The Blessed and only Potentate,

The King of Kings, and Lord of Lords;

Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can appoach unto;

whom no man hath seen, nor can see; to whom be honour and power everlasting.

AMEN

THUS SAITH THE LORD, the King of Israel, and his redeemer, the LORD of hosts;   I AM the first and the last;and beside me there is no God

'IS THERE A GOD BESIDE ME?      YEA, THERE IS NO GOD;  I KNOW NOT ANY.

Isaiah 44v6 -8 

THUS SAITH THE LORD,THY REDEEMER,  that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroard the earth by myself;   Isaiah44v24

I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions, and will not remember thy sins.

There is no God else beside me; a just God, and a Saviour.     Look unto me, and be ye saved; for I am God, and none else.   Isaiah 43v25&44v22 / 45v21-22

THOU SHALT HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE ME.  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God.   Exodus 20v5

                            

A WEEK OR SO AGO, King Charles 111, soon to be Crowned, was reported to be at odds with the Church of England, and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.

The King wants representatives of Faiths (Religions) other than his own, to be fitted into his Coronation Service, and allowed to offer a prayer.    The Church replied that the Coronation was that of a Christian Monarch, of a Christian Nation, in a Christian Church.    Those of other Beliefs could not minister.    As I write today, it seems this matter has not been resolved.  Which way will it go, I wonder?      

Commenting from Girard Alliance Church, in Girard, Ohio, U.S.A., Michael Nikolishen has written  -  'It's a bad idea.  Who are they praying to?   Christians of different denominations can pray together, but when Christians accept the prayers of other Religions, they are denying their own Faith.   Validading the prayers of other Religions is say that there is another God, or that there are other paths to God.      Christians know that no one is acceptable to God, except through the sin atoning death and resurrection of Jesus.    By denying the Deity of Jesus, other Religions are 'anti-Christs'.

IS the United Kingdom still a Christian Kingdom?   Was it ever a Christian Kingdom? 

It all began way back in history when a man called Egbert was King of Wessex.  He forged the Saxons into one nation, comprising  Northumberland, Mercia, Wessex, Sussex, Essex, and EastAnglia.

And Egbert was a Christian, a believer in Jesus Christ, and the Gospel of Salvation.     He was crowned KING in 802A.D.   And it is said that King Charles 111 is his 40th great grandson, and that he can thus trace his geneology all the way back to Egbert.

England began with Egbert, a Christian King, and he slowly led his people to beleieve in Jesus. 

When EGBERT was Crowned, he made a Promise to God, in front of the Bishops of his day, publically in the Cathredral.   It is written that  'after receiving the crown Egbert swore a Royal Oath that he would preserve and protect the Christian Church, prevent iniquities from coming to any of his subjects, and would render good justice'.

This Oath has continued to be made by every English Monarch ever since, including our late Queen, Elizabeth 11.    Her Majesty, at her Coronation in 1953 virtually said in front of God and the Nation

1.  I solemnly promise, and swear, to govern the Peoples of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, and Northern Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand ......

and of all my posessions, and the other Territories to any of them belonging. or pertaining to their respective laws and customs.

2.  I will, to the utmost of my power, cause Law and Justice, in Mercy, to be ezecuted in all my judgments. 

3.  I will to the utmost of my power maintain the Laws of God,  and the true profession of the Gospel.   I will to the utmost of my power maintain, in the United Kingdom, the Protestant Reformed Religion established by Law.     And I will maintain, and preserve inviolably, the settlement of the Church of England,  and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, as by law established in England.   And I will preserve unto the Bishops and Clergy of England, and the Churches there committeed to their care, all such rights and privileges, as by law do, or shall, appertain to them, or any one of them.

THESE things which I  have here before promised, I will perform and keep.

So help me GOD.

Elisabeth R.

The Truth is that England, from it's birth, was founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, God's Son.

The Kings and Queens that wore the Crown, promised to maintain the Laws of God, and the true profession of the gospel.   They maintaned a witness to their own allegiance to God.    NOTHING has so far changed.

YET,  we hear, more and more, from Law Lords and other leaders, that England is no longer a Christian Nation.      IS this  really so?    SHOULD it be accepted?    Is the History, the Culture, the FAITH of more than a thousand years to be just lost, wiped out, and discarded progressively in orders to  please strangers who do not hold our values, or begin to understand from where we have come, in a thoussand years of civilization.      I grew up in an ENGLAND that believed in Christianity.      The WAR was not won because of a Man, it was won through the faith of ordinary believing people - both at home, and in the theater of War -who trusted in God, and in His abiliity to bring us through.  God alone was our  HOPE and, EXPECTATION - our dear departed Queen learned it from her father, King George V1. and she went on learning it through her long and challlenging reign.   God is all we need - if we will let Him direct the way we take in our daily lives.

Will we see it in King Charles?      Will he, CAN he right now stand for Christ and the Gospel as THE only way to God's heart.        He wants to streamline the monarchy.  It may be necessarsy, but I hope he will not 'throw out the baby with the bath water.'      HE wants to reduce the Coronation Service - to save money?  to keep up with the 'times'?    Will he SPIRITUALLY devalue the Service itself, so that he, and all who will share in it, miss GOD speaking to, and challenging the life of, everyone watching and listening.      It is NOT meant to be a 'spectacle' but a WITNESS to each one of us inwardly about our reason to be alive - to put God our Maker up front in our lives.   He made us for Himself.

Where will  this King lead us?   To GOD - or to Nature Worship, Idolatory, and Heresy?   Yet he will own a Christian Crown - even if it is more adorned with worldly ornament that that of Edgar's

 Where is our new CULTURE leading us?     My generation of children in the 1940s were not troubled about their sexuality, as they have been made to be today.       Did  I just say 'made to be'?    YES I did.    We altogether live in a WORLD that is fast becoming a picture of Genesis 6v5  where it is written '..the wickedness of man was great upon the Earth, and every imagination ( purpose and desire) of the thoughts of his heart/mind was only evil continually.'    And a little further on in verses12 and 13 GOD looked and saw that the earth was corrupt/spoilt, because all flesh/mankind had corrupted/spoilt his way upon the earth, and the earth is fill with violence because of them.

The BIBLE has told us that the LAST DAYS  would be like the days of NOAH.    There might only have been three million souls upon the earth then; now it is far worse.

Where can we be SAFE.    Only in and with JESUS.      HE says 'COME to Me, come just as you are;  I will give you rest from all your confusion, doubts, struggles.     I am the Truth, the Way, AND the Life.         You will find none of these anywhere else.

                                                                     

JAG