Tag: no king but Caesar

‘You Christofascist, You’ (2017)

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What are the most pitiable words recorded in the Bible?

Easy! “We have no king but Caesar!” (John 19:15)

And don’t they hate Christ as Caesar’s rival!

You Christofascist, You

Our hope is in the Lord, which made heaven and earth (Psalm 121:2). Imagine if your one and only hope was in some worldly government. Actually, that’s really too horrible to imagine. In Pelosi we trust? Heaven forbid.

Our king is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, whose right it is to rule–His, and no one else’s–and whose authority we proclaim. A government not under God is only folly.

‘Gone with the Wind’… is Gone

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Well, here we go again with the “pro-choice” crowd taking away your choices. This time it’s the management of the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee, dropping the corny classic Gone With the Wind from its summer movies series because it’s supposedly “insensitive to a large segment of the population.” (http://wreg.com/2017/08/25/orpheum-theater-wont-show-gone-with-the-wind-calling-film-insensitive/)

Remember, “pro-choice” means “no choice.”

Most of the people living in Memphis are black. So what? This movie has been shown at this theater for many years, decades, even, without anyone complaining. Now all of a sudden it’s a problem? Now it’s offensive? Why now, and not twenty years ago, or ten, or five?

I’ve seen Gone with the Wind. It’s gorgeously filmed schlock, with an ending ripped off of Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon, published in 1844. Why anyone should be prevented from seeing it is beyond me. But liberals just love making our decisions for us. They’d like to make ’em all.

As Christians we have no king but Christ. As pitiable worldlings they have no king but Caesar. If Caesar says the movie’s okay for them to watch, they flock to it in droves. If he says it’s not okay, they won’t let anybody watch it.

And who, exactly, is their Caesar?

I think we can figure that out, don’t you?

Who Shall Have Dominion?

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The last time I posted Christ Shall Have Dominion as the daily hymn, there was an objection to it. I’d rather not revisit the objection, nor have I anything against the reader who made it. Instead, I would rather counter with a question.

If you would rather Christ not have dominion, who, or what, would you prefer to have it?

I’m a political scientist, with the papers to prove it; and I defy all comers to name a worldly scheme of government that is not ridiculous. Because we ourselves are sinners, never possessed of anything but incomplete knowledge, given to lies and wishful thinking, apt to make horrendous mistakes in judgment, no government we can devise will be any better than we are. And that’s not very good.

But Jesus Christ the Son of God is defined by God the Father as having the right to rule: because He alone is the king who rules in righteousness. The government shall be upon his shoulder, brought about only by the power and the grace of God–not by conniving media, crooked donors, violence, theft, treason, or any of the other means so dear to the human heart. There is nothing we can do to bring Christ down from heaven to set his throne on earth. God does not depend on us.

Only anarchists can convince themselves that human beings can live without someone having dominion over them. And only fools believe that any human government can bring us to an earthly paradise. The mob who cried for Christ to be crucified professed that they had no king but Caesar. Had Caesar submitted himself to God and to God’s law, God would have blessed him as carrying out the duties of a proper ruler–even as He will bless governments today who do the same.

It seems the least they could do while waiting for the King.

 

The School Next Door Deletes ‘Under God’ from Pledge

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Right next door to me there is a public grade school with a loud and intrusive PA system. We get to listen to all the school’s announcements, all day long.

Each morning they put a child on the microphone to lead the others in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. Today, and not for the first time, the words “under God” were missing: just “one nation, indivisible,” etc.

I don’t think we need to look much farther for a reason why our country is in the state it’s in.

There was no court order, no legislation, no demand by the townsfolk to strike “under God” from the pledge. “School officials,” whoever they might be, took it upon themselves to do so. Because, you know, children must be protected from the God who created them and sent His only begotten Son to earth to win for them eternal life.

I guess God isn’t “inclusive.”

So now the kiddies learn to say “one nation”… under what? Under nothing? Nobody? That would leave the nation–the state–as the supreme authority. We have no king but Caesar.

Is it too late to warn the educators, “Be careful what you wish for”? Maybe if you’ve got a thing for talking to fire hydrants, or preaching to chunks of cement, you might want to discuss this matter with school officials.

I say again: Christian parents who wish to raise Christian children don’t send their children to a public school.