Thoughts

This morning a frined emailed me a Left-wing promotional article. It's so full of lies it's amazing. I started to write a response, and what came out was a sermon. I'm sending it to you all because, first, it's important to know where out nation is spiritually, and second, where I eventually wound up was highly encouraging to me, and I hope it will be to you.

It's not shocking any more, but it's always astonishing - the Left just lies constantly. They live in, think, breathe, dream, and speak a world of lies. I no longer think they realize that they're lying. I think they really, actually, believe their own lies. I believe that they have lost the ability to know truth on any topic.

 

It's the literal fulfillment of 2nd Thessalonians 2:11-12:

"And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, so that they will believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness."

 The first time I contemplated that verse decades ago, I wondered what lie it was "they" were going to believe. I no longer wonder. It's obvious now that they will believe any lie and all lies, ridiculous lies, evil lies, weak lies, obviously false lies, any lie at all. But they will not believe the truth.

We are seeing with our own eyes a literal fulfillment of that Scripture. To me it is a shocking, frightening occurrence. It's a terrible judgment on a people in rebellion against God and against all righteousness. This is the mental and spiritual equivalent of the angels striking the men of Sodom with blindness, and the results are also equivalent: "And [the angels] struck the men who were at the doorway of the house with blindness, both small and great, so that they became weary trying to find the door."

 

The Sodomites didn't stop trying to fulfill their evil desires. They may even not have known that they were blinded. It was night, after all. In the same way, I think the Left of today no longer has the ability to know that they have been blinded. They were born into a time when lies were becoming more common, and more enthusiastically accepted. They are slowly cooked frogs, as the saying goes.

When I first realized the extent of the Left's lies since November 2008, I was baffled. It took a little time for me to connect what I was seeing to that verse in 2nd Thessalonians. We who believe in King Jesus are so immeasurably fortunate to have escaped the fate of those "who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." Imagine not being able to know what's truth and what is a lie. Devastating. You can't build a life or a house or a nation on lies and expect it to endure, let alone be efficient and satisfying.

 We should all fervently, earnestly, thank God for His mercy toward us, which we certainly did not deserve.

 For some reason this morning, the account of Lot and his undeserved deliverance from the fate of Sodom is especially encouraging to me. Maybe that's because yesterday the news was full of extremely foul, evil reports. More and more the Scripture is proven true which says "the whole world lieth in wickedness." The late Dr. Donald Barnhouse said that a better translation of that verse would be, "The whole world lies willingly in the arms of the Evil One." It shows, now more than ever.

 But in the darkness, the Light shines, and we who are believers in King Jesus know that we have chosen to come to the light. And we know that when this world is a fast-fading memory, we will be rejoicing in Heaven with the King of Kings, the Prince of Peace. God speed the Day!

 "We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the Evil One cannot harm them. We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one. We know also that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true. And we are in him who is true by being in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life." (1st John 5:18-20)

 

Stay clean, brothers and sisters.

 

"A little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found." (Psalm 37:10)

"Very soon my anger against you will end and my wrath will be directed to their destruction." (Isaiah 10:25)

"For thus says the Lord of Heaven's armies, the God of Israel: 'The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor being prepared for the threshing; yet a little while and the time of harvest shall come to her." (Jeremiah 51:33)

"So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised. For, 'In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.' " (Hebrews 10:35-37)

 

This last Scripture is the explanation for my investment strategy. The word "little" in the Greek is "micro", literally meaning "one thousandth part". The word "richly" in the Greek is "mega", literally meaning "one million". I don't think it's stretching things too far to say that after you move the decimal over, this Scripture is promising a billion-to-one return on investment in the Kingdom of God. There is no better investment in the universe. (I checked.)

 

So I have decided that I belong to the Micro-Mega Investment Corporation. All believers are members. How's your portfolio? Made much of an investment lately?

Yes, this is a commercial. But not for me. :)

 

 

Malcolm M. Jr.