Messages For God's People

Post #61 Dinosaurs And The Bible

2007-02-05T10:59:00.000-05:00

Written Feb. 3, 2007

I sent the following E-mail to Dr. Kent Hovind (AKA Dr. Dino) and posted the message on his web site after I watched his DVD "Dinosaurs And The BIBLE". You can use the following link to check out his web site:

Click here to visit Dr. Dino's Web Site (http://WWW.drdino.com).

For the record, I've made a few minor changes to the message to clarifiy a couple of cocepts; correct some grammer; and add the highlighting but the message is the SAME. The TRUTH/WORD NEVER CHANGES but GOD does ADD to it and CLARIFIES MISUNDERSTANDINGS.

To Dr. Kent Hovind

I just watched your DVD and have to admit I learned a lot. I BELIEVE GOD will provide proof if we seek the answers (I’m a doubting Thomas and HE does it for me. I think HE does the SAME for you.). Anytime someone says you HAVE TO HAVE FAITH (BELIEVE WHAT WE'RE SAYING) a RED FLAG goes up and I begin to search for the PROOF (the REAL ANSWERS). GOD wants us to search for the answers and NOT ACCEPT the DEVIL’S concepts. The BEST way to DISCREDIT the DEVIL is with FACATS from GOD. I BELIEVE GOD is working within me and HE seems to be working within you too.

Your section in the DVD on various religions all over the world that BELIEVE different versions of NOAH’S FLOOD is especially interesting to me. I BELIEVE GOD cares MORE about HOW WE PRACTICE our faith than which one you choose to BELIEVE/FOLLOW. I BELIEVE GOD is NOT PREJUDICE and does NOT DISCRIMINATE against a person because of his/her religion.

With that in mind, I’m beginning to think that GOD just might have had a version of NOAH and an arc (ship/boat/…) for several cultures all at the EXACT SAME TIME each in a DIFFERENT part of the world. That would allow GOD to save all the DIFFERENT human races and species of animals that couldn’t be found in NOAH’S local area. That would limit the problems NOAH might have had to deal with. I BELIEVE my GOD could pull that off and we’d NEVER KNOW about it.

As far as creations goes, everything happened in the time frame of days but the sun ... WASN’T created on the FRIST DAY (I wrote a bible newsletter on that subject Click here for (http://godsshephard.blogspot.com/2006/11/post-23-genesis-information-on.html)). So we have to admit what GOD calls a day is NOT based on our earth, sun, moon, stars and the pull of those masses put on each other. Much less assume the earth was rotating at a speed that caused it to complete a revolution in 24 hours. So how long is GOD’S day? In 2 Peter 3:8 Peter says GOD considers 1 DAY to be the SAME as 1,000 YEARS. I take to mean one of HIS DAYS are EQUAL to 1,000 OF OUR YEARS. Thus EACH PHASE of creation took 1,000 of TODAY'S EARTHLY YERARS or 1 of GOD’S DAYS.

I like the concept of our ETERNAL LIFE being divided into DAYS that last 1,000 EARTH YEARS LONG. Eternity WON’T seem as long as it would have if our earthly time measurements were used. I also like it because it explains WHY GOD knows everything before it happens.

Let me explain it this was: I can pretty much predict what I’m going to be doing tomorrow (24 hours in advance) and I can control what I do tomorrow (24 hours from now) pretty easily. If GOD’S KINGDOM works on a clock that has a 1,000 earth years in one day, then HE can control and predict the next 1,000 earth years (1 of HIS DAYS) about as well as I can control and predict the next 24 hours (1 of OUR DAYS). Just as EACH plant and animal has a DIFFERENT average life span (example a dog year is equal to about 7 human years) and our weight changes from planet to planet, so will what we call a day depending on which planet we’re on.

So now we know GOD’S KINGDOM has a DAY of 1,000 EARTH YEARS. It’s on the bible (2 Peter 3:8). Look it up. We know creation WASN’T based on the earth’s 24 hour day because the sun ... wasn’t created on the first day. So the there was NO earth day, night or 24 hour day until GOD DECIDED to let it happen by getting the earth spinning. HE wasn’t using our clock. HE uses HIS CLOCK. Our clock DIDN’T exist yet. So in creation one of GOD'S DAYS is EQUAL TO 1,000 of TODAY'S EARTH YEARS.

I’m sure you have some comments on these thoughts and I’d love to hear what you have to say. If you have time feel free to read any of my messages on the internet. They can be found on the following blogs:

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Chuck Lentine
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Post #60 When The SPIRIT Speaks WISE PEOPLE Listen And Learn

2007-01-25T13:15:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Jan 25-26, 2007

I started collecting information on this topic over a week ago but I didn’t seem complete enough to make me want to put the message to paper. So I LISTEN to GOD and waited for something else to happen. I knew the devil had permission from GOD to test my faith (read the book of JOB). My PATIENTS beat the devil and PROVED my FAITH and TRUST in GOD. GOD’S reward is this message.

Today’s message complements Post #59 “Being A Follower Of Christ” (Click here to read that one) and Post #58 “Your Sins Are Forgiven.” (Click here to read that one) I’m beginning to understand how GOD helped Christ find his apostles. GOD taught Christ to study the deeds of the ones who appeared to be interested in him and the things he was doing. And decide if they were putting his teaching into practice or just giving him lip service?

Recently, a person I’ve been sharing GOD’S WORD with contacted me out-of-the-blue and offered to go out of his way to help me get some tools to make GOD’S work easier. Of course I accepted his offer because I BELIEVE the SPIRIT OF GOD is working in him. His offer is similar to the kind of SIGNS (putting GOD TEACHINGS into practice) Christ was taught to look for when he picked his apostles. Christ looked for people that are making DEPOSITS into their ETERNAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS.

Unfortunately, “FOOLS HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO” than follow the SPIRIT’S teachings. The IMPORTANCE of GOD’S MESSAGES eludes them. They value EARTHLY POSSESSIONS more than ETERNAL TREASURES.

The SPIRIT’S WISDOM has taught me to use the technique of studying the actions of others to find Christ’s TRUE FOLLOWERS. The devil works with foolish people by teaching them to say one thing and do another. But WISE PEOPLE know “ACTIONS SPEAK LOUDER THAN WORDS.” So they patiently observe the actions of others looking for the signs that let them know who is really a follower of Christ’s teachings and who is only talking about it or taking credit for the work of others.

Christ gave this message to his apostles when he said to them in Luke 11:23, “ANYONE WHO IS NOT FOR ME IS REALLY AGAINST ME; ANYONE WHO DOES NOT HELP ME GATHER IS REALLY SCATTERING (the lost sheep).” Helping a FOLLOWER OF CHRIST helps gather the lost sheep and PROVES you BELIEVE the teachings of Christ and puts you on Christ’s team.

If being on Christ’s team isn’t a GOOD ENOUGH REASON for you to want help GOD’S MESSENGERS than I suggest you read Matthew 10:40-42 which states, “WHOEVER WELCOMES GOD’S MESSENGER BECAUSE HE IS GOD’S MESSENGER WILL SHARE IN HIS REWARD. … YOU CAN BE SURE THAT WHOEVER GIVES EVEN A DRINK OF COLD WATER TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY FOLLOWERS BECAUSE HE IS MY FOLLOWER, WILL CERTAINLY RECEIVE A REWARD.” Mark has a similar message in chapter 9 verse 41.

Remember what Christ said about WHEN YOUR WORLD WILL END in Mark 13:32, “NO ONE KNOWS, HOWEVER, WHEN THAT DAY OR HOUR WILL COME -- NEITHER THE ANGLES IN HEAVEN, NOR THE SON OF MAN; ONLY THE FATHER KNOWS.” So DON’T waste any opportunities to ADD to your ETERNAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT, especially if you have the means to HELP one of Christ’s followers.

Nothing brings that message home any clearer than the message Matthew recorded in Chapter 25 Verses 31-46, “THE SEPARATION OF SHEEP FROM THE GOATS.” In that passage Christ told us that the day will come when he is going to ask each of us if we FEED HIM when HE WAS HUNGRY; gave HIM A DRINK when HE WAS THIRSTY; gave HIM CLOTHES when HE WAS NAKED; gave HIM CARE when HE WAS SICK; took HIM SHELTER when HE WAS HOMELESS; or VISITED HIM when HE WAS IN PRISON. In that passage he also said, “I TELL YOU, WHENEVER YOU DID THIS FOR ONE OF THE LEAST IMPORTANT OF THESE BROTHERS OF MINE, YOU DID IT FOR ME!”

The question is: Was Christ talking about his TRUE FOLLOWERS when he used the phrase BROTHERS OF MINE. In other words, people that EARNED the right to be called CHILDREN OF GOD or did he mean when you should help everyone here on earth? Since I DON'T have the means to help EVERYONE, I HELP GOOD PEOPLE. After all isn't that what Christ taught us by his example. He DIDN'T go out of his way to HELP SCRIBES, PHARISEES or TEACHERS OF THE LAW. Why should I help today's BAD PEOPLE? I REFUSE to reward BAD BEHAVIOR. I prefer to ENCOURAGE GOOD BEHAVIOR instead. That way the BAD PEOPLE will learn to BEHAVE if they want help. If we REWARD their BAD BEHAVIOR, they'll NEVER learn to be good. We'll be encouraging them to be bad. I DON'T BELIEVE GOD would approve of that. Christ DIDN'T and I WON'T either.

I BELIEVE as Christ said in Matthew 10:40-42 referenced above. Helping one of GOD’S MESSENGERS is VERY IMPORTANT to GOD. Remember, in that passage Christ said, “YOU CAN BE SURE THAT WHOEVER GIVES EVEN A DRINK OF COLD WATER TO ONE OF THE LEAST OF THESE MY FOLLOWERS BECAUSE HE IS MY FOLLOWER, WILL CERTAINLY RECEIVE A REWARD.”

So keep this message in mind the next time you get a change to help someone especially if that person is doing GOD’S WORK. Helping that person is about as close as most of us can get to HELPING GOD because GOD DOESN’T need our help. HE can do anything and everything HE wants to. However, HIS MESSENGERS take NOTHING with them. They are to rely on the gifts of others. That’s documented in Matthew 10:9 when Christ said, “DO NOT CARRY ANY GOLD, SILVER, OR COPPER MONEY IN YOUR POCKETS; DO NOT CARRY A BEGGAR’S BAG FOR THE JOURNEY OR A SPARE SHIRT OR SHOES OR A WALKING STICK. A WORKER SHOULD BE GIVEN WHAT HE NEEDS.”

Now I'll ask you this question: Have you heard the message the SPIRIT gave us in the passages I've referenced? Just remember, “When The SPIRIT Speaks WISE PEOPLE Listen And Learn.”

Post # 59 Being A Follower Of Christ

2007-01-08T11:36:00.000-05:00

Post # 59 Being A Follower Of Christ

Posted and E-mailed Jan 11-12, 2007

This weekend I attended two Catholic services (First Friday Mass and Sunday Mass). During both of the sermons Father Leo Smith touched on the topic of BEING CALLED and that got the SPIRIT OF GOD working in me. HE made me think about the fact that NO ONE seems to be interested in HELPING me with HIS mission. And then HE made me think about the PROBLEMS Christ might have had finding his apostles. So I decided to see what GOD’S WORD had to say on the subject.

Sure enough the bible documents the fact that Christ knew he didn’t have enough help. In Matthew 9:36-38, Christ told the apostles the crowd was full of helpless sheep without a shepherd. He knew it was their job to help them. GOD wanted them to plant HIS WORD (the seed) in them and harvest that crop. But Christ also knew he had too few workers (disciples) to gather that harvest. So he told his disciples to pray to the OWNER (GOD the FATHER) for more workers (disciples).

The question is why couldn’t Christ find enough workers? And what are GOD’S requirements for being one of Christ’s followers? I started seeking the answers in the bible and sure enough GOD helped me find them.

REQUIREMENTS TO BE ONE OF CHRIST’S FOLLOWERS:

1st -- Give up all your earthly possessions and collect riches in heaven (your kingdom).
In Mark 10:21; Matthew 19:21; and Luke 18:22 Christ told a rich man, “You ONLY need ONE thing. Go and sell all you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven (his eternal retirement); then come and follow me.

2nd -- Give up your earthly family and become GOD’S CHILD.
Luke 9:62 Christ said, “Anyone who starts to plough (plant GOD’S seeds) and then keeps looking back is of NO USE to the Kingdom of God.

3rd -- Sacrifice for GOD’S Sheep and do GOD’S will whatever that might be.
In Luke 9:58 and Matthew 8:20 Christ told someone else that wanted to be one of his followers, “Foxes have holes, and birds have nests but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest.”

In other words his followers would have to carry the same crosses he carried. GOD WON’T force you to do anything you aren’t willing to do. So finding people that meet those requirements wasn’t easy for Christ and it isn’t any easier these days.

PEOPLE THAT THOUGHT THE COST WAS TOO GREAT

The following references document Christ’s search for additional dedicated disciples:

In Luke 9:57-62 and Matthew 8:18-22 one man offered to follow Jesus BUT first he had to go back and bury his father. Another wanted to be his follower BUT first he had to say goodbye to his family.

In Matthew 19:16-22; Mark 10:17-22 and Luke 18:18-23, a rich man asked Christ, “Good Teacher what must I do to receive eternal life?” He ALREADY obeyed ALL the commandments, so Christ told him to SELL EVERYTHING you have and give the money to the poor and you will have riches in heaven (an eternal retirement); then follow me. The man was SAD because his earthly possessions were too great to give up for GOD.

PEOPLE THAT JUMPED WHEN GOD CALLED THEM

1st -- Perhaps one of the BIGGEST SURPRISE has to be the WISE MEN/WOMEN (see Matthew 2:1-12) who visited Christ in Bethlehem. They WEREN’T ISRAELITES but yet they KNEW the JEWISH prophecy about Christ and noticed the star in the sky. They DIDN’T have time to plan the trip. They DIDN’T have any maps. And they DIDN'T know where to go but they WENT ANYWAY. It makes me wonder why a lot of ISRAELITES didn’t follow the star. They were waiting for the king to be born and they BELIEVED and STUDIED that prophecy. I guess they WEREN'T WILLING when GOD CALLED. They had something else MORE IMPORTANT to do than EXPERIENCE GOD at work.

Anyway based on that passage (Matthew 2:1-12), I BELIEVE those WISE MEN/WOMEN were Jesus’ FIRST converts. Even though they WEREN’T ISRAELITES they followed the star to Christ’s birthplace and thus helped prove the FIRST prophecy Christ’s life would fulfilled. Since nothing is EVER heard of them again, I have a feeling they ran into King Herod or his men after they left Bethlehem. Then they became the FIRST followers of Christ to be killed. After all King Herod was willing to kill every baby in Bethlehem to ensure Christ was killed. Why wouldn’t he torture and kill those WISE MEN/WOMEN for NOT returning to his palace with information about the baby.

2nd -- The SHEPHERDS (Luke 2:1-15) didn't waste any time after the angles told them about the birth. I’m sure they knew about the scripture. Signing Psalms and studying GOD’S WORD helped them pass the time while they were alone in the fields. But the point is they DIDN’T worry about their sheep or tell anyone where they were going. They just DROPPED EVERYTHING and answered GOD’S CALL.

3rd -- The apostles didn’t hesitate when they were called. John’s version is a little different than Matthew, Mark and Luke but they all agree on the fact that everyone dropped everything and went with Christ when he called.

It’s a shame EVERYONE DOESN’T go when GOD CALLS. Because working for GOD is the easiest job there is once you’re ONE with HIM. HE’LL teach you what you need to know and prepare you for what’s ahead. You CAN NOT FAIL, IF you BELIEVE in HIM. I WON’T say you WON’T SUFFER because HE uses EVERY TRICK IN THE BOOK to teach you what HE wants you to learn. Sometimes that involves pain and suffering but HE knows how much you can take and HE carries you when you need rest.

Being CALLED by GOD isn't like finding your ONE TRUE SOUL MATE. GOD is EVERYWHERE and HE wants you to help ANYTIME your ready. So if your ready to SERVE, HE'S calling you now. Find a charity, do some volunteer work or just just help a neighbor. GOD will find a way to put the SACRIFICES YOU'RE WILLING to make to the BEST use possible. Once you get started, YOU'LL start receiving HIS REWARDS both here and in heaven.

So what are you waiting for? HE'S not going to give you a written invatation. In fact, HE WON'T even force you do it. The choice is up to you.

Can you hear HIM CALLING? If NOT your ears AREN'T listening and your eyes WON'T look. DON'T be one of the ones that had SOMETHING MORE IMPORTANT TO DO. Find some time to WORK FOR GOD. Do it today.

Post #58 Your Sins Are Forgiven

2007-01-02T12:18:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Jan 3, 2006

We all LOVE those words (Your Sins Are Forgiven) and feel a GREAT sense of relief when we hear them. But after forgiving someone’s sins Christ would say go and SIN NO MORE. So why do you think he said that? After all we can always get our sins forgiven again. RIGHT? What’s the HIDDEN MESSAGE he’s trying to warn us about?

Actually, it is typical of Christ NOT to give us all the answers. After all that’s why he used parables. In Matthew 10:13-15 and Luke 8:9-10 Christ told us he used parables because some people really DON’T want to hear what he was saying or see what he showed them. They came to see miracles or to be able to tell their friends they seen the man everyone is talking about not to hear his message. They heard what they wanted to hear and seen what they wanted to see. We fall into the say trap when we say we LOVE the words YOUR SINS ARE FORGIVEN but we DON’T seem to care much about his warning to SIN NO MORE.

Today, GOD wants me to tell you what the harm is to you if you sin again. You’ll still be able to have your sins forgiven but like EVERYTHING in this world, if it sounds to good to be true it probably is. So what’s the catch?

The answer is simple. SINS are LOST chances to EARN eternal rewards. So even though your sins are forgiven, you AREN’T earning ANY treasures in heaven. Your eternal reward will NOT be as GREAT as it could have been. By AVOIDING sin or should I say the devil’s tests you earn rewards. That’s the TRUE meaning behind the story in Luke 16:19-31. In that passage, a man who had everything wouldn’t give anything to a man who had nothing. So that man NEVER made a deposit in his eternal account. He gave earthly things MORE importance than heavenly treasures. He was like a man who never put anything away for his retirement and one day finds himself with NOTHING.

So why did Rich man lose everything when he got to heaven but the poor man got everything? The answer can be found in Mark 4:24 when Christ said, “PAY ATTENTION to what you hear! The SAME RULES you use to judge others will be USED BY GOD to judge you – but with even GREATER SEVERITY.” The rich man didn’t think the poor man deserved any help, food or clothing…. So GOD treated the rich man the SAME WAY he treated the poor man.

Your treasures in heaven may not be as BIG as you think they are. Just as many retired people are surprised by the cost of retirement, you maybe surprised at the cost of things in heaven. In Luke 8:18, Christ says, “Be careful how you listen; because whoever has something will be given more but whoever has NOTHING will have TAKEN AWAY from him even the LITTLE he THINKS he has.” When you get to heaven, DON’T be one of those that find out they DIDN’T save enough TREASURES in heaven to be happy. Be one of those that finds out they have MORE treasures than they thought NOT one of those that has LESS than they thought. It’ll make your eternal life a lot happier.

If that DOESN’T convince you to EARN TREASURES rather than sin, I suggest you read Matthew 25:31-46. In that passage, Christ talks about the FINAL JUDGMENT DAY when there will be a separation of the sheep from the goats. The sheep are the ones that feed GOD (less fortunate) when HE was hungry and gave HIM something to drink when HE was thirsty. They made deposits into their ETERNAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS, so they’re going to be happy in heaven. The goats on the other hand are the ones that DIDN’T feed GOD (less fortunate) when HE was hungry or give HIM something to drink when HE was thirsty. So they DIDN’T make many deposits into their ETERNAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNTS, thus they’re NOT going to be very happy in heaven.

If you’re still NOT convinced, I suggest you read Matthew 13:44 (The Parable of the Hidden Treasure); Matthew 13:45-45 (The Parable of the Pearl). Both of those stories about what humans would do to own riches here on earth. Christ was trying to teach us that NO TREASURE here on earth could be worth as much as the TREASURE of ETERNAL HAPPINESS in GOD’S kingdom. So sacrifice all your earthly treasures and BUY ETERNAL TREASURES with those sacrifices.

The Parable Of The Net (Matthew 13:47-50) is very similar to the FINAL JUDGMENT DAY discussed above only instead of separating sheep and goats, Christ talks about separating GOOD FISH and BAD FISH. The message is SAME no matter how you look at it. GOD is going to judge us ALL fairly and then give us our JUST REWARD or PUNISHMENT. We may all get to heaven but some of us receive better rewards than other but we’ll all receive what we earned here on earth. So start making deposits into your ETERNAL RETIREMENT ACCOUNT today and often. Your ETERNAL HAPPINESS depends on it.

Post #57 The Fig Tree Warning

2006-12-26T11:03:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed on Dec. 26, 2006

Today’s message is about another one of Christ’s stories that DIDN’T seem to bring home an IMPORTANT MESSAGE. That’s a clue that something is MISSING or we DON’T really understand the passage. GOD WOULDN’T put something in the bible that DIDN’T have a lot of meaning and importance. So if you think a passage in the bible ISN’T worth reading (then GOD DIDN'T write it), or start looking for a HIDDEN MESSAGE.

Let’s get back to the FIG TREE STORY. It wasn’t till I started reading the OLD TESTAMENT that I found out what the HIDDEN MESSAGE was to that story. I’m sure a lot of Christians have the SAME problem. We assume the NEW TESTAMENT stands on its own but in REALITY the OLD TESTAMENT is the CORNER STONE on which the NEW TESTAMENT is built. Christ and his disciples knew the OLD TESTAMENT by heart and it was based on that belief that Christ taught. So if you DON’T study the OLD TESTAMENT some of the messages of the NEW TESTAMENT will be hidden from you. That’s the case with the message of the Fig Tree (See Matthew 21:18-22 and Mark 11:12-14 & 20-24).

Before I discuss that passage lets review the facts that make that message important. Christ and his apostles were traveling from place to place all over Promised Land teaching the GOOD NEWS. They DIDN’T have a regular income, so they ate whatever they could find and what friends donated. They DIDN’T stay in hotels. If they were lucky once and awhile someone might give them a place to stay for a night or two along the way. But NOT many people could accommodate 13 men (Christ and his 12 apostles), so most of the time they slept outside under the stars and lived like MIGRANTS.

The LAWS of the OLD TESTAMENT were written by GOD to included REQUIREMENTS that took care of the LEVITES (they cared of GOD’S buildings, the Tabernacle, the altar, the Ark…), MIGRANTS, ORPHANS and WIDOWS. Here are just a few of the references I’ve found that DOCUMENT GOD’S LAWS and mandated procedures to care for those groups: Deuteronomy 12:12, 18-19; Deuteronomy 16:11-12, 14; Deuteronomy 18:1-5; and Deuteronomy 24:17-18, 19-22.

In Deuteronomy 24:17-22 GOD told HIS PEOPLE that they SHOULD NOT pick their fields twice. They SHOULD leave some for the needy (MIGRANTS, ORPHANS and WIDOWS). If you forget to bring in a sheaf (stack or pile), you should leave it for the MIGRANTS, ORPHANS, and WIDOWS. Today, I'd say you should bring that gift to a mission or some other charity. Anyway the LEVITES were to be awarded a portion of the sacrifices to GOD and they were suppose to be invited to all the worship meals at the temple (see Deuteronomy 12:12, 19).

Now back to the Fig Tree, both Matthew and Mark agreed that the tree had leaves but NO FIGS. In Mark 11:13 it actually says, “… But when he came to it he found only leaves, because it was not the right time for figs.” In fact both writers agree that the Fig Tree was covered with leaves but there was NO FRUIT. Yet Christ was upset that this tree DID NOT have any fruit. In fact, he cursed it.

I never understood why until I read the OLD TESTAMENT. Since the tree had leaves but NO FRUIT, we have to assume the tree was picked recently or it WOULD HAVE HAD FRUIT (over ripe or not ripe yet but fruit ) on the tree. So I assume Christ and apostles saw workers picking the fruit as they approached the tree from a distance. So as they neared, they began thinking about eating what was suppose to be left on the tree for MIGRANTS, ORPHANS and WIDOWS. But when they got there the tree was completely picked clean.

That scenario makes sense when you consider Christ’s actions. Just as Christ’s message about a tree turning green means summer is approaching so too when a tree is completely covered in leaves you know that it should be bearing fruit.

Christ WASN’T mad with the tree for NOT having any fruit. He was mad at the land owner for picking the tree clean and NOT leaving some for the MIGRANTS, ORPHANS and WIDOWS. So he punished the owner by making sure the tree would NEVER EVER AGAIN produce any fruit. The tree symbolizes a prosperous land owner, country, continent or world. If we fail to SHARE our good fortune, GOD just might stop blessing our land.

The passage was intended to warn us there will be punishments for those that DON’T do their share to take care of the less fortunate. On the other hand, GOD will reward those that follow HIS laws and share their BLESSINGS with the less fortunate.

If we were raised in the Jewish Faith like Christ, his apostles and his followers, we would have KNOWN about this JEWISH LAW. So this message would have been a lot easier to understand. Christ DIDN’T teach the JEWISH LAW because he didn’t come to teach gentiles. He was here to help the JEWISH PEOPLE. After he was gone his disciples started converting gentiles but they DIDN'T teach the JEWISH HERITAGE. So if you really want to understand Christ’s teachings you’ve GOT TO study the OLD TESTAMENT and our JEWISH HERITAGE. After all Christians are Jewish FIRST and followers of Christ SECOND.

I BELIEVE Paul, a converted gentile (correction: I Should have said a want to be Pharisee) mislead Christ’s followers because he too DIDN’T have the required JEWISH HERITAGE (for clarification see the LATER NOTE below). For him to really understand Christ’s teachings he would have had to be a JEW FIRST and a follower of Christ SECOND. The Christian faith is built upon the Jewish Faith and CAN NOT stand on its own. That’s why Paul’s messages mislead many Christians. He DIDN’T have the REQUIRED JEWISH HERITAGE.

Now you know why Christ the MIGRANT expected to find some fruit on the Fig Tree and why he destroyed the tree after finding NO FRUIT. So if you want to be a TRUE FOLLOWER OF CHRIST, start studying your JEWISH HERITAGE and you too will find a lot more meaning in Christ’s messages. Then in time you'll start QUESTIONING Paul’s messages too.

LATER NOTE: I have to apologize for my ignorance. According to Reader’s Digest Who’s Who in the Bible, Paul (birth name Saul) was born and raised in the Jewish faith. So I have to wonder why I had that misconception. I guess GOD wanted me to know more about him because something else is missing. That being said, I found out Paul’s father was a Pharisee and their family had both Geek and Roman citizenship. That created a little conflict of interest from time to time. To further complicate Paul’s life the family moved from Greece to Jerusalem when he was young. The last fact I learned about his heritage was that Paul thought of himself as a Pharisees.

So Saul was a Jewish leader want to be before becoming Paul the Christian. He was the kind of Jew Christ disliked most. Remember, the Pharisees were known to preach one thing yet do another. His alliances to Rome, Greece and the church made him willing to kill Christ’s followers in order to gain points with Pharisees and Rome. Then one day he was moved by GOD (he said Christ) to be one of Christ follower.

He decided his mission was to convert gentiles. He did so at the expense of Jewish Law. That caused division among the Jewish followers of Christ. Paul’s reasoning for NOT forcing his gentile converts follow Jewish customs was that GOD got little from those animal sacrifices and/or male circumcisions. However, GOD gave us those rules to teach HIS PEOPLE and to keep HIS PEOPLE happy and healthy. GOD doesn’t do or say anything for NO REASON.

Post #56 Hurting You Hurts Me

2006-12-18T10:54:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Dec. 18-19, 2006
Updated Dec 20, 2006

For sometime now GOD’S been letting the evil of this world destroy my life. It’s almost like HE let the devil test me like Job was tested in the Book Of Job. Job ISN’T the first Bible experience GOD’S let me relive and I have the feeling it WON’T be the last. However, it has lasted the LONGEST. In fact, I’m beginning to think I may have to leave this world to end that experience.

For the record, this is GOD’S way of making me the messenger HE wants me to be. After all “EXPERIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER” and everything GOD does is done PERFECTLY. So why would we think HE wouldn’t use the BEST teaching method?

Maybe OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS needs to study GOD’S teaching technique. I bet our children would be smarter if they experienced learning rather than memorized it. Memory is nice but intelligence and creativity is just as important maybe even more important in TODAY’S CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD. It’s time for us to move our SCHOOL SYSTEMS into the 21st century or our children are NOT going to be the leaders of the world much longer.

Back to the reason GOD is making me relive Job’s experiences. I BELIEVE it goes hand and hand with the story of the WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY (see John 8:1-11). Christ stopped the men who wanted to stone her to death by drawing/writing in the sand.

Did you every wonders what Christ wrote in the sand to make everyone leave without throwing any stones? We may NEVER know for sure but based on what I’ve been through thanks to the experience of reliving some of Job’s life; I’ve got to wonder if Christ was letting them know how her loss would impact each of them. Kind of like the movie “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.” In that movie an angel let George Bailey know what the world would be like if he was NEVER born.

After putting this message together, I seen a couple of mothers pushing their babies in strollers and GOD got me starting to thinking maybe Christ told those men that the WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY was pregnant and/or she already had some children at home. It wouldn’t be fair to her children or her unborn baby to kill her for committing adultery? I BELIEVE THAT'S THE MESSAGE GOD WANTS US TO GET out of that story. When we punish someone we just might be hurting INNOCENT people too. Thus hurting you can hurt me too. Society would have had to take care of her children and GOD would punish them for killing that UNBORN BABY.

On the other hand he might have drawn something in the sand that told them about one of their own family members or friends that committed the SAME sin and wasn't punished. Or maybe one of their family members or friends was stoned to death and they remembered how that hurt them. But the worst case would be for them to remember one of their family members or friends that was innocent but got stoned to death anyway.

