[A]. EXPOSING ARTIFICIALITY

I have just seen one of these documentaries set in a very exclusive English hotel rated 5 stars. It is popular with some royalty and film stars and other high-profile people. It is very expensive with rooms upwards of 1300 pounds a night (£1300).

It was most disappointing that the program tended to concentrate on a homosexual couple getting married there, but the part that caught my attention was that this hotel is sometimes frequented by Bloggers. Bloggers are people who have blogs that are Internet channels or sites such as on Facebook, etc. They detail all facts about themselves, what they do, where they go, what they wear, and… well, everything.

One blogger couple was featured, and they were frequently taking videos with commentary and of themselves – very much of themselves – and all this was going to be placed on a blog. What really caught my attention was the way they were discussing their blogs and how many “likes” they were receiving, which is when a person ticks a thumbs up. Most of this was being recorded on mobile/cell phones. They were greatly motivated by viewer response. It was so vain.

As I watched them doing their thing, I thought, “How artificial is all that.” A couple was living for “likes,” and that was their whole life. I think a lot of Facebook is like that. It is so superficial, so detached from the real world that is a difficult one. That is what the bloggers are like, with a craving to demonstrate themselves for likes that they see as a measure of popularity and acceptance.

Also, what does it say about those who are watching these blogs and religiously following the bloggers? They are living vicarious lives. It is like role-playing. They are so bored, the viewers and followers are living their lives out through the blogs they follow. It all seems so meaningless.

The people I have discussed above fall into the snob arena. I would not get the time of day at that hotel except shown the front door. These people who are living these lives are snobs, elitists, social climbers, pretenders, conceited and egotistical. It is a life full of artificiality, a house of straw with as much weight as a soap bubble.

I am no follower of the Oscar awards or the Grammy awards but have seen bits of it now and again. All is show and pretense, all detached from the real world. These people, actors, and producers live empty lives in loneliness and unfulfillment. So too do those who wait for hours, even days, to get to see such events – awards, society functions with all the glamour and glitz and high society magazines and publicity. They are artificial people living artificial lives. Artificiality is no better seen than in Hollywood where actors can play the part of moral characters, but their lives are based on immorality and emptiness. They don’t live in the “real world” but one of froth and bubbles. That is what artificial is related to – self-delusion and tragic emptiness.

Solomon wrote, “Vanity of vanities. All is vanity.” Latin is Vanitas Vanitatum. Here is the concluding stanza of a long poem of mine with the same name.

“Vanitas Vanitatum – vanity and futility.
We have laid out here wisdom, and the state of the world we know.
There is a distinct difference between wisdom and folly.
The world pursues both folly and vanity; in strength they grow.
Men are chasing after the wind, for they reject righteousness.
Vanitas Vanitatum! All is vanity – man’s own choice.
Let us choose the path of wisdom found in the Bible alone;
Reject folly and embrace righteousness. Then you will rejoice.”

The world is full of vanity and artificial people. A friend of mine has a friend who told her that she has thousands of friends, those who follow her on Facebook. When it all boils down, those thousands do not know her; they are simply subscribed and don’t really care. They are not friends. Personally, I think the Internet and especially phones are responsible for the collapse in personal one-to-one communications and personal true friendships.

Nothing is more artificial than many of our politicians, those who live false lives and promote conscienceless politics. We can see right through their lives, but they are not even aware of the fact.

When I was about 16 or something in the late 1950s in Brisbane, Australia, I came upon a street vendor in full voice selling these remarkable watches. These were “genuine watches,” and he was selling them for 5 or 10 shillings, which was a sizable amount then. They were glitzy ones, and as most artificial things do, they had a certain appeal. Well, I actually bought one and later took it to a watchmaker. It was so fake and useless. It was as nothing.

Those watches are similar to these people we have been discussing. They parade around pretending importance as if they are something, looking shiny, but, in fact, are artificial people living artificial lives.

[B]. WHAT IS THE SOURCE? WHICH PRODUCES WHICH?

Do people live artificial lives because they are artificial, OR are they artificial because they live artificial lives?

The Christian doctrine is that the machine produces the outcome/the result. A factory’s machine designed to produce screws and bolts will do so because that is its function. The screws and bolts don’t produce the machine. People produce what they are. The external is controlled from the internal.

