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The Plain Truth Is: A Secure Future!

The Plain Truth Is: A Secure Future!: Suppose you made a million dollars per year. Would that set you up for life? Would it give you financial security for the future? Well, ...

A Secure Future!

Suppose you made a million dollars per year. Would that set you up for life? Would it give you financial security for the future? Well, apparently not if you’re a professional athlete. According to a report in Investment News, 78 percent of NFL players are bankrupt or under financial stress within two years of retirement. Sports Illustrated similarly reports that 60 percent of NBA players are in serious financial trouble within five years of retirement.^[1]
Today we know it’s not enough to have a job that simply takes care of today’s needs, but that somehow we need to manage wisely for the future. In ancient Egypt, Joseph wisely stored up grain for the coming days of famine. In Proverbs 31, the wise woman was a hard-working manager who provided for her family and wasn’t worried about winter. She prepared for the coming seasons in advance. Jesus commended the shrewd steward in Luke 16 for using his current position to insure a secure future.

Nothing Can Pry Us From His Hand
            As Christians, even though we should plan for our future, we don’t rely on the world for our ultimate security. For us, the eternal God is our refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms. We have a hope that endures; for when Jesus comes into our lives, He comes with abiding security that is unlike any security we can find on earth. He not only died to forgive our sins; He rose from the dead to give us eternal life. His resurrection supplies the power, provision, and pattern for our own resurrections. Because He lives, we will live also.
John’s Gospel drives this home. At the end of his Gospel, John stated his purpose in writing—that we might believe in Christ and have eternal life (John 20:31). He similarly ended his little letter of 1 John by telling us he had written it that we might know we have eternal life (1 John 5:13). Throughout his writing, John used the phrases “eternal life” and “everlasting life” twenty-three times. For example, Jesus told us in John 10:26-29: “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. 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.”
            The future just doesn’t get any more secure than that!

Nothing Can Separate Us From His Love
            Not only can nothing snatch us from His hand; nothing can separate us from His love. The apostle Paul declared: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” He went on to say, “I am persuaded that 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 8:35, 38-39). He was convinced and no one could tell him otherwise.

Nothing Can Alter His Plan
            The Bible also teaches that nothing can alter God’s plan. Ecclesiastes 3:14 says, “I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken from it. God does it that men should fear before Him.”
            Our Lord is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is immutable—unchanged, unchanging, and unchangeable. His grace doesn’t fluctuate. His power doesn’t ebb and flow. His love and mercy do not rise and fall with the tides of any cosmic ocean. He is steadfast, constant, and enduring. The Bible says, “The Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting; and His truth endures to all generations” (Psalm 100:5).
            What security and hope! What a basis for an optimistic attitude, even during painful times. And how wonderful to know we don’t have to fear the future or worry about our security.
            When the world experiences the ebb and flow of change, remember: Nothing can separate us from His love. No one can snatch us from His hand. Nothing can alter His plan. We are secure. Start enjoying your eternal life today!

The Plain Truth Is: Govt. Audit: “Elevated” Terrorism Threat to U.S. f...

The Plain Truth Is: Govt. Audit: “Elevated” Terrorism Threat to U.S. f...: A new government audit confirms what Judicial Watch has been reporting for years, that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican borde...

Govt. Audit: “Elevated” Terrorism Threat to U.S. from Mexico!

A new government audit confirms what Judicial Watch has been reporting for years, that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican border towns and infiltrating the United States to carry out attacks. In a report issued this month by the Texas Department of Public Safety, the agency notes that the state faces a full spectrum of threats and “due to the recent actions of lone offenders or small groups affiliated with or inspired by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and other foreign terrorist organizations, we assess that the current terrorism threat to Texas is elevated.”
Safety officials in the Lone Star State also write in the 86-page document that they are “especially concerned about the potential for terrorist infiltration across the U.S.-Mexico border, particularly as foreign terrorist fighters depart Syria and Iraq and enter global migration flows.” They also express worries about Syrian refugees that have been sent to Texas under President Obama’s settlement program because the government doesn’t have a system to properly vet them. Judicial Watch has also reported extensively on that national security crisis. Read the latest stories here and here. “We see a potential that these challenges may leave the state exposed to extremist actors who pose as authentic refugees, and who are determined to later commit violent acts,” the Texas report states.
In the same manner that ISIS deployed operatives to their targets in European capitals, the terrorist group could implement the same tactics to infiltrate operatives across the Texas-Mexico border, the new report points out. “Human smugglers, working along established Latin American routes, have long transported Syrians, Iraqis and other immigrations from countries where terrorist groups operate to our land border with Mexico,” Texas safety officials write in the report. The U.S. government calls them Special Interest Aliens (SIA) and in past few years they have come from Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt and many other “countries of interest” in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia where terrorist groups are active.
The southern border has become a hotbed of Islamic terrorism in recent years and Judicial Watch has exposed the national security disaster as part of an ongoing investigation into the dangerously porous region. In 2015 Judicial Watch reported that Mexican drug cartels are smuggling SIAs from countries with terrorist links into a small Texas rural town near El Paso. Sources on both sides of the border confirmed to Judicial Watch that the smugglers use remote farm roads—rather than interstates—to elude the Border Patrol and other law enforcement barriers. Once they clear the border, the SIAs are transported to stash areas in Acala, a rural crossroads located around 54 miles from El Paso on a state road – Highway 20. Then the SIAs wait for pick-up in the area’s sand hills just across Highway 20.
Also in 2015 Judicial Watch broke a story about ISIS operating a camp just a few miles from El Paso, Texas in an area known as “Anapra” situated just west of Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. Judicial Watch’s sources include a Mexican Army field grade officer and a Mexican Federal Police Inspector who also revealed that another ISIS cell is located to the west of Ciudad Juárez, in Puerto Palomas. A year earlier Ft. Bliss, the U.S. Army post in El Paso, implemented increased security measures following a Judicial Watch report about an Islamic terrorist plot in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIED).

