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Friday, August 25, 2017

Dave Pack: There are bastards in the church



“If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons: for what son is he whom the father chastens not?” (vs. 7). Welcome to Christianity if you’re feeling chastening. “But if you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers…[One way or another, God has to get us ready. The faster and the better you learn, the stronger your conviction, then good. But if you don’t]…then are you bastards, and not sons” (vs. 8).
We don’t have to call anybody bastards; but there are bastards in the Church. At some point, they’ll reveal themselves, and in the sense of what God says, you’ll literally say, “You’re a bastard.” Now today, people say, “You bastard!” or whatever they say. You know what I mean. A bastard is just somebody illegitimate. But…you’re illegitimate, you came in here as My son, and I chastened you and you wouldn’t take it. And I’ll say this, for the first phase of the fire…here’s what God will say to him—“You bastard. Get out.” And then it won’t be cursing.
“If you be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons…” and then it talks about, our fathers did it when we were kids: “For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure [and so forth]” (vs. 9).
Now, verse 11: “Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto to them which are exercised thereby.” There are going to be some people who can’t take it and it’s going to feel unfair—“This is incredibly hard!”—when this monster comes at them personally. And maybe they watch their wife killed. WOW! Or their husband killed, or however it goes. “This isn’t right!” There are people…The clay starts, you know, talking to the Potter about how He should have done it differently. Be careful…

7 comments:

  1. Well, I guess that makes Pack a "Bitch" then.

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  2. Boy, I can't imagine a decent father mentoring to his son, and suddenly proclaiming to him, "Why you bastard! You just don't get it, do you?" The father of the prodigal son must not figure into Dave's worldview at all!

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  3. David Pack YOU are a bastard!

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  4. I guess they should remove the mirror from Dave's private restroom.

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  5. Does Dave watch South Park? Is he quoting Eric Cartman in his sermon?

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  6. I actually had an Eric Cartman cartoon for this, but then used the one above, figuring some delicate soul out there would get offended by the word bastard.

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    1. Let's just hope that ol' Pachyderm Ears (Pack, for short) doesn't adopt Showtime's "Billions" as his new favorite TV program! If so, he's going to learn a whole new level of ruthlessness!

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