The Dark Side of "Cheap Labor" and Illegal Immigrants

       Cheap Labor. Serious oxymoron!  When someone is working hard or laboring for you then they are not cheap, they are valuable and should be treated honorably and with great respect, with pay that equals what you feel you would deserve to be paid if you were doing the same job. The only people that deserve the term "cheap labor" are the teenagers down the street just out of the blocks who need to learn the value of hard work mowing lawns or other odd jobs. I was working the soil in my garden today thinking just how hard of a job it is to work the soil and grow food for ourselves and to give away to others. Now, the cheap labor the news and government likes to tout is the illegal immigrants on top of roofs all over the country, in landscaping businesses and, the majority of which are working on America's farms. This last group is why the  Obama administration as well as the previous Bush admin pushes for the "amnesty" of an estimated 11 million illegal immigrants. My question is why are these people on one side of the border considered illegal and on the other a "cheap underground labor force?"

Listen, I love California strawberries in January just as much as anyone else but something in the equation does not play out. We are told lies...LIES that the entire farming industry would collapse if not for these cheap laborers. Keep in mind what that term means. It doesn't mean there is someone else who would do the job for cheaper. We all are looking for the least expensive way to get things done. What the term cheap labor REALLY means is that someone somewhere is not being paid a livable wage, one that the employer would want to be paid himself. When I hire something out that I cannot do myself, it's always important to me to not just find the least expensive but the best I can for my money. That is probably true for everyone but I also judge a job and when someone underbids to the extent that he or she is not being paid what they are worth, Michelle, mom, Uncle Jac, and I always make sure that we pay the person what they are worth.

This is not true for the farming industry. Now, many of us have seen the Farming Dodge Ram commercial. It shoes the epitome of hard work and farmers today don't want to underbid the people they hire when help is needed. However, farmers cry foul because they cannot produce a product without these illegal cheap laborers at the same price that their foreign competitors can. There is actually an answer for this. It is both Constitutional and American. It's called  A Tariff. We've all heard about these things in public schools. Here's a link that easily explains the different kinds of tariffs but the ones: Tariffs Explained

Our founders knew very well that in order for America to flourish we could not allow cheap products to overtake American made products. We would become the nation of exporters, not importers. Did you know  WITHOUT INCOME AND SALES TAXES, U.S. tariffs on imported goods and products till 1916 ranged from 10% to 30% (averaging about 28%) and supported nearly all the Federal Governments expenses until the 16th Amendment allowing Federal Income Taxes was passed in 1916.

Also, tariffs provided Government with money to pay its operating expenses and Federal debts and the debts the states had accumulated during the American Revolutionary War. Despite excise taxes on goods, such as, whiskey, rum, tobacco, snuff and refined sugar and sales of Federal land, there were initially no other significant sources of federal income besides tariffs. The excise tax on whiskey collected so little and was so despised it was abolished by Thomas Jefferson in 1800.

The Founding Fathers did not drink British tea as they camped in the mud, froze in the snow, or marched into battle. Yet we are afraid to be without grapes in December because we can't get a fresh supply from Chile because we're making money on the tariffs instead and our California growers can pay legal employees the wage they deserve. 

Farming used to be a way of life. In fact, the majority of Americans WERE farmers! Total population 1850: 23,191,786; farm population; 11,680,000 (est.); farmers 64% of labor force; Number of farms: 1,449,000; average acres: 203
As late as 1 1910
Total population: 91,972,266; farm population: 32,077,000 (est.); farmers 31% of labor force; Number of farms: 6,366,000; average acres: 138

In 60 yrs the number of farms went up by 6X!  Then, in the next 80 yrs it just shrunk to 

1990
Total population: 261,423,000; farm population: 2,987,552; farmers 2.6% of labor force; Number of farms: 2,143,150; average acres: 461; irrigated acres: 49,404,000 (1992)

Number of farmers/number of farms

Let's see these numbers up close: 1850: 11,680,000     1,449,00                                                          1910:   32,077,00        6,366,00
                                                          1990:     2,987,552      2,143,150



How is it that a man could get up out of bed and work his land from dusk till dawn and be able to put not just food on the table for his ample family but also provide for many of life's creature comforts in 1850 but now in order to make money growing food you have to be a large corporation?

The answer is simple and yet complex. Let's try the simple answer for the purpose of this blog as ya'll don't want to read a book on blogger.com. Greed. Greed for cheaply produced goods. Greed for food out of season. Greed for anything and everything. Not greed country wide. Greed up top. The top where government officials are supposed to be looking out for American's needs first. The top which says "bring on in the cheap goods and forget our farmers and woodworkers and cattlemen. Forget anyone in America who would rather work hard with their hands than sit at a desk with a phone to their ear collecting overdue credit bills."


If you haven't read my blog called Why I Want to Marry A Farmer, read it now Why I Want to Marry A Farmer. Don't let the title fool you, it's all about how Jefferson and our other founders believed the VERY BEST job in all of America was to be a farmer.


