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"If people let government decide
what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon
be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson
Greetings!
Here's a link to a very interesting and important article about food freedom:
Like the proverbial frog boiled in water, which didn't notice the small
incremental increases in the water temperature until it was too late, so
have we been living in an environment of increasing tyranny that denies the
freedom to rightly use and enjoy the good things God has created.
The
specific issue here is raw milk, and Ontario farmer, Michael Schmidt's fight
against the government shutdown of his operation. Michael is being prosecuted
because he supplies people with a clean and wholesome food, one that sustained
Canadians from before the founding of their country. Thomas Jefferson and
George Washington also nourished their bodies with raw milk as they fought
to craft a nation protecting individual liberties against this very thing,
its citizens being trampled on by oppressive governments serving moneyed
interests.
Americans are also being hunted down and shut down for selling raw milk.
As Schmidt says, "The issue is much larger than
what people think. It really comes down to, how much power should the government
have to tell us what we put in our bodies?"
Truly, people, this is a profound moment in time, and all of us are responsible
for what happens next. Do we stand for the truth or do we hide our heads
in the sand, thinking it doesn't affect us as the noose tightens around our
collective necks?
The precise reason this kind of tyranny has come about is because people
have abdicated their responsibility to do, and stand up for, what is right.
Protecting narrow self-interests has created a spineless, uncaring, self-absorbed,
fearful populace.
Don't blame politicians or corporations - you are responsible. The good
news is this also means the answer is within your reach. You don't have to
wait for others to get it right. You can stop complaining about others getting
it wrong. You can do the right thing now.
We thank God for Michael Schmidt taking a stand at his cost for the sake
of everyone else. Let's each do our part and make the most of this gift.
How is it that people can smoke themselves to death or drink their lives
into oblivion, and the government makes some lame gestures at trying to say
it’s bad for your health? But you dare mention “raw milk” and
you have the health police on your door step and all your activities monitored!
Raw milk is a health food in its natural state - no additives, preservatives,
GMOs, or other harmful ingredients – just real food that’s good
for you.
Michael Schmidt in Ontario, Canada is on a hunger strike until he gets a
meeting with Dalton McGuinty, the premier of Ontario, to discuss changes
to the sale of raw milk, making it legal for those who choose to buy it.
This debate is about the right to make choices. In an interview, Michael
Schmidt made an interesting observation, “It’s
really more about the right to informed choice, so it’s largely a political
issue. I'm not trying to convince everyone else to drink raw milk. I just
think that people who want to should have that right. You don't see the government
banning the sale of sliced meat, even though 22 people died during the lysteria
outbreak. The hypocrisy is staggering.” (Source: http://www.thegridto.com/city/people/michael-schmidt-raw-milk-activist/)
The issue before us is our freedom to choose wholesome food. Do whatever
you are able and feel free to do in support of a courageous man with a just
cause, and pass along this information to everyone you know!
I pray the
Lord Jesus will forgive your blasphemy, twisting the word of God-Bible
and propagation of demonic messages. Amen.
Victor's reply:
Hi Emmanuel,
My, but you certainly could be more specific about how we are in error,
couldn’t you? We could learn and receive so much correction from you,
if you would only tell us how we are wrong and back it up with Scripture.
It seems that if what we teach is blasphemy and demonic to you, then what
you believe would be blasphemy and demonic to us. Could that be?
Let’s see… let me run by you a sample of our key doctrines and
you tell us which of them are as evil as you declare:
The Bible, including both Old and New Testaments, is the inspired Word
of God in the original languages. It is a testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ
and His dealings with His chosen people and the rest of the world.
Jesus Christ/Yeshua HaMashiach is Lord of lords and King of kings, Creator
of all things. Jesus Christ is God Almighty.
All men need saving from sin, death, hell, this world, darkness, Satan,
and themselves.
No man can save himself, every man being totally unregenerate and lost.
Only Jesus Christ, God Almighty, can save man. There is no other name
under Heaven whereby we can be saved.
In Jesus Christ is life, and His life is the light of men. By Him, all
things consist.
Jesus Christ came to earth bodily nearly 2,000 years ago, born of a virgin
and of the Holy Spirit; He humbled Himself to the level of man, lived a
sinless life, which only He could live, laid down His life, and paid for
the sins of all mankind, once for all.
Jesus Christ was raised from the dead after three days and has given
His Spirit to those who believe on Him.
We are saved by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, confessing
Him as Lord and believing He died for us and was raised bodily from the
dead.
God calls on all men to repent of their sins, those being the breaking
of His Commandments, summarized in the Decalogue.
None of the Law of God has been done away with. Jesus Christ came to
fulfill the Law, and saints are assigned the high privilege of establishing
the Law.
God gives the Holy Spirit to them that obey Him.
Those who have His Spirit are called and chosen to be witnesses unto
Him. These are born again; they are saints; they are His sons and daughters,
destined to be as Him when His work is completed in them.
By His cross, He has reconciled all things unto Himself, whether things
in Heaven or in earth or under the earth. In the fullness of time, we will
see the glorious fruits.
As His obedient servants, we are all unprofitable. When we obey Him,
we are only doing that which is our duty. That is the true faith.
To Jesus belong all glory, power, praise, thanksgiving, honor, and worship.
So, Emmanuel, which of these doctrines do you think God should forgive us
for? Which do you consider to be “twisting the word of God-Bible”?
Which of these is a “propagation of demonic messages”? Tell us.
Is your name really “Emmanuel”?
Victor
Our anonymous accuser, it turns out, hides behind a phony email address.
The email bounced back:
Hi. This is
the qmail-send program at gateway02.websitewelcome.com.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.
<emman@gmail.com>:
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email account that you tried to reach does not exist.
Why so scared to come out in the open and face us honestly, if one is praying
for our welfare? Why so unwilling to give us the proof of their charges,
or to hear our response? What does this say about their credibility and motives?
