Heart to Heart
We tend to be more honest with ourselves, than others, and therein my words, though no dishonest intent is present, I am completely serious with my intentions, my application to the American People for the Office of President! But the problem does not lie therewith myself, but rather in how I am perceived in the eyes of others, ...and Social Media Censorship isn't doing me any favors!
What are the hidden reservations the People have with me? This I do not know, but could it be, that in their eyes I'm not as qualified as those countless individuals whom are, and it is this that creates an emptiness that now resides within my soul, that the results of having such qualifications, and achieving nothing but the sum of where We are today, then why, I ask, ...not me? For all of my intentions are genuine!
The Rise and Fall of America... We achieved Our greatness through the selfless efforts of simple men, yet fell into obscurity, by they of whom consider themselves as gods unto men; The movers, the shakers, the "unlocked" and enlightened, and the seer's, whom in the end, could not even see their own demise and that of everything they touch which crumbles into dust!
What are the hidden reservations the People have with me? This I do not know, but could it be, that in their eyes I'm not as qualified as those countless individuals whom are, and it is this that creates an emptiness that now resides within my soul, that the results of having such qualifications, and achieving nothing but the sum of where We are today, then why, I ask, ...not me? For all of my intentions are genuine!
The Rise and Fall of America... We achieved Our greatness through the selfless efforts of simple men, yet fell into obscurity, by they of whom consider themselves as gods unto men; The movers, the shakers, the "unlocked" and enlightened, and the seer's, whom in the end, could not even see their own demise and that of everything they touch which crumbles into dust!
Pushing aside the selfish nature of politics, to give a moment of thought for the sake, and Glory of Christ Jesus, I share my inner struggles with all of whom are willing to endure.
My eyes have thus shown me, that those converted by the Word, and those converted by the church, produce therein, multiple versions of Christianity. Which One is correct? Either One if you do not end up in hell; But herein lies the danger as well...
Those converted by the church are converted through whatever interpretation of the Word is provided by church leaders, and pastors.
Those converted by the Word of God through the conviction of Christ, Himself, and His Words working from within us.
"That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
From the perspective of the church...
What the Church Is, (Christ within us), and what the church has become, are quite confusing... allowing you to go to heaven as a Baptist, JWH, Mormon, Methodist, Catholic, Protestant, and any number of other nametags, placed upon the Body of Christ, the sum of which causes division, and confusion within, as well as to create multiple pathways to the Father, whereas in reality there is only One Way, One Truth, and One Life through which no one can come to the Father, except through He.
All of this, of which, does not matter! ...because God does not care what the name of the vessel is, but rather what is contained therein! ...unless of course, you find yourself in hell, in which case you chose the wrong nametag, thus being my point! It's better not to divide the Church at all, than to lead many asunder through confusion, over what you choose, and choose not to believe, per the Word of God.
Seminary school in itself, has become the de facto by which aspiring church leaders are first introduced into a particular religiously accepted doctrine of which becomes their mainstay discipline through which others are converted forthright in opposition to other opposing disciplines, and not therein the fullness of God's Word, but the filtered Word of what others accept! God's Word, Itself, is non-doctrinal!
Rather than for both to come in agreement and say, "Let us both agree that neither of us know!", instead they say, "You know what you know, and I what I know, let those whom know not, believe according to that which they will!", regardless of whether it is truthful, or only that which they feel certain of!
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Therein man's inability to understand God's Ways, and His Thoughts, both of which are higher than our own; Doctrines are formed when either parties refuse to admit that as accredited as they are, well educated men of learning, having studied for several years, neither want to admit, that in the end, they are just as, ...even more so in pretending not to be as confused as the rest of us are, and can not possibly know all things in relation to God's Word, even so, whilst staring at Him, face to face. That is a difficult one to learn!
Politicians and speech craft, are to Politics, as church leaders are fast becoming to the church, with regards to religion, as relationships are formed more so between the congregation and the church, than the Church with Christ! As a result, people will either walk out of the church feeling saved, or questioning whether or not they are REALLY saved!
