[Vision2020] Wealth, Truth, and Salvation

[Ignore False Prophets!]

Sincere Travelers through the Travails of a Transient Earthy Life,

Several recent posters have commented upon the related issues of wealth,
being a True Christian, and achieving eternal, heavenly reward.

Keely Enerine-Mix, for example, wrote:

'No, actually, I don't think of all of the adult men at Christ Church as
"men of chest" or "wee little men."  Most of the men are, I imagine, too
busy working hard to support their families to indulge in the kind of
Trinitarian Skylarking, arrogant engagement with the community, and
strenuous defense of a Gospel of fine wine, stout beer, rich cigars and
slow-food gastronomy that the leadership specializes in.  My comment to
Guber is that he appears to be learning well at the foot of his masters
when, perhaps, he might consider learning at the foot of the Master
instead.'

It is curious to see the response to Ms. Mix from someone, obviously not a
Christian, calling themselves "Lucy Zoe" but who writes in a decidedly
masculine hand.  Zoe does not address the very important Christian issue of
wealth and salvation as discussed by Christ and referred to by Emerine-Mix.
Instead, in a transparent attempt to divert attention from an issue that
must be giving him great discomfort, Zoe attacks Ms. Mix for her Christian
courage – the courage to expose Christian impersonating hypocrites who live
the kind of lifestyle which Christ has unequivocally disapproved and
condemns by making such a lifestyle a vividly clear barrier to salvation and
eternal reward.



Cameron Cargill also comments on this issue of wealth and salvation
including the unadorned but unmistakably clear words of Christ on the issue:

"Of course those of us who have seen the light can readily see that the rich
and flamboyant lifestyle that Pastor Douglas Wilson lives and the kingly
feasts with its fine wines and lavish, upscale foods that the Pastor Wilson
provides his family and brags about in his Blog are clearly contrary to the
teachings of Jesus and surely will result in eternal damnation.

Matthew 19: 16 - 24, King James Version:

16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing
shall I do, that I may have eternal life?  17 And he said unto him, Why
callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou
wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.  18 He saith unto him, Which?
Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou
shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,  19 Honour thy father
and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself .

20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth
up: what lack I yet?  21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go
and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure
in heaven : and come and follow me.  22 But when the young man heard that
saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions.

23 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, Verily I say unto you, That a rich
man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven.  24 And again I say unto
you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a
rich man to enter into the kingdom of God .

The Real Christian cannot also help but notice also how the Pastor Douglas
Wilson's attentions are directed more at the wealthier members of his flock
and how his recruiting and proselytizing efforts are focused
disproportionately upon the affluent."

Also in a prayer which all of us should join, Mr. Cargill urges:

"THAT Pastor Douglas Wilson will finally and truly come to find and to love
God and Jesus, avow that love, and that he will convincingly prove that
newly avowed love of God and Jesus is far greater than his present enormous,
consuming self-love by selling all his worldly possessions, giving the
proceeds therefrom to the poor as Jesus has commanded as the price for
eternal reward, and that Pastor Douglas Wilson will begin to live a humble,
selfless, itinerant life patterned after the life of Jesus to atone for the
intentional, grievous wrongs he may have thus far inflicted without
conscience falsely in the names of God and Jesus on many, many others."



It is not easy to be a Christian.  Christ calls upon us to make many
sacrifices.  He incontrovertibly commands all of us to give up wealth and
its many accoutrements in order to help the unfortunate.  Christ makes it
very clear that the price of failure to obey this command is not only the
loss of eternal reward but at the cost of eternal punishment.

To be very pitied, but not respected, are those men and women who build and
live in expensive homes instead of modest dwellings, who vainly display
other accoutrements of riches, who dine on fancy foods and fine, expensive
wines, and who give their money to false houses of God thinking they are
doing good..  They are like the Mafiosi who think they are buying a place in
heaven by their gifts to the church.  How very foolish!  The only way to get
to heaven is follow the clear words of Christ who says to the rich:

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves
do not break in and steal.  For where your treasure is, there your heart
will be also."

Teacher, what good deed must I do to have eternal life? …  [Jesus:]  "If you
wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions, and give the money to the
poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." … "I tell
you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for
someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

More damned then just the stubbornly wealthy are the greedy, vain, dishonest
pastors who encourage such persons of wealth to continue their unchristlike
affluent ways, who take funds from these wealthy to in order to build their
self-glorifying empires and egos falsely in God's Name, and who do it
knowing truly that such is hideously and blasphemously counter to the
unadorned, clear Commandments of the Lord!



There is another sinful, shameful, impious, and mocking-of-Christ show of
wealth and ostentatiousness that a True Christian will conscientiously
avoid.  Unfortunately this ungodly ostentatiousness is found in many
churches in the manner some dress for church.

