A Christmas message from resurrected saint.
Tfadam16
December 25, 2004
As Christmas approaches, I was thinking of what I could say to all of you that
would best remind you of Christ and the real meaning of Christmas. Christmas,
of course, has many meanings, all of them bound in and borne of faith in Jesus,
our Savior.
I was about eight years old when I first read the gospels. From the very
outset, I believed; after reading them, I thought to myself, "My God, this man
must be the sum total of all greatness in man!" A little while later that same
year, I came across the Peace Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, for I was
raised a Catholic and still am, although I have also been baptized in a
Pentacostal church. I said this prayer over and over again, after finding it. I
prayed in all earnestness that God make me an instrument of His peace. Around
this same time, my mother and I went looking for houses to buy. I prayed that
God please allow us to get a home of our own.
Well, thirty-five years later, I still have no home, am flat broke all the
time, have been raped by demons, been shot in the head and killed more than a
dozen times over the last twenty years and still don't even have an Ivy League
degree - something I greatly desire. My life, in short, has been an absolute
disaster. After years with an ungrateful, unloving family, I have seemingly
lost my mind to the powers that be around here. I am labeled a paranoid
schizophrenic because I claim to have been killed and to hear voices all the
time.
Is there any point in believing in Jesus if the man the has loved and revered
Him the most over the years went mad? Of course not. To my own mind, I am not
crazy at all. As every Christian and Jew knows, people can and do come back
from the dead every few hundred years; this has, in fact, happened again! You
have to realize when you're a Christian, that there is always a blessing
somewhere when someone has faith like mine; you just have to look for it -
sometimes listen for it.
Actually, I am so blessed it's incredible. Not only do I still pray after all
these years, I am now an actual faith healer and plan on becoming a Jewish
Rabbi while remaining a Roman Catholic. Imagine being able to live forty-three
years without an answer to most of your prayers -especially for material
comfort and success - and still have the faith to keep praying to Jesus and His
Father, the strength to keep on believing and to serve. Think of how very
strong a man I must be. In fact, for this reason the Spirit has called me the
greatest man Jesus ever knew. People who go through nothing don't garner this
kind of praise from the Almighty. Anyway, something that's always true in
Christ is that great young people make great old people.
Let me tell you, in case you don't know, this Christian faith of ours is the
most precious thing we have, especially when it is informed at its core by
Judaism. The Jewish faith is at the heart of Christianity itself, although,
most Christians can't see this. The whole of the Bible makes perfect sense, but
not if you are not a Jew first and foremost. Nothing Jesus was trying to do can
be taken outside the larger context of the whole of Jewish life, for Jesus
could not have wanted the Jewish world of the past to disappear - not if He
actually was God. Realize this, if you are a Christian. This is my teaching and
ministry and, for the record, it's all in behalf of and for Jesus.
This Christmas, remember that the love of God and Jesus is the only thing that
ever mattered. You can see this if you examine the story of the greatest
Christian saint of all time; and you can see it if you examine the Bible. This
book will always matter, for this and other reasons. Despite all the
disappointments in my life, I can genuinely say that I still love God and Jesus
and that I always will. I think the key to not loosing faith in God, is
worshiping Him at least four times a day, like I do now. If you can go as long
as I have doing this, you will be a true holy man - a true prophet.
Remember this Christmas, to give Jesus and the faith more than lip service. I
see nothing around here but Christians who read the Bible all over the place
that don't understand a damn thing! We that love God are always Jews first and
foremost. Be a good Jew yourself, for this is all the Savior was truly trying
to form all those many years ago! Who can deny this!? Remember, that, if you
are going to be a Jew, be one in behalf of and that's for Jesus, not to spite
Him! All the prescribed animal sacrifices must come back. This is what the love
of God is all about! Read the gospels and see!
Remember, if you are going to try to do miracles in the name of Jesus, that the
devil probably will not let you see the results of your ministry, for he is a
deciever. This game is definitely out in the open now. You have to WALK BY
FAITH, NOT BY SIGHT! Things are easier if you know this! Never lose faith!
My final message this Christmas, is simply about friendship. You know, a true
friend loves at all times, especially when the chips are down. All most people
do is try to judge, however. They try to judge me, especially, since I am a
rather special man, but I have nothing and no one and have made numerous errors
in my life (I have a police record). After all, if God were with me, would my
life be this way! Well, the thing about God is that He is a true blue friend;
this is the point in what He allowed mere men to do to Him at Calvary and is
evidenced in my case by the undying, unrelenting, unstoppable faith He has
given me in Him. I am truly blessed. And so, this Christmas, remember to be a
true blue friend - especially to your enemies - for this is the hope of
mankind, that all men be real friends to one another. Learn to be a friend even
to creeps, and you'll get this Christianity thing just right! Love for people
who don't love you requires a great deal of maturity, but the only people who
will not are crazy folk, and these must be handled with compassion anyway! This
last fact is why Christianity is the one true religion of God - why Jesus and
His way are the light of the world.
To atheists and agnostics I will simply point out that, if we are God's friend,
we do what He tells us to do, no matter what - not for reward. If we are His
friend, we love Him at all times, even when He is not good to us. This was the
point in Job, God's friend. Read the Bible and do what it says; this is all!
Why is this? Because it is more blessed to give to - even to God - than to
receive from God; that is, to be the source of love for everyone around you,
than to receive love from everyone around you - even from Him. This is to be a
god; this is to live forever and ever. Remember this. Blessed is he that always
does the right thing by Jesus. As for happiness, it's mostly for the unwise,
the lazy, the weak and little children; we that must rule the world often have
to live without it for a long, long time! If you think you will be by breaking
the rules, you will be in for a rude awakening in the long run. To be happy
over the long haul of life, you have to be willing to be unhappy and to do
unpopular things like stand up for God or even a god and all of God's truth,
not your own. So says the crazy prophet of New York City! If you truly can't
live without this, try having faith in and loving me, the Lord, and Jesus. It's
your only real chance at it. After all, if dreams of angels can't come true,
will yours?
Read the gospels every day.
Peace and Merry Christmas! All my love!
A FURTHER CORRECTION:
I, Tommy Francis Adams, do hereby formally predict that I will either be second
salutarian of the Harvard class of 2007 or 2012. All other prophesies
concerning myself remain unchanged.