3 reasons that a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for Hillary Clinton

Don’t worry. This won’t be one of those conspiracy theories that says Donald Trump only got into the race at the behest of the Clintons to clear a path for Hillary to win the White House. This will be a concise explanation about the dynamics of the Presidential race to demonstrate why Trump is incapable of beating Clinton in the general election.

If you’re a Trump fan, your blood is already boiling over. Go ahead and start writing your hateful comment now without reading further. To those who are discerning and who truly care for more than a great sales pitch from Trump, read on.

The Media has been Saving Ammunition

Depending on who you ask, the left-wing mainstream media either loves or hates Trump. Right now, they’re giving him all of the attention and despite a handful of occasional hit pieces, he’s been given a free pass by the media. In fact, the vast majority of the hit pieces have come from conservative journalists (this should tell us something about Trump’s alleged road-to-Damascus transition from liberalism to conservatism).

It’s not that the media doesn’t have ammunition. It’s not that they are saving it until he has the nomination. The last thing they would want to do is to prevent him from getting the nomination. Their ammunition is being saved for the general election when they will unleash journalistic hell and utterly destroy his campaign. They will attack him as a crooked crony capitalist with in-depth investigative reports showing the deviousness that has plagued his business dealings throughout his career. They will attack him as a person with acquaintances lined up around the corner to tell their tale of Trump’s evils. They’ll interview women and families that he’s hurt with his sexual escapades. They’ll interview minorities who were mistreated by him or his organizations. They’ll interview business partners who were the victims of his past business failures (of which, there are literally dozens). The carnage will be widespread and the result will be a picture painted of a man that deserves to be despised more than deserving of being the President of the United States.

The Debate Questions will Make Megyn Kelly’s Question Seem Like a Softball

There’s nothing an interviewer or debate moderator enjoys more than catching a candidate with a “gotcha” question. Before and during the primaries, it’s been clear that very few have wanted to truly tangle with Trump or demonstrate his complete incompetence when it comes to the geopolitical spectrum. In the debate when Hugh Hewitt asked about which wing of the nuclear triad Trump would prioritize, he laid out the triad in the question itself in hopes that Trump would catch on. He completely missed the lobbed softball that Hewitt tossed at him and failed to answer the question at all. When Hewitt pressed for an answer to the very basic question, Trump sounded like an utter moron. Here’s the question. Notice that Hewitt mentions all three components of the triad; this wasn’t a gotcha question.

This type of question exposed Trumps complete lack of understanding about the most important job that the Commander-in-Chief has. It was worded in a way that should have been a gimme. Instead, he failed miserably. As Rolling Stone put it, his answer should have ended his campaign, but it didn’t.

When debating Hillary Clinton, Trump will be made to look like a child. When faced with questions at GOP debates that challenged him, he got away with diversion techniques. The moderators during general election debates will not be so forgiving. They will annihilate him. They will make him wish Megyn Kelly was asking her question (which, by the way, wasn’t very challenging at all despite his tantrum over it).

In the general election, debate performances matter much more than they do during the nomination process. Mitt Romney actually pulled ahead of President Obama after their first debate based upon the President’s poor showing. Trump will look like a fool in every debate because he has no idea how to answer actual policy questions.

His Appeal is Capped

There are likely enough Republicans who are willing to support him no matter what that he’ll be able to win the nomination. Then, there are a lot of people who fear a Clinton Presidency to the point that they’ll still vote for him even if he’s not their favorite. Unfortunately, the “lesser of two evils” campaign will not be able to convince enough Democrats and Independents that he’s the right choice to lead the country.

He has strong support from about 1/4th of the Republican party and lukewarm support from another 1/4th of the party. Pretty much everyone else doesn’t like him at all. This is why his net favorability is lower than any nominee since before Jimmy Carter. It’s not even close. He’s less liked than even Clinton and is the only Republican candidate that polls show her being able to beat. He’s only beaten her in 2 of the last 18 national polls.

His fans are all in. Unfortunately, they only represent about 15% of the electorate.

If Trump isn’t stopped, we will have at least four more years of a Democrat in the White House. He has the best chance of winning the GOP nomination and by far the worst chance of winning the general election. The media knows this. The Democrats know this. Will the Republicans wake up before it’s too late?

