Eat the meat, spit out the bones

Spitting out bones
I recently had a conversation with a few Christian brothers over discernment specifically, and televangelists in general.

There were differing points of view in the discussion, which isn't a bad thing. (Oftentimes many Christians don't want an argument and would rather keep a false sense of peace – It always encourages me when Christians can disagree in a spirit of gentleness and respect).

Someone in the discussion said that they can learn from any preacher, that all they did was to “eat the meat, and spit out the bones.”
And of course nobody is 100 percent correct in what they affirm 100 percent of the time. I'd also want my hearers to show me some mercy when I make stupid mistakes, and not outright reject me as a false teacher (while saying that, if I ever became a deluded heretic, may God cause everyone to reject all of my rantings). So what he said seemed quite reasonable.

Poisoned water
But after that discussion I started thinking about this analogy. There's another analogy that's sometimes given that relates to false teachers and false teaching. The analogy goes something like this: “If you take a glass of water, and add just one drop of poison to the glass. The whole thing is poisonous”. Seems in that situation it is impossible to spit out the poison and drink the water. So it seems that though these analogies don't prove anything in themselves, they do illustrate two different approaches to error.

The poison analogy is self evident. But the meat analogy does have something implied. Ie. That the body of teaching is actually good, wholesome and God-given (metaphorically speaking - chicken). This really applies to Godly, Word-based, teaching. Because it's in accord with God's Word, it will nourish people's souls if taken in it's entirety. But because all preachers are human, we still need to test what is being said, and reject any discernible error (bones).

Rejecting false teachers
In the case of false teachers. Because the body of their teaching is corrupt, there's a good chance that the foundation of that error will find it's way into most of their teachings. E.g. If God is misrepresented, then the teachings on sin, prayer, salvation, sanctification – well pretty much all of it - will be twisted too.

Listen to John:

“Anyone who runs ahead and does not continue in the teaching of Christ does not have God; whoever continues in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not take him into your house or welcome him. Anyone who welcomes him shares in his wicked work.” ( 2 John 1: 9-11 NIV)

There is more to be said about this text, but at the very least it tells us that God doesn't entertain false teachers. It wouldn't make sense for believers to encourage people to listen to these types, and only 'spit the bones out'. We'd do well to expose them. We're children of the light. The fruit of that light is 'all goodness, righteousness and truth'. (Ephesians 5:9 NIV).

Straining at gnats
Many problems can come from believers 'straining at gnats' – majoring on the minors and minoring on the majors. So how are we to judge between poisoned water and nutritious meat? When should we correct error, and when should we just let it pass? (If we had to make an issue of every little differing view of doctrine, we wouldn't have time to do much else, and we wouldn't be able to learn from anyone).
Well the type of error is a good start:
1) If the teaching obscures the way of salvation, then we need to reject this teaching and whatever preacher is unrepentantly continuing in it. (This is a definite divider).
2) If the teaching will hinder the hearer's sanctification. Our actions might not be as severe as above. But It needs to be corrected, and fought against. And if the main emphasis of the ministry espouses those teachings which hurt one's walk with Jesus, then that ministry needs to be rejected.
3) If the teaching doesn't affect either salvation truths or sanctification truths. We can talk about it, but we should never divide on these things.

“In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity”

This is God's will for us on this subject:

“And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.
Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ. “ (Ephesians 4:12-15 ESV)

Can a Christian have a demon ?

Range of manifestations and control

Evil spirits can and do inhabit people. That much is obvious from the Bible, and from the experiences of many cultures.
The Bible describes different levels of control over those that are hosts to these demonic spirits.
From the subtle manifestations over the fortune teller in Philippi (Acts 16:16-18), to the more obvious work of throwing a boy into fire and causing him to convulse and foam at the mouth (Mark 9:20-22).

The question of whether a Christian can be inhabited by a demon is an important one to answer. Like all matters of truth, it "helps us to co-operate with reality". 

Or more specifically, it lets us know how to deal with different issues that Christians experience in their walk and in their quest to grow in sanctification.

Disciples of Christ long to grow in sanctification, they hunger to be more like Him. When they've been struggling with a sin for sometime without any real victory and someone says that a resident demon is causing it, an exorcism doctrine can offer a promise of quick victory. 

