BROKEN WINDOWS

   Internal pain is worse than the pain of external wounds.
   A broken arm will heal, a sprained ankle will heal, and a cut or gash of the skin will heal.
   Medication or pain killers help us to recover without physical pain, which enable us to rest and sleep during the process of healing.
   But what about the internal pain of a broken heart, a broken spirit, a lost love, a lost dream, and lost hope? 
   There is no external medication that will heal internal pain, and therefore there is no rest or sleep during the healing process. 
   To people suffering with internal pain, hope and happiness are but fleeting moments of flickering light, and survival becomes the reality of moment by moment.  In times such as these, we can only hope that things will change, that things will improve, leaving us to ask:  will we ever be happy again?   
   When hope is lost, losing everything is nothing lost.  With nothing to live for and nothing to gain, what am I doing here? 
   It is easy to try to encourage people with broken hearts, broken spirits, lost loves, lost dreams, and lost hope, but do I truly understand the pain of people in pain if I have never experienced internal pain and suffering?  It is easy to say God understands, turn to Jesus, go see the priest, forgive and forget, I know a good doctor, or even I know how you feel.
   Do you, however?  Do you really know how I feel?  Is my pain the same as your pain, and my suffering the same as your suffering?  Is my broken heart the same as your broken heart? 
   On the other hand, perhaps you have never had a broken heart, a wounded spirit, a shattered dream, or a lost love.  Perhaps you have never lost a night's sleep, or the dread of another waking day. 
   We try to fix internal pain with words of medication, the medication of nods and touching, and the medication of words of understanding.
   If winning does not excite you, and if losing does not bother you, what are you doing in the game?
   If you have never experienced internal pain, your words of wisdom have no roots and no salt. 
   Without the experience of internal pain and suffering, we will never understand others in their times of pain and suffering. 
   Even when people arise out of the pit of pain and suffering, recovery can take days, weeks, months, years, and also decades.  Getting there was not easy, and getting out will not be easy.  There is no quick fix that can mend broken hearts, broken spirits, the loss of love, and the loss of hope. 
   Without hope, what do we hope for?  Without a dream, what do we dream for?  Without love, what do we live for? 
   To whom do you turn in the time of trouble?
   Whom do you trust to understand your time of pain and suffering?
   When your family and friends have turned their backs on you, what do you do?
   When the people you know have no interest in you, your goals, dreams, and aspirations, what do you do?
   When your windows of love, hope, dreams, joy, peace, and comfort are broken in a thousand pieces, who is there to help you in all of your pain and suffering?
   It is good to know that we have God, but often it is good to know that we simply have a few people who honestly care about us. 
  
  
  

SELF-PORTRAITS

   Your life is a self-portrait of your mind and the intentions of your heart.
   With your self-portrait on an easel, what do people see?
   They see you.
   Your self-portrait is the revelation of yourself, and you are a walking-talking picture in the presence of people. 
   What do people see when they see you? 
   They see everything because your self-portrait is an image of your internal self, which is the way you think of yourself, and your inner-self is you on an easel.   
   The more you study a person's self-portrait, the more you can know about them:  their likes and dislikes, the things they value, the things they detest, the things they stand for or stand against, speak for or speak against, and the people they like and dislike. 
   As people gaze at your self-portrait, they also see the uniforms you wear:  the clothes you wear at home, at work, at play, to sporting events, or to the family picnic.  They also see you wearing your religious uniform.  As you change from uniform to uniform, do they also see a change in your attitude and body language?
   Continuing to gaze at your self-portrait, do people also see your shadows of darkness?   These are those secret parts of your life that you hiding:  your secret thoughts, secret deeds, secret opinions, perhaps your secret membership in a secret society as well as your secret dislike of people, or maybe a secret love. 
   When people look at your self-portrait, do they see an exact representation of your inner self, or do they see a split image?  Do they see multiple personalities?  Do they see you acting one way, then another?  Do you act one way at church, another way when playing golf, another way in the presence of close friends and relatives, and yet another way when you are alone with your spouse and children?  Do others see you as an honest person, or do they question your integrity?  Do they see you as a humble person, or do they see you in all of your arrogance?  Do others see your anger, or do you hide it?
   Human history is a self-portrait, human governments have self-portraits, political parties have self-portraits, and all of man's religions have self-portraits.  With all of these self-portraits on easels, you can know what each represents:  by the colors, by words spoken and unspoken, body language, and by the shadows of darkness. 
   Your self-portrait is a revelation of you:  on the easel, on canvas, and on display for the world to see.  
   Your self-portrait is an external reflection of your internal self-image.  The opinion you have your your inner self is the projection you present to others. 
   How do you look?  What are you saying?  What do others see when they see you?
   Others do not judge us for what they see:  they are simply examining the evidence of our own presentation. 
   Most importantly, how does Almighty God see you?
   God knows your heart, and He reads your mind.
   God knows what you think about others, He knows what you think about yourself, and God also knows:  what you think about Him. 