“ Cultivators of the earth are the MOST VALUABLE CITIZENS. They are the most VIGOROUS, most INDEPENDENT, the most VIRTUOUS, and they are TIED TO THEIR COUNTRY, and WEDDED TO IT’S LIBERTY, by the most LASTING BONDS.  As long, therefore, as they can find employment in this line, I would not convert them to mariners, artisans (any regular job), or anything else.” -Thomas Jefferson

The answer is so simple. You cannot stop other countries from producing the same goods we can here in the United States, but you sure can tariff their little rear ends to high heaven. We need to put a lid on government spending. How do we do this? Do what our founding fathers did. Don't tax your citizens, tax foreign imports  and then make that your budget you cannot go over, period!  Ever wonder why, if the Constitution grants the power to tax, our founders shied so far away from it?Everything we will ever need is RIGHT HERE! If there are goods we cannot produce, allow them in but if allowing products in hurts Americans, hurts our farmers, you've got to financially shut the door. 

As for these so called "cheap laborers," these "illegal immigrants," well, they have to go back home. When you take away the flawed reasoning- ie that American farms NEED these cheap laborers- then your sound minds come back and you say "Wait a minute, we are a country open to all kinds of immigrants, but the rules have to be the same across the board." Some people wait for years for their family to be able to move to the United States when 11 million golden tickets are being thrown around to those who skipped the process? This is not the American way. Ha! Okay, so cheating has become the norm in America, but it shouldn't be.

WE NEED EVERYMAN KIND OF FARMERS, those whose blood, sweat, and tears, on his OWN LAND, produces the food we consume. We cannot allow underpriced goods to wet our appetite for illegal behavior, and the illegal behavior I'm talking about is not paying a farmer what his goods and labor is worth. 

And one more issue needs to be addressed- LAND. I supposedly own a little over an acre with my sister. This provides us with enough land to have a hobby garden and room for dogs to play. However, I am taxed and will be taxed every year for the rest of my life for this privilege. If I want to add a barn, I am adding nothing to my income but I will add to the supposed "value" of my property and therefore will own more money to my county, a majority will go to fund a public school system that, while professing to teach civil liberties, omits the teaching of where these liberties originate. 

"We hold these truths to be self evident, that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights..." You cannot teach the rest of the Declaration without teaching who our Creator is and you cannot teach evolution without first denying the awesomeness of a God who Created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.

This land issue, as well, has to be addressed. You cannot tax someone on something for the rest of their lives. It's laughable. You also cannot take money from childless people or people who do not have children in a publically run school. If people want to get together and combine their resources to hire a central teacher, that is their free will, but do not go knocking on your neighbor's door. If people want to hold community wide events, that is wonderful, encouraged. Again, please, if you come knocking on my door for a donation, I may or may not donate, but that would be my free will. You cannot make people participate in  things of convenience. Yes, every child has a right to be educated, to be able to read and write so they can understand their rights under our founding documents but ultimately it is the parent's responsibility and duty to educate. Catholic churches for years have opened up their doors to the poor but I say educate the poor AND their parents. Teach the parents so they can teach their children. I daresay, if there are evil parents that do not care about their children that is another issue of child abuse. 

Some would tout the low illiteracy rate as praise for the public school system. Ha! In the past 100 yrs has shown the exponential rise in children being born outside of marriage. Yay! At least they can read. In the early 1900's a black child had about an 18% chance of being born without 2 married parents, which means they had an 82% chance of being born in a home both an mom and a dad. Now, stats show over 70% of black babies are born to a single parent home. For white babies, the chances were a mere 3-4% of being born out of wedlock, now it's over 35% or much higher. Everyone knows how hard it is for children of a single parent home to develop strong. There is a reason why it takes two to make a baby- nature says that it also takes 2 to raise a child. 

Cut the public school strings. It causes nothing but harm and is illegally funded causing neighbors to steal from neighbors. Additionally, as long as God is shut out at the front door, it's duty to educate children properly cannot be fulfilled.

When tariffs and other legal measures are employed to allow our farmers to grow and earn a decent income, when the income tax and social security are abolished and government is funded through tariff taxation on imports, when the public school is dismantled and the truly poor are helped with family education through churches and good Christians, then our country will be on par with the original intent. Then, and only then, will the blood shed for our freedoms cease to cry foul for what we have done to the system they worked so hard to create through the power of God, their Creator! 

  

Bone of My Bone Flesh of My Flesh..She Shall Be Called Woman

                                                       Flesh of My Flesh Bone of My Bone 
                                                She Shall Be Called Woman

By: Matthew aka Kansas

            Introduction by Leah Faith : Everyone is looking for love. More specifically though, the love of a partner for life. How would you like to be the girl married to a man who says " Sweetheart, you are bone of my bone, flesh of my flesh. God made us one flesh and I vow to nurture you, protect you, and honor you as if I were taking care of myself." Wow!!  This is just as God planned it though. You would never fear him leaving you or having an affair as to do so it would hurt the man and it would be like tearing himself apart.

            Ladies, God has a man out there like this just for you. You might have to do a little fasting, praying, and even crying before God for him to clean him all the way up- to refine him in the fire. But do not fear, this guy is out there for any woman dedicated to following the Lord. 

