have access to where all the business is being done, and it would be much better for trade and business if I just moved into the city there because I'd be right on the spot and I could trade things back and forth and I wouldn't have to do all this traveling in and out, and it really makes good sense for me to go there.” What we are seeing here is the contrast to Moses. Moses deliberately chose to turn his back on the world. Lot deliberately chose to go toward the world and what occurred then was the association. Wear down his spirituality. Wear down his resistance until his true spirituality was such that he did not really know much of the difference between right and wrong any longer. He really did not know what he wanted. He lingered in the city while it was getting ready to be destroyed. There is no surer way to go backward in one's spirituality, to blunt your feelings and knowledge of sin, to dull your spiritual discernment, than by mingling with the world. That is the life. There is an interesting boast that David made. You can look at it yourself in Psalm 30:6-7. David said in his prosperity, "I shall never be moved." Ha—that is just what Lot said: "It will not hurt for me to go down there. I will never be moved." Paul said, "Let those who think they stand take heed lest they fall." Lot crashed, because in his lack of faith and his spiritual pride I am sure that he felt that he could stand strong against the spiritual onslaught of the world. So Lot became hesitating, undecided, a procrastinating man in the day of his trial because of the slow deterioration of his spiritual frame. It just simply wasted away. We might reason that, yes, Lot made it into the Kingdom of God. And I think that he did, because God does, even after this, call him righteous. And I think that that is true, but you see the reason, the lesson, is there is that God wants us to understand that though we may forsake, and though He is magnanimous and merciful and forgiving, full of grace, still willing to say, "It could have been so much better." It could have been so much better for Lot and for his family. We will not go through it but again the record here, especially in Genesis 19, shows that his voice in the city of Sodom carried no weight at all. No one listened to him. Even his sons-in-law, or his future sons-in-law, whatever they were, did not listen to him. Not even one person would listen to his appeal. I would have to say from that, not even his family, incidentally, listened to him. There was nothing attractive, nothing magnetic, so that even his family showed him little or no respect. In fact they mocked and there was contempt. Do you know why? Well it is this way with all who are like Lot. They eventually come to be despised because their friends and their relatives cannot deal with that person's insincerity. And they would say things like, "Well surely if he believed what he professes to believe, he would not do as he does." You see, the eye of the family drinks in far more of the example than what is observed by the ear in what they hear the person say, what the lingerer says. There is one more thing that I want to bring to your attention and it is an omission from the Old Testament, and it says a great deal by not saying anything. The Old Testament writers seem to have a pattern of telling what happened to a person at his death. It says absolutely nothing about Lot. He just disappears from the scene. It does not say he died in a good old age. It says absolutely nothing about what he thought, about what he felt. He just disappears. There is painful silence. It does not say how old he was. It does not say where he died. It does not say who survived him or where he was buried. He just disappears from the scene. You see it is the Bible's admission that this godly man, this righteous man, had no impact. http://www.bibletools.org/index.cfm/fuseaction/Audio.Details/ID/204/Faith-Part-3.htm http://icfkingdomofheaven.blogspot.com/2016/12/faith-is-gift-from-god-but-we-must.html

Faith is a gift from God, but we must nurture our faith to keep it strong. Faith is like a muscle. If exercised, it grows strong. If left immobile, it becomes weak.