FREE AT LAST!

   If you will look at the pages of human history, no nation has ever been totally free until the formation of the United States of America!
   Prior to this time, people were always held captive:  slaves of nations, slaves of religion, slaves of empires.
   Keeping people slaves also meant keeping people poor.
   For thousands of years, education was reserved for ruling families, for the aristocracy, for the rich and famous, and for the dictators of religious-political regimes. 
   Reading was also prohibited because the masters knew that if the people could read, they would gain knowledge, and, with knowledge, they would become free thinkers and think for themselves; and, by gaining knowledge, people would learn the truth.  Those who learned truth would tell others.
   The religions of man prey on uneducated minds.  Keep people seregated and within their own religious groups. Do not let them socialze with people of another religion.  Do not let them socialize or attend Protestant churches.  Do not let them read the Holy Bible.  To keep them in slavery, restrict their knowledge, their education.  Do not let them become free thinkers.  Keep them living in fear.
   When the nation of the United States was created, people fled to the United States in search of freedom.  Freedom from state religions, freedom from governments, and the freedom to worship as they pleased. 
   In the United States, people gained much more than freedom from state religions, freedom from oppressive governments, and the freedom to worship:  people were free to learn to read, to seek education, free to think, and free to speak.  They were free to be creative, free to be inventive, and, for the first time in human history, an explosion of man's creative energy was released!  People invented trains, automobiles, airplanes, harnessed electricity, wrote books, music, and songs, and invented light bulbs, and ways of recording music, opened schools, colleges, and universities.  In so doing, man's inventions opened industries and created jobs, thus enabling masses of people to work and earn wages:  to buy homes, cars, new clothes, and to be able to get medical treatment for themselves and for their children.  The health of people improved in the United States as well as the possibility of living longer lives.  People could sleep at night without the fear of making bricks the next day, nor the fear of serving ruthless taskmasters.
   The United States gave poor people the opportunity for education, but also the opportunity to become rich!
   With freedom in the United States, people were free to speak about Almighty God, free to read the Bible, and free to teach and learn about Christ---without fearing repercussions and persecutions from religion, nor from the U.S. government. 
   Freedom is like a new birth, or like being born again.
   Freedom is like getting out of jail and with a chance to begin a new life.
   Knowing Christ is a spiritual new birth, or like being born again. 
   Knowing Christ is like getting out of jail and with a chance to start over.
   Knowing Christ is about believing that we are created by God, that we are the children of God, and not the children of the devil.
   Knowing Christ is about freedom.  We are free to worship Almighty God---without limitations, without conditions or restrictions---and even without a building!
  
  
  

RELIGIOUS ANGER

   Religion is the oldest form of mind control known to man.
   If you want to control and dominate your family, teach your children your religion.  As such, you are the judge, you are the enforcer, and you are the executioner.  Teach them the laws, rules, and regulations of your religion.  Teach them the rites and rituals.  Teach them proper behaviours.  Reward them for their obedience with words of praise; punish them with words of anger for misbehaving.  Begin their training when they are infants, continue in their toddler years, teenage years, and, by the time they are adults, their minds will be a reproduction of your mind:  your ways become their ways, your attitude becomes their attitude, your values become their values, and your religion becomes their religion.  Now, they are just like you:  walking like you, talking like you, bowing like you, praying like you, and accepting and rejecting others just like you.  Keep your children to live in fear of you.
   If you want to control and dominate a nation, gain control of the religion.  You are the judge, you are the enforcer, and you are the executioner.  The power of life and death is in your hands.  Keep your people to live in fear of you.
   If you want to build a religious empire, gain control of the religions of nations and convert the captives to your religion.  You are the judge, you are the enforcer, and you are the executioner.  The power of life and death is in your hands.  Keep your people to live in fear of you. 
   Religion is an institution of anger, and religious leaders are angry people.  Look at their faces.  Look at their behaviour.  If you do not believe this, disagree with them.  If you do not believe that religious people are angry people, disagree with them. 
   All of the pharoahs of ancient Egypt were angry men.
   All of the caesars of ancient Rome were angry men.
   All of the popes of Rome are angry men.
   Look at their faces.  Look at their behaviour. 
   Look at the history of man's religions.
   All of the religions of man are spiritual prisons, and all of man's religious leaders are wardens.  They are angry. They are judges, enforcers, and executioners.  Look at the killing fields.  Look at the cemetaries.  Look at the blood of millions of innocent people who have been slaughtered because they violated man's religious laws.  Across thousands of years, look at all the blood they has been shed by innocent people. 
   The knowledge of Almighty God does not exist in man's religions.  Neither does love, joy, peace, and the pursuit of happiness. 
   Look at Christ, who was crucified by angry men.  Not only were those men angry, but they were also religious.  As such, they were pious and they were proud.  And anger is the chief characteristic of pride.  Christ is the Light, and the Light of Christ exposed their sin, which the religious people did not like.  Therefore they believed that if they could kill Christ, the Light would vanish.  But when Christ arose from death, the killing of Christians began because the Light of Christ continued in the spiritual rebirth of people; and to this day millions of Christians have been killed by the angry people of religion.
   If you speak for Christ today, people of religion will be angry with you.
   If you preach for Christ today, people of religion will be angry with you.
   If you sing or write for Christ, people of religion will be angry with you.
   If you do anything in the name of Christ, people of religion will be angry with you.
   The Light of Christ shines on the sins of people of religion, and their behaviour turns to anger.  In so doing, they keep Christ crucified, just as angry religious people crucified Christ 2000 years ago.
   All of the religions of man are angry.  They are against God, against Christ, and they are angry at the knowledge of God, which is contained in the Holy Bible.
   The Word of Lord says:
      Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go; lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.  (Proverbs 22: 24)
 

