- Happy New Year everyone. Today’s song was inspired by Vladimir Putin new year’s address to the Russian people standing in front of the Kremlin wishing the Russian people a happy new year and while he was there he decided to dust of his Bible and lecture the American people. Yes Vladimir Putin invoked An eye for an eye. Because if what to hear someone who really knows their Bible it’s Vladimir Putin! He was saying this to justify Russia arresting an American calling him a spy. Putin did this in response to the Russian woman who infiltrated the NRA and other conservative groups during the election and is now said to be cooperating with the Mueller investigation. So just like the Bible says Putin said you do it to us we’ll do it to you right back. An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth it does say that it the Bible doesn’t it? Well for this the first day of the new year let’s all dust off our Bible like Putin and see just what does Jesus has to say about an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth.
- It’s very sad to say but I believe if you ask people that you know attend church and call themselves Christians, if you ask them what did Jesus say anything about an eye for an eye, they would tell you that an eye for an eye is in the Old Testament and Jesus didn’t say anything about it. I really hope I’m wrong about that. Now maybe more than ever we need to read and understand Jesus teaching on an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth.
In the Sermon On The Mount the words of our Lord and Savior are as follows: Matthew 5 38-42. 38. Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: 39. But I say unto you that ye resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other side also. 40. And if any man sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. 41. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him two. 42. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Why did Jesus say Ye have heard that it hath been said you may said what should he had said? Because when Satan tempted Jesus three times Jesus said For it is written. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth is in the scriptures Leviticus 24:20 and Deuteronomy 19:21 so it’s in the Old Testament not once but twice. So it was written twice and yet Jesus asks the question you have heard it said like an eye for an eye was just a saying rather than scripture. If you ever wandered why Jesus put it that way today Vladimir Putin gave the entire world the best example why Jesus said it the way he did. Does anyone believe that if you have a question about the Bible that the best person to ask would be Putin? I don’t think so, but Putin knows Americans believe in the Bible and Putin has heard that somewhere in the Bible it says an eye for an eye. The sad part is that many people will say ‘Putin’s right after all I also heard an eye for an eye was in the Bible.”
If you notice Jesus does not equate justice with an eye for an eye rather he does the opposite he compares an eye for an eye with evil. How could that be you may ask. Well to answer that I’m going to change examples from Vladimir Putin to our president Donald J. Trump. I think it was last spring when a reporter said something that angered him, imagine that!, then our president thought it would be a great idea to respond back to the reporter saying something bad about him. The first lady famously said “When someone hits my husband he hits them back 10 times harder.” Meanwhile back at the White House Sarah Huckabee Sanders continues to let the dust pile on top of her Bible and tells reporters that “Our president is a fighter and when someone attacks him he fights back”. It seemed Mrs. Sanders has never heard Jesus command to turn the other cheek. Jesus’s what? Command! That’s right turn the other cheek is not a choice Jesus didn’t say turn the other cheek if you feel like it or turn the other cheek if your in the mood to or he did not say turn the other cheek if you want to get beat up he for sure did not say hit the other guy ten times harder! Yes it’s a lot harder to be Christlike than to be a follower of Trump. Maybe Trump and Putin can get together not for a summit but for a Bible study. From both of their actions it appears they know a lot about the Bible.
So who’s right Putin and Trump or is Jesus right? You may say Jeff you’re not a preacher you never been to seminary. Well then I guess everyone should ask their own pastor some of whom knows so much about the Bible that he is know as Dr. Pastor. I’m sure all you’ll have to do is ask and your good, white, Trump supporting pastor will deliver a message condemning Hit them back ten times harder and say that true Christians should follow the words of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I’m just positive you’ll hear a good old fashion Bible tumbin sermon about turning the other cheek. Maybe not so let’s all find out and here’s how we can do just that. Share this on your own timeline I sure just like me your pastor is your friend on Face Book, I have over a dozen pastors and song leaders as my friends and I just don’t understand how none of them that’s right not even the retired pastors will ever make a comment on what I have to say why do you suppose that is? It’s time America pastors need to speak up for Jesus and stop making excuses for Trump! While your asking your pastor to explain away this post scroll thru my blog and I think their are posts, like my post on Cher’s song Half-Bred where I compared the Good Samaritan as a half=bred because the Samaritan’s were hated for being half Jew, half Gentile. The point of that post was how can pastors be against Obamacare? Do they really believe that it’s right to walk right by people in need like the priest did in story of the Good Samaritan? Yes America’s pastors need to explain away the Good Samaritan. The Pastor’s will not change if we do Nothing!