Just about all of us remember the great 1957 Academy Award for Best Picture winning....The Bridge On The River Kwai. The opening scene has the British contingent of new POWs march into the Japanese labor camp.....whistling that tune. William Holden was the American goldbrick impersonating an officer to get out of work detail. Alec Guinness was the British colonel who had by the end of the film....in essence....lost his mind....for he had built the bridge that would carry the enemy to the war....to kill more British. He spotted a wire rising out of the river water....the level of which had fallen. By now his mind is gone....as he hurries down to the river....picks the wire up out of the mud....and follows it back to the detonator box. He sees Holden's character of Commander Sheers....and it tragically dawns on him that his own revered military leadership....had sent a team to blow up the bridge he had built. The reality of his error hit him all at once....and he uttered....WHAT HAVE I DONE....before a mortar shell kills him....and he falls on the detonator....blowing up the bridge.
I posted on this theme back in 2013.....with a video included of those final moments in the film. (you can Google this video....'Colonel Nicholson....what have I done') At the time I had warned that many would later on look back at Barack Obama....and see the mistake that they had made.....and utter the same words of Colonel Nicholson....."WHAT HAVE I DONE."
Today the warning is even more important....and more pertinent....as we evangelicals....so very determined to defend God and country....lost our mind....and followed a false prophet....a charlatan....a destroyer....and a wolf in shepherd's clothing. That is where we are right now. I'm nothing but the goldbrick Commander Sheers impersonator....who would rather be somewhere else than warning of Trump every day....but the love of Christ compels me....as it does all of us....to warn....to shout out....that you are going the wrong way.....you have been taken in.....return to the path that you were first put on....listen to Jeremiah...."Thus says the LORD: 'Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls'." And maybe prostrate yourself in the fear of God....and reverence....as you read the few next words from Jeremiah 6:16...."But they said. 'We will not walk in it'."
Addendum: I posted the above and then listened to today's.....John Piper.....Sermon of the Day....from his website....desiringgod.org. It spoke somewhat to this topic of the path that we are on....and how we have to stay on it. Please consider listening to it by either going to Desiring God....or just Googling.....John Piper....All Scripture Is Breathed Out By God-Continue In It.
Also: I listened the old broadcast twice today....John MacArthur's....Beware Of False Prophets. The original broadcast date was around 1980....but I first heard it rebroadcast on Grace To You....gty.org....on May 8, 2015.....forty days before Donald Trump famously came down that escalator to announce his candidacy for president. I implore of you to make time to listen to it for yourself. You will hear John MacArthur describe who so many of us would later come to know as the real Donald Trump. I don't know if you will totally agree with that....but I am confident that you would have to work hard to find excuses not to identify him in MacArthur's classic warning on false prophets.