Are not the answers obvious? So we share this scenario with you, for those
who would like to say the same things to us, and to those who would like
to hear our answer to our accuser.
Unlearned Saying & Objection- “God
alone knows the heart.”
We respond to a correspondent:
Hi Helene, Victor here.
There is a common falsehood (among so many others) propagated in nominal
Christendom. It goes like this:
“We mustn’t ever judge anyone. God alone knows the heart and
mind.”
You repeat the mantra several times: “BUT only
God knows their heart.”
We can provide you with links on judgment to deal with the false notion
that only God knows the heart and therefore we ought not to judge anyone.
To be sure, there’s some truth in those words, which makes the matter
confusing for many, because they don’t have understanding.
Consider that Jesus spoke positively of judging others, when He said:
“Hypocrite! First cast the beam out of your own eye, and then you
shall see clearly to cast the splinter out of your brother's eye” (Matthew
7:5 MKJV).
And: “Do not judge according to sight, but judge righteous judgment” (John
7:24 MKJV).
Is it true that only God knows the heart? Where do you ever find that in
the Scriptures? It isn’t there, but the opposite IS:
“But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is judged
by no one. For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him?
But we have the mind of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:15-16 MKJV).
Jesus had the Father’s mind. He said they were one. He prayed that
we would be one with Him as He was one with the Father (John 17). Accordingly,
He gave His Spirit to His disciples, and still does today, so that they and
we might have His mind and be one with Him. John says to the saints, “But
you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things” (1
John 2:20 MKJV).
So, I show you that those truly in Christ, with His mind, do know others’ hearts,
and judge righteous judgment, with Him.
But, Helene, aren’t you also making judgments on hearts when you say, “The
rest of them I turn off cause I believe that they are a bad witness”?
I don’t fault you for that. It’s true, and we are given to
know truth and error, otherwise we are vulnerable to evil and as good as
lost. Now, isn’t that knowing the heart?
You write, “They believe in their heart of hearts
that they have the truth.” There you go again! If only God
knows the heart, how can you say what you just said?
How have you judged those people to be bad witnesses, if not at least partially
by the fruit of their lips? At least I hope that your judgment is not just
by appearance, which Jesus condemned.
Now the record is that the mouth speaks from the heart:
“Offspring of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things?
For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. A good man out of
the good treasure of the heart brings out good things; and an evil man out
of the evil treasure brings out evil things” (Matthew 12:34-35 MKJV).
“For as he thinks in his heart, so is he; Eat and drink, he says to
you, but his heart is not with you” (Proverbs 23:7 MKJV).
The Bible, in all its instruction, tells us to know the heart, time and
time again:
Matthew 7:15-18 MKJV
(15) Beware of false prophets who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but
inwardly they are ravening wolves.
(16) You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorns,
or figs from thistles?
(17) Even so every good tree brings forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree brings
forth evil fruit.
(18) A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruits, nor can a corrupt tree bring
forth good fruit.
Would you like to know who prefers to believe the lie that only God knows
the heart? It is those who are afraid of discipline and refuse to be criticized
or corrected. And why is that? Because they prefer their sins.
John 3:19-21 MKJV
(19) And this is the condemnation, that the Light has come into the world,
and men loved darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil.
(20) For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the Light,
lest his deeds should be exposed.
(21) But he who practices truth comes to the Light so that his works may be
revealed, that they exist, having been worked in God.
If we are to represent the Lord in this world, we will be as Him:
“In this is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the
day of judgment, that as He is, so also we are in this world” (1 John
4:17 MKJV).
In the day of judgment? Where does our judgment begin? “For the time
is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin
at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” (1
Peter 4:17 KJV)
Helene, I can know the nature of the well by the bucket of water I draw
from it. That is God’s calling and will for His saints.
We're compiling a list of duplicate Scriptures to be used in one of our
postings, and also to make available on the internet as a resource. Here,
in a Word document, is our list, as we have it so far: Duplicate
Scriptures. If you know of, or find, any others, please e-mail the references
to me at sara@thepathoftruth.com. I'll update the list as I have more Scriptures
to add. We appreciate any input.
We got this letter from an anonymous, non-working email address:
Subject: evolution.
From: joe <anon@e-mail.com>
To: ask@thepathoftruth.com
Date: 4/18/2011 10:35 PM
jesus didn't comment
on the creation myth in genesis.
you people are bat-shit
crazy aren't you?
Our reply, for the sake of the reader:
The question that must be asked of this devil is, “What use do you have
for Jesus Christ, using Him as a source of authority for your arguments,
when you have no use for what He says or Who He is?”
But Jesus says anonymous “Joe” is wrong, because He often cited
the Scriptures as the authoritative truth and final word on any matter, and
never as “myth.” Who would know better than the Author of Scripture
and our Creator, the Truth incarnate and Lord of all?
But the insecure soul who thinks to mock the Lord Jesus Christ, using Him
to justify a personal agenda, always runs smack dab into a stone wall. Though “Joe” tries
to avoid the collision, using a fake email address that bars him from hearing
the answer to his foolishness, his insecurity has already condemned him.
“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyer of this
world? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? For since, in the
wisdom of God, the world by wisdom did not know God, it pleased God by the
foolishness of preaching to save those who believe” (1 Corinthians
1:20-21 MKJV).
What we have here is a creature of darkness, as depicted in I Am Legend,
which will rip you to shreds in the dark and doesn’t dare to venture
into the light, because light is death to the fool.
Something came up recently, and these words, "I
want to do things right before the Lord," sparked these thoughts:
Those words sound like if we please the Lord, things will go well for us.
While that is true, it could also be false, depending on the understanding
and motive. We aren't here to be sycophants or pleasers. We are so prone
to please, this being a very selfish thing indeed. Primarily, we seek to
please people, so we'll be accepted by them or benefitted somehow.
We then presume to do the same with God, like Cain did. He was a pleaser!
