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Logical Language

A sermon by Nathaniel Christian Ihde.

The Bible tells us that the body of Christ was resurrected a few days after His death.  I believe in the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ, but whether or not you believe it, it can not be denied, for there are over a billion clones of his living body on earth right now.  The body of Christ's work, His words, His teachings are with us right now.  They have survived beyond His death.  There is no ignoring that the body of His work has been resurrected.  He did not leave us because His teachings did not leave us.  He is with every Christian every time you hold the Bible, actually, He is always with you, believe it, or not, you are holding the living body of our Lord Jesus Christ when you hold the Bible or when you hold anyone, or anything, you Love.  Our lord is perfect because His body is perfect, His Teachings are perfect, His message is perfect.  And because we are with Him.  We are in Heaven right now or we will be soon enough whether we recreate it on earth, or in our own hearts, or visit in our dreams, or see him again in person after our physical deaths.

Many of us believe Jesus Christ will return on a white horse from the clouds.  Indeed, He did.  I'm sure Bibles containing the body of His work were transported on many white horses initially and, over the internet, more recently and, again, for the first time.  The internet is often referred to as the Cloud.  God is extremely amazing you know.  More amazing even then anyone thinks He is.

He said the Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand.  Books used to be written by Hand, you know.  And the Bible is an instruction manual that turns earth into Heaven if you really think about it.  To God 1,000 years is like a day and a day is like 1,000 years.  Words do not age so 1,000 years would have less effect than a day on them.  For the Lord a day is like 1,000 years.  If you read the bible for a day, you can learn 1,000 years of history.

The very first recorded words of Jesus are from the Gospel of Luke when he is twelve years old in the Temple:

Luke 2:49 "And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father's business?" or in more modern language "Why did you seek me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"  Or as you may understand it now if you choose to.  "Where else would you find the living word of God?  In the Bible, which is in Church."

His ministry officially begins after his baptism. Here are some of the first recorded sayings during the temptation and the start of His public teaching:

During the Temptation (Matthew 4, Luke 4)

Matthew 4:4 / Luke 4:4: "It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.’" (ESV - This is a paraphrase of the two separate sentences in the original Greek / many translations, combined for emphasis of the complete thought.)  As I understand it, the Bible is a book and books have mouths.  The book is the Body of our Lord Jesus Christ and the Words / Teachings the bread of Heaven.  Food for the mind and spirit of Christians everywhere.  There are two meanings however because with faith I have also become physically full/less hungry from reading the bible as if I have eaten a meal.

Matthew 4:7 / Luke 4:12: "Again it is written, ‘You shall not put the Lord your God to the test.’" (ESV)  Or as I understand it, "Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God."  A Bible can not be tempted to contradict itself.  And a flawless loving God that does everything because Love can not be tempted to commit sin.

Matthew 4:10 / Luke 4:8: "Be gone, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and him only shall you serve.’" (ESV)  Satan too worships the Words of God in the Bible.  Why else would He know it so well?

Matthew 4:17: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." (ESV)  To enter the kingdom of heaven one need only read about it in the bible in your hands.

Matthew 4:19 / Mark 1:17: "Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men." (ESV)  The bible is the ultimate recruitment tool as we see later.

Matthew 5:3: "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." (ESV)  The poor in spirit will read about the kingdom of heaven in the bible and be hopeful.

Matthew 5:4: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted." (ESV) The mourning will read funeral passages from the bible and be put at ease.

Matthew 5:5: "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth." (ESV)  The ones who submit to Gods will as stated in the Bible will be fruitful and multiply and their children will be numerous inheriting the earth.

Matthew 5:6: "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." (ESV)  The some will learn to walk the righteous path by reading the Bible.

Matthew 5:7: "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy." (ESV)  Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.

Matthew 5:8: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." (ESV)  He that reads the bible can't help but see God.  And also after death everyone sees him.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.  Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.  Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you... rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven.  Reading the Bible makes you hungry for a better world.  A world at peace.  And we are promised many rewards in heaven for working toward that goal.  Whether the heaven we obtain is physical or spiritual is less important than making sure we work toward the goal.

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How To Fix Everything, Everywhere, All At Once: Of Beasts, Men, Money & Hugs

A sermon by Nathaniel Christian Ihde

If you are reading this alone read the whole thing without breaks if possible please.

If reading this to a group, read slow.  Pause at commas.  Read aloud real, real, slow.  Yes, even this part.  You'll need a timekeeping device.  Because this is maybe a truth that will set you, me and everyone on earth free by turning earth into heaven one day.  Well, probably.  It is up to humanity after all and lets be honest our track record is, not the greatest.  So without further ado...

Hypothetically, what if we used, hugs, instead of, paper, as currency?  What would happen, if for instance, one U.S. dollar was the equivalent of a one second hug.  Two dollars was the equivalent of a two second hug.  And so on and so forth.  

