Wild Pigs, Corn, and American Freedom or Bondage?

I don't know who this guy is who wrote this article, but it makes perfect sense. I copied and pasted the article which was a comment on a Facebook post. The man's name was Mark Hunter.
The article is very insightful.

"There was a chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab, the professor noticed one young man, an exchange student, who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt.
The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been shot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country's government and install a new communist regime. In the midst of his story, he looked at the professor and asked a strange question. He asked: "Do you know how to catch wild pigs?"
The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said that it was no joke. "You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come every day to eat the free food".
"When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence". "They get used to that and start to eat again.
You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side". "The pigs, which are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat that free corn again. You then slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd".
"Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how to forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity."
The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening in America . The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tax exemptions, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare entitlements, medicine, drugs, etc., while we continually lose our freedoms, just a little at a time as the government forces us to participate in many of these programs whether or not we want to.
One should always remember two truths: There is no such thing as a free lunch, and you can never hire someone to provide a service for you cheaper than you can do it yourself. If you see that all of this wonderful government "help" is a problem confronting the future of democracy in America, you might want to share this with your friends.
God help us all when the gate slams shut!


Quote for today: "The problems we face today are there because the people who work for a living are now outnumbered by those that vote for a living."

Why So Many Are Perverted Today And The Answer To The Dilemma.

  I don't know if you have noticed lately, the large amount of perverted people who are in this country. I am not talking about people who are just ignorant about sin, but those who embrace sin and fight against those who are standing up for what is right and true.

   The Bible describes these people accurately in Romans 1. They end up becoming like animals. God never intended for this to happen to human beings and their dignity as a human being created in God's image is lost.

*For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. 

* For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. 

* For 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. 

* For 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. 

* Claiming to be wise, they became fools,  

*They exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.
* Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,  because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
* For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; 

* 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.
* And 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. 

* They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. 

* They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,  foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.

* Though 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.

   This is from Romans 1. In Paul's day, this is what he saw. In our day, this is what we see around us. It starts off as a rejection of God in one's life, then leads to becoming debased and losing one's moral compass. It brings the wrath of God on that person and keeps him or her in a state of deception. 

  My question is, how did we get here? I am not that old, but when I was a child, God was in our school system. People knew the difference between right and wrong. What happened and why?

  I believe the causes that brought this about are (and there may be others as well):

* The breakdown of the family unit

* Liberal college professors who are teaching in our colleges and universities

* The Liberal, lying media

* The apathy of the church

    I guess this calls for prayer. 

  When I was young, the idea of having a sexual relationship outside of marriage was considered wrong. Committing adultery was wrong. Stealing was wrong. 

  If a girl got pregnant out of wedlock, she was sent away to have her baby. Girls who had sexual relationships outside of marriage were called 'bad girls'. If they got pregnant, they were in 'trouble'. My point is not to put down women who get pregnant outside of marriage, but just to point out that there was a difference in our thinking then compared to today.

  Today, if a girl gets pregnant outside of wedlock (many would not even know what that word means), she just goes to an abortion clinic. If she is above that, she will have her baby and put it up for adoption (good for her). Today, we have lies made up. One of them is called, 'A woman's right to her own body'. If that is true, doesn't the child within have any rights? According to some Liberals, the answer is 'no'. 

  I could go on and on about this and give lots of examples, but in short, the answer is always the same. We need to be praying for our churches. We need to be praying for our country. We need to be praying for ourselves and asking God to show us our hearts. We need to repent of any lies we have believed in that are contrary to God's word. 

  I am surprised and appalled at pastors and church leaders who would support abortion or Planned Parenthood. Do they know the word of God? Do they fear the Lord anymore? What happened?

   We need to pray for the 'fear of the Lord' to come back to our land. Unless it does, we will continue to crumble as a nation.