INVISIBLE INK IN THE BIBLE

 There must be invisible ink in the Bible, at least that seems to be a possibility. Take for example an erudite author and speaker whom we'll call Didi. Didi is not a Democrat nor is she a Republican. She used to be a Republican, but left the party a decades ago. She trusts no political party and makes no bones about her distrust of both. She considers herself to be a constitutionalist, one committed to the Constitution whose principles do not change with the times. Good for her.

Didi is an author whose booklets and books have sold in the millions. She's written on the Federal Reserve, the income tax, education, Medicare, SS, the critical, and the fraudulent ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment Good for her. Those subjects consume 400 pages of facts and solutions. She's been interviewed on various radio programs  around the country and is a professional journalist. She's of interest to us, not because of her political views, but because of a Christmas essay. 

In her essay, she writes about the birth of the Savior and she quotes the most familiar verse in the Bible, using the KJV to do so. Here's what she writes: "Know what one of the things I think about today [Christmas Day]? I think about the Blessed Mother and her pain of bringing forth a child into the world knowing that one day she would see her son die in the most horrific manner because that is what Almighty God intended." It's here that she quotes the familiar verse: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved."

Two paragraphs later is the place where the invisible ink enters the picture as she writes: "Our Heavenly Father promised us through his son, Jesus Christ, that if we lived by his commandments and repented of our sins, our reward when we leave this human body would be greater than any earthly riches. As I am fond of saying, eternity is a long time. God commands us not to sin: Kill, lie, cheat, steal, commit adultery, worship false gods, honor our parents and so on."

Just a scant two short paragraphs earlier, Didi quoted the words of John 3:16-- "whosoever believeth in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." Is invisible ink involved here? Can she not see the word "whosoever believes in Him"? 

There's not a word about "if we live by his commandments and repent of our sins" in John 3:16 nor is eternal life conditioned on living by God's commandments or repenting (in the sense in which she's using "repent"). In every instance in the Gospel of John, eternal life is conditioned on believing, not doing. 

So there must be invisible ink in use when it comes to the word "believe." Many sadly can't see it; their conditioning won't allow it. It's invisible. Our call is to make the invisible ink visible to those whose minds the god of this world (Satan) has blinded lest the light of the  glorious gospel shine unto them. (II Cor. 4:4)  

CHRISTMAS: THE ONE VERSE THAT SAYS IT ALL

 There's one sentence in the New Testament that says it all when it comes to Christmas. Interestingly enough, it's not in Luke 2 or anywhere in Matthew, but it's in one of Paul's letters. To make it more interesting, it's in one of Paul's letters to a collection of churches who are, at the very moment Paul is putting quill to papyri, defecting from the by-faith way of salvation that saved them in the first place. It's there that we come across a sentence that says it all about Christmas. 

Here's the verse: "But when the fullness of the time came, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law." There it is. It has "Christmas" writ large all over it.

God sent His Son: there is the statement of the deity of the Christ child. God  sent His Son.

Born of a woman: there is the statement of the true humanity  of the Christ child, as well as an implication of the Virgin Birth.

Born under the Law: The Christ Child was born into the human race a Jew. 

There's one other thing of interest, an excursion from the subject at hand, but haven't we  noticed that there are an array of what are called "Christmas Movies," but in our secularized society none of them deal with the Christmas of Galatians 4:4. 

They chronical a boy's desire for a B-B gun, a boy left in his home alone, a Hallmark movie soaked in sentimentality along with Dicken's famous story of the change from being a stingy man to a generous man, and even an elaborate crime's being committed during an office Christmas party. These we classify as "Christmas Movies" none of which have to do with the truths of Galatians 4:4. 

The plots of the movies take place during a time of year called "Christmas" but there's no explanation of the significance of the word or season. 

The secularization has become ingrained. We hardly notice.