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Two Diabolical Reasons that Rubio and the Establishment are Attacking Cruz Instead of Trump

It’s conspicuous that Marco Rubio and the Republican Establishment backing him are going hard after Ted Cruz and all but ignoring Donald Trump. It’s not that they received some secret memo telling them that Cruz is the bigger threat for getting the nomination. Chances are very strong that they are making one of two devious plays, neither of which would be good for the country.

The most likely scenario is that, judging by the math, the only hope they have of getting Rubio the nomination is through a brokered convention. They need to be positioned second to Trump when the convention starts but with the delegates split in a way that prevents Trump from having the required number for an outright election. In this scenario, they’re playing for second which would be the reason that they’re trying to get Cruz out of the way.

The second reason is less likely, but only because we really don’t want to believe it. In fact, it might be even more destructive for the party and the country than a brokered convention. Scenario two involves a backroom deal similar to the one brokered in 1980. When it became apparent that Ronald Reagan wasn’t going to be stopped from getting the nomination, the Neocons and the Republican Establishment that had been hammering him with lies for months made an offer: we’ll back off and even support you if you make George H. W. Bush your running mate and promise to support him in 1988.

Reagan had no reason to make Bush his running mate otherwise. There were better choices that would have had the same effect of consolidating the Republican vote without making him embrace the man that attacked him so heavily for months. The attacks were so strong that some feared the former CIA Director might even try to take Reagan out in a mafia-style hit. Nevertheless, the deal was struck and the Establishment backed off, at least publicly.

Fast-forward to today and there’s likely no deal done, but it may be in the works. Rubio missed an important Conservative Review speaking engagement in order to meet with Frank Luntz. It’s no secret that Luntz worked with Rubio in the past and favors Trump today. As one publication put it, if there’s a conspiracy that is going to bring Rubio over to Trump’s camp, Luntz is the guy who can make it happen.

Marco Rubio looking to be Donald Trump VP? Frank Luntz may hold the key https://t.co/ri3aVs8f9S#SCPrimary#TCOT http://pic.twitter.com/Fss3GzoWY9

— JD Rucker (@0boy) February 19, 2016

Before anyone starts jumping up and down and thinking this is a great ticket to take up against the Democrats, I must remind you that regardless of his running mate, Trump will not be able to win. If he’s able to solidify the nomination, the left-leaning mainstream media will engage in the most devastating attacks we’ve ever seen about a politician. Trump has been bulletproof thus far, but only because the media has taken it easy on him. There haven’t been the investigative reports showing how crooked he’s been. There haven’t been the interviews with women, minorities, and former business partners that will paint him as an evil man. So far, there have just been news reports that his fawning fans can embrace as Trump being Trump. The things that will be revealed by the mainstream media make him the best opportunity for even a weak Democratic ticket to ride into the White House as the lesser of two evils.

Running-mate Rubio will not be able to shield the ticket from the carnage that will ensue. If Trump gets the nomination, he will lose in at least 40 states. It will be a bloodbath.

For Rubio, either path is poor but better than outright losing. For the Republican Establishment, they realize that this all means at least four more years of a Democrat in the White House but that’s the price they’re willing to pay to prevent a conservative like Ted Cruz from getting the spot. They see Cruz as more dangerous to their hold on power than Reagan.

Rubio is playing a dangerous game. It’s a two-headed monster that could result in the destruction of the Republican party as we know it. More importantly, either scenario guarantees that the Democrats will win in November.

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No, Trump is NOT Just a Bully. He’s Following Saul Alinski’s Rule #5.

Pundits often compare the passion behind Donald Trump’s campaign with the passion behind Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign. This is more astute of an observation than many probably realize. Their styles are different, but the underlying premise behind their campaign strategies is identical. They both waged psychological campaigns to garner support which is why in both cases their supporters have been accused of “drinking the Kool Aid.”

Obama, as a community organizer and a master campaigner, willfully employed the doctrines of one of his mentors, Saul Alinski. Trump may or may not have ever read Alinski’s works (I believe he probably did) but he’s definitely a natural when it comes utilizing the playbook described in Rules for Radicals. Of particular interest is his unprecedented mastery of Rule #5:

“Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.