A TALE OF TWO KINGS

   In ancient Babylon, at a place called the Tower of Babel, a man by the name of Nimrod was King, and the people there worshipped him as god.  But Nimrod died.
   Nimrod, however, had no sons and daughters; therefore, he had no heir to succeed him on his throne.  His mother, Semirami, became Queen Semirami to rule in her son's stead.  And the people there worshipped the queen as the "queen of heaven" as well as the "mother of god" just as they had worshipped King Nimrod. 
   Later, Queen Semirami said she was impregnated by Nimrod's ghost and she gave birth to a baby, Tammuz, who became known as the "son of god".  And once a year at Babel the women there wept for Tammuz for forty days.
   In Bethlehem just over 2000 years ago, Jesus was born.  Years later, he said he was "King of the Jews", for which he was crucified.  And the King died. 
   Having no sons or daughters to inherit the throne of King Jesus, a religious sect in Rome coronated Mary, the mother of the King, to be the "queen of heaven" and "mother of god" to reign in place of her dead son.  And once a year the people there were required to make personal sacrifices for forty days, but not forty days of weeping for the son.
   Mary was one of the most humble women to ever live and she became a disciple of Christ, serving the Lord all the days of her life. 
   Knowing this, do you honestly believe that Mary would have desired to be coronated to the position of "queen of heaven" and "mother of god"---to be worshipped and adored just as Semirami was worshipped and adored?
   Do you believe that Mary would have wanted forty days of weeping for Jesus as the Babylonians wept for Tammuz?
   And do you honestly believe that Mary thought of Jesus as no more than a baby in her arms?
   Easter is the time when Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus---not only as the King of the Jews, but as the King of kings and Lord of lords. 
   The resurrection of Christ, however, is the primary reason for Christianity.  Without the resurrection of Jesus, the New Testament of the Bible would have never been written, the life of Jesus would have never been known, the life of Mary would have not been known outside Nazareth, the Day of Pentecost would have never happened, and the apostles and disciples of Christ would have never taken the message of Jesus to the uttermost parts of the world, and there would not have been any Christian martyrs over the past 2000 years.  After all, who would want to hear another story about another dead man?  And without the resurrection, Jesus would be no more than any god in all of man's religions. 
   But because the resurrection of Christ is true, people have worked to diminish the resurrection, to hide it under a rug, and to get the focus of people on matters of lesser importance:  in other words, to make the knowledge of Christ's resurrection disappear, or vanish, and to make it appear that the resurrection of Christ never happened:  by keeping an image of Him on a crucifix and by keeping Him in a tomb. 
   Above all else, what person would want to become a Christian just to worship a dead man? 
   Do we not have people committed to institutions for the insane when they admit they talk to dead people?
  
  

