The Driving Line 12/6/2022

Welcome to the driving line. My name is James White. I am headed to Emory, Texas today, and I left from Jonesboro. Let me just say had a wonderful time in Jonesboro last night. It was really interesting.

I didn't know how things were going to go. Had a great Mexican dinner. And maybe that's what what did it? I don't know but I I was surprisingly energetic last evening. It was a good subject we talked about justification and synergism and monergism and there's a lot of Church Christ type stuff down in that area and I was just really surprised and I you know had spent five hours on the road and then we did the presentation and Then Q &A and then talking with people and sign books and taking pictures and doing all kind of stuff.

I didn't the battery didn't go flat until right toward the end of the evening. So I was Had a great time had a real good group of people show up, especially on a Monday night. I mean, I I even feel badly even contacting a church and saying hey, I'm coming by on Monday.

I mean, I know that's about the worst night of the week. You could possibly do anything but It worked out great. So I was a 12 -5 church and look him up and if you're in the area I'll check him out. So I had a great time there.

Supreme Court Oral Arguments on the 303 Case and the Problem of Compelled Speech

So what I decided to do today as I started off from in the thick fog man Arizonans are not used to driving in fog. It's still very gray today. I haven't seen the Sun yet but I decided to listen to the oral arguments from the Supreme Court yesterday on The what 303 the other 303 case and I'm gonna I'm just gonna tell you honestly When a burger fell came down I read the decision But this first time I've ever listened to the oral arguments and Toto It was what two and a half hours something like that two and a half almost three hours worth of stuff.

And It was very interesting you I think you really can Pick up a lot of Information about how the justices are thinking from How they behave during the cross-examination. I think I really do we can I won't get into that right now I'm hopeful for at least a 5 -4 maybe a 6 -3.

But The reality is that My heart is broken. I'm just gonna tell you I am I Saw something or heard something I guess in listening to This three and a half hours worth of back-and-forth and hypotheticals and everything else and even though conservative Christianity was mentioned even though The scriptures were mentioned they were pretty much irrelevant because what was Painfully clear is the idea that there has been a Clear and objective revelation of what is good and right and necessary for a nation to experience God's blessing And to live in light of his truth wasn't anywhere near that room for anybody for anybody and instead What you keep hearing is the people that are Trying to do the right thing and and protect us from compelled speech From having to do From having to say what the government tells us to say Are are dancing around The huge elephant in the room and the elephant in the room is a burger fell and now Hasn't been signed yet, so it's not relevant to their deliberations, but the Profaning of Marriage Act that the Senate passed and that I imagine if they can Get the president functional long enough to sign a signature and not put Barack Obama or some other name there Will be signed this week in any case.

What what you see is what happens when Something just horrifically bad Has already been made precedent as has been put into place and now you're trying to All all you can do after that is try to keep things from getting worse.

But the foundations have already been cracked by this kind of absurd precedent and Now it becomes part of tradition. I couldn't help but thinking more than once about the relationship between this and Church history and the creation of tradition out of erroneous exegesis Imbalanced conclusions based upon the influence of people who were given way too much weight.

Origin comes to mind and the destruction that he Brought to biblical exegesis and and how that influenced the development of tradition over time and So here you have it legally in This legal decision.

So I I spent two and a half almost three hours of my time so you don't have to though. You know, it would be a pretty amazing Homeschooling Experience I guess to listen to that whole thing and analyze it.

Uh but and certainly to just to help you identify the worldview and the thinking especially of Sotomayor and Kagan and Jackson. Wow, that was very very enlightening really really was just. That's definitely something that in future important cases.

I will do more often. And I wonder I'll have to look I'm not sure I I really wonder if the Obergefell Audio is still available because given the mess that came out of that Kennedy's opinion, like I said is I Still would put place in at about a fifth grade level as far as the cogency of its argumentation but It truly did Illustrate once again The importance of having an objective standard by which to correct when things go wrong when errors take place when Tradition becomes established whether it's legal or interpretational.

