DEPLORABLE AND IRREDEEMABLE

I Was Just Thinking About – THE DEPLORABLE AND IRREDEEMABLE.

Do basic Biblical Principles apply to politicians when they are seeking a political office? One politician spoke of a political opponent in the following way: 

“You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of my opponent’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?” (Crowd laughter and applause)! “The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic—you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And my opponent has lifted them up…the other half…feel that the government has let them down and are desperate for change. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well…Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.”

Much is being said about the use of the terms “the basket of deplorables”; the “irredeemable” and “thankfully they are not America.” Inasmuch as the remarks were made at an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) gathering, it might be of value to understand a Biblical viewpoint about who is deplorable or irredeemable. The deplorable in God’s sight: 

“Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to nor perform homosexual acts, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God” (I Corinthians 6:9-10). Are any of these so-named irredeemable? The passage continues: “And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God” (I Corinthians 6:9)

How, then, should those who have been found redeemable live? In Colossians 3:5-10, 

“Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways. But now you must put aside all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices, and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its creator.”

Are you remaining in the “basket of the deplorables and irredeemable”? Or, have you come to Jesus Christ and been “washed, sanctified and justified”? 

Prayerfully – consider these things with me.