Ducking and Dodging the Deal

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Tell me you know that family matters.  In fact family seems to matter above all. The great love God has, the great salvation people devalue, and the expectations of covenants seem to resolve at the highest definition when the way we treat others comes to centre stage.  Avoiding sin has occupied people for a very long time and many people wear the questionable badge of commandment-keeper.  Even when people are the recipients of Holy Spirit help, the only command that is within reach of compliance is the one that simply asks for people to honour their parents. Tell me you need the Holy Spirit living in you to empower you to honour your parents and I will show you where ducking and dodging sin ends up.

The summary of righteousness in the Pentateuch is decisive

Pick a right standing. Going once…

The walking dead

People say they are many things and forget how they become so.  No one is ever vindicated before God on the basis of their compliance.  It never happened and never will.  You have to have a very low estimate of God to conclude that his pleasure comes from seeing people who have been asked to do.

Passing up the deal of the ages

“To the angel of the church in Sardis write:  He who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars, says this: ‘I know your deeds, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead. (Revelation of John 3:1, NASB)

Maybe there are people who never missed God’s mark in any way.

You who boast in the Law, through your breaking the Law, do you dishonor God? (Romans 2:23, NASB)

How about that deadly history repeating!

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It has become popular for people to see history as purely cyclic.  The increase of knowledge is not uniquely new: the ancients developed technology equal to and exceeding modern innovations.  Aircraft, factory machinery, gadgets and computers are simply the return of ancient wonders.  The notion in religious beliefs is especially abominable.  To think that God does not have a day of reckoning for all humanity, or to take a position that the annual cycle in Israel, Egypt, Cambodia, India, China, Africa or America keeps going is a pipe dream that denies justice and equity.  The virulent crimes of nations have a day of gloom and darkness just as surely as individual wickedness has a day for repentance and be salvation.

  • Genocide in the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, the Levant, North, South and Central America
  • Africans hauled across the ocean to become unpaid labourers
  • Jews expelled from Palestine by a worldruling power
  • Police mowing down hundreds of unarmed protesters
  • Superpower invades small island nation
  • Vile criminals elected to political and law enforcement office in North America
  • Massacre of protesting students in China
  • Pale skin men enshrining in their nation’s constitution that Africans are 3/5 human
  • Police fabricating crime in order to build the case for states of emergency
  • A man journeys westward to become a nation that terrorizes the neighborhood
  • A nation executes its king
  • World War II
  • Canaanites find themselves on the chopping block

Say after me “Abababa x y z x y z”