Omelet

Blog 1303

OMELET

Not in medical school, schools for dietitians or chefs does anyone realize the importance of food. This marvel of God’s creation, the body, must have nutrition. You have heard me say before that the wrapping of most food products contain more nutrition than “so called” food found in many grocery carts. The soil is depleted of nutrients. We do not understand a virus but know that most meats are dangerous. Water systems contaminated with chlorides-fluorides (poisons).

Perhaps the most important meal is breakfast AND, there is no nutrition as important as that found in a fresh egg. But, as the great writer C. S. Lewis has told us, ”It is impossible to get a good omelet from any way you scramble rotten eggs.” We simply have forgotten the essential-basic physiology of sound nutrition…myrochondria. In all your learning, study the importance of supplements. The surgeon –butchers will not tell you that oregano will cure most prostate cancer. The internist will not tell you about the importance of garlic or tumeric. “Big pharma” and “big medicine” cannot buy big Mercedes with simple solutions for health problems.

This totally blind medical officer veteran has a terrible time trying to cook. A blind person must be so aware of fire. I was so badly burned, so much damage to my kitchen with a fire on my stove. Recently, attempting to scramble some eggs…a good plot for a Three Stooges movie, I became confused, thought I put the eggs in the frying pan-stirring and scrambling, just to find out when emptying the pan onto my plate that I had thrown my eggs into the disposal. Now, it is easy for me to get discouraged, to sink into despair, BUT, our blessed Lord whispered to me, “At least you have a disposal”, just think how marvelous your mother and grandmothers would have thought just the same. All they had were slop buckets. A slop bucket was used in country homes for table scraps potlikker, which the hogs so loved.

In the high tech world of technology, fast food, convenience, we have forgotten the trials of our ancestors. Just think, in 1900, 90% of the American population was living in rural areas…no electricity, no paved roads, a telephone perhaps every ten miles. As my old friend, Dr. W .C. George, UNCCH Medical School, said, “The greatest health care in the world was on the country far. Berries: (blue, black, red, etc.). Fresh eggs, vegetables, raw milk…people and their animals untainted by vaccines-synthetics, GMOs, and MSGs. We are all heading for eternal death or eternal life.

Dr. Roy Masters, a Jewish psychologist, radio talk show personality has said, “I am a Jew but I know more about Christianity and am a better Christian than most Christians I have known.”

When will we learn that we are slaves? We have a master, if Christian, God is boss, we are always on call.

Most Christians I know want our blessed Lord-God to be a bellhop…to just be around when we need him. We have a distorted value system. Whether physical or spiritual. Can you even imagine the flaws inside your body from abuse? Toxins-abuse-addictions have a way of showing up on the outside. For instance, everyone probably has cancer cells internally. We cease to have fat cells after age eighteen. Abuse, stupid eating habits, slavery to special desires, even exotic chemicals and prescription drugs, slow suicide. Your health, physical and spiritual, reveals the master to whom you yield.

There a silliness among Christians, a “checklist”, do’s and don’ts. If you belong to Christ, chosen, elected, predestined, you are always on call, an obedient slave. Your faith determines circumstances, not circumstances determining your faith.

God is not forced to be good to us; the record shows that He is, in spite of ourselves.

If you live long enough, as every word in god’s precious word has told us, you will not escape problems.

One farmer’s mule fell in his well. He could not decide how to extract the mule from the well. Like Adam, the first man, henpecked, his wife made the decision, “Just bury the mule in the well.” His neighbors came, fellow church members, all throwing dirt into the well. At first the old mule was depressed, discouraged, then the mule just shook off the dirt and kept climbing a little higher, finally, shaking it off, walking out of the well, leaving behind the disparity of this present world. making his own omelet.

The Old Testament is punctuated by Jewish sacrifices. There are only three times that sacrifice is used in the New Testament…praise to our Lord, offerings to our Lord and work for our Lord. Caring for the greatest of God’s creation, the human body, is hard work. Living the Christian life is not complicated, but tough, hard work.

The Grip of Knowledge

#1302

The Grip of Knowledge

If you were to take into your body everything advertised, you would have a quick, certain death. I saw my first television when I was a freshman in college. I believed then, and I believe more strongly now, that if Satan wanted something to totally destroy the world, he would design a television set. Every form of human degradation, everything which causes neurological and physiological stress.

The battle of Waterloo was fought June, 1815. Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte against Britain’s Duke of Wellington. Although fought near Brussels in Belgium, not that far from Paris or London, several days went by before anyone knew the victor.

Not just political rulers, power brokers of the world, but church men are a dime a dozen... men of God are hard to find. Modern Christianity wants an easy formula believing that God is satisfied with certain actions. We see a frenzy over days of worship, everyday is a Sabbath, everyday is the Lord's day. (Psalm 118:24) 80% of all church study courses are made up of women. 58% of all church leaders are women. The Bible “hallows” men, particularly the old testament. I have never known a gay male refer to his father. Most men, have given up their role of leadership, family, church, even political and financial professions. What young man would go to today's male role model who knows much more about sports figures than God's elect? What young male, needing guidance would go to today's male adulterer, dirty mind, inflicted with addictions to illegal drugs and pornography? We need men of faith, and it will only be men of faith who will enjoy eternity with God. The poet Gilbert Holland asked, “God give us men”! I have used this poem so many times and I advise you to read it over and over again. Can we understand the effeminate twist of the past 50 years, military service, the professions, every advertisement? This blind man does not see the television screen , the movie screen, but I understand almost every program-advertisement, has at least one very obvious gay. There was a time when gay men worked in beauty shops, designed women's clothing, and worked as nurses, but now unashamedly, “out of the closet”, prance around the hospital, school house, courthouse, church house, gymnasium. The time has come, even in the civic club, even in the sports arena, when you must use care in your conversation about sex. Both political parties spend much time and money courting perversion. God has an awakening for those who promote, not only the killing of the unborn, but the genetic confusion of same sex marriage and mockery involving sexuality from the classroom to the pulpit.

There is nothing whatsoever in God's word, the one perfect guide which leads anyone to believe that God will honor perversion. Everything, from the microbiology of microscopic life to the largest animals known, tells us that like Jesus, the bridegroom, the world so magnificently designed by God, designed for procreation. Like extraterrestrials, if there were other life, sexuality, than such found on Earth in the Universe, he would have informed us.

