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"We remember the suffering and death of God's only Son and His glorious resurrection...
On Easter Sunday, we proclaim with joy, Christ is Risen."
Donald Trump, March 31, 2024.
Joe Biden and his transvestite buddy Sam Brinton who he appointed to
lead the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy.
Unfortunately for Sam he lost his job after getting busted three times
for stealing other passenger's luggages while taking flights on
taxpayer funded business.
"On Transgender Day of Visibility, we honor the extraordinary courage and
contributions of transgender Americans and reaffirm our Nation's commitment to forming
a more perfect Union -- where all people are created equal and treated equally
throughout their lives. Today, we send a message to all transgender Americans: You are
loved. You are heard. You are understood. You belong. You are America, and my entire
Administration and I have your back. Now, therefore, I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., President
of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim March 31, 2024, as
Transgender Day of Visibility."
Joe Biden, March 31, 2024.
Dear Friends,
I spent a lovely Easter morning at Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Hamilton. Pastor Peter (the Sudanese Pastor to the right) and Pastor Mark Koehler (sitting to the left, hard to see) led the service. Pastor Mark preached and emphasized a meaningful faith in the finished work of Christ and indeed as our society forgets and scoffs at the glorious death and resurrection of Christ and replaces this holy day of rememberance with something different, perhaps a new religious holiday like "Transgender Day of Rememberance," Christians will have to find their faith/courage and continue to let our lights shine, even in the face of adversity and rejection.
Indeed the spectrum of rejection and exclusion Christians face in Canada today, ridicule and caricature in the media (minor), a little more serious and unfortunately increasingly common, job losses and employment discrimination, or more serious yet, hate crime charges and possible imprisonment for those Christians who choose to engage in the public square; still these persecutions pale in comparison to the Passion of Christ, which Christians everywhere are called to reflect upon during Easter, the holiest day for Christianity.
The Prophet Isaiah prophesied how our Christ was to suffer 700-750 years before He was born,
"He is despised and rejected by men,
A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him;
He was despised, and we did not esteem Him. Surely He has borne our griefs
And carried our sorrows;
Yet we esteemed Him stricken,
Smitten by God, and afflicted.
But He was wounded for our transgressions,
He was bruised for our iniquities;
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him,
And by His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray;
We have turned, every one, to his own way;
And the Lord has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed and He was afflicted,
Yet He opened not His mouth;
He was led as a lamb to the slaughter,
And as a sheep before its shearers is silent,
So He opened not His mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment,
And who will declare His generation?
For He was cut off from the land of the living;
For the transgressions of My people He was stricken.
And they made His grave with the wicked --
But with the rich at His death,
Because He had done no violence,
Nor was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him;
He has put Him to grief.
When You make His soul an offering for sin,
He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days,
And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.
He shall see the labor of His soul, and be satisfied.
By His knowledge My righteous Servant shall justify many,
For He shall bear their iniquities.
Therefore I will divide Him a portion with the great,
And He shall divide the spoil with the strong,
Because He poured out His soul unto death,
And He was numbered with the transgressors,
And He bore the sin of many,
And made intercession for the transgressors."
[Isaiah 53:3-12]
In a sense when we suffer, we partake in Christ's suffering and I believe the persecution we face has value as a witness to our culture and nation.
However, what we accomplish in our suffering is quite miniscule to what Christ has accomplished when He suffered and died for us.
Note Isaiah 53:12, "He bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors." If I go to prison for sharing the Gospel at the Toronto homosexual pride parade; I believe God will use that suffering for good. However, I have no capacity to bear anyone's sins, as I am a sinner myself and in great need of forgiveness for my many, serious, sins. On some level I can make intercession for sinners when I am in prison, and likely I will, but that intercession is no more profound than the intercession I can make right now in the basement I am sitting in as I write this reflection. Christians can and should intercede for each other, but we must recognize our interessions are only efficacious because of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
"Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray
over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord. And the prayer of faith
will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed
sins, he will be forgiven. Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for
one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power
as it is working."
[James 5:13-16]
Note, the elders were commanded by St. James to pray and anoit with oil "in the name of the Lord." Our Lord is the crucified and resurrected Christ, whose passion we remember on Easter. It is His death and resurrection that has the power to atone for our sin, and it is in His authority we can in faith pray for others that they too may experience healing and the forgiveness of sins. Indeed Pastor Mark reminded me this Easter that faith in Christ's promises obtained through His death and resurrection can also free us from the torments we suffer from dwelling too much on our own regrets.
In the end Easter will prevail over false holidays such as "Gay Pride Month" or the "Transgender Day of Rememberence." These aberrations will come and go. In one sense they teach us that something has to fill a vacuum. Even atheists and "gay pride" activists can inadvertantly show us there is a God as they desperately try to obliterate Him from the public square, but in the end they will worship something and demand absolute conformity to the "god" they inadvertantly end up worshipping anyways.
The "gods" of our age offer nothing substantial in the long term. They tend to be vacuous and their joy is fleeting. The burdens imposed by their religious obligations become heavy and oppressive. Note how "gay pride" was initially supposed to be liberating and fun. But now for some government workers attendance to pro-homosexual workshops is coerced and questioning the efficacy of this "god," or whether or not the worship of this "god" is actually harmful, can merit you a criminal prosecution.
Likewise, "Transgender Day of Rememberence." This "god" is supposed to offer liberation to those allegedly born in the wrong body. Aside from the fact longitudinal studies from liberal jurisdictions like Sweden show extremely high suicidality and mental health rates for post op transvestites indicating that utopia might not be attained through genital mutilation and hormone therapy, we also see the oppressive demands of conformity to this religion. This religion has morphed into a coercive absurdity as intact biological males can now claim they are "transgender" and they are finding their way into women's spaces with horrifying results.
Women in prisons and homeless shelters have reported physical and sexual assaults at the hands of these so-called "transwomen" and so-far their desperately legitimate safety concerns are being subordinated to the obligatory, but nonsensical religous creed "transwomen are real women." A creed based on nothing but woke ideology, unlike the death and resurrection of Christ which is documented in history by a renowned secular Roman historian,
"At this time there was a wise man called Jesus, and his conduct was good, and he was
known to be virtuous. Many people among the Jews and the other nations became his
disciples. Pilate condemned him to be crucified and to die. But those who had become
his disciples did not abandon his discipleship. They reported that he had appeared to
them three days after his crucifixion and that he was alive. Accordingly, he was
perhaps the Messiah, concerning whom the prophets have reported wonders. And the tribe
of the Christians, so named after him, has not disappeared to this day."
[Flavius Josephus, Antiquities 18:63, AD 37-100.]
The obligations of believing in Christ will cost you everything and at the same time free you from your heavy burdens.
"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."
[Matthew 11:28-30]
The promises of Christ are not fleeting, His promise of sins forgiven is eternal. You can be rest assured that your inability to conform perfectly to the demands of a perfect and Holy God, who died on a cross for you, will not seperate you from the Love of God. LGBT activists have been known to turn on one another and cancel their own when they perceive failings in adherence to their woke doctrines. The inspired author St. Paul on the other hand promises those of us who sin and come to our God broken and in need of forgiveness:
"What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
As it is written: "For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter."
Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I
am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers,
nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created
thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord."
[Romans 8:31-39]
In Christ's Service,
Bill Whatcott, March 31, 2024.
Copied from Bill Whatcott's web site.
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