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Podcast: Philippians and Isaiah 45. The Incarnation of God is Jesus Christ.

Podcast: Philippians and Isaiah 45. The Incarnation of God is Jesus Christ.

Continuing in Philippians. Picking up in Chapter 2 and onward. Also Isaiah 45.

Don’t forget, there will be an “Aftershow” posted this afternoon.

Finally, I will be starting a series soon covering from Creation through at least the Exodus.  This incudes Creation, the purpose of man, the Fall, the Flood, Babel, the Table of nations, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph, Egypt, Moses, the Exodus, the Ten Commandments and the Blessing and the Curses (Deuteronomy 28).  I would call this almost and adult sunday school — these are the bones of the story  upon which everything else hangs.

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The Prophets Spoke of Being “Born Again”

The Prophets Spoke of Being “Born Again”

Jeremiah and Ezekiel both prophesied about being “born again.” It was not a new invention under Jesus Christ — the scripture described being “born again” long before. This is why Jesus Christ was so amazed that a “teacher of Israel” did not understand these things in John, chapter three.

Jesus to Nicodemus: “Truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

Nicodemus:“How can a man be born when he is old?”Born Again

Jesus: “Do not be amazed that I said to you, ‘you must be born again.’”

Nicodemus: “How can the things be?”

Jesus:
“You are a teacher of Israel and do not understand these things?”

Jesus Christ clearly expected Nicodemus to know what he was talking about. Why? Because Jeremiah and Ezekiel talked about being born again: …

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Quotes Regarding A Christian Nation

Quotes Regarding A Christian Nation

We have no government armed in power capable of contending in human passions unbridled by morality and religion.  Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.  It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.
—John Adams, address to the militia of Massachusetts, 1798.

Statesmen my plan and speculate liberty, but it is religion and morality alone upon which freedom can securely stand.
—John Adams

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: It connected in one indispensable bond the principles of civil  government with he principles of Christianity.
— John Quincy Adams

A general dissolution of Principles and Manners will more surely overthrow the Liberties of America that the whole Force of the common enemy.  While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader . . . If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved.  This will be their great security.
— Samuel Adams, 1779 …

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Podcast: The Ten Commandments

Podcast: The Ten Commandments

03:15 Blackstone
07:15 Jesus Christ and the Law of God
08:35 Rank in the Kingdom of God
09:30 Old Testament v. New Testament
10:50 Jesus Christ repeats the Ten Commandments
12:35 Exodus 20
15:15 Sabbath
18:45 Honoring One’s Parents
25:50 Bearing False Witness
27:15 Covetousness and Social Policy
29:25 Quotes Regarding a Christian Nation
36:30 Rejecting God ALWAYS leads to totalitarian government
38:30 Covenant for the Nations: text.net/cftn

Leave It All Behind

Leave It All Behind

We have a Creator — Jesus Christ.   I would not want to allow the impression that He  conforms to  our expectations.   Jesus Christ never made himself popular. Quite the contrary, He is a “stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.”   This is on purpose.  Jews and Gentiles all stumble over Jesus Christ.  The “Jews seek miracles, and the Gentiles seek wisdom.”  He never positions himself to be acceptable — most of his disciples walked away when He said you must “eat my flesh,” and “drink my blood.” We partake of this today in Holy Communion.   If He wanted to appeal to our intellect, why would He say something so difficult?   If He was “reasonable,” then faith would have no place.  

Humility before God is necessary, and Faith is humbling.  That’s the fundamental point of faith.  Eve’s sin was deciding she could judge whether or not what God said was true.  Satan tempted her with independent  knowledge — mankind wants to determine truth for himself.  That’s pretty hard considering  how finite we are in comparison to all of time and the universe and languages that we don’t speak or math we cannot comprehend.

Faith  relegates one’s  intellect to the proper relationship with God.  No one can judge whether or not God is true or whether or not what he says is truth.  

