For December 23, 2013
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Dear Friends,
We
always take this week off, but since I forgot to tell you on Friday (too
excited over filling in for Rush), I figured I'd send out my morning
post today. But then I'm off to enjoy Christmas unless there is big news.
A couple of housekeeping items. First, I'm on Fox News every day this week in either the 9am or 10am hours. Second, I'm back on for Rush Limbaugh tomorrow.
I hope you all have a Merry Christmas. And now, on with the show.
Mordor Up Close
The
Orcs of Middle Earth had mouths stained with their black blood and bits
of flesh stuck between their teeth. They would, over rather petty
matters, kill and consume each other. The carnage between them would
only cease when an elf, dwarf, hobbit, or human ventured too close.
Unseen
by most of the world, the carnage between the evil bands of Mordor
played out over the weekend here on actual earth. Some PR representative
who should have known better joked on twitter that she was going to
Africa and would not have to worry about getting AIDS because she was
white. Prior to this, in her twitter timeline, she had railed against
the actor Kirk Cameron because he dared express his Christian beliefs.
Just as Mordor descended on Phil Robertson
last week, the orcs of the left consumed one of their own. By the time
the PR lady got to Africa, she was without a job and her reputation
destroyed by her own side.
It was a rather disgusting thing to watch the
pretentious hipsters on twitter destroy a career over a tweet claiming
she should have known better. Yes, she should have, but should we not
also show some grace? Mordor never does.
About the only thing more pathetic this past
week was watching self-declared and, in some cases, media profiled
celebrity Christians, speak up as loudly as possible to let the world
know they had utter contempt for what Phil Robertson had said.
Phil
Robertson gave a pretty frank and candid explanation of what the Bible
says about sin and these people, worried about being loved by the world,
pounced on a Christian under assault. And much of it stems from a
profound infatuation with this world’s definition of love.
According
to the present age, if we love someone, we must love everything about
them. An article the other day reported a preacher had been defrocked
because he presided at his son’s gay marriage. The preacher declared he
could not honor his Methodist Church’s book of church order — let alone
the Bible — which prohibits gay marriage.
I
mentioned this story on twitter and a self-proclaimed believer declared
that if Jesus were here, he’d have married the two men. Another declared
that no one could say what Jesus would do today. Actually,
if you flip to the end of the Bible we know that when Jesus "Mr. Love"
Christ comes back, he's going to be loving with a sword in his hand,
sending a whole host of souls into hell fire.
Too
many people are worshiping the Jesus they created, not the Jesus who
is. Christ said to love, but he also said to go and sin no more. To love
someone and not share the gospel — which includes a call for a penitent
heart — is not truly love. It is this world’s definition of love,
which, like the orcs or Mordor, is a perversion of the real thing God
created.
That
is something Tolkien got so spot on with Middle Earth. The evil things
are corrupted or perverted things made to mimic the light and the good.
Mordor has its own yard stick by which things can be measured, but its
metrics are all based on evil.
Phil
Robertson did nothing wrong. He just did not shy away from the parts of
accepting Christ that make people uncomfortable. He loves people so
much, he is not willing to give people the fast pass to Hell by telling
them they are not sinners.
He
did not judge. He just held up the yard stick and a whole lot of people
did not like seeing it and realizing they’ve fallen short. In Mordor,
after all, falling short is measuring up and measuring up is being a
hater, homophobe, and judging.
Mordor is on the march. Christians could use a few less quislings. It is only going to get worse. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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