I remember my seventieth birthday.....(in detail....not in how wonderful any birthday may have been )....more than any other birthday in my life.....with the exception maybe of my fourth birthday.....where my cousin Buzzy jumped out from behind a door to scare me....and apparently it worked....for I remember it in detail. He went on to literal national fame in the music industry as Time Magazine once did an article on him for his influence in radio....but on my seventieth....on February 4, 2020....I watched a most extraordinary State of the Union Address.
I had watched many over the decades....and in this most recent decade had posted on the concept of the S.O.T.U....and even emailed members of congress pleading with them to do away with this speech that Thomas Jefferson....refused to give....because it reminded him of Britain's Speech From The Throne. Anyway....please consider these words in the post below from February 6 of 2020....in light of what began at that time....and where this world is today because of what had begun at the time....for God has given us this peek back in time...if we choose to visit it.....to see how arrogant and self-indulgent we had become....the 'we' being the better half on the 'right'....and all this just before the coronavirus hit with force.
I heard these words of Scripture in today's sermon....and bring them here for you also to ponder upon...for it may describe us....Jesus speaking....and recorded in Matthew 7:26 and 27...."But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand: and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall."
No....Our Best Days Are Not Ahead Of Us
Brothers and sisters in Christ....the redeemed of Christ....those born again....do you not recognize these as words of a genuine biblical false prophet....a false prophet such as we have been warned of time and again in the Bible....of which we acknowledged their existence.....and felt assured that we would know them if they approached us....but we did not know this one! We let down our guard. We thought it would be easy to spot a false prophet....but it wasn't easy....for this one came with words of patriotism....and words that defended life.....and religious freedom....words at times pointing to the glory of God....but these are merely words written by speechwriters who know what the evangelical wants to hear. We wanted it to be true....and ignored all the plenteous evidence that it was not true. We got sucked into greed....calling it liberty....and a lust for power....calling it freedom. He dragged us into his swamp....and we still did not recognize him....but these words above from the State of the Union address....words that everyone today is exalting as such a great speech....surely we can see that they are as bogus as the words of the serpent in the garden...."Hath God said?"
Pastors....it should be obvious that President Trump has entered your realm of preaching and teaching. This here is not politics! Will you not now warn your congregations of what this man says....and repeats on a regular basis....in front of tens of millions....using God's name....words which runs contrary to God's Word....leading us astray? Will you not now defend your sheep? Will you not even defend the gospel of Jesus Christ? Will you just sit back and let your congregation be devoured without so much as a caution?
