Let There Be Light

Perhaps it is time to go over some fundamen-tals.

“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”

What you have just read are the first fifty words of the Bible. Can anyone doubt that those first fifty words were carefully chosen? I am confident that they were, for I believe they convey to us an extremely vital piece of information--that above all else, God intended for man to live in light, not in darkness.

If we go on further in the Bible to John 1: 1-5, we find these additional passages regarding light.

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.”

Continuing yet further to John 3: 16-20, we find still more information on the subject of light.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”

So here we are. The year is now 2010, and more than ever before we are being told by influential men and women in high places that they can save the world. But there is one particularly disturbing and frightening aspect to their methods. They are not forthright with the people. They withhold and conceal truth; they love darkness rather than light.

My friends, that is a very revealing clue if you wish to know whether the high and the mighty of this world are truly working in the best interest of everyone on the planet.

Isaiah wrote: “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness.” (Isaiah 5: 20)

Are we not subjected every day to that kind of spin on reality? Are we not told incessantly that those who hold conservative views are backward and bad, while those who hold liberal views are enlightened and good?

Friends, we are being plunged deeper and deeper into a state of darkness by those who are attempting to seduce us into believing that they can save the world. But have you ever asked yourself why, if their motives are purely unselfish and noble, they have found it necessary to shun truth and shut out light? Could it be, perchance, because their intentions are not purely unselfish and noble; and that they do not want their evil intentions to come to light, lest their deeds should be reproved?

Jesus said: “I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.” (John 8: 12)

If you believe the Bible, as I do, then it is clear to you that God gave us light, both physical and spiritual. He lovingly gave us those gifts so we could see our way and avoid snares and pitfalls.

A choice is before us. Shall we follow Jesus Christ, whose life is the light of men, or shall we follow those in high places who hate the light and work assiduously to keep us in the dark?

I say, as God did: “Let there be light.”

Truth

Today I am going to play philosopher and theologian and speak of truth. And for those on a tight schedule, I will keep it brief.

The originator of Christianity once said: “Know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” That simple statement reveals something extremely important about the nature of truth, something mankind must never forget; i.e., that knowing truth is liberating. And if that is so, then follow-ing error must take man down the opposite path. It must lead unquestionably to loss of freedom and confinement.

So are you starting to see where I’m going with this?

If what Jesus said is correct, and I have no reason to believe otherwise, then is it any wonder that the national news media tells us lies and withholds truth? Is it any wonder that our schools teach our children rubbish instead of facts? And is it any wonder that President Obama, congressional leaders and wacko economists keep assuring us that sustainable, long-term prosperity can be achieved by continually borrowing money from our enemy China?

Hey, we’re being led like blind men carefully into captivity!

But listen up. Truth is out there. Admittedly, it may be concealed under an ever growing pile of misinformation, but it’s out there. And it’s time we started uncovering it, sharing it with our friends, and then acting upon it in a lawful and concerted manner.

President Obama is wrong! Contrary to what he may think, America is still a Christian nation. It is both imprudent and premature for him to believe that we have abandoned our true and immortal Savior in order to follow a false and mortal one!

I promised I would keep this brief, so in closing I will offer this: Understanding Bible truths is more important than having a gun; nevertheless, I would advise you to keep one handy.

One Less Predator

Man’s most fundamental and earnest desire is to live. He will go to great lengths to survive. For primitive man, survival required a full day’s work and more. Here he was, somewhere on the surface of an undevel-oped and unforgiving planet, faced with the enormous and relentless challenge of perpetuat-ing his existence.

Let’s examine some of the basic things he needed in order to sustain himself beyond a few days, which, by the way, is what we call security, another of man’s fundamental interests.

First he needed a reliable and plentiful source of water and food. Life, he knew, was unsustainable where these necessities were beyond his reach. His first task, therefore, was to locate an area where these essentials were reasonably accessible to him and where he was free to acquire them without great difficulty or undue interference. After all, even back then there were only 24 hours in a day. If he couldn’t gather up each day what he needed to support himself for a day, he was going to run into trouble.

Upon finding a place suitable to his needs, his next order of business was to erect a shelter. Man is simply not equipped to withstand the elements without some form of protection. After venturing out each day to secure a livelihood, he needed a safe and comfortable place to come back to--a place where he could rest and recuperate so he could go out the following day and do it all over again.

And finally, his long-term survival depended upon having reliable weapons and other implements so he would have a fighting chance in his daily quest to acquire food and other indispensable items. It is a fact of nature that the animals he was seeking for nourishment also wanted to live and, therefore, did not make themselves readily available to him. Additionally, he needed weapons for protection against predators, both animal and human, who also were fiercely committed to their own daily struggle for survival.

Once he had these basics tenuously in place, the primitive man enjoyed some level of stability in his life, and he felt a little less anxious about his survival. Nevertheless, he could never totally relax, for now he was faced with the endless challenge of holding on to what he had worked so diligently to acquire--an area in which to work and live, some essential tools and weapons, and his own home. Through brains, initiative, courage and determination he had carved out for himself a place upon God’s green earth. It was his because he found it, secured it, and drew his livelihood from it. But it was only his so long as he could hang on to it. And the ways in which it could be lost were almost endless.

In this way modern man differs very little from primitive man, with one salient exception: Primitive man had one less predator to contend with. He had no federal government plotting feverishly and doggedly to rob him of his livelihood and undermine his security.

“Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.” ~Ogden Nash

Calling Things By Their Right Name

There is a Chinese proverb that says, “The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right name.”

A great many Americans who instinctively know something is desperately wrong in this country still labor under the mistaken notion that our society is breaking down solely because those who hold our nation’s highest political offices are incompetent fools.

If you are one of those who hold this view, I would like to invite you to begin looking at things from a new perspective.

What if these men and women, or at least a significant portion of them, are not incompetent fools at all, but are in fact shrewd schemers--schemers who are intentionally trying to weaken our country and draw power to themselves so they may transform our government into something else--like an oligarchy, for example?

If this alternative view of things, shocking as it may seem, is correct, then those who subscribe to the other view are calling our chief leaders in Washington by the wrong name. They are calling them incompetent when they are in truth a highly effective and ambitious band of turncoats.

I ask you. Could any of our top leaders in the federal government seriously believe that when a nation is 13 trillion dollars in debt that borrowing still more money will magically revitalize the national economy and usher in a bright new era of growth and prosperity? No, of course they don’t. They know as well as you do that it will only make matters worse.

Bottom line: Our foremost national leaders may be fools, but they are not incompetent. They only appear that way to those who don’t understand what their ultimate objective is. Indeed, in their relentless efforts to undermine and destroy our political and economic systems they have demonstrated a good deal of ability and expertise, not to mention a remarkable degree of audacity and persistence.

Therefore, it is absolutely imperative that we, as concerned Americans, recognize one paramount fact: We will never succeed in defeating this virulent strain of mutant monsters until we see them for what they really are and start calling them by their right name--TRAITORS who have abused our trust.

I call upon each of you to revive the patriot in your soul! Time is short. The clock is ticking.