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It’s Still Bribery

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God, through his prophets speaks, or should I say cautions, against bribery quite a bit. I will leave it up to you to look it up. He not only cautions the judge from taking bribes but against the person using his fortune to bend the outcome of a judgment.

Not only that. Guess what! It just makes sense to speak against bribery. Any time money, things or favors are offered to change an official decision, is wrong and possibly illegal. It results in bad judgments. It can result in unfair judgments. The guilty go free and the innocent gets locked up.

In modern times, it can warp the judgments of those we elect to represent us. in some cases, to gain money and power, they vote opposite of what they know is right. If you doubt me, start checking what some of these senators are worth. Look at the value of some of their homes. Look at the lobbyists who are lined up, cash in hand, willing and ready to propose their bribe.

They, the briber and the bribee, will one day face the Lord for what the have done and failed to do. I have virtually given up on most of who practice their dirty deeds in the government buildings, those most of us would like to hold sacred. Not only is their practice obvious but they no longer try to deny it. They almost all go into office as paupers and come out multi-millionaires. I mean with proof like that….

However, bribery has become common in almost every walk of of life. one of those sideways methods of bribery is advertising. It would seem, though I can’t prove it, that advertising has gained significant control over radio and TV programming.

I would guess the worst of this is the advertising of gambling on virtually all media. 30 years ago, not only would it not be done, it was illegal in most areas.

Unfortunately, both the bribers and the bribees have been hard at work. Of course we always hear those little disclaimers at the end of the ads, which you and I know are as effective as paper walls.

Now sports betting has become quite the thing. It brings together one thing I love and one thing I detest. And why? Who benefits? Of course. Those that pay the bribe, those that are bribed. The rest of us, not so much. The sports and the athletes stand in danger of destruction.

Exodus 23:8

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The man wasn’t rich, but he had money. Anonymously, he purchased an organ for the church. Then, at the business meetings, he was likely to remind everyone. From time-to-time, he did remind the other members of the church the importance of his tithe to the church.

It is a strange thing that money does to people. I certainly agree with the man who said, I’m not greedy. All I need is enough to buy all I need and all I want. Certainly I don’t need a dollar more.

We like to think that bribery stops at the sanctuary walls. However, it is commonplace. I am sure most, if not all pastors who have been around for a while have seen similar stories to be true as is the story I explained above.

That lobbying goes both ways. The Catholics promised redemption for cash. There are many who think their 10% will gain them a place in paradise.

I don’t know how many times the Bible speaks of bribes and it is never in a good context. Just look it up in a concordance some day. Bribes distort the judgements of the judge. They blind the leaders and the almost always result in the poor being treated unjustly and badly.

It was what corrupted the leadership of the Jews in the day Jesus confronted the money changers. God has a very low regard of those that offer or accept the bribes.

We, as Americans, like to think we live in a society where bribes are rare and punished when they are found. But it’s not true. Indeed, it has become commonplace and institutionalized. We call those that bribe lobbyists. We call those that accept them congressmen. Regardless of what they are called, it is what they are.

Moreover, it is because of this bribery that we can’t close the border. Mostly the bribery takes place among the dems but there are a number of rinos that accept the bribes too, completely legally.

In this country, bribes commonly take place in law too. They speak of them as non-disclosure agreements. They are not only legal but very common. They are used to avoid the cost and public annoyance resulting from an attempt at blackmail.

The agreement quite simply is, I pay you…you agree to stop blackmailing me. It is a binding contract and both parties can be sued for breaking the contract.

Even more, the blackmailer emplicates him/herself. In essence it is an admission of guilt of blackmail.

Trump was being blackmailed, illegal whether he was guilty or not. Why aren’t those who blackmailed being charged. Why are these women being charged with breach of contract.

Most important, why are these women coming forward just now, knowing what will happen if they are found guilty of blackmail.

My guess. Most likely, one more bribe, offered by the dems in hopes of destroying Trump. Ironically, most of us are figuring it out and instead of trump’s numbers plummeting, they are rapidly going skyward.

As we in the south like to say, irregardless…bribes, taking and giving is wrong. God knows exactly how to deal with them. Lightning is but one of his many ways to deal with the gross sinner. Many of us have learned that first hand.