“Innocent Blood”....the Wayfarer 5/1/14

“Innocent Blood”
5/1/14

“And shed innocent blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land is polluted with blood.”

(Psalm 106:38)

A verse from the most recent of these dissertations refuses to be put to rest, without having been further discussed, and elaborated on in regards to its pertinence to the world, and to my nation in particular.

Over the years of my life, I have seen and noted a long and sure decline of all I believed that nation to stand for, and all that it had to promise my own progeny.

I have seen the laws perverted to destroy that which I fully believed in, and continue to believe in, all the promises offered through the efforts and work done by those gone before me who valiantly and unselfishly devoted their lives to providing a better and more peaceful world for those of us who followed them.

I watched as my own generation began to follow the precepts given by teachers who did not hold true to those same beliefs, and fought against what that older generation taught, and sacrificed for.

I watched as the honorable professions of teaching were taken over by those who would prefer to burn a draft card than to serve the country that provided an education and means of providing for themselves.

I watched as the greed of those who did not come from that same means were exploited by the lies and deceit of those far greedier who made impossible promises of that “free bubble up and rainbow stew” sung about in a song I particularly liked.

I watched as the greedy, and the avaricious took over the posts of government, never having served in a uniform of their country, never having sacrificed a single thing or moment of their own time devoted to any but themselves who took advantage of a system built to promote and continue a nation built on the statutes and laws of God in order to deny those same statures and laws and even that very God who so graciously allowed the building of that nation and its wealth that was so appreciated that the entire world was envious of it.

I watched as honesty, hard work, intelligence, and persistence were placed behind the immediate gratification of all that was available without expending the effort to gain the “wealth” that was the dream once possible for all.

I watched as the few holding to the old precepts and teachings were taken into the ranks of those serving the leadership that refused to recognize the need to continue to honor what had been built, as they were deceived and lied to about what they were risking life and limb for.

I watched as they returned from serving a country that had promised so much to find the promises made empty and worthless, their service thankless and despised by many of their own generation who glorified deserters and denigrated those who chose to serve.

Innocent blood of sons and daughters was sacrificed in Viet Nam, and all the following “police actions” and wars that have followed for the benefit of those interested only in the profit to be made by that blood and the lives expended.

Make no mistake; I remain a believer in that service given. I remain ready, though perhaps not as able as I once was to continue to serve, still willing to make a complete sacrifice for those things I once thought to be the goals of my people.

The freedom enjoyed by that people, the ability to worship the God that provided that freedom, the rights provided through the statutes and laws passed and brought into being by those founders ad forebears that so carefully placed them in context with the statutes and laws of God remain a priority to me, and to all the others like me, now disillusioned by the path taken by the people we so honorably and perhaps too proudly, served.

The sacrifice of the blood of the innocents continues, and the idols to whom they are sacrificed become all the more apparent to any willing to open their eyes and ears to see and hear past the deceit and lies offered in the form of “policy” and social change that only destroys all the more the nation I served, and would destroy if possible, the God I continue to serve.

The love of many has waxed cold indeed toward the things of God, the needs of others, the values and morals that are taught throughout the scripture that once provided for the building of all the affluence and wealth they have enjoyed and continue to seek.

Organizations founded and formed for the protection and care of those who served are ignoring the needs of those who sacrificed so much for those running them, to the very point of tacit denial of life because of a knowledgeable choice not to honor promises given the young in return for that service.

That scripture quoted in that other message continued beyond where I left off, and I will include it for further edification after one more observation that forced that verse used in the opening to mind once more today.

Blood given by innocents is denied by those who choose idols of power over truth and service as is supposed to be the purpose of their holding offices to which they were elected TO SERVE!

Deceit and lies were the premise on which they were elected, and continue to be the paths chosen to be followed even as those lies and deceptions are exposed.

I for one believe enough blood and lives of sons and daughters has been expended for the false gods honored by the self-serving, self-seeking people that know no bounds of honesty or morality… who simply put do not know or honor my God, his teachings, His Son, and what he gave for us that should be placed far above what they attempt to offer through those lies.

“Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

Therefore was the wrath of the Lord kindled against his people, inasmuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.

And he gave them into the hand of the heathen: and they that hated them ruled over them.

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Many times did he deliver them; but they provoked him with their counsel, and were brought low for their iniquity.

Nevertheless he regarded their affliction, when he heard their cry.

And he remembered for them his covenant, and repented according to the multitude of his mercies.

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen, Praise ye the Lord.

(Psalms106:39-48)

As mentioned also in another of these sermons, a Plumbline was established long ago, it is to the return of that Plumbline that we now need to return.

It is that same prayer offed in that 47^th verse that needs to be offered by THIS people NOW, in the time that is on us of that same defilement that has occurred, that same neglect of God, and the promise made. The time has come for this nation in particular, and many others as well to:

“Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”

I close in prayer, that same prayer needed for nation and individual for redemption through repentance that remains the only surety and only hope that will ever be made available to us, or any other people.

I remain that same simple sinner, saved by grace through faith in that same God in the surety of that very redemption for myself, and also praying for that redemption of both my nation and the souls that comprise it.

I remain the soldier chosen to make all aware of the need for the shedding of blood that has already been shed, that made all other sacrifice unnecessary to attain that promise of that eternal life where the Truth makes no room for the lies, The Way allows no wandering to paths leading away from The Life that is, and awaits.

Blessed be the Lord God, Blessed be his Master plan, blessed be those who choose to recognize the salvation available and accept both the Salvation given only though Christ Jesus, and accept also the precepts and teachings of my Lord.

2 Timothy 1:12 King James Version (KJV)

¹² For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

Amen and Amen
the Wayfarer