The Apostle Paul taught that “faith is the substance [assurance] of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” (Hebrews 11:1). ... Whenever we work toward a worthy goal, we exercise faith. ... Having faith in Jesus Christ means relying completely on Him In the phrase "faith is the substance of things hoped for," Paul is not really defining what faith is, but rather he is showing what faith does in an operative sense: ... Hebrews 11:1 Understanding this verse is essential to deriving the most from this chapter. It establishes a good, practical definition of faith, but it is not the only one, since the Bible uses the term "faith" in several other ways. We have to be thinking as we read, or we may get an idea about faith other than the one God intends within a given context. Galatians 1:23 uses "faith" in a somewhat different manner. "He who formerly persecuted us now preaches the faith which he once tried to destroy." In context with "preaching," faith, as used in religious parlance, means "a confession," thus "a creed," "a body of religious beliefs," or "a statement of the principles of one's way of life." The New Testament often uses "faith" in this manner. Its usage in Jude 3 is similar but a bit clearer, as a body of beliefs to which we must cling steadfastly and apply to life's challenges. In John 20:29, the apostle relates, "Jesus said to him, 'Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.'" Here, with Jesus Christ as faith's object, believing indicates a personal trust or confidence in Him. Paul, inRomans 3:22, puts it in a different light: ". . . even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe." Here, in a legal context, it indicates a level of personal confidence or trust in what Christ did as a means of justification and therefore access to God. Romans 10:17 imparts vital understanding on how faith in God becomes part of our thinking and conduct: "So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God." Faith becomes an element of our thinking by our hearing words that concern the objects of faith: our Father in heaven; His Son, Jesus Christ; and Their message, the gospel of the Kingdom of God. Interestingly, Paul emphasizes hearing rather then merely reading, though reading is included in the sense of hearing. Jesus declares in John 6:63, "The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." Hearing—or more correctly, listening—is probably Jesus' most frequent and consistent exhortation during His ministry. If we do not listen thoughtfully, we will not have faith in the right object. Regardless of the context, faith always contains a mixture of believing, knowing, understanding, trusting, and sometimes even bold conviction—all locked together and pointed toward a specific object. Within the Bible, that object is almost always either God, Jesus Christ, the Word of God, or a messenger sent by God, whether angel, prophet, or minister. Hebrews 11:1 A clear understanding of faith in Hebrews 11 largely depends on how we perceive the word "substance" in verse 1. In Greek, it is hypostasis, literally "a standing under." A more complex definition is "that which underlies what is apparent." Amplified a bit further, it is that which, though unseen, exists beneath what is visible. http://blessingsandor.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-apostle-paul-taught-that-faith-is.html http://daynoah.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-apostle-paul-taught-that-faith-is.html http://piecemealministry.blogspot.com/2016/12/faith-is-gift-from-god-but-we-must.html