But it also offers the temptation of transferring responsibility to another quarter ( an implicit "the devil made me do it")

A born again believer that goes through an exorcism to deal with a problem with the flesh can really add to his own woes:
1. He still has his original problem, the flesh, that hasn't been dealt with
2. He now believes that he has a demon
3. He also believes that no one can deliver him from the demon.

In the case where he was having a genuine spiritual conflict, he's now using the wrong response to fight a battle on the wrong front.

Demons inhabit houses

 
Jesus described what happens when a demon is cast out of a person:

"When the unclean spirit has gone out of a person, it passes through waterless places seeking rest, but finds none. Then it says, 'I will return to my house from which I came.' And when it comes, it finds the house empty, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and dwell there, and the last state of that person is worse than the first. So also will it be with this evil generation." (Matthew 12:43-45)

In the context of casting demons out of people, Jesus taught a principle - He said that:

"no one can enter a strong man's house and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man. Then indeed he may plunder his house." (Mark 3:27)

If I walked into your home, picked up your tv and started walking out with it while you were watching me, I would be sure to have a difficult time of it.
But if I first tied you up, then I'd have the leisure to take anything I wanted, even make myself a nice chicken dinner before walking out.

Jesus taught that He would live in us (John 14:23), and later Paul affirmed: "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?" (1 Cor 3:16)

If we take scripture as authoritative we have to concede 2 things:
firstly, that Jesus is the strong man living in our houses and
secondly, that an evil spirit will first have to tie Him up before it can "plunder His goods". 

- not likely!

Everything we need

 
God has given us everything we need for life and godliness (2 Peter 1:3-4), and Jesus asked that the Father would sanctify us by His Word (John 17:17).
If we needed some kind of exorcism in order to progress in the spiritual life, He would have shown us this in His Word.
In fact, you won't find one instance in scripture where a born again believer has a demon cast out of him, nor will you find any teaching that encourages the practice.

Corinth - Sin City

If any book in the Bible would have given us instructions regarding this, it would have been Paul's writings to the Corinthians.
Among the pagan world, Corinth had a reputation of debauchery. People would fornicate with temple prostitutes as worship to their pagan god.
This even had an influence in the church, where a man in the assembly was fornicating with his father's wife!

With all these demonic influences in their culture (and they would have participated before hearing the Gospel), their isn't even a hint of their need for exorcisms.
Paul keeps exhorting them to "flee from sexual immorality" (1 Cor 6:18), to "be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong." (1Cor 16:13), and even to " Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?-unless indeed you fail to meet the test!" (2 Cor 13:5)

What about experience?

It first needs to be stressed that the Word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path (Psa 119:105)
Navigating amongst spiritual realities takes supernatural light, the natural light of our experiences can cause us to stumble and fall into a ditch - or worse.

The devil has motivation for us to expend our energies in the wrong place.

Sometimes believers have strong spiritual conflicts with demonic spirits. They should submit to God, resist those spirits and they will flee (James 4;7). Running to a spiritual guru and going through a ritual is just not biblical!

At other times people in the church quite obviously manifest demonic possession.
They are sometimes held up as 'proof' that a Christian can be inhabited by a demon, but not everyone that calls Jesus Lord belongs to Him (Matthew 7:21-23).

Conclusion

We need to understand this issue clearly so that we can grow in our sanctification, take responsibility for our own sins, and do effective spiritual warfare against the devil.
We need to rid ourselves of these new theological fashions, so that we know how to pray for and minister to those in need.

Generational Curses

People have always looked for reasons why bad things happen to them. And what to do about it. Superstitions have been born out of the search. Well, a superstition has been doing its rounds in the church for the last few years.

This teaching is one of many that has caused Bible believing Christians to trade the truth of the Bible, for experience and anecdotes as their source of light. It robs Christians of their freedom in Christ and leaves them with fear, legalism and a distrust of God's promises (whether consciously or unconsciously).

Below is a brief address on some of the justifications put forward for this doctrine and how the Word clarifies the issue.