In my lifetime, the retreat of maleness is no longer, “Father Knows Best”, Mother and often even children, run things. It is beyond my comprehension that any father, loving a daughter, would allow her to leave his home with just anyone who might drive up in a “peice of a car” simply because he is so cute and popular. One of the saddest funerals I have ever attended, loving parents following an casket to an open grave, their only daughter killed in a car wreck, with a young man not worthy of being close to her. Why did not the father investigate this young man who, too, was killed before he allowed his daughter to become friendly with such? From the time your daughter is able to understand anything, (it should be the mother's responsibility) family class-pride-decency should be taught.

God did not waste one word in His book, every word is there for a reason. Our blessed Lord said, “a house divided will not stand.” (Luke 11:17, Mark 3:25). There is nothing more pathetic than a double minded person, the wold is filled with such, political and spiritual. We know the results of a heart divided against itself....someone trying to hold onto the world AND our Lord. Perhaps more pitiful, the American home where father and mother cannot agree concerning the rearing of children. My mother was firm, knew right from wrong, but my father had the last word. You can be sure that just any male would not take his precious daughter away from the house.

Just yesterday, April 29,2012, seven in a family were killed in a tragic automobile wreck near the Bronx Zoo in New York. As tragic as this calamity, three children killed, the first words out of the newscaster's mouth were, “no zoo animals were injured.” In this new age of abortion, same sex marriage, young males and females just “hooking up”, please God, when will the fathers of America take over the home and the nation?

War Weary

Traveling the world, this writer has walked and seen the great wall of China, seen the wall between North and South Korea, walled cities of the world, such as ancient Jericho and the most beautiful city of the world, Dubrovnic. I went through Check Point Charlie, the wall separating East and West Germany twice. Communist controlled east Berlin was the most bleak, poverty-ridden city one can imagine, right across the wall from the prosperity of West Berlin, West Germany.

In a small antique store, East Berlin, I purchased a most remarkable spaghetti platter... still hanging on the wall in my house. The owner wanted to talk, told of the holocaust of communist existence... controls, lack of heat, perishing children.

Last week, Wilmington, NC, annual Azalea Festival, I was awakened by the fireworks-explosions, along the river. My house is near the river, the explosions shook my house. The though Then, as always, as I laid in my bed, “what possible thrill can normal human beings get from such entertainment?” And, I'm sure all were not heathen-incorrigible. Can one even imagine the horror story, people with no desire for war, the sanctity of their home, bombardments from the sky, (planes flown by men as well as drones) who are in no way responsible for the evil connived by men of political power, living in safety, far away. It has always been the poor, the powerless, who have paid the price of warfare. Always, without fail, the son's and daughter's of the disenfranchised, those from homes of poverty enslaved into military uniform, to fight battles, concocted by those of greed, who will not get their hands dirty by war. The son's and daughter's of the wealthy never go to war, their mother's never follow their flag-draped casket, learn unconcern in a VA facility.

There are 1186 VA hospitals near capacity, nearly 1 million are on a waiting list for VA services, a staggering backlog. There are 48 million veterans, still alive, needing VA services. All WWI veterans have died and most WWII veterans have died. This veteran of the Korean Era, knows the ineptness of the system... a totally blind, 100% disabled veteran.... never even able to get a white cane. Oh, like everything else in government, there are well paid bureaucrats, (all not necessarily in a communist government) even in capitalist America, taking care of themselves. From the top to the bottom (the Obama's vacations, the GSA Las Vegas parties, the secret service parties) from the white house, to the courthouse in your county, government officials know how to take care of number one.

After 10 years of this present Middle East war, many have become war weary. It may be just beginning, secretary Panetta who said, "Unfortunately these days, there's a hell of a lot that keeps me awake. But that's one that tops the list," he added, in reference to North Korea. There are 30 conflicts in which the United States is involved, going on in the world today. Just think of the bedlam in Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, as well as the very hot wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran can be added to the list any day. “Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from [these things] that shall come upon thee.” ( Isaiah 47:13) The weary, the astrologers, have no concept of war. At the immigration border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, (it is unlawful to take pictures at a border) a very small camera in MY hand, I made pictures of immigrants, carrying their belongings in bags over their shoulders, children in rags, barefoot, standing on ice. We have a volunteer army, young men and women from loving homes, never before exposed to such human decadence, desecration starts at the top. They are aware of the phony baloney, Obama and his ilk. None of it makes sense, not to this old warrior. A Sgt. leaving his post twice to kill and burn bodies, urinating on the dead, holding up dead body parts... the treason of publishing such pictures. We have a dysfunctional military, financially corrupt world. Populations that do not understand how RADIATION changes cell structure, like the air you breathe, you cannot see it. Such could happen in America at any minute.

Faith begins with the premise that God spoke one word and nothing became everything, nothingness to somethingness. The same power of that word is available to us, the chosen, elected, predestined to love the world He made. Regeneration of God in you, the Holy Spirit, righteousness of Christ in you, changes you, whether at war or peace. We know the record, even how Satan dealt with Jesus... hunger, pride, power. Satan always misquotes scripture, pitiful, puny, pastors, politicians, war profiteers, will promote such human plunder with scripture. We do not have the option to change anything, but God does. I still want to meet the preacher who can give me a pill, lay on me his hands, and tell me that I no longer must fight the good fight of faith. Many are called but few are chosen. When the chosen tire enough of war, human degradation, things will change. “If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.” (John 8:36)

Tricksters

The only time I ever crossed the Brooklyn bridge, to visit a hospital specializing in psychological phenomenon. I remember a large sign in the lobby, “Perception is reality.” The intricacies of the mind, a vast mystery to anyone willing to explore. One does not approach spirituality without knowing full well the mystical involved. Jesus Himself said, “And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.” (Luke 10:27) Early in life, the child learns mind control, his own as well as others. Imagination is a marvelous thing, the launching pad for good as well as evil. Perhaps this is one reason I learned to love books at such an early age... through the words-minds of others, could experience travel, lifestyles, fantasies.

The addiction to the television set has been brought on by fantasizing your mind with the picture-story production. The fat, unproductive, male virtually puts himself into the athlete's shoes, in the sports contest.

Seldom described, our brain cells “capsized-exercised” with all types of idiomatic actions and dialogue, while we sleep. God particularly blesses many of us in giving visions, virtual impressions. I tell everyone to keep a pad and pen by their bed, you will often have thoughts while sleeping that you will never experience again.

Be very thankful for sleep, so many people have trouble sleeping. Be thankful for sights and sounds known only to you in that vast arena of semi-consciousness. I can tell you as a blind person, that you dream in the reality of sight-color-precious memories.

