Good Morning Friends,
Today's Message is about truth versus propaganda. What I mean is, what is the truth we are actually hearing and seeing when we turn on the news, watch television, read a book, pic up a magazine, or experience something out in the environment? Well as I often do, let's go back to the scriptures and see what God tells us the truth is.
John 4:13-14
"If a man drinks of this water, he will thirst again, but if he drinks the water I give he will never thirst. The water i give him will become in him a fountain of water springing forth into everlasting life."
What he means is that man's ideas will always leave him wanting more, never sastisfied with what he created. But what God offers us will always leave us satisfied and complete. At peace if you will.
I think about Apple as a company. They said their employees are the highest paid Techs in the world. However they are never allowed to rest on their present idea. Now think about that. They create something today, and it is an instant sensation around the world. Something to be proud of. But then they realize that...well someone else thought of it too, so off they go creating something else to make it faster, better, more accessable. Then once they create this, something else, and something else...Wow. make my heart race just thinking of the amount of stress this much place on those techs...makes those dollar bills seem kinda well...not worth it to me. Folks the world has become an apple so to speak. Never satisfied with just creating something, always afraid of someone else taking what we have. Afraid of being less that the #1 head honcho. Afraid a dollar will fall out of our pockets and some one else might take it. God never intended on his world being a bunch of apples. Hmmm I have to chuckle because was it not a fruit similar to an apple that started the whole sin factor back in the Garden.....???? Never satisfied with being in the garden and having all we can use or want, we have to have all the knowledge and all the power too.
The truth is, we are not to focus on man's truth, but rather God's truth. To be a Christian, means just that, focus on the word of the living Christ. What I think is going on today in this modern age of "man" is that human ego has replaced moral reasoning. When we turn on the television what we see and hear is what someone else wants us to. We are sold, manipulated, urged, shamed, excited, reasoned with, talked down to, and pretty much inspirationally influenced by what someone else created. Think for a moment if you will, what choices you make daily. The clothes you buy, the friends you make, the things you do or say. Are they choices God made OR man made? Do you really believe we are fighting a war in Afganistan for terrorism? Do you really believe a Lexus is better for you than a Kia? Do you truly understand the difference between one fashion designer and another? How about which church you attend. Do you go to meet people, to be seen, or to be a part of a click, or do you attend for the minister or because they have nice songs? Or do you go to hear the truth, the message that every bible across the globe teaches? I know today's message may offend some people, but as the title implies I want you to realize your own inner truths. I mean folks if you think I'm harsh, realize the on the day of judgement the Lord will place you before him and like some large screen drive in movie you will see your whole life's work and choices placed before you. Think God doesn't know the truth? Think he doesn't already know what your needs and desires are long before you make them? He is the beginning and end, the one who designed all. It would be like a pot thinking the potter didn't notice the handle hanging off to one side, or a piece of blown glass thinking the artist didn't notice the flawed section that was bulging out to one side. America has become a nation of fear and doubt. Too many people are afraid of stepping out into the light, content to remain in the darkness where political correctness and acceptable gradual removal of our hopes, dreams and family values has become the status quo. We live in a bubble, thinking as long as it happens to someone else or to another section of the country all will be fine in the morning. As long as the sun rises after the rain storm, nothing has been touched. Folks wake up. Look around you. The world of our great grandfathers is over. The time when saying a prayer in the public places was looked upon as honerable has now become something to mock and be ashamed of. When the only time Americans stand together and say the Lord's prayers is when millions die out of some foreign threat. Why does it take such drastic tragedies for the American People to stand up and speak to the Lord with a clear and truthful heart? Why does it take some emotional speaker for a crowd to cheer the Lord of hosts? We have become a marketed generation, no less of a solid united people as a group of cattle slowly herded toward the slaughter pen, given a bit of hope with nightly grain and supplimentation in the hopes that thinking because we get fat and a day to rest, the end is any less painful. No we are jst moving to another pen that is ever closer to the end of our religious freedoms and rights as servents to a God we know and trust. Today we must all make choices, if you research enough about our wonderful government system, you will know like Ancient Rome's great republic, it has become fattened and bloated with the corruption and bribery of politicical capitalism. Like