Lyle's Blog

A lot of people say they’re going to leave America and never do. If you take a look around the world there isn’t any place you can go that let’s you get away with the crap you do here. Blacks may not like the shootings in their neighborhoods but at least they can own a gun. America has safety nets for everything which is not the case elsewhere. Nothing is expected of you in America and you still eat, vote, bitch, and remain as you are.

Victimhood has become a legitimate way of life so whether black or white, why leave? Other countries require something of you. Try going somewhere else and not obeying the law or refusing assimilate to the culture. It’s not going to happen. Try going to China or anywhere else and bitching about your rights. They’ll wipe that smirk off your face. America? You can hate it, work to destroy it and we’ll keep your sorry ass here. On top of that we’ll educate you, feed you and give you every handout we can.

Come on and all; we can print as much money as necessary to take care of you and your friends.

John 14:1-3 “Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.”

Everyone at one point questions God. We look back throughout history we question the needless suffering of so many innocent people. Where is God and why does He allow century after century of unthinkable wickedness? Is He really there and if so does He really care.

The disciples were effected by the same thoughts. Like us they could see man’s strife, the very thing that God promised to Adam and Eve in Genesis 3:16-19, a tough, never-ending battle for survival and your one son slaying the other. To this day we still suffer the same hard living and injustices of man. What caused all this suffering and why God doesn’t intervene is the age old question.

Eve disobeyed God. Yes, she was persuaded and tricked by Satan but why was she tricked? Scripture says the duty of the husband is to wash his wife in the Words of God. Of most importance is for man to know what God says. Poor communication with God leads to forgetting what’s most important to God: obedience. Sometimes we do things wrong without thinking and passively repent, believing that God is content with our neglecting His commands.

Adam disobeyed, Moses disobeyed, Saul, David, and it is the same for you and me. God loves obedience more than some sacrifice we might make for wronging Him. God made the sacrifice for disobedience on the cross. We have nothing to sacrifice except our obedience to the cross.

In due time Christ died for us, everyone from Adam to us and everyone in between. Christ comes and tells us, finally your heart doesn’t have to be troubled. He’s building a new kingdom that isn’t tied to Adam; it’s tied to Him. We have a new life in Christ and He isn’t going to leave us here like God left Adam and Eve. God promised the Messiah and the Messiah promised He wasn’t going to leave us here without a comforter. Adam had no comfort; we have hope because we have Christ.

Reading on in John Chapter 3 brings us right back to what God required of Adam: obedience. Jesus said, if you love me you will obey my commandments. There we are back to obedience and loving God. God is a jealous God. He doesn’t do well when we ignore Him and forget to spend time with Him.

Adam forgot to love God more than Eve. We must be lovers of God and obey Him lest we fall into pride and the lust of life overwhelms our desire for Him. His yoke is easy. Jesus summed up all the commandments into two: loving your neighbor as much as you love yourself and then the bigger one, loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind.

We all know the story of Noah’s ark. The Bible leaves out much of the details and so we can possibly assume some things without damaging the message. Let’s take a look and try to make sense of what must have taken place for this to happen the way it’s told.

I’m not concerned with the number of animals which is probably the main thing people are skeptical about. More important perhaps is the what the backdrop had to look like for this to happen.

Noah took probably seventy-five years to build the ark. No doubt he had some help from his sons but I would presume a project that large so far from water outside labor would be needed. This would lead me to believe that Noah was a rich man. Noah had to have been mocked for building such a monstrous barge far from the sea. Men were glad to take the wages for their work and so continued building the old man’s delusion and couldn’t wait to laugh at him when it was finished.

The Bible says that God brought the flood because men’s imaginations and deeds were continually wicked. Noah had three sons and at least two of them were old enough to have had children. Why didn’t they?

When the whole world is against you it’s pretty intimidating and just like Lot, four men and their wives had to be very afraid of what’s going on around them. Children, it would have been natural for his sons to have children. Remembering the wickedness of rest of the population it is possible that their children were taken violently from them.

If you read the accounts of missionaries or even the news you come to understand how brutally savage men can be. It makes no sense that Noah’s sons had no children. Men like sex and kids just happen. This thought doesn’t add or take away from the text or intent of the message.

One other thought is why would a man spend seventy-five years building a big boat to load up with animals to save them from a flood that had never happened before? One reason is fear of man but he could have possibly escaped and headed to the hills (Idaho) and found a way to hide.

Noah saw the things that men were doing. There was no safe place to hide. Noah was afraid of men but more importantly he was afraid of God. He was afraid God was telling him the truth. God was going to wipe men off the face of the earth and the only vehicle Noah and his family had to escape was in the ark. God has told us the same thing.