UNKNOWN FEAR

   A human's greatest fear is the fear of another human.
   Children fear parents and other adults, but children can also fear other children.
   We fear the police, but we also fear ministers, preachers, priests, rabbis, popes, and other religious or spiritual people.
   We fear governments and politicians, taxes and laws.
   We fear when interviewing for jobs, but we also fear losing our jobs.
   We fear school teachers and college professors, but we also fear coaches and music teachers.
   We fear the words we hear from others as well as fear what others think about us.
   We fear standing up and speaking up for our beliefs.
   We fear what others will know about us if they see us playing a musical instrument, trying out for the baseball team, playing golf, or eating at a restaurant alone. 
   We fear going to school, going to church, or going to a strange community, town or country.
   We fear people within our own families as well as people within our own homes. 
   We fear families across the street as well as the strangers in the upstairs apartment.
   We fear the known world in which we live, but we also fear the unknown.
   We fear the present, but we also fear the future.
   We fear speaking truth because we fear what others will think or say about us.
   We fear weeping because we fear that others will think we are weak.
   We fear humility because we fear our own weaknesses. 
   Husbands can fear wives and wives can fear husbands; and many parents can fear their own children.
   We fear rejection as we can also fear acceptance.
   We fear failure, but we can also fear success. 
   We fear the rich, and we also fear the poor. 
   We fear not having enough money, then, when we have enough money, we fear losing it.
   We fear being hurt or injured by people more than we fear being attacked or injured by animals,, and making friends with animals is often easier than making friends with people.
   Because of fear, we hide within ourselves, hoping that others will not see us or know us as we really are.
   Because of fear, we can wear false faces:  for we do not want others to know what we know about ourselves.  Though we fear humility, we act proud.  Though we do not know the truth, we disagree with the truthful.  Though we fear to speak, we are fearful not to speak.  Though we fear golf, we act like we enjoy it.  Though we fear acting, we become actors.  Though we fear, we do not want others to know it; and though we lack confidence, we try not to show it.
   A human's greatest fear is the fear of another human, and perhaps a human's greatest weakness is not fearing God.  Instead, we fear religious and civil law, but we reject God's law; and we accept human love because we are told we should, but we reject the love of God with no conditions. 
   Overcoming fear is not easy, and perhaps the fear that we fear the most is the fear of not knowing, and thereby live in a state of fear of what will happen next, which is fearing the unknown.
   God did not create us to live in a constant state of fear and dread, and until we recognize that God is our heavenly Father, we will not believe that we are His children. 
      Know ye that the LORD he is God:  it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.  (Psalm 100: 3)
   Until then, fear will continue to grip and bind us, holding us as prisoners within our own minds.
  
  
  

  

FORBIDDEN KNOWLEDGE

      Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.  (Hebrews 12: 1)

   I believe in Almighty God, Creator of the universe, and I believe that by faith alone. 
   I believe that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God, and I believe that by faith alone.
   My faith in God and faith in Christ is my evidence of things not seen.
   On the contrary, I do not believe in man's religion because religion contradicts faith:  because religion represents things that are visible and not things not seen.
   Belief in religion is based on things that are visible such as temples, shrines, cathedrals, candles, smoke, pews, carpeted floors, air conditioning, heating, and electric lights.  Faith in God has none of these physical characteristics. 
   Belief in religion is also based on the physical visibility of a man:  a pharoah, caesar, pope, minister, priest, rabbi, guru, or prophet, and each of these people, as the Head of man's religions, is a dictator.  The people of man's religions must be submissive to the dictator, whom they can see with their eyes, and the Head is not the evidence of things not seen. 
   Religion is not a system of democratic government because the people do not have a voice, nor a vote, in religious policy, for the people are followers, subjects and slaves of the Head.  As the Master says, so do the people do.  Disobedience to the Head is unacceptable and must be punished.
   Furthermore, the Head of religion dictates and enforces religious law. 
   The Head of religion is at the top of the ladder, and in order for the people to reach the Great Beyond (heaven, paradise, utopia) they must go through the Head. 
   Obviously, religion is not a system of faith but rather a system of fear:  and people live in fear of the dictator.  They fear breaking the law, they fear losing privileges, and they fear losing their rites of passage to the Great Beyond because the dictator has the minds of his people under his control; and with the minds of his people under his control, he also has their submission, their obedience, their awe, their worship, their lives, and also their children, which is how religions can become empires.
   In religion, the knowledge of Almighty God is forbidden knowledge.  The knowledge of Christ, the only begotten Son of God, is forbidden knowledge.  And the knowledge of the Holy Bible is also forbidden knowledge.  For if the people of religion learn the knowledge of God, the knowledge of Christ, and the knowledge of the Holy Bible, the Head (dictator) of religion will lose his subjects and slaves because the people will be set free! 
   If you are in a religion today, you are living under the dictatorship of the Head, and you are his prisoner. 
   Knowing Christ is about freedom---freedom from the shackles of religion. 
      Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
 

