COALESCING

It has taken a long time for me to understand the unintended consequences involved in my life. Perhaps best described in the last hymn William Cowper wrote, after he had failed in his suicide attempt, “God moves in mysterious ways, His wonders to perform...”

This writer has written about the incident previously, totally blind, my getting confused in a New York hotel and getting into the wrong meeting room. Later, actually meeting the American Chairman of the Communist Party, Gus Hall who died in 2000. Hall told me, just as another Communist told me in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, another in Beijing, China, that America would become Communist.

The only thing hindering its rapid march to Communism, PATRIOTS IN AMERICA MUST BE SUBJUGATED. We thought it could not happen in Europe, but it did.

This writer heard Eleanor Roosevelt state that America almost turned Communist during The Great Depression. FDR, his Communist Vice President, Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins, such writers as Horace Greeley – Allen Bovey, were intent, even Karl Marx and such early communist as Victoria Woodhull, Frederick Forde promoted such. The coalescing started in Europe with an underpinning of socialism such as we find in Nordic countries, Balkans, even England (the third largest employer in the world next to the Chinese army, India's travel service, England's health service). The coalescing underpinning very much imitated by the Mormon and other churches, fully demonstrated by Free Masons. The Masonic Order, having a potential of religiosity – fraternalism – patriotism made early inroads throughout America. This writer was astounded to find Masonic emblems on the headstones of his ancestors. Satan, Prince of the Air, the most beautiful angel of the 1/3 that God kicked out of Heaven has had plenty of time for his satanic system to coalesce. Now, the time is getting tight, he knows his days are numbered. Think how magically he placed a Marxist - Mason in the White House (Obama, member of the Prince Hall Black Masonic Freemasons).

The Civil War was not fought about slavery, there were more slaves in the north than the south (most of the world's slave ships were built in North America). The first slaves arrived in Portugal in

1425. Slavery was rampant in Europe, and still is (reportedly Malaga, Canary Islands and other Mediterranean coast lines are filled with graves of those who died, from Africa, attempting to reach Europe). Events in early American history pointing toward taxation, warfare. Warfare has a great uniting effect. We think that in times of war, terrorism, patriotism will save us. Are we stupid enough to think that the $82 billion spent on Homeland Security, radiation in airports, a total lack of morality (criminal element) in both parties will make a difference? Both parties are tarred with the same stick. The behind the curtain, underground, coalescing of evil is almost complete...except for a few patriots who have not yet bowed to the alter of Satan (Tea Party members, real Christians). The Rockefeller – Rothschild dynasties have united. The first objective of “one world order”, the elimination of God from our thinking. With all communist, welfare recipients, receivers of grants whether science or arts, who needs God when you have one world government?

President Bush (41) first used “new world order” addressing Congress in 1991. Pope John Paul II, before his death, said, 2004, “"By the end of this decade we will live under the first One World Government that has ever existed in the society of nations... a government with absolute authority to decide the basic issues of survival. One world government is inevitable." The world's largest Christian denomination has succumb to Satan.

Now, much to my sorrow (lifelong Baptist from this nations earliest Baptist family, Morristown, New Jersey), we find that the world's largest Baptist denomination, Southern Baptist, are installing a black president. Perhaps he has hid his black liberation theology but just as so many modernest, socialist hyperbolic beliefs have emerged in this once solid denomination (lesbian preachers, women deacons, drums and drama) Satan is on the job, we are just sitting ducks. He was awake while you slept, taking aim at you and everything you thought you believed. With Baptists, as with most of the 41,000 denominations, circumstances determine our faith rather than our faith determining our circumstances. (O taste and see that the LORD [is] good: blessed [is] the man [that] trusteth in him. Psalms 34:8).

After 2000 years on this side of the cross, remember, the cross on which our blessed Lord died had a horizontal as well as vertical hewed tree direction. We who are chosen, with wonderful expectation, leaving vertically BUT, while here must use every prayer and sacrifice to destroy the ability of Satan to coalesce. We do what we do because we believe what we believe. BELIEVE that He that is in us is greater than he that is in the world (1 John 4:4).

FULL PRISONS, MANY GUARDS

A debt that cannot be paid, will not be paid. No computer has yet determined, derivatives, debts both public and private, just the dire condition of the world's economy. This we know, for a long time hard working, tax paying, God fearing citizens...not in jail, not on welfare, producers, have been the collateral (security for payment of a loan) loans and national debt of this nation. The American public has been in bondage, slavery for most of my lifetime. When the politician learned that he could buy votes by giving away tax dollars, when he learned that he could take care of himself, his family, his friends, by keeping his hands in the treasury, we saw public offices purchased for tremendous prices. Obama paid $1 billion the last time.

The American people are just that dumb. In bondage themselves, their hard earned wages subtracted from their pay ahead of time to buy entitlements and even “love affairs” (John Edwards, Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford) and the state controls (prostitutes) news media just brushes it all off like JP Morgan, M F Global “no big deal”.

I well remember the first building and loan associations. They were in every town of any size. Hard working – responsible families could apply for a loan with which to buy a home. Each S&L had a board of directors who approved such loans assured that the borrower could make the payments.

In all banking activity, there has always been moral imputation – compunction between the lender and borrower. The word is integrity.

Beginning in my lifetime, mostly around military installations where there was a need of housing for workers, government subsidized housing...mostly like chicken coops, all same floor plan, all with the essentials of kitchen, bath, two – three bedrooms, housing easily affordable by workers or even military personnel.

These were not good enough and of course the greed of “slum lords”, Section 8 housing, wherein any house with certain equipment could be rented to low income families, subsidized by government. But, again, this was not good enough for such liberals as Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. Maxine Waters friend, Franklin Rains, and others pilfering and plotting with their Mafia cousins, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, started putting everyone, regardless of anything, in any type house. Just imagine a couple with a combined income of $30,000 moving into a $600,000 home...many without jobs, savings, little more than paupers. This is where we found ourselves, after the fiasco of the dot-com bubble, Obama's bail out bubble, the insanity of a real estate bubble. Bankers have always been an elitist group caring more for their titles – their portraits in the boardroom, than the balance sheet, just a small matter of a small profit, a positive bottom line.

In Iceland, people in houses underwater (money owed on house more than the house is worth) just told the European bankers to whom the money was owed, “We will not pay you”. The same thing will happen in Greece where the entire country is underwater, small population (8-10 million) owing more than they make. The European bankers have already taken a 50% haircut, they will probably lose more than 50%, perhaps 90 or 100%. This is probably what will happen in America. Just imagine a city of empty houses, jails filled with people, those citizens not in jail, guards for the jail. In every banking activity, there must be a moral obligation between the lender and the borrower. The lender must have the moral obligation of knowing that the borrower has the ability to pay. Otherwise, we are operating in a system of fraud.

