A New Voice of Freedom

Another Glory of the Moon  40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory. 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raise...

One Glory of the Sun excerpt  Let’s start the Podcast with Paul’s description of the Third Heaven.  1 It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven. 3 And I kne...

What is Your Portion? Pt II To understand portion, we must understand law.   To survive in a temporal world, we must understand the conditions of temporal law. Those who don’t die young.  To advance in the spiritual world, we must understand the conditions of spiritual law. The entire purpose of the Holy Scriptures is to teach us the conditions of spiritual law.  There are two sets of spiritual la...

What is Your Portion?  I have gazed into my crystal ball many times, but no images appeared so my future as a fortune teller dissolved.  But it serves quite well as a metaphor for my theme, which is “What is Your Portion?” so I am satisfied. I would like to begin with a quote from the late Mr. Stephen Hawking, noted physicist, and author of The Grand Design.   “Because there is a law like gravity,...

Road to Totalitarianism The road to totalitarianism is sometimes subtle and begins in seemingly innocuous ways.  The Pharaohs were first called kings. From kings they moved to Pharaohs and from Pharaohs as absolute rulers to Pharaohs as gods. When they were perceived as gods, that gave them total power over the people, and they ruled by fear and superstition.   In England, Henry VIII was the supre...

Temporal Law and Freedom  It hardly comes as a surprise to learn that we are mortal beings tethered to mortal earth by mortal laws.  For example, we are subject to gravity and the laws of gravity. We are subject to entropy and the laws of entropy, which means that things move from order to disorder which brings death into the world. We are subject to time.  Time is perhaps the most curious factor...

Creationism and the Theory of Evolution Understanding the theory of evolution is one of the great scientific achievements of man. There is no real moral reason that evolution cannot be used by God to create the physical body of man.  What matters if God uses this or that method to create the body of man, so it is created?  The only moral issue is that Satan uses the theories of man to convince man...

Equal Under the Law Will is inherent in our everlasting intelligence.  There has never been a point when our life force has not existed.  In other words, we have always existed as intelligences just as God has always existed as an intelligence. otherwise, we have the problem of first cause.   God is the highest intelligence of all.  There can be no higher intelligence than God for he is omniscient...

A New Year’s Resolution It is time to think of making  New Year’s resolutions.  I have a suggestion.  Rather than a simple resolution, think of Restoration. There is a kind of nostalgia in all of us.  We like the restoration of old cars, old homes, old buildings, historical sites, old farms, old towns, old toys, old furniture.  Well, the list doesn’t end.  Let’s take a closer look at the meaning o...

A New Voice of Freedom  Our government has lost its way. When the highest officer in the land proclaims— “This is the source of our confidence—the knowledge that God calls on us to shape an uncertain destiny.”— then we know our leaders have lost their way and led us down the wrong road. Government has become too intrusive in our lives. It reaches too deep into our pockets.  Some of our leaders hav...

Slippery Slope to Totalitarianism excerpt In an earlier podcast, we introduced a term called Machiavellian Pragmatism. Machiavelli in his little book “The Prince” has become the guidebook to all those seeking power without regard to freedom or liberty or moral values.  They do what works regardless of what rights they trample on, whose life they destroy, whose liberties they demolish, whose happin...

Technology By our understanding of temporal law, technology advances, thus providing a seemingly infinite number and variety of choices. As technology advances, freedom increases because choices increase.   We motorize everything, even toothbrushes.  Whatever we invent, we improve. How far we have come since the earliest sewing machines or the earliest airplanes. Imagine if, like the Wright brothe...

Anatomy of Temptation In Nathanial Hawthorne’s short story, “Young Goodman Brown,” Hawthorne analyzes the subtle deceits that Satan uses to entice us to abandon our faith. We know from the title that Brown is young, meaning he is unschooled in the ways of the world and the wiles of Satan. “Good Man” Brown suggests that he has been good his entire life and has not yet been tempted.  His wife is nam...

Luke Chapter 2 1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Cæsar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. 2 (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) 3 And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem; (...

The Many Names of Christ  When Moses was in the desert keeping his father in law’s sheep, he experienced one of the most dramatic events in the Bible. He saw the burning bush. The Lord introduces himself to Moses:  2 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed. 3 And...

The Sermon on the Mount Pt III In the Sermon on the Mount Christ teaches us how to live what later becomes known as The Two Great Commandments and what James calls the Royal Law. He teaches us how to love the Lord with all our heart and how to love our neighbor as ourselves. For economy of time, I won’t list all the requirements but surely it could be summed up in what has become known as The Gold...

The Sermon on the Mount Pt II The Sermon on the Mount is talking about members of Christ’s church. To even build the house one must first accept Christ as their personal Savior. The Sermon on the Mount is an echo of the Parable of the Ten Virgins and of the Parable of the Talents, and the Parable of the good Samaritan. In fact, it embodies all the parables of Christ. All of Christ’s teachings poin...

The Sermon on the Mount: The Beatitudes Perfection cannot come from the law of Moses, but perfection can come if we fully obey the Sermon on the Mount which assumes the Ten Commandments. I believe that the Sermon on the Mount explains what Christ means by Matthew 5:48; furthermore, I believe that of all doctrines in Christendom, there is no verse more important to understand than Matthew 5:48. God...

The Temptations of Christ Christ was only on the earth a short time. We have only slight information about his youth. His ministry lasted only about three years, yet he changed the world forever. He is the epic hero of all heroes. He was larger than life, whose every word counted, every action recorded and imitated. What event would you pick as the most important? His Birth? His Baptism? His Parab...

Christ as Our Center We all need a center. In my childhood I was fortunate. My father and mother were the earthly center of our home, though mother was the axis upon which we turned, and Jesus Christ was the heavenly center. Following their model, my wife and I regularly gathered our six daughters around the piano and sang hymns. Now, grown up and having families of their own, our children are sca...

The Great Ten Laws of Creation The following ten laws of creation must be held absolute and inviolate by all rational beings: Law One : That which is subject to entropy does not have freewill. Freewill resides only in the immortal spirit. When the spirit leaves, the body dies and goes back to the dust. The spirit goes back to God who created it.   Law Two : Everything whether temporal or spiritual...

The Celestial Railroad Most everyone is familiar with John Bunyan’s classic, The Pilgrim’s Progress . David Hawkes, literary critic, in his introduction to The Pilgrim’s Progress, reminds us that Bunyan, who wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress while imprisoned for his religious beliefs, compares the world to a prison. In his allegory Bunyan shows us how to escape our prison and reach Beulah Land and thus...

Road to Liberty I am afraid that as a nation we are also moving away from our democratic republic and toward a bigger and bigger government. Our President is taking on more power than our forefathers intended.  Democracy is high risk, heavy maintenance, ruthless competition, dangerous uncertainty, and hard work.  It requires self-reliance. Those who struggle with life are often easily exploited an...

The Tyranny of the Majority The left is employing every trick possible to guarantee a continuous majority: 1.      They are empowering illegal immigrants, in some instances giving them the right to vote 2.      They are tearing down our borders 3.      They are bribing people to cross our borders illegally by promising free healthcare and free money 4.      They are blocking voter ID which inevita...

Ministering Think of earth as a mirror of heaven. Only think of heaven as spiritual, earth as temporal, much like our body which has a spiritual component and a physical component, both creating a single soul. Earth is an extension of heaven, and if you can imagine the earth in its glorified state, you can imagine what heaven is like.  John the Revelator saw the earth in its glorified state: 1 And...