13 January, 2018<\/p>\n
No God, no Judge, no purpose, and no hope.<\/p>\n
Simple.\u00a0\u00a0 Immorality is consistent with Godlessness.\u00a0 No law.\u00a0 No standard.\u00a0 If all is matter only – no spirit, not God, no Word from Him, no communication of His message to us –\u00a0 then sorrow follows! \u00a0And so I tell my men at the jail.\u00a0 We are bona fide bullshit. \u00a0Lamentations!\u00a0 That is what the prophet of God wrote about long ago:<\/p>\n
“Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.\u00a0 We have become orphans without a father, our mothers are like widows.\u00a0 We have to pay for our drinking water, our wood comes to us at a price.\u00a0 Our pursuers are at out necks. . . Our fathers sinned, and are no more;\u00a0 It is we who have borne their iniquities . . . Elders were not respected . .\u00a0 . the joy of our hearts has ceased . . . Woe to us, for we have sinned!\u00a0\u00a0 Because of this our heart is faint.”\u00a0 (Lam. 5:2-17)<\/p>\n
Such were the Lamentations of Jeremiah and such shall be ours as we, the United States of America, continue down the road of child-slaughter and sodomy, consequences of having no standard for law in the land.\u00a0\u00a0 We have rejected Him civilly and we will suffer civilly.\u00a0 He will reject us and give us over to the anarchy of Godless judges.\u00a0\u00a0 They have unraveled our laws because we have rejected His Law as the basis<\/em> for all statutes and legislation, and judicial “opinions.” \u00a0The rule of Law must be defined.\u00a0 And justice requires that it be His Law. \u00a0The path to recovery is God’s grace in Jesus, freedom from condemnation, and then walking in the Law of God: no adultery, no fornication, no drunkenness (getting high on dope).<\/p>\n And that, it must be affirmed, is the path to political recovery as well.\u00a0 The Law of God is perfect.\u00a0 It is just; yea, it defines justice.\u00a0 It is good.\u00a0\u00a0 The Commandments are the Standard and it is a good Standard for communities, for cities, for nations as well as the “individual.”\u00a0\u00a0 Each person – each community, each nation – must come under some authority.\u00a0 What else ought it to be? What else shall it be?<\/p>\n The nonsensical notion that all is random – i.e. mythology known as biological evolution – is false teaching<\/em>, a fraud, a lie.\u00a0 It declares – ex cathedra, as it were – that there is no One who is overseeing the operation of this world!<\/p>\n (How do they know that!?)<\/p>\n It proclaims implicitly that Man <\/em>is the sovereign and that He<\/em>, as “individual,” is the Lawgiver for himself and whatever community, state, nation, or society in which He<\/em>, as an evolutionary organism, lives.\u00a0 It declares – as a philosophical proposition underlying – that Man<\/em> determines Right from Wrong and that even in this realm of ethics that there is no such universal distinction between two such propositions!\u00a0 Man<\/em> here, Man<\/em> there, Man <\/em>everywhere may discriminate for Himself <\/em>between Right and Wrong.\u00a0 He is the Lawgiver.<\/p>\n So it is as we now witness in 2018.\u00a0 Morality is in flux.\u00a0 Students, apart from those schooled otherwise in churches, are taught a materialist philosophy in the name of science.\u00a0 They are taught that humanity is \u00a0a product of an evolutionary process under the guidance of no God, no mind. \u00a0\u00a0Each organism does what it pleases according to the dictates of its genes<\/em>.\u00a0 Be what you want to be!\u00a0 Be a boy!\u00a0 Be a girl!\u00a0 Be a sodomite.\u00a0 Be an old-fashioned “straight person”!\u00a0 Not to worry!\u00a0 What is straight today may be crooked tomorrow!\u00a0 All evolves!<\/p>\n The drug experience is so exhilarating, so timeless; \u00a0it is worth the gamble.\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 This is it!\u00a0 And the ecstasy of the “high” trumps the trek through a life with no hope.\u00a0 There is no eternal, beatific future.\u00a0 There is nothing but dust.\u00a0 Matter.\u00a0\u00a0 So what does it matter? All proceed into graves to be eaten by worms.\u00a0 Dust to dust.\u00a0 No soul.\u00a0 No life after death.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 Emptiness!\u00a0 Life goes on WITHOUT us!\u00a0 We are left behind.\u00a0 Nada<\/p>\n But, whoops!\u00a0 It is not the genes<\/em> which drive a boy to want to be a girl or vice versa!\u00a0 Genes don’t explain such aberrations!\u00a0 Genes don’t explain suicide, adultery, murder, jealousy, envy, and hatred!<\/p>\n Well, what explains the drive behind such trends as Sally wanting to become Johnny?<\/p>\n Well it isn’t biology.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 It isn’t the genes!<\/p>\n It is something mixed in with matter – a phenomenon known as spirit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And this spirit is fallen, corrupted, disoriented from its Original Design.<\/p>\n By revelation from the Creator Spirit, we are informed of the declarations that it is married to the body and will go to the grave with it, there separated and to be rejoined at a future, eschatological resurrection of the body and a special Day when the Creator of all bodies and spirits will bring all people who have ever lived back from their graves, whether dusty or watery, and marshal them all before Himself for a Day of Judgment.\u00a0\u00a0 Some He will fire from His presence and send away forever to the punishment that they deserve for their reckless insolence, filthy disrespect, and disgusting blasphemy.\u00a0 Those whom He spared by His Love through the kindness shown the world by Jesus, He takes to be with Him forever.<\/p>\n We reap in America what we have sewn for two generations.\u00a0 No God; no Law; no Right or Wrong.\u00a0 All “law” evolves like sartorial fashions; hippie pink here, rainbow there, Lawlessness everywhere. \u00a0Marriage, family, children, ethics are all up for grabs.\u00a0 Redefinitions.\u00a0 New values.\u00a0 No values.<\/p>\n And sociologists and politicians wonder at the “opioid crisis” – indeed, 64,000 died from overdoes in the U.S.\u00a0 in 2016!\u00a0 The dope-death crisis is a product of a Godless society.\u00a0 The children brought up strictly in our educational system are trained in hopelessness.\u00a0 Those devoid of the teachings which have been patently revealed in the message of the Church, confirmed by the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Messiah, \u00a0are schooled in the popular, contemporary secular alternative – hedonism.<\/p>\n The proposition is not a new one.\u00a0 The writer of Ecclesiastes references the notion as a reasonable recommendation for one who has nothing else for which to strive in a life without high (divine) purpose: “Eat drink and be merry!” (8:15). \u00a0\u00a0Smoke dope!\u00a0 Ingest opioids even to death!\u00a0 (Why not?\u00a0 What else is there?)<\/p>\n Oh but even the one who “lives a good life,” albeit absent any interest in the Giver of life, is in trouble.\u00a0 Yes, even the good-old-boy, who contributes “his share” to society will be surprised on that Day.<\/p>\n “Fear this!” says Jesus.\u00a0 Fear the one who has authority to cast into hell.\u00a0 “Fear this<\/em> One” (Luke 12:5).\u00a0 May it be that we sober up as communities, as states, and as a nation and declare that the government must be upon His shoulders<\/em> and that His Law is the foundation for all law<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 13 January, 2018 No God, no Judge, no purpose, and no hope. 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