Am I a good "enough" Christian? ...but the Bible says, "Only God is good!" Is there something lingering in my life, a sin that I have not betrayed, that will make God's Word out the liar, that I am not saved through confession of mouth unto salvation, nor in the believing of the heart, unto justification? For God knew of my sins before both, my heart believed, and my mouth confessed!
If I do not have the Truth within me, then how can it be even remotely possible for His Words to be upon my lips, without having memorized a single Word! Is it because I have a relationship with the church, or because Christ has a relationship within me! It is not I that chose Him; I knew sin, because sin first knew me, but He, I knew not!
It was He that chose me, Himself, having known me, just as He knew you, from the foundations of the World. He searched my heart, and what therein did He find? I do not know, for the flesh can not boast in such matters it knows nothing of! But I surmise, having been short on change at the time, it was most likely a debt I could not pay!
We do not belong to ourselves, for we were bought at a Price, that Price of which is the Blood of Jesus...
My entire life has been a struggle of faith, and if I had to rely on the message of the mainstream church, I fear I would have killed myself a long time ago, because it just seems so impossible to come to terms with the god of the church today! I am not speaking for all Churches, because there are some good ones out there of which I do not attend, and that is how I know they are good! 2-hour non-interactive sermons bore me utterly and completely, especially if no spaghetti dinners are following the service... Even Christ fed His congregation, and His sermons were far more entertaining even without spaghetti!
I built my faith on the Word of God, and it is that very Word that convinced me I was a sinner! The first thing I wanted to do when I opened the Bible so long ago, was shut it, because it was so offensive, and such a slap to the face!
John 4:29 "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
...and I say to the Church, "Come, hear the Word that told me all the things that I am guilty of! Could this be the Christ?"
Would you rather hear the Word of God, or a watered down interpretation of it?
John 1:1
"In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God!"
John 1:14
"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
My eyes have thus shown me, that those converted by the Word, and those converted by the church, produce therein, multiple versions of Christianity. Which One is correct? Either One if you do not end up in hell; But herein lies the danger as well...
Those converted by the church are converted through whatever interpretation of the Word is provided by church leaders, and pastors.
Those converted by the Word of God through the conviction of Christ, Himself, and His Words working from within us.
"That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."
From the perspective of the church...
What the Church Is, (Christ within us), and what the church has become, are quite confusing... allowing you to go to heaven as a Baptist, JWH, Mormon, Methodist, Catholic, Protestant, and any number of other nametags, placed upon the Body of Christ, the sum of which causes division, and confusion within, as well as to create multiple pathways to the Father, whereas in reality there is only One Way, One Truth, and One Life through which no one can come to the Father, except through He.
All of this, of which, does not matter! ...because God does not care what the name of the vessel is, but rather what is contained therein! ...unless of course, you find yourself in hell, in which case you chose the wrong nametag, thus being my point! It's better not to divide the Church at all, than to lead many asunder through confusion, over what you choose, and choose not to believe, per the Word of God.
Seminary school in itself, has become the de facto by which aspiring church leaders are first introduced into a particular religiously accepted doctrine of which becomes their mainstay discipline through which others are converted forthright in opposition to other opposing disciplines, and not therein the fullness of God's Word, but the filtered Word of what others accept! God's Word, Itself, is non-doctrinal!
Rather than for both to come in agreement and say, "Let us both agree that neither of us know!", instead they say, "You know what you know, and I what I know, let those whom know not, believe according to that which they will!", regardless of whether it is truthful, or only that which they feel certain of!
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. 9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Therein man's inability to understand God's Ways, and His Thoughts, both of which are higher than our own; Doctrines are formed when either parties refuse to admit that as accredited as they are, well educated men of learning, having studied for several years, neither want to admit, that in the end, they are just as, ...even more so in pretending not to be as confused as the rest of us are, and can not possibly know all things in relation to God's Word, even so, whilst staring at Him, face to face. That is a difficult one to learn!
