It's the Betrayal, Stupid

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Sermon notes of Pastor Mark Downey

Scripure Reading:  Luke 21:15-19

The assassination of the Roman emperor, Julius Caesar, and a betrayal by an entrusted friend.Et tu, Brute?” from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. Just seconds before the assassination of the Roman emperor and being stabbed to death, Caesar sees one of the young Senators with knife in hand and exclaims “you also?” Imagine the last words out of your mouth is the surprising question to someone you thought was a loyal friend, but instead your executioner. To live by the sword is to die by the sword has become a common refrain for pacifism, but Jesus' admonition to Peter lobbing off the ear of the high priest's SWAT team member was not anti-sword; it was protecting Peter from being arrested himself, even though Peter was just trying to protect his Master. After Jesus was betrayed by Judas, the cops moved in to make the arrest. In hindsight, Peter should have aimed his sword at Judas, but this was a perfect moment of predestination as Jesus told him, “Am I not to drink the cup that the Father has given me?" John 18:11. The metaphor of a cup often signifies a measure of divine affliction, possibly derived from the custom of some nations putting someone to death with a cup of poison. Jesus had come to die as a sacrifice for sin and betrayal was a necessary ingredient to teach us many lessons which we'll explore today.

America, the Dialectic

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Sermon notes of Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading:  James 1:5-8

When you force the combining of good and evil, what do you get? You get the double mind. When you allow non-Whites to have their spaces, their neighborhoods (in which no White person dare walk down the street at night), their own schools and colleges, student unions and race-specific grants and funding, affirmative action just for them in employment, their own racial caucus in Congress, their own TV channel, etc, the modern liberal calls it good. But when any White group wishes to do the same thing, as a matter of culture, identity and benevolence, it's called racist and evil. Welcome to America, the land of dialectical materialism, which early proponents of jewish communism made the centerpiece of their political philosophy. Rabbi Karl Marx asserted that only material things can be reality and thus denying anything spiritual, especially the reality of a White Christian's mind or soul. In his jewish mind, he thought all change happens through the conflict of opposites and is motivated by revolution, thus a forced means to an end, regardless of the spiritual considerations. This can be seen in the social engineering between men and women, children and parents, left wing democrats and right wing republicans, blacks and Whites, Christians and antichrists etc. When you combine good with evil you get the synthesis of chaos. In theory, it is believed that the mechanics of chaos can destroy Christianity.