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And
yet another tragedy,
where will it end?
A 16-year-old boy fatally stabbed outside a youth club on Merseyside
has been identified by police.
Joseph Lappin was with friends outside Shrewsbury House Youth Club in
Everton, Liverpool, on Monday night when they were confronted by up to
15 youths.
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Headlines see nearer bottom of page.
We
are
warned of many things that will happen in the last days before Jesus
return, among them being:
2 timothy
3:1 But know this, that in the last days,
grievous times will come.
2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money,
boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful,
unholy,
3
without natural affection, unforgiving, slanderers,
without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good,
4
traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure
rather than lovers of God;
One of the biggest lies in the last few decades has been evolution,
after all, taking God out of the picture, prayer and so on from our
schools is a way of removing God from everything. The evolution lie of
course says we came from nothing and are going back to nothing and so
no worries, you came from apes you can act like apes, be selfish and
live only for yourself, it's me, me, me.
In the Bible we can see at times just how precious life is, how Christ
came to die on the cross just for us sinners. And nothing was a s
painful as death on the cross.
Today we now have a young generation, a youth with no help, in fact not
condoning it, but with no hope, no belief in a God, so no
accountability, no fear of being judged if you die having not repenting
and accepted Christs death in your place, then you are going to live
just for you, survival of the fittest.
I've decided to do this as I love revealing truth, people will as the
Bible, 100% accurate as usual predicts what will happen to those that
do not know what the heck is going on in the last days:
Luke 21:25 There
will be signs in the sun, moon, and stars; and on the
earth anxiety of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and
the waves;
26 men fainting
for fear, and for expectation of the things which are
coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
People say we've always had those things, but get this:
Matthew 24:6 You
will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you
aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation
will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and
there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
8 But all these
things are the beginning of birth pains.
So it's clear then from verse 8 that Jesus was saying before I come
back it will get worse.
Hey a woman can't stay pregnant forever right?
So hearing the latest awful stabbings today on the news in Bolton and
the so called reaction and Governments now response:
Shock
tactics for knife carriers
Young people who carry knives will be made to visit hospitals where
stabbing victims are treated, in a bid to shock them into changing
their behaviour.
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said seeing "gruesome" injuries would be a
tougher deterrent than sending all knife carriers in England and Wales
to jail.
A spate of stabbings was making people "nervous" about going out, she
said.
The Tories said more knife carriers should go to prison and the Lib
Dems called Ms Smith's plans "half-baked".
Meet families
The home secretary's proposals for England and Wales will be outlined
in more detail when the government publishes its youth crime plan on
Tuesday.
Ms Smith unveiled the plans hours after a man in his 30s was stabbed to
death at a pub in Bolton.
Another man is in a serious condition in hospital after suffering
multiple stab wounds at Scotland's largest music festival, T in the
Park, in Balado, Perth and Kinross.
And on Thursday, four men were stabbed to death in London and a fifth
died after a knife attack in West Bromwich.
Surely we are so missing the point and no matter what measures we
undertake unless they involve God then it simply won't work.
But because this government, worse than any past seems more intent of
puting God out of the picture, then we can only expect things to get
worse.
Ask those that have come to learn the truth, the Alpha Course going
around prisons, those that have come to Christ and leave prison and
start a new life and then feel their calling is to go back into jails
and reach ex-offenders and have great success.
We've not only lost touch with this young generation, but we have
failed them, let them down. While the church, most of it sleep walks
and while it argues over worthy causes as the Bible is clear
Homosexuality is an abomination to God and you can't get much stronger
than that, you can't help feeling if Jesus was here in the flesh today
He's be more conerned, and out there on the streets trying to
understand and reach this youth.
There is a classic Christian film 'The Cross and the Switchblade' http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068428/
that really sums up all I've just said, and oh, OH HOW I pray that it
could be shown, hey that's it, capture these guys sit them in front of
this often violent Christian film and maybe, just maybe we might have a
chance to rehabilitate.
It's truly tragic, what has always stopped me doing anything is
thinking too much, I've always said the most dangerous of persons are
those that do not think at all, especially when drunk, it's I hate you
right now and I'm gonna stab you and to hell with any after
conseqeunces.