At debates, campaign rallies, and interviews, this tactic comes across as Trump bullying his opponents, journalists, and naysayers. While those who believe in political decorum (and there are fewer nowadays than ever before) will hear his words and shake their heads, others see it as strength, particularly when the recipient loses balance as a result. This is why Trump continued to “bully” Jeb Bush even when it was clear he was no longer a threat. Trump earns points in the eyes of his authoritarian followers when he attacks people and despite the misery that exuded from the Bush campaign for months, he was still a Bush. He was still a representative of the type of government that makes many voters upset. Despite being a blip in the polls, he remained a righteous target.

His use of Rule #5 against Ted Cruz is for different reasons. It didn’t work the way it worked against Bush, but it had the effect of shifting the Cruz campaign into counterattack mode. Cruz has always been best at framing a question or an issue in the light of truth. Trump has known all along that he cannot defeat Cruz based upon policy discussions or principles, so his only recourse has been to attack his character. It’s the most dangerous ploy since there’s always an opportunity for the media to call him out on his attacks, but they did not.

Case in point: “Ted Cruz lied about Ben Carson dropping out and that’s why he won Iowa.” This is ludicrous on two levels. First, it wasn’t Cruz but a member of his campaign staff. When Cruz found out about the incident, he apologized to Carson and denounced the activity, but he made the mistake of attempting to frame the conversation around reality. CNN is the one who said it. He knows that. CNN knows that. Trump knows that. However, the media was not willing to highlight this because of a sincere bias against Cruz.

The second and more heinous neglect that the media perpetrated on this issue is that they didn’t point out the fact that nobody was apparently swayed by the incident. Given all of the attention that it received, if Trump was correct that thousands of people changed their vote from Carson to Cruz, certainly somebody would have come out and cried foul. If you were going to vote for one candidate and were misled into voting for another, there’s a chance you would come out and say something. If 100 people did, there’s a near-certainty that at least one of them would have been mad enough to say, “Yep, I was misled.” If thousands of people, as Trump claimed, changed their vote as a result of the app news release, we would have people lined up to tell the media that that we victims of Cruz campaign manipulation. Nobody came out. No, not one. It had no effect, but the narrative that Trump has bullied the media into replaying is that Cruz lied and stole Iowa and hurt that nice children’s neurosurgeon who just needed a new change of clothes.

To say that Trump is just a bully is not giving his psychological acumen enough credit. To paraphrase Marco Rubio, “Let’s dispel with this fiction that Donald Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing. He knows exactly what he’s doing, and it’s following the teachings of Saul Alinski.”

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Matthew 11:30 – ‘my yoke is easy’

For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.Matthew 11:30 (KJV)

Before Jesus Christ died for our sins, the path to salvation involved following the law of God completely. While it wasn’t as hard as many make it out to be, it was still too much for anyone with a man’s heart (in other words, everyone) to fulfill without succumbing to the sins that are in our nature.

Yeshua changed that. He gave us an path that not only guaranteed our salvation but that also made it easier for us to follow the law of God. This last part is important to understand. By making his yoke easy, he didn’t eliminate the burden of the yoke. We are still servants. We are still required to keep the law. Yeshua’s sacrifice simply made it easier on us to follow.

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A Vote for Rubio is a Vote for Trump, Period.

The narrative that we’ll see from Fox News and other outlets over the next few days is that Marco Rubio is the Republican party’s best chance against Donald Trump. The reality is that support for Rubio is the fastest path for a Trump nomination. Sadly, the “powers that be” are well aware of this but are going with their narrative anyway.

Rubio came in second (barely), has great endorsements, and will benefit from Jeb Bush dropping out. These things all play well to the narrative. Unfortunately, they’re just smokescreens to the reality that Rubio has no path to the nomination.

There are only two candidates who can emerge from the “SEC Primaries” with a substantial number of delegates. Marco Rubio is not one of them. He can play the spoiler against Ted Cruz by garnering as much of the anti-Trump vote as possible, but this will not be enough to usurp Trump. On the other hand, if the Republican Establishment were to wake up and focus their energies on revealing what a disaster a Trump nomination would be, there’s a chance that Cruz can emerge from the March 1 primaries with a substantial lead and a pathway to the nomination.