Small Mindset = Small #Outcome

CHINKEE TAN Like This Page · November 6 · Small Mindset = Small #Outcome If you were given the chance, anong pipiliin mo? Sari-sari store or grocery store? Maging employee or maging employer? Ukay-ukay or branded clothes? Perya or Disneyland? Tricycle or limousine? Hindi ako nangmamaliit at lalong walang masama sa sari-sari store, maging employee, ukay-ukay, perya, o tricycle. What I’m trying to point out is that we should train ourselves to always think big. There’s no harm if we dare to dream big. We can start small and slow, but it shouldn’t stop there. We should use them as stepping stones to reach the big ones. We do not have to limit our capacity to small things when we can dream big! Kung palaging small ang mindset natin, small lang din ang ie-exert natin na effort. At kapag 'yun ang nangyari, huwag na tayong umasang magiging big ang outcome. Kung kaunti lang ang itinanim mo, kaunti lang din ang aanihin mo. To think big is a real struggle. Most of the time, kahit gusto natin baguhin ang mindset natin, nahihirapan tayo because of certain factors. So the question is, how can we help ourselves to have a 'big' mindset? Here are some tips: DON’T ENTERTAIN NEGATIVITY. Do not entertain anything that hints negativity...of any form. Salain natin ang lahat ng feeds na nae-encounter natin. Kung sa tingin natin ay hindi ito makakatulong sa ating pag-unlad, then push it away. LOOK AT THINGS FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. Ano ang pinagkaiba ng mahirap sa mayaman? Mindset. Rich people see things from a different perspective. Ang mga taong matagumpay ay may right mindset. How do we see things? What kind of perspective do we have? How do we handle conflicts and challenges? I remember a story of two agents. Nagpunta sila sa isang tribo. Habang nakita 'nung isang ahente ang lahat ng negative sa situation, positive naman ang nakita ng isa. Difficulty ang nakita ni Agent 1 habang opportunity ang nakita ni Agent 2. How about us? Do we see difficulty or opportunity? EXPOSE YOURSELF TO BIG PEOPLE. Attitude is contagious. Kapag hinalo natin ang ating sarili sa mga taong excellent, siguradong hindi lang tayo basta mahahawa - mai-inspire, mae-encourage, at matututo rin tayo. Always grab the opportunity to learn from these people. Their experiences will surely teach us valuable lessons that will impact our lives. THINK. REFLECT. APPLY. What kind of mindset do we have? How do we train ourselves to think big? What are your struggles when it comes to thinking big? #Mindset #PositiveThinking #ChinkPositive #Chink+ #ChinkeeTan #StepUpSunday See Translation LikeShow more reactionsCommentShare Top Comments 3.6K 3.6K 1,621 shares 100 Comments Comments Ta Mia PM Ta Mia PM Anyone can be rich. And anyone can dream big. Hindi naman masamang mangarap. Wala nga itong bayad. Pero Hindi ibig sabihin na ito ay libre nating makakamit dahil dapat tayong magsikap para mapag tagumpayan into. Hindi rin masama or isang sakit sa lipun...See More See Translation Like · Reply · 25 · November 7 at 9:19am Aiona Borja Jordan Aiona Borja Jordan Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Like · Reply · 5 · November 7 at 8:50pm Sherycel Descalso Sherycel Descalso Sa mga mommy, estudyante, walang trabaho o tambay pwede kayong kumita. Trabahong Pambahay!!! Mag type - sa pc At internet Mag load - sa cp Mag refer - sa cp para po makapag trabaho sa PPM ay dapat magbayad po ng 600 registration fee ito po ay 1 time pa...See More See Translation Like · Reply · November 9 at 9:32am Everly Ezra Everly Ezra Thank you for this! Gold nuggets for success free handed to everyone. Bless you po! Like · Reply · 1 · November 7 at 2:38am Micmac Vequizo Boniel Micmac Vequizo Boniel Pdeng mg dream ng big bsta wag lng sa pamamagitan ng paninira at mang apak ng kapwa pra lng mgtagal o maabot ang gusto.msrap mamuhay lalo na kung wlang inaapakan na kapwa;) See Translation Like · Reply · 3 · November 6 at 11:11pm יחיאל ישראל יחיאל ישראל I wanted to become what hath GOD called me to be! True Greatness comes from one word and that is SERVITUDE. Like · Reply · 4 · November 6 at 9:44pm 6 of 100 View more comments Oscar del Rosario Write a comment... Choose File

"If we fail to plan, we plan to fail."

CHINKEE TAN Like This Page · November 23 · 3 M's To #Successful Saving Madalas akong matanong kung paano ba maging matagumpay sa pagma-manage ng pera. If you really want to become financially independent, you should learn how to budget your money wisely. One key component sa pagba-budget is learning how to SAVE. Ano ba para sa iyo ang characteristics ng 'good' saver? Una... MAY KONTROL People who know how to save are well-disciplined. They know when to say NO and and when to say YES. Kung hindi kailangan, they will just leave and walk away from it. Kung kailangan naman, titingnan muna kung necessary ba talagang bumili kaagad o baka mayroon pang alternatibo. MATIPID Gastos dito, gastos doon. 'Yan kadalasan ang habit natin because we don’t want to feel deprived. Pakiramdam kasi natin, we have the right to spend it all NOW dahil tayo naman ang nagpakahirap para dito. Not for the savers. Yes, they reward themselves from time to time. But more than this, their TRUEST and most VALUABLE reward ay 'yung makukuha nila in the future out of pagtitipid, pagtitiyaga, at paghihintay. MAY PLANO Organized. Detailed and specific. Alam nila kung ano ang mga priorities at hindi. Alam nila kung ano ang mga needs at wants. Alam nilang hindi sila dapat magpatukso at pumasok sa utang. As much as possible, ayaw nilang masira ang kanilang budget dahil ayaw nilang mabuhay sa stress. Kaya lahat ay nakalista, naka-record, at nakaplano. THINK. REFLECT. APPLY. Anong klaseng saver ka? Which of these qualities do you possess? Ano pa sa tingin mo ang kulang o dapat ma-improve? P.S. Kung gusto mong maayos ang personal finance mo at maayos ang pagba-budget mo, I'm inviting you to be a part of my event on November 30, 2016. This will be my last public seminar for the year. Click here to receive a P1,000 discount: http://ow.ly/P7pI305ZVLA. #Saving #PositiveThinking #ChinkPositive #Chink+ #ChinkeeTan #WillingWednesday See Translation Like Like Love Haha Wow Sad Angry CommentShare Top Comments 3.6K 3.6K 1,455 shares 126 Comments Comments Vicky Managuelod Labrador Vicky Managuelod Labrador Glory to God, I have those 3 M's. Disiplina lng tlga ang sekreto at cooperation nming mgasawa. See Translation Like · Reply · 5 · November 24 at 3:42am 1 Reply Russel Lace Russel Lace Tama! We should plan not just for a month but for the future needs. 👊 Like · Reply · 3 · November 24 at 1:03pm Rogelyn Cabigas Rogelyn Cabigas Sir chinkee punta ka namn ng Cebu please 😊😊para maka attend kami ng seminar mo See Translation Like · Reply · 1 · November 24 at 10:55am Cha Espinas Cha Espinas Ganito sana..kaso wala ,, lage ka nakadepende sa utang .. kht dalawa na ngttrbho.. See Translation Like · Reply · 1 · November 24 at 9:31am Arlene M. Bulan Arlene M. Bulan Learn to save regularly po. For investment concerns please pm me.. Image may contain: text Like · Reply · November 26 at 9:25pm Satur Jabaybay Satur Jabaybay ang dami ko talagang natutunan ky sir chinkee. sana magkarun cya ng seminar dito sa Bacolod Negrosy Occidental. hopely... See Translation Like · Reply · November 24 at 8:20pm 6 of 126 View more comments

