Taking the Ransom

Chapter 17: Taking the Ransom

For the kidnapper/turned jailor and the victim to part company, THE VICTIM is what motivates the kidnapper to take the RANSOM. The kidnapper must come to absolutely know that taking the RANSOM is of way more value than holding on to the victim. For this to happen, the victim must become alert to his or her condition of captivity. I will repeat it again. GAINING ALERTNESS is not an easy thing for the longtime kidnap-victim/turned-prisoner. For such a long period of time, the victim has been convinced by the kidnapper/turned-jailor that it’s okay to be kidnapped. This... is where you need to be.

The basement is just fine. Sleep little child, safely tucked AWAY in your hole.

What would become of you if your Master wasn’t such a *Good* person, keeping you safe and sound here on the big plantation? Working dawn to dusk makes you strong and provides you with something worthwhile to do. Besides, Master feeds you regular and only whups you when you needs it.

Brainwashing is the necessary tool of the successful kidnapper/turned-jailor. The victim comes to relax and accept his fate. “Institutionalized” as depicted in The Shawshank Redemption. “Get yer mind right!” is what Luke’s captors repeatedly preached in Cool Hand Luke. It is what Life is in the washed brain of the drug addict, the drug dealer, the victim of physical abuse and in the mind of the abuser. No poor soul traverses Life more brainwashed than the Mature Christian. Having learned to depend upon his Master, the Paul-Beaten, Church-Crushed Christian is brutally institutionalized. He needs his overseers. “ME” has been crushed so small, The Church has become me's bigness. The big Paul-Inspired, Church-Taught-Christian actually fears not having Master Knowledge of Good & Evil on his back. What would I be without IT ? IT keeps a *Good* check on me and how I see the rest of humanity. I’m *Good.* He’s *Evil.* We’re *Good.* They’re *Evil.* Without IT, how would I be able to Judge anyone anymore?

“ME” would not be able to Judge anyone anymore. Why? Because “ME” is no longer judged.

The measure “ME” naturally gets is exactly what “ME” naturally gives. As Jesus says, “Judge not.” This becomes as natural as breathing to a true acceptor. You are running on FACTORY SETTING. You are as God made you — FREE of ALL Evil, which includes FREE of Judging anyone and everyone. Starting with no longer Judging yourself. “Judge not” is the IN-YOUR-FACE part of “Change the way you think.” Don’t fret it if you don’t get it. The unwrapping of “FREEDOM” is still well ahead of us. So... for now... try to imagine it. Try to imagine little YOU no longer bound-up in Master-Knowledge-of-Good-&-Evil’s-Hole-In-the-Basement. Try to imagine being, as Jesus says: “FREE-Indeed.”

Gosh... whatever would I do?

Anything you want. Except for a few worthless things. You would not be able to Judge anyone “Evil” anymore. You would not be able to sin anymore, for nothing you’ve done, are doing nor ever will do can ever be considered a sin. To you, there is no such thing as “sin” anymore. ALL of your sin, past, present and future, has been taken AWAY. As Jesus says, “Go, and sin no more.” This is the PERFECT Jesus-saying for us to ABSOLUTELY KNOW. Right here. Right now. Ready? Consider “the adulteress” in the Gospel of John. And — yes, Jesus’ Apostle John DID witness and write this entire episode in his original autographed manuscript; even though (in some early Church copies) the entire scene was editorially censored by the Gospel Police. Why? Why was it Judge Fleming’s wish to censor verses 1-11 from the eighth chapter of John’s Gospel? Because these verses are bad for business. Why? Put on your Christian-Dogma Bible-Maker hat and see why. Within this scene, an “adulteress” (of ALL people) is rendered sinless. One moment, SIN is Real to her. SIN has substance, significance and a Real penalty — death. The next moment, “sin” is nothing to her — PERFECTLY unreal. Consisting of far less life than the rocks and stones dropped to the ground by her would-be executioners.

John 8:11 (KJV) “Go and sin no more.”

By saying this to “the sinning adulteress,” does Jesus speak the Truth? If so, then his Words induce yet another huge Christian conundrum — precisely why the early “believers” running the show tried to censor this entire episode out of John’s Gospel. No worries. The Holy Spirit won that battle. Today you can read ALL about it in every version of the New Testament. But, why would what Jesus tells the woman create such a problem for Church-Taught Christianity? Because Church-Taught Christianity does not “believe” it possible for a person to continue-onward in this world and not sin: “If we claim to be without sin, then the truth is not in us.” So then... what is Jesus’ point? Why does Jesus tell the woman to go on with her Life and not do something which — according to the Christian Church — is entirely impossible for her to not do? See the conundrum? According to every Church-Taught “believer,” it is impossible for the woman to “Go and sin no more.”

The answer to the riddle is simple. What Jesus tells the woman is not a command. It is a blessing. Same blessing as, “Be PERFECT even as your Father in Heaven is PERFECT.” Hey “believers” — try seeing PERFECT-Grace as a personal “miracle” that Jesus performs upon you. Like what you “believe” Jesus does when he cures a leper. Jesus touches your nose with his healing hand while saying his healing Words: “Be PERFECT even as your Father in Heaven is PERFECT!” A Life-changing event for the benefit of YOU, for your total self. True-PERFECTION, which equals True-FREEDOM.

Because of “the adulteress’s” trust in his response to her sin, Jesus sets her entirely FREE. Not only FREE from her sin. Much better than that. He sets her FREE from the entire concept of “sin.” For, when the Son of Man sets you FREE, you are FREE-Indeed. From the Living God’s perspective (and from the woman’s perspective) not one thing she has ever done prior to this moment and not one thing she can ever do from this moment on, can ever be considered... a sin.