JESUS ALSO SAID

   Entertainment is the exibition of man's violent behaviour, and no nation expresses its violent behaviour as much as the United States:  in books, magazines, music, movies, television, video games, internet, and even by cell phones.
   While the United States expresses peace in the Middle East, peace between Arabs and Jews, between Israel and Palestine, the United States is not exactly a role model for peace, but rather a role model for violence:  as expressed and exhibited in books, magazines, music, movies, television, video games, internet, and even by cell phones. 
   Not only does the United States produce these vehicles of violence, as exhibitions of our own behavior, America also transports these vehicles of violence throughout the world in a word called entertainment!  Thus we think of entertainment with topics such as MURDER, RAPE, REBELLION, CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT, CORRUPTION IN RELIGION, SEX SCANDALS, MASS KILLINGS, TERRORISM, ADULTERY, SEX, DRUGS, CHILD ABUSE, BLOOD, LIES, CHEATINGS, ROBBERIES, PORNOGRAPHY, ANGER, RAGE, PROFANITY. 
   The greater the violence, the greater the reception:  in television ratings in homes across America and from ticket sales in movie theaters across the United States and around the world. 
   Violence, violence, and more violence. 
   Violence generates more money and money generates more productions of violent behaviour.
   Obviously, producers of violent movies and television progams are giving people what they are hungry for:  violence!
   At the same time, these productions of our violent behaviour are blended and mixed with all the signs, symbols, and numbers of Satanic Witchcraft!
  At the same time, we talk peace.
  Peace?  Peace to the world?  The globalization of peace with peaceful resolutions and peace treaties?
  In the United States, we proudly say:  "IN GOD WE TRUST".
  But does our nation honestly trust in God?
  If so, then why do we exhibit our violent behaviours in books, magazines, music, movies, television, video games, and cell phones?
   What happened to love, joy, kindness, and even peace?
   Not only do our children and grand-children witness the exhibitions of our adult behaviours as entertainment, but the whole world sees us as we really are.
   Jesus called the Scribes and Pharisees hypocrites and vipers. 
   Has the United States become a nation of hypocrites and vipers?
   Before you answer the quesion, consider the evidence of our own behaviour as expressed in the world of entertainment. 
      This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:   from such turn away.  (II Timothy 3: 1-5)

   Jesus also said:  deliver us from evil
  
  

LIES, LIES, LIES!

   What is there about lying that is so difficult for humans to understand?
   When are we going to get it, when are we going to wise up to the fact that man is a natural born liar?
   Therefore, lying is easy for humans because it is our nature to lie, to cheat, and to steal.
   Parents lie to children, children lie to parents, spouses lie to spouses, friends lie to friends, and employers and employees lie to each other. 
   Politicians lie to the people of their nations and cities, and politicians lie among themselves. 
   Other liars include pharoahs, caesars, popes, presidents, priests, pastors, preachers, kings and queens, monarchs and dictators, friends and family members, Republican or Democrat, wealthy people and poor people, tax returns, employment applications, and golf scorecards. 
   We also separate lies in the categories of little lies and big lies, or white lies from black lies.
   Some people lie with a hand on the Bible!
   For thousands of years, the kingdoms and empires of man have been built on lies, and lies have led to the downfall and destruction of all kingdoms and empires in all of human history.
   Lies destroy the relationships of friends, marriages, families, companies, corporations, and nations.
   By lying, we are deceiving others to believe that we are truthful beings, which is nothing more than hypocrisy; and hypocrites are masters of deception. 
   If you believe, however, that we are not natural born liars, why is it so difficult to teach toddlers how to tell the truth? 
   If, on the other hand, we are naturally born to be truthful, we would not need civil laws to protect us from unlawful humans, would we?
   Beyond civil laws (which we cannot obey) man created religion and, by the power of his deceptive personality, he persuaded people to believe that the sun is the chief god, that the moon is a goddess, and that all the stars and planets are also gods.  Then he added gods of the earth, such as animals, fish, birds, and plants, as well as images of gods by the work of his hands.  Not only did man create all of these gods, but he also established feast days as special days to bring sacrifices and offerings to these gods, which have no eyes, no ears, no heart, and no brain, and the belief that even dead people can become gods.
   Today, a human's greatest fear is another human.   We fear that another person or persons will kill us, rob us, take our possessions, and even take our children.
   Today, a child's greatest threat is a human adult because human adults abduct children, drug them, use them, abuse them, sell them, and trade them in the financial enterprise of child traffiking. 
   Even now, government leaders worldwide are telling lies about the state of the global economy as well as the lie that citizens of nations must be disarmed of guns in order for global peace to be accomplished:  as if the problem is guns, not people. 
   Man has never had total peace on earth, and he never will---because man is not a peaceful creature because he lies.  And until people reconcile their sinful ways with God, people will always lie. 
   In a world without God, there will never be peace on earth. 
   Lock your home.  Lock your car.  Hide your money.  Guard your children. 
   Where do you keep your golf clubs?  Where do you keep your baseball glove?
   We must be honest and admit that we do not live in a peaceful world because we live in a world of evil people, and the world is presently being consumed by evil because of the evil minds and evil hearts of evil people.  Evil is winning, not the goodness of people---and certainly not the righteousness of God. 
   If you are having a peaceful day, enjoy it.  But be prepared:  your peaceful day will be disrupted by another human.  Someone today will rob you of your peace, your joy, and your happiness. 
   Be sure and know that someone today, through his or her deceptive personality, will lie to you---just as the serpent deceived Adam and Eve with his charming personality. 
      There is no peace, saith the LORD, unto the wicked.  (Isaiah 48: 22)
  
