Posted on 12/03/2022 6:15:43 PM PST by DoodleBob
In the beginning, there was an obscene chant at the Talladega Superspeedway that NBC producers urgently needed to ignore during a live broadcast.
Interviewing winner Brandon Brown, reporter Kelli Stavast pretended the NASCAR crowd was chanting, "Let's go Brandon!" – not cursing President Joe Biden.
The rest is history, as the wink-wink slogan soaked into political jargon and mass media. What shocked the Rev. Seth Carter – a young Southern Baptist pastor in Kentucky – was when church people began baptizing "Let's go Brandon!" into common speech.
"To be clear, I am no supporter of our president's actions or policies. In no way do I feel support for him welling up inside of me," he wrote, in a Baptist Press commentary.
"However, I recognize that my feelings can never be the proper guide of the attitude I am to have toward him. As a Christian and a believer in the inspired, inerrant and infallible Word of God contained in the Bible, the truth of God's Word is what ought to guide my attitude toward President Biden (or any other leader for that matter)."
Christians could try chanting, "Pray for Biden," he said. They need to see Biden the way the apostles Peter and Paul viewed "the evil emperor of their day, Nero."
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In response, the conservative Capstone Report website published an editorial claiming that "Baptist Pravda, err, Press" had demanded "submission to regime's lies."
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You highlighted the wrong part.
...that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life, godly and respectful in every way.
THAT is what you're praying for. That kings and all who are in high positions bring about those conditions, not for them individually.
Kingships are not my domain. I stay in my lane. See Nebuchadnezzar.
It isn't calling evil good.
Praying for our leaders is the means; leading peaceful lives, etc., is the end.
BTW, that doesn't seem to be working. Is your life peaceable?
The left has no sense of humor is the problem.
It’s really kind of ironic that the author should equate biden to Nero all the while chastising Christians about their attitude towards biden.
I will NEVER pray for Biden, except to assume room temperature.
... seeing quite a few of these here in South Texas ...
“Looks like Paul didn’t submit himself to the governor of Damascus, under Arteas the king.”
Excellent point. And he was not too keen on turning the other cheek.
Acts 23:3 Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”
They can rewrite history at any time.
I looked up Psalm 109 on Bible Gateway. It would be quite fitting for them. Communists deserve no better.
Biden has been an extraordinarily lucky man. His connections and good fortune have prevented him from descending to the low level that he deserves.
Only because that's what we're clearly commanded to do in Scripture.
You pray for Brandon and I'll keep praying for America.
I'll do both because I'm obliged to do both. Doesn't mean I have to like doing the first, but there are a lot of things that God commands us to do (and not to do) that we don't like. He's a lot smarter than me, though.
As I said earlier...I stay in my lane.
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Jesus said, "I have said this to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”
Even in this largely sucky world we live, I have peace. I hope you find it too. God bless.
I hope you find it too.
That, however, was rather pompous and presumptuous of you and your implication is duly noted.
Do you think that the Founding Christians prayed for King George the third?
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I never met them , but if I’m anything like my ancestors who got off the mayflower at that big rock and my jamestown peeps,,,
,, I’d say yes.
Book says to.
Period.
I also pray for forgiveness every day, cuz the amount of searing loathing hate for the reprobates soiling the offices of our Republic is something only God can help me with. And does. It’s a daily battle.
One should consider what those prayers for K.G the 3rd brought.
Independence for us.
King George died in acute pain.
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Both are acceptable.
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