Critic of the movie "Unstoppable"

Galentians 5:6  The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.
(A child loving their father, A Man Loving his Creator God)

     




          So, we went to opening night of Kirk Cameron's movie Unstoppable. First off, the movie contained a lot  special effects that were very professional and more real to life than any movie I have seen in the past describing "events" in the Bible.  On the other hand, the people I went with were all Bible believing Christians and we all agreed that the theology portrayed was a bit off.  We all left kinda scratching our heads. Now, why would I put out a critic of a Christian movie? I back and support all Christians who put the Gospel out there in a sincere manner. We were so moved by Cameron's first movie, Monumental, that we took a family pilgrimage to Plymouth just to see it! However, Unstoppable, with all it's special effects, left a gaping hole at the end of it. The  message conveyed was that   bad things happen to good people and we have to trust God had a plan and he will use it for good. This in and of itself is not entirely off base, but it continued to say that every bad thing that happens to good people is really just a good seed the Lord will use. Almost like God intended for the bad thing to happen just so He would be glorified. We rarely, if ever, see any bad thing happen to a good person specifically for the glory of God, and even then, when we do in the Gospel of John, God the Father is glorified in healing, not death or sickness.

John 9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

    This one man was born blind for the glory of God to be revealed in his HEALING. He was a seed planted so the Gospel of God- healing and health- would be spread far and wide. 

      "Unstoppable" was made mostly for Christians, ie, the narrator calls his friends "good people," and tries to explain why a young boy died a long and drawn out death when parents were devote Christians and loved God. 

     The narrator was not able to give scripture references so his reasoning is not Biblically sound. Anyone in the Bible who truly loved God and was in the will of God was saved somehow, except for martyrs. Now, if they are saying this young boy was martyr for Christ, that he and his family stood for the Gospel and some outside source killed them for their faith, that would be a movie right there. 

Instead, when talking about sickness, like cancer, we need to see that there are other, perhaps evil forces (sin and sickness go hand in hand as we just read in John 9- "who sinned, this man or his parents that he was born blind?), that are at play.

But when talking about the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob, those who follow him always seem to find a way out. Examples:

Job, Daniel in the lion den, Shadrach Meshach and Abednego were saved in the firey furnance, the Isrealites were led out of Egypt an into the Promised Land. I could go on and on. They all had a common denominator: They LOVED GOD WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS

          
        I have found recently that there is nothing more powerful than the first Commandment.  “Love God.”  
   

     It isn't hard to love God.  God is love and to love God is to Love loving God, Jesus, everyone.  For faith works by “Love”. all things work together for good for those who "Love God"

With every thought I first “think”, “I love God”, or I think “I love Jesus”.

If you want to talk to God you have to first Love him.

       

            The movie stated their purpose was to answer  the question,”Why do bad things happen to good people, or anyone.”  The movie never answered the question.

         Jesus said bad things happen to people because of their own sin or the sin of others. The movie doesn't mention Jesus talking about “Go and sin no more so the sickness doesn't come back.”  

       

      The movie didn't mention Jesus, being a hero, coming and rescuing, saving, (Savior),  people like a fireman.   Jesus coming and healing a problem, situation or brokenness.

I could get the same message from any “worldly psychologist.”  The movie gave a worldly answer which is no answer.  But go see the movie yourself.  If it comforts you OK.  We all need peace even if it is from the world because we have lost our connection to God through  disobeyingGod; the first Commandment “Love God with all that is in you!”

         Get everyhing and everyone out of your heart that exalts itself above God. 2 Corinthians  10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, 

 You have to   think with every thought “I love God” "I love Jesus," to be healed, saved, broken hearts healed, mended, fear vanquishes in the presence of Loving God. 

 

       So Love God, stay connected to the vine, for you are just a branch and you are lost without being connected to God through Loving him.  Peoplewho ask people to do things for them but do not love the person with God's love whom they  are asking a favor of: are just “using others”.  You can not use God, or manipulate him.  There is nothing you can do; going to church, tithing, singing in the choir, teaching Sunday school, feeding the poor.  None of that will get God to “answer” your prayers.  Only “loving” God will be your faith and your faith as small as a mustard seed can move mountains..   Just think: 

                         I Love God!                                 