Since this subject arises out of a discussion of a church of Moscow, Idaho,
have you seen the way the wife and some of the other female relatives of the
pastor, and the wives of the more affluent members of that false House of
God tart themselves up in many varying, expensive, fancy raiment?  And for
the pastor's wives and some of his kin, shamefully, some of the money paying
for these costly, ritzy garments comes from funds bled from the beguiled
parishioners under the color of false religious doctrines preached by the
pastor?  And how some of the men of that congregation pridefully show off
their designer clothes as if such clothes make them special in God's eyes?

*A worship service is not a fashion show!*  It is not a place to vainly
one-up other persons by wearing something more stylish, garish, or more
provocative than them.  It is not a place for an ostentatious showing of
wealth.

Jesus dressed simply and humbly.  Rather than spend money on other than a
few simple, inexpensive articles of clothing Jesus would certainly give that
money that could be spent for more and showier clothing to the unfortunate.
He clearly urges us to do the same.  Thus dressing in constantly varying,
not inexpensive clothing is directly disobeying God, and to do it in a House
of Worship while pretending to give homage and thanks to God, adds the
grossness of extreme hypocrisy and blasphemy to the sin.

In addition to the issue of wasteful, selfish wealth, Jesus also had this to
say about clothing:

"And why do you worry about clothing?  Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not clothed like one of these.  But if God so clothes the
grass of the field, which is alive today and tomorrow is thrown into the
oven, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith?"


Here is another issue of wasteful wealth and dress:  Does your pastor,
priest, or religious leader or his sycophantic minions wear special or
expensive suits, surplices, or other costumes?

 Is this the way of Jesus?  *Is this something Jesus, the Greatest Teacher
Ever, would do?*  Hardly.

It is clear that Jesus would not spend his resources on such vain costumery.
He would give such resources that would be spent on such costumery to the
poor.  More clearly, the wearing of costumes sets one apart pridefully from
others and erects an artificial barrier to communication – something Jesus
would never do.  Jesus wayfared and taught through his entire life wearing
only the simple clothing of the common and the poor.

If a professional religious person who claims to be spreading the Words of
Christ is so lacking in spirit, truth, and conviction that they must resort
to costumery in order to command our attention and respect, they are to be
pitied, but not taken seriously -- they do not shine with the True Spirit of
Christ but must resort to profane material artifices and devices to gain our
notice.



When men or women become vain and self-centered, they turn away from God and
Christ.  When this happens to those that falsely declare themselves
messengers, priests, or pastors of God and Christ, the results are even more
catastrophic, for they lead others from God's Commandments and Way, and thus
lead others away from eternal salvation.

These self-loving hypocrites and dishonest hawkers of God not only will tell
you to ignore the clear, unadorned words of Christ found in *Matthew*, but
seek to confuse you with other words and high-flown interpretations of the
life and words of Christ.  They do this seeking to control you, to detach
you from some of the goods you need to care for your family, and to enlarge
their influence and sometimes their wealth here on earth at your earthly and
eternal expense.



*Matthew* is the first book of the *New Testament*, God's last written
message to us.  In *Matthew* God gives us the clearest, most clear,
unadorned vision of what God wishes for us to do and the consequences of
following or not following his Commands.  The great majority of competent
biblical scholars, past and present, agree that *Matthew* is the most
accurate human record we have of the teachings and life of Christ.  Some,
too much I am afraid, of what comes after *Matthew* is not only a perversion
of it, but sometimes a masculine ego-driven contradiction of it.  This is
not to say that all that follows *Matthew* is false, but rather that if it
disagrees with *Matthew*, it is a human, sometimes intentional
misrepresentation of God's True Intentions and Ways, and thus is an
unrighteous travesty of false doctrine.

*Therefore*, if something in the *New Testament* seems inconsistent with the
clear, unadorned words found in *Matthew*, believe the words of Christ found
in *Matthew*, not the other.



If you wish to please God, to be a pious person, and to earn eternal
salvation, then wisely avoid all those false prophets who think they are
smarter than God, who vainly think their words are clearer than God's Word,
who pridefully think they know better than God how you should act and gain
salvation, and who sinfully and narcissistically have forsaken Christ by
urging your allegiance and adherence to words not compatible to those found
in God's Primordial Font of Knowledge, *Matthew*.  Beware of and totally
abstain from anyone no matter how smart, rich, persuasive, or dictatorial
they seem who would lead you away from the Words of God found in *Matthew*.
Jesus said in *Matthew*:

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly
are ravenous wolves.  You will know them by their fruits.  Are grapes
gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?  In the same way, every good
tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.  A good tree cannot
bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.  Every tree that does
not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.  Thus you will
know them by their fruits."

