This is how we will feel when someone we trusted and loved turns against us as it happened to David. We are more likely to see the enemy than the friends that are standing with us. Elijah felt that way once. Jezebel was after his life and he felt like all Israel had turned aside after Baal. God told Elijah that there were 7000 people that had not bowed down to serve Baal.

We see in the United States today secularism, humanism and enemies of the gospel. They actually think that they are right and Christians are wrong. They are deceived into thinking that evolution is science. They refuse to consider the flaws and holes in their theory of evolution. That is all it is. A theory.

We tend to believe what we want to believe and if we search we will usually find so called facts to back up what we desire to believe anyway. This changes when one runs into the cross of Jesus Christ. Once we come to Christ in true repentance, our eyes become open to the truth of the gospel. The word of God becomes alive within us and we begin to see things differently.

There have been many people who once were deceived by the abortion deception. "The woman's right to choose what to do with her own body," sounded nice and Democratic. It sounded fair and fit right in to today's women's rights thinking. The devil knew when and how to promote abortion. Had he tried to defile society with this 100 years ago, he would not have succeeded. Yet when a woman truly becomes, "born again," by the spirit of God, her thinking will change. She once considered abortion to be a right, but now she begins to see it as what it really is, Murder. It is the taking of an innocent life. You might say, what if it means the mother's life?

Actually that is just a cop out and excuse to justify the murder of an unborn baby. In today's world of medical miracles, there is rarely a reason to abort a baby to save the mother's life. This is an excuse we use to make us feel a little better about abortion.

Doesn't it prevent child abuse? First of all abortion is child abuse. Those babies in the womb can feel pain. They burn when a solution is injected into the womb to kill the baby. They feel the scissors enter into their skull to crush it if abortion is done just before the birth of a baby by crushing its skull.

Child abuse has actually increased since the legalization of abortion. It has not decreased. One sin does not get rid of another sin. Both increase.

When we are surrounded by people who are against anything good and holy, we sometimes feel swallowed up. Yet God will always give you a friend to help. Someone will stand beside you.

This is our only comfort. Give up self. Give up on worrying about our life here on the earth. Trust in God and seek the things that are for eternity.

I don't know if Mother Teresa was a genuine born again Christian. My guess is that she had the fruits that bore witness to the fact that she was a true Christian but there is no way I can see her heart. Only God can do that but the fruits were there. The bible says, we shall know them by their fruits.

This woman gave her life to the cause of good. She helped the poor and thought nothing of her own comfort. To keep people from getting abortions, she would willingly take the baby herself. She labored all her life for the poor. I'm sure she saw much child abuse, suffering and poverty yet she never once wavered in her thinking that abortion was wrong. Somehow she didn't buy into the lie that abortion would stop child abuse, poverty and human suffering. If anyone would have seen abortion as a cure for these ills, she would have.

She was an example of someone who did not live for self but for the sake of others. Some of us live just for this life only. If we lose what we have, we are crushed. If our treasure is with the Lord, we will lose nothing.

When we trust in God, the world will not like us. They will speak out against us. This is what is happening now. Those that speak out against sin are considered fundamentalists, troublemakers, bigots and hate-mongers. We must not be these things in truth but we ready to realize that we will be accused of these things.

When the Holy Spirit confronts someone with sin, the reaction of the person either will be to repent and come to Jesus Christ for forgiveness of sin or else resist the message of repentance and attack the one who brings the message. Jesus was crucified by those who were angry at His message. They were convicted of their sin and did not want to repent. They did bring about the plan of God to save all who would believe but the reason they wanted to kill Christ was because they didn't want to repent of sin. They didn't acknowledge themselves as sinners.

Why do people get angry at us when we tell them abortion and homosexuality is sin? Because they are resisting the message of the gospel. The message of the gospel is all of us have sinned and need to repent. Repent means to change and turn from sin. Jesus Christ gives us His Holy Spirit to bring us to repentance and bring us to Christ who is able to deliver us from the power of sin. He fills us with His own Holy Spirit to abide with us forever. If we resist this way of salvation our human flesh will strike out at and despise those that bring us the truth. The flesh does not want to hear that he or she has sinned. Our flesh does not want to repent. We are too proud to admit that we are wrong. So that flesh strikes out at the person who brings us the message of repentance.

An humble person will receive the gospel because he or she knows that they are a sinner in need of salvation. An humble person realizes that they can't save themselves and need help. A person who is meek and humble will receive the word of God much quicker than the proud who thinks he has no need of repentance. Unless we confess and acknowledge that we have sinned and seek God to be free from that sin, the sin stays within us. Sin will destroy us eventually. That is why the world is in such a sad condition today. We have not repented of sin and turned to God.

We instead have turned away from God and say:

1. He does not exist
2. If he does exist, we can't know him personally.
3. There is good in everyone and we don't need to repent
4. We can make it on our own and be good on our own.
5. I've done nothing wrong, I haven't hurt anyone.
6. I'm only human.
7. God loves me as I am
8. It doesn't matter what religion you are.
9. You don't have to repent of sin just accept Christ
10. We can work things out by making laws to forbid any religion.

WRONG

This is why the world is in a mess now. WE NEED GOD and WE NEED TO RETURN TO THE WORD OF GOD.
The bible is not an outdated book. It is up to date and still valid. READ IT and UNDERSTAND.

There is a book of life with the names written of all who acknowledge and believe in God. By believe I mean those that believe in God enough to obey the word of God. The devil believes that God exists. To believe in something means that you live by that something. To really believe in God means you live by what God says, you love God and you walk in God's ways.

This is a decision we all have to make when we give our lives to God.

1. We must not fear what our school mates or teachers think if we acknowledge Jesus Christ as Lord of our lives.
2. We must not fear losing our jobs if we publicly claim Jesus Christ as Lord.
3. We must not fear those who are against the gospel.
4. We must not fear those who threaten our lives.

This comes as we walk with God. We may not feel this way now but if the time may come that we face these things, the Holy Spirit will give us the grace to endure at that hour in which we go through these things. If we are ashamed of Jesus Christ now when it is easy to believe and no one threatens us for our faith, how could we stand when our lives are threatened?

If we are ashamed of Christ, He will be ashamed of us before the throne of God.

Sometimes we have to stand for righteousness when it seems that everyone else is going the wide path to destruction. Follow not a crowd because the way of the popular opinion may not be the right way.