"Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil."
(Psalm 56:5)
One Saturday this month this writer was down at Lubbock at a preaching seminar and heard Roy Osborne say of the critics of Jesus, "They never let Jesus' words mean what he intended them to say."
That triggered a flashback! It sounded like the president of the United States--any president--complaining about what the reporters do to his words. The mind of David reminds us that the twisting of words is not a new thing! It is not only disturbing but dangerous--conspiratorial, if you will--for the presidtnt's words to be so oft twisted.
Here in Potter county, one of the county commissioners complained to this preacher a few weeks ago, "if I had to depend upon what is printed and otherwise reported on what goes on in our sessions in order to know what was siad, I would not know it was the same meeting I had been in." THOSE ARE CONDEMNING WORDS.
Jesus encountered the same thing everywhere he turned. Oft reported were these words: "But when the Pharisees heard it, they said: "
If he healed a blind and dumb man, they
said: "He does it by the power of Satan."
Matthew 12.
If he claimed to be the Son of God they called it blasphemy.
If he preached about the coming of the new Kingdom, they represented it to the authorities as an advocacy of overthrowing the governfment. Word perversion is not new, so Jerry Falwell, or Billy G, nor this preacher for that matter, should be surprised when misinformation is spread about us. WHEN PEOPLE HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN MEDIA, MEDIA SHOULD TAKE HEED. BL
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