After reading through Chapter 18 – SILENT ANSWERS – of this book it came upon me as being truthful in so many aspects of life, of living, of being what we are. Just trying to be human, to live the life God so preciously gave us… sometimes failing… But given the choice of starting over, it will always become what was, what is and what will become.
SONIA MEYER
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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
Manie van der Westhuizen
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THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE
First Edition -2010
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Preface
22nd September, 2010
A year ago, on the 21st day of September, 2009, I had no idea that today, I will write this preface. My mind wondered up and down over all the fantastic time I spend with My Saviour during this time. All the Passionate Teachings of love, the indescribable emotional feelings, just to teach someone like me how much God loves his creation.
Just because it is my hearts desire to obey all the commandments of Jesus, Jesus trusted me to write this book. Today I gladly admit that this book was not edited. When I placed myself before the computer to write most of the time I did not even have the Chapters heading, I only trusted Jesus to place words into my heart.
All my thanksgivings to; my Redeemer, Jesus, for bringing peace into my life; all the 2872 regular readers and visitors on my sites; all the people who motivated me in the writing of this book; All the people I have dedicated chapters; Annemieke, Menorah, Blond Chic, The Poor Little Rich Man, Casper, Sky Leigh, Jan, Dolly, Judy Venter, Stan Craig BT14 6DF Belfast. United Kingdom. Michelle, Texas, United States. The Author of “THE KISS” on OPRAH WINFREY’S SHOW, Mio Amato, Anna-Marie van Staden, Bernie Louw and Sonia Meyer.
Manie van der Westhuizen.
Loyalty
This book is assigned to My Redeemer, Jesus for he was the inspiration for me to write this book.
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Table Of Contents
Chapter Fourty - The Truth Will Set You Free
Chapter Thirty-Nine - Shepherd And Sheep
Chapter Thrity-Eight - The Biggest Idiot, Manie
Chapter Thirty-Seven - The Time Thief, My Best Friend
Chapter Thirty-Six - A Little Boy’s Dream
Chapter Thirty-Five - God Is Not, Our Genie
Chapter Thirty-Four - Dear Lord, I Will
Chapter Thirty-Three - Not Peace But Division
Chapter Thirty Two - Mary’s Song
Chapter Thirty-One - Obedience
Chapter Thirty - From The Depths Of The Grave
Chapter Twenty-Nine - Our Graves, Place Of Thinking
Chapter Twenty-Eight - The Survivors
Chapter Twenty-Seven - The Rich Young Man
Chapter Twenty-Six The Gravedigger
Chapter Twenty-Five - At Jesus’ Feet
Chapter Twenty-Four Accept The Unacceptable
Chapter Twenty-Three Everything Is Permissible
Chapter Twenty-Two The Sixth Day
Chapter Twenty He Walks Like Jesus
Chapter Nineteen - Come Walk With Jesus
Chapter Eighteen - Silent Answers
Chapter Seventeen - The Perfect Marriage
CHAPTER Sixteen - The Joshua Formula
Chapter Fithteen - As Long As He Keeps On Paying The Bills.
Chapter Fourteen - The Grieve Syndrome
Chapter Thirteen - The Separation Syndrome
Chapter Twelve - They Will Become One
Chapter Eleven - If They Want To Become One
Chapter Nine - Love Has To Come From God
Chapter Eight - Men Are Never Satisfied, Neither Are Their Eyes
Chapter Seven - If You Belong To Christ
Chapter Six - Do You Not Want To Leave Too, Do You?
Chapter Five - What Kind Of Man Is This?
Chapter Four - Nowhere To Lay His Head
Chapter Three - A Child Of God
Chapter One - As Jesus Commands
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Chapter Fourty - The Truth Will Set You Free
21st September 2009
Jesus Said: “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31b and 32).
God Said: “For the law was given through Moses: grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.”(John 1: 17). Jesus Answered; “I am the way and the truth and the life.” (John 14:06).
