Posted on 06/24/2023 10:06:40 AM PDT by spirited irish
America's culture: children of wrath living in shame
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ping to our culture, what’s wrong with everybody...they are children of wrath
When Isaiah beheld the Lord in the temple he despaired of life proclaiming that he was a man of unclean lips among a people of unclean lip.
What that EXACTLY meant is a matter for debate (though I think it may have been something like Christ talked about, that people were loose with taking oaths and such) but I do think it safe to say that Isaiah recognized that things he previously though okay were not ... and these were “unclean lips” and he deserved to die for it.
Now, Isaiah was as a pretty big deal as those under the Law went. As a ministering priest he had ceremonial / official holiness that even ordinary Jews could not claim. He was probably also pretty righteous as men go (though obviously he himself recognized that he fell short in the Lord’s company).
Not long ago, at least compared to Isaiah, we find CS Lewis writing of his own experience of being exposed to a better class of society than he’d ever known, how it shocked and challenged him.
But Isaiah was introduced to the Lord’s presence, which is THE better class of society, not something relatively trivial as Lewis experienced. Still there is a commonality, or rather a continuity here.
How does this apply to this thread?
Well, our culture is beyond mere unclean lips, and I would say it’s an unclean “what have you got?!?” where that’s spoken in eager anticipation to get the right sense of moral depravity that is common.
Yet despite that I get the feeling that many folks today would expect if they were to be placed in Isaiah’s position they would get a pat on the back for being such hoopy froods. Our culture is “nice” and “tolerant” and “kind” in its own estimation. People judge themselves by others, congratulate themselves that they aren’t the bad people, and have almost no sense of sin save what are social sins.
Is it any wonder that so many are in a state of free fall?
My thoughts exactly!
When We Sin...
Not IF.
.
We are in a continuous process of
Regeneration to become a
Friend of God. The ‘Helper’ brings
the ‘Word’ to renew our minds to
overcome our flesh while in the flesh.
Another way of looking at this situation is in the words of MacArthur. He said the children of wrath take pride in their shame.
They take pride in their shame because they see it is as a badge of their victimization at the hands of white oppressors whose morality has prevented them from actualizing self, meaning their evil side.
With their evil unleashed they are in a very serious state of free fall, which they (mis)interpret as freedom but which is really the highway to hell.
Comparing ourselves with ourselves is foolish as we can always find that we are better than the next guy. And these days, it seems like it’s easier and easier to do because the evil is so rampant.
But God doesn’t care how we compare to each other, but to Him.
Sure are!
Rush pegged this 30 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7pur18_UK4
How many God fearing born-again Christians live in the U.S. ? The following text is a conversation between the Lord and Abraham as they discussed the fate of Sodom.
Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak. What if only thirty can be found there?” He answered, “I will not do it if I find thirty there.” Abraham said, “Now that I have been so bold as to speak to the Lord, what if only twenty can be found there?” He said, “For the sake of twenty, I will not destroy it.” Then he said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak just once more. What if only ten can be found there?” He answered, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it.” - Genesis 18:30-32
Yes he did, and in a powerful way. Today many people do not know they are souls created in the image of God so they invent an identity’ and affix pronouns to it.
Express Lanes on said highway.
Thank you for posting—I did watch it.
Everyone, please listen to this sermon – – it explains a lot of the divide in our country, even between friends and family members.
Excellent sermon. He speaks the truth. Thank you.
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