I guess it will have to me!

God was very merciful to conservatives on Election day, November 6th. I was saddened that we lost the House of Representatives. We did not have enough arrows in our quivers to vote in the conservative candidates needed to hold Congress for the Republican agenda.

I believe the answer to this dilemma is simpler than most Christians realize. However, most do not want a simple answer; they want a philosophical answer.

The problem is so simple to see that even a blind man could see it, at least in his mind. That is, we need more people to vote conservative. Many of the races were very close and it would not have taken many more votes to swing the election of the House to a conservative favor.

I will say it again, for the simple answer to sink into our brains as well as our hearts—we desperately need more Christian, conservative moms and dads to bring to birth more children. We need more children to grow up to be sharp arrows, not only to vote in the righteous to rule this great land, but also to be candidates that can rule in the ways of righteousness, peace, and truth.

It’s not hard to see why the Democrats, with their socialist agenda, want open borders, for open borders provide more illegal votes for their agenda. This is a corruption they are pleased to overlook.

The opposition to conservative government wants more voters, but they do not want to bring them to birth or raise them. They would have to sacrifice their careers. It would bind them to their homes. Therefore, they need open borders with all its risks of crime and human trafficking. They are prepared to overlook all the problems related to unregulated immigration to get votes for them to get the power to govern their liberal, socialist agenda.

But wait a minute. Are we conservatives who desire godly, conservative values limiting the birth rate of our own children? Do we send our few children to the state school to be indoctrinated by the leftist agenda?

Where do we think we will get voters for our conservative agenda? The answer is not complex. It is simple. We must wake up and shake off whatever hinders us from bringing to birth godly, righteous voters. We must shake off the small family mindset, the resistance to sacrifice, all selfishness, and the desire to be what the world regards as normal.

Trying to be like the secular world created the 1.8 – 2.00-member average-size family in America. Because of deaths, wars, accidents, diseases, infertilities, singleness, and homosexual lifestyles, as well as the use of contraception, sterilization, and abortion, two children cannot replace two parents. It takes three children to stabilize a population and at least four to increase.

The undeniable truth is that America is a dying nation. Without immigration we cannot survive. We do not want to raise our own children,, except pfor one or two . . .
not because we believe there is anything wrong in raising American children,
not because we cannot afford larger families (we are one of the richest nations in the world),
but rather because we do not want to sacrifice our own selfish ambitions. We don’t want to be other than normal. Normality is a big problem.

If we keep going in this direction of selfish careerism, taking mothers out of the home, and educating the small families we do have with liberal socialism—democrat ideology, transgender lifestyles, and homosexual marriages that cannot reproduce, how will we ever be able to win conservative elections?

We are hypocrites. We substitute giving birth to our own children and are happy to welcome the births of other nations. In other words, it’s fine with us if others sacrifice to have children in third world nations and its right for them to come here illegally so they can vote in place of the children we are not prepared to bring to birth and raise as our own US citizens.

I am not against immigration as I am an immigrant myself and have many grandchildren born here in USA.

I thank God that in His great mercy He enabled us in these midterm elections to not only hold the Senate but to increase it. This was quite a miracle and an answer to many heart-felt prayers. We should all be very grateful to our Great God and His Son, Jesus Christ for His unfailing mercies. God has given to us conservatives another window of opportunity and we must not squander it.

I thank God for President Trump and I join him and his desire to see our nation great again, not just financially and militarily, but also spiritually. I want to see America filled with its own children, raised from our own loins and wombs, and raised with a conservative, morally valued education as well as having legal immigrants who want to be citizens and who love America.

God Himself mandates His people to be fruitful and multiply and take dominion. It’s time we stopped philosophizing and using our own human reason to thwart God’s vision. If we don’t, we will continue to lose the needed voters.

Election time would not e so stressful if conservatives would simply enlarge their own families. Let the left limit their families and conservatives will laugh on election days because we refuse to be fooled!

SO, THERE YOU GO. I’VE SAID IT!

Be encouraged. Colin Campbell

v. 4: “much patience, afflictions, necessities, distresses,
v. 5: “stripes, imprisonments, tumults, labors, watchings, fastings,
v. 6: “pureness, knowledge, longsuffering, kindness, the Holy Ghost, love unfeigned,
v. 8: “honor and dishonor, evil report and good report, as deceivers, and yet true,
v. 9: “as unknown, and yet well known: as dying, and behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed;
v. 10: “as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.“

In 2 Corinthians 11:22-28 Paul lists more burdens he had to bear:

v. 23: “labors more abundant, stripes above measure, prisons more frequent, deaths oft.
v. 24: “Five times I received 39 stripes from the Jews.
v. 25: “Three times I was beaten with rods (most probably with ribs broken and muscles torn), once I was stoned, three times I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
v. 26: “In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, ;in perils of mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils among false brethren;
v. 27: “in weariness, painfulness, watchings often, hunger and thirst, fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
v. 28: “those things that are without, that which cometh upon me daily (toils, hard work, tent making, daily struggles to survive, etc.), the care of all the churches (agonizing for them in prayer, writing to them, visiting them, and teaching them).

