Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Sunday, June 27, 2010 10:48:56 AM
‘Alinsky is surely beaming from the other side.’ –David Limbaugh
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2010/06/25/what_would_saul_alinsky_do
We understanding the meaning that Mr. Alinsky would be proud to see the apparent success of his methodologies adopted by the tyrant who occupies the White House. But there is an age old mystery posed in the Bible: Why do the wicked prosper?
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? [Jeremiah 12:1]
The Scripture answers by considering their end from the perspective of eternity [Psalm 37].
Mr. Bunyan put forth an allegory of gospel truth in his picture of Passion and Patience. The men represented by Passion must have all their good things now in this life. Whereas, the men of the everlasting covenant are willing to wait for the best things to be given to them in the life to come. The life of faith will be rewarded in due time. In the presence of the Lamb there is fullness of joy and eternal life free from sin, wherein dwells righteousness.
Christ came to free men from tyranny in offering them liberty from the dominions of sin and death and from the vain philosophies of autonomous wisdom. The tyrants and those who foster tyranny are not ‘beaming’ from the other side. Let’s get the proper perspective…
If the atonement for sin required the shedding of blood of the Son of God, then the unredeemed men of lawlessness will suffer eternal punishment on the other side. Sinful men can never atone for their own sin or the sins of other men. The same word that declares that God is love also says that God is just, and His judgment is righteous. The lake of fire awaits the unrepentant, where the worm never dies.