          Gents, this is YOU! This ability to find the missing piece of you and to nurture as Christ the Church and she you. You in God can have the Happily Ever After where she looks at you like you are Superman, Batman, Spiderman, and Captain America all rolled up in one! Cause in Christ you are MORE THAN CONQUERORS, which makes you MORE THAN  HERO!!!  

Now, on with the show... take it Matt...

I come before you today proclaiming that we are to live for the flesh!  Wait you say, what are you talking about?  Paul speaks against this.  No minister/pastor/priest ever says that you say?  Oh but they do at many churches where they speak of permitting sin rather than setting the oppressed free from sinning.  Before we start, I’m asking you to take a step beyond the simple face value of the bible stating that we are not to live for lusts of the flesh.  The flesh they often refer to is the wretchedness of the unsaved, out for their own seemly best interests without regard for their fellow man or woman. 

The flesh I refer to is the flesh of creation.  The Body of Christ!

Matthew 26

41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak

1 Peter 4

4 So, since Christ suffered in the flesh for us, for you, arm yourselves with the same thought and purpose [patiently to suffer rather than fail to please God]. For whoever has suffered in the flesh [having ]the mind of Christ] is done with [intentional] sin [has stopped pleasing himself and the world, and pleases God],

2 So that he can no longer spend the rest of his natural life living by [his] human appetites and desires, but [he lives] for what God wills.

3 For the time that is past already suffices for doing what the Gentiles like to do—living [as you have done] in shameless, insolent wantonness, in lustful desires, drunkenness, reveling, drinking bouts and abominable, lawless idolatries.

4 They are astonished and think it very queer that you do not now run hand in hand with them in the same excesses of dissipation, and they abuse [you].

5 But they will have to give an account to Him Who is ready to judge and pass sentence on the living and the dead.

6 For this is why the good news (the Gospel) was preached [[d]in their lifetime] even to the dead, that though judged in fleshly bodies as men are, they might live in the spirit as God does.

The flesh I refer to is the flesh of creation.  The Body of Christ!

          My brothers and sisters, we are to attain our healing through Salvation, as one cannot stir up love before its time.  Moreover, we cannot love unless we are of the Spirit.  If one is healing and uncovers a demon, he cannot love, for he is demon possessed.  He cannot love, for he is in the throes of casting out a demon.  It is for this reason that we love in Christ unconditionally.  I commend you all for your ever loving kindness toward each of us in the Faith during our hour of healing.  Without Christ we have no marriage, for He preordained our marriage in the beginning.  We live not for the flesh of man, but for the body of Christ.  For I tell you the truth, without Christ, we have no understanding of our yet, unfounded, second half of our flesh.  It is in this God given epiphany that man is to remain in His Spirit and holiness as to not lust for what is not His flesh; for he is commanded to only lie with his own flesh, his wife, his beloved.  It is for this that he was created, and thus through lack of faith, wickedness and hardening of hearts, that he is to leave all (occupation, location, worldly possessions, father, mother, sisters, brothers as the Lord leads), following Christ to ultimately cleave to his beautiful bride, his true love.  For it is of their union in marriage that they were created; thus let not any man break apart what God hath joined.  In this truth we fear not, for we fear not mere man, but God.  When we follow His will, mountains will move, the earth will quake, and seas will be parted; burdens will be lifted, and the bonds of oppression broken.

 
       A man, through Christ, having been made known of his beloved wife’s tenderness, is to overcome his flesh, for hers, for they are of one flesh. 

John 20

29 Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

       For man, not knowing of God’s righteousness, casts down his wife and children through day cares, public schools, and burdening them with their own provision.  As men we are to prevent the weak from being trampled.  You may say chivalry in America is dead.  Chivalry only dies when we allow Christ to die in our hearts.  For man knowing his beloved is of his flesh, sheds his coat for her in the cold.  He does not see himself one dimensional  for his flesh, born through the Body of Christ, yet into weakness is cold.  He must nurture and attentively care for his flesh.   If walking down the street, the man is to take the side closest to the dangers of the road.  He opens doors, as he is showing praise to the Lord through the blessing of being cleaved to his flesh.  We are to be in the world, but not of the world.  We are to live for our whole flesh, through Christ Jesus, being united to our one and only, not our flesh in death as when we were of the wretched.  We are to bless our spouse, becuse to sin against them brings nothing but sickness and death, thereby killing half of our flesh.  Are you still with me?  Now you know the difference from the flesh of man (desires, fears of the flesh) and the flesh of our creation through God.

For in her pain, is his pain.  In her anguish, is his anguish.  In her toile and strife, is his toile and strife.  In her joy and pleasure, is his joy and pleasure.  Through Christ, in the love of his beloved wife, is the love of his own.  For he lives not for his own survival instinct, like an animal, he lives for her comfort and protection.  For he lives not for strictly his own pleasure, avoiding the pain of the world, for he is no longer of the world.  He lives now for the joy, peace, comfort, security, sanctity, and pleasure he now feels through her flesh; that of his own, to which he is now forever rejoined.  And her, being the weaker vessel, he is to sacrifice, and suffer pain in his own right, in the faith that his weaker flesh will be unscathed. 

