From: Kent Hovind
Sent: June 23, 2009
To: God
GOD: Hey, Son. Let’s go for a walk.
KH: Sure, Lord. Where to?
GOD: Just out in the woods. I want to teach you something.
KH: Good, Lord. I love to learn things from Your Word or Your creation.
GOD: Take a look at these trees, Son. Do you notice anything?
KH: Yes, Lord. All the green branches are up at the top. The lower branches are gone or are dead and will soon fall off. Why is that, Lord? Did they do something wrong to die like that?
GOD: Yes, Son, though it was no fault of their own in some cases. They quit producing for the tree. The tree supplies sap and support for the branches and the branches grow toward the sunlight and produce food for the tree. As the tree grows taller or the neighboring trees grow taller, the lower branches don’t get sunlight so they quit producing for the tree. I designed the tree so that any branch that is not producing will be cut off from its supply of sap. It withers and dies and then falls off. Look at your feet.
KH: The forest floor is covered with dead branches.
GOD: That’s right, Son. Any branch that does not produce fruit is purged out (Jn. 15:2). That’s the way it should be in your personal life, in your ministry, in the church and in the nation. If there are things that are a drain in your spiritual growth, cut them off.
KH: I’ve seen so many men in here waste so much time! They are more worried about who wins a game than if their kids get a letter or turn out right.
GOD: I see it all, Son. Some people who work in My Kingdom are like those branches, they produce fine for a while, but gradually they stop reaching for the light. This makes them stop producing, and I have to cut them off. Some work so hard when they first start serving Me, and then, for no reason, they get more interested in drawing a paycheck or talking with their neighbor than producing for Me. I prune them first, and if that doesn’t work, I cut them off. It sounds harsh, but that’s what’s best for the tree.
KH: I want to produce for You, Lord. I, like Paul, realize that I could become a castaway (Luke 9:25; 1 Cor. 9:27). Please show me what to do to avoid that Lord.
GOD: Simple, Son. That’s why we are here in the woods. Keep reaching for the light and keep producing for the tree. You are doing fine, Son, just don’t get too complacent (Amos 6:1). Check where you invest your time and energy. Make sure it will produce fruit. You’ll be fine. I’ve got your back!
Dr. Kent E. Hovind is currently at the Edgefield Federal Correctional Institution in South Carolina. Please send postcards and letters to:
Kent E. Hovind #06452-017
FPC Edgefield D-2
P.O. BOX 725
Edgefield, SC 29824
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From the CSE team,
Thank you for your continued support.
Excellent analogy. Sometimes we think “well, I know I spend all my time at work, or working on a car, or watching tv but at least I’m not out doing bad things, like doing drugs, or robbing banks, or abusing people”. I know I am guilty of that myself. I ask God that He help me from allowing the thorns of this world choke out what’s important and I pray that He is patient with me.
Brother Kent,
How are you? Sorry we haven’t written in a while. Our family still prays for you and your family.
My wife was blessed very much by Jo’s comments! What a faithful loving wife you have. I am glad I have a wife like that too.
Every summer we host a young student from Japan for about 4 weeks. It’s a great opportunity to try and spread seeds for Christ. The only problem is they don’t speak English, and we don’t speak Japanese.
We are glad for the Jesus film because it at least gives them the Gospel of Luke in their language, but it is rather weak, and not enough. Last night we had a 75 year old man who was a missionary to Japan speak to our students. He questioned them and only 1 out of the 7 we have, has ever heard of Jesus Christ!
All I can say is I am so glad we have your seminar series in Japanese. Our students LOVE them!!!!
Last year our student sincerely came to the Lord with a testimony that Jesus is his hero.
This year the student we have keeps asking to watch “Kent Hovind”. He laughs and is very interested!!
He will rewind things over and over again to catch what you said.
I am glad for this excellent resource. The truth can never be bount brother!
