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WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD by Pastor Bulldog
Text: Ephesians 5:26; “That He might sanctify it and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.”
There was an ignoble ritual in the Army in the 40s decade called a GI bath (General Issue). I would assume it is still being done, except that it may not be necessary in this day and age of designer fragrances.
There was a young GI in my barracks who was not hindered by cleanliness. He went for extraordinary lengths of time without so much as a wash rag to his face - UNTIL: the emanation from him formed a different aura, so thick that it was hurting our eyes. So, it was necessary to put together a *committee*. He was captured and carried, kicking and screaming, into the latrine where he was deluged with water from a hose and with G.I. soap. The poor guy was scoured, scrubbed, and rubbed until he was spic and span, mad, and left to drip-dry.
OUR COUNTRY NEEDS A G.I. (God Inspired) BATH
There is a stench of rottenness that has caused a smog of smut over our country and it is like an incoming tide, washing up flotsam and jetsam and ugly little sea creatures. Media people, bloggers, entertainment Novas, super ambitious politicos, and just plain downright mean, cantankerous, ignorant, disappointed, envious, greedy, filthy mouth no talent ... (you fill in the rest), are wasting their time and ours on trying to destroy careers and to topple those in the spotlight. They do the work of Huns and Visigoths
Their main target is Jesus Christ, the Bible, and Christians. Nominal Christians don't bother them, because Nominal Christians have no sense of solid doctrine and "fold" easily and join in with them.
We need outraged up-holders of Judeo/Christian moral values to form committees to backwash this flood with GI baths of decency, purification, high level thoughts and deeds; to saturate the air with stinging rebukes of scripture, and prayer vigils in non-public places: non-violent, but visible, prayer warrior sessions.
Avoid noisy demonstrations: they are what give godless humanists, fuel to ridicule with nasty, degrading terms from filthy mouths and polluted hearts. The offenders have no shame and to respond in kind is to give them what they want. Let them ridicule believers for praying and reading our Bibles. Heap coals of fire on them with pity and kindness and let God deal with them. Isn't that what Paul instructed the Corinthian church to do in regard to incest?
In my years of observing Presidents, administrations, Congress, lobbyists and the court system, I have never witnessed such falsification, blaming, name calling, manipulation, hypocrisy, political game playing, skull-duggary and blatant in-your-face, white-washed larceny . . . and it's only May.
Congress is such an amusing place, Will Rogers found most of his irony in Congressional malarkey. It is where every mean and nasty barb and dart that is aimed at another is followed by ‘. . . My good friend and colleague the honorable [ Representative/Senator] from the great state of . . . ‘.
"These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots (Jude 1:12)".
(No disrespect to the good law makers with right motives; may their tribe increase, God bless them.)
The Culture of Corruption and
the Culture of Concupiscence
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, boasted about cleaning out the culture of corruption within 100 days. That was when Republicans handed over and just gave Congress to the DNC. Her goal was noble, indeed: corruption she knows something about, But a larger phenomenon is growing like yeast in bread dough. It's the Culture of Concupiscence (def: No holds barred ) The Psalmist heard it in his day, Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Sometimes I feel like Elijah. Am I the only one who is sick of it? Are there others who are as outraged as me?
School kids have always been savvy about adult stuff, but their daytime domains are now infected with low life lures. The culture of concupiscence is loaded with Socialists and Secular Humanists, whose manifestos denounce God, the worship of God. and they explode from emotional internal combustion and rage at those who do worship God - we are a threat to them and their ugly lifestyles. *How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (Job
15:16) .* (Gee, I wish I had said that!)
WE NEED TO FORM G.I. COMMITTEES
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7).
From heaven, Jesus selected a committee of 40 holy men of old: prophets, judges, kings, business men, and priests, and breathed His testimonies, ordinances, and commandments into their personalities and considered backgrounds to form a guide book of 60 books, unchanging and absolute. It's called THE BIBLE, one book; no need to call it anything else; it is the ONE BOOK by which men may find God and be guided by Him in peace, grace and safety.
This committee of “washers"; members of a spiritual spa of sorts, where you are rubbed down with oil, lifted up spiritually, and given peace, mercy, forgiveness, and access into God's grace, and are inwardly clean and refreshed. They recorded God's infallible words as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. By them you can know that all the wrong things you ever did in your lifetime have been washed away.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit (1Thessalonians 4:7-8)”
The greatest benefit of all for believers is that we can be washed daily, morning, noon, and night. The sign on God's door says, "OPEN 24/7" Our privilege is a walk with the Lord who listens anytime to anything we need to say, and washes away the guilt of sin by His word and enables you to be a beacon in a world gone mad.
