Maybe sometimes before you say something you might should calm down and wait and think about it before you say something or write something. I’m not going to do that. I’ve just watched the CBS news and they reported that both Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee Sanders are trying to justify taking children from their parents by using the Bible as a claim to their righteousness. After the news was over I opened my copy of the Baptist Hymnal and came to page168 Free from the law, O happy Condition and I thought that would be good to make my point. If you have been going to a Baptist church for decades like I have you’ll know that this hymn is not sung very often, but I was able to go to you tube and I found a great version of this hymn.
In April Attorney General Jeff Sessions started a so-called zero tolerance program on the border with Mexico. Jeff Sessions proudly claimed last week that women that bring their children with them, as a deterrent their children will be taken from them.
Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee basically said that the Bible says that we are not free from the law but rather they believe the first line from this hymn which states: Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall. It appears to me that Jeff Sessions and Sarah Huckabee do not believe or do not know that Jesus freed us from the law. Where did Jesus free us from the law? In the 8th chapter of John starting in verse one the Bible says 1. Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. 2. And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3. And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4. They said unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5. Now Moses, in the law, commanded us that such should be stoned; but what sayest thou? 6. This they said, testing him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. —–The Pharisees believed the law wasn’t everything it was the only thing. If you wanted to go to Heaven then you must follow the law to the letter. The Pharisees loved the law so much they made up hundreds of new laws to follow. Ask any Trump supporter about immigration and they will tell you that we have laws, everybody must obey our laws, our immigration laws aren’t everything their the only thing. But if you ask a Trump supporter what does our immigration laws say, they couldn’t tell a single word of the law. Maybe they will tell you that our immigration laws say that only white people are allowed to come into our country. Well if we keep Trump and the Republicans in office that’s what our immigration laws will say! The Pharisees said that having this woman stoned, which if your not aware of stoning the woman would have to die, is this really in the Bible? Well yes it is, in the 20th chapter of Leviticus verse 10 says; And the man who committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he who committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.—Wait did you notice something here the law says that both the man and woman shall be put to death, now if the Pharisees found this woman “in the act” I’m pretty sure that there was a man there. By just bringing the woman the Pharisees were not following the law. Likewise, Sessions taking children from their parents is not following any immigration law. You may say Jeff you sure are smart for looking all this up. What really happened is I’m repenting a sermon I heard a very long time ago. The preacher, and I really don’t remember the preacher, said that the problem the Pharisees had was that they looked at the wrong verse. If they had only read 3 more verses down; Leviticus 20 verse 13. If a man also lie with another man as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.—–That’s right if they only went 3 verses down they would have came to the verse that says to kill homosexuals. Just imagine if they did that suppose they brought a couple of gay men before Jesus well for sure Jesus would had stooped down and picked up a rock and threw it hitting one gay man’s head and bouncing off his head striking the other gay man in his head killing two gay men with one stone. Wouldn’t that been great! How many pastors do you think would say that Jesus would do exactly that? We don’t know how many believe that, however we do know that a vast number of pastors believe the Bible has given them the right to throw rocks at homosexuals. Back to the book of John; 7. So when they continued asking him, he lifted himself up, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8. And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9. And they who heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one be one. beginning at the eldest, even unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.—-What is said in verse 9 is what I and many hope will happen that is, being convicted by their own conscience. I can’t change anyone’s mind they have to be convicted by their own conscience. Yesterday in her press briefing Sarah Huckabee was asked ” As a mother do you have any empathy for these children?” And Sarah Huckabee Sanders refused to answer that question. Now I don’t this it’s just a guess but I would guess that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is hoping someday that Jesus will say to her Well done thou good and faithful servant but from what I’ve seen yesterday Jesus may say to her Depart from me ye worker of iniquities. I pray and I hope you will join me that we pray for Sarah Huckabee Sanders to be a good and faithful servant to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and resign her position in protest. I know that is very unlikely but maybe Sarah will be convicted by her own conscience and do what is right. Right now she is making it very clear that she could care less what happens to these people. Moving on to verse 10. When Jesus had lifted himself up, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man, condemned thee? 11. She said, No man , Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more. —–Why did Jesus ask the woman has any man condemned her? Because in John 3 verse 17 the verse after John 3:16 Our Lord and Savior says 17. For God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through him might be saved.—–Jesus doesn’t condemn, but man on the other hand believes they not only has the right to condemn, it’s their duty to condemn. The people, and by the way they are all people Not animals have nothing that is nothing but each other and Jeff Sessions has no problem taking away the one thing they do have and that’s their family. By the way doesn’t the Republican Party prides itself as the party for family and family values well I guess that only applies to white families. To justify himself Jeff Sessions quoted Romans 13:1 this verse was used for years to defend slavery. Many people believe that what makes this even worse is that Jeff Sessions is using the Bible to say this is alright. One of these people is Steven Colbert who took time out of the Late Show to express his opinion.
The New York City audience cheered Romans 13:10. how many Christians could quote Romans 13:10? I have a lot more I could say here but my blog is Jeff’s Song of the Day. So that means tomorrow I continue on the same subject racism and today is all about racism do you think we would be taking their children away from them is they were coming from Norway? My next song is Up With People’s What Color is God’s Skin? So please bookmark my page and remember your shares and comments are always welcome.