"Honest, I never noticed that glowing white cross hovering behind me for 16 seconds. Honest."
“Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.”
Posted on 02/14/2008 4:44:19 AM PST by SLB
John 15:18-25 Wednesday, February 13th, in the year of our Lord 2008 First let me say that I am not happy that I have been put in a position where I have to interrupt the series on the Gospel of John. But, what Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and other talking head pundits have done this year is not only beneath contempt and disgust but requires a Scriptural response as well. They have, in my humble opinion, proven who it is that they serve, and it is not the God of truth, but the father of all liars.
There was a time when one could turn the dial to Rush Limbaugh and/or Sean Hannity and expect to hear the truth. There was a time when listening to either got you an honest evaluation of individuals and especially candidates. That has changed, as both have proven beyond any shadow of a doubt that they can and will lie to prevent a true servant of Christ from occupying the oval office.
While I am disappointed in both of these legends in their own minds, I am especially upset at and disappointed in Rush Limbaugh. I would not have believed that he would sink to the level of vicious lies coming out of his mouth, making Romney (one of the most liberal governors in the history of the most liberal state of Massachusetts) a conservative, while at the same time doing everything in his power to paint Conservative Christian Pastor Mike Huckabee as a liberal. From Sean Hannity and others, I am disappointed, but not all that surprised. But in Rush, it goes past just disappointment. It goes to having to re-evaluate my thinking about his honesty over the years. With Rush it is more than simple disappointment, it borders on disgust. I always expected more of him, and I have been proven, by him, to be wrong in my high estimation of him and his honesty.
If I were talking to Pastor Mike Huckabee this morning, I would remind him of what Jesus warned us about in John 15:
If the world hate you, ye know that it hated Me before it hated you.
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Remember the word that I said unto you, ‘The servant is not greater than his Lord.’ Since they have persecuted Me, they will also persecute you; if they had kept My saying, they would keep yours also.
But all these things will they do unto you for My name's sake, because they know not Him that sent Me. If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no covering for their sin. He that hates Me hates My Father also.
If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both Me and My Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, THEY HATED ME WITHOUT A CAUSE. (John 15:18-25 ACP/KJV)
Those who serve satan hate Pastor Huckabee because they hate Christ. Had they never read or even claimed to read the word of God, they would be blameless, but since they claim to be pro-life Christian conservatives who have read the word of God, their sin lies at their door and within their hearts.
But, I would continue and remind Pastor Huckabee of this passage as well:
And He (God) said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son.
And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Now Abraham (age 99) and Sarah (age 89) were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?’
Is any thing too hard for the LORD?
At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son! (Genesis 18:10-14 ACP/KJV)
Then I would ask Pastor Mike; “Reverend Mike, which do you think it would be harder for God to do, make you President or cause an 89 year old woman to not only give birth to a perfectly happy, healthy baby boy, but breast feed him and cause her to live till he was 37 years old?”
To all of you who are getting a bit disappointed and down at the mouth, let me remind you of how God likes to fight political wars.
Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for Me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against Me, saying, “Mine own hand hath saved me.” Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, “Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead.”
And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.
So he(Gideon) brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
And he(Gideon) divided the three hundred men into three companies, and he put a trumpet in every man's hand, with pitchers, and lamps within the pitchers. And he said unto them, “Look on me, and do likewise: and, behold, when I come to the outside of the camp, it shall be that, as I do, so shall ye do. When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.”
So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, “The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon.”
And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath. (Judges 7:1-7 and 16-22 ACP/KJV)
Mike, If I’m right, you still have too many working for you and not enough against you for God to deliver the presidency into your hands. You still have to many Bob Celestes and not enough Rush Limbaughs and Sean Hannitys. For I do still believe that God is going to cause this election in November to be between you, a servant of the most High God and whichever of the two servants of satan that the democrats choose to run against you. I believe that this fight between you and McCain is nothing more than a warm up for the big fight of good against pure evil in November.
The Lord be with you my brother and may He give courage and strength to the men around you, let they, you, and I obey the command of the Lord in Job 40:7a. “Gird up thy loins now like a man”
And now, God willing I can get back to the Gospel of John.