Confidence men (and women) are called that because they excel at winning
your confidence while stealing your purse.  The last persons to recognize
and to disavow a confidence man posing as a pastor (who greedily disputes
God's, clear unadorned words from *Matthew* about wealth in order to forward
themselves) are found among the wealthy.  These wealthy, ill-starred persons
selfishly love themselves and their riches so much more than they love God.
They do not appreciate the Great Treasures God offers in Eternal Life, and
so these poor, soon to be wretched for eternity pretenders to Christianity
choose to be the doomed marks -- clinging to their wealth for the short time
we are here on earth -- of a pastoral confidence man.



To help you find the truth of what I speak of above, I append below a few
relevant passages from *Matthew* from the *Holy Bible*, New Revised Standard
Edition.  I have also attached an MPC file with a reading of these same
words.

To all women and men, but especially to those ensnared by the false,
mocking-of-God debris coming from Christ Church of Moscow, Idaho and its
opportunistic Pastor, Douglas Wilson, I urge you to read and hear these
clear, unadorned words of God.

For those unfortunate students of Logos School and of New Saint Andrews,
their misled parents, and all others in the world who have been led astray
by false prophets and who have MPC players, I urge to load this MPC file
into your players, to put your players on Repeat, and to listen to these
clear, unadorned Words of God many times daily until you have not only
memorized them, have understood them, but have made them part of the guiding
principles of your lives.

After you have read or listened to these Words of God, you will know what to
do about any Viper's Nest you find yourselves in.  But a word of caution:  Do
not wait too long to escape these unholy pits or the toxins you are being
injected and inculcated with therein will inoculate you strongly against
receiving the Truth, perhaps forever.

Glory to Christ!  Let us hear His Words and thus love and honor Him by
emulating his Way!

Amen.



A simple wayfarer flitting through your midst,

Paul Sunneth



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Selected Verses from *Matthew*, God's Truest Words, from *The Holy Bible*,
New Revised Standard Version


Gods' Word from Matthew 5: 38 through 48

"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth.'

But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer.

But if anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if
anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well; and if
anyone forces you to go one mile, go also the second mile.

Give to everyone who begs from you, and do not refuse anyone who wants to
borrow from you.



"You have heard that it was said, 'You shall love your neighbor and hate
your enemy.'

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so
that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise
on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the
unrighteous.

For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have?  Do not even
the tax collectors do the same?

And if you greet only your brothers and sisters, what more are you doing
than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same?

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect".



Gods' Word from Matthew 6: 1 through 8

"Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them;
for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven.

"So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the
hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be
praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.

But when you give alms, do not let your left hand know what your right hand
is doing, so that your alms may be done in secret; and your Father who sees
in secret will reward you.

"And whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to
stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, so that they may
be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.

But whenever you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your
Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

"When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for
they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask
him."



Gods' Word from Matthew 6: 19 through 21

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust
consume and where thieves break in and steal; but store up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves
do not break in and steal.

For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."



Gods' Word from Matthew 19: 16 through 24

Then someone came to him and said, "Teacher, what good deed must I do to
have eternal life?"

And he said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one
who is good.

If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.

He said to him, "Which ones?"

And Jesus said, "You shall not murder; You shall not commit adultery; You
shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and
mother; also, You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

The young man said to him, "I have kept all these; what do I still lack?"

Jesus said to him, "If you wish to be perfect, go, sell your possessions,
and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then
come, follow me."



When the young man heard this word, he went away grieving, for he had many
possessions.



Then Jesus said to his disciples, "Truly I tell you, it will be hard for a
rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."





Gods' Word from Matthew 6: 28 through 30

"And why do you worry about clothing?  Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all
his glory was not clothed like one of these.

But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which is alive today and
tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you — you of
little faith?"



Gods' Word from Matthew 7: 15 through 20

"Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly
are ravenous wolves.

You will know them by their fruits.

Are grapes gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles?

In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears
bad fruit.

A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the
fire.

Thus you will know them by their fruits."



Gods' Word from Matthew 25: 31 through 46

"When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then
he will sit on the throne of his glory.

All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one
from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will
put the sheep at his right hand and the goats at the left.


Then the king will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, you that are
blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the
foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was
thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you
welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took
care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.'

Then the righteous will answer him, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you
hungry and gave you food, or thirsty and gave you something to drink?

And when was it that we saw you a stranger and welcomed you, or naked and
gave you clothing?

And when was it that we saw you sick or in prison and visited you?'

And the king will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one
of the least of these who are members of my family, you did it to me.'



Then he will say to those at his left hand, 'You that are accursed, depart
from me into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels; for I
was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to
drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not
give me clothing, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'

Then they also will answer, 'Lord, when was it that we saw you hungry or
thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not take care
of you?'

Then he will answer them, 'Truly I tell you, just as you did not do it to
one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into
eternal life."



Amen.
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