We know that government is a cauldron of rotten fraud. The only source of money for government, taxes from the private sector, it has always been voluntary. Patriotic citizens voluntarily paying their taxes. Stupid citizens finally realize that they are the pawns – slaves of government. Naturally the government would rather have you stay in your own house, particularly if you have paid for it, so they can tax it. They prefer for you to manicure your grounds, make the repairs, take all the risks.

This writer has traveled the world, every continent. If you want to see ugliness in housing, ugliness in landscaping, mere survival in a home, look at the communist system of government – housing. There is no pride in making a house a home, you see no flower beds, window treatments. If animal survival is what you want, then continue to vote for your Democrat/Communist candidates such as Obama and his ilk.

DESTINY

In describing God's magnificent plan and design for the universe, the world and everything in it, the most difficult matter for the mind to comprehend, and us to explain...those who have had a diet of nonsense via television, the fact that God had designed everything ahead of time. You see, when you and I stand and watch a parade, we only know what has passed in front of us. God knows what is yet to come.

When God starts something He always knows the ending. The sophisticates of this world, academic elitist, scientists, those who think they are so smart, do not understand that God is no respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). To those who are not winners of “life's lottery”, no hierarchy ancestry, do not have “blue blood” in your veins, whose appearance anywhere has never caused any excitement...no outstanding talent – looks – IQ, God's promises are just as much yours as anyone's. Yours is a matter of courage, God gives us that courage.

It was so obvious to me and I should have expected it because I had known “self-appointed”, “the big I's and little U's” of this world previously at the school houses, state houses and even church houses of this world. The politician possesses that “suckling” personality until he gets your vote. The old families in the church will let you know real quick who has always run things. Young lawyers will quiver and quake at the very sound of the names from old firms. The world is full of people who think that God has given a special “dispensation” (divine order) of destiny to them. It was never so obvious as when I returned from the military to the county in which I had grown up, where my family had lived for many generations. Although I was totally blind in one eye, service connected, disabled veteran, I still felt that I had some good years for my health care practice.

One of the first things, finding office space. I went to the Wachovia, now Wells Fargo, bank and inquired about space available in a facility. Now remember, I was a field grade medical officer, 8 year graduate of two universities, had endured every investigation. I will never forget the sour, puny banker by the name of Lloyd Fonville, who said to his assistant, “Have you investigated this man?”. I said, “Sir, I have the money to pay the rent, make any improvements for my equipment. I can give you a long list of citizens, in this county, who know me, my family. The Chief of Detectives here is my mother's cousin and uncle a nearby county Sheriff, another uncle Secret Service with the President. I have no motives except to serve your city as I have served your country.” The fact that I was a decorated officer did not seem to impress him at all. He was a big “I” and I was a little “me”.

I had already been selected as NC's JC, Young Man of the Year, a deacon in the First Baptist Church, active in many clubs except the NAACP. It was the same, almost identical attitude, when I applied for my first loan to buy a house. Since his family are still alive and decent people I will not describe the attitude of the President of the local building and loan. Very much the same words (had I been investigated). This seems to be the rule rather than the exception for people who for some reason get big jobs. Never, I repeat, never, let small people dampen your attitude for courage and success. You are the child of a King, joint-heir with the Creator of the universe. You have a DESTINY which the average mind cannot comprehend.

Members of the human race, members of your own family, people you have known your entire life, want you to be a PEDDLER OF GUILT. I have yet to meet a perfect person. We all carry around baggage of past actions. When God forgives, He forgets. ( And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Hebrews 10:17). God has reminded me many times that He has forgiven my sins but does not let me forget because if I forget my rotten sin I will forget many other things that I should remember. One thing you can be sure of, you can write it in stone, those who should support you, your courage, your attitude towards successful living, will never let you forget your past mistakes. Be thankful that God forgives our trespasses both known and unknown.

No matter what your transgressions, always remember Saul of Tarsus who, on that 150-mile road from Jerusalem to Damascus, became the Apostle Paul, writer of most of the New Testament. It would be difficult to find one hump of dirt on earth where one of his epistles is not read every day. He did not fall in love with jails, beatings, ship wrecks, even on Malta there was probably not another snake within 100 miles, one bit him. Thrown into a cistern – prison 19' below the ground, he wrote, inspired by God, the scripture of the church. At one time, a band sworn not to eat or drink until they had killed him (But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee. Acts 23:21).

Perhaps this great Christian did not accomplish everything of his destiny but he wrote to Timothy “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.” (2 Timothy 4:7). 90% of faith is just raw courage. Do we have the courage to pursue our destiny?

Unio Cum Christo

Union with Christ means a life of prayer and sacrifice. So many church people, the halfway land between Christ and Satan, think they are capable of Olympics when they can not even walk the walk of faith. There is no neutral territory. God's church has been compromised and even destroyed by those who think their kindness to satanic forces will result in Satan's conversion and repentance. Satan is smarter than you are, knows more scripture than you do, knows as a fact, up front, the sovereignty of God.

I may not be right, but I want my church to be right. I may not be right, but I want my pastor to be right. Most churches and pastors have accepted a religion of materialism manipulating circumstances to accommodate faith instead of depending on faith to determine circumstances. We think that God is impressed with pledge cards, yard sales at the church house. There is no doubt or fear about His plans for everything. He did not waste words (Psalm 119:89), His word is forever settled, it does not matter what you think.

Get braced for what will happen next. Just as God did not “mess around” with the children of Israel forever, they would have desired that He make them humble in the promised land of milk and honey, He humbled them in the wilderness and then killed them, allowed their children to enter the promised land, because their parents hated Him and had so many fears about the promised land. (But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised. Numbers 14:31).

There has never been a nation so blessed as America, protection by great ocean shorelines. In no nation on earth will you find greater natural resources, fertile land, seasons of food production. Our ancestors, leaders of western civilization and even the migrants from other cultures found unmatched opportunity on the banks of great rivers, within sheltered bays great sources of commerce. Even the intelligentsia of Europe fades in comparison to the academic universities – colleges – research facilities of America. While basking in this wealth of financial and commercial opportunity there was still time to develop the arts, theater, music. This writer has traveled the world, everywhere, every great hotel, music hall you hear American music. American English is the spoken language of the world whether the control tower or banking giants. Surely, surely, we will not allow the satanic forces of Marxism such as the majority of our fellow citizens have placed in power, White House, State Houses and even court houses, to rob us of our gargantuan successes with the pilfering satanic mediocrity of same sex marriage, homosexual agenda and the puny bubbles of illegal aliens and false religions. Surely Americans will realize what the pilfering and petting of our military through the homosexual agenda has done to the world's greatest military power. Most of us cannot believe that a land of opportunity – responsibility will succumb so easily to the satanic forces of populism and political correctness. One of the world's greatest documents, the Constitution of the United States of America is more than just a piece of paper. The great churches, cathedrals, campuses, commercial complexes were built on a foundation of integrity. God fearing, hardworking, tax paying, people of every culture, citizens of every skin color, fought the good fight, lived through the fright of frugality and the forfeiture of comfort to get us this far. I cannot believe we will give it all up so easily.