Romans 8:26 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.27 And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.

28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who  have been called according to his purpose. 29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

Romans 8:37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, [neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

1 John 4: 16 God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

Faith in Action

Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. 2 This is what the ancients were commended for.

3 By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.

Hebrews 11:33 who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, and gained what was promised; who shut the mouths of lions, 34 quenched the fury of the flames, and escaped the edge of the sword; whose weakness was turned to strength; and who became powerful in battle and routed foreign armies. 35 Women received back their dead, raised to life again. There were others who were tortured, refusing to be released so that they might gain an even better resurrection.

Galatians 2:16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.

1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails.

Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Boy

Matthew 17:14 When they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him.15 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. 16 I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”

17 “You unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.” 18 Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed at that moment.

19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn’t we drive it out?”

20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you. [ ” 21 

Freedom in Christ

Galentians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

2 Mark my words! I, Paul, tell you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no value to you at all. 3 Again I declare to every man who lets himself be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law. 4 You who are trying to be justified by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace. 5 For through the Spirit we eagerly await by faith the righteousness for which we hope. 6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value.

2 Corinthians  10:5 casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ,

The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.

Life is very inexpensive, when it's done RIGHT! Naturally

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Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                      June 30, 2013

Pastor: Leah Svensson

Scriptures:  Acts 16:16-20, Proverbs 22:6, i Timothy 5:11-16, 1 Timothy 3:2-5, Matthew 6:25-34, Matthew 18:1-10


                                                                     Theme

              The theme is copied from 6-29-2013 Leah's Facebook    Did you know that there is NO separation between religion and government, ESPECIALLY education? :) Ben Franklin is often quoted as being one of the LEAST religious of all our founders and when it came to education, he said "History will also 

afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public 

religion. . . and the excellency of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION 

above all others, ancient or modern." He said this in his: 
Proposals Relating to the EDUCATION of Youth in Pennsylvania, 1749....
                   When the VERY least RELIGIOUS of all the founders tells us we NEED religion in public life and we DESPERATELY need the teachings of Christianity to our children, then what we have now is a carefully planned out patch of lies. It is also interesting to note that ALMOST ALL teachers were PREACHERS for years!! They were teaching our children good morals based on Christianity... "That the Rector be a man of 

good understanding, good morals, diligent and patient, learned in 

the languages and sciences, and a correct, pure speaker and 

writer of the English tongue; to have such tutors under him as 

shall be necessary." 
              Some people pass on a lie unknowingly, they are not a liar but are themselves deceived. There are those who knowingly pass on lies and they are called liars and it is LIARS that have taken over our school system and public life today. All we need to do, is go back to the foundation that our founders got the 

inspiration for a free country from--- the BIBLE and start telling 

the TRUTH! God is the Creator we get all of our rights from. God is the God of Nature we receive our benefits from.

                                                                     Sermon

The Declaration of Independence

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

The Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.

                 What? 

     So I go to the internet to find some answers I get:

 The first paragraph of the Declaration of Independence sets the stage for the American revolution and its indispensable reliance on the laws of God, the Creator.²⁶ It declares:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

By invoking the "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" the 56 signers of the Declaration incorporated a legal standard of freedom into the forms of government that would follow. The theory of freedom adopted was simply that God's law was supreme and gave freedom. The phrase "Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" referred to the laws that God in his capacity as the Creator of the universe had established for the governance of people, nations and nature. These laws are variously described as the laws of Creation, God's Creation laws or as the framers elected to refer to them, as the laws of nature and of nature's God. This body of law, whatever it is called, can be ascertained by people through an examination of God's creation, the text of the Bible, and to a certain degree, instinct or reason.

          What?  

         How does an average American obey the Declaration of Independence and make sure everyone else is also?

         Nature.  Yep, it is real easy.  Nature.  If something comes from nature it is good.  If mankind takes something that is natural and changes it’s essence so much you get something very far from the original; that is breaking the law.   i.e. a tree falls and you use the wood to make a table.  The wood is still the same.  But if you take black crude oil and do all these weird things to it where it ends up in mankind's food supply killing them, you are breaking the law.

