“In other words, the judgment of God in these matters was not a blind rage, but rather exquisitely just. And the other nations that were wiped out—what were they actually like? We have a controversy with God, and so we assume that they were all peaceful little Canaanites, flowers in their hairs, dancing in green meadows to the music of pan flutes. But that is not what they were like at all.”
The Sacrifice That Hides
“The ‘right’ to dismember a child is touted as an individual right, but it is actually the cornerstone of a particular view of civilization. We have to slaughter millions of children in order to be able to hide from ourselves the fact that we are slaughtering millions of children. We have to shed blood so that we will not come to know that we are a bloody people. Our shedding of blood is a vain attempt to cove up the fact that we are shedding blood.”
Sheep FIght Because Shpeherds Don’t
“One of the reasons we have so many fights in the church is because the pastors don’t fight nearly often enough.”
The Devil Has a Bony, Pointed Finger
“The center of all culture is cultus, worship, and so the pagan world system was a culture built upon the centrality of accusation. The pagan world worships accusations.”
Divide From the Dividers
“If you don’t want division, you must separate from the principle of division. If you don’t want accusations, you have to cast out the accusing devil.”
Wrong Side
“To be a member of a faction within the church, and to give your allegiance to that faction as a faction, is to confess yourself to be a member of the devil’s faction.”
A Floor Covered With Snakes
“If we have put on the whole armor of God, our feet are shod with the gospel of peace (Eph. 6:14). What do feet shod with peace do? They crush accusations, that’s what they do. They crush devils; they walk on snakes.”
The Cup Was Not the Important Part
“But Paul says to put away all strife and envy, and he includes them in that toxic mix. To give up sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll but keep the envy is surely a bad deal. That is like surrendering the golden Babylon orgy goblet in order to drink the poison out of a modest little Dixie cup you found in the church kitchen.”
Nothing Stranger Than Gospel
“It was the strangest trial I ever heard of. A guilty man was dragged into court, as furtive and as guilty and as ashamed as a man could possibly be, and it all ended with the prosecutor being dragged out of the courtroom and summarily hanged. And after that the judge came back from the dead.”
What Faith Alone Sees
“Believing on Jesus to everlasting life means looking at Jesus, with the eyes of faith, as though He were an impaled serpent.”