There is no thinking, who is this person I'm about to stab and if I
stab them will they die and if they die will it mean my lifes over as
later I'll be caught or have to hand myself in and then face jail. What
about the persons family, I wonder if this guy I'm about to stab has a
wife and a lovely young baby girl, daughter, son.
What would it have been like if I'd lost my parents, or what about that
lad I see every weekend from the ex, what if I got killed, what if it
was him with the knife.
So it goes on and on, what about the parents, the relatives, and
friends.
This applies to suicides as well, we get so me, myself and I and we
don't sit and think all the afters through enough.
I'm all for getting tough and anyone over 14 years of age caught with a
knife should get automatic 3 to 5 year jail term and anyone stabs
anyone gets automatic 15 years if they are over 16 and if they kill the
victim then 25 years minimum.
All very well you say, but I'm not talking throwing them in jail, with
no hope, just the chance to do drugs and smoke and learn more bad
things off heavier criminals, only to get out and no doubt reoffend.
NO, I'm talking bring in the Alpha course and if they won't attend,
then add time on their sentences, or something similar.
Only God can genuinely change lives, and save them, so I implore you to
explore this site and you'll see that, healing from all kinds of
things, including Aids and HIV and so many other things.
Below I'm gonna let others talk now, provide links and so on.
But be warned, unless as a nation we return to God it will get much,
much worse, we've seen nothing yet.
This is always the trouble, satan convinces us we don't wanna be
robots, and we don't, so we walk away from God and do it our way only
to ruin everything. This is athiest living for you, this is evolution
for you, take away the Bible, who needs that to guide us and tell us
how to live. Bit like buying a computer for the first time and the man
of the family as usual, through pride, thinks I'm not gonna read the
manual, wasting my time, look I'm sure this goes in here, nope, that's
not working, darn.
The Bible is a manual for life, a love letter from God of how to do
things right in the first place.
I'd love to have to islands one with do what you life on and one under
God, and after few years ask both sets what it's like and I so, so, so,
so guarantee you, those on the do what you like island will want to
move the God one, sure you gotta do some worshiping of God, gotta spend
time, having a relationship with Him, and others and so on, but image
it, no risk of being raped, mugged, having anything stolen, no risk of
being stabbed, oh to go out at night like it was day time, oh to beak
down and have someone stop and help you out. Because God loves
us, actually doesn't want us to be robots He gives us freewill.
That's why so many get angry with God, IF THERE'S A GOD why did He let
my so and so die.
We have freewill, God tried to intervene once before, 2000 years ago,
what makes us think we'll be any more accepting to Him today, we
crucified Him then.
Satan takes things and makes out there not sin, just part of the modern
day pleasures, but trust me, ask anyone that has caught HIV and faces
death if sex was still worth it after all, ask someone who has
overdosed and
nearly died if starting to take drugs in the first place was worth it.
Organisers
of an anti-violent crime conference
being held in Brixton
on Saturday have welcomed the Archbishop of York’s comments that the
Church of England should be reaching out to young people in knife crime.
During his address to
the Church of England's
General Synod the
Archbishop referred to his conversations with a former gang member from
Birmingham life had been transformed through the Christian message: "He
said to me: 'what you must do is to get us, young people, to feel
better about ourselves. Help us to achieve confidence about ourselves
without needing the dangerous prop of a knife. Help us not to judge
ourselves in the eyes of others. Stop viewing us through the eyes of
failure. Help us to overcome self-loathing. Your job is to stop the
merry-go-round of our culture of immediacy by providing us with hope
and long-term solutions to our longing for belonging. To us all the
brave talk and actions of adults towards young people are similar to
the gang culture. We are not all bad." Click here for the full
article.
Bible saves stabbing victim
By Matthew Murray
A teenager escaped
serious injury when knife-wielding yobs stabbed a BIBLE in his pocket.
The teenager regularly
attends a Christian youth group held at Emmanuel Christian Centre in
Walthamstow, London.
And pastor Dez Brown
from the church believes God spared the boy, who he has asked us not to
name, from further injury.