Up and through World War II, American warriors were buried on foreign soil, 126,000 are buried in foreign cemeteries, in the soil of a foreign country, wrapped only in the flag which they defended. In the 624 acre Arlington National Cemetery, once the home of warrior General Robert E. Lee, 250,000 are buried (the government owns this great Curtis – Lee land because Mrs. Curtis was unable to pay the $92.00 tax owed to the government). This beautiful repose of so many, the constant changing of the guards at the Tomb of the Unknown, the real prayers in churches large and small, like King David's “Mighty Men of Valor” will keep those totally committed to our country and our way of life deep in the throes of prayer and sacrifice – Unio Cum Christo.

HAYLOFT

O beautiful for patriot dream

That sees beyond the years

Thine alabaster cities gleam

Undimmed by human tears!

America! America!

God shed His grace on thee

And crown thy good with brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

- American The Beautiful, by Katharine Lee Bates

Katharine Lee Bates wrote the hymn America The Beautiful while standing at Pike's Peak looking across the Rocky Mountains. Born in 1859, the same year as my great-grandfather, she had graduated and taught at Wellesley College. Perhaps no hymn about America better describes the patriotic fervor which most of us feel. We have ALL put God on trial when we ourselves should be on trial. This writer believes life is such an uneven playing field, some of our fellow man so blessed with ancestry, wealth, mental ability, looks, a total lack of flaws outwardly and inwardly. One of the first things we must get straight in our mind, LIFE IS NOT FAIR. The very worst time in human civilization, a time of persecution – decadence was when God Himself, walked on this earth. Jesus submitted to the insults of mankind when He could have with just a thought – word, just as when the world was formed, have wiped out every enemy. Across the brook Kidron, on the Mount of Olives, when Judas (His paid betrayer) came along with troops and religionists to bring Him to “their” justice, He tells us Himself that He could have brought down twelve legions of angels. Just as one angel snuffed out the lies of 184,000, soldiers of Sana Cribs Syrian army, outside the walls of Jerusalem.

I repeat, this has been the greatest “failure” of my commitment. Even today, this totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected, medical officer of the Korean conflict stands in disdain looking at the “easy chair” patriots of political privilege. Every holiday these political partisans, those in places of “entitlement”, prestige because of who they know, not what they know, vacation while the “survivalists” of disenfranchisement work.

On the farm where I was raised, my father before me, we never saw a government – law enforcement – social services vehicle. My father said he had never known a sheriff's department vehicle to pass on the road. The only time we ever saw the Sheriff was at a big funeral where he could get out and pretend to direct traffic thinking those poor, ignorant people would vote for him. And so it goes. The manager of the local liquor store in this town, retired with $16,000 a month retirement. A chief of police, West Point, New York, living next to me, retired with $100,000 per year. Books have been written about such inequities, federal – state – local.

This type thing burned my conscience as a young man, having witnessed the inequities at our state university, haven for the state's elitist. At least fortunate whites could attend. Not the sons and daughters of hardworking, tax paying, God fearing black citizens. On the road, the farm on which I was reared, a dirt road without electric or telephone lines, as an example, one family to which was born a genetically crippled child...even as a teenager, a total baby...diapers, etc. Mrs. Mayo went to the church, her husband would take her there and come back for her, but God being on trial, no one else in the family ever believed in God because of what they saw in this one child. Further down the road another family, the Hooks, tenants, only the mother went to church, the father worked constantly. But, he did prepare a son for college and this PhD son died recently. Further down the road, a black family, the Blackmans, they could get no credit from the bank, the bank envious - anxious for their farm. Their children, living in the north, made all financial arrangements for their parents. Further down the road, a very poor family with small children, the Bass', totally destitute with disease. As a child would die, the father would put the body in a “fish box” (a box in which fish, in ice, were brought from a market in town to the local country store) and bury the child. Another family, the Broughtons, shack back in the woods, boys all marked by beatings from a drunkard father.

My young, questioning mind, nothing but inequalities, parents – grandparents – great-grandparents, frugal living, always depending upon God, and in my mind never getting back very much from God. What is the use in living? With a plow line, I planned to hang myself from the hayloft but then, God told me in no uncertain terms the grief this would bring to my mother.

Just think what would have happened if I had done such a stupid thing. God had chosen me for better things, wanted me to travel the world, give life to an outstanding son and outstanding grandsons, healthcare to many people. Before the foundation of the world, as unworthy of His grace, through faith He saw me as a speaker, writer, giver of time, talent, treasure to His magnificent work.

I am told that barn is still on the farm, the hayloft is still there. Even from the gouging heathen, satanic forces who rule this world, we who are His, who wear the whole armor of God (Eph. 6) must have a vertex of memory to remind us of what life is all about...a hay loft.

PERNICIOUS

Pernicious is not a common word in most vocabularies, IT SHOULD BE. In medicine we refer to pernicious anemia, subtle malnutrition of tissue. Anything pernicious is insidious...slow...harmful...ruinous, evil, often fatal. In my lifetime, I have seen a pernicious lackadaisical attitude toward life take over almost totally. The most pernicious thought to invade the mind of mankind, why would creations of God CHOOSE evil instead of good? Lies instead of truth? Sickness instead of health? And yet, we see this happening every day of our lives...often slow, subtle, addictive before we realize what is happening.

We know better. We know that Satan and 1/3 of the angels in Heaven were kicked out of Heaven, gained possession of the earth, because of their pride and disobedience. Lying, cheating, stealing, misquoting scripture, temptation, it all started in the Garden of Eden with the first human beings.

God gave them, and us, “free will”, the right to choose who they would follow. “Choose this day who you will serve” (Joshua 24:15). Surely, any intelligent person would think that one would choose light instead of darkness (John 3:19), health instead of sickness (Isaiah 53), the righteousness of Christ instead of the debacle of Satan (Hebrews 1:3).

One saying he does not believe in God is like the mosquito on the railroad track, rapidly approaching locomotive, the mosquito shouting, “I don't believe in you”.

