A POT OF WATER

      Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. (1st Corinthians 13: 1)
   Steam is in the water, but the steam will never arise until heat is applied.
   Some people are like water, and the best in them will never arise until a fire is lit beneath their britches.  Until then, they will remain comfortable in comfort zones, doing no more than they are doing now.
   How many pots of water sit on church pews, refusing to be stirred, refusing to arise, but have found comfort on padded seats?  And their participation could be described as no more than the result of family rituals or family traditions; for as soon as they leave the building, they quickly return to the things they enjoy doing the most, which can include shopping, watching television, eating a meal, taking a nap, or talking about their neighbors.
   Kids like to splash water and make noise.  Some like to brag about everything they say they can do, and even to brag about things they have never done.  But when you call them out to play baseball on a summer afternoon, they say: "It's too hot".
   Many adults are like children:  they like to splash water and make noise.  They like to brag about everything they say they can do, and even to brag about things they have never done.  They like the attention.  They like the spotlight.  They say they like to play golf.  But when you call them out to play golf on a summer afternoon, they say: "It's too hot". 
   Sports always has its share of adults in kids' clothing. They like to splash water and make noise. They like to be the hot dog, or the star of the show.  But when the team needs them on game day, they suddenly have a cranky stomach.  Or they treat game day as a practice day because they haven't practiced for a week.
   Pots of water leave home, go to church, and leave the church.
   Pots of water leave home, go to church, and leave the church.
   Pots of water leave home, go to church, and leave the church.
   Going to church is like Ground Hog Day over and over again.
   Where is Christ in the pots of water? 
   Did Christ arise from death to simply vanish, or disappear, and to never be heard from again?
   Did Christ arise from death to simply return to heaven and to do no more?
   On the day of Pentecost, the disciples of Christ were gathered in an upper room.  And what were they doing there?
   They were praying!
   The disciples were not pots of water on a stove with nothing to do.  And when the Holy Spirit ignited their hearts with the power of God, steam began to arise out of the disciples!  They began preaching Christ on the streets of Jerusalem, and from there they departed to other nations because these pots of water were spilling over!
   Perhaps some pots of water should spend some time in prayer.  After all, Jesus said,  My house shall be called a house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (Matthew 21: 13)
   So then, if pots of water are not entering the house of the Lord to pray, what are they doing there?
   Could it be that the Holy Spirit has not ignited their hearts with the power of God?
   Could this be the reason for sounding brass and tinkling cymbals?
   If my pot of water is not shaken and stirred, then my pot of water will become a block of ice.
   What if Christ had remained as a pot of water in the tomb and refused to arise? 
   What if Christ had become a block of ice?
  
  

THE MECHANIC

   And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. (Romans 8: 28)
   Perhaps the easiest way to understand golf is when people come to understand the mechanics of the swing; for the swing is everything about golf and everything about golf is the swing.
   As stated previously, if people can stand on their feet and swing their arms, they can play golf---if and only if---they come to understand the mechanics of the swing:  for this is the knowledge of golf!
   Therefore, there is no secret to golf, and people do not need to be super athletes, nor be born with the talent to play golf.  All of these are misconceptions, and many people are missing their greatest golf games because of preconceived notions.
   In a most elementary way of trying to explain the mechanics of the swing is to say that the golfer and the club must become one unit, working together, in one fluid motion.  The club, the hands, the arms, and the whole body must be engaged TOGETHER and not allow the various parts of the body to operate INDEPENDENTLY from each other.  But if the hands move the club before the arms move, there is a problem.  If the legs move before the hands move the club, there is a problem.  The body and the club must move together, in unison and in harmony, in one fluid motion. 
   In the golfer's mind, he must be able to VISUALIZE this motion of the whole body and the club working together, in one motion, and then do it.  This will take time and this will take practice to get it right as he comes to understand timing, rhythm, and balance.
   In the golfer's mind, he must become a MECHANIC, for the golf swing is MECHANICS IN MOTION.  When this happens, then all things will work together for good for the golfer.  Once the golfer understands MECHANICS IN MOTION, then he will know that which the right thing to do, and, when he hits a ball badly, he will be able to diagnose his situation and fix his swing, for he becomes a mechanic.
   A golf pro, however, is a Master Mechanic.  He can help golfers repair their broken swings, which enables them to get back on track, perform better, and enjoy the fruit of their labor.
   As people, we are created by God.  Our bodies have moving parts, which are one with the body. The legs and the arms---like golf clubs---are designed to work in unison and in harmony with the body, which means that all things will work together for good with the body as long as the arms and legs do not try to perform independently from the body.  If this happens, we stumble and fall, and items slip through our fingers.
   Spiritually, Christ is the Great Mechanic of Heaven.  He can fix our pains.  He can restore our relationship with God, at which time we will become one with God and God will become one with us, just as the golf club becomes one with the body of a golfer.  Or, we can ignore Christ and continue to live our own lives, playing our own game, and never improving our relationship with God because we are ignoring the Great Mechanic and choosing instead to live our lives independently and without God's help. 
   God, however, is our Creator, and our Creator knows best what is best for us---just as the creator of golf clubs knows that which is best for golfers.  The creator of golf clubs has a purpose for the clubs, and God has a purpose for people.
   With Christ, our days will always be par for the course, but in golf we will still have those days when the best we can do is play bogey. 
  


  

CHANGING AMERICA

   Life in these United States will never be any better than life is today.  So enjoy the good days while the good days remain because change is coming to America.
   Life in all nations will never be any better than life is today.  So enjoy the good days while the good days remain because change is coming to the whole world.
   None of this change will be good for people:  neither in the United States, nor in other nations around the world.
   People in the United States have forsaken God, and people are no longer grateful, nor thankful, for the blessings of God.  And because people are no longer grateful or thankful, the blessings of God have become a curse.
       My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:  because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me:  seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children. (Hosea 4: 6)
   People are living their own lives their own way and they no longer need God to help them through the days, the weeks, the months, and the years.
   We have money, and the money is sufficient.
   We have jobs, and the jobs are sufficient.
   We have entertainment, sports, and recreational hobbies, and all of these are sufficient.
   We have television to tell all we need to know and the internet to post our selfie stories and selfie photographs.
   For everything that goes well in our lives, we take credit; and for everything that goes wrong, we either blame others, or we blame God.
   We have turned our faces toward government to fix our problems and fill our needs.
   We have turned our faces to religion to mend our souls and to enhance our own self-image.
   We rely on music and movie stars to dazzle us with their performances while turning the faces of our children to look at them as gods and goddesses of stage and screen, crowning them as national and international heroes.
   We rely on sports stars to dazzle us with their performances while turning the faces of our children to look at them as gods and goddesses of the colosseums, crowning them as national and international heroes.
   As it was in ancient Rome, so it is today in the United States and in all nations.
   We say, "Hail to Caesar", "Hail to Hitler", "Hail to the Chief", or even "Hail to the Pope".
   Because we have rejected God, God is rejecting us. 
   Because we have turned our faces against God, God is turning His face against us.
   Because we do not want God in our lives, nor in the lives of children, God will not abide where God is not welcome.
   Because we have chosen government, we will receive more government.
   Because we have chosen religion, we will receive more religion.
   Because people have rejected Christ, people will receive a false messiah, Antichrist. 
   For on the day when Christ was crucified in Jerusalem, the Jews said unto Pilate:
      We have no king but Caesar. (John 19: 15)
   And because America is changing by refusing to acknowledge God, Caesar is coming to America.
   Caesar is the False Prophet (the one who comes before) and he will introduce the world to the False Messiah, Antichrist, whom people will believe is a "god from above"---the one who will fix everything that is wrong with the world.
   Dear Heavenly Father:
      I exhort therefore, that, first all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.  For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. (1st Timothy 2: 1-5)
  
  
  