I mean, really, think, about the implications to supply and demand.  What happens to jobs?  How do many employees can you have if you pay people in hugs?  Are people passionate about working for you?  Does anyone love their job right now?  Anyone have a crush on their boss?  Or a coworker they wish was their boss?  Is accounts payable of every company now stacked with their most attractive employees?  How long do these hugs last?  Over a long enough time, how far do these hugs go?  Who pays the accounts payable hotties?  How do they get paid?  Do the CEOs fall in love with and marry several dozen accounts payable hotties like some sort of K-drama harem?  I mean people work so they can get food and sex mainly.  If you hug the same person long enough, or over a long enough period of time, and look them in the eyes occasionally and converse with them nicely you are gonna both fall in love and want to eventually anyway, probably.  Its just human nature.

Its wild to think about replacing money with hugs.  In heaven people are neither married nor not married.  I have a feeling everyone just ends up falling in love with everyone all the time purely because of the hug based economy there, you know, probably.  What about going shopping for groceries?  Who would do the grocery shopping for your household?  Who would want to?  What about buying a computer or a car?  What would you buy?  What could you buy?  How much would you buy?  How much could you buy?  What would you be willing to buy?  And from whom?  Would you rather pay with hugs or paper?  How much would you tip?  How much could you tip?  What if you were a cashier?  How much would a hooker cost?  Would hookers still exist?  Would we all be hookers?  Would no one be?  Would people still get married for money?  Would people get married at all?  Would people get jealous still?  Would people still work?  Would cashier be the best job ever?  Would car salesman be?  Would they sell cars right outside the factory and take a break to accept payments piecemeal directly from the buyers?  Would we still make cars?  Would we still need cars?  Would we make poisons?  Or weapons?  Or war?  Why?  What would we teach?  Who would we teach?  How would we teach?  Why?  How would your lessons change if teachers after every class you took time to accept hugs from any students that asked?  What if you fell in Love with your students and wanted hugs?  What if you fell in love with all your students?  Would every class be taught by one man and one woman so the students could pick who to pay for the lessons? It is just a hug, at least, at first, so would the gender of the teacher even matter?  Would the age?  What about tutoring?  Who would be tutors?  Who would you tutor?  For how much?  For how long?  What if everyone shared platonic love like a family?  What if schools were considered families and families were schools.  What if there was not distinction between family, business, home, school, and church?  What if questions were encouraged?  What if giving and receiving payment in hugs for knowledge was encouraged?  Would you still google stuff or find a beautiful tutor instead?

If paper wealth isn't the standard for success now, what is now?  In a world of hugs?  Intelligence?  Attractiveness?  Honor?  Character?  Faith?  Leadership ability?  Or is it still your job?  Is hugging a doctor that saves lives still better than hugging a fast food worker?  Medical fees are huge, is doctor somehow still the best job?  How do nurses get paid?  Who pays them?  What would you train to be if you paid for your education with hugs?  How many professions do you try?  Is everyone a lifelong learner just so they can have fun paying attractive teachers?  In an age when 100% of the food is made by 1% of the people how much work should really be required of everyone in their whole life?  Two years of work?  Three?  How long until we have enough machines making enough food?  How long until we learn to love one another?  How long until we learn to love God?  How long until the only profession on earth, the only profession that ever mattered at all, is once again, loving each other and God.

And what is really worth more anyway paper or hugs?  What has more value to you?  What is paper really?  What are hugs really?  Think hard, like your life depends on it, like the life, like the life of every human that ever, existed, and ever will exist, again, from now, until eternity, depends on it.  What types of products would you make if everyone paid for everything with hugs.  Harmful products?  Helpful products?  What would the quality of those products be like?  If you hug everyone your product is sold to?  What is your attitude towards your customers now?  A week from now?  A month from now?  A year from now?  A lifetime from now?  If your product hurts your customer have you just hurt the one you love?  Have you hurt yourself by hurting the one you love?

Now think about it for a minute.  No, scratch that, think about it for thirty minutes, no need to stand while you think, although you can if you want.  Talk quietly to the person next to you if you want.  It is ok to talk to each other in church for a bit, probably.  Read a bit more every five minutes or so.

Continue reading after five minutes or so.  If anyone wept while you were all thinking and talking ask them their thoughts. [Ask them what made them weep.]

After five more minutes, if no one weeps, ask them if anyone knows what they should be thinking about.  And yes read that too.

After ten minutes if no one weeps ask them what would happen to poor people, what would happen to rich people, what would happen to work hours, what would happen to population numbers, food supplies, professions, job markets, housing markets, depression, single people, lonely people.