^{Ephesians 5} 

²⁵ Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her,

²⁶ So that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the Word,

²⁷ That He might present the church to Himself in glorious splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such things [that she might be holy and faultless].

²⁸ Even so husbands should love their wives as [being in a sense] their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

²⁹ For no man ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and carefully protects and cherishes it, as Christ does the church,

³⁰ Because we are members (parts) of His body.

³¹ For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

³² This mystery is very great, but I speak concerning [the relation of] Christ and the church.

³³ However, let each man of you [without exception] love his wife as [being in a sense] his very own self; and let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [^[f]that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and^[g]that she defers to him, praises him, and loves and admires him exceedingly].

      When I marry I will rejoice.   It is a coming home, for she was formed flesh of my flesh, bone of my bones.  Through God were we created, and only through God are we to be reunited. 

Genesis 2

23 And Adam said:

“This is now bone of my bones

And flesh of my flesh;

She shall be called Woman,

Because she was taken out of Man.”

24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

       Women being baptized in Christ, are compelled through the Spirit to marry farmers, not merely because that is our God given provision, our independence.  She is to seek a farmer, as she is of herself a field; to be his most sacred fertile field, and it is her life goal to find the flesh from whence she came.  Don’t you find it unusual my brothers and sisters that ministers today ask for you to send your hard earned dollars into them as to “sow your seed,” as to get right with God?  Yet precious few before the Lord are actually sowing their seeds?  This must not be so, for in this one flesh they are both farmer and field.  A man is to protect, provide for, and otherwise nourish her, as she is his sacred field, the one which will bear his fruit!  It is through the sowing of seeds unto harvest that a man is to through this metaphor receive the divine wisdom as to how to properly sow, attend, and raise the sacred crop to which are his children.

Ecclesiastes 11

3 If the clouds are full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth; and if a tree falls toward the south or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will lie.

4 He who observes the wind [and waits for all conditions to be favorable] will not sow (lust for and or lie with one who is not given to him by God in His proper time), and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

5 As you know not what is the way of the wind, or how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a pregnant woman, even so you know not the work of God, Who does all.

6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hands, for you know not which shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both alike will be good (Truly, seeds are only sown in a God anointed marriage!).

7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun.

8 Yes, if a man should live many years, let him rejoice in them all; yet let him [seriously] remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility)!

9 Rejoice, O young man, in your adolescence, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your [full-grown] youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

10 Therefore remove [the lusts that end in] sorrow and vexation from your heart and mind and put away evil from your body, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity [transitory, idle, empty, and devoid of truth] (we can only marry when we are pure and holy before God).

Matthew 13

31 Another story by way of comparison He set forth before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field.

32 Of all the seeds it is the smallest (man’s seed), but when it has grown it is the largest of the garden herbs and becomes a tree (tree sermon), so that the birds of the air come and find shelter in its branches.

43 Then will the righteous (those who are upright and in right standing with God) shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Let him who has ears [to hear] be listening, and let him consider and perceive and understand by hearing.

44 The kingdom of heaven is like something precious buried in a field, which a man found and hid again; then in his joy he goes and sells all he has and buys that field.

       It is by this truth that a woman is to proclaim, I want to be of the home, I want to raise children; compelled by the Spirit to say, “I want to marry a farmer!”

       Now, being reborn through the Spirit, are we to dwell therein, as to teach our children unto the ways of the Lord; as to prepare them and send them into higher learning.

Luke 2 (Jesus at 12 Years Old)

48 And when they [Joseph and Mary] saw Him, they were amazed; and His mother said to Him, Child, why have You treated us like this? Here Your father and I have been anxiously looking for You [distressed and tormented].

49 And He said to them, How is it that you had to look for Me? Did you not see and know that it is necessary [as a duty] for Me [n]to be in My Father’s house and [occupied] about My Father’s business?

50 But they did not comprehend what He was saying to them.

John 5

19 So Jesus answered them by saying, I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the Son is able to do nothing of Himself (of His own accord); but He is able to do only what He sees the Father doing, for whatever the Father does is what the Son does in the same way [in His turn].

20 The Father dearly loves the Son and discloses to (shows) Him everything that He Himself does. And He will disclose to Him (let Him see) greater things yet than these, so that you may marvel and be full of wonder and astonishment.

21 Just as the Father raises up the dead and gives them life [makes them live on], even so the Son also gives life to whomever He wills and is pleased to give it.

22 Even the Father judges no one, for He has given all judgment (the last judgment and the whole business of judging) entirely into the hands of the Son,

23 So that all men may give honor (reverence, homage) to the Son just as they give honor to the Father. [In fact] whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father, Who has sent Him.

24 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words [who listens to My message] and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment [does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation], but he has already passed over out of death into life.

      A woman, anointed by the Holy Spirit, and cleaved to her husband is to live therefore unto faith, as it was in the beginning.  God, being of all things known will reveal what she is to teach, and how she is to parent.  This being the purpose of her creation all will be made known in its time.