Supporting Rubio is supporting Trump. There’s no other way of looking at it. He will very likely make it through the first 15 primaries without a single victory and therefore has no conceivable pathway to the nomination. This is not a secret. The power brokers know this. They also know that the only chance they have of defeating Cruz and Trump is through a brokered convention if they can prevent both from getting enough delegates to win the nomination outright. That has been their plan since New Hampshire and it’s starting to look less and less likely. Their strategy is turning against them. They haven’t taken down Cruz enough and they didn’t even try to take down Trump. Their plans have backfired.

Why, then, would they continue down this road? There are two reasons. First, as much as they dislike Trump, they absolutely despise Cruz. Trump might be pretending to be anti-Establishment but his actions have demonstrated that he’s even more malleable than most lifelong politicians. Having him as the nominee is favorable to a Cruz nomination because they realize that have no control over Cruz.

The second reason they’re still propping up Rubio is because of the outside chance that Trump may still implode. He won’t. If he was going to implode, he would have done so already. It’s not for lack of trying. He’s said and done things that would have sunk any other Presidential candidate at any other point in history. This is Donald J. Trump we’re talking about, though. People expect him to be outrageous and they love him for it. To implode, he’d have to do worse than act like a liberal or shoot someone on Fifth Avenue. He’d have to get caught on tape doing something crazy like calling his supporters stupid or admitting that his candidacy is a crafted ploy to assist his good friend Hillary Clinton into the White House. Otherwise, he’s not going to do anything that will get him out of Rubio’s way.

The Republican Establishment is beside itself trying to figure out how to make their power felt. They’re used to losing general elections but they haven’t lost a nomination process since Ronald Reagan. That was disastrous for them and they never want a real conservative to sit in the White House again. That’s the biggest reason they’d rather have Trump over Cruz.

There are two only two people who have a realistic path to the nomination and Marco Rubio isn’t one of them. Right now, it’s Trump’s to lose. The longer that people latch onto Rubio, the more likely it will be that Trump is the nominee and the Clinton becomes the President.

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Donald Trump has Spent Decades Destroying Christianity. Will the Faithful Nominate Him?

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote against Christian values. There’s simply no other way to put it. Whether he’s a repentant follower of Jesus Christ (which he’s never claimed to be) is between him and God. That doesn’t mean that Christians should turn a blind eye to his actions and betray their faith by voting for him.

We’ve avoided the political spectrum for a while. After seeing “Evangelicals” giving Donald Trump a victory in South Carolina, we simply cannot remain silent any longer.

It is our prayer that at some point he asks God for forgiveness, repents of his sins, and accepts Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. In the meantime, we cannot fathom the mentality behind those who profess to be Christians but who turn a blind eye by embracing a man who has built his business and personal life around the promotion of sin and the destruction of Christian values.

Some make the argument that his actions as President will benefit Christians. They say that he’ll get things done and that’s more important than his anti-Christian history. Others say that he’s corrected his ways. To the discerning, this is a joke. It’s possible for people to change a perspective or two from liberal to conservative. It is unrealistic to believe that a many who has opposed guns, supported gay marriage, promoted amnesty, avoided the military, supported partial-birth abortion, embraced liberal economic policies, and held a slew of other liberal opinions can change ALL of them after spending his first six decades of life embracing them. If you believe this, you are, for lack of a better term, naive.

Let’s look at what he is doing today to promote sin and destroy a Biblical worldview.

Strip Clubs Thrive on Sin

As a man who actively promotes his strip clubs, the concept of him winning a single Christian vote is insane. As Christians, we should be fighting against fornication. Instead, many are encouraging it. Today, he pays women to display their bodies and dance erotically to generate as much sin as possible. He’s a sin broker. When Christian men and women abandon their faith and fall into sin at his clubs, Trump makes more money.

Casinos Victimize Through Temptation

The best case scenario is that casinos promote a temporary break for some people from their lives and going to them results in nothing very negative. The worst case scenario is that families and individuals are destroyed by their actions and additions associated with casinos. It is certain that Trump’s casinos have been involved in the falling away from the faith and the ruining of lives for many over the years. Once again, Trump makes money on other people’s misery.

Serial Infidelity Should Not Be Rewarded

In his books, Trump brags about how many women he’s slept with. He makes no attempt to pretend like none of them were married. In fact, he makes it very clear that many of the women he’s committed adultery with were married themselves. There was a time when infidelity could destroy a candidate. With Trump, it seems to be a positive.

