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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Sermon 22: A Balanced View

As you travel your path to Heaven, you will learn how to be peaceful and content under any circumstance, how to have a balanced view of things. This is a necessary step in achieving the ability to choose the perfect happiness of Paradise. Remember, God looked at All that He had created and declared it Good. We must develop the mindset that will let us see the good in everything, too.

The easiest way to begin to achieve satisfaction with all the world has to offer is to strive for complete Faith in God. Trusting in Him and His purpose of readying us for Heaven will make the most difficult of situations relatively easy to bear, you will know that God is in charge. Then, you will readily see that good lessons will undoubtedly spring from bad events, and you will be able to enjoy good events without spoiling them with the demand that they be perfect events. Your approach to all moments in life will become more evenly tempered.

Knowing that everyone else has the same God-given purpose that you do will help you become more tolerant of other peoples actions. You will be able to give others the benefit of the doubt, and you will trust that it is not your job to judge them. It is your job to learn to interact with people in a way that prepares you for a future with an infinite number of souls about. You will be able to understand that we are all good and bad, and that this balanced view of things will lead to satisfaction with all beings, including yourself.

Practice balance and you will move away from disappointing decisions that are based on an all or nothing point of view. You will see two sides to every story. You will grow to attain the true Knowledge of Good and Evil. It is that there is no happiness in absolutes.



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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Sermon 21: You Don’t Have a Need To Know

The lesson of the Fall of the Garden of Eden is an easy one to understand, but a hard one to live with. It teaches that we were unable to faithfully accept Paradise, when it was given easily and freely as a gift from God. We chose knowledge, instead, mistakenly thinking that we must understand what Paradise, and everything else, is all about. And until you give up the quest for this knowledge, this is the cause, one hundred percent of the time, of the struggles in our lives on earth.

You can believe that Heaven is your purpose without ever knowing exactly what Heaven is. You can believe that God will lead you to Heaven without ever knowing His process. In fact, in order to finally accept Heaven, you must be ready to give up Knowledge, and replace it with Faith, Trust, and Love of God. You must learn that the Knowledge of Good and Evil will never make you a God, but that Faith, Trust and Love will make you ready to live in God’s Kingdom.

You can discover what God knows we must do to have a smooth, straight path to Heaven in the easiest way possible. God has spelled it out for us in the teachings of the Bible. The Bible shows us that God created us, that God loves us and that God is willing and able to provide Paradise for us. The Bible shows us the heavenly qualities we should strive to attain and the ill behaviors we should avoid. The path to Heaven is only as hard as we make it.

The Bible leads us to the ability to look upon all that God hath created and think for ourselves “This is Good”. We will be able to do this when we have complete faith in God’s purpose for us, the attainment of Heaven. This is not, and never will be, the same as having complete knowledge of Heaven and how our path will get us there. Because we don’t have a need to know. We have a need to trust.  



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Saturday, January 17, 2009

Sermon 20: Free Will Isn’t Really

We spend every waking moment, every day, evaluating events and making decisions regarding them, receiving data and responding to it. We have complete control regarding our choices and are able to make them at will. Will we do something or not do it? Will we be obediant or rebel? Will we follow or will we lead elsewhere?

We have free will to do the choosing, but the choosing does not come free of consequences. Experiencing the consequences of our choices is what instills in us our personal Knowledge of Good and Evil. These experiences, throughout our life on earth, will eventually lead to our being able to make informed choices where the consequences are satisfying to us. We, then, will ultimately be able to easily identify and choose Good in every situation, be completely blinded to Evil, and thus be ready to appreciate Heaven for the Paradise that it is.

Free will allows us only the freedom of choice, not the freedom to create our own destiny. Our final destiny is Heaven. Our final destiny is God’s will, which is all powerful. You will never, ever be able to use your free will to avoid your path to Heaven. God will never let that happen because He loves us perfectly. God already sees the Good in everything about us. We discover this in the first chapter of the Bible. “And God saw every thing that He had made, and behold, it was very good.” (Genesis 1:31).

