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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2003 4:18 pm Post subject: When Wisdom Enters Your Heart |
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Then you will understand righteousness and justice, Equity and every good path When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you, To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things, From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness; Who rejoice in doing evil, And delight in the perversity of the wicked; Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths; Proverbs 2:9-15
So called modern day prophets Paul Cain and Rick Joyner in The Morning Star Prophetic Bulletin - January, 1993 wrote an article titled THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION ITS MEANING AND OUR FUTURE by Paul Cain and Rick Joyner. Paul Cain had a prophetic dream given to Paul Cain on November 2, 1992, the night before the election. In the dream Paul was told that Bill Clinton was about to be elected president and was given some of the Lord’s reasons for allowing it including:
"THE MOST AMAZING AND WONDERFUL ASPECT OF THIS DREAM WAS THAT PAUL CAIN SAW THE LORD PUTTING HIS SPIRIT UPON BILL CLINTON AND CHANGING HIM INTO ANOTHER MAN, JUST AS HE DID KING SAUL IN I SAMUEL!"
"Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy ... and be turned into another man." (I Samuel 10:6)
Why did the Lord choose Bill Clinton? Because He intends to put His Spirit upon him and make him into a new man. He is going to give him the power of the Holy Spirit to lead this country.
Well President Bill Clinton, a born again Southern Baptist, was a very usual president! The Times of London addressed this is issue in an editorial titled “ If Bill Clinton goes back to Oxford.”
``This is an opportunity that Oxford would be ill-advised to squander. It is not merely the status of a departed U.S. president that should appeal to the dons, but also the sheer number of courses where Mr. Clinton might be useful. He would need to lecture on American politics but the university should really exploit the full range of his experience.
``A man who once informed a grand jury that whether or not he had committed perjury depended on the meaning of the word `is' would surely be the very saviour of any philosophy faculty. Mr. Clinton's intimate knowledge of the latest DNA testing techniques should be harnessed by the chemistry department.
``A new course on the technicalities of impeachment could work wonders for the Oxford law course. The gender studies sub-faculty would, though, be best appeased if the amount of hands-on student tuition offered by Mr. Clinton were kept to a minimum.
``The new Rothermere American Institute in Oxford should take up the president on his plans, and with some urgency. It can be safely assumed that Mr. Clinton's lectures would tempt the most lethargic undergraduates from their slumbers.
``If the university cannot offer one of its most famous sons a formal teaching post, then there remains one other route by which he might still be persuaded to come back to Oxford. The president could be invited to complete the B Phil degree in politics (and South-East Asia avoidance studies) that he started three decades ago, but never quite finished.''
Southern Baptist Evangelist Luis Palau has related to many in an admiring way the Clinton's story of how he got saved as a child. Palau was so impressed with it and has shared this testimony so that his audience might appreciate Clinton's struggles better. Clinton told of how he would go to church as a child even though his mother wouldn't take him. A Sunday School teacher took him under her wing. When Billy Graham was in Arkansas, Clinton's Sunday School teacher took him the long way to be able to go to the Crusade. When the altar call was given, Bill Clinton went up front and gave his life to the Lord.
Graham also stirred controversy in March by voicing forgiveness for Clinton in the sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky, just as he had forgiven Nixon for his Watergate crimes. Billy Graham forgave Clinton before the President confessed to lying about his affair with Monica Lewinsky. In an interview in February 1998, Graham said about Bill Clinton: "I forgive him . . . because I know the frailty of human nature, and especially a strong, vigorous young man like he is. "He has such a tremendous personality that I think the ladies just go wild over him." In other words Bill Clinton was the victim and not a victimizer.
Graham a Southern Baptist later went on to state how he was proud of the way Bill Clinton, also a Southern Baptist, repented and brought out into the open his sin with "that woman." Billy Graham stated he was sure that God forgave Bill Clinton because he had asked for forgiveness. Billy Graham also said that he did not do those things which Jim Bakker or Jim Swaggart did! But many think that Billy Graham sinned by showing partiality and favoritism to Southern Baptist Bill Clinton and his son Ned and not giving support to Bill Clinton's victims or Ned's wife and her two children.
The news media in America wrote about the lack of integrity and truthfulness of Bill Clinton. Citing ``serious misconduct,'' an Arkansas disciplinary panel has recommended that President Clinton be disbarred for giving misleading testimony about his relationship with Monica Lewinsky - an unprecedented and stinging rebuke of a sitting president.
The decision by the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Professional Conduct is the first step toward stripping Clinton of his law license and another embarrassment stemming the Paula Jones sexual harassment case. Clinton was impeached by the House and acquitted at a Senate trial, and he also has been fined for contempt of court.