Elainejoyyy Retweeted Bible Time ‏@Bible_Time Nov 28 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. -1John 2:17

1 John 2:17 Context 14I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. 15Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. 18Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time. 19They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. 20But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

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WRITTEN BY Anne Quito @annequito December 22, 2016 All the Christmas merrymaking in the Philippines has not softened Rodrigo Duterte. During a Dec. 17 trip to the country’s southern city of Zamboanga, the tough-talking president snapped when asked about the country’s wave of killings and reported human rights violations. “You go and file a complaint in the United Nations. I will burn down the United Nations if you want. I will burn it down if I go to America,” he said. President Rodrigo Duterte speaks in front of housewives and mothers, that participate in the anti-illegal drugs campaign of the provincial government and Duterte's war on drugs at Clark Freeport Zone in Pampanga, Philippines December 22, 2016. REUTERS/Erik De Castro - RTX2W5MX (Reuters/Erik De Castro) His acrimony towards the New York-headquartered intergovernmental organization flared in August when UN human rights experts in Geneva asked the Philippine government to address extrajudicial killings of drug users in the country. Since Duterte assumed the presidency in July, over 6,000 people have been killed in the country’s drug war, according to a Dec. 19 government report. In response, Duterte said he would consider taking the Philippines out of the United Nations. But Duterte’s threat, like many others, should be taken with a grain of salt. His representatives scramble daily to retract or “massage” his words. “Don’t take him by his word. He’s a very colorful person, he exaggerates but he has a poker face. He never smiles, even through jokes,” explained presidential advisor Jesus Dureza in a Dec. 9 press briefing at the Philippine Consulate in New York City. The hot-headed president threatened to burn the flag of Singapore in May. (He was totally kidding, insists his spokesperson). The Philippines’s UN ambassador Teodoro “Teddy Boy” Locsin Jr., has defended the president’s actions on Twitter, even invoking Nazism in reference to the government’s campaign to reduce drug use.