All this brings me back a recent sermon I heard at First Alliance Church in Port Charlotte (Click here to visit their Web Site) given by Pastor Scott Borden. That sermon was about Joseph and what he did for the Holy Family. After writing this message I realize Pastor Scott left out the MOST important things Joseph did for the Holy Family. By marrying Mary he SAVED her life just like Jesus SAVED the WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTRY. Joseph also SAVE the unborn child's (Jesus) life too. Then after the baby was born he kept the king from killing Jesus again. Joseph gave up everything to save the women he loved and the child he raised but ISN’T that what GOOD FATHERS do? Unfortunately, in TODAY’S world fathers are taken for granted. Well now we know, fathers have been taken for granted since before Christ was born.

As a FOLLOWER of Christ, I got to BELIEVE that Christ would want the WORLD to call him the patron saint of ILLEGITAMENT CHILDREN and Mary should be the patron saint of UNWED MOTHERS. Joseph on the other hand should be the patron saint of those who SACRIFICE EVERYTHING and never get credit or complain. As our pastor pointed out he’s an UNSUNG HERO. Now you know why GOD chose Joseph.

I have to thank GOD for this message it was a result of the pain and suffering I’ve endured while I’ve been reliving the life of Job. GOD wanted me to tell the world that HE’LL punish the wicked in the next life. HE used me to pass on that message by letting me see how my problems affected my children, my parents, my few friends, the people I use to work with and GOD knows who else. The point is we all suffer directly and/or indirectly when one of us is hurt, punished or NOT treated like we would want to be treated.

Now you know why GOD WON’T punish us in this life. HE knows punishing ONE PERSON affects us all in one way or another. That WOULDN’T be JUST. So HE ISN’T going to punish us in this lifetime.

We should leave the punishment for sins to GOD and HE’LL do it FAIRLY in the NEXT LIFE.

On the other hand, GOD gave Moses the WARNING about punishing EVIL. GOD set harsh penalties for breaking HIS laws (see A WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY John 8:1-11). HE told the Jews enforcing those penalties would deter crime. HE said as LONG as the law was ENFORCED, people wouldn’t commit the crime for FEAR of being punished. Our society BREAKS that rule by treating all criminals DIFFERENTLY.

We need set penalties for EVERY CRIME that CAN NOT be changed by the court or by a jury under ANY circumstances (after a fair trail). The fair trail has to allow the person to be presumed INNOCENT till PROVEN GUILTY and they have to keep in mind that it is BETTER to let 10 GUILTY people go free than to convict ONE INNOCENT person.

But sins against GOD MUST be punished by GOD. Remember, what HE said, “VENGEANCE IS MINE.” In the NEXT life HE’LL be able to punish ANY and/or ALL of us without causing the rest of us to suffer because of that punishment.

GOD ALWAYS does EVERYTHING PERFECT the first time. We can expect our final judgment to be FAIR and JUST no matter whether we deserve a reward or a punishment. GOD will do it PERFECT the FIRST TIME, so DON’T expect to get a retrial.

Post #55 Getting to know the FATHER via Christ

2006-12-16T12:14:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed on Dec. 16, 2006

The EASIEST way to find and make NEW FRIENDS is to get to know the friends and relatives of people you love and trust. In most cases, the people you love and trust are going to have other friends similar to you and we all seem to like people similar to ourselves. Christ taught us that lesson when he picked his apostles. The FATHER let Christ know that John The Baptist was a man HE trusts. So Christ’s first two disciples were disciples of John The Baptist (Andrew and his brother Peter). I WON’T review how Christ picked the rest of his team now. I did that in a newsletter on January 3rd in 2006. You can read that post by using the following link:

Click here to read FINDING PEOPLE TO TRUST

So I’m going to follow Christ’s example and meet OUR FATHER through one of HIS children. Since I DON’T know Moses, Elijah, Muhammad, Abraham, Noah, Mary, Joseph, Paul, any of the apostles, … as well as I know Christ, I’m going to concentrate on meeting the FATHER through Christ. In time, I’m sure I’ll get closer to the rest of GOD’S CHILDREN and when I do, I plan on using them to get to know the FATHER even better.

Since Christ and OUR FATHER AREN’T physically here to talk to, I have to use the NEXT BEST THING that being studying Christ‘s conversations with GOD. The BEST example of that kind of communication can be found in John 17:20-26. When GOD’S CHILD (Christ) communicates with GOD in prayer, they communicate on a different level than you and I communicate with GOD. If we study the people GOD loved the most and become MORE like them, maybe someday we’ll get to their level with GOD. Then you’ll be able to communicate with GOD the way GOD'S CHILDREN communicate with HIM.

When Christ communicated with his apostles and followers he had to keep it simple for us (KISUS/Kiss Us). But when he communicated with GOD, he got to take his communications to another level. They talked about things that would confuse the average follower. So by studying those conversations, we can learn MORE about the FATHER and get closer to GOD. Who knows maybe in time, we’ll be able to talk to the FATHER at that level too.

In John 14:10-11 Christ says, “Do you NOT BELIEVE, Philip, that I am in the FATHER and the FATHER is in me? The words that I have spoken to you DO NOT come from me. The FATHER, who remains in me does HIS own work (gift of the HOLY SPIRIT). BELIEVE me when I say that I am in the FATHER and the FATHER is in me.

In John 17:21-23 Christ states, “I pray that they (his apostles and people who believe his messages) may all be ONE. FATHER! May they be in US, just as YOU are in me and I am in YOU. May they be ONE, so that the world will believe that YOU sent me. I gave them the SAME glory YOU gave me, so that they may be ONE, just as YOU and I are ONE. I in them and YOU in me, so that they may be completely ONE, in order that the world may know that YOU sent me and that YOU love them as YOU love me.”

In John 14:20 Christ says, “When the day comes, you will know that I am in my FATHER and that you are in me, just as I am in you.”

In John 14:23 Christ says, “Whoever loves me will obey my teaching. My FATHER will love him and my FATHER and I will come to him and live with him.

In John 13:20 Christ says, “I am telling you the truth: whoever receives anyone I send receives me also; and whoever receives me receives HIM (the FATHER) who sent me.”

In John 3:34 Christ says, “The one whom GOD has sent speaks GOD’S words, because GOD gives him fullness of HIS SPIRIT.”

In Matthew 10:20 Christ says, “For the words you will speak will NOT be yours; they will come from the SPIRIT of your FATHER speaking through you.”

In Acts 1:4-5 Christ says, “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift I told you about, the gift my FATHER promised. John baptized with water, but in a few days you will be baptized with the HOLY SPIRIT.”

To UNDERSTAND those readings, you’ve got to realize Christ ISN’T GOD but GOD is in him. It was GOD working in Christ that gave him the knowledge and power everyone saw and heard. In other words, Christ had the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT in him. The HOLY SPIRIT is NOT a different being. There is ONLY ONE GOD. HE is EVERYWHERE and HE can be in you and me just as HE was/is in Christ.

In Christ’s prayer, he asked the FATHER to let him be in the apostles just as the FATHER was in him. Since the FATHER is in Christ, if the FATHER lets Christ be in the apostles, then they too would have the FATHER in them also. Remember, the FATHER is ALREADY in Christ. So if the FATHER let Christ be in the apostles, then FATHER will be there too. Thus they will ALL be ONE WITH GOD.

Christians believe Christ is GOD but that ISN’T quite true. GOD is in Christ but Christ IS NOT GOD. If you believe Christ is GOD, then when the FATHER granted Christ’s prayer the apostles would also be GOD because they would be ONE with GOD too. For the record, I believe GOD honored Christ’s prayer and that’s the reason the apostles were able to work the miracles they worked.

Romans 8:1-17 discusses GOD’S SPIRIT in you. I WON’T quote that whole passage but verses 14 through 17 are very interesting.

St. Paul writes, “Those who are led by GOD’S SPIRIT are GOD’S sons (and daughters). For the SPIRIT that GOD has given you DOES NOT make you slaves and cause you to be afraid; instead, the SPIRIT makes you GOD’S children and by the SPIRIT’S power we cry out to GOD, “FATHER! My FATHER!” GOD’S SPIRIT joins HIMSELF to our spirits to declare that we are GOD’S children. Since we are HIS children, we will posses the blessings HE keeps for HIS people and we will also posses with Christ what GOD has kept for him; for if we share Christ’s sufferings, we will also share his glory.”

I really DON’T know St. Paul very well but those verses again talk about GOD’S SPIRIT (GOD’S SPIRIT joins HIMSELF to our spirits) being in you or being ONE with you.

The following verses contain statements by Christ and St Paul that document the fact that Christ’s power comes from GOD OUR FATHER. Christ is acknowledging that fact that he is NOT GOD but GOD gives him the authority and power.

In Matthew 11:27 and Luke 10:22 Christ says, “My FATHER has given me ALL things.”

In John 13:3 it states Jesus knew that the FATHER had given him complete power.

In John 14:28 Christ says, “If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the FATHER; for HE is greater than I.”

In John 14:31 Christ says, “… I love the FATHER; that is why I do everything as HE commands me.”

In Matthew 28:18 Jesus says, “… I have been given ALL authority in heaven and on earth.”

In Hebrews 7:25 St Paul writes, “… come to GOD through him (Christ), because he (Christ) lives for ever to plead with GOD for them.”

In John 12:50 Christ says, “What I say, then, is what the FATHER has told me to say.”

Luke 4:18 quotes Isaiah “The SPIRIT of the LORD is upon me (or in Christ) because he has chosen me to bring GOOD NEWS to the poor.”

In Mark 10:40 Christ say, “But I DO NOT have the right to choose who will sit at my right and on my left. It is GOD who gives these places to those for whom HE has prepared them.”

In Matthew 20:23 Christ say, “… but I DO NOT have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. These places belong to those for whom my FATHER has prepared them.”

Now I ask you, would you want GOD’S power and authority? If so, what would you do with the power if GOD gave it to you? Remember, MUCH IS EXPECTED OF THOSE WHO HAVE PLENTY. GOD is harder on those HE blesses most. When you see how much trouble the Israelite Kings got into because they were blessed by GOD you really got to think twice about asking for more than you can handle.

Personally, I find myself forgetting to give the FATHER glory (credit) for all the knowledge and abilities HE’S given me. HE does so much for me that I should be spending ALL my time thanking HIM but from time to time I find myself taken credit for the work HE’S done within me. It is for that reason, if for none other, that I hesitate to ask for more gifts but I would GLADLY accept anything HE knows I need to complete HIS work or anything HE knows I can handle. I know HE knows what will work; what I want and need; and what will open doors for the devil to tempt me. So I let HIM make the choices for me because HE’S the BEST ONE to decide what is BEST for me. Just as I know these words are HIS and NOT mine. HE is just so much smarter and powerful than us. HE amazes me but HE SHOULDN'T. After all HE is GOD and with GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE. But as a human, my mind CAN NOT UNDESTAND what ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE MEANS. When I see or hear something NEW I know that is possible but NOT until then. HE knows it before is it possible.

Post #54 What Happened To The Christian Heritage?

2006-12-14T11:33:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Dec. 14, 2006

Isn’t it funny that the ONLY REFERENCES in the bible related to Christ’s childhood refers to the PASSOVER FESTIVAL (Luke 2:41)? In that passage, it states that Jesus, Mary and Joseph celebrated the PASSOVER EVERY YEAR in Jerusalem, yet Christians DON’T ever keep track of that SPECIAL DAY. You’d think that if they REALLY BELIEVED Mary was Christ's mother and Jesus was GOD’S son they’d BELIEVE and practice what she and Christ TAUGHT and BELIEVED.

If that isn’t bad enough, did you know that Christ and his apostles didn’t call themselves Christians? They were Jews that BELIEVED Christ was/is a savior. It wasn’t till after St Steven was stoned to death (long after Christ went to heaven) that people started calling Christ's followers Christians. You can find that FIRST REFERNCE to Christ’s followers being called Christians in Acts Chapter 11 verses 19-26. That passage states, “It was at Antioch that the believers were FIRST CALLED CHRISTIANS.” So in reality, Christ DIDN’T want to start a NEW RELIGION. You can find the bible reference in Matthew Chapter 5 verse 17 when Christ said, “DO NOT THINK THAT I HAVE COME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS. I HAVE NOT COME TO DO AWAY THEM BUT TO MAKE THEIR TEACHINGS COME TRUE.”

So if YOU REALLY BELIEVE Christ was GOD’S son and he CAN’T be wrong, then today’s Christian Church is WRONG. They AREN’T following the BELIEFS Christ lived and taught. Christ and his apostles were Jewish and followed the Jewish customs. The ONLY DIFFERENCE between the JEWISH religion and the religion Christ followed and taught is that Christ was GOD’S son and he was sent by GOD.

The bible documents the fact that Christ continued to celebrate the PASSOVER FESTIVAL while he was spreading the GOOD NEWS (see John 2:13; 2:23; 4:45; 6:4). In fact, the LAST SUPPER was actually their PASSOVER MEAL (Matthew 26:17; Mark 14:12; Luke 22:7; John 13:1). Yes, Christ was Jewish and he practiced what he preached. However, he DID NOT like the way the leaders of the JEWISH CHURCH acted. But he was NOT starting a NEW FAITH, he was TRYING TO CORRECT one that was on the WRONG PATH. Thus, SAVING THE JEWISH PEOPLE from the leaders of the faith that were NOT pleasing GOD anymore.

Today Christian faith is also on the WRONG PATH. They’ve LOST their heritage. Remember, Christ DIDN’T come to create a NEW FAITH; he came to strengthen the Jewish Faith.

So how did the Christian Faith get on the WRONG TRACK? It might be because Christ DIDN’T preach about the OLD TESTIMENT. He didn’t have to because the JEWISH PEOPLE knew more about the OLD TESIMENT than we do. However, many of his lessons are rewordings of messages that can be found in the OLD TESTAMENT. Christ was here to correct the PROBLEMS with the JEWISH CHURCH and its leaders. He didn’t need to waste time teaching the OLD TESTAMENT which everyone already knew. Unfortunately, the gentiles they converted to Christianity after Christ left earth NEVER got the needed OLD TESTAMENT LESSONS. Remember, Christ was here to teach the Jewish people NOT the gentiles. So he didn’t teach his followers how to teach the OLD TESTAMENT. That knowledge was already being taught and past on to the Jewish community. Christ and his followers only had to supplement that information with his teachings. When Christ followers started converting gentiles, they should have first taught them to be Jews and then added on Christ teachings.

It’s like the DEVIL has his hand in making sure the Christians, Jews and Muslims DON’T find out how close their religions really are.

Why do we ALWAYS look for the DIFFERENCES in each other rather than what we have in common. Why are we more concerned with the NEGATIVE SIDE of things than the POSITIVE SIDE?

Someone should write a book comparing the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths. I bet they’d find out their faiths are VERY SIMILAR. In fact the differences are MINOR in nature. They all agree on the MAJOR POINT that there is ONLY ONE GOD. Why can’t we all agree on that instead of disagreeing on which faith is best? Do we really think our ONE GOD likes to see us fighting? Oops! Isn’t that against all three religions too?

Man has always been SCARED of the UNKNOWN. The DEVIL knows that and he uses that to his advantage. If you really want to please GOD, you should get to know your neighbor and you just might find out he ISN’T as SACRY as you think.

Post #53 How Innocent Are You?

2006-12-09T11:38:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Dec. 9, 2006

Today’s message came to me during church service on Thursday (Dec. 7, 2006). I was attending a mass for the Catholic Feast of the Immaculate Conception. For the record, I’m NOLONGER a catholic. I am A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST.

As a FOLLOWER of Christ, I hate to pass up a chance to hear GOD’S WORD and the Catholic service includes three (3) reading that I wouldn’t have heard if I didn’t attended their services. One of this week’s readings was the story of Adam and Eve and that lead to today’s message.

When we reach the gates to heaven GOD’S angels and saints will know right away, if we obeyed GOD’S LAWS. They’ll be able to tell just by looking at your soul (or INNOCENT METER). Kind of like GOD knew Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.

Because Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit they knew they were NAKED and that bothered them. If they hadn’t eaten the forbidden fruit they wouldn’t have cared about being NAKED (Genesis 3:9-15). There sins gave them away.

Today we can tell when summer is near by the green leaves on HIS plants. GOD; HIS angles; and HIS saints know even more from things we DON’T know or understand. For instance, GOD could tell us how to bring rain; stop hurricanes; or build a better birdhouse. HE designed and built nature. HE knows what makes it tick and how to make it do what HE wants it to do. HE also designed and built us. So HE knows what makes us tick too. HE’S the ONLY mind reader I’ll ever BELIEVE. HE DOESN’T for tell the future. HE’S seen it. If HE tells you what HE'S SEEN, BELIEVE it (ask St. Peter about the cock) but do your BEST to follow HIS LAWS and treat your neighbor like you want to be treated.

Back to today’s message, think of your soul (or spirit) as being an expensive METER with BLACK BOX that monitors how INNOCENT you’ve been all your life. The gears inside the METER start off in perfect condition. Thus the term, INNOCENT AS A NEW BORN BABY. When you sin the gears start to get dirty and rusty. When you EARN FORGIVENESS (repay the one(s) harmed plus a twenty percent fine Leviticus 6:1-7) for those sins the METER gets cleaned. To bad everyone doesn’t repay the people they sinned against. If they did, there wouldn’t be as many people sinning. I guess that’s why GOD made that law. The question is WHY DID THE CHURCH CHANGE IT? Christ DIDN’T. (In Matthew 5:17 Christ is quoted as saying, “DO NOT THINK THAT I HAVE COME TO DO AWAY WITH THE LAW OF MOSES AND THE TEACHINGS OF THE PROPHETS.”)

Major sins (like Adam and Eve eating the forbidden fruit) and sins that we fail to earn forgiveness for cause damage to the gears inside our INNOCENT METER. They cause the gears to break and lose teeth. The METER still runs but not as fast because you are NOLONGER as innocent as you once were. The more you sin the more teeth you lose and the SLOWER the METER runs. I BELIEVE that GOD can FIX your gears IF you deserve it and one of the BEST ways to get on GOD’S good side is to help the poor (Proverb 19:17 tells us that when you help the poor you are leading to GOD and HE PAYS WONDERFUL INTEREST.).

Anyway when you get to the gates of heaven, they’ll know everything they need to know about you by viewing YOUR INNOCENT METER. That BLACK BOX inside your soul or the gears inside the INNOCENT METER will be all evidence HIS angles need to know HOW INNOCENT YOU ARE. Just as the insides of a watch tell a watch smith how well you took care of a fine watch, GOD’S angles and Saints will know what every broken tooth in your INNOCENT METER (soul) means from the log in the BLACK BOX and from the reading on your INNOCENT METER. You WON’T be able to hide a thing. Just like Adam and Eve couldn’t hide the fact that they ate the forbidden fruit.

Earning forgiveness for your sins will clean your INNOCENT METER (soul) but it DOES NOT fix any broken teeth. You’ve got to make some sacrifices (like helping the poor and less fortunate people of this world) to earn GOD’S help if you want to FIX the BROKEN TEETH. Keeping your INNOCENT METER CLEAN ONLY keeps the dirt and rust from causing more teeth to break. If you DON’T earn GOD’S help your INNOCENT METER (soul) will NEVER run any better than it does today but you can make it run worse by continuing to violate GOD’S LAWS and/or NOT earning forgiveness for your sins.

So how innocent are you? Are you taking care of your soul (your INNOCENT METER)? Are you earning treasures in heaven? Just as we CAN’T fix our INNOCENT METERES, Adam and Eve COULDN’T get back into the Garden of Eden. Once your sin causes damage, you CAN’T undo it that damage. ONLY GOD can make that happen.

Adam and Eve lost the right to live in the Garden of Eden and they NEVER got that right back. We CAN’T fix our INNOCENT METERES but GOD can. It just takes a LOT of repentance and sacrifice. Without it, your INNOCENT METER (soul) will never be as good as it once was but you can protect it from having more problems by obeying GOD’S LAWS; EARNING FORGIVENESS for your sins; and EARNING MORE TREASURES in heaven (doing good deeds for others).

Remember, Love GOD (our FATHER) with all your heart, with all your mind, and with all your soul and treat your neighbors like you want GOD to treat you for eternity.

Post #52 What If We ALL Get To Heaven?

2006-12-02T13:53:00.000-05:00

Post #52 What If We ALL Get To Heaven?

Posted and E-mailed Dec. 2-4, 2006

That just might be what happens but remember, “IF IT SOUNDS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE IT PROBABLY IS.” There HAS TO BE A CATCH.

The CATCH is HEAVEN is what you make it to be. While you are here on earth your life is BUILDING a room in heaven for you (Luke 6:38; Luke 6:45). Christ told us “There are MANY ROOMS IN HEAVEN (John 14.2). Each is designed to reward (Matthew 10:40-42) us the way we LOVED OUR NEIGHBOR while we were here on earth (Luke 16:19-31). If we obey the laws GOD gave us and Christ taught (Luke 10:26-37) us this message ISN’T going to SCARE YOU. You will live FOREVER (Luke 10:28).

However, if you DON’T listen to GOD’S warnings, I’m SORRY for you for you will have to endure GREAT SUFFERRING (Luke 16:19-31; Matthew 13:47-50). For you will have stored FEW TREASURES in heaven. You LOVED the world and worldly things NOT GOD and your NEIGHBOR.

Remember, Christ’s warning, “Your sins are forgiven. Go and sin no more.” He didn’t say if you sin again, I’ll forgive them again. He said, “Sin no more.”

He was trying to teach us to change our ways. We need to start EARNING heavenly rewards NOT earthly treasures that CAN be lost and/or stolen. Heavenly rewards last forever (Luke 12:32-34). They CAN NOT be taken away. You’ll have them for eternity, if you earn them while you are here and the MORE you earn the happier you’ll be in heaven. So in the end, the winner is the person with the MOST toys, rewards or should I say TREASURES.

The choice is ours. Keep sinning and receive NO REWARDS in heaven or start loving GOD and YOUR NEIGHBOR, so you too will be happy in heaven with your toys (TREASURES).

Remember, “IF IT SOUNDS TO GOOD TO BE TRUE, IT PROBABLY IS” AND THAT GOES FOR RELIGION TOO. We all get to heaven but we all get what we deserve. Are you going to be happy there (Matthew 25:31-46; Matthew 13:44)? If you’re reading this you still have time to do something about it. The choice is up to you. “GO AND SIN NO MORE.”

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2006-11-20T11:17:00.000-05:00

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Post #51 Who Is The Corner Stone

2006-11-14T11:19:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Nov. 14-15, 2006

The church teaches that Christ is the corner stone of the church but the dictionary states that a corner stone can be found where two intersecting walls meet. What building has but one corner stone? Christ is a corner stone for GOD’S CHURCH but he is NOT the only corner stone. He might be the MOST important corner stone but that’s NOT for me to decide. That’s GOD’S decision to make. Just as Christ couldn’t tell James and John who would be on his right and left side in heaven, I can not tell you how many corner stones are in GOD’S church much less who they are. That’s the FATHER’S decision.

I will tell you that I BELIEVE Moses and Elijah were already in place before Christ. And I BELIEVE there are prophets from several religions supporting GOD’S church. Just which ones are at which corner I DO NOT know but I DO know that they BELIEVE in only ONE GOD (the FATHER) just as the bible teaches. I also BELIEVE that the Muslim faith is a lot closer to the Jewish belief than the Christian church. Since Christ was BORN, RAISED and DIED a Jew, I have to BELIEVE as he BELIEVED. Thus I’m sure Mohammad is one of GOD’S CORNER STONES.

If today’s church was as close to GOD as Christ and his disciples why don’t we see the miracles that they performed? I BELIEVE that’s because today’s church is much like the Jewish church in Christ’s days. They collect the money and build great buildings when Christ taught the opposite. Many of Christ’s BEST sermons were given outdoors. He DIDN’T need a lot of money and he didn’t need fancy buildings. His mission from GOD was to help the poor, sick, humble and less fortunate.

If you want to find GOD you have to LOOK FOR HIM. HE’S NOT going to look for you. HE KNOWS where you are and what’s inside you. You HAVE to start changing from the inside to find GOD. Once you make that change, you just might find HIM living in you just as Christ found HIM living in him. If you DON’T BELIEVE that’s possible read Christ’s pray for his disciples in JOHN 17:20-26. In that passage, Christ reveals the fact that the FATHER is in him that’s why he has GOD’S power. Christ further prays that the FATHER will let him live in his disciples so they too will have the FATHER in them. So just as Christ is ONE with the FATHER, Christ’s disciples will be one with the FATHER also.

Now you know why the disciples had the ability to work miracles and why the leaders of today's churches DON’T have that ability. They LOST the TRUE teaches of Christ.

It’s funny the bible contains a copy of the log Moses kept (Numbers Chapter 33) but there’s NOTHING from Christ’s journal. We know he could read scripture because the bible talks about him reading the word in the temple. So what happened to his writing? As I stated before, I BELIEVE they were burnt to keep the soldiers warm the night Christ died. But the real reason was to get rid of the evidence. The high priests and leaders of the church knew those messages would expose their lies and give the Romans a reason to let Christ go free.

So the question is: Are you willing to change your life, so GOD the FATHER can be in you? Are you willing to sacrifice for others so you can move your stone closer to a corner stone of the church? That’s the first step toward becoming one of GOD’S corner stones.

GOD wants to make his church as big as it can be. Don’t expect it to have only 4 corners. A church the shape of a cross has at least 12 corners (8 outside corners and 4 inside corners). GOD’S church probably is a combination of all the religious symbols of HIS PEOPLE’S CHURCHES. So that would mean that HIS church would also include at least the STAR OF DAVID; CHIRST’S CROSS; and whatever the Muslims use to represent their church. I’ll stop there because I know I’ll leave out someone and that faith might be the MOST important faith in GOD’S EYES.

So the question is: Are you willing to LOOK for GOD? Are you going to start changing from within? If so, then you too just might be ONE with GOD one day. Don’t expect it to happen overnight. Christ’s apostles studied under him for about three years before they had enough faith to earn that right. It’ll take MUCH sacrifice and cost you greatly (at least it cost Christ and all his apostles) in this world but the reward in the NEXT LIFE is worth it. Remember, that life last FOREVER and EVER. Isn’t it better to be happy FOREVER and EVER than to be happy in this life for 100 years and SUFFER FOREVER and EVER because of it?

Are you going to be GOD’S CORNER STONE?

Post #50 Do You Love GOD?

2006-11-09T11:31:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Nov. 9, 2006

Father Leo at St. Charles Catholic Church in Port Charlotte, Fl is the inspiration for today’s message. Last Saturday (Nov. 4, 2006) he talked about his nieces and their parents. His message was about what we should do if we love someone. His nieces’ parents would say, “If you love us you would or wouldn’t do this, that or the other thing.” And his nieces would tell their parents, “If you love me you would or wouldn’t do this that or the other thing.”

About that time GOD got me to thinking, if we LOVED HIM we WOULDN’T SIN. We are like children needing to be reminded time after time about the rules GOD set up for us. As children, GOD expects us to stumble and fall but as we get older HE expects us to AVOID SIN. I bet a lot of teenage parents can relate to that but at some point children mature to the point where we DON’T need to be punished anymore. They know right from wrong and we DON’T cross that line.

So why is it that we think GOD our FATHER doesn’t expect the SAME from us? Why DON’T we ever grow up and LEARN RIGHT from WRONG and stop crossing that line? The answer is simple. If you break a man-made law here on earth you HAVE TO PAY FOR IT. However, if you break one of GOD’S LAWS MOST PEOPLE BELIEVE all you have to do is ask forgiveness? People DON’T expect to pay for their sins.

Why is that we EXPECT our children to pay if they break one of our laws but we DON’T expect GOD to make us pay if we break one of HIS LAWS? People grow up and become GOOD CITIZENS and OBEY the laws or pay the penalty. But many of GOD’S children NEVER grow up. They NEVER STOP SINNING and NEVER become GOOD CITIZENS of heaven. Do you really BELIEVE GOD is going to allow sinning in heaven? I DON’T and Christ DIDN’T either. That’s why he was allows saying, “GO AND SIN NO MORE.”

Start being the person GOD would be PROUD to call his son or daughter. That’s what you want your children to do. Do you think GOD expects anything less from us? READ LUKE 16: 19-31 (The Rich Man and Lazarus) and see what happens to people that DON’T obey GOD’S LAWS. Then decide if you would rather be RICH or LAZARUS.

Remember, what Christ taught us in Mark 12:29-31. Love the Lord your GOD with all your heart, with all your mind and with all your soul. And treat your neighbor like you want GOD to treat you for eternity. After Christ told the crowd those two (2) commandments, a Pharisee (Teacher of the law) agreed with hiim and said (Mark 12:33), “It is more important to obey these two (2) commandments than to offer animals on the altar and other sacrifices (compares to our church services; communion; …) to GOD.” In other words, ACTIONS speak louder than words. Put your faith into action. Help your neighbor and AVOID SIN. Then you’ll know YOU LOVE GOD and everyone will know HE LOVES YOU TOO. Because if you love HIM you'll KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. Now YOU KNOW IF YOU LOVE GOD.

POST # 49 What’s Wrong With Our Churches?

2006-10-30T12:08:00.001-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Oct. 30-31, 2006

As a catholic I been told for years about the shortage of priests. Unfortunately, that’s a symptom of the problem NOT the problem. The problem is the SAME in ALMOST EVERY CHURCH. It’s the LACK of GOOD QUALITY TEACHERS in our youth ministries. The churches of today HAVE to plant the seeds of tomorrow in the youth of today, if our churches are to grow and be prosperous in the future.

In the past, the Catholic Church had nuns to provided that service. Those nuns planted the seeds in the children they taught. Those children grew up to be nuns, priests and good Christians. Today the Catholic Church much like most churches is filled with elderly worshipers. For years they are harvested from seeds planted years ago by hardworking youth ministers and nuns. Today VERY FEW young people attending church because MOST churches DON’T put enough money into the youth programs. They’re to busy making the church prettier and paying for the things they purchased years ago when membership was up and times were good.

