Conversational Prayer-Sonnets and Scriptures
July 4 ~
... because they have not seen fit to acknowledge God, he has given them up to their own depraved reason. This leads them to break all rules of conduct ... God has given them up to the vileness of their own desires, and the consequent degradation of their bodies ... Knowing God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them but approve when others do them ... They are surprised that you do not join them ... and they abuse you ...
Rom.1:28,24 (NEB); 1:32 (Beck); 1 Pet.4:4 (RSV)
Political Correctness
To think they would embrace Banality,
Degeneracy and Vulgarity:
Mundanity! Their souls they thereby slay
yet know it not. Blind to their bondage, they!
Their right hand from their left they do not know
nor comprehend the dreadful downward flow
t'ward chaos of this sad society
where License now is taught as Liberty
and Modesty proscribed. The new Elect
deem Crudity politic'ly correct!
Incredible! The University
doth teach Corruption to the young, would see
Love, Faithfulness and Purity erased!
Thine image - man - dear Lord, have they disgraced ...
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... God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him ... to Adam he said, "Because you ... have eaten of the tree ... to dust you shall return" ... as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive ... all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son ... be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and put on the new nature ... put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness ... put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and put a stop to gratifying the evil desires that lurk in your lower nature ... "And should not I pity Ninevah, that great city, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand persons who do not know their right hand from their left" ...
Gen.1:27 (KJV); 3:17,19 (RSV); 1 Cor.15:22 (RSV); Rom.8:28,29 (KJV); Eph.4:23,24 (RSV,NAS); Rom.13:14 (Wil); Jonah 4:11 (RSV).
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