  
  

NATURAL MAN

   Without the knowledge of God, man is no more than a brute beast of the field, wild and untamed, seeking whom he will control, dominate, mutilate, deceive, destroy, and devour. 
   Without the knowledge of God, man has no boundaries, no limitations, no restraints.
   Without the knowledge of God, there is no evil that man will not pursue. 
   Without the knowledge of God, there is no respect of persons, no respect for the rights of others, and no respect for that which is holy because man, without God, will never know that which is holy.
   In man's natural mind, it is therefore natural for man to lie, cheat, steal, and also to kill other humans, even women, children, and babies. 
  Without the knowledge of God, man has no conscience for both good and evil, but only evil will he have on his mind.
  Without the knowledge of God, man is a god unto himself:  and he will not feel guilt, remorse, or shame for his ungodly deeds:  for as a god unto himself, he lives according to his own executive orders. 
   It is, therefore, not natural for man to know Almighty God, for without God, there would be no love among men upon the face of the earth!
   At birth, we must be introduced to God.  We must be told and taught about Him.  We must be educated in the knowledge of God, in the ways of God, and the rebel that is within us must be subdued. 
   It is not natural for man to love:  it is natural for man to hate.
   It is not natural for man to obey:  it is natural for man to have his own way.
   It is not natural for man to worship Almighty God:  it is natural for man to build religions and to worship the gods of his own decision, even to worship other men as gods, and also to pray to dead people as gods.
   It is not natural for man to believe in the words of the Holy Bible:  it is natural for man to write his own books of religion and philosophy and believe in his own theories. 
   It is not natural for man to believe in Jesus Christ as the Messiah and Saviour of man:  it is natural for man to believe in his own way for salvation, even to create his own messiah and saviour.
   It is not natural for man to be humble:  it is natural for man to be prideful. 
   It is not natural for man to submit himself to God, for man does not want to release the power that he has to rule his own life as well as his power to rule over others.  Neither does natural man want to release his religions and cease from his worship of idols. 
   Knowing God is unnatural for natural man because man, at birth, is spiritually disconnected from God, which means that knowing God is a supernatural event in the lives of people as God comes to us in the person of the Holy Spirit to direct our minds and hearts to Christ as God initiates His love toward us.
  Therefore, there is a difference in knowing God and knowing religion, for man created religion---of himself, by himself, and for himself---because man is a god unto himself; and man's religion is a place to showcase his god, gods, and goddesses, his gods of things of the earth, and his gods of the sun, moon, stars, and planets because natural man worships nature:  his desire is to worship creation and not the Creator. 
   If you believe in Almighty God, be thankful:  that the knowledge of God has passed from people to people and across generations and centuries to reach your natural mind.
   If you believe in the Holy Bible, be thankful:  that the Word of Truth has passed from people to people and across generations and centuries to reach your natural mind.
   If you believe in Christ today, be thankful:  that the message of Christ has passed from people to people and across generations and centuries to reach your natural mind.
   Above all else, be thankful for the grace and mercy of Almighty God:  that you are now a recepient of the love of God, which passes all understanding. 
   By accepting Christ, you have placed your faith in the supernatural of God.
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  

