What A Lie!

 

 

The Devil is a liar

I have heard believers say

Yet Satan has had much success

In getting us to go his way.

 

I have entitled this poem

“What A Lie”

And soon it will be clear to you

The reason why.

 

Two contrasting positions

And only one can be true:

The Genesis account must be

And not the Big Bang view.

 

Nothing travels like a lie

Especially one that is huge,

It starts with some scientist

Making science its groove.

 

Reason is clearly absent,

Common sense? Not even near!

Irrationality is the clutch

And folly is put in gear.

 

 

And there was nothing…

Then came a huge explosion,

Big Bang had arrived,

Thus, the grand delusion.

 

Started by you know who,

It was the Devil himself

And then follow science books,

Maybe one’s on your shelf.

 

If you must tell a lie,

I recall hearing someone say,

Tell a gigantic one

Then step out of the way.

 

Long after it’s proven wrong

It’ll still make the rounds

Just like the Big Bang theory

Moving by leaps and bounds.

 

Big Bang is the biggest lie

That ever was told

And to tell such a huge lie

One has to be bold.

 

Gaining more ground

Than the tried and proven facts,

Oh, what a lie!

Big Bang is just that! 

 

 

What a lie!

And here in second place

Is another colossal lie

Staring us in the face.

 

That one is not what one is

At the time of one’s birth

Would at a time not long ago

Generate much mirth.

 

Genitalia was the decider,

Whether girl or boy

And that sex and that gender

Would be for life deployed.

 

But along came the lie

And oh, what a lie!

I can be what gender I feel

And thus, the truth, deny.

 

What delusions of grandeur

Doth clog up one’s brain?

What feelings of the heart

Causing the mind to be lame?

 

 

Big Bang, however conceived,

Can never be a reality,

Neither can this colossal lie

We call gender fluidity.

 

Big bang is about confusion,

It is nothing organized,

So too is gender fluidity

And thus, should be despised.

 

It is really evil,

I know this sounds horrible

But it denies the Creator,

Get it straight, people!

 

Male and female

The Almighty created man

And chose to call that first union

By the name Adam.

 

Out of man came woman

But this was only at the first,

Ever since that first woman

This process was reversed.

 

A man cannot give birth,

Certainly, not naturally,

And a sperm generating woman

Would never be.

 

She may carry sperm

But she was not the source,

Quite naturally it required a man

And his ejaculative force.

 

 

These are two colossal lies

That have divided the world,

Both denying God as Creator

And His infallible Word.

 

Stewart Russell © January 28, 2023

 

Not Even Me

 

 

Having said yes to God

He will in no way accept no,

I am dogmatic about this

Because the Bible says so.

 

Born into God’s kingdom

Speaks to permanence,

I became His precious child

Via genuine repentance.

 

According to Romans 8

Verses 35 to 39 to be exact,

I have that assurance

And God’s truth is fact.

 

Being born again

Is the premise I choose,

My child of the Father status

I can never lose.

 

Once a child of God

I am always a child of God

Hence, I will not be deceived

Or let Satan defraud.

 

From my natural birth

I was my father’s son

But now I am born again

New life has come.

 

To all that believe

God grants us the power

To be His sons and daughters

From that very hour.

 

Since I cannot change

My earthly circumstance

Neither do I have the power

To alter what God has advanced.

 

What he has put in place

Is His sovereign will

And I know like you do

What he promises He fulfils.

 

I’ve heard the argument

That I can separate me,

Read Romans chapter 8

And that you won’t see.

 

It explicitly says nothing

And later implies no one,

Please read from verse 38

And please read on.

 

 

This is the word of God

I am sure you agree

So read verse 39

And tell me what you see.

 

“Nor any other creature”

Can separate us

From the Love of God

Which is in Christ Jesus.

 

Put my name right there

I hope you can see,

“Nor any other creature”

Can separate me.

 

From the love of God

Nothing or no one

Can separate me from God

Ever since I was reborn.

 

For having said yes to God

I was born again

Hence being a cast off

Will never be my pain.

 

Stewart Russell © July 2020

 

Not Even Me

 

 

Having said yes to God

He will in no way accept no,

I am dogmatic about this

Because the Bible says so.

 

Born into God’s kingdom

Speaks to permanence,

I became His precious child

Via genuine repentance.

 

According to Romans 8

Verses 35 to 39 to be exact,

I have that assurance

And God’s truth is fact.

 

Being born again

Is the premise I choose,

My "child-of-the-Father" status

I can never lose.

 

Once a child of God

I am always a child of God

Hence, I will not be deceived

Or let Satan defraud.

 

From my natural birth

I was my father’s son

But now I am born again

New life has come.

 

To all that believe

God grants us the power

To be His sons and daughters

From that very hour.

 

Since I cannot not change

My earthly circumstance

Neither do I have the power

To alter what God has advanced.

 

What he has put in place

Is His sovereign will

And I know like you do

What he promises he fulfils.

 

I’ve heard the argument

That I can separate me,

Read Romans chapter 8

And that you won’t see.

It explicitly says nothing

And later implies no one,

Please read from verse 38

And please read on.

 

This is the word of God

I am sure you agree

So read verse 39

And tell me what you see.

 

“Nor any other creature”

Can separate us

From the Love of God

Which is in Christ Jesus.

 

Put my name right there

I hope you can see,

“Nor any other creature”

Can separate me.

 

From the love of God

Nothing or no one

Can separate me from God

Ever since I was reborn.

 

For having said yes to God

I was born again

Hence being a cast off

Will never be my pain.