As the woman looks outward, she begins to see other people the same as she sees herself — as they Truly are from the Living God’s perspective. No longer seeing them as those who are *Good* and those who are *Evil.* Not as “the saved” and “the damned.” Rather, as the FREE-Indeed and the Yet-To-Be-FREE-Indeed. The RANSOMED and the Yet-To-Be-RANSOMED.

Do you know why people have no respect for other people, illustrated every day by people doing physical harm to other people? Because they have no respect for themselves. It ALL starts with self.

John 8:11 (KJV) “Go and sin no more.”

What a mind-changing event.

Is this some kind of a supernatural miracle?

Hardly. More along the lines of advanced psychology. Same down-to-earth logic responsible for ALL of Jesus’ “miracles.” ABSOLUTELY KNOWING. Mind over matter. The woman absolutely knows — 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts. She can clearly see. She has Jesus in front of her.

Same with Simon’s housekeeper in the Gospel of Luke. She baths Jesus’ feet with her tears and dries them with her hair. For ALL the sins on her head — and, according to Jesus, they are many — she should be dragged behind three pickup trucks and thrown off a cliff while sizzling in an electric chair. However... Jesus tells the woman that her sins are sent AWAY — ALL of them. Throughout her entire Life, start to finish, ALL of what anyone can say is “sin,” has been terminated. Obliterated. Anything she has committed, anything she is committing and anything the CONSCIENCE that was in her head could have ever condemned her for committing in the future. Jesus gives Simon’s housekeeper the exact same blessing in the Gospel of Luke as he gives “the adulteress” in the Gospel of John. Only, he says it to Simon’s housekeeper in a different way:

Luke 7:50 (Original Greek) “Your trust in me has rescued you. Go in peace.”

“Go in peace” is the exact same blessing as “Go and sin no more.” The exact same blessing as “Be PERFECT even as your Father in Heaven is PERFECT.” The war is over... “Go in peace.”

If you ARE a Mature-Christian, struggling and battling, day-in day-out, with SIN, do yourself a big favor. Fire Dr. Paul and start listening to the world-renown psychologist, Dr. Jesus. He is giving you one-thousand-dollar-an-hour therapy, FREE of charge. Reconcile these two blessings, for they are one and the same. “Go in peace” and “Go and sin no more.” Achieve THAT understanding and you will Truly HAVE something. You will have something as powerful as Jesus standing in front of you, proclaiming his favorite blessing upon you. Actually, what you will have is more powerful than Jesus standing in front of you. You will have the indestructible handle he has left for you. The application of his indestructible handle is easier than mind over matter. In the case of sin? Your mind is multiplying-the-psychological-power of What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross over intangible naught. For, sin is NOTHING. Always has been. Always will be. In the interim, we humans have turned it (this empty-specter we call “sin”) into... something.

Pull out a sin and hold it out for me so I can see it in your hand. You cannot. Why? Because “sin” is entirely conceptual. Worse than conceptual, it is entirely relative. It differs from place to place, Religion to Religion, denomination to denomination and from one perspective to another. Intangible nothingness.

Under PERFECT-Grace, it becomes INCONSEQUENTIAL intangible nothingness. Even if you “commit” anything that anyone else may consider “a sin,” before it has even been “committed” it is-no-more. For, it has already been taken AWAY.

Jack asks, “So we can just go ahead and sin ALL we want?”

No. Don’t be silly. Once you Truly-Accept What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross, as far as you and the Living God are concerned, there is not one single thing you can possibly do from here on out that can be considered a sin. The act itself has been turned into nothing.

According to The Church, eating meat on a Friday during Lent... AND... two consenting adults having sex outside of marriage... are both mortal sins. Outside of the Evil of Truly-Accepting these things as Evil, we do not diminish the Absolute of EVERYTHING one iota by choosing to eat meat on a Friday in the middle of a Church-Proclaimed season of Lent... or... by two consenting single adults having sex outside of marriage. By the same token, there is no inherent Evil in choosing to abstain from eating meat on Friday nor by two consenting single adults choosing not to have sex outside of marriage. Would you like to know two unanimous absolutes? There is no natural desire within any human being to tell a hurtful lie nor to commit murder. Quite the contrary. On FACTORY SETTING, these hurtful manifestations clearly become entirely unnatural to us. They go against our True Nature.

“Lead us NOT into temptation.”

We should plaster the Words of the Holy Spirit onto our T-Shirts already:

In giving “sin” absolutely no power whatsoever, eventually (much sooner than later) the inclination, the desire and even the ability to bring True Evil into this world falls entirely by the wayside. Ultimately, the true acceptor becomes slapped in the face with the obvious questions: What is the point in me telling a harmful lie? It makes much more sense for me to tell the helpful Truth. What is the point in me killing someone? It makes much more sense for me to save a Life than it does for me to take one. What is the point in me doing anything to others I wouldn’t want have done to myself? It makes much more sense for me to do unto others exactly as I would have them do unto me.

Giving sin absolutely no power whatsoever changes one’s entire perspective. Jesus really means it: Go and sin no more. The entire concept of “sin” is flushed into oblivion by our Inundated-Change-of-Mind.

Jack contends, “Being able to do whatever we want with no spiritual consequences? Why, we’d have chaos, unbridled debauchery, rape, pillaging, war and murder in the street!”

