Mark Driscoll

Personally I will take great pleasure when I hear of his death, hopefully by murder and not old age.=

America I: Americans Christians Are Not Anti-American Enough

American Christians Are Not Anti-American Like God Is

Many of the Christians in this country fly the American flag on church properties. In many hymnals we have songs praising this country and they commit abominations by singing these songs. I heard a preacher Sunday morning, a Baptist, taking a message about unrepentant Israel and showing how it could also apply to America. His problem is that the Bible already refers to America, and it doesn't call it Israel. I have heard other pastors who tried to preach against the sins of America but they are clearly just deranged conservatives who are only unhappy because the Democrats have controlled our Congress for most of the last ten years.

They think they are so edgy to preach against America and 'call it like it is'. But they really just lie about America. They say 'pray for our country', 'pray for our leaders'. One they quote, 'If my people who are called by my name...' which they use to imply that America can recover which is a lie. It is a lie because the prophecies spoken of those thousands of years ago are shortly to come to pass. America cannot turn back because the prophecies must take place (they cannot be invalidated).

So what they are preaching is not the true fire of God, God's wrath for this nation. They are doing it because they are puffing themselves up and trying to sound prophetic and act like they are pushing the envelope. 'Wow did you hear the message the pastor gave last Sunday! The government must really be watching him now!" No, the government doesn't care what shallow thoughts your pastor gave in his sermon last Sunday. It's more like, Government: 'Yawn.'

Some of you are alarmed. 'He is a red!' 'He's an America hater and a socialist conspirator!'

No. I am a Christian, a servant and mouthpiece for God and I see what this country does and I hate it, the same way the Father hates it.

Jesus said, "If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple." [Luke 14:26]

Some of you have been brainwashed with the American fable for so long that America has become your god and took the position that belongs only to the Father, not Christ, not the angels, but the Father. You only claim you're stirred by the bad laws of the other party in the government, or the immorality of the people. But you love America, still. The problem is America is the whore and must be hated by the Christians. You prove you love America and do not hate America because of your patriotic songs, your flags you fly at home and on church property, your continual meddling in politics, the fact the lines between faith and politics are blurred when political rallies are held at churches and politicians are invited to speak, and your yellow ribbon. Yes, even your yellow ribbon must be thrown out if you are to honor God.

America is in the way of some of you. You must throw it out if that pushes you to serve God to a higher level, if that is what it takes. You must part with your country because the pollution by world Communism of its cultural institutions, including the churches, has poisoned it to such an extent that it is only a matter of time before it all unravels. Do not pray for this country or its leadership. Work to save those who will listen and can be saved and do not look back. Many of you will be called out of this country. Do not look back. As you set sail from the ships, I doubt you will become a pillar of salt. But if you look back in regret or in doubt, it may be the waves cause your ship to toss and turn, and finally sink. It may be a tempest is stirred up by the Lord and you are tossed overboard by the crew. You will see many of the old stories relived, and it will happen to individuals like yourself, or even to you. Do not make the mistakes of those like Lot's wife or Jonah or the people of Noah's day.

Your time is very short. America is fallen, is fallen, and we cannot heal it. You cannot preach it away or pray it back. You must get right with God so that you will be ready for the tribulations to come.

'America is not found in the Bible' Fallacies

'America is not found in the Bible' Fallacies

I. Just because you haven't found it, that doesn't mean it isn't there.

II. Many Christians are still such blind supporters of the American government that they refuse to accept any of the prophecies of war, death, and destruction could possibly refer to their 'great' nation.

III. Because even an all-knowledgeable God couldn't possibly have foreseen a nation like America coming into being at the end of time, could He? /sarcasm

IV. Because you know all of the prophecies, understand all of the symbols, can quote them more or less verbatim, and receive a constant inundation of supernatural revelation from the Lord and so you cannot possibly be wrong because no one has ever been wrong at any possible time and even people with flat out contradictory views are always right.

V. Because I looked it up in the Strong's Concordance and I couldn't find the word 'America' anywhere there.

Here now the word of the Lord, Mystery Babylon is America.

Moral II: Gambling

Why shouldn't a person gamble?

'Because some people lose so that others can win.'