Years ago, one of my mother's sisters and her husband, now, long dead, visited me at my beach house. In the course of conversation I told her that I had a marvelous dream in which I saw her mother, my grandmother and others of our much loved, deceased relatives, totally happy in heaven. I told her about some in the splendor of heaven, who had not yet died... one cousin in the group at that time nearly 100 years of age... not having long to wait. The dream was very real to me, but I could sense (blind, I could not see their expressions) that even though they were supposedly Christian, considered me “off my rocker”, a loony bird. God's book is filled with dreams... we have records of inventors, writers, poets, presented with ideas during sleep, virtual reality. Now, starting in 2005, virtual entertainment. Almost beyond comprehension, long dead entertainers, on stage, with the props of technology, virtual entertainment... still entertaining audiences long after their death. For instance, rapper Tupac Shakur, killed under mysterious circumstances, again on stage. This type malarkey, pretending, infecting the imagination, a source of financial greed to some exploitation group, virtual but not viscerally dead. Not happy to enjoy the recordings or perhaps film left, at least honest, in a world of lying, cheating, stealing, necessity for exploitation of the dead.

Is this exercise in virtual exploitation anything new? At least Elvis' relatives are honest in selling his memorabilia, etc., him making more money dead than when alive. Do the inheritors of great or small estates actually remember, as they enjoy the rewards of success, what it took, is there any memory involved for those who did the hard work? I have personally known wealthy heirs, spending and spreeing from the risk of hard work of parents and grandparents, to never even mention their names or even visit their graves. I truly believe the virtual spirits of those who have gone on before, are still around, watching, waiting, bending and breaking, with either delight or disgust. Just remember those wonderful words the apostle Paul left to us “Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.” (Hebrews 12:1)

Never tell this blind man that there is not virtual witnesses (seen and unseen) protecting, perfecting, propelling him toward the goal posts, the end of the race.

Polygeneticism

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”
― Abraham Lincoln

One of the greatest books ever written, Imitation of Christ, 15^th century monk, Thomas aKempis, in which he said, “I am what I am before God, no more, no less.”

This writer does not believe that God puts up with any foolishness, chosen, elected, predestined. He wants the best version of ourselves, complete submission everyday, every way. Probably ten or fifteen years ago, on Mother's Day, I gave the graduation address at a large Christian college. I started by telling about Sir Winston Churchill, his biographer came to him with a list of his school teachers. Churchill said yes, the list is complete, except for one. At the beginning of the list should be the name of my mother, my first and greatest teacher.

Then, I ask that all the mothers of the graduates stand for recognition by the graduating class as well as the guests. So easily we forget the sacrifices of “mother” in our accomplishments. We are products of Polygenetics... all those who have gone on before us. I was in college in 1953 when Watson and Crick made their discoveries concerning DNA. The fact that each cell of our body contains thousands of pages of genetic history. As I study their book, The Double Helix, I thought, well, this will put an end to this myth of evolution. No one in today's world would pay attention to Darwin's book anymore anyway. But, the hangers on still want to believe in the myth of “scientific evolution”. How anyone, in their right mind, can study cytology, cell division, mitochondria, the electricity involved in cell reproduction, the gaps in the fossil records, the total lack of evolution in plant life, is beyond comprehension. After death, DNA changes very rapidly. Genetics and everything involved in the genome, points to a magnificent Creator. At that graduation address, I remember saying, If you were to ask every individual who has lived and died, regardless of destination, heaven or hell, “what would you change about hour life on earth?” I believe each would say, trust in God. This is all the Creator of the universe and everything in it requires, trust. As you mature, thank God, you get smarter. It is amazing how smart my father became when I went to college. And, we learn to appreciate our genealogy.

The thing I remember most about my mother, and there are so many things, her molding butter... the wooden mold in which she put butter. The mold had the design of an acorn with leaves. From our beautiful cows, milk that was churned with resulting butter. She took this butter along with eggs and other produce to a store in a nearby town where she “traded” it for things needed in the home. The store had regular customers for her butter because they knew it was right. But a thousand times more important than molding butter, the “molding” of her four children

There are many memories of my maternal grandmother, her holiness. But, I always picture her on that large plantation which had been in the family for many generations, coming down a long path, hoe in one hand, her other hand holding her apron filled with beans or something from her vegetable garden, where she had been working.

I remember my paternal grandmother, a large dominating woman, always driving the large family sedan. She was the manager type, wearing a large beautiful hat, known by everyone. She could walk in any church, any meeting, and everyone took note... my grandfather always the passenger, always content to follow. My mother and grandmothers were known for their cooking, domestic yet capable of doing anything. Perhaps known best for their well-mannered children.

I remember after my paternal grandmother's death, still to this day, the largest, most beautiful funeral I have attended, her youngest son and his wife had their first child. He said, “I sure do wish mama could have lived to have seen her.” In God's design for everyone, He placed within the polygenetecism of every woman, the knowledge of seeing other generations after her, her importance on this earth. God's gift to mothers is a special dedication to the redemption of life, A love second only to that of God. It is a lie that science supports evolution. The more DNA has been studied, the more we know that we come from a common ancestry. The greatest thought known to man, the majesty of the male and female-plus and minus-electrical foundation of biology and science, that a single cell from one animal can unite with the single cell of another animal, having breathed life into it, from the beginning. That, the combination cell dividing, exponentially like the city of New York, exponentially dividing time and time again. So integral, so complete, that the frying pan in every Manhattan apartment is the same each and every time. Only the Sovereign God of the universe could design the coagulation of blood, the photosynthesis of plants. HOW DARE a puny scientist mind to degrade the magnificent design of Creator God. HOW DARE a puny scientific mind to degrade the polygenetics of maternal love generation after generation. “For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully [and] wonderfully made: marvellous [are] thy works; and [that] my soul knoweth right well.” (Psalm 139:13,14)

Sleepwalking

I don't know why it took so long but hospitals and doctors finally discovered that the reason so many old people, bones easily broken by falls, become permanently disabled or die because they sleepwalk... get out of bed during the night and fall because of their lack of alertness.

My grandmother, one of twelve children, one sister never married. As was the case during my childhood, families took care of one another. Her father, my great grandfather had left her property but she lived a month of each year with a brother or sister. At my grandparent’s beautiful home on Main Street, Kenly, NC, she got out of bed during the night, left her room, long white night gown, scared people on the street. The police brought her back to the house, everyone very much embarrassed.

