SVC INTERNATIONAL RESURRECTION SUNDAY MESSAGE
Invocation: PROCESSIONAL MUSIC:
Jesus Christ Super Star: Gethsemane (I Only Want To Say) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndZ6B1EaJEs
Prayer of Preparation: Rev Elizabeth Gilchrest, PhD
Heavenly Creator:
We are so grateful for reliving an incredible story, incredible history here in Israel, and Jordan, Egypt and Rome. The lessons Jesus taught are timeless and his Passion during Holy Week are both inspiring and discipline to Humankind about how we are to conduct ourselves.
We beseech thee to cause our focus to always be on you and how we can serve you and each other and not ourselves. In this difficult time of testing, we ask that we experience the Love and grace you have for Us all.
For those who have suffered the loss of Loves Ones and/or are suffering the pain of separation, help them understand and be assured that this is only temporary and they will be together again and for eternity.
Bless those who are sick and help them recover to be stronger than ever. Bless those who are frightened and feel abandoned. For they are not alone. You are always with them.
Heal our Spiritual, mental and physical scars. Bring the International Community closer together. Help the World come to a Peaceful conclusion by the time Jesus returns.
As Paul wrote in Romans 8, there is nothing that can separate Us from your Love and we know that in all things in you works for the good of those who Love you and have been called according to your purpose.
To thee be the glory!!!!!!! Amen
INTRODUCTION TO THE MESSAGE – REV. KEVIN PENMAN
It has been a wonderful week and a half to be back in the Middle East where my Wife Teresa were Missionaries for 15 years. When we left our many Friends in Englewood, Colorado in 1986, the saying was a Christian convert in the Middle East was one in a million. Visiting many of our converts this week, we did just a bit better than that.
It was 40 years ago that Phil Sutton and his first wife, Patti, walked into our Englewood Church right before Christmas. We were a very small and young Church, but the energy we all had in service to Lord made up for in other deficits and when Rev. Mike Jackson left the Church for another Appointment, the Church had grown from 25 to 350. It was a precursor of things to come with the Sutton Viewpoint Center where Teresa has been Chairwoman of the Board for 21 years.
When we left for Amman, Jordan in June of 1986, Patti and we thought their Daughter Alicia for 26 years had been kidnapped and murdered. Phil's Spiritual, mental and emotional strength has always been an incredible inspiration to all of us.
On Mother’s Day, May 8, 2011, Phil began his Series for SVC’s Public Policy Forum’s entitled, “Seeing the Hand of God.” That’s what his message is ultimately about today: How the Creator of all has touched his Life and how Jesus has led him to fulfill of his God-Given Destiny and the best news of all, we all have ours as well!!!!!!!
SPECIAL RESURRECTION SUNDAY MESSAGE
Thanks, Kevin, for that terrific introduction. First, I want to share with you one of my favorite Hymns, “Hymn of Promise”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RHek8k5WoY
The song was written by Natalie Sleeth in 1985, the same year I lost Patti and Alicia and she lost her husband, Dr Rev Ronald E Sleeth. He died around Resurrection Sunday in April 1985, a Professor at Iliff Seminary in Denver, Colorado soon to be Jefferson, USA.
The song was written in dedication to Ron with powerful effects in the same way I started SVC https://www.svctrailblazerpublications.com/when-all-things-seem-lost.
Both Natalie and I utilized our grief to empower people. As I have become famous for saying and is best remembered on this day, “For every crucifixion there is a resurrection.”
This metaphor that is rarely mentioned in any Sermons or Lectures but is the true message of Jesus' Resurrection beyond the all-important Spiritual Salvation that comes with it.
The group who hailed Jesus' entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday wanted him crucified five days later. Modern day politicians always worry about their poll numbers. I would suggest to you Jesus suffered the worst collapse in popularity in Human History, but won the greatest victory on the third day. That's the point.
The Creator rewards the faithful Servants. In my Dream “Promises fulfilled” (https://www.svctrailblazerpublications.com/promises-fulfilled), the Creator made sure I understood all my suffering and hardships would not go unrewarded. I named the Dream in honor of my Success Coach Wayne Dyer's best book in my opinion, “Wishes Fulfilled.”
Wayne's 30-odd books never wavered in tackling the many Spiritual aspects of our existence which most shy away from and find it difficult to grasp and discuss. Why? In my experience with the Creator and Jesus all I have felt is their immense Love and acceptance promised in the Holy Bible.
