January 19, 2011
Political Games
Relationships in the political arena are a mystery to me. One day you can see two people battling it out in fierce opposition to one another and then the next day they are having lunch together. Voters really want bipartisanship, but when you see Republicans and Democrats in each other’s political camp you start wondering about motive. I’m reminded of Jesus standing before rivals Pilate and Herod. Herod ridiculed and mocked Jesus and then sent him back to his Pilate. “That day Herod and Pilate became friends—before this they had been enemies.” (Luke 23:12 NIV) Apparently it only takes a common enemy for enemies to become friends.
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Gail;
-----I believe Herod and Pilate illustrate two different mindsets that reject Christ. Herod gave no consideration to what was right before God. The only reason he wanted to see Jesus was to be entertained by Him as if He were some kind of magic show. His disdain for John the Baptist spilled over to Jesus because many were saying that maybe Jesus was John the Baptist raised from the dead. Though not being John resurrected, Jesus yet showed to Herod the spirit of John by remaining totally silent to all his inquiries. So Herod mocked Jesus and treated Him contemptuously out of personal animus, because John had greatly humiliated him by publicly criticizing his marriage to Herodias. But Pilate perceived something different about Jesus. He knew the chief priests and elders had brought Jesus before him only out of envy. Even during this trial his wife informed him she had received a dream of warning to not mistreat the righteous man. Pilate was convinced of Jesus’ innocence and was troubled in His presence. He even came to Jesus’ defense before the crowd. But the crowd was able to raise two issues of fearful threat which compelled Pilate to make a cowardly retreat rather than to stand in the courage of good judgment. Then, for the sake of personal security, he abandoned Jesus to His fate. So the coward with good sense became a friend of the fiend with no sense by delivering to him a foolish delight.
-----I know many Democrats who are great people with good morals and personal judgment. What I am about to say does not apply to them any more than it does to their courageous Republican neighbors. But this great country has been abandoned to the party of Herod and the party of Pilate like a morsel of bread abandoned in a chicken yard. For many decades Progressive intellectuals goaded the American public to take leave of its common sense just as the chief priests and elders goaded the crowd to call for Barabbas’ release. Finally this Progressive staphylococcus entered the power structure of the Democrat party through the open wound of the Sixties and began slowly, slyly dismantling the institutions America stood upon during her rise to the greatness of freedom and opportunity she once was. Today, we sit dazed and confused as to exactly what has happened to America. We expected Republican control begun in 1994 to stabilize her deteriorating infection, and maybe even to begin a healing process back to time-tested good sense. But what we received from the party claiming support for institutions and Constitution was a cowardly retreat from the voices of a foolishly stirred public. And as a note of how much the intellectuals of Progressive freedom from God have stirred the public voice, we must now limit our political discussions to expressions like “good sense” and refrain from those like “Biblical principals” so commonly use before the public mind imbibed left-wing humanism. Now that Jesus has been thrown out of our political discussions, the mockers and the cowards can dine together in peace. God have mercy upon us all.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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