No. Don’t be silly. That is exactly what we HAVE. Right now. That IS the status quo. We had thousands of years of it before Christianity. We had two-thousand years of it, during Christianity. And, guess what? We still have it... right now. Perhaps Christianity is not the answer. (Ya think?) Why don’t we give The Jesus-Concept a try for a couple hundred years and see how we do? PERFECT-Grace, Truly-Accepted, pulls the plug on sin. Making it powerless. Causing it to become... ( ). Unfortunately, it is PERFECT-Grace that has become ( ). Diluted, deprecated and destroyed under The Church’s watch. Starting with Paul’s faithless and fearful question:

Romans 6:15 “What then, shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under PERFECT-Grace?”

The hard Truth? Paul feared living in a world that has no fear of sin... and so he turned the power switch back on. Look around. How is Paul’s fearful answer to his faithless question working out for humanity?

It is not working. Not even today as humans try to be “woke” in the twenty-first century. 99.9999999% of our world’s adult population are still running amuck sinning. Only, the rotten-blot of SIN has gotten two hundred times worse. Thanks to Paul’s additional dos and don’ts, everything we do or don’t do is a sin. Even drinking a soda while watching a 1937, G-rated Disney flick. Tell ’em Paul:

Well, the soda has sugar, which is harmful to our bodies and is therefore a “defilement of our flesh.” (2 Corinthians 7:1) AND... drinking a soda in no way helps to “glorify God.” (1 Corinthians 10:31) As for the Disney flick, many of those Disney characters possess powers and wonders that appear to be God-like. AND... viewing THAT is tantamount to dabbling in the occult and witchcraft. Such fantasy is a perversion of Life itself and outright idolatry. AND... viewing ANY movie is a waste of your precious Time that you could use worshiping God or reading the Scriptures. (Ephesians 5:15-16)

Sin is produced by insanity. Paul’s Outright-Pharisee-Insanity over “sin” is a Class-A example of why the Living God of Light is so adamantly opposed to Organized Religion. Such ridiculous burdens and rules and regulations reduce a human being into nothing more than a slave to absolutely NOTHING. Of the scribes and Pharisee-Extremists, Jesus says:

Matthew 23:4 (NLT) “They crush people with unbearable religious demands and never lift a finger to ease the burden.”

Jack asks, “With everyone doing whatever they want, what would become of the world?”

It is called FREEDOM. Total FREEDOM — which our adult world has never experienced throughout ALL of recorded history; save for the few brief paragraphs of human history found in the first two chapters of Genesis. Leading up to Chapter 3, of course, when disaster struck. That’s when we handed ourselves over to the Conscience-Plantation run by Master Knowledge of Good & Evil.

Verily, verily, changing your mind from “Good AND Evil” back to IT’S-ALL-GOOD... is... that simple. Wanting to hold on to the huge, rotting board is the worst way to remained impaled by IT and enslaved to it. IT is a prison — a prison that becomes more and more complicated with each and every generation. IT has long since become escape-proof; sealed tight with firewalls, spikes in the ground pointed downward and upward. Electric fencing and security cameras to boot. In our day and age, escape is no longer possible. Escape is impossible. There is only one route to survival. A God-Given blessing.

RANSOM

Again, may I offer some GOOD advice — GOOD advice to both you (the kidnapper) and YOU (the little child kept in the hole). The best advice known to MAN. Take your blessing. Same as the woman Judged “adulteress” took her blessing. Understand this: The second most important thing in that woman’s Life is Jesus invoking his blessing upon her. The first most important thing in her Life is her Truly-Taking his blessing. Truly-Accepting it. Understand: This is not any kind of a spiritual, eenie-meanie, pie-in-the-sky “miracle,” arms-raised-on-high religious event. This is a totally down-to-earth event. This is entirely psychological. She Truly-Accepts his blessing, 100%. No ifs, ands or buts. That was two-thousand years ago. We need a much more powerful psychological blessing in our day. The Knowledge of Good & Evil has multiplied exponentially two-hundred times in the last 2000 years. Yet, the psychology of the Jesus Concept still works the same. Right now. Taken in its pure form (undiluted), What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is always ten-trillion times more powerful than whatever new and improved version of THE HORSE we’ve spun in our heads.

Powerful stuff.

The SECOND most important thing in your Life is what’s been done for you on the cross. The FIRST most important thing in your Life is you Truly-Taking what’s been done for you on the cross — Truly-Accepting it as YOURS — 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts.

Simply stand up, lay down or (geeze) just sit where you are... and TAKE your RANSOM.

Still... to do that, just to be able to do that... most of us do need a “miracle.” It does seem to take “a miraculous event” for a comatose kidnap victim to simply... wake up. PERFECTLY alert. Even “*Evil* old Hollywood” would describe such a thing as “a miracle” in the aftermath. Wow. The Holy Spirit is calling the undivided attention of ALL comatose-kidnap-victims to Hollywood’s hit TV show, I Survived. The Holy Spirit has produced a VERY GOOD episode for Carl to watch — Carl, the Catholic dude who woke-up at the end of our last chapter and asked that terrific question: “What does it mean to Truly TAKE the RANSOM?” Along with wide-awake Comatose-Carl, lets ALL tune-in to this episode:

“...it was as if I’d been touched by an angel. I woke up. I actually sat up — out of total unconsciousness.

“The first thing I noticed was the hollow I’d been thrown into — a hole cut out of the basement floor. And, so I figured, if I could just get these ropes untied, I could climb out of that hole I had spent my Life in. Much to my surprise, I found that my kidnapper hadn’t done a very good job of tying me up. The ropes just about fell off of me. I stood up and realized, the hole wasn’t really that deep.