As Paul said, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that He rose from the dead you shall be saved.”    This act of faith places a believer under the Almighty.   Humbling? Yes.  That’s the point.

When I was a young man I had a hard choice to make  — to serve God or not.   And part of the struggle (for me, then) was  unappealing Christians (which sounds silly now) along with normal doubts and questions.  I think God allows that on purpose.    The point is this: I was not joining a fraternity — I was humbling myself before my Maker.    Every other consideration was worthless.Nothing But the Blood of Jesus - Christian Instrumental ...

 It is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanses us of sin.  One must be born into His family in the same way that children are born into any family.    We don’t “join” a family — we are born into one.

Nothing outside of Jesus Christ  — the Savior Creator of the universe — saves us from the ingrained nature of sin we were born with.    

Believe because God is calling you to faith in His Son.
Everything else is left behind.

Contemplating War Within and Without

Contemplating War Within and Without

JR Nyquist is a treat for those addicted to geopolitics: Listen to his interview on Geopolitics and Empire.  A couple of observations:

Paraphrasing Nyquist:  German, France and the US are not ready to go to war against Russia.  Aircraft carriers in the age of hypersonic don’t make sense.  Three years ago a top General said our nuclear forces were timed-out on service life, yet we are till a long way from recapitalizing the devices . . . 

B&F: I said this a few years back — Russians have a window where the US is unable to compete between hypersonics and other advanced weapons.  Russia would act during this window.  I compared the current situation with Russia to that of the Japanese in the 1930s and early 1940s leading up to Pearl Harbor.  I think that analogy still stands.  Japan’s “mistake” was not the attack — it was that it was not big enough.  Russias Relationship with the West: Two Centuries of War.  This is not a defense of Russia’s position.  Wars cannot be avoided.  Hand-wringing about “who is right” is silliness.  

Paraphrasing Nyquist:  Today’s fusion (hydrogen) bombs produce vastly less harmful radiation that the fission bombs on the 1960s. Nuclear War entirely “winnable.” …

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Podcast: Nuclear War and More

Podcast: Nuclear War and More

09:00  Radiation Free H-Bomb?
11:00 Governments Lie, Question Science and the Bureacrats
13:00 Practicing Liberty Means Using Your Voice
17:20 Realistic Expectations for the Next Five years
20:30 Change is Here
24:45 Fundamentally Rethinking the Assumptions of Society
27:35 Impossibility of “Tolerance”
30:15 Ancient Hebrews (No relation to modern Jews) as a Model
33:20 Seeking an Organic People

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Hoping For Yesterday Is Not A Plan

Hoping For Yesterday Is Not A Plan

The cure to the disease requires fundamentally challenging the assumptions that caused us to arrive at 2022 in the first place.

The Left is way ahead in thinking hard — they imagine us as chipped and drugged urbanites requiring permission to travel and speak. Dissent to be eliminated as  always  — mass murder.

Abandon the idea that someone will save the future. We save our own children.

This starts imagining big:

  • Independence of thought and speech.
  • To govern ourselves as we see fit.  
  • The right to keep and bear arms in order to establish and defend ourselves, just as “colonists” did in 1775, and just as every military and police force does today.  Are the “police” super-citizens with more rights than average people?
  • End all immigration — our progeny will work.  
  • End all imports of goods — we will build what we need, or we won’t need it at all.
  • Our own geographic area where “others” aren’t going to impose guilt and unearned rents upon us because we are not like them.
  • Our own geography to grow our food and live under the laws of our God.
  • No alliances  with the Cult of global homogenization.

We have to outpace them intellectually.
We must thinking bigger thoughts than they are.
We have to stop thinking about yesterday.

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Groundhog Day, 2022

Aftershow: Half-Time Report

Aftershow: Half-Time Report

It’s half time and the Left has dominated yards rushing and time in possession. Yet, the Left has woken up a giant around the world. Momentum has shifted. Now the Left must counter with another Covid or a War.