The world has become a bunch of sleepwalkers, politically and spiritually. I am so tired of churches who do not recognize their adversary. Neutral you cannot be, there is no middle ground. God or the devil is in control of your life. Most pew-warmers are just sleepwalking through their spiritual experience, have no idea about their true adversary. (Ephesians 6) Too long, just anyone signing a card and becoming a church member... knowing nothing of their commitment. The genius of Catholicism, RCA, introducing those, “supposedly” believers in Christ and His church, to the doctrines of the church. Many denominations have catechism classes for young people so that they have a fundamental knowledge of Christianity-their denomination, not just sleepwalking through their spiritual experience, down the middle of the road, holding on to the church with one hand, the world with the other. Too long, “supposed” pastors of the Gospel, not recognizing the real condition of the congregation. The great preacher Dr. R.G. Lee, pastor of Bellvue Baptist, Memphis, TN, preaching to a congregation of 3000 every Sunday, averaging baptizing 20 each Sunday night for nearly 50 years. Before he died, said, “I would like to think that 10% of my congregation would meet me in heaven.” Too long, the church has refused to trust in the Power of God. No better example than the perils of the apostle Paul, shipwrecked, prisons, beatings, some trying to kill him, the men holding the ropes of the basket by which he escaped, names we will never know but because of their belief in the Power of God, will share with Paul the rewards of his, the world's greatest ministry, the fact that two-thirds of the new testament attributed to this remarkable, God-chosen Saint. Think of the cities of the world, cathedrals, churches, named for this one man who knew the Power of God. We should be ashamed to even equate ourselves with such people. One preacher, me sitting with him in his unkempt rubble of a house, talked with me about his mansion in heaven, on a street of gold. The 21^st century Christian, lazy-spoiled-thinking himself a victim of the world, should be satisfied if only to get a “peep” into the arena of glory. Too long, we have not known that anytime you work for God, the world will be against you. We want the best of Christianity entangled with what the world has to offer.

Carl Sagan, in his TV production Cosmos, unabashed atheist said, “This is all there is to it, there is nothing else.” He has been dead for some years, found quickly how wrong he was.

Too long, Christ has depended on cowards to carry His cross. There is nothing more sure-certain-historical than God's Word, the certainty of Jesus Christ, the majesty of Creation, word, father, son. “I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” (John 17:4,5)

Many of us have stood on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, Mars Hill, where the apostle Paul, as in many other places, declared the Power of God and His son, Jesus Christ. (Acts 17:23) The oldest biblical manuscripts in the world are exacting in their “oneness”. The monk Tischendorf, St. Catherine's monastery, Sinai, found nuns burning valuable parchments to stay warm. He rescued this bible, the codex Sinaticus and the other two oldest, the codex Alexandrinus, codex Vaticanus, all support one another. Secular historians such as Herodotus support the early church. I have here in my house a history of Herodotus. There is nothing in this life more certain than the Holy Word of God. Faith is fact, not fiction. Faith is action, based on belief, sustained by confidence. In the church house, as well as the state house, faithers-believers have allowed circumstances to control our faith. Faith should control our circumstances. We need worship, not actions, prayer, not performance. When you have buildings, programs, even preaching, you have what they can do. But, when you have prayer, you have what God can do. And, when you listen to today's newscast you realize WE ALL need what God can do.

When you reach my age, especially the way the world has changed in my lifetime, how rapidly the world is crumbling, by your very fingernails, your cling to all that is left... your faith. Only when you have seen how rapidly a fire spreads in a house, cancer spreads through a body, do you realize and cling to that which is certain. It is not sleepwalking or even walking by faith, not sight. (2 Corinthians 5:7)... a very special verse to a blind man. Sure, certain, unchanging, “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, [and] to keep himself unspotted from the world.” (James 1:27)

Choking Game

You can’t change tomorrow,

You can't change today,

As your life is planned for you,

That's the way it will stay

Life is not perception, it is reality. The reality, a vapor that appears for a little while then vanishes. (James 4:14) After you pass the age of 50, it seems that every other day is Friday.

The Christian faith has always been a singing faith, a faith of singing praises to our blessed Lord. This writer can go into any church, listen to the congregation sing for five minutes and tell you the spiritual convictions-temperature of that church. I can still hear those old people singing at the church where I was raised, “take my life and let it be, consecrated Lord to thee.” The greatest failure by parents, pastors, poets or even prophets, in the rearing of today's children, without stressing to them the value and magnificence of life. When did we fail to put value on life and living, the ugly, plain seed, pitiful-looking “seedling”, going in to the “good earth”... after water, sunlight, every element God has provided for nutrition, a beautiful plant, same with animal life? The reproductive ability the male and female animal producing the greatest of God's Creation, particularly, the genus “Homo-Sapiens”, the human being, made in the very image of God. (Genesis 1:26)

From the beginning, there has been a challenge to living. The two first born, brothers, one killed the other. From the beginning, not only conflict but greed. Jacob, grandson of the first Jew, Abraham, fooled his blind father, and through his foolish mother, cheated his brother of his birthright. Others throughout history have “thrilled” to that thin line between life and death, wrestling with wild animals, warfare of nations, or just acting foolishly. God has “impressed” on mankind, that He does not tolerate foolishness. Even His chosen people, He killed multiple thousands at a time, the two priest sons of Aaron... Moses' older brother... Aaron the high priest of Israel. He turned Moses' sister, Miriam into a leper. God does not mess around, giver and taker of life AND SO SHOULD OUR YOUNG PEOPLE BE TAUGHT.

There is a fascination amongst young people of walking on the edge, tempting fate, “glue sniffing”, “a concoction of wormwood drink” (toxic chemicals drunk to give a high for sexuality, but very deadly) car surfing, (riding of the outside of a car while someone else is driving) huffing, (inhaling poisons to the system, tempting biological survival) the smoking of marijuana, the using of illegal drugs, such as cocaine, heroin,etc, seeking a temporary high or sexual hallucination. All of these activities, a delusion or illusion, to achieve a “high”, sexual-neurological-psychological breakthrough. These are life experiences-satisfactions, beyond the arena of normality. In this sin, there is a DOUBLE HAPPENING, sin against self, but more importantly, sin loaded onto Jesus Christ. The most recent delusional game, walking the thin line of normality, the Choking Game. (in the choking game, one with a dog leash-rope-belt, etc. cuts off blood to the brain long enough to experience the unnatural) Most deaths happening when this is done alone, parents find dead children... in their bedroom... alone. It is beyond comprehension that a child would do this act to loving parents, friends, acquaintances. I can say as a health care professional “helpless” feeling than a lifeless human being... only one of a kind, a totally unique individual. Within a few hours the DNA of this “totally unique” individual changes. You can reproduce other live animals, plants which are nearly the same but, not another YOU.