He
told New Life, ‘There had been a bit of trouble between some gangs, and
they were going for revenge for him for another attack.
‘As the attacker went
for him, he stabbed the Bible instead of the young lad.
‘The
boy comes to the youth group every week. I asked him to give his
testimony at the youth group but he was a little shy. It’s quite a
remarkable story.’
PAIN
Mr
Brown, who himself served a prison sentence as a 17-year-old for
stabbing someone to death, knows all about the dangers of knife crime.
He
said the attack on the teenager was part of a craze known as ‘jucking’,
where attackers stab their victims but don’t mean to inflict serious
injury.
Instead, they pierce the
skin of their victim, hoping to cause minor pain, which will result in
a few stitches.
Other members of
Emmanuel Christian Centre have experienced similar incidents, Mr Brown
said.
Earlier
this year, a member of the congregation was raped and attacked by a
gang, before having acid thrown over her body in an effort to destroy
DNA evidence.
Despite
the dangers, however, Mr Brown admits he enjoys pastoring in London. He
believes that no situations are impossible for God to impact.
He
added, ‘Because of my own experience and past, I am not fazed by such
trouble. I know that God can reach in and touch lives, just like he
changed my own life.’
The
church has started regular work in schools and with the police to
combat problems within their community. Their Spark2Life project has
earned them several awards.
Senior pastor Doug
Williams said counselling the victims was ‘heartbreaking’.
‘The
only answer I have in the face of such things is that I still believe
in the power of the Gospel. I believe the Gospel has the power to
change a heart.’
Today’s
statistics on knife crime is depressing.
It is reckoned that
there are over 16,000 stabbings in London every year and over 38 stab
wounds are treated in the hospitals every 24 hours! Even teachers in
school are at risk and many schools have metal detectors put in. The
problem of Knife Crime is not limited to London alone; there was one
report recently of fatality caused by knife crime in Whiting, and 6 in
Glasgow (Scotland).
Now
back to the questions posed by me above. Here
are some possible answers:
Why
are our young ones dying daily from knife
crime?
There
are many knife crimes are drug-related. Many
of our teenagers
are involved in selling and taking drugs. They sometimes double cross
one another, they sometimes leak secrets and hence they are” snuffed”
out.
There
is an upsurge in the gang culture and we
have teenagers or
youths from opposing gangs stabbing one another when they clash or in
retaliation to what have you.
There
are many innocent well brought up children
who would refuse to
join gangs, or drug cartels and they are” punished” for refusing to
belong in.
There
are other innocent ones who simply fall prey
to these evil
knife carriers e.g. a daughter of one church member I happen to know
was killed two years ago because she was “a snob” and the boys could
not “stand her attitude”. Believe you me this is true and there was
nothing else to the story, for my daughter was attacked on a bus ride
home from college once by four boys from her school. Her crime? She
behaves in a “mightier than thou” attitude and was snobbish. Thank God
for her life that there were no knives involved and thank God that her
friend was able to dial 999 and call the police quick. I could not even
prosecute these boys for fear of reprisals and just encouraged my
daughter to let things lie and let God punish the boys. Thank God after
a few days she summoned up courage to return to school and completed
her “A” levels successfully.
Lastly
there are many innocent teenagers who fall
prey for being in
the wrong place at the wrong time. Some of these fall prey due to
mistaken identity.
Who
are the perpetrators of these acts of violence?
Gang
members, drug pushers, sadists, vengeful
teenagers (on
perceived wrongs against them),untrained children, bored and idle
teenagers who soon fall into mischief, psychotic youths, etc.
Why
do our teenagers feel they need to carry
knives?
Many of these youths
carry knives with intent to
maim and kill. Some
do this to protect themselves (so they say), some have even resorted to
carrying sharp pointed umbrellas to cause injury or “protect”
themselves. Some believe they have to copy members of their gang or
circle of friends by carrying knives.
Click
here for the full article.
Conclusion,
whether it's just gangs protecting their patch, or drugs involved or
video games or films, or protection, whatever the motive, excuse, our
yoth are dying at an alarming rate, something of course satan welcomes.
