While Terrorizing Americans with Fake News and Bogus Hoaxes, Truth is not simply whatever works. This is the philosophy of MSM – an ends-vs.-means-type approach. In reality, lies appear to “work
When President Trump calls the “fake news” media an “enemy of the people,” establishment media personalities start clutching their pearls, gnashing their teeth and declaring “We are not the enemy of the people. I am not your enemy. You are not my enemy. It is wrong to call your fellow Americans the enemy. We are all on the same team. We are all Americans,” as CNN’s Jim Acosta did in October 2018.
The President knows full well that the liberal establishment media will start immediately chasing their tails the second he makes the statement, and he welcomes that bit of entertainment, but in reality, there have been an increase in factually “inaccurate” (aka fake news) stories, which all lean just one way, against conservatives and against the President.
The bias is documented as studies have found that “pretty much all of journalism now leans left,” as well as finding that in 2016 “more than 96 percent of political donations from journalists went to the Hillary Clinton campaign.”
The American people see the bias as well, as multiple surveys and polls show an increasing amount of respondents see the bias, acknowledge it and believe that the media deserves to be scrutinized just as much as politicians and other high profile personalities, so when journalists like CNN’s Chris Cillizza states “Let me say for the billionth time: Reporters don’t root for aside. Period,” Americans can be excused for laughing their tail ends off.
Glad you asked!
The answer is no. In October 2017 the Cato Institute found that while 63 percent of Republicans said journalists are the enemy of the American people, 38 percent of Independents agreed, as did 11 percent of Democrats.
Does this mean that the media are considered the enemy by only the “right” and only “conservatives?”
Things have only gotten worse in the nearly two years since that comprehensive survey was published.
For those of you who care, Google and your favorite social media platforms have misled you, and now we all pay a heavy price for trusting the ungodly, Google and company, They knew exactly what they were doing, removing our history while preparing you to accept the New World Order playbook, Enjoy.
THE MEDIA’S NOT GOOD, VERY BAD, HORRIBLE WEEK
Before making my argument that the liberal establishment media is actually more of an enemy to their own liberal followers than to conservatives (I know you are thinking WTH, but I will explain below!), let us take a look at this past week’s screw-ups, all of which were self-inflicted.
The NYT decided to promote a book by two of their employees about Supreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, making it sound as if there are new allegations of sexual misconduct against him, but the NYT conveniently neglected to add that the so-called “victim” not only wasn’t the one to make the allegation but refused to be interviewed and told friends she had no recall of any such incident.
That of course was added later as a “clarification” after the NYT received a ton of backlash, and after the story went viral and other liberal news outlets jumped all over the misleading and inaccurate story.
Liberals all across social media and the Democrat presidential candidates started screeching about impeaching Kavanaugh… why? Because the media misled them yet again.
The other self-inflicted wound for the media was jumping all over a story about a whistle-blower coming forward to claim that President Trump inappropriately asked a Ukrainian official to investigate Joe Biden’s son for his dealing in Ukraine.
Much, much later, after liberals and Democrat politicians, amplified by the establishment media, screamed for Trump to be impeached, we find out the “whistleblower” wasn’t actually present, didn’t hear the conversation and was only told about it by someone else, meaning it was complete hearsay. Source
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THE WORLD SUPPRESSES THE TRUTH
The Bible nowhere presents an instance where lying is considered to be the right thing to do. The ninth commandment prohibits bearing false witness (Exodus 20:16). Proverbs 6:16-19 lists “a lying tongue” and “a false witness who pours out lies” as two of the seven abominations to the Lord. Love “rejoices with the truth” (1 Corinthians 13:6). For other Scriptures that speak negatively of lying, see Psalm 119:29, 163; 120:2; Proverbs 12:22; 13:5; Ephesians 4:25; Colossians 3:9; and Revelation 21:8. There are many examples of liars in Scripture, from Jacob’s deceit in Genesis 27 to the pretense of Ananias and Sapphira in Acts 5. Time after time, we see that falsehood leads to misery, loss, and judgment. Source
So, the Official Leaders have their assistants schedule a reservation at another swank hotel. They pack their bags, assemble their entourages, fire up their Official Leader jets, and fly off to another prestige city for the next summit. They meet in secret, but this time allow the media photographers into a room for a photo op of a staged frank discussion between two highest Official Leaders — or, rarely, the top three. They sit in $2,500 chairs and look very concerned.
