Social Justice “Warriors”

 The tendency of modern thought, if it can actually be called thought due to its actual shallowness, is to reject dogmas, creeds and every kind of  boundary found in the Christian religion.  Paradoxically, a religion like Islam can have all sorts of strict rules and regulations and be coupled with contradictions accompanied with harsh penalties for perceived or imagined violations but the lefties, rather than condemn them for being rigid and stifling of real diversity says, “Oh, we must understand and tolerate their intolerance.”  Therefore, it winds up being pronounced grand and wise to condemn no opinion whatsoever outside of Biblical Christian views, and to pronounce particular “earnest and clever” far left teachers to be trustworthy, however heterogeneous and mutually destructive their opinions may be.

.facebook_1504193810333

    We get told everything is true and nothing is false.  Everybody is right and nobody is wrong.  It is a strange time indeed when the proponents of that highly illogical mindset can get by with promoting their absurdity without being immediately ridiculed.  But perhaps it is because the average person instinctively knows it to be mere foolishness and fails to put further thought into it on account of the level of absurdity and perhaps the feeling “I don’t have time to deal with this unsustainable nonsense right now.”

    Everything can be false but not everything can be true and everybody can be wrong but, quite assuredly, not everyone is right.  At the very minimum, someone’s synapses will fail to fire correctly and they will be in error and in need of redirection.  In our day we have strong reason to be suspicious of nearly everything that is being taught in our universities since that is the primary source of so many unsustainable, strange, and illogical ideas in our day.  Actually, I am probably being kinder than I should be with that statement.

    Unfortunately the reason so many of our universities have been taken over by left-wing loonies is that the conservatives tend to get caught up in the task of living in the real world and all the challenges of daily life and because the government run educational system is so convenient it is easy to forget the importance of properly educating and preparing the next generation for life in the real sustainable world while many lefties look at it as a way to indoctrinate highly impressionable youth because their radical unsustainable ideologies were rejected, as they should have been, in the public square.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. – Proverbs 22:6

The heart of the fool leans to the left; the heart of the wise to the right. – Ecclesiastes 10:2

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. – Proverbs 22:10

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:  That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:   And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. – Psalm 78: 6-8

And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.  And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:  And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. – Deuteronomy 6:5-7

Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.  But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.  But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. – 2nd Timothy 3:12-15

All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:  That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. – 2nd Timothy 3:16-17

    God gave us commands in His holy word to be careful in the education of our children and He preserved for our benefit the results of failure to heed His instruction in that regard so that we could learn from the mistakes of others and then hopefully avoid making those same mistakes, that’s sustainability.  Early on in the United States of America the Holy Bible was at the core of our educational curriculum.  It worked quite well for the first 150 years then we got distracted and forgot to remain vigilant and the Bible got pushed to the side then removed and we are now suffering the consequences of those errors. 

    The atonement and substitution of Christ, the personality of the devil, the miraculous element in Scripture, the reality and eternity of future punishment, all these mighty foundation-stones are being coolly tossed overboard as useless.  Stand up for the great visions of genuine Christianity, and you can count on being called narrow, bigoted, old-fashioned, and perhaps even a theological fossil.  Quote a text from the Bible and you can expect to be told that “truth is not confined to the pages of an ancient Jewish book, and that free inquiry has found out many things since The Book was completed.”  Not to mention the many bogus claims of errors which, by the way, have all been debunked so that only the indoctrinated and morally ignorant who tend to fancy themselves wise are the ones who continue to distrust the Holy Bible.  Therefore the left remains in denial of the facts because they are feeling empowered to continue their indoctrination relatively unimpeded and when they begin to reap what they have sowed they will still, by and large, tend to fail to recognize their own responsibility in the consequences they will suffer.

    I know nothing so likely to counteract this plague as constant clear statements about the nature, reality, vileness, power and guilt of sin as high treason against an almighty God.  We must bring home to the consciences of these men of “broad views” and demand a plain answer to some plain questions.  For while they may fancy themselves to be more highly educated than you and I regarding these things, they know not that they know naught.

    Those who have completely consecrated their lives to Christ must tell others and help them to see, that nothing will ever satisfy their soul but submission to the Biblical doctrines and teaching regarding man’s ruin and Christ’s redemption and simple Bible-based faith in the Jesus of that book.  No other Jesus will do.

Thinking with H W Beecher

Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne. – Henry Ward Beecher, Edna Dean Proctor (1858), “Life Thoughts: Gathered from the Extemporaneous Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher”, p28

It is my understanding that it has been calculated that the God of The Holy Bible, who is also known as “The God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” is most likely a tenth-dimensional being – which there could only be one of.  When I consider what that means and the nature of such a being I am awestruck by the awesomeness of the God who sees me, yet loves me and empowers me to follow along paths that lead to fellowship with Him.