God Bless you,
Sam and Kellee Strunk and family ( Aaron, Samuel, Helen, Mary, and Timothy)
Brother Kent,
to quote a local newspaper columnist, “The mob’s taste will lead us to hell. The cruel are many, and it’s the duty of the civilised to deny them what will taint us all.”
Andrew Bolt of the Melbourne Herald Sun.
When the cruelty proceeds from government itself there presents another set of conceptual problems. At what point does “legal torture” eg. diesel therapy, void all claim to moral authority or pretense of respectability.
Jesus summed the law up with two particular passages.
1. that all of the law and the prophets is as “Love the Lord your God with your whole heart and Love your Neighbour as yourself” [and like wise "do unto others as you would have them do unto you"]
and 2. that “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath”
In other words the law is a servant not a master. It is a tool not the product. It is a sign post not the destination.
When God said “do justice and love mercy” the implication is that justice cannot be done without a love of mercy.
The law could never be an excuse for cruelty. The goal is remedy and restoration, not retribution. One cannot improve society by destroying families. The law without mercy is like surgery without closure.
Venegeance in man is insanity for only God can accomplish it. The case of Annanias and Sapphira is the pointed reminder.
Without moral authority there is no authority; even when there are guns, money and a palpable tyranny.
Secularism is a myth. Truth demands acknowledgment and all things have their spiritual implications. Including bricks and mortar, roads and sewerage. A civil administration could never overrule the spiritual reality of immutable truth. It is the civil administration that shall bend or break. Time and time again it already has.
Without social capital an economy kind of resembles what it now is…………….
Good day Dr. Hovind
My name is Gerbie and I have only recently came onto your CSE material via a friend of mine here in South Africa. Yesterday I went onto the net for the first time to explore CSE’s website. I was more amazed than shocked when I saw how the evolutionists and liberalists of this world are doing their utmost best to slender your name and run you into the ground!
May God, the Divine Creator of the world, BLESS you wherever you are right now! It sounds like you are still in prison and I pray that God will intervene and open those very doors soon! I only have got two DVD’s; The Age of the Earth and The Garden Of Eden. Both of these were really inspirational to me and confirmed and strengthened my faith in our Tri-une God even more! I’m spreading the message of a definite created world as far as possible here in South Africa!
It is a Sunday afternoon here here by us and I will spend a lot of this day thinking about you and your family. Please feel free to send any news and/or newsletters to my e-mail address on gertrace@gmail.com
God’s Richest Blessings.
Gerbie van den Berg
Dear Kent,
I have pondered this kneemail over this last week; I’ve felt uncomfortable about it somehow. I’ve read it a few times and looked up the scriptures which you use to back up your message, and I think that it is slightly off balance.
It is definitely true that God will castaway the wicked and unfaithful servant etc. (Matthew 24 & 25) but this will be at the Time of the End when the Master /Bridegroom comes back, not whilst He is away. This is illustrated again in the Parable of the “Wheat & the Tares” (Matthew 13:24-30), The Good Man would not allow his servants to uproot the Tares lest they also disturb the Wheat. His instruction was to leave both until the Time of the Harvest when the Tares would then be “Castaway” to be burned.
I was once involved with a church fellowship, which taught the Gospel correctly etc. but I was made to leave (I tried hard to stay but was frozen out). The justification given to those church members who were not made to leave was that God was pruning his church and when a plant is pruned sometimes even some healthy bits are removed in order to give greater strength to the rest.
I guess it is this quote from your kneemail that made me feel uncomfortable more than anything else…
God: ….I prune them first, and if that doesn’t work, I cut them off. It sounds harsh, but that’s what’s best for the tree.
I prefer this scripture
Isaiah 42:3 A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
I think it good and prudent to cast away from oneself anything that stops you reaching for the light. We should in no way take this task lightly but rather work out our own salvation with fear and trembling, lest that by any means, after many works, we ourselves should be a castaway.
Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Lots of Love
Jason x