Scrubbing

I would be a more popular writer, speaker, if I were not who I am. I would be more popular with family and friends if I were not who I am. Christ, apostle Paul, the prophets, everyone who has ever stood up for God has been unpopular. Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. (James 4:4)

I have tried it, with my personality, at the gym, at civic meetings, even at family gatherings, when I was quiet about my Christianity, I was much more popular. Those who do not let the light which calls them out of the darkness shine forth in their life have not been sufficiently scrubbed by the redeeming Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. When you have been born again, washed in His precious Blood, a new creature, you do not care what others think, you would just like for them to have the experience of your transformation. And, these family members, friends, neighbors do not want you to put them on their prayer list, because, they know that you have asked God to meddle in their business.

One of my friends told me that she was walking through the local shopping mall, a young girl approached her wearing a t-shirt on which the following words were found, as were seen in the 1966 Time Magazine: “God Is Dead“ - Nietzsche (this was the first time in its history that there were only words, no photo, on the cover of the magazine). She then looked on the back of the shirt and saw these words, “Nietzsche Is Dead” - God. There is no middle ground, you are on one side or the other, you have been scrubbed or dubbed (dead).

It is spring cleaning time. On the farm, after a harsh winter, all doors and windows in the house were opened. Beds, bedding, mattresses, rugs were given the best sanitizing known to man, sunlight, hanging on clotheslines and fences. The floors, everything was scrubbed. The barns, smokehouse, wash house, everything was cleaned. In the hospital, everywhere else I have worked, I was known as a crusader for cleanliness. In another commentary, I have talked about my inspection of hospitals. Do you want a doctor or nurse working on you, insufficiently scrubbed? Staph infections in hospitals come from filthiness. Illness in restaurants comes from filthiness, I learned early in life, that very few people know the healing of activated charcoal, you should keep charcoal handy for every form of sickness. This cheap, fundamental method cleans toxicity in the system better than anything else.

In my lectures to theaters full of new enlisted men and women coming into the military services, I impressed upon them the importance of cleanliness everywhere. I told them that in a foreign country, or even a strange community, when going into a restaurant, always without fail, send someone, or go in yourself, into the bathroom and see if the bathroom is clean. If the bathroom is not clean, the kitchen is not clean...get up and leave.

For a long time, but particularly in recent years, there has been an effort to scrub Christianity from western civilization. It started in recent history with Roger Baldwin, (founder and secretary for 30 years of the ACLU), Madalyn Murray O'Hair, (Texas lawyer who challenged Christianity every way she could), Robert Engersaw, Christopher Hitchens (now dying with cancer), Michael Newdow (California physician and lawyer). They have tried to remove God from all monuments, currency, military chaplains, and federal buildings, even the schoolhouse and the courthouse. The weak Christian church, trying to be politically correct, holding on to God with one hand, the world with the other. Prissy-sissy preachers most of the time did not show up, until it was too late. Those who would keep the posting of the Ten Commandments on the public square, in the public schoolhouse, often did not have the Ten Commandments posted in their own house. So, because of an innocuous 1963 21-word prayer, prayer was taken out of the schoolhouse, replaced by police patrolling the halls.

Even in my state of North Carolina, visiting pastors before the legislature were told not use the name of Christ. When I graduated from the state university, I was given a Bible. Today's graduates are not allowed to hear a prayer, the name of Jesus Christ, or God honored in anyway in a public ceremony, in buildings paid for by taxpayers. Academia, the satanic controlled news media, has done a good job of scrubbing Christianity from the public scene, aided and abetted by lukewarm Christians on whom God cannot depend on for anything. Hearts and consciences have been dulled by liberal churches and liberal denominations.

If I, in my writing or speaking, offend anyone, believer or non-believer, it is their problem. Most of my friends and family have no problem watching 3 ½ hours of television everyday, as is the average of the American people. But they do not honor God in their living, believing and giving. We do what we do because we believe what we believe. Who do you think you are fooling? Not even yourself. I am the first to tell anyone, if you profess to be Christian and still promote the Democrat party, you are unsaved.

Dr. Bernard Nathanson, was unsaved as the world's chief abortionist, even aborted his own child. The doctor just died three weeks ago, was consider the nations leading abortionist until he saw the unborn via ultrasound in the mother, was converted and became the country's most prolific pro-life speaker. Shame on my family members, my friends, my fellow healing arts practitioners who still support the Democrat party, a political embarrassment to our nation and to God, this political entity who promotes the killing of the most innocent of life.

When you have been sufficiently scrubbed through repentance and the baptismal pool, your politics will change. God hates idolatry more than anything else, your idols of political persuasion, money, entertainment, pride in whatever does not matter. God can only use you or me after we have been scrubbed clean by the “Blood of the crucified One.”

Spring Cleaning

P J O’Rourke, modern humorist, has said, “Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.” He was referring to the great admonition “Cleanliness is next to Godliness”. Those of us who think cleanliness is one of the most important facts of life, need to listen to King Solomon “There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.” (Proverbs 30:12).  The greatest way for those of us who claim the name of Christ is to study His final exam where we have not only the questions but the answers.

