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    February 2009 Newsletter

    A Special Note from Ed

    I was laying wide awake in bed the other night at about 3 in the morning, unable

    to sleep. The Lord really gave me a burden for the nation and the church and gave me aninsight to one of the key reasons we Christians are losing battle after battle for ourfreedoms in this country today.

    I thought over the events of First Chronicles, beginning in Chapter 11, where it talks

    about Davids Mighty Men. These were called mighty men of valorbecause they trulymade a difference in their land as they gladly submitted themselves and committed

    themselves to David, their leader. They were men without compromise.

    Davids mighty men didnt start out from some Military Academy. They were an

    untrained lot.

    And everyone who was in distress, everyone who was in debt, and

    everyone who was discontented gathered to him. So he became captainover them. And there were about four hundred men with him. NKJV

    Yet from this zealous crowd arose the Mighty Men of Valor. They were submitted,

    committed and fiercely loyal. They were unswerving, unmoved from their purpose. And

    they fulfilled Gods purpose for their nation.

    Today, too few men in the church make that kind of commitment to their spiritual leader,

    their pastor. The ones who do not have that kind of accountability in their lives survive in

    a convenient world of compromise. Their commitment is to whatever works and towhatever is the least hassle. It is too uncomfortable for them to be submitted to someone

    who holds the Bible as the rod of truth and conduct. They may be saved but they have nopassion for the gospel, the church, or the lost.

    Most churches are struggling financially today. Few have more than a handful of tithepayers, yet that is probably one of the very first fruits of a committed man.

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    The church survives on the acts and the prayers of its women, who probably comprise 60-

    70% of active adult church members. God bless them for carrying the load they do carry.

    As a result, the church is weak and the walls of safety are in shambles. The world has

    pushed down the ramparts and the church, in general, has become an extension of the

    world, just the same except with Sunday church.

    The late and the greatest Christian apologist of the 20 th Century, Dr. Walter

    Martin, often said that the cults were the unpaid bills of the Christian Church. Hecalled out for the church to Contend for the Faith.

    3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our

    common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to

    contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the

    saints. 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago weremarked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of

    our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord JesusChrist. Jude 3-4

    I find it disheartening when hundreds of thousands of Muslims storm the streets and go

    crazy because someone drew a cartoon picture of Mohammed.

    Yet, where were the Christian men when some artist placed a small statue of Jesus on the

    Cross in a container of urine and called it art. Not only was it in a public exhibit, but our

    tax dollars paid the artist through the NEA.

    Today, the church and Christianity are being battered from every side and the churchgives in, backs away and cowers, because the Mighty Men of Valor are missing in action.The zealous few who are trying to hold back the flood waters are spread too thin.

    I call upon every man reading this to go to his pastor and enlist. I call upon every

    church to preach this message and have an altar call where men can walk forward

    and stand before the congregations of our nation and be held accountable to become

    that churchs; that pastors Mighty Men of Valor.

    The following article describes what I mean when I talk about zealous men. It is a short

    part of a book called Practical Religion by a true 19th century Zealot. Please read it. It is

    what I want to be said about me when I am off to heaven. It is where my heart and mylife abide.

    Your Brother in Christ

    Ed Decker

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    PRACTICAL RELIGION.

    JOHN CHARLES RYLE, D.D.,

    LORD BISHOP OF LIVERPOOL;

    I. Let me show, in the first place, what is zeal in religion.

    II. Let me show, in the second place, when a man can be called rightly zealous inreligion?

    III. Let me show, in the third place, why it is a good thing for a man to be zealous in

    religion?I. First of all, I propose to consider this question. What is zeal in religion?

    Zeal in religion is a burning desire to please God, to do His will, and to advance His

    glory in the world in every possible way. It is a desire which no man feels by nature, which the Spirit puts in the heart of every believer when he is converted,but which

    some believers feel so much more strongly than others that they alone deserve to becalled zealous men.

    This desire is so strong, when it really reigns in a man, that it impels him to make any

    sacrifice,to go through any trouble,to deny himself to any amount,to suffer, towork, to labour, to toil,to spend himself and be spent, and even to die,if only he can

    please God and honour Christ.

    A zealous man in religion is pre-eminently a man of one thing. It is not enough to saythat he is earnest, hearty, uncompromising, thorough-going, whole-hearted, fervent in

    spirit. He only sees one thing, he cares for one thing, he lives for one thing, he is

    swallowed up in one thing; and that one thing is to please God. Whether he lives, orwhether he dies,whether he has health, or whether he has sickness,whether he is

    rich, or whether he is poor,whether he pleases man, or whether he gives offence,

    whether he is thought wise, or whether he is thought foolish,whether he gets blame, orwhether he gets praise,whether he gets honour, or whether he gets shame,for all this

    the zealous man cares nothing at all.