Then the group issues another press release that announces the creation of a permanent framework for future discussions of the problem. The world’s stock markets rise sharply for one day. Then the next day they fall back to where they were the day before the press release.
Here is an unbreakable rule: if there is a third summit within a three-month period, the banking system is in really big trouble. If, in between summits two and three, there are a couple of failures of banks or brokerage firms that the public has never heard of, but which turn out to have had assets of tens of billions of dollars, the folks at the top of the heap are in panic mode.
In order for sin to work, there has to be a “suppression of the truth.” The reason people sin is not because they don’t know better. People sin because they have chosen to ignore, to suppress what creation is clearly revealing about God. We live in the universe that God has created, and throughout the universe, from the delicate flower to the boiling hot sun, God has communicated to us his invisible qualities. There is not a blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice in our knowledge of God.
It’s as if we’ve awakened in a magnificent art gallery, and though we’ve never met the Artist, in these ten thousand paintings, given for our enjoyment, we learn what he is like. I was walking home from work and walked past the Farmer’s Market that meets on Thursdays. It was a gorgeous afternoon, clear sky, warm sun, cool breeze, music in the air, fresh fruits, vegetables, flowers, children playing, laughter, and conversation. I was struck by this particular scene, by this “painting” as it were. Where did this richness, this beauty, and life come from? What kind of Artist is this? What kind of power must he possess? How good and generous must he be? How must we owe all that we are to him? That’s just one small painting, but this art gallery extends for mile after mile, around this world, to the edges of the galaxies and beyond. All of it communicates to us the greatness of God.
As sophisticated as our questions and doubts are, the reason we have such a hard time seeing God in creation is not because of a shortage of evidence. The problem is with people, because of their fallen sinfulness. It’s not as if people are sort of these morally neutral, objective seekers, who are trying to find God. No, people love their sin. It’s wired into their very being. Because they love their sin, they can justify that love by denying, suppressing the reality of God.
Why is God full of wrath towards sinners? Because every sin exists in the face of overwhelming evidence of his eternal power and divine nature, and every sin is a denial of who God is.
The idolatry problem
We see this in verses 21-23, the result of the suppression of the truth is this terrible decline into futility and darkness. Apart from a right understanding of God, there can be no right-thinking, no right feeling, no right being. It all culminates in this horrible exchange of the glory of God, for man-made images—idolatry.
We hear this word idolatry, and we think of primitive people bowing to carved idols, and as Westerners, we have a hard time identifying with that. At its root, idolatry is this exchange of the truth of God for a lie, worshiping and serving created things rather than the Creator. So it doesn’t have to involve carved statues.
It’s when we search for fulfillment and purpose, in created things, rather than our Creator. When we devote our time, and our attention, and our ambitions towards worldly things, rather than God, that’s idolatry. In other words, it is this tragic exchange of the glory of the immortal God, for the dust of this world. It is idolatry that characterizes this world. All of us were made to worship something, but having turned away from the one true God, we look for gods elsewhere.
So what are the idols of our culture, the idols of your life, and my life? Paul lists some idols in verse 23, but really what he’s communicating is the wide range of idolatry—from mortal man, all the way down to reptiles. Our idolatry is pretty undiscerning; we can turn any created thing into an idol. From really good things: work, relationships, even service at church, to really low, debased things like pornography, drugs, and violence. As John Calvin said, “The human heart is a factory of idols… every one of us is from his mother’s womb, an expert in inventing idols.”
