Spiritual Impeachment

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

The Creator and Ruler of all things is foremost and eternally a moral entity: indeed, The Moral
Entity Who IS King of Righteousness.  And He created man in His Own image, a moral entity.

Scripture says God has written His Law, His Own criteria of right and wrong, in the hearts of
all men (Isaiah 31:33, Hebrews 10:16).

So the governing criteria of all things human, judged by men or by God, is their righteousness,
or their unrighteousness.

Some are arguing today that men and their works...or at least their own leader and his works...
should be judged by some criteria besides "right" and "wrong."  We often hear their claims
that, judged by economic criteria, their leader has been "good" for our country.  And we daily
hear their claims, parroting their leader word-for-word, that he's "done nothing wrong."

His deceived followers argue, like their deceiver, that posing God's moral question about their
leader and his actions is instead a political question.  They have shown that their judgement...
contrary the law God has set in their hearts...is entirely on political criteria; and promise that
they will continue to judge every question of their leader's righteousness or unrighteousness
solely by their own political crieria.

Every day is Judgement Day.

Today is Judgement day for America's Christians.

Who will proclaim that God's law and His Kingdom rule today, over all things ?

And who will instead follow the wretches bringing God's judgement on themselves, denying
that His law governs all things, asserting that their own is greater ?

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Challenging the Emperor

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

News-story:

“The Department Of Homeland Security lashed out Monday at a group of doctors who traveled to

the U.S.-Mexico border with intentions to give flu shots to detained migrants…"

The DHS' Press Secretary tweeted

’Border Patrol isn't going to let a random group of radical political activists show up and start injecting

people with drugs.“

Radical Political Activists Give Flu Shots

Romans had hundreds of gods: Jesus' new "religion" was no threat to them.  The capital charge they

brought against Jesus was His “radical political activism”...ministering to the poor, the sick,and the
prisoners...that showed God's rule was greater than the Emperor's.

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Calling God a Liar

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Some background for international readers:

Here in the United States, 30 years ago, we had a guy on the radio named Rush Limbaugh.  He
was a "conservative commentator," and gave his "conservative" views on events.  He was more
stridently (and usually, angrily) "conservative" than any of his party's polticians at the time: the
first George Bush, Bob Dole, etc.: and Rush attacked them relentlessly for not being ideologically
"pure" enough, and betraying the Reagan legacy.

But he saved his most violent attacks for "liberals" and "liberal" policies (on all the same questions
we are still dealing with: immigration, government regulation, social welfare, etc.).  At the time, it
was a level of rhetorical viciousness we'd never seen before.  Rush was a sensation.

Those who listened to him and agreed with his every pronouncement called themselves "ditto-heads."
We saw bumper-stickers...even in the church' parking-lot...that cheered, "Mega Dittos, Rush !"

I think Rush Limbaugh is still around; but his "movement" long ago left him behind.  "Conservative"
commentators eager for notoriety and political influence (not to mention market-share) quickly rea-
lized they had to be more unhinged and violent than Rush.  Breitbart News and InfoWars are Rush'
children.

Rush Limbaugh is only significant for one reason.  His followers unanimously agreed with his views
on public issues, and his contempt for those who had a different view.  The current president's ditto-
heads are required to agree with his moral view, of himself: agree first of all with his absolute conceit
that everything is always about himself.

Right and wrong are moral questions.  And the current president's ditto-heads who style themselves
arbiters of ideological "purity" make it clear in every day's news that no one is a true Republican or
true "conservative" unless they agree wholeheartedly in the Great Leader's moral view of himself:
that in every one of his words or deeds that might be considered morally questionable, he's "done
nothing wrong."

That was the current president's assertion even before he was his party's nominee.  At a "values-voter"
(i.e., Christian) town-hall in 2015.  He was asked if he'd ever asked God's forgiveness.  "I am not sure
I have," he replied; "...“I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.”

Trump on forgiveness 

 

He explained his answer a few days later to a national news-network:  "Why do I have to repent, why

do I have to ask for forgiveness, if you are not making mistakes ?"

 

Trump on his need for forgivesness

Surprisingly, 80% of "values voters" (i.e., Christians) didn't seem to find the teachings of Roman 3:23
("all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God") or I John 1:10 ("If we say that we have not sinned,
we make God a liar...") relevant in 2016 to their political choices.

Some Christians have since realized they were deceived, and have repented their choice.  But many...
more concerned with their "purity" as Republicans or "conservatives" that their faith in Christ...continue
to chant in chorus with him that the current president has "done nothing wrong."

We don't need to look at Jesus' separation of His followers from His false followers (Matthew 7:21-23)
as entirely a future event.  Every day is judgement day, and Jesus the Judge every day.


The Enemy is deceiving the unwary and unwise the same way he did in the Garden of Eden, and with
the same lie.  Whatever form it takes, and whatever route it comes, the enemy leads to death everyone
whom he deceives to believe what he himself believes, that God is a liar.

This judgement day in this place called America, the form his lie takes, and the route it comes, is political.


                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

Giving Thanks

                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                              

What C.S. Lewis called “the bloodthirsty Psalms” have always puzzled me.  How could David call on God

to destroy his enemies, and take delight in their annihilation?

The times in which we live help me understand.  Those for whom David prayed destruction were first of all
GOD’s enemies, haters of all good.   Every desire of their hearts was continually evil; their daily attacks on
righteousness offended the Righteous One, and grieved everyone who loves Righteousness.

The best parallel may be Nazi Germany.  Every righteous German was surely grieved to live under the rule of

lies and murder . . . and anguished that many German “Christians” were deceived to approve, and even join in,

the deeds of those liars and murderers.

Germans who loved righteousness must have fervently cried out to God each day, as David did, to be saved
from the oppression of evil-doers, and PASSIONATELY prayed God to destroy them, and all their works.

God did.

In this time of giving thanks, we thank God that He will glorify His Name in our day.  We thank Him that He

decrees the destruction of the evil-doers who oppress and grieve His righteous ones, and decrees that HE
will save His people from their rule.

“Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,

 For His lovingkindness is everlasting.

 Let the redeemed of the Lord say so,

 Whom He has redeemed from the hand of the adversary.”

                                                                     --  Psalms 107:1,2