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2:5 STAY ME WITH FLAGONS, COMFORT ME Love Cult
WITH APPLES; FOR I AM SICK OF LOVE.
THE LOVE CULT
Materialism (Solomon was a master on this Softness
subject) produces luxury, luxury provides
ease and comfort, ease produces softness -
softness of mind, as well as softness of the
body. This softness is diametric to self- Self-Control
discipline. The love philosophy is the
doctrine of the "soft."
Sacrifice cannot exist in an environment of
plenty without knowing self-discipline (self-
control).
"A RICH NATION CAN FOR A TIME, WITHOUT
NOTICEABLE DAMAGE TO ITSELF, PURSUE A SOURCE
OF SELF-INDULGENCE, MAKING ITS SINGLE GOAL
THE MATERIAL EASE AND COMFORT OF ITS OWN
CITIZENS. BUT THE ENMITIES IT WILL INCUR,
THE ISOLATION INTO WHICH IT WILL DESCEND, AND
THE INTERNAL, MORAL AND PHYSICAL SOFTNESS
THAT WILL BE ENGENDERED WILL IN THE LONG TERM
BRING IT TO DISASTER... America did not
become great through her softness and self-
indulgence...her miraculous progress and
achievements flow from...qualities far more
worthy and substantial...adherence to princi-
ples and methods constant with our religious
philosophy and satisfaction in hard work, the
readiness to sacrifice for worthwhile causes,
the courage to meet every challenge of our
progress, the intellectual honesty and ca-
pacity to recognize the true path of our own
best interests." *1
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*1 President Dwight D. Eisenhower, State of
the Union Message. January 1960
Every institution of man, every social
structure made up of human beings is under-
going a change in the form of rebelling
against (firmness) authority. (The detes-
tation of discipline is expressed in resent-
ing authority as the source of discipline.)
Catholics are rebelling against the Pope. Anarchy
Baptists rebel against water baptism. Rebellion
Congregations rebel against traditional Sin
teaching of the Word of God.
Teenagers rebel against parents.
Organized citizenry rebel against police and
courts.
Our congress and courts pass laws from Softness
pressure coming from minority activists and
make decisions to reverse traditional
Christian rights in public schools.
Criminal law, Bible reading, religious holi- Anarchy
days.
School curriculum (sex education).
Even criminals bring law suits against prison
authorities!
We lay the blame for all of this at the feet
of a rising deity called humanism.
1. INDULGENCE Neutralism
We indulge in this luxury.
Sacrifice and dedication will not coexist.
2. SOFTNESS
Softness eats away our character values.
We lose resolution to enforce righteous-
ness.
We become passive and non-aggressive.
Without the principles of dedication.
We become passive people.
We lose our will to be great. Greatness
is only accomplished by discipline (self-
improvement by self-control) and reso-
lution. When these qualities are lost,
our pursuit of character is impossible and
we revert to deification of personality
(self).
3. PASSIVE Passive
To exist without being active. Non-
involvement - quiet.
Uncommitted, neutral.
4. SELFISH APATHY
We have lost the will to be morally great,
to achieve! Our greatness lies in the
powers of money and technology.
During the rule of kings and priests in
Israel's history, softness set in. The
priesthood became soft toward sin and wicked-
ness. The people went under tribute. It was
at this time God instituted two new offices,
the judge and the prophet. We think of Prophets
another special ministry God raised up, the Reformers
"reformers," Nehemiah and Ezra.
These ministries renewed the aggressive
spirit of moral resolve against evil.
A Scottish brigade was in battle. Needing
bullets, they called for the quartermaster to
bring bullets up from the rear lines. They
kept powdering their guns and shooting their
diminishing supply of bullets. The enemy
started a new attack ... they were running
low on ammunition. Just as they were shoot-
ing their last bullets, the keg arrived. The
enemy came rushing in as they tore open the
keg of bullets. As they ripped the lid off,
they trust their hands into a keg of raisins.
THEY LOST THE BATTLE. Someone made a mistake
and grabbed a keg of raisins instead of a keg
of bullets. We'll not win the battle of the
Lord with sweets!
We have been deceived into believing that to
love is always a virtue and that to hate is
always a sin.
This is war brethren! War
The abounding of sin demands the uncompro- Sin
mising aggressive spirit of the prophet! Sin
abounds where there is a love of wrong. When Love
the prophet comes opposing this wrong love,
he is merely revealing a spirit that loves Love-mongers
God and not things. We have become so con-
genial and comfortable with these nice things
of the world that it makes the prophet look
harsh, crude and hateful. We point at the
preacher of righteousness and we say, "You
don't have love!" Actually, he does have
love ... a love for purity, holiness and
righteousness. It's not the same kind of
smug religious sentimentalism we call love
today.
In a column appearing in THE CALIFORNIA Agape
FARMER, R. J. Rushdooney described the
theology of love by saying, "Those who claim
to be above hate are also beyond love. They
do not feel strongly enough about anything to
love it." To the contrary, love is to have
strong feelings for what is right and good.
This necessitates equally strong feelings for
that which is wrong, evil and displeasing to
God!
Mr. Rushdooney further states, "Such people
are emotionally and intellectually sterile."
Love-mongers don't understand that there is a
difference between righteous hatred and ma-
licious hatred. See Amos 5:15.
At this point you could read the Ten Command- Law Love
ments and conclude that the things we are not
to do are the things we are not to love.
When we do the things we are not to do, we
are loving the things we are not to love.
You love the things you do. You do the
things you love. To love wrong is sinful
love. To love what God does not love, is
sinful love. To love what God loves is agape
in me.
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