And where did it get him? Abel didn't bring a sacrifice to please God. He
brought it because he knew it was right. Had his sacrifice been rejected,
he wouldn't have felt badly, as did Cain. He would have sought for the right
way (of course, the reason his sacrifice was accepted was because his heart was right,
and therefore he could not but be accepted). However, Cain was offended: "Well,
if that's the thanks I get, phooey on God! I won't believe in Him anymore!" We
have heard that many times.
We are called to do right because it is right,
whether pleasing to anyone or not. We are here to choose the successful and
true right, the one and only kind of right there is, and not what we ignorantly
and foolishly imagine and choose to be right, in that it is selfishly advantageous.
Choosing right, things will go well for us. Choosing to please, we destroy
those we pretend to please (not that we can destroy God, of course, but we
grieve Him), and we destroy ourselves.
God isn't asking us to please Him. Where in the Bible does one find God
wanting us to please Him? It isn't there! Did you know? He isn't primarily
interested in His own welfare and feelings. He wants to see things go well
for us, and He has shown, and is showing, us how
that can and must be because He cares for us.
God is called "Love" because He cares about us over Himself.
That is the nature of true love. When we do right and things go well for
us, then He'll be pleased. He'll be satisfied because
we are fulfilled and satisfied in reality, by His satisfaction and not by
the destructive, blind-alley kind of satisfaction that comes out of self-serving
lack of knowledge and understanding.
What an incredibly hideous spectacle unfolded before the world as humans,
turned vicious, ravenous brute beasts, actively and passively, directly and
indirectly, willingly and unwillingly, performed their unspeakable horrors
on the Jewish people. We have seen what happened in this dimension: Out of
the ashes of the departed, a nation was reborn on the earth of those left
behind. But what happened to the Jews taken away in the Holocaust? Where
did they go? What was their lot beyond the gas chambers, ovens, and graves?
As I took a walk in the afternoon of March 17, 2011 to get some sun, air,
and exercise, a thought suddenly came to me that I have to say was revelation
from God. I was amazed at it, and thrilled, never having even considered
the matter before. Perhaps what came to me was introduced or triggered by
a book Marilyn and I had just begun reading, Man’s Search for Meaning by
Viktor Frankl, a book I would recommend.
Here’s what came to me: Through the portal of the Holocaust, all those
Jews who perished as a race or religion, and not because of wrongdoing, immediately
entered the sheer and glorious bliss of paradise! As evil as it was and as
awful as it looked on this side, it was and is so good and glorious on the
other. Those who perished were finally the fortunate ones indeed. Take heart,
remnant of the Jewish nation – your loved ones are blessed indeed.
The Jews as a people had atoned, or more accurately, had been atoned,
for their sin by their great and final leg of a millennia-long journey of
great injustice and suffering at the hands of the Gentiles. They have paid
the price Moses prophesied they would for their sins. This has not been by
any virtue of their own, but by the sovereign will and work of their God,
the God of Israel, the Creator of the whole earth, Yeshua HaMashiach, the
One they crucified and rejected nearly 2,000 years ago and since.
Here is a vivid description from the Torah of the recent history of the
Jews, which is now coming to an end in this generation:
Deuteronomy 28:15-68 MKJV
(15) And it shall be, if you will not listen to the voice of the LORD your
God, to observe and to do all His commandments and His statutes which I command
you today, all these curses shall come on you and overtake you.
(16) You shall be cursed in the city, and cursed in the field.
(17) Your basket and your store shall be cursed.
(18) The fruit of your body shall be cursed, and the fruit of your land, the
increase of your cows, and the flocks of your sheep.
(19) You shall be cursed when you come in, and cursed when you go out.
(20) The LORD shall send on you cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that
you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed, and until you perish quickly,
because of the wickedness of your doings by which you have forsaken Me.
(21) The LORD shall make the plague cling to you until He has consumed you
from off the land where you go to possess it.
(22) The LORD shall strike you with lung disease and with a fever, and with
an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with
blasting, and with mildew. And they shall pursue you until you perish.
(23) And your heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is
under you iron.
(24) The LORD shall make the rain of your land powder and dust. It shall come
down from the heavens on you until you are destroyed.
(25) The LORD shall cause you to be stricken before your enemies. You shall
go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them. And you shall
be a trembling to all the kingdoms of the earth.
(26) And your body shall be food to all birds of the air, and to the beasts
of the earth. And no man shall frighten them away.
(27) The LORD will strike you with the boils of Egypt, and with the hemorrhoids,
and with the scab, and with the itch, of which you cannot be healed.
(28) The LORD shall strike you with madness and blindness, and astonishment
of heart.
(29) And you shall grope at noonday, as the blind gropes in darkness, and you
shall not prosper in your ways. And you shall always be pressed down and spoiled
forever, and no man shall save you.
(30) You shall become engaged to a wife, and another man shall lie with her.
You shall build a house, and you shall not live in it. You shall plant a vineyard,
and you shall not gather the grapes of it.
(31) Your ox shall be slain before your eyes, and you shall not eat of it.
Your ass shall be violently taken away from before your face, and shall not
be restored to you, your sheep given to your enemies, and you shall have none
to rescue them.
(32) Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, and your
eyes shall look and fail for them all the day long. And there shall be no power
in your hand.
(33) The fruit of your land, and all your labors, shall be eaten up by a nation
which you do not know. And you shall always be oppressed and crushed,
(34) and you shall be mad because of that which you shall see with the sight
of your eyes.
(35) The LORD shall strike you in the knees and in the legs with an evil ulcer
that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
(36) The LORD shall bring you, and your king which you shall set over you,
to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known. And there you shall
serve other gods, wood and stone.
(37) And you shall become an astonishment, a proverb, and a by-word among all
nations where the LORD shall lead you.
(38) You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather little
in, for the locust shall eat it.
(39) You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but shall neither drink the
wine nor gather, for the worm shall eat them.
