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The Broken Machine

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How the accusations fly!  That anyone who scurries around in society with a big Holy book, should be considered obscene.  Whether he speaks the words that are contained in that book with a soft and loving voice, or yells and screams them as he runs, to Man he is worthless and a fool.

In fact you don’t have to say a word to be considered a fool, an obscene man, and a nuisance.  Try it someday.  Simply take your Bible with you everywhere you go. 

If you really want to prove that people hate God, take your Bible with you when you go shopping at all the major department stores.  You know precisely what the response will be.

You don’t have to speak a word about God.  You don’t have to be seen praying.  Just blatantly associate the Bible with your hands.  And watch them back off with wide eyes.

Tell me how that’s right!  Tell me how it is that you could carry any other book (ANY OTHER) and they would love you.  They would pat you on the back and laugh if you carried pornography in your hand.  But they will fear you, and deplore your very existence if you lift up the Holy One of God.  Or even if they see you associated with his Holy things!

That’s fine.  Because that’s the way things are! 

I want you to hate me, you people of the world who think you are more righteous than the One who made you.  For I can prove that you hate him, by simply carrying his Holy book into your presence.

I don’t hate you.  Though that’s how you accuse me.  And not only I, but every man who dares to stand in your presence and proclaim that God “ALONE” is good.

For such people blatantly proclaim that everything man is, is unholy.  And how deeply we scar your sense of self-righteous pride. 

Shall we apologize?  Do we need to grovel at your feet and beg you to include us?  Some do.  But you never receive them back, as if this display of a love for God never happened.  They are labeled among man to the end of this place of time.

Are you correct to think you are righteous?  You submit that you have good thoughts.  Provide proof of the end of your day, that everything you have thought has produced a perfect action or word.  My friend if it has not produced holiness, then you did not have good thoughts.  At the very best, you had sporadic reasonable intent.  What a blight in your eye, to say such a thing about you.

In business you make machines to produce a certain product.  If the product that comes out of the machine is faulty, you call the machine broken.  Man is a broken machine!

I will not take your time with more words than is appropriate.  The volume of this testimony lay in that Holy book that scares you so very much.  Its called the Bible.

It’s  the repair manual for broken humanity.  And in that Holy book there are two sections.  The first portion contains intricate descriptions of humanity’s brokenness and need for repair.  The second portion, called the “New Testament”, contains the description of the repairman.

It speaks of his training, so that you can know you can trust him.  It gives proof that he has repaired many broken machines.  And it makes a statement that is deplorable among you.  It often makes the statement that he is the singular Master of his singular trade.

The New Testament will highlight obvious failures.  And it will tell you what to do when you encounter them. 

My friends of flesh, you do not need to repair the machine you currently have.  (As if you have the tools to get the job done.) You need an entirely new one.  Why should you balk at this?  “New” and “fresh” are the buzz words of the day!   And the New Testament provides the blueprint to the epitome of “value added” activity.

By His Grace

God is First

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Some men are given to love this world with all their heart and mind and soul.  I cannot help them more than to say, “God is first”.

Some men are given to love His Holy Word with all their heart and mind and soul.  I cannot help them more than to say, “God is first”.

Some men are consumed with the world’s idea of aliens on other planets, or perhaps with nothing but prophecy.  I cannot help them more than but to say, “God is first”.

The living God is more than this world.  The living God is more than the written word. The living God is more than conjecture.

God is first.  Nothing counts but faith expressing itself in love.  And our faith is firmly grounded in the Holy Son of God.  Eternally, it will not be otherwise.

By His Grace

Closed covers

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The words of the Bible are powerful and true.  They are living words that are able to lead you to the living God in Christ Jesus.  But their power is nullified if the covers of the book remain closed.

Ignorance Produces Perversity

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Why is the Bible not understood?  Why do the majority of Americans not know the Scriptures?  When by this time America ought to be the teacher of the Bible to the entire world, they have become ignorant of any words within it.  Why is this so?

It is simply so because those who have read the Bible have closed their mouth.  Those who have understood the mysteries of the Bible have kept silent.  They raise children and do not teach them.  They had ignored the plight of the strangers around them.  And by their silence, they have not taught themselves.  For where they were silent, sin was not!

But many will say, “I have read the Bible I have spoken of the Bible but they will not listen”.  If this is true then let me provide an opportunity for consideration.  Do you understand the following text?

24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?”

25 “Yes, he does,” he replied.

When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?”

26 “From others,” Peter answered.

“Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. 27 “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.” (Matthew 17)

Can you explain what Jesus intended when he said, “Then the sons are exempt.”  This passage should not have mystery attached.  It should be easily understood, not only by the teachers in the church, but by the body of believers also.

There are several layers of understanding in this tiny passage.  And this is just one passage of thousands that are misunderstood, or not considered at all.  Why is this?  Why has America thrown the gospel away?  Is it because Christians have not understood the intricate beauty within the Scriptures?

I propose that they have not understood the intricate beauties of the Scriptures because they have fully understood the intricate beauty of enticements from the world. 

In the 50’s and 60’s, the church watched in horror as their children cast off the Scriptures.  But as they watched, their children did not perish or suffer.  The children gained ground and prospered! So the parents began to cast off the Scriptures themselves.  En masse they yearned after the things of this world.  And the beautiful intricacies of the Holy Word were left behind.

Make excuses for them, many scholars will.  “You have no empathy for those people.  America had suffered under two world wars and the Korean Conflict.  Death had taken their sons and they no longer had the stomach to watch them go. They were tired and wanted relief.  The advent of innovation not only promised, but delivered.  The enticement was not their fault”.

Things are as they are.  I do not write this post to debate my empathy for those who have sinned.  I have written this post to ask the question, “Why has America not understood the Bible and the beautiful intricacies there in?”

But take note of the attack such questions raise.  An earnest seeking for the answer is never the response.  It is always the way of a perverse people to accuse he who asks.  It is always the way of a perverse people to find excuse.  America is perverse and unholy!  I only asked why.