Reportedly Trayvon
Martin’s parents did not stay around to hear the jury’s verdict because they wanted
to get home and be able to go to their church the following day.
When
interviewed about the verdict their pastor said (paraphrase), “We’re angry. The Bible says ‘be angry, but
sin not’, so we’re angry. We’re not going to forget Trayvon, we’re not going to
forget the verdict, and we’re not going to forget Trayvon’s parents.”
Interestingly
the pastor is promoting anger that has no statute of limitations. I’m thinking
he should have quoted the entire verse when Paul said, “Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Neither give place to the devil.” (Eph 4:26-27 KJV)
1 comment:
Gail;
-----Around what does this pastor orbit? Who does he worship? God surely has not put His anger away. He has clearly told us that He is storing it up for its appointed time. And the preview we’re given of that appointed time does not look pretty. Those days will be shortened lest all flesh die. We are made in His image. So should we also store up our anger until an appointed time!
-----Let’s examine this thesis. Concerning that time appointed for God’s wrath, it is poured upon all the unrighteous people of the world who refuse to repent of their idolatry, murders, immorality, and thefts. Even in the face of obvious evidence that it is God whom they will be withstanding, they will not repent. Moreover, those who do worship Him and repent of the mistakes and faults they commit will swim in their own blood as those upon whom God’s wrath is for pouring behead them. God receives these into His glory and extinguishes the rest. His wrath is poured according to His judgment.
-----I suppose the Bible tells the Martin’s preacher to also judge so he also can store anger. I suppose it tells him that the kingdom belongs to man for the scouring of it by man’s wrath. I suppose this is how the image works. The image of the beast, that is. For this all orbits man. It worships his ordeals, his security, his justice, goals, and ambitions.
-----“And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (I Cor 13:2-7) So, what’s love got to do with it?
-----Zimmerman did not pluck out Trayvon martin’s beard, scourge him to the edge of death, make him drag a heavy cross out of the city, nail him to it, and raise him up to slowly suffocate in his one body juices. Nor was little Trayvon sinless as was Jesus. Yet Jesus' love bore the wrong. If anyone has the right to rain wrath upon the world, it is Jesus. That is why the sealed scroll is given to Jesus rather than to little Trayvon or to the Martin’s preacher.
-----I suppose the Martin’s preacher worships Jesus’ Father. I suppose he claims anger without sin from submission to God‘s Word. I suppose the Bible teaches him to love even his enemies in the counting of others as better than himself. I suppose the Bible tells him to be kind and forbearing to one another, being always ready to forgive and build one another up, outdoing one another in showing honor. I would suppose that if he orbited God’s Word and worshipped the Father in all truth, honoring Him in what he preaches and does, he would sound more like the Bible, even though Zimmerman did bruise up poor Trayvon’s fist with his face and then shot him.
-----Yet, maybe the preacher is god, rightly judging all us creepy crackers as worthy of wrath. What use does a god have for the entire Word of God when a verse here or a sentence there will do? Judgment he seizes. Wrath he claims. If these are for him, then so might be the appointed time. He should want more carefully. I pray he will.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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