I will always remember when SVC was in Pasadena, California, for the second of our five General Conferences and we conducted our first skit about me being the Darth Vader who did not turn to the “dark side.”
The fictional Anikan Skywalker and I have a lot in common. Both of us are exceptional Fighter Pilots and we have had Fraternal Twins Boy and Girl, but most important to the analogy, our Families are incredibly strong with “the Force.” There are those of us who have a direct connection to the Almighty that transcends most, including George Lucas.
George went back to Norse mythology to devise Anikan's name. Anikan is a variation on a race of giants in the Book of Genesis and Skywalker is an apellation of Loki, the Norse god of fire and mischief.
During the Q & A session, a member of the audience asked George just where he and other exceptionally creative minds discovered ingenius ideas such as Star Wars. He responded, “We were visited by God.” Indeed.
George's comment was met with trepidation by most of the audience, but he is not kidding. The fact is, he is right on target. Thomas Edison once commented that he believed ideas were just floating out in the world somewhere place there by the Creator just waiting to be picked out of the air.
It was Dr Napoleon Hill who first enunciated the fact that our thoughts are things: “TRULY, "thoughts are things," and powerful things at that, when they are mixed with definiteness of purpose, persistence, and a BURNING DESIRE for their translation into riches, or other material objects.”
You heard right. Your thoughts are things. Wayne was a great one for this. He believed that everything in your world you created through your thoughts. Well, all the events – good and bad – you created through your thoughts. There is a way to make our thoughts very real, tangible things in our lives.
For instance, Wayne pointed out that if you took the weight of someone just before they died and after, you would find no change. It is as though we expect our Spirits – who we really are – should have substance and weigh something. Our Spirits are weightless, odorless, tasteless, utterly impervious to our senses. But that is who you really are.
Dr Hill extrapolated that only about 2% or 3% of the people become who their Creator meant them to be. Why? Because they do not understand the power of their minds to create exactly what they want in life. They usually surrender this power to mediocre lives because they choose to be lazy and believe life is capricious and they have no control over it.
Even in the Holy Bible there are multiple passages which advise us to be careful what we think: “Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.”
-Philippians 4:8
I have converted St Paul's wisdom in Philippians to make my case for what we stand for at SVC in a speech at Ball State University, in Muncie, Indiana, on September 19, 2012: "...whatever deprives People of basic Human dignity & Rights, whatever is defaming, whatever is wrong, whatever is criminal, whatever is destructive, whatever is corrupt - if anything is deceptive and unjust - We will oppose it - sure as the Sun comes up in the morning, We will oppose it."
Further, we should not “conform to the pattern of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. - Romans 12: 2
Now, you might say, I have been through a lot. I lost this or that; or my ____ died; or I will get with it once such and such happens.
We all have given those excuses at one time or another. Fact is, no one knows better than I all the obstacles that we face. Seriously...
I made that speech in Muncie 24 weeks after Kurt Trowbridge did his number on me. I had had two major surgeries of the four I would have which have cost over $2.25 million and I used the rostrum as a prop in order to stand to make the speech. I was in immense pain and no one knew yet why a police officer wanted to kill me; the true nature of my physical condition; or the way the Soviet Gulag Technique Trowbridge used on me was supposed to make my death slow and painful in prison.
Or why three weeks before I had been driven by conscience to Record my International Complaint because no one cared in the United States of America about what happened to me in Missoula – or why 119 Women have been sexually assaulted with impunity or why over 9,000 others have had their lives systematically destroyed. What did we ever do to deserve it?
Speaking for myself only, I was an abused Child from birth and the whole notion that I somehow I deserved this kind of treatment was placed indelibly on my mind from the time I knew I could think. Such a background only made my battle to free myself from such thoughts just that much more difficult – and as it turned out – inspirational to others.
About 33 months later, Jesus told me: "The World has waylaid you long enough. You will now achieve beyond measure."
When Jesus told me this, three weeks before on Father's Day 2015 two squatters and all their friends seized possession of our home outside of Bozeman, Montana,USA, and over the next 80 days proceeded to do over $500,000 in damages.
It took the next three years to make repairs in order that we might sell our home and Angelica and I could make our final move to International Independence Creek, soon to be Jefferson, not Colorado, USA. The time I missed with our Twins when they were precious Babies is what I regret most about those years in Bozeman and why those who are responsible will be forever separated from their Families to satisfy Divine Justice against them.