(40) You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not
anoint with the oil, for your olive shall drop off its fruit.
(41) You shall father sons and daughters, but you shall not enjoy them, for
they shall go into captivity.
(42) All your trees and the fruit of your land the locust shall possess.
(43) The stranger within you shall get up above you very high, and you shall
come down very low.
(44) He shall loan to you, and you shall not loan to him. He shall be the head,
and you shall be the tail.
(45) And all these curses shall come on you, and shall pursue you and overtake
you, until you are destroyed, because you did not listen to the voice of the
LORD your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded
you.
(46) And they shall be on you for a sign and for a wonder, and on your seed
forever.
(47) Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joyfulness and with gladness
of heart for the abundance of all things;
(48) therefore you shall serve your enemies which the LORD shall send against
you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things.
And He shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you.
(49) The LORD shall bring a nation against you from far, from the end of the
earth, as the eagle flies; a nation whose tongue you shall not understand,
(50) a nation fierce of face who shall not regard the person of the old, nor
show favor to the young.
(51) And he shall eat the fruit of your cattle and the fruit of your land,
until you are destroyed. He shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase
of your livestock, or flocks of your sheep, until he has destroyed you.
(52) And he shall besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified
walls in which you trusted come down, throughout all the land. And he shall
besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which the LORD your
God has given you.
(53) And you shall eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and
of your daughters, which the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and
in the anguish with which your enemies shall distress you.
(54) The man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be
evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest
of his sons which he has left;
(55) so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his sons whom
he shall eat, because he has nothing left to him in the siege and in the anguish
with which your enemies shall distress you in all your gates.
(56) The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not have ventured to
set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her
eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and
toward her daughter,
(57) and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward
her sons whom she shall bear. For she shall eat them secretly for lack of all
things, in the siege and anguish with which your enemies shall distress you
in your gates.
(58) If you will not observe to do all the words of this Law that are written
in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful Name, THE LORD YOUR
GOD,
(59) then the LORD will make your plagues remarkable, and the plagues of your
seed great and persistent plagues; with evil and long-lasting sicknesses.
(60) Also, He will bring on you all the diseases of Egypt of which you were
afraid. And they shall cling to you.
(61) Also, every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book
of this Law, the LORD will bring them on you until you are destroyed.
(62) And you shall be left few in number, whereas you were as the stars of
the heavens for multitude, because you would not obey the voice of the LORD
your God.
(63) And it shall be, as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply
you, so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to nothing.
And you shall be plucked from off the land where you go to possess it.
(64) And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the
earth even to the other, and you shall serve other gods there, which neither
you nor your fathers have known, wood and stone.
(65) And among these nations you shall find no ease, neither shall the sole
of your foot have rest. But the LORD shall give you there a trembling heart
and failing of eyes and sorrow of mind.
(66) And your life shall hang in doubt before you, and you shall fear day and
night, and shall have no assurance of your life.
(67) In the morning you shall say, Oh that it were evening! And at evening
you shall say, Oh that it were morning, for the fear of your heart with which
you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
(68) And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way of
which I said to you, You shall see it no more again. And there you shall be
sold to your enemies for men-slaves and women-slaves, and no man shall buy
you.
So has it been, even as the Lord spoke by Moses. But now a new day has been
dawning since the Holocaust, a day best described in the first portion of
this chapter in Deuteronomy (which is not recorded here - see Deuteronomy
28:1-14). This is in spite of the great threatenings the world over towards
the Jews from Satan and his murderous subjects. And as those Jews have entered
blessed paradise from the horrors of the Holocaust, so the Jews on earth
will experience blessedness they have never known, not even in the days of
Moses, Joshua, David, or Solomon.
“Behold, [the Messiah] comes with the
clouds, and every eye will see Him, and those who pierced Him will see Him,
and all the kindreds of the earth will wail because of Him. Even so, Amen” (Revelation
1:7 MKJV).
There will finally be righteousness, victory, justice, peace, and joy in
their hearts and minds, and in all their homes, and they will know that the
Lord their God has redeemed them from the sword, from darkness, fear, the
power of the evil one, and from themselves. With them, the entire world will
be redeemed and blessed:
“For if their casting away is the reconciling of the world, what is
the reception except life from the dead?” (Romans 11:15 MKJV)
We sent this letter to the Members of Parliament of the Government of Canada,
regarding GMO
alfalfa:
Ladies and Gentlemen,
You have been duped. Chemical agricultural companies such as Monsanto have
persuaded you into supporting a monopolistic, tyrannical, pseudo-scientific
agenda that punishes Canadian farmers and consumers alike.
Not only are measures such as approving genetically-modified alfalfa inimical
to the present health of our environment and society, they are planting the
literal seeds of destruction for the future.
There are many reliable and competent scientific sources that denounce genetically
modified organisms with a mountain of valid evidence. These sources can provide
you with data and arguments that prove the utter folly of your present course.
We urge you to fulfill your duty by fully searching out the matter and becoming
responsibly informed, not taking only the fox’s word that he can ably
guard the henhouse. As it stands, you are spreading destruction in your ignorance
and negligence.
It was with some degree of interest that I began to look into the 2011
World Tapping Summit recently. After all, there was talk of people
experiencing life changing and, in some cases, almost “miraculous” healings
with everything from weight loss to money issues.
While listening to one of the presentations, I began to tap along on one
of my problems—an obsession with food. I didn’t have any immediate “eureka” moments,
but a day or two later, I thought I knew the reason for my problem and was
on my way to freedom. I had been suppressing other cravings, so I turned
to food to satisfy my desires. Made sense… or did it? I sent off an
e-mail to Victor and Paul, my friends and mentors, describing my experience.
Paul responded to my newfound “freedom” with a question, “…you're
saying that tapping made you aware you have gone into bondage to food by
repressing sexual thoughts. If so, now what?”