PAR FOR THE COURSE

   Golfers are no more than one putt away from improving their golf games. 
   Most golfers, however, do not see this simplistic approach to golf that could enhance their games and improve their scores because they are blinded  by their own pride, and deceived  by their own egos.
   As it is in golf, so it is in life:
      "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 which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."  (2nd Corinthians 4: 3-4)
   The gospel of Christ is hidden from people by Satan, and their eyes are blinded  by the Prince of Darkness because he does not want them to know the truth about Christ. 
   Therefore, the devil runs interferences in front of their eyes to distract their attention; and the devil also influences them to focus on themselves and to believe that their religion is sufficient for their salvation; or that water baptism is sufficient; or that they will believe that they are naturally good people and far above sin.  Yet, the Bible says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"  (Romans 3: 23)
   Just as making that one putt is the simplistic approach to golf, confession of sin to God is the simplistic approach to salvation through Christ Jesus.
   The prideful golfer, however, will reject the discipline of putting, but will believe he can make up the difference in lost strokes by driving the ball further off the tee; just as the prideful sinner will believe he can reject Christ and make up the difference in going to heaven by giving more money to his church or religious institution, or by his performance of more good works without confessing to God that he is a sinner; instead, he will confess his sins to a man because his mind has been programmed to believe that certain men of the earth are holy men, which entitles them to forgive sin. 
   The prideful golfer will not admit that his golf game stinks, just as the sinner will not admit that his life is a disaster---while both keep trying to improve in their respective arenas because they are blinded  by their own reflections in the mirror.  The golfer will not ask a golf pro for help with his golf game, and the sinner will not ask God to help with his sin.  Both will continue to believe that they will finish the course par for the day because they have deceived themselves into believing that they are kings and queens of golf as well as kings and queens of life.  But at the 18th hole, both will finish the course one putt short of par.
   Golfers will spend thousands of dollars on golf equipment to enhance their bloated self-images, when, in truth, all they need to do is improve their putts:  while the sinner will spend thousands of dollars on clothes and other possessions to improve his bloated self-image in the mirror.
   For the sinner, however, it's not his image in the mirror that needs more polish, but rather it is his soul that needs God; for he has no knowledge of God within himself, nor within his life, because he has rejected the very cure for his sin, which only Christ can cleanse, while believing that his religion is his cure for sin.
   The sinner wants to believe he looks good in the sight of God, when, in truth, he only looks good in the eyes of his religion---while, at the same time, he imagines that he looks good in the sight of the people in his church or religion, so that they (he imagines) will believe he is a just man, which he also imagines himself to be.
   Therefore, the prideful golfer will keep buying more golf equipment, and the sinner will keep buying more clothes and combing his hair.
   We must remember that it was the men of religion that wanted Jesus to die in Jerusalem and not the people of Israel. 
   As it was in Jerusalem, so it is today:  men of religion want people to believe they can do everything for people because Jesus died on a cross.  But men of religion have never arisen from death.
   Consequently, can anything good come out of religion?
   Nothing never has, and nothing never will.
      "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."  (1st Timothy 2: 5-6)
   Once people accept Christ, their blinded minds are opened to truth, at which time they realize they have no more need for religion---and they will finish life par for the course.
     

PAR FOR THE DAY

   Golfers are no more than one putt away from improving their golf games. 
   Most golfers, however, do not see this simplistic approach to golf that could enhance their games and improve their scores because they are blinded  by their own pride, and deceived  by their own egos.
   As it is in golf, so it is in life:
      "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 which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them."  (2nd Corinthians 4: 3-4)
   The gospel of Christ is hidden from people by Satan, and their eyes are blinded  by the Prince of Darkness because he does not want them to know the truth about Christ. 
   Therefore, the devil runs interferences in front of their eyes to distract their attention; and the devil also influences them to focus on themselves and to believe that their religion is sufficient for their salvation; or that water baptism is sufficient; or that they will believe that they are naturally good people and far above sin.  Yet, the Bible says, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;"  (Romans 3: 23)
   Just as making that one putt is the simplistic approach to golf, confession of sin to God is the simplistic approach to salvation through Christ Jesus.
   The prideful golfer, however, will reject the discipline of putting, but will believe that he can make up the difference in lost strokes by driving the ball further off the tee; and the prideful sinner will believe that he can reject Christ and make up the difference in going to heaven by giving more money to his church or religious institution, or by his performance of more good works without confessing that he is a sinner.
   The prideful golfer will not admit that his golf game stinks, just as the sinner will not admit that his life is a disaster---while both keep trying to improve in their respective arenas because they are blinded  by their own reflections in the mirror.  The golfer will not ask a golf pro for help with his golf game, and the sinner will not ask God to help with his sin.  Both will continue to believe that they will finish the course par for the day because they have deceived themselves into believing that they are kings and queens of golf as well as kings and queens of life.  But at the 18th hole, both will finish the course one putt short of par.
   Golfers will spend thousands of dollars on golf equipment to enhance their bloated self-images, when, in truth, all they need to do is improve their putts:  while the sinner will spend thousands of dollars on clothes and other possessions to improve his bloated self-image in the mirror.
   For the sinner, however, it's not his image in the mirror that needs more polish, but rather it is his soul that needs God; for he has no image of God within himself, nor within his life, because he has rejected the very cure for his sin, which only Christ can cleanse.
   Therefore, the prideful golfer will keep buying more golf equipment, and the sinner will keep buying more clothes and combing his hair.
     