Matthew 6

30 But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and green and tomorrow is tossed into the furnace, will He not much more surely clothe you, O you of little faith?

31 Therefore do not worry and be anxious, saying, What are we going to have to eat? or, What are we going to have to drink? or, What are we going to have to wear?

32 For the Gentiles (heathen) wish for and crave and diligently seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need them all.

33 But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right), and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

        It is, therefore, now, being of the Spirit, and His enlightenment, that we are to realize our true calling.  As Christ Jesus being born into the world, but not of the world, learned, having witnessed the voice and acts of the Father, through the Spirit, so shall we.  No child shall go to any school, as all knowledge, wisdom, and command comes from God.  We are therefore having been blessed by God through His miraculous creation, to lead these children unto the ways of the Lord; for no one shall be called teacher, but our Lord.  No one shall lead them unto righteousness but by that of whom begat them.

Matthew 11

25 At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; 26 yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. 27 All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son chooses to reveal him. 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

A man, being of this greater understanding through the Spirit, understands true purpose, and blessing.  He knows man, being born through the Spirit at the same time as his wife, eagerly await their purpose, and time on the earth.  It is for this reason, that all of creation groans by the sin of man.  His ways are not of our ways.  Abraham shall become the father of many nations.  God knew through the seed of Abraham, that one day his one and only son shall be born.  He knew through Abraham’s seed that our forefathers shall, through His anointing found this nation.  It is for this reason, being blessed by, and fearing God, that no man or woman shall act as such and block His fruit of the womb.  It is in this knowing that God, through one creation, brought both man and woman into this world.  Having been spoken of as the weaker vessel, it is through this Christ given love that he is commanded to protect and provide for the weaker.  For without Christ, we have no love.  When we have love, through His death for us on the cross, resurrecting on the third day, we have no death!

Song of Solomon 8

6 Set me as a seal upon your heart,

As a seal upon your arm;

For love is as strong as death,

Jealousy as cruel as the grave;

Its flames are flames of fire,

A most vehement flame.

7 Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor can the floods drown it.

If a man would give for love

All the wealth of his house,

It would be utterly despised.

Easter 2013 Kansas' Easter Poem

                                             Easter  2013

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                March 31, 2013

Written by Leah

                                Kansas’ Easter Poem 

Jesus Christ, died for me

For that I am grateful for eternity

I once was a captive, held as a slave

To all things unkosher and depraved

I longed for a monumental kind of life

Living off the land with cattle and a Godly wife

I saw myself as a father one day

But I didn’t understand God’s complete plan

And with the help of a wonderful teaching

My mind was soon swayed

Deep inside I think I always knew

But the world keeps you blinded from all the wonders God has for you

Memories of pain began to surface

Things unmentionable that no one should have to face

But the Lord brought me through

His way is tried and true

If you decide to follow the highway of holiness

It will work for you too

You will be cleansed, healed, and renewed

It is never too late to begin again

“All things are redeemable”

Said a good friend

So I’ve taken up my cross and I follow him every day

I know my Lord will be faithful until the very end!

How to stop sin.

      Without God we have evolution which is equivalent to the Strongest, biggest, fastest, Lord over everyone else bringing about oppression, corruption and injustice. 
(Discrimination.) Survival of the fittest! 
            I love God Because he gave us Jesus to destroy Satan's power, and delivered us for aaaaaaaaaalllll evilllll. Now we can say "before God all men are created equal and have the same rights." No one has the right to think, act or treat others like they are better than someone else based on earthly things like positions in society, social status, any thing. No one can lie about someone, or lie to someone, or take from others, etc. based on status, (congress),
          except those redeemed by God and are made perfect before him through faith in God deliverance from personal sinful nature, and those who have a sinful personal nature, God gives us, (humans), a new nature, born of God, (born again), to do God's bidding on this earth, preaching: Repent! Turn from a life of sinfulness; lying, stealing, jealousy, greed, murder, perversion, the love of money, lusting, etc. turn to God! God will put his seed in you, you will become a child born of God, clean, holy, pure, forgiven, lead a life led by the Holy Spirit and you will have God's power to be good and not sin! 
          Jesus died for you!

           John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. 2 This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. 3 In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands.18 We know that anyone born of God does not continue to sin; the One who was born of God keeps them safe, and the evil one cannot harm them. John5:19 We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

Short form of Part II freedom from All Bondage: New Born Christian First Step is he Same as the Last Step

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                         March 23, 2013

Pastor Leah Svensson

Short Form of Sermon:



               Part II Freedom from All Bondage: New Born Christian First step and last Step are the Same



Wow! Stay connected to God! Plug into his electrical outlet, you will never lack the power you need to to operate the power tools he has given you! (Tools: Brain, faith, hope, love, arms, legs, heart, eyes, etc.) They all run on the electrical currents of Loving god. I Love God!!

