Eddie Huff - Yall Have Sinned: How Blaming Others Is Not A Winning Strategy

Yall Have Sinned

How Blaming Others Is Not A Winning Strategy

Eddie Huff

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Copyright 2021, Eddie Huff

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ISBN: 978-1-63302-174-7

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-63302-233-1

Eternal thanks to:

Phillip Mann, to whom I owe my eternal life, who as an 18 year old Black Hippie/Jesus Freak shared the Gospel of Jesus Christ with this lost, high on drugs, mess that I was, on so many late nights at Sambos restaurant and persevered to lead me to Christ, despite being accosted and threatened by my friends.

Fred G. Walker, my first pastor and mentor, for taking an interest in and loving this lost Black, radical kid, teaching him what Christs love and forgiveness is. I know your own children, at times, must have been puzzled and envious of the time and love invested in me. I will never forget those many evenings and hours of prayer and counselling in your converted garage/prayer room. Your life and lessons you taught, live on and made me who I am today.

John P. Lee, my second pastor and brother in the Lord who took me from the spiritual incubator to becoming a Man In Christ. You did not want me to leave but God has taken me on an incredible, world wide journey that you prepared me for. Wish you could still be here to see this work that you are a part of.

Karen Lafferty, the Queen of Youth With A Missions (YWAM), Musicians for Missions, who recruited me to Europe and made me her Prime Minister. It opened my eyes, my wifes and our childrens to the entire world beyond where we live and the ride of our lives. Who knew that was just the start to travelling and seeing the world. Thank you Your Highness. I know a great treasure awaits you on the other side.

Rev. Jim Jenkins, who knew when we were students 45 years ago wed have experienced so much, meet again and have so much in common. God is Great!!

Finally, to all of my adopted brothers and sisters at Jesus Chapel, El Paso, Shiloh Baptist Church in Flower Mound, TX, Youth With A Mission Holland, and Germany. Thank you for the fellowship. We shared so much. You will always remain in my heart.

Finally and of course, to my wife Vickie and kids, what can I say; you are the best. I could not be more blessed.

I t is interesting that it is said, the truth hurts while it is also said, the truth will set you free. Is it possible the two things can be true at the same time? We are going to find out in the pages ahead. I can only say everything you are about to read is the truth, and I am pretty certain it is going to initially hurt a number of people. If you have not been offended in the early reading, just hold on I am sure I will get to you. It is, in all honesty, not my intention to hurt or wound anyone, but I know some of the things dealt with will hurt some, simply because it may cause a paradigm shift in their thinking. Having said that, it is my greatest hope, the same truth which causes some pain, also heals and sets people free.

This writing, while mostly my views and opinion, contains historical fact, biblical fact, and political fact, all at once and together. It is my contention one cannot separate history, or the information, events and lessons of the bible, or politics, from one another. Well, you can, but it is like removing a major organ from the body and expecting to have a healthy body. Biblical events are history and have had a tremendous influence on history, and politics, and vice versa. It reminds me of the fallacy of separation of church and state. If by church you mean specific denominations or manmade decrees, as represented by one groups belief system comprised of human dogma, then yes, you can separate those from the state; but you cannot remove the Church as represented by faith or a belief system from the individual - and individuals comprise the State. This is what has been the aim of Atheists, to remove faith from how the nation is run, but Atheism is as much a faith or belief system as religion. A faith in the idea there is nothing beyond the natural, physical and visible world. This is considered a closed system. In other words, there is no outside force which has any effect upon this natural world. Many try to deny this and pretend a lack of faith in a supernatural order behind the natural order is not a faith, but it is a belief system and therefore it is a faith.

The late, and very gifted preacher Dr. S.M. Lockridge put God and creation this way: God made something from nothing, put it nowhere and told it to stay there. The Atheist version of that would be: Something came from nothing and made itself stay there. In other words, we are asked to believe that everything came from nothing, out of nowhere, of its own accord, and here we are today. Please tell me how believing this does not take as much or more faith than the Lockridge quote. Nevertheless Atheism is a belief system, faith or religion, in which man is the pinnacle of all intelligence, controls thinking and governments around the world, and this voids the entire idea of separation of church and state. It is merely the church of naturalism vs. the multitude of Christian churches and other faiths, believing in a supernatural reality, outside our own closed, natural system. Look at that, I have probably already offended someone. As Gerard Butler, playing the main character in the film Law Abiding Citizen said, Im just gettin started.

I feel I should also say it is not my intent to present a deep scholarly work here. It was a few years after I attended university and seminary, when first I realized the true benefit of my education. It was not as much what I learned in the classroom, as it was that I learned how to question and where go, to do my own research, and to find the answers to my questions. The best teachers are not the ones who give you all of the answers, but the ones who make you ask the most questions and hunger to find those answers on your own.

Success of this book will not be measured by the reader accepting what I have to say, but rather the reader taking what is here, adding to it what they can find researching on their own, then taking that and making others hunger for more on their own.

YEAH RIGHT, GOD!

S everal years ago, I worked as a concert promoter and tour manager and promoter for Christian and Gospel Music artists in Europe. In the fall of 1990, a few days before a set of Shirley Caesar concerts, I awoke in the morning and felt the Lord impress upon me that I was to preach at her concert. What I received was a message for Black Americans, the descendants of African slaves.

For those who do not know who Shirley Caesar is, she is the Queen of Gospel having won 12 Grammys and numerous other awards as well as selling millions of records. Although I had preached and taught many times, in the US, Africa and Europe, this was so far out of nowhere, at first, I wondered if I was making this up. Then I was reminded of one of Bill Cosbys first monologues; Noah. For the one person who has never heard this monologue it goes something like this.

Noah hears a voice saying, Noah!

Noah asks, WHO IS That?

He hears it is, THE LORD Noah!

Noah asks, What do you want? Ive been good.

The Lord says, I want you to build an ark.

Noah says Right, whats an ark?

The Lord describes the ark and Noah says, Yeah Right!

This is exactly how I felt thinking I heard God tell me I was to preach at Shirley Caesars concert instead of her. YEAH RIGHT!!