It got me thinking, “Wait a minute. Didn’t I pray to God, asking
Him to take care of that about a year ago, thanking Him for, and accepting,
my singleness?” Wasn’t that the real explanation
for the absence of lustful thoughts?
Does tapping really help us gain emotional freedom, or
is it merely us trying to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps? If emotions
are the problem, is digging further into our emotions the answer? It isn’t
psychoanalysis that will win the day. Faith in and obedience to God will.
I’m not disputing that tapping can have benefit for some, if for no
other reason than that it encourages one to tell the truth. In listening
to some of the sessions over the first few days, I heard things that helped
create an awareness of things in my life, but it also conjured up a lot of
thoughts that I didn’t know how to deal with. A lot of non-issues.
If I didn’t have wise teachers to set me straight, I could have been
looking for answers in all the wrong places.
What are emotions, anyway? Can they be trusted? How have I approached many
things in life? By my feelings. And where have they gotten me? They get you
UP, and then get you DOWN! But do they get you forward?
Recently I have made some decisions that have gone contrary to
my feelings, doing things I knew to be right, regardless of whether I was
comfortable with them. I can attest to the results. Do we wish to be governed
by our feelings? Or is there a better way?
What does the Bible have to say about our feelings?
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart; and lean not unto
your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5).
“For the wicked boasts of his heart's cravings. He blesses the greedy,
and condemns the LORD. The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room
in his thoughts for God” (Psalms 10:3-4 HNV).
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt:
who can know it? I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give
every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings” (Jeremiah
17:9-10 HNV).
“The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saves
such as be of a contrite spirit” (Psalm 34:18).
Not the kind of emotions we typically want to foster—dependence, brokenness,
and contrition.
It’s true that many of our physical problems have an emotional root;
this has been proven in study after study. This being the case, where can
we start? Why not start by giving thanks?
“Be anxious for nothing, but in everything, by prayer and supplication
with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace
of God, which passes all understanding will keep your hearts and minds in
Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:6).
This leaves psychotherapeutic processes or techniques in the dust, hands
down. Those who have the Lord, and walk with Him, have all these psychotherapy
issues taken care of in the best possible way! Instead of getting “tapped
out” trying to uncover your emotions, the Source taps into you.
“In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.
Be not wise in your own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil. It shall
be health to your navel, and marrow to your bones” (Proverbs 3:6-8).
Tapping uses several positive techniques. Acupressure points are known to
accumulate energy blockages that need to be released to allow free flow through
the body. It also encourages those tapping to tell the truth, to set goals,
and to forgive others—valuable principles in and of themselves.
Victor, Paul, and I watched the EFT
Rwandan video, which showed young survivors of the Rwandan genocide
using tapping to address emotional issues. Could it be that the healing
experienced by the orphans was due to exercising forgiveness? Forgiveness
is a powerful tool. So is honesty, especially honesty about ourselves.
Think of what could happen if these children went a step further, thanking
the Lord for their circumstances, and further still, learning to trust
and obey Him!
This is the only way peace can come to the world.
Sean Fife
Victor adds: When I first looked into this tapping therapy,
I recognized some value in it. However, as I examined it further, I realized
that the believer’s principles of acceptance of one’s circumstances
and giving thanks for them are far more powerful and effective. It has been
my pleasure and privilege to turn midnight to high noon within minutes, if
not seconds, just by giving God thanks and praise for tough situations within
and without. What could be more powerful than that?
“Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, and into His courts with
praise; give thanks unto Him, and bless His Name. For the LORD is good; His
mercy endures for ever; and His faithfulness unto all generations” (Psalms
100:4-5 JPS).
This I know: When we acknowledge our Lord and Savior, not only with our
lips, but with our lives, He honors us and delivers us from all our fears.
Read Acceptance.
Paul adds: A problem with tapping is that knowledge outpaces
wisdom. It forces you to take the lead position in charting your course,
rather than relying on God:
“Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He
may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon Him; for He cares for
you” (1 Peter 5:6-7 KJV).
Victor responds to this quote by Wayne Dyer – “Everything
you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.” -
Dr. Mercola’s “Quote of the Day”:
Can one wisely make such an all-encompassing statement as does Dyer? How
is it Mercola posts it? Is not Mercola against Big Pharma,
vaccinations, Monsanto, conventional farming, high fructose corn syrup, factory
farming, the FDA, Obama’s “healthcare” program, GMOs....?
He must be awfully weak by now.
Isn’t it a matter of what one is against
or for? I think we understand what Dyer might be saying: He may be speaking
of attitude. We have met people who are just plain miserable, against anything
and everything. If we are negative and faultfinding, we become our own victims.
Criticizing kills the critic; as you sow, you reap.
But he may be speaking from New Age philosophy, where apparent principles
of virtue are praised and applied without understanding, discretion, or wisdom
- “We are all Divine. Aren’t we all nice? Be nice! Love everything!
Don’t judge!” Perhaps there is another reasonable interpretation
of the quote, but that would depend on one’s reasoning and perspective,
and not on the words themselves.
As the quote stands, Paul and I are not just weak, we are dead, dead, dead!
So are all the prophets. So is God!
God is against pride (His pet peeve): “Behold,
I am against you, O proud ones, says the Lord God of Hosts; for your day
has come, the time that I will judge you” (Jeremiah 50:31 MKJV).
God is against political, economic, social,
and religious tyranny and those who come against Israel (His people,
physical or spiritual): “Behold, I am against you,
O destroying mountain, says the LORD, Who destroys all the earth. And
I will stretch out My hand on you and roll you down from the rocks, and
will make you a burned mountain” (Jeremiah 51:25 MKJV).
God is against His own people when they
walk in sin: “Therefore so says the Lord God; Behold,
I, even I, am against you, and will carry out judgments in your midst
before the nations” (Ezekiel 5:8 MKJV).