But it isn’t enough just to have a GREAT YOUTH PROGRAM; you also need to look out for the little ones until they’re able to take care of themselves. That task can NOT be left to the parents alone. Everyone in the congregation has a responsibility to GOD help look after the youth. Recently, I read an article in a local newspaper about two young girls (they’re in the picture above) that were killed in a car accident just after they left a church Halloween Party (Click Here To Read That Story).

It’s believed that the children WEREN’T wearing seatbelts. I wonder, how many people over the years watched those kids get into their parents car and not put on a seatbelt? I know that family is wishing they had forced their children to wear seatbelts. I bet their church is wishing they had made it a rule not to let ANY car out of the parking lot if the children weren’t wearing a seatbelts.

I know those little girls are in heaven today but we CAN’T afford to keep losing GOD’S messengers. Those little girls might have grown up to be missionaries, teachers, mothers … but we DIDN’T protect them. We let them down. We let GOD down.

If you looked at their picture, you’ll notice they’re playing in a box. I BELIEVE that’s GOD’S message (symbolism) to us. We DIDN’T think out-of-the-box. If we had we could have protected those children better. Maybe we should have taught those children to think out-of-the-box. We should be telling our parents that protecting your children in a car is MORE IMPORTANT than worrying about CHILD MOLESTERS. Our children have a MUCH better chance of being hurt and/or killed in a car accident then they do of getting attacked by a CHILD MOLESTER.

It makes me wonder why we AREN'T as hard on drunk drivers as we are on CHILD MOLESTERS. More people (of all ages) are killed and injuried every day by repeat drunk drivers than CHILD MOLESTERS. I guess going after drunk drives ISN'T as politically correct as going after child molesters. After all child molesters DON'T have any PAC MONEY or SPECIAL INTERST GROUPS to protect them. Our politicians have to make sure they DON'T step on any toes. I guess that's way illegal aliens are good targets for politicians. Politicians have to stick to SAFE ISSUES that WON'T cause anyone complain.

Anyway, if the churches of today are going to survive in the future they have to start doing a MUCH BETTER job of sowing their seeds in the children of today and they’ll have to protect them better. Because their not only the FUTURE OF THEIR CHURCH THEIR THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY. GOD KNOWS our politicians AREN'T going to do it. They might lose some political support and/or make an enemy or two in the process and that'll cost them money.

We need to start forcing our churches to spend MORE TIME AND MONEY on our children and LESS on the building and facilities we worship in. Maybe it’s time for our churches to reread Christ’s story about the SOWER AND THE SEED. We’ve been harvesting to long and NOT PLANTING ENOUGH. The fields need to be plowed, replanted and fertilized once and awhile and that’s the job of our youth ministry. Instead of complaining about the church’s lack of preachers and priests we need to start planting new seeds. The problem is ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE, if we DON’T start planting today. You CAN’T harvest a crop if you DON’T plant and TAKE CARE of the seedlings.

We failed to take care of those two children and lost that crop. DON’T let your church do the same thing. Start putting more time and money into your youth program and make taking care of your church’s youth the job of the congregation not just the children’s parents. DON’T let those children’s death be for NOTHING. GOD used those angles to send us a message. Let HIM know you got the message and you’re doing something about it. Protect your church’s future and you’ll save your church and maybe our country.

Now you know WHAT’S WRONG WITH OUR CHURCHES.

POST #48 The END Is Nearer Than You Think

2006-10-30T12:08:00.000-05:00

POST #48 The END Is Nearer Than You Think

E-mailed and Posted on Oct. 27-28, 2006

I’m not talking about the END OF THE WORLD; I’m talking about the END OF OUR LIVES here on earth. It DOESN’T matter if the END OF THE WORLD DOESN’T happen in our lifetime. Once you and I die our fate is sealed in stone. We’ll be in heaven or hell for eternity. So for us the END OF THE WORLD happens when we die not when the world ends.

I BELIEVE that might be what Paul was trying to teach his followers but his messages didn’t get recorded correctly or it was the BEST way to teach this message in his time. Anyway, Paul talked a lot about Christ coming again real soon. I BELIEVE he meant when you die, you’ll be held accountable for your sins and Christ will be there to help judge you.

Paul’s followers have already experienced their END OF THE WORLD. They have all been judged and are being rewarded or punished for the things they did here on earth. Our time is coming REAL SOON and we too will be judged by GOD. The question is: are we going to be REWARDED or PUNISHED. Until we die, we control our own destiny. Once we die our fate is sealed and there is NOTHING anyone can do about it.

So the point is: you and/or I could drop dead at ANY MOMENT (maybe before you finish reading my message). At that point, your fate is sealed for eternity. That’s why Paul preached the way he did. You and I DON’T know the exact moment of our death. So we need to live every moment as if the next moment is our last or THE END OF THE WORLD. For each of us our death is in fact THE END OF OUR WORLD. It might NOT be THE END OF THE WORLD for everyone else but it will be for us.

Since THE END OF YOUR WORLD could be tomorrow, DON’T put off earning forgiveness for your sins. Since THE END OF YOUR WORLD could be tomorrow, DON’T sin anymore. Since THE END OF YOUR WORLD could be tomorrow, start spreading the WORD OF GOD by your example. You CAN’T afford to say I’ll do it tomorrow because tomorrow may NEVER come for you or me. Today just might be THE END OF OUR WORLD.

So remember, THE END IS NEARER THAN YOU THINK.

POST #47 GOD Does Things For A Reason

2006-10-26T09:14:00.000-05:00

Posted Oct. 26, 2006 and E-mailed on Oct. 25, 2006

To day’s topic is, “GOD DOES THINGS FOR A REASON.” The question is: Are we religious enough to find the reason? Maybe that’s what the story of Job was supposed to teach us. Instead of complaining and asking GOD why HE was allowing all those things to happen to him, Job should have been trying to find the lessons GOD wanted him to learn. Once you get the message GOD is trying to teach you, you’ll be a lot happier, safer and wiser. If you concentrate on the negative, like Job, it’ll take you a lot longer to get the message and you’ll suffer more than you needed to. That’s the cost of NOT having enough faith. So look for the reasons NOT the symptoms. And ask GOD to give you the wisdom to understand the meaning behind the tests HE’S allowed the devil to perform.

Christ warned the disciples that GOD had given Satan permission to test all of them (Luke 22:31). When Peter refused to believe that he would fall to Satan’s temptations, Christ told him that he would refuse to admit knowing Christ three times. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John all agree on the point that Peter would deny Christ three (3) times but they differ on the facts about the roster crows. That isn’t the important fact about those stories so I’m not going to talk about that.

We all know Peter did indeed deny Christ three times despite Christ’s warning. But he learned form his mistake. That was the reason for Peter’s test. GOD wanted to teach him NOT to question Christ’s predictions (they came from the Holy Spirit). So Peter became a SMARTER man.

Then in John 21:15-17 when Christ asked Peter again three (3) times, “DO YOU LOVE ME” and when Peter replied, “YES”. Christ would say, “TAKE CARE OF MY SHEEP.” This time Peter said, “LORD YOU KNOW EVERYTHING; YOU KNOW I LOVE YOU!” A wiser answer, one that gave glory to the Lord and admitted GOD was smarter than him. He didn’t say anything about taking care of the sheep. That wasn’t something he could predict. Just as denying Christ three times but he knew right then and there he loved Christ.

That’s how GOD works in you via the HOLY SPIRIT. You say just the RIGHT WORDS, in just the RIGHT WAY at just the RIGHT TIME WITHOUT even KNOWING why IT was SO RIGHT. Peter was becoming one with GOD because GOD was in him and GOD was speaking though him.

Jesus talked about being ONE with the FATHER in John Chapter 14 verses 10. In that passage he said, “I am in the FATHER and the FATHER is in me. The words that I have spoken to do not come from me. The FATHER, who remains in me does his own work.”

Jesus also prayed to the FATHER asking HIM to take care of his disciples and make them one with HIM also. That passage can be found in John 17 verses 14-23. In that passage Christ said, “I gave them YOUR message, and the world hated them, because they did NOT belong to the world, just as I do NOT belong to the world. I do NOT ask YOU to take them out of the world, but I do ask you to keep them safe from the evil one. Just as I do NOT belong to the world, they do NOT belong to the world. Dedicate them to YOURSELF by means of the truth; YOUR word is truth. I sent them into the world, just as you sent me into the world. And for their sake I dedicate myself to YOU, in order that they, too, may be truly dedicated to YOU.”

“I pray not only for them, but also for those who BELIEVE in me because of their message. I pray that they may all be ONE. Father! May they be in US, just as YOU are in me and I am in YOU. May they be ONE, so that the world will believe that YOU sent me. I gave them the same glory you gave me, so that they may be ONE, just as you and I are ONE: I in them and YOU in me, so that they may be completely ONE, in order that the world may know that YOU sent me and that YOU love them as YOU love me.”

There is ONLY ONE GOD but HE can be in any or all of us. HE is in Christ and Christ prayed to let himself into the disciples in the SAME way the FATHER was in him. Since the FATHER was in him and he wanted to be in all his disciples that would mean that the FATHER would also be in all of his disciples. Christ went even further asking that ANYONE who followed the message his disciples gave should also be ONE with him and thus ONE with GOD the FATHER.

Are you ONE with GOD? Is the FATHER in you? If so then just like Peter, you’ll learn from the FATHER and the FATHER will speak through you. Plus you won’t mind the pain and suffering of this world. You’ll find the POSITIVE and GOD will help block out the NEGATIVE. After all, how do you think all the prophets and saints lived through all their punishments in this world? GOD is the BEST PAIN KILLER. There are NO SIDE EFFECTS and NO MEDICINE to take. So seek the truth and you shall be rewarded. Just remember, GOD DOES THINGS FOR A REASON, so look for the reason.

POST #46 Christ’s Hidden Prophecy

2006-10-21T11:27:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Oct 21, 2006

For the past couple of days, I’ve been scanning the New Testament looking for references to support a message I thought GOD wanted me to pass on to you. But as usual HE had a different idea. Convincing me to search the New Testament was HIS way of helping me FIND the message HE wanted told today.

HE was also REENFORCING in me the concept that patience is its own reward. When you're working on GOD’S team you have let HIM use you from time to time. HE could have showed me the passages I was looking but HE chose to hide those things from me. That was HIS clue to me that HE wanted me to work on something else. After you read the following message let me know if you think HIS message is something special.

The story of Jesus being anointed at Bethany is told by Matthew (26:6) Mark (14:3) and John (12:1). As usual Matthew and Mark’s versions are very similar. If Luke had written one on the same subject, I bet it would have been just like Matthew and Mark’s. But John’s version is quite a bit different. It isn’t till you put the three versions together that you get the complete picture.

In both Matthew and Mark's version Jesus said something like, “… wherever this gospel (story or passage) is preached all over the world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.” John’s version left off that message. However, Matthew and Mark hide the fact that the person anointing Christ was Lazarus’ sister Mary. In fact, they didn’t even mention Lazarus, Martha or Mary. They indicated that the anointing happened at the house of Simon a man who had suffered from a dreaded skin disease. I wonder if that was the disease that killed Lazarus before Christ brought him back to life.

John blamed Judas for complaining about wasting the perfume while Matthew said the disciples were angry about it and Mark said some people became angry about it.

The question is why the differences? I BELIEVE it’s a little bit of JEALOUSY and a little bit of SHAME. The JEALOUSY comes from the fact that Christ told everyone Mary was going to be remembered in gospels all over the world. So as humans the writers of the gospel fell victims to the devil and made it hard to get the complete story. We all want to think that our friends love us more than they love someone else. This story made Mary a very important character in Christ’s life.

GOD allowed the writers to hide the information because HE wanted to prove Christ’s prediction would come true even if the facts were hidden. John’s version of the story is the one I’ve always been told and that one gave Mary the credit it just didn’t include Christ’s prediction. Now that we put the stories together we know it all. Remember, nothing can be hidden from GOD.

The SHAME come from the fact that the disciples (in Matthew 26:6); some people (in Mark 14:3); and/or Judas (in John 12:1) complained about Mary’s anointing of Christ and they got scolded by Christ for it. None of us like to tell stories about the times we did things we weren’t proud of. So we sometime leave off a few facts and make the story a little less negative so we can HIDE our guilt. Lets face it we’re all human and we’ve all done it. The point is GOD is going to expose it some day, so tell the true and admit the guilt. That way others will learn from your story and the truth will set you free. You wouldn’t have to keep hiding the facts until GOD exposes them.

In closing, I’ll say, Christ was right. Mary’s story has been told all over the world even though Matthew and Mark hid her from the story; Luke didn’t include the story and John didn’t tell anyone that Christ predicted Mary would be remembered all over the world because of her act of kindness. Now AIN’T THAT COOL.

Post #45 We Need To Become More Like Them

2006-10-19T10:47:00.000-05:00

Posted and E-mailed Oct. 19, 2006

Jesus said (Matthew 18:3-5), “I assure you that unless you change and become like children, you will NEVER enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven is the one who HUMBLES himself and becomes like this CHILD. And whoever welcomes in my name one such CHILD as this welcomes me.” (Similar passages can be found in Mark 9:33-37 and Luke 9:46-48)

For some time I’ve wondered about aborted babies; still born children; and the ones that die before they had a chance to know GOD. I also wondered about baptizing children before they were old enough to really understand the vow others were making for them.

Based on Christ’s teachings I BELIEVE OUR CHILDREN DON’T need to be baptized it is we that need to become MORE like them. I have NO DOUBT that the children who died before they were old enough to know better are this very moment enjoying the Kingdom of Heaven. After all Christ said it. Who am I to doubt his word? Plus I BELIEVE in a FAIR and JUST GOD. My GOD WOULDN’T punish INNOCENT CHILDREN. If YOU BELIEVE your god does, then you better be on your BEST BEHAVIOR every minute of ever day because he’s surely going to punish you.

Jesus also said (Matthew 19:14), “Let the CHILDREN come to me and DO NOT STOP THEM, because the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to such as these.” (Similar passages can be found in Mark 10:17-31 and Luke 18:18-30)

So we DON’T have to worry about our children. All we have to do is expose them to GOD and lead by our example. After all they are closer to the Kingdom of Heaven than we are. When the time is right, they’ll decide baptism is RIGHT for them. Till then we have to become more like them (learn to be as innocent as a little child).

If you think this message is wrong, then ask yourself why Christ didn’t baptize those children. Remember all he did was lay his hands on them and bless them (see Matthew 19:15; and Mark 10:16). I BELIEVE it was because he knew they DIDN’T need to be baptized and they weren’t ready to make that VOW to GOD.

Christ also said (Luke 18:17), “Remember this! Whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a CHILD will NEVER enter it.”

In summary, it’s NOT our children that need to be baptized but us. We are the sinners and we should know better. So we need to become more like children, innocent in EVERY WAY. And we have to expose our children to GOD’S WORD, thus preparing them to make that VOW (baptism)to GOD someday.

LATER NOTE (Oct 20, 2006): I know some of you believe we are born with original sin and because of that sin you to be baptized to get into heaven. Some of you even believe that no one got into heaven till Christ died to open the gates of heaven.

Well, I have news for you. Christ met with Moses, Elijah and GOD at the Transfiguration before Christ died. That DISPROVES both of those beliefs. Moses and Elijah were with GOD and HE’S in heaven. So Moses and Elijah were in heaven too and gates of heaven had to be open before Christ died. I BELIEVE they were NEVER closed. And Moses and Elijah DIDN’T need to be baptized to get into heaven.

Now you know the REAL REASON for the transfiguration. It was to tell us Moses, Elijah and Christ ARE ALL SAVIORS and EQUALS. They SAVED the world from another flood or similar destruction. I’ve written a couple of messages on that topic. You can use the following links to find those messages:

- POST #36 Never Again (click here)

- POST #24 Christ The Prophet (click here)

- POST #09 The Meaning Of The Transfiguration (click here)

Post #44 Sometimes A Sin Isn’t A Sin

2006-10-12T13:11:00.000-05:00

Post #44 Sometimes A Sin Isn’t A Sin

Posted and E-mailed October 12, 2006

Thank GOD we have a JUST and FAIR GOD or we’d all be going to HELL.

MURDER ISN’T ALWAYS A SIN

1st -Soldiers are allowed to kill the enemy soldiers during a war? We know this one is okay because GOD helped the Israelites kill their enemies in order to take over the Holy Land.

2nd - A policeman has to be allowed to kill a robber in order to protect some victims.

SLEEPING WITH YOUR DAUGHTER ISN’T ALWAYS A SIN

GOD’S ONLY going to approve of this one if you BELIEVE you’re the LAST people on earth and you BELIEVE it’s your duty to repopulate the earth. Again there’s an example in the bible. After Soddom and Gomorrah burned down, Lot’s daughters thought they were the ONLY three people left on earth. So they got Lot drunk and tried to have children in order to keep the mankind from disappearing from the earth.

MULTIPLE WIVES and/or MISTRESSES ISN’T ALWAYS A SIN

This one appears to be just a manmade law not GOD’S law. Abraham had a wife and his wife gave him her housemaid to try and have children with. Isaac’s son Jacob had two wives plus children from their two housemaids. So GOD DOESN’T have a problem with multiple wives and/or mistresses AS LONG AS YOU TREAT THEM RIGHT but GOD honors man's laws.

DIVORCE ISN’T ALWAYS A SIN

1st - Soon after Abraham’s wife Rebekah had their son Isaac she became jealous of Abraham’s son Ishmael from her housemaid. So she made Abraham send them both away. GOD told Abraham it was okay. Ishmael and his mother would be taken care of. So he sent her and Ishmael away.

2nd - I’m sure GOD doesn’t want a woman staying with a man that beats her and/or their children or a man staying with a woman that beats him and/or their children.

Before I got married, I use to BELIEVE that divorce was wrong but thanks to GOD I now know there are GOOD REASONS for GOD to allow us to break HIS commandments. Before I tell you my situation, I’ll just say I stuck it out for 20 years to see the children old enough to NOT need me. I should have divorced her before the so-called honeymoon was over.

Some people become a different person after they get the ring. Little did I know that the reason she saved herself for the marriage was because she really didn’t want it at all. If that wasn’t bad enough, when we got home, she started blackmailing me. She was going to have my father arrested for having sex with her sister. I once questioned my father about the event and he justified it in front of my mother by saying the girl had been writing him letters. To this day I really don’t know if the event even happened because lately it’s been stated that it wasn’t my father after all. Now if that isn’t enough for GOD to approve of my divorce, I’ll add the fact that my ex-wife once said she’d stab me in my sleep. It wasn’t a prefect marriage but the point of it is that it SHOULDN’T have been a marriage. GOD knows divorce ISN'T that BIG A DEAL in SOME CASES. Now I know GOD BELIEVES in encouraging couples to LIVE TOGETHER before you marry. Marriage should be the celebration of the continuation of a GREAT RELATIONSHIP NOT the beginning of a relationship because it just might be the end of it.

These are just a few examples to help you understand why "SOMETIMES A SIN ISN'T A SIN" in GOD'S EYES.

POST #43 Why Should We Obey GOD’S LAWS?

2006-10-05T11:40:00.000-05:00

POST #43 Why Should We Obey GOD’S LAWS?
         What Are The Worst Sins?

Updated/Emailed Oct. 7, 2006

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We all know how close Christ was to GOD but I doubt many of us know how close Moses was to GOD. In fact, Moses met and talked with GOD numerous times. The laws GOD gave Moses and the Israelites were a lot harder on the Jewish people than the ones Christians today live by. That’s unfortunate because GOD’S laws were given to man for his own good not as punishments or test.

That fact is documented right from beginning. In the Garden of Eden, Adam an Eve were told NOT TO EAT the FORBIDDEN FRUIT. GOD knew if they ate it their lives would be changed. Somehow that fruit affected their human bodies and made it possible for them to be sick and some day die. To bad they didn’t listen to GOD and obey HIS laws.

As further proof of why you should obey GOD’S LAWS, I suggest you read the passage that follows (Psalm 19 verses 9-11):

“The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever. The ordinances of the LORD are sure and altogether righteous. They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb. By them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.”

In that verse David showed his wisdom and tries to pass on what GOD taught him to us. By ordinances of the LORD, David means GOD’S LAWS. He goes on to tell us that by them is your servant warned (we are warned). It DOESN’T get any easier to understand than that. If you obey GOD’S LAWS, you’ll be happier, healthier and wiser (great reward). To bad Adam an Eve didn’t get a chance to read David’s message.

In Leviticus 26:3 GOD states:

“If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands, I will send you rain in its season, and the ground will yield its crops and the trees of the field their fruit. Your threshing will continue until grape harvest and the grape harvest will continue until planting, and you will eat all the food you want and live in safety in your land.”

“I will grant peace in the land, and you will lie down and no one will make you afraid. I will remove savage beasts from the land, and the sword will not pass through your country. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall by the sword before you. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall by the sword before you.”

"I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you. You will still be eating last year's harvest when you will have to move it out to make room for the new. I will put my dwelling place among you, and I will not abhor you. I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of Egypt so that you would no longer be slaves to the Egyptians; I broke the bars of your yoke and enabled you to walk with heads held high.”

That was and is GOD’S promise to us. Do you think GOD would lie? So why DON’T we live by HIS WORD and the LAWS HE gave us? The answer is simple, we’re HUMAN and we always think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. We’re NEVER happy with what we have and we always want what everyone else has. In short we want our cake and eat it too.

Now that we know how important GOD’S LAWS are what are the WORST SINS? I BELIEVE there are at least two that’ll force GOD to destroy a civilization/empires (It happens over and over again throughout history eg. Romans, Egytians, Greeks, Turks, Israelites, ...). If America continues to remove GOD from the government, schools and public buildings, we just might be adding the USA to the list of civilizstions/empires that GOD destroyed.

As I continue my study of GOD’S WORD, I may have to add to that list of WORST SINS. But for right now I’m sure there are at least two WORST SINS:

1st - Knowing word of GOD but not worshipping HIM or worse yet worshipping an idol.

Worshipping idols got 24,000 Israelites killed by GOD. That story is documented in Numbers Chapter 25. GOD was so angry with the Israelites that HE said, “Take all the leaders of these people, kill them and expose them in broad daylight before the LORD, so that the LORD'S fierce anger may turn away from Israel.”

2nd – Detestable things (Gay sex; Sex with close family members; and Sex with animals)

You can read about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis Chapters 18 and 19. For the record, in Chapter 18, GOD said, “For the sake of ten, I will not destroy it." In Chapter 19, HE proves the people were evil before HE destroys the towns.

As further evidence you can read Leviticus Chapter 18. In that chapter, GOD listed numerous detestable things. They included Gay sex is documented verse 22 when GOD said, “Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman.”

If you’ve read the passages I referenced and still think breaking GOD’S LAWS is acceptable behavior or worth the risk then maybe GOD didn’t give you a brain. At least Adam an Eve had the excuse of not having this information. What excuse are you going to use when GOD ask you to account for your sins? You can bet HE’LL remind you about this warning. If I were you I’d pray to GOD and ask NOT TO BE TEMPTED just as Christ told his apostles.

POST #42 Who Are GOD’S People?

2006-10-02T10:16:00.000-05:00

Posted Oct, 2, 2006

Many BELIEVE it is ONLY the people that BELIEVE as they BELIEVE but that ISN’T true. The PROOF is in the bible (read Numbers 22-24). In the days of Moses when GOD’S people were KNOWN to be the Israelites, there lived a non-Israelite prophet named Balaam. If GOD’S people were ONLY ISRAELITES why did GOD make Balaam one of HIS prophets?

The point is GOD chooses HIS people based on HIS criteria NOT ours. Just because a person ISN’T a Christian or a Jew DOESN’T mean he isn’t closer to GOD than you or I. It just means he worships GOD a different way.

As the story of Balaam proves, it ISN’T what you BELIEVE it’s how you practice that belief. The fact that you and/or I assume our religion is better than someone else’s proves we AREN’T very religious. That statement expresses a prejudice against another religion and thus DISPLEASES GOD. We are suppose to treat each other like we want to be treated. DON’T you want other religions to respect your religion? If so than you have to respect their religion or you’re breaking GOD’S LAW and DISPALESING GOD.

I BELIEVE the Balaam story has another lesson for us from GOD but it’s not as easy to see. When King Balak of Moab’s men asked Balaam to go with them and curse the people from Egypt, Balaam told them he had to wait for an answer from GOD. When GOD said NO, I’ve blessed those people, Balaam refused but later when King Balak offered riches, Balaam pressed GOD to reconsider his request to help King Balak.

The lesson is WE CAN’T force GOD to do what we want. We have to be willing to be SERVANTS. GOD WON’T force us to do anything we AREN’T willing to do for HIM. GOD DIDN’T want Balaam to help King Balak fight the Israelites but GOD WOULDN’T stop Balaam from trying. GOD gave Balak several signs and a lot of symbolism warning him NOT to get involved but HE WOULDN'T force him NOT to get involved.

The point as humans we assume anything other than a NO answer means GOD is rethinking HIS position and we’re going to get our way. When in fact, GOD NEVER changes HIS position but HE does allow us the FREE WILL to do whatever we want.

Balaam DIDN’T want to disobey GOD but his greed wanted to make the king happy. So he DIDN’T see the signals GOD sent him (an angle with a sword blocking his way). He was blinded by the feelings of excitement and power he got from having been ask by the king for help.

The lesson to this story is we have to learn to accept NO as a final answer from GOD. GOD knows what we want. You don’t have to keep asking HIM like kid in a candy store. IF and WHEN GOD wants it to happen, it will. DON’T try to convince HIM to change HIS mind. You just might lose HIS help but you can bet the devil will be there to pick up the pieces.

One more word of advice from this story, DON’T make GOD play favorites. HE loves us all but HE just might love someone else even more than you. DON’T make HIM prove it to you. You DON’T want GOD on the other team. Keep HIM on your team.

Post #05 Thoughts GOD Gave Us

2006-09-28T08:45:00.000-05:00

Posted at 9:45 AM on 7/5/2006

It looks like GOD wants me to keep adding to this list. So I'm putting them in reverse order and adding a date to each entry. That way you can come back from time to time and start reading from the top till you find one you remember. I hope that works for you.

Thought #21 (Added Sept 30, 2006)

GOD'S DOESN'T MAKE you do anything.

HE HELPS you do what you're WILLING TO HELP HIM DO..

Thought #20 (Added July 31, 2006)

This one comes from Pastor Scott Borden of the First Alliance Church in Port Charlotte, of Florida while he was DISCUSSING CHACTER last Sunday.(Click Here To Visit The Church's Web Site).

GOD'S more interested in our CHARACTER than our COMFORT.

What matters is what GOD THINKS.
It DOESN'T matter what PEOPLE THINK.

Thought #19 (Added July 17, 2006)

HUMBLE PEOPLE/COUNTRIES learn from other's mistakes so they DON'T have to make them all themselves

Thought #18 (Added July 17, 2006)

Now is NOT the time to think about going to HELL.

Now is the time to DO SOMETHING about it before you're sent there.

Thought #17 (Added July 8, 2006)

On earth WE say you've got to be DEAD RIGHT.

But people who get to heaven were MORE concerned with being SOUL RIGHT.

So think about being SOUL RIGHT when you make a choice. Because being "DEAD RIGHT" isn't good enough.

GOD wants you to be "SOUL RIGHT" not "DEAD RIGHT".

Thought #16 (Added July 6, 2006)

The things WE already have are or should be MORE important than the things we think GOD should give us.

Instead of asking for MORE, we should be thanking GOD for the gifts we already have (example: the sun, stars, plants, water, food, your home, your vacation, or the health of: a new born; your children; or your grandchildren ...).

GOD KNOWS what you want and HE'LL give it to you when you really need it.

UNLESS HE has someting better in mind for you or HE needs to teach you something that'll help you later or allow you to help or teach someone else (like Mary and Joseph were taught so they could raise Christ).

Thought #15 (Added June 29, 2006)

GOD HELPS those who HELP OTHERS.

MORE than HE HELPS those that help THEMSELVES.

Thought #14 (Added June 13, 2006)

This one comes from the late Kevin Parkts Campbell Jr. via his Blog Site (Click Here To Visit Kevin's site.) and the June 11th Herald-Tribune Paper.

Pray for a STRONGER back
instead of a LIGHTER LOAD.

Or as Christ PRAYED
"NOT MY WILL BUT YOURS BE DONE"
GOD WILL give us the STRENGTH if we BELIEVE.

Thought #13 (Added June 13, 2006)

This one comes from Pastor Scott Borden of the First Alliance Church in Port Charlotte, Florida while he was discussing The Da Vinci Code movie.(Click Here To Visit The Church's Web Site).

Meaning of Courage

It is the WILLINGNESS to HANG on to HOPE
rather than SURENDER to FEAR.

Thought #12 (Recovered June 6, 2006)

People (or countries) that THINK they're the BEST
Point finger (or throw stones) at the rest.
They just CAN'T pass GOD'S test.

Isn't it BETTER to admit
you're NOT the BEST (because ONLY GOD IS)
and LEARN from the rest.
Then you'll pass GOD'S test.

Thought #11 (Added June 6, 2006)

This one comes from Pastor Scott Borden of the First Alliance Church in Port Charlotte, Florida while he was discussing The Da Vinci Code movie.(Click Here To Visit The Church's Web Site).

GOD DOESN'T need any help defending HIMSELF.

HE CAN do that just fine all by HIMSELF. Thank you.

Thought #10 (Added June 6, 2006)

Just do your BEST

And GOD will do the rest

Thought #9 (Added March 18, 2006)

You CAN'T LIE your way into HEAVEN

But you SURE CAN LIE all the way to HELL

Thought #8 (Added March 13, 2006)

Do the RIGHT TINGS
And GOD just might make sure the RIGHT THINGS HAPPEN

Do the WRONG THINGS
And GOD is SURE to make sure the RIGHT THINGS DON'T HAPPEN

Thought #7 (Added March 11, 2006)

JACKS-OF-ALL-TRADES may not do it perfect
But they can get almost any job done RIGHT

Thought #6 (Added March 11, 2006)

If you DON'T LOOK for solutions
You WON'T find any.

