Light Brings Salt
Volume 3, Issue 25 June 19, 2005
Dedicated to the Systematic Exposition of the Word of God
Newsletter from Dr. Jobe Martin
I shall
remember the deeds of the LORD; Surely I will remember Your
wonders of old.
I will
meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds.
Your
way, O God, is holy; What god is great like our God?
You are
the God who works wonders; You have made known Your
strength among the peoples.
.Psalm 77:11-14
Listen,
O my people, to my instruction; Incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
I will
open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings of old,
Which we
have heard and known, And our fathers have told us.
We will
not conceal them from their children, But tell to the
generation to come the praises of the LORD, And His strength and His wondrous
works that He has done.
That the
generation to come might know, even the children yet to be born, That
they may arise and tell them to their children,
That
they should put their confidence in God And not forget
the works of God, But keep His commandments,
And not
be like their fathers, A stubborn and rebellious
generation, A generation that did not prepare its heart And whose spirit was
not faithful to God.
Psalm 78:1-4,
6-8
The children have now grown up and
they are the jury and the judge in American culture. The fathers and
grandfathers of this generation, with notable exceptions, indulged their
selfishness and pride. They idolized Elvis, the Beetles, Madonna and Michael
Jackson, as they, whether intentionally or not, moved away from submission to biblical authority into
(sophisticated and culturally respectable) pagan Postmodernism which redefines what we want morality to be for
us—even in the church. Now with the
blending of cultural Christianity (“I believe some of it in theory, but it
hasn’t penetrated my heart”) and postmodern thinking (“I determine the meaning
I want the words to have, and what is sin for others isn’t necessarily sin for
me.”). Thus we have the moral relativism that is, to a great extent, the
universal philosophy of our current western culture. Think back to the 50’s and
the book, I’m OK, You’re OK. Nothing
is necessarily wrong, or, if it is, it is someone else’s fault! We are
brainwashed with “tolerance” toward everything except the Judeo-Christian
biblical roots upon which our country was founded, and great pains have been
taken by the liberal media, and the humanistic forces (ACLU for one) to NOT
allow this particular type of freedom. So much so, that in the last 15 years we
cannot even have “Merry Christmas” on our public
school marquees, nor can we mention “Jesus.” However, we can talk and discuss at great length Mohammed and Buddha with no
recriminations at all! So we daily watch
the unfolding history of our world, reflecting on the truth that history,
including the history we are making with our individual families, does repeat
itself. We just don’t seem to learn from our mistakes.
At our particular juncture in
history, we have discarded a real and true God Who has acted in space and time,
to the belief that “God is dead.” In turn, this logically evolved into nothing
less than “I am God.” I determine what
is right and good for me. If there seems to be a biblical principle that I am
violating, for instance, “I will set no wicked thing before my eyes” (Psalm
101:3), then my perception is that God has not convicted me that this or that
is wicked for me, even though it may be wicked for you! Since we have been deceived into believing
it’s the Ten Suggestions, rather than the Ten Commandments, we no longer accept
the biblical absolutes of our Founding Fathers, and in turn we do what “feels
good” and what is “right in our own eyes” (Judges 21:25).
Does this sound harsh? Perhaps,
but when will it be time for judgment to begin with the household of faith (I
Pet.
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GITMO
COCKTAIL
By RALPH PETERS LtCol Ret.
The demands to shut
down our
From
our ailing domestic left to overseas
Except, of course, as a means to slam the
Has
the Bush administration made mistakes regarding
Let’s get this
straight: Nothing we could do would appease those who
feel a need for our country to fail. We must stop trying to satisfy them.
There’s a military
maxim that applies to all the nonsense about Gitmo: Don’t let the entire
battalion get bogged down by a sniper. By
attempting to respond to the wild charges leveled by those who offer no
solutions themselves — who have no interest in solutions — we’ve allowed
anti-American basket cases from Harvard Yard to the German parliament to create
an issue from nothing. Oh, and thanks to the “mainstream” media for
assuming that our country’s
always wrong.
There
is a culture of torture in the world. Blessedly,
As
someone who takes human rights seriously, I’m appalled by the lack of sympathy the left
feels toward the victims of any regime other than the Bush administration. Let’s shout it to
prisoners everywhere: If you’re not harmed by an American, your suffering doesn’t count.
The
left’s
hypocrisy is immeasurable. The grandchildren of those who defended Stalin are
mortified that Saddam Hussein will stand trial. By
taking such irresponsible voices seriously, we grant our critics a strength
they otherwise lack and simply help them keep their lies alive.
No
matter what our country does, we will never please a global intelligentsia outraged
that all their theories came to nothing. We can’t satisfy al Qaeda, and we can’t please those
discontented souls who need to blame the
What
should our nation’s
leaders say about