There were once two brothers separated by a common hypocrisy. You see, it's<br> all about presentation.<br><br>Let us (unbiblically) expose people's sins and cover up our own including our<br>families and fond friends. You see, it's all about presentation.<br><br>Anger, be it so ever far from me, but then to be angry (righteously so) one must<br>care, "really" care. "I know what you are doing, that you are neither cold nor hot.<br>I would you were one or the other. So because you are lukewarm, neither cold<br> nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth" (Revelation 3:15,16). Self-deception,<br> such a vainglorious thing, and in the end such a cold commodity. But, you see<br> it's all about presentation.<br><br>That good old "Christian" sin of gossiping, so preached against in the pulpit but<br>so coveted at home, and please let us not forget bitterness which everyone,<br>but we and ours, is guilty of. You see,
it's all about presentation.<br><br>Brother one is never "really" wrong, and brother two is too "cool" to "really" be<br>constructively criticized. Posing is mistaken for stature. You see, it's all about<br>presentation.<br><br>Why, we are epics in our own eyes and our close lidded kin and friends. Little<br>Geneva/medieval for one, and Oxford, England for the other. You see, it's all <br>about presentation.<br><br>Lucre. Why there is no compromise. See what good stewards we are. Cigars<br>and wine before insurance. Why, if the need ever arise, 'twill be the duty of <br>good Christians who have sacrificed, thus, to help me. You see, it's all about<br>presentation.<br><br>Repent, repent, repent. Everyone but me and mine. Recompense. Everyone but<br>me and mine. You see, it's all about presentation.<br><br>"The wisdom of the prudent is to know where he is going; but the folly of fools is deceit"
(Proverbs 14:8).<br><br>"My brethren have dealt deceitfully as ravines with streams, as streams that soon<br>run dry;" "The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing and perish."<br>(Job 6:15,18)<br><br>"Woe to those seeing themselves as wise, esteeming themselves as clever.<br>Woe to those who are energetic at drinking wine and whose vigor goes to mixing<br>strong drinks, who acquit the guilty for bribes, and take away the righteousness<br>of the righteous from him!" (Isaiah 5:21-23)<br><br>Those who really care for the souls of men must "stay away from stupid and<br>ignorant controversies, knowing that they do gender strifes" (II Timothy 2:23), <br>"And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, suitable<br>to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; for<br>God may perhaps grant them the opportunity to turn from their sins, acquire full<br>knowledge of the truth, come to their senses and escape the trap
of the <br>adversary, who are taken captive by him to do his will" (II Timothy 2:23-26).<br><br>"He that hath an ear, let him hear..." (Revelation 2:7)<br><br><Scimitar><br><p>
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