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Text Box: THE JOY WHICH NO MAN CAN TAKE FROM YOU We know that the quest to be, become, and once obtained, to remain, holy, is not only fraught with dangers, oppressions, attacks, ridicules, and other obstacles, but it also is simply difficult and hard. But we also are aware and know the quest and success in the quest is well worth every adversity encountered. Our Lord Jesus Christ God gave us a readily acknowledged and comprehended example when He told us, “A woman, when she is in labour, hath sorrow, because her hour is come; but when she hath brought forth the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. So also you now indeed have sorrow: but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoice. And your joy no man shall take from you.” (John 16:21) (Emphasis added) Those who seek to maintain personal practice of the dogma and morality which God has unchangingly taught, and seek to promulgate that dogma and morality as being the unchanging standard, are ridiculed and demeaned as being intolerant, behind the times, and ridiculous especially in any expectation that humans would not engage in any and every activity of which a human is capable, especially if such activity is pleasurable. The choice really is quite simple. One either follows God. Or one follows the path taken by self indulgent, perverted, fools who are determined to go to hell and suffer eternal torment of ever increasing intensity combined with the ultimate torment of being aware of the fantastic desirability of God and their eternal separation from God. The fools make this choice because they desire and possibly obtain a few minuets of pleasure or something which they desire instead of desiring God. Someone who seeks power, acclaim, or celebrity instead of God, and who holds such for even an hundred years of life in this world, will in that hundred years exercise that power, acclaim, or

Text Box: celebrity to any meaningful extent for only a few minutes or perhaps hours. One who seeks carnal delights, even though the seeker would engage in them as continuously as possible for an hundred years, would in that hundred years experience those delights to any meaningful extent for only a few minutes or perhaps hours. Those who sneer at, ridicule, smilingly smirk at, and shout Raca (Mat. 5:22) at those who place God foremost in their lives, or who attempt so to do, these who reject God are the truly and actually incomprehensible ones. Those of us who value God above all else can not comprehend those who reject God. Especially can we not comprehend those who reject God in favor of human acclaim while knowing supreme torment in eternal damnation awaits them. Particularly can we not comprehend those who reject God in favor of carnal delights, power, or celebrity. We can not comprehend those who reject God because even though such people may express a lack of belief in God, or an uncertainty as to the existence of God, or a belief that there will be no eternal punishment from God for their excessive sins, we know that they do believe in God and in eternal punishment for unrepented excessive sins. But most especially can we not comprehend them because we can not comprehend rejecting that Which loves us more than any other loves us. We can not comprehend rejecting the ultimate love or the ultimate lover. We can not comprehend rejecting that which is the most lovable. And this is what is rejected when God is rejected. We can not sneer at these people, nor ridicule them, nor cry Raca at them. Not only are such are contrary to the teachings of God, but the true Christian just does not have it in his or her heart to debase those who have so severely debased themselves, or to debase anyone else. The sources of entertainment, communications, and even education, are controlled to a majority extent, by

Text Box: those who advocate celebrity, carnal delights, and gross excesses, without regard for God, God’s desires, or God’s instructions, and no expectation of punishment for engagement in these sins, as being reasonable, sophisticated, and the norm. Concurrently, those who so control entertainment, communications, and education, teach that those who oppose their views are backward fools, especially if those who oppose their views also express love of God and the desire to please God simply because God is God. Add to this the reality that government at all levels is controlled by those who advocate celebrity, carnal delights, gross excesses, no regard for God, no regard for God’s desires, and no regard for God’s instructions, and the thoughtful individual realizes it is quite accurate to state, “The world is in a hell of a mess.” It may sound simplistic, but the response to these evils is simple. Labor for Christ: with your self as the first focus of your labors, and every other person both living and dead and even those yet to be conceived as the second focus; making your focus on yourself and on others meld in holy love and fear of God. You will experience sorrows, but Christ will see you and you will see Christ for all eternity and your heart shall rejoice. “And your joy no man shall take from you.” Ref: 1 Peter 2:11-19; John 16:16-22 +

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