One can only imagine the apostle Paul on the Acropolis, Athens, Mars Hill, talking to the philosophers of his day. It would be like you trying to convince today's academics, scientists about the reality of comic book characters.

The Christian church has been captivated by the “tares” of the world, a pseudo religionist, who want to hang on to the world and become a follower of Christ in a one-hour a week “so-called” worship experience. Christianity is a 24-hour a day life existence. Young people leave the church because, from the pulpit and the pew, they have been taught feeling not faith. Faith is a fact. Faith is a constant verb, constant action in everything you do (action based on belief sustained by confidence).

When ¼ of all babies are killed before birth (abortion), when 52% of all black babies are aborted, when, in direct conflict with God's word, even church goers support such heresy as same sex marriage, homosexuals in the pulpits, the infiltration of our military services with homosexuals, we can know, without a shadow of doubt, pernicious decadence has taken over.

God, who made the world and everything in it, in the image of Himself and his Son, desired fellowship with a group of people with whom they could spend eternity. God is omnipotent, omniscient, sovereign and perhaps He knew just how evil human beings could become. So, with the exception of 8 souls, Noah and his family and the animals he chose to save, He killed them all in the Great Flood around 5000bc. Next, He put all under law with the blessings and curses of keeping and not keeping the law (Deuteronomy 28). The Old Testament gives us the history of His chosen nation, the Jews. The Bible is mostly a history of one people, the Jews and the effect on gentiles, the rest of us as we effect the Jews. God Himself, came to earth to live the perfect life. Thirteen times in the world's greatest sermon, The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 6), the God-man, Jesus Christ said, “Ye have heard but I say to you.” Jesus preached Himself but, His perfect life, perfect words, perfect atonement would mean nothing without His perfect resurrection from the dead...wherein, through grace, by faith, we are saved to spend eternity with Him. Most evil doers, those who choose not to believe, do not think they will go to Hell, that some belief – work system will save them. The tragedy, many who fill church pews are under the same misconception...the most pernicious lie Satan has ever produced. The average church goer believes they can hold on to the world with one hand, the church with the other. That they can act like the world, dress like the world, enjoy the same activities of the world and still call themselves “Christ-like”. (He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. 3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. 4. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Psalm 91:1-4).

Faith has been pictured – described as the safety – protection found under a mother bird's wing or cleft in a rock. Christians will never know the blessedness of being chosen by God. We condemn other religious beliefs but the Muslims do not abort their babies, put addictive substances into their bodies. Christians have always put God on trial, God has us on trial. Jesus was a good, wise teacher, fulfilled the law, lived a perfect life. His faith in going to the cross, raised from the dead, ascending into Heaven, fulfilling every promise concerning the wrath of God, did not include our perniciousness.

MEMORIAL DAY, 2012

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away.

You know the nearer your destination,

The more you're slip sliding away.

- Simon and Garfunkel

First observed in 1868, first called Decoration Day, still to this day a day to remember. This totally blind, 100% disabled, service connected, medical officer veteran of the Korean Era, in honor of those much better, who never came back, wear's his Veteran's cap with Medical Caduceus, Field Officer rank. An employee, long ago, stole all of my ribbons and other memorabilia. Do we really remember? Would those who never came home recognize the country for which they died? Would our ancestors, those who went to the church house, school house, court house carrying their Bibles as well as their muskets, recognize this nation?

The Muslim world and indeed, many of the Asian religions, call America “Great Satan”. Perhaps there is some reason, we have plastered the world with pornography, promoted homosexuality, abortion and involved ourselves in many useless wars. Of course, communist promote such but what do you expect from Godless people? This writer has stood in the great Philippine cemetery where 18,000 Americans are buried. I was at the 25^th anniversary of the Normandy Invasion, the cemetery there. On this Memorial Day, as every day, I think more tribute should be paid to the mothers and fathers who gave birth to those who wore the uniform of our country.

I have here in this room, where I dictate this, the iron fireplace cooking pot used by my ancestors when they first came over from England, their only way of cooking food. I certainly could not save the antiquarian relics of the farm on which I was reared but I have never forgotten the plows, mules, other relics of the hard life, the life they endured, and from which this nation of excessive prosperity has matured.

In my lifetime, a totally different nation. One needs to deprogram students from the public schools because of the “trash” taught there. There has never been a doubt in my mind that God had His mighty hand on this nation. From 1799 until 1892 even the Supreme Court declared this a Christian nation. The 20^th century witnessed the decline of America. (“Therefore, I am for socialism, disarmament and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself as an instrument of violence and compulsion. I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class and sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal. - Roger Baldwin, 1928). Roger Baldwin headed the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) until 1950. FDR's Vice President was Henry Wallace, until his death, an avowed communist. His Chief of Staff, Harry Hopkins, was an avowed communist. This month we were told that there are 81 communists in the House of Representatives of The United States of America. A coalition in the Democrat party of the ACLU and its enslaved, unions, black liberation theology, have now installed in the White House a Marxist president, enough of these people to win any election. Our ancestors, real Christian preachers, those who died on the battlefield would never recognize a country of “political correctness”, state controlled news media, “don't ask, don't tell” homosexuality in the military, same sex marriage and the “gay agenda” constantly promoted every day of one's life.

Ours is a nation of psychopaths, thieves both on Wall Street and K-Street. Billions of dollars can disappear, as with JP Morgan, ex-Senator – Governor Corzine and the official word, spin is “no big deal”.

For 50 years billions of tax dollars, foundation grants, gifts from every direction, expended to universities and other research institutions for cancer research. We know no more about cancer now than 50 years ago – institutionalized incompetence. Now if you want to see a real economic depression, take away all the cancer funds for treatment and research.

This writer has traveled the world, jumped through ever hoop, paid every price, adhered to every requirement to enter AND respect every country. Yet, our borders flooded by immigrants with only one thing in mind, a HANDOUT. The illegal immigrant, from God knows where, crossing any border, free access to everything, receives more largess from the tax payer than the disabled veteran. The enemies of our nation have infiltrated everything. Our world is rapidly becoming just one big Greece.

This writer, patient in VA Hospital, Durham, NC, because of better treatment facilities at Duke Hospital, directly across the street, room on second floor of eye center, from Korea, then Vietnam, I was still in treatment. Protestors had encircled the Veteran's facility. A black nurse came in my room, said to this blind, veteran officer, in bed, “I despise Veterans”. She then spat on me. This, like so many other things in my life, I gave to God. He has told us, and this includes Veterans on this Memorial Day, I will never leave thee or forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5).

