Sarah Palin, Again

It’s taken awhile but I am finally responding to my critics.  The following comments were posted while I was in Utah, and I’ll try in my feeble way and limited space to answer the best I can…

Posted by Kathleen F. (24.20.150.90)
When you said, "What would Doug Phillips say?" it answered my questions about just where you were coming from. Newsflash: Doug Phillips is just a man with opinions, too.

Did you know that Doug Phillips employs women to answer the order phone lines for his nifty products he sells in his shiny, colorful catalogs and online? 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, there are women who work for him, his business -- not their OWN husband's self-employed businesses, mind you. They are call-center women that he has working to build up HIS monetary empire. Have you ever ordered from his catalogs? Did you ask any of those women if they were making sure they were following the Titus 2 mandate according to your interpretations? My response to you may seem harsh, but your tone of condescension and judgementalism toward others (Sarah Palin and her family) just comes across as begging the question in many of your statements.

I've ordered from Vision Forum in the distant past. Never again, though.

If Doug Phillips' views are what is so important, then why did God wait so long for him to be born and instruct all of us Christians in how to properly live? (tongue in cheek there).

I agree with SchoolinRhome. I also homeschooled my children/teens for years. Went to a homeschool FIC church where everything was picked apart and judged by "man's" standards.

That is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

We will never live up to an exemplary life that pleases God. We can only thank God through our Lord Jesus Christ for His exchanged Life.

How we walk that out with Him is the truly humbling journey each of us must walk. His Word will give us the Light we need for our path, but we must be diligent to study it in context and with a spirit of teachableness, not presumption.

I'm voting for the McCain/Palin ticket because she has inspired me to press on to do those things for which I'm called to do, just like I believe God has called Sarah to do in such a time as this.

Posted by Anonymous (24.20.150.90)
Why does Sarah get the blame from you with Bristol's decisions, but not Todd, Sarah's husband? Do you believe Todd bears as much responsibility for raising his children as Sarah? Does being a Christian parent guarantee our children won't make undesirable decisions?

Jesus said, "Judge righteous judgement."

Posted by Anonymous (24.20.150.90)
What wrong has Sarah Palin done? If she serves Jesus Christ in her life, who can judge her as sinning? Titus 2 does not prohibit a woman working outside the home. She even brings her children to work with her. Her husband supports her decisions, and so we see unity in their marriage.

Dear Kathleen,

I really appreciate hearing from you.  I don’t want to jump to any conclusions about you in such a brief dialog and I hope you will cut me some slack, too.

I am not “of Doug Phillips” so whatever you think you know about me because I quoted an article from his website (not written by him, by the way) – please rethink it.  I know little about him and was not reprinting his opinion because I have any special obsession with him. 

I’m trying not to print my opinion, either.  My response to Sarah comes as a result of what the Bible says.  Your issues are not with me but with God.  In Him our disagreements should not make us adversaries, but you seem very mean-spirited.  I don’t know what an FIC church is, sorry.

I’m not sure that you have read all that I’ve written about Sarah, so I hope you’ll have time to look at the links I’ve provided.  I am trying to address what Sarah represents.  She will answer to God.  Through her example I am attempting to instruct and admonish others who might be led astray from God’s plan by her example.

I understand that we will never be fully sanctified /sinless in this life.  However, God has fully equipped us to live righteously according to His rules and principles.  I don’t take that lightly.  Everybody might be “doing it” but that doesn’t mean it’s right in God’s sight.  He did not leave us without the tools to know the journey He is asking us to take and one day He will hold us accountable for all of it – every thought, every deed.  He expects us to be holy because He is holy and He equips us to be Holy.

The way is narrow.  Few of us like that idea.  We serve a God who is in charge and He decides the absolutes.  “Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”  William Penn

Hos 14:9 Who is wise? Let him understand these things. Who is prudent? Let him know them. For the ways of the LORD are right; The righteous walk in them, But transgressors stumble in them.

Jer 9:23-24 Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, Let not the mighty man glory in his might, Nor let the rich man glory in his riches; But let him who glories glory in this, That he understands and knows Me, That I am the LORD, exercising lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness in the earth. For in these I delight," says the LORD.

The culture has many voices – it confuses us – moral relativism, “the end justifies the means”, pragmatism, humanism, etc.  True wisdom comes from knowing who God is.  There is the God we want and the God that is and He is not the same. 

Col 2:8  Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

1 Cor 1:19 For it is written: "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, And bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent."  

Dear Anonymous,

Yes, Todd does hold responsibility for the spot sweet Bristol is in.  In fact, this wouldn’t be a good season for him to run for VP either, considering all the needs of his family right now.

Sarah is a wife and mother.  That limits what she can do with her life.  That’s what God says and He cannot contradict Himself.  She is not the exception to His principles.  That doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t like Sarah if I knew her, or that I don’t cheer some of the things she says so enthusiastically.  She makes me wonder why we don’t hear more leaders talk the way she does.  Jesus did say to judge righteous judgement… the focus is on righteous and not judging.  We must always defend what is right by God’s righteousness.

 Jer 10:23 O LORD, I know the way of man is not in himself; It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.

Isa 48:17-19  Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, The Holy One of Israel: "I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you by the way you should go. Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea. Your descendants also would have been like the sand, And the offspring of your body like the grains of sand; His name would not have been cut off  Nor destroyed from before Me."

May God grant us the wisdom to study His Word and then rightly divide it’s truths.  There is only one interpretation to His writings and it’s our purpose, with the help of the Holy Spirit to know what it is.  Praying for the Palins and the USA, Susan  God Bless America!

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I like you response! I found this article on the web, written back in 2004, and I though you might enjoy reading it. You may not agree with everything, but I think you will appreciate his research and study.

http://www.visionforumministries.org/issues/ballot_box/should_christians_support_a_wo.aspx

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