A GREAT AWAKENING

   Santa Claus is an invention out of the imagination of people, and as the story of Santa Claus is told to little children, the imaginations of children are opened to believe in a world of fantasy and make-believe in the character of Santa Claus. 
   At a certain time of life, however, children experience a great awakening when they discover the truth about Santa Claus:  that Santa Claus is not real, that he is only a myth, or a fairytale. 
   Like Santa Claus, religion is also an invention of the imagination of people, and as the story of religion is told to little children, the imaginations of children are opened to believe in a world of fantasy and make-believe as children believe in the god, or gods and goddesses, of religion.  To them, their religion is real, and so are the images of their religion that are made with the hands of men---such as sculptors from rocks or trees, paintings, portraits, and trinkets of jewelry, and they bow to worship the images of the gods of their religion.  They can also believe that dead people can be elevated to the arena of diety, or as saints, and therefore dead people can now receive and answer prayers. 
   To little children, religion is real, and not a myth or a fairytale such as the story of Santa Claus.
   Unlike Santa Claus, however, many people of religion never experience a great awakening and come out of the world of imagination as they continue to believe in the myth and fairytale of their religion all the days of their lives, even to the day of their deaths. 
   To people of religion, the story of their religion is not a myth or a fairytale.  Their god or gods are real, not imagined.  Their prayers to dead people are real, not imagined.  Their ministers and priests, whom they believe are holy people, are actually holy people in their own minds.  Their belief in a god-man, such as "God in the flesh" or "Christ in the flesh", are real and not imagined. 
   To people of religion, the Holy Bible is a story of myth and fairtytale.
   To people of religion, God's creation story, as told in the book of Genesis of the Holy Bible, never happened.  And likewise the story of Noah's flood never happened, the parting of the Red Sea never happened, the resurrection of Christ from death never happened, and to believe that Christ will come again is simply not true---to people of religion. 
   To people of religion, man knows best what is best for man, and if man believes that gods of the universe rule the world, then this must be true:  and not fantasy or make-believe.  And if man believes that certain men can be god, or even gods, then this must be true.
   Even in certain Christian religions, Christ is simply a figurine---no more than an image in their imaginations, and not to be worshipped as one of their gods, and not to be prayed to as they pray to dead people, or as they pray to images within their religion. 
   To people of religion, Christ is considered to be the enemy because people of religion have their faith in their religion and they do not want to be disturbed or distracted. 
   To people of religion, to be saved by Christ, or to be born again in Christ, is an intrusion to them within their religion.  They want to be left alone to worship their gods and goddesses and images.
   Children of Santa Claus grow up, mature, and, because of a great awakening, they come out of the world of fantasy and make-believe and cease to believe in Santa Claus. 
   People of religion, however, never grow up, they never mature, and they remain as children of religion all the days of their lives.  Many of them never experience a great awakening, at which time they could abandon their faith in religion in order to believe in Christ Jesus the Lord.   On the contrary, they cling to their religion, they remain captives of religion, and they continue to believe in a world of fantasy and make-believe from the imaginations of people. 
   Please remember that it was religious people who wanted Jesus to die, and it was religious people who crucified the Lord. 
   What does God say about imagination?
      the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth.  (Genesis 8: 21)
  

ELEMENTS

   Witchcraft is the fastest growing religion in the United States and it is also the dominant religion in many nations all over the world.
   For thousands of years, Witchcraft has been operating as a secret religion---hidden, as an invisible religion, and not known by many people who know the craft. 
   For thousands of years, moreover, Witchcraft has been cloaked, or hidden, in all of man's visible religions, so that the ministers and priests of man's visible religions are also ministers and priests of invisible Witchcraft. 
   Man's visible religions perform rites and rituals, and Witchcraft is a religion of rites and rituals.
   Man's visible religions feature darkness, candles, and the burning of incense:  so does Witchcraft.
   Man's visible religions want the children of parents to learn their religion and be converts for life:  so does Witchcraft. 
   The ministers and priests of Witchcraft have the power to cast evil spells on people:  and the ministers and priests of man's religions cast the same evil spells on their flocks or memberships. 
   The knowledge of Almighty God is not wanted in man's religions because Satan is the god of Witchcraft:  which means that Satan is also the god of man's visible religions. 
   The knowledge of Christ and the knowledge of the Holy Bible are not welcome in man's religions, for Christ and the Bible are enemies of mans' religions because Christ and the Bible are enemies of Witchcraft. 
   So then, man's visible religions and invisible Witchcraft are one in the same:  while the people inside man's religions do not know or realize that they are subjects and slaves of Witchcraft.
   Knowing this, perhaps you can understand this writing from the Bible more clearly:
      But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:  In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.  (II Corinthians 4: 4)
   Satan is the god of this world and he has blinded the minds of people from believing in Christ for their salvation.  And people of religion are therefore blinded from the truth of Christ because of the evil power that abides in Satan through the religion of Witchcraft, being transferred by ministers and priests in man's religions.
   Beyond this, Witchcraft is now moving from the invisible to the visible, in the United States and in many nations around the world, and is being accepted by more and more people.  Satan is accomplishing this task through his power to deceive people through people in order to blind the minds from the truth of Christ.
   Witchcraft is presently being transmitted to the minds of people through books and magazines, movies and television, and music.  Television programs and movies are currently laced with the elements of Witchcraft by Satanic signs and symbols, clothed in darkness.   Many commercials, too, are currently laced with the elements of Witchcraft by Satanic signs and symbols, clothed in darkness. 
   The elements of Witchcraft include witches and wizards, demons, dragons, dungeons, aliens, vampires, zombies, which are also top themes today in movies, television programs, books and movies, and music.  And the dominant theme of Witchcraft is death to people. 
   Do you honestly believe that these elements of Witchcraft are simply vehicles of entertainment?
   If you are a member of religion today, think about this:  What has your religion done to your mind?  And what is your religion doing to the minds of your children and grandchildren?  Is this what you honestly want for yourself as well as for your children and grandchildren?  If so, then you are deceived, and now you are deceiving your own children and grandchildren to be like you. 
   Without Christ, you are living under the umbrella of Witchcraft, clothed in your visible religion:  and your present ministers and priests are ministers and priests of Satan.  They are deceivers of the darkest order. 
      Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.  (II Corinthians 6: 17, 18)
  
