Sermon

For some reason, any time I become privy to information exchange in a Church sermon, it always involves and revolves around the fact that we need to be obedient and stay away from sin and what I heard the last time was “without faith we cannot please God”.

I quite certainly don’t know where to start with all this but I feel I somehow the need to talk about it.  I am not sure about any of you out there that might be reading this; but when I hear things like that I feel completely overwhelmed.  Let’s start with the word obedient.  What is the meaning of this word?

Dictionary meaning to this word is: “complying or willing to comply with orders or requests; submissive to another's will.”  Can someone tell me, if in fact we “can” be disobedient?  How can a piece of pie be disobedient to the rest? How can a part of energy be disobedient to the rest? We cannot in fact be in any way even close to being disobedient.

We are a part of the whole.  We can only be disobedient within the frequency variations that are allowed, which means we are still obedient.  Electricity can flow through a toaster and make us a toast, or it can flow through someone’s body and kill them.  Is the second flow being disobedient?

The word “sin” is another one that goes right along with disobedience.  The original word sin means - to miss.  It doesn’t mean to commit something wrong; it simply means to miss, to be absent, not to be there, doing something without being present.  Anything we do unconsciously is considered a sin. So in that sense we are perhaps quite “sinful” now-a-days.

Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away. It is much better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell.”

If we don’t comprehend the real meaning of sin, we will be sure to misinterpret the whole statement and think it as too violent. I mean how can a man of profound love and compassion, even fathom saying such a thing?

What he meant however, is this: Whatever causes you to forget yourself, even if it is your right eye – which of course would be very dear to you and it is used symbolically just to emphasize the fact - then take it out and throw it away. This of course is a metaphor. He is saying that it is better to be blind than to be forgetful of yourself, because the blind man who remembers himself is not blind at all, he has the real eye.

We tend to live mostly through automation today.  We have forgotten ourselves.  We do things without being mindful.  We drop things, we make mistakes, we forget.  We are constantly preoccupied with the past and the future and forget the present.  That is what sin is all about.

Now are we going to be suffering in hell for this? Depends on your definition of hell.  To me in the Universe of cause and effect, whatever I do, think, feel and speak returns results.  If any of these are in “sin”, then the unpleasant result is what I would call hell. 

Of course last but not least, “without faith, we cannot please God”.  Well to begin with, without faith we cannot please ourselves.  Without understanding where you come from, how the wheels of this universe turn, where you are in relations to that, how can you use the universal laws to your advantage, what is your role in this whole thing, and the feeling of unity, you have no faith.  Having faith and belonging to a religion are two different matters.  But unfortunately they are always mistaken.  Not knowing all that I have mentioned, you cannot have faith and hence you cannot live well and from there you cannot please yourself and in a grander picture you cannot please God. 

Live in Light!

EL