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The farthest depravity

Today I hear that a person reached the farthest depravity of materialism.  Not in a third-world country, no, but in NY.  A Wal-Mart employee was trampled to death by a mob trying to bust in the store.  

Wow.

BAM

"The Roman authorities found the Christians (as they found the Jews) a social and political threat or nuisance, and took action against them. The Christians, meanwhile, do not seem to have taken refuge in the defence that they were merely a private club for the advancement of personal piety. ((which is modern Chty in America!))They continued to proclaim their allegiance to a Christ who was a 'king' in a sense which precluded allegiance to Caesar, even if his kingdom was not to be conceived on the model of Caesar's. This strange belief, so Jewish and yet so non-Jewish (since it led the Christians to defend no city, adhere to no Mosaic code, circumcise no male children) was...a central characteristic of the whole movement, and as such a vital key to its character."

BAM.

Pillars

I Timothy 3:15
“but if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.”
The Church is the pillar and ground of the truth, not the state. The state has a viable place. It is indeed a noble place for a Christian to “bring in the kingdom, but the Church is the house of God. The Church, the New Testament says, has the keys of the kingdom.
To think that democracy and having with it a slick president can save us and fix all our problems is blasphemous. This error is strong in our country. We must repent of our almost messianic and religious fervor for the impotent American political system to save and to do much real good.
The Ephesian Christians that received this letter from Paul would get Paul’s point exactly when he wrote that the Church is the pillar and support of the truth. Why would they? Because when Paul mentioned the words “pillar” and “support” of the household of God it most likely would have reminded them of their own city, Ephesus, where the Roman Empire had put huge pillars of the goddess Artemis. Her image was carved into the pillars that supported the temple. There were six pillars their where in Acts 19 the people cried out for at least two hours, “Great is Artemis of the Ephesians!” It is obvious that they would be passionate about voting in Artemis, were she on the ballot in the local temple! Rome, her Caesar and her gods were quite methodical and careful to make sure that the whole world knew that she was the true truth and power of the world. Rome was very much a religious state of nationalistic fever. Paul is saying to them, Jesus’ kingdom is the true truth and you believers are the true pillars of this truth being the pillars of the household of God, not the giant and magnificent 6 pillars of Artemis holding up that idolatrous house.
May we always remember that Jesus is Lord over all spheres of power in the world, including the American Empire. Some would protest that we are not anywhere close to that of the brutal empire of Rome. That may be true, but the time to recognize our swift movements to more and more evil empire are never greater than now. The Church is the household of God and those pillars and supports of the truth are those members of His body, you, the Church. Let us ask God for forgiveness for our own idolatries and our nation’s idolatry of the state over Christ. Let us kneel before our King confessing our sins, our nation,

The Q. the LORD and the world, ask every prosperous American:

How are you investing your blessed access and prosperous advantage of knowledge, money, and time for the Kingdom to come on earth as it is in Heaven?

Get ready!

It seems very clear that our fellow Americans are determined to make our lives a little worse.

We are all familiar with how incredibly annoying it is to have to run the guantlet of dealing with government institutions like the local "Dpt. of Licensing" just to get your tags, and license. There is no competition for business there, and they know it. So therefore, the norm is for the employees to glare at you and show visible signs of great annoyance that you are actually there and will likely intrude upon their mandatory break in 2 minutes and-counting!

At the post office, the employees are quick to talk about their "salvation" breaks too, largely because they are so tired of having to deal with all the rules they have to explain to people. With government jobs like that, there just seems to be a lack of personal zest in the employees who are not in an exciting job that is competitive and that offers great profit.

And then there is the doctor's and dentist's offices. Need I explain the dysfunction there? "Oh, you have a snuffle Jim? Well, why don't we do an MRI and an EEG just to make sure that you don't sue me, for improper medical care. Woops, did I say that?!"

I guess we as a nation just want more annoying and bureaucratic agencies and institutions to deal with!

Man, aren't we bright!

Maybe it is a good thing that Osama Bin Biden Hussein Obama has won the election. At least it might help wake up some Christians that thought that Bush's dynasty was Christian. We have a lot of antithesis now. Maybe it will spurn us on more to study the basics. The basics like personal liberty, and competitive capitalism. The basics like healthy economics and the Constitution.

And we'll need to. We have now a pretty boy "in the pulpit." And he is going to use that pulpit to shame all us Christians and how we aren't "coming together" with the world and how mean we are to the poor etc. etc.,

We have a black nationalist now, and a soft communist. Oh, for Alan Keyes!

Well, I'll be reading Ron Paul, how about you?