Diogenes

Diogenes

            Within the writings of the Greek philosopher Diogenes, we find the beginnings of thought concerning the systematic structure of the physical world.

            Whether Shakespeare, Homer, or one yet to be born, the hazing quandary of life as we turn and twist our minds through behaviorism, yet to be defined.

            This week is dignity week in England. Dignity like integrity are lost words in most vocabulary.

            America recently, at great expense, sent a rover probe to Mars. IF an E.T (extra terrestrial) better, I.T (intelligent terrestrial) were to arrive here FROM MARS, how could things on earth be explained? For instance, America, 350,000 church houses (people, in conflict, pretending to worship unable to explain what they believe). Thousands of public school houses dedicated to education (many parents preferring to keep their children at home so they can get an education instead of entertainment). Hundreds of prisons (more prisoners than any other industrialized nation). Hospitals-nursing homes (more money spent on sick people than any other industrialized nation, body care, sick care, totally controlled by Big pharma corporations).  Food establishments of every type, restaurants, fast foods (26 million with diabetes, 100 million pre-diabetic. This one disease will cost America $3.5 trillion dollars by 2020, a disease almost unknown 100 years ago). The scariest disease in the world, cancer, caused by radiation, treated by radiation...caused by chemicals, treated by chemotherapy (chemicals)....one third of the population with cancer. And so we could continue, a population enslaved to taxation. The question, churches, hospitals, schools, universities, is it all just a waste of money? Would our fellow universalist-another planet think we are crazy?

            Our visitor from Mars traveled 33.9 million miles to investigate earth. But, the longest distance in the world is the 14 inches from man's brain to man's heart. The heart is referred to more times in literature and music than any other word...863 times in The Bible. The depository of the world's problems lay within the recesses of the heart, treason of oneself. Even Cicero said that a nation can survive anything except internal treason. Just as toxicity will destroy the physical body, so the blackened forces of sin (with which you wrestle each day, Ephesians 6, will destroy the mind), eventually your own body and lead to the destruction of everyone around you.

            The first thing turned on in most homes, the last thing turned off at night, the television, infested with every sinful act Satan can produce. Like tarot cards, pornography (68 million porno searches on the internet each day...secretive-spiritual, most want it kept strictly within their own mind), addictions of every type, alcohol, both legal and illegal drugs, superstitions, tobaccos (I was at my mother's only brothers house before he died, chewing tobacco-spitting in a can yet he considered himself a Christian while killing himself with poison), demons of every type, in the world. Most of those possessed do not realize their infestation, healers-palm readers, believers in astrology, envy, revenge, pride, gluttony, sexual lust, filthy jokes, laziness, cheating, stealing, idolatry, abuse of children, abuse of animals, political and other decadence of every type, unethical business practices, sin of every type which must be exercised from the heart if you ever expect to see Heaven. God was not joking when he told us that the pure in heart would see Him (Matthew 5:8). God does not joke about the purity of prayer. God is not a bellhop, just around when you need Him. Your body is a temple, not a dumpster and certainly not a toilet where you can keep your heart filled with the debris of the Satanic world. To show just how rotten our hearts have become, one of my secretary's told me about a well known prostitute who sat on the same pew on which she sat in her church. She knew that the preacher had a relationship with the prostitute and GOD EXPECTS THIS TYPE THING TO BE EXCUSED. "The heart [is] deceitful above all [things], and desperately wicked: who can know it" (Jeremiah 17:9)?

            It is a historical problem, God destroyed the first civilization about 5,000 B.C. Every live person drowned, except one family and the animals he chose to save (Noah's great flood). God started all over, first with a chosen people called Jews, and we have a complete history of that story. Over and over, people have been destroyed for sin such as those in the city of Sodom. Do you actually think that our friend from Mars, or anyone else with good sense, could think that things can get much worse? We have been warned about the perils of Hell.  Every time you ride past a cemetery, you know that death is sure, not where or when, but sure.

            The price for your redemption has already been paid. The battle has been won, paid in full on a cross, 2,000 years ago. It is possible to be optimistic, a gift to the chosen-elected-predestined. To the rest, good luck.

            A shoe manufacturing company sent a sales rep to Africa to sell shoes. They sent another to South America, same mission, to sell shoes. The one in Africa called, bring me home, people in Africa do not wear shoes. The representative in South America, phoned the same day. Send me help, people in South America do not wear shoes. We can sell many shoes here. It is all in the mind. Diogenes had it right.