Politicians and speech craft, are to Politics, as church leaders are fast becoming to the church, with regards to religion, as relationships are formed more so between the congregation and the church, than the Church with Christ! As a result, people will either walk out of the church feeling saved, or questioning whether or not they are REALLY saved!
Am I a good "enough" Christian? ...but the Bible says, "Only God is good!" Is there something lingering in my life, a sin that I have not betrayed, that will make God's Word out the liar, that I am not saved through confession of mouth unto salvation, nor in the believing of the heart, unto justification? For God knew of my sins before both, my heart believed, and my mouth confessed!
If I do not have the Truth within me, then how can it be even remotely possible for His Words to be upon my lips, without having memorized a single Word! Is it because I have a relationship with the church, or because Christ has a relationship within me! It is not I that chose Him; I knew sin, because sin first knew me, but He, I knew not!
It was He that chose me, Himself, having known me, just as He knew you, from the foundations of the World. He searched my heart, and what therein did He find? I do not know, for the flesh can not boast in such matters it knows nothing of! But I surmise, having been short on change at the time, it was most likely a debt I could not pay!
We do not belong to ourselves, for we were bought at a Price, that Price of which is the Blood of Jesus...
My entire life has been a struggle of faith, and if I had to rely on the message of the mainstream church, I fear I would have killed myself a long time ago, because it just seems so impossible to come to terms with the god of the church today! I am not speaking for all Churches, because there are some good ones out there of which I do not attend, and that is how I know they are good! 2-hour non-interactive sermons bore me utterly and completely, especially if no spaghetti dinners are following the service... Even Christ fed His congregation, and His sermons were far more entertaining even without spaghetti!
I built my faith on the Word of God, and it is that very Word that convinced me I was a sinner! The first thing I wanted to do when I opened the Bible so long ago, was shut it, because it was so offensive, and such a slap to the face!
John 4:29 "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
...and I say to the Church, "Come, hear the Word that told me all the things that I am guilty of! Could this be the Christ?"
Would you rather hear the Word of God, or a watered down interpretation of it?
John 1:1
"In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God!"
John 1:14
"And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
I watched a video by David Wilkerson on the topic of forgiveness, and in the comments I opened my heart and poured therefrom the burdens that continue to rest upon my shoulders...
I'll tell you, I confessed every sin in my life to my mom, (because my dad would have knocked the tar out of me), and it was the hardest thing I ever did, because my sins are great, and every time we talk on the subject of sin, and depravation, and how to deal with it, and past sins come up, she's like, "What are you talking about?", and I have to remind her of those past sins all over again.
Some would call that forgiveness, ...I call it being over 70!
What's my sister's excuse? She doesn't remember a hateful letter I once wrote her! She's much younger than my mom, but older than me, so I've calculated that somewhere between my sister, and my mom, I have not long before I too will start forgetting my own sins!
What is forgiveness? The ability not to remember, or the action of inaction on the part of injustice?
The Bible says, "Do not let the sun go down on your anger!", with the exception of the pardon I get on rainy days!
So, I have to get angry, and be un-angry by the time the sun goes down, but over time that creates a disheartening of the spirit from repetitious cycles of hating an evil I can see, but can not touch, nor do battle therewith.
Genetic Engineering being put in our food...
EPA is now regulating how much pesticides are safe for human consumption...
Politics have become a form of radical extremism, targeting the radical extremism found on the opposite end, with Us being caught there in-between...
Sensual temptations in every direction I look, of which is torment in that I've been a depraved man, all of my life.
A woman is so prone these days, and without shame, in taking her clothes off, but never will you hear her say, "I love you!", and mean it!
Porn is all over the Internet, why? Because the Bible says, "If you so much as look at a woman with lust in your heart, you commit adultery!"
Foul language, and using the Lord's Name in vain, again, all over the Internet, is practically replacing our native tongue, because the Bible says, "If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless."
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil!