SCORCHING THE FAIRWAYS

      If a person can stand on his feet and swing his arms, he can play golf.  All he needs now is the knowledge of golf.
   Fundamentals is the key that unlocks the knowledge of any endeavor we choose to pursue in life.
   Therefore, as people learn the fundamentals of a sport, for example, they are standing on a sure foundation.
   If, however, people resist or refuse to the learn the fundamentals, they will build their foundation on shifting sand, and their success will only be fleeting moments in their own imaginations.
   In golf, for example, golf clubs are designed and engineered to be swung a certain way, and when this way is learned, a person will improve his game from that day forward and for as long as he stands and remains with his feet planted on a sure foundation.  But if he strays and returns to his own way, his game will decrease because he has returned to his past way of standing on shifting sand.
   The fundamentals of golf is the language of golf.  But if a person skips the fundamentals, he is trying to play golf in his own language, and his clubs will respond according to the voice of the golfer, who is telling his clubs to do as they are told to do.  The clubs, however, understand the language of golf, and they will respond to the master's voice and not to the language they were designed to understand.  Instead of learning smooth swings, the golfer will chop and hack.
   As the golfer educates his mind in the knowledge of golf, by practice and by competition, he will convert his knowledge to skill, and his skill will improve as he improves his knowledge.  But if the golfer has skipped the fundamentals, his game will not improve because he has never learned the knowledge of golf:  for he is now playing in his own knowledge and in his own language.
   If a golfer scores 100, that is his skill level, and that score will never decrease until the golfer increases his knowledge in order to improve his skill and thereby reduce his score; but if there is no increase in his knowledge, there will be no decrease in the score.  For this reason, a golfer's score of 100 can remain there for weeks, months, and even for years, and that score will never change until the golfer makes a change within his own mind.  There is nothing wrong with his clubs, for his clubs are responding in the manner in which the master is telling them to perform.
   On the other hand, if a golfer is scoring 70, he has acquired the knowledge that enables him to reduce his score, little by little, and week after week, because his clubs are responding to the golfer's knowledge.
   There is no secret to becoming a better golfer.
   There is no magic formula that will enable a person to instantly become an ace golfer in one easy lesson, nor in one easy solution. Playing better golf requires the discipline of work and practice, work and practice, work and practice, but lazy golfers look for an easy way out.  They do not want to work.  They do not want to practice.  They want to believe that there is a secret to golf, or an easy solution, and neither is true.
   The greatest problem with beginning golfers is the illusion that they can be successful by swinging golf clubs any way they please!  But golf will not let them do that because the clubs are not designed and engineered to be swung as axes, picks, shovels, and chili scoopers.  As a result, the discipline they create to keep them unsuccessful keeps them unsuccessful. 
   Because of their pride, they will not admit that they do not know what to do in order to improve because that would be an admission of failure, or of being wrong:  for in their own minds they are never wrong:  and an admission would be saying that someone else knows more about golf than themselves!
   Because of their pride, they will not seek the help of a golf pro or golf coach because no one else knows golf like they know golf. 
   Because of their pride, they continue to play the game of their own knowledge and in their own language when, in truth, both their knowledge and their language are wrong!
   Thus their game is stuck in mud and muck because their foundation is built on shifting sand.
   In the beginner's mind, however, he believes he is playing golf---which, of course, he is.  But he is playing his own game, in his own knowledge, and in his own language.  He is not in the same game with other golfers, for they are further down the fairway waiting for him to catch up.  But he keeps believing that he will get better if he keeps playing his own way.  But he never gets better.  He never improves.  He is trying to play college golf with a kindergarten education.
   People do not need to be super athletes, or gifted with the talent to play golf.  None of us are born to be natural golfers.  But all the people playing golf need the same education.  All of them need to know the foundation, which is fundamentals.  Skipping the fundamentals is like skipping classes in high school and expecting to graduate with a diploma from college!
   People are born with talents, yes, but those talents must be disciplined, educated, and groomed in order to produce a bowl of delightful fruit.
   So then, the golfer is the master of his own destiny and his future is in his own hands.  But he will never shoot 70 with a diploma that reads "100". 
   A prideful golfer, however, is a living nightmare.  He refuses to wake up!  He refuses to see the disaster of his own making!  He refuses to admit that he doesn't know what he is doing!  Even in front of his friends and his family, he continues to play toddler golf!  He even appears to enjoy hitting golf balls all over the world because he knows that all eyes are on himself!  He has the attention, the spotlight---and he likes that!
   The prideful golfer does not lack physical ability, nor does he lack natural talent:  for all he lacks is the knowledge of golf.
   In closing, let me tell you that I was that prideful golfer in 2009.  And what I have learned most, since 2009, is that a person's relationship with golf will be no greater than his relationship with God.  For if a man will not humble himself to God and admit he is wrong, that same man will not humble himself to golf and admit that he is wrong.  Thus the man will continue to be a sinner just he will also continue to be a chopper and a hacker, for he is deceived by his pride, blinded by his own self-image, for he believes that the mirror on the wall was invented for himself.
   In 2010, God gave me the grace to humble myself to golf, at which time I went to see a golf doctor, who told me the news.  The news was not good.  But when I accepted the golf doctor's diagnosis and prescription plan, I was able to increase my knowledge of golf, which increased my skill, and now I am scoring about 80 per game instead of scorching the fairways with a hot 100.
   God resists the proud, but gives grace unto the humble. (James 4: 6)

CONTENTMENT IN BOREDOM

   Why do many people play the same golf game---day after day, week after week, month after month, and even year after year---without improving?
   Why do many people play a musical instrument---over and over again---without ever improving?
   Why do many people work their jobs the same way, every day, and do that same work for years without ever improving?
   Why do kids desire to start a band, only to sound like the Beatles, sound like the Beach Boys, or sound like Elvis?
   Why are people content at being mediocre, at being average, or at being middle-of-the-road, and not being any different than others who are being the same way?
   Have people found contentment in boredom?
   Are people afraid to be different?
   Are people afraid to be better than others?
   Are people afraid to be better than themselves?
   Are people afraid of success?
   Or, do people not believe that they can be better?
   Do people prefer to observe rather than to participate?
   Do people prefer to follow rather than to lead?
   Do people prefer to walk the trails of others than to make new ones?
   The Beatles, the Beach Boys, and Elvis were successful because they were different---not because they were boring!
   Professional athletes are successful because they are different---not because they are boring!
   Why are we afraid to lift our voices and speak our minds?
   Is all God created us to do is to find contentment in boredom?  To sit and watch others succeed while we keep playing the same songs on the jukebox?  To sit and watch as others blaze new trails while we stay at home mending fences?
   When people find contentment in boredom, they wait for things to happen, rather than make things happen.
   When people find contentment in boredom, the devil will be sure to find them---giving them something to think about, something that is attractive and alluring, and drawing them into his spider's web to capture their minds, their attention---and to lead them down a new trail that will eventually destroy their lives and their souls.
   When families find contentment in boredom, the children will pursue adventures outside of the family just to get away from all the boredom at home.
   When married couples find contentment in boredom, one will pursue a person of interest outside the marriage that will rekindle some excitement in their lives rather than to spend their days and nights in boredom.
   Even churches and religious institutions can become places of contentment in boredom.  The people pray the same prayers, sing the same songs, hear the same sermons, sit in the same places, wear the same clothes, and treat others the same way they have treated others for weeks, months, years, and even for decades.  There is never nothing new, nothing different, and nothing exciting.  It is as if even their souls have gone to sleep.
   Or, could it be that their souls have never been awakened?  Therefore, is taking a nap at church any different than taking a nap at home?  After all, what are they missing when they are not sleeping?
   With contentment in boredom, are people actually sleep-walking through life?
   So, how's your golf game?
      About the same.
   How was church today?
      About the same.
   How was your week at work?
      About the same.
   How are you doing with playing the piano?
      About the same.
   Is about the same all there is to life in the pursuit of happiness?
   Is about the same all there is to life in the pursuit of excellence?
   If all you can do is play boring golf, why not give it up and pursue another challenge?
   If playing piano is boring, why not give it up and pursue another instrument?
   If watching television is nothing but boring, why not give it up and pursue another interest?
   When we find contentment in boredom, we have found comfort in laziness---at which time the pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of excellence will be no more than the sound of a stone splashing on top of the water. 
   Jesus said,
      I am come that they might have life,
        and that they might have it more abundantly. (John 10: 10)
   There was nothing boring about the life of Christ.  Everything he did and everything he said was different, refreshing, and exciting.  His fame went before him in Israel and people gathered to see what Jesus would do and to hear the words that he would speak.  He was not the same as other men, and many people followed Him and called him Lord because Jesus was giving them eternal life.
   As the people accepted Christ, they awakened from sleeping, from taking naps, and they began to walk with newness in their lives and a new song in their hearts.  Never again did they find contentment in boredom.
   Over the past two thousand years, millions of people have been awakened from sleeping because of Christ.  Their lives have been different, refreshing, and exciting.  We have been given a newness in life that this world cannot give us, and we have a new song in our hearts that this world does not know.
   With Christ, about the same is never the same.
  
  
  

IMAGINARY CHRISTIANITY

   If a person says he is a Christian because he is a Baptist, or a Methodist, or a Catholic, or the name of any other denomination, he is living in a world of Imaginary Christianity.
   If a person says he is a Christian because he believes his sins have been forgiven by a minister or a priest, he is living in a world of Imaginary Christianity because God has never authorized any man or woman to forgive the sins of people.
   If a person says he is a Christian because of the inheritance of his faith through his family bloodline, or family tradition, he is living in a world of Imaginary Christianity.
   If a person believes he is a Christian because he celebrates Christmas, Easter, Saint Patrick's Day, or eats fish on Fridays, he is living in a world of Imaginary Christianity.
   If a person believes he is a Christian because he prays to idols, or to the souls of dead people whose bones are still in the dirt, he is living in a world of Imaginary Christianity.
   Christ is very clear in His presentation of salvation to Nicodemus, a Jewish priest, in the Gospel of John, chapter 3, verses 3 and 5.
   Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
   Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
   Therefore, a person cannot SEE nor can he ENTER the kingdom of God except he be born again.
   This is it.  This is everything.  And there is nothing else.
   For Christ is the one and the only way of salvation, and Christ is the one and the only way to get to heaven.
   A person's denomination did not die for his sins.
   A person's religious Christianity did not die for his sins.
   No minister or priest upon the earth died for any person's sins.
   Likewise, a person's denomination, religious Christianity, nor a minister or priest arose from death and ascended to God the Father in heaven.
   The name of Christ is all people need to know to be saved.
      Neither is there salvation in any other:  for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4: 12)
   For this reason, Christ alone is the one and the only way of salvation, and Christ alone is the one and the only way to get to heaven.
   Anything else is only Imaginary Christianity.