The Children of the Devil. (John 8: 42 to 47). Jesus said to them: “If God were your Farther, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come of my own; but He sent me. Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. Yet because I tell the truth, you do not believe me! Can any one of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me? He who belongs to God hears what God says. The reason you do not hear is that you do not belong to God.”
Manie’s request. (To everyone, the preachers, the ministers, the pastors, the teachers, the evangelist, every man, every woman, every child, anyone I have forgot to list, the devil’s children, the devil himself, even myself.) Let us empty our cup of knowledge now. Pour out all the crap, other humans, the devil, our parents, preachers, pastors, evangelists, ourselves stored in our cups. Let us stop pouring crap into other people’s cups of knowledge.
Let us stop doing the work Jesus had already done. Let us stop attending religious organizations, created by humans. Jesus is not dead. His church, he has started still exists. Yet humans start their on churches and fooling people, telling them this is God’s church. Let us stop demanding Jesus doing His work, our way. Let us stop doing God’s work our way. Bear in mind God completed all his work in Six days. And on the Seventh day He rested. Jesus completed all His work on earth in thirty three and a half years. And his Body rested one day in His grave.
Let us stop to carry out our father, the devil’s desire. Let us fill our cups of knowledge of what God says. Remember Jesus said: “He, who belongs to God, hears what God says.” I demand let us fill our cups of knowledge with the teachings of Jesus Christ. Jesus Said: “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”(John 8:31b and 32). And you will have everlasting life, because, Jesus Answered; “I am the way and the truth and the life.” (John 14:06).
Jesus Comforts His Disciples. (John 14: 1 to 3). “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me. In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am.”
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Chapter Thirty-Nine - Shepherd And Sheep
It amazes me tremendously to see how God simulates humans with Sheep and Coats, and the clergymen with shepherds. Do you know why? Maybe because God gave humans the authority over animals. (Genesis 1:28). Maybe because God commanded the Levite Clans to take care (Shepherd) the rest of the Israelite Clans. (Numbers Chapter 3 and 4). Maybe just to make it understandable for humans, because they behave similar to sheep and goats.
It fascinates me because The Holy Spirit wants me to write this book backwards, starting with Chapter Fourty; The Truth Will Set You Free. Maybe because God gave revelation to Jesus Christ before He created the universe. (Revelation 1:1)
It reminds me of something I wrote in Chapter Fourty; Let us not dump crab into other human’s cup of knowledge. Maybe I wrote this, just to clarify my mind, because I also wrote; God finished His work in six days. All I know is that the Holy Spirit wanted me to Record (Ezekiel Chapter 34).
Suddenly I know the answer when the Holy Spirit spoke to me in His language, I named it, the language of knowledge: “Your work, Manie, is not yet completed on this earth, read John 14: 26 to confirm.” And this is what I read. Jesus promised the Holy Spirit and He said: “But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.”
Now let me record (Ezekiel 34: from verse1 to 13). The word of the Lord came to me: ‘Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy and say to them: ‘this is what the Sovereign Lord says: woe to the Shepherds of Israel who only take care of themselves! Should not Shepherds take care of the flock? You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock. You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally. So they were scattered because there was no shepherd, and when they were scattered they became food for all the wild animals. My sheep wandered over all the mountains and over every high hill. They were scattered over the whole earth, and no one searched or looked for them. Therefore, you shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: “As surely as I live,” declares the Sovereign Lord, because my flock lacks a shepherd and has been plundered and has become food for all the wild animals, and because my shepherds did not search for my flock but cared for themselves rather than for my flock, therefore, O shepherds, hear the word of the Lord: This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ”I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them. For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them. As a shepherd looks after his scattered flock when he is with them, so will I look after my sheep? I will rescue them from all the places where they were scattered on the day of cloud and darkness. I will bring them out from the nations and gather them from the countries, and bring them unto their own land. I will pasture them on the mountains of Israel, in the ravines and in all the settlements in the land.