James covers something of the same in this passage – James 3:11-14 “Does a fountain send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water? Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Neither can salt water produce fresh. Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom.”

When it comes to artificial people, they may try to produce olives from a fig tree, but it will never happen. The James passage is looking at artificial Christians, but we will look at that area soon. The water from a fountain is fixed and behaves exactly the way that fountain is supposed to. Artificial people try to alter the function of the true individual.

Evil things proceed from an evil heart. Good things do not originate from an evil heart. Artificiality comes from artificial people, just as ducks produce ducks and mice produce mice. It may sound elementary, but the principle is a biblical one – Genesis 1:11-12 “Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them, on the earth,’ and it was so. And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind, and God saw that it was good.”

Later on, the next step in creation occurred – Genesis 1:25 “God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind, and God saw that it was good.”

[C]. ANOTHER LOOK AT ARTIFICIAL PEOPLE IN A PRACTICAL SENSE

I want to share the first half of one of my poems dealing with this very subject:

ARTIFICIAL PEOPLE LIVING ARTIFICIAL LIVES

Artificiality is seen now ev’rywhere,
As one of the stamps impressed on our society.
We cannot believe even those labels goods declare,
Thrown around dishonestly in impropriety.
For we live in deceptive times when truth is maligned,
And people’s genuineness has certainly declined.

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Where are the checks and balances we once enjoyed,
When there was a marked division between false and true;
Those days when a proper, managed discernment was employed?
Genuineness was the victim when morals withdrew.
What do we see in this world when dishonesty thrives?
Artificial people living artificial lives.

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What is false, God hates; what is not genuine, He knows.
God searches each heart; each motive He scrutinizes.
The scams of man are multitude – from wickedness flows.
God’s records contain all things; there are no surprises.
Man is fully adept at artificial pretense,
But it is the Lord Jesus, who justice will dispense.

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From observation, I have listed 8 points to connect with artificial people. Please note that these points are generalities rather than all-embracing.

1. They cannot be trusted because there is no substance.
   2. They are selfish.
   3. They suffer from a delusion that destroys reality.
   4. They often wear a false veneer.
   5. They are lost souls, and that part is bad, as for all mankind.
   6. They often crave attention.
   7. They are generally self-centered and egotistical. Many are found in politics, the public/civil service, and the entertainment industry.
   8. They all are out of touch with true reality.

Why is there artificiality? For that matter, why is there lying and deception, robbery and murder? It is all because of the sin nature all human beings inherit at birth as part of the old fallen nature derived from Adam and Eve. In this message, I am only highlighting artificiality.

Artificial people will face the heat of the sun and dissolve away. They will be as lightweight chaff that is scattered with the first wind gust. No more will be the airs and graces of high society, the stretch limousines and the best rooms in five-star hotels, and the overwhelming desire for notoriety and exposure in social magazines and vanity pages.

When the walls start to fall away and the inner life is exposed, what is there on display – a life of emptiness or a life of substance? James again addresses this practical aspect – James 4:13-14 “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow, we shall go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit,’ yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. You are just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.”

Boat owners know if they do not tether their boat in a river or at sea, it will float away – very much like people’s lives. All people are born untethered and are drifting on the sea of humanity, so they try to cast the anchor onto anything they can, such as logs and masses of seaweed, but all those fail. They are adrift without certainty, looking for fulfillment. This is a bit like the sentiment found in an old hymn – “I tried the broken cisterns, Lord, but Ahh, the water failed. Ev’n as I stooped to drink, they fled, and mocked me as I wailed. NOW NONE BUT CHRIST CAN SATISFY…”

Why is it that the world is in such a mess and artificial people rise up trying to cement their identity? The world has cut away the anchors and tethering ropes that held fast to God, the greatest stability we can have. Religious Education has been taken from schools; the Christian presence removed from Parliament and paganism substituted; God is dismissed from literature and the media, as an anti-God hatred spreads and WOKE replaces it; what is evil is legislated for such as the hellish perversion of homosexuality and pagan behavior as we have in the adoption of Aboriginal spiritism culture such as the Australian Government is doing.