Ancient Rome who allowed its citizens to suffer and starve while the elite held the highest offices and enjoyed the luxeries of the State. We experience as much truth in our daily lives as a lion at a zoo experiences. Thinking they are in their own habitat, free to roam, free to feel the power and joy of the plains. Only to realize that they were only pretending. Only given just enough space to seem wild, but in truth they are forced to live just as the zoo keeper feels they should. Oh yes there is research into how much to feed them, how to make their habitat as similar to Africa as possible, they are given all the same nutrients and meat someone feels would be sufficient in the wild. But let's look at the truth....are they wild? Is it Africa? Of course not. Just like we are made to think we are successful, given the frugal choices we now make, we are told we should be proud of where we live, happy to just have a job, content that we are at least given representation in Washington. But again I pose the question, are we content? Are we represented? Does someone we don't even know, who comes from a totally differenct financial situation as myself, who is rich to begin with, have the ability to move hundreds of miles away from my state, surrounded by rich lobbyists and encircled by other politics that must maintain a majority to pass a certain idea, truly represent me? You? What my rambling point of all this above info is that we are living a lie. When the first Congressmen went to what was then a new and growing Capital in the days of the first founding fathers, they were men from the same financial background and townships as their constituents. They had similar ideals, morals, and faiths as those around them, and their pay was only as a part time employee of their state. Congrssmen and women were never meant to be full time career politicians, the founding fathers knew the danger of such corruption, just like big government they knew had to be balanced and kept under control. The Bible itself has clear teachings about government. Why do you think the Lord refers to it as the "Kingdom" of heaven, and not the Republic of Heaven? Republics will inevitably fail. Take out your History books and research past republics and see their end result. That's why truth is the last step of a republic taken from their people. Manipulation, cirruption, greed and ultimatly economic collapse. This is why I urge all of my readers to trust in the one thing that will always be true, the living word of the Lord. If you daily meditate on a scripture, a verse, a chapter, learn from it, understand God's meaning behind writing it. You'll come to understand that if you put your trust in man's truth, man's understanding, man's knowledge and man's goals, then success has already eluded you. I could write a book on man's propaganda over man, the manipulation of the human thought, but that would be foolish and ultimatly playing write into Satan's viewpoint. The Lord says to trust in him, and blessed are they that do so. Psalms 3, How vain he says are they who plot against his ultimate truth, and how one day all will see what he had in mind. I think man is so impatient that he just can't wait for God, he feels that he has to strike out on his own and find truth in his own creation. How sad a thought. Let us all strive to find peace within ourselves by instead trusting in the Lord that he indeed knows better than we. God Bless all of you and remember trust in the Lord with all your heath and in all things acknowledge him.
Today's Message is about truth versus propaganda. What I mean is, what is the truth we are actually hearing and seeing when we turn on the news, watch television, read a book, pic up a magazine, or experience something out in the environment? Well as I often do, let's go back to the scriptures and see what God tells us the truth is.
John 4:13-14
"If a man drinks of this water, he will thirst again, but if he drinks the water I give he will never thirst. The water i give him will become in him a fountain of water springing forth into everlasting life."
What he means is that man's ideas will always leave him wanting more, never sastisfied with what he created. But what God offers us will always leave us satisfied and complete. At peace if you will.
I think about Apple as a company. They said their employees are the highest paid Techs in the world. However they are never allowed to rest on their present idea. Now think about that. They create something today, and it is an instant sensation around the world. Something to be proud of. But then they realize that...well someone else thought of it too, so off they go creating something else to make it faster, better, more accessable. Then once they create this, something else, and something else...Wow. make my heart race just thinking of the amount of stress this much place on those techs...makes those dollar bills seem kinda well...not worth it to me. Folks the world has become an apple so to speak. Never satisfied with just creating something, always afraid of someone else taking what we have. Afraid of being less that the #1 head honcho. Afraid a dollar will fall out of our pockets and some one else might take it. God never intended on his world being a bunch of apples. Hmmm I have to chuckle because was it not a fruit similar to an apple that started the whole sin factor back in the Garden.....???? Never satisfied with being in the garden and having all we can use or want, we have to have all the knowledge and all the power too.
