Work for what you want.

If you have been unemployed for more than 6 months it is probably because you don't want to settle for less money. I know I've done it myself, and it was wrong. Everybody that goes on unemployed does basically the same thing. If you get laid off from a company that you expect to get your job back after a bit you go out and find 6 or 8 employers that you know are not hiring and use those same names in different orders to fill out your unemployment forms so you can keep getting a check till you get your job back.

If it is a permanent lay off, most people will stay on unemployment till they find a on par or better job. This is why state and national governments are broke. The government should not be paying people to lay around on there couch when they could be flipping burgers, clearing brush piles, doing migrant farm work, working at Walmart or where ever. My dad told me "the best place to look for work was from a job". I don't really care it you can't afford that 50" plasma or bluray player or that 50k truck, or that HD sat system, wah wah wah get over it. The government should not have to supply luxury to people. If you have got food, heat, and a roof over your head that is enough. If you want more get off of your lazy backside and work for it, don't expect me to pay for it. There is always work for someone that is willing to do just that WORK. A job is a job I don't really care if you think it is beneath you. It seems like more and more people think the government owes them everything and it seems that more and more people expect to live like the rich and will borrow there way to the moon without any intent of paying it back.

This country would be fine if we live by very simple biblical principles, like LIVE WITHIN YOUR MEANS, and NEITHER A BORROWER OR LEANDER BE, and IF A MAN DOES NOT WORK HE SHOULD NOT EAT, even if it means selling off a bunch of stuff and living in a trailer park. If you earned what you had you will get it back with some hard work.

This country has become fat and lazy and unless people get up and work for what they want then the whole country will become a 3rd world country and the government will go broke then the poor will have to go to work (or beg) or starve.

This country needs to repent of it slothfulness. Help people find another job and keep them fed till they do but only if they are serious about working if not kick them to the curb.

Early Church history and the Sabbath

Because of my research into end times events I have been studying early church history. One of the things that I have found to be very interesting is the fact that the early Christian church continued to worship on the Sabbath for about 300 years after the Death and Resurrection our Lord and Savior. The reason that they stopped worshiping on the Sabbath was because of persecution first by the Pharisees driving out the Gentile Christians from temple worship and then by Rome making it a law to worship on Sunday and to work on the Sabbath. Many Christians continued to worship on the Sabbath in secret for many year after this.

The Lord did not change the law about the Sabbath it was just forgotten, which is ironic seeing that the commandment concerning the Sabbath starts with the word remember, as in "Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy". Understand that God himself wrote the commandments with his own finger in stone to be kept forever.

So before you quote BBE: Colossians Chapter 2 [16] For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths: Understand that this verse and the rest of the chapter is talking about the extra rules and regulations that the Pharisees had heaped on to the law. Such as the washing of cups and not carrying more than a hanky and the observance the yearly sabbaths small s, like the feast of trumpets and Yom Kippur and the like.

Now I am not saying that we should all become 7th day Adventist's but there is no Biblical reason not to observe the Sabbath. We need to follow what is in the Bible and not the traditions of man.

BBE: Isaiah Chapter 66 [22] For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever. [23] And it will be, that from new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh will come to give worship before me, says the Lord.

If it is good enough for the new heaven and new earth then it ought to be good enough for us.

I know I've just stirred up a hornets nest and am probably in for a thumping (not really) but I have to be true to God's word.