Is it little wonder we are in the state we are? In one way, we can’t blame artificial people for their attitudes and behavior because they follow their instincts in a world where the Christian base has been sliced away.

[D]. LET US PUT CHRISTIANS IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Now I want to add the second half of the poem as we move to Christians, and the professing Christians. This is where we start to get serious because it is where so much sham exists.

ARTIFICIAL PEOPLE LIVING ARTIFICIAL LIVES

How can the Christian walk the path through deception’s lie;
To distinguish true from false and the right from wrong?
The world’s portrait is very bleak, causing us to sigh;
With increasing difficulty, we journey along.
It is the world’s vain and corrupted system that drives
Artificial people living artificial lives.

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“You worship before Me, but your heart is far from Me.
You come into My presence, but your mind is elsewhere.
I, the Lord, know the heart; all that is there, I can see.
Cleanse yourselves of falsehood; before Me, your heart lay bare.
Be transparent, open to My Spirit, and repent.
Come to Me honestly, heart and mind in full assent.”

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Christians need much discretion to follow faithfully,
Avoiding delusion’s traps and falsehood’s crafty snares.
Follow Jesus Christ, the Light of the World, joyfully,
For He is the Way, the Truth and the Life, He declares.
Not to follow Christ is the reason why this survives –
Artificial people living artificial lives.

Oct 2021 R E Ferguson Metre = 13 throughout A-B-A-B-C-C

The matters of importance mentioned in those three stanzas must not be overlooked when it comes to Christian testimony. We will consider those.

How do we walk through deception and not be contaminated? The world is built on a lie, and that is humanism. It is man without God, man the master of his own destiny. There is so much corruption, and it is growing worse as Christian ethics are discarded, none of which is a surprise, as God said it would happen in the last days of the Church age – 2 Timothy 3:1-2 “Realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come, for men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, (ETC.) 2 Timothy 3:12-13 “Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. Evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”

As Christians walk through this battleground of moral decline, they must cling even tighter to the hand of the Lord who walks with us. Those who desire with a pure longing to live for the Lord Jesus must be discerning in the age of confused goodness and evil, for it is here now. Homosexual “marriage” is considered good, and biblical principles of marriage and family considered bad – Isaiah 5:20-21 “Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil, who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness, who substitute bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight!”

[E]. INSINCERITY AMONG CHRISTIANS AND CHURCHES

Probably the greatest concern in all this message is the insincerity found in many lives of people who profess to be Christians. I don’t want to be critical, but a true Christian is one who has taken up his cross and follows Jesus. Consider the ramifications of this verse – Matthew 16:24 “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘If anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross, and follow Me.'” To take up your cross meant you were going to a place of execution. It meant death, and it did so literally for a great number of followers of Jesus. These people were committed, not artificial people living in a world of artificiality. Total dedication to the Lord was what, and still is, required by those who would confess Him.

Have you been born again? Some churches don’t know that term that Jesus used with Nicodemus when He told him he had to be born from above – born again. We have a natural birth, and we have a spiritual birth. Born again is the spiritual birth; when under conviction of sin and its penalty, the soul repents and surrenders his/her life to the Lord. Anyone who “goes along” with the Christian faith without true and full commitment to the Lord is living an artificial life, and it counts for nothing. Very sadly, it will result in this – Matthew 25:41 “Then He will also say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, accursed ones, into the eternal fire which has been prepared for the devil and his angels.” – Matthew 7:23 “Then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness.'”

If you are one who is living a lie, living for yourself, and has not ever given your life to the Lord Jesus Christ, then take this time now to repent for your sinful life, and accept Jesus as your Saviour and be saved. One line in the poem is, “Cleanse yourselves of falsehood; before Me, your heart lay bare.” I don’t want to be marked as a wet blanket, but churches are full of artificial people. Do not pretend. Don’t pretend to be righteous when you don’t even know the meaning of the word.

Many churches are at fault for not preaching the gospel. Some pastors won’t teach on hell and judgment (some not even believing it). Some don’t want people to leave (for the offerings) and are hypocrites. All of that is spurious Christianity, the worst devilish artificiality. God hates it.

This is a call to you to step forward to claim Jesus as your Saviour and to stop the pretense. Stand up for the Lord as a good soldier in His flock. The Lord is genuine and will make artificial people genuine.