God is witnessing everything you do. This is why you experience unfavorable consequences of your actions, such as internal torment, even if you are the only one who has any knowledge of what you’ve done. God is always making sure you are learning the lessons you need to enter His Kingdom of Heaven. The farther you stray from the path, the bumpier God makes it. And He will never stop correcting you – even if His corrections become hellish.

So, make life easy for yourself. Do what God wants you to do. Of your own free will. Or suffer the consequences.



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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Sermon 19: You Can Do It

God loves you and is committed to helping you along while you make the choices that guide your path to Heaven. God is right there with you, at all times, paying close attention to the things that are happening to you. He knows your every thought, He knows more about you than you do, and He is aware of every action you are taking, have taken, and are likely about to take. With God, there is never any reason to give up.

Because getting to Heaven is a learning experience, you will have difficult circumstances at some time, or many times, in your life. The story of the Garden of Eden shows how we must use the Knowledge of Good and Evil to ultimately give up knowledge for faith and ascend to Heaven. Having to discover Good by comparison, forces us to have experience with Evil. These experiences must happen so that we can be taught. They are not happening with the purpose of defeating us.

Heaven is God’s gift to us and where we will ultimately live forever in Paradise. It is meant for you, believe it. Armed with this truth, there is no event on earth that we should face with complete and utter despair. It is not God’s intent to devastate us, so it is clear that we are equipped with what we need to successfully make corrections to our path to Heaven, no matter what kind of strife we are going through.

Therefore, if circumstances are not to your liking, stay positive. Approach the solution with the strength of knowing that you are certain to accomplish everything you need to do to get to the peace and contentment of Heaven. Practicing peace and contentment now, even in the midst of negative circumstances, will surely smooth out some of the bumps in your path and bring you closer to an absolute trust in God.



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Saturday, January 3, 2009

Sermon 18: There’s Always Time

To make your life the best it can be, only three things are necessary. One is to treat God right, another is to treat other people right, and the third is to treat yourself right. Daily obeisance of the Ten Commandments is a simple way of accomplishing these three goals. Keeping your eye on the prize, your purpose, Heaven, is another simple way. Remember these important things as you make that determine how you spend your time on earth.

It can feel that you do not have enough time to do everything you want to get done in a day. Day after day, it can feel that you do not have enough time to everything you want to get done in your lifetime. You are forgetting that, here on earth, you are in the learning stage of your eternal life. Feeling short on time shows that some of the things that you want to spend your time on, are inconsistent with your true purpose in life. You can learn to get everything done when you spend time doing what God wants for you.

Making time for God is easy. He is right there with you. Since He understands everything about you, conversations with Him are all time-efficient. Being grateful to God is as easy as saying “Thank you, God” for all the good things that happen to you each day – a light that turns green as you approach, a lovely flower you see, waking up to a new day. Doing this takes no time at all, but you gain the huge benefits of getting in touch with God, which provides peace and uplifts your spirit, and it reinforces the positive moments that are going on in your world, which provides strength and gives you energy.

Making time for others and for ourselves is easy. People are everywhere. It takes no time to smile at someone else, to be polite to someone, to offer them a hand if you see they are struggling. Treating others as you wish to be treated is not time consuming and benefits us because it is rewarding to our spirit. You and everyone you meet are equally important because you were created by God, and Heaven awaits. If someone is not treating you as you desire to be treated, for example, being overly demanding of you or causing you stress, don’t let it take up your time. Remember they are just going through a learning experience at this moment and need to be left to their lesson, as you need to be left to yours. You must keep your mind and body balanced and healthy, because that is the important vessel God provided to to carry out your earthly purpose. And it takes no time to care for what’s important.

Worrying is a waste of time – pray and then have faith that God will provide. Guilt is a waste of time – pray and have faith that God will forgive. Judging someone else is a waste of time – you are not the judge of another’s path to Heaven, they are not to judge yours, that’s for God to do. Doing things to excess, even positive things, is a waste of time – the peace and contentment you need for Heaven comes with moderation.

Do not waste time on any action that distracts you from your purpose of learning how to accept the glorious gift of Heaven. When you succeed at doing that, there’s plenty of time for what you need to get done.



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