  

WOMEN NOT INCLUDED

   In the garden of Eden, the serpent talked with Eve and Eve talked with the serpent.
   But Adam was there.
   Yet Adam remained silent, watching and listening to everything, saying nothing.
   Why did Adam not speak?
   Perhaps Adam's silence is one of the greatest mysteries of the Bible in one of the greatest stories ever told.
   On the other hand, why was Eve so quick to talk? 
   Perhaps this, too, is one of the greatest mysteries of women.
   Even today, why are women so quick to talk, and why are men so quick to remain silent?
   Why are men today so quick in giving women everything they want, everything they request, and so quick as to do everything that women say?
   Is a woman a man's greatest weakness?
   Do men believe that they must please a woman before they can please God?
   Do men believe they must believe a woman before they can believe God?
   Eve has been blamed for the whole problem that happened in the garden of Eden. 
   But what about Adam?  Adam was there.  Should Adam be held accountable for his part in accepting fruit from the forbidden tree as much as Eve?  Or is Eve the scapegoat?
   After Eve's affair with the serpent, did Eve become a sexual goddess in the eyes of Adam?
   Over the past six thousand years, have women been viewed as no more than sexual goddesses by men?  That women are supposed to be seen and not heard?  That she is no more than a decoration on a man's arm as a piece of costume jewelry?
   Is this the reason that explains why men think about sex with a woman 99% of the time?
   Is this the reason why men go crazy and lose all common sense in the presence of women?
   Is this the reason for polygamy because men have a thirsty appetite for sex with women that cannot be quenched by one woman?
   Is this the reason that explains why kings have stables of concubines to satisfy their never-ending thirst for sex?
   In the garden of Eden, Adam is virtually forgotten because we see the story focused totally on Eve.  Or, is this because of the way the story has been told by men?  Or that a man would have never made the choice that Eve made had the serpent spoken to him first! 
   For this reason, men have sought to put a bridle on the mouths of women for six thousand years, forcing them to remain silent in the presence of men, and to be no more than sex slaves and mothers of their children.
   Just as men see Eve for the whole affair in the garden of Eve, they want to blame women for everything else that goes wrong.  For if women will just remain silent, then men will manage everything and do it better by himself than with the help of women.  For this reason, women should not participate in the affairs of states, in governments, in religions, and neither in churches, for men want to believe that women will make the same mistake that Eve made in the garden of Eden.  So then all women are penalized for being women, and all women are considered to be just like Eve, and all women should continuously be punished for Eve's role in the garden of Eden. Or that women are guilty for the simple fact that they are born as women?
   Or have men simply crowned themselves as judges over women?
   But along came Jesus of Nazareth, and everything changed. 
   Jesus did not treat women the way men of the earth treated women. 
   Two of the Lord's closest and dearest friends were Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus.  Jesus was a guest in their home in Bethany many times, and the Lord loved them.
   Mary Magdalene was the first witness of the Lord's resurrection, and Mary Magdalene was a women!
   After the resurrection of Christ, many women became disciples of the Lord, and the apostles never rebuked them, nor turned them away!
   In the book of Acts, many women were pastors of churches, and the apostles never rebuked them, nor turned them away!
   In the twentieth century, Fanny Crosby wrote nearly one thousand hymns for Christ, and Fanny Crosby was a woman!
   Perhaps many of the problems men have with women is not because of women, but because of the relationship men have with God! 
   In secret societies, women are not included.  Their lives are totally dominated and controlled by men as if they are living under czars of dictatorships while not knowing the secret activities of their husbands behind closed doors in chambers of darkness.  They are also expected to have babies.
   In Islam, too, women are considered as no more than property, or a piece of real estate, in the eyes of men.  She can be bought, sold, and even murdered by her own husband at his discretion.
   In Catholicism, men run the shows while the only position for women is to be nuns, or to marry men and have babies.
   In Mormonism, men run the shows while women are expected to marry men and have babies.
   How much of the way many Christian men treat women comes from the influence of men in secret societies, who have crept into churches as false prophets to distort the view of men toward women?
   If, however, men are to be the spiritual leaders of a family and the head of the household, Adam was a complete failure in this role in the garden of Eden.  Yet Eve is the one many people consider to be the blame for sin entering into this world.  So if Adam had stood up and put his foot down perhaps the serpent would have gone away.  Instead, Adam did nothing.
   Where is love when women are treated as no more than second-hand shoes, or as used cars?
   Did God create women to be no more than servants to their husbands?  To cook food, clean house, and give birth to babies?
   Are men so proud to believe that they are Kings of Everything while women are the Queens of Nothing?
 
     

ILLUSIONS

   My greatest problem with golf is ME, and I am also my greatest solution.  But if I am unable to admit that I am my problem with golf, then becoming a better golfer will be no more than an illusion.
   As I play golf with many golfers, I see them playing the same game, day after day, with little or no improvement.  I see them playing the same game, month after month and year after year, with little or no improvement.  They buy new golf balls, new golf shoes, and new golf clothes, but they keep coming back to the same game they played yesterday.  They buy new golf carts, but their game rarely improves---as if their game today is no more than a continuation of the same game they played yesterday.
   Why do people invest hundreds and thousands of dollars to play a sport with little or no improvement?  They keep coming back, believing that they will get better as long as they keep playing, as long as they keep swinging clubs, but improvement is barely noticeable from year to year.  Yet many people are content to play golf this way for five, ten, fifteen, and thirty years, or even longer.
   Why? 
   Do they not have anything better to do with their time?  Or with their money?
   Becoming a better golfer is in the golfer, but the golfer is unable to get the better golfer out of himself because he lacks the knowledge of golf; and because he is too proud to ask for help, or too proud to see a golf doctor, he plays the same game with the same illusion that he will improve his game with the same knowledge he applied yesterday, last week, last month, and all across thirty years.  So at the end of thirty years, he is not much better than he was after his first five seasons.
   If I did not believe that I could become a better golfer, I would quit.  I would invest my money and my time in something that would be progressively better---and much more fun---than playing the same song on a jukebox for thirty years!
   In like manner, many people are as devoutly devoted to their churches and to their religious institutions, as they are to golf, but they play the same song on a jukebox throughout their lives on earth.  Like golfers, they buy new church clothes and new cars to take them to their places of worship, but their lives never change.  They celebrate Christmas and Easter, they celebrate holidays and holy days and participate in all the festivities, but they never talk about the Lord.
   People of religion never tell me how wonderful their religion is for themselves and for their children.  It is as if their religion is a secret and people on the outside are not entitled to know what they know in their religion.  They keep it to themselves, never sharing their wonderful religion with others.  It is as if I am in the wrong bloodline to have the religion that they believe is so wonderful for themselves and for their families---or as if I am not good enough to be a member of their Ecclesiastical Country Club where membership is BY INVITATION ONLY.
   To people of religion, is heaven no more than an illusion?  They talk about going to heaven, but they never talk about God in heaven, or Christ in heaven. 
   A golfer's game is a work of his own hands, and improvement is no more than an illusion as long as he keeps working his hands the same way.
   In like manner, is heaven no more than a work in the imaginations of people?  If so, then heaven will be no more than the heaven they have imagined heaven to be:  for heaven will be no more than a continuation of their lives on earth.  As people do as they please in this life, then they will believe that they will do as they please in heaven:  that they will do in heaven just as they did while living on earth, while getting to sit in the High Chair next to God!
   If a golfer never repents, in that he is unwilling to admit that he is the problem with his game, he will never change his ways.  And if people are unwilling to repent to God, in that they are unwilling to admit that they are the problem, they will never change their ways.  So then, the golfer and the sinner will keep playing the same song on the jukebox, living in the same illusion that they can do all things by themselves because they believe they are perfect in all their ways, and that they do not need a golf doctor or God in heaven to fix their pains!
   By this method of self-inflicted mind control, the golfer remains an average hacker, and the sinner remains a sinner:  for both are fixated on themselves, in all of their pride and glory, for they believe that the spotlight in on themselves:  and it thrills them to think that others are in their lives to watch them!
   Until a golfer humbles himself to golf, he will never become a better golfer, and playing better golf will always be an illusion because he keeps believing that his way is the right way, when, in fact, his way is the wrong way.
   Until a sinner humbles himself to God, he will never experience the salvation of Christ through faith and by the grace of God, because he keeps believing that his way is the right way, when, in fact, his way is the wrong way. 
   So then, the golfer and the sinner deceive themselves by their own illusions.
      For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God:  not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9)
   When a golfer lacks the knowledge of golf, playing better golf will never be more than an illusion in his own imagination.
   And when a sinner lacks the knowledge of Christ, heaven will never be more than an illusion in his own imagination.
   The golfer will keep working to get better, but getting better will never happen:  while the sinner will keep working to earn his way to heaven without Christ, which will never happen.
   If I accept the knowledge of a beginning golfer, then my game will never be more than the game of a beginning golfer:  and becoming a better golfer will always be an illusion.
   If I accept the knowledge of religion, then my life will never be more than the knowledge of that religion:  and getting to heaven will always be an illusion.
   The name of a golfer will never give me a better golf game, and the name of a religion will never give me salvation and a passage to heaven, for only the name of Christ can do that:
      for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.  (Acts 4: 12)