So you got to admit there's a problem
In order to solve it.

Thought #5 (Added March 10, 2006)

Money WON'T buy eternal happiness
But it does give you MORE options here on earth.

Make sure you thank GOD for those blessings
And don't forget those less fortunate.
That's why GOD gave you those blessing.

You might say they're NOT as much a blessing as a test
That's why Christ told the rich to give their blessings away.

The devil has an easier time tempting people that are blessed.
Because we tend to forget GOD when times are good times
And run to HIM when we need help.

Thought #4 (Added March 10, 2006)

You HAVE TO forgive them
But you DON'T have to forget
Till they earn the forgiveness you ALREADY gave them

Thought #3 (Added March 10, 2006)

It doesn't do ANY good to think about doing right thing.
You have to do it.

Actions NOT only speak louder than words (or thoughts)
They prove you REALLY BELIEVE.

Thought #2 (Added March 10, 2006)

I make MISTAKES (sin)
But I pay from them along the way.

I'd rather pay (for my sins) now
Than pay GOD later.

Thought #1 (Added March 10, 2006)

If you have to FORCE it
You DON'T deserve it

Better to EARN it
and thus PROVE you deserve it.

Post #01 Who Am I?

2006-09-27T10:57:00.000-05:00

Hi,

I use the following user names: GodsWord; GodsWorld; GodsCowboy; ChristsLittleBrother; and the KaraokeCowboy but you can call me CHUCK. My given name is Charles Olaf Lentine and my confimation name is Anthony. That makes my full name Charles Olaf Anthony Lentine (COAL). Yeah, I'm just a piece of COAL BUT GOD has made that piece of COAL into a DIAMOND (I try ALWAYS to be HUMBLE but on the other hand I ALWAYS want to give GOD credit for what HE'S DONE). So I guess you could say I'm GOD'S DIAMOND in the rough. GOD is REALLY BIG on SYMBOLISM. So I have NO DOUBT that HE had a hand in giving me that name or HE PICKED me because of that name.

Anyway, you can e-mail at ChuckLentine@Gmail.Com (updated March 23, 2007) but make sure you put GodsCowboy in the TITLE/SUBJECT. If you don't you might end up in my SPAM BUCKET/FILE and I don't read many of those.

GOD always comes first. It's the BEST way to make sure HE watches over you and helps you when you need it. It's also my way of asking HIM to make sure I use all the RIGTH WORDS and say all the RIGHT THINGS.

I was born in Rochester, NY. And that's where I got most of my religious training. I attended St. Andrews School for grades 1-8 (taught by the Sister of Mercy) and Aquinas Institute High School for grades 9-12 (taught by Jesuit priests).

I raised my own family in Shepherdstown, WV. There I attended classes at Shephard College while I worked for the IRS at the National Computer Center (later renamed the Martinsburg Computing Center).

I've decide that Shepherdstown and Shephard College weren't by chance. Someone else had a hand in getting me there for symbolic reasons. What I'm saying is GOD has a special plan for me and I'm learning more about it everyday. This BLOG is my effort to pass on GOD'S word. My reasons are very selfish, I know doing GOD'S work is the easiest and fastest way to OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM. It worked for Christ and I've learned NOT TO REINVENT THE WHEEL. I'm constantly learning by watching and studying what's working and what's not, everywhere I go and everything I see along the way. What Christ did worked but I'm not as sure about what christians have done since then much less what they are doing today.

Christ said the way to the FATHER (GOD) was though him (his teachings and GOD'S word), so I'm on that path are you?

LINK--->To My Bible Posts
LINK--->To Older Messages On My Web Site

Post #02 My Mission Statement

2006-09-27T10:52:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:05 PM on 5/10/2006

My Mission Statement:

1 - I'm a FOLLOWER of Christ just like the apostles. I'm NOT Christian or Jewish. Because I BELIEVE what Christ taught NOT what world created after he left us. I'm a Good Samaritan and ONE of GOD'S PEOPLE. Just like Christ taught us. GOD is our FATHER and we can all be CHILDREN OF GOD. The CHOICE is up to you.

2 - Legally, do whatever I can to have the most fun possible. Remember, we only get ONE life so make the best of it. If you don't, GOD isn't going to let you start over. So I won't do anything I don't have to and/or want to. But I'll do anything GOD asks me to do because HE won't ask me to do anything illegal or ask me to break one of His laws.

3 - Legally, I'll do whatever is the most profitable and the most cost effect (price vs. value). But I always keep RULE 1 and RULE 2 in mind when making this choice.

4 - Happy customers and/or friends are life long customers and friends. Unhappy customers and/or friends are lost customers and/or friends. If you think your life, job and/or company doesn't depend on your GOOD DEEDS, think again. Or you'll be out of a job, losing friends and/or closing down your business.

5 - Make sure you know who your REAL customers are. Don't listen to the VOCAL MINORITY they'll put you out of business. Find and LISTEN to your REAL customers. They're going to be the SILENT MAJORITY. You can afford to LOSE the VOCAL MINORITY as long as you keep your REAL customers HAPPY. Remember they'll be the SILENT MAJORITY. If you change based on the VOCAL MINORTY, you'll make the SILENT MAJORITY UNHAPPY. Do you want to LOSE the MAJORITY of your customers in order to KEEP the MINORITY of your customers happy? In most cases, you'll discover that those VOCAL MINORITY CUSTOMERS are not loyal customers but one time visitors. They're COMPANY KILLERS.

* - Or as Adam Harvey (Click Here) says (he's a great Australian country artists), "My customers are the boss. I work for them. They don't work for me."

6 - Treat everyone like you want to be treated when it doesn't cost you anything. If it's going to cost you, decided if you can afford it, is that person important to you (wife, husband, child, relative...), will that person repay the favor? If the answer to all three of those questions is no DON'T WASTE THE MONEY. There are enough GOOD PEOPLE that'll deserve the help and might even repay the favor. Why help someone on the road to HELL when you can help someone struggling on the road to HEAVEN? Do really like the devil that much that you'd help him rather than help GOD?

7 - If someone owes you and they treat you like dirt, NEVER TRUST THEM AGAIN till they make up for what they did to you and pay you back for what they owed you from before. DON'T let them STAB YOU IN THE BACK TWICE.

*You HAVE to FORGIVE them BUT you DON'T have to FORGET. When they earn the FORGIVENESS you already gave them, then you can FORGET. In other words, make them EARN a second chance. There are NO FREE RIDES in this world. You have to earn FORGIVENESS for your sins by undoing the damage before GOD makes you pay for it later.

8 - Love your GOD with ALL your heart, mind and soul. Give HIM credit for everything you do and thank HIM often.

9 - Treat your neighbor like you want GOD to TREAT YOU for the REST OF ETERNITY.

RESPONSES TO COMMENTS

Paulus,

Christ said (Matthew 5:17), "Do NOT think that I have come to DO AWAY with the LAW OF MOSES and the teachings the phrohets. I have NOT come to DO AWAY with them but to make their teachings come true."

If Christ DIDN'T come to CHANGE things, who should? So I accept ONLY scripture that explains, restates or makes teachings comes true. Changes to the OLD TESTAMENT CAN NOT be allowed. Christ didn't want to do it why should we allow others?

Sounds like an answer Chirst would give to the Pharisees doesn't it. That's how the HOLY SPIRIT (GOD) works. GOD put the thoughts in our minds so we can say and do things that we wouldn't or shouldn't be able to do. The WONDERS OF GOD. I give HIM GLORY (credit for HIS work in me).

Chuck Lentine (AKA GOD'S Cowboy)

Post #03 He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother (Written August 7, 2005)

2006-09-27T10:51:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:09 PM on 5/10/2006

Having an older brother and/or sister to show you the ropes makes life a lot simpler. They can teach you how to play games, tell you about the best TV shows, prepare you for school, make other kids think twice about picking a fight with you, as well as being your best friend for ever.

Well, guess what, as CHILDREN OF GOD, we have lots of BIG BROTHERS and BIG SISTERS. They're the best people to learn from and follow if you want to get to heaven. They include: CHRIST, MARY, MOSES, NOAH, DAVID, ... Yes, that's right; Christ is not God but God's son, just like any truly religious man on earth. And Mary is God's daughter, just like any truly religious female on earth.

We all know how easy it is to learn from your older brother(s) and sister(s) and how we want to be just like them some day. Well, Christ is our older brother but just like most good older brothers, he is humble and doesn't brag about helping us. He enjoys helping us and being a big shot in OUR FATHER'S EYES. When he was on earth he had a BIGGER ASSIGNMENT from GOD. He had to study God word, be discriminated against (poor and illegitimate) and earn the right to be one of God's Children. Then God asked him to go forth and spread the word of God to all nations.

Before he died he acknowledged that he had completed God's work. He might not be able to talk to you but he left us his teachings in the bible. He might not be God but he's a lot closer to him than we are and he's our BIG BROTHER. Talk about friends in HIGH PLACES. If you want to live in the kingdom of God, all you have to do is follow in your BIG BROTHER'S footsteps. Study his teachings and put them to practice.

Just like in life the easiest way to learn and have fun is to follow your older brother(s) and sister(s). So too, getting into heaven is a lot easier if you follow the teaching of your older brother (Jesus Christ). Just like your first day of school was a lot easier for you because you older brother(s) and/or sister(s) prepared the way for you and told you what to expect. Christ has prepared the easiest way to our Father's Kingdom (Heaven) and he's told us what to do and what to expect. Now it's up to us. Do we want to be CHILDREN OF GOD or CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL?

Christ did all he can for us. He taught us how to PRAY TO OUR FATHER, the importance of helping others, to love God and to love one another. Now he's saying the choice is ours. Are you going to pick up your cross and follow your brother to OUR FATHER'S KINGDOM (HEAVEN) or are you going to take the easy way out and go to SATIN'S KINGOM (HELL).

Christ isn't God. He told us many times that he was the SON OF MAN (Joseph's son from the family of David). He didn't say the SON OF GOD. His apostles were not the smartest people on earth. Almost to the very end they believed Christ was going to be an earthly king. So finding out that Christ's apostles didn't understand Christ's parables about his Father's Kingdom and being God's son isn't too surprising. God almost always uses the poorest people with the least education because the rich and educated are usually more concerned with the earthly treasures and end up being owned by the devil.

If Christ had wanted us to worship him, he would have taught us to pray to him. If Christ were God would he have prayed to God? So start following Christ and pray to your father and don't be afraid to talk to you brothers and sisters in heaven. It's nice to have a BIG BROTHER like Jesus Christ on your side. Don't be afraid to ask him for guidance. That's what BIG BROTHERS do.

Now the BAD NEWS, Christ didn't suffer and die for our sins. We have to earn forgiveness for our own sins. If you think God held Adam and Eve's sins against all of us till Christ died on the cross, then you believe in a really strict God. It wouldn't be fare to hold you accountable for someone else's sins just like it wouldn't be fare to ask someone else to pay for your sins. So start earning forgiveness now while you still can. Good luck my brothers and sisters. I hope you make the right choices and I meet you in our Father's Kingdom but if I don't I won't miss you. Like God I don't want to make heaven into hell by letting just anyone in. So don't think BEING SAVED is going to be good enough to get you into heaven. You wouldn't cut any corners if you had chance to win a million dollars, so why are you taking chances when it comes to winning a place in God's Kingdom. Isn't that more important?

Post #04 When It Comes To God I am Not Political (Written July 21, 2005)

2006-09-27T10:37:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:17 PM on 5/10/2006

A good religious leader, unlike a politician can not worry about offending people. It is our job to help others get to heaven. We can not get you to heaven if we tiptoe around God's laws and sugar coat everything. We are not in religion for the money. Our goal is to spend eternity in heaven with God our Father. It is not our job to keep you out of hell. That's your job. We have to keep ourselves out of hell. We can show you the way to the eternal happiness but we can not force you to go there. God gave us all a free will to make our own choices. I am not allowed to throw stones but I will help you if you let me. I just can not force you to follow me.

So if your spiritual leader is not teaching the penalties for not loving your neighbor, he is not in the business to save your soul. He or she is in the business to make money. They have taken the political view of religion. They are worrying more about the collection plate than they are about saving your soul. So they down play down all the negative aspects of religion that might offend someone. Just like a politician they worry more keeping people happy than do about saving your soul.

If you are following a political religious leader, then you are a modern day follower of the Scribes and Pharisees. Just like today's political religious leaders, the scribes and Pharisees were more concerned with money than saving souls. If you do not believe me, read the bible and look for references to controversial topics. They are everywhere. God did not want religion to be political.

Example: Christ told the rich people to sell everything they had and give their money to the poor and follow Him. He did not say give the money to the church. He said give the money to the poor. The Scribes and Pharisees would not give their money to the poor and they definitely would not tell their followers to give all their money to the poor. They wanted the money for themselves.

If you think you can stay out of hell by avoiding any controversial issues good luck. It is not a chance I am willing to take. The difference between eternity in heaven and eternity in hell is not worth the risk. I would rather error on the side of being to conservative about religion and have God tell me because I was so good He is going to reward me appropriately than error on the side of being weak and wishy-washy and have God tell me that I do not deserve to be in heaven, so follow a serpent to my new eternal home in hell.

So next time you attend a religious service and the religious leader says I am not going to discuss A, B, and C because we are hear to study the bible. Think about what Christ would have said and done about A, B, and C. Then decide if staying out of hell is important to you because you are on the expressway to hell right now. You would get more out off volunteering to help feed the homeless than attending that service and you would feel a lot better too.

So do not take chances when it comes to religion. Do not side step the issues but treat everyone the way you want God to treat you for eternity. I hope you follow me to heaven but if you choose the easy road to hell, I wish you well. I can not save you and I will not waste my time trying.
Just like you can not get a drunk to give up drinking or an addict to give up drugs until they admit they have a problem, you can not convert a sinner until they admit they have a problem. If you ever decide to admit you have a problem drop me a line and I'll give you all the help I can. Till then good luck, you are going to need it. Once you get to hell there is no way out, so if I were you I would not go there.

Post #06 Jesus Christ "KING OF THE JEWS" (Written Sept 11, 2005)

2006-09-27T10:34:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:25 PM on 5/10/2006

If you've read the bible, I'm sure you know one of the reasons for killing Christ was the claim by the Jewish leaders that Christ was the KING OF THE JEWS. Christ NEVER claimed that. He always referred to his FATHER as a king and talked about his FATHER'S KINGDOM but it wasn't of this world.

If his FATHER'S KINGDOM is not of this world, yet he refers to himself as the SON OF MAN, what does that mean? How can GOD be his father if he is the SON OF MAN? The scripture says Christ was to be born into the family of David. How can that be possible is Christ is GOD'S son?

It doesn't take FAITH to understand those points and believe them. It takes an understanding of the bible and the help of the HOLY SPIRIT. Christ didn't lie. As he said, God is OUR FATHER (See the LORD PRAYER). GOD becomes OUR FATHER if and when we receive the HOLY SPIRIT. You DON'T receive the HOLY SPIRIT at CONFIRMATION. You receive the HOLY SPIRIT when GOD OUR FATHER decides you deserve that gift. At that time you become one of GOD'S CHILDREN.

Christ received the HOLY SPIRIT some time during his life and at that time he became GOD'S SON. I don't know when that event happened but I wouldn't be surprised to find out it happened while he was fasting in the desert. You get so much closer to GOD OUR FATHER when you are alone studying and appreciating the gifts He gave us. I'm not talking about man made things, I'm talking about the sun, the moon, the stars, the wind, the flow of a stream, fish, birds, animals, plants, and the list goes on. GOD OUR FATHER just like you and I, LOVES to see us enjoying the presents HE GAVE US. And guess, just like us HE enjoys giving more presents to people that don't take HIS presents for granted.

How many times have you given an expensive present to some one who didn't appreciate the gift? Doesn't that make you want to take the gift back? Doesn't it make you think twice about getting that person another gift in the future? Well, GOD OUR FATHER is no different than us in that respect. After all there are BILLIONS of people on this earth all wanting HIS help. Who do you think HE'S more likely to help in the future? A person (or a country) the appreciate ever gift HE'S given and takes GREAT care of all those gifts or a person (or a country) that takes HIS gifts for granted and doesn't appreciate them.

When you appreciate the gifts HE'S given you and PROVE you love HIM that's when you get the BEST gift of all. You get to be one of HIS CHILDREN and HE sends you the HOLY SPIRIT. I'm not GOD but I know HE'S inside me. I know I'm one of HIS CHILDREN because I'm sure HE sent me the HOLY SPIRIT.

I'm not GOD but GOD is a part of me. When you receive the HOLY SPIRIT, GOD gives you some special gifts. It's like HE adds a special gene or genes to your DNA that makes you HIS SON or DAUGHTER. Christ couldn't tell any one that 2,000 years ago because no one would have believed it or understood it. Only GOD can give you the special gifts HE has in store for you if you earn them. What you wouldn't realize is that even before you earn HIS blessing (a visit form the HOLY SPIRIT), God will be teaching and preparing you for that gift or gifts. Because HE knows long before you were born, if you were going to deserve to be one of HIS PHYSICAL CHILDREN. HE can begin to give you the gifts long before you realize you have them. If you are good enough, HE'LL make sure you have the parents, grandparents, friends and relatives needed to give you the experiences and up-bringing to ensure you are able to accomplish the tasks GOD has in mind for you. Just like HE did for Christ. GOD knew Christ needed to be brought up in a poor family and He needed to be an illegitimate child.

Because Christ was poor and because Christ was illegitimate, he understood the problems of women like Mary Magdalene. He worked in Joseph's carpenter shop that exposed him to the rich and the poor. That knowledge taught him how different people can be. He learned that there are good and bad people in all social groups but you have a much better change of being a good person if you are poor.

I'm sure the Catholic Church is not going to like me but that isn't important. Getting to heaven is ALL I care about. I'm sorry, I should have said, staying out of HELL is the most important thing to me. I'm doing my BEST to get to heaven but you have to be HUMBLE to get there. I don't want to say I don't deserve it because I want to be in my FATHER'S KINGDOM more than anything else I might want here on earth but GOD decides who gets into heaven not me. Not even Christ could tell his apostles who would get to sit next to him in heaven. That is GOD OUR FATHER'S decision. So just like Christ, I don't answer to man's church, I answer to OUR FATHER in heaven. What the Catholic Church thinks of me is just about as important to me as what the Jewish church thought of Christ in his day.

Why am I making that point? It's because the Catholic Church worships a human being NOT GOD. Christ is the SON OF MAN but he's GOD'S SON because GOD sent him the HOLY SPIRIT. Christ DIDN'T give us a prayer to pray to him. He gave us a prayer to pray to GOD OUR FATHER NOT HIS FATHER BUT OUR FATHER. Christ didn't start Christianity; man did after Christ past away. Christ considered himself a Jew and really preached mostly to Jews. In fact, he once told a gentile he was here for the Jews not gentiles. Once the Catholic Church admits Christ is physically GOD'S SON because he received the HOLY SPIRIT and not because GOD conceived Christ in Mary's womb, Christian's can be Jews again.

GOD might have allowed this confusion in order to save some Jews form the Nazi death camps. That might have been GOD'S way of saving the world without getting involved physically. It also allowed some Jews to be helped by GOOD CHRISTIANS. Little did we know, we were all Jews.

Post #07 Christ, Peter .... John Paul, Benedict (Written Aug. 24, 2005)

2006-09-27T10:33:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:29 PM on 5/10/2006

Pope John Paul II was one of the most loved popes in recent times. I think we all learned a lot as a result of his work. He traveled a lot and I believe that really helped spread the love and faith in God.

Now the problem: I believe God should have the option of deciding if and when the church needs a new pope. Christ picked his replacement before he died. Why isn't the church following bible's teachings?

I believe Pope John Paul II should have selected a replacement when he began to slow down. As soon as a pope decides to limit his travel because of his health and/or age, he should pick a replacement. That would give GOD a way a letting the church know that HE wants or needs a change in the churches leadership. The current policy forces GOD to end the life of the current pope in order to change leadership. We shouldn't force GOD to do that. Two popes are better than one.

Adding a second pope, might have extended Pope John Paul's life. It would have taken some of the duties off his shoulders and that might have helped his health. GOD might have decided to give him back his health once a replacement was phased in.

Having two popes would allow one to handle the administrative work around the Vatican and a second to spread the word of God around the world. It also helped to ensure there was always a pope in the Vatican at all times. People travel to Rome all the time in hopes of seeing the pope. If we always had one of the popes in Rome they would get their wish. I'm sure GOD wants that to happen too.

So let's give GOD a way to letting the church know when to pick a replacement for the pope. Change the church laws to make a mandatory selection for a new pope as soon as the current pope begins to scale down his travel plans and/or starts to have serious health problems. I believe GOD wants it that way. In fact, GOD started that process with Christ when Christ selected Peter to be his replacement. I have no idea when or why the church changed that policy but I believe we need to change it back now, so GOD has a way of letting us know when HE wants a second pope.

The following reference documents the process that Christ started of picking a successor before you die:

------ Matthew 16:18-19(Link to the Vatican's online bible(http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PVP.HTM"):

18 And so I say to you, you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.

19 I will give you the keys to the kingdom of heaven. Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Post #08 Why Christ Used Parables

2006-09-27T10:32:00.001-05:00

Posted at 6:34 PM on 5/10/2006

It's an easy question to answer, if you ever thought about it. The problem is we all seem to concentrate on trying to understand the parables not why he used parables.

GOD knew that Christ's teachings were not going to be liked. In fact, Christ and many of his followers were going to be killed because of their beliefs. So GOD used the HOLY SPIRIT to give Christ the perfect way to teach. The parables made it easy for Christ’s listeners to misunderstand what he was teaching. It allowed the non-believers and haters of his ideas to be misled. It confused them and gave Christ time to spread GOD’S messages.

If Christ had not used parables, he would not have been successful. First of all, the shock of some of his teachings would have made some of his followers give up. They had to be exposed to the new ideas in phases. Since some of his followers accepted his teachings quicker than others and new people were joining his following all the time. So the parables kept everyone interested all the time. As their faith became stronger, they got more out of his teachings.

It wasn’t till GOD knew a believer was ready to understand the true meaning behind one of Christ's parables that GOD sent the HOLY SPIRIT to that person. At that point that person started to understand the hidden meaning behind at least one of Christ's teachings.

Needless to say the Scribes and Pharisees never had a clue what was being taught. Even the apostles had problems understanding and following his teaching. GOD knew that was going to happen. In fact, that was HIS plan. HE knew nothing else would work. Even today the bible holds many secrets because GOD knows man isn't ready for them yet. But GOD knows the day will come when those secrets should be SHARED WITH THE WORLD.

GOD’S with us always and HE knows when we're going to need help centuries before we know it. So HE has time to put into place the perfect plans to make what HE wants to have happen a success. HE proved that by telling the Jews that Christ was going to be born to the family of David. He was letting everyone know just how far in advance HE starts planning when HE wants to make the world a better place.

I believe that Christ's parents, grandparents, great grandparents ... all the way back to David, played a part in raising Christ to be the person he ended up being. By that I mean, the experiences, knowledge, skills, faith, lack of prejudice, lack of discrimination ... past down from generation to generation played a part in making Christ who he was and is.

I further believe that GOD trained each of those generations to prepare them to pass on knowledge and skills to Joseph and Mary, so they would be the perfect parents to raise Christ to be the person that GOD needed him to be.

GOD can make things happen any time HE wants and HE knows what method is BEST for any given situation. In Christ's case, that meant keeping secrets to protect HIS plan. It meant waiting generation to find a man with all the right qualities for GOD to pass on the teachings HE needed past on. GOD doesn’t leave anything to chance. HE only asks people that are willing to take up their cross to help HIM. HE doesn’t care: How smart they are; How strong they are; How poor/rich they are; Where they live; What language they speak; or What’s the color of their skin? HE can teach, train and prepare anyone for the assignments HE needs done. But HE only uses the ones that are willing to do EVERYTHING HE asks. That means they have to be willing to sacrifice and suffer in this world knowing that they will be rewarded in the next world. Unfortunately, humans have a willing spirit but a weak flesh. Look how fast we RUN to the doctor ever time we have the least little cold or pain. If only we ran to GOD that fast.

I believe that GOD will continue to expose people to situations in order to prepare them or their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren ... for HIS future plans. GOD keeps those plans secret because HE knows it'll work better that way. So don't be surprised if GOD sends more prophets to expose the hidden messages that are in the bible that weren't put there for the people of yesterday because they either weren't ready for them or the time wasn't right yet.

What I'm saying is that just like GOD took several generations to make Christ the perfect person to pass on HIS teaching. GOD is going to continue to use that approach to help man through hard times. The situations and hard times you experience today just might be God's way of training you or someone you’re going to influence for one of HIS special assignment. That assignment might be to pass on the knowledge and experiences HE gave you to your children so they can add to it and pass it on to their children. Then somewhere down the family tree your family just might be asked to be GOD’S messenger.

Unfortunately, being GOD’S messenger means you'll have to make GREAT sacrifices in life. The poor and the sick make the BEST believers and the BEST messengers for GOD. If you don't think so, look at the people Christ chose to be his leaders (the apostles). Look at Christ and His parents. Even Christ's teachings warned against being rich. It's the HARDEST path to heaven and the easiest one to hell. On the other hand, being poor is the EASIEST path to heaven if you're able to fight the pressures to desire more than GOD gives you.

I know GOD wanted me to write this message and I'm sorry I'm not better at it but I know GOD wanted it done this way or HE would have stopped me. I thank HIM for the honor of being given this assignment because I know the suffering and training HE'S put me though to get this insight will help me get to heaven one day. In the end that reward makes it all worthwhile. Please never let me forget that Lord. Thanks also for making me who I am and giving me the knowledge, skills and abilities to be your servant. Help me always to do the things that’ll make you the most proud of me. Amen.

LATER NOTE (Sept. 29, 2006): Since the crowds Christ taught included people with various levels of SPIRITUAL KNOWLEDGE and BELIEFS, he had to serve them something that everyone would appreciate and in time understand, if they continued to SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH (GOD'S WORD). If you'd like to read more on SPIRITUAL FEEDING feel free to use the following link to read my post on RELIGION IS SPIRITUAL FOOD.

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Post #09 Meaning Of The Transfiguration

2006-09-27T10:32:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:36 PM on 5/10/2006

Today I'm going to help you understand the reasons for the transfiguration. Let’s start by giving you a couple of questions to think about:

1st -- Why did Jesus take Peter, James and John to the mountaintop to meet Moses and Elijah?

2nd -- Why was Christ talking with Moses and Elijah?

3rd -- Why did Christ look so different to Peter, James and John?

I have to admit I never thought about those questions before. Like you I just wanted to know more about what God said and did while everyone was on that mountain. I wanted to know more about the physical things that took place. Where did Moses and Elijah come from? Where was Christ, Moses and Elijah standing while they were talking? Last but not least did Christ, Peter, James and/or John get to see God?

Getting to see Moses and Elijah must have been something special for everyone. The question is: How did they recognize Moses and Elijah? They didn’t have any pictures of them. I believe they received the HOLY SPIRIT that day. I believe that’s why Christ took them there that day. Christ KNEW they were ready to receive the HOLY SPIRIT.

That day was very similar to the day Christ was baptized and GOD was heard that day too. Wouldn't it be great if God would let us experience a similar event? Maybe that’s how you know if GOD has decided to bless you with his gift of the HOLY SPIRIT. When it happens you get to hear GOD’S voice; you become one of HIS children; and you get the gifts GOD wants to give you. The apostles got the knowledge to recognize Mosses and Elijah without ever seeing them or even a picture.

Christ gave us a clue as to the importance God places on His prophecies by putting a great deal of importance on them too. One time Christ was reading a scripture in the synagogue about one of GOD'S prophecies and then told everyone that prophecy had been fulfilled with his reading. GOD'S prophecies unlike Christ's parables do not need to be converted or studied. They are or will be literally exactly as God predicted them to be. Christ's parables as we all know require the assistance of GOD’S blessing (the Holy Spirit) to be truly understood. Christ parables were purposely taught that way because they are guidelines not predictions. Plus, Christ parables have to withstand the test of time. So they can be interrupted differently as technology, society and the world changes. Only God could have given Christ that insight. (Please use the following link if you are looking for more information on why Christ used parables. Find out why Christ used parables).

So why did GOD let the transfiguration take place? To understand that event you have to first study the life of Moses, Elijah and Christ. What you'll find out is that Moses, Elijah and Christ were allowed to talk to God and God always answered their prayers. Moses and Elijah both parted the seas and walked on the land between the seas. Christ stopped storms and walked on the sea water. Elijah got to ride a chariot to heaven and Moses got to meet God face to face. By the time Christ walked the earth, Moses and Elijah were in heaven. We all know Christ ascended into heaven after he was raised from the dead.

But that doesn't explain why GOD allowed the transfiguration unless you've read and understood my message "JESUS CHRIST KING OF THE JEWS." (Please use the following link to find that lesson. Jesus Christ King Of The Jews). In that message, God proved to me that Christ WASN’T GOD but rather GOD’S SON because Christ received the HOLY SPIRIT and became a CHILD OF GOD. After you accept that fact, then the transfiguration takes on a completely new meaning. It was God's way of telling people in the 21st century that Christ was an equal with Moses and Elijah and not physically GOD’S SON in the way humans think of parents and children.

The transfiguration also lets us know that the gates of heaven were NEVER closed. If you believe in a forgiving GOD, you couldn’t believe HE would hold Adam and Eve’s sins against all of us. If you don’t believe in a forgiving GOD, and really believe HE would hold you accountable for someone else’s sins; what’s HE going to do to you because of your sins? Christ's death on the cross didn't open the gates of heaven. GOD proved that by letting us know that Moses and Elijah were already in heaven with GOD before Christ died. That’s one of the main reasons for the transfiguration.

The good news is we can believe that GOD is just and fare. He didn't hold Adam and Eve's sins against us. We also have to know that Christ didn't die for our sins. We ALL have to earn forgiveness for our own sins just as Moses had to for his mistrust of GOD.