God is against vanity and lies (He will
not tolerate any deceit or falsehood): “Therefore
so says the Lord God: Because you have spoken vanity and seen a lie,
therefore, behold, I am against you, says the Lord God” (Ezekiel
13:8 MKJV).
Again, He is against His own nation, people,
and community when it sins (we are not exempt): “And
say to the land of Israel, So says the LORD: Behold, I am against you,
and will draw out My sword out of its sheath and will cut off
from you the righteous and the wicked” (Ezekiel
21:3 MKJV). (Everybody suffers, even the righteous!)
He is against all sinners and against the
enemies of Israel (God’s people): “And I
will pour out My disgust on you; with the fire of My wrath I will blow
against you, and give you into the hand of burning men, able to destroy” (Ezekiel
21:31 MKJV).
He is against the works, pomp, and tyranny
of the world: “Speak and say, So says the Lord
God: Behold, I, even I, am against you, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great
dragon who lies in the midst of his rivers, who has said, My river is
mine, and I have made it” (Ezekiel 29:3 MKJV).
He is against the things of the flesh (Esau
represents the flesh, the unchosen - sow to the flesh and you reap destruction): “And
say to it, So says the Lord God: Behold, O Mount Seir, I am against you,
and I will stretch out My hand against you, and I will make you a ruin
and a waste” (Ezekiel 35:3 MKJV).
He is against enemies far away - present
day Russia and Iran and Ethiopia and Libya, all those who will, and already
do, come against Israel (His people, physical or spiritual): “And
say, So says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, the chief
ruler of Rosh, Meshech and Tubal” (Ezekiel 38:3 MKJV).
He was against Israel itself for its sins
(because they were His didn’t mean they could do as they pleased): “Hear
this Word which I take up against you, a dirge, O house of Israel” (Amos
5:1 MKJV).
He once saved all of Nineveh, but then He turned against it
and destroyed it (one cannot say, “I’m saved,” then
go and sin, as so many believe and teach today): “Behold,
I am against you, says the LORD of Hosts, and I will burn her chariots
in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut
off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall
be heard no more” (Nahum 2:13 MKJV).
“Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of Hosts; and I will uncover
your skirts upon your face. And I will cause the nations to see your nakedness,
and the kingdoms your shame” (Nahum 3:5 MKJV).
He is against all our enemies that are
close at hand: “Woe to the inhabitants of the sea
coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The Word of the LORD is against
you: Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will destroy you, so that
no inhabitant survives” (Zephaniah 2:5 MKJV).
He is against lukewarmness: “But
I have against you that you left your first love” (Revelation 2:4 MKJV).
He is most definitely and vehemently against fornication
(physical and spiritual): “But I have a few things
against you, because you have there those who hold the teachings of Balaam,
who taught Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel,
to eat things sacrificed to idols and to commit fornication” (Revelation
2:14 MKJV).
He is against all those who tolerate fornication: “But
I have a few things against you because you allow that woman Jezebel to teach,
she saying herself to be a prophetess, and to cause My servants to go astray,
and to commit fornication, and to eat idol-sacrifices” (Revelation
2:20 MKJV).
Our friend Eric wrote us, saying: “I’ve
come to accept where I am and am still finding out who I am. I believe
that knowledge and acceptance for both where and who I am will come in
His time.”
That’s an interesting subject, don’t you think? Just who are
you, beyond all the things you think and do? Who is the real essential “you” that
will remain, perhaps still waiting to emerge, when this life is over? What
we have here, in this world, is only the scaffolding, not the enduring structure
that is being built by God. More from Victor on this central purpose of our
existence, becoming ourselves!
From Victor:
Hi Eric!
Years ago, the Lord revealed to me that salvation was all about becoming
the real me that He originally intended. It was becoming free to be just
me, not what I thought, pretended, wished I was, or hoped to be, and not
somebody else, like some billionaire, movie star, or "great man of God." We
all have ambitions, delusions of grandeur, pipe dreams, and silly wishes,
all these coming from within, from the proud, independent, so very foolish
carnal man, the self, the ego, the guy who, in Adam, walked away from God,
deciding he could do it on his own - that man of sin, the son of perdition.
In effect, we lie to ourselves. And all the time we try or pretend to be
something we're not, we suffer failure, loss, defeat, and humiliation in
varying degrees. We continuously suffer disappointment, frustration, and
disillusionment (we are in a continual state of illusion). In our horrid
selfishness, we hurt ourselves and everyone around us, 24/7. It is that Death
and Hell the Scriptures talk about, a horrible prison where we pay every
penny for our lawlessness, for our refusal to acknowledge and appreciate
our Maker, Jesus Christ.
So He died to deliver us. He subjected Himself to Death and Hell personally,
directly, that He might bring us up and out of there. To leave Death and
Hell ironically entails death - death to what we thought we wanted, and death
to what we were in - that terrible state we called "life," that
state we, in our madness, clung to as so precious and promising. In the state
of sin and separation from God, we are in a state of being delirious and
delusional, though sincerely thinking quite otherwise - that we are intelligent
and rational; in our darkness, we don't have a clue about the reality of
things.
Worse still, we even find ourselves enjoying our chosen path of self-destruction,
we encourage all those around us in it, and we spend our existence digging
our pit ever deeper! Isn't that crazy? But it's true! That's the way it is.
That's the madness of sin and separation from our God. And to comfort ourselves
(because we know we also suffer), we set up other gods. We do things to occupy,
entertain, and relieve ourselves in our death, darkness, and insecurity.
Without Christ, what we have called “life” is a living nightmare,
a continual state of being surrounded or pursued by some danger, constantly
trying to escape, but finding we are on a treadmill going nowhere fast, or
that the enemy is just a bit faster and smarter. And should we temporarily
get what we are after, we are destined to lose it, or we live in the fear
of losing it, which is as bad, or worse. This is the lot of all men on earth
without the sure and personal connection to their Maker. And they don't know
it.