Wow, what a revelation, God no longer Command humans to take care of His children anymore. The Holy Spirit replaces all the human shepherds and the prophesy as recorded in (Ezekiel Chapter 34) has been fulfilled. Yet, we humans ignore this, we still demand human shepherds. Worse, we as humans, we think we are shepherds instead of sheep.
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Chapter Thrity-Eight - The Biggest Idiot, Manie
Writing a book backwards! Reversing prophesies! Finding questions to answers! Writing down stuff from the Bible that’s already written down! Trusting other people to change their lives on your input of noting down words. Can’t you understand; over four thousand years people noted down God’s words and their history in the Bible. The last two thousand years, people read the Bible and still, they do not change. Even worse they don’t read their Bible, they rather go to Church. After the sermon they glorify the preacher, but they cannot recall the text scriptures from the Bible recorded in the sermon. When do you want to learn, Manie? You wasted your live. For fifty years, now, you note done God’s words and your history. No publisher is prepared to print your books. You Created CD’s and DVD’s. You gave it free of charge to people. You preached to people. You gave your family back to God. God accepted them and granted you a divorce. As Jesus has sent his apostles to live with people in their homes. Educated them in His teachings two thousand years ago. Jesus has sent you. You tell people that Jesus is the only Shepherd and His Holy Spirit lives in every human being that loves Him. You tell them that your favorite scriptures confirm this; In (John Chapter14verse23) Jesus replied: “If anyone loves me, he will obey my teaching. My Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.” Never ever have you taken any money or payment from people for spreading the gospel! Freely God gave it to you and freely you have given it to other people! You are a homeless old man. You have no place to go. Not even a place to hide. That’s why, Manie, you are the biggest idiot. Come on, do what humans do. Don’t be an idiot.
People say if you are in Rome live like the Romans do. Well you are on earth, go live like earthlings. Go, be a con artist, a thief, a liar, a murderer, a rapist, an adulterer, a seducer, seducing other people, spreading the gospel and demand payments, sell your books, CD’s and DVD’s. Go, be a businessman, open a shop and legally steal from your customers, they call it a profit. Go; serve a god that is depended on your money. Go, start a new religious organization, claiming tithes and offerings, it’s for the Lord’s work you know.
Preach (Malachi Chapter 3verse 10) to them. "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this way, “says the Lord Almighty, “ and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and poor out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.” Don’t record God’s instructions concerning tithes as recorded in (Deuteronomy, Chapter 14 from verse 22 to 29). No, please, Manie, don’t do it, preachers don’t preach on this scripture.
Be sure to set aside a tenth of all your produce each year. Eat the tithe of your grain, new wine and oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flock in the presence of the Lord your God at the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name, so that you may learn to revere the Lord your God always. But if that place is too distant and you have been blessed by the Lord your God and cannot carry your tithe (because the place where the Lord will choose to put his Name is so far away), then exchange your tithe for money, and take the money with you and go to the place the lord your God will choose. Use the money to buy whatever you like: cattle sheep, wine or other fermented alcoholic drink, or anything you wish. Then you and your household shall eat there in the presence of the Lord your God and rejoice. And do not neglect the Levites living in your town, for they have no allotment or inheritance of their own. At the end of every three years, bring all the tithes of that year’s produce and store it in your towns, so that the Levites (who have no allotment or inheritance of their own) and the aliens, the fatherless and the widows who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands.”
Please do not tell people that Jesus Christ never demanded tithes and offerings. Keep your mouth shut, don’t tell them that Jesus only mentioned tithes once. Oh, this is what Jesus Said in (Matthew Chapter 23: 23); “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices-mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law-justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practice the latter, without neglecting the former.” Luke confirmed this in (Luke Chapter 11verse42). Manie, you still don’t want to listen, you keep telling people all the things they don’t have to know. Reject Jesus the Christ; serve me I am Mammon, the god of money.
