If You Died Tomorrow, Where Would You Go?

This was an email I wrote to my cousin, who's young husband had a heart attack yesterday. Although this was a personal and heartfelt letter, I realized that as creations of God, we are all in the same family. God's wish is my own wish; that none should perish but have everlasting life...

Don’t things like this remind us how fragile life can be? It reminds us of our mortality. It reminds us that we really can’t control anything. We are caused to stop, reflect and think about what happens when we die.

The society we are a part of teaches us to do what feels right, when we want and that morality is based on personal preference and experience. If our time on earth is limited, then we should enjoy all of its pleasures. I mean, after all, what else is there? These are the same people who choose to ignore a Designer or a Creator. By admitting there is a Creator we are admitting that there is a standard of ethics and morality in which we must judge our decisions. If we admit that, we admit the Truth of God’s Word and by making that claim, we hold ourselves accountable.

Most of us don’t want to be accountable. Most of us believe that we control our own lives completely. Most of us believe that our standard of “good” comes from within ourselves. If we are nice to enough people, if we try not to lie, if we try to be givers…This is hopeless.

Let’s say for a minute that when we die, we will be held accountable for our actions. Not in the sense that some may think, but according to our beliefs not our deeds. Let’s use the Ten Commandments as a standard, remembering that God gave these to the Nation of Israel as a reference to judge morality or really, to serve as a mirror to their sin.

~ Have you ever told a lie? Come on now, answer truthfully. ;) Then what does that make you? A liar, right?
~ Have you ever taken the Lord’s name in vain? Meaning, have you use His name to show disgust? According to God, that makes you a blasphemer.
~ Have you ever worshiped a false idol? Meaning, has anything ever taken priority over God? Or have you ever prayed to anyone besides God? Or have you created your own idea of God?
~ Have you ever stolen anything? Now don’t forget how you answered the first question! What does that make you? No, not a “stealer”, but a thief.
~ Have you ever looked at a woman or a man with lust? Jesus says that he who looks upon a woman with lust is guilty of committing adultery in his heart.
~ Have you ever murdered someone? Jesus says that he who Hates a man has committed murder is his heart.

How many of those have you broken? That was six out of ten. Personally, I’ve broken those six and the other four. So let’s say for as minute that you are judged according to God’s Law. Would you be guilty or innocent? You may say guilty which would be correct or you may say innocent, “I am good most of the time and God is a just and loving God. Surely he won’t punish me.”

Well God is just and loving. Imagine that you are standing in a courtroom awaiting the judge’s sentence. You have committed an unimaginable crime. You say to the judge, “Judge, I have been mostly good all my life. I have only really messed up this one time.” Based on your argument, would the judge set you free or would the judge, required to uphold the law, sentence you to jail or worse?

Now let’s say that right before the judge passes his ruling, a stranger walks into the courtroom and says, “Wait, Judge! Before you sentence this man, I want to take his punishment. I will pay his fine with my money or my life.” This stranger is willing to take your punishment so that you may be set free.

We have broken God’s Law and for that the judgment we deserve is eternity separated from God, an eternity in Hell. BUT---There was such a man that was willing to take on the punishment of the world to set them free. “For God SO loved the world that he sent his one and only Son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have everlasting life.”

Salvation is not something to be earned. “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.” To God, our good deeds without Jesus as our covering are “like filthy rags.”

You are my family and I love each of you so much that I am willing to speak God’s truth and risk alienating myself. That's okay though. It is not me who offends you, it is God’s Word. Some of you may know Jesus as a person, as your Lord and your Savior. One day, when we are all in Heaven, we will rejoice together. But some of you may not and before those of us will be able to rejoice we will weep for you. I ask you today to consider your life. Consider a life without hope, a life without meaning. Now consider Jesus. He is alive and willing to take away your sins if you confess them to Him. His gift is free. He paid your penalty 2,000 years ago before you were born. His payment covers your sins in your past and your sins in your future. Receive it.

Ask yourself, “If I died tomorrow, where would I go?”

Lucis Trust aka. Lucifer Trust is the UN's Publishing Company

The UN seeks to control the world. The UN claims to have no religious agenda. I would argue otherwise and I'd be mindful of anyone pushing a "One World" agenda.

Read the following and follow these links if you want to blow your mind! Yes, this stuff is really being taught!

Magical WORK OF THE SOUL
TRIANGLES
WORLD GOODWILL (Ahhh, sounds warm and fuzzy right? Think again!)

"The Lucis Trust is the Publishing House which prints and disseminates United Nations material. It is a devastating indictment of the New Age and Pagan nature of the UN. Lucis Trust was established in 1922 as Lucifer Trust by Alice Bailey as the publishing company to disseminate the books of Bailey and Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society. The title page of Alice Bailey's book, 'Initiation, Human and Solar' was originally printed in 1922, and clearly shows the publishing house as 'Lucifer Publishing CoIn 1923. Bailey changed the name to Lucis Trust, because Lucifer Trust revealed the true nature of the New Age Movement too clearly. (Constance Cumbey, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow, p. 49). A quick trip to any New Age bookstore will reveal that many of the hard-core New Age books are published by Lucis Trust.

At one time, the Lucis Trust office in New York was located at 666 United Nations Plaza and is a member of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations under a slick program called "World Goodwill". In an Alice Bailey book called "Education for a New Age"; she suggests that in the new age "World Citizenship should be the goal of the enlightened, with a world federation and a world brain." In other words - a One World Government New World Order.