I love God!!! :) This is something we Christians don't say enough. We always here so much about how much God loves US, but pastors, preachers, teachers- teach your congregation to love the Lord!! :) It's the first and greatest commandment- To love the Lord your God with ALL YOUR HEART, all your mind, all your strength. See, as you proclaim your love for God, peace that passes all understanding washes over you. You don't need to fight or argue or be depressed or feel lost or alone. David was a man after God's own heart because he loved God with ever fiber of his being and he wrote a book of Psalms proclaiming his love. Start today by writing your own book of Psalms to Him!!! :) I love you God!!!!! The Lord’s Wonderful Love


Our natural reaction is to see people as whole, but they are not, we are all a sum of parts. This is how one minute someone can be praising God and the other they are yelling or screaming. If you truly have turned your life over to God (and I mean, truly), then the object now is to take EVERY THOUGHT into the obedience of Christ. 2Cor. 5:19. In Hebrews we are admonished to not just drink the milk of the Word but to move on to higher meat of the Word and if you've been a Christian for a few years, you should have grown all this time to be able to pass on what you have learned and teach others. People like to say they are who their past has made them. If your past has not been in total obedience to the Word of God, then old things need to pass away, be healed, be repented of, and made like God was your center of your being your whole life. This is true repentance, this is true salvation. All things new. Neither do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst; the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. No, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved."Matt 9:17 Christ came to RENEW our minds!! To become pure again with childlike faith. whole, wholesome- that is where the power of God lies, that is where healing lies, that is where you will find rest and peace!

Psalm 103

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

(By David.)

The Lord’s Wonderful Love

103 With all my heart
    I praise the Lord,
    and with all that I am
    I praise his holy name!
² With all my heart
    I praise the Lord!
    I will never forget
    how kind he has been.

³ The Lord forgives our sins,
heals us when we are sick,
⁴     and protects us from death.
His kindness and love
    are a crown on our heads.
⁵ Each day that we live,^[a]
    he provides for our needs
    and gives us the strength
    of a young eagle.

⁶ For all who are mistreated,
    the Lord brings justice.
⁷ He taught his Law to Moses
    and showed all Israel
    what he could do.

⁸ The Lord is merciful!
He is kind and patient,
    and his love never fails.
⁹ The Lord won’t always be angry
    and point out our sins;
¹⁰     he doesn’t punish us
    as our sins deserve.

¹¹ How great is God’s love for all
    who worship him?
    Greater than the distance
    between heaven and earth!
¹² How far has the Lord taken
    our sins from us?
    Farther than the distance
    from east to west!

¹³ Just as parents are kind
    to their children,
the Lord is kind
    to all who worship him,
¹⁴     because he knows
    we are made of dust.
¹⁵ We humans are like grass
    or wild flowers
    that quickly bloom.
¹⁶ But a scorching wind blows,
    and they quickly wither
    to be forever forgotten.

¹⁷ The Lord is always kind
    to those who worship him,
and he keeps his promises
to their descendants
¹⁸     who faithfully obey him.

¹⁹ God has set up his kingdom
in heaven,
    and he rules
    the whole creation.
²⁰ All of you mighty angels,
who obey God’s commands,
    come and praise your Lord!
²¹ All of you thousands
who serve and obey God,
    come and praise your Lord!
²² All of God’s creation
and all that he rules,
    come and praise your Lord!
With all my heart
    I praise the Lord!

Part II Freedom from ALL Bondages: New Born Christian the First Step and the Last Step are the Same.

2 Cor. 3:18 You are changed from glory to glory by the spirit of God as you think say and mediate on: "I love God".  God breaks, crushes, destroys, every other yoke off your back!

Acts 1: 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with  water, but in a few days you will be baptized with  the (God is going to give you his power, the power of) Holy Spirit.”

New Born Christian the First Step and the Last Step are the same.   Part II

Freedom from All Bondages!

Isaiah 58 Ministries                                                                   March 23,2013

Pastor:  Leah Svensson

Scriptures:2 Cor. 3:18, Acts 1: 4, Matthew 6: 31, John15:5,  Matthew 6:22,John 10:10, John 1: 4 , Matthew 11:28,  Acts 1: 4, Acts2:17, 2Cr 3:14, John 21:15, Rev 1:15, Acts 5:4,Rev 2:12, 1 Corinthians 13:4, Colossians 3:1, Hebrews 4:12, 1 John 4:13, Romans 14:22, Colossians 3:1

                                                 

                                                   Theme

         
              Someone once told me, “never ask someone to do something you wouldn't be willing to 

do yourself.”  I have applied that principle here.  Everything written within this teaching we, at Isaiah 58 Ministries, have  individually done. What we are teaching here is the means to total freedom and a life with God.  Now some of us have been working on this for 12 years, others just a year.  We pray that our time and effort put into researching true Christianity, true Salvation that comes from God, will make your journey a lot shorter.  It takes so long because we have Heavy 50 Ton Yoke not is not from God. A  political system in America that attacked the world in the early 1900’s.  It is Communism, a lighter version of communism that has leached onto  America is socialism mixed with feminism, Freudism, atheism, & Capitalism.  All of these “ism” want to control what everyone is doing, thinking, and living.  They start in Public schools to teach their ways.  They teach through radio, TV, music, “Fear” of the government, IRS, the courts, laws, experiences, etc.  All of this has to be unlearned. It really isn’t that hard to get started. You just have to start with one thing God teaches that the world doesn‘t teach.   God’s ways are the opposite of mankind.  Mankind, without God, is a filthy brute beast, a thieving perverted barbarian, a wild dirty animal.

