Obedience: Ephesians 6

Abominations

In “Abominations”, Rushdoony explains that Scripture’s strong language about sin reflects God’s holiness and justice, not vulgarity or excess, and that the biblical term abomination consistently denotes what God finds utterly abhorrent because it is idolatrous, lawless, and spiritually corrupt. Drawing on Hebrew and Greek usage, he shows that abominations are actions and attitudes that despise God’s law while often masquerading as faith—ranging from sexual immorality and idolatry to dishonest worship, lying, and false weights—revealing the unity of moral, spiritual, and physical corruption. What God calls an abomination is not culturally relative or emotionally offensive but objectively repulsive to Him, marked by filth, stench, and rebellion, and barred from His kingdom. Because God does not change, what He abhors must also be abhorrent to His people; therefore, encountering this word in Scripture is a warning that demands clear obedience, moral clarity, and submission to God’s law rather than accommodation to cultural standards.

Are We Suffering From a New Bigotry?

This passage argues that a new form of bigotry is emerging in the foster-care system, where devout Christians though responsible and moral are being rejected as foster parents. The author cites a tragic case in Pomona, California, where a child was sexually abused and killed in foster care, suggesting that prejudice against Christian foster parents may contribute to such failures. The broader concern is that this humanistic bias against a morally upright segment of society undermines the welfare system and endangers children, reflecting an insidious form of societal bigotry. #FosterCare #ReligiousBigotry #ChildSafety #MoralDiscrimination #HumanisticBias

Duty

One of history’s recurring problems is the stubborn survival of false ideas, and among the most destructive is the Jeffersonian belief that evil is a product of the environment rather than of the human heart. As Daniel J. Boorstin notes, Jefferson treated moral corruption as no more blameworthy than catching yellow fever. Scripture, however, insists that man is morally responsible, and that evil flows from within: “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts… ” (Matt. 15:19). A society that denies this cannot long maintain any law order. Our age has inherited Jefferson’s mistake, trading the Biblical concept of duty for an obsessive focus on rights. The result is a population trained to excuse itself and others, even though such excuses carry no weight before God. Strength will return only when we again stress responsibility, beginning with ourselves our duty to God, to family, to neighbor, and to our land.

Abraham and Sarah: A Normative Marriage (Doctrine of the Family) (Remastered)

This session presents Abraham and Sarah as Scripture’s model—or “normative”—marriage, not because it was easy or sentimental, but because it was forged through responsibility, obedience, and costly decision-making under God. Sarah, whose very name signifies authority, was no passive figure; she commanded decisively when right and submitted faithfully when obedience to God required it, even in terrifying circumstances like Egypt. Abraham’s much-criticized decision is reframed as an act of covenant responsibility, not cowardice—choosing life, calling, and the messianic promise over suicidal idealism. The lesson cuts against modern chivalric myths and romanticized marriage: biblical manhood is not self-destruction for emotion’s sake, but burden-bearing leadership accountable to God, while biblical womanhood is neither silence nor domination, but faithful alignment with God’s order. Together, Abraham and Sarah show that marriage is refined through trial, discipline, and maturity, revealing that true authority is never abdicated, never autonomous, and never separated from obedience to God’s redemptive purposes. #AbrahamAndSarah #NormativeMarriage #BiblicalMarriage #AuthorityAndResponsibility #CovenantLife #HeadshipUnderGod #SarahAsModel #BiblicalManhood #BiblicalWomanhood #FaithUnderFire #ResponsibilityMatters #MarriageAndCalling

Against Spiritual People

One of the great heresies of our age is the notion that “being spiritual” is the same as being Christian, when Scripture never calls us to pursue spirituality as such, but to be filled with the Holy Ghost. Greek philosophy prized spirituality over materiality and condemned Biblical faith as too earthly, but Scripture teaches that holiness not abstract spirituality is God’s command. Holiness means obedience to God’s law from the heart. Thus Paul writes, “This is the will of God, even your sanctification,” and then defines it in very practical terms: sexual purity, marital fidelity, honesty in work and business, brotherly love, quiet industry, minding one’s own affairs, and integrity toward unbelievers (1 Thess. 4:3–12). Sanctification is not emotional display or mystical airs but a life of disciplined, godly obedience. Whenever spirituality is emphasized instead of holiness, occultism, deception, and mental confusion flourish Satan, being purely spiritual, gladly encourages such distortions. True faith is practical because God redeems the whole man, body and soul, and speaks to the whole man in His Word. The devil is “spiritual,” but he is not holy; and Scripture declares that without holiness, no man shall see the Lord (Heb. 12:14).