My State of the Union

My State of Union Address

 First and foremost I have a deep love and regard for God and this country. I am brought to disappointment, anger, and heart breaking emotions over the direction this nation has taken. Our godly forefathers did not plan or intend this great nation to turn its back on God and end up in the shape it is today. We as nation are far greater gone than Sodom and Gomora were at the time of their destruction, and if we don’t repent we to can face the same wrath. We have become a godless nation, instead of seeking Him, we seek after self and fleshly desires totally disregarding God and what He has called us to be. We kill babies by the millions, we engage in same sex relationships, we are full of pride, self-seeking and hate. We are turning our back on Israel; we ignore those in need in our own neighborhoods. I am not filled with hate, but love for God and His Word. It tears me apart to watch our nation going after its own desires and not God. It won’t stop were it is, this nation will continue to fall if it does not repent! The Constitution in which protects our freedom will become powerless and it is already headed in that direction. Our freedoms that remain will be stripped away, the economy will collapse the Stock Market will crash like it has never crashed before great peril and depression is coming! This nation will cry out and say how did this happen? But what happened is God gave us what we wanted when we rejected Him as God and King!
 The White House being lite up in a rainbow the symbol of Gods convenient using it as a blatant slap in the face of what it means, using it as a unrighteous symbol and celebrating it in that manner. The rainbow is a sign of holiness and of God’s promises not to be used as a symbol of an unrighteous behavior.
Romans chapter 1:
16For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. 17For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 19For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 20For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. 21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
24Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, 25because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
26For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 27and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

Romans Chapter 2:
1Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things. 2We know that the judgment of God rightly falls on those who practice such things. 3Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God? 4Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, not knowing that God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance? 5But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
6 He will render to each one according to his works: 7to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life; 8but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. 9There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek, 10but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek. 11For God shows no partiality
Galatians Chapter 5:
16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. 18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law. 19Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Colossians Chapter 3:
5 Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. 6On account of these the wrath of God is coming. 7In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. 8But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. 9Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.

Be not surprised when this nation falls, it is of God and His plan. Without repentance our sinfulness condemns us! However if this nation is in Christ, than there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ! Our sins of a nation will not be over looked or ignored if we do not turn back to Christ! If God did not spare His own chosen people and turned them over to their enemies what makes you think he will spare this nation? Many nations since the time of Christ have fallen! We are no different! If God choses for this nation to fall nothing is going to stop it! We will have no right to ask why is this happening, when it is what we asked for! God is turning us over to our own desires because we have rejected Him. We live in a very sinful nation that no longer proclaims God as Lord and King! Yet there be a few a remnant of those here who proclaim God as Lord! Most do not! If Abraham was here today would he over look us and plead with God to spare us for the righteous sake? Prophets, Evangelist, Preachers God’s chosen men have preached the Word they have warned, yet we have not believed!
We do not have the right to continue in willful sin no matter what that sin may be, if we call ourselves believers! If we are believers and a godly nation we would do what God has called, commanded us to do! Where sin abounded, Grace abounded that much more! But does that give us a right to continue to sin? Heaven’s sake NO! We were bought with a price we are not our own! We cannot call Christ Lord Lord if we don’t do what he has told us to do! We as a nation are not on the straight and narrow; we are on the wide path that leads to destruction! Yes God is Love, but yet He is Also wrath! We say God loves us and that we can do whatever we want as long as we are happy. We are sadly mistaken, without repentance there is no forgiveness! We are condemned by our own actions! Because of a nation we have not accepted the free Gift of God!
I am not judging, I am speaking the truth and the Word of God! Which I will do to my dying breath! I cannot and I will not be silent! My love for people drives me to speak truth and life I will not lie, I will not sugar coat, I will speak love and light. If you are in the light you will see and comprehend, if you are in the darkness you will see hatred and judgement for you already stand in convection. My love for you and your soul drives me to tell the truth if you listen or not for it is written they have eyes and they do not see, they have ears yet they do not hear. I pray you see the light turn to God ask for forgiveness show repentance and live for Him, submitting to Him as Lord, praising Him as Savior!
A time is coming when He will pull His presence away and you will no longer hear the calling of the Lord or your heart will grow cold, callused and hardened that you will no longer be able to respond to the Holy Spirits calling. This nation is in trouble, wrath is coming if you do not trust in God placing your faith and hope in Him you will be consumed. I am not preaching I am pouring my heart out to you all. I see what is coming the Lord has not hidden it from me. The parable of the fig tree stands here.  
As I have said I don’t hate you or judge you because we believe and live differently, it is quite the opposite I love you and pray for you. I have brothers and sisters in Christ whom I Love immensely yet we do not agree on all theological views, our believes are different, I do not agree with everything people do but that does not mean I love them any less.
We as a church unified under God no matter our doctrine we worship the same God. A few things stand true we have been silent for too long. We have not practiced spiritual disciplines we have not sought after Gods face we attend church 1 to 3 times a week and we think that is good! Wake up church it is time to move be active be the body that Christ has called us to be! We are that valley of dry bones that Ezekiel prophesied to! We need a new breath of life blown through us so that we will live again. Pew setting days are over we are in the final days and it is time for us to make a difference out in this world. It is not someone else’s job it is our job! No one else is going to do it we must do it! If we are to see a change we must be the change that brings about the change. We are Christ’s hands and feet! We are the body of Christ the problem is we have fallen asleep because we are not obeying and being used by Him! Just like parts of our body fall asleep if we don’t move them over a short period of time. This is call out to all followers of Christ Wake UP!!!!!!!!!!!!  
Orlando Houston
6/27/2015