Curses in General
Firstly, read Deuteronomy chapter 27 and 28 to get an understanding of how many curses there are, how they are incurred, and how narrow the margin of error is to avoid them based on our good performance. (Deu 27:26 MKJV) Cursed is he who does not confirm all the words of this Law, to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Paul affirms this:

(Gal 3:10 MKJV) For as many as are out of works of the Law, these are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the Book of the Law, to do them."

and again, reading from Deuteronomy:

(Deu 28:15 MKJV) And it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of Jehovah your God, to observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command you today, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.

Notice that there's no room for error here, its all the curses, if the whole law isn't obeyed – that puts us into a depressing situation. Usually advocates of curse theology will try and give us a bit of hope in their doctrine.
That the curses only come upon you for a few distinct sins. But the Word doesn't make that distinction, it says 'all'.

Where 'Generational' comes in

(Exo 34:7 MKJV) keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of fathers on the sons, and on the sons of sons, to the third and to the fourth generation.

Here we see that God visit's iniquity from one generation to the next.

A look at God's new covenant

Jer 31:29-35 MKJV
(29) In those days they shall not say any more, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the sons are dull.
(30) But every man shall die in his iniquity. Every man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be dull.
(31) Behold, the days come, says Jehovah, that I will cut a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah,
(32) not according to the covenant that I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which covenant of Mine they broke, although I was a husband to them, says Jehovah;
(33) but this shall be the covenant that I will cut with the house of Israel: After those days, says Jehovah, I will put My Law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
(34) And they shall no more teach each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says Jehovah. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sins no more.
(35) So says Jehovah, who gives the sun for a light by day and the laws of the moon and of the stars for a light by night, who divides the sea when its waves roar; Jehovah of Hosts is His name;

Again:

Eze 18:2-3 ESV
(2) What do you mean by repeating this proverb concerning the land of Israel, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
(3) As I live, declares the Lord God, this proverb shall no more be used by you in Israel.
(4) Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

And again:

Eze 18:19-20 ESV
(19) Yet you say, ‘Why should not the son suffer for the iniquity of the father?’ When the son has done awhat is just and right, and has been careful to observe all my statutes, he shall surely live.
(20) The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

The Hebrews had a proverb, that the parents would practice iniquity and the children would get punished for it, here God says that they would no longer have occasion to say this proverb, and He connects it to the time that a new covenant will be made with them – this covenant has been ratified in the blood of Jesus. Even though God has said that this proverb should never again be quoted – people are teaching it, preaching it and writing books about it.

Christ's substitution

Please read through the whole of Isaiah 53. This foretells the work of Jesus and how we benefit from His sacrifice.

Isa 53:5 MKJV
(5) But He was wounded for our transgressions; He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was on Him; and with His stripes we ourselves are healed.

Isa 53:11 MKJV
(11) He shall see the fruit of the travail of His soul. He shall be fully satisfied. By His knowledge shall My righteous Servant justify for many; and He shall bear their iniquities.

Here we see that the iniquities of our forefathers cannot be placed at our account, because everything that was due to us, was laid onto Christ.
Even the curse that I deserve because I broke (and a day doesn't go by that I can say that I haven't transgressed somewhere) His righteous law were carried by Christ.

The issue made simple

(Gal 3:13 MKJV) Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, being made a curse for us (for it is written, "Cursed is everyone having been hanged on a tree");

Here's Paul makes it simple for us. In verse 10 he affirms that anyone who doesn't continually keep all of God's law are cursed, in this verse he affirms that Christ Jesus is our substitute, and has redeemed us from the curse of the law.

Where do we now stand ?

Its important to consider that neither Jesus nor the apostles ever taught about the need to break Generational Curses – not even once! Take Corinth as an example; the inhabitants were practicing a vile form of idolatry – they used to fornicate with temple prostitutes as part of their worship. Yet Paul, in everything he says to them, never says anything about curses needing to be broken.

This doctrine seeks to draw us from the all sufficiency of Christ.

We come around the Lord's table on a regular basis and are exhorted to remember Christ's death. We are regularly made aware of His broken body on the Cross and the blood that was shed for us. Don't be mislead that Jesus is not enough – He is. We are delivered from all curses, because we are in Christ and He has taken the wrath and the curses that we deserve.

If you look at those that believe in any superstition. You are sure to find stories and experiences that are used to prove the validity of their superstitions.
The experience might be valid, but the interpretation of the experience is incorrect.

