The Son and I are discussing the situation in Germany, where the leftists are chanting “No deportation, no borders, no nation”. That the street war between nationalists and globalists is starting. We both think the nationalists will win.

But the lies of the world are strong within them. This will not happen gently. And the only cure is within the text of today, as John Wright notes.

“One day we will discover a cure for their madness.”

The cure is Christ. The madness is sin.

When I worked for a muckracking newspaper called the Saint Mary’s Today, I noticed the difference between honest politicians accused falsely and dishonest politicians accused truly.

The honest ones said, “That is not true” whereas the dishonest one said, “You can’t prove that, and besides, I have a pardon from the governor.”

The really dishonest ones said, “Hah! You work for the Saint Mary’s Today! That paper is despicable!”

This shoot the messenger stuff comes is as old as Man blaming Eve blaming the snake.

So what is today’s text about? It is biblical Christology. The writer wants to demonstrate that (a) Christ is God and (b) he is not Gandalf. He is not an angel (if you read your Tolkien, the wizards were angelic) or wizard or guru.

And that Christ has done is work. It is finished.

Long ago, at many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs.

For to which of the angels did God ever say, “You are my Son, today I have begotten you”? Or again, “I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son”?. And again, when he brings the firstborn into the world, he says, “Let all God’s angels worship him.”

Of the angels he says, “He makes his angels winds, and his ministers a flame of fire.” But of the Son he says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever, the scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions.” And, “You, Lord, laid the foundation of the earth in the beginning, and the heavens are the work of your hands; they will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment, like a robe you will roll them up, like a garment they will be changed. But you are the same, and your years will have no end.”

And to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

(Hebrews 1 ESV)

The question we have is how to apply this in this day, this time. Our Saviour is God, and has triumphed, but in this time we are seeing evil throughout Europe and the Middle East and Africa. For every woman in Europe violated, there are five to ten in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda: the Christian borderland states there know their enemy has a green flag, and Satan approves.

The Germans are protesting, true. But the memes that we are using are those of the left, subverted perhaps: but they are shopworn. No violence against women has been used to demonize the male European population, and now there is a real threat it is not sufficient.

There is a nasty truth here. What you believe, and who you worship, matters. Religions are not equivalent, they are not the same. Worship Allah, that spawn from the loins of the lord of lies, and you will lie, you will murder, you will enslave, and you will rape: Mohammed his prophet did, and you are taught that he is the best of men. A decent Muslim, a devout human being, to the Wahabist is a bad muslim, for he is not a warrior: they even have a handbook on how to manage your [sex] slaves. The sailors who died of Malaria while blockading the West Coast of Africa (which the Navy did, for 100 years, drying up the supply of slaves to the Americas) will rise up and damn those who let such developments occur.

One should not, therefore, be shocked to find that Muslims are disproportionately convicted of crimes: in their ideology they are not crimes. They are the Lords of creation, the sons of the spirit of this age, who delights when there is destruction and death.

The cure, for all these things, is to repent, and worship the correct God. Which is Christ. Who is God indeed.

Today is Sunday. Let this be preached.