HOSTILE TERRITORY

     And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered. (Genesis 9: 2)
   
    The most violent creature on earth is human, and the most endangered species on earth is human.
    Humans fear humans more than humans fear animals, and animals fear humans more than animals fear animals.
    Humans kill their own kind without blinking or blushing.
    We like to brag about our ways of law and order.  We like to brag about our way of civilization. We like to brag about our educational institutions. We like to brag about our governments and our religions.  We like to brag about our way of domesticating animals, taming them, and training them to be our servants as workers in the fields.
   Yet for all that we do that we think is so great, the earth remains hostile territory for humans; for we will domesticate our own kind to be slaves and servants as workers in the fields.
   Because the earth is hostile territory for humans, we will deploy our own kind to be no more than pack animals on expeditions to conquer more and more territories in the name of civilization, and to build more towns and cities as places to reproduce our own children to be exact duplicates of ourselves in them.
   How can people be so heartless?  How can people be so cruel?
   Not only are we violent, but we are also willing to sacrifice our own children and babies on coals of fire to be burned alive as offerings to the gods of our own invention.
   Why in the world did Jesus leave heaven to come to a place like this!
   Why?
   Christ knew He would not be welcome here. 
   Christ knew that the hearts of men are evil.
   Christ knew that evil men would conspire to kill Him.
   Christ knew all of this, and yet He came here anyway.
   Would you do that if you were Christ?
   Even within the Great Sanhedrin, the religious authority of Israel, there were evil men who thought that killing Jesus would be the perfect solution to their madness; and thus they sought to capture Jesus because they had murder on their minds. 
   For it was not Rome that was against Jesus.  Not at first.  But after Pontius Pilate had time to think about the request of the Jews, the more he was inclined to accept the plan. 
   What, then, is so great about religion when men of religion are willing to kill humans?
   Even today, the greatest problem people have with Christ is found in the fact that Jesus did not remain dead.  For there are people today that are just as mad as those men who drove the nails in the hands of Jesus two thousand years ago.  For there are people today just as religious as those religious men of Israel. 
   By now, we should be able to see and to understand that religion is the house of violence, for violent behavior is accepted there.  For the fires of violence are spreading all over the world today as the world remains hostile territory for humans.
   The fields are burning and they will continue to burn until God puts His foot down and ends this violent wave of spiritual madness; for the world will never be any better than it is today; and even life in these United States will never be any better than life is today.
      Even so, come, Lord Jesus.  The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
                                                                                                    (Revelation 22: 20-21)
  

OVER THE WALL

   Sin is an invisible wall that separates us from God.
   But Christ came over the wall to die for our sin, and we, as we trust in Christ for the forgiveness of our sin, are now one with God the Father in heaven.
   For now the invisible wall has disappeared.
   For now we are online with God. 
   For now we have direct access to God the Father in heaven.
      For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:  it is the gift of God:  not of works, lest any man should boast. (Ephesians 2: 8-9)
   Knowing this, we no longer worship idols. 
   Knowing this, we no longer believe in the images of idols, such as portraits, pictures, or photographs. 
   Knowing this, we no longer need lucky charms, such as a rabbit's foot, a four-leaf clover, or a trinket dangling on a necklace. 
   Knowing this, we no longer pray to the souls of dead people whose bones are still in the dirt.
   And for the first time, because Christ came over the wall, we experience the love of God.
   Because Christ came over the wall, we now have the love of God that is in Christ also in us.
   For now it is this love of God, abiding in us, that compels us to share Christ with others, so that they, too, can experience the love of God through Christ Jesus the Lord, and to be joyful for them because of their trust in Christ for their salvation.
   Because Christ came over the wall, we can now believe that the Bible is the Word of the Lord; and as we read the Word of the Lord, we begin the process of filling our minds with the knowledge of God.  For it is the Word of the Lord that enables us and strengthens us to begin this new journey in life:  a new way of living, a new way of walking, and a new way of talking.
   Because of our faith in Christ, we are now enabled to believe in things not seen; for even Christ is also invisible, but, because of our belief, we know He is real:  for it is Christ who did for us that which we are incapable of doing for ourselves. 
      Neither is there salvation in any other:  for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved. (Acts 4: 12)
   If you have trusted in Christ today, then let me say welcome to the family of God!
  

A STRANGE ROMAN

   Religions are dictatorships.
   The people of religion have no voice, nor vote in policies and programs.
   The people of religion do not choose their ministers and priests, who are their commanding officers sent from the Home Office.
   The people of religion sit and listen in total obedience to their commanders. They do as they are commanded to do.  All of their actions are dictated.  They sit, they stand, they kneel, they pray, they sing, or chant---on command and on cue.  They never disagree with their commanders.
   The people of religion do not have the power to change anything about their religion, and they are expected to train their children to do likewise:  to become carbon copies of themselves. 
   Religion is an assembly line of productivity, which is why religion has generations of families performing the same rites and rituals for hundreds of years, and which is why people of religion believe that their religion is in their DNA:  the belief that their religion is transferred to them from their ancestors---as if their religion is a transfusion from gods from above to their forefathers.
   Even within religious Christianity, we see a dictatorship at work because the people do as they are dictated to do.  And even though they are taught to say "Christ is risen" they never speak a word about the Lord. Why?  If they believe that Christ is risen from death, why do they not want others to hear this good news?  Why do they not teach their children to speak for Christ instead of living for their religion?
   There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band, a devout man, and one that feared God with all his house, which gave much alms to the people, and prayed to God always.  (Acts 10: 1-2)
   Cornelius was a strange Roman.  He did not cling to a religion.  He did not believe as other Romans believed.  He was not living under a religious dictatorship, and nor was he living under the authority of the priests of Rome while living in Judea.  He did not believe in the Roman Way, nor did he kneel to the gods of Rome.  Instead, Cornelius believed in God, the Creator of the universe!   And though he believed in God, he was not saved.  But after meeting Peter, the apostle of the Lord, and after hearing Peter expound on all things concerning Christ in the Scriptures, Cornelius and all of his house believed and were baptized in the name of the Lord.
   Cornelius was a Roman and he was the first Gentile to convert to Jesus Christ.  He was also the first Roman to denounce the religions of Rome.  This was risky for Cornelius to do, but he did it anyway.
   As a personal footnote to this story today, I was a religious Christian for most of my adult life.  Since I was a child, I believed in God, I believed in Christ, and I believed in the Bible.  But like Cornelius, I was not saved.  All of that changed, however, when, early in the morning hours of April 27, 1995, Christ came to me and I believed in Him, person to person, for the first time.  In so doing, I lost my religion.  But losing my religion was because of my gain in Christ.  Ever since that day, I have not lived under a religious dictatorship.
   Over the past three and a half years, the Lord has enabled me to see the difference between God and religion; and the Lord has enabled me to separate religion from God and God from religion.  For God will not mix His holiness with man's unholy religions. 
   To know Christ, people must come out of religion.  To gain Christ, they must be willing to let go of religion.  For their religion cannot save them from their sins; neither can the names that are in their religion save them from the sins.
      Neither is there salvation in any other:  for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved.  (Acts 4: 12)
   This was the experience of Cornelius, and this was the experience of me.
   Because of the power of the name of Jesus Christ, He is the most important person in the universe---including things seen and things not seen, of all things past and all things future.
   Christ is the most important name to speak about, to write about, to sing about, and the only Person who is alive after death to hear the prayers of people.
   No wonder Christ is called KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. (Revelation 19: 16)
   Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and the King of glory shall come in.  Who is this King of glory?  The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. (Psalm 24: 9-10)