In every single one of those idols, people have given created things the place that only God deserves in their lives. With their lives, with their affections, with their choices, people are declaring that they love created things more than their Creator. This is idolatry, and this is why the world is under God’s wrath.
The world loves sin
That’s what we see in verses 26 to the end of the chapter. How will God punish this suppression of truth and idolatry? He will do a terrifying thing. Not fire from heaven. Not a devastating flood. No, he will give sinners what they want. He will give them over to their sin. When Paul talks about God’s wrath is revealed, he’s not referring to a future judgment that’s coming. He’s talking about the present. The world is experiencing the wrath of God for their sins. This wrath is a terrifying thing. God is giving sinners over to the destructive sins that they want and love.
This language of God giving people over is what we see in the Old Testament. Whenever Israel would worship the idols of surrounding nations, God’s judgment meant that he would give them what they wanted. He would allow them to be enslaved and oppressed by the foreign gods and powers that they so loved. That’s what’s going on here, God is handing humanity over to the captivity they have chosen for themselves.
In giving people over to sin, God isn’t imposing some kind of external evil on us. Rather, this is the removal of God’s gracious restraint over humanity, in order to reveal what actually exists within our hearts. What we find in there is a hatred for God, a love of sin, resulting in all kinds of destruction and further incurring the wrath of God.
Some of the most controversial statements here are Paul’s words about homosexuality in verses 26-27. This is a difficult topic in our culture today, and with just a few minutes to address this, there’s much potential for misunderstanding. We need to understand some of what Paul is saying here, so let me make three points.
First, homosexuality is against God’s natural design. Some people have interpreted the condemnation here as being against those who would practice homosexuality against their natural heterosexual orientation. In the wider context of creation, when Paul talks about natural and unnatural, he’s not referring to someone’s subjective sense of their sexuality, but he’s referring to God’s purpose for us and his created order. So when someone says, “But God made me this way!” that’s not entirely correct. Yes, there is a sense in which this orientation might reside deep in your being, but that’s a result of the corruption of our bodies because of sin. God made people in his image, male and female, and this is his good design. Homosexuality is against God’s natural design.
Second, idolatry is the root problem of our lives, not homosexuality or any other sin. The deepest problem of our lives, whether we’re heterosexual or homosexual, is that we have exchanged God for idols. Our failure to worship God is our deepest disorder, beneath all the brokenness of this world. Therefore, what we need first and foremost is not to repair our disordered sexuality, but to return to right worship of God.
Third, and this is tremendously weighty, Paul highlights homosexuality because of the way it uniquely displays our idolatry. Throughout Scripture, man and woman in covenant sexual union are meant to be a picture of that covenant relationship between man and God. Embedded in creation, in this joyful and fundamental aspect to who we are, in marriage between man and woman, we have two who are different brought together in perfect unity. That’s a glimpse of the kind of relationship humanity was meant to have with God. God is the one who is wholly other, wholly different from us, and yet this very God invites us into a covenant relationship with him.
In our idolatry, we have turned away from God to ourselves. God will hand us over to what we have chosen. Rather than our sexuality is a picture of our relationship with God, it will be a picture of our idolatry, as male and female turn to images of themselves for sexual union, namely their own sex. What we see in the sexual revolution of our day and of all of human history, is the judgment of God, showing us how we have exchanged the glory of God for images of ourselves. God’s wrath is being revealed against human sinfulness, and that means that our sexuality and our very being is now disordered, a picture of what humanity has earned by their idolatry.
Well, from the catalog of sin there in verses 29 to 31, it’s clear that God’s handing people over to sin is not limited to our sexual disordering, but it pervades every area of our lives, from relationships to our words, to our hearts, to our actions. This is not meant to be a description of any one person. This is what characterizes a fallen human society. So no one can escape this. Looking at this list you might be thinking, This is not me! I’m not a murderer, I’m not ruthless. Well, yes but have you ever lied? Have you ever gossiped? Have you ever disobeyed your parents? These are real evils and they incur the wrath of God.