The apostle Paul really knew what it was to bear with burdens in order to spread the gospel of Christ. The burdens we bear in our lives fail in comparison.

The apostles and pioneers of the early churches all knew what it was to bear heavy burdens, yet they did not complain. They counted it all jo (Acts 5:41 and James 1:1).

Fathers and mothers, we are called to be burden bearers. We are also called to raise and teach our children to be burden bearers. We should bear our burdens without complaining or negativity, but with joy.

Romans 15:1: “We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.”

Romans 15:1-3 (HCSB) says: “Now we who are strong have an obligation to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and not to please ourselves. Each one of us must please his neighbor for his good, to build him up. For even the Messiah did not please Himself.”

To be continued.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

Issachar, the sixth son of Jacob, was prophesied over by his father, Jacob at the time of Jacob’s death: “Issachar is a strong ass crouching down between the burdens: And he saw the rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute” (Genesis 49:14, 15).

Prophetically, Issachar was to be a bearer of burdens. He could see that the land was pleasant. Possibly the only way to make the land profitable would be to bend both his shoulders down and get stuck in and do what had to be done.

All of this would result in well-earned rest. The Bible describes the rest as “good rest.” After working so hard to clear the land of rocks etc., and then to plant the garden and crops his rest would be good and well-deserved.

Whatever we face in life, whatever challenges and burdens, God has provided us with his great agape love to be able to bear it.

Jesus Christ, at the cross, bowed down and carried on His shoulders the burdens of all the sins of mankind, from the beginning of creation until the end. He knew that this was the only way He could enter into His final, “good rest,” along with all the redeemed of the earth.

Isaiah 53:11: “He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”

Galatians 6:2 exhorts us to: “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”

If Jesus Christ, our great King of kings and Lord of lords, should become the greatest burden bearer that ever lived or ever will live, why would we not bow down both of our shoulders like Issachar, who in this prophecy was a type of Christ? We should also whole-heartedly bear one another another’s burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ.

In a very true sense, the law of Christ was not fulfilled completely at the cross of Calvary. I realize that this sounds radical. On our behalf all the law of Moses was fulfilled and yet the law of Christ is still being fulfilled as we lay down our lives for one another and shoulder one another’s burdens.

If we do not bear one another’s burdens the law of Christ is not being fulfilled. How tragic is that?

To be continued.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

We say we believe in the truth, but do we rejoice in the truth enough to make it known? Much of the church is far too passive about the truth. When we rejoice in the truth, we will surely sing to God about it. The greater we rejoice in the truth the higher our praises will be ( Psalm 149:6).

When we rejoice in the truth, we will not be ashamed to declare it. In fact, rejoicing in the truth will motivate us to talk to everyone we can about it. However, as I stated at the beginning of this post, how can we rejoice in the truth if we do not know the truth?

I think it would be fair to say that most Christians do not know their Bibles very well. If fathers and mothers do not take up their priestly duties and read the Scriptures to their families around their morning and evening mealtimes, how will they ever be able to rejoice in the truth they know nothing about?

The truth should be familiar to us; not a strange thing. Hosea 8:12 states: “I have written to him the GREAT things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.”

Daily family devotions will promote the knowledge of the truth. In turn, this causes us to rejoice in the truth.

John 8:32: ”And ye shall KNOW the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” You don’t get the blessing unless you KNOW it. Your children won’t receiving the blessing of the truth unless they KNOW it.

Far too many Christian fathers are passive concerning family devotions which results in a serious failure to rejoice in the truth. We may see ourselves as good average Christian families but if we are not rejoicing in the truth, we won’t make a difference in the world.

Be encouraged.

Colin Campbell

We must remember, at all times, and never forget that our God is a God of truth land He rejoices in the truth.

Jesus Christ, the Son of God declares in in John 14:6: “ I am the way, the TRUTH, and the life.” We who are true followers of should also rejoice in the truth. We never rejoice that we escaped conviction by telling a lie.

We who are old enough will remember the O. J. Simpson trial with the famous line: “If the glove doesn’t fit, you have to acquit.” O. J. Simpson was indeed guilty, and they did not rejoice in the truth.

Exodus 30:16: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”

Exodus 23:1: “Thou shalt not raise a false report.”

Deuteronomy 19:16-21: “If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the LORD, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;
And the judges shall make DILIGENT INQUISITION and, behold, if the witness be a false witness, and hath testified falsely against his brother;
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother; so shall thou put the evil away from among you.
And those which remain shall hear, and fear and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you
And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.”

Wow! If we did to false witnesses what God says in this Scripture, it would result in the fear of God coming upon the people and this sin would be put down.

We remember the false witness that spoke against Brett Kavanagh at the time of his appointment to the Supreme Court. I remember correctly the false witness made a lot of money from a Go Fund Me program. How crazy.

When people raise their hands these days and swear to “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God,” it doesn’t mean a whole lot anymore.

It is a sad day when more people rejoice in a lie rather than rejoicing in the truth.

We must become a nation who will speak the truth, at all times, even if it hurts us.

To be continued.

Be encouraged. Colin Campbell