We were all created for a definite purpose. A death, particularly a young death, profoundly affects everyone around us. Loving parents never recover from the death of a child, particularly a foolish, useless death. It is bad enough to lose a child to disease, to warfare. I will always remember the screams of my neighbor across the street, when the casket of her only son, her only child, was brought home from the Vietnam war. You can write it down, if you are chosen for life, God will work you over, beat you down, to see if you are worthy of eternal life with Him. We have examples and scripture tells us these examples are put there for our profit... Jonah, a coward, Joseph, a type of Christ, (one-fourth of the book of Genesis is about this one man.) a story which we study over and over, because he was a real man. (even Broadway play – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) sold into Egypt at the age of 17, died as a ruler of Egypt at the age of 110.

Joseph's father, Jacob, to whom all Jews in the world, to this day, owe allegiance, a cheater, whose name means looking out for number one, but after wrestling with God, forever crippled by God, his name was changed to Israel, Israel which means governed by God.

God gave Himself the glorified name, “Lord of Hosts”. Twice in the 46th Psalm, verses 7 and 11, identical, “The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge.” Selah. Note that the psalmist did not use Israel, God had to clean up Jacob. God help the man who has never been through darkness, who has never failed. God gives special attention to anyone who ”tempts” God with life, self choking, self drugging, self attempted suicide in an manner, at a time when most of the world's wealth is spent on healthcare. God help those who do not take care of their health, who do despise God, their family, their friends, that they would add to the horror story of life's survival, the sorrow of self inflicted death, the curse of thinking it a thrill. Advise your children, those with whom you come in contact, “messing around” with drugs, taunting fate that heaven is real, hell is hot.

Get Used to It

With every year of your life, you learn to accept God's ways not man's ways. Exactly 100 years ago today, a ship which the builder said God could not sink, the Titanic, went down in the icy waters of the north Atlantic. The ship hit an iceberg about the size of the Empire State Building, the captain so anxious to set a crossing record. 1500 souls went down to the bottom of the ocean with the ship. On July 28, 1945, a plane hit the Empire State Building in New York at 9:40 in the morning. On September 11, 2005 a plane hit the World Trade Center at 8:40 in the morning. Every day, somewhere, people die, about 250,000 each day but, God, in His infinite mercy, gives birth to 300,000 each and every day.

Don't try, you will never understand human nature. Every week I wash my car, knowing that it will get dirty again, and so it is with most, laundering our clothing, our bodies, knowing that it must be done again and again. Yet, sick people go to a doctor's office for help or to a hospital for help. Note that in these facilities there are always old magazines which sick people have turned the pages, often moistening their fingers from their sick mouths... magazines full of germs, waiting room chairs with arm rests full of germs.

I get ill when I go to a home where there is a toddler crawling around on the floor, most of the time, wall to wall carpet, harboring every germ one can imagine, straight from the street off soles of shoes. I get more ill in a restaurant where someone handling food also handles money at the cash register. Paper money is the dirtiest item known to man.

We become increasingly alarmed at the totalitarian controls placed on us by government. Five years ago it was a matter of water in the toilet, last year, a matter of strange light bulbs, this year, limitations on building permits. Some places, prohibiting single family homes... they take up too much space. Next will be programmable robots, such as used in industry in many countries and the health services in England. Get used to it, we have brought many of these things on ourselves. At a time when healthcare determines the spending of most dollars, (75% of all food intake from lack of nutrition) we could eat so much less if there were nutrition in the food, if there were less bacteria in our existence, if there were less sugar in everything we eat... sucrose, the excellent medium for growing every disease, including cancer.

Books could be written on healthy living and the common sense of individual and government controls pertaining to money spent in every area of life.

The secular antagonists of the world would have you believe that heaven and spiritual values are just figments of the imagination. For those of us who know without any doubt that we are a chosen, elected people, to serve a Sovereign God, we do not mind being called a peculiar people, a royal priesthood, a Holy nation. (1 Peter 2) We know that we serve a God of healing, (1 Peter 2:24, Isaiah 53) a God of peace, power, prosperity, who loves you whether you want Him to or not. He is also patient, waiting for you unbelievers to come to your senses.

The student of science, such as this writer, bewildered and besmirched by teachers and professors attempting to accommodate their religious and scientific beliefs, the BioLogos group... people attempting to reconcile God's Word with scientific principles.

We know that psychotropic drugs are a real problem, not only to the 47% of Americans who take them, but the military. Like vaccines, which we know for a fact are bringing on increased autism in children, pediatric cancer. Vaccines and drugs are bringing on increased chemical dependency in the military services. Did we have illegal drug problems on the streets until the legal drugs started in the schools? Naturally, children zapped with drugs are easier to control. Now you understand why Christian families who love their children go to the additional expense of home schooling or private Christian schooling. A frenzied-liberal taxing government, made up of bureaucrats, void of moral credentials, will continue to arrest “druggies” on the streets, continue expense of treatment and welfare care, get used to it. Perhaps, one day, you will vote for politicians-citizens with character.

This writer has traveled the world, seen the tragedy of the people of the world AND, God knows all about it. With the diversity of people, the most innocent suffer. Personally, I have never known an elected politician who was not in the business of government except to serve himself... he loves the power, prestige, profiteering. And again, my experience, I hope there are exceptions, but if a politician's mouth is moving, he is lying. The liberals finally hit the jackpot, won the big lottery, impossible to find any better than the one they have put in the White House. Without firing a shot, Satan rules, Satan thinks he has won.

There is a certain genius in Catholicism, confessing. It would be good if every person could GET USED TO confessing to one another, our actions, thoughts. We should never forget that whether we confess to one another or not, if we have a few brain cells still functioning, God knows all, is still in control. He is in control of the natural elements. Nuclear fission is elementary to Him, a Tsunami is just a whisper, earthquakes-tornadoes-floods, a fairy tale. And yet, the very hairs on your head are numbered. (Matthew 10:30) He hears the prayer of a small child, knows the name, exact DNA, of the aborted baby. To those of you who think you are so smart, so bright, beyond the reach of God. “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God.” (1 Corinthians 3:19) All the Creator of the world and everything in it ever asked, is trust. He knows who you are, where you are, Get Used to It.