Oh, so it's not fair is it? Why is it not fair if mature adults have agreed to run the risk of losing funds so that they might have an opportunity of winning? It's not possible that everyone can win; it must be that only a few win and the most lose. There's no promise of fairness in this life; only in the next, and only despots and those who elect them would even want to make a fair society anyway. Chronic losers complain about fairness because they can't win without cheating and asking for the government to intervene.

And how is it unfair? Do you have less of a chance of winning than anyone else? If you buy a Power Ball ticket you have the same odds of winning as everyone else. So actually it is fair.  Unless you mean to say you deserve more chances than everyone else.

Or do you really mean we should give the money to the pastors? So they can eat steak dinners and donate oatmeal to the food bank? So they can lecture on sexual immorality all the while they sleep around on their wife, even with prostitutes. So they can collect a salary to donate to the political campaigns of wanna-be despots. So they can extend their influence into local politics and build an enclave of totalitarianism in the city. So they can drive around in luxury automobiles and spit on the homeless. Yeah, I think I'll keep my money.

I won $23 playing scratch offs tonight. I went to the store with $20, bought not quite $17 worth of groceries and went home with even more than what I started off with. If God chooses to reward a poor man for his faith by providing him with good food by winning on a lottery ticket, why does that concern you? Tell me, why do you criticize God for blessing that man? You, Christian, should keep your damn mouth shut is what you should do. I choose to glorify God that He saw fit to reward me as His servant. Many of you reading this will open a new window to browse pornographic sites before long while passing judgment about how I am not a true Christian because I play the lottery. You will down one more beer and then Wednesday night you will be in your blazer ready to preach to the church. It is precisely because of the theft and wickedness of the Christian believers that God would choose to reward His children through gambling.

If God let me win on the lottery so I could bless someone that same evening who was in a desperate need, should it not be that that money goes to me, a concerned Christian, rather than a worker of darkness? I think it should. When the pastors stop thinking about themselves then maybe I will give an offering. And they also have to stop preaching lies.

Can a man be righteous?

There was a highly contentious debate tonight on a subject very important in the Christian faith. I start to say, 'Our religion,' but I am so convinced that the great majority of believers promote many teachings in direct opposition to the Bible that I can no longer affirm that it is a religion we share. In fact, many expose themselves as using Christianity to further their own pecuniary interests or solely in deference to its many uplifting affirmations while ignoring those aspects they dislike. I know that I share the faith of Christ but those who presumptuously use His name I am not convinced.

This difficult questions to which I refer is on righteousness; namely, 'Can a man attain a state of righteousness?' Paul is briefly quoted in his adaptation of the Psalms, 'There is none righteous, no, not one,' and typically the Christian is satisfied at this point that the question has been answered satisfactorily.

But in so doing, they make God a tyrannical menace, and in affirming Calvinism, turn God into a devil himself.

Jesus said, "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." [Matt 5:48]

Also, "For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousnerss of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." [Matt 5:20]

If God gives us an order to obey His commandments, execute righteousness, repent and be saved, yet He knows that all of these things are impossible and He threatens and terrorizes us with threats of burning in hell, that is a deranged lunatic and a hare-brained monster you worship who I want nothing to do with.

One hallmark of the Greek system of mythology and the others was that rather than a God fashioning man after His own image, it is rather men who fashion gods for themselves. The gods experience all the same lusts, affections, immoralities, and improprieties noted in men. They reason similarly, sometimes illogically, and the most profound revelation from them is a clever paradox or simple parable. If there is truth in religion and any satisfaction to be had at the end, it can only come from a singular, all-powerful, all-knowledgeable, all-just Being whose inspiration is a cause of bringing peace and mercy throughout the world, not the endless wars and perverse immorality of the Greeks.

The idea of a Creator creating beings incapable of obeying His commands, an incapability He personally programmed into them, shows a Creator who would be adjudged not capable of managing His personal affairs, much less the entire universe.

Convenience

It's clear why it's so necessary to Christian teaching that it is this way. It's what I call flow . It flows rather well together. These sorts of systems unravel easily, standing or falling together.