Remember, as it says in Romans 12: 17-21, “Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: 'It is mine to avenge; I will repay,' says the Lord. On the contrary: 'If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.' Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good” and the utilization of Jesus' Golden Rule.
What Jesus had inferred to me sounded great, but was hardly plausible in my mind at the time. Neither did the idea that Jesus was a King when Pilate questioned him and then sentenced him to be crucified.
On Good Friday Jesus first appeared before the Sanhedrin and then was taken to Roman Curator Pontius Pilate. The whole conversation between Jesus and Pilate has mystified Scholars for 2,000 years.
The curious thing is that all the individuals involved in the drama that day had no clue who Jesus really was and is, save Pilate himself. Jesus’ followers hoped he was the Conquering Messiah as prophesized in the Old Testament who would liberate Israel from the hated Romans. The Jewish Hierarchy saw Jesus as a threat and believed that he would lead the Romans to annihilate the Jewish race. Not even Jesus’ Mother and Brothers understood who is.
In fact, Jesus was at that time the Suffering Messiah as prophesized in Isaiah 53. Jesus’ First Coming was meant to liberate Humankind from our Spiritual depravity. His Second Coming is meant to claim his Authority and establish his Kingdom as the Conquering Messiah. That Kingdom is Heaven and those who are not one of Jesus’ own will be cast out into what is euphemistically known as hell.
Pilate knew Jesus was meant to be a martyr and he did his best to save him. Pilate sentenced Jesus to death as the King of the Jews. When Caiaphas and company objected suggesting that Pilate change the sentence to that Jesus claimed he was the King of the Jews, Pilate shot back and stated: “What I have written, I have written.” Pilate knew Jesus is exactly who he claimed he is. Legend has it that Pilate eventually converted to Christianity.
If you really want to get a grip on this, there are two things you must do. First, grapple with the why the Jewish hierarchy clashed so much with the Son of God. In theory, they should have been on the same page. Instead, they were diametrically opposed. Get a handle on this and there is nothing you cannot understand in the Holy Bible.
Second, view Jesus as a Political Leader, not a Religious one. The term King is a Political term, not a Religious one. Once you see Jesus as the Political Leader that he is, then you can understand how the Creator has mapped out the Grand Design to defeat Satan and all evil forever!!!!!!!
Now fast forward again to June 1990. US President George H W Bush held a Reception for Nelson Mandela at the White House. Nelson had been freed as a result of the International Boycott against Apartheid in South Africa. I had spearheaded the effort in the USA and when Nelson saw me, he made a B-line in my direction.
Just like Pilate knew who Jesus is, Nelson knew who I am well before I did. When Nelson passed away 23½ years later on December 5, 2013, Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stated that Nelson had held on long enough so I could be at his State Funeral as a part of SVC’s Annual Africa Tour for the Africa Project. There Nelson’s Spirit moved me and planted the seed for the SVC International Trailblazer Program. The are over 70 million people who's lives have been greatly improved and even resurrected because of that Revelation.
Six months before, I had learned that I am the fulfillment of the Black Horseman Seal Prophecized in Revelation 6:5 & 6 and that it is my Mission to bring the World to a Peaceful conclusion by the time Jesus returns. Just like Moses and Noah, I felt picked on and wanted to be left alone and that the Creator could find someone else to do it. But you do not argue with The Almighty.
The Creator took me on a tour of Bozeman during my Longfellow Dream, explaining all that had happened in my Life and why I am the one that was chosen.
Towards the end of the Dream, I slipped and banged my head on a masonry wall. I woke up 2,300 miles away in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the pillowcase I was lying on was blood-soaked.
Just like the Creator confronted Moses about his Mission through a burning bush which was not being consumed, the Creator confronted me with a reminder that our visit was quite real and no one could doubt it.
The Creator suspends the Rules of Nature like this to make the point that he is omnipotent and all powerful. The Creator allows natural disasters, pestilence and plagues not to punish us, but to discipline us. Like Parents who must show tough Love towards their Children, the Creator uses these Events to make sure we know who is in charge and to teach valuable lessons about how to overcome adversity.
Remember this in the future whenever there is a conversation about how unfair the Final Kibosh of al Qaeda-gate is to the traitors/terrorists. The International Tribunals and their Partner Federal Courts have decided to punish these notorious criminals consistent with Jesus' Golden Rule in Matthew 7:12: “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you.”
