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	<h3 class="title">PART 7. "Mr. Haddad, as you sit back and look at the past 7 years, what have you learned from this experience?"</h3>
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    <p>I was at a baptism reception recently and the subject of the Massachusetts Funeral Board, the Division of Professional Licensure, and the Worcester Superior Court came up in general conversation. The question continually posed was �I�m not about to pass from this life until you are available to me and my family!� I took the time to answer all questions posed to me, and those asking the questions could not believe the facts as I presented from the public record - all of which can be found on previous updates on this web site.</p>
<p>A teacher of ethics at a college in New Hampshire (a gentleman I do not know well, but whom I have met in the past) overheard much of the conversation and finally stepped in with the statement, �those you reference have one position and only one position available to them - <em>�their actions</em> - <em>Can they live by them and are they prepared to die with them - before God?���</em> What a powerful observation!</p>
<p>As many of you know if you have been following this web site and the �grave sinful nature� of many individuals who comfortably (or uncomfortably) refer to themselves as Christians, I have visited the Ministries of Dr. David Jeremiah (Turning Point) and Saddleback Church (Ministry of Rick Warren) and others. I have established relationships with parishioners at each of these Ministries and routinely communicate with them. As a result, I believe you will appreciate the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from his book sales.�</p>
<p>The following interview with Rick Warren, 'Purpose Driven Life ' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California, is not only a revelation by Pastor Warren; but a wake up call to each of us. In presenting this as an Update, I wish to reach out to the vast array of sinners I have referenced herein during the past 5+ years, and leave them with life�s eternal message.�</p>
<p>In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Pastor Warren said:�</p>
<p>�People ask me, What is the purpose of life?� ��And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven. ��One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me. �</p>
<p>I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity.� We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense. �</p>
<p>Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.� The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort; God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy. �We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness. �</p>
<p>This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer. ��I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.�</p>
<p>�Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.� No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on. ��And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.�</p>
<p>You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.�If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, which is my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others. ��</p>
<p>We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her�- It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people. ��</p>
<p>You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. ��Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy. �It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.��So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72. ��</p>
<p>First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases. �</p>
<p>Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church. ��</p>
<p>Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation. ��
Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free. �</p>
<p>We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?</p>
<p>Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)? ��When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. �That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.�</p>
<p>Happy moments, PRAISE GOD!<br />
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD!<br />
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.!<br />
Painful moments, TRUST GOD!<br />
Every moment, THANK GOD!</p>
<p>I leave you to contemplate your life as it is today, <strong><em>�for if God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity�, </em></strong>I suspect those referenced herein�and the <em>concealment, obfuscation</em>, and <em>deception</em> they practice will afford them a place not in Heaven; but where liars, evil doers, and Satan are destined to dwell - <em>the lake of fire.</em></p>
<p>Till next time, we continue (and I ask you also) to pray for the liars, for the evil-doers, and for those yet to repent before God and country - for <strong>�The Clock Stops for No One!�</strong></p>
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