Of course, we don’t have to go through complex calculations to try to figure out what such a being would be able to do as part of His nature because that very Supreme Being tells us a little bit about Himself in His book so that our finite minds might gain a little bit of understanding of the infinitely-infinite mind.  The Holy Bible lets us see that He can be everywhen and everywhere at the same time as well as hold our universe in His hand and yet be right here with us; with me, with you.  He loves us with a love that is very difficult to comprehend.  Therefore, we must strive to be like our Creator and ask for His help to do so.

pastrowardclinton.com

The Reason for the Church

The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs.  If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time.  God became Man for no other purpose. C. S. Lewis

pastorwardclinton.com

Making America Godly

He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord. – Proverbs 17:15

It was a saying of Solon the Athenian lawgiver, that “a Republic walks upon two feet; one being just punishment for the unworthy, the other due regard for the worthy.  If it fail in either of these, it necessarily goes lame.  How much more if it fail in both?”

Form your opinions of others and of right and wrong, not at the prompting of the world, but as though you are under the watchful eye of God.  Because you are, whether you are a friend of God or not.  The PC (politically correct) crowd constantly tries to force us to obey and treat them as gods as they usurp and twist God’s authority.  Those individuals do not realize how awfully they are provoking God, but they will; we Christians ought to pray that they experience punishment from His hand sooner rather than later so that they might have the opportunity to repent.  In all our most secret judgments of men and things we are accountable to Him.  Don’t let that cripple you in your judgments; however, do let it empower you to always make good and proper judgments/decisions.

The majority of Christians seem to have abjured the duty of conscientiousness, and the abjuration is one of the most fearful symptoms of our time.

To abjure is to formally renounce something.  It is to give up a previously held belief, especially formally or solemnly.  One of the most blatant examples is the “ordination” of “priests” who advocate for ongoing, active homosexuality in the church as a practicing homosexual.  Now I know full well that I have just committed blasphemy with the PC crowd but Heaven is doing a slow clap and saying, “About time you started waking up and declaring truth as it is revealed by God in the Holy Bible.  Don’t stop there, because there is so much more.  Do not be kowtowed by the PC crowd, their ways are not God’s ways and their ways shall not successfully stand when the judgment of God comes upon them.”  Don’t like this?  Dial 1-800 TELL-GOD.  (Actually that is probably a “900” number because someone is going to pay the price for not obeying the Word of God.)

Proverb 12:2, “A good man obtaineth favor of the Lord; but a man of wicked devices He will condemn.”

The second abomination to the Lord according to Proverb 17:15 is “he that condemneth the just.”  We must form our opinions of others as under the watchful eye of God and not according to the world’s constantly changing opinion.  Deviancy has been getting defined downward because of a lack of boldness to stand against the PC crowd.  “All it takes for evil to triumph is for the good to fail to take a stand against it,” Edmund Burke. –or words to that effect-  The duty of estimating others as in the sight of God is not by any means a light one, but a most solemn one.  Unholy and unprincipled and unethical life, wherever found, ought to be protested against by the servants of God.  It is a blessing that unethical Hillary does not currently hold a public office; it is a shame that she ever did.  There is a sad tendency among us to overlook those faults (sins) which fall in line with the practice of the day, which consist in the neglect of unwelcome duties, or the committing of lightly esteemed sins.

Men and women who refuse to acknowledge God’s existence do so, in the final analysis, because it is contrary to their manner of living.  They do not want to bow down to the moral claims of a holy God on their lives. – R. C. Sproul

An excerpt from my forthcoming book: “Deeper Faith: Completely Consecrated Christianity”  pastorwardclinton.com

Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth

Image may contain: text

pastorwardclinton.com

Choose The Christ

How can anyone lose who chooses to become a Christian? If, when he dies, there turns out to be no God and his faith was in vain, he has lost nothing…If, however, there is a God and a heaven and a hell, then he has gained heaven and his skeptical friends have lost everything…  – Blaise Pascal

MAGA!

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn. Never trust to prayer without using every means in your power, and never use the means without trusting in prayer. Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary-lines, - and so, boys, go, and God bless you! - Harriet Beecher Stowe

2nd Chronicles 7:14 God bless America, God bless President Trump, and let us set our feet back on the right path–God’s path.  pastorwardclinton.com

Warning

If you live your life and don’t confess your sins to God Almighty through the authority of Christ and His blood, I’m going to say this very plainly, you’re going straight to hell with a nonstop ticket. – John Hagee

pastorwardclinton.com