Ego
Mt 4:8Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9"All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me."
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Jesus said to him, "Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship YHWH your God, and serve him only.’"Ego.
I, me, mine.....
That's the problem. The one and only REAL problem.
All other problems, within your life personally, and the globe at large, are derivative of this one.
You may not believe that at this point...but it IS true.
And you see, that's the point of this all-too-misunderstood Scripture I quote above. The battle between worshipping YHWH vs Satan boils down to this:
Who Gets The Credit?
The "Satan" pathway always draws attention to itself. The "Godly" pathway always draws attention to The One.
Another way to put it is, what's more important, the message or the messenger?
I saw something remarkable on the Web recently......You see, TCOY is starting to touch people....and there's a page (no, I will not give you the address) that is dedicated to essentially what TCOY is, the One God, Love, and the presence of God's love within us.
Anyway, on this page....The author has some inspirational quotes....first from the Bhagavad-Gita (the Hindu New Testament), then the Koran (the Muslim Bible), then me.....Some stuff he found here in The Church of Yahweh.
Bhagavad-Gita, Koran, and yours truly...quoted together...
As someone with a graduate degree in the World's Religions, that is, well, quite something.....All I can say is, it is like being inducted to a hall of fame; on a much smaller scale (since so few know about it), but 100 times more important.
So........To the point......Yes, I would like each and every single person on this planet to live and breathe all the material here in The Church of Yahweh....to deny that would be a lie.
But, and this is a BIG BUT,
The message is infinitely more important than the messenger.
I have wrestled with the whole "Pastor Ahyh" thing for years...for the longest time there was virtually no information at all about me personally on this website. But I got so many emails, with so much concern about "Who are you guys? Is this a cult?" that it seemed best to publish at least some information. And in this day of Jim Jones and Heaven's Gate and Jimmy Swaggart and all the other religious crazies, I understand people's concern about the sources of what they read. So, for good or bad, I've done what I've done to try to address the situation.
But there's another thing. I want you to scroll-down for a moment to the very, VERY bottom of this page. What do you see?
"(c) 1994-2003 The Church of Yahweh. May be freely distributed, but never sold."
That, folks, is a LEGAL STATEMENT. It means that anyone, anywhere, can use any of the material on this site in any way they choose, as long as they do not sell it.
Rather than draw attention to himself and become King of the World, Jesus let them pound nails through His wrists & bleed to death....He knew that this earth is NOT PERMANENT. Nor our life on it.
He cared nothing for a kingdom of his own, but only for The Kingdom of YHWH....There's something so unfathomably massive there that I have been meditating on it my entire life without really having a "handle" on it.
So, a plea......to the entire religious community......on-line and otherwise.....Go ahead, and leave my name out of it....I could not matter less.....but Please, I BEG YOU,
 | continue to take this information, |
| distribute it everywhere, |
| about The God of the Universe having a Name |
| and that Name means something |
| and that Name means I + Will = Being |
| and that Name is YOU |
| and the slightest understanding of this will change your life |
| and you will learn that all suffering is NEEDLESS!!!!!!!!!! |
And the world will be changed...not via the hollow lies and rhetoric of the world's so-called "leaders", who are so in love with "the kingdoms of the world and their splendor....." No, change will not appear that way.
Only through renouncing the Devil and all his ways will the Kingdom of YHWH appear.
And THAT MESSAGE is all that matters.
For a "practical application," which they teach you in preacher school is absolutely essential for a good message, I will leave you to contemplate this:
Only the ego-less can be the true servants. And ego-less-ness is the only way we can get to The Kingdom.
So here's a little trick....Amazing in its simplicity and power....
Take the phrase "The Servant Model of" and put it in front of whatever problems, large or small, you are facing.
"The Servant Model of" Departmental Discord.
"The Servant Model of" Family Fights.
"The Servant Model of" Financial Stress.
"The Servant Model of" Bipartisan Congressional Cooperation.
I could go on & on....But that simple little phrase shows us so much about ourselves.
So often....ALL THE BLOODY TIME, in fact, I see human pain and suffering (large and small) that would completely disappear if those involved would follow "The Servant Model of...."
Businesses where people look to fight, argue and blame, rather than see their jobs as serving one another....Marriages where both partners are perfectly justified in their feelings that "the other doesn't care about me"....
I will say this as plainly as I can to the World Community:
Each and every single time you see a problem in this world, you are seeing a problem that would disappear if we would simply learn to SERVE ONE ANOTHER in love.
The simplest truths are:
| ALL problems are caused by ego (This is explained in detail in "In The Garden") |
| As we transcend ego, we become Servants. |
| As we become Servants, ALL problems disappear. |
The "Servant Model" of human relationships, then, becomes an Atlas describing The Kingdom of YHWH.
And you can quote me. (That's supposed to be the humorous little tag-line that ties it all together. Didn't work? OK.)
