Last night I went to a party. One of my colleagues has turned 60. He is a good man, of Spanish and Argentinian extraction, a natural leader, whose wife was described by one of my (female) colleages as the most beautiful woman in Dunedin.
He better remain fit. His younges child is an infant.
Well, up came another one of the colleauges (after a few) and estimated just how pregnant the bellies of the male academic staff would indicate they are. The answer was three to six months.
You see, over indulgence is a sin. We are encourage dot over indulge in all things, from food to fornication,because these are products that can be marketed. We would rather believe the lies of this modern age.
An example. At the same party, I talked to the husband of this colleague (whom she is proud of, for he does not look pregnant). He does contract work for the government, and pointed out that most people in NZ think the crown has its own supply of money — which is clearly wrong. The grown (government) has but that money it acauires in taxation, fines and fees. My comment is that this could run out.
He said that was unacceptable. Because the people will not stand this. ANd that is because they have been fed the lie.
20 Declare this in the house of Jacob, proclaim it in Judah:
21 Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but do not see, who have ears, but do not hear.
22 Do you not fear me? says the LORD; Do you not tremble before me? I placed the sand as a boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail, though they roar, they cannot pass over it.
23 But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.
24 They do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.”
25 Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have deprived you of good.
26 For scoundrels are found among my people; they take over the goods of others. Like fowlers they set a trap; they catch human beings.
27 Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of treachery; therefore they have become great and rich,
28 they have grown fat and sleek. They know no limits in deeds of wickedness; they do not judge with justice the cause of the orphan, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy.
29 Shall I not punish them for these things? says the LORD, and shall I not bring retribution
on a nation such as this?
30 An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land:
31the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?
I’m wondering if we need to add obesity to the sighs of the fall. We definately need to add the criminal class — what Jeremiah called those who trap people in nets. And we have to add the new age movement and churchianity — those false messages that give people a lie.
It is not the athiests or neopagans that cause damage. Because they generally have arrived at the place they are at by reason, and by reason we can take them from that place. It is the person who is spiritual, who believes in the comfort of their own personal Jesus or the discipline of their Yoga, and sets themselves as a God.
It is the person who has entered the church to do damage we should confront. For God is not mocked. If we, as a body, together, embrace evil and cling to it, he will remove his blessings from us. The church will die. I have seen that happen to the Mathodist church in NZ: do not let it happen to you.
If as a nation we reject that law which is godly, and punish the righteous while allowing crimials to prosper, our land will not produce, and as the productive capacity of the land stops our people will be idle, without mission, and comforted by that cheap sugar calld high fructose corn syrup in all its manifesations, entertainment that caters for the lowest common denominator, and lies that destroy the natural bonds between man and woman, parent and child, family and village, and village and kingdom.