It’s Monday, October 14th, A.D. 2024. This is The Worldview in 5 Minutes heard on 125 radio stations and at www.TheWorldview.com. I’m Adam McManus. (Adam@TheWorldview.com)
By Adam McManus
How Muslim Malaysia might curb religious liberty of Christians
Human rights activist Siti Kasim recently raised concerns over a proposed bill that would significantly undermine religious freedom in Malaysia located in Southeast Asia.
If this Muslim-majority nation, with 63% practicing Islam, passes the bill, Muslim courts would be granted greater authority, potentially eroding the rights of non-Muslims, reports International Christian Concern.
Kasim argued that the bill, which aims to strengthen the role of Islamic law in the country, could have far-reaching consequences. She pointed to historical examples, such as Lebanon, where a once-dominant Christian population was gradually marginalized as Islamic influence grew.
Malaysian Christians would be well advised to heed the truth found in Proverbs 28:1 which says, “The righteous are as bold as a lion.”
Kamala Harris enjoys slight lead over Donald Trump
According to Real Clear Politics, which averaged America’s top 10 presidential polls taken between September 30th and October 9th, Kamala Harris has 49.2% support among likely voters compares to Donald Trump who has 47% support.
Kamala refused to answer Colbert’s question about what would change
Recently, Kamala Harris has appeared in a series of interviews with friendly, fellow liberals.
She made an appearance on CBS’ The Late Show with Steven Colbert.
COLBERT: “Polling shows that a lot of people, especially independent voters, really want this to be a ‘change’ election, and that they tend to break for you in terms of thinking about change.
“You are a member of the present administration. Under a Harris administration, what would the major changes be and what would stay the same?”
HARRIS: “Sure. Well, I mean, I’m obviously not Joe Biden.”
COLBERT: “I noticed.”
HARRIS: “And so that would be one change in terms of but also, I think it’s important to say with, you know, 28 days to go, I’m not Donald Trump. (cheers, applause) And so when we think about the significance of what this next generation of leadership looks like, were I to be elected president, it is about.
“Frankly, I, I , I love the American people, and I believe in our country. I, I, I love that it is our character and nature to be an ambitious people. You know, we, we have aspirations. We have dreams. We are. We, we have incredible work ethic and, and, and I just believe that we can create and build upon the success we’ve achieved in a way that we continue to grow opportunity, and in that way, grow the strength of our nation.”
First, Colbert’s assertion that Kamala is perceived as the “change agent” is laughable since she has been in office for the last four years.
Second, Kamala never answered Colbert’s question about what policies would change and what would stay the same.
Kamala on The View: Would have done nothing differently over 4 years
Kamala Harris also appeared on ABC’s The View. Sunny Hostin, a liberal co-host, asked this. (Watch the show here).
HOSTIN: “If anything, would you have done something differently than President Biden during the past four years?”
HARRIS: “There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of, and I’ve been a part of, of most of the decisions that have had impact.”
On this liberal-loving show, Harris asserted that she would have done nothing different despite the fact that inflation is through the roof, our southern border is porous and dangerous, and Russia and Hamas both felt emboldened to start wars because of the weakness of the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policy.
David Brainerd, missionary to Indians, an inspiration to other missionaries
And finally, October 9th marked the 277th anniversary of the death of David Brainerd, the famous Christian missionary to the Indians, who died of tuberculosis at the young age of 29.
According to Ligonier Ministries, he was one of nine children born to Hezekiah and Dorothy Brainerd. David’s father, a man of extreme scrupulousness in the Christian life, died when he was only nine years old. Then, a month before his fourteenth birthday, his mother died, which left young David incredibly distraught.
On the Lord’s Day, July 12, 1739, at the age of 21, after a long battle with his resistance to the doctrines of the sovereignty of God and original sin, Brainerd wrote, “The Lord, I trust, brought me to a hearty desire to exalt Him, to set Him on the throne and to ‘seek first His Kingdom.’”
Then, in September 1739, only two months after his conversion, Brainerd entered Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut. During his first year, he contracted measles, which sent him home for several weeks. In his second year, he began to spit up blood, an early warning sign of tuberculosis.
He first experienced the flames of revival in 1741 under the ministries of George Whitefield, the fiery evangelist from England, and Gilbert Tennent, a Presbyterian pastor from New Brunswick, New Jersey.
A commencement address in 1741 at Yale by Jonathan Edwards invited further criticism from the faculty, who were increasingly opposed to the Great Awakening. Edwards argued that the Great Awakening had been sent from God and gave credibility to the students in the college who had experienced revival.
In 1742, fueled by revival zeal, Brainerd was expelled from Yale for his remark that a tutor in the college had no more grace than a chair. The Yale drop-out was animated by God’s call of Isaiah: “Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for Us?’ Then said I, ‘Here am I; send me.’” (Isaiah 6:8)
From 1743 to 1747, he served American Indian tribes in Massachusetts and New Jersey. It was in the Garden State that God brought awakening to the American Indians, adding more than one hundred to Brainerd’s growing congregation. While experiencing sickness, extreme hardship, and loneliness, Brainerd often took up his pen to write of his increased love for the American Indians under his ministerial care. His heart longed to show them the glory of Christ through the preaching and teaching of Scripture.
Due to his battle with tuberculosis, he left the mission field and rode his horse to the home of Jonathan Edwards in Northampton, Massachusetts, arriving on May 28, 1747. Edwards’ 17-year-old daughter, Jerusha, oversaw his care, became engaged to Brainerd, contracted tuberculosis from him, and died several months later on February 14, 1748.
After Brainerd’s death on October 9, 1747, Jonathan Edwards discovered the young preacher’s diaries and believed they would be of immense value to the broader Christian world. In 1749, with an introduction, Edwards published the journals as The Life and Diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Missionaries Henry Martyn and William Carey devoured Brainerd’s diaries as encouragement of what God can accomplish through frail but willing vessels of mercy.
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