  
  

IN THE EYES OF GOD

   Golf is a revelation of the character of people. 
   If you want to know the character of  people, play golf with them and you will know them---in ways that may surprise you.
   If people are obedient in their private lives, so will they be on a golf course.  For this is their character.
   If people are honest in they private lives, they he will be as honest as possible on a golf course and will seek to do the right thing.   But if people are defiant about the rules of home, rules of work, rules of life, and rules of golf, they will be just as defiant on a golf course.  For this is their character.
   If people are domineering and controlling in their private lives, they will be just as domineering and controlling on a golf course.  For this is their character.
   If people are caring, sharing, and good sports in their private lives, they will be just as caring, and sharing, and good sports on a golf course.  For this is their character. 
   If people are proud, stubborn, and deviant in their private lives, they will be just as proud, stubborn, and deviant on a golf course.  For this is their character.
   If people make friends easily in their private lives, they will make friends easily in golf.  For this is their character.  But if people do not have many friends in their private lives, they will not have many friends in golf.  For this is their character.
   Golf is played in an open arena, in the light of day, and not in darkness.  There is no place to hide, not even among the blades of grass.  People will see everything you do.  They will read you like a book because your book is revealing your character to them:  page by page and word for word, all of your actions and reactions, your attitude, your emotions, and also the words you speak---hole by hole and stroke by stroke.
   Do you believe you have your anger under control?  Play golf and you will discover the truth about your anger, as well as perhaps your jealousy and envy.
   Out on the golf course, others will come to know the real you.  You may be able to fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. 
   Only you can change your character.  And if your character never changes, you will continue to be the same as you are, no matter where you go, and no matter what you do. 
   Under heaven, God sees you as you really are:  out in the open arena of life, in the light of day, in your private world when you are alone, and also the world in which you live under the cover of darkness.  God knows your character.  He knows your honesty or dishonesty, your obedience or defiance, every secret thing, and even your hypocrisy. 
  Golf will reveal your character faster than any other sport, but God will reveal your sin:
      and be sure your sin will find you out.  (Numbers 32: 23)
   How do you stand in the eyes of fellow golfers?
   More importantly, how do you stand in the eyes of God?
  

O FOOLISH MAN!

   If you believe in evolution instead of creation by Almighty God, why do you believe that?
   Why is the human brain divided into two hemispheres?
   Why does the human body have two eyes, two ears, two kidneys, two lungs, two arms, two legs, two feet, and two hands?
   How do you explain breath if we evolved? 
   How do you explain blood?
   How do you explain thirst and water?
   How do you explain the DNA of humans, animals, birds, fish, and plants?
   Is life on earth no more than a collection of accidents and coincidences?
   How do you explain human imagination, which is the human power to create new ideas?
   How is it possible that you can imagine a new idea that no other human has ever thought before?
   What about man's ability to invent languages, speak and write words, and invent music and sing songs, and also produce an array of musical instruments?
   How do you explain happiness and sadness and depression?
   If humans evolved, there would be no right or wrong, no good or no evil, and certainly no sin.  Yet millions of people are in pursuit of evil every day and throughout their lives.
   If humans evolved, how did we get the knowledge to invent religion?  Why do we need to make gods out of the sun, moon, stars, planets, as well as gods out of things of the earth, such as trees and rocks, animals, fish, birds, frogs, and eggs?  Why do we need to fashion idols with our hands, worship them, and also bring sacrifices to them?  And why do we elevate certain people of the earth to the position of gods and let them rule over us as religious "holy" people?  Why do we worship certain people and call them stars and idols? 
   If we evolved, why do we believe in a place called heaven and a place called hell?
   For people of religion and evolution, are heaven and hell no more than a production of man's imagination? 
   Evolutionary man believes in the gods of his own creation from his imagination, yet to believe in Almighty God is called religious myth.  God's creation of the universe is also called religious myth, and the Bible is called a book of religious myth. 
   Man created religions with his imagination, which is myth, yet he calls Almighty God a myth.
   If you believe in evolution, is the best you can do is contradict yourself?
   For if God does not exist, then there is no reason to explain Him away because something must exist before it can be erased.
   Is it not strange that people who believe in Christ also believe in creation by Almighty God?
   And is it not strange that people who believe in religion also believe in evolution?
   Man invented religion, and man also invented evolution:  and the purpose of these two inventions is to erase the knowledge of God from the minds of people. 
   For if God does not exist, neither can Satan.  Yet why do millions of people worship Satan in the religion of Witchcraft? 
   O foolish man, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?  (Galatians 3: 1)
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