In a rephrasing, the traitors/terrorists will have done unto them as they have done to others.” It makes me sick that these people used their positions in society to make innocent people homeless, hungry, unemployed and rejected by society. They sure can dish it out when they are in large numbers against one or a few, but we'll see if they can take what they have done to others.
SVC International Security Chief & Investigator, Gary Norman, is once again suffering on my behalf and acting as homeless and destitute as a Final Sting Operation just to make sure these people are who we say they are.
Once the numeric superiority changes in our favor as Colorado is locked down and partitioned, these people already have and will continue to threaten all kinds of Legal action and actually attempt to defend what they have done, no doubt claiming their job description requires it as they always have done in the past.
Simply put, the traitors/terrorists are done. There are no Legal escape hatches here. The more they struggle, the faster they will sink into the quick sand pit of their own making and their heads will go under rapidly if not sooner.
All Gary and his fellow Investigators will have to do is remind the traitors/terrorists of what they did “just the other day” and put the wrath of God into the Troops. As Albert Einstein once said, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” The traitors/ terrorists have done the same things over and over again to me to the tune of over 357 million times collectively over the past 17 years. Yes, the traitors/terrorists are walking insane asylums one and all.
Now let's rewind to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the Spring of 1991. According to the testimony of the Kushnirs concerning why they tried to poison me in June 2019 and why they joined al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden knew who I was, too. He specifically knew of my Religious upbringing and my relationship with Nelson. Bin Laden knew he was tangling with one of the Creator’s own and I would be serious trouble for him. He never anticipated being confronted by his equal on the “Good Side of the Force.”
This set me up for all the unfathomable misery I have known the past 17 years. I received this gift from bin Laden and al Qaeda because I have the distinction of being the Naval Commander who led the first American sorties into Afghanistan after 9/11. I then wrote the Responsibility To Protect Principles that codified into International Law the USA’s right to retribution for 9/11.
The Stineford (September 2007); Kneib (May 2008); Trowbridge (2012) and Kushnir (June 2019) assassination attempts on my Life are clearly al Qaeda’s doing and the reason why I have been the primary target during the al Qaeda-gate scandals.
Just as the crowd that greeted Jesus in his triumphant entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday wanted him crucified five days later, at least 455,000 Americans who have followed the al Qaeda script and have seen fit to make my Life a living hell for well over a decade now and I haven’t had a Pilate to try to intervene for me and profess my innocence.
The good news is that my metophoric Resurrection has now come. I was not physically crucified, but my reputation and credibility have been. I have and will continue to focus my mind on working with the International Community in achieving the Mission of bringing the World to a Peaceful conclusion!!!!!!!
In conclusion, I want to make sure you understand that you have the most powerful computer in the World sitting on your shoulders – use it!!!!!!! Let your imaginations run wild concerning what is possible. Know with certainty what you imagine can happen if you practice your Faith instead of giving into your fears. Have great fun with this.
One of the best examples we have of mind over matter is that of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States. FDR had polio, but very few Americans knew their longest – serving President was completely disabled. They never saw him in a wheelchair.
The key is that FDR never accepted he was disabled. To the day he died 78 years ago this Wednesday, he worked to walk again on his own. His Eldest Son James invented a system where he could walk alongside his Father and made it look as though the President was walking like everyone else. FDR had the most difficult Presidency in American History, leading America through both the Great Depression and the Second World War.
I am related to 17 US Presidents, but none directly. Of those, FDR is my closest relative who has been President and I have learned a tremendous amount from him. His mental toughness is probably the most valuable.
Just like my famous Cousin, I have serious disabilities, but you would never know it. On paper, I am 70% disabled and should have to use a cane, maybe even a walker to get around. Despite the pain and discomfort I sometimes feel, you’ll never see me using a cane, let alone a walker or wheelchair.
Always keep in mind, you must think and believe consistently with what you desire. As Edison noted, “If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." Astound yourself!!!!!!!
In that spirit, I want to leave you with a powerful video set in honor of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, Whitney Houston's “One Moment In Time”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96aAx0kxVSA
BENEDICTION
The were 21 Separate Benedictions Conducted Between Auckland, New Zealand and Pearl Harbor Hawaii, all very moving and Inspirational!!!!!!!
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