If you don't have something you can go back to That will straighten things back out after someone has taken a wrong turn. Then all you can do is continue down that line and For the Supreme Court, you know, they can overturn a previous decision.

That's what happened with row and and it was at least encouraging at that point To see the the admission of the fact that row had been absurd from the start. It hit but it took it took 49 years my goodness To get that done.

The the big ship moves slow, I guess but it's not moving slow anymore and So you're sitting here and you're listening to this back and forth and these picky you little hypotheticals well, what about this and what about that and the the big thing in the room was this is a destructive redefinition of Marriage that the state of Colorado is trying to force people to celebrate and promote for crying out loud.

That's what it is, that's the issue and That that that's just not even that that cannot even be brought up that cannot be presented that cannot be Made a part of the argumentation at all when Olson the Solicitor General, Colorado.

And look by the way, don't you dare? Try to look me in the eye and Tell me that the fact the Colorado Has an openly homosexual governor Who makes a pretense of marriage to another man now? My saying that would keep this from major portions of social media and You know, you know in your heart that in a very short period of time The people in charge right now the regime in charge right now will want to shut down any possibility of saying of Providing the description.

I just provide they would call it hate speech and they would shut down Any even though even though that represents the perspective of Every senator and representative and president of the United States for the first 200 years of its history.

They would want that shut down. They will try to shut that down. There's no question about it. It is the only trajectory this thing has Unless there is a major recognition of the fact that the continuation down this path is utterly self-destructive utterly self-destructive.

So, you know that the corruption of the governorship in Colorado has a great deal to do With what is going on right now in that state and that state that states obvious and repetitive Dogging of whatever victims they can come up with To try to Chill free speech silent speech and coerce Simple capitulation to the sexual revolution.

No matter how Utterly new it is destructive. It is it doesn't matter. This is what Colorado is all about and you know, you can see it in the governor's office. Don't even don't even pretend and so Here you have the blind leading the blind the the light that once gave direction.

If anything related to this had come up in the early 1800s the Decisions of the court would have quoted liberally from the Bible in their decision and nobody would have batted an eye Can't happen now.

Oh, I know there there were briefs that were filed with the court and And There are Christians who have sought to address these things and that's that's all fine and wonderful. But the courts that that's not going to come out in the oral arguments.

The courts not going to cite that type of stuff and make decisions based upon the clarity of the biblical revelation Concerning the nature of marriage and man or anything like that and that is the only Only only only way out of this chaos.

But they're but they're not gonna do it. They just they're not gonna do it. So that's why my heart is broken after spending two and a half hours Three hours, whatever it was. I didn't say anyways long period of time Listening to the back and forth.

It's just a blind leading the blind. There's no light There's no light to be brought in because it can't be brought in and That the sad thing is to see that the system That is being utilized here Was a system that did recognize those foundational truths there is a long tradition of recognizing the law of God as As Defining what it what the founders meant when they said this that or the other thing.

There is nobody Nobody who would argue that any of the founding fathers not even a Jefferson would. If you brought them back today and had them listen to that they would stare at you with wide open mouths Uncomprehending anything that they were hearing and asking what has happened How what what is going on.

There would there be no way for them to even begin to comprehend it and it's not just well that but that's just natural development. No. This is a fundamental change in worldview That leaves the system Wonderful and flawed as it was With no way of self-correction that the people that are driving Western culture into utter bankruptcy are doing so purposefully because they have recognized exactly the means and mechanism to do so and they are succeeding and They will be successful Unless The only way to only way to change any of this is a complete change of the heart that God must bring God must bring revival because this is This is an amazing thing to do so to see so we now have to wait for more than six months.

Well, maybe not. If if if it is politically expedient to the regime to start riots to intimidate Judge justices maybe to get one of them killed or something before the final decision is released then we could have we can have this decision leaked as well and We'll never know who did it because there's no Justice Department left to find out.

Right. I mean you cannot tell me that there are not people in Washington DC who know exactly who it was that leaked the decision over turning row the Dobbs decision, you know, they know. Just like everybody knows that client list Of the man who did not hang himself.