taken from Part I:   [Jesus/God’s Yoke is his leadership, his training.  He wants to give you an education that comes “Only” from God.  It is also God giving you a pay check, medical insurance, benefits, etc.  He will pay you to work for him. He will keep you healthy, well. How?  In goats, chickens, land, fruits, veggies, children, a house, horses, sound mind which equals a sound body, and good teeth etc.  God wants to be the company you work for.    What God wants you to do for him, “His burden” is light..   Not hard, not heavy not binding but freeing….you from earthly bondage,  walls put up in your mind to contain you in submission. .Matthew 11: 30  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”]

taken from Part I: [That seems a little drastic.   But when you love God with everything in you and as you are connected to God this way he gives you back something:  Everything!!!! Clean, healed, not broken, friends, healed, family members healed, eye sight healed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Everything….]

Matthew 6: 31  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33  But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

                                                       Sermon

        The first step towards salvation is:  Trust  God.  It is also every step you take until the day you die then God comes and takes you to heaven to live with him for eternity.

John15:5 
"Yes, I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who remain in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

Michelle wrote on facebook:   Wow! Stay connected to God! Plug into his electrical outlet, you will never lack the power you need to to operate the power tools he has given you! (Tools: Brain, faith, hope, love, arms, legs, heart, eyes, etc.) They all run on the electrical currents of Loving god. I Love God!!

       

      If you have a TV or a refrigerator you can easily understand this concept.  For they both need to be plugged into the outlet or they will not work.  So it is with mankind.  Mankind, without God doesn't function correctly.  Man is dysfunctional without God.  So a TV is worthless without power, you can sit in front of it but you will not see or hear anything.  A Refrigerator with food in it, without electricity, will cause the food to rot.

      Mankind, without God, is a filthy brute beast, a thieving perverted barbarian, a wild dirty animal. Everything he touches, thinks does, sucks the life out of the earth, out of animals, and most importantly,  people without God suck the life out of everyone.

    As human beings we are going to be in submission, yoked, under the leadership of someone or something no matter what we do.  As soon as we are born we are enslaved to the government, Capitalist, even friends and family members who have an evil eye.  Their eyes are evil, they think evil thoughts. People who have hidden thoughts of taking something from you, who plan, scheme, manipulate, lie, hurt your feelings, etc. These people “see” what you have and want it for themselves, or they want to destroy what you have, or they want and wish you were dead.

Matthew 6:22  “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy,  your whole body will be full of light. 23  But if your eyes are unhealthy,  your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

24  “No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

People with an evil eye love money, not God.

They are bond servants of the devil.

John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

   We are kept dependent by being kept in a weakened state of mind….  It doesn’t matter how many college degrees you have or even if you have memorized the dictionary and encyclopedia without God you are in a weaken state of mind because you are not plugging your mind into the mind of God…

    See John 10:10  The thief comes into our lives to steal, kill and destroy.  These people even use forces you do not see to “touch” you and to make you think and do things a sound minded person would not do.  Trillions of dollars deficit is government is not sound minded but we all have it.  Why?  Because we are unplugged from the power and strength of God.   We are plugged into, dependent upon Opec, we are dependent on government, social security, we are dependent on a pay check from work, we are dependent on the electric company,  the list goes on forever……  

      These people are sucking the very life out of us…..Jesus said in John 10:10   I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

All life comes from God. I am talking about the life, happiness, joy and freedom from the bondage, yoke, of evil eyed people who suck out of you!!!  They drain you, hurt you, deceive, control, etc. 

Jesus is:

John 1: 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

Matthew 11:28  “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.29  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

      If you are plugged into/ dependent on anything that does not get it’s power from God you will have something wrong with you.

   We have to think, say and dwell on “I love God”. Loving God is where the Holy Spirit of God leads.  Where the Spirit is, there is freedom, liberty, from everything!!! Read your Bible Son….  Peter said

Acts 1: 4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with  water, but in a few days you will be baptized with  the (God is going to give you his power, the power of) Holy Spirit.”

Acts2:17 In the last days, God says,

I will pour out my Spirit on all people.

Your sons and daughters will prophesy,

your young men will see visions,

your old men will dream dreams.

18 Even on my servants, both men and women,

I will pour out my Spirit in those days,

and they will prophesy.

2Cr 3:14  But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ.2Cr 3:15  But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.2Cr 3:16  Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.2Cr 3:17  Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is]liberty.2Cr 3:18  But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, [even] as by the Spirit of the Lord.

You are changed from glory to glory by the spirit of God as you think say and mediate on: "I love God".  God backs every other yoke off your back!

