The World Is Getting Better

BIG night of important developments on our end to serve and help you.

I cannot publicly thank Delaney enough for her endless labors to get these things in place – truly amazing blessing to the ministry, to me and to our family.

In fact, I want to invite Del up here to talk about two of them – the first being something called,

“DISCORD”

Del – what is it, and why is it important to our growing community of seekers?

Then . . .

there is something else which to me in monumental, vast, impactful and such a blessing to all involved. Delaney, what do we have to add to Discord?

DEL –

We have other things that are coming forward in the near future which we hope you will appreciate and use and will bring them forward as they are ready for use.

ALL of it – everything – even everything in our online educational platform we call, Christian Ultra-Libertarians for Truth is free to use, (I mistakenly have said in the past that they cost minimally but was wrong) anyway – all free except certain books which we will also give away if you cannot afford them.

Why?

Because we serve the living God first and foremost, are on His errant, and we then serve you, our neighbor, in His agape love.

Speaking of Agape love, many people ask about it and most of you have heard me define it as selfless, sacrificial and insufferable.

I stand by these short definitions but want to take a moment to explain them a little better.

Selfless means that you do not include your self, needs, wants, desires in the expression, act, or words used. Instead, agape love is present when we look to WHAT will best serve Him, the Living God and His purposes and others – always in that order.

We want to drive home but someone asks for a ride. Agape puts their need ahead of our own immediate desires. Similarly, when someone deserves punishment, we will not give them what we want them to receive but what we know will best serve God and His desires and the person involved.

This means if the person needs more patience and mercy, we give it – when we would rather punch them. But it also means that if they need to be directly confronted we will do that! WHY? Because we will do what is necessary for that person to grow, heal, and turn from things that inflict pain.

Our love for them, however, remains in tact.

This kind of love is sacrificial because what is needed is not always what is popular – and you will be condemned by someone somewhere no matter what you do on behalf of the King. Its just the way it is.

It’s a sacrifice of our will, our time, our substance, our mental and emotional drivers. It’s a sacrifice that plain say, not my will but thine be done. And it is submitting our fleshly will and ways to His Spirit and its fruit.

Finally, it’s insufferable because in this world we are dealing with imperfect people, people who bite, people who uses us, people who take decades to change course sometimes.

Agape love is not a quick fix, it is never easy unless you have really matured by the Spirit of Christ, and it always requires a sacrifice from the giver in some way or another.

Hope this helps.

Before we go to our guest tonight, our brother Grady Risely from Sonora Mexico, who I will get to talk to over ZOOM on a perspective typically not present in Christians today, I want to quickly summarize, without scriptural proof, what exists in the world of Traditional Christianity and what our View (taken from the Bible contextually) teaches which we call, The Great News. We’re going to use a chart to aid in comprehension.

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So, on the left of your screen is what traditional views of scripture maintain and on your right is a summary of what we call, The Great News.

POPULAR ATTITUDE AND APPROACH TO HUMAN EXISTENCE IN THE FAITH
BIBLICAL VIEW FROM A PLACE OF FULFILLMENT – THE GREAT NEWS

Jesus is coming back to save believers before He destroys the evil world.
Yeshua returned as promised for His church/Bride nearly 2000 years ago which reconciled the world population back to spiritual life in and through Him which some recognize and others do not.
This mortal life is dark and evil and there is nothing to live for but the Kingdom to come as Satan remains a constant threat.
Life is a gift and serves as a proving ground for all soul’s but YAHAVAH has taken care of all spiritual deficits introduced by Adam and the world is now free to choose Him or not.

Satan reigns
Satan and hell have been eliminated and the evil we do is from us loving ourselves, the Dark more than Him.

Our “sin” continues to anger God.
Our faithlessness and failure to love continues to hurt God. His Son paid for all sin that once angered Him. The only failure is the failure of faithlessness and to love.

Humankind is spiritually dead.
Human-kind has been spiritually resurrected and remains in various stages of recognizing, receiving and living by what is in them or not.

God has not had the victory, and He is losing people to an eternal fiery hell.
God has had the victory over all things and chooses to allow all of His human creations to decide how to live, what to pursue and what to believe.

The afterlife consists of heaven and hell.
The afterlife consists of a heavenly realm with a New Jerusalem for those who choose to walk by the Spirit of His Son and a place outside of it for those not yet ready to accept His Son in them.

The world is in decline.
The world will forever be subject to Dark opposing forces of evil but it is continually advancing in terms of improved human conditions.

And with that as a foreground to tonights show I want to introduce to you my brother, friend and a man I talk with every morning as we week to further discover the meaning of all that YAHAVAH has done – Grady Risely.

Now before Grady comes on we want to take you into their lives down in Mexico for the past _ number of years.

Ready?

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Fun fact – Grady’s mothers last name might be familiar to you – it’s Spurgeon! And Charles Spurgeon was his great great uncle. It shows Calvinism is NOT hereditary!!!

Grady and I speak every weekday for a half an hour – hopefully by the Spirit of Christ and usually about biblically based principles.

I am grateful to him for his wealth of knowledge Genesis to Revelation which came not by tradition but by reading the Bible over and over again.

BEFORE WE START we had a recent conversation about the basis of religion which we feel is

To instill fear and to impose authority.

Ironically, these two things the scripture literally decries in the lives of those who follow the King.

Speak to this for a minute Grady.

THE INTERNET – INFORMATION has destroyed these two things rendering organized religion dead.

OKAY, so the title of tonight’s show is the World is Getting Better NOT worse – which is the OPPOSITE of the traditional Christian view. Grady is here to share some views and I will sort of direct the discussion – which is not planned.

Now, there are POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE views relative to this idea – the positive speak to all the advances that make modern life better than the former.

The Negatives are all the views that support decline. They sort of overlap but lets first try and address the positive.

We will start with MEDICINE and DENTAL

Wyatt Erp docuseries where Ed Harris the Narrator says something like:

In 1881, if you got shot pray that it was in the extremities because infection was rampant as was the medical knowledge to fix most other wounds. The saving grace of getting hit in an extremity was they would just saw your limb off.

Cure rates
Preventative
Restoration
Plastic surgeries
Heart conditions
Cancers
ALL BETTER!!! Right?

Then there are the

GENERAL STANDARDS OF LIVING
Indoor plumbing
Refuse recycling
Refrigeration

EDUCATION/ADVANCEMENTS
Literacy Rates
Reason/Rationality
Peace Love and Understanding
Education is going to bring the world into a new approach to Christianity.

CRIME RATES

ENVIRONMENT
Mad Men scene
Early 1960’s littering was insane
Better use of our resources, using more of what we have more efficiently

WHAT ELSE GRADSER??

NEGATIVES

CANCER CAUSING AGENTS
ADDICTIONS TO TECH
PDIDDY
ABORTION
WARFARE
SELFLOVE
PORNOGRAPHY
SUBSTANCE ABUSE
DIVORCE/DESTRUCTION OF FAMILY
DESTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES
CRIME

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And get ready for our up and coming Conference for The CHRISTIAN PEACE INITIATIVE November 8-9 2024.

One of my favorite authors thinkers Herman Hesse said,

GRAPHIC

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world. Hermann Hesse

See you next week, here on, Heart of the Matter Full Circle!