{"id":7171,"date":"2021-10-05T16:07:59","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T23:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2021-10-05T16:07:59","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T23:07:59","slug":"just-war-or-just-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/?p=7171","title":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size:40px\" style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\">\u201cJust\u201d war or Just \u201cWar\u201d?<\/div>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/crossalone.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Pentecost-20.pdf\">Click here for a pdf version.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:rgb(0,0,0);\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<html>\n\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<meta name=Generator content=\"Microsoft Word 15 (filtered)\">\n<style>\n<!--\n \/* Font Definitions *\/\n @font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Cambria Math\";\n\tpanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:Calibri;\n\tpanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n\t{font-family:\"Open Sans\";\n\tpanose-1:2 11 6 6 3 5 4 2 2 4;}\n \/* Style Definitions *\/\n p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n\t{margin-top:0in;\n\tmargin-right:0in;\n\tmargin-bottom:8.0pt;\n\tmargin-left:0in;\n\tline-height:107%;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\np.MsoNoSpacing, li.MsoNoSpacing, div.MsoNoSpacing\n\t{margin:0in;\n\tfont-size:11.0pt;\n\tfont-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\n.MsoChpDefault\n\t{font-family:\"Calibri\",sans-serif;}\n.MsoPapDefault\n\t{margin-bottom:8.0pt;\n\tline-height:107%;}\n \/* Page Definitions *\/\n @page WordSection1\n\t{size:8.5in 11.0in;\n\tmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}\ndiv.WordSection1\n\t{page:WordSection1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n\n<\/head>\n\n<body lang=EN-US style='word-wrap:break-word'>\n\n<div class=WordSection1>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Ephesians\n6:14-16<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Back in 1973\nthe book, <i>Whatever Became of Sin? <\/i>\u00a0by the distinguished psychiatrist,\nKarl Menninger, created a media sensation. He noted the disappearance of the\nword \u201csin\u201d in social conversation and noted how we have shifted the\nresponsibility of sin from the individual to society.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Recently\nthe <i>Wall Street Journal <\/i>published an article titled, \u201cNot That Long Ago,\n\u2018Evil,\u2019 Really Meant Something\u201d (9\/26\/2021).<i> <\/i>The author, Lance Morrow,\nmakes the point that today many people see no difference between history\u2019s\nmonsters and people on TV they don\u2019t like or with whom they disagree. He\nlaments this trend as another example of the triumph of feelings over facts. He\nconcludes: \u201cIf you\u2019re serious about evil, talk about consequences. \u201cYou can\u2019t\ncall someone evil \u2013 unless as with Hitler or Stalin or Mao or Pol Pot \u2013 the\nevidence is there: The body count.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>What\nabout war? What do we say about war? In 1975 in that little country called\nCambodia a Maoist group called the Khmer Rouge took over, led by the butcher\nPol Pot. For four years they controlled the country and executed at least 1.7\nmillion of their fellow countrymen, if not 2.5. About 20%. And most of those\nexecuted were the educated ones. After four years they were pushed back into a\ncorner of the land and they continued to agitate. Only recently two or three\nwho are still alive were brought to trial. And they told about the slaughter.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>The\nreason that is important is that an identical group of Maoists in the late\n1980\u2019s, called The Shining Path, began to take over Peru. In 1990 Alberto Fujimori\nwas elected President and for ten years led the government, and although it was\nnip and tuck, they managed to put down The Shining Path. Yet Fujimori was\nsubsequently put on trial and imprisoned for twenty-five years even though two-thirds\nof the people in the country had supported what he did as President. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>What was\nthe problem? This is never a clean fight. The Shining Path, would likely have\ndone as they had already done in Cambodia and that was brutal. How the Shining\nPath was put down was also brutal. And the question is: Could it have been done\ndifferently? Could some other leader have done it differently? We do not say\nthe end justifies the means, but we think through what could have been done. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>The\nreason that is important for us is because we have this passage in Ephesians 6:14-16:<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u201cTherefore\ntake the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand in the day of evil,\nand having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having girded your loins with\ntruth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your\nfeet with the equipment of the gospel of peace; besides all these, taking the\nshield of faith, with which you can quench all the darts of the evil one.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>We have\nthe hymn: \u201cOnward Christian Soldiers.\u201d Many new hymnals leave it out. The\nUnited Methodist Church left it out, but so many objected that by a vote of\ntheir annual convention, they reinstated the hymn. They didn\u2019t want this hymn\nand the Bible texts on which it is based to be erased from the life of the\nchurch.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>What\nabout war? What does the Bible say? <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>For the\nfirst three hundred years of the Chrisian church the early Christians struggled\nwith the question of war. The famous historian, Adolf von Harnack wrote a book,\n<i>Militia Christi<\/i>, on what the early church said and did about the problem\nof war.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>They knew what\nRomans 13:1-4 said: \u201cLet every person be subject to the governing authorities.\nFor . . . those that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore he who\nresists the authorities resists what God has appointed. . . .\u201d Also in 1 Peter\n2:13-14: \u201cThe institutions which God instituted are to be followed.\u201d And then\nverse 2:19: \u201cObey the Emperor.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>On the\nother hand, they also knew, as it says in Revelation 13, that the state can be\naligned with the anti-Christ. They struggled with what to do. That tells us\nsomething about the idea of just being na\u00efve and letting whatever happens\nhappen.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Paul continues\nin Romans 13: 8-10: \u00a0to talk about the Christian life in terms of asking about\nconsequences. The love-ethic is not about a sentimental love. The love-ethic\nasks about harm and consequences: \u201c\u2018You shall love the neighbor as yourself.\u2019\nLove does no harm to the neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>It\u2019s\nlike the Hippocratic oath, that ancient Greek oath of ethics that doctors\nfamously take: \u201cFirst, do no harm.\u201d What one asks is, and this is not just for\nChristians but for all of us in the world as living human beings: What does\nharm? That can be illustrated and can be thought through. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>First of\nall, in the context of Ephesians 6: What about self-defense?<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Immanuel\nKant said that telling the truth is a moral absolute. You gotta tell the truth\nin life, no matter what. If a murderer comes to you and asks where his intended\nvictim is, you can\u2019t tell a lie. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>A Lutheran\ncollege professor was a loud and proud pacifist. He took the position that no\nmatter what happens in life you should never do violence. That for him was a\nmoral absolute. Some students then asked him: \u201cWhat would you do, if you were walking\ndown the street with your wife and someone with a knife came at your wife to\nattack her?\u201d He didn\u2019t answer. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>With all\nthe talk of peace, one must ask about greater harm and lesser harm. As Luther\nwrote <\/span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>(<i>LW\n<\/i>46:96)<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>: <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u201cWhat\nmen write about war, saying that it is a great plague, is all true. But they\nshould also consider <b>how great the plague is that war prevents.<\/b> If\npeople were good and wanted to keep peace, war would be the greatest plague on\nearth.\u00a0 But what are you going to do about the fact that people will not keep\nthe peace, but rob, steal, kill, outrage women and children, and take away\nproperty and honor? The small lack of peace called war or the sword must set a\nlimit to this universal, worldwide lack of peace which would destroy everyone.\u201d<\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:9.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'> <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Let\u2019s\nlook also at something that happens in the Passion story as related in Luke\n22:35-38. There the eleven disciples and Jesus are in the Garden of Gethsemane,\nand he says to them: \u201c\u2018When I sent you out with no purse or bag or sandals, did\nyou lack anything?\u2019 They said, \u2018Nothing.\u2019 He said to them, \u2018But now, let him\nwho has a purse take it, and likewise a bag. And let him who has no sword sell\nhis mantle and buy one.\u2019\u201d Then they go and do that and say to Jesus (vs 38):\n\u201cLook Lord, here are two swords.\u2019 And he said to them, \u2018It is enough.\u2019\u201d That\u2019s\nbecause it was a dangerous place there on the Mount of Olives. So it was smart\nto be prepared. Self-defense. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Some Christian\npacificists will say: \u201cJust trust the Lord, and he will take care of you.\u201d That\nactually happens once in the New Testament. In Matthew 4 in the temptation\nstory, it is Satan who says that to Jesus! He says: \u201cJust trust the Lord, and\nhe will take care of you.\u201d So don\u2019t think automatically that that message is\nthe voice of anyone except the evil one. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>What\nabout war today? <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>First,\nwe know that evil is real, and war is often unexpected. Think of Sept 11, 2001,\nor Dec. 7, 1941. We don\u2019t hear much about Pakistan, but it has about 200\nnuclear weapons and a dangerous mix of terrorists. \u00a0Moreover, Pakistan, already\na friend to Iran and North Korea, is strengthening ties with China and\nextending a welcoming hand to Russia. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>What is\nto be done? How is evil to be restrained? We live by our common reason. We talk\nabout common sense, but as the saying goes: Common sense is not very common.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Nevertheless,\nwe live by common reason which means asking about harm and choosing between the\ngreater and lesser harm. We also know the problem of unintended consequences\nand of how good intentions go awry. We ask ourselves: How can we live together\nto the betterment of all of us in life on this earth? This question does not\nhave to do with salvation. It is simply common reason, and it applies to all\nhuman beings.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Second,\nwe Christians fall into evil ourselves. Bertrand Russell, himself an atheist,\nwrote about \u201cthe evil that good men do.\u201d T.S. Elliot wrote <\/span><span\nstyle='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>(<i>The Cocktail\nParty<\/i>)<\/span><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>: <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='margin-left:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u201cHalf\nthe harm that is done in the world is due to people who want to feel important.\nThey don\u2019t want to do harm, but the harm doesn\u2019t interest them, or they do not\nsee it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to\nthink well of themselves.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Paul\nwrites in Romans 3:10-18:<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cNone\nis righteous, no, not one;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>No\none understands, no one seeks <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 for\nGod.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>All\nhave turned aside, together they<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 have\ngone wrong;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>No\none does good, not even one.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTheir\nthroat is an open grave,<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>They\nuse their tongues to deceive.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe\nvenom of asps is under their lips.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Their\nmouth is full of curses and bitterness.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cTheir\nfeet are swift to shed blood,<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>In\ntheir paths are ruin and misery,<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing style='text-indent:.25in'><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>And\nthe way of peace they do not <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 know.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThere\nis no fear of God before <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Their\neyes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>We are\nguilty. We are totally lost \u2013 and totally saved. Totally sinful \u2013 and totally\nrighteous, because God in Christ has taken our sin and given us his perfect\nrighteousness. <\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Therefore\nwe are free. Free to live by forgiveness. Free to use our heads in the battles\nof life. Free to use common reason and the sword \u2013 to restrain evil that life\nmay endure and more can hear the good news that God in Christ died for you and\nme.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNoSpacing><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:\"Open Sans\",sans-serif'>Amen<\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/body>\n\n<\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sermon for the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost. 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