WASHING OF WATER BY THE WORD by Pastor Bulldog
Text: Ephesians 5:26; “That He might sanctify it and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.”
There was an ignoble ritual in the Army in the 40s decade called a GI bath (General Issue). I would assume it is still being done, except that it may not be necessary in this day and age of designer fragrances.
There was a young GI in my barracks who was not hindered by cleanliness. He went for extraordinary lengths of time without so much as a wash rag to his face - UNTIL: the emanation from him formed a different aura, so thick that it was hurting our eyes. So, it was necessary to put together a *committee*. He was captured and carried, kicking and screaming, into the latrine where he was deluged with water from a hose and with G.I. soap. The poor guy was scoured, scrubbed, and rubbed until he was spic and span, mad, and left to drip-dry.
OUR COUNTRY NEEDS A G.I. (God Inspired) BATH
There is a stench of rottenness that has caused a smog of smut over our country and it is like an incoming tide, washing up flotsam and jetsam and ugly little sea creatures. Media people, bloggers, entertainment Novas, super ambitious politicos, and just plain downright mean, cantankerous, ignorant, disappointed, envious, greedy, filthy mouth no talent ... (you fill in the rest), are wasting their time and ours on trying to destroy careers and to topple those in the spotlight. They do the work of Huns and Visigoths
Their main target is Jesus Christ, the Bible, and Christians. Nominal Christians don't bother them, because Nominal Christians have no sense of solid doctrine and "fold" easily and join in with them.
We need outraged up-holders of Judeo/Christian moral values to form committees to backwash this flood with GI baths of decency, purification, high level thoughts and deeds; to saturate the air with stinging rebukes of scripture, and prayer vigils in non-public places: non-violent, but visible, prayer warrior sessions.
Avoid noisy demonstrations: they are what give godless humanists, fuel to ridicule with nasty, degrading terms from filthy mouths and polluted hearts. The offenders have no shame and to respond in kind is to give them what they want. Let them ridicule believers for praying and reading our Bibles. Heap coals of fire on them with pity and kindness and let God deal with them. Isn't that what Paul instructed the Corinthian church to do in regard to incest?
In my years of observing Presidents, administrations, Congress, lobbyists and the court system, I have never witnessed such falsification, blaming, name calling, manipulation, hypocrisy, political game playing, skull-duggary and blatant in-your-face, white-washed larceny . . . and it's only May.
Congress is such an amusing place, Will Rogers found most of his irony in Congressional malarkey. It is where every mean and nasty barb and dart that is aimed at another is followed by ‘. . . My good friend and colleague the honorable [ Representative/Senator] from the great state of . . . ‘.
"These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots (Jude 1:12)".
(No disrespect to the good law makers with right motives; may their tribe increase, God bless them.)
The Culture of Corruption and
the Culture of Concupiscence
Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, boasted about cleaning out the culture of corruption within 100 days. That was when Republicans handed over and just gave Congress to the DNC. Her goal was noble, indeed: corruption she knows something about, But a larger phenomenon is growing like yeast in bread dough. It's the Culture of Concupiscence (def: No holds barred ) The Psalmist heard it in his day, Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Sometimes I feel like Elijah. Am I the only one who is sick of it? Are there others who are as outraged as me?
School kids have always been savvy about adult stuff, but their daytime domains are now infected with low life lures. The culture of concupiscence is loaded with Socialists and Secular Humanists, whose manifestos denounce God, the worship of God. and they explode from emotional internal combustion and rage at those who do worship God - we are a threat to them and their ugly lifestyles. *How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? (Job
15:16) .* (Gee, I wish I had said that!)
WE NEED TO FORM G.I. COMMITTEES
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians 6:7).
From heaven, Jesus selected a committee of 40 holy men of old: prophets, judges, kings, business men, and priests, and breathed His testimonies, ordinances, and commandments into their personalities and considered backgrounds to form a guide book of 60 books, unchanging and absolute. It's called THE BIBLE, one book; no need to call it anything else; it is the ONE BOOK by which men may find God and be guided by Him in peace, grace and safety.
This committee of “washers"; members of a spiritual spa of sorts, where you are rubbed down with oil, lifted up spiritually, and given peace, mercy, forgiveness, and access into God's grace, and are inwardly clean and refreshed. They recorded God's infallible words as they were moved by the Holy Spirit. By them you can know that all the wrong things you ever did in your lifetime have been washed away.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit (1Thessalonians 4:7-8)”
The greatest benefit of all for believers is that we can be washed daily, morning, noon, and night. The sign on God's door says, "OPEN 24/7" Our privilege is a walk with the Lord who listens anytime to anything we need to say, and washes away the guilt of sin by His word and enables you to be a beacon in a world gone mad.
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