{"id":3595,"date":"2015-10-01T02:36:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T02:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/?p=3595"},"modified":"2015-10-03T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T17:06:36","slug":"whos-sick-of-satan-schmaltz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/2015\/10\/whos-sick-of-satan-schmaltz\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;s Sick of &#8220;satan-schmaltz&#8221; in the Media ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-11_00_00-AM.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3596\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-11_00_00-AM.jpg?resize=474%2C266&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-11_00_00-AM\" width=\"474\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-11_00_00-AM.jpg?w=950&amp;ssl=1 950w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screen-Shot-2015-09-29-at-11_00_00-AM.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a>by Standerinfamilycourt<\/p>\n<p><em>For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.\u00a0 <span id=\"en-NASB-29670\" class=\"text 2Thess-2-8\">Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His coming;<\/span>\u00a0 <span id=\"en-NASB-29671\" class=\"text 2Thess-2-9\">that is, the one whose coming is in accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,<\/span> <span id=\"en-NASB-29672\" class=\"text 2Thess-2-10\">and with all the deception of wickedness for those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth so as to be saved.<\/span>\u00a0 <span id=\"en-NASB-29673\" class=\"text 2Thess-2-11\">For this reason God will send upon them a deluding influence so that they will believe what is false,<\/span>\u00a0<span id=\"en-NASB-29674\" class=\"text 2Thess-2-12\"><sup class=\"versenum\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/sup>in order that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but took pleasure in wickedness.<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211; 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This may be the least politically-correct blog I&#8217;ll ever write.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I almost skipped the cyber-story depicted above because I assumed it was another tedious gay wedding tale, coming in the midst of a week when SIFC was wrestling a lot of personal alligators and feeling a bit (well..) peevish.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Then, on the\u00a0commute to the day job, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kloveradionews\/posts\/10153564047493930\" target=\"_blank\"><em>CHRISTIAN<\/em> radio no less<\/a>,\u00a0this\u00a0story was called out as having the evangelical dee-jay in literal tears because this father-of-the-bride was showing &#8220;the love of Christ&#8221; in his &#8220;blended family&#8221;\u00a0 to the stepdad who had &#8220;just as much to do with who his daughter became&#8221;\u00a0 as he\u00a0(<em>nolo contendre<\/em> on that last point),\u00a0 and so both men walked her down the aisle.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Both\u00a0men indeed\u00a0have much to do with this shared daughter,\u00a0 not to mention sundry replacement spouses, and themselves all being on the wrong bus to the eternally-wrong destination, and having not the slightest clue of it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Likely not their fault, since<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifewayresearch.com\/2011\/06\/28\/lifeway-research-finds-pastors-divided-on-when-to-perform-weddings\/\"> fewer than 5% of U.S. evangelical pastors <\/a>will dare call out remarriage adultery and tell the truth about the eternal consequences of continuing to live in that state until death without forsaking it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We can no longer even read authoritatively about it\u00a0 in (altered) contemporary bibles or bible commentaries, thanks to a grand switcheroo on the manuscripts from which they are negligently translated.<\/p>\n<p>And this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upmoments.com\/he-got-divorced-and-said-this\/\">little gem <\/a>was also getting the adulation\u00a0last week for the sterling display of love, respect and &#8220;maturity&#8221; of a husband yielding his &#8220;ex&#8221; over to the arms of an apparently cohabiting successor.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Quite a few &#8220;friends of friends&#8221; were wishing for this super-guy&#8217;s phone number.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently SIFC was the only person in all of Facebookland\u00a0 wondering why in the world\u00a0this man wasn&#8217;t instead binding satan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Hosea+2%3A6-7&amp;version=NASB\" target=\"_blank\">praying Hosea thornbushes <\/a>in their path!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If his love was so undying and his esteem for her so polished, how could he applaud her stroll toward the hell-flames with one of satan&#8217;s demons?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Since this friend (of mine) had twenty minutes before walked out of church behind me, and had already been burned, divorced and left with two fatherless daughters as a consequence of our pastor not declining to perform a wedding over her and <em>another woman&#8217;s<\/em> husband,\u00a0 I called out the fact that this article was glorifying adultery and that her daughters deserved better.