Sermon Teasers From the Past

As was said last week, by the standard of wisdom as set forth by Scripture we live in a culture of fools. One only has to look at the Theology that is being embraced in much of the Reformed Church today. Whether it is new-Calvinism with its antinomianism, or whether it is Radical Two Kingdom Theology with its abandonment of the public square, or whether it is Federal Vision with its surrender of justification by faith alone or whether it is Cultural Marxism masquerading as Reformed Christianity we are in a difficult situation in order to find wisdom in our Reformed Churches. And because that is true it makes it very difficult to find wisdom for us as individuals as families.

Sermon Teaser
July 14 Sermon — 2012

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The coming of God’s Kingdom is ALWAYS in the context of the elimination by God’s Kingdom of all other contending Kingdoms. God’s Kingdom comes through His judgment on all other Kingdoms. The inauguration of God’s Kingdom then spells the salvation of all those Kingdoms that were overthrown when God’s Kingdom superseded them.

Sermon Teaser
July 2014

Calvin Quote On Wicked Government & it’s Implication

Calvin believed that “powers are from God, not as pestilence, and famine, and wars, and other visitations for sin, are said to be from Him; but because He has appointed them for the LEGITIMATE and JUST government of the world. For though tyrannies and unjust exercise of power, as they are full of disorder, are NOT an ordained government; yet the right of government is ordained by God for the well-being of mankind.”

The implication is clear. If Governments impress tyranny upon a people and do not govern justly, as God counts “just” then those disordered governments are NOT ordained by God, and God’s people, out of fealty to the Lord Christ, do not owe said governments fealty.

Diary on Summer Vacation Reading from 2012

Productive 3 days at the lake

Finished …. Igor Shafarevich’s, “Socialist Phenomenon”
Finished …. Anthony Sutton’s, “Skull and Bones”
Almost finished … R. J. Rushdoony’s, “Chariots of Prophetic Fire”
Made good progress in David Hall’s “The Genevan Reformation & the American Founding.”

RJR’s book is great as a kind of devotional for the lives of Elijah and Elisha.

RJR gives insights consistent with what you find elsewhere in RJR — to wit — the warnings against Statist control, the development of the antithesis in the life of Israel, Observations about the dangers of syncretism, and what it means to be a “Throne man.” Very good

Shafarevich’s book is a must-read if you want to understand what we are living through. Shafarevich connects the dots between atheism as a belief system and socialism as the incarnation of atheism into a social order. Shafarevich lays bare the irrationality of socialism and in a treatise that is worth the price of the book. He spends time exposing how socialism is popular among those who think only as animals (intuitively) as opposed to those who think like humans (using reason). A fantastic book and if one were to combine this read with Dr. Fred Schwarz’s “You Can Trust the Communists to be Communists,” and Toledano’s “Cry Havoc,” and Von Mises “Socialism,” and Hayek’s “On the Road to Serfdom,” one would have a pretty good working foundation on the worldview that is our greatest enemy in our time.

Anthony Sutton’s book made me realize again how deep the wormhole goes. Much of what we get from the thin crust media is 100% spin. The next level isn’t much better with what we get from the court historian publishing houses. Sutton documents the role of the Skull and Bones order in the US and World History. Sutton re-emphasizes that most of the conflict that we see in our times is purposely created as part of the dialectic between a manufactured left vs. right that has as its goal the result of a New World Order. Read in conjunction with other Sutton books, Carol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope,” and books like “None Dare Call It Conspiracy,” “The Zionist Factor,” “Behind Communism,” and “Secret Societies and Subversive Movements,” one begins to realize that the need for heaven-sent Reformation is far greater than any of us could possibly be aware of. Good book.

Hall’s book is the antidote for the disease that Sutton names. Hall describes for us how Liberty-minded Calvinism is and he traces the impact of Calvin’s thinking on the creation of the West and especially the founding of America. Quoting numerous sources Hall probes how and why genuine Calvinism has always revolted against those who revolt against the Lord Christ as King. This book should be read in combination with Witte’s “The Reformation of Rights.”

This book explodes the myth that R2K thinking is Calvinistic in the least.  Hall has done us a real service with this work.

Quotes & Commentary from E. Michael Jones’ “Monsters from the Id”

Once morals disappear from the human equation, all human interaction is a function of force, which means that women come out on the short end of the stick because, according to feminist theory and the thought of the Marquis de Sade, they are weaker than men.

E. Michael Jones
Monsters from the Id — pg. 314

With the impact that existentialism and then postmodernism has brought on morals, we see the truth of Jone’s statement. Because of a lack of morals, we can routinely torture and murder the unborn. Because of a lack of morals, we can open the Church doors to side-b sodomites who desire to be known for their besetting sins. Because of a lack of morals, we now have a manosphere because both men and women are locked into individual and personal sexual politics. Mao captured succinctly what Jones is saying above when he said, “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.”

“Modern critics can not understand the genre of Horror because they can’t understand the Enlightenment, and they can’t understand the Enlightenment because they are inside it so to speak, espousing its goals; the critics, virtually to a man, espouse its values so completely they can’t conceive of any alternative to it as the project which orders their lives.”

E. Michael Jones
Monsters from the Id — pg. 296
There is something in this quote that the modern Church needs to hear as a principle. The modern Church, like Jone’s critics, too often are of little use to Christians today because the modern Church has swallowed the Enlightenment core principle of Egalitarianism. The modern Church can not fight where the fight is of most import because the modern Church is inside the Enlightenment and holds as dear to God the Enlightenment’s most core principle. This does not mean that the modern Church can never give profitable counsel. It DOES mean that any counsel the modern Church gives pertaining to the most animating issue of our time (Egalitarianism) — an issue owned by the enemy — is counsel that smells of the sulfur that besots our enemy. In the words of Pogo, In the modern Church, “we have met the enemy and he is us.”

In time the modern Church will overwhelmingly fall on the sodomite marriage issue, on the Confederate flag issue, and on the Transgender issue because the modern Church owns as a principle of Christianity the core principles that drive those issues. Borrowing from Jone’s, “Egalitarianism is the project that orders their lives.”

Rushdoony & Dabney Teach Us The Proper Attitude Towards The Honored Dead

“[A]nytime that we are ready to confess the sins of our forefathers, there is something wrong with us, because we have enough of our own sins to confess without confessing mama’s and papa’s and grandpa’s and great grandma’s sins. … That’s what our generation is busy doing: confessing the sins of our forebearers. Oh how terribly they treated the Indians, and how terribly they treated this or that person, or the blacks. … So don’t go confessing the sins of your ancestors or missionaries of the past. They were very often better people than we are. And we need to be up and doing so that we can accomplish as much as they did in their day. They were not perfect, none of us are this side of Heaven. But they did the Lord’s work as best they could, and we should thank God for them.”

~ R. J. Rushdoony

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We are a beaten, conquered people, gentlemen, and yet if we are true to ourselves, we have no cause for humiliation, however much for deep sorrow. It is only the atheist who adopts success as the criterion of right. It is not a new thing in the history of men that God appoints to the brave and true the stern task of contending and falling in a righteous quarrel. Would you find the grandest of all names upon the roll of time? You must seek them among this “noble army of martyrs,” whose faith in God and the right was stronger than death and defeat. Let the besotted fools say that our dead have fallen in a “lost cause.” Let abandoned defamers and pulpit buffoons say that theirs are “dishonored graves.” … We have no need, sirs, to be ashamed of our dead; let us see to it that they be not ashamed of us.

~ Robert Lewis Dabney