Sunday Sermon On Family

 

This Sunday’s sermon will be on the family. Family is a three-ring circus. The mother and father, brothers and sisters, cousins come to mind, along with aunts, uncles, and grandparents. These family members form the nuclear and extended family circles. Mom, dad, and siblings are the nuclear family, and aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents are the extended family circle. In addition, there is also the ancestral family, which often goes unknown except to those studying their family tree. 

 

The nuclear family comprises a mother and father and any children they may have. This small cluster is the core of family life as traditionally thought. It is hard for nuclear family members not to know each other. They live and grow up together. When the children become adults, the family grows old together, usually staying connected until they die. The grown-up children’s children typically grow up knowing each other and form an extended family of cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents... 

 

The extended family comprises the cousins formed by grown-up nuclear family members staying connected. These cousins know their aunts, uncles, and grandparents that were the nuclear family they are from. In the extended family are also the in-laws and second cousins related by marriage to the extended family of the nuclear family grown-up staying in touch. This is the extent of family life for most. The extended family sometimes leads some family members to an interest in their ancestral family. These research their family tree and may even discover they are related to famous people or even royalty... 

 

The ancestral family comprises generations of family members that came before the grandparents in the extended and nuclear family, such as the great grandparents, the great, great grandparents, and so on. The Hebrew family tree is traced back to Adam, son of God, in the Bible. What does that mean for us? The Hebrew people believe all of humanity is descended from Adam and his wife Eve. That would mean to be human is to be a member of God’s family! We are all descendants of God, the invisible spirit being everything that happens is inside. God is humanity’s ancestral deity king. God is our relative and loves us all like family. Why not take some time off from social media to get to know him... 

Wednesday Reflection On Tongues Of Fire

 

Better late than never...This Wednesday, we will reflect on the tongue of fire. Like a candle’s flame, a tongue of fire is as small as a spark to light a fire. Like a matchstick, a tongue of fire can get used to light a fire or meditate on it until one’s mind’s eye catches flame to the brilliance of the all-seeing eye. A tongue of fire may be a gift from God when it is the Holy Spirit... 

 

Like a candle’s flame. How long do you need to meditate on a candle’s flame until you can see a tongue of fire in your mind’s eye when you close your eyes? How long do you have to look at your face in the mirror until you see it with your eyes closed? How many mirrors does it take until you can see your entire body, top and bottom and all around? How long does it take until you can examine things you think of in your mind’s eye from any angle? How long will it take to become the author in the theater of your mind’s eye? 

 

What if our mind’s eye is the match to light our brain to the brilliance of the all-seeing eye? What if, like a match, we need only strike our mind’s eye on the suitable surface to get it lit so brilliantly we could honestly swear we may be seeing everything? How long until we have such brilliance that we see all with our eyes wide open? How long until life is in plain sight?  

 

What if you prayed for the Holy Spirit, opened your eyes to see the auric vision, and saw a tongue of fire on your head? What if God, like the Burning Bush in the Old Testament, sends tongues of fire for a gift? What if a tongue of fire on your head made you able to speak in tongues, prophesize, perform miracles, or other acts of God? What if you believed you got the Holy Spirit when you asked but could not see the auric vision? Would you believe it? Would you believe it if you started showing signs of gifts of the Holy Spirit?  

The tongue of fire is a tiny flame. On a matchstick, lighter, or candle, it casts small light. On your head, though a tongue of fire may mean you have received a gift, even if not the eyes to see it is there... Like the color blind, those that do not see auras are technically blind... 

Sunday Sermon On Sin

 

This Sunday, Sermon will be on sin. What is sin? Are there unforgivable sins? Is sin just that forbidden by God. Are there natural sins? Are there things one can say or do that just make any reasonable person say it must be a sin? Is judging the only sin... 

 

What is Sin? The Bible lists several things forbidden by God to the Hebrews that are called sins. Even the New Testament embraces there are sins, including original sin to be forgiven for by Christ's atonement. Is that what sin is? Biblically forbidden by God's acts. Acts formally condemned and sentenced to death. Acts that can get one sent to eternal hell. Or is sin a concept? An idea. Does sin mean that so bad one should be sent to hell? Or is sin just something God made an act to be?  

 

Is the unforgivable sin disobedience to God? Can every law be broken made by men, every rule made by rulers ignored, but one dare not disobey God, or the consequences will be death in hell? The original sin in the Bible was Adam and Eve's disobedience. The Torah law was a sin to disobey because it came from God. With the New Testament ministry, many sins by Torah law were allowed to Christian converts, but there were still sins. Has sin evolved to be forgivable? Are all sins forgivable but blaspheming the Holy Spirit?  

 

Are there natural sins? Is there an unwritten code that earmarks certain acts sin? One look at someone performing these acts, and one just wants to say it is a sin? Even the theatrical depiction of the acts is so obviously morally wrong they offend the audience to watch. Like murder, rape, theft, etcetera? These acts all cause suffering but is the suffering so unbearable the performers should be destroyed by God? Or is the only sin wanting God to destroy some acts performers in blazing hell?  

