I read the news today, oh boy…
by Ken Pullen
Monday, July 19th, 2021
Scripture included is in Italics and is from either the English Standard Version or the King James Version and where such Scripture can be found in God’s word is listed at the end, in the order of appearance.
ACP — A Crooked Path
I read the news today, oh boy…
and though I read a lot of news this particular heading made the grade
the news was very sad, no reason to laugh at all
as the headline read,
Washington Weekend Shootings Highlight rising Gun Violence in Capital…
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
6-year-olds killed, whole stadiums filled with people locked down
for all the bang, bang, bang
of evil rising, human nature rebellion within rising, violence rising in the lost souls, lost minds.
Were I of another mind, the worldly kind, I would have to laugh or ignore as most now do
because as in almost every so-called news story, event, something somewhere happening
covered by the likes of The Wall Street Journal in this instance
but be it on
CNN
that can’t see a truthful thing if it fell from the sky and hit them in the eye
of CBS
or any of the misguided sorry misinformed lot!
They can’t speak the truth for fear of riling their master
(I’m not talking about whoever is CEO as you should know)
It’s all about, only about, always about our rebellion, our fallen state
the sin within always oozing out and all about
it’s the natural state we’re in
no matter where
no matter who
in a pitched battle, rebellion against the Holy Creator
sin
it’s sin
it’s all this sin within…
no new news today, eh?
Hey, professed believer!
Or do you not know that the saints will judge the world?
And if the world is to be judged by you, are you incompetent to try trivial cases?
Do you not know that we are to judge angels?
How much more, then, matters pertaining to this life!
So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?
I say this to your shame.
Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?
To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong?
Why not rather be defrauded?
But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?
Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Any of them here, there, across the pond all around the flat dull hum of Babel in every land,
this Babylon continued never ended though not noted, not believed
distracting consuming humming noise the babble in every Babel-land
to blot out, drone out, hideout from…
the Truth, The Way to Life, in Light…
and out of the darkness.
The truth — seeing, knowing what’s really going on
the how’s why’s who’s what’s and root of it all
is always, always, always sorely missed.
It isn’t rising gun violence dear ones
it’s rising HUMAN NATURE violence person against person
serving the Evil One
rather than the Son
violence, noise always rising
increasingly more frequent
for far lesser reasons
just a look can result in firing off 13 rounds.
It’s all at the root of everything my friends, this growing rebellion, the sin within
all around
that’s the sound that awful grating grinding sound all around
the sin
the sin within
oozing out…
It isn’t the guns. It’s the cold lifeless hearts that somehow still pump blood
into the lifeless eyes
of the walking dead
no respect for anything, anything, ANYTHING at all.
We have from top-down, in between, middlemen, salesmen, local men women too, ain’t leavin’ ya’ all out!
blathering on as to the CAUSE (never really the one they may say, I’m telling you truly),
the MOTIVE is still unknown is their constant refrain
perpetual loads of dung shoved in so many ears,
hour after hour
day after day
year after year
year in year out to now being given over to…
reprobate minds due to the love of sin, the love of lies, the disobedience, the disbelief
rather than the place, the heart, soul, spirit, and mind ought to be.
All, well almost all, now convinced, hypnotized, lobotomized
groupthink mantra of the world indoctrinating gleefully the lies, perversions,
corruptions leading to death
getting their prescriptions filled
addicts all
to sin
to deceptions
delusions
distractions
the master they serve sees it’s so…
turning to Dr. News (or so it’s called but a lot of things are mislabeled are they not?)
Dr. False Teaching I-Can’t-Won’t-Preach-The-Bible Pastor Today
Dr. Neighbor (only with the best intentions and every bit of gossip, rumor, and misinformation under the sun)
Dr. Social Media — Oh boy, we ain’t got time or room enough for THAT ONE dear one…
Dr. Death…
Whoa! No one wants to go there do they yet each does…
the constant noise, banality, lies taking, leading so many not merely astray
but over the precipice
into the abyss.
None of this a laughing matter
nothing to laugh about when an individual, a people are so callous, so arrogant, so frivolous
so belligerent, so corrupted and perverted they take eternal life and mock it, spit on it, deny it
HATE the thought of it, yet embrace an eternity in hell!
Joking it’s where all their friends will be!
yet…
when one of their drug-addled rock idols dies in a pool of their own vomit they proclaim he or she
is playing in a band in heaven!
But don’t tell them they’re messed up, wrong, liars, going to die, are sinners destined for an eternity
in the fiery depths of hell.
I read the news today, oh boy…
because I also read the Bible today, oh my…
and the news it tells
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
to those in the faith of the Lord Jesus Christ
through repentance, the confessing of sin
is where the first steps to eternal life begin
the new birth
new man
new woman
renewed of mind and spirit
transformed not of anyone’s doing or power
but by the calling of the One True God
Creator, Who can become Father
to those hearing His voice and desiring above all things on this earth to be His child
abiding in His word
abiding in the Lord
I read the good news today, oh boy,
about a man who once came to earth, fully man, fully God
to live, teach, be murdered as the Sacrifice for my sin
your sin
the sin of everyone
the cross is where the sin can fall like the blood from His open wounds upon the tree
where new life can occur in death
in the Lord’s resurrection
in the faith thereof, obedience to, living as and for
from a certain day and time
onward
to an eternity those of the world won’t ever see or know
I read the news today, oh boy,
as the news for most is so very sad, eternally sad
yet it need not be for you, as it is not for me
thankfully
to the free gift of grace from God
and my belief, my faith, my daily life heretofore…
I read the news today, oh boy
My hope and prayer is you dear one read the Good News this day, this night
before you retire
and no more wasted moments, breaths, heartbeats in the darkness with certain eternal death in store
that you come to hear the Lord, know the Lord, turn to the Lord
and you are of the world, serving Satan and this world…no more!
The walking dead, those dead eyes, the cold heart can have hope
and enter into the Light, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
All things are possible with and by God.
Do you believe?
Will you do more than believe and now learn to live, finally, honestly, truthfully, sincerely
for the Lord, with the Lord, by the word of the Lord?
I read the news today, oh boy…
and Lord willing I look forward to reading the news of some other soul once in darkness that has heard
the Lord and come out from that darkness, the Babel of the world into the Light and Life and Truth and
Way that is Jesus Christ, the Lord…
And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Scripture used in order of appearance;
Mark 13:20 — King James Version
1 Corinthians 6:2-11 — English Standard Version
John 14:6 — English Standard Version
Philippians 4:7 — King James Version
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