Going Lite

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Going-Lite.mp3

by Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading:  I Timothy 4:6-11

The Lite ChurchAs a sequel to 'Going Dark,' I promised something about going light.  However, I have a four part series on 'The Shining Light of Glory” already and I don't want to be repetitive.  But, there is another word, which we're going to explore today.  I recall a cartoon I have in my files called 'the Lite Church' with a drawing of a little church and a sign that read “24% fewer commitments, home of the 7.5% tithe, 15 minute sermons, 45 minute worship services.  We have only 8 commandments – your choice.  We use just 3 spiritual laws and have an 800 year millennium.  Everything you've wanted in a church... and less.”  What I want to convey today is that half measures will avail us nothing.  You have a barn to paint that requires 2 gallons and you only have 1, so you add a gallon of water; within a few weeks or months the paint begins to crack and peel.  All that work for nothing, because you cut corners.  By the same token, we have a Divine Law (Deut. 23:2) that prohibits mixed blood from entering the congregation of any assembly in Israel, but somebody comes along and says 15% mongrel is an acceptable level to be considered White.  There's a reason why God's Law is not to be diluted or modified, and that is, it's perfect the way it is.   We can't cut corners, because if we do, we'll wind up with something inferior.  The churches today in churchianity are not only inferior to the will of God, they are repugnant.

Going Dark

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Going-Dark.mp3

by Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading:  II Corinthians 6:11-16

Darkness is the absence of light, just as racial purity is the absence of mixed blood.  “And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil” John 3:19.  One of the fruits of the Holy Spirit is goodness, which is an absence of evil.  Upon God's perfect Creation of 'kind after kind', He declared, “that it was good.”  Sin had not yet entered the world.  Darkness is mentioned early on in Genesis 1:2 as simply the difference between night and day.  However, as a figure of speech it can mean misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness and obscurity.  Historically, whenever great White civilizations mingled with the dark races, their societies collapsed.  When Daniel prophesied about the beast empires, it was the once great civilizations that embraced mixed blood and hence, in the eyes of God, the darkness was destined for destruction; not necessarily without cause, but the effects of forsaking the light of goodness.  There's always a load of rationalizations for racial diversity, but there is no biblical justification.  Isaiah said, “Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness... because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel... and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened” (5:20, 24, 30).  Are we going dark?