Luci's Trust is sponsored by among others Robert McNamara, former minister of Defence in the USA, president of the World Bank, member of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Thomas Watson (IBM, former ambassador in Moscow). Luci's Trust sponsors among others the following organizations: UN, Greenpeace Int., Greenpeace USA, Amnesty Int. and UNICEF.

The United Nations has long been one of the foremost world harbingers for the "New Spirituality" and the gathering "New World Order" based on ancient occult and freemasonic principles. Seven years after the birth of the UN, a book was published by the theosophist and founder of the Lucis Trust, Alice Bailey, claiming that "Evidence of the growth of the human intellect along the needed receptive lines [for the preparation of the New Age] can be seen in the "planning" of various nations and in the efforts of the United Nations to formulate a world plan... From the very start of this unfoldment, three occult factors have governed the development of all these plans". [Alice B. Bailey, Discipleship in the New Age (Lucis Press, 1955), Vol. II, p.35.]"

- http://freemasonrywatch.org/lucistrust.html

Here is their "Great Invocation"

A Mantram for the New Age and for all Humanity

From the point of Light within the Mind of God
Let light stream forth into the minds of men.
Let Light descend on Earth.

From the point of Love within the Heart of God
Let love stream forth into the hearts of men.
May Christ return to Earth.

From the centre where the Will of God is known
Let purpose guide the little wills of men –
The purpose which the Masters know and serve.

From the centre which we call the race of men
Let the Plan of Love and Light work out
And may it seal the door where evil dwells.

Let Light and Love and Power restore the Plan on Earth.

PS...I think I'm going to be sick now!

Texas Hospitals Reflect Debate on Immigration

This is a NY Times article By JULIA PRESTON, Published: July 18, 2006

There was an email circulating about free health care for illegal immigrants in Texas, no questions asked.

But, if you're legally poor in America, you'd better have your social security number handy to verify your income!

Here is was on SNOPES

Here is the NY TIMES article

Are you Illegaly in the USA? No Problem, NY Can Help!

CLICK HERE to find out how NY Governor Spitzer is offering drivers licenses to anybody who wants one. But the people have spoken and are hot stinkin mad! Phew, at least I'm not the only one awake in this country.

The Golden Compass

"You are urged, people of faith and values not to corrupt your children with the odious atheistic world view of "The Golden Compass." Instead, there are plenty of good movies this Christmas, such as "Enchanted," that will build and not destroy values.

A society shaped by the materialist and godless ethic promoted by films like "The Golden Compass" is a society without hope. If there is no God and no eternity, if all that exists is matter, human life loses all value. Sex becomes the ultimate form of pleasure we can achieve, and unlimited autonomy from other people while being our own gods becomes the goal. A society like this will destroy itself."

Please CLICK HERE to read WND's full story on this film.
Shame on you Nicole Kidman!

Scholars Wish to Omit 'Problematic" Text in the Bible

The story below is only part of the whole.

The following quote is one of the most absurd statements I have ever read, "In some instances, he continued, people of faith need to say to themselves, "This is part of my sacred tradition, but I reject it. I find this text offensive. It goes against my own morality, and it goes against what I believe God expects of me in the world today.""
Since when has God's Word been offensive and why on earth would I reject it? ~Molly

Christian, Jewish and Muslim experts met this week to add context to passages that have been perceived as hostile toward other faiths.

By K. Connie Kang, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
October 20, 2007

READ THE FULL STORY HERE

Speaking with mutual respect and sensitivity, prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim scholars and clergy from around the country met in Los Angeles this week to "wrestle" with what one rabbi described as the "dark side" of the three faith traditions.

Experts cited "problematic" passages from the Hebrew Scripture, the New Testament and the Koran that assert the superiority of one belief system over others.

As an example, the Rt. Rev. Alexei Smith, ecumenical and interreligous official of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, quoted from the Gospel of Mark: "Go into the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation. He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned."

Rabbi Reuven Firestone, director of the Institute for the Study of Jewish-Muslim Interrelations at Hebrew Union College in Los Angeles, mentioned a series of texts, including a verse from Deuteronomy: "For you are a people consecrated to the Lord your God: of all the peoples of the earth the Lord your God chose you to be His treasured people."

And Muzammil H. Siddiqi, chairman of the Fiqh (Islamic Law) Council of North America, quoted from the Koran:

"You who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as allies: they are allies only to each other. Anyone who takes them as an ally becomes one of them -- God does not guide such wrongdoers."

In explaining the passage from the Gospel of Mark, Smith said that the troubling portion was appended a century after it was written -- when the four Gospels were compiled.

He said the longer ending, which added 12 verses, was written at a time when Christians either were questioning their faith in the resurrection of Jesus or defending it against skeptics and nonbelievers.

Siddiqi took up the quote from the Koran, found in Chapter 5, verse 51, explaining that the problem lies not in the text, but in its interpretation.

"Some extremists among Muslims use this text to say that Muslims should not trust non-Muslims," he said. "Some Islam bashers use this text to claim that Islam is an unfriendly religion," said Siddiqi, who is also chairman of the Shura Council of Southern California.

He said the verse was revealed to the prophet Muhammad after the Battle of Hadh, when Muslims of Medina were overwhelmed by a larger number of nonbelievers from Mecca. "After that, Muslims were very frightened," he said. "Some, who were weak in their faith, said, 'We are going to make alliance with Jewish people, in order to find protection there.' Some said, 'We are going to make alliance with Christians, so we'll have protection there.' "

The idea behind the verse is not that Muslims should shun Jews and Christians, but that they should stand up on their own feet and do their best, he said.