FIG LEAVES

When this passing world is done,

When has set yon glowing sun,

When we stand with Christ in His glory,

Looking o'er life's finished story,

Then, Lord, shall I fully know -

Not till then - how much I owe

- Robert Murray McCheyne

Socrates said, “Wisdom begins with wonder.” When will it occur to the human being, believers know this, the others do not matter, that we ALL stand before God completely naked. Naked are those homosexuals who have come out of the closet including President Obama. Naked are the politicians and their empty promises. Naked are the preachers who just hand out fig leaves. Precious is the thought that the blood of Jesus Christ covers those who believe on Him and His righteousness by grace, through faith is what God sees as He looks at those chosen to spend eternity with He and His son.

Each time I was in the Afghanistan and Pakistan regions, saw a camel train coming through Khyber Pass, the goat herders, the standing Buddhas at Banyan, in the mountainside, the British writer Rudyard Kipling’s words, there so many years ago, came to me, “Nothing is ever settled until it is settled right”. Do we actually think we are settling anything when grown men, far away from the action, like playing video games, from drones dropped bombs, drop bombs on people who do not understand anything about warfare. Ten years later, why are we there...considering the time, treasure, talent of our own forces to say nothing of the pitiful conditions left.

You are not supposed to photograph when you are at the immigration border of two countries. I had a very small camera hidden in my hand, photographed barefoot children on ice, parents carrying all of their belongings on sacks in their backs. These are the people we are bombing.

Your writer is a totally blind, 100% disabled, medical officer veteran of the Korean conflict. There was a time when warfare was objective, had compassion. The 126,000 buried, wrapped only in a flag, in many overseas cemeteries...those frozen bodies stacked like cord wood in Korea all believed in the integrity of America.

The earliest Christian missionaries to Africa landed on the Gold Coast (West Coast of Africa, Sierra Leone, etc.). Malaria fever was so epidemic, most lived a few days...often carried directly from the ship to the cemetery. Today, after years of scientific discovery, “wealth of nations”, three thousand still die of Malaria every day. Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood were not the first eugenicist (people who believe in limiting populations). Sanger called people of color, “weeds”. John D. Rockefeller and John Foster Dulles traveled the world pointing out how the poor and disenfranchised should be exterminated. Instead of spending their money to eradicate mosquitoes, give the 80% of the world's population who never have fresh water a better life, such billionaires as Bill Gates – Warren Buffet and others, through the sterility of GMO corn (corn the most used grain), through sterility genetic factors in corn, and other methods are trying to limit population growth.

Another blind human being, remarkable woman, writer of 3,000 hymns, Fanny Crosby wrote, “Down in the human heart, crushed by the tempter, Feelings lie buried that grace can restore; Touched by a loving heart, wakened by kindness, Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.”, Fanny Crosby, Rescue The Perishing.

Be careful that your heart does not become drowsy, dreary in the daily challenge of living in this depraved world. The simplicity of Christianity, God seeking, God finding. In the Garden of Eden, The first lie, “You will not surely die” (And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. Gen 3:4). Most relatives and people I know do not think they will ever die. The mortality rate is still 100%. You will need more than fig leaves for covering. Turn everything over to Jesus Christ...problems, sicknesses, disability, even blindness. Legalism in the Old Testament reduced God down to our size. Jesus, by grace through faith (faith is fact, not feeling) is the imputation of God in us, His armor (Eph 6) not fig leaves for our protection as we face life.

JUBILEE

On one of this writer's several trips through Africa, in Kenya, I stayed at the world famous Treetops Hotel. A hotel with 50 rooms built in the trees, and since 1932 has been a place where people can watch wild animals come to watering holes and places for food. I have also stayed at Tiger Tops in India. You just never know what type animals will appear.

Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Phillip, were at Treetops in 1952 when she learned her father, King George VI had died and she was the ruling monarch of the United Kingdom. A kingdom encircling the earth...Canada, Australia, India, etc.

This is the Queen's jubilee year, 50 years as Queen of England. Last week ten other crowned heads celebrated with her at Windsor Castle. This writer was at Windsor, Edinburgh but never at Buckingham. Buckingham Palace has 175 rooms, 70 bathrooms, a staff comprising a small army for one 86 year old woman and 90 year old man.

The word jubilee does not appear in the Bible but we know that there was a 50 year celebration, a time when all debts were forgiven (Leviticus 25:8-55). Just as the land was supposed to lie fallow every seven years, Sabbath for the land, so debts were forgiven as a Sabbath and perhaps this was God's action when the 650,000 captives were taken to Babylon for seventy years. Perhaps some significance when Nehemiah returned with 50,000 to rebuild the temple.

God does not waste words. You can depend on His promises, provisions, laws of conduct.

Do not depend on Joel Osteen's “study bible”. Poor Joel is just an entertainer, tickling the ears of thousands who want a cafeteria religion where they can pick and choose the things they want to believe. (The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up. Matthew 4:16) Only those who have walked in darkness, even dead, know the joy and brightness of the light of Christ. Champion boxer George Foreman said, “When I was born again I felt I had been raised from the dead.” We know that the unsaved prefer darkness to light (John 3:19). Before the foundation of the world, God chose those He wanted to share eternity with his Son. He scans the universe protecting them. As the apostle Paul tells us, we are to live a separated life (Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called [to be] an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God. Romans 1:1). Do you really think that Joel, his large stadium church, the people who laugh and clap through his message, think they are separated from the world, the flesh, the devil? Just as with a barrel of apples, a basket of potatoes, cancer cells in healthy tissue, there must be separation if all are not contaminated.

It is a hard trip, a journey not a destination. The Children of Israel wore shoes of iron and brass (Thy shoes [shall be] iron and brass; and as thy days, [so shall] thy strength [be]. Duet. 33:25). He promised them strength and provisions for one day at a time. Joel and so many prosperity preachers would have you prepare for a life of leisure. Even God designed birds to build nests not barns. He knew it would be a tough trip, no flip-flops, even combat boots. Christianity is serious business, God does not mess around.

In God's hands, no darkness will come to us that He does not allow, economic woes, sickness. We are no different from the world if we depend on what we can do or what government and the world can do for us. Our own works are as filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6). Trust in God, not experiences or anything else. God gave Himself the name, Lord of Hosts (The LORD of hosts [is] with us; the God of Jacob [is] our refuge. Selah. Psalm 46:7 & 11). Twice God says this to us in the book of Psalms, verse 7 and eleven. When God says something twice you'd better pay attention. Do you really think that Joel, when his pastor father died, and his prophetess mother asked him to take over, who had reportedly attended Oral Roberts School, had preached once knows about the tough trip? Likewise, “Pastor” Melissa Scott, wife of dead Dr. Gene Scott, who admits to never having seen a Bible ten years before she became pastor, is prepared for preaching or teaching? The paradox of God's magnificence you do not abandon life for the abundant life (John 10:10), He requires all but does not take all. From the mob, Joel – Melissa – me, in Christ you are never the same. You're never the same IF the first year or the fiftieth year.