I question if there is such a thing as an “artificial Christian,” as the two words seem to be a contradiction to me. Synonyms for artificial are “false, non-genuine, fake, not real.” A Christian is true, genuine, and one living in reality. It is simple enough. A man or woman is truly a Christian or is not. There is a divide between the two.

The world spawns artificial people, for that is natural to it.

They get caught up in the glamour of sin, and pretense increases. God would demand we all depart from what is not true. The false must not be part of our Christian profession. Churches need to be more diligent and return to the Bible and preach the truth of the word of God without compromise or devious motives.

Christians – live lives pleasing to the Lord, not live a sham.
Unsaved – today is the day of salvation. Repent and give your whole life to the Lord without reserve.

God bless His people in these difficult days. Amen.

ronaldf@aapt.net.au

Many years ago, when ‘Saturday Night Live’ used to be funny, the producers would push the bounds of comedy to the delight of their audience. If it was silly and outrageous, it absolutely had to be expressed on stage.

Those days are long gone as the producers of this show subjected themselves to the humorless left. Their eagerness to jump in bed with people who were Godless, faithless and tyrannical was a disturbing sign that the left had gained complete control over the entertainment media.

Even when it costs entertainers millions of dollars, they would rather receive the accolades of the wicked rather than achieve financial success by releasing material that people actually like.

Most people don’t like propaganda that poses as comedy.

Sadly, this is not only true of the heathen, but many who claim to be Christians are desperately seeking these accolades as well. So-called ‘Christians’ receive the praises of the wicked when they champion such causes as climate change, promote the race cult, or advocate the mindless idiocy of ‘transgenderism.’

Those entertainers who seek to please the wicked will only lose millions of dollars, but they can still repent. Those who preach the false gospel of social justice are, in the words of Paul, accursed, and will lose their eternal souls.

One of SNL’s funnier skits was called ‘the Nerds,’ which starred Bill Murray and Gilda Radner. They played two socially awkward teenagers named Todd and Lisa. Jane Curtin played the widowed Mrs. Loopner.

Loopner often told the story of her deceased husband to visitors. One of her funnier admissions was that Mr. Loopner, who did not appear in the show, was born without a spine.

Little did the writers of the show at that time realize that Mrs. Loopner’s husband would be an expression of the zeitgeist of the current age. In every facet of society, we see a complete inability on the part of people to stand up for truth and righteousness. There seems to be little to no moral fortitude left in the world.

Even when it costs people a fortune and their livelihoods, they would rather lose everything than stand up for what is right. The termination of Tucker Carlson was only the latest manifestation of this insanity.

Ironically, SNL’s capitulation to the left many years ago was a sure sign that they were suffering from Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome.

There is nothing funnier than the thoughts and behavior of the left, and no group of people deserves more ridicule than they. What is not funny is when these people are backed up by great wealth and a powerful ‘religious’ authority and then gain access to the levers of power.

To ridicule them, then, can be deadly.

This syndrome has infected not only actors but also the sports world with incredible ferocity. There are sports stars who show incredible bravery in competition but have no ability to stand up for the truth or what is right.

They, and the various sports commentators, sit idly by while their fellow competitors kneel during the national anthem. Despite their phony protestations, they do this out of a zeal to insult those who died for this country. There is little to no criticism of their sick and pathetic behavior; nothing but pure nonsense about how ‘brave’ they are.

Male and Female sports professionals watch helplessly as men dominate women’s sports.

Instead of refusing to participate in this farce, they pretend that guys who dress like girls represent the essence of womanhood. All of these people live in abject fear of being falsely accused of ‘transphobia’ even though this term is not even a real word.

Only one young woman, Riley Gaines, has dared to oppose this evil. And there are very few who are willing to back her up.

The feminist movement, which claims to be populated with ‘strong women,’ have shown themselves to be suffering from Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome. They have no faith, and they never did, and therefore no moral fortitude to stand against the annihilation of their sexual identity.

Those few who do stand up will be easily crushed, no matter how rich or popular they may be. They need faith to stand against evil, not feminist ‘logic.’

In the political realm, we who still care about right and wrong stand in awe as the Democrats continue to make criminals out of their political opposition.