And Lord, please let it be with those who attack our brother Mike as they try to make it be to our brother Mike. In the name of the Lord Christ Jesus I pray. Amen.
Bob Celeste is a nut job. He used to post here.
He thinks that any church that does not read the King James Bible is going to hell.
I am a bible believing Christian (28 years now) and I feel the same way you do about Huckabee. I do not doubt the sincerity of Gov. Huckabee’s faith but I have great misgivings about his fitness for the office of President based upon his performance as governor of the State of Arkansas which I find to be Jimmy Carteresque at best. We do not need another Jimmy Carter, nor Obama, nor Hillary right now.
“You shall not make for yourself a graven image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them or serve them.”
Mr. Celeste should remember that.
Pastor Bob
The Church for the American Christian Patriot ACP,
The Church for the American Christian who is a Patriot
Pro-Christ, Pro-Life, Pro- pre 1962- Constitution.
Mullah Omar Celeste
This is what bothered me about Huckabee, he made his being a minister as the basis for political support. This minister has confused personal political interpretation with “disagreeing with God’s annointed one” which is how Huckabee seems to campaign.
Rev Bob needs to get a grip and keep the politics out of the pulpit.
I do believe Limbaugh made it clear that his feelings about Huck had nothing to do with religion. It was about his record. I never heard Rush knock Huck for his religion.
The religious anomosity within the GOP has much to do with why we ended up with a turkey like McCain.
Say a prayer for yourself Rev Bob, that is where you need to start.
Amen!
Interesting that he says Rush and Hannity are both liars, but doesn't quote any of their supposed "lies"......so utterly typical. This man needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror......
They are private citizens, officially speaking, at least until these that seek to protect themselves above the rest, institute their form of an ungodly fairness doctrine. And neither one of them and TAKE a dime from me and give it to another deemed to be in need. Further both of them combined have been taxed more than Huckabee has earned in his entire life. According to Huckabee standards they could be considered 'saints'.
What a pantload. Rev Bob better go change his diaper.
Rev Bob Celeste is off his head.
Huckabee isn’t Christ, nor is he a Prophet.
“Thou Shalt Support Huckabee” isn’t in the Bible.
Those who refuse to endorse Huckabee are not committing spiritual murder, neither are they casting a vote for the devil.
All in all, a shameful display from Celeste.
Oh lord!
Rush and Hannity are being consistent. If YOU cannot recognize that, then you need to go back to the where Jesus was put on trial by the POLITICAL/RELIGIOUS leaders of the day and was found guilty in order to MAINTAIN THEIR POWER, not for the TRUTH that was set before them.
So Rush and Hannity and whoever else doesn’t agree with Pastor Bob and keeping a specific group (dare I call them “Sad-you-sees”?) in power and those who disagree need to fall in line?
Need I remind you that the Pontious Pilate, the ONE person who could have had an answer to the question “What is truth?” never bothered to wait for an answer from Jesus?
Why don’t you just wait and see what happens.
After all, don’t all things work together for good for those that love the Lord?
Did you just write “Mormonphobe”? Yep, you did, but why? Is he really afraid of Mormons or does he not agree with their doctrines? I have no idea who Pastor Bob is, since you seem to be familiar with him you would know better than I. I just have an extreme dislike for phobe or phobia as suffix. I know who does that and why they usually do it.
Sheer ignorance. And speaking of ignorance...”Don’t Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?”, Mike Huckabee
People like this will not stop until we have a Theocracy in the U.S. These are the types I don’t trust. This is the reason our forefathers fled Europe and they just want to bring it all back.
Why would God anoint a candidate? Wouldn’t it be more efficient for Him just to declare someone King? I didn’t realize God played politics - I thought He was sovereign.
Maybe I’m just not as well connected as the huckster and this preacher I’ve never heard of are...
Elmer Huckabee is a faux-conservative... and too many ninnies have drunk his Kwipster Kool-Aid from the socialist chalice.
Jimmah Carter.......and that, as they say, is that....
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