SHORTCUTS TO MONSTERS

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. (Lam 1:2)

About three blocks from my house, very large, very old, First Presbyterian Church. This was year's ago when I had a shatter of vision in one eye. I decided to walk there to church having never been there previously.

This old church had slate floors, a wide middle isle. I was sitting at the end of a pew. Just before the opening hymn a young woman strutting down the mid-isle more out of her dress than in her dress, a sundress open totally down the back, wearing clicking heels so that everyone was aware of her entrance. And, of course, she went all the way to the front. A member of that church (his funeral was held there), former college president, had said to me in a telephone conversation, “We are about one decade from barbarism.” Such spectacles as this told me why. The Tabernacle in the Wilderness, built by Moses to God's specifications, was where God met man (4 chapters in Genesis describes God's creation of the universe, 20 chapters describe God's specifications for the tabernacle, (Exodus 25 – 45). When our blessed Lord was crucified “It is finished”, (John 19:30), the veil of the temple was rent top to bottom...not almost all the way, nothing man can do, read the Mormon or Christian Science book, man can go directly to God.)

Who do we think we are, the pastor, the members of that church who have no more respect for the church or God than to allow half naked people into a worship service? God has a CLAIM on His church, on His chosen...those who worship Him in spirit and in truth. What type Bible do you read? It was not His perfect life. His crucifixion on a cruel cross. This would have been for naught if He had not kept the faith promised Him through is Father in resurrection. In worship services, baptism, the Lord's table, it is not us, but Him. The worship service is for believers. Paul tells us that we know the genuineness of our belief by our living and giving (1Cor 15:17).

The road to Hell is paved with religion. We want a “shortcut”, a bell-hop God, just there when we beckon Him. We want to believe that God will forget and forgive anything – everything.

The world has a shortcut mentality, we have become shortcut monsters. We see this in the recent bubbles, many thought they would get rich with the dot-com bubble, the real estate bubble, the bailout bubble, now, every other advertisement, mixed in with those about testosterone, the gold and silver bubble. Everyone will get rich buying and selling gold and silver. What will they do with the fiat currency when they sell their gold or silver?

Perhaps they will buy a Face Book IPO (initial public offering of a stock, millions of shares offered at a certain price, in this case $38.00 per share. Usually, the stock immediately makes a big leap and this is when the insiders, big boys, make tremendous profits.), which we know now was much spin...festered with lawsuits. These “take a chance”, “gambling” monsters do not realize that as long as any investment product has the resolution quote “you can lose all or part of your investment”, nothing can be done and, as most “seasoned” investors learned early the “big boys” always have the advantage. The monsters always win...in this world.

There is a new science – genetic affray, the geneticist going backward in gene manipulation – mutation expecting to finally “evolve” a dinosaur. Why laugh? We have an imposter President whose mind evolves, even to the extent of the marriage of two males or two females. Strange how all animal life got here. Strange, magnetism. Strange, the balancing of chemical equations. Obviously, pluses and minuses mean nothing anymore.

I never ceased to be amazed in a world of universities and advanced technology, the ignorance around us whether Wall Street, K-Street or the most ornate pulpits.

We get hung up on Sabbaths. Saturday is the Jewish Sabbath, now, as always. Some denominations hatched from Sabbath worry. There are many Sabbaths. To the Christian, every day is Sabbath. The Sabbath of First Fruits, Feast of Trumpets, Feast of Atonement, Feast of Tabernacles. How else do you figure Christ's 72 hours in the tomb? The Jewish day went from sundown to sunrise. Christ was crucified sundown on Wednesday, raised from the tomb at sundown Saturday which would be sunrise on Sunday. And so it is with Christmas, I have been in Bethlehem on Christmas Eve, such a cold place, shepherds would not have sheep in the fields. Christ was born in late September or early October but, the date is a part of our heritage, the important fact (and faith is fact, not feeling) that we, those who are His, celebrate His birth and his death. Let the monsters take the shortcuts, cash registers ringing, Santa Claus climbing, rabbits laying chocolate eggs. The greatest distance known to man, not the millions of miles to the moon, the 14” from the brain to the heart of man...the righteousness of God in the heart after the hearing through the mind.

PLANTATION PARASITES

In the city in which I live, many old, antebellum historic homes, and I live in the historic district. Perhaps the most famous, The Bellamy Mansion, built by a pre-Civil War doctor with a slave quarters in the rear. The mansion, underground, a tunnel which extends several blocks to the river. During the Civil War the wounded brought into the house for treatment and then cared for, across the street, at the large historic St. James Church.

In my large collection of Civil War memorabilia, most of which has been sold, a rare photograph of two house slaves at the mansion showing these two women, Flossie and Bossie, in long gowns...probably the only photograph made of them since photographs were so rare at that time in history.

This writer was always a listener. I had rather hear old people talk about their knowledge than play any type game. My grandmother, from her mother, told the direction of Sherman's troops coming down the road, their beautiful horses, etc. In other articles I have described how the children would take the milk cow, mules deep into the woods knowing that the army would take them and this was the only method of transportation and nourishment. They would camouflage the water wells because Sherman's troops were famous for throwing manure, dead animals into the water well...stealing all the meat in the smokehouse, chickens from the chicken houses and everything else they could use and plunder as they burned and killed their way south. The only thing that saved the house in which my mother, her father and grandfather were reared (still standing) three dead family members in the front room awaiting burial. Just imagine the children of our ancestors deep in the woods, protecting farm animals seeing the black smoke of burning buildings not knowing if they had a home in which to return.

Such was the love of the apostle Paul toward the church at Philippi. He was there just a short time presenting to them the gospel. They were the poorest people in Greece because Macedonia was the area which the Greek army crossed regularly, as with all armies of that time, living off the land. Yet, for eleven years, the poorest of the poor people in Paul's mission journey sent him gifts and his love letter to the church at Philippi reveals his appreciation and encouragement from them. When God hands out rewards, particularly to Paul, those Philippians will be so honored.

It is a different time. Perhaps it started with the house Negros on the plantations. It was much easier to work in Master's plantation house than to pick Master's cotton in the hot field. I have been told by today's blacks, who's ancestors have remembered, that the black women were available to the Master for anything and that is why, in so many communities, you have what we call brown, paper bag color, blue eyes. In fact, there is an entire minority society, a separated group which you do not join, if your skin is darker than a brown paper bag (in some groups, fraternities, etc., the brown paper bag is used at the door for admission).

