King Alfred’s War Song–it’s been a while since I posted this. Today seems a good day for us.
“For the Lord is our defense: Jesu defend us!” If you know a better prayer than that, I’d like to hear it.
Sung here at the Antioch Baptist Church.
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‘King Alfred’s War Song’
I wonder if King Alfred’s army really sang this, so long ago.
King Alfred’s War Song, sung by eight men at the Antioch Baptist Church… I do wonder how this sounded when it was sung by a whole army. How I’d love to hear that!
‘This Is Starting to Scare Me’ (2019)
Has this fallen world ever seen anything like the Transgender explosion? Now it’s an attack on reality itself. “I identify as…” means “I define reality.” Every nimrod becomes his own little tin god.
Yeah, that’s a scary thought.
I was about to post something else entirely when this one showed up first. I took it as a hint from Providence; so here it is.
‘King Alfred’s War Song’
I haven’t posted this in a while, but I think today we need it: King Alfred’s War Song. “For the Lord is our defense, Jesu defend us!”
There is evil afoot in this world today that I never thought to see in all my days–and people who should know better are calling it good.
Evil confronted King Alfred, and threatened to overwhelm his country; but he trusted in the Lord, and the Lord helped him. May the Lord help us, too.
‘King Alfred’s War Song’
I thought it might be nice to see the lyrics of this ancient hymn. Did King Alfred the Great really write it? We can’t say for sure; but certainly he could have. I also can’t say who, exactly, produced this video. But you won’t get a version that’s easier to sing along with.
We need heroes like King Alfred. May the Lord our God provide them.
‘King Alfred’s War Song’
I fell back to sleep, it’s late, there’s hardly anybody here at all–oh, I don’t know.
King Alfred’s War Song–“For the Lord is our defense, Jesu defend us.” Amen. The heathen must’ve thought they had England in the palm of their hand, all they had to do was finish off Alfred.
It would not be the last time they were wrong.
This is Starting to Scare Me
Two stories I’ve covered in the last two days have left me with a deeply uneasy feeling.
Yesterday, we had the Texas jury ordering a father to allow his wife to “transition” his 7-year-old son into a simulacrum of a girl, by means of puberty-blocking drugs and female hormones (https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/breaking-jury-rules-against-dad-trying-to-save-his-7-year-old-from-gender-transition). And today, it’s a British court ruling that the Bible is “incompatible with human dignity” and condemning “lack of belief in transgenderism and conscientious objection to transgenderism” (https://leeduigon.com/2019/10/23/uk-court-finds-bible-incompatible-with-human-dignity/).
The father in Texas has been ordered to “affirm” that his son is a “girl.” In both cases we have a court dictating to someone what he must say and what he must believe.
Free speech, anyone? “You’ll say what we tell you to say, or else.” Free exercise of religion? “You will believe what we tell you to believe: and you will not believe what we forbid you to believe.”
And I can’t stop thinking, “What next? What are they going to demand of us next?”
I don’t know. It’s waiting for the other shoe to drop. No, it’s worse than that, because the wearer of those shoes seems to be a centipede, with lots and lots of shoes to drop.
The whole power class of the Western world–left-wing politicians, left-wing judges and juries, all the big banks, Hollywood, the nooze media, the colleges and looniversities, the public schools–has gone totally gaga for “transgender.” I don’t know why. What are we supposed to get out of this?
It’s a delusion, it’s a lie, it’s psychosis on a scale the world has never seen before. And it’s profoundly evil–a full-scale revolt against God and His created order, from which we might contract a spiritual pollution.
Where are they going to stop? Will we all be required to “affirm” this lunacy? Will they shut down our churches–don’t laugh: Beto the presidential candidate has already called for this–unless the churches “affirm” sexual confusion and depravity?
We think our Constitution will protect us. Well, Magna Carta doesn’t seem to be protecting anyone in England. Documents of law have no force at all when those who are charged with executing the law simply choose to ignore it.
Psalm 11 asks, “If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?” The answer is, “Not much.” But the psalm tells us that there is very much the Lord Himself can do.
Because we have free will, evil empires rise: men and women build them, so that they might prey on others. Because the earth is the Lord’s, no evil empire has ever escaped His judgment. History is heaped high with their wreckage.
The Lord is our defense. Pray harder, sing louder, and proclaim the truth.
And Jesu defend us.
A Belt of Courage: ‘King Alfred’s War Song’
We think we’ve got troubles? King Alfred, twelve hundred years ago–he had troubles! Heathen poured across the sea and swamped his kingdom, they’d have killed him if they’d caught him, he had to hide out in a peasant’s shack in the middle of a swamp…
And he wrote this: King Alfred’s War Song. “For the Lord is our defense, Jesu defend us!” I don’t know about you, but I need a belt of that just now.
Psalm 127: “My hope is in the LORD, which made heaven and earth.”
Someday the heathen will either be converted or destroyed. By their own hand, most likely.
Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. (Ephesians 6)
Again! ‘King Alfred’s War Song’
I thought we could use another belt of this today.
Around the year 800, Christian England was overrun by pagans, most of them from Denmark. It was the Viking Age. They came for loot and plunder, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
By the providence of God, Alfred, King of Wessex, overcame many defeats–one of which left him a hunted fugitive in his own land–and finally won the war. The Christians won not only peace and security: the invaders converted, settled down, and became part of the population.
We seem to be entering such a time of trial in our own day. The difference is that our heathen are home-grown, turned against us by our schools and colleges. They hate their own country and want to subject it to a “fundamental transformation”–into what, God only knows.
Defeat them and convert them. Trust in the Lord and hang tough. And, like Alfred, never give up.
The Lord Is Our Defense
I couldn’t decide what I most wanted in a hymn this morning: to invoke the Lord’s might in our defense, or to proclaim His glory and His right to rule. So I’m going to do both.
King Alfred’s War Song says what needs to be declared: For the Lord is our defense–Jesu defend us! That will do for a prayer.