The January 6th ‘KGB’ operation was easily turned into an ‘insurrection’ by a party that has abandoned any pretense of faith in the Lord.

While this insanity goes on, the Republicans stand idly by or even support the complete depravity of the Democrats.

The Republican Party is terribly infected with Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome. They have grown fat and rich on the lobbyists’ gravy train and will not stand against evil for fear that such a stand will hit them in their wallets. And there are far fewer Christians than in the past to hold them accountable for their weakness.

In the Bill of Rights, the American people used to have the right to peaceably assemble. The First Amendment clearly proclaims “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” The election of Joe Biden was clearly corrupt, and the protesters had every right to petition the government for redress of grievances.

The Republicans lack of moral fortitude helped the Democrats and their law enforcement lackeys make that a crime.

That civil right includes the right not to have the people who have assembled infiltrated by corrupt law enforcement agencies. If infiltration was not bad enough, the agencies moved to cause the very discord that many innocent Americans would be prosecuted for in order to undermine this right.

There is no question that the election of Joe Biden in 2020 was fraudulent. Every time a state shuts down vote counting because of ‘technical difficulties,’ the Democrat always seems to win.

The fact that Biden got fifteen million more votes than Obama got just a few years earlier was a dead giveaway. It is also a demonstration that the Democrats can manufacture a whole lot of votes in a short period of time.

It is understandable why Democrats would not stand against the injustice of the January 6th inquisition. They have no moral fortitude whatsoever. These people will do whatever their rich masters tell them to do.

Ninety-five percent of Washington D.C. votes for Democrats.

Finding a fair judge or juror when people are falsely accused of crimes in this third-world cesspool is nearly impossible.

Same goes for New York City.

However, the Democrats are only suffering from Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome when surrounded by people of faith. They used to have to obscure their opposition to truth and righteousness through the avenue of hypocrisy in order to get elected. Now that the faith of the American people is fading, they are free to publicly promote any form of wickedness that they desire.

They used to claim that abortion should be ‘safe and legal.’ Now their message is that aborting or mutilating one’s child is an act of compassion.

Democrat voters do not vote for Nancy Pelosi or AOC because they think they will bring freedom, morality and prosperity to the nation.

They elect them because they will punish the people they hate. The people that those who vote Democrat hate are those who are patriotic and people of faith.

This is why they call decent people ‘haters.’ In their hypocrisy, they accuse others of what they are.

What is more appalling are those politicians, who were elected largely by what is left of people of faith, who will not even defend their own voters against this type of evil and injustice. They are cowed into submission by the evil and lying mainstream press and are apparently happy with second-class status.

After all, we cannot stand against those who ‘purchase ink by the barrel.’ Mr. Loopner would be proud.

Someone needs to tell Marjorie Taylor Greene that she needs to be terrified of the press. She apparently did not get the memo.

After the Democrats and their sycophant media began lying about January 6th, most Republicans either went silent or joined in the condemnation with the Democrats. They joined in with the party that ‘boos God’ in order to condemn the ‘violence’ of the ‘rioters.’

Of course, the only real ‘violence’ that was perpetrated was by a hapless police officer, who had no business carrying a gun due to his past incompetence, murdering an unarmed woman named Ashli Babbitt.

Those Republicans who stood with the Democrats have still not condemned this terrible act of evil.

Spineless.

Wikipedia, the writers of whom could not tell the truth if their lives depended on it, accused her of being among a mob of supporters of President Trump. According to these truth suppressors, her intent was to overturn a completely legitimate election. Only a fool would believe that.

By comparison, if you make the mistake of looking up the Democrat Brownshirt group ‘Antifa,’ Wikipedia will inform you that it is an anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement that engages in poster and flyer campaigns.

That lie alone should earn them a place in the eighth circle of hell of Dante’s Inferno.

The fact is, we expect evil from people who ‘boo God.’ We expect it from their politicians, their press corps, and their voters. No one ever looks to a Democrat or the media for truth or righteousness. What is sad is when spineless Republicans join in their Godless charade.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate Majority leader, claimed that January 6 was a “dark day for the country.” However, it was not a dark day because the ‘KGB’ stole a portion of our first amendment rights, or an innocent woman was murdered; it was because “our federal government was stormed by criminals who brutalized police officers and used force to stop Congress from doing its job.”

