Here are a couple of questions for a group of believers just sitting around a table....or a dorm room....or a student union....that might generate some interesting conversation....resulting in edification. They are hard-edged questions....but we have to start questioning what is going on around us. I just this moment watched a video from a South Carolina....(evangelical South Carolina)....Trump rally....where some protesters were being hauled out....and much of the crowd broke out into a voracious roar....that would rival that of an SEC football stadium....F%^# Joe Biden! There were probably dozens of pastors in the audience. May God have mercy upon us and wake these men up....if it be His will to have mercy on us!
I was out and about today and tomorrow's Super Bowl evidenced itself a few times. We had dinner at a very popular spot. It was crowded as usual....and there was a sign on the door announcing that the restaurant will be closing early tomorrow....5 PM.....for the "big game." Folks this was rural Western Pennsylvania! We were listening for a while to Sirius/XM's....Sixties on 6....and quite a few times the DJ referenced the big game for tomorrow....and the game has been dominating the Drudge headline since yesterday....with this headline....SUPER BOWL BET BIGGEST IN HISTORY....MOST-WATCHED TV EVENT OF ALL-TIME?.' So my suggested question is....how does this whole thing align with God and His Word? Now I'm not referring directly to the debate on the Lord's Day....this will go on until that which is called the Tribulation....(we still believe in that don't we)....begins in force....and there are dozens of books easily available from both sides if anyone is interested. I am only suggesting that we look at the logic of this....for I guarantee to you that tomorrow there will be tens of millions of....how do I say this delicately....hmm....evangelicals....(no one knows what that means anyway)....for whom the biggest thing will be how Patrick and....(I got to check what his first name is)....Travis....and Brock....and....hmm....Christian....how they do in the big game....and I guess who wins.....and I guess who performs at halftime....and I guess gow funny the commercials are? You can throw all the supposed Bible verses that you want at me....but God gave us a wonderful thing in a human mind....and if that mind cannot see that there is something ungodly and logically perverse in the Christian mind that fits the Lord's Day worship service and a sermon from a man who supposedly speaks..."for God"....who squeezes this somewhere in the middle of this idolatry? If that doesn't win a debate....add to it....tens of thousands of.....evangelical pastors....with souls in their pews hanging by a thread over....(can I use this word).....hell....and they will be sitting in front of the giant TV....showing ten times more emotion that they had hours earlier in the pulpit?
Phew....that was longer than I expected....and I still have two questions left. Alistair Begg....is involved in a major controversy. He gave advice on his radio program for a grandmother to go ahead and accept the invitation to a grandson's wedding in a same-sex wedding....and take a present! The advice caused a furor on the Internet....40 year pastor Alistair Begg was essentially disinvited to speak at a major conference....and a couple of hundred radio stations cancelled his program. Folks....methinks there is something rotten in the state of Denmark....for I also disagree 100% with Alistair Begg's advice....but this was an unforced error....a serious unforced error....not heresy. Consider this....55 year pastor John MacArthur made several unforced errors in the past few years....the major one being recommending that we all vote for a false prophet for president....and then insinuating that those who do not support the false prophet are not real true Christians! Why does he get a pass and Begg gets a penalty? Consider this also...John MacArthur strongly warned against false prophets for all of those 55 years! Google if you are interested....John MacArthur, beware of false prophets....May 8, 2015.....exactly that....to get the full effect of the message.
Last question....particularly but not exclusively to young people. If there is a military draft coming....and there probably is.....what will it look like....and who will be drafted? How will the gender thing come into play....for everyone today is in the same workforce....or the transgender thing....and how will the undocumented come into play....and will all of the athletes in all of the sports....in all of the colleges....get a draft notice....football-baseball-basketball-swimming....the NCAA would essentially be depleted would it not....and as for all of the professional athletes.....Patrick and Travis and Brock and Christian....and all the NBA and MLB players....will they get a deferment? Lastly....do we all know today that there is no longer a college deferment as there was in the past....except for the semester in progress at the time of the draft?
NOTE: This will be up for a few hours on Saturday....and then placed back in the pack of posts.