The Plain Truth Is: DHS IG Who Let Obama Defy Court Rulings Against Il...

The Plain Truth Is: DHS IG Who Let Obama Defy Court Rulings Against Il...: The Obama-appointed inspector general who looked the other way when his boss enacted illegal amnesty programs and ignored federal court ...

DHS IG Who Let Obama Defy Court Rulings Against Illegal Amnesty Acts Probes Trump Muslim Order!

The Obama-appointed inspector general who looked the other way when his boss enacted illegal amnesty programs and ignored federal court injunctions blocking them has launched an investigation into President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. The political grandstanding is behavior unbecoming of a federal agency watchdog, which is charged with independently investigating wrongdoing and rooting out fraud, waste and abuse at 64 of the biggest and most important government agencies.
In this case the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General (IG) appears to be selectively investigating based on his ideology and perhaps loyalty to the former commander-in-chief. Just days after Trump signed the controversial executive order “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” Obama’s DHS IG, John Roth, fired off a press release announcing his probe. “In addition to reviewing the implementation of the Executive Order, the OIG will review DHS’ adherence to court orders and allegations of individual misconduct on the part of DHS personnel,” the announcement states. “If circumstances warrant, the OIG will consider including other issues that may arise during the course of the review.” The probe was initiated in response to “congressional request and whistleblower and hotline complaints,” according to the announcement.
Trump issued the order on January 27 halting for 90 days the entry of citizens from notorious terrorist nations—Iraq, Iran, Syria, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen—in the name of national security. “Numerous foreign-born individuals have been convicted or implicated in terrorism-related crimes since September 11, 2001, including foreign nationals who entered the United States after receiving visitor, student, or employment visas, or who entered through the United States refugee resettlement program,” Trump’s order explains. “The visa-issuance process plays a crucial role in detecting individuals with terrorist ties and stopping them from entering the United States. Perhaps in no instance was that more apparent than the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, when State Department policy prevented consular officers from properly scrutinizing the visa applications of several of the 19 foreign nationals who went on to murder nearly 3,000 Americans.”
Simply put, the order was issued to protect Americans by ensuring that those admitted to the U.S. don’t bear hostile attitudes toward it and its founding principles. “The United States cannot, and should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place violent ideologies over American law,” the order states. “In addition, the United States should not admit those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred (including “honor” killings, other forms of violence against women, or the persecution of those who practice religions different from their own) or those who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation.”
Predictably, the order ignited protests, hysteria among virtually all mainstream media outlets and a series of legal challenges claiming discrimination and violations of religious freedoms. An Obama-appointed federal judge in Los Angeles, California has already issued an emergency order forbidding government officials from enforcing Trump’s measure. The case was filed on behalf of 28 Yemen nationals who claim they will “suffer irreparable harm.” The judge, Andre Birotte Jr., who was also a federal prosecutor under Obama, agreed and writes in his order that the injunction “is in the public interest.” The order bans government officers, agents, employees or attorneys from removing, detaining or blocking the entry of the Yemenis or any other person from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.
When a federal court in Texas issued an injunction halting Obama’s broad executive amnesty order, the administration ignored it and continued to protect illegal immigrants. A federal appellate court upheld the decision and the U.S. Supreme Court slammed the illegal Obama policy by upholding the injunction. The preposterous measure would have granted unilateral amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in the U.S. and the administration violated the court orders by implementing prosecutorial discretion, which allows federal agencies to decide to what degree they enforce certain laws against particular individuals. Under this outrageous initiative, DHS lost track of how many unauthorized foreigners—some felons in their native country—it refused to prosecute under Obama’s broad and illegal amnesty initiative. The DHS IG opted to sit those out and let Obama carry on with his illegal mandates.