The president is fighting a conservative group's effort to have Arkansas disbar him on grounds that his evasive testimony in the Paula Jones sexual harassment lawsuit violated the code of conduct for lawyers. Clinton's defense--partially revealed by the conservative organization yesterday--is reminiscent of his often legalistic arguments during the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal, such as his contention that a key conclusion "depends upon what the meaning of 'is' is."
The Atlanta-based Southeastern Legal Foundation filed a 1998 complaint with the Arkansas Supreme Court's Committee on Professional Conduct, asking that Clinton be disbarred. U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright, who found Clinton in contempt of her Little Rock court last year, filed her own complaint but did not recommend a specific penalty. Wright concluded that Clinton, in responding under oath to Jones's lawyers about his relationship with former White House intern Lewinsky, gave "false, misleading and evasive answers that were designed to obstruct the judicial process."
Clinton earned a law degree from Yale, but has spent very little time practicing law. He has kept his license active by paying an annual fee to the Arkansas bar.
The American Bar Association's standards for lawyer sanctions state: "Disbarment is generally appropriate when a lawyer, with the intent to deceive the court, makes a false statement, submits a false document, or improperly withholds material information and causes serious or potentially serious injury to a party. . . ." The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled in 1998 that there is "no place in the law for a man or woman who cannot or will not tell the truth, even when his or her own interests are involved. In the legal profession, there must be a reverence for the truth."
Clinton's lawyers said in 1998 that his testimony in the Jones lawsuit was "evasive, incomplete, misleading." Clinton did not appeal Wright's finding of him in contempt of her court for making "false" statements. But the president has never stated that he lied under oath. His 87-page response to the disbarment effort renews the main arguments he made last year when he contended that his statements did not constitute perjury, or lying under oath. Clinton and his lawyer, David E. Kendall, have declined to make their response public. But officials of the Southeastern Legal Foundation quoted portions of the Clinton brief in their own rebuttal, which they released to reporters yesterday.
The foundation's rebuttal says the 11th page of Clinton's brief states: "Many categories of responses which are misleading, evasive, nonresponsive or frustrating are nevertheless not legally 'false,' " including "literally truthful answers that imply facts that are not true."
Matthew J. Glavin, president of the Southeastern Legal Foundation, said the disbarment case against Clinton is clear-cut because "the president lied under oath and obstructed justice," violating "the most basic rules required of those who hold law licenses."
The White House declined to comment Kendall issued a statement saying Glavin's foundation "isn't interested in issues relating to Arkansas lawyers and legal services. It's just interested in attacking the president in any way it can." He said former independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr "helps raise money for" the foundation.
Southern Baptist Billy Graham said in his newspaper column titled the "The Moral Weight of Leadership" stated that: "Only time will tell whether President Clinton has betrayed the trust we have placed in him as our leader. All politicians have a special responsibility because the people have voted them into office. I have known President Clinton as a personal friend for many years. I led the inaugural prayer at both of his inaugurations. He first came to hear me preach when he was a boy. I hope and pray for his sake, the sake of his family and the sake of our nation, that he is not guilty of the things he is alleged to have done.
But Bill Clinton became only the second U.S. president ever to be impeached and to say that he is a liar and an adulterer and an deceiver is not to stretch the truth at all. Bill Clinton gave his heart to the Jesus when he was young at a Billy Graham crusade in Arkansas and later joined a Baptist Church where he is still a member.
President Bill Clinton who loves oral sex does not discuss that oral sex, long regarded by many gay men as a low-risk practice, appears to be a surprisingly frequent way of spreading AIDS. A study released yesterday found that oral sex was probably the cause of 8 per cent of recent HIV infections among a group of homosexual men examined in San Francisco.
Author Christopher Andersen says in her book "Bill and Hillary: The Marriage, "Mrs. Clinton hired former FBI agent and private investigator Ivan Duda in 1982 to investigate her husband's extramarital affairs. He came up "with a list of eight women [Mr. Clinton] had been sneaking away to meet at all hours of the day and night. . . . Of the eight, she accepted the fact that Bill was probably sleeping with Dolly Kyle Browning and Gennifer Flowers."
Hillary demanded that her husband be tested for HIV" in 1988. "Said a lawyer friend, 'She must have been terrified at the prospect of contracting venereal disease, or AIDS.' " "According to someone who claims to have seen Clinton's medical records, he has had a sexually transmitted disease -- a fact that could have harmed his presidential prospects only if Clinton's complete medical history were made public." The records remain secret
Mr. Clinton was the first U.S. president ever to be held in contempt of court. He paid a fine and costs totaling $90,000 under Judge Wright's historic 32-page civil verdict, "The court takes no pleasure whatsoever in holding this nation's president in contempt of court, but there simply is no escaping the fact that the president . . . undermined the integrity of the judicial system," the judge said.
It's obvious that Billy Graham and Bill Clinton should have their heads examined and put away in the funny farm for being so deceived and not knowing the difference between right and wrong and not being ashamed for what they have done and said, especially as they are born again Southern Baptists |
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