    He burns for one thing; and that one thing is to please God, and to advance Gods

    glory. If he is consumed in the very burning, he cares not for it,he is content. He feels

    that, like a lamp, he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the

    work for which God appointed him. Such an one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If

    he cannot preach, and work, and give money, he will cry, and sigh, and pray. Yes: if he isonly a pauper, on a perpetual bed of sickness, he will make the wheels of sin around him

    drive heavily, by continually interceding against it.

    If he cannot fight in the valley with Joshua, he will do the work of Moses, Aaron, and

    Hur, on the hill. (Exod. xvii. 9-13.) If he is cut off from working himself, he will give theLord no rest till help is raised up from another quarter, and the work is done. This is what

    I mean when I speak of zeal in religion.

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    Anti-faith language remains in stimulus package

    Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 2/7/2009 4:15:00 AM

    The U.S. Senate has taken action that could mean a legal battle royal

    over the stimulus bill.

    The Senate rejected an amendment offered by Senator Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina) that

    would have stripped language from the stimulus bill that would force colleges and universities

    to throw religious clubs off campus if the schools receive federal funds.

    Stimulus to ban religious worship

    President Obama's proposed economic stimulus plan makes a deliberateand

    unconstitutionalattempt to censor religious speech and worship on school campuses

    across the nation, according to a lawyer who argued related cases before the U.S.Supreme Court 20 years ago and won them all.

    "This isn't like a convenient oversight. This is intentional. This legislation pokes its finger

    in the eyes of people who hold religious beliefs," Jay Sekulow, chief of the American

    Center for Law and Justice, told WND.

    Heres One for the Books

    After I heard about this horrific, brutal murder, I went to Google News, Fox

    News, ABC News, and USA Today websites to get the details.

    Apparently, our news media do not want to offend Muslims. We all know

    that if the head of a Christian station beheaded his wife, the media would be

    camped out at the station and the home for a month of live reporting.

    I finally found this on BBC news, in England. You will note that the man is

    presently being charged with only second degree murder, because Muslims

    consider this an honor killing.

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    US Muslim TV boss 'beheaded wife'

    The founder of a US Muslim TV network has been charged overthe beheading of his wife, media reports say.

    Muzzammil Hassan, 44, is accused of second degree murder of Aasiya Hassan, whose body

    was found last week at the TV station in New York state.

    Both Mr. Hassan and his wife worked at Bridges TV, a station aimed at countering

    stereotypes of Muslims. Authorities said Mrs. Hassan, 37, had recently filed for divorce.

    The couple had two children, aged four and six.

    I did find the following report in the Buffalo News

    Muslim TV exec accused of beheading wife in NY

    WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2009

    By CAROLYN THOMPSON

    Associated Press Writer

    The crime drips with brutal irony: a woman decapitated, allegedly by her

    estranged husband, in the offices of the television network the couple

    founded with the hope of countering Muslim stereotypes.

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    Aasiya Hassan had recently filed for divorce, alleging domestic violence

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    Muzzammil "Mo" Hassan is accused of beheading his wife last week, days

    after she filed for divorce. Authorities have not discussed the role religion or

    culture might have played, but the slaying gave rise to speculation that it was

    the sort of "honor killing" more common in countries half a world away,

    including the couple's native Pakistan.

    And Check out this related story in the same issue

    Religious speculation upsets imam in caseof beheaded woman

    By Gene WarnerBuffalo News STAFF REPORTERUpdated: 02/18/09 07:25 AM

    Nazim Mangera felt tears welling in his eyes as he said the final prayers over the body of

    Aasiya Z. Hassan around sunrise Tuesday morning.

    Mangera wasnt upset just by the loss of this vivacious, intelligent 37-year-old woman or

    by the vicious way that she was killed when she was beheaded Thursday.

    He also was upset about suggestions that the Islamic religion may have had something to

    do with her death, that this may have been an honor killing tied to Muslim tradition or

    culture. Orchard Park police have charged her estranged husband, Muzzammil Hassan,

    44, with her killing.

    Were all shocked. Were all grieving, said Mangera, imam of the Islamic Society of

    the Niagara Frontier. To compound that, we have to face the difficulty of the religion of

    Islam being blamed for [the killers] personal actions. It was an individual person who

    did this act, for whatever reason. We dont find any justification in the Islamic religion

    for any such violence.

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    Lets Get Real!

    Would someone please explain to the poor Imam that beheading, especially

    Honor Killing acts of beheading have been going since the days of

    Mohammed.

    I dont find it common practice among the Christians or Jews, the people

    accursed in the Koran. It is just a common form of murder in Islam. And

    they call it an Honor Killing. Maybe before Allah it is.Never before the

    true God who has said Thou Shalt Not Kill.

    A quick google search of beheading gave me more than 28 pages of Muslim

    beheadings from around the world. Dont insult our intelligence and claim

    this was the act of one man and not the fruit of your violent faith.

    And the most sickening part of this brutal murder is that the US media

    is covering it up and law enforcement wants to call this a 2nd degree act

    of murder when it is the a killing that is the most heinous form of

    torturous death.

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