What it boils down to by the Obama Administration is this:
Much more than the picture shows but the fact is, is that someone has put a face to it and that’s not totally true. We have the government into the area of family law (government) and the power to exercise their authority into the health care system. There’s a story, as much as I can remember it, about a man who has three sons, who while he was sitting outside his house gets robbed. The father tries to tell his sons about the thief who robbed him but sons ignore the father, and they send him back home. While on the way home, the thief had returned back and took more from his house. At last the thief - seeing how easy it was to rob the man the first and second time comes back the third time, and takes the rest. The father confronts the sons and says, “If only you would have listened to me the first time - the thief would never have come back” -
We could put a face to thief, but still :shrug:could it still tells us how we left ourselves so open? Again, be vigilant, and stay awake! Our Lord said this and so did Paul: (They meant it in the very strong of terms)
.Mark 13:25 “But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away.”
while the righteous were asleep his enemy came and sowed. - “The tare abounds all over the East, and is a great nuisance to the farmer. It resembles the American “cheat (chess),” but the “head” does not droop like cheat, nor does it branch out like oats. The grain, also, is smaller, and is arranged along the upper part of the stalk, which stands perfectly erect. The “taste” is bitter, and when eaten separately, or even when diffused in ordinary bread, it causes dizziness, and often acts as a violent emetic. Barn-door fowls also become dizzy from eating it. In short, it is a strong soporific poison, and must be carefully winnowed, and picked out of the wheat grain by grain, before grinding, or the flour is not healthy. Even the farmers, who in this country generally “weed” their fields, do not attempt to separate the one from the other. They would not only mistake good grain for them, but very commonly the roots of the two are so intertwined that it is impossible to separate them without plucking up both. Both, therefore, must be left to “grow together” until the time of harvest.” - (Thomson) “The Land and the Book,” vol. ii. pp. 111, 112. Thus, “tares” aptly represented hypocrites in the church. Strongly resembling Christians in their experience, and, in some respects, their lives it is impossible to distinguish them from genuine Christians, nor can they be separated until it is done by the Great Searcher of hearts at the day of judgment. An enemy the devil hath done it. And nowhere has he shown profounder cunning, or done more to adulterate the purity of the gospel.-
Encouragement to be sober and vigilant in your Christian walk