Now you know the reason for the Transfiguration. But the BEST news is that God did that for us. Not even the apostles were given that insight. GOD has a reason for everything and HIS plans sometimes take centuries to play out. I think GOD wants us to know that HE'S going to use prophets to mold the religious world when we get off track or need to get off track to confuse the devil. HE once promised never to destroy the world by a flood again but HE didn't say what HE would do instead. I believe HE'S telling us great prophets like Moses, Elijah and Christ are HIS way of saving HIS people (followers of GOD’S Word).

I'm not foolish enough to think that I'm a great prophet but I will say that I believe GOD has sent me the HOLY SPIRIT, so I am one of HIS CHILDREN. I won't complain if I'm the least of HIS CHILDREN because I'll be in heaven and not in hell. I can't wait to meet GOD and all my brothers and sisters. I'm almost never the first one chosen or the one everyone wanted to be close to, so I won't have any trouble adjusting to being least in heaven. I'm going to LOVE it.

The one question that still remains is what is GOD’S mission for me? Revealing HIS hidden messages in the bible is just HIS way of giving me credibility and to convince religious people to work with me to find a way to unite GOD’S people. GOD is working on eliminating the MAJOR differences between religions. HE’S going to show us just how close all the religions are. Christ started the work by pointing out the good in people that weren't Jewish, rich, pretty, healthy ... He also replaced the 10 commandments with two. Those two commandments are the groundwork for uniting many of today's religions.

How many of today's religions can't support these two (2) basic laws: -- Love the Lord your God (one God), with all your heart, mind and soul. -- Treat your neighbor like you want him and/or God to treat you for eternity.

I bet there aren't very many. So let’s get busy and start trying to complete the work Christ (and prophets from other religions) started. How each of us decide to worship our own GOD isn't important. What each of us believe God looks like isn't important. What is important is TREATING EACH OTHER LIKE WE WANT GOD TO TREAT US. So lets start thinking in terms of one GOD being everywhere all the time; One God that has many, many faces (Buddha, ....); and that GOD is a part of everything HE made here on earth (sun, moon, wind, stars, plants, animals, and us) and follow HIS two (2) laws. Plants and animals don't have the free will that we have. So GOD knows they're not going to turn on HIM. Man has a free will, so GOD lets us decide if we want to be rewarded for following HIS laws or be punished for disobeying them.

The choice is up to you. You get to write your own ticket. Are you willing to suffer for eternity or do you want to be rewarded for eternity with me? I'm going to do my BEST not to be LEAST in heaven but I'll be happy if that's what I deserve. Sometimes finishing last isn't that bad. It's like being the last person to finish in an Olympic Event. A lot people never got to the finals and most people were never even interested in trying to compete but I got there and I finished. Are you going to be there?

LATER NOTE (Sept, 29, 2006):I BELIEVE GOD had another reason for the transfiguration. It relates to another one of my post (Click here to read it). In that post, post I told the world that GOD was letting us know that instead of destroying the world as HE did in Noah's time, HE was going to use prophets to SAVE THE WORLD from distruction. Christ, Moses and Elijah were the three most important at the time.

The point is Christ SAVED THE WORLD but he didn't pay for your sins and mine. He SAVED THE WORLD from GOD'S WRATH because man wasn't obeying HIS laws. The GOOD NEWS is that GOD HASN'T stopped finding men and woman WILLING to give up ALL THEIR WORLDLY POSSESSIONS to serve GOD. Those HEROES are people that will do WHATEVER GOD ASKS no matter what the cost to them. GOD helps them to SAVE THE WORLD from distruction.

GOD'S prophets AREN'T just Jews, Christians, or even real religious. They're people willing to do the RIGHT THING not matter what it costs them. They're the ONLY PEOPLE GOD that can be on HIS TEAM because GOD CAN'T TAKE ANY CHANCES. HE wants to WIN THE WAR against EVIL and SAVE THE WORLD. The RISKS are too great to take chances with people that CAN'T be trusted to ALWAYS TO THE RIGHT THING NO MATTER WHAT IT MIGHT COST THEM. It cost Christ, his life. That's the kind of dedication GOD requires of HIS HEROES or should I say OUR Saviours. You can use the following link to read my post on GOD'S promise NEVER AGAIN TO DESTROY THE WORLD VIA A FLOOD.

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Post #10 The Loaves And Fishes Test

2006-09-27T10:31:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:52 PM on 5/10/2006

For years, I've listened to the story of how Christ fed thousands from just a couple of loaves of bread and a few fishes. It's a GREAT story of what GOD can make happen but is that what is REALLY important about that story?

GOD gave Christ the power to perform miracles much more impressive than feeding a couple of thousand people from a couple loaves and few fishes. So what is the REAL HIDDEN purpose behind this message from GOD?

Well, unless you've read more of the bible than the Catholic Church tells you about in their services, you haven't got a clue. But once you start finding the time for GOD, HE'LL give you wisdom beyond any mortal man.

Anyway, for those of you that want to be true believers, the reason GOD helped Christ on that day was to test the followers. GOD wanted to give Christ a way to find out WHO was there to LEARN; who was there to PRACTICE WHAT WAS PREACHED; who was there JUST To SEE A MIRACLE; and who was there JUST TO GET SOMETHING FOR FREE.

This story kind of tests the people like the story of the farmer who sowed his seed on several different types of soil. That farmer was of course, Christ and the different types of soil were, the different types of people.

In the loaves and fishes test, Christ was WATCHING TO SEE who was sharing the little that was pasted around? Maybe some were even added food of their own to the help Christ feed the ones that didn't have anything. So maybe it wasn't a miracle after all. Anyway HE was watching to see WHO was TAKING MORE THAN THEY NEEDED? WHO was TRYING TO SAVE more for the others? WHO WAS PUSHING to be first? WHO WAS WAITING to be last?

In effect, Christ used those loaves and fishes to see who his real followers were and who were there just to see a miracle or who was there because they knew they might get fed? But most importantly, he wanted to know who was going to put his teaching into practice? They would be the ones that he would look after and help the most. Remember: “THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST AND THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST.”

Christ could have easily asked GOD to make bread fall from heaven or send some wild birds ... to feed these people but that wasn't what he did. He needed a way to find the true believers and a way to teach the apostles how to FIND TRUE BELIEVER. The apostles didn't get the message at that time because they still hadn't received the HOLY SPIRIT. But once they got the HOLY SPIRIT and the time was right they would know the lesson GOD wanted them to learn.

GOD knows how to teach the people that want to understand HIS messages. HE knows how to teach HIS followers to find the people that they should trust and HE'LL pass on that message and more to those that BELIEVE IN HIM AND USE HIS MESSAGES IN REAL LIFE. You can't put your faith on the shelf till Sunday. You have to live that way every minute of every day. When you start living that way, you'll start learning form GOD the easy way.

The bible says, “Man's wisdom is foolishness compared to God's wisdom.” God can make the weakest strong. He can make anything happen. In 1 Corinthians Chapter 1 verse 27 Paul says, "God purposely chose what the world considers nonsense in order to shame the wise and He chose what the world considers weak in order to shame the powerful (Vietnam). He chose what the world looks down on and despises and thinks is nothing, in order to destroy what the world thinks is important. This means no one can boast in God's Presence."

When you underestimate your opponent, you set yourself up for destruction. GOD can not be beaten. When you begin to think you are smarter, better, stronger ... than GOD you LOSE HIS HELP. In effect you become like Adam an Eve. They had the power and knowledge of the HOLY SPIRIT but they let that power and knowledge go to their heads. They became the wise and the foolish.

So be HUMBLE and SHARE not only the material things that you have but also the knowledge and wisdom that GOD has given you. For it is by helping your neighbor that you gain more of GOD'S LOVE and that love will lead to more rewards both now and forever in the Kingdom Of God.

It is NOT my wisdom that made this message or any of my messages possible. It is MY FAITH IN GOD that encouraged HIM to give me the knowledge, skills and abilities to do HIS WORK. It is the least I can do for my GOD who will one day take me into HIS Kingdom where I'll live for eternity never to suffer again.

Post #11 Why Isn't Christ's Childhood Stories In The Bible?

2006-09-27T10:30:00.000-05:00

Posted at 6:54 PM on 5/10/2006

PIC OF GOD KISSING A DOGThis is a question I've been asking GOD and wondering about for some time. I always thought that it didn't make sense. Mary and Joseph had to be he perfect parents and the world would sure be a better place if we had their stories to teach us how to raise prefect children.

So I wondered if Mary might have written some bible stories. But that wouldn't have worked out very well. The men of those days didn't accept women in the leadership roles. So if Mary wrote any stories about Christ's childhood, they would have stirred up trouble and made it harder for Christ to pass on GOD'S messages to us. Even today women are not allowed to be priests in the Catholic Church. So we can't hold that fault against the people of Christ's day.

Joseph might have written some stories about Christ’s life but he didn't live long enough. That might be part of GOD'S plan for preparing Christ for his mission. Once Joseph died, Christ would have had to take on the role of provider for the family. Those skills and that experience might have been part of GOD'S plan for preparing Christ for his mission.

So I guess the answer lies in my previous entry (Click here to read my post: Why Christ Used Parables?). God knows what will work and what would make Christ’s job harder. Just like today, there were many prejudice people in Christ’s days. That's one of the reasons GOD told Joseph not to return home after Christ was born. The people in that town knew Mary got pregnant before she got married. GOD didn't want Christ brought up in that environment. So they lived in a town where they weren't know as well.

I'm sure the HOLY FAMILY was still made fun of and punished because of others prejudices but it wouldn't be as bad as in their home town with all their close friends and relatives. I'm sure the prejudices and discrimination that the HOLY FAMILY endured was part of the training GOD knew Christ needed to prepare him for GOD'S work. I'm sure it helped him understand Mary Madeline’s problems and it gave him the courage to stand up to the mob that wanted to stone Mary for her sins.

Christ had to grow up away from the rest of Joseph and Mary's family, so he missed out on the family closeness that most families experienced in those days. That might have been GOD'S way to prepare Christ for living alone in the desert. It helped to make him more independent.

My conclusion is that GOD knew HE couldn't solve every problem 2,000 years ago. So HE picked the MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS of that day and prepared Christ to spread the word of GOD related to those problems. GOD knew if we followed the teaching of Christ we'd be pretty good parents anyway, just not the perfect parents that Mary and Joseph were. After all GOD could work on that problem after Christ set the groundwork by delivering the messages we have today.

Sometimes fixing one problem makes a lot of other problems less complex and in some cases a lot easier to solve. That's a lesson GOD taught me a long time ago. Don't try to fix really complicated problems all at once. Break the problem down into accomplishable smaller tasks. Then work on the one task at a time. As you finish the easier tasks, you start to notice that the harder tasks are less complicated and they became easier problems to fix.

GOD might take centuries to accomplish HIS goals but a century might be a couple of hours in the life of GOD. HE'S not in a rush. HE finds the easiest, safest and best way to accomplish what HE wants to do and then HE does it. HIS designs last forever. They don't become obsolete because HE knows everything. HE knows what'll work forever or at least until man will accept something even better. Someday, if you get to heaven, you'll experience eternity and you'll get to see how GOD plans the future of the world. You'll get to see how HE puts the right people in the right place; with the right skills and abilities; to make what HE wants happen come about.

Next time you wonder how or why something is happening or happened take some time to think about it and see if GOD was trying to teach you something. HE might be trying to teach you something that you'll need or you have to pass on to your children because GOD just might have a plan for you. If you don't learn from that experience, you just might have to experience it again and again till you get the message GOD'S trying to teach you.

GOD help us to get the message the first time or better yet, help us to learn from others mistakes, so we don't have to suffer as much when you want to teach us something. Amen.

LATER NOTE (Sept 29, 2006): Since I wrote this post, GOD helped me find even more reasons to support and understand why the bible is missing information. Just like you the MORE I read the bible the MORE GOD helps me to understand HIS HIDDEN MESSAGES. It is my PRAYER that GOD'S work through me might help you find the ANSWERS you're looking for in the BIBLE too. All you have to do is BELIEVE and keep READING/SEARCHING. In time GOD WILL give you the HELP you need to get the ANSWERS you SEEK.

The following link will help you find a later post that further explains why the bible is NOT COMPLETE.

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Post #12 How GOD Works

2006-09-27T10:28:00.000-05:00

Posted at 7:03 PM on 5/10/2006

Some time ago, I made the mistake of telling GOD that I was going to come and go here on earth and no one would remember I was here after I left. Okay, it wasn't a mistake but I had not idea what GOD would put me though to answer my prayer.

Anyway, it wasn't long after that, that my world fell apart. GOD was starting to answer my prayer. There is NO BETTER way to be sure that you will be remembered than to have GOD let you know that HE'S going to remember you. For years, without me knowing it, GOD had been planning and training me for the day I would tell HIM I'm willing to do HIS WORK because I want to be remembered or should I say I want people to know I was here. Kind of like how HE trained the Israelites for battle in the desert before they got to the Holy Land. Just keep that thought in mind. I'll get to it later.

Anyway it's taken me more than 10 years to learn how GOD works. Contrary to what you might think GOD NEVER gives you the answers. HE'S the smartest teacher I've ever known. HE finds ways to make you research, think and test your own ideas. Well, HE makes you think they were your ideas anyway. At times, HE gives you hints and/or forces you to do things you don't want to because that experience is going to prepare, teach or force you to do what HE wants you to learn and/or do.

But as history and the bible have proven, GOD can stop helping us FASTER than HE started. So I try to remember to thank HIM for HIS training and give HIM credit for everything I do. That's probably the HARDEST PART of the mission HE'S given me.
As a human, I enjoy being proud of my accomplishments, so it goes to my head now and then. But if I don't remember how I got where I am and who made it all possible fast enough, HE lets me fall on my face and I quickly remember to thank HIM.

Now that I have this knowledge, it's easy to find examples in the bible. It goes all the way back to Adam and Eve. GOD was helping them and gave them anything they wanted. So they eventually got to the point where they thought they could be as good as or better than GOD. So they ate the forbidden fruit, thinking GOD didn't want them to eat it because it would make them into gods too.

Another concept that GOD has taught me is that HE has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of secrets. HE has ways of letting you feel the effects of some of those secrets without telling you about it until the time is RIGHT. If you DON'T do the RIGHT THINGS, HE can take away the benefits of that secret and you WON'T be able to reap the good effects of that secret anymore. If however, you continue to do the RIGHT THINGS, HE'LL eventually find a way to teach you that new secret. Then you'll be able to use it anytime you wish unless HE hides that thought from your brain. Sometimes HE does that to make you learn a NEW SECRET that's even better than the one you already know. You have to TRUST HIM. I got to admit I hated that part of the training but the end justifies the means.

There is NO WAY of knowing just how many more secrets Adam and Eve might have learned if they had just continued to obey GOD'S LAWS. Like I said GOD has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of secrets that HE is willing to teach us BUT you can't double cross HIM. Just as the men that tried to build the TOWER of BABEL. You can fall out of fall out of GOD'S FAVOR real quick. You HAVE to TRUST HIM, BE PATIENT, BE WILLING TO LOOK LIKE A FOOL, EXPECT MISTAKES TO WORK IN TIME, and THANK HIM WHEN IT DOES.

Just remember the GOLDEN RULES:

1st - Love your GOD with all your heart, mind and soul and treat your neighbor like you want GOD to treat you. So DON'T do anything illegal or break any of GOD'S LAWS. GOD won't ask you to do that but HE might let the devil try to trick you.

2nd - Treat your neighbor like you want GOD to treat you for eternity.

Again the proof is in the bible. When Noah was building that boat, I bet it LOOKED REALLY STUPID to everyone in town. In fact, I bet a lot of the pieces probably didn't fit together right. GOD does that at times to make you change your design and/or to keep non-believers from learning from you. Those MISTAKES and FUNNY LOOKING THINGS usually cause you to learn something important. Maybe that's what Christ learned/meant when he said, "THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED BECAME THE CORNER STONE." I bet Christ was making something and he thought that one of the stones (or a piece of wood in his father's worksop) wasn't going to work. Then he found out he was using it in the WRONG PLACE for the WRONG THING when you're learning from GOD that kind of thing HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. HE'S working on things that we don't know about much less understand. EXAMPLE: Christ's parables were written 2,000 years ago and they're still valid today. Man doesn't plan 2,000 years in advance but GOD can and does. So what you might be learning and/or doing today could become important 2,000 years from now.

As I said earlier GOD has BILLIONS and BILLIONS of secrets and you'll NEVER KNOW THEM ALL. So you BETTER KEEP HIM ON YOUR SIDE. HE can use those secrets against you too. To prove my point, let us review the escape from Egypt to the PROMISED LAND. The Jews spent years in the desert before they got to the Promised Land. During that time some of the Jews began to doubt GOD and they suffered for it. GOD didn't tell them why HE made them spend all that time in the desert. He didn't tell them why the land HE was taking them to was so great. HE was keeping those secrets to TEST their TRUST, PATIENCE and FAITH. All the time HE was using the desert life to make HIS people stronger, healthier and to increase their numbers. HE knew they would have to be in shape to fight and win the Promised Land from its current inhabitants. They weren't ready for that battle right after leaving Egypt.
I use to think there were better places to live than what GOD called the Promised Land but the Jews did as they were told. Once again GOD held back another secret. That area contains the SALTIEST body of water in the world. That salt kept HIS PEOPLE healthy. Salt is a secret ingredient that your body uses to fight infection and have healthy skin. So when they ate the fish and went swimming they were helping to keep themselves healthy without knowing it. GOD was keeping a secret and rewarding HIS BELIEVERS. If Jews hadn't believe this land was the Promised Land and left, they wouldn't have been the strong healthy people GOD wanted them to be. They would have LOST the positive effects of secrets they DON'T KNOW about (SALT). That's GOD'S way of punishing NON-BELIEVERS. HE keeps the secrets from them.

GOD knew the healing powers of salt that's why HE told the JEWS to force anyone who comes down with leperacy to yell "NOT CLEAN" whenever they came near those that weren't suffering with leperacy. It was a clue for those that had leperacy to try to keep themselves clean (wash in the salty water). It was also a hint to those who DIDN'T have leperacy to keep clean and you WON'T get leperacy. It was GOD'S way of getting HIS PEOPLE to use the SALT WATER to get rid of the germs that were causing sicknesses and making HIS people weak.
HE DIDN'T give them the answers. HE GAVE them the laws that would make them happy IF they followed them. If they didn't, nature would provide the punishment. It's just like the Adam and Eve story. They were told NOT to eat the FORBIDDEN FRUIT. When they did, nature took care of the punishment. There was something in that fruit that wasn't good for GOD'S CHILDREN. Once they ate it, they lost their spiritual blessing and became humans.
This must be a GOOD stopping point for today's lesson. GOD has more to TEACH ME and I have more to share but GOD seems to be telling me not to make this post any longer than it already is. People like me DON'T like reading long messages. So you and I will have to wait until GOD decides it's time to expand on this topic.

Just remember, GOD is watching and testing you and I every minute of every day. HE wants to help you BUT you HAVE TO BELIEVE and LIVE YOUR LIFE ACCORDING TO HIS TEACHINGS. If you're living your life according to GOD'S WORD, HE'S helping you right now but you may not know it for years and years. Remember, the Israelites were in the desert complaining about it when all the time GOD was preparing them for the battles they would have to fight to win the Promised Land. If they had STOPPED TRUSTING GOD and went back to Egypt as some were saying they might still be slaves today.

ALL GOD asks is that you live your life according to these simple rules:   1st LOVE THE ONE TRUE GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, MIND AND SOUL.   2nd TREAT YOUR NEIGHBOR LIKE YOU WANT GOD TO TREAT YOU.

Post #13 The Good Neighbor Parable

2006-09-27T10:25:00.000-05:00

Posted at 10:47 AM on 5/11/2006

There once were two neighbors. One was always taking advantage of the other when he least expected it. One day the neighbor that was always playing tricks on the other found out that his GOOD NEIGHBOR was going to paint his house. Since the tricky neighbor had a few extra cans of paint in his basement, he decided to give them to his neighbor as a piece offering (NOT REALLY but that's what the GOOD NEIGHBOR thought).
While the tricky neighbor was away on vacation, the GOOD NEIGHBOR used the gift to paint the trim on his house. Since he had a lot left over, he decided to repay the favor (remember he's a GOOD NEIGHBOR) and paint the trim on his neighbor's house too.
To everyone's surprise, it rained right after the tricky neighbor got back from vaction and to everyone's surprise (EXCEPT the tricky neighbor) both homes had paint running down the walls of their homes. You guessed it, the TRICKY NEIGHBOR was playing another trick on his neighbor but this time he got caught too.
That's why Christ taught us to treat your neighbors like we want them to treat you. You see the GOOD NEIGHBOR was treating his BAD NEIGHBOR like he wanted his neighbor to treat him. As a result, the BAD NEIGHBOR now has the SAME PROBLEMS that the GOOD NEIGHBOR has.
Maybe next time the BAD NEIGHBOR will think twice before he tries to trick his GOOD NEIGHBOR again because what goes around comes around. If you FOLLOW GOD'S WORD, GOD will reward you and punish the sinners.
As BAD as the GOOD NEIGHBOR'S house looked after the rain, seeing his tricky neighbor's home in the SAME shape made him fell a lot better about it. And the tricky neighbor couldn't say a thing about it. REMEMBER, GOD IS WATCHING YOU.

Post #14 The Da Vinci Code (With Three (3) New Additions)

2006-09-27T10:24:00.001-05:00

Posted at 11:01 AM on 5/31/2006

First of all let me say I haven't seen the movie yet but I've seen my share of short stories, news shows and even a few religious lectures on the topic. I'm NOT an expert and I WON'T say I have all the answers but GOD seems to want me to say a few words on the topic. I know this is the RIGHT TIME because the ideas HE gives me are always so SIMPLE yet PERFECT and FAR BEYOND my mind's capabilities.

First of all WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH CHRIST BEING MARRIED AND HAVING A CHILD? The only thing I can think of is that the Roman Catholic Church DOESN'T allow their priests to get married. If Christ was married that would prove the church CAN and DOES make mistakes. Actually, since we ALL know Peter was married and he was the leader of the church what's the problem with letting priest get married anyway.

Second WHAT'S WRONG WITH ADMITTING CHRIST MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE HAD A FEMALE APOSTLE? Again, the Roman Catholic Church DOES NOT allow women to be priests. So once again they HAVE to keep people from believing that Mary was apostle of Christ. If they don't they'll have to admit that women should be allow to be priests and that again proves that the church CAN and DOES make mistakes.

Third If the church can accept and bless the fact that GOD took Christ's mother (Mary) as HIS woman without getting married, why would the church have ANY problems with the concept of her son having a lady whether they got married or not. If the church allowed GOD THE FATHER to do it, then Christ should also be allowed to have a relationship with a woman too.

I'm not going to say without a doubt what really happened because I DON'T KNOW and I really DON'T NEED TO KNOW. I BELIEVE in GOD and I DON'T throw stones. What Christ did or didn't do isn't my concern. I have MY OWN SOUL to save and I CAN'T do it if I'm wasting my time trying to find fault in others or prove/disprove things that ONLY GOD KNOWS for sure. I got more important things to do with my time.

As far as Da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper goes, I really need to see the REAL painting to verify the facts I've been told. Some copies of the painting have empty tables and others have place settings, so I can't decide what's fact and what's fiction. It has made me wonder if "THE DECIPLE THAT JESUS LOVED" was really Mary Magdalene. I DON'T BELIEVE Christ would have hid her from anyone but the early church might have kept that secret to make it easier to worship Christ as a god and NOT a man.

Like I said, I'm NOT GOD so I DON'T KNOW the truth and I really DON'T NEED TO KNOW. If GOD wants to tell me HE'LL find a way. If HE doesn't I WON'T lose any sleep over it. So until GOD tells me different, I'll continue to love MY GOD with all my heart, mind and soul and treat my neighbor like I want GOD to treat me for eternity. So I guess you could say the Da Vinci Code is safe with me.

ADDITION #1

LATER NOTE (May 27, 2006): I know I said Christ would NEVER HIDE anything, but that statement needs some clarification. Christ would NEVER HIDE anything to protect himself but to protect others he WOULD and Has. In the bible, Christ once brought a young girl back to life but he told the family and his apostles to tell everyone that the girl was only sleeping. He did that to protect the girl and her family.

He also healed a man once and told him not to tell anyone but the man didn't listen. I think the man was blind but that's not the important fact about the story. Once the man started telling everyone about Christ's deed, Christ was no longer free to walk around that area. So he left.

In the first case Christ hid the fact that he brought the child back to life in order to protect her and her family. In the second case, Christ tried to hide one of his miracles, so he could continue HIS FATHER'S (our Father too) work in that area. I guess GOD wanted him to visit other areas because the plan didn't work out the way Christ wanted. GOD (OUR FATHER) has ways of controlling the situation without being directly involved. That's because HE knows everything and everyone, so HE knows what's going to happen; what will work; and what won't. So HE'S always in control, when HE wants to be.

Based on these NEW thoughts from GOD, Christ WOULD have kept his girlfriend, wife and/or children a secret from the rest of the world to PROTECT them from harm. There were people that wanted him dead, why would we think that they wouldn't want to harm his close friends and relatives or use them to get to him (Judas). Remember how scared Peter was the night Christ died. Peter denied knowing Christ three times. It may not have been by accident that few people recognized him. In fact the leaders of the church weren't sure they could recognize Christ, so they paid Judas to point Christ out to them.

So I BELIEVE it was GOD'S plan to keep the identity of Christ, his apostles, friends and family a secret in order to assure the success of Christ's mission here on earth. If they were easier to identify I'm sure they wouldn't have lived as long and/or been as happy; healthy and productive in doing GOD'S WORK. Remember, GOD knows what will work; what won't work; and what's going to happen. Protecting the identity of Christ and everyone he loved was GOD'S way of helping Christ do the work GOD had planned for him. This same reasoning might explain why Christ NEVER talked about his family or his childhood. That's a question I've been asking GOD for some time. Maybe this is part of GOD'S answer for me.

In conclusion, if Christ was married and/or had children that secret would have been kept from everyone in order to protect his loved ones. So there may be MORE TRUTH than fiction to the Da Vinci Code than I first thought. Only GOD knows for sure.

ADDITION #2

Follow-up (May 30, 2006)As far as the Opus Dei Organization goes, I got to BELIEVE that even if it ONCE EXISTED it would have given up on protecting the Holy Blood Line long ago.

Why you ask? It's simple; it's been almost 2,000 years since Christ walked the earth. If he had any children while he was here on earth, his descendants would be so intermixed into society by today that you, I and almost everyone in the world would be related to him.

What I'm saying is that after 2,000 years of relationships and family merging everyone would be related to everyone else in one way or another. So protecting the Holy Blood Line would be NO LONGER be necessary. We would ALL be able to trace our family tree back to Christ's children in some way or another. How do you protect everyone in the world?

As for the existence of an organization to protect the Holy Blood Line, I got to BELIEVE that Christ; his apostles and their disciples started an informal organization to protect each other's families from the VERY BEGINNING. They all knew they were going to be persecuted for their beliefs and I'm sure they all knew their families and friends would be too.

For example, tell me what happened to Christ's father (Joseph) or any of Christ's family? Mary is heard from now and then but nothing about a family party or get together after the Wedding in Canna.

The bible has very little about the apostles' families, Christ's childhood, or even families of the people they liked most. That's probably the reason why NONE of Christ's parables mention any names. He talks about a blind man; or a lady at the well; a good Samaritan; a lady with a skin disease, ... Everyone's identity was being protecting because GOD knew they needed to be protected to ensure the success of Christ's church and the spread of GOD'S WORD.

So IF Opus Dei existed, it just MIGHT have evolved from the example Christ and the apostles set and it might not have been just to protect Christ's family but to protect all the family members of Christ's followers. Look at it this way, how excited are you going to be about preaching Christ's message all over the world if you know your wife, son, daughter, mother, father, sister or brother might be punished because of what you were doing. Worse yet, you might not even be around to try and protect them when it happened. So GOD taught Christ and Christ taught the apostles to keep each other's family tree a secret. It had to be done to ensure the success of Christ's teachings.

ADDITION #3

References (May 31, 2006) If you DON'T BELIEVE Chirst tried to protected his followers and taught the church to do the same check out these references:

Matthew 9:27-31 - Jesus cures two (2) blind men and tells them NOT to tell anyone.Click Here to find that passage on the Vatican's online bible.

Mark 5:21-43; Matthew 9:18-26 or Luke 8:40-56 - Jesus brings a little girl back to life and tells the family to say she was ONLY SLEEPING Click Here to find Mark 5:21-43 on the Vatican's online bible.

Post #15 Cursing Parrot Parable

2006-09-27T10:24:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:12 AM on 5/31/2006

The JOKES used in this post are from WWW.CrossWalk.Com (Click Here). But the comments that follow are mine and mine alone. However I BELIEVE MY GOD gave me this message to share with you.

THE CURSING PARROT

Jimmy received a parrot for his birthday. The parrot was fully grown, with a very bad attitude and worse vocabulary. Every other word was a swear word; those that weren't cursing were very rude.

Jimmy tried to change the bird's attitude by constantly saying polite words, playing soft music-anything he could think of. Nothing worked.

He then tried yelling at the bird, but the bird got worse. He shook the bird, and the bird got madder and ruder.

Finally, in a moment of desperation, Jimmy put the parrot in the freezer. For a few moments he heard the bird swearing, squawking, kicking and screaming and then, suddenly, there was absolute quiet.

Jimmy was frightened that he might have actually hurt the bird, and quickly opened the freezer door. The parrot calmly stepped out onto Jimmy's extended arm and said, "I'm sorry that I offended you with my language and my actions, and I ask your forgiveness. I will endeavor to correct my behavior".

Jimmy was astounded at the changes in the bird's attitude and was about to ask what had changed him, when the parrot continued, "May I ask what the Chicken did?"

THE MEANING BEHIND THE PARABLE:

We are the parrot and the swear words are our sins. Jimmy is GOD trying to find a way to teach us to please HIM. The symbolism behind the freezer is the HARD TIMES we experience here on earth. During those HARD TIMES, we do lots of repenting, praying and promising to be a better man or woman. Unfortunately, once GOD answers our prayers and times get better we forget about the time we spent in the freezer. So we find ourselves back inside again.