I. Man is fallen/unrighteous/cannot save himself.

II. Here comes a Saviour. He fixes all that.

III. He also fixes something else we don't like: The Law. Since we cannot possibly obey it and be righteous we just shred it like church documents that show how the church is defrauding the federal government iby refusing to disclose assets and cheating on its taxes.

--But let's be clear: No one admits to serving a lawless, hippy, tax-cheat named Christus. They only imply it with their words.

Now that it's established what it is God requires of us, that He does  command us to obey His laws and become righteous, it has to be examined what the Bible additionally says about righteousness.

Righteous men in history

Abel was righteous

"That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar." [Matt 23:35]

Abraham righteous

"And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God." [James 2:23]

Noah, Daniel and Job

"Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God... though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness." [Ezekiel 14:14]

David 

David was not counted among the righteous, and I consider him one step below these saints. But Jeremiah remembers him like this: "Nevertheless for David's sake did the Lord his God give him [Jeroboam] a lamp in Jerusalem, to set up his son after him, and to establish Jerusalem. Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from anything that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite." [I Kings 15:4,5]
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 Another one that gets raised eyebrows:

"Why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is, God."

How can Jesus not be good? How is it that in spite of this, we should be perfect? How is it that none is rihteous but it's demanded we should be righteous?

GOOD: that which is without any bad. this is the highest mark.

RIGHTEOUSNESS: a righteous man is trustworthy, he can be trusted to do good. he can also be expected to make mistakes, and at times he will.

BAD: can be both deliberate acts of evil as well as unintentional

What all this means is in order to be righteous, you pursue those things that God expects from you and you avoid wrongdoing. Wrongdoing could be a lapse in judgment in a moment or it could be a simple mistake. One example of that: A righteous smoker will not steal your lighter, although he still might walk off with it. If you do what please God, and you abstain from those things that would displease God, I think biblically you are a righteous person. But you are not a good person, as sometimes you could do something silly that perfect beings do not do.

Psalm 14 uses distribution.

"The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.  The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one."

What this verse is saying is not that there is no one who is righteous; that would clearly violate literally hundreds of verses as well as much of the Psalms itself. It's saying paraphrasing, 'with reference to those who deny God, there is none righteous, there is none who doeth good.' Literallt in mathematical form, the words are making this sort of formula, (godless)(a+b+c+d...)   It's a distribution and it's distributed to godless men. Of the godless, none are righteous, no, not one. 'But what about the children of men?" This is just another sort of language to refer to those men who were not born from above but were of fleshly concern and dedication. It is those who are born from above that Jesus was talking to Nicodemus about that righteousness belongs to.

Why was Jesus not good? Because Jesus failed in one point On the need for the Crucifixion, His will did not conform to His Father's perfect will. Nonetheless, it is not false to call Him perfect and indeed His 'H' is capitalized.

Good supersedes righteousness since we see the righteous sometimes make mistakes. Good would be an absence of mistakes. The third step is unabashed sinfulness, wrongdoing with intent. If a righteous man made a mistake, it was without intent or a serious momentary lapse, but something he admits to and moves on and corrects. In short, he repents when he does wrong, and he moves on committed to doing it right if he comes to it again .Righteous does not any way mean close to perfect. To say that there is none righteous makes God a devil and incompetent in His profession since He threatens us with hell for disobeying.
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I don't recall the quote but Bastiat described work as effort and that it's uncomfortable, but it pays. And then he likely talked about socialism, legal plunder, and redistributionary schemes, or how the lazy avoid work. One thing this false teaching on righteousness does is become a convenient excuse to not apply effort. You don't have to do what God asks or study the Bible, all you have to do is put a smile, be happy and spread good cheer. Just pretend your Santa Claus and Christ will say, "Well done thou good and faithful servant!" Whiners talk about doing their best when they're putting forth half the effort. They talk about how things aren't fair. Christians are whiners. They make excuses for themselves, attack God's commandments, and distort biblical teachings for their self-serving, arrogant, smug, know-it-all worthless selves. They had 2000 years to explain this and failed to do it. I spent less than fifteen minutes Tuesday night and had time to eat dinner too.

