AT FACE VALUE

   People look at television and they accept it at face value.
   People look at government and they accept it at face value.
   People look at religion and they accept it at face value.
   Rarely will people look behind the curtain in search of truth because they believe that what they see with their eyes is truth.
   Witchcraft has been operating as a secret religion through a network of visible religions for four thousand years and people haven't noticed it, have they?
   Witchcraft is currently the fastest growing religion in the United States and people haven't noticed it, have they?
   Rome is currently the seat of Satan's throne upon the earth and people haven't noticed it, have they?
   In the eyes of Satan, people are just like Eve in the Garden of Eden: 
         they accept everything they see with their eyes at face value.
   If ice cream is in the cone, people swallow it:  hook, line, and sinker.
   Satan is the god behind the curtain of man's religions upon the earth, and people haven't noticed it, have they? 
   So take a look behind the curtain.  Look before you leap.
   Beware of the roads that lead to Rome and take the first flight to God. 
  

GODS OF IMAGINATION

   Religion is a world of fantasy and make-believe.  It is an illusion, not a stairway to heaven.  Its priests have the power to cast spells in the minds of its converts, and parents are willing to sacrifice their babies and young children in the name of a god that does not exist.
   Have you ever studied the history of Nimrod and the tower of Babel?  It was there where infants were baptized by pagan priests before they were burned to death on a sacrificial altar to the sun god.
   Not much has changed in religion since the days Nimrod and the tower of Babel, for people still sacrifice their infants in the name of the sun god:  from Babylon, to Egypt, to Greece, to Rome, and to this day.   For the sun god still reigns supreme in the world of religion, being transformed by pagan priests to fit within Christianity in order to deceive masses.
   Religion builds imaginary gods in the minds of people and people will worship and fear them even though they do not exist.  People will also worship the priests who serve imaginary gods, giving them their money as well surrendering unto them their children.
   If people would only look behind the curtain before they leap.
      For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.  (2 Corinthians 11: 13)

72 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT

   Because of air conditioning and a host of indoor games and electronic gadgets, the United States has produced a tribe of House People over the past sixty years. 
   House People are addicted to 72 degrees Fahrenheit, and their participation in the great outdoors is mostly from watching events on widescreen televisions while consuming cold beverages and eating potato chips. 
   House People are not necessarily lazy, but they can easily be physically unfit.  They are unwilling to work hard outdoors because they do not like to sweat, and they do not want to get their hands dirty.  Most of their children never know the freedom of going barefoot in the grass on a summer's day. 
  When the weather gets hot, House People flee to the great indoors to hug their air conditioners and to watch television, play video games, talk on telephones, and go to the shopping malls to escape the great heat.  Their greatest decisions of the day is to plan what to eat and to drink---and how to stay cool.  Mowing the grass and washing the family car can wait.
   Over the past sixty years, many American families have never taken their children camping, or for hikes along a nature trail.  Many fathers have never taken their boys fishing or hunting, or played catch with them in the back yard.
   For many children, a "camp out" is sleeping on the floor at a neighbor's house to watch movies, while eating snack foods and drinking sodas.  And when the sun arises, they roll up their sleeping bags and go home to spend the day in air conditioned comfort. 
   Getting a suntan is by going to a tanning booth in an air conditioned room, and seeing the stars is from turning to the Discovery Channel with a remote control. 
   Over these sixty years, millions of American children have never played baseball, softball, soccer, or even golf because of the addiction to 72 degrees Fahrenheit.  The parents have believed that the weather is just too hot for their children to go outdoors and play in the dirt.
   In the United States, our greatest success has produced our greatest weakness.  Our prosperity has spoiled our progress, and we have become dependent on intellect rather than physical strength and endurance. 
   We rarely hear the sounds of children laughing and playing in the great outdoors because the parents are co-dependent on air conditioning.  Working on grandpa's farm in the summer has become extinct for American children. 
   As the parents do, the children do likewise:  as we are building the next generation.


      Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:  which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest.  How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard?  When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:  so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.  (Proverbs 6: 6-11)
  

KILLER BEES

   Religion is the oldest system of fraud that man has invented, and the one that gets the most attention is the most corrupt.
   Follow the money and see where it goes.
   Follow the money and you will discover the truth about man and his inventions of religion.
   While millions of people worldwide suffer in poverty, lacking food, housing, clothing, medical attention, and educational opportunities, religion sits rich and is in need of nothing.
   Not only does religion confiscate money from people, it also confiscates their souls and the souls of their children---generation, after generation, and after generation.
   People are born in poverty and die in poverty because of religion more than any other reason under the sun.
   Religions are inventions of angry men who desire to be gods over people.  They are devious, and they are evil.  These men are as drones in the beehive while the workers in the fields obey their commands and bring them their money.  They adorn themselves with the finest clothes and robes that money can buy.  They live in palaces and mansions with servants.  They travel in expensive automobiles and personal jets.  They are proud and highly exalted among nations, and television follows them wherever they go, giving them free publicity. 
   More than drones in the beehive, these individuals are as killer bees:  they lie through their teeth and their stings are deadly.
   All religions, therefore, are against Almighty God, they are against the Lord Jesus Christ, and they are against the Holy Bible. 