European markets fell more than British ones, a nod to how Britain’s decision will be felt across the continent. Markets in Asia closed in the red, with Japan’s Topix 100 Index falling over 7.5% on the day. MOST POPULAR Three countries in three continents: After Modi’s India, demonetisation is spreading around the world SPONSOR CONTENTBY GE World in Motion http://qz.com/715845

British stocks lost £125 billion after Brexit—or 15 years worth of EU contributions Traders from BGC, a global brokerage company in London's Canary Wharf financial centre react during trading.. Having a bad day. (Reuters/Russell Boyce) SHARE WRITTEN BY Jenny Anderson OBSESSION Brexit June 24, 2016 British markets tanked on Friday morning following the country’s historic vote to the leave the European Union and the prime minister’s announcement that he would resign within months. The amount of money that was wiped out on Britain’s FTSE 100 alone hit £125 billion ($171 billion) at its lowest ebb soon after trading started, Quartz calculated. That figure is equivalent to more than 15 years of the UK’s EU contributions, judging from what the UK paid into the EU budget in 2015. The FTSE 100, which contains many big multinational companies, fell 8% at the open, but recovered somewhat to 4.5% by midday local time. The FTSE 250, which features companies with predominantly sterling-denominated revenues, fell nearly 12% at the open, the most dramatic drop in its history. The biggest losers are banks and homebuilders, some of which fell by more than 40% in early trading. Barclays, one of Britain’s largest banks, dropped 35% at the start of the day, later recovering to a 19% loss by noon. The pound has been pummeled, losing around 10% of its value against the dollar in the morning, before recovering slightly at settling down 6% by noon. It was the worst one-day fall in the British currency on record, twice as bad as the fall on “Black Wednesday” in 1992. Follow Banker's Umbrella @BankersUmbrella This is bedlam! 4:35 PM - 24 Jun 2016 1 1 Retweet 3 3 likes Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, jumped in early to reassure the markets. He said the central bank will “not hesitate to take additional measures as required as those markets adjust and the UK economy moves forward,” including £250 billion of additional liquidity it can provide to the markets. The comment was reminiscent of Mario Draghi’s 2012 statement that the European Central Bank would do “whatever it takes” to support the euro. Carney tried to assure the markets that Britain’s banks were sound. He said they have 10 times as much capital as they did before financial crisis, and have raised £130 billion more. They currently have more than £600 billion of high-quality liquid assets which they can lend to UK businesses and households. He said it was inevitable that markets would be affected: “It will take some time for the United Kingdom to establish new relationships with Europe and the rest of the world,” he said. “Some market and economic volatility can be expected as this process unfolds.” The comments calmed the markets a bit. JPMorgan, in a letter to employees, said that some jobs might have to be moved from the UK, since the country could lose the free access it enjoys to the rest of the EU after it quits the club. “In the months ahead… we may need to make changes to our European legal entity structure and the location of some roles,” the memo said. Jamie Dimon, the bank’s CEO, said previously that 1,000 to 4,000 jobs could be moved if the vote went through. The vote is being felt far beyond the UK’s shores. Ireland is a major trading partner, and the benchmark stock index in Dublin fell nearly 17% before recovering slightly by noon, to more than 9% lower. European markets fell more than British ones, a nod to how Britain’s decision will be felt across the continent. Markets in Asia closed in the red, with Japan’s Topix 100 Index falling over 7.5% on the day. MOST POPULAR Three countries in three continents: After Modi’s India, demonetisation is spreading around the world http://qz.com/867724/three-countries-across-three-continents-after-modis-india-demonitisation-has-spread-to-other-countries-too/ SPONSOR CONTENTBY GE World in Motion http://qz.com/715845

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Samuel Barnes2 months ago (edited) Trump is not a zionist.. they hate him and he's your only hope at the moment.. but yes this info is basically accurate but its up to "you" to do something about it.. 'you' the people have to stand up.. so please hurry coz they're ripping up 'your' constitution as each second passes .. hurry please ! no one has listened to all the video and its very important your all just freaking out like headless chickens which is exactly what 'they' want !!!