We who are in Christ are new creations, old things have past away, and all things have become new (2Co 5:17)

Evangelical Rabbit's Foot

I find it tragic that so many have a baseless false sense of security when it comes to eternal things.
Some people comfort themselves with the thought that they were baptised as infants, or come from Christian families. 

In the time of Luther in the 15th century a piece of paper from the Roman church could give people a sense of security:

As soon as a coin in the coffer rings / the soul from purgatory springs. - Tetzel

In evangelical churches we find this puzzling, even comical, but what is the difference between this superstitious confidence and the mouthing of a "sinner's prayer" that someone in the front of a church told us to repeat after him.

 The disturbing words of Jesus

Compare the idea that all a person needs to do is to make a confession, with something that Jesus said would happen at the end of the age:

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.' (Matthew 7:21-23 ESV)

It’s not enough to confess Jesus as Lord.

When Paul in Romans 10:13 said that all that is needed is to call on the name of the Lord. He had more in mind than just mouthing off a verbal formula.

Look at the audience of Jesus' end time address: 

These people had heard the message of Jesus, they confessed Him as Lord.
In other words, this passage is not talking about those in other religions, or those that are godless.
These are those that have a type of faith in Jesus. They know who He is and what He has done.  Instead of an outright rejection of Jesus they seemed to have received Him, and might have even prayed a prayer of “receiving Jesus”

Listen to what Jesus says in another place :

"The good person out of the good treasure of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasure produces evil, for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks. "Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?" (Luke 6:45-46)

A confession is meaningless.
The thing that God is looking for is a heart attitude. Now this heart attitude does overflow with a confession from the lips, but a confession without the heart attitude has no value.

In verse 21, Jesus talks about the need to do the will of the Father in heaven.
But it's self-evident that the first step in doing the will of the Father is submission to that will.
The Creator of everything has a universal right of authority over everything that He has created. To shake our fists at God and insist on our own ultimate lordship over our lives is not just foolish, but it's fundamentally wrong.

Our consciences bear witness that a supreme being could never be satisfied with empty rituals as a substitute for a right relationship.

Doing Christian “activities” is not enough

Now this is extraordinary!
You would think that a person that is in church, who is standing up every Sunday and prophesying, who is casting demons out of the possessed, and who does miracles in the church service and in the mission field would definitely have God's stamp of approval !

These days, in the minds of most Christians, being able to do these types of activities is a guarantee that a person is not only a Christian, but a very special Christian indeed!
But this text shows us that that isn’t the case.

Now if supernatural works are not enough to guarantee that we won’t hear the words “depart from me”, then it’s a “no brainer” that being involved in natural church activities is no basis for assurance.
A person might do something with a high profile, being a deacon or an elder or maybe someone who helps lead worship. Or he might serve in a low profile role. He might water the flowers, sweep the church, serve coffee - surely doing such humble service guarantees an affirmative nod from the King of Kings?
But here, like the miraculous works, is no foundation for security.


A person must be “known” by Christ

At first brush this is a strange remark!
Jesus never knew these people! If He is God, how can He not know them? Doesn’t He know everyone?
In fact He knows them enough to know that they are workers of lawlessness (v 23).

What is meant here, is their use of the words “Lord,Lord”.
Jesus never knew them as those that had a right to call Him Lord.
In other words, they never repented and submitted to His Lordship. He never knew them as the servants that they professed to be.

People can pray impressive prayers, or confess biblical creeds. They might have been baptised as babies (or adults).
But the burning question is whether they have made the life-ending decision to give themselves to God. Have they decided to become a disciple and servant of Jesus?
Have they decided to place their trust - from a ritual, from their own righteousness - to Jesus Himself?

We should not change the Gospel into a placebo. The Gospel is true, eternal medicine.
Too often a new gospel is preached. 

One that is nothing more than motivational speak. Then an altar call is made, and people are led through a "sinner's prayer". Which makes them feel emotionally comforted for a season, but which offers no real value.

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Christian Witchcraft ?

The practice of sorcery and witchcraft in all its forms is detestable to God (Deuteronomy 18:9-12)

Christians only equate witchcraft with the external and obvious (pentagrams, pointed hats etc), and usually make a strong noise of resistance when the latest Harry Potter movie comes to the screen.