No Signs of Repentance

When he said in an interview last year that had never asked God for forgiveness, this should have ended his candidacy in the United States of America. He is claiming to be less involved with a Biblical worldview than even Barack Obama. That alone should eliminate him. Now, true Christians should be completely insulted that he’s using the Bible as a campaign prop. It’s unfathomable.

One Heck of a Sales Pitch

We get it. The guy isn’t just rich. He’s one of the most skilled psychological salesmen that has ever been in American politics. Pray. Be discerning. Wake up!

No candidate is perfect, but Ted Cruz is the most aligned with the appropriate Christian values and Biblical worldview. We will be officially endorsing him in the near future.

Trump’s empire is not just secular. His success has been based upon direct attacks of Christian values. If Republicans nominate him, the party is dead. If America elects him, we have truly abandoned everything that has made us a great and blessed nation.

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Wake Up Call: Unite behind Cruz or Accept the Democratic Victory

There are two certainties that about half of the Republican party refuses to believe: (1) A Donald Trump nomination means that the Democrats will win the White House, and (2) The only path for a Marco Rubio nomination is through a brokered convention that would mean the Democrats will win the White House.

The hate mail is already being written, I’m sure. With 1/3rd of the Republican Party caught in Trump’s magic spell and at least 1/6th of the party firmly behind Rubio, that means over half of the party is in denial and pushing us towards a destructive path of a Democratic victory. That means that the other half of the party must be discerning, aware, and have the common sense to see through the lies and not allow the other half to blow this. It would be a shame if, after a disastrous Obama Presidency and when faced with the weakest Democratic candidates since Michael Dukakis, that we actually have the potential of blowing it.

For the sake of attempting to convince a handful of those supporting Trump or Rubio erroneously, let’s take a brief look at the facts that make their support untenable.

Trump Can’t Win

Even if we put aside the fact that he has a lower net favorability rating than any nominee from either party in modern history, we can use common sense to see the future of a Trump nomination. We’ve seen him dominate the news cycles non-stop for eight months. The media has highlighted his antics, both good and bad, while maintaining a strange avoidance of truly negative coverage. This is extremely conspicuous to those who realize that mainstream media is left-leaning at best and downright liberal in many circles. They are the cheerleaders for the Democrats and have grown so emboldened under President Obama that many of them are unabashed in their support for liberals.

If they love Democrats and hate Trump, why haven’t they gone full-throttle on their attacks? The answer should be obvious. They’re preserving ammunition. The last thing they would ever want to do is to prevent him from getting the nomination. He’s the easiest candidate for the Democrats to beat. Some believe that he’s the only candidate they actually have a serious chance of beating. If they can propel him to the nomination, they will be able to unleash hell on him.

This is the only reason you haven’t seen investigative reports painting his greed and devious tactics through business. It’s why you haven’t heard interviews from women he’s engaged with or the families he’s hurt as a result. It’s why you haven’t heard from past business partners who had their finances annihilated by following Trump. It’s why you haven’t seen the highlights from his incredibly stupid decisions that led to the demise of multiple countries.

The Democrats and the mainstream media are licking their chops in anticipation of a Trump nomination. They can practically taste the victory that half of the Republican party is going to give them.

Rubio Needs a Brokered Convention Which Would Destroy the Party

There is no path to an outright nomination for Marco Rubio as long as Donald Trump is in the picture. His only hope is that he can prevent Trump from getting enough delegates to be nominated and that his Republican Establishment buddies can work out enough deals to make him the nominee.

This could happen. If it happens, the fracturing of the Republican Party that would ensue guarantees a victory for the Democrats just as sure as a Trump nomination does.

Rubio needed to win one of the first three states to have the necessary momentum going into the “SEC Primaries” on March 1. He didn’t. It isn’t just history that’s against him, now. It’s math. We know that there hasn’t been a nominee lose the first three states and win the nomination. We also know that he’s only within striking distance of two states on Super Tuesday. That means that he has a slight potential of winning one or two states out of the first 15.

Marco Rubio cannot win the nomination.

He knows this. The Republican Establishment knows this. Their only hope is the brokered convention. They would rather steal the nomination and hope for the best in the general election rather than allow a viable candidate like Ted Cruz to win the nomination. In essence, they’d rather lose to the Democrats but maintain control of the party rather than risk a conservative winning the White House. The last time that happened in 1980, it was hard for the Establishment to recover its power. They are less interested in the Republicans winning the White House than of retaining their won power over the party.