AMERICA IN CHAINS

   None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
                                                           Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832


   Our forefathers created upon this continent a new nation, The United States of America, a nation that would feature the freedom of people. 
   Yes, we have experienced a degree of freedom that no nation has had in human history.
   Yes, we have been free to educate our minds in schools, colleges, and universities.
   Yes, we have been able to create companies and corporations, which have created jobs and career opportunities unlike any nation in human history.
   Yes, we have been free to accumulate wealth, to buy homes and cars and the necessities of life, to finance vacations, and free to travel from state to state, or from nation to nation.
   Yes, we have been free to leave this nation as well as to accept immigrants from other lands.
   Yes, we have been free to establish churches and religious institutions, and to worship freely without government intervention.
   In truth, however, we have only been as free as the law of the land allows, or as the length of the leash from the master's hand.  We have been rewarded for good behavior, and we have punished people for choosing to behave badly.
   Our people have willingly fought and died in wars to defend our freedom.
   Our people have lived with the belief that the next generation will live better than the previous generation.
   After more than two hundred years of freedom, however, Americans have become dependent on government, which means that people have come to believe in government as a god as we depend on politicians as servants of our god:  for we have come to trust in them to know best that which is best for us.
   We depend on government to fix our pains and our problems.
   We depend on government for better jobs and wages.
   We depend on government to solve social issues such as racism and gender equality.
   We depend on government to protect our rights to sin against God, such as bi-sexuality, homosexuality, pedophilia, and same-sex marriages.
   In truth, Americans have come to treat our government as a god, and we have rewarded our servants in government with higher wages and benefits because we are trusting in them to heal our nation.
   We say we are One nation, under God, but, as a nation, do we really trust in God for anything?
   As a result of our backsliding ways, we are now chained to government; for now the people praise our government for everything it is doing while praising God for nothing.
   We want the Ten Commandments removed from public places, yet we say nothing about the Islamic prayer tower atop the One World Trade Center in New York City.
   This Islamic prayer tower means that our government has secretly surrendered our nation to Allah, for the Islamic prayer tower has the approval of President Obama, Pope Francis, and the United Nations.
   Furthermore, this Islamic prayer tower is a public proclamation of victory for Allah and for Islam in the United States.
   Now we know that Christ is not welcome at the United Nations, and now we know that Christ is not welcome at the One World Trade Center, nor at Ground Zero.
   While good people have remained sitting and silent, evil has arisen across America.
   As the people of America have turned their faces against God, the Lord has turned His face against America; for God will not abide where God is not wanted. 
   Ichabod means:  The glory has departed from Israel. (1st Samuel 4: 21)
   Like Israel, the glory of God has departed from America.  But because America is in chains to the government, to a wicked and evil lord, Americans have not noticed that God is missing.
   As Goethe said, None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
   Today in America, our government is the same as a religion.  And because we falsely believe we are free, we are slaves to this political-religious system by the ministers and messengers of Satan because we have been deceived, in slow and in subtle ways, by men in fancy suits and priestly garments.
   Christ warned us that this day would come when He said: 
      Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. (Matthew 7: 15)
  
  
  
  

La Cucaracha

   Religion is a system, and it is the system it was invented to be.
   No matter if a religion is hundreds or even thousands of years old, it is still the same system.
   Religion is as simple as A, B, C---or One, Two, Three.
   Therefore, there is nothing new about a religion, and there is nothing different.
   Religion is the same song, the same La Cucaracha with enchiladas---dipped in the same sauce, ingested over and over again, and the results are always the same because there are no new lyrics.
   Religion is a learned behavior, and the learning is from memorization.
   As people convert to a religion, they must be indoctrinated to the system.  They must be able to learn the A, B, C---and the One, Two, Three---after which they can be confirmed as a card-carrying member of the system.  Now they are entitled to all the benefits of other members.
   People can be trained to believe in a religion, just as a dog can be trained to obey his master.
   Just as it is best to begin a dog's training when he is a puppy, it is also best to begin a person's training when he is a young child.
   Old dogs have bad habits, and it is difficult to break an old dog's bad habits.
   Adults have bad habits, and it is difficult to break an adult's bad habits.
   But a child?  The child is still young, his mind is fresh, and he can easily adapt to the training because he has no bad habits to fight against learning the system.
   Puppies are rewarded for good behavior with a pat on the head and a dog bisquit, and children are rewarded for good behavior with a pat on the head with a cookie and a glass of juice.
   It is easier to train a puppy when he is separated from old dogs, so as not to learn their bad habits, and it is also easier to train a child when he is separated from children of other religious institutions, so as not to learn their unacceptable habits.
   Socialism understands the power of religion.  Karl Marx said, "Religion is the opiate of people."
   To Karl Marx, religion is the same as a drug, for religion has the power to control the behavior of people.  Once people are hooked on religion, they will usually remain obedient to their religion all the days of their lives---just as a puppy will remain obedient to his master all the days of its life.
   La Cucaracha is a Spanish traditional children's song that became popular in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution.  In Spanish, "La Cucaracha" means "The Cockroach", and the song is about a drug.
   Listen to the lyrics in Spanish:
         La cucaracha, la cucaracha
         Ya no puede caminar
         Porque no tiene, porque le falta
         Marijuana que fumar.
   Now hear the lyrics in English:
         The Cockroach, the cockroach
         Now he can't go traveling
         Because he doesn't have, because he lacks
         Marijuana to smoke.
   See how easily the minds of children can be converted to accept a drug because of a catchy song?
   Jesus said,
         I am the way, the truth, and the life: 
        no man cometh to the Father, but by me. (John 14: 6)
   When people reject Christ by accepting religion, they are receiving straight dope from the Devil.
   Karl Marx knew this!