 

Stewart Russell © July 2020

 

Not Even Me

Having said yes to God

He will in no way accept no,

I am dogmatic about this

Because the Bible says so.

Born into God’s kingdom

Speaks to permanence,

I became His precious child

Via genuine repentance.

According to Romans 8

Verses 35 to 39 to be exact,

I have that assurance

And God’s truth is fact.

Being born again

Is the premise I choose,

My child of the Father status

I can never lose.

Once a child of God

I am always a child of God

Hence, I will not be deceived

Or let Satan defraud.

From my natural birth

I was my father’s son

But now I am born again

New life has come.

To all that believe

God grants us the power

To be His sons and daughters

From that very hour.

Since I cannot not change

My earthly circumstance

Neither do I have the power

To alter what God has advanced.

  

What he has put in place

Is His sovereign will

And I know like you do

What he promises he fulfils.

I’ve heard the argument

That I can separate me,

Read Romans chapter 8

And that you won’t see.

It explicitly says nothing

And later implies no one,

Please read from verse 38

And please read on.

This is the word of God

I am sure you agree

So read verse 39

And tell me what you see.

“Nor any other creature”

Can separate us

From the Love of God

Which is in Christ Jesus.

Put my name right there

I hope you can see,

“Nor any other creature”

Can separate me.

From the love of God

Nothing or no one

Can separate me from God

Ever since I was reborn.

For having said yes to God

I was born again

Hence, being a cast off

Will never be my pain.

Stewart Russell © July 2020

Adam’s Soliloquy

I am Adam

The first man

Formed by God’s own hand

Straight out of the land

Not a natural birth

Molded from the earth

One of a kind

Not another origin like mine

This is my wife, Eve

Note Eve, not Steve

She is really different

With differing intent

Bone of my bone, yes

And flesh of my flesh

The most beautiful sight in all of Eden

Our first home an amazing garden

You may say

It was too good to last

One disobedient step

And it was a thing of the past

God gave a warning though to Eve and me

Never to eat of a particular tree

But we both disobeyed

And all of humanity was made to pay

Driven from that garden in a hurry

Our first experience of God’s fury

Apart from the tree of life

Into a world of sin and strife

Out of us twain

Came our first born, Cain

After that Abel and Seth

Were followed by all of the rest

Disabuse your mind of Mother Earth

Cain is the first of natural birth

All of our children came

Through birth pangs and much pain

  

And now you’re reading this

Here’s something you shouldn’t miss

You are one of my clan

And one of Eve’s great grans

How different things had become

Very early on we lost Abel, one son

Killed by the other out of jealousy

Sin had filled Cain’s heart with murderous envy

Imagine our great pain and void

Imagine no daily news or tabloid

Imagine when we first got the news

About the way our first-born did choose

Choosing to slay his brother

Then walking away without a bother

Reprimanding God in the process

“Am I my brother’s keeper?” was his protest

Soon my entire family was torn apart

Bringing much grief to Eve’s and my heart

Cain continued in his ungodly way

Further and further from God he strayed

But out of Seth came a line

That called out to God in that time

Enoch walk with God for three hundred years

And one day, just like that, he just disappeared

Reminds me of a time when in the future

This will happen to every born again believer

One moment that great company will be here

The next the entire throng will disappear

A day is but a thousand years in God’s sight

With Him there is no morning, noon and night

We reckoned by the appearing of the great sunlight

God sits in eternity through His infinite might

Each time I recall the following I can only sigh

“The day that you eat thereof you will surely die”

None has ever reached that thousand year score

Nine hundred sixty-nine was Methuselah’s, not a year more

I was one of the ‘nine-hundred’ achievers

Besides me there were only five others

We were certainly limited by what was prophesied

In that before one thousand years we would all die

Nine hundred years experiencing the curse

Nine hundred years regretting my sin, the first

Nine hundreds years of sorrow and bereft

Nine hundred years with the prospect of death

How I wished I could return again to that start

How I dreamed after Eden with all of my heart

How I longed for that communion never to part

How I yearned for Father’s fellowship deep in my heart

Within a single day in God’s sight

All my sunshine had turned to night

It appeared Satan had won this particular fight

But suddenly I recalled something much to my delight

At first I did not understand

When first banished from the Eden land

It was not all a curse but there was a blessed strand

Of grace extended from God’s own hand

Enmity will rage between Satan and man

And it would appear as though man will be damned

But Satan’s onslaught will be a temporary show

For the Messiah will deliver him a fatal blow

Even now as I reminisce these hundreds of years

Nine hundred years of toil and fret and cares

I introduce to you the second Adam

God’s Son and my Saviour, the God-Man

Since I walked the face of this earth

Thousands of years have passed with billions of births

By now you should be looking back at Calvary’s cross

And thanking God you don’t have to be lost

In the garden I fell

In the garden Jesus excelled

I fell to my first trial

But he triumphed over Belial

I sold out the human race

Jesus was the conduit of God’s grace

My love was flawed I do regret

But Jesus’ love is absolutely perfect

I caused death but he brought life

I wilted under pressure but Jesus conquered in the strife

I took all I could but he just gives and gives

I died and decayed but Jesus died and yet lives

I was the first Adam and Jesus the second

There are mostly contrasts but little comparison

My demise was due to my own offense

But his death was for our recompense

He died that you and I can be made alive

It doesn’t matter what Satan and his demons contrive

Death shall be swallowed up and the grave will be no more

As Jesus reveals all that he has in store

I am Adam

The first man

This is my soliloquy

My heat felt plea

Stewart Russell © 2016