But you know that the sad thing is that the Chinese government knows more about our alleged military secrets because Democratic Representatives sleep with their spies Than anyone will ever know about Maxwell's client list.

And who the leaker was. Because The regime is in charge and the regime is not going to let go of its power Once it was given that power. It's not gonna let go of it. And so they've got all the mules they need.

They've got all the judges they need they've got FBI and Homeland Security and everybody else and they're just gonna keep doing what they want to do and Security and everything else. So You know, we might find out a little bit earlier.

It can't be too early obviously because They have to have the draft being circulated like last time and all that kind of stuff, but but we'll see. So there's some of my thoughts just some of my thoughts.

I mean obviously as I was listening to the argumentation, I'm like Boy, we focus it on this focus on but it was all. It was all just minutiae the big Key worldview issues the things that God's Word speaks to the things that led to us founding Our nation in such a way that we have these concepts just not even a part of it.

So it was it was truly heartbreaking. Even if it's a you know, I think the best it could be would be a 6 -3 in In not forcing, you know not doing coerced speech. It's just for now. It's just for now because Unless there's a huge change in the next generation.

They're gonna keep voting for their own enslavement and we're gonna get more Kagan's and Sotomayor's and Jackson Brown's until they are the The entire court and at that point it's all over with Constitution's Just a historical document that everyone laughs at what people actually believed back then.

Justification, Peace with God, and the Imputed Righteousness of Christ

So anyway, I don't want to wrap this up on Such a negative note. So I will mention last night When I was asked to speak on the doctrine justification you know, there's a lot of different ways you can go and The place was well decorated for the holidays.

And so I thought well Let's let's start off With making a connection to a messianic prophecy. And so I went to Isaiah 9 And I talked about the phrase Prince of Peace and then I made connection Between That phraseology, of course shalom sar shalom and the background of Irene in Romans 5 1 therefore having been justified by faith.

We have peace with God through our Lord. Jesus Christ and All of my presentations for years and years and years have focused on the nature of the gospel and And Peace and the fact the true gospel brings peace between God and man because the perfection of the imputed righteousness of Christ whereas Man's false Gospels always place a burden upon man and hence cannot provide peace and Like I said earlier I was just Started preaching and the questions that I was asked during the Q &A were really good questions and they Repeatedly allowed me to tie so many Well, like somebody asked about anti Lordship salvation and So I was able to tie in then the nature of saving faith in Reformed theology And another question in in relation.

I was able to tie in the fact that the purpose of God in Electing anyone is to conform them in the image of Christ and just really be able to to provide a very broad Discussion of Soteriology as a whole and I know at this time of year.

I really do enjoy having the opportunity of bringing together the whole broad spectrum of Christian theology and tying it to the incarnation it can it be and it can be done without being You know surface level and cheesy and stuff like that because Who Christ is is determinative to what he does and what he accomplishes?

So it was that people seem to enjoy it and It was it was really really encouraging. So last thing real quick. Don't forget Wednesday night Emory Texas where I'm heading right now. I'm 153 miles away right now Emory Texas on Reliability scripture, I believe again that's subject in Lubbock on Friday and So if you're in either of those places Look forward to seeing you There I keep saying that because there were a bunch of folks last night that said hey I found out about listening to the dividing line.

And and so here we are we drove some people drove a long long ways to be there and So that's always very encouraging for that as well. So I have no idea what's going on in the world today other than having listened to the oral arguments In the Supreme Court case, so maybe I'll have to catch up on all of that There might be something really important going on.

I don't know All I know right now is it's still very very very very cloudy at least the fog lifted. But it's still just gray gray gray. I'm us, Arizona folks if we don't get a certain amount of Sun we start getting a little weird and It's really really great so anyways, thanks for listening to the driving line today a mobile version of the dividing line you already knew all that and Thanks for pushing up putting up with the background noises and stuff like that.

That's just that's just how it goes So we'll see you next time. God bless.