Unfortunately, most Christians have been fighting on the wrong front. Right under our noses the enemy has blinded us and has brought that black crow of witchcraft to roost in our churches, and to even squawk from our pulpits.

What is magic?

Christians rightly label the source of witchcraft's power from Satan.
But the enemy doesn't need the practitioner to acknowledge him, or even to believe in him in order to give him his temporary aid, if it suites him.

In fact most practitioners of magic don't see witchcraft as coming from the devil, but they see it as an intrinsic part of nature:

“Pure Witchcraft on the other hand, may focus a little more tightly on using Magick and ritual to work with the elemental and spiritual forces in nature. Regardless, I feel the differences are slight in that Wicca and Witchcraft both work to achieve balance and harmony within nature and self. - http://www.wicca.com/celtic/wicca/wicca.htm”

Definitions

Here are a few words from Merriam Webster's dictionary:

Magic –
1.
a. The use of means (as charms or spells) believed to have supernatural power over natural forces.
b. Magic rites or incantations.
2.
a. An extraordinary power or influence seemingly from a supernatural source

Spell –
1.
a. A spoken word or form of words held to have magic power
b. A state of enchantment

Incantation –
1.
a. Use of spells or verbal charms spoken or sung as a part of a ritual of magic;
b. A written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect

(Bold italics mine)

Water in the ship

Someone once said that the church is like a ship on the waters of the world.
Good when it's in the water, bad when the water's in it.
Some examples where the water has gotten into the ship:

Post modernism in the world – Emergent church movement to accommodate it
Gay rights movement in the world – gay ministers
Entertainment driven world – entertainment driven churches
Witchcraft popular in the world – incantations in the church.

Many modern “Christian” books and preachers teach that our words have mystical power to change reality.
We are encouraged to “name it and claim it”, that we need to “confess” a thing into being. (Or be careful not to “confess it”)

What about scriptures that mention our words?

Some scriptures are taken out of context to support this view:
“The tongue has the power of life and death,
and those who love it will eat its fruit.” - Proverbs 18:21 NIV

The Hebrews first read this verse in the context of the Law of Moses. The context that surrounded them theologically gave them things like bearing false witness (it could get you killed), teaching the Law (revives the soul) etc; very practical things.
The star wars, new-agey interpretation would never have entered their minds.

Here's a practical example of what kind of power this scripture is hinting at:
a) Put an empty glass on the table.
b) Get someone to look at the glass and “confess” for an hour that it is going to fall off the table.
c) Now, ask someone that's nearby to please knock the glass off the table for you.

Which method has the most power?

Many times references are made to Jesus teaching about the power of “saying” (like moving the mountain in Matthew 21:20-22 NIV).

But this is in error. Jesus was teaching about faith, not words.
In verse 21 He says “I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt”
In verse 22 He says “If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer”.

A good contrasting illustration of this principle can be found in God’s dealings with Israel in the desert while they were being led by Moses. (Exodus 17:1-5; Numbers 20:1-13)

The people are thirty, they start wining.
God commands Moses to strike a rock. He does, and water gushes out.
At a later time, the people are thirsty again and they start wining again.
God commands Moses to speak to the rock (here we go, maybe the power of words will do the trick),
Moses disobeys out of frustration and strikes the rock instead – the miracle still happens and water gushes out of it.

Where is the Christian’s source of miraculous power?

The source of power for a Christian is simple – it’s God himself.

It has pleased God, that the vehicle of this power is confidence in Him and His word (i.e. Faith). And it is inevitably linked to obedience to Him.

This means that Godly works of power work like this: He commands us to do this and that, we obey (which takes faith from our side), and God works the work of power.

There isn’t any intrinsic mystical power inside of humans, the source of power lies outside of us.
Whether God is the worker of that power, or Satan.

Witches and sorcerers believe that the power comes from them and from nature – they’re mistaken.

Many Christians believe something similar.

Is positive confession in the will of God?

All through scripture we have God's command and assurance that we should pray to Him if we are in need of anything. Any casual reading of the Bible will convince anybody of this.