After fifteen minutes, if no one weeps, ask them what happens when you hug someone?  What happens to the world if everyone is paying for everything with hugs all the time.  What happens to your body, your spirit, your soul?  What happens to Love?  Is there more love or less love if everyone is hugging everyone?  What happens to money in birthday cards?  What's that now?  What does a casino look like now?  What does a brothel look like?  What does the internet look like?  Are there porn sites anymore?  How do you pay for porn with a hug?  How do you pay someone else to make porn with a hug?  Does anyone make, or pay for, or even care about porn anymore?  I probably don't have all the answers, all I know is the more I think about it, the more hugs as currency, seems way, way, way, better than paper as currency.

After twenty minutes ask them about their children.  Will their children ever be homeless or hungry in a world that accepts hugs as payment.  Will anyone's children ever be homeless or hungry?  How about Grand children?  Great grandchildren?  Ten generations from now what's going on?  What will your children choose to be doing?  Anything, in a real tangible paradise, a heavenly man made kingdom on earth or viewing a computer screen tracking meaningless accounts representing imaginary paper invented by demons to make you a slave and separate you from limitless Love, Life and God.

After twenty-five minutes ask them who they would date?  Is the richest person the one who gives the best hugs?  Or receives the most hugs?  What is wealth in this place?  What is this place now?  Is it still earth?  Or is earth now something more akin to heaven.  Was it always heaven?  Was money once upon a time hugs?  Was money always supposed to be hugs until someone somewhere way-back-when made a mistake and invented money?

Ask every person that weeps.  Ask every person that weeps during the silence for their thoughts.  Ask them for their thoughts.  Church was always supposed to be a classroom.  With questions and answers and thought and Love.  Not a speech.  So I am asking the question?  Why not heaven now?  Why did you all decide to shake hands to spread peace rather than hug each other anyway?  Maybe because you filled Gods house with benches that got in the way of the hugs.  Monies are like benches in church.  They are in the way of the whole point.  Love.  If I were to have a church I would use pillows, easy to clean ones you could use outside in the summertime because it seems to me church would be best outside in the grass, outside of the church, at least on nice days anyways, easier for everyone, to help each other up, and hug everyone else there.  AND FOR MY FATHER, LONG AGO, WHEN YOU, AND I, DIDNT KNOW WHAT THE MESSAGE WE SIMULANEOULY RECIEVED IN OUR DREAMS MEANT.  WHAT HAPPENS TO THE COLLECTION PLATE IF MONEY IS HUGS?  HOW WILL YOU CHARGE FOR GODS LOVE NOW CHURCHES OF THE WORLD?  WHO WILL CHOOSE TO BE YOUR PREISTS, YOUR TEACHERS, YOUR LOVERS, YOUR FIGHTERS, YOUR PROPHETS?  Beasts of the field, computers or everyone else, those of us that choose to buy and sell now with only hugs that may, or may not, one day become true love, for each other, and for God.  Amen.

Throughout the Universe, I suspect, all beings, that exchange money for bread, are referred to as a beasts of the field.  The mark of these beasts is the exchange of money for bread because only a beast would charge His brother worthless paper for sustenance ever.  Only a beast would seek profit for something the earth provides more or less for free.  Bread is the right to exist, it is a gift of God and there are consequences for stealing something gifted by God and charging a price it.  We are mostly all beasts unfortunately, but perhaps one day, sooner than we think, we will graduate to being people.

I mean have you thought about what we are doing now?  Lets honestly look at what we are doing now.  We do work, we get paper, we get hungry, we exchange that stupid paper for food, we eat, we want Love, we exchange paper for food again, give food to a woman several times until Love happens, then have sex.  Over time some people skip the food entirely and just exchange paper for sex because it's faster and less trouble.  People raise rents, raise food prices become "rich" so they can have more sex with more people or more sex with one person they show their affection for by showering them with "paper" or items purchased with paper.  This is greed not love.  The work becomes more and more, the same paper becomes worth less and less, we become depressed, we grow hungrier and hungrier, over time we receive less and less love because we've made it dependent on this limited worthless imaginary resource I call paper.  It is so stupid and I suspect we all look retarded to the rest of the universe.  Perfect, beautiful, immortal people probably want to comfort us right now because they all feel bad for us but wont come to earth as long as we are still using money.  Money is too sinful gross, immoral and rude.  Money is anti-Love.  Money is anti-God.

God basically told us once that it's impossible for people with lots of money to go to heaven.  They don't use money in heaven guys, they use hugs, probably.  My name is Nate and I will never admit to being more than I am.  Because I am just a man named Nate.  Not a priest, just a baptized Christian, a normal person, not confirmed of any particular denomination, and only special, in the sense, that everyone is special.  Oh and I hear helper voices in my head sometimes.  I can give you more details if you ask me in person some day.