CLEANING THE SLATE

   Regrets, I have plenty.
   Mistakes, I have made many.
   I was never the father to our children that I could have been.
   Across many years and in many ways, I have not always been the husband I could have been.
   I could have been a better student.
   I could have been a better baseball player.
   I could have been a better employee, a better son, and a better brother.
   I could have been a better friend to more people than I have been.
   In all of the arenas of my life, I could have been better in all of my endeavors.
   Yes, I have made many mistakes; and yes, I have many regrets---and more of both than I care to remember. 
   I am guilty of being wrong more times than I have been right.
   I am guilty of making more bad decisions than good decisions.
   For in all the many times and in all of the many ways, I am actually ashamed of my behavior across my lifetime.
   I am ashamed for making stupid and selfish decisions. 
   I am ashamed for wanting my way instead of giving more consideration to the ways of others.
   I am ashamed for mistreating others along the trail of my life.
   I am ashamed for wanting to speak more than when I should have listened.
   I am ashamed for not being more caring, more understanding, and more loving to other people.
   I regret for not trying more in all of my endeavors to be my best.
   Perhaps we will never know just how good could we could have been had we tried just a little bit harder, or for our failures to recognize the tables that were set before us.
   Life is a schoolhouse and it has taken me decades to finally see and to admit the truth about myself, to admit my mistakes, and to acknowledge my regrets.
   Greatest of all, I regret not knowing more about God when I was younger, not knowing more about Christ when I was younger, and not becoming a student of the Bible when I was younger.  For now I know the purpose of this life is a preparation for life that is yet to come. 
   Knowing this, then perhaps my latter years will be my best of years.

PRAYER

   We pray for this, and we pray for that.
   We pray for grandma when she is sick, then we pray for her to have a peaceful death if her situation is terminal.
   We pray for a house, then we pray for a bigger house.
   We pray for a car, then we pray for a bigger car.
   We pray for jobs, then we pray for better jobs.
   We pray to earn more money, then we pray to earn more money.
   We pray for our team to win, then we pray for our team to continue winning.
   If we do not pray when we are well, how do you suppose this causes God to feel when we come to Him when we are sick?
   If we do not pray when we are well, when we have those bigger cars and bigger houses and bigger paychecks, how do you suppose God feels when we come to Him to bail us out of hot water? 
   If we do not confess our sins to God when we have it all, how do you suppose God will answer our prayers when we have nothing?
   Is prayer to God only good enough for us in the bad times?
   Do you ever pray for a sports team to continue its losing ways?  If a team is comfortable in losing, they haven't had enough concern to care about winning.  Until the team decides to get up off the floor and start playing to win, praying for God to help them is a waste of team.  For if the team does not care about winning, losing is just another day in the ballpark. 
  In like manner, if people continue in their sinning ways, God will not hear their prayers, nor prosper their journey on the road that leads to more sin.  They have the devil for that!
  One of the best answers to prayer that God can give us at times is when he says, "No!" 
  Our gratitude is a reflection of our attitude, and our attitude will frame our gratitude.  For there are times when we need to struggle, times when we need to do without, and times for our baseball team to keep losing.  And there are times when we need to get off the floor and stand up, which reveals to God our desire to do something besides doing nothing. 
  God wants men and women to be adults, to arise and walk, to arise and try, to arise and do, and not to sit on the floor like toddlers while expecting God to do everything for us, and to give Him the praise and the glory that He deserves, and for us to stop expecting to have our own way all the time, like school children, always wanting another piece of candy or a stick of chewing gum.
  And in all of praying to God and asking for Him to do for us, do we ever ask God if there is something we can do for Him?

DO NOT DISTURB

   How many people in the world today have DO NOT DISTURB written across their foreheads?
   In the United States and in many nations, our minds have been conditioned to accept life as a world of fantasy and make-believe.  Our minds have been conditioned to accept the unacceptable and to believe lies as if they are truth.  Because of governments, religions, entertainment, sports, music, and advertising, we live our lives according to the script that has been written in our minds since we were babies, toddlers, and teen-agers; thus we live out our adult lives according to the things we see with our eyes and hear with our ears:  in a world where the truth remains hidden, in a world where the truth is like a foreign language.
   As such, the attitude of many people today is this:  tell me anything, just don't tell me the truth.
   Do not disturb me with the truth about God, about Christ, or about the Bible.
   Do not disturb me with the truth about governments and religions.
   Do not disturb me with the truth about heaven, or about hell.
   Do not disturb me with the truth about television, rock music, or about my own golf game.
   Do not disturb me with the truth about human history, or the truth about the future.
   Just leave me alone, let me live my life as I please, and I thank you very much.
   In slow and in subtle ways, the world has conditioned our minds to accept sin as no more than a dirty word, or no more than a bad habit, and a word that should be erased from dictionaries. 
   To strengthen our case about sin, people have accepted sinners in pulpits, dressed in fancy suits and priestly garments---mocking God, mocking Christ, and mocking the Holy Bible---while teaching their congregations to do the same.
   Take a look at us now and what do we see---across America and around the world? 
   Nations are self-destructing in front of our eyes because evil has gained control of the minds of people, in a world where evil has become the normal and acceptable behavior of men, women, and children, filling the world with anger and violence as people want to have their own way---with no limitations and with no boundaries.