“I got up out of that hole, and I noticed something right-off. There was a table set up toward the far corner. The entire wall to the right of the table was mirrored and spotless — like one of them full-wall­mirrors you see at a martial arts gym or in a dance rehearsal hall. The table had been set real nice but, it must-a been done a long time ago. It was dusty and dirty from being there for so many years in that cellar.

“So I did my best to walk to the table. It was tough to do, but my legs were getting better with each step. When I got to the table, I noticed something right off. There was a note in the middle of the table.

“Well, I picked up the note and blew the dust off of it... and there it was. In print. Right in front of me. One single sentence out of the Bible. Now, I’m not much for knowing the Bible too good, but I’ll never forget that memo as long as I Live. It read:

‘For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his Life as a RANSOM for many.’ Mark 10:45

“That was the inscription: Mark 10:45.

“To this day, I still remember that number. ’Cause, to me, it read like the time shown on a digital clock (10:45). That was encouraging. Because I had been down there for so much time. I had completely lost track of Time. Really... I didn’t even know what year it was.

“It was like: whoa, it’s 10:45!

“And, maybe. Just maybe, my Time had finally come to be rescued. And, as soon as that thought hit my head, I noticed the word ‘RANSOM.’

“Boy, I’ll tell you what. That really got my attention. I’m not the most educated person in the world, but I know this. There’s only one thing anyone pays a RANSOM for. To buy somebody’s FREEDOM.”

We’ll be right back with the conclusion of this week’s episode of I Survived.

(Go to commercial)

Oh, don’t you hate it when they do that? Right on a cliff hanger, too.

Well, blimey. IT’S-ALL-GOOD. This gives us a chance to refresh and make an observation. We ALL know who the kidnapper is (CONSCIENCE). We ALL know who ITS accomplices are (Guilt, Sin and O Death). Would you like to know the absolute God’s-Honest Truth? Most people would accept the RANSOM instantaneously...

...as long as he or she or they hadn’t already heard a single word about Jesus.

Of course, that is nearly impossible in our day and age and experience. Close-to-impossible to remedy. Because, nearly everyone in the “FREE world” has already heard about Jesus and, consequentially, has already made a determination about him based upon the outlets from which they were told about him...

Okay, I’ll hush... the I Survived episode is back on... Shhh!

A man who had been kidnapped for many years was startled awake, finding himself in a hole dug into a basement dirt-floor. He went to a table in the corner of the cellar and found a note. And, on that note was written a single Bible verse.

‘For even the Son of Man came not to be served, but to serve others and to give his Life as a RANSOM for many.’ Mark 10:45

“Boy, I’ll tell you what. That ‘RANSOM’ part really got my attention. Here, I’d been kidnapped ALL these years and, now, here’s a note, in the very cellar I’d been jailed-AWAY-in ALL this time. And, this ‘Son-of-Man’ guy is talkin’ about this ‘RANSOM’ bein’ a ‘gift,’ — ‘to “GIVE” the Life of him as a RANSOM for many.’ ‘GIVE’ got my attention. I sure couldn’t pay my way to get out of there. Yet, this Son of Man dude was talkin’ about payin’ the guy off who was holdin’ me hostage down there. Buy my way out of there. Buy my FREEDOM. And, what he was talkin’ about givin’ AS the RANSOM... was his Life. That part was kinda scary to me. It made me feel a little bit sick. Sounded like this guy was maybe part of a suicide-squad that was gonna bust-up in that place and get me the (bleep) out of there. I sure didn’t want anybody to have to die in the process. But... but... I sure did want to get out of there — more so than anything else in the whole world.

“Then I saw the word ‘MANY’ — ‘To give the Life of him as a RANSOM for “MANY”.’ And ‘MANY’ was also very encouraging. I wasn’t the only one. Yeah, I admit, looking at ‘MANY’ that way maybe had something to do with that ‘misery-loves-company’ thing...

(laughter)

“But, no... really... more so than that. I realized, right off, that out of ALL these ‘MANY’ he was talking about — so many — there were probably those far more deserving of being rescued than me. Like as if a whole ship-full of people had fell into the water off a big ocean liner. The guy that’s risking his Life to paddle the lifeboat out to us. He’s not just doing it for me. He’s doing it for ALL of us.

“But, then again, I thought. You know. He is doing it for me.

“Sure, he’s going out there, into the unknown — into the murky Dark Sea for everyone. But, he’s also going out there... for me.

“The point I’m getting at, since this rescue-deal involved so many victims, I figured this was a very serious rescue plan. And, so, immediately, I just knew it was For-Real.

“And, if they — ALL those ‘many’ — could be rescued. Well, maybe. Just maybe... I could be, too.

“And, for the first time, as far back as I can remember, I anticipated my FREEDOM.

“I actually had hope.

“Real hope.

“Hope felt very wonderful. Hope after ALL those years.

“Then, ALL at once, a satchel came smashing through the window and landed on the table. With that murky glass window broke out, it filled up the whole room with light from outside the cellar.

“As I looked at the leather bag, I just about froze in my skin. ’Cause...

“To the right of that bag was my kidnapper! Plain as day! The brute who had held me there, in that cellar, bound in that hollow for ALL them years.

“Well, the kidnapper always had a lot to say whenever he came down to the basement. But, this time, he didn’t have nothin’ to say at ALL. He just stood there, in the glare of ALL that brightness coming in through the broke window. ALL that daylight, which filled the cellar — for the first time in...