Search 0:27 / 59:45 THIS is how World War 3 will start RecentR RecentR Subscribed2,500 Add to Share More 896,425 views 1,808 1,186 ShareEmbedEmail https://youtu.be/9TACEt6RA9Q Start at: 1:20 Published on Sep 27, 2015 Image: Shutterstock My interview with geopolitical analyst Joel Skousen covers the setup for another world war, the failures of the alternative media and what you can do to protect yourself. Alexander Benesch - RecentR.com RecentR.com Category News & Politics License Standard YouTube License SHOW LESS COMMENTS • 1,635 Oscar del Rosario Add a public comment... Top comments Sky Is there Sky Is there3 weeks ago I am Polish, something is very fuckin g strange about polish plane crash, russians dont let polish side to take the plane and search for evidence, russians even washed the plane WTF?!?!? Reply View all 6 replies Sky Is there Sky Is there2 weeks ago +Steve A if we want compare russia and america today, its looks like this to me: Russia is a big and rich country but by "rich" i think government and some places, most of russia is poor country side alot of russians dream about going america, america is a rich place with people that dont care about rest of the world, i mean america is their world ;p when we speak about politic i need to say that america is a bigger danger to the world at 1st place with radical muslims wanting to conquer the world. American destabilized north africa and parts of asia in the name of democracy just to gain oil fields. russians just want to grab parts of eastern europe, war is bad but as i pole i need to say that i dont give fuck about places like ukraine and lithuania, these countries are feeling worst than poland and they hate us becouse they know we are just better, ofc ukraine made terrible things to poland during ww2 and ukraine have polish cities, lithuania have polish cities too, to be honest we POLES want them BACK!!! russians taking ukraine its a good thing to us. Read more Reply Jay Hemingway Jay Hemingway1 week ago I dated a Polish woman and learned alot about European relations. Here in America we respect European culture and heritage. I understand the deep pain from WW2 (By Germans and Russians) and how Eastern Europe was treated, especially the people of Poland. I believe we have a similar issue today with Muslim terror. Europe is stronger united to defeat this threat. The past will never be forgotten but if we want a future we must consider uniting. All of Europe is special and must be protected. Read more Reply 1 ying yang ying yang2 months ago The US and the west is a threat for world peace, don't blame Russia and China! Reply 11 Crimson Corsair Crimson Corsair2 months ago ying yang yeah. communism is better than capitalism. Reply Ashizh Singh Ashizh Singh1 month ago China is a shity terrorist supporter country.. Free tibbute bloody basterd chinees noodles Reply 1 Michael Kaniowski Michael Kaniowski7 months ago American lies and bullshit. Reply 84 View all 32 replies Sky Is there Sky Is there3 weeks ago +Ich weiß daß ich nichts weiß yeah there is fucking propaganda from everywhere, and normal people only want to live and b happy Reply Ich weiß daß ich nichts weiß Ich weiß daß ich nichts weiß3 weeks ago +Sky Is there Sorry that I'm a 90s kid. I thought, back in the days, that we were over all this bs about ww2 and religion. my bad Reply Alan Wang Alan Wang4 months ago why don't we talk about the american threat Reply 50 View all 9 replies Samuel Barnes Samuel Barnes2 months ago (edited) Trump is not a zionist.. they hate him and he's your only hope at the moment.. but yes this info is basically accurate but its up to "you" to do something about it.. 'you' the people have to stand up.. so please hurry coz they're ripping up 'your' constitution as each second passes .. hurry please ! no one has listened to all the video and its very important your all just freaking out like headless chickens which is exactly what 'they' want !!! Read more Reply 1 Habibur Rahman Habibur Rahman2 months ago Alan Wang Reply Pl4sm0 Pl4sm04 months ago Fuck this American shit propaganda.....I started to watch and already the 1st sentence pissed me off ...."the Russian threat" ? The real threat here is the USA gov that tried to put NATO bases all around Russia , is USA gov that founded ISIS until today , 911 was an inside job , Clinton foundation is a scam to obtain resources from poor countries creating civil wars , THE USA WAS THE 1ST TO TROW AN ATOMIC BOMB. Please people vote down this shit and don't waste your time watching this shitty western propaganda !!!! Read more Reply 37 View all 23 replies Steve A Steve A2 weeks ago Cătălin David Lol stop getting upset. Are you a woman btw as you will not answer my