Kindred,

Do you care about your family, your friends, your neighbors?

Do you care about the Lord and the teachings of Christ?  

Do you care about what happens to humanity and the world?

The grass is not always greener on the other side; certainly not with Judases in delusions of grandeur, practicing  grandiose power trips and delighting in unholy harm of innocents.

Time to ask ourselves what we stand for.  

Do we stand for the virtues exalted by Jesus Christ? 

Do we obey the Lord's commands to love the Lord and the Lord's creations?

Do we fulfill our purpose to be stewards of the earth, protectors of humanity and the world? 

Time to open our eyes and hearts to the people that care and close them to those that seek to harm and destroy humanity in vainglory and sin.

Take the time to realize who actually cares; and care about you, your family and humanity.

Time to demonstrate and express our care by standing with humanity, the world and the peace loving people of Ukraine.

Kindred,

Are you familiar with the origins of the seven deadly sins, known also as the seven capital or cardinal sins?  

The seven deadly sins are not specifically mentioned in the bible.  

Its precedent predates Christianity to the time of Aristotle.  

It was the fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus, who listed the eight evil thoughts, in which Pope Gregory I combined into the seven deadly sins (by combining vainglory or unjustified boasting and corruptions of the mind into pride and envy) (to inversely correlate to the seven heavenly virtues).  

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Why is it important to know about the origins of seven deadly vices or sins?

It gives a person awareness of the corruption points of vices and sins; to what opens up a person to temptations within and to practicing those sins and vices.

And though the seven capital sins are deadly, it, in total, is not the deadliest of all sins, hate (in fear).

Hate is the opposite of love.  

Hate is in direct violation of the Lord's commandments to love; to love the Lord with all your might and to love thy neighbor as thyself.  

How can we forget about hate and overlook it as the deadliest of all sins?  

Or to put it inversely, how can we forget about love and overlook it as the greatest of all virtues?  

Do we actually think that we can enter heaven without love and peace in our hearts?  

Can we see the Lord or Heaven's Gate without purity of heart?  

How to see purity of heart without love?  

How to be compatible with heaven without love (and peace)? 

We cannot without love.  

 

Kindred,

What is important in your journey of life?  

Before you can have positive relationships with the Lord, with your family, friends and humanity, you need to have a good connection with yourself.  

The battle to overcome challenges does not take place outside yourself.  

It must come from within.  

Bravery, integrity, love, perseverance, peace, empathy and all the positive attributes required to pass your test of character must come from within.  

Before you can fulfill your purpose you must know your purpose, not in accordance to your ambitions, but in accordance to the Lord's Design.  

The Art of War people would like to imagine that if you know thyself and thy enemy then you can defeat them and have glory; but what if you are playing, not against your imagined opponent, not for some territory or land, but the Lord on the Lord's playground and against your tests character?  

What is the unforeseen?  

What is the unknown?  

And what is the final Judgement?  

Your Judgement (measured by the ethics and standards of the Lord)?

Kindred,

Things are not what you think

Because things are not what you see.

Do you see the (difference between) holy and unholy, heaven and hell?

The taking of innocence is not taking, 

But forsaking (the Lord); a sinking into the shadows of darkness.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

If not, what is done unto your soul is a blight; the failure of character to do what is right (honor and obey the Lord and the Lord's commandments to love the Lord and thy neighbor as self) and the break of covenant with the Lord in sin and sacrilege.  

What you do to another is not what you think.  

It is not what you see before you, but what you do not see within you.

We are God's eyes in that the Holy Spirit sees everything within and outside of us, the Witness to our deeds and misdeeds.  

We are our own witness too, because our character/soul records our deeds and misdeeds in the form of positive and negative energy or aura.  

It is unlikely an unholy person full of sins and misdeeds in negative energy will be compatible with heaven in holy positive energy.  

The only opinion that really matters in the end is the Lord's.  

Judgement Day will come for us all some day.  

Perhaps you should try to see how the Lord will judge things before you and within you, before you do anything.  

Your conscience and compass should match the Holy Spirit.  

 Kindred,

Do you imagine that the Lord has the lowest level of standards of ethics or the highest?

Do you realize that ministers are supposed to be holy servants of the Lord? (The operative word being holy, not unholy and not a corrupted mix of so- called good and bad and definite unholy.)

The false preachings of compromised ministers to accept sin and sinful behaviors, because we are all supposed to be sinners (by definition ones who sin against humanity and the Lord), are unholy and against the actual teachings of Christ.  

Yes, we are all capable of sin; however, Jesus Christ died on the cross for our sins and we are not to give footholds to sin or practice sin(s) and hate of any kind.  

Sin and sinful practices and behaviors are not to be excused.  

Sermons excusing sinful behaviors under the guise of forgiveness (or love or truth), cannot actually forgive sin(s), because the unrepentant in unholy practices of sins cannot receive forgiveness (or love or truth) or salvation.  

Forgiveness without redemption (remorse, confession, repentance and atonement) is not forgiveness; but a bypass of salvation altogether.  

Without real Christian practices and standards of ethics, means that we are not Christians at all.  

Therefore, the greatest commandments, to love the Lord and love thy neighbor as self, are commands (not suggestions) that must be obeyed without excuses, especially those lame excuses bypassing salvation altogether. 

What do you think the Lord's Judgement will be if you do not follow the Lord's commands and standards?  

 

Kindred,

I do not understand men who seek to glorify themselves instead of the Lord.

I understand less men who serve men who seek to glory themselves instead of the Lord.

Isaiah 43:7 “everyone who is called by my name, whom I have created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

Therefore, all glory should go to the Lord.

"So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

                                1 Cor 10:31

Though I do not believe the Lord requires (as requiring obedience to the commandments to love the Lord and thy neighbor as self) glory, but to those that seek it, it should go to the Lord, because everything belongs to the Lord.  

What is the point of acquiring land and property, especially against the will of the people there and causing needless deaths of the children of the Lord on land, property and people that belong to the Lord?

Everyone will be poorer for an imagined glory that goes against humanity and the Lord.