Hi ,

How is the Christmas season in your part of the world? I have some information about Christmas in this
e-mail. How is your family and church doing? How are your ministries? Do you still want to stay on my
e-mail list? Below are some good items, so check them first. There is something for everyone. I don’t
send junk and I try to send only what the Holy Spirit urges. My new website is at
http://www.geocities.com/for_sharing_truth .

I sent some in my e-mail Address book an essay about why I believe in a God that allows suffering of
good people and pets. Then recently the following short essay came to my mind:

Bad things happen to good people and animals because of

1. “natural disasters”.
2. flus and other diseases which are contagious
3. being in a war zone (Iraq is still a war zone and now many countries are actually now in
war zones because of the Muslim terrorists so that even favorite vacation places are dangerous).
4. crimes by others like murder, robberies, rape, incest, verbal and physical abuse in the
home, extreme neglect of children or/and animals, fraud, malicious activity via the Internet, etc.
5. mistakes like eating the wrong foods or/and drugs, pollution, driving a car wrongly (which
could have innocent passengers who become victims of the driver’s mistake), doing wrong
movements in sports, etc.
6. Satan or the fallen angels caused bad things.
7. God caused bad things for discipline (see Hebrews 12), judgment, or/and supernatural
warning.

So, God cannot be blamed for the first 6 items and should be thanked for what is mentioned in number
seven. See 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 and Romans 8:28 (the whole chapter is wonderful for those who
are adopted children of God). He allows things to happen that are indicated in the first six types above
because He is not limited by the time we are in and He knows about how much each of His children
can take and who needs to see good testimonies of suffering true Christians. The latter will still have
divine peace and occasional joy and humor too, instead of complaining being angry etc. The true
Christian testimonies during suffering (like Joni Erickson/Tada) or before dying (like Rachel Scott
who was one of the Columbine High School tragedy victims) have persuaded many to commit their
lives to God too. So God should not be despised or even questioned about bad happenings. He
promises a time coming when all of His children will have no more suffering and have a wonderful
life forever with Him and His Son. Not even any current church can provide such a wonderful
atmosphere that is indicated in Revelation 21-22.

Recently I sort of heard a sermon by the late Dr. Adrian Rogers about problems of most church-
goers via the below passage of Scripture and the Holy Spirit urged me to do more with it and
the first part of Romans 8. I also discovered that I didn’t do the most logical formatting of
Romans 8 and 12 in the PFHL course200 and so I made the appropriate changes. If you want
me to send that wonderful Bible study (to some of you again), please let me know.

Roman 13:8-14
8 Keep out of debt
{and} owe no man anything,
except to love one another;
for he [or she] who loves his [or her] neighbor has fulfilled the Law.
9 The commandments, “You shall not commit adultery”, “You shall not kill”,
“You shall not steal”, “You shall not covet” (have an evil desire),
and any other commandment,
are summed up in the single command,
“You shall love your neighbor as [you do] yourself.”
10 Love does no wrong to one's neighbor [it never hurts anybody].

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 Therefore love meets all the requirements {and} is the fulfilling of the Law.

11 Besides this you know what [a critical] hour this is,

how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality).
For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed
(adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah).
12 The night is far gone and the day is almost here.
Let us then drop (fling away) the works {and} deeds of darkness
and put on the [full] armor of light.
13 Let us live {and} conduct ourselves honorably
{and} becomingly as in the [open light of] day,
not in reveling (carousing) and drunkenness,
not in immorality and debauchery (sensuality and licentiousness),
not in quarreling and jealousy.
14 But clothe yourself with the Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah),
and make no provision for [indulging] the flesh
[put a stop to thinking
about the evil cravings of your physical nature] to [gratify its] desires (lusts).

Romans 8
1 There is therefore now no condemnation to those
who are in Christ Jesus,
who do not walk according to the flesh,
but according to the Spirit.
2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free
from the Law of sin and death.
3 For what the Law could not do
in that it was weak through the flesh,
God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh,
on account of sin:
He condemned sin in the flesh,
4 that the righteous requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us
who do not walk according to the flesh
but according to the Spirit.
5 For those who live according to the flesh
set their minds on the things of the flesh,
but those who live according to the Spirit,
the things of the Spirit.
6 For to be carnally minded is death,
but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God,
for it is not subject to the Law of God,
nor indeed can be.
8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit,
if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you.

About one hundred years ago the founder of the SALVATION ARMY, William Booth, said---
"The chief danger of the Twentieth Century ( and the 21st--I might add ) will be---
---Religion without the Holy Ghost
---Christianity without Christ
---Forgiveness without Repentance
---Salvation without Regeneration
---and Heaven without Hell."