Tell Me, Please

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Tell me, please...is political perception greater, or spiritual perception ?

 By "greater," you understand I mean more pleasing to God...?

From your spiritual perception, then, Christian...

did Jesus say His very Identity is "The Truth" ?

does God hate any sin more than pride ?

does it please God when we act in wisdom...when we "do the right thing"...or in moral foolishness ?

Is it political perception or a spiritual perception, then, when we say America is currently governed by lies, pride, and foolishness ?

Is it a political or a spiritual characterization of American "evangelicals" that they overwhelmingly choose to follow lies, and pride, and unrighteousness ?

"And My people love it so!
But what will you do at the end of it ?"     --  Jeremiah 5:31

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Freedom and False Freedom

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

There's a tendency in American Christianity to equate what scripture calls "freedom" with the “freedom” vaunted in the Declaration of Independence. That’s probably the essence of 90% of the “4th of July” sermons every year.

It’s a false equivalence.   America's founding doctrine is that freedom is a matter of exercising our “inalienable rights”…or as we call them in current political jargon, "entitlements"...and defending those "rights, by violence if necessary.

Jesus said otherwise.  He said freedom is a matter of knowing TRUTH (John 8:32).

If Jesus is right, the enemy’s greatest lie may be that by demanding, or even warring for, our “rights,” we can “secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”

Brother Appolus, in his blog "A Call to the Remnant," gets Jesus' teaching about freedom and "rights:" and even more, Jesus' example: exactly right: “Would you be free today ? Lay down your rights.”