Remarkable, but not surprising. Democrats never take personal responsibility. They cherry pick the laws they like, ignore the ones they don’t, then cry foul when consequences arrive as they try to shift the blame. Don Lemon didn’t stumble into this situation. He marched straight into it; he’s made it clear enough over time that he hates Christian values and morals. He clearly violated the First Amendment he now is attempting to claim as a shield and ran headfirst into the FACE Act. Calling yourself a journalist isn’t a hall pass. It doesn’t exempt you from the law, and it doesn’t turn participation into reporting. There were 40 people involved in storming that Church and terrorizing the children, the very people whom Democrats falsely claim to care about.
There are no kings in this country. No special classes. No sacred cows, except for the Democrat’s unholy sacrament of abortion. There is the Constitution and the laws Congress passed. You don’t get to follow the ones that serve you and disregard the ones that don’t. If the laws are wrong, elect people to change them. Until then, everyone plays by the same rules. Lemon isn’t a victim. He’s complicit. And pretending otherwise is exactly how Democrats keep breaking the system while blaming everyone else for the damage they’ve caused.
1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the Sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
1:22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
This verse does not start with Mark’s favored word of action because nearly a year in the ministry of Jesus was skipped. Matthew and Luke deal with that year. Perhaps Peter skipped it because he felt it could have bogged down the pace of his narrative by having to take time to explain to his readers that the rejection reflects our ability to choose to accept or reject Christ at this point in his account.
Part of what was happening with the teaching from Jesus was that He was teaching Scripture, not tradition of men; He was teaching them what God said, not what some famous Rabbi of bygone days had said. The Wesleyan quadrilateral is important but it must never be forgotten that the Scripture part of that is the preeminent portion, yet too many times tradition gets elevated above its proper place.
1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,
1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
1:25 And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him.
1:26 And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him.
1:27 And they were all amazed, insomuch that they questioned among themselves, saying, What thing is this? what new doctrine is this? for with authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits, and they do obey him.
1:28 And immediately his fame spread abroad throughout all the region round about Galilee.
The whole subject of demonology is a difficult one, but no more so than the problem of the devil. The devil is an unclean spirit, because he has lost all the purity of his former nature, therefore he acts in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit of God, and by his suggestions defiles the spirits of men. There are many in our assemblies who quietly attend under merely formal teachers; but if the Lord comes with faithful ministers and holy doctrine then by his convincing spirit, they are ready to say, like this man, What have we to do with thee! There is potentially a hint of dishonesty in what that demon said in that it probably was well aware of the fact that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and therefore it likely was attempting to cast doubt or deflect Jesus from what it feared Jesus might be about to command to happen.
No “disorder” could enable a man to know Jesus to be the Holy One of God. He desires to have nothing to do with Jesus, for he despairs of being saved by him, and dreads being destroyed by him. Consider whose language they speak, who say to the Almighty, “Depart from us”. This unclean spirit hated and dreaded Christ, because he knew him to be a Holy One; for the carnal mind is enmity against God, especially against his holiness. People who cannot stand to attend a Bible-believing/Bible-teaching Church here on earth should not expect to be able to tolerate Heaven.
When Christ by his grace delivers souls out of the hands of Satan, it is not without tumult in the soul; for that spiteful enemy will disquiet those whom he cannot destroy. This put all who saw it to considering, “What is this new doctrine?” A work as great often is accomplished now, yet men treat it with contempt and neglect. If this were not so, the conversion of a notorious wicked man to a sober, righteous, and godly life, by the preaching of a crucified Savior, should cause many to ask, “What doctrine is this?”
When Jazzy gives a speech, she just wants to follow her script. She doesn’t want anyone to ask questions because she can’t answer them if it’s not written down –sound familiar? – Biden redux.
Jazmine Crockett’s word salad turned out to be full of dandelions when she went speechless after a reporter asked her why there was no violence or chaos in Texas, even though ICE has arrested three times as many people there than they have in Minnesota. “Well … I … that’s not the point. (she never did say what the point was)
She had to think, that’s why she couldn’t answer! Her two brain cells were fighting for third place in order to avoid being called upon. Bless her heart, she fell of the short bus. We know the lefties will either lie or not answer at all, but the look on their faces when they realize they are in a corner is just so funny.
Isn’t she the one who said, “Just because someone has committed a crime, it doesn’t make them a criminal”, or was that AOC? It is hard to tell them apart sometimes. Sadly, Democrat Congress critters are all a disgrace, compromised and corrupted.
Texas believes in law and order; in supporting those who actually work everyday enforcing the law and corralling the criminals rather than coddling the criminals.
Why does the left protect illegal alien criminals?
Are they trying to deflect from the Somali fraud investigations?
The Police Chief tried to call for the rioters to deescalate and go home. At least he accurately referred to ICE as Federal Law Enforcement Officers. That was during Tampon Tim’s press conference a few days ago.
Governor Walz has been purposely choosing to fan the flames instead of trying to calm things down. It sure looks like Walz and Frey have something to hide.
For years now, the architects of American dissolution have orchestrated a sophisticated assault on the men and women of Law Enforcement. Not through reasoned debate, but through ritualistic demonization.
The corporate press calls them fascists. Academic Marxists brand them Gestapo. Hollywood celebrities tweet for their destruction.
Why such coordinated fury? Because they are doing what the enemies of the Republic cannot tolerate. Enforcing the distinction between law and lawlessness.
The revolutionary always begins by erasing boundaries. Mao’s Red Guards denounced “old customs, old culture, old habits.” Pol Pot’s cadres eliminated the concept of private property. Today’s neo-Marxists wage war on the very idea of the nation-state itself.
Open borders are not compassion. They’re a calculated weapon of demographic dissolution. A nation that cannot control who crosses its threshold has already surrendered its sovereignty. What remains is not a country…it’s a processing center for the globalist administrative state.
ICE agents currently stand against this tide of engineered chaos. While bureaucrats in air-conditioned offices pontificate about “comprehensive immigration reform,” these men and women wade into the darkness.
While the mob screams for their heads, understand this: their hatred of ICE, only validates the mission.
The wicked always rage against the guardians of order. The prophets were stoned. The apostles were martyred. The watchmen on the wall have never been popular with those who prefer darkness.
They enforce laws that protect American families from predators, cartels, and the chaos that follows civilizational collapse.
They maintain the distinction between lawful immigration and criminal invasion.
They do the work that preserves what remains of this Republic’s coherence.
The media will never honor them. Hollywood will never make films celebrating their courage. The laptop class in Georgetown will continue to slander them from behind gated communities they’d never dream of opening.
ICE doesn’t need to apologize for defending America. We need to apologize for leaving them alone on the wall while cowards debate their right to exist.
The gates must hold. The law must stand. The Republic must endure.
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