(Choked up and wiping back a tear)

“...in a long time.”

(The crew has to stop the camera here.)

(We’re back now.)

“Anyway, my kidnapper just stood there, speechless. Like as if HE was froze-stiff in HIS skin, too.

“Because he was.

“Because I was. Because I was looking at myself in the mirror. My kidnapper didn’t have to open the bag. ’Cause he already knew what was in it. There was, however, a note attached to the handle. He took it and read it aloud:

‘My dear, sweet, little child,
This RANSOM is for you.
If your abductor accepts it, you are FREE. FREE-Indeed.’

“The look on my kidnapper’s face said it ALL. My captor was genuinely sorry for what he had done. For the first time, HE was sorry and ashamed. He was blank and had nothing to say. And, so, I did ALL the talking for once. Instead of my conscience... I mean... instead of my kidnapper doing it for me.

“And, so, I said to him, I said, ‘There’s your RANSOM. You’re paid in full. Take it. The treasure within this satchel makes you a very rich man. A very rich man, indeed. Because this RANSOM makes you paid-in-full as well.

“‘I got it,’ my kidnapper said back to me. ‘May I please say something now?’

“‘Go ahead,’ I told him.

He spoke up loud as ever: “‘I accept this RANSOM in full. It completely covers ALL my demands and ALL my accusations — as long as... from here on out you walk the road that’s straight and narrow.’

“I stopped him right there. ‘Don’t make a mockery of this payoff! Trying to tell me that this paid-in-full RANSOM is not enough. I’m on to ALL of your tricks!’

“He looked at me so peculiar. ‘How did a little runt like you ever get so smart?’

“‘I don’t know,’ I told him. ‘Maybe it’s the Spirit of God helping me sort this out. So shut up and listen! This RANSOM covers ALL of what you HAVE or COULD EVER possibly convince me is sin. From here on out, I’m blind to it. From here on out, I have no sin. From here on out, if you or anyone else even mentions that s-word to me, I’m deaf to it. You want to know what I’m gonna see from here on out? You want to know what I’m gonna always see?’

“He barely whispered with a questioning look on his face, ‘What?’

“I told him straight up, I said, ‘The memory of seein’ you with that RANSOM you got right there in your hands. THAT'S what I’m gonna see. Forever. You’re paid in full, buster. Now, and forevermore!’

“What he said next was loud and clear. ‘Well, yeah. I mean... I don’t have one thing left... in the whole depths of my essence... to accuse you of. I mean, hey. It’s ALL-GOOD. And, so... I’ll just be taking this. And, while the gettin’s GOOD... I’ll be on my way.’

“‘Damned-right, take it,’ I said... I told him as he jumped out the window. ‘Take it, and get the (bleep) out of here.’”

Cut! Cut! This guy is obviously nuts!

The God’s-Honest Truth can be comically ironic. “This guy”... just regained his sanity.

It is amazing how easy it is to be PERFECTLY cured of IT the very first time one sees and acts upon the gift. By simply and Truly-Accepting the gift. By simply and Truly... TAKING... the RANSOM.

Glen, a renounced Born-Again Christian asks, “What DOES actually happen internally? How do you KNOW you really have it... For-Real?”

It is as simple as changing the channel on the TV. You simply... change... what you see. You are permanently struck blind to your “sin” by you Truly seeing what’s been done for you on the cross. You eternally see that “satchel” in your ex-Master’s hands.

The satchel is sitting on the table right in front of each and every one of us. The Holy Spirit has an interesting saying:

“It can take two seconds or it can take a million years.”

Ultimately, we WILL... ALL... get there. Even if it does take us a million years to do so. But... really? Does it need to take that long? It could take two seconds. So, here is the optimum question. What is your response right now? There are only a handful of initial “right-now” ways that a human being can possibly respond to being given a FREE gift. Mind you, not offered a FREE gift. Absolutely given a FREE gift. As in: Here it is. It’s yours. Happy birthday! Your FREE gift is right here in front of you. On the table. Your turn. What’ch-ya gonna do with it? Hmmm... something. That’s for sure. What can any person do with it? Let’s do a top-ten list, beginning with the worst possible response to the best.

1.) You can react angrily and violently. Shouting, “No!”

Smash the gift down to the ground. Grab hold of the guy who offers it to you and strangle him to death. Jesus shares some colloquial back-woods advise about this very response:

Matthew 7:6 (KJV) “Do not cast pearls before swine, for they will trample the pearls and turn and rend thee.”

Thank God in Heaven (despite ALL our well-taught wretchedness) the Son of Man heeds not his own cautionary advice. This gift is much too important to be given only to a few. Remember. This gift is given to “many” (which leads to ALL). And, quite remarkably, this gift is given especially to those of us who act like violent pigs.

2.) You can adamantly and/or vehemently say, “No.”

No, man. Get out of here with that!

Without the physical violence, of course. So... overall... an increasingly better response. Less-Worse of a response, I suppose.

3.) You can skeptically say no.

Because maybe it sounds too *Good* to be true, and you know what Master Knowledge of Good & Evil has taught us. If it sounds too good to be true... what? It probably is.

Eeeee-yeah— right. Well, chief, yer a REAL good salesman, and I know it’s fer FREE an’ ALL. But, I think I’m just gonna PASS.

4.) You can ignorantly say no.

Awwwh, I don’t know. I don’t really have any idea what that is. Thanks anyway.

5.) You can ignore the gift.

