Good Morning Everybody! It's almost 6AM... Time to Arise for some of you? I awoke about 3:30, again...Once I get up, visit the bathroom, I pull out my reader to check the time...and, since, I have it in my hand, I normally read a little...or a lot...
This morning, after starting yesterday, I was reading a little of a new fiction novel and am finding it drawing me into the story, plus getting me away from so many different non-fiction books... Keeping my thoughts straight is important these days... But, I find the more I am listening, the more I'm finding clarity... Thank you, Lord...
Then I opened up my new eb00k of the Bible and found Acts 13. Actually, I had highlighted a portion, and knew I would be using it in some way, but just didn't know when or how...but I took the time to go back to the chapter beginning and read again, the Words...
1 Now there were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers, Barnabas, and Symeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen the foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2 And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 3 Then, when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. 4 So they, being sent forth by the Holy Spirit, went down to Seleucia; and from thence they sailed toCyprus. 5 And when they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John as their attendant. 6 And when they had gone through the whole island unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus; 7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, a man of understanding. The same called unto him Barnabas and Saul, and sought to hear the word of God. 8 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn aside the proconsul from the faith. 9 But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him, 10 and said,
O full of all guile and all villany, thou son of the devil, thou song of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
For Many of us who have been watching, wondering, waiting, to see if there will ever be any accountability for our former president, I find I've become somewhat impatient, although as we know that, often, God does indeed force us to wait for His time... I was led to use this scripture that I'd marked about a week ago... In fact, I think it was close to the day I was also awakened about 3 and was led to write out all the questions that I had in relation to the Political Seduction of the Church book, which I've talked about. The urgency seemed to be placed on me so I had written a request to have Dr. Brown visit here to answer my many questions... It was removed from the AskDr.Brown Facebook page, I later discovered. So, I thought, well, maybe an acknowledgment or a response would be sent...I haven't received it. However, I did see a list on that page related to what I thought was perhaps a plan of action...of concerns for the future...
Ok, I had to ask... What About Accountability? Brown had used the issue often in his book... Now I wonder, was that, too, a rhetorical philosophical question" So...full disclosure here, LOL, I went this morning, after receiving the nudge I needed to use the above scripture (I think it is a rebuke, if I'm reading it right) since I was hoping, somehow, more Evangelical Christians would be openly willing to discuss what has and is happening...
Check out those earlier actions at the bottom. It includes the comment I made to a post there... I just looked and not only was there no response to my comment, I also saw that there was, as far as I could tell, no responses back to any who commented. Are there rules about how to ask Dr. Brown a question, I'm wondering... Was it the requester/commenter's job to search him out? Yeah...I'm disappointed, to say the least...
In any event, I woke this morning with a single thought. There really is NO relationship between our relationship with our God...and the government. Yes, we have a role to play, but that does not require any type of total merge or suppression or, worse, as we are seeing now, a possessive attempt to claim that God is over the government, so we Christians should rule all of the government, because...well...just because.....! NOT!
"Render unto Caesar" is the beginning of a phrase attributed to Jesus in the synoptic gospels, which reads in full, "Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's" (Ἀπόδοτε οὖν τὰ Καίσαρος Καίσαρι καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῷ Θεῷ).[Matthew 22:21]
This phrase has become a widely quoted summary of the relationship between Christianity, secular government, and society. The original message, coming in response to a question of whether it was lawful for Jews to pay taxes to Caesar, gives rise to multiple possible interpretations about the circumstances under which it is desirable for Christians to submit to earthly authority.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Render_unto_Caesar