So in His chosen time and way, Jesus comes to turn us around 180 degrees,
upside down, and inside out. As Peter could not see himself being crucified
right side up when his time came, so we die with Him upside down, not worthy
to die right side up as He did. Get that? We aren't worthy to die, to identify
with Him in any way, but He accepts us anyway. That's love. That's mercy.
That's grace.
And all of these things the world calls madness or fantasy or escapism,
and despises them, but we know these things to be true, having experienced
them for ourselves. And we aren't the only ones. Many have gone before us,
including those who wrote the Bible, testifying to these very things and
willing to lay down their lives, so that others might enter into life as
well.
Now I am free to be me, the guy God intended me to be. I have peace, power
to live, and fulfillment in Jesus Christ, Who redeemed me from the grave.
He took away my bitterness and shame and fears. He paid off my debts to Him
and fellow man. He awakened me from my sleep of nightmares to a reality of
cool, comforting breezes and sunshine, and has placed me in a verdant, fruitful
garden with beautiful flora, birds singing, and a fresh brook of sparkling
water - all things pleasant and enjoyable. He cleaned me up to enjoy these
things and has set me firmly on a rock foundation that can never be moved
or shaken. He put a new song in my mouth and in my heart. And He has called
me to help guide whoever will to that same place, that same state of being.
So far, few have come, but that's okay, because each person has his/her
appointed time. Meanwhile, they must suffer their chosen way. When they are
made ready by their trials and circumstances to choose a better way, they
will come. That's the way it was for me. "Hot shot" Hafichuk to "holy" Hafichuk.
The world loved the former and hates the latter, but I wouldn't trade my
change anymore than I would trade a sumptuous, delicious banquet of the finest
and most wholesome foods for dog dung. Honestly, without exaggeration, that
is the way it is. And I thought I had something before Christ, the Way, the
Truth, and the Life introduced Himself to me nearly 40 years ago. Wow!
I write this for you, Eric, I write it (just now come to think of it) for
all the timber framers who spent weeks with us, and I write it for all. God
is great. To know that, we need to confess Jesus Christ as Lord and believe
that God has raised Him from the dead. Confessing it with our lips and believing
it in our hearts, He raises us from the dead and proceeds to set us up to
reign with Him on His throne in the heavenlies. What a change! What madness
of thought to the world! What reality! What deliverance from a nightmarish
existence to dreams come true! The delusioned call it delusion and the enlightened
call it reality.
That's the way it is for me. That's the way God will make it for those He
calls and chooses, even as the Bible, that most hated Book of books, testifies.
It can't get better than that.
Last month, we received this note at ThePathofTruth.com (sent by littlemailboy@...):
Your group is a cult by definition not only do you attack the KJV and living
right and the gifts of the Spirit of God (which is obvious evidence that
you have not the Spirit I testify to you I have been saved from sin continued
in the word of God and received the second work of grace the baptism in the
Holy Ghost it's all clearly in scriptures. How many sins are you living in
daily pride contention rebellion heresy? Sir the Godhead is clearly in scripture
For there are three that bear record in heaven and these three are one 1
John 5:7 (KJV) do you even have a prayer life? No you do not have a real
relationship with God as you do not bear forth the fruit. Too sad you attack
other ministries as cults. Are you a lutharin OSAS believe? Once saved always
saved is a doctrine of devils as it is lascivious (licentious) to licence
people to sin you need to continue to repent of sin and be under a pastor!
Your off wayward and lost and twist scriptures to your own destruction friend
you need to be saved!
Our reply:
"Little mail boy,"
If the fruits you demonstrate in this letter come from being under a pastor,
then woe to that pastor, and you would be far better off without one.
What are your fruits? Confusion, misunderstanding of what we really do teach,
presumption, bitterness, ignorance, false accusation, and incoherence, to
mention a few. If your prayer life does this to you, perhaps you should examine
who it is you are praying to.
Furthermore, you refuse to identify yourself, while we openly teach what
we teach, which isn't what you think we teach. We come to the light, while
you hide in the shadows.
"For everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come to the
Light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who practices truth comes
to the Light so that his works may be revealed, that they exist, having been
worked in God" (John 3:20-21 MKJV).
And in all your darkness and confusion, you say WE are a cult? Do you really
think we can believe you?
"Little mail boy," you need help badly, and only the Risen Christ
can do that for you. As for a need to be saved, try reading How
One Is Saved. You are certainly indoctrinated, but you are far from the
Kingdom of God.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
Victor
That note from “little mail boy” was a good example of the
mail we get from false accusers who have no understanding of what we teach,
not knowing or recognizing the Lord Whom we preach.
When contacting us, “little mail boy” didn’t tell us
he had contacted us before under the name "Brother Jerry." Click HERE to
read our previous conversation where we also pointed out his sin and need
of Jesus Christ.
“I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to
men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill; but time and chance happens
to them all” (Ecclesiastes 9:11 MKJV).
I received revelation on the word “chance” in this version.
Another version is pretty much on the money:
“I returned and saw under the sun that the race is not to the swift,
nor the battle to the mighty; nor even bread to the wise; nor even riches
to the men of discernment; nor even favor to knowing men. For time and occurrence happen
to them all” (Ecclesiastes 9:11 LITV).
What that verse is saying is that nothing happens by our power; God does
it all, “chance” meaning “fate” or “all things
are determined from above.” Aesop’s fable of the tortoise and
hare race are an example, but not a good one. That story illustrates that
the race can be won by the slow on occasion, that speed is not the only determining
factor. What Ecclesiastes says is that whatever happens is out of our hands,
though we go through the motions.
Fatalism? No; that is an attitude, though definitions don’t always
describe it that way. I speak of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding of
the way things are. But to the definition one source gives the word, I say, “Yes.”
WordWeb:
“1. A submissive mental attitude resulting from
acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined
and inevitable
2. A philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance
for all time and human beings are powerless to change them”
I'm talking with a Catholic young man in his early twenties and you have
helped me withn your testimony. Fortunately I was a stranger to Roman heresy.
