Reshaping the Moral Code

 

 

Insensitivity and numbness

It doesn’t matter and apathy,

Completely irrelevant and outdated

No sympathy or empathy.

 

Could’ve been me but it is not

Once a principle but now it’s rot,

“It’s your worry not mine

I’m not anchored to any spot.”

 

Book of fairy tales and myths;

No more perhaps even less,

Let’s move on from ancient times,

Time for a moral redress.

 

No woman and no man

Time to include all that is trans,

What will we do with sperm and egg?

Man will come up with a plan.

 

No he, no she, no him, no her,

They and them seem pretty neat,

Change overnight and back next day,

Change even as we speak.

 

Stand for nothing

To include everything,

Be updated and become relevant!

Have an absolute fling!

 

Trans-man and woman

Trans-woman and man,

Sperm and egg will never collide:

A very unfruitful plan.

 

Yet these are “family oriented”

And want to have children

But if they mate from morn till night

“No children” will still be a problem.

 

Sperm to the back-end

Regarding the case of man and man,

But absolutely nothing doing

No matter how grand.

 

Women kissing and touching

And having a great time

But any chance of getting offspring

Can only be in the mind.

 

 

What used to be stark wrong

Is now considered all right

And those who do not go along

Are regarded as not bright.

 

These unnatural unions

Cannot propagate on their own

So, from where do they get a child?

From a foster home.

 

Governments in their brilliance

Are rewriting their laws

To accommodate this immorality

With its obvious flaws.

 

Wretchedness is passed off

As a modern-day virtue

And righteousness is denounced

As a mythical view.

 

The God-fearing and the God-like

Are being forced into a corner

With the so-called new morality

Gobbling up the former.

 

 

 

May God have mercy

Upon the souls of unrighteous men

Who, in an attempt to change His Law,

Exacerbate humanity’s problem.

 

The problem of original sin

And all its attendant consequences

When at first Satan, the Devil,

Breached man’s defenses.

 

“Hath God said?” He asked Eve

Back in the garden of Eden,

And today since anything goes

There is reckless freedom.

 

Stewart Russell © February 16, 2023

No One Can Join the Church

 

 

No one can join the Church:

This just occurred to me,

This is no more so

Than a baby joins a family.

 

What input has a baby

In a decision regarding such?

Similarly, the born-again:

Now you tell me, how much?

 

Jesus said to Nicodemus

He must be born again

And to even understand the term

Nicodemus was in pain.

 

He saw the birth canal

And he revisited the same

For this was his only concept

Of being born again.

 

 

When one is born again,

He has no input in the process,

The Holy Spirit is the agent

At what the Spirit does best.

 

There is the matter of faith

The responder may exercise

But as to being born again

He cannot the least decide.

 

In the same way, understand,

No one can join the Church,

This might now be news to you

And in a way it may hurt.

 

I have been a church member

For a very long time

But it is only early this morning

This matter came to mind.

 

  

We set store by our church:

A local assembly I mean

And while this may be important

There is more to be gleaned.

 

And particularly so today

Regarding some assemblies

Where church membership is all

Particularly regarding money.

 

One’s money is required

If he must remain in good faith

And should he lack in this regard

He could lose his place.

 

By now you should have seen

The critical difference:

It’s the Church I am talking about

In the born-again sense.

 

Not a church or an assembly

Which one can easily join,

But the blood bought Church of Jesus Christ

To which one has to be joined.

 

 

The Lord does the joining:

Not a pastor or apostle

And without the work of the Spirit

This joining is impossible.

 

It’s a Spirit to spirit witness

Like the sperm that met the egg

When presto! I was conceived

Before my earthly leg.

 

No one can join the Church:

It is the Lord that does this act

And what better place to find this

Than in the book of Acts!

 

Acts 2:47

 

And the Lord added to the church

Daily such as should be saved.

 

Stewart Russell © May 29, 2021