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Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Plain as the nose on your face. John 3:3
Some things are as plain as the nose on your face, but given half an opportunity, some know it all will take it and make it complicated. Let me give you two perfect examples. In Maine our Constitution states: "To keep and bear arms. Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned." Now think about that for a moment. If the right to bear arms is not to be questioned, how is it that you must go to the government and apply for your so-called 'right to carry'? It requires government interference, paperwork, applications, approvals , taxes called 'fees,' mandatory classes, written tests, shooting tests, plastic-coated permission slips, fingerprinting, photographs, entries into criminal databases and expiration dates for your so called 'right to carry'.
This is not what our Constitution in Maine calls for. Our Constitution in Maine is the Supreme law of the State. Article Ten, Section 6. “... the Constitution, with the amendments made thereto, in accordance with the provisions thereof, shall be the supreme law of the State.” Yet, what is plain and simple to anyone that can read at a third grade level is that in Maine we have the freedom to carry and that freedom is not to be questioned. Yet, send someone to school for 20 years, make them a member of the bar, then give them a black robe and in no time at all "Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned" means but only after government interference, paperwork, applications, approvals , taxes called 'fees,' mandatory classes, written tests, shooting tests, plastic-coated permission slips, fingerprinting, photographs, entries into criminal databases and expiration dates for your so called 'right to carry'.
Another perfect example and one of even more importance is thirteen words that Jesus spoke. Jesus said "Unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God!" Pretty simple, pretty straightforward and plain as the nose on your face, for as anyone with a third grade education can tell you, it means "Be born again or go to hell." Yet, send a man to school for twenty years, give him robes, a pulpit and before you know it "Unless a man is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God!" means you have to join the church, sell tootsie rolls, join a men’s club, paint the church, wash the Pastor’s car and read new meanings into half of the Bible while adding, subtracting and redefining terms like "Virgin Birth", "Born of a Virgin" "Resurrection", "Grace", and "Sanctification", and as for that “Born Again” part, well Jesus didn’t really mean that, He just said it to kill some time.
Yup, some things are as plain as the nose on your face, but given half an opportunity, some know it all with a whole bunch of education and very little common sense will take it and make it complicated.
I think it is time we got back to the basics of Government and Religion, back to what it says, not what some dang fool with too much time on his or her hands claims to know what it was meant to say.
If you are relying upon commentary to get you into heaven, you are probably in serious trouble. If you are looking to another man’s expositions to get you into heaven, you are probably in trouble. There is nothing difficult about the Word of God or His word. 150 years ago the KJV was one of the text books used in the schools. It was the book kids learned to read from. If 8&9 year olds 150 years ago could learn to read by having the KJV as a text book, it would seem ludicrous for an adult today to claim that he or she was unable to read and understand the Bible.
Let me ask you a question. If you don’t read the Bible yourself, how do you know that what you’re hearing from the pulpit, from the radio show, from Christian TV is the word of God?
What if the preacher said “The good book says, ‘God helps those who help themselves’”. Would you know if that was from the Bible or Aesop’s fables? Hint, God never said it. Now think about it. What if in his sermon based, not on the Bible, but Aesop’s Fables, he or God forbid, she used the phrase “God helps those who help themselves”, to claim that salvation is thru works, when God’s word clearly teaches that:
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Titus 3:5-7
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. Ephesians 2:8&9
But, how would you know that your salvation is not thru works, but thru Jesus Christ and His shed Blood, unless you read that 3rd grade reading book from 150 years ago?
And likewise, how are you to know what you can and cannot do as a US citizen if you never read and study the US and your state Constitution? Yes, one of the things that is plain as the nose on your face is the fact that many on this earth have become too lazy to find that one and only path to eternal bliss and as a result are going to spend eternity with those they have left their freedom and their salvation to.
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