Indifference

I communicate with those involved with denominational-church activity across the nation. The words always come back, we are just trying to hold our own. We know that there is a 0% growth in churches in Europe, that churches in the Scandinavian countries are drying up. Locally, everyone states that their congregations are mostly a “sea of white hair”. I ask you, is anyone concerned? Have churches, denominations just succumbed to the apathy of surrender to the sorcery of Satan? It is much like the republican-conservative politicians which CONCERNED patriotic Americans have sent to Washington. Obviously, in a state of mental anesthetic ism, paralytic actions, a stupor resulting from a desire for Satanic acceptance-popularity-cocktail party invitations, they have decided that morality and sorcery and political correctness is more important than righteousness and Holiness. Politicians, pastors, prelates, have decided on defeat. They seem perfectly content for Obama and his ilk to empty the treasury of our hard-earned tax dollars and strangle with increased regulation. Satan, his enablers, must delight in how easy has been the “gift”, “the end justifies the means”.

The Christian has been the “bulwark” explaining the genius of the American experience. I blame the pulpits for the loss of the future church. 70% of all young people reared by well-meaning parents, taking their youngsters to church, after leaving home for college or otherwise, leave the church. THE PULPITS HAVE PREACHED FEELING INSTEAD OF FAITH. Faith is a fact not a feeling. Young people want something solid, a faith to defend, faith through grace on which to hold... to cling in time of trouble-doubts-fears.

Before the foundation of the universe, the Sovereign God of the universe designed everything. We realize that we are ruled by imposters, pretenders, “jackals” of every stripe, every perversion, white house to the local courthouse in government. Satan's forces do not care if this once Christian nation is destroyed. There are so many liberal-communist-democrat, “demons”, and their fellow travelers who are just waiting to crawl around the rubble of our destruction. But, there is no excuse for God's people, even His elect, to give up so easily. Every academic tells me that students from the lower grades to college have just become indifferent... they just don't care.

In two gardens, the Garden of Eden and the Garden of Gethsemane, God fought the battle of indifference and won. Jesus Christ is the answer, not just His perfect life, not just His crucifixion, but the Power of His resurrection.

To show the Power of Jesus Christ, in His book, God took four chapters to describe the creation of the world. (Genesis 1-4) But, the tabernacle in the wilderness which represents Jesus Christ, He took 20chapters. (Exodus 25-45)

In the design of the tabernacle, the outer court was for activities. 2.5 million people crossed over the Jordan River. The males of the twelve tribes were continually offering sacrifices-burnt offerings. There must have been a steady line of animal slaughter, incense going up to God as a sacrificial offering. (so much blood in the Bible, because so much sin in the Bible) The outer court was a place of human activity. The inner court, “Holy of Holies”, the Ark of the Covenant a type of Christ, covered in pure gold, mercy seat at the top, man's relationship with God.

The modern day church, it's activities buildings with pool tables, ball courts, world-like activity of every type, thinking that bringing the world in the church will hold on to church people, instead of church people going into the world as was so masterfully and historically practiced for so many years. (the America’s christian church sent 90% of all missionaries out into the world) Christian young people “witnessed” pretenders on the pews, charade and masquerade in the pulpit and choir. Was there really a difference between the inner court and outer court? I can assure you, without fear of contradiction, that if you put ten rotten apples inside a barrel of good apples, you will soon have a barrel of rotten apples, measure micro tissue of cancer in a healthy body, you will soon have a dead cancerous body. There has been a lack of separation, good from the bad, holy from the unholy, chosen from the unchosen... a mixture of tares and wheat which has led young people reared in the church, young people reared with an appreciation of patriotism right down the slough of despondency and away from the absolutes of redemption by God and belief in the genuineness of our republic.

Search the world you will not find greater evidence of Christian belief and sacrifice than the mountains of Cappadocia-Turkey, ( I saw these places) where Christians hid and made lives for themselves, surviving for the Glory of God. Just think, hiding in holes in mountain sides, yet over time, making entire cities where they worship. There was nothing indifferent about them, and such is our heritage. Peter speaks of Cappadocia. “But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you” (1 Peter 1-25)

Silence of Time

Visiting the oldest geographical areas of the world such as the Great Pyramid at Giza, Egypt, dating 12000 BC. Close by, the Sphinx, dating 700BC. Egyptologists, geologists, historians, tell us that the Sphinx was at one time mostly covered with sand from the Sahara. Even today, archaeologists with their sophisticated instruments predict that there are cavern-sanctuaries underneath the Sphinx, yet to be explored. I went into the tomb of King Tut in the valley of the Kings. Archaeologist Howard Carter, the first to open the tomb, one of the few tombs which had not been robbed centuries before, was amazed at what he found. Most of the gold there now, displayed in the Egyptian museum. Significant, after thousands of years, germs still there which made members of his expedition very sick. Silence and time does not lessen our interest in those who built these great monuments to history, now for our study. Only when you visit Thebes-Luxor, see those great columns, realize the tools and knowledge at their disposal, at that time, do you gain a renewed spiritual dimension in your life.

As I have stated so many times, you must put flesh and blood on the people of history. When you do, our 21^st century “brilliance” dims.

Every word in God's book, there for a purpose.

God's book is the handbook straight from the manufacturer, in spite of those who hate God, hate His Book, there is no other place for them to go for every problem and discipline regarding life. Much to the chagrin of the Apostate deceivers, it is a racial Book, a sex book, almost entirely Jewish with Gentiles only as they affect the Jews. The modernists, communists, would not even, today, accept Darwin's book, because of it's very title including “Preservation of the Races”. Again, the modernists, even atheist theologians deny basic Christianity. Even to the extent that Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, describe abortion as “elective surgery”, further show their “spite” for God's Word by accepting the evils of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, gays and lesbians in pulpits. God always gives warning signals for the disaster of pagan-agnosticism along the way.

Such evil, God destroyed human kind in the great flood of Noah's day, 5000BC. Just from the eight souls God chose to save, a new, vibrant, civilization. God decided to try again, one of Noah-Seth's ancestry, Abraham, between 75 and 100 years of age, God called him, by faith, to leave all and travel 600 miles north to a land without a forwarding address. On the way, to rid Abraham of all thoughts of idol worship, his father, Terah, worshiper of idols, died. When Abraham's family arrived in their “promise land”, there was famine. Always, to the end of his life, he lived in tents. Even a face to face relationship with God, he picked up his tent and moved to Egypt. Sarah, over 65 years of age, was still considered a beautiful women and Abraham decided to lie about her marital status, that she was his sister, not his wife. Pharaoh, large harem, sharp eye for beautiful women, probably took Sarah into his harem. The crux came when a plague hit Egypt and Pharaoh learned that Sarah was married to Abraham. This “first Jew”, later to become the world's richest man, his wife, his possessions, including a hand maiden of Sarah, Hagar, were kicked out of Egypt by Pharaoh. Significant, the place of the world's most advanced civilization in the life of God's chosen. Later, Joseph brought his father Jacob to Pharaoh and Jacob blessed Pharaoh (Genesis 47:10)... the story of another famine, the never ending story of going down into Egypt and coming up out of Egypt.

