THE THESIS: They have lived so long in the lie, they now feel it is their only refuge. It is certainly their native tongue.
THE SCRIPTURE & SCRIPTURAL RESOURCES:
The Old Testament reminds us what happens to people who live in the lie.
1 Blessed is the one
who does not walk in step with the wicked
or stand in the way that sinners take
or sit in the company of mockers,
2 but whose delight is in the law of the Lord,
and who meditates on his law day and night.
3 That person is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither—
whatever they do prospers.
4 Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
The Pharisees had become the religious bureaucrats of their day and, though the Son of God stood directly before them, they could not see . . .
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
9 As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
12 “Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.
17 Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
18 They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. 19 “Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
20 “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. 21 But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
25 He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
26 Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”
28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! 29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
30 The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. 32 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34 To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
Spiritual Blindness
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 “Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”
37 Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
38 Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
39 Jesus said,[a] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.
THE NEWS & COMMENT:
The Dictator of California has lived in the lie for so long, who can tell is he actually believes himself? What the Republicans voted against was keeping the door open for the IRS or any other agent of the State to force churches, religious hospitals and schools or any other group to violate the practice of their religious faith. Can Gavin even see truth anymore? His own Country of California has cities enshrining racism and special treatment of gender defiant people in their laws with “BIPOC” only meetings and schools and guaranteed income for men who think they are women.
‘Election denier” Jamie Raskin has become The Lie, does he know that? One cannot uphold the Constitution by giving the State an open door to attack religious liberties.
Long ago, the ADL gave into lying and are now busily becoming The Lie. President Trump was the most pro-Israel President in history, Tucker Carlson is not gong to be President and being a Globalist is an ideology, not a religion or race.
Is there a better example of how living in lies can turn you into The Lie than Jane Fonda? Here, Jane says, without racism there would be no “climate change” . . .”
Michael Knowles very calmly allows a woman of The Lie to reveal the fact that she cannot see truth, let alone speak it
Zach Abraham’s least favorite TV stock guy, Jim Cramer says he hates that people insist we are headed for a recession . . . Jim, we have been in a recession for months. That is not “just [my] opinion”, it is mathematically factual. When was the last time Cramer spoke truth?
[AUDIO] - "Everyone's decided there's going to be a recession. I don't see the recession coming," Jim Cramer has said.
The same White House who turned the backs on Marines and get them killed and decided to leave hundreds of millions of dollars in war fighting equipment to the Taliban says they will show how much they care about the troops by continuing to insist they get injected with useless, harmful, too often deadly mRNA.
THE LISTENERS:
Susan K
Dear Brother Todd,
I listened to the podcast with Stacy Ograyenseks and my heart went out to her. I prayed for her, with you, that day.
Because I am not in the medical field, I asked a good ‘sister in the Lord’ who is a nurse to listen to that podcast.
I thought it unusual for you not to have a trusted medical person in that podcast to discern what should have been done with Stacy’s husband, other factors to consider, etc.
My medical friend read the intro to the podcast and refused to listen/read further, due to your opining of ‘murder’ and said that there is so much mis-information and outright lies (on both sides) on this issue, reminded me that Satan is the ‘Father of lies’ and she considers it slander of the dedicated medical staff (some who are fellow-Christians) who have tirelessly and heroically try to help patients during Covid (she has been through a lot as a nurse, during Covid too) and that we should only be filling our heads with God’s truth and not this (political) stuff because it could cause disunity in the Body of Christ and that only God knows the truth. (citing 2Tim 2:23 “Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.”)
However, I believe that all truth is God’s truth and I want to know the truth when it comes to this, too. How else can I make informed decisions or help anyone else?
I can also think of anther verse about exposing ‘fruitless deeds of darkness’ (Eph. 5:11)
While I agree we’ve been mis-lead by the government and their ‘medical expert’ – Dr. Fauci & Co., I think we need to be more cautious with jumping to conclusions with information that have not had trusted medical professionals give their assessment.
Love you and continue to listen and pray,
A parade of broken-brained bosses and hilariously obvious liars