For a look at treachery dig up the  names the churches  call themselves and then scope out what  they they actually cherish.

The most serious interventions in most churches are no intervention at all.  We have heard the mighty rants against sin in the church and sin in the world.  Have we heard so much as a peep about sin carried through the heavens into the highest and holiest?   Or course not.  The priority, when the believer’s purity is the issue, is not God’s great gift of his Son but some gimmick for ensnaring an unsuspecting believer into the latest scam or paying homage to human ingenuity.  It is a case for weeping, because healed people cling to their fatal diagnosis and saved people cannot seem to get past their condemnation. Jeremiah would weep and pray for his reservoirs of his tears to pour if he heard you saying the saved are not saved.

Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.

Jeremiah 17:14

The healed are healed and the saved are saved

We do not have to go too far into anyone’s basement to discover that what they say about the great salvation is not what they believe. We find people creating jobs for Yeshua which he resolutely denounces. We find people turning the liberator into a prison warden. Jeremiah would weep a lot.

God’s people should be what God has made them. Shouldn’t the recipients of grace have God’s gift without the neighbours chiming to devalue them and make God look bad?

Here is how the subtle outrages typically begin.

• The saved are not saved until they…
• The healed are not healthy unless they…
• The child of God has eternal life but only if…

It really must be troubling to the Saviour to see how his work is hijacked by people who have courage only to drown themselves in their freedom-killing cover stories, their hypocritical lies, and demonic-sourced doctrines.

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1) Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people! 2) Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. 3) And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:1-3

No matter how much money or time they put into their destabilizing interests there is not one shred of love for anything human in the GOP or the White House. Their love for humanity is like love for Canaanites: stealing land, sexual, looting and massacres. Isn’t that what “God and country” stand for?

A couple of verses from Hebrews chapter 2 announce what Christ came to do.  They give a death-centred view of salvation. They do not, as others do, highlight sin and forgiveness, Believers lose their fear of death when God gives them life.

Two necessary things

1. Render Satan powerless (Greek, destroy the one having the power of death)
2. Free the fearful

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,

Hebrews 2:14

and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

Hebrews 2:15

Denying the purpose of God in the flesh voids faith

No condemnation in Christ
No condemnation from Christ
No condemnation according to Christ

Do not be intimidated by people who find that Satan has broken God’s handcuffs. Stop being insulted by people who say you need to live on fear street – fear of the law, fear of sin, and fear of death.

Did he bind the devil and free us?

John 3:11 may not shock you as it does me and I hope this look at one aspect of the Nicodemus encounter will bring home the impact of Messianic testimony in contrast to the testimony of the highest level of Jewish thought. Yeshua uses a very kind “we” to address the poverty of knowledge this ruler displayed. We know, we speak, we see, and we witness combines solidarity and diversity.  I understand you cannot witness to the things you have not seen, but you have no excuse for not knowing that people need a makeover.

Truly, truly, I say to you, we speak of what we know and testify of what we have seen, and you do not accept our testimony.

John 3:11

Learned ignorance

Sinai has to be primary reading for any Jew and the teacher – ο διδάσκαλος didaskalos – because  Moses’ five books are the core of Jewish learning.  The rehearsal of the Sinai events in Deuteronomy 5 brings to view the need for rebirth.  A doctor in Israel in New Testament times ought to have known that rebirth was the only way to have a lifesaving and golden relationship with God.  Nicodemus is on the record for venturing out to discover answers to his anxiety.

We cannot avoid the fact that Yeshua sees a great deal we do not.  Moses was not aware that the people’s refusal to hear God’s voice was fine.  The rash promise “We will do all that yhwh says” was not simply eagerness for the voice to stop.  It discloses the human problem of the incompatible heart.  The people were afraid of dying even though Moses survived the tempest of divine presence. Yahweh had come to speak with Israel and the people declined, shuttling Moses back and forth.

Oh that they had such a heart in them, that they would fear Me and keep all My commandments always, that it may be well with them and with their sons forever!

Deuteronomy 5:29

God had an encounter greater than Sinai and a covenant distinct from Sinai.  Jeremiah and Ezekiel predicted new hearts and new laws.  The don’t-know doctors of our days are out driving us back to Sinai instead of checking in with the Bishop of all Souls, even at night.

God gave the world to four empires in ancient times and the world’s leaders have all lost sight of their relative value since Rome lost its empire. Leadership seems to be getting ready to dupe the inhabitants of earth with a regime that spits on expert advice in the sciences and humanities. There is no new normal that can survive the influence of the historic record. We know that some of the beast’s allies are people who desperately cling to known lies and malice.

We will make sure that this deception and power grab happens with many eyes open. The new normal will be more of the same beastly greed and lust for dominance that made the earth’s inhabitants go gaga over technological and social wonders.

New low is not normal

The bad smell of racism and lynching is good for you. The virus will go away like magic. Obama is a criminal. Just take the drug, you have nothing to lose. Presidential power is absolute.