Simply walk AWAY from the gift, while the person who presented it to you stands there, scratching his head in total bewilderment.

6.) You can lie your way out it.

Nancy, an Agnostic, asks, “Why would anyone want to lie their way out of simply taking a FREE gift?”

Perhaps because the person does not “believe” it really is FREE. Not ALL-the-way FREE. Like the quandary the affable deacon innocently revealed. Remember? “FREE, but not too FREE.” This response is the biggest obstacle standing in the way of EVERYTHING. Most of us say “NO” to the gift for this very reason.

Here is how this “NO” is expressed (rarely) straight-up:

“Well, yeah, we know it’s for FREE. BUT... we don’t want to feel any implied obligation of any kind on our part. So, thank you, but, no.”

Here is how this “NO” is expressed (most often) in the BS (let’s lie our way out of it) version:

“Oh, that’s okay. We’re *Good.* We’ve already got one of those.”

7.) You can “believe” with ALL your “heart” that you really have no need for it.

“Oh, that’s okay. We’re *Good.* We’ve already got one of those.”

8.) You can humbly, good-intentionally, even politely refuse the gift.

“Oh, wow! No way. Yeah, no way. Yeah, I’m not worthy of anything like that. Yeah, no. Yeah. Thank you! Thank you so very much! Yeah, but no.”

9.) You can... uh... accept it.

That is a very good start (especially if #10 seems like such a quantum leap at this point.)

10.) You can accept it, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts.

Eventually (to end up with EVERYTHING) we ALL need a ten. Truthfully, there is no other way to Truly-Take a gift. Number ten is where gift-taking is Truly at. You either take it, 100%, with no ifs... no ands... and no buts...

...or you don’t.

Do you need some actual words to verbally express taking the RANSOM? I only ask because some of us are so used to being “told” what to say to God. If only I was joking. I am not. Yes, Judge Fleming even presumes to tell us how we should talk to our Father. If you are struggling with how to express it, how about trying this? Start with however you may address the Living God...

Hey God, hey Man, hey Dude, hey Dad, hey If You Really Are Up There, dear Lord, hi Daddy, yo Papa, hey Pops, hey Abba, hey Allah, hey Allahu Akbar, hey Om, hey Jehovah, hey I’m asking You in the name of Jesus, or the ever popular... Dear Father in Heaven,

I accept this RANSOM, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts. I take it as Payment-In-Full. I understand, not a single other thing is required to pay me off already.

You are more than welcome to tack on a “TY” on to the end of it. You know... what Elvis used to say before leaving the building. “Uh, thank You. Thank You very much!”

It IS that simple.

AND... ?

And... not one more thing. It’s a Done-Deal. Behold the Lamb of God who takes AWAY the sin of the world.

Don’t worry if you still don’t get it 100%; if you still don’t have it 100%; if you still won’t simply take it... 100%. Or even if you disagree with it 99.99% (hopefully, you’re not entirely shutting down the Place of Life). Point being, if the Place of Life does not make PERFECT sense to you at this point in our conversation, don’t give up. We still have four more batteries left in the ground to exhume and unwrap.

Using a bit of GPR (Ground Penetrating Radar), our spotters have pinpointed a second body hidden miles deep beneath the field. Yes sir, we found it. Next... we dig “AWAY” up and out of the grave.

As for our RANSOM, if you have indeed Truly-Taken it, no one can ever attach the word “sin” or the word “evil” to you. Never ever. Only YOU can attach such a thing to you. So, don’t even go there. What you ARE at your core level is: A PERFECT Child of God Clothed In Everlasting Radiance. No matter what else you are or will ever accomplish, that’s a very nice thing to have on your personal resume.

Truly-Taken the RANSOM? Oh, boy... (yet again, here comes the linear question) What next?

“BE.”

In other words, “Go.” Go on about your Life. Go with God, knowing He’s “a phone call” or “a tag-on-the-shirt” AWAY. As Jesus says, “Go in peace.” Trust the Holy Spirit. Set sail. Go on about your Life. The Holy Spirit is your wind. She has your back. No worries. Go on with your Life. One (huge) less thing.

Jack says, “BUT... with the devil on the prowl, don’t we also need Paul’s ‘armor of God?’”

Does anybody in this discussion have any TRUE ACCEPTOR questions? How about putting it this way: Does a true acceptor need Paul’s armor in order to stand strong against the attacks of the Desolate One and the Forces of Darkness? Not one single ounce of it. No more than David needed Saul’s armor to stand strong against Goliath and the Philistines.

Are you aware of the full story of David & Goliath? What does David do with ALL the armor King Saul gives little David to wear — armor to help him fight against that big, abominable giant?

Little David throws ALL of it AWAY.

Sam, an agnostic, asks, “Why would David do such a thing?”

To be FREE of it. It was weighing him down. You see, David could not lose. He was armed and protected with the Living God. What do we have to lose? We are armed with the same Living God — you KNOW, the One Who sent Jesus to us. Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is ALL the armor anyone needs to protect one’s self against the devil; and ALL the power anyone needs (with ALL due respect to The Darkness) to bust-a-cap-in-the-ass of the Forces of Darkness. Truly-Accepting-What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross is the TOTALITY of what cures us, protects us and sustains us. There is not anything in the universe more trouncing to the devil than for you to ABSOLUTELY KNOW, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts, that any (sin) the devil could possibly get you to do... has already been turned into inconsequential nothingness.

