Kopp Disclosure
(John 3:19-21)
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"Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and
perceived that they were uneducated, common men,
they were astonished. And they recognized that
they had been with Jesus."
Luke
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I have mourned,
confessed, and prayed/tried to repent from my sin in the booth during the last
election for POTUS.
Convinced
neither candidate really
intended to honor Jesus by the book, I decided to vote for the
lesser of two evils.
As I left the
voting booth early that November morning, it dawned on me: "Voting for the
lesser of two evils is still
evil."
Whether you agree
with my inspiration/indigestion, the Biblical maxim is true.
We are either for
Jesus or not for Jesus in every thought, decision, and action.
We are either
honoring Him by the book or we are not honoring Him by the book; except, of
course, when it comes to stuff that some trivialists will mention to
distract us from the point.
Anyway, once to every woman/man and
nation/church comes the moment to decide...
Uh, declare!
I think of the
bravehearted elder and lawyer who confronted one of the most shamelessly
aggressive eisegetes that I'd ever witnessed during a special presbytery
meeting after the dude rationalized the abominations of an increasingly apostate
denomination and said, in effect, we gots ta compromise on the Word every now
and then to get along with the culture: "The Jesus I know of the New
Testament wasn't very compromising."
The proverbial
father of the Confessing Church Movement comes to mind as he said this to one
of those fainthearted clergy types who love the perks, pleasures, vocational
securities, and other temporal niceties that come to 'em by accommodating the
infidelities of those who provide 'em after the silly guy claimed having, at
least, polity in common: "If we don't have Jesus and the Bible in common,
we have nothing in common!"
Ah, let Him speak
for Himself: "No one gets to the Father except through Me."
Unless you're a
really, really, really good eisegete, ain't no place in the Bible that you find
Him pretending good and evil have anything in common.
He also has some
tough to damning things to say especially to clergy about choosing
cultural accommodations over Him; but, of course, if you're one of 'em, you've
already deleted that from your holy book in a rationalizing Jeffersonian kinda
way.
That's why
remnant isn't the majority...yet...in a Philippians 2:9-11 kinda way.
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Quick hit.
I'm convinced
cultural accommodators don't really believe Jesus has the keys to eternal life.
For if they
did,...
If I have to
explain that to you,...
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Accommodators
remind me of Procter and Gamble's Swash:
"targeted to Gen Yers who tend to re-wear their clothes rather
than wash them after every use."
Swash will
"fresh it up, smooth it out, steam it out, and get it out."
In other words,
Swash neutralizes the odors for
a while that won't really go away without a good washing.
Hmm.
Reminds me
of a, uh, friend when I was studying in Germany who applied lots of
perfume to try to convince me that she bathed more often than weekly.
Once we got a
little closer if you know
what I mean, she still smelled badly.
No amount of
perfume could cover up the stink just below the surface.
Catch the
metaphor?
Unless there's
some real cleaning up via confession and repentance with Jesus by the book as
focus and filter, the stink's gonna remain and get worse.
Remnant tells the
truth about pewsitters and pulpiteers and frachisers who try to cover up their
stinkiness with rationalizing and accommodating and increasingly apostate
perfumes.
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Remnant washes
not swashes.
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Blessings and Love!
1 comment:
I agree with what you have often said. The Bible is all about Jesus. Last Sunday I read 1 Corinthians 13 to the congregation, and as an author suggested, whenever the word love appeared, I said something about Jesus. "Tho I speak with the tongue of men and angels, and have nothing to say about Jesus, I am a noisy gong, or a clanging cymbal..." (1 John 4:10).
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