American Evangelical Political Dynamite Trumps Scripture

"Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God." (Galatians 5:19-21)

War is the quintessential evidence that the flesh loves conflict. The flesh is at enmity with God (Romans 8:7), cannot love God, and, despite the most ardent self-identification as Christian, is a willing tool of the spirit of Antichrist when fed a steady diet of hatred, finger-pointing, contention, baseless accusation, unkind words (Proverbs 15:1), and strife.

"A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger." (Proverbs 15:1)

"Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom." (Proverbs 13:10) When members of the religious elite, the modern-day pharisaical consensus, tweets, posts, or otherwise goes on record speaking in a manner that implies that the gospel is aligned with unloving and unseasoned hate speech (Matthew 5:44, Colossians 4:6), the love of money (1 Timothy 6:10-12), schism in the body of Christ (1 Corinthians 1:10-25), unforgiveness (Matthew 6:15), and other distinguishing qualities of spiritual immaturity, hypocrisy, and self righteousness, civil war looms as a viable outcome. This is good news for doomsday preppers. However, the gospel it is not (Luke 2:10). Tidings of good news it is not. An answer to Jesus' prayer in the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of John it is not (John 17:21). www.ministryofwritinghelps.com

Unity? What is that among Evangelical political pundits in the media? Where is the love (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)? Where is the joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control against which there is no law (Galatians 5:23)? Finding evidence of spiritual fruit on the news or on social media is like trying to find a needle in a haystack, precisely because Satan is the heavyweight champion prince of the power of the airwaves (Ephesians 2:2) that so easily beset us (Hebrews 12:1) night and day with information that is infinitely less than true, honest, just, pure, lovely, and of good report (Philippians 4:8).

Is the Bible unclear about the fact that if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, we are to think on these things rather than the things of this world (1 John 2:15)? God forbid! Do our angry and unloving posts and tweets reveal that we are in any way devoted to one another in brotherly love (John 13:35) or esteeming one another in honor with humility of mind and regarding one another as more important than ourselves (Romans 12:10 NASB)? Nay. "Because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires." (James 1:20 NIV)

Shame on us! Let us repent and rededicate our unguarded hearts (Proverbs 4:23) to the One God who, while we were yet sinners (Romans 5:8), loved us perfectly, enough to send His only begotten Son (John 3:16) to die a substitutionary death in order to save us from the law of sin and death (Romans 8:2). Hallelujah! Why now do we scratch at each other's eyes, reclaiming that to which we should remain dead (Romans 6:1-2) and entangling ourselves perpetually with the yoke of bondage from which Christ died to make us free (Galatians 5:1)?

Help us, Almighty God, to live free today, unencumbered and unspotted by the things of this world (James 1:26-27). Help us to participate in the unification of Christ's body (Romans 12:4-5, 1 Corinthians 12:12). Awaken us spiritually to the fact that "there is one Lord, one faith, one baptism (Ephesians 4:5 ISV). Forgive us our trespasses and empower us supernaturally to forgive those who have trespassed against us (Matthew 6:12-14), Father. Renew a right (Psalm 51:10), mature, loving (1 Corinthians 13:4-8), fruitful spirit (Galatians 5:22-26) that is better able to bear witness with Your Holy Spirit when, encumbered by feelings, we are ignorant of what we should be praying (Romans 8:14-16). Help us, Lord! In Jesus' precious name we pray in faith, believing that You are doing it despite what we see with our own eyes. Amen and amen.



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More Exaltation of God Above Politics

Considering that family members no more than two generations removed were enslaved, raped, and treated like cattle under the first fifteen presidents of the United States of America, countless African Americans yet trusted God's Word rather than openly disrespect the office of the US presidency. My prayer is that some people would keep this in mind before failing to bridle their tongues and offending people who differ no matter what the differences may be (James 1:26). Jesus prayed that His beloved be one as Father and Son are one (John 17:21). The secret ballot policy in America respects this prayer whereas openly sharing my political views from every mountaintop, especially from the pulpit, runs counter to God's will. May the grace of our Lord be with you all, regardless of political affiliation, now and always in Jesus' name.

Disclaimer: Brian Hunter has not posted such maniacal ideas anywhere except on his very own blogs and social media pages (See Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights) and hence they are neither meant to be accepted doctrine, verified by any other human being within or without organized religion, agreed with by friends, or rubber-stamped by any person living or dead. 

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Should Politics Be Preached?

“Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying, This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says the LORD of hosts.” (Zechariah 4:6)

When we use the pulpit to share our political views we engage in activity demonstrated nowhere in the Pastoral Epistles. Does the love of God constrain us (2 Corinthians 5:14)? Or, is division and schism in the body of Christ our aim? Diluting the message of the gospel with partisan political views is something the spirit of Antichrist anoints otherwise good servants of a sovereign and omnipotent God to feel justified in doing. Yet, political vitriol is not born of love and can never be delivered without sarcasm. Partial obedience still adds up to disobedience. Hatred, no matter how subtle and cleverly disguised, is neither motivated nor condoned by God (1 John 4:8). www.anointedwritenow.com

Any reader of the Book of Genesis knows that sin did not originate with a political party. Nor did sin originate in this country only after slavery and Jim Crow laws were rescinded by the effectual working of God’s grace through the instrumentality of the Constitution of these United States of America. Keeping in mind that all have sinned (Romans 3:23), should those redeemed by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8-9), acting fearful rather than faithful, illustrate any perceived threat of evil as being somehow too great, too dangerous, and too insurmountable for the omniscient wisdom of a sovereign and omnipotent God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to guide us safely and victoriously through?  Do we mistakenly think ourselves Christ-like when we rally a mob and use speech to incite violent attitudes toward any particular group or party because their worldview may oppose our own? Our own ignorance, prejudice, and fear aside, is such divisive discourse really our testimony of who Jesus Christ is?

Jim Jones preached a political, anti-establishment gospel quite effectively for the enemy’s cause. The apostle Paul warned against preaching what he called another gospel in Galatians 1:7-9 and 2 Corinthians 11:4. I would urge us to avoid that flavor of Kool-Aid in favor of the whole counsel of God’s Word, including the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Romans. Politics preached from behind any sacred desk is divisive. Rightly dividing the word of truth (2 Timothy 2:15) does not lead prayerful disciples who are filled with the Holy Spirit to engage in behavior completely contrary to the prayer Jesus prayed in John 17:11-23. God’s protection of His beloved is likewise inextricably bound together with this prayer. I would rather be divided by truth than united in doctrinal error. As an individual, I can be accused of many things by many people. However, the arguments I propose for the purposes of ecclesiastical review, spiritual contemplation, and debate are, indisputably, scripturally well anchored. Therefore, fearing God and His righteous judgment of hypocrisy and idle words (Matthew 12:36-37) infinitely more than any political candidate, special interest group, or government, I admonish all of us who profess Christ as Lord to become more diligent to make sure neither our confession nor our particular brand or form of religiosity (2 Timothy 3:5) has been trusted in vain (Matthew 7:22). “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” (Acts 4:12) There is one name, Jesus Christ, not one political party, not one world view, not one government, not one school of thought, but one name whereby we, preachers, smokers, drinkers, pro-abortionists, anti-abortionists, homosexuals, Republicans, and Democrats alike, must be saved. 

My personal feelings are irrelevant when I step behind any pulpit and become responsible for preaching God’s Word. I will not lean to my own imperfect understanding when it comes to God’s sovereignty, His mercy, and His grace. The question most prevalent in my mind is why He loves me, a poor sinner, as much as He obviously does. If I happen to become angry with you, your political party, or your attitude, I pray that I can be angry and yet not sin in, by, and through my anger (Ephesians 4:26). My own heart and the beam in my own eye (Luke 6:42) should concern me much more than the actions of any president, god, or government. Is God in control or is He not? In whom do I really place my trust (Psalm 27:1, Psalm 56:11, Psalm 118:6, and Hebrews 13:6)? God has not called anyone to preach fear. How does preaching divisiveness edify us (Ephesians 4:29)?

Genuine disciples of Jesus Christ do not particularly care what the media reports today. Unlike Oprah Winfrey, our faith is not in mankind. Our hope is built on something infinitely more reliable than politics. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7)

© 2013 Brian L Hunter

Ungodly Obama Hatred Recognized

"You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks." (Matthew 12:34 ESV)

 
Not all "Obama Hatred," now an easily recognizable psycho-social category of discriminate unrest in America, is as politically inspired as slavery. No. Believe it or not, as ludicrous as the notion may seem in the year 2013, a long and recent history of white-supremacist dogma rooted in Lilliputian interpretations of the Bible reinforced by Hollywood wherein Moses, Jesus, and even God the Father have blond hair and blue eyes, rears its racist head in the vast majority of disparaging remarks about the 44th President of the United States.We have obviously ceased comparing apples to apples and opted instead to unleash historically documented evil in America the beautiful, the core of which can neither be ignored nor hidden from view.
 
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Obama Hatred 101

The first sixteen presidents of the United States approved the practice of slave owners raping and impregnating their female servants at will and for sport. That was America’s idea of human rights. The U.S. went on record as ending slavery with the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865. During the one hundred year period of government spanning from President Abraham Lincoln to President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1865 to 1965, white-supremacist ideology fueled Jim Crow segregation laws and the legal murder of Blacks in America. Churches in America were quite content with the profitable benefits of slave labor as well as the social advantages of discrimination and segregation. Now, in the year 2013, there is a less-than-subtle white-supremacist prosperity gospel being preached that would have us believe that by one man named Barack Obama, sin has suddenly entered into the world. Such pseudo-spiritual hypocrisy and bigotry from the fake Pentecostal spirit of Antichrist makes me sick to my stomach. ~ Anonymous

 


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