God Shows No Partiality

Article written June 11, 2013

 by Sis. Mouthpiece

Why do we continue in opposition and contradiction to the word, after we have read it, and heard the truth?  Why do we refuse to change our course?  Are we afraid that man will see us as foolish, or are we afraid that we would be like Moses, and fear that the people will see the Glow upon his face, and question his power as a leader?  He hid his face under the veil, and according to the word, people are still under a veil today.  We have a choice, and whatever you choose, will identify whether you are of darkness or the light. Jesus saw man's transparency as Mark 7:13-23. In Romans 1:28-32 (Read on to Chapter 2) And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a base/reprobate mine and improper conduct. They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's decree that those who do such things deserve to die, they not only do them, but approve those who practice them.  This story of William Tyndale, and other followers of Christ, received this type of treatment from people that said they knew the same Christ. We do one another the same way in the name of Jesus.  

WE CAN DO BETTER

So I leave you will this connotation, We CAN DO BETTER, now that the cat is out of the bag, and we have been denied the knowledge of the word, we cannot say to an all knowing, and all wise God, that know body told me.

I will like to leave you with this thought. It will confirm some of this story. I can remember in the early 60's salesman would come around and sell the big Bibles that were placed in the center of the coffee table.  Our family wanted one of those bibles, and I believe my father purchased the big black one with the Gold edge pages, and the gold writing on top.  I think my Grandmother purchase the White one with the same feature.  What is my point? My case in point is that those were the early 60's, and the bibles sold as a sacred books to families, even at that time we were told not to touch the bible unless we were told.

“Powerful Word”

Is not it sad how the negative marketing of such a “powerful word” was kept in hiding from a people that God promised would receive the word written in their hearts and hidden in their minds.  We are a blessed people, and I cringe to think what would have happen had we not investigated and asked questions about William Tyndale who died as a martyr for the Gospel sake. 

WHO IS YOUR JUDAS?

6,000 editions of his bible was purchased by his Judas [The Bishop of London, Cuthbert Tunstall (1474-1559] who burned them.  Tyndale wanted the poor people to know the powerful word of God in English.  My last question, could it be that the Bishop of London as a marketable product looked at the word, so he withheld and refused to help William to make the Bible available to everyone because he saw dollars and bible colleges instead of simple learning to common people? A kind of get ahead of the pack, if you will, to start the first school maybe?  Remember, I have said the enemy never has original ideas, he steals or copies from the original, and sells it as though he wrote or invented it himself.  Could he have been the (Judas) in Tyndale's life?  We all have a Judas or two.  They operate under the Jude 4 principle. I will say to you consider a book that is so powerful, that it enrages people (duality of the Bible) and it calms people.  That has to be a powerful book. To those of you that are called to carry the gospel, the New Testament, and the new Covenant Book found in Hebrews 8:1-13 should revive your soul.

Another Version than a Well to do Scholar

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/anecdtes/c16/tyndale.htm

We All Need A Jonathan

At this present time William Tyndale had newly translated and imprinted the New Testament in English, and the Bishop of London, not pleased with the translation thereof, debated with himself how he might compass and devise to destroy that false and erroneous translation (as he said). And so it happened that one Augustine Packington, a mercer and merchant of London, and of a great honesty, the same time was in Antwerp, where the Bishop then was, and this Packington was a man that highly favoured William Tyndale, but to the Bishop utterly shewed himself to the contrary. The Bishop, desirous to have his purpose brought to pass, communed of the New Testaments and how gladly he would buy them. Packington then hearing what he wished for, said unto the Bishop, `My Lord, if it be your pleasure, I can in this matter do more, I dare say, than most of the merchants of England that are here, for I know the Dutchmen and strangers that have bought them of Tyndale and have them here to sell, so that if it be your Lordship's pleasure to pay for them (or otherwise I cannot come by them but I must disburse money for them) I will then assure you to have every book of them that is imprinted and is here unsold: The Bishop thinking that he had God by the toe, when indeed he had (as after he thought) the Devil by the fist, said, "Gentle Master Packington, do your diligence and get them, and with all my heart I will pay for them whatsoever they cost you, for the books are erroneous and naughts, and I intend surely to destroy them all and to burn them at Paul's Cross.'

What Happen to His Scholarly Friends

Augustine Packington came to William Tyndale and said, `William, I know thou art a poor man, and hast a heap of New Testaments and books by thee for the which thou has both endangered thy friends and beggared thyself, and I have now gotten thee a merchant which with ready money shall dispatch thee of all that thou hast, if you think it so profitable for yourself.'— 'Who is the merchant?' said Tyndale— `The Bishop of London,' said Packington. — `Oh, that is because he will burn them,' said Tyndale.—' Yea, Mary,' quoth Packington — 'I am the gladder,' said Tyndale, `for these two benefits shall come thereof: I shall get money of him for these books to bring myself out of debt (and the whole world shall cry out upon the burning of God's word). And the over plus of the money that shall remain to me shall make me more studious to correct the said New Testament, and so newly to imprint the same once again, and I trust the second will much better please you than ever did the first.' And so forward went the bargain: the Bishop had the books, Packington the thanks, and Tyndale had the money.

Afterwards, when more New Testaments were imprinted, they came thick and threefold into England. The Bishop of London, hearing that still there were so many New Testaments abroad, sent for Augustine Packington and said unto him: `Sir, how cometh this, that there are so many New Testaments abroad and you promised and assured me that you had bought all?' Then said Packington, `I promise you I bought all that then was to be had; but I perceive they have made more since, and it will never be better as long as they have the letters and stamps. Therefore it was best for your Lordship to buy the stamps too, and then are you sure.' The Bishop smiled at him and said, `Well, Packington, well,' and so ended the matter.

I claim no infringement, or have I sold any as my work.

From Edward Hall, Henry VIII, ed. Charles Whibley (1904), ii. 160 ff.