Who runs the government? An army of bureaucrats. It is no secret to anyone, except the most uninformed about everything, that you become a plantation house worker because you meet certain political requirements. As one Democrat bureaucrat said to me, “In North Carolina, where Democrats have ruled for 140 years, you Republican's can elect a Republican if you wish but it will take a long time for you to infiltrate government bureaucracy with Republicans. We Democrats still run things.”.

This writer well remembers that his family were the only Republicans in the community. The winner of the Democrat primary was the winner, not even a Republican primary, not even a Republican contesting for most elected positions. Since just two dominant parties my mother and her cousin took turns ($2.00 per day) as Republican poll - watchers during precinct voting. My mother would come home and cry about the decadence – cowardice of Democrat politics. White men, who would never even spoken to a negro in public, hauling them to the precinct in the their “Model A Fords”, marking their ballots for them, giving them a candy bar in reward. Of course these old white men knew who was registered, were well paid for determining elections (walking money, and it goes on today). The whole matter of our democracy...for which women gave birth, educated their children, sent them to war, just a joke. The tragedy, such still goes on today.

I will never forgive the Baptist and other evangelicals of eastern North Carolina, particularly, the Freewill Baptist, small, rural, poor denomination, of which my family were members, mostly tenant farmers, cotton mill workers, whose pastors saw this type treason and were too spineless, too afraid of their pastoral packet, too afraid they were going to make the power brokers mad, evidently having no fear of the justice of God, to say or do anything against this practice.

Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy under FDR, editor of the Democrat Bible, The News and Observer – Raleigh, and whose home Wakestone I visited when Eleanor Roosevelt was there, “calls the shots”. Raleigh, Washington DC, every county seat, at least in NC, all filled with plantation house Negros...those who met the price, whatever it was, and still is, even school bus drivers, hospital workers, highway workers, liquor store workers, to have the security – entitlements of government largess. Along with trillions in debt, Obama has added 600,000 federal jobs. Are Republicans, the tea party crowd, independents or just plain hardworking, God fearing, tax paying Americans going to awaken to the fact that slavery is on the rise voted in and we know who the Master's, the guards around the fence will be, the plantation elite?

AVENGERS AND MALINGERERS

More famous than the profits of the Old Testament, apostles of the New Testament, historical characters of the world whether Napoleon or Sir Winston Churchill, the comic book characters, action figures...Superman, Batman, Spiderman, etc. Now we have the Avengers. Perhaps our time would be better spent talking about the Malingerers. Those of present – day history who are falsifying almost everything pertaining to our daily life.

Honesty in political, scientific, spiritual life ceased to be important long ago. The politician has one thing in mind, getting elected and re-elected, putting his hand as deep in the “cash” as he can while he can. The scientist, “once upon a time” eyes in the microscope, telescope, reference books attempting for discoveries to make life and healing for his fellow man, his supreme desire. I left the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science), and is not easy to get into this group, long ago because the scientist I encountered were no longer interested in discovery but the uncovering of funds, largess, foundations and government to make their own lives easier. They wanted to be part of the “rich and famous” also. To my total grief, disgrace to the Almighty God whom I serve, almost every preacher of the gospel I met more interested in the “productions” of the church than the power of the gospel.

Amid the advertisements for testosterone (“ageless man”, “man you used to be”), viagra (erectile dysfunction), filter straw (filters out every form of bacteria so you can drink any type of waste water), Ashley Madison (for lonely, married women) you have the state controlled – Obama controlled news media. If you believe anything from the talking heads reading propaganda on your trash TV set, you need your head examined. It is all lies and more lies often, as Henry Ward Beacher has said, with just a “handle” of truth...malingerers, malfeasants, criminal for which our forefathers would have been shot for treason.

Polls show that 50% of the population knows that the nation is in failure. But, tragedy, the 50% who are non-producers, dumbed down by the failed school systems, living off the work ethic of others who vote and who are “courted” by the politicians. The welfare – entitlement class elected Obama and his ilk. In this nation more intent on “political correctness”, popularity, even those who should be most concerned, veterans, lawyers, preachers bowing to the altar of fear, refuse to speak out. Have our universities, both secular and religious, become so gratuitous of government money that they have no principals left? The worst started in my lifetime. Questions about Pearl Harbor, Gulf of Tonkin, the murder of civilians at Waco, the nonsense of the Merrill Building in Oklahoma City, and then, beyond all comprehension, the “false flag”, impossible pretenses of 911 (September 11, 2001).

This writer remembers all these fakery – pretensions – controlled government news. Of course, we always have a few selected political “hacks” to investigate. The honest attempts at discovery, books written about the matter, never gain attention. The 50% who vote for continued blasphemy just don't care as long as they continue to get “their check”. Like the sick man to whom I sent a preacher to pray with him for his healing, “Now preacher you can pray, but remember, I get a government check.”

There are 80,000 architects, members of AIA (American Institute of the Architects), 17,000 have said that it is impossible that Building 7, a football field away from the two towers struck by “supposed” foreigners at the controls, would just fall. A 47-story building, long standing, without inner implosion (just one of many questions concerning these buildings)...just as many questions about the building in Oklahoma City, the 85 women and children burned alive in Waco, some ships moved out of Pearl Harbor.

There are those with questions about Obama's birth, selective service, college transcripts and other matters about which we know nothing. There are those who know about Article 2, Section 1 of the constitution and the natural birth parents of a president. From the beginning of time, infidels have not cared about anything nor do they care that an imposter, “Manchurian type”, brainwashed imposter is President bringing down industry, health care, military in the name of a homosexual – totalitarian agenda.

Our consolation, the remnant of believers left, we worship a God of peace, healing, long suffering. God's word is settled in Heaven (Psalm 119:89). He honors His word, this not a “continuing city”, but we seek one to come (Hebrews 13:14). We do not depend on Avengers or Malingerers. The same power that threw the stars into space, raised Lazarus from the dead, wiped out 184,000 Syrian troops in a few minutes, crossed Egypt killing the first born of every family (man and animal), STILL SEES THE BLOOD (necessary for the blood to be placed on the doorpost without regard for the size of the house, the theology of the people inside). The children of Israel left Egypt healed, not a feeble one among them (Psalm 105). Shoes of iron and brass, they had a rough trip ahead of them, and so it is with out lives in these perilous times (2 Timothy 3:1).

GAMBLING CASINO

In spite of the blasphemy of same sex marriage, the blasphemy involving political – financial sorcery (Jamie Diamond, CEO, JP Morgan, salary $23 million, losing 2-3 billion, “no big deal”). The decadence of M F Global's, Corzine, Governor, - Senator, losing 6.3 billion, but still riding around in his limo, one would think the world is one big gambling casino. The elitist at the top, the masses struggling at the bottom.

