Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Beware all who enter here

Hello friends: BEWARE all ye who enter here.
I am tired today,and a little empty and bummed. That is not true. I am irritated and angry. My stomach is bloated like I am 6 months pregnant, my new haircut is ridiculous and unflattering, and I had to eat lunch alone at a restaurant after Bible study.
I am sick to death of know it all ,arrogant Christians. They speak with such authority and absolute assurance that they are right and you aren't. Assuring you that what they just pontificated upon is absolutely correct. Then when you look up what you thought was their error and find you were right, they are already gone on their self-righteous ,self deluded way,congratulating themselves on their superior knowledge and understanding of the scriptures. Frustratingly you are the only one that knows they are misinformed as you look at the facts before you.
They speak of reverence and holy awe with such pride and religiosity. A little humility like the dirty old publican might be more in order. And then there are those that harshly judge an other's circumstance without scriptural backup ? With their oh so self-confident, yet un- scriptural, concept that' God works in mysterious ways'. Meaning ,we don't care what has befallen whether bad, perverted, or evil, God mysteriously did it. When you protest that the Bible does not say God works that way as revealed in the Old and New Testaments,they still throw down the 'God is too mysterious,His ways too hidden for you to understand card.' The only thing hidden and occult in New Testament dispensation is Satan and his occult ,demonic activities,and who the anti-Christ is and when he is going to appear.[ Well, OK, the time of the rapture is hidden.] So I am supposed to agree with some self-deluded,religious person's view of evil circumstances? Maybe in some weird parallel universe. I think I'll read my Bible and find out what It says, thank-you very much.
Give me a big fat sloppy and irreverent break. The traditionalists/religious set don't like drums, in worship songs,it isn't reverent. PUHLEASE. Were their drums,cymbals in the Psalms? They want to legislate dress to their denominational or traditional concept of proper attire. Baggy shorts, shirts on the outside, sandals are not considered reverent or respectful. Blue jeans offend God's holiness. COME ON. No wonder kids don't want to be Christians or attend church. Man-made traditions and concepts of pleasing God are imposed as if they were ordained by God. Moral dress is of course a requirement in old and new testaments, but, blue jeans and baggy shorts,sandals ,Hawaiian flowered shirts are as moral as any lace collared dress,or pants suit , suit or tie.
Get a scriptural clue old people. God says He knew us while we were yet in our sin. He accepts the sinner who comes in whatever stink he has wrapped himself in. Bring them in from the fields of sin. Don't hinder the little ones who want eternal life because their clothes are not your traditional clothing or their music is not your traditional religious music. Tens of thousands of young people are coming into churches to hear the gospel every weekend in what some of you would consider irreverent clothing, listening to irreverent music at an inappropriate time. Let's take Saturday evening. They must not have really worshipped because it was not Sunday morning. Never mind that many protestant Christians in Arab countries have to worship on Friday morning. We must not be worshipping reverently or appropriately either.
Once the lost come in and are saved The Holy Spirit will clean up their dress,their music. But that does not mean they are going to wear heels and dresses,pants suits ,coats and ties and listen to hymns played like funeral dirges.
You know that many of our traditional hymns are tunes that were taken from the wharfs and taverns of seafaring men. So stop with the arrogant judgements on this generation's music and clothes. Ye whited sepulchres!
I told you to Beware didn't I?
Sorry.

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