What’s striking is the way Paul lists all these sins right next to each other. Murderers are right there with the slanderers. God-haters are right there with the parent-haters. The inventors of evil are right there with the envious. People want to create categories of sins, sort of like the way the Catholic Church has Mortal and Venial sins. We all like to think that if we, stay away from Mortal sins, murder, kidnapping, genocide, and we will be okay. We acknowledge venial sins are bad, but they’re small sins and God will put up with them. That’s not what we see here. From big sins to small sins, verse 32 tells us “Those who do such things deserve death.”
How terrible will God’s wrath be against this world? It will be a world utterly given over to the suppression of the truth, to idolatry, and to the wickedness it deserves. If you’re not a Christian, does this sound like a description of the world you live in? Even more important, does this sound like a description of your life? If your answer is, no, is it because God has misunderstood you, or is it because you have misunderstood God? Could it be that you have been living under this terrible conspiracy, this suppression of the truth?
What I want all of us to take away from this text is not a to-do list or an action plan. At least not yet. What we need to take away from this is, perhaps for the first time, the awful realization that we belong to a world that has horribly gone wrong, that has defiantly turned its back on the Creator in all manner of evil, and is now under the just and righteous condemnation of God. The world is in serious trouble. But that’s not all. So are we.
Read Romans 2:1-29
We are also in trouble
In chapter one, Paul gives us a picture of the unbelieving world, which would’ve been the Gentile world of his day. You can imagine the murmurs of approval and agreement coming from his Jewish listeners. It’s almost as if he’s riling them up with that long list of sins at the end of the chapter… only then to turn on them. In whatever way these Jews were passing condemnation on others, they were actually condemning themselves.
This is how we have to hear the text also. Romans 2 is for any of us that for whatever reason, believe Romans 1 did not apply to us. Whether because of your good morality, or your upbringing, or your church attendance, or any other thing that you believe makes you the exception. If you did not feel the reality of your guilt before God, and the wrath of God that your sin exposes you to, then this is addressed to you.
God will not show favoritism
We see this in verses 5-11 when Judgment Day comes, there will be no partiality. Why is it that we think God plays favorites? Why is it that we think that he will show favor to us? God is a righteous judge. His judgment will be according to the truth. All the strictness and precision of justice that he will exact over the life of a Hitler, will be the same strictness and precision that he will exact over your life and my life.
Yes, he is a God that is rich in kindness, tolerance, and patience. The fact that you’re alive and breathing today is evidence of that. But when Judgment Day comes, and it comes time to stand before the bar of heaven, there will be no favors given. There will be no bribes accepted. On that day, God’s standard of justice will be crystal-clear, and those who do not meet it will be sent away into trouble and distress.
How do we know if we think this way? According to verses 1-3, we have some guidelines. Do you find yourself being judgmental towards others? This is why judging is wrong. It’s not because morality is relative and there is no such thing as good or evil. No, good and evil are very much objective realities. It is right to recognize evil around you. The sin of judgmentalism is when we pass condemnation onto others, thinking that we ourselves are not under that same condemnation.
We all have done this. We have all given ourselves a break for our own sin that we are not willing to give to others for their sin. If you find yourself being judgmental towards others, the solution is not to try and make sin relative. The solution is to stop belittling God’s justice. Begin seeing your own sin for what it is. Take the plank out of your own eye. Then in fear and trembling, humbly offer yourself in love to help others deal with their sin as a fellow sinner.
God will judge according to our obedience
We are in trouble because God will judge according to our obedience. This is what we see beginning in verse five. What will be the standard of God’s judgment? “God will give to each person according to what he has done.”
Those who persist in doing good will be rewarded with eternal life. What is this good that we’re to do? Starting in verse 12, we see that it is obedience to God’s Law, obedience to that moral standard that is a reflection of God’s holy character. As those created in God’s image, we were made to reflect the character of God by our lives, by the way, we live, talk, love, and work. The way we do that is by living according to the revelation of the Law that God has given us, first in our hearts and consciences, but also in the Scriptures. In other words, how we live matters. On Judgment Day, God will judge us according to how we live, whether in obedience or disobedience, because that will reveal the kind of people that we truly are.