      On this 4^th of July we are bringing the good news of how to live by nature, how to trust God to provide for you and everyone.  Nature.  For several years now we have been growing plants of all kinds.  Why?  We are obeying God, livings  close to God.  Everyone can understand from the first paragraph of Declaration of Independence that freedom comes from God in the form of nature.  So if someone says it is my ”God given right” it has to be provided by nature.

     The right to life, everything you need, is all around you at home. 

(If you have a home and some land.)  The right to grow food and eat is "the right to life", liberty and true happiness.  In Europe the government has taxed them so much the people have no money left for food.  So everyone is turning their little quarter acre of land in to gardens, to feed themselves. 

God said he would provide for you and he does so through nature. 

Do Not Worry

Matthew 6:25  “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27  Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life ?

28  “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29  Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30  If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

          We must seek first his kingdom and his righteousness.  God has called everyone; God has placed a gift in all of us that we can use to provide for ourselves through nature.  We cannot produce everything we need ourselves.  We need each other.  Someone has the gift from God to take from nature and make soap.  Someone has the gift from God to keep and raise horses for transportation. 

 We are called by God individually.  Some are called in families. This is why someone’s last name is "carpenter" because their name is Sam and he is a carpenter, so his children have the same “identity” as their father, the same with the wife. The children and wife live with Sam the carpenter so their names reflect that. Sue Carpenter, Teddy Carpenter, etc.  This is why a wife takes on the husband’s name; it is just what the man of the house does for a living, as he is gifted by God.

      Women are gifted to do things also but once a woman is married, 

(according to nature,) most, if not all her time, will be raising 

children she doesn't have time to provide for herself let alone provide for children and herself.  [The children will be extremely neglected in every way conceivable!  Like we see today.] 

Picture: Jews held in captivity in Babylon      

  Turn away from the unnatural society that you find yourself and your family are enslaved to.  

      Try taking a summer without electricity and you will find 

out how enslaved you are to the dictates of the world. Try it, turn off the phone, TV, eating out, radio, the internet, stop going out to eat, spend the whole summer at home. Do not go any where, but when you do go to the grocery store, walk or ride a bike. 

     Progress has enslaved you. You no longer have 

the freedom you had as a child. You 

need that "faith" of a child to go to 

heaven, to receive anything from God.

      The world wants to enslave you and your family to them; that guarantees them an income for the rest of your life.  The easy life of comfort with unnatural things is just like being caged like an animal in a zoo. Addictions,  health problems, and obsessions are formed this way; mental problems, weight problems etc.

    You are living your life so others may live on your 

hard work and labor. 2% of the people own most of the wealth, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. 

      You stress out every day while sinful evil people just keep living free in sin. (sin: immoral, lying, luxury, seeking pleasures, ripping 

others off, greedily charging 500 times more than what something is really worth! Unjust weights, etc.) 

    School Systems hate when we talk about parents teaching their children at home because we are messing with their income and lies.  Every parent is gifted by God to teach and train their own children.  Furthermore parents are commanded by God to be the sole teacher and trainer of their children.  

      Of course, business and socialist do not like homeschooling either 

because the children become independent, the children have 

high self esteem and self confidence, which in 

turn causes them to know the difference between 

freedom, and captivity. Home schooled children know they do not need to work for someone else.  God will provide for them. They can do things for themselves. My children could see that school was just like a jail, but at home they were so free and smarter!

Seek your independence today, turn to God he will set you free!!!!!!

                                                            Summary                                                                                                        

Children ought to be taught, NATURAL things, starting with their foundation being Christianity. There is to be NO separation of religion from public life, especially education, where it is needed MOST! 

Did you know that there is NO separation between religion and government, ESPECIALLY education? :) Ben Franklin is often quoted as being one of the LEAST religious of all our founders and when it came to education, he said "History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion. . . and the excellency of the CHRISTIAN RELIGION above all others, ancient or modern." He said this in his: 
Proposals Relating to the EDUCATION of Youth in Pennsylvania, 1749

When the VERY least RELIGIOUS of all the founders tells us we NEED religion in public life and we DESPERATELY need the teachings of Christianity to our children, then what we have now is a carefully planned out patch of lies. It is also interesting to note that ALMOST ALL teachers were PREACHERS for years!! They were teaching us and children good morals based on Christianity... 