The truth is, we are not to focus on man's truth, but rather God's truth. To be a Christian, means just that, focus on the word of the living Christ. What I think is going on today in this modern age of "man" is that human ego has replaced moral reasoning. When we turn on the television what we see and hear is what someone else wants us to. We are sold, manipulated, urged, shamed, excited, reasoned with, talked down to, and pretty much inspirationally influenced by what someone else created. Think for a moment if you will, what choices you make daily. The clothes you buy, the friends you make, the things you do or say. Are they choices God made OR man made? Do you really believe we are fighting a war in Afganistan for terrorism? Do you really believe a Lexus is better for you than a Kia? Do you truly understand the difference between one fashion designer and another? How about which church you attend. Do you go to meet people, to be seen, or to be a part of a click, or do you attend for the minister or because they have nice songs? Or do you go to hear the truth, the message that every bible across the globe teaches? I know today's message may offend some people, but as the title implies I want you to realize your own inner truths. I mean folks if you think I'm harsh, realize the on the day of judgement the Lord will place you before him and like some large screen drive in movie you will see your whole life's work and choices placed before you. Think God doesn't know the truth? Think he doesn't already know what your needs and desires are long before you make them? He is the beginning and end, the one who designed all. It would be like a pot thinking the potter didn't notice the handle hanging off to one side, or a piece of blown glass thinking the artist didn't notice the flawed section that was bulging out to one side. America has become a nation of fear and doubt. Too many people are afraid of stepping out into the light, content to remain in the darkness where political correctness and acceptable gradual removal of our hopes, dreams and family values has become the status quo. We live in a bubble, thinking as long as it happens to someone else or to another section of the country all will be fine in the morning. As long as the sun rises after the rain storm, nothing has been touched. Folks wake up. Look around you. The world of our great grandfathers is over. The time when saying a prayer in the public places was looked upon as honerable has now become something to mock and be ashamed of. When the only time Americans stand together and say the Lord's prayers is when millions die out of some foreign threat. Why does it take such drastic tragedies for the American People to stand up and speak to the Lord with a clear and truthful heart? Why does it take some emotional speaker for a crowd to cheer the Lord of hosts? We have become a marketed generation, no less of a solid united people as a group of cattle slowly herded toward the slaughter pen, given a bit of hope with nightly grain and supplimentation in the hopes that thinking because we get fat and a day to rest, the end is any less painful. No we are jst moving to another pen that is ever closer to the end of our religious freedoms and rights as servents to a God we know and trust. Today we must all make choices, if you research enough about our wonderful government system, you will know like Ancient Rome's great republic, it has become fattened and bloated with the corruption and bribery of politicical capitalism. Like Ancient Rome who allowed its citizens to suffer and starve while the elite held the highest offices and enjoyed the luxeries of the State. We experience as much truth in our daily lives as a lion at a zoo experiences. Thinking they are in their own habitat, free to roam, free to feel the power and joy of the plains. Only to realize that they were only pretending. Only given just enough space to seem wild, but in truth they are forced to live just as the zoo keeper feels they should. Oh yes there is research into how much to feed them, how to make their habitat as similar to Africa as possible, they are given all the same nutrients and meat someone feels would be sufficient in the wild. But let's look at the truth....are they wild? Is it Africa? Of course not. Just like we are made to think we are successful, given the frugal choices we now make, we are told we should be proud of where we live, happy to just have a job, content that we are at least given representation in Washington. But again I pose the question, are we content? Are we represented? Does someone we don't even know, who comes from a totally differenct financial situation as myself, who is rich to begin with, have the ability to move hundreds of miles away from my state, surrounded by rich lobbyists and encircled by other politics that must maintain a majority to pass a certain idea, truly represent me? You? What my rambling point of all this above info is that we are living a lie. When the first Congressmen went to what was then a new and growing Capital in the days of the first founding fathers, they were men from the same financial background and townships as their constituents. They had similar ideals, morals, and faiths as those around them, and their pay was only as a part time employee of their state. Congrssmen and women were never meant to be full time career politicians, the founding fathers knew the danger of such corruption, just like big government they knew had to be balanced and kept under control. The Bible itself has clear teachings about government. Why do you think the Lord refers to it as the "Kingdom" of heaven, and not the Republic of Heaven? Republics will inevitably fail. Take out your History books and research past republics and see their end result. That's why truth is the last step of a republic taken from their people. Manipulation, cirruption, greed and ultimatly economic collapse. This is why I urge all of my readers to trust in the one thing that will always be true, the living word of the Lord. If you daily meditate on a scripture, a verse, a chapter, learn from it, understand God's meaning behind writing it. You'll come to understand that if you put your trust in man's truth, man's understanding, man's knowledge and man's goals, then success has already eluded you. I could write a book on man's propaganda over man, the manipulation of the human thought, but that would be foolish and ultimatly playing write into Satan's viewpoint. The Lord says to trust in him, and blessed are they that do so. Psalms 3, How vain he says are they who plot against his ultimate truth, and how one day all will see what he had in mind. I think man is so impatient that he just can't wait for God, he feels that he has to strike out on his own and find truth in his own creation. How sad a thought. Let us all strive to find peace within ourselves by instead trusting in the Lord that he indeed knows better than we. God Bless all of you and remember trust in the Lord with all your heath and in all things acknowledge him.
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