Gee, I hope the officer who murdered unarmed, five-foot-nothing Ashli Babbitt is recovering from his PTSD.

McConnell went on to claim, “There’s no question—none—that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day. No question about it,” he said then, calling it “a disgraceful, disgraceful dereliction of duty.”

There is no question that those who lack moral fortitude routinely issue ‘moral’ rebukes that are better applied to themselves.

Mitch McConnell and the numerous other Republicans who joined him, or sat by silently and continue to do so even though all the facts are out, are in the later stages of Mr. Loopner’s syndrome.

The fact that this lie has resulted in innocent people being imprisoned in a Washington penal hellhole is inexcusable.

In politics, we can excuse some lack of moral fortitude on the part of all politicians (although this level of spinelessness is unprecedented). They must get votes and sometimes compromise in order to get reelected.

Even Governor Glen Youngkin buckled to a girl posing as a guy and stated we needed more ‘transgender’ bathrooms. He lacked the moral fortitude to tell this young woman that she was destroying her own life and that he refused to participate in that travesty.

We expect to see weak knees in politics. What is inexcusable is when we see an incredible lack of moral fortitude among those we call ‘pastors.’

We have seen many societies that have abandoned the Gospel being slowly turned over to tyranny. This is especially true in Europe, Australia and Canada. The churches in these areas long ago refused to preach the Gospel.

The Apostle Peter proclaimed that “it is time for judgment to begin in the house of God.” That means the judgment of God begins with the church. We can count on the church being persecuted when it abandons the Gospel, but what is to become of the society where the church has died?

When churches die, tyranny fills the vacuum.

The most devastating consequence of dead churches is that the entire society will lose its moral fortitude and suffer the debilitating effects of Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome.

In a story by John Blake, he writes of a ‘pastor’ who has been selected by some of the most evil people alive to push a sick political agenda. He has stepped forward to issue the false claim that Christian nationalism is ‘a form of heresy.’

This ‘pastor,’ the Reverend Todd Murray, has been called the closest person that we have to Martin Luther King. However, he does not proclaim the Gospel and call sinners to repent in the name of Jesus; he promotes a form of activism that he calls ‘fusion politics.’

This is not the ‘pastor’s true name, but since our struggle is not against flesh and blood, his actual name is irrelevant. We are far more interested in the spiritual forces of evil as represented by his ideology.

Reverend Murray informs us that he transcends the political coalitions of conservative vs. progressivism. In reality, however, he falls squarely on the left of the political spectrum.

Instead of the Gospel, ‘Reverend’ Murray preaches the social justice gospel, which is no gospel at all. Murray, who won the MacArthur Genius Grant award, believes that a coalition of poor immigrants, working-class whites, religious minorities, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ community can transform the country because they share a common enemy.

If you want to know what the Laodicean Church looks like in the last days, here is its poster child. Their ‘common enemy’ is people of faith.

The sad fact is that no one will call this man to repent and be forgiven in the name of Jesus. He checks all the right boxes for the Globalist agenda, so anyone who corrects him will be immediately set upon by our corrupt media. As he is also black, anyone who calls him to repent will inevitably be called a ‘racist.’

When the church loses its faith, its moral fortitude is not far behind.

Unfortunately, he does preach a different gospel than the one Paul preached, and, as he is already 59 years old and should know better, he is probably beyond redemption. Although his soul is likely lost, there is still an opportunity to win those who might be deceived by him.

However, those pastors and evangelists who suffer from Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome, and they are legion, will not seek this opportunity.

They live in fear of having to defend their own self-centered doctrine that they spew out in their own churches weekly.

Murray decries politicians who deny a living wage to the poor even though politicians play no role in creating a living wage.

A living wage is set by the private sector and is based on what people are willing to work for. That is how things work in a free society.

He also attacks those mysterious politicians who suppress the vote. Of course, he had no problem with the corrupt governor’s race in Arizona in 2022, where the votes of numerous Republicans were suppressed by ‘faulty voting machines.’

The hypocrisy of the Laodiceans knows no bounds.