The rest of your life you will have all the money you need. Think about it, no religious organization can operate without money. Remember I am the god of money. Not even you can operate without money. Isn’t it true that on this moment you cannot process this chapter on Peperonity? You have to wait for money. Even worse you cannot phone, sms or e-mail your dirty work to your friends! All because you reject me, the god of money. Don’t open your Bible again. I know you want to quote (Matthew, chapter 6verse:24): “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Mammon.” Until you reject Jesus, goodbye, Manie, you will always be, the poorest, biggest idiot.
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Chapter Thirty-Seven - The Time Thief, My Best Friend
(Ephesians Chapter 5 verses 14 to 17); this is why it is said: “wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and CHRIST WILL SHINE ON YOU.” Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
My biggest mistake ever was not to understand the time thief as my best friend. Be warned, the time thief make the unwise, wise. Making the most of every opportunity is the time thief’s most powerful strategy. Therefore he robs all humans from the opportunity to make the most of every opportunity they have, to be with Christ, who lives within them. Paul warned the Ephesians thereof.
He repeated it in (Colossians Chapter4 verse 5); be wise in the way you act towards outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. O, the time thief has stolen every opportunity from me, yes every opportunity to understand what the Lord’s will is. Think about it – I wasted my life – I used every opportunity to enrich myself. I spend all my time making money. I know you want to quote (Matthew Chapter 6 verse 24): “No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money. (Mammon). O, how I served Mammon.
The time thief wasted my time making money. The time thief robs me from that money by granting time to my family to spend my money, while I worked and worked every day, my family went on holidays. O, how I remembered the words of my daughter: “I don’t give one cigarette to my friends; everyday. I give them a packed of twenty cigarettes every day. There were only thirty friends in my class. Why not, my father is a rich man.”
I spend hundreds of hours on my computer, playing games, chatting in chat rooms, wasting my time. I became addicted to computers, they ruled my life. The time thief wasted my time on computers. I was married thirty four years. I gave my wife and family back to God, due to my medical condition, I could not take care of them anymore. God granted me a divorce. A period of three years after my divorce I battled to help my family including x-wife. I wasted thirty seven years of my life on my family. I went to churches, spending hours and hours of my time being good to other people. Giving gifts to them, spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ. O, how the time thief wasted my time, because people don’t appreciate gifts, not even the biggest gift of all.
I did not understand the modus operandi of the time thief. Let people go to church, teach them that God is there, and they will forget that God lives within them. They will become addicted to churches.
O, how I remember one Monday morning when I passed by a certain church. I saw Jesus Christ sitting in front of the church on the doorsteps. I stopped and went to Him. He was crying. I looked Him in the face; ouch the eyes, so much pain and tears. I heard Him say: “If this is my house, why is it locked, why it is only opened two hours during the week?”
Read this and understand. There are eight thousand seven hundred and sixty hours in one year. But the churches are only open one hundred and four hours per year. O, the time thief robbing people of being with God. It’s Ok; spend only one hundred and four hours with God per year. The rest of the year, in total eight thousand six hundred and fifty six hours, God will be lonely within you.
I will waste your time, on your behalf. I am the time thief, your biggest friend. My friend you do not have to go to a church to be with God. He lives within you. He has waste six thousand years to be with his creation. He is prepared to waste His whole infinite life on you my friend. This is why it is said: “wake up, O sleeper, rise from the dead, and CHRIST WILL SHINE ON YOU.” Be very careful, then, how you live-not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is. Making the most of every opportunity, wow, if only I could have known this, fifty years ago. I heard so many time people say; I do not have the time to do all the things I wanted to do. Most famous words, even I said it. My friend from this moment onwards I am going to make the most of every opportunity. When I sit at Jesus’ feet I am going to make the most of it. When I am with my family I am going to make the most of it. When I am in love, I am going to make the most of it. When I spend time on my computer, I am going to make the most of it. When I am in my chat room I am going to make the best of it. When I am with you, I am going to make the most of it, my time thief, because suddenly I realized; I am my own time thief.