The frozen chicken represents a warning that you only get so many chances. So the question is HOW MANY CHANCES will GOD give you? Once you get to HELL there's NO SECOND CHANCES.

That chicken should remind you of the rich man who found himself in HELL and wanted to warn his brothers before they ended up in HELL too. (You can find that story in the Luke 16:19-31 or Click Here to read that passage from the Vatican's Online Bible.) Anyway, He tried to convince Abraham that his brothers would change if he could warn them but Abraham's reply was that GOD has already given more than enough warning. If what GOD has already done isn't enough than nothing you can say or do is going to change a thing.

So the next time you RE-FIND GOD, think about that RICH MAN in HELL and do whatever it takes to make GOD as proud of you as you can for the rest of your life. Remember, the next time your in the freezer might be for eternity (HELL) because once you're in HELL you can't get out.

Post #16 Two (2) Kinds Of Spirits

2006-09-27T10:22:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:22 AM on 6/5/2006

Last Sunday after services at the First Alliance Church, I suddenly had the urge to check out another local church that I had past numerous times. So I walked down the street to the New Testament Church.

GOD knew what HE was doing. Thanks to the HOLY SPIRIT'S words from their minister and GOD working within me, I got today's message. It came in the middle of the night. I guess that was GOD'S way of testing me. HE wanted to see if I would get up and put HIS message to paper or would I let the devil convince me to stay in bed. I'm glad I listened to GOD. And I pray that HE always makes me listen.

As the title says, there are TWO (2) KINDS OF SPIRITS. The one (1) we all think about (The Holy Spirit) and the one (1) only this church talks about (the evil spirit). We all know that HOLY SPIRIT or HOLY GHOST is a gift from GOD that can bring a number of special gifts to us including: the ability to work miracles; speak in tongues; interrupt dreams; great wisdom; and the list goes on an on. I'm sure GOD adds to that list from time to time when the need arises (example: Computer Skills). So I WON'T attempt to list them all.

The evil spirit or demon is the other kind of spirit that we don't think about. Just like the HOLY SPIRIT the evil spirit can bring you gifts. They include: jealously; envy; greed; lust; discrimination; prejudice; and the list goes on an on. I'm sure the devil adds to that list from time to time when the need arises too (example: Road Rage). Again I WON'T attempt to list them all because I'd miss a few and I have no idea what knew ones he might have planed.

The point of this message is: BOTH SPIRITS CAN NOT EXIST IN ONE BODY. If you have one of the devil's demons in you, the HOLY SPIRIT CAN NOT give you ANY gifts. So if you want the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT from GOD, you first have to get rid of all the gifts you've accepted from the evil spirit. The two (2) of them CAN NOT exist in the same body.

I DON'T know why it took a preacher from the New Testament Church from Port Charlotte, Florida to get me that message but it did. It's so simple I should have known it all along. Maybe GOD didn't want me to know that till I learned something else or worse yet maybe the devil was hiding that message from me. Thanks to the New Testament's minister, I know about some of tools the devil uses to keep us from GOD and heaven. They include: disguise; rebellion; anger; and confusion. Sunday I didn't let the devil confuse me while the preacher was talking; I didn't let him disguise the message; and I didn't get angry when I realized he was right.

I'm sure the devil has more tools than that the minister talked about. If he had mentioned them all GOD knows how long the service would have been. Worse yet, the devil would have found a way to make us think about the clock and not his sermon. So for a good reason, only a few of his tools were discussed. Maybe he plans on adding to that concept next week.

In summary, GOD wants to send us the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT but HE ISN'T going to do that till we get rid of all the demons or evil spirits inside us. So if you want GOD to make you special, start working on eliminating all your prejudices; jealously; envy; greed; lust; and discrimination demons. You've got to get rid of those EVIL GIFTS from the devil before GOD will send you HIS GIFTS.

If you think that's going to be HARD, you're right. Remember it took the apostles over three (3) years of living and studying under the direct supervision of Jesus Christ before they earned the right to receive GOD'S gift of the HOLY SPIRIT. And they worked seven (7) days a week twenty-four (24) hours a day toward that goal.

So it's a BIG TASK and the devil isn't going to give up your soul without a fight. He's going do everything he can to keep those evil spirits working in you for the rest of your life. But you can win that war. You've just GOT to admit its going to take time and you have to keep at it seven (7) days a week and twenty-four (24) hours a day. But the rewards are worth it. I know HELL ISN'T worth the gifts the devil is giving you now but HEAVEN sure is worth working on getting rid of those gifts .

In closing, GOD BLESS YOU and I hope I meet you in heaven some day. If I don't I'll know you let the devil win and I WON'T have time to worry about you. If you WANT PROOF of that READ LUKE 16:19-31 THE RICH MAN AN LAZARUS. If you don't have a bible handy, feel free to us the following link to find that passage via the Vatican's online bible:Click here to read Luke 16:19-31 (www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0839/__PWZ.HTM)

Post #18 Churches Should Be Sharing Reasources

2006-09-27T10:21:00.001-05:00

Posted at 10:34 AM on 6/19/2006

I was visiting a less fortunate church recently. I knew GOD was sending me there for a reason because I had already been to church earlier in the day but for some reason I felt like checking out the services at this little chapel (I DON'T have that picture).

The first thing I noticed was the quality of the sound system. It was hard for me to hear and understand the words being said and sung. I now know why GOD wanted me to visit that church. HE wants that church to tell the world that even churches need help sometimes.

Before you ask if that chapel was Catholic, Jewish, Bible Baptist ... let me quote Christ. In Luke 9:49-50, the apostle John was complaining about someone who was driving out demons in Christ's name yet he didn't belong to their group. Christ's response was, "DO NOT STOP HIM BECAUSE WHOEVER IS NOT AGAINST YOU IS FOR YOU." The same message can be found in Mark 9:38-41.

Christ is telling us, we're all on the SAME TEAM. We're all fighting the devil. This little church is just as much A HOUSE OF GOD as the church you and I worship in. If we can help them we'll be helping GOD spread HIS WORD to everyone that visits that church. That just might be the BEST investment you could make.

Unfortunately, in our war against the devil, the devil wins more times than I care to mention. Just look at all the churches that were burnt down in Georgia recently and the problems that the Catholic Church is having trying to correct years of mistakes. You can't pick up a newspaper or watch news on TV without hearing about another one of the devil's success stories. GOD is our first line of defense against the devil and the devil knows it. That's way the devil works so hard at dividing destroying GOD'S HOUSES OF WORSHIP.

We have to find ways to make GOD'S HOUSES OF WORSHIP more successful at beating the devil. We need to reduce waste and share resources in order to accomplish that goal. Even if the devil wasn't trying to destroy GOD'S HOUSES OF WORSHIP, some churches have experience natural disasters (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, brushfires ...) that caused them to need additional funding and support. I BELIEVE the problem can be reduced or eliminated if churches were to share and exchange their resources.

There was article in this Monday's Charlotte Herald-Tribune paper called HARVESTING OLD CHURCHES FOR FIXTURES (Click Here to view a copy of that article). The article discussed how church fixtures were ending up in private collector's storage. As the population moves churches are being downsized and closed. Many times they leave behind fixtures that should have been relocated. In other cases those fixtures are moved to warehouses rather than to a new church. If you think GOD isn't sending us a message, then you DON'T KNOW HIM.

I BELIEVE GOD wants me to suggest a system for churches to share their resources. They need something similar to the Free Re-Cycle Yahoo Group system. A system like that would allow churches to offer old but still useful equipment, fixtures, bibles, prayer books, ... for free to other churches that could still put them to good use. That would allow a less fortunate church and new churches to upgrade their equipment without asking for additional funds.

This same concept could and should be used for charities. Now that GOD has given me the message I pray for HIS help getting that message to someone who can get the ball rolling.

LATER NOTE (June 19, 2006):

Example Of How The Website Might Work

Click here to visit Sergeant Brian Horn Website (http://www.anysoldier.com/) He has a site to help people find soldiers overseas that are in need of help. His idea is a GREAT starting point for creating a site for churches and charities to find other churches and charities in need of the goods and services that people, churches and charities might want to share. It would also allows the government to find out which areas in a disaster need what supplies and who might be able to get them the help they need. If no help is found then emergency procedures whould need to be put into effect.

LATER NOTE (July 1, 2006):

The Vitual Warehouse Concept

A few days ago on WINK TV (Channel 11 out of Ft. Myers, Florida) ran a story called "NEIGHBORS TO THE RESCUE." You can use the following link to find the VIRTUAL WAREHOUSE'S WEBSITE (Click here to visit WWW.FlaHurricaneFund.Org). You can use this link to read the story I seen on Wink TV (Click here to read the TV story).

Post #17 What Heaven and Hell Are Like

2006-09-27T10:21:00.000-05:00

Posted at 4:07 PM on 6/7/2006

WAS THE LAST SUPPER AS CLOSE TO HEAVEN AS YOU CAN GET ON EARTH? The picture sure fits this message and I bet they LOVED every minute of it after Judas left. Judas got see them having all that fun but he didn't fit in. So he wasn't allowed to stay. That's what HELL is like. Seeing others having fun and NOT being allowed to join in. I think that's the message GOD wanted us to find but read the rest of this post and make up your own mind. Remember, DON'T thank me. I'm just the messenger. Without GOD'S HELP this wouldn't be possible.

I've written several messages on this topic and even rewrote one that got lost. The reason I'm adding another message on the SAME topic is because I got another message from GOD. Today during my bible study group meeting, the topic of heaven and hell came up and I talked about the concept of levels of heaven and hell.

Click here to reread my OLD message EVERYTHING IS REVERSED Written Dec. 2, 2004.

Anyway during our discussion, GOD gave me a bible reference to PROVE the concept I talked about in that previous message. If you read Luke 16: 19-31, a story about a Rich Man and Lazarus, you'll find the proof. In that story the RICH MAN had everything but wouldn't give LAZARUS a thing.

Click here to read that passage (Luke 16: 19-31) from the Vatican's Online Bible

In the NEXT LIFE (heaven/hell), the RICH MAN has NOTHING and NO ONE gives him anything just like he treated LAZARUS here on earth. LAZARUS who on the other hand, had NOTHING here on earth but is seated next to Abraham at the feast in heaven. EVERYTHING IS REVERSED in the NEXT LIFE, just as GOD had me talk about in my earlier message.

Another Link to EVERYTHING IS REVERSED (Written Dec. 2, 2004)

Both lives are completely reversed in the next life. The LAW GOD gave us: "TREAT YOUR NEIGHTBOR LIKE YOU WANT TO BE TREATED" is in reality a WARNING. GOD is going to treat us the SAME way we treat others here on earth.

Think about that the next time your neighbor needs some help because that's YOU in the NEXT LIFE and he becomes you in the next life. If you help him now GOD will reward you in the NEXT LIFE. If you DON'T help him now, GOD WON'T help you in the next life. You'll be treated just like you treat your neighbor in this life.

If this message perked your interests, I've written a couple more on similar topics that might help you to understand even more. Unfortunately, that's not my job. That's the HOLY SPIRIT'S job. When GOD decides to send you the gift of the HOLY SPIRIT, you just might find the NEXT PIECE to GOD'S message and then you'll be able to help me, just as I'm trying through the HOLY SPIRIT to help you.

Click here for ---> Post #07 What Will It Be?http://www.blogsharing.com/GodsCowboy/65Created at 11:58 AM, 10/28/2005)

Click here for ---> How Do You Know You're Going To Heaven?http://godscowboy.bravehost.com/Bible/HowDoYouKnowYoureGoingToHeaven.htmlCreated Nov. 13, 2004)

Click here for ---> Post #10 Is Good Enough Okay With You?http://www.blogsharing.com/GodsCowboy/69Created at 9:42 AM, 11/8/2005)

Click here for ---> EVERYTHING IS REVERSEDhttp://godscowboy.bravehost.com/Bible/EverythingIsReversed.htmlWritten Dec. 2, 2004

Post #19 GOD'S Ron Santo Story And The Baseball Parable

2006-09-27T10:18:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:26 PM on 6/16/2006

Where Do You Want Your Reward? Last night, I watched the movie THIS OLD CUB (click here to order a copy). It was about Ron Santo's love for his fans and the game of baseball.

Every year for the last 30 years his dream has been to get inducted into the Baseball Hall Of Fame. But each time he got humiliated in front of the media and his fans.

Ron, just remember what the bible says, "THE LAST SHALL BE FRIST AND THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST." Then what I'm going to tell you will be easy to understand and BELIEVE.

CONGRADULATIONS on being one of the first ball players selected for Heaven's Baseball Hall Of Fame. I'm not sure you're the first because I don't know enough about every player that ever played the game. I'm thinking about specifically "Shoeless Joe Jackson."

Anyway, GOD chose you before you were born because of your INNER SELF. Man selects people based on their OUTWARD SELF but GOD knows their INNER SELF is the MOST IMPORTANT.

CONGRADULATIONS AGAIN!!! Oh one more thing Pete Rose got selected after you. Again the "LAST SHALL BE FIRST AND THE FIRST SHALL BE LAST." He might have bet on his own team but that's the reason he gave 110% all the time. It gave him an incentive to give his all.

Guys like you and Pete Rose made the game exciting; interesting; and fun to watch. Today players are paid too much. They don't have to give 110%. All they have to do is show up for the game. They have almost NO INCENTIVE to take any risks. The game just isn't as exciting as it use to be.

So welcome to the REAL BIG LEAGUES. I almost forgot. Ron there's some guy here named Mickey that wants to talk to you about his NEW LEGS. He said something about wanting to race you around the bases. You got any idea what that's about?

Oh yeah tell Pete there's NO BETTING on the game in heaven. And there are NO inter-league games. Heaven's teams play against the devil's teams and so far Heaven hasn't lost a game. That's enough for now; you're still on probation till you check in. So remember GOD is still watching you and He can change HIS mind if you stop being the Ron Santo HE knows and LOVES.

LATER NOTE (June 16, 2006):

GOD'S BASBALL PARABLE

GOD put a question in my head yesterday. HE asked me, "How can Heaven's Team win every game?" I guess HE wanted me to think about it for a while before HE gave me the answer.

It's SIMPLE, HE said. I'm part-time scout; manager; player and owner. I know everyone's strength and all their weaknesses. I KNOW what will work and what won't. I know what everyone is thinking and what everyone is going to do. But MY BIGGEST ADVANTAGE is MY 200 mile an hour fastball. NO ONE EVER even sees the pitch coming but you hear it when it hits the catcher's glove. Oh yeah, HE said, I almost forgot I can hit a Home Run everytime I swing the bat. Only a FOOL wants to be on one of the devil's teams.

So HIS questions for us are, "What team do you want to be on?"; "How bad do you want it?"; and "What are you willing to do to earn the RIGHT to be on one of HIS TEAMS?"

Just remember, before you can pick up one of HIS TEAM'S bats; balls or gloves, you have to pick up your cross and LIVE BY HIS LAWS (Love the LORD YOUR GOD with ALL your mind, hart and soul. And treat your neighbor like you want GOD to treat you for eternity.).

Well, I got my cross; I live by HIS LAWS and I'm on the RIGHT PATH. So question to ask yourself is: "Can you say the SAME THING?" Or are you willing to be on the DEVIL'S losing team for eternity?

Post #20 Text Book For Sale (Joke/Parable)

2006-09-27T10:17:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:31 AM on 6/20/2006

The JOKES used in this post are from WWW.CrossWalk.Com (Click Here). But the comments that follow are mine and mine alone. However I BELIEVE MY GOD gave me this message to share with you.

THE JOKE (Text Book For Sale):

Cards offering used textbooks for sale are posted on the college notice board at the beginning of each semester. One read: "Introduction to Psychology, $8, never used." The card was signed, "Must sell."

The next day a note had been added: "Good price. Are you sure it's never been used?" Signed, "Prospective buyer."

Below in a different hand was: "Positive!" Signed, "Professor who graded his exam."

THE MEANING BEHIND THE PARABLE:

Instead of Psychology book think of it as being the BIBLE OF A LOST SOUL. Then think of the professor as being GOD.

People in HELL won't need the bibles they never STUDIED from. To bad it would have SAVED THEIR SOULS.

Once again I have to THANK GOD for this message and everything I've done or will every do. Without HIS help I know this WOULDN'T be possible. AMEN.

Post #21 GOD Wants Us To Save His Messenger

2006-09-27T10:16:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:41 AM on 6/23/2006

Today (June 23, 2006) on my way to breakfast two unrelated events took on a special meaning to me. At the time they meant nothing but after reading the morning paper I knew what GOD wanted me to do.

Here's what happened. At the store where I purchased the morning paper, I saw a truck with an ad to call 1-800-GO HUGHES. Nothing exciting about that is what I thought at the time. Then as I approached the dinner where I was going to have breakfast and read the paper, I noticed a one armed man getting on a bike. Again, it doesn't seem like a big deal.

Then I came across the article GOD wanted me to read. It was on page A8 of the Friday morning THE NEWS PRESS paper (Click here to visit their website). You can read the article for yourself, if you use the following link:

Click here to read the article GOD wants to do something about

In that article a Canadian missionary named Ed HUGHES (remember the truck 1-800-GO HUGHES) was being held for ransom in Haiti. In December of 2005 Ed lost one of his arms (remember the one arm man on a bike) trying to stop another missionary from being kidnapped.

That's a lot of symbolism and I just DON'T think it's a coincidence. I BELIEVE GOD is telling us $10,000 is NOT a lot to ask of HIS church to save one of HIS messengers. All we need to do is get 10,000 churches to each contribute $1.00 each. I'd even provide that LAST dollar. Could this be GOD testing the churches of the world? Is $10,000 to much to ask?

I DON'T like calling it a RANSOM. I'd like to see the RANSOM changed to AID for future missionary work in HAITI. Hopefully, Ed would be willing to monitor and control HOW and WHERE the money was spent.

I guess you could say GOD'S using me to try and find the middle ground to settle this dispute. Ed Hughes is a SPECIAL person in GOD'S EYES. He was willing to risk his life for another. As a result, he lost an arm. Now he needs our help. Can your church spare a dollar? If NOT what will you tell GOD when HE asks you why you DIDN'T help HIM when HE needed your help for Ed Hughes?

Post #22 Something To Think About (Joke/Gay Parents)

2006-09-27T10:15:00.000-05:00

Posted at 10:41 AM on 6/24/2006

----->Like father like son<-----

The JOKES used in this post are from WWW.CrossWalk.Com (Click Here). But the comments that follow are mine and mine alone. However I BELIEVE MY GOD gave me this message to share with you.

Look Like MOM:

A two-and-a-half-year-old walked into the bathroom while her mother was putting on make-up.

"I'm going to look just like you, Mommy!" she announced.

"Maybe, when you grow up," her mother told her.

"No Mommy, tomorrow. I just put on that 'Oil of Old Lady' you always use."

Bystander:

Man: Just look at that young person with the short hair and blue jeans. Is it a boy or a girl?

Bystander: It's a girl. She's my daughter.

Man: Oh, please forgive me, sir. I had no idea you were her father.

Bystander: I'm not. I'm her mother.

Keep those stories in mind and decide for yourself:

If you're like me you know those are normal everyday situations. Young children LOVE to be JUST LIKE their parents. In fact, they CAN'T wait to grow up and dress and act just like them.

I'm NOT saying I'm prejudice against gay parents. I'm just saying their sexuality and life style is GOING to play a lot bigger role in deciding the future of any children they raise.

MY position IS and HAS ALWAYS BEEN children have RIGHTS TOO (Click here to read "Children Rights Must Be Protected" dated Oct. 4, 2003). GOD gave children the RIGHT to be raised by a male father and a female mother. If GOD wanted two (2) women or two (2) men to have children, HE would have gave them the reproductive organs to support that funtion.

So ask yourslef this: Would you be the SAME person if your were raised by gay parents? If something happens to you would you want your baby raised by gay parents?

GOD DOESN'T allow it. What makes man think it's okay? What gives government the RIGHT to take away the baby's RIGHT to be raised by a male father and a female mother?

Post #23 GOD'S View On Divorce And Multiple Spouses

2006-09-27T10:14:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:24 AM on 6/30/2006

DIVORCE is NOT that BIG a deal to GOD. In fact even having more than one wife/husband ISN'T a problem with HIM. Did you know that ABRAHAM had a son from his wife's servent before he had Isaac from his wife. GOD was trying to let us know consenting adults (NOT MARRIED to someone else) are FREE to make their own choices as long as they DON'T break ANY of GOD'S laws.

Anyway Isaac's son Jacob gave birth to the 12 tribes of Isreal via two (2) wives and two (2)handmaids. So much for GOD having a problem with mutiple wifes or children outside of marriage. But you have to be a good father and good mother and live up to the responsibilities and take care of those children.

The 10 commandments DIDN'T say anything about DIVORCE. That's the CHURCH'S rule NOT GOD'S rule.

So FIND a CHURCH that REALLY BELIEVES in the teachings of the bible. NOT one that picks and chooses what to HIDE; what to TEACH; and what to BELIEVE.

For the record, one wife and/or one husband is almost always more problems than one person can handle.

Who wants two naging wives or two TV watching husbands? Do you really want to split the few GOOD TIMES you have with another wife and/or husband? Do you really want to split the family's money with another? How about thaking care of each others children?

One spouse is more than enough but if you can handle it and still keep GOD HAPPY go for it. But I bet you CAN'T do it very long.

Later Note (June 30, 2006)As was mentioned above, Abraham's first son was born outside of marraige (via his wife's servant). The boy's name was Ishmael. When Abraham's wife (Sarah) had her first child (Isaac), she became jealous of Ishmael and worried about Iaac's birthright to Abraham's wealth. So she got Abraham to send Hagar and Ishmael away.

If you think GOD had a problem with that DIVORCE, read Gen 21:12-13 (see Below)

12 But GOD said to Abraham: "Do not be distressed about the boy or about your slave woman. Heed the demands of Sarah, no matter what she is asking of you; for it is through Isaac that descendants shall bear your name.

13 As for the son of the slave woman, I will make a great nation of him also, since he too is your offspring."

According to READER'S DIGEST'S book WHO'S WHO IN THE BIBLE, Ishmael lived to be 137 years old and has TWELVE (12) sons and a daughter just like Jacob. If you read about Hagar and Ishmael (Gen 16:6-15 & Gen 21:14-20) you'll see that GOD kept his promise. Yet to this VERY DAY man has NOT accepted unwed mothers and illegitimate children. Christ tried to correct the problem but SOME men, women and churches still DON'T BELIEVE the WORD OF GOD.

Doesn't it make you wonder if the people that were trying to kill the baby Jesus were prejudice against unwed mothers and NOT a king worried about a baby that might one day be after his crown?

When you understand the fact you'll start to understand how GOD works with man. I'm experiencing a similar prejudice life because of my DIVORCE. GOD'S using me to teach the WORLD NOT to be prejudice against people like me. Just as HE used Christ to TRY to teach people NOT to be prejudice against unwed mothers and illegitimate children.

Welcome to GOD'S WORLD and HIS WORD. You've BEEN WARNED. So DON'T expect GOD to accept ANY excuses. On the other hand, GOD REQUIRES EVERYONE to live up to their responsibilities. YOU are REQUIRED to look after YOUR children no matter how you produce them. YOU'RE still their PARENT for live. And ABORTION ISN'T an acceptable way of taking on that responsiblility.

Think of it this way, everytime you MAKE LOVE, YOU'RE making a contract with GOD and the possible child or children you might produce. YOU'RE telling GOD YOU'RE willing to take care of ANY and ALL children YOU produce EVERY TIME YOU MAKE LOVE.

Post #24 Christ The Prophet

2006-09-27T10:13:00.000-05:00

Posted at 10:56 AM on 7/12/2006

Funny, the secrets you can still find in the bible. GOD is so smart. Just think how many people have already read the bible. You'd think we'd know it all by heart by now but GOD has ways of making us overlook details and assume incorrect and misleading facts until the "RIGHT TIME." It's HIS way of proving HE exists. HE knew what was going to happen before you were even born. HE knew prophecies won't be fulfilled if too many facts are reveled in advance. See Harod's attempts to kill the baby Jesus as proof of that fact. If Harod had any more information about the parents of the child, Christ wouldn't have been able to complete GOD'S mission.

Today we're going to uncover a couple of the bible's hidden secrets. GOD must know the time is "RIGHT." Let me clarify that by saying, HE let me find "RIGHT" pieces to the puzzle. Unfortunately, HE doesn't talk to me, just like HE doesn't talk to you. But if you pay close attention to nature and study the bible, you'll get HIS messages loud and clear just like I do from time to time.

Today's secrets were hidden in the bible for us to find once man had the intelligence and technology to experiment with cloning, gene manipulation and abortion. There was no need for Christ to teach those concepts 2,000 years ago. In fact, if he had tried, I doubt seriously if anyone would have believed anything he tried to teach. So GOD kept the bible's teachings on those topics for us to find, explore, understand and teach. I would not be surprised to learn there are more messages to be found once GOD determines that the time is "RIGHT". For the record, I doubt it'll be anywhere near 2,000 years from now. Technology changes faster and faster, so we'll be needing a lot more guidance sooner and more often in the future.

Now back to today's message. To help us understand the importance of genes, birth control and abortion, GOD wants me to talk about Christ The Prophet. Matthew Chapter 1:1-17 talks about the descendants from David to Christ. Matthew says Christ is a descendant of David who is a descendant of Abraham. He goes on to list the family tree right to the birth of Christ. In Luke Chapter 1:69 Zeehariah Prophecy states, "He has provided for us a mighty Savior a DESCENDANT of his servant David." Also in Luke Chapter 2:4-7 "Joseph went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to the town of Bethlehem in Judea, the birthplace of King David. He went to register with Mary, who was pregnant, and while they were in Bethlehem, the time came for her to have her baby.

As Christ pointed out at least a couple times during his life, he was doing things so the prophecy could be fulfilled.

In this case, Jesus is fulfilled another prophecy. It was predicted that the Savior would be a descendant of the King of David. For Christ to be a descendant of the King of David, his father had to be Joseph. So is the prediction right or is man's understanding of the bible right? Can GOD be wrong? Before you make up your mind lets look at some more scripture.

In Mark Chapter 10 the apostles James and John ask Christ if they can sit at his right and left side in his kingdom. Christ's response in Mark Chapter 10:40 is, "But I do not have the right to choose who will sit on my right and on my left. It is GOD who will give these places to those for whom HE has prepared them." We all konw GOD is on Christ's left side. That same passage can be found in Matthew Chapter 20:23 There Christ said, "But I do not have the right to choose who will sit at my right and my left. These places belong to those for whom my FATHER has prepared them." Christ wouldn't lie would he? So the question is: Is he god or is he a human who got the gift of the Holly Spirit and became ONE of GOD'S CHILDREN which made him a son of GOD? One more thing to think about, If GOD, Christ and the Holy Spirit are one person, why does Christ have a different space in heaven. Why is he at the FATHER'S right side? That proves they are separate beings not the three persons in one. Christ Himself refers to himself as "THE SON OF MAN" not the "SON OF GOD." You can find numerous quotes from him calling himself "THE SON OF MAN." I haven't written them down because they are not uncommon. In fact the quote from Matthew which we just looked at contains a quote from Christ just a couple of sentences later at Matthew 20:28 "Like the Son of Man, who did not come to be served, but to serve and to give life to redeem many people."

If Christ was the Son of Man and not the physical Son of God, then his responses to the questions he was asked before he was put to death might make more sense. First before the council he was asked (Luke 22:67-71) "Are you the Messiah?" He answered, "If I tell you, you will not believe me; and if I ask you a question you will not answer but from now on the Son of MAN will be seated at the right hand side of the ALMIGHTY GOD." You notice he didn't say Son of God. He said Son of MAN. Anyway continuing with the questioning they asked him, "Are you then the Son of God?" To which He said, "You say that I am." Christ is sidestepping the questions in order to hide the things GOD wanted us to find later. Christ answered in a way that kept him from having to lie in order to keep GOD'S secret. Let's keep looking for those hidden secrets.

Who did the Apostles think Christ was/Is? In Luke 9:20-21 Christ asks the Apostles who they think he is. Peters answer was, "You are GOD'S Messiah." Christ then told them not to tell this to anyone. Those same quotes can be found in Mark 8:29-30 but the BEST response comes from Matthew 16:16-17. In that passage the response is the same but Christ goes on to tell Peter, "Good for you, Simon son of John!" For this truth did not comes from any human being, but it was given to you directly by my Father in heaven And so I tell you, Peter you are a rock, and on this rock foundation I will build my church. I will give you the keys of the Kingdom of heaven; what you prohibit on earth will be prohibited in heaven, and what you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven."

Matthew's passage seems to prove that Peter is the first apostle to get the gift (GOD'S GENE) of the Holly Spirit (became a son of GOD). Throughout the bible, Christ had been waiting for the apostles to begin to understand his parables. That would be his way of knowing when GOD agreed they had enough faith to receive the gift of the Holly Spirit. It was also the clue that Christ was looking for to know who GOD wanted to lead the church. So at that point Peter began the process of becoming a Son Of GOD or one of the CHILDREN OF GOD because GOD knew Peter had real faith.

When Christ was brought before Pilot, and Pilot asked him, (Luke 23:3) "Are you the King of the Jews?" to which Jesus replied "So you say." Again Christ sidesteps the question to help hide GOD'S secrets and keep Christ's credibility intact. Any deviation from what the world wanted to hear would reduce the impact of the messages he brought to us from GOD. Remember, at this point his own apostles were still confused. They didn't know he would rise from the dead in three days and they didn't understand all of his teachings. The gift of Holly Spirit would bring them that understanding and knowledge when the TIME WAS RIGHT.

GOD has to do things in a the right order using all the right people with as little or as much knowledge as they need to do the things HE needs them to do. That's how HE gets things done. GOD doesn't do it HIMSELF; HE knows what we're willing to do or NOT do in any given situation based on our faith, knowledge and skills. To make us do something different HE might purposely mislead us as HE is making Christ do here with his misleading testimony.

