They Have a Different Religous Faith or Lipstick on a Pig

We have made it to about pg 170 in “The Second Mayflower”. Around pg 120-130 will be a tough go for most evangelicals as he calls the church back to the Lawgiver.

He is doing a very good job encapsulating the main heart and thrust of why I think God blew life into the homeschool movement. Its not just so our Kids can clean the clocks of the Govt school kids in scholastic competitions. Its been to prepare a people to serve the Lord, in every area of life.

It has been line upon line, precept upon precept, just as the Word says. One thing was revealed which led to another.

This book is doing a very nice job drawing many comeponants all together in one mosaic picture. Granted for someone just entering this path they would hunger for the tons of tapes and books that have colored in so many of the different facets that these pages illuminate. So much of it seemed almost shocking at one point. For me that was because it started to feel like for 30 plus years in the Church I had been dealing with minutia. So much of the teaching centered around us, man, how God would help us, restore us, save us. Clarity about what he did for us at the cross and how we would be with him later. But dead silence for just too many areas of life.

From back in the mid 80’s... Mr john Otis quoted Gordon Clark ...Neutrality is impossible. Let one ask what neutrality can possible mean when God is involved. How does God judge the school system which says to him, "O God we neither deny nor assert thy existance" and "O God we neither obey nor disobey thy commands, we are strictly neutral" A school system which ignores God, teaches its its pupils to ignore God and this is not neutrality but the worse form of antagonism for it judges God to be uninportant and irrellevant in human affairs. It is atheism...

That is just so dead on. I have been perfectly comfortable with the concept, the idea, the practice, that the government could exempt itself from the Lordship of Christ. That the Government, individuals, societys etc could say that “well we don’t believe the bible so were gonna walk by some neutral principles”. The fact that I didn’t see that what they were really doing was adopting a different faith, and then walking by it. It is their faith, their religion, they are true believers and they cling to it just as dogmatically as any of us believe in Christ. They have gotten away by buffalo-ing us that they walk by science and reason when all it really was, is humanism. Faith, trust and belief in man. They had put lipstick on a pig and I couldnt see the pig anymore.

It matters not that they cannot see it. It matters a whole bunch that we have not seen it, and held their feet to the fire about it. I do think its because we lost “The law” for so long. We put down the standard because they didn’t like it. (For a long time I think we weren’t too crazy about his law either. I repent.) We climbed into their sandbox of human reason and have lost our way.

But the Lord is calling us out of their sandbox and back to his ways. Psalm 19:7,8 The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple: the statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart. The commandment of the Lord is is pure enlightening the eyes.

Another quote from John M Otis
...One either thinks and acts like a Christian or one thinks and acts as a humanist. There is no neutral stand. (Matt12:30) Our children are being educated all the time. the question is: what religion is being conveyed to them and being used to shape their lives? Is it the godless system of humanism or is it the God glorifying truths of scripture?...

It is only by the light of Gods word and our adherance to it that will keep us from raising another generation of believers that think like humanists. Every topic: "What sayeth the scriptures" and " to the Law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word it is because there is no light in them"