\u00a0\u00a0 I was slapped silly by her other &#8220;friends&#8221; for my judgmental lack of couth and insensitivity in accusing anyone of committing an &#8220;unpardonable sin&#8221; (let&#8217;s come back to that in a bit).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nevertheless, the Lord was present, and helped me get a link into her hands to Casey Whitaker&#8217;s\u00a0 <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriagedivorce.com\/Have-You-Not-Read.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Have You Not Read?&#8221;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet many of us nauseously remember this bit making\u00a0the viral rounds in the last year or two, because it <em>still<\/em> keeps\u00a0turning up every now and then like a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cosmopolitan.com\/sex-love\/news\/a34253\/mom-step-mom-emotional-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\">bad social media penny<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting that The Ruth Institute, the Catholic-based rare pro-family advocacy organization dedicated to exposure and full repeal of unilateral divorce laws in the 50-states, recently published an excellent piece on the brand of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncfamily.org\/a-new-kind-of-taboo-for-children\/\">norm-enforced political correctness <\/a>shoved off on the stepchildren of those &#8220;blended&#8221; unions who must stuff down God-given feelings of being violated and betrayed by their own parents.<\/p>\n<p>In our culture, and even in our CHURCH culture, the highest good is the &#8220;feel good&#8221;,\u00a0 as though this life on earth was all there is.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Prominent evangelical leaders who are media titans call this out as &#8220;functional atheism&#8221; on Friday (living as though\u00a0we believe God doesn&#8217;t exist), then perform weddings on Saturday joining already-married ineligible adulterers to one another without the slightest regard for three souls including their own!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone must &#8220;move on&#8221;\u00a0 because that&#8217;s &#8220;emotional maturity&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After all, those who say &#8220;divorce&#8221; is &#8220;the unpardonable sin&#8221; are<em> legalists<\/em> who don&#8217;t respect a brother or sister&#8217;s entitlement to the <em>Matthean Exception<\/em>, or barring that, to the <em>Pauline Privilege<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t a man-made legal construct actually <em>morally neutral<\/em> and dependent on whether its goal is repentance or rebellion against God&#8217;s law?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t the<em> real<\/em> sin disobedience of Christ&#8217;s crystal-clear commandment in Luke 16:18 ?<\/p>\n<p>And is this sin unpardonable?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let&#8217;s examine that!<\/p>\n<p><em><span data-reactid=\".gs.1:5.0.1:$replies1202095766482718_1202129603146001\/=10.0.1:2:$comment1202095766482718_1202141809811447\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.0.$end\/=1$text2\/=010\">Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy [<\/span><\/em><span data-reactid=\".gs.1:5.0.1:$replies1202095766482718_1202129603146001\/=10.0.1:2:$comment1202095766482718_1202141809811447\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".gs.1:5.0.1:$replies1202095766482718_1202129603146001\/=10.0.1:2:$comment1202095766482718_1202141809811447\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".gs.1:5.0.1:$replies1202095766482718_1202129603146001\/=10.0.1:2:$comment1202095766482718_1202141809811447\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end\/=1$text0\/=010\"><em>every evil, abusive, injurious speaking, or indignity against sacred things] will be forgiven people, <strong>but blasphemy against the [Holy] Spirit will not be forgiven.<\/strong> Whoever speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven; <strong>but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit<\/strong> [by attributing the miracles done by Me to Satan] <strong>will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0Matt. 12:31-32 (AMP)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Remarriage apologists love to point to this pronouncement of Jesus to insist, with condescending glare, that those who remain in a perpetual state of rebellion against the 1st, 7th and 10th Commandments (against self-worshipping\u00a0idolatry, adultery and covetousness, respectively), will not go to hell, notwithstanding (KJV*):<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor <strong>idolaters<\/strong>, nor<strong> adulterers<\/strong>, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,<\/em><br \/>\n<em><span id=\"en-KJV-28478\" class=\"text 1Cor-6-10\">Nor thieves, nor <strong>covetous<\/strong>, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor ext<\/span><\/em><span id=\"en-KJV-28478\" class=\"text 1Cor-6-10\"><em>ortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.<br \/>\n[And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.]&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; <\/span>1 Cor. 6:9-11<\/p>\n<p><em>Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; <strong>Adultery<\/strong>, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,\u00a0 <\/em><em><span id=\"en-KJV-29183\" class=\"text Gal-5-20\"><strong>idolatry<\/strong>, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, <strong>e<\/strong><\/span><span id=\"en-KJV-29184\" class=\"text Gal-5-21\"><strong>nvyings<\/strong>, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 <\/span><\/em>Gal. 5:19-21<\/p>\n<p>(*No, you didn&#8217;t <em>imagine<\/em> it, your NIV, NASB, etc. <em>omits &#8220;adultery&#8221;<\/em> from this list.)<\/p>\n<p><em>But the fearful <\/em>[of men],<em> and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and <strong>whoremongers<\/strong>, and sorcerers, and <strong>idolaters<\/strong>, and all<strong> liars<\/strong>, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 <\/em>Rev. 21:8<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Marriage revisionists are absolutely <em>right<\/em>, Jesus clearly did say, &#8220;<em><strong>every sin and blasphemy<\/strong> [<\/em><span data-reactid=\".gs.1:5.0.1:$replies1202095766482718_1202129603146001\/=10.0.1:2:$comment1202095766482718_1202141809811447\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".gs.1:5.0.1:$replies1202095766482718_1202129603146001\/=10.0.1:2:$comment1202095766482718_1202141809811447\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".gs.1:5.0.1:$replies1202095766482718_1202129603146001\/=10.0.1:2:$comment1202095766482718_1202141809811447\/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end\/=1$text0\/=010\"><em>every evil, abusive, injurious speaking, or indignity against sacred things] <strong>will be forgiven people<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span>, &#8221;\u00a0 but there\u00a0are two important <em>provisos<\/em> involved:\u00a0\u00a0 (1) the sin and blasphemy must be <em>TERMINATED<\/em>, and (2) the sinner <em>must not run out of time <\/em>before doing so!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Indeed, the opportunity that remains to <em>go and sin no more,\u00a0 <\/em>as well as Paul&#8217;s words, (1 Cor. 6:11) <em>&#8230;.&#8221;and such <strong>were<\/strong> some of you&#8221;,\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><strong>conclusively proves<\/strong> that civilly marrying somebody else&#8217;s spouse, and taking them on a journey toward hell with you, is <em>not<\/em> the unpardonable sin.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, like every other <em>pardonable<\/em> sin, the determination of whether an adulterous\u00a0pair ultimately arrives there depends on which direction they are walking when the trumpet sounds, or when the sand empties from the personal hour glass at the end of the days of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>The Thursday after this event brought the <em>reality check<\/em>, when our nation saw the wicked underbelly of all of this &#8220;unselfish emotional maturity&#8221; that ignores Christ&#8217;s marriage commandment and refuses to call adultery what Jesus called adultery.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 We watched a blind, enraged President of the United States <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/angry-president-argues-thoughts-and-prayers-are-not-enough\" target=\"_blank\">declare<\/a> that this was the 15th time since taking office that he had to comment on a mass shooting, but neglected to mention the recurring circumstance that a son of divorce was involved, as he instead crusaded for stiffening gun controls.\u00a0\u00a0 SIFC would urge that a more disciplined root cause analysis be applied before drawing such conclusions in isolation.<\/p>\n<p>Lord, raise up parents and shepherds who model their &#8220;gestures&#8221; from the eternal perspective, and who value souls over feelings and sensibilities.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Such parents would set the example for their own children by standing for their violated marriage instead of insisting on being with another, and would exit those civil arrangements that Jesus repeatedly called adulterous, so that their soul-jeopardizing example isn&#8217;t followed by succeeding generations!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cThere is no neutral ground in the universe; every square inch, every split second, is claimed by God and counter-claimed by Satan&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n(C. S. Lewis)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>7 Times Around the Jericho Wall\u00a0 |\u00a0 Let&#8217;s Repeal No-Fault Divorce!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>www. standerinfamilycourt.com\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Standerinfamilycourt For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only he who now restrains will do so until he is taken out of the way.\u00a0 Then that lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will slay with the breath of His mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of His &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/2015\/10\/whos-sick-of-satan-schmaltz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Who&#8217;s Sick of &#8220;satan-schmaltz&#8221; in the Media ?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,36,13],"tags":[21,34],"class_list":["post-3595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divorce-2","category-lost-culture","category-morality","tag-future-of-marriage","tag-morality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p57mep-VZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3595"}],"version-history":[{"count":44,"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3671,"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3595\/revisions\/3671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.standerinfamilycourt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}