Okay, we got one more passage to look at before we start to put the puzzle together. John states (John 1:11-13) "He came to his own country, but his own people did not receive him. Some, however, did receive him and believed in him; so he gave them the RIGHTS to become GOD'S CHILDREN. They did not become GOD'S CHILDREN by natural means, that is, by being born a child of GOD HIMSELF. So how is it possible you ask. Just like Christ, Moses, Abraham, Mary, ... TRUE BELIEVERS of GOD and HIS WORD we become CHILDREN OF GOD when GOD decides our faith earns us that RIGHT. At that point GOD add or updates our genes in our body to make us CHILDREN OF GOD, but HE does it GOD'S WAY (via the gift of the Holy Spirit/gene changes) not MAN'S WAY (birth father/mother). If you BELIEVE GOD took a rib from Adam and made Eve why CAN'T HE take a gene from HIMSELF and give it to us. In fact maybe the rib from Adam involved genes too. The bible couldn't talk about that concept because man wouldn't understand it.  Just as you wouldn't talk about how babies are made to your young children. As we learn more about genes and the ones we have in common with other animals, we just might be able to trace the evolution path GOD used to create us all. Even today that's hard to understand what would have been like 2,000 years ago if Christ tried to teach that concept.

So let's review the facts. Christ had to be a descendant of the King of David. He really doesn't call himself god in his teachings. He doesn't answer the question before his death that would have answered those questions. And now John talks about earning the RIGHT to be one of GOD'S CHILDREN.

What does all that mean? It means Christ was GOD'S SON in the sense that John talked about not in a physical sense man think of when we talk about a father and a son. This idea actually explains the meaning behind Christ's statement that we have ONLY ONE FATHER. GOD'S WAY of making HIMSELF OUR FATHER is more important than our birth parents.  Anyway Christ earned the RIGHT to be one of GOD'S CHILDREN or GOD'S SONvia his faith. The beatitudes also talk about being called CHILDREN OF GOD. But getting back to our facts, to be a descendant of King David and Abraham, Christ had to be Joseph's physical son. It's the only way to fulfill the prophecy. Mary wasn't from that family tree.

So Christ is GOD'S SON in the SAME sense that you and I and every other person on earth can be GOD'S SON AND/OR DAUGHTER. See John 1:11-13 and start working towards earning the title of ONE OF GOD'S CHILDREN.

GOD picked Mary, Joseph and Christ because they were the RIGHT people in the RIGHT place at the RIGHT time. They would have ALL the knowledge, skills and abilities to accomplish the tasks GOD needed to accomplish and HE knew they would be WILLING carry the crosses that when along with those tasks. GOD WON'T take away your FREE WILL to choose. So HE WON'T use people that AREN'T willing to carry the cross HE has to assign. HE WON'T force you to go to heaven. You can go to HELL if you so choose.

Christ being an illegitimate child was no accident. Being brought up in that environment gave him the insight to understand Mary Magdalene. Almost everyone in those towns knew everyone else in town, so I'm sure that played a part in convincing the family to move to another town. So Christ grew up without a lot of close family members. There's not much in the bible about Christ's childhood but there is one story about him being left in the temple. He was a young child but he's not playing with other children, he's teaching and learning from the leaders of the temple. Since none of the children in that traveling group missed him, we might conclude that Christ lived a lonely life as a child. That's not very different from a poor illegitimate child in today's world. But that was the life he had to live to get close enough to GOD to become ONE OF GOD'S CHILDREN or GOD'S SON.

Christ couldn't talk about his family and/or his childhood without making it harder for his followers to get over their prejudices and accept his teachings. That's the SAME reason Christ sidesteps all the questions he was being asked the night he died. His followers might have lost faith if they found out he wasn't physically GOD'S SON. Christ knew the teachings he was passing on were too hard to understand and believe so why complicating things even more. On the other hand, he didn't lie. He just saved the secrets for GOD to decide the RIGHT TIME to expose them.

GOD knew before Christ was born that by the year 2000 the world would be on the verge of destroying itself. Technology, medicine and greed would lead people down the garden path. So HE setup the Holly Family as examples. They kept their illegitimate son. What would have happened if Christ hadn't taught us the messages he got from GOD? What would our world be like if no one believed in GOD, heaven and hell? Would there really be a world left today?

GOD saved this message to convince us to stop abortions; accept what man calls an illegitimate children and divorce as long as the children are taken are of; avoid gene manipulation; and cloning. If Mary and Joseph had aborted Christ, GOD couldn't have sent HIS messages and the scripture wouldn't have been fulfilled. Actually, that's not true. GOD can work around man any time HE wants to the question is will HE want to.

As far as gene manipulation and cloning goes, I believe that GOD trains profits and special people like Mary over several generations. Christ is a descendant of King David and that's the reason for all family tree tracing in the bible. GOD wanted us to know that everyone of those A begot B begot C..... was an important step in the development of the character, family customs and ideas that made Christ who he turned out to be. Over those generations, GOD taught Christ's family (Mary and Joseph) what they needed to know to make Jesus who he turned out to be. Don't get me wrong, GOD got involved directly after Christ received the gift of the Holly Spirit.

In addition to training Christ's family, I believe GOD gives a special gene or genes (gift of the Holy Spirit) to give HIS profits and HIS CHILDREN. Those genes give them the ability they need to be successful in the endeavors that HE had planed for them. If we decide to use gene manipulation to produce what we believe to be the prefect child, we might lose changes that GOD had intended for us in the future.

For example: As man becomes more and more reliant on computer data, maybe GOD will decide to mutate our seeing abilities. Maybe he'll give us the ability to handle several tasks at once. We might be able to read, talk and watch TV at the same time, if our brains mutate in a way that allows us to handle multiple tasks like a Windows Computer. I just chose that as an example. I'm sure some day man will be able to put a chip in your brain that might accomplish that same task but I'd rather have GOD'S version if HE'S going to give us that feature. On the other hand if you allow man to manipulate your genes, you might not get the changes GOD planned that would have allowed you to handle multiple tasks naturally.

Better yet, maybe GOD will give us the ability to grow new limbs if we lose one (like a starfish). The point is, if we interfere with the natural process we might lose the enhancements that GOD has planned for us.

Christ's family tree documents how GOD Works. His changes are planned to be phased in over several generations. Each member of both sides of the family doing just the RIGHT things at just the RIGHT TIMES to create the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to know and accomplish what GOD had planned. GOD doesn't have to be involved in a physical sense. HE has ways to put the RIGHT PEOPLE in the RIGHT PLACES at the RIGHT TIMES in order to teach the people what HE wants them to know. HE also has the ability to confuse us if HE needs to make us mess something up or if HE wants us to do something we don't want to do. I've been there done that and got a closet full of t-shirts. Do you need one?

Anyway, GOD knew we were going to discover abortion, gene manipulation and cloning. That's one of the reasons HE picked Joseph and Mary to be Christ's parents. He wanted us to know that premarital sex isn't that bad but you have to take the responsibilities that go along with that action. Mary and Joseph did the RIGHT thing and got rewarded.

I've said all along, a WISE person once told me that marriage shouldn't be the start of a relationship. It should be the celebration for the continuation of a great relationship. I know from experience that not having sex till after the wedding just might be a reason for getting a divorce before the honeymoon is over. Partners just might not be sexually compatible and the honeymoon is not the place and time to find that out.

GOD didn't have a problem with Mary and Joseph, so who are we to throw stones. GOD'S telling us we missed the boat on this one.

Not to change the subject but I'd sure like to talk to the lady from Fatima about her meetings with Mary. I've been told that those children were punished for lying by their parents and the local priest. I wonder if we really heard to whole story. Did Mary really tell them to say the Rosary? According to the stories I've been told her family was really BIG on saving the Rosary. I wondering if those children had a message similar to what I've learned but no one would accept it, so they made up the Rosary story to keep out of trouble. Maybe GOD had to take the young children to heaven to keep them from suffering from skeptical and jealous holier than thou Christians. It makes sense to me but I might not find out till I get to talk to GOD, Mary and Christ in heaven one day soon I hope.

For the record, Christ protected children from being harassed because of his miracles. In Luke Chapter 8:40-56. Christ was asked to come help a sick girl. Before he got to their house he was sent a message that the girl had died. He still continued to their house but he wouldn't let anyone in except his disciples and the parents. He brought the girl back to life but told everyone to say she was only sleeping. It was Christ's way of protecting the girl from a fate similar to ones the children of Fatima experienced. By telling everyone that the girl was only sleeping he kept her from being hounded by non-believers, jealous and envious people. Christ knew it was more important to protect that girl than to get credit for bringing her back to life. GOD wants us to know that white lies are okay if they don't hurt anyone; protect someone else; and allow you to be meek and humble. NO OTHER REASON IS ACCEPTABLE.

In conclusion, there IS and ALWAYS HAS BEEN only ONE GOD. The TEN COMMANDMENTS are still GOD'S LAW but if you follow the two Christ gave you, you WON'T need to know the them. His two commandments cover all ten GOD gave us. They are:

1st - Love the LORD your GOD with all your heart, mind and soul.

Next - Love your neighbor as yourself. (I like to say, treat your neighbor like you would want GOD to treat you if you were he.)

Post #25 Family Feud Survey Question Number 1

2006-09-27T10:11:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:02 AM on 7/14/2006

We asked a 100 LOST SOULS in HELL, if they ever thought about being in HELL one day. To our surprise 99 out of the 100 said NO. You guessed it the other ONE was LYING.

So the next time you try to convince yourself its okay to commit a little sin, think again. Sinning is MORE addictive than drugs and/or alcohol. All three all start with just one innocent little mistake: a one drag of a weed (drugs); a beer for the road (alcohol); and a little lie (sinning). Before you know it you're an addict; a dunk and/or a LOST SOUL in HELL.

Losing your soul starts out pretty innocent with just one little lie and then the devil gets you hooked on bigger and bigger ones. Till one day you wake up in HELL with everyone else that didn't think it was a big deal to tell one little lie or cheat on a test ... Just like drinking and drugs, sinning is habit forming but you get addictive to it a lot easier. You don't have to buy anything to sin. You don't have to go looking for anything to sin. It's ALWAYS THERE and it's FREE for the asking, unlike drugs and alcohol which have to be found and purchased. That's why it's so much easier to lose your soul.

Once you learn to SAY NO to the devil, you WON'T have any trouble saying NO to DRUGS and ALCOHOL. The good news is: it's NOT to LATE to save your soul. So, why not start toady? SAY NO to the devil today and you WON'T be in HELL TOMORROW. Yeah, TOMORROW DOES COME. I know the devil in you is saying TOMORROW NEVER COMES but just ask those souls in HELL if TOMORROW NEVER COMES.

Post #26 Daniel's END OF THE WORLD VISION

2006-09-27T10:10:00.000-05:00

Posted at 10:43 AM on 7/24/2006

Although Daniel was a GREAT interpreter of dreams, he could NOT interpret his own dream (see Daniel chapter 8). GOD did send the angle Gabriel to tell him the vision was the END OF THE WORLD. For the record, it DOESN'T have to be. We control our own future, just as Adam and Eve controlled their's in the Garden Of Eden. But the question has to be why didn't GOD tell us more. The answer is simple. When the time is RIGHT we'll know what it means.

Unfortunately, the time is right now and I doubt anyone will do anything to stop it. The weird animals Daniel seen in his vision are ones man created using DNA/GENE technology that wasn't something GOD thought Daniel and his people needed to know back then. If they were told about it, the END OF THE WORLD would have happened sooner. Better to let man find out about that EVIL on his own. Think of it as a modern FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Do you think man has learned his lesson yet? I doubt it.

Everyone looks at all the cool things that DNA/GENE manipulation can cause, like making sure your children are healthy, the right sex ... But no one thinks about the EVIL that goes along with that knowledge. Just like today, terrorists are learning how to make bigger and better bombs thanks to other's greed. Some day DNA/GENE technology will be available for those terrorists too.

We all know what happens when an insect from another land is transported to a different continent. It goes wild because there are no predators to keep it from overrunning the country.

Now think about a NEW animal created by man that has NO predators anywhere in the world. It WOULDN'T be smart to start with something big. So expect it to be small insect with the power of a ram or a goat. So small that they'll be able to grow and multiply without anyone noticing until they start to destroy all our food supply.

They were cool to play with and create but NO ONE ever thought about what would happen when they took over the world. On the other hand Daniel said they came out of the river. So maybe they'll take over all our drinking water first and then eat all the fish in the sea. Meanwhile their numbers will grow. By the time they leave the sea in search for food they'll be to numerous for us to handle.

GOD sent us the warning. The NEW FORBIDDEN FRUIT is GENE/DNA MANIPULTION. Are we going to TEST GOD again? The FRIST time we lost the GARDEN OF EDEN, this time we loose our world. Can we avoid the temptation or are we approaching the END OF THE WORLD.

Before you answer that, how many people thought that the invention of the bomb would one day be a tool kids would use to blow up their school? I'm sure the inventors of the bomb NEVER thought children would be playing with bombs of their own but they are.

The GOOD THING about making bombs if there is one, is that it's very dangerous. You can blow yourself up if you DON'T know what you're doing. And even when they do know what you're doing, they sometimes create bombs that DON'T work.  If it weren't for those dangers and risks, I HATE to think how many more people would try making a bomb.

Since playing with GENES/DNA WON'T be as dangerous, we can expect it to create more problems. So the question is how long will it be before people get their hands on the technology to play with GENES/DNA? NEVER I PRAY but to make sure we need to KISS GENE/ DNA TECHNOLOGY GOOD-BYE now in order to save the world for future generations.

If you think I'm wrong, ask yourself how long it'll be before some one decides to give their children the eyes of a bird or the wings of an eagle. Man is NEVER happy with what he has. He always wants more and to be better than everyone else. The writing is on the wall. GREED will prevail unless we stop it now. Unfortunately, the devil is in control and he knows how to pull all the RIGHT STRINGS to make what he wants happen. He's already convinced the American people to take GOD out of the school, government and public building. Soon he'll have his idols everywhere for you to worship. They'll be the NEW GENE/DNA HEROES our future generations decides to create. I for one am GLAD I WON'T LIVE THAT LONG. I hope NONE OF US LIVE TO SEE IT.

Post #27 SORRY MY PICTURES ARE GONE

2006-09-27T10:09:00.000-05:00

Posted at 10:36 AM on 8/7/2006

My picture files were previously stored at WWW.MOMENTSHARING.COM (a free site). Unfortunately, that company changed functions over the weekend. As a result all my picture files are gone. That's one of the many problems customers of FREE SITES have to put up with. Things will change overnight and you WON'T get any warning. Sorry I CAN'T replace the pictures I was referencing on my BLOG but I will in time remove the links.

LATER NOTE (Sept 30, 2006):WWW.MOMENTSHARING.COM problems have been corrected, so my pictures are working again. I've added a few posts without pictures because of this problem. I'll try to update them (add a picture) as time permits. Thanks

POST #28 TERRORISM ISN'T SOMETHING NEW

2006-09-27T10:08:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:52 AM on 8/14/2006

From the very beginning man has been terrorized by the DEVIL. He's the WORST terrorist man has ever know yet no one has been able to put a stop to his terror. To bad we DON'T put half our anti-terrorism effort into stopping the DEVIL instead of worry about a few terrorists that are controlled by the devil. Why is it that we seem to care more about symptoms than problems?

Today people are making all kinds of sacrifices when they take a plane ride in order to ensure safety from terrorism. The question is how many of us are willing to make MAJOR SACRIFICES to protect ourselves from the DEVIL'S terrorism? Isn't your soul (your eternal happiness) more important than your life? Isn't eternity in hell worse than being blown up by a terrorist bomb?

I BELIEVE so and that's why I error on the side of safety and security when it comes to religion or should I say GOD'S WORD. I hope you do too. After all protecting your eternal life should be MORE IMPORTANT than your LIMITED HUMAN LIFE. After all isn't an ETERNITY OF HAPPINESS worth more than say 100 years of happiness here on earth? That's the way I look at it and anyone with any common sense would have to see it the same way.

So start thinking about protecting your soul from the DEVIL'S TERRORISM as much as you think about protecting your short life from human terrorism. Some day you'll be a lot happier than you've ever been if you live the rest of your life that way. Remember, there's NO PAIN, NO SICKNESS, NO DYING ... in HEAVEN. Isn't that reward worth protecting? Isn't it worth more than the life you're protecting from terrorists? Than why don't you protect it as well?

POST #29 GOD Can Make Anything Happen Anytime

2006-09-27T10:07:00.000-05:00

Posted at 11:30 AM on 8/15/2006

This message came to me while the pastor was telling a joke last Sunday. (Pastor Scott Borden of the First Alliance Church in Port Charlotte Click Here To Visit The Church's Web Site) The JOKE was about a FOOTBALL GAME between the LITTLE ANIMALS and the BIG ANIMALS. The first half was a blow-out. The BIG ANIMALS were crucifying the LITTLE ANIMALS 40 – 0.

To make matters worse the LITTLE ANIMALS had to give the ball to the BIG ANIMALS to start the second half. An elephant caught the ball in the end zone and began to run it out. To everyone surprise the LITTLE ANIMALS tackled him on the 5 yard line. On the next play a rhino ran the ball for a short loss. On third play a gorilla carried the ball and he was hit so hard that he fumbled the ball and it ended up in the end zone.

Needless to say everyone was trying to get to it. They were blocking and tackling like the game depended on that play. When the play was over a LITTLE centipede had recovered the ball for a touchdown.

On his way to the sidelines they asked him who tackled that elephant. The centipede said that was me. Then they asked who stopped the rhino for that loss. Once again the centipede said yeah that was me. So they asked who caused that fumble. And the centipede said that was me too. So they asked him where were you during the first half. Well he said, I was getting my ankles taped.

This joke reminded me of the bible story “THE STONE THAT WAS REJECTED BECAME THE CORNER STONE.” The men responsible for preparing the players for the game taped the centipede last because they thought the other players were better and should be taped first. So he wasn’t there for the first half. In effect, the centipede is the REJECTED STONE or in this case the REJECTED PLAYER. He was actually the CORNER STONE or should I say the team’s BEST PLAYER. The last shall be first and the first shall be last. GOD CAN MAKE ANYTHING HAPPEN.

Just as the centipede proved everyone wrong about his importance, so to you and me with GOD’S help can prove people wrong about us. Christ once said, “If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell a mountain to move and it will.” GOD is OUR FATHER and HE CAN MAKE ANYTHING HAPPEN for you and me but we have to have the faith. We have to prove that faith by living every minute of every day the way the bible (GOD’S WORD) has taught us. It took the apostles 3 years of training from Christ to earn GOD’S BLESSING of the Holy Spirit. During that time they learned the importance of SINNING NO MORE. Remember, that’s what Christ taught. He said that many times when he was curing the sick.

DON’T fall for any FALSE TEACHINGS like: Christ already paid for our sins; or I’ve been SAVED. Better to BELIEVE what Christ taught and SIN NO MORE for the penalty for sin is death. You will be held accountable for your sins. As Christ told the apostles, “Whose sins you forgive they are forgiven. Whose sins you retain they are retained.”

Just like the apostles had to study under Christ for three years before they received the gift of Holy Spirit, we have to earn GOD’S gifts too. One good deed now and then just isn’t enough. If you want GOD to make you special you’ve got to be willing to take up your cross and follow the path Christ made for us. Earning HIS blessing takes years of study, practice and sacrifice (example: Christ, the apostles, Samuel …). Too many people today believe that being baptized or being saved is all that GOD requires of them.

Actually they’re wrong. GOD DOESN’T REQUIRE ANYTHING of us. HE gave us a FREE WILL and we have the choice to EARN the right to live in heaven for eternity or go to hell for eternity. HE DOESN’T REQUIRE A THING from us. We are free to make our own choices but some day you’ll have to answer for every one of them.

When HE asks you if you gave HIM food when HE was hungry; clothes when HE was naked; or shelter when HE was homeless what are you going to say? Are you going to ask when were YOU hungry; naked; or homeless like the fools in the bible or are you going to be listening to HIM thank you for feeding HIM; clothing HIM; and giving HIM shelter. HE knows who we are and what you’ve did or didn’t do because HE’S sent HIS loved ones to test us.

So are you going to past the test? Have you already been tested and failed? Pray that the devil doesn’t convince you to fail again because GOD will you keep testing you.

GOOD LUCK. I hope you’ve learned enough to past the next test. Once you pass enough tests, GOD will know you’re special and HE’LL make you even more special by giving you the gift of the Holy Spirit. Just remember, GOD CAN MAKE ANYTHING HAPPEN ANYTIME.

POST #30 Thinking Out-Of-The-Box, What Does That Mean?

2006-09-27T10:06:00.000-05:00

E-mail on August 2006

Some time ago, while I was still working for the IRS they sent me to a class on thinking out-of-the-box. To this very day, I continue to have problems trying to understand what they thought they were teaching.

Today, GOD gave it to me in words that I could understand. Thinking out-of-the-box is NOT finding a better way to build a match box. It’s NOT seeing something and deciding to make it better. It’s seeing something NO ONE on earth has ever seen or knew anything about. It’s seeing something that isn’t on anyone else’s radar scope and lassoing that idea and bringing it into the box, so others can find ways to improve it.

Since my GOD GIVEN expertise is creativity, I already thought out of the box. I blazed new trails (or should I say lassoed new ideas) and brought them into the box all my life. So what they were teaching wasn’t anything new to me. I couldn’t understand the point they were trying to make. I just didn’t see a need for that class.

Thinking out-of-the-box isn’t something people are going to be able to teach each other. It’s a gift from GOD and some people have it and some DON’T. We all have different talents or gifts from GOD. We shouldn’t try to be something we’re NOT. We should be trying to find the gift GOD gave us and working on exploiting it. Not trying to put a round peg in a square whole.

GOD made all of us unique because it takes a lot of different talents to make a perfect world. If we were all Out-Of-The-Box thinkers no one would worry about making the new ideas better. We’d all be trying to invent another new thing. I DON’T worry about the spit and polish that makes my ideas better. I’m NOT good at that. GOD didn’t design me to be the spit and polish person and I know it. I’m wasting my time and energy when I try to be a spit and polish person. GOD has new trails for me to blaze. If I waste my time on spit and polish I’ll never help the world find those new frontiers HE wants to show us all.

So now we all know what thinking out-of-the box means but it isn’t for all of us. This world needs a diverse society to be truly productive. If we all became corporate executives who’d grow the food we need; pick up the garbage; deliver the gas; build the roads… Some things NEVER CHANGE. Everyone CAN’T be an Indian Chief just like everyone should not be trying to think out-of-the box. Some people have to keep the trail blazers from going to wild and crazy. Change is NOT ALWAYS the right thing to do and it’s the people that DON’T think Out-Of-The-BOX that keep the creative people in check. A united diverse population is a successful civilization. A wild and crazy creative population is doomed to waste a lot of time and effort creating unwanted rough new ideas that need a lot of spit and polish. I guess that’s where the unskilled labor countries of the world come in. They’re willing to do the spit and polish work to make the rough new ideas worth selling.

POST #31 Missing Pieces Of The Bible

2006-09-27T10:05:00.000-05:00

E-mail on August 2006

Some time ago I started wondering why there is almost nothing about Christ’s childhood and young adulthood in the bible. GOD took that as a prayer and started acting on it right away. I guess it’s because it’s something HE has wanted to tell us for years but no one was willing to go though what HE’S made me go though.

What do I mean by that you ask? Well, GOD’S the PERFECT TEACHER. Unfortunately, that means HE WON’T give you the answers. You have to find them yourself and the BEST way to do that is to EXPERIENCE that event or should I say a similar event that’ll provide the SAME knowledge and skills. The GOOD NEWS is that you WON’T have to be exposed to the same training over and over. HE knows what event will give you the exact knowledge HE wants the first time you’re exposed to it. So you WON’T have to be taught that SAME SKILL AGAIN.

The BEST way to describe it is, “It’s like you’re deaf and dumb and Helen Keller (hope you’ve seen the movie) is trying to teach you everything you ever wanted to know but thought you never ever get to know it.” I have a feeling Christ past that knowledge on to his disciples but like the information about his youth mankind lost it.

So the question is: what makes me think mankind lost some or most of Christ’s information? Luke 4:16-20 tells a story about Christ reading the scripture in the temple. That indicates Christ had the knowledge, skills and ability to read. Even more important, in Luke 4:22 it states: “They were all well impressed with and MARVELED at the ELOQUENT WORDS that he spoke. Since he could read, I got to BELIEVE he could write. What’s most important about the fact that they were impressed with his reading skills is the fact that this was happening in Nazareth and they DIDN’T ACCEPT HIM. What do you think they would have said in a town where he was accepted?

Based on the scripture, I BELIEVE Christ wrote messages from GOD to us. So that leaves the question where are they? Since Christ was traveling and preaching most of those last three years, I got to BELIEVE he was carrying them with him and adding to them as he went along.

So that would mean Christ had them with him on Good Friday in Gethsemane. Since the Apostles took off and left Christ alone, the documents he prepared vanished that night. Before I tell you what I think happened to the documentation, let me tell you how I came to that conclusion. Then I’ll provide some bible references to back up that thinking.

To help me understand what happened to Christ’s documentation, GOD put me though a similar experience. I was put in jail for contempt of court because I wouldn’t pay my alimony till my ex-wife gave me copies of the videos I took of the children. I had several letters from her stating that she was copying the tapes and one that said she had dropped them off at my apartment one day when I was out of town. She went on to say she later went back and picked up the tapes.

Well the judge said we weren’t there to talk about the videos but he took a copy of my letters anyway. For the record, I had her alimony in a bank account and I gave everyone copies of that info. When I refused to take the money out of the account and give it to her because she still wasn’t going to give me the tapes, the judge put me in jail to let me think about it.

The point of this story is: while I was in court, I had the original copies of those letters from my wife with me in my case. When this took place my children we about 22 and 19 (no child support) years old. Since they didn’t help me to get copies of the videos, I decided to pay the alimony and get out of jail. Unfortunately, when I got my belongings back, the original documentation was gone. So I BELIEVE the world lost Christ’s documentation while he was on trail. The high priests didn't want that evidence around because it proved Christ was innocent, so they destroyed it.

If you read, Mark 14:54-56 or Luke 22:54-55, you’ll know where the documentation went. In those passages, Peter is with the guards keeping warm around a fire. Peter was watching Christ’s documents being burned. He had no other reason to be there. He didn’t want to be that close to the guards and because he was there he had to lie three times about not being one of Christ’s followers. Peter wanted to save those documents but as Christ had said earlier, “The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.”

I’m NOT going to blame Peter because he at least followed Christ to the trail. I just wonder what else is missing from the bible. If you read the four gospels you’ve got to know that Christ taught a lot more than that. Those documents are suppose to be the results of three (3) years of travel and teaching. I bet he said more at one of his sermons than all four books of the bible combined. Remember, some of those sermons lasted so long people had to be feed.

So what is known today as the bible are the stories that people remembered and handed down. They are probable the ones people liked the BEST or should I say the ones that were easiest to live by and follow. We have a tendency to remember what we like and want to remember. We don’t try to remember negative things.

Worse yet when the bible was put together the leaders of the church decided what should be included and what shouldn’t. That meant anything that caused some disagreement was dropped even if some members thought it should be included. So I’m willing to bet some information was changed in order to make it acceptable for everyone and some things were dropped because they couldn’t agree on it.

The point is we need to keep asking GOD for guidance and another chance to get all of HIS messages. Unfortunately, whoever gets to deliver those messages WON’T be accepted. Christ's documentation was destroyed and he wasn’t accepted (read the accounts of his reading at Nazareth Luke 4:16-30). What makes us think someone else will be more successful than him. I say that because my documentation disappears and no one listens to me. I guess GOD wanted me to know how frustrated Christ must have been or should I say how frustrated GOD is with us. The bible talks about GOD complaining about man’s treatment of HIS prophets. I guess that’s why GOD doesn’t send as many anymore. We have to prove our faith to HIM to make HIM care again. Maybe the fact that the bible we’re using isn’t what GOD wanted us to know is the main reason for the problems. I almost hate to say it but I got a feeling GOD I’ll help me find the answers if I really want to know. Sometimes I almost give up but then I think about the light (GOD) at the end of the tunnel. Heaven is worth it. Amen.

POST #32 We ALL Work For GOD

2006-09-27T10:04:00.000-05:00

E-mail on August 2006

As the BIBLE states GOD is our MASTER and we are HIS slaves. What we overlook is the fact that GOD is going to review our time card some day. HE’S going to look at what we DID or DIDN’T DO with the talents (BLESSINGS) HE gave us.

HE’S going to check and see if we have a POSTIVE or NEGATIVE BALANCE on our time card. In other words, have we been EARNING FORGIVENESS for our sins or have we been GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER.

Once HE’S finished reviewing our time card, HE’LL use HIS LAW to determine what to do next. GOD’S law is PAY ME NOW or PAY ME FOREVER (hell). So if you haven’t been paying your debts to GOD here on earth, HE’LL make sure you start paying the day you meet. The CHOICE IS YOURS. PAY GOD NOW or PAY GOD FOREVER. Or should I say TREAT YOUR NEIGHBOR THE WAY YOU WANT GOD TO TREAT YOU FOR ETERNITY. Remember the CHOICE IS YOURS.

POST #33 GOD’S Team

2006-09-27T10:00:00.000-05:00

E-mail on August 2006

A couple of nights ago GOD got me thinking about what might be happening in heaven. I always thought about meeting Jesus but there are so many other HEROS on GOD’S Team. So started wondering what it might be like to hear John-The-Baptist talk about his life or better yet listen to Noah talk about the time he and his family spent on the ark. Wouldn’t that be cool?

Then I got to thinking, those guys and gals (Joan of Ark …) must be tired of retelling all their stories. That kind of made me a little sad. The last people into heaven just might not get to hear those HEROS talk about their time on earth. I know I get sick of telling the same story after a while. So I bet they’re already tired of telling their stories.

