Keeper's Blog

• Posted by Rev. J. Keith Sowell December 23, 2009 - 1,181 views

  Although I know many who I believe are atleast in part decsended from Apes, I am personally a decsendant of Adam. I also don't believe that any of my Ancestors had secret relations with Apes either. I see a lot of people who act like monkey's and it makes me wonder about their own lineages at times, but I beleive the resemblance is only superficial and if they were given another example to follow, like Jesus, they would eventually stop acting like wild animals and start taking on the trates that are more simular to Adam or Human Beings. Civilized is just a word. Depending on the words use, and area that it's is applied to, it takes on a different meaning.

  "All is fair in love and war" is one of those uses but what is fair in love, and what is fair in war, are two different things. And what is fair in love is not the same in war. What's right in love has nothing to do with war. Love is Love, and War is War. Love "is' Love, and War "is" Hate. It is "not fair" to hate in love, but it "is fair" to love in war. To love is to finish a war, and to love is to finish a relationship. God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that we may live and love God. Although sometimes we have to make sacrifices that seem bad at the time, love always prevailes in the end. Love without sacrifice, or faith without works, produces nothing on it's own. Sometimes war is necessary to protect our freedoms; even Christianity.

  Is it permissable to fight for what we believe in or should we stand by and not lift a finger in defiance to save our "Christian Heritage". Do we let the secular civilization take away our "Christian Rights", or do we kick a little butt and take names to protect our rights. "The price of freedom is written in blood". Not only did Jesus Christ give his blood for our freedom, so did many other Soldiers and Christian Martyrs. The best that a Man can do in the eyes of the Lord is to lay down his life for a Brother. To lay down your life is to fight. No one would lay down his life without a fight regardless of the situation. No one would give up the Ghost without making it difficult on their assassins. A true believer would see this as a ministering opportunity and would punish their captors with the word of the Gospel before their death. Preaching and burning the ears of their foes while convicting them with their own sin that they might repent and stop the killing and learn to love their enemies.

  All is "not fair" in love and war, and only "love is fair" in both situations. Sometimes you have to knock a little since into others for them to see the light. Even if that light is from the little doves circling around their heads after their lights have been put out by the fist of persuasion, thus adjusting their attitudes to be in compliance with God instead of the World. Sometimes swift and decisive actions are needed to change an idea or the World. Sometimes force is necessary to keep our freedoms in tact so that evil does not prevail. Sometimes the blood of Saints are necessary to hold on to our beliefs because there is no other way to protect our freedoms. But love is fair in all situations, and love is the prefered method over war if possible.