We need to return to God, means educating the youth the was it used to
be done, not taking God out of school because might upset the muslims
who now are growing in number and are born in the UK and have a right
to be here and the gays and athiests and the, oh the list in endless.
We see the result of all that and give me back the decades ago when
more under God and less under all the others any day. If this is
satan's so called free from God society for you, do your own thing, be
your own God for you, then forget it, give me back a world under God's
own values any day of the week.
As church attentance falls, and many close, and as most churches fail
to wake up and act and do anything about todays society we are setting
ourselves up for, well, what words can I find, nothing can describe the
pain, heartfelt, all of it, of the families, the mother of a stabbed to
death or shot to death victim.
It is predicted in the last days for hearts to grow cold and good to be
called evil and evil to be called good.
We think, no way, won't happen, don't be daft. But then we sit and look
at the daily news on TV and in our newspapers and we wonder, wow, as
usual the Bible is right.
How, because lawlessness abounds the love of many grows cold (Matthew
24:12).
In other words we watch Violent films where we start to hardly feel
much emotion, serious test yourself next tmie you watch it, oh sure you
have some heart for the lead characters, it's only a film after all.
But you care little for the ones at the start of the film who you were
not introduced to, did not get to know and got their heads blasted off.
In fact before you say, oh just a film, nearly every day in Iraq or
some other country people are blown to bits, shot, raped, killed,
butchered to death. But hey we don't care so long as it does not happen
to us and because it's now happening all the time, well I'm used to it,
used to it, used, WOW, hold on, what did the above verse in Matthew
24:12 say, in fact another better translation would be:
Because lawlessness is increased, most people's love will grow cold.
NASV.
It's easy as Christians to say well because these are the last days
then, no point in trying to fight God's words, it must come to pass,
maybe, sure, can't stop the hurricane approaching, but you sure can
save people from it's impact, Amen. You can warn them, take measures
yourself, keep watch, stay alert, do what I'm doing now.
One writes, he's a nutter, another a fanatic, more a cult, but if
thousands, hundreds of thousands, meaning the Church of England said
lets take time out on the women Bishops and gays for moment, we have to
reach out to our youth, because they are our next generation, their
dying, daily.
Yes, it's time to make a stand, spread the word, act, speak out, do
something, any thing, because when you die, when it comes your time to
account for your life, what you gonna tell God, sorry I just didn't
have the heart.
It
was interesting to see in the Daily Mail on 15th July 2008 the
following article, proving what I been saying above.
Footballers and
actors paid tribute today to a teenage model who was
stabbed to death following a row at her home.
Privately-educated
Amy Leigh Barnes, 19, was taken to hospital with
knife wounds but could not be saved.
Teenager
stabbed to
death in London street
Police
investigating the fatal stabbing of a teenager have arrested three men.
The 19-year-old is the 28th teenager to meet a violent death in Greater
London this year.
Oct
2008
Teenager
stabbed to death in Liverpool gang attack named
A BOY who was stabbed
to death after a gang attack outside a youth club was named by police
today as Joseph Lappin.
The 16-year-old, known as Joe, was with two friends, both aged 17, when
they were attacked by up to 15 youths outside the Shrewsbury House
Youth Club in Everton, Liverpool, last night.
Sep
2008
TEENAGER
STABBED TO DEATH IN ‘ROW OVER £20’
A
YOUNG victim of knife crime staggered into a police station before
dying from his wounds yesterday.
Aug
2008
Teenager
stabbed to death by 'drunk racist' during bloody weekend that claimed
three lives
A boy of 17 was
killed in a racist attack in the street, his friends claimed today.
Nilanthan
Murddi was slashed across the throat by a drunken white man who moments
before is said to have hurled racial insults at him.
He
was one of two teenagers to be stabbed to death over the weekend as
Britain’s knife crime epidemic continued to soak our streets in blood.
July
2008
Another
teenager stabbed to death in London
Following a
brutal attack of two French students, a 16-year-old boy is the latest
youth to be stabbed by a gang of teenagers.
The death of an
18-year-old man on 10 July raises the number of
teenagers killed in violent incidents in the capital this year to 20.
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