God bless us, everyone, please, and welcome to Sunday Sermons. This is my first Sunday Sermon. I am a licensed minister though I have not completed a course of formal training to be a minister. I simply am a license holder with plenty to share. I may even have the gift of knowledge as I asked God for it several decades ago and grew aware life was like a dream or a vision in Godhead. Everything seemed as easily controlled by God as simply as thinking... Lately, I view Creation by visualization as the explanation of where we came from.
My first sermon was inspired by my personal demons. You know, those thoughts that infest your head with ideas of inadequacy, fear, failure, and doubts of a good God existing responsible for our welfare and afterlife. The type of thoughts that remind you of your shortcomings, past mistakes, and current falling short of the prescribed measures of a good person.
I was thinking about how lucky I am to have been freed by the Truth from the letter of the word to the Spirit of righteous liberation to the law of Perfect Liberty. I was enjoying myself, knowing there's hardly anything I could do to annoy God under this law, just a lot called sin by the book, some of which acts I still indulge in. The troublesome thoughts inject doesn't God forbid that, isn't it called sin, aren't you a hypocrite and you're going to burn in Hell! I answered today, you must have me mistaken with someone not grounded in the truth of liberty to all harmless acts being allowed and anyone so forbidding in judgment being a tyrant. You must think I am ignorant and dumb enough to be scared back to the bondage of law and snares and stumbling blocks of the letter of the word.
As I was celebrating in my mind another victory over the ministry of death and its slavery to laws, I felt upset; so many were still in bondage. Then I imagined how great it would be if only in tomorrows sermon the Priest or Deacon introduced the law of perfect liberty from James 1:26 and 2:12, or the warning from God in Jeremiah 6:21, or the reminder from John 8:30-32 that we shall know the truth then be set free by the truth. I knew how happy I would be to be referred to Romans 14:14 to Titus 1:15 for a good spiritual cleansing of my mind and directed to Micah 6:8 for guidance,
I knew the above would be cause to celebrate the spirit ministering life, but I did not expect to hear that after two thousand and so years, the Church came out of the closet and let the cat out of the bag. The Church is Christ's body on earth, but he did not tell them to spread the truth everywhere liberally in his instructions. He gave a far simpler mission. Baptism and Salvation, basically.
God may have given such a simple ministry to his human representatives because he is the living God who can fill in the details of the kingdom and a faithful life himself. He was not dead two thousand years ago, or our faith is in vain. He can confirm my gift is right is my sincere belief. I have to be suspicious, too, that some know this already. The news does not report miracles, and big-city radio shows do not play Christian music, so plenty goes unheard of if a living faith works miracles even now.
To answer a question often enough poised by my personal demons of how do you know you are not the one stumbled I reply what sets you free like the spirit of the law and what binds one to death and hell but the letter of the word... God does not want any of his precious creations to perish, yet that rascal son of perdition would rather teach there is no god, gifts, and salvation to eternal life than to admit any of it.