Even You (Can Make a Difference)

Even You (Can Make a Difference)

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Greetings and good morning brothers and sisters. This is Dr. James Perry continuing with our series

where we seek to explore the deeper meanings of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Over the years,

the heavenly Father has revealed many revelations of spiritual truth to me, and I want to share them

with you. This morning we seek to understand how even you can make a difference.

And now, sit back and listen to today's message.

Even You (Can Make a Difference)

"And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name

of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward." Matthew, Chapter 10, Verse

Brothers and sisters, in today’’s broadcast we take up the problem of making a difference in the

evolving world crises. Profiteers have invaded the areas of necessity, wringing every penny they can

out of people. And the people have no choice but to pay if they can for they have to have these

necessities. Oil prices have just reached over one hundred dollars a barrel. The way society is

structured, with jobs being far away from their actual dwelling place, people have to have gasoline

in order to get to their jobs. There is no other way around it. Mass transit has gone up in smoke,

defeated by the profiteers who make more profits by mandating that everybody drive their own

vehicles to work. And because people do not like each other, this strategy works.

The cost of health care has gone through the roof. Every innovation--every new drug--costs more

than the previous ones. Healthcare is designed to make the most out of the life that we have been

given. It is designed to defeat those factors and influences that may shorten its natural run. It

becomes immediately clear that people will pay this price if they can find away to pay it. And this

is guaranteed by the advertizing of these products with the not-so-subtle admonition that if you

don’’t use these products your life or the life of your loved ones will be shortened. What is driving

up the cost of health care and the cost of living? Greed and fear.

Families are breaking down. Both parents are working now with full time jobs, working overtime,

trying to make ends meet, and still they are falling behind. Families are losing their homes at an

alarming rate due to the manipulation of interest rates, and because of inappropriate lending practices

made by greedy bankers. The dissolution of marriage is over fifty percent. Marriage has always been

difficult, but economic necessity held them together, along with the fear stimulus of religion. But

now the economic bond has been broken--couples have been liberated from each other. And the fear

stimulus of religion has lost its power to hold them together. Sometimes the dissolution takes place

because of the failure to understand the true nature of marriage. Marriage can not be built upon a

foundation of emotional ecstasy, for when the emotional ecstasy subsides and finally disappears,

there will be nothing to hold it together. And couples often discover that they don’’t even like each

other. Not even helpless children who need both of their parents can hold a matrimonial bond

together. Counselors have repeatedly said that if couples can’’t get along, then it is better for the

children that they separate. No mandates have arisen from humanism to solve the problem of getting

along with others.

The world is in conflict. War rages everywhere. Even on our country, we are locked in a deadly

conflict with religious terrorists whose aim is no less than to destroy modern civilization and

transport the world back to the middle ages. The basis for this attitude is the disillusionment with

modern civilization as well as the unfair advantage maintained and perpetuated by the advanced

nations of the world. There is a sense of unfairness running rampart though every activity of living.

The Gods of fear have become impotent in solving the problems of modern society. Science is on

the runaway stretch of discoveries. Almost every day some new technological or scientific

breakthrough is announced. Sadly there are no breakthroughs in the discovery of wisdom or true

religion which are so essential in preventing the breakdown of civilization or infusing true meanings

into the purpose of life.

While greed may increase the quantity of living, it is powerless to increase the quality of living.

Greed seeks to solve a problem that cannot be solved by material means, for at the bottom of greed

is insecurity. There is no security in the material world. The greedy person discerns--and rightly so--

that he is just one incident from material disaster, and he knows that no matter how much he

accumulates, he is powerless to do anything about it. But the need for security continues, and so does

the only material tool at his command: continue to accumulate more and more at the expense of

others. This unfair distribution of wealth creates misery and untold suffering among those who have

unwittingly yielded up their share of the material goods of life to shrewd, greedy profiteers.

While fear may keep the mind ever vigilant, it is powerless to solve the basic problem that is causing

the fear in the first place--the consciousness of being mortal. Both of these problems have their

solutions beyond the material level. And even though most of the civilized nations of the world are

religious in some form, it is not the kind of religion that has the power to vanquish the need for greed

by the furnishing the supply of plenty, nor does it have the power to vanquish fear by rendering the

consciousness of eternal life, and this is where you come in.

There is a core of individuals in the world today who have solved the problem of greed and fear.

These are the brothers and sisters who have found their way into the kingdom of heaven through the

good graces of Jesus’’s spirit, the Spirit of Truth, where they enjoy spiritual living. Spiritual living

yields the consciousness of eternal life and love. It yields a meaning and a value that destroys the

greed and fear stimulus. It gives joy to the meaning of the routine things of life by which man must

abide. Those who have found their way into this marvelous light also know what it is like not to be

in the light of the Father’’s love. They have transcended the purely material life.

There is a plan for those souls who have found the way that consists of their displaying the values

of the spirit to their less illuminated brothers and sisters in all of their contacts with them. This is not

so much a display of words and philosophy as it is a display of the living spiritual values that

emanate from the divine spirit within their souls. Their benighted brothers and sisters also have this

divine spirit within them, but it needs to be stimulated. The need for it to be stimulate is present all

around them, and in their lives, but what is needed is the spark for this spirit to become active.

When the strong and powerful view the weak and disenfranchised, few feelings of empathy and care

emerge from them, but when the spiritually activated view the weak and the disenfranchised, they

are flooded with feelings of empathy and care. They have a strong desire to help alleviate the

suffering of their less fortunate brothers and sisters. They recognized that the inequalities of life are

designed not for the exploitation of their brothers and sisters but are stimuli designed to reveal the

Father’’s love and mercy in the world. When marriages break down in those who are normal minded,

it is because they have failed to make the transition from the weak glue of romantic passion to the

unbreakable bond of divine love. They simply have failed to learn how to divinely love each other.

If each individual who has entered the kingdom would posses themselves of the glorious self

consciousness that they are indeed the representatives of the Father in this inglorious world, this

consciousness would govern all of their attitudes and actions. The net result of this self

consciousness of being the Father’’s representative in the world would be a constant display of the

spiritual values of the Father, which would ignite the smoldering stimulus of divine love in the souls

and minds of the greedy and the fearful. And these self-conscious people would go on to do the same

thing with others. Yes, even you can make a difference. But will you?

This concludes today's message on understanding how you can make a difference. We hope you find

something in this message to ponder and pray about as you go about your day.

Until next time, this is Dr. James Perry.

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