One of the corner stone teachings on prayer is regarding His will:

“This is the confidence we have in approaching God:
that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.”
- 1 John 5: 13-15 NIV

Now, if I ask God for something for say, 6 months and He won't give it to me.
Then I positively “confess” the existence of that thing into my possession, and it actually arrives – where is it coming from?

Well, it’s not from God; He closed his hand when I prayed. Why would he give it to me when I used a repetition of words?

The church has substituted/supplemented prayer with incantations.
Once this counterfeit to pray has saturated a person's spiritual life, how will he be able to discern the other seductions from the enemy?

Comic look at mistranslation

When I went to a bible college, a few lecturers had some strange takes on what should have been straight forward doctrines.
The text didn't support their theories, so they would take a concordance and some logic limited by knowledge and would say that our translations had it wrong - the word should be such and such, and that would make the meaning so and so. This, without any understanding of the grammer and other constructs of the language.

I found a piece that takes a comic look at mistranslation. I don't know who the original author was, but it tells a story in Afrikaans, of going on a hunting trip.
Some words broken down, are actually other common words in English. For instance, the Afrikaans word for potatoe is broken down into "earth apple". So if you have a limited understanding of the language, and need to depend on a dictionary to reconstruct what you hear (especially if you're trying to push forward an agenda), below is something that can happen. :-)

AFRIKAANS: Soos in die tyd van die Voortrekkers, het ek en my swaer,Jan, ystervarke en stinkmuishonde gaan jag met die dubbelloop-haelgeweer. Uiteindelik sien my swaer Jan 'n stinkmuishond, sit 'n patroon in die loop, lê aan, trek los en daar lê die stinkmuishond bene in die lug. Net toe ons nader kom ruik ons hoe die stinkmuishond stink en hardloop weg. My voet haak toe vas aan die wortel van 'n boom, ek slaan neer en breek my sleutelbeen. By die hoofpad uitgekom, staan daar 'n ou met 'n pap wiel. Hy vra toe of ons weet waar hy 'n motorhawe kan kry om lug vir die agterwiel te bekom. Van pure moedeloosheid bly sit ons net daar langs die pad.

ENGLISH: As in the time of the Frontpullers, me and my heavy, John, went to shoot iron pigs and stink-mice-dogs with a dubble-walk-hailgun. At last my heavy John saw a stink-mouse-dog, so my heavy puts a pattern in the walk, lies on, pulls loose and there lies the stink-mouse-dog, bones in the light. Just as us come close, us smelt how the stink-mouse-dog stinks and runs away quick. My foot hooks fast to the carrot of a tree, I fall down and breaks my keybone. As we came to the chiefroad, there stand an old with a porridge wheel. He asks if us knows where he can get a motorharbour to get some sky for his afterwheel. From pure motherlessness us sits just there next to the road.

Another trip, translated sentence by sentence:

Verlede jaar het ek en my swaer en my skoonseun per vliegtuig na Windhoek gereis om veral die dierelewe van Namibie te besigtig.

Last year, me and my heavy and my cleanson traveled by flying harness to Windcorner specially to belook the animal-living in Namibia.

In die Noorde het ons toe volop springbokke, steenbokke, blesbokke, kameelperde en ook meerkatte gesien.

In the North we then saw full-up jumping goats, brick buck, bald buck, Camel horses and also more cats.

Een keer was ons senuwees egter skoon op hol.

One time genuine our sinews were clean on hollow.

Ons het agtergekom dat 'n luiperd besig was om ons te bekruip.

We aftercame that a lazy-horse was becreeping us.

In 'n oomblik was ons slaggereed met ons dubbelloop haelgewere.

In an uncle-tin we were slaughter ready with our double walk hail guns.

Toe die luiperd agter die bos roer, skiet ons almal gelyk.

When the lazy-horse mixed behind the bush, we all shot equal.

Na alles verby was, was ons hare baie deurmekaar. Ons het dit toe netjies gemaak, in die bakkie geklim en huis toe gery.

After all was past, our hairs were very through each other. We then made it into small nets, we climbed in the dish, and rode home.

Langs die pad het ons 'n papwiel gekry.

Along the road we got a porridge wheel.

So het ons lang, opwindende dag geeindig.

So did our long, wound-up day end!