As much as the Jewish people agreed with this for the unbelieving world out there, they failed to apply it to themselves. Rather than seeing the Law as something to obey and to order their lives by, they saw it as a token of God’s favor, a charm of protection and superiority. They placed their confidence in having the Law, even while they disobeyed it.
Friends, it’s easy for us to shake our heads at this, but is this not what sinful nature does? As evangelicals who put a high priority on the Word of God, we especially need to hear this. We hear preaching week after week, we hear Bible teaching on the radio and on our podcasts, we read the Bible in our devotions, we memorize Scripture, we sing and listen to songs with Bible in them, we study the Bible in small groups, in disciplining relationships, all of these things are good. But, ultimately the only thing that will matter on Judgment Day is whether you have obeyed what God has commanded so clearly, in His Word. Are you turning away from sin? Are you living in obedience to God’s Word?
We might waver in answering those questions, but there will be no wavering when it comes time for God to answer that question. It will be crystal-clear to him on the last day, those whose obedience brought honor to him, and those whose disobedience blasphemed his name.
Outward religion is not enough
We are in trouble because our outward religion is not enough. That’s what we see there in the discussion about circumcision at the end of the chapter. One of the easiest, and deadliest, substitutes for true obedience to God’s Law is outward conformity to a religious standard. It’s easy because it doesn’t require us to deal with our sin. If all I have to do to be saved is to get circumcised, or to say a prayer, or walk an aisle, or join a church, no problem. Sign me up. Then let me go on my merry way and live however I want. It’s deadly because outward religion cannot make us right with God. God will not judge us according to any outward conformity or physical act, but he will judge us according to our obedience to his Word. I wonder what outward religious acts are we depending on?
If you somehow felt the first chapter of Romans did not apply to you, what you need to realize is that all the condemnation that you would gladly heap on the world out there, every bit of it applies to you also for your sins. Your imaginary favor before God will not save you. Your knowing about God’s Word will not save you. Your outward religion will not save you. No, all those props have been knocked out from under your feet, and you are left on the same ground as the rest of humanity.
The whole world is under the wrath of God. And so are we.
Conclusion
This is where the gospel begins, by exposing our desperate need before God. If you don’t begin here, you don’t have the gospel. All of humanity, Jew and Gentile, moral and immoral, religious or irreligious, stands utterly condemned before God because of our sin. Every human division, race, culture, language, wealth, education, class, is obliterated by this one massive commonality: we are sinners, all of us, and we need to be saved by God.
The gospel is for sinners. Therefore, the church is for sinners. What we have in the church is not a gathering of those who have their lives together. What we have is the one place on earth specifically designed for sinners of every kind, of every background, of every record. This is the one place where sinners can be brutally honest about their sinfulness and be safe because that’s whom the gospel is for.
I pray that the church would become a place where sinners come, and as they hear testimonies, as they hear conversations, as they see pastors and members humbly confessing their weaknesses, and messy people owning their failures, that sinners coming in would ask, “People can do that? We’re allowed to confess that here?” They would find out that it really is okay, that such openness and honesty about our brokenness really is allowed because we have the gospel. I pray that there would be a culture of grace, where sinners would confess their sin and talk about their sin and repent into the safety of the gospel. StevieRay Hansen
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Let Me Make This Abundantly Clear. (I Am Apolitical) While I Have a General Distaste for Politicians No Matter the Party They Belong To, I Am Unashamedly Politically a Bible Believing Conservative Christian. I Have a Severe Distrust of Government. I Believe It Is the Most Inefficient and Ineffective Way to Accomplish Most Things. While I Strongly Disagree with Liberals/Progressives and Conservative on Most Political Issues, and While I Believe Liberals/Progressives and Most Politicians Are Terribly Misguided and Naive About What Big Government Will Eventually Result In, I Strive to Not Question Their Motives. at the Same Time, While I Find Myself in Agreement with Conservative Politicians on Some Issues, I Do Not Believe Electing Republicans Is the Answer to Everything. for Me, Very Sadly, the Main Difference Between Republicans and Democrats Is How Quickly They Want to Drive the Car Towards the Cliff. Simply Put, I Do Not Believe the Government Is the Solution for Everything. I Do Not Place Any Faith, Trust, or Hope in Any Politicians to Fix What Is Wrong with the World. “Come Lord Jesus!” (Revelation 22:20)
The Birth Pains Are Growing Stronger….
“Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants.”
My name is Steve Meyers and I need to share a vision and warning that the Lord showed me back in April 2007….
Many of you will ask why I waited so long to share the warning. I didn’t. I shared the story with everyone that would listen from pastors to friends to family to colleagues. Immediately following the initial vision, I called a close friend. I told him to sit down that I had something to tell him. I needed it documented as I knew this was supernatural and from God. As I witness events unfolding today, I need to share the vision again.
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Our government has been overthrown. As evidenced by Trump’s capitulation on the border, his recent servitude to the GMO industry and his acquiescence to the warmongers, our President has been compromised. Our liberties are being eliminated one by one. Gun confiscation is next. The Constitution is gasping its last breaths. Our borders are destroyed and our culture has been turned upside down by every perversion known to man.
Education is useless without the bible (Daniel Webster)
Usually, the Lord doth no great thing for or against his people, without giving warning of it before it comes.
John Wesley who said that what we tolerate in our generation, will be embraced by the next. Wesley is 100% correct! We are living in sick times.
Evil Exists So Spiritual Warfare Becomes Necessary!
- Corinthians 4:8-11 New King James Version (NKJV)
- We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9. persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed— 10. always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh.
Satan has power over (LGBTQE-TRANS PEOPLE). The “sons of disobedience” referred to in Ephesians 2:2 are those who have not trusted Christ as Lord and Savior (cf. Acts 26:18; 2 Corinthians 4:4; Revelation 13:12). The demons are also under the rule of Satan (Matthew 12:24), and one of his titles is “prince of demons” (Matthew 9:34). Satan has a kingdom (Matthew 12:26) and a throne (Revelation 2:13). Satan is called a prince because he is a ruler and possesses the power to manifest evil in the world through influencing people and commanding demons.
HNewsWire- “All political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.” Just look at some of our modern-day examples: torture is “enhanced interrogation techniques”; murder is “collateral damage”; the aggression initiation of war is a “pre-emptive strike”; the theft of taxpayers’ money is a “bailout”, and the theft of depositors’ money in a bank is a “haircut” or “bail-in”.In a blatant example of Newspeak, the New World Order controllers (through the psychiatric DSM V) have tried to rename pedophiles as “minor-attracted persons” and redefine pedophilia as “sexual orientation”. This makes no sense since sexual orientation has to do with gender, not age, with whether you are attracted to males or females, not how old they are. There are even organizations (like B4UAct.org) which are claiming that pedophiles are being unfairly stigmatized for their feelings!
If homosexuality has been posed as healthy, good and normal, in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, so can pedophilia. Pro-pedophilic articles are making their way into academia.
The Cult of LGBTQE-E for EVIL and is often a cover for child-molesting perverts…
Unfortunately, not all alternative sources are reliable, even some Major Christian (and I use Christian loosely) news sources have been corrupted. They will NOT tell the truth. They just parrot the deceptive narratives perpetrated by those who currently control our government and media. Even those who are honestly trying to present the truth can miss it sometimes. There is so much deception out there. In these last days, you must be wise as serpents and gentle as lambs. It is no time to sleep or slumber. Diligence and vigilance are required. It is critical that you think for yourself and not be a Lemming.
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