 For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me. Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink? When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or naked, and clothed thee? Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me. And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. (Matthew 25:31-46)

Spring cleaning or cleaning anytime has always been apart of my life. Now, it is not as important because in darkness you do not see dirt. One who is blind can walk around dirt, dust, a messy house all day long and not be bothered (I am a totally blind 100% disabled service connected veteran).  My parents believed in keeping everything clean, and I am convinced that is the reason there was so little sickness in my family. Particularly, every spring my folks would put all the bedding, quilts, mattresses etc. out in the sun. The best germ killer in the world is sunlight.  The house would be cleaned from one end to the other. It was the same with my father’s barns, stables, etc.

As a young doctor in a hospital, I was a fanatic about keeping everything clean.  The staph infections which are such a disaster to most hospitals are a direct result of the hospital facility not being clean. In my one visit to a local hospital here (New Hanover Medical Center), the staph infection, long known as a source of prolonged illness in that hospital, almost killed me.  I was laying in the bed of this hospital, having been brought back very sick from the staph infection, and this old blind, doctor got out of bed and did an inspection of my room.  Firstly, I discovered that these outdated people were still using overstuffed furniture in hospital rooms, what better place to harbor bacteria, that their were draperies hanging at the windows, blinds on the windows that were not clean, carpet at the door and in the hallway. When the cleaning people came in the morning, I noticed they were sweeping, which further distributes the microbiology (you never use a broom in a hospital always a mop).

Later, I talked with an assistant vice president about the situation.  When he presented this to the board (all political appointees with no knowledge of hospital care) he was relieved of his duties. I do understand that many of my recommendations have been followed but I have left strict instruction that I am not to go to that hospital again unless it is a matter of life and death. 

As an army medical officer, I was used to speak to large groups of trainees about the importance of health safety along with the importance of canteens for water, heat stroke, etc.  It seems to just be a matter of common sense, but I am convinced that the colds and flu is spread more by human contact then any other. Predominately by the hands.  What can you expect when someone uses the hands over the mouth when coughing, a Kleenex when blowing their nose, and then these same hands are next on door knobsstair railings, for other people to touch.  KEEP YOUR HANDS CLEAN AND DO NOT PUT YOUR HANDS WHERE OTHER PEOPLE HAVE PUT THEIR INFECTED HANDS.

At an old age, almost a recluse, I do not get out in public very much.  It still bothers me to be in a restaurant, and a blind person must depend on eating with his fingers, since I am well known, via radio, speaking, etc. there are always acquaintances coming to the table to speak to me and wanting to shake my hand, hands which I am using for eating.  I DO NOT KNOW WHAT THEIR HANDS WERE TOUCHING LAST.

Today’s microbes are more dangerous and difficult to manage then any time in history.  Our immune systems have been compromised in every way, chiefly by the antibiotics which are often misused and overused too early. 

I went into the tomb of Tutankhamun when in the valley of the kings in Egypt in 1972.  This was the only tomb that had not been robbed earlier and was still intact.  When the British archeologist Howard Carter excavated the tomb much of the gold and other “fines” of the pharaohs are now in the Egyptian museum in Cairo. To prove that microbes do not die easily, many of the Carter excavation party became very ill and some died from the microbes still harbored in that tomb after being buried for thousands of years. Only recently, bodies buried from the early 20th century flu epidemic have furnished flu bacteria to be cultured and studied in an effort to fight new flu strains.

The community which my mother was raised was almost wiped out by this 1918 flu epidemic which killed an estimated 50 million people around the world. My mother could talk at lengths about the horrors of such an epidemic in a community. At that time, with so little knowledge of epidemiology, people from outside the community were afraid to come in because it would spread to their own communities, which was almost certain death. My grandfathers house became a hospital and morgue in the community.  The men who were not sick were busy building boxes for burial and digging graves.  One of my mothers young brothers died, several of her aunts, one right after she gave birth to a baby, one of her sisters had just given birth in another community where the flu was not as ravaging, my uncle took this new baby to the aunts house so she could nurse the baby along with her own. He did not go to the house but rather lay the wrapped baby in the yard, call from a distance and told them the situation. Later, I understood why this one aunt had one son with a different last name.

Not only did many in the community die, ravaged by this 1918 epidemic (the family cemetery shows the graves) but the family Doctor (Dr Hayes, horse and buggy), who was coming into the community to care for the sick, died of the same epidemic. Then they were left with no one to treat them. But, as their earlier ancestors had done, they depended on home remedies and prayer. This same uncle, who I remember very well, had learned to go into the woods and get certain roots from certain bushes for making treatment.

My missionary son (Dr. John M. Morris) who had a degree in microbiology, medical school, 2 theology doctorates, tells me new Christians, on the mission field, when ill, in their sense of new creations in Christ, actually believe in prayer, and the first thing they do when ill, before going to the doctor, is have prayer for healing. Spring cleaning, has many connotations and denotations to the believer's mind. We fully believe in the cleanliness of mind and body, clean activities in our living and maintaining our health, physical and spiritual, with cleanliness.