CAIN'S BLOODLINE

   God is God.
   God is not a religion, and religion is not God.
   God does not have a religion in heaven.
   Religion did not come down to earth from God in heaven.
   Christ is the Son of God, and Christ came down to earth from God in heaven.
   Christ, however, did not bring a religion with Him from heaven, and neither did Christ instruct His apostles and disciples to construct a religion in His name. 
   All of the religions on the earth are creations from the imaginations of men as institutions to trap people, to incarcerate them as in a prison, to block their minds from receiving the knowledge of God, and to prevent them from knowing the truth of Christ.
   Because religions are creations from the imaginations of men, everything that men have created inside their religions are also creations from their own imaginations. Therefore, religion is not real.  Because religion is not real, neither are the gods or goddesses real, for they are no more than myths and fairy tales.
   The people of religion have been bewitched by the witchdoctors of religion, who are the ministers and priests of Satan.  The people are believing in a system that is not real, and the people are praying to gods and goddesses that are not real.  Their idols and images of their gods and goddesses are not real:  for they have never lived, and neither are they living now.  But because the people have been bewitched, they believe their religions are real, and they also believe their gods and goddesses are real in their own imaginations because they have believed in lies as truth.
   O, how foolish people are to believe that gods of stone can hear and answer prayer!
   O, how foolish people are to believe that the image of a god or goddesses, such as a statue, portrait, or photograph, can hear and answer prayer!
   O, how foolish people are to believe that the souls of dead people can hear and answer prayer!
   O, how foolish people are to believe that religion is the way to heaven when religion is not in heaven!  And neither are the gods and goddesses in heaven because they do not exist!
      In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. (Genesis 1: 1)
   In the beginning, God created Adam and Eve, and Adam and Eve did not have a religion.
   With the abundance of religions across the earth, have you ever wondered why Adam and Eve did not have a religion?  It was because all Adam and Eve had was God, and it was also because religion had not been invented by a man of the earth.
   But along came Cain and everything changed as Cain became the Founder of Religion while under the influence of Satan, his father, for Satan is the Father of Religion. 
   So then it was Satan who established religion upon the earth, and it is Satan who has influenced men to build religions of deception centers in order to deceive people to believe that religion is from heaven!
   Do you see that?  Do you see this truth?
   For it was men of religion who crucified Christ, the Son of God.
   Cain was incapable of worshipping God because Cain's DNA is from Satan, and the men who have created religions are just like Cain.  They are totally against God, and they are at war with Christ; for men of religion do not want people to believe that Christ is the Son of God, and neither do they want people to believe that Christ arose from death, nor do they want people to believe that Christ will return to the earth.
   Why else do men adorn themselves in fancy suits and priestly garments, pretending to be servants of God, when, in truth, they are servants of Satan?
   In September, 2015, the leaders of the world will gather in New York City at the United Nations.  These leaders are from governments and they are from religions.  Have they invited Christ to their world conference?   Of course not!  Christ is not welcome in the United Nations.
  Neither will Christ be welcomed at the World Council of Families in Philadelphia in September, 2015. 
   Neither will Christ be welcomed at the White House when President Obama and Pope Francis meet there in September, 2015.
   Do you see what is happening in front of our eyes and in broad daylight?
   The men of the earth are gathering in September, 2015, to initiate their final campaign against Christ and to usher in a New Age, a New World Order, a Year of Light in order to illuminate the world with the arrival of the False Messiah, who is Antichrist.  They are operating under the disguised platform of Global Warming and Climate Change.
   This is the truth of what religion is all about, and this is the truth of what religion has been about since the day of Cain.  For religion has been at war against Christ since Cain, and Satan has been at war against Christ since before religion was established upon the earth!
   So then, if religion is supposed to be so good for people, and exactly what people need, why did men of religion crucify Jesus, an innocent man?
   And if religion is so good for people today, and exactly what people need, why are the men of religion and government planning to usher in a False Messiah, who is Antichrist?  Why would they want an imposter when they could have the real thing, who is Christ?
   The answer is simple:  they are like Cain, they hate God, and they hate Christ.
   Like Cain, they are servants of Satan:  pretending to be ministers and priests of God while walking around in fancy suits and priestly garments.  But this is a secret, you see, for they do not want us to know that Satan is their god. 
   The serpent seedline of the Illuminati are of the bloodline of Cain, or the Edomite Jews, and these are the men who rule the world today.  These men are Satan's children in human flesh, and they will be gathering together in New York City in September, 2015.


  

KINGS & QUEENS OF THE TEES!

   Have you ever prayed about your golf game?
   Perhaps you should.
   If you are prideful, however, you will not ask for help from other golfers or golf coaches, and neither will you ask God.
   Help?  You don't need any help.  You can do this all by yourself and you certainly don't want any lip about it!
   In your own mind, you are the golfer others talk about. 
   All of your drives at the tees are simply majestic in their beauty. 
   Your second and third shots to the greens are something to behold.
   No one can pitch and chip quite like you.
   When putting, you own the greens.
   You keep swinging the same way and getting the same results, but you can do this.  You know your game will get better if you just keep swinging, if you keep doing the same things you taught yourself to do because, after all, there is no one on the course quite like you.  You are different, you are unique, you are one-of-a-kind.  Most of all, you are you.
   Why, it would be beneath your dignity to ask for help!  Lessons are for people not like you.
   In your own mind, golf is for you and for this you were born.
   In truth, however, people play golf the same way they play life.  They don't need help from others, and they certainly don't need any help from God, for asking God for help is beneath their dignity.
   When golfers stop learning anything new, their game is stifled, they accept a comfort zone, and they will remain in this comfort zone and play the same game, the same way---month after month, year after year, and even decade after decade---with little or no improvement.  But that doesn't bother them because they are playing their own game, in their own mind, and in their own way.  And they like that. 
   In like manner, people like the comfort zones of their churches and religious institutions.  They like the comfort of the pews, they like the comfort in knowing that their minister or priest will deliver a comfortable message, and they like for God to remain comfortable behind the curtain. 
   The kings and queens of the tees like to be seen on golf courses, and they like the attention they receive when they enter their churches or religious institutions as kings and queens of the pews.
   Because people are proud and reject Christ, their lives will never be better than their lives are today:  but their days will get worse.
   When golfers are too proud to ask for help, their golf games will never be better than they are today:  but they will be worse. 
   When people will not humble themselves to golf and admit they need help, they will stumble and fail to achieve anything more than that which they have accepted to be comfortable.
   When people will not humble themselves to God, they will stumble and fail to achieve anything more that that which they have accepted to be comfortable.
       God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.  (James 4: 6)
   But if golfers will humble themselves and ask for help, God will give them grace.  And their achievements ahead will amaze themselves as their golf game becomes entirely new!
   Likewise, if people will humble themselves to Christ, their lives will become entirely new!
  
  

THE DEVIL'S CHILDREN

   How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which did weaken the nations!  For thou has said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God:  I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:  I will ascend about the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.  (Isaiah 14: 14)
   Bi-sexuals, homosexuals, and pedophiles are angry and violent people. 
   Like Satan, they want to rule the earth, just as Satan wants to rule heaven and have dominion over God.
   Bi-sexuals, homosexuals, and pedophiles want civil law to say that they are normal and that they can marry and be a normal family.
   Bi-sexuals, homosexuals, and pedophiles want a religion that will approve their behavior.
   Bi-sexuals, homosexuals, and pedophiles do not believe they are sinning against God because they have the approval of their lord and master, Satan, who is their god.
   In the religion of Islam, the men believe that Allah has approved of their marriages to child brides, even as young as six years of ago.  They do not consider their behavior as sexual abuse of children.
   Islam, therefore, is one of Satan's religions on the earth.
   At the top of the One World Trade Center in New York City is an Islamic prayer tower.  The U.S. Government was secretive about the installation of this prayer tower, but it has the approval of President Barack Obama. 
   Islam also has the approval of  Pope Francis because the pontiff will conduct an interfaith service at Ground Zero in September, 2015---which means that President Obama and Pope Francis believe that people of all nations and of all faiths can peacefully co-exist under one roof, or under one dome, or under one tower.
   Therefore, we should be able to believe and understand that the United States and all nations of the United Nations will accept Islam, or a religion of any other name; which also means that pedophilia will be approved by civil law because the law of religion is both civil and religious.
   In the 19th chapter of the book of Genesis, two angels came to Sodom to deliver Lot and his family before God destroyed the city.  And the men of the city came to Lot's house wanting to have sex with the two angels.
   If men are so evil as to desire sex with angels, their desire for sex with children is common and fully accepted among them, so that no child is safe from their depraved minds.