We’ve been building an ark for two thousand years. The church of Jesus Christ is the ark of today. It’s our only vehicle for getting out of here. Violence seems to be becoming the norm and once again the world is preparing itself for the judgment of God.

The world is still willing to take our money to facilitate advancing what they consider a preposterous message. When Christ returns there may not be many if any looking for him. The mocking isn’t coming just from the world but from the church itself. Noah had other family, another thing we can easily assume. He was out on the fringe of what was acceptable beliefs. His family thought Noah was nuts. The world thinks the same of us.

We’ve got to be willing to be ridiculed for our faith even by our family and the church itself. It’s why the apostle Paul said that he didn’t want to know anything among people except Christ and him crucified.

Jesus said we might have to give up family and friends for his sake. He didn’t come to unify us but to divide us. Noah’s family gave up on him and the same may happen to us. When Noah closed the door on the ark he was leaving a whole lot of people behind. People he loved. His brothers and sisters, maybe his parents; he counted it all as lost because it was.

Getting on that ark wasn’t something he wanted to do. The whole idea was revolting. Just like Christ I’m sure he asked God if there was any other way. In the end God’s will was more important than Noah’s will. So he picked up his cross, his burden, to follow God. He humbled himself to being the slave of God, performing the most humiliating act (building the ark) year after year in front of a scoffing world.

So here we are, promoting a two thousand year old message to a enlightened Christ-rejecting world. If the gospel was foolishness before, it’s ten times that today. So we must make sure of our election, make sure that we are true believers, doers of the word and not just hearers. Noah heard from God and then went to work and working on the impossible task of saving mankind. Noah’s effort did not go unrewarded and neither shall our work.

Mark chapter 4: 36-41 tells the story of Jesus and the disciples getting on a boat and when they were away from land a great storm came up. The disciples were alarmed at the storm as the boat was becoming overcome with the waves.

This must have been a vessel of some size because they had to go look for Jesus. There he was asleep on a pillow. They wake him and accuse him of not caring if they perish or not. Jesus gets angry because they have no faith. They’ve witnessed many miracles and are still anxious for their lives? Without faith it’s impossible to satisfy God. Jesus wasn’t impressed.

Jesus calms the sea and the weather just by speaking to them. The disciples wonder what kind of man Jesus was that even the wind and waves obey him.

What kind of man was he? Jesus was the kind they’re supposed to be, the kind Adam should have been. Adam had a personal relationship with God. We’re to have a personal relationship with Christ. If we know him, we know that he can do anything on our behalf just by speaking the word.

We should sleep like he slept on that boat. He knows there’s wind and waves and we might drown. He knows but he doesn’t care because his kingdom isn’t of this world of wind and waves. Worry is a sin because it reflects the attitude that God doesn’t know what’s going on.

Maybe we should borrow Jesus’s pillow and get a little rest before the real battle begins.

As we travel down the road to tyranny I can’t help comment along the way.
Biden and the lapdogs in the press refer to the Georgia voting law as returning to Jim Crow days.  This is a blatant lie for the sole purpose of reaching another milestone on the road to solidifying permanent power.  This whole hateful religion of the Democrats is dangerous to my family and yours.

New York voting laws are more restrictive than Georgia’s.  Is New York returning to Jim Crow?  I thought not.  We need I.D. for everything else, everything, and yet we can’t show our I.D. when we vote.  It’s implied that black people are to stupid to use an I.D. which I would think would be racist but in bizzaro world only I am racist.

  I’ve known a few blacks in my day and they are not stupid.  In fact they are much the same as whites meaning that they are easily led by politicians, Marxist professors, etc.  They’re sinners too.  Our republic was meant for an informed public.  The massive amount of information we have at our fingertips makes us think we know a lot, but we have arrived at the doorstep to Sodom having a population that doesn’t even know what their gender they are.

“From each according to his ability to each according to their need” sounds really appealing to the insatiable mob but as in every attempt to make equality synonymous with equity, the results are fatal.  I plainly see the genocide coming.  First we are labeled deplorable, then we are to blame for everything because of our race, and now we have been marginalized by an ever-oppressing “woke” tech monopoly.  Once gun confiscation is achieved it will only be the blood of free men that will be spilled.

 We have totally discarded Martin Luther King’s message.  A third of Africa is at war today because of tribalism.  The gift our founders gave us was a place to go where you could let all those old warring ways drop off and you could be part of the melting pot of live and let live.  Cultural diversity dictates that you maintain your old ways and resent those who aren’t as self-righteous as you.  So now we have a nation made up of half unredeemable sinners and the other half seeking revenge.