...to forgive a man who strikes me, ...this I can do!
...to forgive a man who steals, ...this I can do!
...to forgive a man who uses foul language, ...this I can do!
...but how do you forgive "Politics" and "Corporations"?
I'll tell you, I confessed every sin in my life to my mom, (because my dad would have knocked the tar out of me), and it was the hardest thing I ever did, because my sins are great, and every time we talk on the subject of sin, and depravation, and how to deal with it, and past sins come up, she's like, "What are you talking about?", and I have to remind her of those past sins all over again.
Some would call that forgiveness, ...I call it being over 70!
What's my sister's excuse? She doesn't remember a hateful letter I once wrote her! She's much younger than my mom, but older than me, so I've calculated that somewhere between my sister, and my mom, I have not long before I too will start forgetting my own sins!
What is forgiveness? The ability not to remember, or the action of inaction on the part of injustice?
The Bible says, "Do not let the sun go down on your anger!", with the exception of the pardon I get on rainy days!
So, I have to get angry, and be un-angry by the time the sun goes down, but over time that creates a disheartening of the spirit from repetitious cycles of hating an evil I can see, but can not touch, nor do battle therewith.
Genetic Engineering being put in our food...
EPA is now regulating how much pesticides are safe for human consumption...
Politics have become a form of radical extremism, targeting the radical extremism found on the opposite end, with Us being caught there in-between...
Sensual temptations in every direction I look, of which is torment in that I've been a depraved man, all of my life.
A woman is so prone these days, and without shame, in taking her clothes off, but never will you hear her say, "I love you!", and mean it!
Porn is all over the Internet, why? Because the Bible says, "If you so much as look at a woman with lust in your heart, you commit adultery!"
Foul language, and using the Lord's Name in vain, again, all over the Internet, is practically replacing our native tongue, because the Bible says, "If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one's religion is useless."
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil!
...to forgive a man who strikes me, ...this I can do!
...to forgive a man who steals, ...this I can do!
...to forgive a man who uses foul language, ...this I can do!
...but how do you forgive "Politics" and "Corporations"?
I'll conclude this Heart to Heart, leaving you with a final [long] thought...
One of the greatest lessons I'm hoping to one day figure out is, ...It's so easy to resist the sins we HATE, but is it a SIN to resist the sins, we haven't yet learned to hate, ...that every time we resist what we WANT to do therein the depravity of our sinful flesh, it feels like a punishment, not for the sin itself, but for the person resisting!
Even though we resist the sin itself, feels as though I'm slipping deeper and deeper into depravity, and the harder I fight, the more disheartened I become, with Satan always there to remind me, how empty my arms are each night!
...followed by my reminding him how short his time is, and how he should be cherishing this time, not being spent therein the everlasting fires of the Abyss!
I have not yet learned how to hate the sin itself, only how to resist it at the expense of my heart which desires it! And my eyes are no friend to me, not in the least; For the second I see click bait, though my spirit sends a warning, my eyes are quick to see, that I may judge having seen! Oh, Lord God, the hypocrisy that depravity doth create!
...and yet in my moments of distress, I can surely give God Praise and Glory; For when such moments come, I am reminded that one eye not seeing, is far better than two that do -- perhaps I will lose the other, and certainly have nothing more of which to complain about!
...and one would think that this would be the end of the burdens of which I am creating all this fuss over...
...when there awakens beside me, spending the entire day therewith me, that burdensome attraction, having no less mercy than Garab, but at least he went away, ...this attraction between a man and a woman so born there into my flesh, that so faithfully, as a dog, keeps me up each night, tossing when not turning, and turning when not tossing; I've been tossed more times than a salad, with my very thoughts a mutiny in the very attempts at quelling said rebellion. The drawn line of which, I do not know, what is accepted by God, and what is not, in relation to said attraction.
What then is my point? I can't remember, as I've spent far too much time in describing my burdens, that I seem to have forgotten my chain of thought!