"That the Rector be a man of good understanding, good morals, diligent and patient, learned in the languages and sciences, and a correct, pure speaker and writer of the English tongue; to have such tutors under him as shall be necessary." 

Some people pass on a lie unknowingly, they are not a liar but are themselves deceived. There are those who knowingly pass on lies and they are called liars and it is LIARS that have taken over our school system and public life today. All we need to do, is go back to the foundation that our founders got the inspiration for a free country from--- the BIBLE and start telling the TRUTH! God is the Creator we get all of our rights from. God is the God of Nature we receive our benefits from. All the precious "enlightened" thinking without God... is of naught...dust, blown in the wind. Only what is done in and through Christ will last! Check out B. Frankin's proposals for education, it is a homeschool model, good for mind, body, and soul! Ben Franklin on Education

In footnotes of this work, Franklin quotes Milton as to teachers leading their pupils from Nature to 

religion...From showing the student the greatness in Nature and whence that greatness comes... the 

God of Heaven, the God of the Bible.

"A Garden, a Country, a Plantation, are all so many Books which lie open to them; but they must have been taught and accustomed to read in them. Nothing is more common amongst us than the Use of Bread and Linnen. How seldom do Children know how either of them are prepared, through how many Operations and Hands the Corn and Flax must pass, before they are turned into Bread and Linnen? The same may be said of Cloth, which bears no Resemblance to the Wool whereof it is formed, any more than Paper to the Rags which are picked up in the Streets: And why should not Children be instructed in these wonderful Works of Nature and Art which they every Day make Use of without reflecting upon them?

"He adds, that a careful Master may in this Way enrich the Mind of his Disciple with a great Number of useful and agreeable Ideas, and by a proper Mixture of short Reflections, will at the same Time take Care to form his Heart, and lead him by Nature to Religion."

In short, when our founders wrote the Declaration of Independence and they talked about Nature and Nature's God, they pointed the way for generations to come on how to be truly free. 

Acts 16:16 Once when we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a female slave who had a spirit by which she predicted the future. She earned a great deal of money for her owners by fortune-telling. ……………………… Finally Paul became so annoyed that he turned around and said to the spirit, “In the name of Jesus Christ I command you to come out of her!” At that moment the spirit left her.

19 When her owners realized that their hope of making money was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to face the authorities.20

The Greatest in the Kingdom

Matthew 18:1 About that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?”

2 Jesus called a little child to him and put the child among them. 3 Then he said,“I tell you the truth, unless you turn from your sins and become like little children, you will never get into the Kingdom of Heaven. 4 So anyone who becomes 

as humble as this little child is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

5 “And anyone who welcomes a little child like this on my behalf  is welcoming me. 6 But if you cause one of these little ones who trusts in me to fall into sin, it would be better for you to have a large millstone tied around your neck and be drowned in the depths of the sea.

7 “What sorrow awaits the world, because it tempts people to sin. Temptations are inevitable, but what sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting. 8 So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand or one foot than to be thrown into eternal fire with both of your hands and feet. 9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell. 

10 “Beware that you don’t look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father. 

Proverbs 22:6 Direct your children onto the right path,

and when they are older, they will not leave it.

A woman having the life of ease: vs A woman at home, wholesome
1 Timothy 5:11 The younger widows should not be on the list, because their physical desires will overpower their devotion to Christ and they will want to remarry. 12 Then they would be guilty of breaking their previous pledge. 13 And if they are on the list, they will learn to be lazy and will spend their time gossiping from house to house, meddling in other people’s business and talking about things they shouldn’t. 14 So I advise these younger widows to marry again, have children, and take care of their own homes. Then the enemy will not be able to say anything against them. 15 For I am afraid that some of them have already gone astray and now follow Satan.

16 If a woman who is a believer has relatives who are widows, she must take care of them and not put the responsibility on the church. Then the church can care for the widows who are truly alone.

 1 Timothy 3:2 So an elder must be a man whose life is above reproach. He must be faithful to his wife.  He must exercise self-control, live wisely, and have a good reputation. He must enjoy having guests in his home, and he must be able to teach. 3 He must not be a heavy drinker  or be violent. He must be gentle, not quarrelsome, and not love money. 4 He must manage his own family well, having children who respect and obey him. 5 For if a man cannot manage his own household, how can he take care of God’s church?