I already knew a verse to tell him, but the rest of your testimony helped
me see where the young man in front of me is at.
I love you brother, take care.
-John
Victor's response:
Hi John,
I am thankful I can be a signpost leading in the right direction as people
learn where I came from and how good the change has been for me.
As for your unfamiliarity with Roman heresy, that would be a rare spectacle.
Perhaps you aren't aware of its unidentified prevalence.
For examples, do you celebrate "Christ's Mass" (Christmas)?
Do you celebrate "Ishtar/Ashtoreth" (Easter), substituted for
Passover?
Do you believe in the trinity, which was brought forth by pagans into the
nominal Christian identity?
Do you believe in eternal torment?
Do you believe in infant baptism, sacraments, praying the "Our Father," spiritual
promotion through catechism and confirmation, and several other such doctrines
and practices?
Do you believe in buildings called "churches," particularly with
steeples and arched entrances, which are considered holy places?
Do you believe in pictures of Jesus?
Do you believe in any kind of clerical privilege versus that of laity?
If your answer is "yes" to any of these questions, you are not
a stranger to Roman heresy, much of which preceded the Roman Catholic Church,
only a stranger to your familiarity with it (see our Statement
of Doctrine for more information on all of these subjects, and much more).
I am thankful to be able to share these things with you now. I am so very
thankful to be free, not only from the primary bondage of sin and the works
of darkness men have devised and fashioned, but also from the subtle vestiges
of these.
Victor
Daphne asks Victor:
Why is praying the “Our Father” wrong? Does it have to do with
the repetition of prayer?
Victor’s reply:
Hi Daphne!
Yes, it does have to do with repetition of prayer, but not only repetition
(which is the worse). Jesus never meant for those words to even have been recited
once as personal prayer. When He said, "Pray like this," or, "Pray
after this manner," or, "Pray in this way," He was giving an
example of the attitude and understanding of, and in, true prayer. In the sample
words of the "Our Father" or the "Lord's Prayer," He addresses
our hearts and expresses how we should be at all times, not only when we make
specific prayers. It is this attitude to which Paul referred when he said, "Pray
without ceasing" (1 Thessalonians 5:17 MKJV).
While there is no harm in repeating those words in and of themselves, the
great error lies in thinking that God is so removed and base that He would
listen to a mere creature repeating him or herself over and over in their
own righteousness. What is He supposed to get out of that, except an upset
stomach and sore eyes from rolling them? The very thought is contemptible.
Even saying those same words once and assuming He is going to hear or be
pleased, simply because they are the "Lord's prayer" (which is
a sycophantic attitude) or because they are in the Bible (which is Bibliolatry)
is unacceptable to God.
An exception might be if a child (whether a physical or a spiritual one),
not knowing any better, sincerely speaks that sample prayer, believing (the
Lord knows and judges by the heart), but even there, He cannot approve the
ways of the heathen and is limited by unbelief in general.
The Lord's message is, "Be reasonable, be respectful, understand what
He is like and what He desires; understand your duty before Him, and know that
He is running the show. Have knowledge of, and faith in, your Father (for He IS your
Father), recognizing all your sustenance comes from Him. As you treat others,
so will you be treated. And remember that you and this world are not where
it's at. It is all about God and the Kingdom of God over all. Focus there,
always."
"It is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight,
but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous." Rom.
2:13
I think you need to find out which law he is speaking of in regard to the fact
that a law has been added after Jesus' crucifixion.
Paul's reply:
We agree with Romans 2:13, so it is not clear where you disagree with
us, or what point you are trying to make.
Do you believe the following, spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ?
"Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets.
I have not come to destroy but to fulfill. For truly I say to you, Till
the heaven and the earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall in
any way pass from the Law until all is fulfilled. Therefore whoever shall
relax one of these commandments, the least, and shall teach men so, he
shall be called the least in the Kingdom of Heaven. But whoever shall
do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven" (Matthew
5:17-19 MKJV).
There is no new Law, only a new heart and understanding given to those
who receive Christ.
Paul Cohen
Victor then asked this question of Paul and Sara:
Did you know that the Law of Moses (the 10 Commandments) is the Law
of Love?
Sara's reply:
Amen.
Matthew 22:35-40 MKJV
(35) Then one of them, a lawyer, asked, tempting Him and saying,
(36) Master, which is the great commandment in the Law?
(37) Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart,
and with all your soul, and with all your mind.
(38) This is the first and great commandment.
(39) And the second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
(40) On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.
Victor's reply:
This fellow says there was a law added, which, as you point out, is
patently false. As nothing shall be subtracted from the Law, neither
shall there be anything added to it because it is complete, representative
of God's nature and character. God missed nothing in the Ten Commandments.
The difference is not in the Law, as you say, but in its fulfillment,
which comes through Jesus Christ, Who gives us a new heart with the Law
in it and the love for it. Any who think there is a new law added are
still in their sin nature.
One of life's great pleasures for lovers of truth is being able to heartfully
agree with your enemies. Though we do not personally count him an enemy,
Richard Dawkins, author of several books championing evolution, is a
great enemy of the truth and the Creator in this matter. We find his
attitude and teachings grossly untrue, irresponsible, and even reprehensible,
intellectually, scientifically, socially, and spiritually.
But when we hear that Dawkins, along with Christopher Hitchens, is initiating
legal proceedings to have the pope arrested on his upcoming trip to England
on charges of obstruction of justice, we could not agree more, and we
applaud his efforts. Their reasoning is certainly legitimate. Why should
the pope and his minions be above the law? Ought they not be held to
at least the same standards of justice as the common pedophile, if not
more severe for their pretensions of morality?
Get this: The Catholic Church preaches eternal damnation and torture
for sinners, but pleads for the statute of limitations regarding their
heinous sins! As they say in Yiddish, that is some chutzpah. You go,
Richard!