Abraham returned to the place which God had directed and again pitched his tent between Bethel and the ruins of Canna. Of course, tottering along against God's wishes, Abraham's self-centered nephew, Lot. We know the story of Lot and Abraham's herd possessions, strife between herdsmen, Lot selecting the best land, future destruction of the cities of the plain and Abraham's continued involvement.

Significant to the 21^st century Christian, God's “safety-net” before the law of Moses, and, thank God, after the cross of Christ, lying, disobedience, generalized backsliding, God still loves us, His chosen, in spite of ourselves.

Abraham, like later Moses, face to face relationship with the God of the universe, the one who actually threw the millions of stars into space, must have thought, why did God direct me into a desolate land of famine? Even after God had told him to look in every direction, that he owned it all, even after Abraham walking north-south, east-west, “mine, mine, mine”. He knew the hardship, the testing, which accompanies, always, God's Sovereignty. “Forever, Blessed [is] the man whose strength [is] in thee; in whose heart [are] the ways [of them]. They go from strength to strength, [every one of them] in Zion appeareth before God.” (Psalm 84: 5,7)

I have said all of this to encourage the disabled, the disenfranchised, the depressed of this world, to spend time in the arena of silence, waiting, not working. It is more difficult to wait than to work in a world fraught with noise and activity, silence is your best therapy, in spite of failures, warts, listen for that still quiet voice... better than all the pills. The taking of medication for anxiety has increased 1700% in just five years. The sin of escape is easy for a season. “For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7)

Camouflage

Change my heart oh God,
Make it ever true.
Change my heart oh God,
May I be like You.

You are the potter,
I am the clay,
Mold me and make me,
This is what I pray.

-Vineyard

If you live long enough, you will be faced with questions from someone and you will search for an answer.

One young man challenged with every conceivable road block to successful living, said to me, “I did not ask to be born.”

The only answer I know, you are here and life is a complex adventure-challenge in an otherwise peaceful non-existence.

When the Creator of the universe, the Creator of all life, chose you, it was a blessing, usually camouflaged. Only God knows your potential. (He knows the ending from the beginning) Unlike live plants, lower animals, you are a very special creation, made in the image of God. The name Adam means man, and when God created Adam, he breathed into man the genetics needed to mystically perform physically and spiritually.

From an early age of training as a person, one must realize the Sovereignty of God. We did not choose our skin color, gender, innate or other abilities and potentials. God loves variety, “the spice of life”, and it is amazing what a life captured and captivated by God, regardless of physical appearance, warts of disability, cracks of individuality, can accomplish. The potter is responsible for the final product, the pottery does not determine anything.

Because of your ancestors, rebellion in the Garden of Eden, all human beings are born with a carnal nature. This is the free will which God gives us. Our earliest ancestors, before the great flood, Noah's day-5000 BC, even though born with a conscience, became so evil that God destroyed them all with water, except for one family. Noah's great grandson, Nimrod, and his cousins, with memories of the flood, decided to escape such by building a tower to heaven. God stopped this with the language barrier and spreading them. He called one man at the age of 100, to travel with his wife, 600 miles north, and start a new chosen nation of people to serve Him. In a series of laws, the first not at Sinai, the Jewish nation became God's “pets”. This nation, through slavery and otherwise, had to be trained. The Bible is the historical account of this people and how they came in contact with Gentiles, the other civilizations of the world. None of it was easy.

Born to this nation, God's only son, sent to die for the sins of all people, God showing His hatred for sin. The Bible gives the penalty for sin and the redemption, through Jesus Christ, God's son, eternal salvation. We have salvation by faith in the grace of God. Faith is about 90% courage. So, anyone given life must have the courage to live life, with all it's trials. We are told that if we are chosen, endure to the end, we will be saved and have eternal life. This is the challenge of life, and even though there are some who end their own life, most want to meet the challenge and enjoy life. God wants us to have an abundant life, (John 10:10) not abandoned life. When Jesus is our life, we are the light and salt of the world. Others, too many, live under a “specter” of camouflage. The “all seeing” eyes of God know His own, and although there are many tests, He cares for His own. (Psalm 37:25, often referred to as the relationship between a shepherd and his sheep, John 10:27)

For those who never lived, for those whose life was snuffed out in the mother's womb by the murdering abortionists, for those who died early in life before knowing the love of family-friends, and knew the challenges of living, this is God's business, and He will handle it. For us, survivors, winners of life's lottery, “we live, move, and have our being.” (Acts 17:28)

This writer, these last days, is concerned with God's chosen making preparations for survival with God's spirit within us, His Sovereign hand to guide us, we need to prepare for survival in these uncertain times... preparation with healthcare. (medicine needs, prescriptions, supplements, food storage, water storage) The world will “cry wolf,” hide under a camouflage of indifference, but God's children should prepare for life's physical needs to our natural end as we have already prepared spiritually. On several trips in Africa, African bush, animals with natural camouflage, you could barely distinguish them from their environment, they blended in. God wants His own to stand out, represent Him, in person, in purpose, and in preparation.

Betrayal

We live in a world of compromise, buying and selling, political intrigue between nations, even trying to “reason” with God on our own. Ours is an arbitration-type existence, persuasion, “influence-peddling”, even with God.

13,000 years ago, from the very beginning, He set certain rules-laws-standards. IT IS NOT OURS TO QUESTION, BUT TO OBEY. God is not neutral, only asks trust, He is BOSS, not joking, not persuadable.

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” (Romans 12:1,2) Romans 12, along with every other scripture-declaration in His book, is the principle by which He sought those for Himself... human beings chosen to live eternally with Him.

