The Cunning Royal Jester demonstrated why he holds the title tonight! He began wasting time on opening night by telling folks to turn in their Bibles to Psalm 33, and without even reading it, he immediately took off into Story-Telling Land for more than half an hour, pivoting from television personalities to politics to a trip with his wife to falling down an escalator to a dog chewing up his Bible to his rule on whether you should sing in public or not to musical instruments he can play to the first time he preached on the street and at the mission when he was 16 years old to losing a parked car ..... and on .... and on .... and on. His audience seemed entertained like they were watching a variety show. He is a Cunning Royal Jester, indeed.
Eph 4:14 That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
One story was about a man who didn’t know that the good Samaritan was from the Bible. The Jester described him as a blank (meaning, I assume, that the man had no Biblical knowledge), so the Jester just quit talking to him. Then he said you should think about your opportunity to be a light in a dark world. Why encourage others to do what he himself did not do? By his own testimony that he just gave, his experience was a bad example.
For a ‘speaker’ who claims to be celebrating 400 years of the KJV, it is a tragedy that he avoids the KJV word ‘bishop’ for the very office he holds, written by inspiration of God from the very apostle he pretends to follow .... all the while preferring The Living Bible word ‘pastor’ instead.
1 Tim 3:1 This is a true saying, If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work.
Oddly, the Cunning Royal Jester does not handle the word ‘cross’ like he does ‘bishop’ by switching the ‘cross’ to be called the ‘tree’ since many religious denominations with which he disagrees use the word ‘cross’. Neither does he substitute even the KJV’s other translation ‘stewardship’ (Luke 16:2,3,4) for the KJV word ‘dispensation’ (Eph 3:2), by which he identifies himself.
When he finally got around to reading the Bible, the ‘instructor’ who teaches others to ‘divide Paul’ from the rest of the scriptures, taught from ‘outside of Paul’ as he expressed the authority of the Bible. He admitted he "talked too long getting started" .... but, hey, why should that matter, since "we’re people of the book"?
Prov 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness:
but a faithful man who can find?
Prov 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
1 Cor 4:2 Moreover it is required in stewards,
that a man be found faithful.
This is David Dowell saying, "Think about it!"