He joins with the pope in lamenting all of that evidence of a climate crisis and the world’s refusal to turn their freedoms over to the evil Globalists. Those right-wing extremists who are destroying the earth are also denying tens of millions of Americans access to health care.

Those dastardly Republicans and conservatives!

It’s a good thing that Murray has transcended the politics of left and right.

Although Mr. Murray has won the coveted MacArthur Genius Award, an award that is apparently handed out like candy, his biblical exegesis is severely lacking. He claims that when Jesus said, “The poor you will always have with you, but you will not always have me,” he was talking about inequality.

He then references Deuteronomy 15:11 and claims that passage is talking about inequality also rather than the importance of generosity. This is what happens when you view the Scripture through the lens of social justice rather than the Gospel.

Those who do this actually impose stupidity upon themselves.

The fact is that Jesus was saying that his death and resurrection were more important than feeding the poor. If Mr. Murray understood that, he would be forced to preach the Gospel rather than a satanic ethnic philosophy. This is what happens when you trade the pure gold of the Gospel for the dog droppings of social justice.

If that is what passes for ‘genius’ in this society, we should take pride when our society calls us fools. I suspect that is why Jesus told us that we were blessed when people insulted, persecuted, and falsely say all kinds of evil against us.

When queried about Christian Nationalism, he was asked what is wrong with saying God loves America and that the country should be built on Christian values. His response was that “God does not say that.” “That’s what is wrong with it.”

God doesn’t say we should build our country on Christian values? Maybe Mr. Murray is reading from the gay ‘bible.’

This may very well be the case since he believes true Christian values are not anti-gay, against people who may have had an abortion, pro-tax cut, pro-one party, and pro-gun. “There is nowhere in scripture where you see Jesus lifting that up.”

Yeah, he really has transcended left and right politics.

So, under the gospel of social justice, it is Godly for a man to lie with another man as one lies with a woman. Killing unborn children for the convenience of fornicators is approved by God. Socialism is Godlier than Capitalism despite the fact that socialism leads to poverty and capitalism leads to prosperity. And we have no right to self-defense.

That sounds upside down. Sort of like calling good evil and evil good.

The people who preach the social justice gospel are weak and decadent. Those who feed on it impose stupidity upon themselves and become incapable of distinguishing truth from falsehood or right from wrong. They become so foolish that they are incapable of solving problems, although they are experts in creating them.

They also vote exclusively for Democrats.

People lose their moral fortitude when they feed on false doctrine. Their spines slowly disintegrate until they have the consistency of jellyfish.

Then there is the problem of Christian pastors who do not warn others against false teachers. If I can see through the social justice charade, everyone else can too. Every pastor has the responsibility to warn their congregations against false doctrine. The social justice gospel is an abomination, and every congregation must be warned that it leads people, like Mr. Murray, into the pits of hell.

It is also quite possibly the last abomination to infect the church prior to the rapture.

Any pastor who warns about ‘racism’ or promotes ‘gender fluidity’ is a false teacher. These things do not exist any more than does the idea of a ‘transgender.’

Those who preach to their congregations as if they must repent of the rejection of these concepts have no business in the pulpit. At best, they are weak and pathetic.

The problem of Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome goes much deeper than ‘pastors’ preaching a different gospel than Paul preached. We also have entire denominations compromising Scripture in order to curry favor with the wicked.

The Episcopal Church has apparently created a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion department in their bureaucracy. This has led them to stop worshiping a masculine God and start worshiping a gender-neutral god.

They are going to overhaul their Book of Common Prayer for their congregations worldwide. Their new androgynous god will no longer be allowed to upset members of the congregation who are offended by the masculine pronouns used to describe the Creator of the Universe.

Take that, Patriarchy! That is exactly why Jesus went to the cross.

Bishop Larry Loopner (not his real name) regales us with this gem of wisdom: “Christians have recognized since ancient times that God is neither male nor female, yet the variety of ways of addressing and describing God found in Scripture has not always been reflected in worship.”

Thank you, Bishop Loopner. But I am pretty sure Jesus was a guy.

Let’s see how this new vernacular works out in reality when we apply it to Scripture:

• Our non-binary deity who art in heaven …
• No one knows the They except the He/Him (Darn! I think I just misgendered God.)
• I and the Agender are one.
• As the Genderqueer has loved me…
• He who has seen me has seen the Neutrois.