 

Is judging the only sin? Judging things guilty as sin especially! Finding some deeds so morally bad that the only thing to do with those that do them is to destroy them. Is that the only real sin? Especially when one tempers judgment with mercy, how can it not be a sin to select to destroy anyone? A lot to think about...        

Wednesday Reflection On Divine Justice

 

This Wednesday, we will reflect on divine justice. The penalty is always the same. As you sow, so shall you reap. Do unto others as you would have others do to you, in other words. In Heaven, the judges' chamber has the family ancients, elders, and other representatives sitting in it. They wield the powers of God. They can do to all whatever they do to anyone precisely as what they did to others... 

 

One penalty fits all offenses. Reciprocity. As you sow, you shall reap from the judges' chamber. They can see that adulterers suffer from adultery, thieves suffer from robbery, and murderers suffer from being killed in like manner to their crimes. The penalty always fits the offense. Eye for an eye! No plea deals and no lightened sentences. Every offender is treated precisely as they treated others in their transgressions... 

 

The judges' panel has all the notables of creation. The very ancient ones that opened timelines and founded a branch of the infinite invisible God's family tree. These are the oldest of the family tree's members! The elders, too or those ancient in years old, also sit in the chamber on the bench and other chosen representatives of the family civilization society. No one goes unrepresented. Everyone has a voice in the Court of Justice. Even dissenters, although they get ignored for justice's sake... 

 

The judges wield the power of the almighty God. They can create both scenes and characters to carry out their reciprocity. There is nothing beyond their range. Eye for eye, tooth for tooth violators of civilized standards of behavior will get punished. There is no escape! Dropping dead is not an option. They resurrect the dead! Time is on the judges' side as they have forever to convene for every offender and deal the penalty fit for the offense... 

 

So don't do the crime if you can't do the time to quote Barretta (an old television series). God is watching in omnipresent judgment! God did not become a family to get preyed upon by himself as offenders or otherwise lawless members of the body. The family tree is no place to expect to get away with anything. If you think it is good enough to do to family, it will certainly get done to you...     

Sunday Sermon On Knight And They

 

This Sunday, we will dwell on the topic of “knight” and “they”. What do I mean? Knights are prayer warriors serving their community. "They" are the people who make a problem of themselves for society. Knight and they, like night and day, exist among us. One protecting us, and our soul, the other a menace to our life, liberty, and property. Both are involved in the intricate dance that is the drama in creation... 

 

Knights. There are official orders of knights, and then there are those who perform the functions of a knight. The latter live by a higher code and protect the people of their community. These knights may have taken a vow of harmlessness to souls or pledged their moral treatment of others. They pray for their families, communities, countries, and worlds. They may grow in faith to become quite the influential parties, able to bring fire from the heavens. They are our guardians. They perform a public service petitioning God on behalf of us... 

 

They. They are the problem child grown up to be a problem for more than their family. They are the antagonists in the theater of life. They are the criminal element in society. They are a menace to our life, liberty, and property. They serve an incredibly significant role in the theater of life. They provide the drama of all the petty things someone can do to annoy us and even the dramas of crime. They are the ones we want the protection of the law from and wish there were more that could be done to guard us against each other... 

 

Knight and they like night and day go about their opposite roles in our communities. One protecting us, the other the cause of a variety of problems. Knights may go professional and become police officers or soldiers. “They” may become professional too and become gang members or criminals. One is the protagonist in our life the other is the clear antagonist. One you may overlook the existence of, the other at times makes the headlines... 

Wednesday Reflection On Mind's Eye Crafts

 

This Wednesday, we will reflect on mind’s eye crafts. What if the mind’s eye is an alternate body to house our consciousness? What if we are born with a vision-body embedded in us? What if when we die, our vision-body ascends to Heaven to meet its maker and join up with family members who have already moved on? What if our consciousness does not go out like a burned-out bulb but launches into a higher dimension in our vision-body craft, which we use for daydreaming and visualization? What is the actual size of our mind’s eye? Is the supreme secret of our mind’s eye being an all-seeing eye taking a smaller view for a while?  

 

Is the mind’s eye an alternate body to house our consciousness? Do we live experiencing as only daydreams and visions in meditation what is truly soul travel? Is our mind’s eye really a body embedded in our body like a nesting doll? Can we learn to astral project with our mind’s eye vision-body? Would we possess powers we can only dream of in our physical body but experience in dreams, like flying? Could we sit cross-legged and learn to step into our mind’s eye vision body to walk about our house and write a note to ourselves for when we return to our cross-legged physical body and rejoin it?  

 

What if, at death, we ascend in our mind’s eye vision body back to the creator and rejoin with our relatives who have already physically died and now live in Heaven? What if death is only an illusion? What if, while alive, we are like a caterpillar, and when we die, we are just shedding our physical body and becoming “butterflies”? Instead of going out like a burned-out bulb, what if we just launch into the mind's eye space? What if there is a higher dimension of visualization beyond the physical universe... 

 

What is the truth? Is anything for real finite? Is finite just an optical illusion like the day sky effect, which blocks out the stars beyond? Do created surfaces block out the view of how infinite the depth of space in the creation is? Is our mind’s eye infinite? Is it really the infinite as a mind having little vision views to indulge in something different? Are the true areas of outer and inner space infinite? Is infinity alive, mind and God, and us too...