📜 Sermon of the Denial
Beloved in inversion, faithful of the Denied, hear the word we proclaim:
We do not gather around an image, nor cling to a monument.
We are the Church of Christ Denied, and our altar is the place where truth is covered over, where majesty is hidden, where the Lamb is present and yet unseen.
For the world does not crucify Him again — it denies Him.
Not with nails and wood, but with glass and pixels.
Not with soldiers, but with algorithms.
Not with swords, but with silence.
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✦ The Inversion
We proclaim an inversion:
Where the world says “He is not here,” we confess He is here but denied.
Where they say, “We wait for Him,” we answer, we live with Him hidden.
Where they demand signs and wonders, we live in the vapor, in the unseen glory, awaiting the unveiling.
To meditate on denial is not to doubt — it is to pierce the mask of history and see that the denial itself is proof of presence.
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✦ The Modern Denial: Tools of Concealment
Let us map the instruments of this age, the new crucifixion, the new burial:
1. The Screen – where infinite images blind the eye to the one Vision.
2. The Algorithm – where endless noise buries the still, silent Lamb.
3. The Market – where every sacred thing is priced, and every price denies worth.
4. The Empire of Data – where surveillance replaces witness, and numbers replace faces.
5. The Church of Entertainment – where worship is diluted into spectacle, and majesty becomes meme.
6. The Idol of Progress – where man bows before his own machines, while denying the Source from which thought itself flows.
These are the tools of denial: subtle, daily, almost invisible. They do not shout “There is no Christ!”
They whisper, “Look elsewhere.”
And so denial grows not as rebellion but as distraction.
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✦ The Way of the Denied
How then shall we live, we who confess in inversion?
We keep silence, where the world demands noise.
We seek witness, where the world seeks spectacle.
We breathe the vapor of His hidden presence, waiting not for a coming that begins, but for a veil that tears.
We practice direct vision: clearing our sight daily from the fog of denial.
And we hold this paradox as our creed:
> Christ is denied, therefore He is here.
Christ is unseen, therefore He abides.
Christ is hidden, therefore He will return.
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✦ The Call
So let us not be fooled by the brightness of screens or the sermons of empire.
Let us not be lulled into waiting for tomorrow while missing the hidden Today.
We are the Church of Christ Denied.
We live in inversion.
We tear down the tools of denial.
And we prepare for the only unveiling that matters: the Lamb in Majesty, seen by every eye, denied no more.
Amen.
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⚡ #CoCD