God is not joking. Every word in His book is important. “What manner of love that we should be called the children of God.” (1 John 3:1)

One lady in my church, one of the most committed, modest women I have ever known, when she died, was not taken to the funeral home. Her husband and children who loved her so much, knew her modesty, her privacy. The mortician embalmed her body for burial in the home with her daughter and sister present. Both in the Cameroons, and Uganda, Africa, I first encountered “strip searches” in airports. I will never forget the women boarding the plane, in shock, tears, their privacy having been totally violated by goons-pagans, having searched every orifice of their body. They were forced to submit in order to board the plane, these women would never let the plane leave without them, such a totally heathen country and the people in charge.

There has never been such a betrayal of the American people, the Christian psyche of privacy, as we now encounter at airports, and which is spreading to every area of American life. We are giving up all privacy in the guise of safety... babies, grandmothers, the sick and disabled, harassed, scanned, groped and abused in the excuse of safety. This writer, 8 round the world trips, (one trip, 48 flights) does not plan to ever board another airplane. The decent-Christian people of America should boycott all air transportation... bankrupt the airlines, until the “out of control” communist officials in Washington, change their policies.

Our forefathers, founders of this republic, then and now who wore the uniform of this country, would never believe that we could be so betrayed. It is the treason of indifference, the lackadaisical attitude of political-correctness, power-control in administration and congress, inciting youth in a direction of total non-confidence with government. Perhaps the greatest betrayal of productive-patriotic citizens, inequalities. Many of us have never known anything but hard work and hard times. From the time my ancestors landed in America, and to this present survivor-writer, we have worked hard in every way to make ourselves and our country a success.

It is not necessity but laziness that is the “mother of invention.” It is true that we have much laziness around us. I finally found a Mexican to paint some office buildings. Mario's cousin helped him. Mario said, ”He is so homesick, calls his family in Mexico every day.” My driver and I note a Mexican girl talking on her cell phone every morning when we go to McDonald’s for coffee. Last year 1.6 billion USD was spent to give the poor cell phones, and the government pays for their wireless phone calls. This is a hard pill for this blind veteran to swallow, a veteran who was never given a white cane by the government.

A television preacher said recently that once God has forgiven us our sins, past, present, future, we have no need to ask over and over for forgiveness. Since we continue to sin, have much to be thankful for, I believe God loves the interchange of His chosen with Him... asking for forgiveness, expressing thankfulness. In the prayer given his disciples, Jesus instructed “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.” (Matthew 6)

“Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.” (Romans 12:19) We know that God will care for His own, that He hates evil. But, I cannot help but believe that God wants us to bring, with prayer, His vengeance down on the evils in government, TSA, IRS, Federal Reserve, etc. We must believe that God will have His way with the purveyors, defenders, of abortion, homosexuality, despisers of privacy. This writer has few associates, relatives, family members, even pretenders, still in Christian churches, who support and defend liberal, democrat party beliefs who still like Him. That is alright , they have betrayed this veteran, his country, his Christianity. Betrayal is psychological stripping for an evil cause.

Many of us have known betrayal in divorce, many of us have know n betrayal in family disputes, particularly estate settlement. Most veterans have known betrayal by VA and Government. The last time this totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected, medical officer, veteran of the Korean conflict, went to a veterans hospital, the doctor examining me said, “your records have been flagged, that you are a trouble maker, that you write letters to congresspeople.” Would you consider this betrayal? Would you consider my driver and myself finding two police officers leaving my house having broken in the back door and having searched my house, a betrayal? Such betrayal is nothing compared to our blessed Lord. Judas, saw HIM heal the sick, raise the dead, feed thousands with a small boy's lunch. God knows betrayal and is capable of handling such. The verse of scripture, in God's book, exactly mid way the Bible, [It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man. (Psalm 118:8)

Victory, ”He Is Risen Indeed”

My son, foreign missionary, preacher of righteousness, seminary professor called, I said, “I am drenched with thoughts of Easter.” My saintly mother who knew little theology, but committed to Christ, wanted her children to celebrate the greatest events in the history of the world, Christmas and Easter. So little money, but she always made arrangements for us to have a large chocolate egg with our name on it. The theologian said, the twelve greatest words in the English language, “Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so.”

Forget the “theatrics” for the word Easter. We all know about that, far more important than the day of Christ's resurrection is celebrated, His resurrection from the dead. He lived a perfect life, died the sacrificial-atonement death on the cross, but our faith would be in vain (1 Corinthians 15) if He had not risen from the dead. “He Is Risen”, (Matthew 28) We are close to Jesus until the last.

Modern Christians lived in a delusion land, almost as pretentious as Disney land. They truly believe that God will measure up to their expectations. Their Christianity is measured by dos and don'ts, a scale of works, pluses and minuses, the pluses must exceed the minuses in their theology equation. If you ask one of these “church members” if they are saved, you get the words, “I'm doing the best I can”, I don't drink alcohol, gamble, sleep around. Some pretenders ask why there is so much blood in the Bible, because there is so much sin. Life is in the blood. (Leviticus 17:11) and the blood of animals atoned for sin before the cross. God is serious business, is not messing around with you. His own son, faithful to his father, shed his own blood on the cross, the wrath of God, sufficient for the sin of the world.

Twice before, two earthly fathers had known such sacrifice. Jepthah, fulfilling a vow to God. Abraham, fulfilling a vow to God. (Abraham, his son of promise, Isaac, carrying wood on his back up Mount Moriah to be a burned offering to God. 2000 years later, Jesus, carrying a part of a cross up the same Mount Moriah, God making a change, giving Abraham an animal for sacrifice, God sacrificing His own son, sin of the world.)

“To write the love of God above
Would drain the ocean dry
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky”

Hymn: Love of God

There is no intimacy, no love, like the “inner court” security found in the mind of a human being, transformed-redeemed by the salvation experience with God through Jesus Christ. Almost mystically, just as God breathed His genetics into Adam, a new creature... your senses are never the same again, seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, tasting. You are content to spend your life a living epistle forever grateful to be chosen, separated from the world. It is not necessary to beg you to attend a service where you worship God, where you give of your means to God, serve God by serving others. You can hardly wait to remember His sacrifice for you at His table, the cup symbolic of His shed blood, covering your sins. The loaf, symbolic of His healing you for every sickness.

Even after salvation, you still have a body, you are still influenced by the world, flesh, devil. It is only by presenting your body as a living sacrifice transformed, that you can know the serenity of Easter. (Romans 12:1-2) The most miserable of those around us who have heard the Word, pretending, attempting to conform, both to the church and the world. It is a losing proposition, once you have known the truth, that will set you free. (John 8:32, 17:17) Jesus is the truth. Truth , compromised with evil, the greatest sin of all. Victory is in overcoming the world.