Ted Cruz is the Only Man Who Can Stop the Democrats

There’s only one scenario in which the Democrats do not win the White House. If Cruz wins the nomination outright or is in 1st place leading into a brokered convention, the Republicans will win in November. The other two scenarios are certain to hand the keys to the Oval Office for another 4-8 years.

Those who believe that he’s too conservative to win in the general election either weren’t alive at the time or do not remember 1980. The same things being said about Cruz were being said about Ronald Reagan. Cruz has the moral superiority to defeat Clinton and the ideological superiority to defeat Sanders. Trump and Rubio do not. Rubio would have a chance (and would likely be our candidate of choice) had he been able to win one or two of the first three primaries. His failures there combined with the unfavorable primary schedule makes that impossible.

It’s ironic that in the year the Democrats are the weakest, they’ve been able to manufacture a scenario for victory by promoting Trump and Rubio. Most on the left acknowledge a fear of a Ted Cruz nomination. Will the Republicans get that memo before it’s too late?

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Why Churches Should Avoid the Trends that Drive Temporary Faithfulness

There are two schools of thought when it comes to building and maintaining a congregation. One believes that anything that can draw in more people and more activity is worthwhile as long as it stays close to the pure Gospel. The other believes that quality supersedes bulk, so staying true to the Gospel is more important that spreading it to more people.

Both perspectives have some merit, but we firmly believe the latter is by far more valid. It’s been difficult to put into perspective because everyone has a story about a disinterested secularist who came to a church event for one reason only to be brought into full-throttle belief over time. They’ll tell the story that they would never have found God had they not been lured in through “cooler” pretenses. An argument can be made that this isn’t true, that true believers being predestined before the foundations of the earth mean that at some point everyone who is supposed to believe will be unable to avoid seeing the truth, but we’re going to stick to less controversial reasons for now.

In an article by Cole NeSmith on Relevant Magazine, we get to read a sound argument that shows the “coolness factor” of some churches can actually end up being detrimental to both the church itself and the people they lure in.

"Am I willing to stay committed to this when I do not like it?"
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— Link Year (@linkyear) February 16, 2016

If it’s the cool aspects of a church that increases attendance, what happens when the church is no longer cool? How does this unavoidable shift in coolness affect those who joined as well as those who have been members all along?

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It’s Time for Voltron. Cruz and Rubio (or someone else) Must United Against Trump.

The narrative for months has been that candidates are waiting for Donald Trump and Ben Carson to drop their foolish incursion into politics. Once that happened, we could see where the cards land. Now that it’s certain that Trump isn’t dropping out, we should call for all of the lesser candidates to drop out and for the two Cuban American candidates to form a Voltron ticket.

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio combining forces may be the only path to a non-Trump nomination. Uniting may be the only way that we won’t have a Democratic President.

No Republican has lost the first three primaries/caucuses and won the nomination. Cruz’s Iowa win makes him the better choice to be the head of the ticket with Rubio’s mainstream appeal making him a perfect VP.

I’m not going into a detailed analysis at this point. I’ll say that Rubio cannot win. Cruz has a hard path ahead. For Trump to be stopped, the dynamic needs to change.

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2 Corinthians 5:21 – ‘the righteousness of God in him’

For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.2 Corinthians 5:21 (KJV)

In this small verse, so much is being said. Yeshua was made to be sin for us even though he was sinless. We know that the lamb to be sacrificed for our sins needed to be without sin, but it’s important to note that he was made sin. The righteous sacrifice had to become the embodiment of our won sins in order for them to be truly cleansed in the sacrifice.

This is something extremely profound. Without the events happening exactly as they occurred, it would have been impossible for God to be righteous in his forgiveness. It required the ultimate sacrifice – not just life but also by accepting the burden of the sin itself.

The last part of this verse must be read properly. It is not our righteousness that was created by the sacrifice. It was God’s righteousness that was revealed. The component of righteousness that was fulfilled with this sacrifice is justice. Forgiveness in itself can be fulfilled without action, but for justice to be fulfilled as well, the sin itself needed to become manifest as the sacrifice. With all of our sins, the only vessel that could carry them was the infinite vessel of the sinless man.

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