Such in-your-face Reality scares the Christian Church. It scares Jack. It scared Paul. Why do you suppose Paul was so deathly afraid of the full, undiluted power of What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross? Because, theologically, under PERFECT-Grace, the true acceptor can... “sin ALL he wants with PERFECT impunity. No spiritual ramification whatsoever.” Literally, the true acceptor “Goes and...” he, she or whomever “...sins no more.” No matter what the true acceptor does (or doesn’t do), ALL of the true acceptor’s “sins” — past, present and future — have been taken AWAY.

NO FEAR! In practice, the exact opposite to lawlessness happens. Never forget: Within our renewed FACTORY SETTING, the desire and even the ability to bring true Evil into this world falls by the wayside. Tell ’em, Holy Spirit:

“The allure of sin diminishes equally with the power you give to sin.”

Think about how this Truth applies to the true acceptor. The true acceptor has Pulled-the-Plug-Out-of-the-Wall on (sin). Totally. Giving (it) no power whatsoever. Again, listen to Paul’s poor-ass question:

Romans 6:15 (The Living Bible) “Does this mean that now we can go ahead and sin and not worry about it?”

Since SIN is absolutely taken out of the equation of Reality for the true acceptor, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts, feel FREE to take the words “and sin” out of Paul’s question and discard them. With sin out of the equation, now listen to how Paul’s question reads:

Romans 6:15 (The Living Bible) “Does this mean that now we can go ahead … and not worry about it?”

Eureka. That is exactly what Truly-Accepting the RANSOM means. “Go and ( ) no more.”

Simple, isn’t it? No more is needed nor required. Go on about your Life.

Jack asks, “Don’t you think it’s wrong to take the words ‘and sin’ out of Paul’s sentence?”

For the true acceptor, the entire concept of “sin” has been turned into stark emptiness. Stark emptiness is of no concern nor consequence to my Father in Heaven. He is blind to it. Likewise, stark emptiness is of no concern nor consequence to me. I am blind to it. “Behold — (the Son of Man) who takes AWAY... (the stark emptiness)... of the world.” Every aspect of it. Every mention of it.

Still... our brother Paul would question the practicality of such logic: So, you could just go out and sin to beat the band? Kill someone if you wanted to? No consequence to your Father in Heaven? No consequence to the victim? No concern nor consequence to yourself?

Paul came so close to seeing What’s-Been-Done-For-Us-On-the-Cross. BUT... alas: Paul could not take his eyes off what his religious teachers had taught him to see. SIN. The way Pharisee-Paul sees it, under PERFECT-Grace, a true acceptor would be authorized/empowered/sanctioned to SIN. LICENSED to SIN. Same as James Bond is authorized/empowered/sanctioned by Great Britain with a “license to kill.” Silly worries. The Living God is the PERFECT author of PERFECT-Grace. Take a GOOD look at any Bond flick. Even though James Bond has a license to kill, he does not go around killing everyone to his heart’s content. Now, does he? No. He does not. The lady short-changes Bond at the supermarket. He shoots her (after ALL, he’s legally sanctioned to do so). Some guy cuts him off on the freeway. He cuts him in half with his machine gun turrets. Nope. James maintains a self-imposed responsibility for his actions. Likewise, even though I (as a true acceptor) have the blanket of God’s PERFECT-Grace upon me (and bear with me here as I use the s-word) I am not going to run out and sin simply for the sake of sinning. Like, “Hey! Isn’t this great? I can sin! I can SIN! Hurrah! Gosh! What should I do first? Tell a hurtful lie to someone? Or go kill my old math teacher now that I know I won’t burn in Hell for it?”

On the contrary, the allure of sin diminishes equally with the power I give to sin.

I give ( ) no power whatsoever.

Consequentially, ( ) has no allure.

Sammy, the skeptic, asks, “Come on. How does that “no power/no allure” thing actually work in Real Life? In the day-to-day walk of a true acceptor?”

The “forbidden-fruit” becomes just-plain-old-fruit. And, then... how strange! Almost immediately... for some reason... just-plain-old-fruit is... well... just-plain-old-fruit and no longer as attractive. As Time goes on and on, even less and less attractive in comparison to other fruit. Until, ultimately... I can’t remember what happened to... what was it? Just lame-old-zoot? IT (sin) goes ALL the way back to what ... it... Truly was to begin with. ( ) Zilch. What we initially thought was fire turns out to be smoke. Oops. What we mistook for smoke turns out to be nothing more than a smudged mirror.

Lay ALL the BS aside and talk candidly with your Creator. Be honest with Him. He will be honest with you. You do not need me to teach you these things. Your Father in Heaven will teach you these things. Seriously, if you have come this far, He already IS teaching you these things. The Living God of Light did neither create nor inspire the concept of “SIN.” Therefore, since the s-word did not come from EVERYTHING, there is only one other place from which we could have possibly imagined (IT).

From Never-Never Land. From the Absolute of NOTHING of course.

Ultimately, the true acceptor arrives at the complete and indisputable God’s-Honest Truth. What was nothing (speaking of the s-word — this idea to which we gave such great substance) is once again, Truly nothing. For, this Diabolical invention was inspired... by NOTHING. And, there is nothing really that attractive about nothing. Somewhere along the way, we begin to completely understand that (it) never really was anything to begin with. ALL ( ) ever was, was just an empty concept.

Christ-N-Me, an online Mature-Christian (posting under that handle) takes issue with my “ALL-Sin-Ever-Was-Was-Just-An-Empty-Concept” outlook: “So, you are saying that murder and rape and adultery and idolatry are just ‘empty concepts’?”