Moral I: Pornography

Let's speak relativity here. Please watch pornography. And not the gay kind. Maybe solo masturbation videos or even couples but nothing unbiblical.

Let me say in the vein of Paul: I would rather ye watch pornography than whore about like Christians in the West are so well known for.

I will give you a biographical look at American Christians.

In their 20s, they are promiscuous, whorish, slutty. They take many partners they often find in the churches.

In their 30s,. they renew their faith and marry and have kids. They are stupid, obnoxious and pompous Pharisees and charlatans, lecturing others in a faith they know so little about but esteem themselves such experts in.

In their 40s and 50s, they become pastors and deacons, and many pedophiles, preferring youth groups and looting church funds to pay for young desperate secretaries (and we know oh how hard a pastor's job really is!).

In their 60s and 70s, as syphilis and veneral disease eat away at their minds, and frustrated they're no longer objects of sexual desire, they become bigoted Republicans and make sexual innuendos to their granddaughter's friends, and if they've had the same Bible for any number of years, the pages stick together.

I observe that many prostitutes on Skid Row have more virtue individually than many churches have in their entire Sunday morning services, and at least ten times that found in the pastorate. Many of you young Christian whores sleep around for free, meaning you are less selective than many prostitutes, and prostitutes mostly uyse condoms while Christian women almost always conceive out of wedlock, and the young men father children by multiple women.

Jesus said rightly about this crowd of degenerates that claimed to follow Him:

"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess." [Matt 23:23-25]

Why Russia is God's Nation on Earth

In America, we have many perversions which not only our media but additionally our schools and our elected representatives feel the personal responsibility of promoting.

I. Destroying the Christian religion

II. Defending Islam as a religion of peace and placing them in high office and defending the Muslim Brotherhood against Bashar Al-Assad and the good people of Egypt. Inspiring chaos in the Middle East and revolution.

III. Promotion of homosexuals. This happens in TV shows like 'The New Normal' and 'Modern Family'. Homosexuals are placed in prime positions as talk show hosts (Ellen Degeneres), reality tv contestants (Chaz Bono on Dancing With the Stars), and placing many non-gay but strongly pro-gay speakers in prominent positions.

It is Russia that has been involved in fighting these very influences. Those influences of the homosexuals who are polluting the culture and priovocatively advertising their way of life to children. It is glorious Russia that has just recently defied the global community in passing legislation that will restore order to society and morality by outlining acceptable limits of behavior, for instance, in the cases of homosexuals.

(II). Russia has also recently made known that it will not harbor Islamic terrorists*. While my nation courts them in Egypt and Syria, it is Russia who wants to maintain order in these highly fractured nations given to many disputes over the years.

And as far as the true practice of Christianity, our nation has gone into Russia to demand of Putin that he pass laws favorable to the United States and better for their bottom line, and their prejudices for how society should operate. Russia, they say, should allow the overspreading of the abomination of homosexuality, and should stay out of Syria, instead, let pro-Western puppets take power and radical groups take over.

America: Who the hell are you to demand that Putin turn away from his Christian policies? You, a land founded on Christianity and conscience and morality now try to fashion Russian government after the bankrupt way of life you live in the West. You have brought a target upon all of our heads because of your damned political correctness! It is Russia who has us in the corner! It is you America who think that you have brought the Russians to submission but it is you who will submit like a dog. God help us all.

*http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/06/09/300-detained-at-moscow-muslim-prayer-room-following-putin-crackdown/

Russia arrested 300 Islamists. What would the West do? America would consult a team of analysts and local experts at universities and hordes of attorneys, to be explained why they cannot arrest these people because the response of the media, international pressure, and the pressure of subversive "rights" groups in the US. The government would be liable for hundreds of possible legal cases including years of litigation leading up to the Supreme Court and possible impeachment. Meanwhile, they would let three hundred Islamists threaten our citizens and way of life for the sake of political correctness.

Pussy Riot: They were rightfully charged and convicted for desecration of religious property and services, engaging in their profanities during a morning service. Our anti-Christian government who hates the most noble faith is the one that supported this desecration and placed pressures onto honorable Russia to release these subversive and dishonorable women, who are not women at all but pigs. Our despicable conscience in Western society will be our own undoing.