Or perhaps forgiveness has arrived as premature as my birth?
One of the greatest lessons I'm hoping to one day figure out is, ...It's so easy to resist the sins we HATE, but is it a SIN to resist the sins, we haven't yet learned to hate, ...that every time we resist what we WANT to do therein the depravity of our sinful flesh, it feels like a punishment, not for the sin itself, but for the person resisting!
Even though we resist the sin itself, feels as though I'm slipping deeper and deeper into depravity, and the harder I fight, the more disheartened I become, with Satan always there to remind me, how empty my arms are each night!
...followed by my reminding him how short his time is, and how he should be cherishing this time, not being spent therein the everlasting fires of the Abyss!
I have not yet learned how to hate the sin itself, only how to resist it at the expense of my heart which desires it! And my eyes are no friend to me, not in the least; For the second I see click bait, though my spirit sends a warning, my eyes are quick to see, that I may judge having seen! Oh, Lord God, the hypocrisy that depravity doth create!
...and yet in my moments of distress, I can surely give God Praise and Glory; For when such moments come, I am reminded that one eye not seeing, is far better than two that do -- perhaps I will lose the other, and certainly have nothing more of which to complain about!
...and one would think that this would be the end of the burdens of which I am creating all this fuss over...
...when there awakens beside me, spending the entire day therewith me, that burdensome attraction, having no less mercy than Garab, but at least he went away, ...this attraction between a man and a woman so born there into my flesh, that so faithfully, as a dog, keeps me up each night, tossing when not turning, and turning when not tossing; I've been tossed more times than a salad, with my very thoughts a mutiny in the very attempts at quelling said rebellion. The drawn line of which, I do not know, what is accepted by God, and what is not, in relation to said attraction.
What then is my point? I can't remember, as I've spent far too much time in describing my burdens, that I seem to have forgotten my chain of thought!
Or perhaps forgiveness has arrived as premature as my birth?
Along now, the final lap of our Heart to Heart, this time for realz...
Evil never sleeps, and we whom are of the day, the common Christian, having accepted Christ, find it ever so burdensome to fight the same battles, day in and day out... there are even pastors committing suicide because they say they "...just want to go Home!" That's something I've never heard a Satanist say!
I will remind the Church, that Jesus did not come to save the flesh from the Roman's, nor the flesh from death, which is appointed to all, once, regardless of method, but the soul from it's slavery to sin, that we may avoid the wages of sin which is the second death!
The most painful part of this story, aside from the fact that I have to reheat my water for the second time, if I am to have a spot of tea this night; Is that we must be submerged thereunder this great ocean of wickedness, temptations, and depravity, resisting that which we hate, and those sins that we love, yet never loved us, ...the cost of which leaves me where I am today...
Waiting on a HOPE, a PROMISE, of that which is to come henceforth and hitherto after, that sinful nature of our flesh has been far removed from that Spirit within that seeketh those things which are unto righteousness and the Truth!
I thank you for your time,
Harold J. McBroom
Evil never sleeps, and we whom are of the day, the common Christian, having accepted Christ, find it ever so burdensome to fight the same battles, day in and day out... there are even pastors committing suicide because they say they "...just want to go Home!" That's something I've never heard a Satanist say!
I will remind the Church, that Jesus did not come to save the flesh from the Roman's, nor the flesh from death, which is appointed to all, once, regardless of method, but the soul from it's slavery to sin, that we may avoid the wages of sin which is the second death!
The most painful part of this story, aside from the fact that I have to reheat my water for the second time, if I am to have a spot of tea this night; Is that we must be submerged thereunder this great ocean of wickedness, temptations, and depravity, resisting that which we hate, and those sins that we love, yet never loved us, ...the cost of which leaves me where I am today...
Waiting on a HOPE, a PROMISE, of that which is to come henceforth and hitherto after, that sinful nature of our flesh has been far removed from that Spirit within that seeketh those things which are unto righteousness and the Truth!
I thank you for your time,
Harold J. McBroom