Sounds kind of blasphemous to me.

The right Reverend Bill Gaffmaker (not his real name) is on the committee that is recommending that the Episcopal Prayer book be altered to become gender-neutral. In his reason, unguided by faith, he wants prayers to reflect that God is bigger than any gender. He stated: “As long as ‘men’ and ‘God’ are in the same category, our work toward equity will not just be incomplete, I honestly think it won’t matter in some ways.”

Equity is best defined as all outcomes must be equal.

It is a way to pervert the term equality to deceive the unwary. It also serves the nefarious purpose of making socialism more palatable. The term socialism has been sufficiently demonized, and rightly so because it is demonic, that the Democrat Party had to find a way around using this word.

Thus was born the term ‘equity.’

When did equity take precedence over the Gospel?

We were not called to proclaim equity in the name of Jesus. There is no righteousness in equity. It is a manipulative and fiendish term that has no place in the church.

On a website called “The Episcopal Church,” we can find clues as to what went wrong with this congregation:

“We Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As constituent members of the Anglican Communion in the United States, we are descendants of and partners with the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church, and are part of the third largest group of Christians in the world.

We believe in following the teachings of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection saved the world.

We have a legacy of inclusion, aspiring to tell and exemplify God’s love for every human being; women and men serve as bishops, priests, and deacons in our church. Laypeople and clergy cooperate as leaders at all levels of our church. Leadership is a gift from God, and can be expressed by all people in our church, regardless of sexual identity or orientation.

We believe that God loves you – no exceptions.”

If there was ever a milquetoast expression of God’s Word, that was it.

When we deal with people who talk like this, we must treat them as if we were talking to Bill Clinton. We must find out what their definition of ‘is’ is. What is this legacy of ‘inclusion?’ How do these people define ‘love?’ What do they mean when they say, “the life, death and resurrection of Jesus saved the world?’

When you deal with Laodiceans, you cannot take anything for granted.

Their church allows women to serve as bishops, priests and deacons even though Paul made it clear this is a violation of a command of the Lord. What would possess these people to thumb their noses at a clear command from the Creator of the Universe? If someone were to thumb his nose at me, I would take that as an insult. I would never even consider that it was done in love.

They must possess a definition of ‘love’ that is devoid of truth and righteousness. When we are blatantly unfaithful to God, we extract truth and righteousness from our phony ‘love.’ If your wife tells you she loves you and then sleeps with other men, her love is lacking in truth and righteousness. It is not real love at all, and, in fact, it’s pretty nasty.

Same goes for one’s husband, of course.

We can now see that the social justice gospel is often preached in conjunction with the ‘The love gospel.’ It is nothing but sloppy, sentimental nonsense that has no substance whatsoever.

Much like the spines of the people who preach these false gospels.

Those who feed on these doctrines have no moral fortitude. They are weak and pathetic and take the easy road of the world rather than stand firm on God’s law. Or, as Jesus describes them in the Book of Revelation, they are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.

And that is how you develop the malady of Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome. One must abandon the sound doctrine of the Gospel and embrace a different gospel than the one Paul preached.

Once your faith is gone, your moral fortitude is not far behind.

These people are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We Christians are from God, and whoever knows God listens to his word and obeys it. We do this in faith while motivated by a true love of God. All the people that have been reviewed above love the world.

The fact that so many ‘Christians’ are of the world is also why the true church of the last days has little strength.

The false prophet of Revelation comes out of the earth because he is of the earth. Those who follow the love gospel and the social justice gospel are also of the earth. These people will not have to be threatened to take the mark of the beast; they will do it eagerly.

Mr. Loopner’s Syndrome has only one cure. We are to conduct ourselves in a manner that is worthy of the Gospel of Christ. Paul commands us to be on guard against false doctrine; stand firm on our testimony of faith; to be men of courage, and do everything in love.

Paul counsels: “He called you to this [sanctification] through our Gospel; that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the teachings we passed on to you, whether by word of mouth or by letter (II Thessalonians 2:14-15).

As the Sovereign Lord said to Isaiah, “If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all” (Isaiah 7:9). You will spend a lot of time on your knees following people who will lead you into the pits of hell.

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