Carnality is selfish, sick, stubborn, sad-ended, scolding,
security-conscience, sensational, severe, shocking, sinful,
sour, spineless, stormy, sulky, surly, and suspicious. -eab
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Carnality
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Real
Posted in christmas poems, philosophy, tagged Arizona, Bible writers, bit nails in two, coddling the preachers, died once, docs, God's Son, Golgotha’s cold loss, He confounded, He's coming again, His step-dad, hypocrites, Jesus, legalist brew, manger, Phoenix, political saves none, political taste, real, rocks, sin, sinners, the Cross, the grave, Victor on December 12, 2008| 1 Comment »
If you could create your own Jesus,
To suit your political taste,
You might have Him born “like a king,”
And not in a manger, near waste.
You might have His step-dad a merchant,
Perhaps owning part of the bank,
So Jesus could have lots of funds,
And thus dress a little more swank.
You might change the scene at the temple,
(At twelve He confounded the docs.)
Pretend that He birds made on wing,
By merrily tossing up rocks.
You might have Him coddling the preachers,
Intent on their legalist brew,
(But He called them hypocrites – Wow,
No wonder they “bit nails in two.”)
Your special “new Jesus,” your dream one,
Might skip all Golgotha’s cold loss,
He’d be a warm “pattern,” and teach,
Avoiding the grave and the cross.
A Christ so political saves none.
All sinners would die in their sin.
Thank God for His Son, who is real,
Not something created by men.
The real Christ died once for all sinners,
Arose He then, Victor, not dead.
He’s coming again, now to rule.
It’s just like they* said that He said.
~ o ~
Amen ─ and Amen, once again! – eab, 12/12/‘03
Written while in Phoenix, Arizona
* The Bible writers
John Cennick – birth, Dec. 12, 1718
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“Lo! He Comes with Clouds Descending” (stanzas 1-3)
Lo! He comes with clouds descending,
Once for favored sinners slain;
Thousand thousand saints attending,
Swell the triumph of His train:
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
God appears on earth to reign.
Every eye shall now behold Him
Robed in dreadful majesty;
Those who set at naught and sold Him,
Pierced and nailed Him to the tree,
Deeply wailing, deeply wailing, deeply wailing,
Shall the true Messiah see.
Every island, sea, and mountain,
Heav’n and earth, shall flee away;
All who hate Him must, confounded,
Hear the trump proclaim the day:
Come to judgment! Come to judgment! Come to judgment!
Come to judgment! Come away!
John Cennick born (of Quaker parents) this date, 12/12/1718 in Reading, England. He died 7/4/1755 in London.