question on USA and Israeli murderers or are you a Zionist Jew troll? Reply Cătălin David Cătălin David2 weeks ago +Steve A I dont know about US, they did not killed my people, deported and steal my land. Russians did. You are russian. Why your country killed millions of Eastern European? Why your nation deported my people to die in Siberia? Reply viralshield viralshield4 months ago (edited) Euro-Russia was a very smart decision. Russians are native Europeans, don't forget that. Reply 4 View all 13 replies Steve A Steve A2 weeks ago Cătălin David what do you think about USA foreign policy as I asked you first. Reply Cătălin David Cătălin David2 weeks ago US did not kill my people, did not invade my land and steal it. Your russians did. What do you think about that? You have nothing to say? Reply rikard1414 rikard14144 months ago Russia will never start ww3, on the contrary, they will end it and save the world as they always do. Reply 28 View all 2 replies rikard1414 rikard14142 months ago Just so you know i'm not from USA i'm from Sweden :) Reply 1 Wet Husky Wet Husky3 months ago Skousen is a dumb fuck. He's a globalist hack. As soon as he mentions Russia as the 'aggressor' he loses all credibility. Reply 4 View all 3 replies Saurav sharma Saurav sharma3 weeks ago communism is far worse than democracy Reply Cătălin David Cătălin David3 weeks ago +Saurav sharma True. The human kind does not developed a perfect sistem of government to be in harmony with nature, economy, developement, human rights, etc. But from what we have right now, democracy is a better choice than communism, socialism or putinism. Reply It's plague time It's plague time2 months ago resources will start world war three the colder country's have more oil that means the U.S. has to protect Alaska, Russia has to protect their country, Denmark Has to protect Greenland, The seed vault will be under attack, Canada will be under attack and desert country's North Africa Has to protect their desert, Mexico will be under attack, Cuba will be under attack there's going to be a resource war and probably nuclear fallout Read more Reply jeffrey Dingal jeffrey Dingal2 months ago So apparently everything will be under attack? shut the fuck up! Reply matcraizy matcraizy5 months ago I don't think people wants another world war lets think hear threw the past to now who really want war is the USA and western Asia country's. Reply 5 View all 6 replies matcraizy matcraizy4 months ago why ? It will just kill more people for nothing. Reply 2 NGU MOTIVATION NGU MOTIVATION4 months ago I Agree. Reply Cătălin David Cătălin David1 month ago Comment section is full of russian trolls. Reply 1 Jean Labrek Jean Labrek1 month ago This Joel Skousen fart is really full of it __ for critisizing Paul Craig Roberts first __ and pretending the Ukrainian bloody coup was fomented by Russia __ when Soros NGO,s and CIA organized the coup with local neonazis to install their puppets Porochenko ( corrupted oligarch) and Yatseniuk (neonazi) to start wild privatizations, take control of the Russia-Europe gaz pipeline having failed to take control of the Russian naval base in Crimea Read more Reply 2 Jean Labrek Jean Labrek1 month ago www.voltairenet.org/en _ www.globalresearch.ca _ www.canobs.livejournal.com Reply Donnie Murdo Donnie Murdo1 month ago sorry people bad news, the war has been postponed until further notice due to technical reasons. Reply Joe Joe2 months ago Writing this just days before ww3 kicks :) vote trump people. And I'm not even American Reply 1 PC-GAMES PC-GAMES1 month ago How, u guys Know World war 3 is starting ALLAH 1 KNOW IT how it starts and how it ends Reply jaye see jaye see2 months ago A nuclear war will never happen, it's simply 'Bad for Business.' Reply 2 Margaret from Australia Margaret from Australia3 months ago The US is the aggressor. What on earth are you rabbitting on about. It is the same neocon rhetoric, make an accusation, then invade and overthrow the government. What right do the US have to interfere with other countries? Reply 4 Darnnel Jones Darnnel Jones2 months ago This is some BULLLSHIT!!! Reply Stefan Chofecki Stefan Chofecki3 months ago this man has opened my eyes ! he is speaking a a lot of sense Reply 2 Marc Petersen Marc Petersen3 months ago He has opened my eyes too. I'm really thankful for it. Reply Clem Alford Clem Alford2 months ago You may have opened your eyes but he is taking out of his arse. US neo cons in Washington are the villains with their NWO. Reply 3 Ali Rehman Ali Rehman1 month ago guys i'm so scared for real i don't want to die i'm getting scared i hope the world war 3 doesn't happen please god please god god don't let the world war 3 start i beg Reply Show more