God never makes promises to non-producers. Politicians, local – state- federal, always elected because of their promises...the voters too stupid to know the difference and, of course, they get the votes of the non-producers so anxious for their promises.

Fifty percent of all women color their hair. Sugar, the most addictive substance known to man, permeates most food. Plastic, the most toxic substance known to man, covers about everything we touch so, we take a gamble in everything. Women do not know the toxicity of hair color or make-up. Sugar controls obesity, our organs are dying from toxicity (mostly from chemicals such as plastic).

In my life time I have seen the DE-industrialization of America, the DE-valuing of money, DE-moralization of a civilization. Common sense has become “old fashioned”.

There is no reason to tolerate the American financial system, K-Street and Wall Street wants you to concentrate on the Euro dollar instead of the worthless American dollar. There is a total exploitation of the working class. $82 billion spent by Homeland Security to keep “we peasants” in line. The only terrorism we know anything about comes from the FBI and the CIA. With all the groping, scanning, one would think one terrorist would be identified. If only America were so concerned about the 20,000 heat seeking missiles missing in Libya (www.foxnews.com).

Abraham Lincoln put 300 newspaper editors in jail for lying. The unintended consequences of our news, the truth is completely contaminated by lies. The news media is totally state controlled. According to the Communist Manifesto the first requirement for totalitarianism.

The greatest worship privilege of a Christian is the Lord's table, yet sometimes, even there, we are thinking more of ourselves than of Him and what He did for us. Our values are totally mixed up...”the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches” (Mark 4:19). Birds build nests, not barns. God knows the fall of the very smallest bird, the sparrow, the lilies of the field (Mark 6:28).

God requires trust, gives grace to those who trust Him. The greatest abstract concept known to man, prayer. When you have government you have what government can do, money you have what money can do, when praying, you have what God can do. Prayer makes even the force of gravity seem insignificant. In these end times, when Satan knows his days are numbered, the chosen of God need what prayer can do. Many of my friends, family do not want prayer because they do not want God interfering in their business. These winners of life's lottery...healthy, wealthy, wise still like the gambling feel. Not the field which Jesus bought for a great price (Matthew 13:44). More dismaying, those of us purchased at such a great price, chosen, elected, not willing to be separated. The constitution of the Bible, the book of Romans, Paul writing in the first chapter, tells us that he was separated for the gospel (Romans 1:1).

Movies, novels, leaves one to believe that casinos are beautiful – sophisticated places...women in gowns, men in tuxedos. This writer has traveled almost every communist country, always casinos. The totalitarian governments attempt to get every available loose coin (Yugoslavia, Russia, China, etc.). As in Panama and many other places, those in the casinos are not elitist, mostly a poorly dressed people scrambling for survival. Non-producers always want an easy way out...perhaps this life but not the one to come. The word retirement, vacation, “easy living” is foreign to scripture. God honors the work ethic. (I have been young, and [now] am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. Psalm 37:25).

CONVOLUTED WORLD

As poor as we were, my father always took his family to the North Carolina State Fair every year. We stayed for the show at night. The show I remember most, and I had young, sighted eyes at that time, the Flying Wallenda's high wire or tightrope walkers. Now the seventh generation, Nik Wallenda, will attempt to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope on June 15^th of this year. His grandfather fell to his death on a high wire between two hotels in Puerto Rico, 1978, age 73.

Such gives new impetus to the biblical admonition, “walking by faith, not sight” (For we walk by faith, not by sight. 2 Cor 5:7).

When I graduated at the university exactly 60 years ago this month, I would never have believed that I would spend most of my life walking by faith, not sight. The greatest gift of God's chosen is liberty (John 8:32); (If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. John 8:36).

The Bible is the only source of truth. Genetics and scientists are only interested in results.

The truth is the truth whether anyone believes it or not. Jesus is the truth (John 14:6; 17:17). This writer is so sick of a convoluted world taking liberty with truth making blasphemy of intelligent design. Whether Wallenda or Obama, men are not designed to walk on wire nor are same sexes supposed to marry. I hope those who voted for this Marxist imposter now in the White House, “the gay President” (Newsweek), will repent of their actions, the insult to God, the embarrassment of the world. Satan lied in the Garden of Eden, lied to Jesus in his temptation following his baptism, lied to every soul that died lost. Satan is prince of the air, nothing makes him happier than to deceive.

Basic Christianity is so simple, yet tough. The mind comprehends the truth, transferred to the heart. From the “old man”, world flesh devil, new creation in Christ, (2 Cor 5:17). The righteousness of Christ now in your heart. When God looks at you He sees you through the spectacles of the righteousness of Christ. This is the “new birth”, reborn, born again, (Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. John 3:7).

Real people are flawed people. The more you walk with Christ, the more you know you must overcome. You must overcome the satanic forces of this convoluted world. Those of us who claim the name of Christ, His righteousness, know truth and that knowledge makes us different. We put on the whole armor of God (Eph. 6) and greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world. (1 John 4:4).

The only thing this writer knows to do in this convoluted world of liberals, communists, agnostics, black liberation theology, those who love a political party more than they love God, is to pray for them. The three ways you can recognize committed Christianity...prayer and the study of God's word; giving of time and treasure; fasting including care about what you put into the temple of God (your body), unhealthy and excessive foods (gluttony), addictive substances (drugs including alcohol). God does not cheat us of anything “came to give life more abundantly” (John 10:10). I never cease to be ashamed and amazed at those who would dare call themselves Christians and yet desire to behave like the heathen of the world.

At the church house, court house, school house, your house, the Christ-like believer is different. The grace of God gives His chosen a faith not only to die by but live with. Faith is a verb, “action based on belief, sustained by confidence”. Those in the church house should look, act, believe differently from those in the nightclub. The church of Christ (His believers) should have a different attitude toward abortion (the killing of babies), homosexuality (marrying the same sexes), mixing of sexes in the military, lesbians and gays in the pulpits. The archeologist - paleontologist will tell you that the most ancient civilizations, even those never exposed to civilization or Christianity, knew that men were supposed to have sexual attraction to women, knew the consequences of lying, cheating and stealing.

This writer has a real problem with organized religion, compromising for the sake of popularity, “political correctness”. The Catholic Church, in America, has enough membership to elect real Christian politicians. Catholics, like Baptists, know the doctrine pertaining to marriage and values of life.

Tomorrow, next week, next year, always, God help that there be more of Jesus and less of me. Even help me to pray the prayer of Serenity, “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.”