Deny Deny

The trail of denial is long and winding, disguising itself as the way of a chosen people, pilgrim people, as the global standard, and the principles that guide judge and jury. The denial of one’s roots can only end in catastrophe and in the nations of the modern era we find both the oppressed and the oppressors are busy denying their origins. With this level of denial here come old lies, shallow slogans and senility.

Divisive Diplomacy

Some leaders might just as well be senile, schizophrenic or bewitched. They lap up the vile soundbytes from the gutters of Nazism, dictatorship, and religious fantasy.
The religious people have been trafficking in doublespeak and a whole lot of Talibanism: segregating churches into ethnic enclaves, denying women and children the right to life and liberty. They want a state where biblical law (Mosaic legislation) gets superimposed on the capitalist and imperialist policies that have been the cause of every kind of evil.

A vile virus

Nationalists will deny George Washington, the House of Windsor, and the Lord of heaven and earth as long as these stand for justice that demands equal treatment of all human beings. That is the viral infection that has been allowed to take hold in public spaces.

Who is most famous for dissing foreigners?

Hey preacher!
Before we try to impress the saints with our testimony (very often it is a story common to believers) and after we have grabbed attention, ought we not to have a crystal clear story, complete with action shots, of the great and wonderful Saviour?
If there’s a different interest we ought to verify who it was that sent us.
Say, preacher! Say on!

America! America! Your chief executive is demon-possessed. He steals, he lies, he destroys, and does not know he does. If those observations were not sufficient the present occupant of the white house is also an avowed sexual assaulter, champion of failed and autocratic states, coward on the international stage, and dunce.

Test him, America. Give him a book and have him read cold turkey. You will see how literate the person is to whom you have entrusted the guidance of your nation.

America! America! Pay attention to your radio stations, not the ones with buffoons like Limbaugh, but the ones with tons of religious programming, the ones putting country on the same level as God. There you will see Satan at work. There you will hear legal opinion incorporating ancient Israel’s playbook and there you will experience the abject lipservice to the gospel led by half-baked scholars and zealous ignoramuses, young and old. There you will see the products of a homeschooled generation of bigots.

America! America! Since you are satisfied with being the great home for demons, a massive cage for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast, get ready to pay the price.

Every nation is intoxicated with American booze: merchandise and false gods.

The Bible, gives certainty,
not confused arguments about eclipsed arrangements
of gold silver, food and drink.

Luke lifts the veil off the process and shows the reliability of the New Testament in 1:4

that you may have certainty concerning the things you have been taught.

Certainty over endless speculation and lipservice

The gospels, in particular, shatter the reality tv of the Old Testament because they deal with the substance of God’s gift, God-with-us. The gospels show us God’s yeah and amen, not his you’d better note.

There’s no version to compete with or accompany the accounts of the four evangelists. There are no eyewitnesses or servants that have anything seismic to say in addition to the “We heard the Father say ‘Pay attention to my Son'” of Peter and his companions.

Moses, Annas, Caiaphas, and the elders of Israel got it wrong. God’s message is not terror and corruptible things but a welcoming Father-love.

Hebrews 12:18-24 paints the contrast in stark terms. For you have not come, says the writer, to

1. what may be touched
2. a blazing fire
3. darkness
4. gloom
5. tempest
6. the sound of a trumpet
7. a voice whose words made the hearers beg that no further messages be spoken to them.

The gospel came in due season to show God’s timeless design for the human race. If we believe that a tent and its regulations are that design does that not mean that we have trashed the Son of God?

For they could not endure the order that was given, If even a beast touches the mountain, it shall be stoned. Indeed, so terrifying was the sight that Moses said, I tremble with fear. (vss 20-21)

But you have come to

1. Mount Zion
2. the city of the living God
3. the heavenly Jerusalem
4. innumerable angels in festal gathering
5. the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven
6. God, the judge of all
7. the spirits of the righteous made perfect
8. Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant
9. the sprinkled blood that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel.