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(4) Retired 31-year veteran of the Houston Police Department (Patrol-Motorcycle Officer-Commercial Helicopter Police Patrol Pilot)
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“Christian Outlaws” (Facebook Page – Motorcycle Group) v. “Christian Democrats” (Twitter Page) relevant to hypocrisy and obviously being oxymoronic?
My understanding of Christianity is that the Christian eschews lawlessness and self-righteousness and endeavors to become more like Christ, loving the Father with one’s whole heart and loving your neighbor as yourself (Matthew 26:36-40).
Therefore, how can a man or woman who, with intent, illegally modifies a motorcycle or any motor vehicle to emit dangerous noise levels in multiples (logarithmic) the legal, total, motorcycle noise emissions of 80dB(A) as restricted by the US EPA for the safety and health and daily quality of life of the American citizen then proceed out onto a public roadway and audibly abuse children, the elderly, the handicapped, our families, by the millions each day with that illegal, abusive, motorcycle NOISE; then, wear Messiah’s cross of suffering as their colors and profess to love God in Jesus Christ yet abuse those whom Jesus died for?
Is not identifying as a “Christian Outlaw” – an illegally LOUD motorcycle thug in the same vein of hypocrisy as the “Christian Democrat” who identifies with a demonic Political Party that advocates for the murder of babies in the womb; the mutilation of children’s bodies through demonic gender reassignment; the hatred of the Biblical God in American society; advocates for the Hell of a communist police state; advocates for the demonic deception of LGBTQ and forces same upon society?
What is the difference in hypocrisy between the Christian Outlaw and the Christian Democrat? Personally, I see both as servants of the Devil.
A true Christian? What does that mean? How do I become an authentic Christian?
Becoming a Christian? Relevant questions that must be answered in the affirmative…
Does one truly trust in Jesus as Messiah…do they believe with a sincere heart that Jesus is Messiah who died for them?
These matters of the heart are known by the Father via His divine omniscience (Psalm 139:2) and irrespective of genealogy, heritage, skin color, past history-sin, intelligence quotient, employment, service, philanthropy, the one who truly believes that Jesus died for them to pay their sin-debt owed the Father…a sin-debt they could never pay them self…this person is made “positionally right” with the Father by faith; that is, the righteousness-sinless perfection of Jesus is imputed-gifted into their life by covenant promise (2 Corinthians 5:21), forever, and they enter into New Covenant relationship with the Father, they receive the indwelling Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that Covenant (Ephesians 1:13-14), forever, and they are forever forgiven of sin…all sin…past-present-future (Hebrews 8:12)…and they become a new creation (2 Corinthians 5:17) with new values, desires, goals, through the daily process of sanctification (Galatians 5:16) where the Holy Spirit employs the natural law, the law of conscience (Romans 2:14-15) written upon our heart at conception in the womb and enlivens that law through the redeemed conscience and the Holy Spirit does a new work in their life by producing “fruit” (Galatians 5) that honors the Father, validates their faith, as the Holy Spirit prepares them for service in the New Jerusalem; this, for the Glory and Honor of the Father as He is currently in the process of restoring order and holiness to His Kingdom, holiness and order disrupted by a rebellious and destructive anointed cherub angel (John 8:44; Luke 10:18); this, causation for the Gospel as Elohim’s battle strategy to “destroy the works of the Devil” through Messiah’s selfless love demonstrated at Golgotha (1 John 3:8b); this, a battle strategy ordained, authorized, “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10).
Jesus said you will know the Christian by the “fruit” that is produced in their life via the indwelling Holy Spirit (Matthew 7:15-20; Galatians 5); therefore, a man or woman’s relationship with Elohim cannot necessarily be judged by the denominational or religious label placed upon them by the works of men for Elohim’s thoughts and His purposes are infinitely superior to the thoughts and motives of sinful humanity (Isaiah 55:8).
A self-proclaimed “Evangelist” stated that there will be “many” Christians who will enter Hell and under girded his corrupt theology with Matthew 7:21-23. A Christian rebuttal…
True Christians are not going to Hell, they’re the only human beings that will enter the Kingdom of God. Matthew 7:21-23 has NOTHING to do with Christianity and everything to do with religion, Judaism, Islam, Catholicism, cults, sects, as Jesus is teaching that there will be “many” who have worked themselves to the bone with involvement in philanthropy, service to a church or a synagogue or mosque or a charity and will be rejected from entering the Kingdom, why?
These “religious people” are rejected and Jesus tells them plainly “I never knew you” because THEY NEVER ESTABLISHED-INITIATED COVENANT RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FATHER BY FAITH IN THE SON, JESUS CHRIST (John 6:29; 1 John 2:23). These never humbled themselves and repented of their sins and fully trusted in Jesus as their Messiah and received the righteousness of Jesus imputed into their life by faith and subsequently received the Holy Spirit as Guarantor of that covenant relationship (John 3; Ephesians 1:13-14; 2 Corinthians 5:21). These never complied with the Father’s will (John 6:29) therefore, they never entered relationship as children of the Living God by grace through faith.
Their “wonderful works” were interpreted by the Father as “filthy rags” or, in the Hebrew, a bloody menstrual cloth (Isaiah 64:6) because their works were not performed by the indwelling Holy Spirit but they performed their good deeds in self-righteousness for self-glorification before men, society; therefore, their good works were rejected as were they because covenant relationship had not been established, FIRST!
Much like the Progressive Left in America conditioning our children to be communists-gender confused-climate cultists-atheists; here, we see our children being conditioned to be lawless NOISE thugs who ride illegally LOUD motorcycles and abuse societies most innocent with illegal NOISE emissions that destroy the daily quality of life of millions of American citizens, noise that attacks the health and welfare of all exposed to same; basically, teaching our children to model after antisocial loud biker thuggery, a NOISE cult of abuse…this is demonically rooted and it’s sick at its core. https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/03/10/the-truth-about-loud-motorcycles-the-police-wont-or-cant-tell-you/
Confusion concerning Genesis 3:15, the serpent’s crushed head, Messiah’s bruised heel, the seed of the woman, the Gospel of Grace…
Jesus is the “seed” of the woman (Galatians 4:4)…a virgin seed (Matthew 1:23) essential to circumvent the sin-nature passed to all of humanity through Adam’s genome (Romans 5:12) and the bruised heal of Messiah speaks of His crucifixion where Messiah crushes the head of the serpent, the Devil, by destroying death, Hell, the grave, for all who believe in Jesus as Messiah…this is why Messiah appeared in the Realm of Time…“to destroy the works of the Devil” (1 John 3:8b) and this is subsequently pictured for us first in Genesis 3:21 where Elohim rejects Adam’s attempt to cover sin and shame via fig leaves (works) and Elohim proceeds to shed innocent blood, Himself, and clothes Adam and Eve in an imputed-gifted robe of righteousness which pictures the work of Jesus, the righteousness of Jesus, being imputed into and over the life of the one who believes (2 Corinthians 5:21).
For all intents and purposes, the Gospel of Jesus, ordained “before Time began” (2 Timothy 1:8-10), is revealed in the 3rd-Chapter of the Genesis Narrative if one possesses eyes to see and ears to hear via the indwelling Holy Spirit (1 John 2:27). The entirety of Scripture following Genesis 3 provides Elohim’s eschatological, theological, roadmap as He proceeds to restore order and holiness to His Kingdom disrupted by Satan’s rebellion; this, while Elohim via His omnipotence works through and around mankind’s free will choices concerning obedience and disobedience; this, for the benefit of the faithful angelic creation that looks-on with fascination, amazement and awe at what their Creator has done to right an eternal wrong via selfless love demonstrated at Golgotha while enduring a rebellious and obstinate human kind.
Jewish-Israeli criticism of my narrative concerning the eschatological failures of Israel’s children…a rebuttal…
“When you say the chosen one failed Yahweh, you are judging against yourself.”
Christian rebuttal to the Jew, Israelite,
I am telling you Truth that your pride, arrogance, genealogical blindness refuses to accept…Israel failed Yahweh miserably…they have made their ordination relevant to the New Covenant’s Gospel of no account through unbelief, rejection of the Gospel, murder of Messiah and the demands that Messiah’s blood be upon them and their children (Matthew 27:25) and only Yahweh’s holiness, divine integrity and promises will save Israel from complete extinction as He will save a “remnant” (Isaiah 10:22; Romans 9:27) and honor Israel as His vessel through whom He introduced Messiah to the World and chronicled His Genesis narrative for eschatological purposes; this, for Yahweh’s glorification, NOT the glorification of Israel’s children.
If you die in the Realm of Time trusting in genealogy, heritage, Moses, Israel, to save you from death in Hell, you will perish in that Day (Revelation 20:11-15) in your willful ignorance and self-righteousness. Trusting-Believing in Yeshua as your Messiah who died for you is your ONLY HOPE for life and this is relevant to Jew, Israelite, Gentile, equally (Acts 4:12). Do not be deceived by the Jewish Curse (Matthew 27:25).
It is written by the prophet Isaiah and reiterated, made applicable in the New Covenant by the Apostle Paul,
27 And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the sons of Israel[c] be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved, 28 for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.” 29 And as Isaiah predicted,
“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.”
Israel’s Unbelief
30 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness[d] did not succeed in reaching that law. 32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is written,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.” Romans 9 (ESV)
It strikes me odd that the LOUD biker cult[ure] considers themselves “Patriots” yet they illegally modify their motorcycles with illegally LOUD aftermarket exhaust mechanisms that emit in multiples (logarithmic) the legal, total, safe, EPA restricted, 80dB(A) then these leather clad narcissist thugs proceed out onto a public roadway with their colors suggesting they are “Christians,” “Patriots,” “Veterans,” while simultaneously, with intent, destroying the daily quality of life of millions of American citizens with their illegal NOISE intrusion; this, while abusing our children, our elderly, our handicapped, our families; this, as our pathetic and impotent law enforcement community is too compromised, too morally weak, to pathetically WOKE, to intercede and enforce the muffler laws enacted for our protection. The LOUD Biker Cult[ure] are “Trans-Liberals” “Trans-Progressives” …not Christians, not Conservatives, not Patriots. Tatted, selfish, narcissistic, child abusers. https://rickeyholtsclaw.com/2016/03/10/the-truth-about-loud-motorcycles-the-police-wont-or-cant-tell-you/
Moses’ Law – Sinai have no place at the Table of Grace and Faith concerning the redeemed in Jesus…
The Christian is not under or enslaved to the Covenant of Law, Sinai, Moses (Romans 6:14), but the Christian honors the Spiritual Law that has been extant and relevant as an arbiter of free will subsequent the creation of the angels, forward (Romans 2:14-15).
It is that Spiritual Law that will endure throughout eternity as the Spiritual Law finds its origin in eternity and is the foundation for the written code given Israel’s children at Sinai; this, for a specific eschatological purpose having NOTHING to do with the Christian in the New Covenant.
If a Christian never observed Torah Law, Sinai’s Decalogue, Moses’ 603 civil-ceremonial laws, the Christian’s relationship with the Father by faith in Jesus would be undeterred as the Christian follows the Law of the Spirit of Life (Romans 8:2) and not the Law of sin and death (Sinai, Romans 8:2).
The Law of the Spirit is written upon our heart at conception, infused within the human genome on Day-6, and in the New Covenant the Spiritual Law is enlivened (made applicable and relevant) by the indwelling Holy Spirit via the redeemed conscience via daily sanctification, the Holy Spirit who is given to the redeemed in Jesus as the Guarantor of Covenant with the Father (Ephesians 1:13-14); therefore, the Christian is NOT enslaved to letters but serves through newness of the Spirit who produces “fruit” in the life of the redeemed and against that fruit there is no Law (Romans 5).
Jesus said that you would know them (differentiate the lost from the redeemed) by their “fruit” (Matthew 7:15-20). Moses has no place at the table of the Redeemed in Jesus in Christianity as Israel’s written code is relegated to being a tutor to point Israel’s wayward children to their need for Messiah Yeshua by faith (Galatians 3:24).
Illegally LOUD biker thuggery has been around for many decades. In 1983, the US EPA, due to health concerns, restricted motorcycle noise emissions to a “total” motorcycle noise output of 83dB(A) and in response to continued testing, the US EPA then opted to reduce motorcycle noise output to 78dB(A) but Suzuki Motors complained that such restriction would be cost prohibitive; therefore, the EPA settled on a total motorcycle noise output of 80dB(A) in model year 1986 and every street-use motorcycle muffler going forward was and is mandated to conform to the strict testing requirements of the SAE J331a full-throttle motorcycle testing procedure where every make and model of street-use motorcycle manufactured in the United States was/is to be tested at full-brake horsepower at 42-feet on each side of the motorcycle; said motorcycle under noise output evaluation could NOT exceed 80dB(A) in order to be retailed and operated in the United States.
Once that motorcycle make and model passed the US EPA testing mandates, the factory muffler affixed to same was to be permanently and heavily embossed with a specific US EPA muffler label that was to be in plain view for inspection by authorities and attached to the frame of the motorcycle (usually the downtube on cruisers) is another US EPA label that matches that EPA-approved muffler to the motorcycle and clearly articulates that any modification to the muffler which would increase noise output is prohibited; also, that frame label designates at what RPM (max brake horsepower) the motorcycle was tested and met the 80dB(A) restriction.
Unfortunately, enforcement of the Federal Law concerning motorcycle noise was delegated to the States and the States and local municipalities, their Governors and Mayors and Law Enforcement Community, have been abysmal failures and illegal motorcycle noise, illegal manufacturing of “not for road use” aftermarket exhausts for retail, the operation of illegally loud motorcycles on our public roadways, has grown exponentially and 80%+ of every narcissistic thug operating a large displacement motorcycle in the United States rides with an illegal aftermarket exhaust that emits in multiples (logarithmic) the total, legal, 80dB(A) as these hedonistic thugs abuse our children, the elderly, our handicapped, veterans suffering PTSD, our families, with illegally LOUD, dangerously intrusive, motorcycle noise; this, as our police are too compromised and too cowardly to stand in the gap for the abused citizenry and cite these NOISE thugs, incarcerate them if necessary, and impound the illegally LOUD piece of vibrating junk until it is returned to OEM-factory noise levels. This abuse is permitted by those sworn to protect us from same.
Is God’s LOVE “unconditional” or “unfailing” or both?
Sitting in Church this morning the Pastor uttered words that, without fail, disturb me spiritually every time I hear them – “God’s love is unconditional.” Shaking my head in disagreement, I understand these words are a prevailing theme in Christianity but like far too many doctrines of men, these words are theological error. When one suggests God’s love is unconditional they are saying that God’s words are error, that God is not perfectly Holy, Just, Righteous, as unconditional love requires that God love irrespective of another’s behavior, attitude, disobedience, willful defilement; they are suggesting that God’s immutability incorporates compromise.
The Christian will say “Well, we’re all sinners but God loves us anyway irrespective of our sin, our conduct, our behavior, our compromise with evil.” – “God hates the sin but loves the sinner.” If God’s love is unconditional concerning those who are not in covenant with Him by faith in His Son (Hebrews 8:12), why the need for blood atonement (Leviticus 17:11; Matthew 26:28); why the need for repentance (Luke 13:3); why the need for the Gospel, grace, faith; why the unconscionable suffering of Jesus Christ? Does unconditional love mandate a Judgment resulting in the “second death” in Hell (Revelation 20:11-15)?
Does Jesus teach unconditional love?
5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ John 3:5-7 (ESV)
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God. 19 And this is the judgment: the light has come into the world, and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. John 3:16-19 (ESV)
Does the Father or the Holy Spirit teach unconditional love?
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. John 9:31 (ESV)
9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 (ESV)
God’s LOVE is “unfailing” but NOT “unconditional,”
“Give thanks to the God of heaven. His love endures forever” (Psalm 136:26)
“But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
“For God so loved the world, that He gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16).
Conclusion,
Though God’s love, forgiveness of sin, eternal life, are predicated upon faith in the Son, Jesus Christ, as one’s Messiah, God’s love and offer of eternal life endures, is unfailing, and is available to humanity till our last exhalation within the Realm of Time; then, only Judgment remains for those who deny the Father’s will (Hebrews 9:27); the Father’s will is this, “to believe in the One He has sent into the World” to provide blood atonement for the forgiveness of sin and covenant relationship with the Father, forever; that is, Jesus our Messiah (John 6:29; John 3:16).