  

A CLOSED GROUP

   In my lifetime, I have never met one person who has told me how wonderful their religion is for themselves and for their children.  No, not one.  Isn't this strange?
   People tell me about their houses, their cars, their bars, their baseball teams, but they never tell me about the wonder of their religion.  
   People tell me about their jobs and vacations, their parents and grand-parents, but they never tell me about the wonder of their religion. 
   Maybe they don't like me.
   Maybe I'm not good enough for their religion.
   Maybe I wouldn't fit in with their congregation.
   Maybe they don't want their friends to know that I'm from the "other part of town", or from "across the tracks".
   Maybe I'm an embarrassment to them.
   Maybe they don't want me to know about their way to their heaven.
   If they do not like me now, do you think they will like me in heaven?
   If they do not love me now, do you think they will love me in heaven?
   Maybe they think of me as an infidel and unworthy of their religion and their heaven.
   Maybe I'm not married to the right person to get in.
   Maybe I'm in the wrong bloodline to get in.
   Maybe there is some jealously and selfishness and they don't want me to have what they have.
   Maybe their religion is A Closed Group like Facebook and I must be invited to get in.
   Maybe I don't know the secret code, or the secret password to get in.
   Maybe their religion is like a secret society and they don't want me to know all that they know.
   Maybe they don't want me to know the secret handshake, or their secret rituals in secret chambers.
   To be honest with you, I am glad that people have not told me about their religions, for Christ is greater than all religions, greater than all the leaders of all religions:  for it is Christ who saved me from my sins, which religion could never do.  For if I did not have Christ, I would still be like them, with or without a religion.
   I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the LORD. (Psalm 122: 1)
   The house of the Lord is not a closed group.  There are no secrets, nor passwords, nor secret chambers.  And the Bible is our one and only textbook.

THE DEVIL'S TONGUE

   Have you ever heard it said, "The Devil's got your tongue"?
   That is a true statement, which can easily sound trivial, or just a manner of speaking.
   If the Devil has your tongue, he also has your mind; and if he has your mind, he will have your eyes.  And because the Devil has your mind, he will direct your eyes away from the Bible.  For the Devil knows that if you read the Bible, you will learn the knowledge of God; and by learning the knowledge of God, you will learn of Christ; and if you learn of Christ, the Devil will lose your soul to the Lord. 
   When people tell you about religion, instead of telling you about Christ, they are speaking with the Devil's tongue.  The Devil has them in his pocket and the Devil wants them to win your soul for him.
    For you see, the Devil also has ministers and messengers who are fishers of men.  He has them deceiving others just as the Devil deceived them.  The Devil is rewarding them for their obedience unto him, for the Devil is their lord and master.
   People of religion are children of the Devil, and the Devil works to protect his children.
   The Devil works to stop the ears of his children from hearing about God.
   The Devil works to stop the eyes of his children from reading about Christ in the Bible.
   The Devil does not want his children to talk to Christians because the Devil knows the Holy Spirit, and the Devil knows the Holy Spirit abides in the bodies of Christians.
   The Devil wants his children to believe that the god of their religion is also the god of heaven.
   Yet the Devil does not want his children to know that the god of their religion is the Devil!
   The Devil abides in religions all over the world, and people, in religions all over the world, believe that the gods and goddesses of their religions are also the gods and goddesses of heaven.
   The Devil does not want his children to know they are going to hell with him because they have rejected Christ.  For the Devil knows that if he can keep his children in religion until they die he will have their souls!
   The Devil wants his children to believe that Christ is the Devil, and that Christ will prevent them from going to heaven; for if they gain Christ, they will lose their religion; and if people believe they will lose heaven if they lose their religion, this is precisely what the Devil wants them to believe.
   Do you see how crafty and sly the Devil is?
   Therefore, if people tell you about their religion, they are telling about the Devil because the Devil is the god of religion, which means The Devil's got their tongue.
   Speaking to Christians, the Apostle Paul wrote these words:
      What!  Know he not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?  For ye are bought with a price:  therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's. (1st Corinthians 6: 19-20)
   But! (and this is very important) if you reject Christ, your body will become the temple of the Devil, and you will worship him, and you will speak for him because The Devil's got your tongue.
   People of religious Christianity are also tongue-tied:  the Devil will allow them to speak for their religion, but not be a voice for Christ.
   See how the Devil works?
   Today, however, I am not expecting you to believe in me, but my hope is that you will read the Bible and believe God.  For even in the Lord's Prayer, Jesus said, Deliver us from evil.
   Religion, therefore, is an evil thing, and the children therein are children of the Devil, and The Devil's got their tongue---and they will speak with the tongues of devils, demons, and evil spirits.
     

DEAD MEN'S BONES

   If I should pray to the souls of dead people, whose bones are still in the dirt, then I would be no different than the pagans of ancient Babylon, Egypt, Greece, or Rome, and my religion would be no better or no worse than any other religion under the sun, and I would be kneeling to gods that only exist in my imagination.
   Had Jesus remained dead, He would have been no different than the founder of any other movement, and He would have been no different than any other dead man.  For all the people of religion have to believe is the hope they have in dead men, whose bones are still in the dirt.
   Over the past two thousand years, Christians have been killed for believing in Christ---not only because Christ died, but because He arose from death!
   Christians are the only people on earth who do not pray to a dead man's bones still in the dirt.
         For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness; but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. (1st Corinthians 1: 18)
   

BOUNTY HUNTER$

   Human trafficking of young women and children worldwide is a multi-billion dollar industry and the United States is one of the leading participants. 
   For this reason, the U.S. Government does not want its people to know about human trafficking in America because people in government and in religion are reaping financial rewards at the expense of young women and children.
   Therefore, we can believe that young women and children, both worldwide and in the United States, have a bounty on their heads.
   Bounty hunters see young women and children as commodities:  each head has a money value.  How much is a young girl or young boy worth in the world of child prostitution and child pornography?  How much is a young boy worth to a bi-sexual, homosexual, or pedophile?
   Bounty hunters prowl neighborhoods in search of prey.  They search the internet.  They look for the opportunity to steal a child, then to sell the child at market value.
   According to UNICEF, "The United States is a source and transit country, and is also considered one of the top destination points for victims of child trafficking and exportation."
   Not only are young children stolen to become victims of child prostitution and child pornography, but they are also stolen to become human sacrifices on the altars of Satan.
   According to TOPTENZ, "It's estimated that from 800 B.C. to 146 B.C., when the Romans conquered Carthage, about 20,000 babies were sacrificed."  Even the ancient Israelites, when they turned their faces against God, performed a "burnt offering of children" to the Canaanite god, Molech.  Other cultures, such as the Etruscans, Chinese, Celts, Hawaiians, Mesopotamians, Aztecs, Egyptians, and Incas practiced the ritual of human sacrifices.
   Moreover, infant baptism originated in Paganism as Pagan priests washed babies before offering their little bodies on coals of fire in the name of the god of their religion.
   So what is infant baptism today?  Is it not the sacrificial offering of a child to a religion even without burning the baby on coals of fire so that the child will remain faithful to his religion and train his children to do likewise?
   The ritual of human sacrifice is at least 6,000 years old, but it is a modern ritual even today.
   Please do not believe that human sacrifice is simply something that ancients did because they didn't know any better, for they knew exactly what they were doing.  And so do the people today know exactly what they are doing!
   When children in America or around the world suddenly disappear, it is not likely that they will ever be seen alive again.
   And in America, where we are watching this nation turn its face against God, more and more children are disappearing by the hands of the bounty hunters.
   On the day when Jesus was crucified in Israel, the Lord said:  Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. (Luke 23: 28)
   Have you ever heard a nation weeping for its children?
   So why should we expect God to keep blessing America when God sees how America treats its children?