He who becomes a friend to the world’s ways becomes an enemy to Christ’s ways and people. When you begin to love them, you begin to dislike Christ’s religion. When you begin to worship money you cease to worship God. When you begin to love the house of pleasure you begin to dislike the house of prayer. When you begin to love bad books you begin to lose a taste for the Bible. When you seek irreligious associates you draw off steadily from intercourse with the people of God. When the greedy lust of the world has eaten out a Christian conscience, when it has deadened the spiritual sense, when it has dry-rotted the whole heart, when it has banished The Christ and possessed the soul’s affections then the man is ready to completely to desert the Lord’s camp. Actually he has deserted!
What is any person worth to the Church, or to God, when his heart is the property of Satan? He may linger within the camp or even wear the uniform of a church member. But when the bugle calls to action he is not in the ranks. When a march of reform is ordered or a strife for God’s law is waged, he is calling for compromise or flat-out “missing.” Therefore, when the final role call is announced, he won’t be there.
Matthew 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Still, Jesus calls “Come unto Me,” therefore why would you resist Him?
He who becomes a friend to the world’s ways becomes an enemy to Christ’s ways and people. When you begin to love them, you begin to dislike Christ’s religion. When you begin to worship money you cease to worship God. When you begin to love the house of pleasure you begin to dislike the house […]
Matthew 13:36-40 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field. He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man; The field is the world; the good […]
Calvinists like to say that if you have free will, especially if that is to the degree that you can reject salvation, then God is not sovereign. Scripture tells a very different story. We frequently see that God has, in His Sovereign capacity as Lord, created beings who are more than capable of disobedience. This is an ability we frequently display, to our OWN destruction. God is absolutely sovereign. Calvinists have no monopoly on knowing that fact.
It is just that His sovereignty does not preclude our responsibility. Rather, because that is how He has decided things are, it is an expression of it.
When Donald Trump was a private citizen, a government contractor stole his private tax data and leaked it to the media. Because the government failed to protect his private records, Trump and his family sued the IRS for $10 billion.
On May 18, 2026, the Justice Department settled the case. Trump agreed to walk away with zero dollars for himself. In exchange, the government put $1.776 billion into an “Anti-Weaponization Fund” to help ordinary citizens who say they were also unfairly targeted by federal agencies. The government also agreed to completely drop its ongoing tax audits against Trump’s businesses.
Trump declined $10 billion he was statutorily entitled to under 26 U.S.C. § 7431 and converted it into a compensation pool for other citizens, so calling this a corrupt enrichment scheme is factually backwards.
If anyone else got that award they would have taken it and ran. Joe Biden and every other Democrat out there.
The fund’s text explicitly says “there are no partisan requirements to file a claim,” meaning Democrats, independents, and Republicans are equally eligible.
The audit waiver is bound to pre-May-18-2026 conduct, not “perpetuity immunity forever” as the ridiculous media and out of job former attorney Liz Oyer claims.
Biden pardoned Hunter for crimes he was actually convicted of and Jim Biden while Jim was under two active federal investigations, with an 11-year window and zero public-facing remedy and the same commentators called that defensible. Literally.
So the Biden family could issue pardon for crimes committed and active investigations but Trump, who was actually agreed and is statutory entitled to this money set up a fund to help Americans who were victims of political persecution, and the demented media is calling it some kind of corrupt act?
Of course that same demented media wants judicial oversight. Would that be the judicial oversight that consistently rules incorrectly in any case involving Trump and gets overruled sometimes 9-0 at the Supreme Court?
Not one prior U.S. president has faced this volume of criminal prosecution, civil litigation, and unauthorized disclosure of confidential financial records simultaneously, so pretending this is a normal political cycle is dishonest bs.
The Obama administration used the exact same Judgment Fund mechanism in Keepseagle $760M, no congressional appropriation and the press called that justice. But it was actually much worse because in the Obama case this settlement was made against the advice of career DOJ officials who thought they could win at court.
Trump personally receives zero dollars, zero damages, and zero direct financial benefit from the settlement the only thing he gets is the audit waiver as protect protection so he won’t be targeted by the same Weaponized government should they ever get power again.
Congress will never legislatively compensate Jan 6 defendants, FACE Act defendants, or dismissed-case targets, so the choice was this fund or no remedy at all for documented victims of politically motivated federal action.
The media is very dishonest in this country and there’s a lot of experts who are even more dishonest. I am not an expert at anything except research and common sense. It is just basic common sense that when you have a president issue blanket, pardons for crimes that nobody even knows about that may or may not have been committed on his way out, and the media doesn’t bat an eye, but then you have a president who is actually wronged and who uses his settlement money to help those who are also politically persecuted smeared as corrupt the problem is the media.
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