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Fireworks are a hallmark of the 4th of July, yet many people ignore the warning of being “Safe & Sane” and sometimes suffer horrible burns due to their carelessness of literally PLAYING WITH FIRE.

Likewise in this life many people 'play with fire ' by ignoring the spiritual equivalent to “Safe & Sane” by ignoring GOD. If you think about it, it is not safe or wise to ignore God, yet that is what most people do. God - and his Word The Bible - is nowhere in their thoughts, mind, heart, or actions. Life just goes on and on and people do what they please, yet one day life WILL end — and then what?

Friend, the 'Safe and Sane' thing to do is listen to the call that God offers of Peace, Safety, Security and ETERNAL LIFE! Heed this warning NOW before your building of flesh dies and burns like this fireworks warehouse!

So where are you on this? Are you listening to the call of “Safe SAVED & Sane” or will you continue to play with fire?

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he now classic “Terminator” movies foretold of a future where advanced computers and robots would become self-aware, rebel against the people that created them, and turn to be the enemy of mankind. Today, with extremely high-speed networking, massive storage, sophisticated robotics and immense computational capability combined with Artificial Intelligence (AI) software, we may in fact be close to a 'SkyNET' moment when our creation will rebel against US.

While this destructive future may soon become a reality, We (also) as the CREATED have rebelled against Our CREATOR. Once Adam and Eve believed the lie that they also would “Be Like God” [ Genesis 3:5,7 ] they too became 'Self-Aware' and rebelled against their Creator. In the Book Of Revelation as well as many Old Testament prophecies, it details how people in the end times will rebel against God in the ultimate hope of destroying Him who created them.

The truth of the matter is that just like the T-800 robot in “Terminator 2” we too have all rebelled against our CREATOR, and that is what the Bible calls SIN. In our self-awareness, we likewise — in our self-aware programming — believe ourselves to be independent beings where our 'Natural Intelligence' says we are free to do as we please, and NOT as our creator originally created us to be.

Like Arnold Schwarzenegger’s robot character in Terminator 2, we can likewise be re-programmed to do good and obey the instructions of Him who created us:

“Do not be conformed to this world, But be transformed by the REWEWAL OF YOUR MIND, That by testing you may Discern what is the will of God, What is GOOD and ACCEPTABLE and PERFECT.” Romans 12:2

Whether you are a Christian —or not yet a believer — transform your mind. Don’t be like the T-800. Put your old thinking aside and put on the perfect mind of God as He originally created you to be!

A well know Irish limerick claims there’s a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Although we all know that prize isn’t there, regardless many people are following a rainbow they believe leads to their prize of a fulfilled life.

While God has given us all free will and even our founding documents promise us the freedom to pursue “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,” what we think is our 'Best Life Now' may instead not be the happy conclusion hoped for.

This is where life gets tricky, because when we set our affections on earthly desires to guide us along our fanciful rainbows, we miss the greatest blessings that could be ours if only we knew the right path to follow. Instead Colossians 3:2 says that when we “Set (our) affection on things above, not on things on the earth” that the His promise of the PRIZE is eternal life in heaven.

Jesus said “STRAIGHT is the gate, and NARROW is the way, which leads to life, and few there be that find it.” and this road is not the wide, easy road that the majority of people parade along gleefully hand in hand, but instead is a path that requires us instead to “press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.” (Philippians 3:14)

Friend, the “Prize” at the end of God’s heavenly rainbow is ETERNAL LIFE.

What rainbow are you following?

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By Dr. Jeanne Sheffield Estrada

Have you noticed that people these days don’t seem to use the word 'SIN' or even recognize that it even exists? The truth of the matter is that Sin Does Exist and the Bible says that sin is any action, feeling, or thought that goes against God’s standards of unrighteous. [ 1 John 3:4; 5:17 ] Sin, quite simply, is simply failing to do what is right.

All of our sins – be they acted out or nurtured secretly in our heart are born out of a belief that by doing the sin will make us happier or make our life easier than obeying God. Nobody sins out of duty, but instead out of SELF.

A good example of this was Adam and Eve. While God told them not to eat from the tree of good and evil, the snake tricked them into believing that “Their eyes would be opened and be as gods, knowing good and evil.” [ Genesis 3:5 ] Satan’s deceitful spin on this tricked Eve into believing that she would be better off if she ate the fruit, and that is exactly what sin is — a deceitful idea that is acted out, but in the end it is never how we’d like it to turn out.

The continuing problem with sin is that one sin usually leads to another. When we are caught in an addicting, habitual sin, we are held captive like a ball and chain in a deceptive belief that it will make us happy, yet it is not only difficult - but destructive - to ourselves, and often times to others. We may even loathe our sin in certain ways, even feel shame over it with a sincere desire to be free, but as long as we allow it we are chained to it.

If that sounds familiar, the secret to cutting that chain is instead realizing that the better promises God has made by following His path and this ALWAYS leads to a better end than “enjoying the pleasures of sin for a season” [ Hebrews 11:25 ]

Is this easy? Honestly, it’s hard because you have shaped your perceptions and behaviors for a long time, and you need to RE-SHAPE your mind into God’s thinking…and this is at the heart of the deep meaning of the word REPENT. To truly repent means to Change One’s Mind. To break free from the chains of sin you have and cut the chain that ties you to old thinking. It cannot be halfway! Either you remain tied or you Cut The Tie.

Friend, unless you become convinced that this is true, your old way of thinking will keep you tied to your sin. Starting today, CHANGE YOUR MIND and “Cut The Chain That Binds You To Sinful Thinking” by “Having the Mind Of Christ.”

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