I guess that means we’re going to be asked to tell our stories before we get to hear anyone else’s story. Maybe that’s how GOD decides if we deserve to be in heaven and which room we should be sent to. The bible talks about being judged. Telling our story to GOD’S court just might be how HE runs that trail.

I guess the rooms tell us how close we are to GOD and HIS HEROES. The closer you are to GOD the fewer people that’ll be in your room. The more people you have in your room the more times you have to listen to the same stories over and over again as new people are added to the room. That means the people closest to GOD have the most free time.

GOD could schedule HIS HEROS to make presentations in the other rooms from time to time. That would limit the number of times they would have to retell their stories and give people a chance to meet and greet GOD, HIS HEROS, and HIS ANGLES. This is NO DIFFERENT than the way celebrates treat their fans. A select few get to spend the MOST TIME with them.

On earth MONEY and STATUS decides who gets to spend the MOST time with a celebrity. In heaven, YOUR GOOD DEEDS and the GRACE you saved in heaven decide who the celebrities are and how much time you get to spend with them.

Now we all have some really good reasons to SIN NO-MORE; DO GOOD DEEDS; BE HUMBLE; and EARN GOD’S GRACES. Actually, we always had those reasons but if you were like me, it wasn’t something you put much thought into. Just remember, DON’T take your reward here on earth. Save that reward for heaven where it CAN’T be robbed or lost. And remember it just might get you moved to a room CLOSER to GOD and make you more important in heaven.

POST #34 GOD Hates The Worship Of False gods

2006-09-27T09:55:00.000-05:00

E-mail at 11:44am on August 28,2006

I wonder what GOD thinks about the ROSARY? Did anyone ever stop to think that there are TEN (10) prayers to Mary for every ONE (1) to GOD? You’d think it would be the other way around TEN (10) OUR FATHERS to every ONE (1) HAIL MARY but it’s NOT that way.

Anyone who’s read the bible knows GOD is VERY JEALOUS and NOTHING upsets HIM more than having HIS PEOPLE worshipping a FALSE god or mankind thinking they can be god. That’s the quickest way to lose GOD’S HELP. Adam and Eve were kicked out of the garden of paradise for wanting to be god. The Israelites could win ANY BATTLE they fought when GOD was on their side but as soon as they decided to worship idles things fell apart. Man can be PRETTY STUPID.

GOD wrote the TEN COMMANDMENTS and then gave them to Moses. They command us to worship ONLY ONE GOD and there SHALL NOT be ANY strange gods before HIM. I’m not going stop making MY GOD and FATHER number one. I know a lot of people believe that Christ was or is god. Actually, I BELIEVE there are MANY mistranslations or misinterpretations in the bible, partly because the men that translated the bible didn’t understand what they were reading and interpretating. Christ was trying to tell us that GOD is part of him not that he is god. When GOD gives us the gift of HIS SPIRIT (called the Holy GHOST), and we become ONE with GOD. And GOD becomes ONE with us. HIS SPIRIT lives in us and we become HIS children.

Receiving the GIFT of the HOLY SPIRIT is like getting some of GOD’S DNA. In fact, that’s what it is. You become one of HIS children and HE becomes part of us. Since no one in Christ’s days knew anything about DNA, how could Christ talk about it? When he did try to teach the world about the concept of the HOLY SPIRIT, they still didn’t understand it.

Since Christ ONLY prayed to the FATHER. Why should we do any different? When Christ was asked to teach others how to pray he taught them the OUR FATHER not the our Christ. He did say whatever you ask the FATHER in my name HE will grant you. And He also told us that the FATHER taught him everything. So pray to GOD, (OUR FATHER) not some idol. You can ask HIM for help in the name of Mary, Christ, Moses, Mohammad, Charles Smith or whoever YOU BELIEVE GOD will listen to and will convince GOD to grant you requests but DON’T pray to those idols. You just might make GOD angry. HE doesn’t like HIS PEOPLE praying to false gods.

Christ taught us to give glory to the FATHER and if we have faith as big as a mustard seed we can make a mountain move. Actually, he meant you can get the FATHER to move it for you if you have the faith. Remember, the lady that was cured when she touched Christ’s clothes. It was her faith that cured her.

As far as praying to Mary goes, someone once told Christ how GREAT his mother was to have given birth to him and breast feed him. Christ’s reply was better to know and serve the LORD GOD than to be her. What he meant was anyone of us can be just as important as or maybe even more important than her if we have faith. Don’t let ANY HUMAN (Mary, Christ, Moses, Mohammad …) become more important than GOD. Study GOD’S messages and live them to the fullest and you too just might become a super human with the powers GOD will give you. But DON’T EVER FORGET who gave you those powers because HE can take them away just as fast as HE gave them to you.

I know this concept goes against almost everything most of us have been taught but isn’t that exactly what Christ did when he brought the world the GOOD NEWS or GOD’S WORD. It went against almost everything the Jews were being taught. Unfortunately, they didn’t understand it all very well. So they strayed to far away from the Jewish faith. The right position is somewhere in the middle.

The GOOD NEWS about this message is that anyone of us can be ONE WITH GOD. Anyone of us can have the faith needed to make mountains move. Anyone of us can be GOD’S messenger. Anyone of us can be ONE WITH GOD and follow: Christ (Christian Prophet/Leader); Moses (Jewish Prophet/Leader); Mohammad (Moslem Prophet/Leader); Charles Smith (Mormon Prophet/Leader); … IF we LOVE ONE ANOTHER and sacrifice for others. The more you sacrifice and AVOID SIN the closer you are to GOD. Then one DAY you just might get close enough to be ONE WITH GOD.

On the other hand the MORE YOU SIN the closer you get to the DEVIL. If you get close enough you just might become one of his children and thus be one with him. The choice is up to you. Are you going to following the WORD OF GOD (Love your ONE GOD, the ONLY GOD with all your heart, mind and soul and treat your neighbor like you want GOD to treat you for eternity) or take the road to hell?

If you understood my message, you know that I’m saying GOD isn’t prejudice. HE DOESN’T care how you worship HIM or which faith you follow as long as your faith BELIEVES in ONLY ONE GOD, OUR FATHER. We ALL have the SAME GOD; we just have DIFFERENT WAYS of honoring HIM; understanding HIM; and trying to imagine what HE looks like. Since NONE of us have a picture, we have no way of knowing IF any of us are even close but it doesn’t matter anyway. GOD can be in you and me, so HE can be ALL OF US. All we have to do is love one another as our prophets/leaders taught us. Remember, WHATEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST OF MY BROTHERN THAT YOU DO UNTO ME.

POST #35 Adam and Eve Story, Parable or Both

2006-09-27T09:54:00.000-05:00

E-mailed on August 29, 2006

For SOME TIME now GOD has been trying to teach me the meaning of the Adam and Eve story. Every time I got too overconfident or didn't keep a close eye on whatever I'm doing, I'd lose stuff. It was HIS way of making me remember HE CAN DO IT BETTER.

Losing stuff really frustrated me at first. Then I got humble and decided there is NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT. If GOD wants to take things or hid things from me, there's NOTHING I CAN DO ABOUT IT. So I just stopped worrying about anything that disappeared and just tried to work around that hindrance.

Sometimes I found a better or easier way to accomplish what I was doing without what GOD took or hid. Other times I'd remember something else I wanted to do and I'd just work on that project instead of the one that was giving me all the problems. So I always thought GOD was using that method to teach me better ways to do things or helping to remember things that I forgot to do.

Today I got a NEW MEANING from the problem of losing things. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had everything they wanted but even that wasn't enough. They wanted to be gods. Because of that they lost everything.

Thanks to GOD'S teaching, I've decided that the "ADAM AND EVE" story symbolizes a very happy, prosperous and powerful culture. While that culture WORSHIPPED GOD and lived by HIS LAWS, it continued to be happy, prosper and powerful.

Over time the culture began to get cocky and overconfident and think of itself as a god or there is no such thing as god. At that point the civilization begins to decay. At about the SAME TIME a new religious culture starts to become more prosperous, happy and powerful. In time the second civilization would become more powerful, prosperous and happier than the first civilization. Similar to Adam and Eve being kick out of the Garden Of Eden.

Over the centuries there have been many dominate civilizations all over the world. They all took turns being Adam and Eve and thinking they: were god; could be god; or there is no god.

That means we've CONTINUED TO COMMIT ORIGINAL SIN over and over again. So we CAN'T say we're any better than Adam and Eve. All these years I've wondered what the world would be like if only Adam and Eve hadn't wanted to be gods. In a way, we all have the SAME FAULT. From time to time we, forget everything we see and do is only possible if GOD allows it to happen but we forget to THANK HIM and we begin to brag about our success. That's why GOD hid things from me. HE was trying to teach me not to be so cocky because if HE wanted to HE could stop me from being successful and HE could make my life miserable (read about Job and yes GOD'S done that too).

I bet Adam and Eve got overconfident and cocky before they got to the point that they wanted to be gods. Their success and dominance over all the animals made them forget GOD made it all possible. That's the SAME THING that happens to the rich, prosperous, happy and powerful civilizations of the past. As they forgot GOD, they also began to lose their riches, prosperity and power.

Now I'm seeing America falling for the same temptations as Adam and Eve. We're taking GOD out of our schools, government and public buildings. We've gone from being isolationists (before World War II) to being bossy, cocky and overconfident. We try to dominate and controll the rest of the world rather than letting them run their own countries the way they want to. We seem to ignore the fact that we have problems of our own. We DON'T need to worry about the rest of the world. Or as Christ taught, "Better to take the LOG out of your own eye before you try and take the splinter out of your brother's eye”. We'll be able to see better once we’ve done that. Are we rebuilding IRAQ as fast and as well as we're rebuilding NEW ORLEANS?

So the question is: When will man learn how much better the world could/would be if we lived by: GOD'S LAWS; WORSHIPPED HIM; and THANKED HIM, rather than making the SAME MISTAKE Adam and Eve made or should I say the symbolic error the bible warned us about.

Now we know the REAL STORY.

Once again, I want to THANK GOD for giving me this message and helping me pass it on to you. I pray that HE continues to BLESS me and pray that HE'LL keep the devil from tempting me. I look forward to spending eternity in heaven with GOD and my worthy brothers and sisters, amen.

Later note:If you think about the Roman Coliseum, the Egyptian pyramids, the Greek buildings, the wall of China … and wonder how that was possible, it really makes sense. Those civilizations were ADVANCED when GOD was on their side. Once they started creating their OWN gods and/or STOP BELIEVING in GOD all together, their civilization went down hill. That’s what happens when a civilization (Adam and Eve) says they DON’T need GOD anymore.

HE DOESN’T force HIMSELF on anyone. Too bad HE DIDN’T give us some intelligence to go along with our free will. We WOULDN’T think we DIDN’T need GOD’S HELP and we WOULDN’T forget to THANK HIM for what HE’S given us.

As is so often the case, you DON’T know what you got till it’s gone. Worse yet, you just might NOT ever get it back because GOD'S already found a NEW CHOSEN CIVILIZATION.

POST #36 Never Again

2006-09-27T09:53:00.000-05:00

E-mailed August 31, 2006

In Genesis 9:8-11 GOD states, “I will never again send another flood to destroy the earth.” So the question is: HOW WILL HE PROTECT HIS PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE (now and tomorrow)? In Genesis, GOD used the food to kill the evil people of the world and SAVE HIS true followers. How has HE accomplished that same task ever since?

If you read my last POST #35 (Adam and Eve Story, Parable or Both), you just might have part of the answer. I BELIEVE you have to consider POST #09 (Meaning Of The Transfiguration) along with POST #34 (GOD Hates The Worship Of False gods). Together they tell the WHOLE STORY.

GOD no longer uses a flood to destroy evil civilizations. HE finds BELIEVERS WILLING to sacrifice everything for GOD and trains that prophet to SAVE HIS PEOPLE from the evil civilization. Remember, in POST #34 GOD helped me write:

If you understood my message, you know that I’m saying GOD isn’t prejudice. He DOESN’T care how you worship HIM or which faith you follow as long as your faith BELIEVES in ONLY ONE GOD, OUR FATHER. We ALL have the SAME GOD; we just have DIFFERENT WAYS of honoring HIM; understanding HIM; and trying to imagine what HE looks like. Since NONE of us have a picture, we have no way of knowing IF any of us are even close but it doesn’t matter anyway. GOD can be in you and me, so HE can be ALL OF US. All we have to do is love one another as our prophets/leaders taught us. Remember, WHATEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST OF MY BROTHERN THAT YOU DO UNTO ME.

So what GOD wants me to say is: HE’S has been and will continue to find men and women willing to sacrifice everything for GOD. HE ISN’T prejudice about culture, race, or religion all HE DEMANDS is that we BELIEVE in ONE GOD and we always treat our neighbors like you want to be treated.

Those willing to sacrifice everything (SLAVES to GOD) will be asked to SAVE THE WORLD, so GOD WON’T have to destroy it like HE did in Noah’s day. The Transfiguration was GOD’S way of passing that information on to us. At that time GOD brought together three of HIS SAVIORS but the world DIDN’T want that kind of a savior. We wanted an EASY WAY to heaven, someone else to do it all for us. Unfortunately, that ISN’T going to happen. We are all going to be held accountable for our sins.

Man misinterpreted what GOD meant by a savior and we NEVER tried to interpret what HE meant when HE said HE would never again destroy the world by a flood. GOD’S prophets have been forced to teach the world GOD’S messages in small pieces because man wouldn’t accept it all at once. Just as Christ told the Jews about Moses watering down the law for them Christ and his apostles watered down GOD’S message for us. Actually, the parables made it easier for GOD’S prophets to see how much man is willing to for GOD before man lets the devil take control. Based on the feedback from Christ’s parables, the RIGHT messages and interpretations were explained. In time man just might be ready of the REAL TRUTH. Today’s population is a lot more intelligent than man was in Moses, Elijah, Mohammad, or Christ’s days. We were infants when Moses was on earth, teenagers when Christ was here by now we should be young adults and intelligent enough to know understand and BELIEVE the truth.

Remember, more is expected from those that have or understand more. NOTHING IS LIFE IS FREE, WHY WOULD WE THINK GETTING INTO HEAVEN WOULD BE ANY DIFFERENT. If you want something BAD ENOUGH, you’ll do whatever it takes to make sure you earn it. But DON’T THINK about earning your right to get into heaven, think about EARNING YOUR RIGHT NOT TO SUFFER IN HELL FOR ETERNITY. That’s the MOST IMPORTANT MESSAGE you can learn. FEAR OF GOD.

POST #37 Collecting Religious Hero Cards

2006-09-27T09:52:00.000-05:00

E-mailed Sept 1, 2006

When I was young an innocent, I learned what I was taught by older and wiser people. Those ideas gave me clues to seek out more answers. For it is in seeking, trusting, loving and waiting that you find GOD and the answers HE wants to share.

The people in my life taught me about their beliefs and in effect prejudiced me against other faiths. But GOD showed me the truth. Each of us has to learn more about the other in order to understand each other better. We may never BELIEVE the same faiths but we have NO RIGHT to make fun of another’s religion or preach against another faith especially if we DON’T understand it.

Man needs to study all the religions in order to understand his neighbor and to find the religion that’s BEST for him or her, just as man has to understand a person’s culture in order to appreciate that person’s message.

Think of each religion as a country competing in an Olympic event. We pull for our own players/country but we admire the talent and skill of everyone competing no matter which country they represent. We learn from each other and in time what use to be the best is no longer good enough to compete. But prior to the event NO ONE BUT GOD knows who will win or who improved the most but one thing is for sure everyone there is trying to learn from each other. That’s the only way to stay competitive.

Why should religion be any different? We buy sell and trade sporting cards each with stats and information about a player or a team. Many of us collect only our FAVORITE PLAYERS and/or our FAVORITE TEAM but we sometimes admire a HERO on another team or even in a different sport.

So GOD asked me, "Why DON’T they produce RELIGIOUS TRADING CARDS with information on the SUPER HEROS from each religion?" Or at least HE'S been making me think about it for about a week now. The cards just might expose us to the truth about other religions and stop some of the prejudices. It would also force us to seek out collectors in other faiths in order to exchange cards. But in the end, we just might learn to appreciate each other’s religion a little more and get closer to GOD at the SAME TIME. For it is in LOVING our neighbor that we PROVE our LOVE FOR GOD.

We also might find out that we really aren’t all that different. Have we made a MOUNTAIN out of a mole hill? Maybe together we can MOVE THAT MOUNTAIN or should I say level it off or make it disappear.

Now how do we get those RELIGIOUS TRADING CARDS on the market? I want a complete set. Maybe they can make them into playing cards. A set for every religion or 4 religions in a deck instead Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, and Spades. Yeah, I like that and I’m sure GOD does too. Let me know if you see them on sale somewhere. I got to get a set before they run out.

POST #38 Can You Trust Your Neighbor

2006-09-27T09:50:00.000-05:00

E-mail Sept 8, 2006

Last night GOD helped me to understand the reason behind Christ’s teaching in Luke Chapter 6 Verses 30-35.

Give to everyone who asks of you, and from the one who takes what is yours do not demand it back. Do to others as you would have them do to you. … rather, love your enemies and do good to them, and lend expecting nothing back; then your reward will be great. and you will be children of the Most High (CHILDREN OF GOD), for he himself is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.

That message goes along with Galatians Chapter 6 Verse 10.

So then, while we have the opportunity, let us do good to all, but especially to those who belong to the family of the faith (people that treat you like you treat them).

I’ve NEVER liked the idea of LOVING MY ENEMY but I’ve always tried to treat everyone the way I would want them (or GOD) to treat me. If you follow that law, the EVIL PEOPLE will be EASY to pick out. They’ll be the ones that NEVER PAY YOU BACK. The people that pay you back (FAMILY OF THE FAITH) are the people you CAN TRUST.

I’m sure Christ used this test on his apostles and I bet Judas failed. That’s how he knew who was going to betray him. The SAME POLICY can and will work for you too. All you have to do is follow GOD’S WORD and LOVE YOUR ENEMY or should I say treat your enemy the way you would want them to treat you if you were family.

I DON’T mind having people owe me. It helps me keep track of my TRUE FRIENDS. As soon as someone who owes me stabs me in the back, I know they AREN’T my friend. Only a FOOL or a REALLY EVIL PEROSN stabs a friend that is willing to give you the shirt off his back, so when that happens, I STOP helping that person (see Galatians 6:10 above). They ALREADY OWE ME so I NO LONGER HELP THEM (unless they beg for my help). There are BILLIONS of people in this world, I can find someone else more worthy of my help. Actually, isn’t that how Christ treated the Scribes, teachers of the law and Pharisees? He avoided them whenever he could. Because he knew there were people more worthy of his help. Why help people that DON’T NEED YOUR HELP or would WASTE YOUR TIME especially if they already owe you and didn’t help you when you needed help.

There are BILLIONS of people in this world that WON’T be able to repay your generosity but they’ll be eternally grateful for the help you’ve given. Isn’t it BETTER to help one of them than to help someone like the Scribes and Pharisees? I call them HOLY THAN THOU CHRISTIANS not Scribes and/or Pharisees. They love to throw stones and point fingers just like the Scribes and Pharisees did in Christ’s day.

What I’m saying is: if a person that owes me stabs me in the back, they’re required to EARN A SECOND CHANCE. Second chances AREN’T GIVEN FREELY. They HAVE TO BE EARNED by repaying their debt then I will begin to treat them the way I want to be treated again.

Read Leviticus Chapter 5 Verses 20-26 to see what GOD says about earning forgiveness for sins against others or stabbing your neighbor in the back:

The LORD said to Moses, …restore the thing that was stolen or unjustly retained by him or the deposit left with him or the lost article he found or whatever else he swore falsely about; … he shall make full restitution of the thing itself, and in addition, give the owner one fifth of its value (like interest or a penalty).

So even GOD let us know that just saying you’re sorry ISN’T ENOUGH especially if you already owe that person. You’re GOT TO make RESTITUTION PLUS 20% (one fifth the value). Now you’ll know who your TRUE FRIENDS ARE. For the record, I HATE taking anything from anyone that I CAN’T REPAY. That’s GOD’S WAY.

POST #39 Religion Is Spiritual Food

2006-09-27T09:46:00.000-05:00

E-mail on Sept 13, 2006

Today GOD got me to thinking about why I turned down an invitation to participate in a beginner religious study group. My reason was simple, I knew my BELIEFS would create discussions that would confuse beginners and thus make their study more difficult. So GOD decided to use that experience as a teaching tool for me.

First of all, HE gave me the impression that HE DOESN’T like us using the terms Beginner, Intermediate, advanced … to define people’s religious skills or knowledge. Since religion is FOOD FOR THE SOUL, HE likes the terms that a restaurants use. I guess you could say as far as our spiritual fitness goes we all have to start off as spiritual babies and follow the same growth path that our physical bodies follow. With that in mind HE gave me the following concept to pass on to the world:

SPIRITUAL MENU

As spiritual infants we have to start off with spiritual baby food.

In our next phase of spiritual development we begin to sample the appetizers everyone else is eating along with our spiritual baby food.

In time we outgrow our need for the spiritual baby food and fill up on a meal about the size of an appetizer.

As spiritual growth continues so does our appetite and we begin to want to a regular meal but we still DON’T have the appetite to consume any desert.

We continue to grow and need more nourishment, so we share an appetizer with a group and then partake of our regular meal.

Later we get to the point where sharing an appetizer with our own meal just ISN’T enough, so we also share a desert.

If our faith continues to grow, in time our appetite will be able to consume an appetizer, a meal and our own desert.

The REALLY ADVANCED BELEIVERS stuff themselves at GOD’S banquet. I’m still working on this one but I DON’T call an appetizer a meal.

As a spiritual adult, I DON’T want to eat baby food. That’s the point GOD was trying to make me understand. I’m not a spiritual baby anymore, so my spiritual body DOESN'T want baby food. Now I know why HE put me threw this lesson. As is ALWAYS the case GOD KNOWS BEST and I thank HIM for sharing HIS knowledge with me, so I could share it with you.

That’s the message GOD gave me today.

LATER NOTE:

Someone asked: How is religion food for the soul?

My Response was: Isn't loving GOD food for the soul? And isn't the GOD the WORD? If you BELIEVE those statements and the fact that religion is the STUDY, PRACTICE AND BELIEF OF THE WORD, then religion is FOOD FOR THE SOUL.

They also asked: What is your definition of a spiritual adult?

To which I responded: As far a SPIRITUAL ADULT goes, I guess I'll quote Pastor Scott from the First Alliance Church in Port Charlotte.

"When it comes to knowing GOD, GREED is a GOOD THING."

So a SPIRITUAL ADULT is a person that CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF OF GOD'S TIME AND CAN'T STOP HELPING OTHERS. A combination of the two greatest commandments are ALWAYS NUMBER ONE for that person.

Their last point was: I said God doesn't like the terms beginner, intermediate and advanced but then I used the term advanced when I said The REALLY ADVANCED BELIEVERS.

My last response was: Good Pont. So please change REALLY ADVANCED BELIEVERS to REALLY GREEDY BELIEVERS. Remember being greedy is a good thing when it comes to earning the love of GOD or your neighbor, so stuff yourself at GOD'S banquet.

Amen

POST #40 Third Prophecy from GOD

2006-09-19T10:19:00.000-05:00

E-mail on Septber 14, 2006

This one is scary. Man’s GREED is killing us all. For some time we’ve known about unethical medical companies that RUSH their products to market. Their reasons are simple. They HAVE TO RECOVER THEIR DEVELOPMENT COSTS or go out of business. Companies spend millions if not billions developing medical products; testing them; and preparing papers to prove they work.

As bad as that sounds that’s just the TIP OF THE ICEBURG. In the NEAR FUTURE (like this afternoon), man is going to take stealing to a new level. The technology that let man develop artificial legs and arms has open the door to taking; changing and adding information to people’s brains. Right now they understand the brains messages related to moving arms and legs. The also know how to send a sound to the brain (ear implants). Guess what they’re working on now?

Since they understand how the brain works; where it stores data and how it stores that data they want to use that information to learn and control each other’s brain. GOD’S telling us that these EVIL PEOPLE are going to find ways to read your mind and mine, so we’ll NEVER have a secret that they won’t know about. Worse yet, they’ll be able to erase your memory and/or replace what you know with garbage, if they want and you and I CAN’T stop them. Plus, if we tell anyone, people will think we’re NUTS. That’s the problem with NEW IDEAS and TECHNOLOGY. People DON’T BELIEVE it till they see; hear and smell it for themselves. Remember, people laughed and Columbus when he said the world was round.

The BIG QUERSTION is: How do you think these UNETHICAL PEOPLE are going to test this technology? You guessed it they’ll pick people off the street and scan their brains without their knowledge or consent. If they destroy something in some one’s brain they won’t care and no one will ever know. They’ll just find another subject and start over.

So you have to ask yourself, is that how AIDS got started? Did some UNETHICAL person destroy the part of the brain that controlled and monitored the body for conditions such as colds, infection and sickness? Once that part of the brain is destroyed, your mind wouldn’t be smart enough to know how to tell the body to fight the sicknesses. The point is: If they didn’t yet, some one will soon. Remember they have to recover their costs and they’re GREEDY.

GOD passed on this message to me by working in my brain for some time. HE blocked all the pain associated with my BAD TEETH to give me an idea what is possible. Then recently, HE stopped blocking that pain. Just how BAD did my teeth get before HE let me know about the problem. Suppose it was the pain of a failing organ instead of my teeth. A person could mess the warning signs because some UNETHICAL PERSON was playing with their brain. You might also think a medical prescription was making you feel better but in fact it might not be working at all, if some one else was changing the information you brain was using.

As BAD as all this sounds, it gets worse. When these GREEDY PEOPLE get enough knowledge, they’ll start selling chip or upgrade to your brain. Do you really want them loading their software in your brain? I bet it’ll have hidden backdoors (ways for them to use or control your brain remotely). Do you really want to trust some one that would use people with out paying them or letting them not do it if they didn’t want to. These people are WORSE THAN ORGANIZED CRIME. They will one day control people like robots. They’ll be able to make you rob a bank and give them the money and there’s no way to stop it because the CRIME DOEN’T EXIST YET. There are NO police working on this crime and you’ll be thought to be crazy if you tell anyone about it. Unfortunately, that’s NOTHING NEW. Every new product brought to the market can and in many cases does create new crimes or change the technology used by criminals. Unfortunately, the legal system is the LAST TO KNOW and the LAST TO BE TAUGHT to fight the new crimes. They have to get funding, hire staff and train those people after our government updates the laws related to the NEW CRIMES.

I CAN’T tell you what to do or how to protect yourself. The ONLY GOOD THING about it is you WON’T worry about terrorists anymore. You’ll wish the world was that nice again.

The more things change the worse the world gets. Every NEW PRODUCT not only makes our lives easier it makes CRIME EASIER and it makes LAW INFORCEMENT HARDER. Welcome to HELL.

Messages For God's People

Post #61 Dinosaurs And The Bible

Post #60 When The SPIRIT Speaks WISE PEOPLE Listen And Learn

Post # 59 Being A Follower Of Christ

Post #58 Your Sins Are Forgiven

Post #57 The Fig Tree Warning

Post #56 Hurting You Hurts Me

Post #55 Getting to know the FATHER via Christ

Post #54 What Happened To The Christian Heritage?

Post #53 How Innocent Are You?

Post #52 What If We ALL Get To Heaven?

Post #52 What If We ALL Get To Heaven?

Table Of Contents

Post #51 Who Is The Corner Stone

Post #50 Do You Love GOD?

POST # 49 What’s Wrong With Our Churches?

POST #48 The END Is Nearer Than You Think

POST #48 The END Is Nearer Than You Think

POST #47 GOD Does Things For A Reason

POST #46 Christ’s Hidden Prophecy

Post #45 We Need To Become More Like Them

Post #44 Sometimes A Sin Isn’t A Sin

Post #44 Sometimes A Sin Isn’t A Sin

POST #43 Why Should We Obey GOD’S LAWS?

POST #42 Who Are GOD’S People?

Post #05 Thoughts GOD Gave Us

Post #01 Who Am I?

Post #02 My Mission Statement

Post #03 He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother (Written August 7, 2005)

Post #04 When It Comes To God I am Not Political (Written July 21, 2005)

Post #06 Jesus Christ "KING OF THE JEWS" (Written Sept 11, 2005)

Post #07 Christ, Peter .... John Paul, Benedict (Written Aug. 24, 2005)

Post #08 Why Christ Used Parables

Post #09 Meaning Of The Transfiguration

Post #10 The Loaves And Fishes Test

Post #11 Why Isn't Christ's Childhood Stories In The Bible?

Post #12 How GOD Works

Post #13 The Good Neighbor Parable

Post #14 The Da Vinci Code (With Three (3) New Additions)

Post #15 Cursing Parrot Parable

Post #16 Two (2) Kinds Of Spirits

Post #18 Churches Should Be Sharing Reasources

Post #17 What Heaven and Hell Are Like

Post #19 GOD'S Ron Santo Story And The Baseball Parable

Post #20 Text Book For Sale (Joke/Parable)

Post #21 GOD Wants Us To Save His Messenger

Post #22 Something To Think About (Joke/Gay Parents)

Post #23 GOD'S View On Divorce And Multiple Spouses

Post #24 Christ The Prophet

Post #25 Family Feud Survey Question Number 1

Post #26 Daniel's END OF THE WORLD VISION

Post #27 SORRY MY PICTURES ARE GONE

POST #28 TERRORISM ISN'T SOMETHING NEW

POST #29 GOD Can Make Anything Happen Anytime

POST #30 Thinking Out-Of-The-Box, What Does That Mean?

POST #31 Missing Pieces Of The Bible

POST #32 We ALL Work For GOD

POST #33 GOD’S Team

POST #34 GOD Hates The Worship Of False gods

POST #35 Adam and Eve Story, Parable or Both

POST #36 Never Again

POST #37 Collecting Religious Hero Cards

POST #38 Can You Trust Your Neighbor

POST #39 Religion Is Spiritual Food

POST #40 Third Prophecy from GOD