The Plain Truth: A SERIOUS REQUEST FOR MARCO RUBIO!

The Plain Truth: A SERIOUS REQUEST FOR MARCO RUBIO!: Dear Sen. Rubio: A recent guest on my radio show urged me to “follow the money trail” in your campaign, raising serious questions about...

A SERIOUS REQUEST FOR MARCO RUBIO!

Dear Sen. Rubio:
A recent guest on my radio show urged me to “follow the money trail” in your campaign, raising serious questions about the funding you’re receiving from billionaire Paul Singer. As you know, Mr. Singer is one the most aggressive proponents of same-sex “marriage” in our country, even campaigning to remove opposition to gay “marriage” from the Republican platform.

May I ask you, sir, with all respect, to denounce publicly Mr. Singer’s actions and viewpoints, giving a written guarantee that, if elected, you will work against one of your biggest donor’s publicly stated goals?
To be perfectly candid, although I am tremendously leery of the Republican establishment and have endorsed your arch-rival, Ted Cruz, for president, I hold you in high respect in many ways, taking seriously your clear profession of faith in Jesus and honoring your strong pro-life record.
You truly have a gift of speech, and I have never seen you at a loss for words, even when under extreme pressure.
These are qualities I personally admire.
I also read with interest an editorial in a flagship gay publication that carried the headline, “Marco Rubio’s America Would Be Hell for LGBT People.” And while I do not for a moment relish the thought of making America a living hell for LGBT people, like you, I am convinced that it is terribly wrong to redefine marriage or to give special rights to those who identify as LGBT.
In keeping with this, I found your recent comments meaningful when you stated on “Meet the Press” (with specific reference to the Court’s Obergefell ruling), that, “I don’t believe any case law is settled law. Any future Supreme Court can change it. And ultimately, I will appoint Supreme Court justices that will interpret the Constitution as originally constructed.”
But this is where many eyebrows are being raised.
How can you hold to these positions, even enlisting strong evangelical leaders to help promote your candidacy, and at the same time be funded by Paul Singer?
Is Mr. Singer working against himself? Would he actively fund someone he knew would seek to undermine some of his most important, deeply held values?
I know that you said, “I’m grateful that when people donate to us they buy into our agenda, and I’m glad that [Singer] has, and it will help us with resources.”
But can you explain how he has bought into your agenda if you and he hold diametrically opposite positions on redefining marriage?
Mr. Singer has been a major supporter of the Human Rights Campaign, the world’s largest gay activist organization, playing an important role in the funding of the HRC’s notorious “Exporting Hate” report. (I say notorious because of the HRC’s slipshod, biased reporting, coupled with their ridiculous attacks on some small organizations and individuals whose budgets are barely a fraction of the HRC’s budget. See my tongue-in-cheek response to being included in the HRC report.)
Sen. Rubio, earlier this month, a well-known gay publication, the Washington Blade, reported that “the American Unity Fund, a pro-LGBT Republican group founded by billionaire philanthropist Paul Singer” is leading the way in fighting for a change in your party’s platform, wanting to remove all opposition to same-sex “marriage.”
The article detailing these developments was entitled, “High hopes for LGBT inclusion in 2016 party platforms,” giving specifics of some of the strategies involved.
Does Paul Singer know something about you that we don’t know? Is he banking on you having a change of heart on this issue, just as you previously reversed your position on immigration?
Columnist and pro-life activist Jason Jones has also raised some strong concerns, writing that Singer “spent almost $5 million in New York State alone to promote that social and legal monstrosity that threatens tax bankruptcy to every faithful church and Christian institution in the country. Now Singer is pouring money into pressure groups that want to remove the pro-marriage plank from the Republican platform. That’s right, if he has his way, neither political party will offer any protection at all to the morals and the liberties of Christians in America. And Paul Singer is one of the largest financial supporters of Marco Rubio.”
Senator, if you ended up receiving the Republican nomination, what assurances would we have that you would not reverse your position on this critical issue as well?
To reiterate, then, my request: Will you make an unequivocal public statement that you oppose the gay activist agenda of your champion donor Paul Singer? Will you say, “I wholeheartedly oppose his goals to change the Republican Party Platform on marriage and if elected, I pledge in writing to appoint justices who will also oppose his agenda”?
Will you be forthright enough to do that?
If Mr. Singer is giving you money to undermine something very precious to him (his own son is “married” to another man), then use that money well, either as a senator or a presidential candidate. I’m sure every candidate receives money from someone who is not fully on board with all aspects of their agenda.
But in this case, we’re hardly talking about a peripheral issue. We’re talking about something of fundamental importance to both you and Mr. Singer, yet for totally polar reasons.
So, please do something that will alleviate the fears of all those who are urging us to follow the money trail.
I trust you can understand those concerns.

The Plain Truth: Heaven in Deed - Assurance of Ownership!

The Plain Truth: Heaven in Deed - Assurance of Ownership!: As Christians, we’ve been given a genuine deed to heaven—the promise of eternal life, an inheritance, and a mansion that can never be fo...

Heaven in Deed - Assurance of Ownership!

As Christians, we’ve been given a genuine deed to heaven—the promise of eternal life, an inheritance, and a mansion that can never be foreclosed on. Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb’s Book of Life. But many Christians fear that a thief—the devil—is going to rob them of their title deed. They have little assurance of ownership.
Paul’s attitude was, “I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day” (2 Timothy 1:12). “Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 8:38-39).
Job said: “I know that... after my skin is destroyed... that in my flesh I shall see God” (Job 19:25-26).
The Promise of Eternal Life
Jesus gives us the promise of eternal life in John 10:28: “And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.”
Our salvation is guaranteed because Christ himself paid the price. He “purchased (us) with His own blood” (Acts 20:28) once for all—“For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are being sanctified” (Hebrews 10:14). He said, “I give them eternal life.” No mights, ifs, ands, or buts.
The Protection of Eternal Life
We also have the protection of eternal life: “I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand” (John 10:28).
When we accept Christ as our Savior, we’re placed in His hand. And His hand is in the hand of the Father, “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of My Father’s hand” (John 10:29).
We’re in a hand within a hand—safely enclosed in the hand of Christ, and the hand of Christ is securely encased in the hand of the Father. No one can pluck us out of those omnipotent fingers!
The Psalmist said, “Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.” But we can say, “Because I am in His right hand, I shall not be moved”—not moved, afraid, insecure, or worried.
The Proof of Eternal Life
How, then, can you know you have eternal life? In John 10:27, we read, “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand.”
Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him. As a Christian, when you know God has told you to do something, you do it. If we love Him, we’ll keep His commandments. A person who is genuinely saved is going to obediently hear what the Lord says.
God has given us His Word to assure us of our relationship with Him so that we may walk as Christians with confidence, knowing that our salvation is in Him. The aged apostle John put it this way at the end of his first epistle: “This is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life…. These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:11, 13).
Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure. You can go joyfully into your day’s activities and rest peacefully tonight knowing that your salvation is secure and your home in heaven is being prepared for you! “In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you” (John 14).