Posted on 10/11/2016 12:41:28 PM PDT by justlittleoleme
You might be on your way to the sanctuary for worship, and you see a man curled up by the side of the road, bloody and beaten by robbers. Something tells you the man needs your help (that’s God talking to you), but you are wearing your Sunday best, and you’re not trained as a first responder, and you’ve been given the honor of opening today’s meeting in prayer, and, besides, this guy is probably a drug addict and you have little children you’re responsible for — so you hurry on to church and you prove that you have the spirit of the Pharisee — that weird inclination to ignore what Jesus called “the weightier matters of the law.”
The #NeverTrump movement is defined by this Pharisee spirit. It is chock full of it. Texas pastor Max Lucado is a great example. Max leads what he calls a “red state” church, but Max has a maxim: ”I don’t want anybody to know how I vote.” Max does this to make sure the Democratic voters in his church, the ones who support abortion on demand, Islamo-pandering, and class warfare are not made to feel uncomfortable. However, Max recently broke his neutrality pledge when Donald Trump called a bimbo a bimbo. According to Max:
I would not have said anything about Mr. Trump, never — I would never have said anything if he didn’t call himself a Christian. It’d be none of my business whatsoever to make any comments about his language, his vulgarities, his slander of people, but I was deeply troubled … that here’s a man who holds up a Bible one day, and calls a lady “bimbo” the next.
Think on that for a moment. Max closes his eyes to another “Christian,” Barack Obama, who stands foursquare for the slaughter of millions of unborn babies, at your expense, but Donald Trump called a lady a “bimbo?” Intolerable! Unthinkable! Impolite! Time to engage the Pharisee warp engines.
Donald is a blunt customer, but it looks like he does have a heart. When asked about abortion, Trump related a story close to home. He said that he knew of a pregnancy that was going to be terminated. ”That child today,” Donald continued, ”is a total superstar. It is a great great child.”
When Donald Trump picked the most pro-life running mate in history to be his partner in the quest for the presidency, Governor Mike Pence, he backed up that claim. He made good on his conversion to the life issue, and, in so doing, he proved to be the opposite of the Pharisee spirit — a man who cares about the “weightier matters of the law.” Max Lucado may value political fence-sitting in church, a pleasant smile, and a polite manners, but Donald Trump risked the wrath of a baby-killing culture, and even repudiated his own past, by embracing the politics of life.
Who is the real Christian here? The one who acts like it, or the one who puts on a polite show of neutrality?
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Foul mouthed? I’m guessing you haven’t read scripture with any real scrutiny, because when God gets angry, He doesn’t hold back. His prophets call harlots harlots. His Son called religious hypocrites, “white washed tombs full of dead men’s bones.” “Vipers.” ”Sons of the Devil.” But even if you value a polite tongue, and that’s your virtue, don’t begin comparing that virtue to being courageous in the face of Islamic jihad. I will take a foul mouth defender of life over a church-sitting coward any day.
Arrogant? I always get a kick out of people who spend all day in some corner of the bureaucracy, who never need to make a sale, who never need to appear confident, because they get paid every day, whether they do anything useful or not. Donald has to convince people a skyscraper is worth building, folks. You are mistaking confidence, faith even, for arrogance, because you’ve never had to really make a sale. Try it sometime, and see if you can do it without boosting your confidence and risking looking a little “arrogant.”
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And I would ask you to look to your Bibles again. God uses some pretty gritty characters to work His glorious and sovereign will. Jacob was a trickster who lied to his father. Abraham had wives and concubines. Samson kept a harlot. Solomon had hundreds of concubines. Peter betrayed Christ. Saul of Tarsus, was a murderous wretch.
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Donald Trump is more righteous than you think. He wants to protect you from Islamic zealots. He wants to protect your right to defend your families with firearms. He even wants to exempt your pulpits from IRS tyranny. He wants to end the death tax, so you can pass on your farms and your family business to your children. He wants to lower your taxes. He wants to protect the lives of unborn children and appoint Constitutional judges.
I still believe God loves the USA. For the entire history of the Republic, just when things have seemed bleakest, devine providence has saved the nation from the brink.
Trump certainly has an angel with him.
My hunch, its the Archangel Samael. The righteous wrath of the Lord. He smites his enemies in the name of goodness and justice
LEAKED: Obama making sexual advances toward female reporters by calmly displaying his erection. Where’s the outrage from MSM? #TrumpTapes
https://twitter.com/Always_Trump/status/785871447612858368
What was excerpted fits my own sentiments exactly. Thank-you for posting it. Its about time someone did.
@Always_Trump BREAKING: Kaine explodes on daughter in leaked voicemail. This man is unfit to lead! @DRUDGE_REPORT
https://twitter.com/Affirmcj/status/785876630686146560
Excellent read.
Great article
There is no question but that we have the valid issues. The Left has only gross lies, gross exaggerations, and a deliberate taking of the few facts they ever cite, completely out of context. They are waging the most dishonest campaign in anyone’s memory.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3478076/posts?page=26
In dealing with reluctant voters, we should steel ourselves to always remain calm; to quietly explain those issues—and how truly critical they are;—and patiently counter the confusion that has been deliberately created by the Clinton cadres of deception.
That’s the tape of Alec Baldwin talking to his daughter.
Trump = sinner
Hillary = Pharisee
as in Luke chapter 18
worth reading
thanks
Part of the unquoted text refers to an accusation that Donald owns strip clubs. I’m not so sure that this even happened — the story I saw, was that a casino that Donald sold with licensing permissions to use the Trump name, then had a strip club added. Donald tried to get them to stop using the Trump name, but could not, because he hadn’t constrained it in the licensing. But I don’t see any indication he made that mistake more than once.
Disappointed in Max.
Sounds like Alec Baldwin.
There’s a clear parallel between the Hillary camp and Pharisees.
Thought-provokingly beautiful and brilliant!
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