Acts 5:17 "Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, 18 And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison. 19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth, and said, 20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life."The PC Police consisted of the high priest (religion) and the Sadducees (government). It was the government and religion in collaboration to stifle truth! A corrupt church is as bad as a renegade government! Little has changed! Liberal churches today are allies of progressive ideology to stifle Christianity!
"Political Correctness" (my definition) is the belief that sensitivity to differences in people is paramount to truth. Criticism is always insensitive to someone and feelings are always hurt when truth is forthcoming. The Germans had a "Jewish Problem" and they had a "Final Solution". America has a Christian problem and PC Police are the "Solution". For example "All men have sinned and come short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23) is insensitive because it "judges" the behaviors of others! What's worst is that Christ alone is the only way to heaven (Acts 4:12). As such, Christianity is by progressive definition "intolerant"! Government, stepping outside their authority, finds it imperative to stifle free speech so as to not offend.
(Note: I had a "New Ager" tell me that Christianity has to die because it's not inclusive!)
How do the PC Police respond to political incorrectness? They "were filled with indignation"! (passage above). Indignation is "anger aroused by something unjust, unworthy, or mean"! (Merriam-Webster Dictionary). The PC Police confronted the apostles and their attitude was that they were "being unfair and mean-spirited"! Does this sound familiar? Were Peter and company mean-spirited right-wing intolerant Christians? That's what the Jewish PC Police thought!
Now, let's look at who were truly the mean-spirited intolerant people: It was the priests and officials who dogged Jesus all the time because they sought to recast an innocent man into a criminal. Their law was so intolerant that no one was capable of keeping it and they were always there to catch Jesus breaking some silly rule made of men! The punishment never fit the crime. These tolerant Jews stoned women for fornicating! They were an equivalent to the Taliban of those days!
Those who are always throwing stones at mean-spirited intolerant Christians are always the most mean-spirited and intolerant. Isn't it ironic that the PC Police today are of the same party which stole the land from the Indians and enslaved human beings? Isn't it ironic that this party which calls people whose desire is to preserve life "intolerant", while they abort helpless babies? It's silly that the ones who are the most hate-filled are the most indignant. These indignant people get angry because other people aren't as mean as they are!
The anger of the mob caused them to lay hands on the apostles and put them in prison! Why? Because what the apostles were teaching was not acceptable to them. They policed their speech. It was only their free speech which was acceptable. (I suppose these priests and Sadducees must have went to the Princeton University of Jerusalem!).
The next thing that happened was a "criminal element" intervened (sic). "The angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors, and brought them forth". This special angel broke them out of prison! I would guess that he was on JWHW News all night long with the authorities tracking him down! It is believed from scripture that "THE angel of the Lord" was THE one who brought the "Good News"! Jacob wrestled with "the angel of the Lord" centuries earlier. (Genesis 32:30b) " I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." Jacob wrestled with the pre-incarnate Jesus and was saved! It's the same "angel of God" who saved Shadrack, Meshak and Ebednego from the fiery furnace who opened the prison door an "let his people go"! Yes, Jesus saves!
Jesus has the ability to defy time and barriers. Walls could not contain him. He appeared to those on the Emmaus walk unrecognized. Jesus IS God and he does get out of the box in which man attempts to constrain him. Jesus found it worthy to come help the apostles tell the world about him for he said "speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life"! What are the words of life? John 6:68 says it's Jesus who "hast the words of eternal life"! They were freed to fulfill the "Great Commission"; to tell the world about Jesus. To teach truth and justice! Wasn't that intolerant of Jesus (sic)? To want his people to teach about him to save people! That is true love yet the PC Police cannot tolerate love!
Oftentimes conflict arises between what authorities teach and what God's Law is all about. Rules and regulations can be unjust! The government can be unjust! When law conflicts with God's will Christians are to obey God:
Acts 5:29 "Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."God has pre-eminence over Caesar. We are to give unto Caesar what is his and in God's will we should be! (Luke 20:25). This is the true "wall of separation of church and state"! It's rendering to God his will, but still obeying authority when it's not in conflict with God. The PC Police demanded that Christians put the government's will above God's (case in point Kim Davis, Court Clerk, Rowan Co., KY).
Then we have the PC Police arrive in their luxury sedans! Here's what PC Policewoman said about Christians here in Kentucky:
"Don't even say her (Kim Davis') name in this house... the lady who makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky. All those people holding their crucifixes, which may as well be pitchforks, thinking they’re fighting the good fight. I grew up in Kentucky. I know how they are. I was raised a Republican, and can’t imagine supporting a party that doesn’t support women’s basic rights." (Vogue Magazine Interview, Jennifer Lawrence; parenthesis mine).Kim Davis is being accused of being intolerant by Jennifer Lawrence. Then she becomes INDIGNANT! Her anger shows because she saw Davis as a mean-spirited Christian! Examine, if you will, her response: 1) she's embarrassed, 2) she's insulting to Davis and to Jesus, 3) she denigrates those who hold the cross dear, 4) she insulted Kentuckians just because they're not as sophisticated as she perceives herself to be, 5) and while she finds standing up for religious rights as evil, she favors "basic women's rights"! For us dumb Kentuckians to understand, she means "It's okay to kill babies so that elite spoiled women like me don't have to take any precautions as we prostitute ourselves!"
Solomon said "There is nothing new under the sun." (Ecclesiastes). Truly there is not. Judge Bunning was the priest and Gov. Beshear was the Sadducee! Little has changed! Even the church castigates Mrs. Davis for not believing "We ought to obey God rather than men."
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