No, they are quite real manifestations... of an empty concept. One has to walk in PERFECT-Grace for a while to Truly understand what it is to be one-hundred percent FREE of the concept of sin. FREE-Indeed. “FREE” being a few Words-To-Unwrap ahead of us. “AWAY” next. Then “PERFECT.” Then “FREE.” And... finally... “ALL.”

Our minds are set FREE from IT. We no longer see IT for what IT supposedly was. Which allows us to Truly see it for what it isn’t. Until we Truly can’t see ( ) at ALL — until, as Jesus would say, we are Truly “blind to ( ).” It is not about gaining our FREEDOM TO sin (as Paul feared); rather, it is ALL about gaining our FREEDOM FROM sin — from the entire concept of sin. And, of course, with my “license to kill” comes great responsibility. Actually, it is only within the scope of my absolute FREEDOM that I can appreciate the capacity of being Truly responsible.

James, a Methodist Mature-Christian, astonishingly asks, “Did I hear you correctly? You gain ‘true responsibility’ BECAUSE of your absolute FREEDOM?”

Absolutely. How do I run my business? I’ve heard people say, I wish I didn’t have a boss. I wish I could just be my own boss, run my own business and do what I want. The Truth of the matter is, when you do run your own business — a successful one to be sure — that is when you Truly learn what responsibility is ALL about. It will surprise many Fundamentalists (whether they be Christian, Muslim, Jewish) how many of our choices become crystal clear without “the allure of sin” clouding our thinking.

Let’s see, do I want the fresh piece of fruit that is juicy and sweet? Or do I want the rancid piece of fruit that is teeming with maggots?

Gosh... I think I’ll go with the fresh ’n’ juicy one.

Does it strike you as “strange” that with our new-found FREEDOM under our renewed prime directive, IT’S ALL-GOOD, that we would choose the GOOD things? The “right” things? Under PERFECT-Grace, choosing what is Truly GOOD simply becomes the sensible thing to do. The obvious thing to do.

First... let’s get past the easiest thing to do. Do I take this FREE gift, 100%, with no ifs, ands or buts? Or, not? Once you Truly do (Truly-Take it, that is) you are FREE-Indeed with no hang-ups. You Really are in the same room with your Creator. The Place of Life. If you simply disagree, that’s okay. Even expected. Perhaps “a dead (HORSE)” has not been beaten more dead enough. (That’s actually correct grammar if you stop and think about it.) Keep an open mind... and stay tuned. Imagine that you and I are in a bar at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in 1901 AD. I’m Orville Wright. I just showed you the scale model of the first final prototype of a functional wing. You are left with having to imagine how the rest of this flying thing works — this thing I call “an airplane.” You see, this airplane comes in three parts. I’m almost done with showing you the first-third of it. Stick with me. Allow me to show you the engine next... and how it attaches to the wing. Next, we unwrap the engine (“AWAY” and “PERFECT”) — the second third of this book. Hang tight. We are almost there. We will begin the grand unburying and unwrapping of AWAY in one minute (one more page). Just have to knock these last few specks of dust off of RANSOM.

Truly-Accepting PERFECT-Grace pulls the power-plug on The Knowledge of Good & Evil, restarting our original mindset. With the “bad-cop” gone, a very important Truth becomes obvious to the true acceptor. That ALL negative Judgments directed internally (toward self) and ALL negative Judgments directed outward (toward others) are of absolutely no consequence. And, so... naturally... the true acceptor stops making them.

It’s almost hilarious that the last thing we are going to do in this, our final chapter on RANSOM, is question our RANSOM. However, Paul’s poorly-posed question at Romans 6:15 — the fearful and faithless question which brought about “The Plane Crash” — is in dreadful need of revision. There is indeed a much better way for Paul to express to the world his mistrust and fear of PERFECT-Grace. So, let’s totally rewrite his question. Ready? Here goes:

To absolutely know beyond ALL doubt that we can choose what we know is right... or... we can choose what we know is wrong and STILL be seen just as PERFECTLY pure in the eyes of our Heavenly Father — are we afraid that if we absolutely know this, we would then purposefully NOT choose what we know is right, what we know is GOOD?

To a certainty, this is precisely what our brother Paul feared. Fear is the killer. Fear is the come-of-age response behind not Truly taking any FREE gift. Nothing but fairy-dust fear. Get over it. Consider the Real-fear Jesus faced and was able to push through, at Gethsemane, to give us our RANSOM. Should we fear taking our RANSOM, because it makes us too-FREE?

NO FEAR!

As a human being, alive in the flesh with a PERFECTLY clean slate, absolutely no guilt and absolutely no shame, what could possibly keep me from using my FREE license to ask my Heavenly Father to help and guide me? We ALL need counselors from time to time. Who could possibly be better Counselors for us than our Heavenly Father and His Holy Spirit? ALL of this FREEDOM comes equally equipped with a license to Live and let Live. If I so wish, I have the expressed right to expand that mantra into anything I’d like. It’s mine. I can do with it as I please. And, as I walk though Life with this wonderfully-charged head on my shoulders, my incredibly-changed way-of-thinking expands. Into Wisdom. Into The Knowledge of Heaven & Earth. Into EVERYTHING. This is True-FREEDOM. It can mean anything I please it to mean. To my pleasure, I have found it to mean that I have the license to love others as I love myself. Moreover, it can easily mean I have the unalienable right to send the trespasses of those who would trespass against me to Never-Never Land, the natural empathy to sanctify those who would hurt me, the clarity to Judge no one and the privilege to serve everyone.

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