Acts 5:12 The apostles performed many signs and wonders among the people. And all the believers used to meet together in Solomon’s Colonnade. 13 No one else dared join them, even though they were highly regarded by the people. 14 Nevertheless, more and more men and women believed in the Lord and were added to their number.15 As a result, people brought the sick into the streets and laid them on beds and mats so that at least Peter’s shadow might fall on some of them as he passed by.16 Crowds gathered also from the towns around Jerusalem, bringing their sick and those tormented by impure spirits, and all of them were healed.

Acts 5:15 above: “Peter’s shadow might fall on some,” Peter was so free, he was so fully dependent on God, He was so filled and following the leadership of the Holy Spirit that people were healed by Peter’s shadow….   Peter loved God with everything that was in him!!  His every thought was, “I love God.”  Why?  Because where the Spirit of Almighty God is there is freedom!!!! 2 Corinthians 3:17 Where the Spirit of the Lord is freedom from every bondage!!  It is easy, sooooooooooooooo, easy, a two old child can do this!!!!   Just before you think, do, say anything.  Think:  “I love God”

  Jesus made sure Peter had a firm grip on this teaching.  As the head of the Body of Christ Peter was charge to teach this same thing to the whole Body of Christ..

John 21:15  When they had finished eating, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon son of John, do you love me more than these?”

“Yes, Lord,” he said, “you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Feed my lambs.”  pharaphrase: Teach them to think, say and mediate on: I Love God!

16 Again Jesus said, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

He answered, “Yes, Lord, you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Take care of my sheep.” Teach them to think, say and mediate on: I Love God!

17 The third time he said to him, “Simon son of John, do you love me?”

Peter was hurt because Jesus asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you.”

Jesus said, “Feed my sheep. 18 Very truly I tell you, when you were younger you dressed yourself and went where you wanted; but when you are old you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you where you do not want to go.” 19 Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. Then he said to him, “Follow me!” Teach them to think, say and mediate on: 

I Love God!

Peter said three times:  

“I love God!”

Peter yielded his life so much to the leadership of the Holy Spirit that people were healed when his shadow fell on them.

Peter also protected the Holy Spirit from those who would injure the Holy Spirit. In this Peter caused death to come on two people instead of life. 

Acts 5:4 What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”

5 When Ananias heard this, he fell down and died.

Acts5:9 Peter said to her, “How could you conspire to test the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The feet of the men who buried your husband are at the door, and they will carry you out also.”

10 At that moment she fell down at his feet and died.

Rev 1:15……… his voice was like the sound of rushing waters. 16 In his right hand he held seven stars, and coming out of his mouth was a sharp, double-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance.

Rev 2:12 These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword.

Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Double edge sword:  From the notion that two sides of the same blade are sharp — it cuts both ways. Or meaning there are good and bad consequences.

Peter yielded his life so much to the leadership of the Holy Spirit that people were healed when his shadow fell on them.

Peter also protected the Holy Spirit from those who would injure the Holy Spirit. In this Peter caused death to come on two people instead of life.  

To trust God every second of every minute of every hour of every day of every month of every year is simply love him…..  “I love God”

Everyone knows God loves them but what has been missing since the early 1900’s is people loving God.  Perfect love cast out fear.  Love never fails.  Two scriptures that set us free from bondage.  When we are in bondage we fear something.  Faith, hope, and love are the opposite of fear.  To dissipate fear we need this perfect love.  

 Jesus died for me that I may love God, know him and he bestows upon me His Spirit which totally sets me free from anything.  Peter walked out of jail.

What is not faith is sin, or fearful, dead, has no life in it. A food expert once said, “stay on the outside of the grocery store where the refrigeration is because if it doesn’t need to be refrigerated there is no life giving nourishment in the food, it is junk.”  That is the same thing about loving God, He is the source of all life.

                                                                                                                                   
1 John 4:13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 Corinthians 13:4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Romans 14:22 So whatever you believe about these things keep between yourself and God. Blessed is the one who does not condemn himself by what he approves. 23 But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin. 

             End Note:  The love of God and loving God is not the same love that you have today or you would be perfectly healthy and sinless!  The world thinks that if you love someone and they love sports you buy them sports items on Christmas and birthdays.  This is an earthly love it doesn't come from above but is earthly. Most marriages in America are based on an earthly love. It did not take faith in God to marry the person.  So if a spouse dies it is easy to marry again because the marriage was never based on a heavenly union.  Until you start practicing a 24/7/365 routine of saying, “I love God”, you really cannot understand what I am writing.  When God’s spirit starts to move on your mind to set you free: your life literally passes by your eyes over and over again, as your thoughts become one with God and you find yourself dead to this world but seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.  

Made Alive in Christ

Ephesians 2:1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh [fn1] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus,

Phillipians 3:17 Join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do. 18 For, as I have often told you before and now tell you again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ. 19 Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things. 20 But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.

Living as Those Made Alive in Christ

Colossians 3:1 Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. 3 For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.4 When Christ, who is your  life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.

5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry. 6 Because of these, the wrath of God is coming.  7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must also rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, 

When God’s spirit starts to move on your mind to set you free: your life literally passes by your eyes over and over again, as your thoughts become one with God and you find yourself dead to this world but seated in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.  You are filled with the light and life of God.