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A former colleague of mine was an activist in his younger days, and he fondly recounted his association with the iconoclastic 'former Klan leader' David Duke with the anecdote of his lieutenants gathered round about him dotingly asking the Grand Wizard, "What is the meaning of life?" Duke replied, "The meaning of life is that there is no meaning." I'm sure he was just being flippant; but more seriously we should ask ourselves, 'what is our purpose in life?' Without hesitation, I can tell you it is not to make money. I'll tell you right now, without a hide-and-seek sermon, that the purpose of our lives is to live in the glory and service of God Almighty, not as holier-than-thou pew sitters, but as mighty warriors to the pulling down of every Babylonian stronghold. No, I'm not going to be talking about the Iraq war today. This is not a profound message, but it is simple spiritual warfare. Even a baby Christian can understand it.
Let the words of James 4 direct us in a meaningful focus, "Where do fights come from among you? Isn't the source, your pleasures of vice fighting in your members? You desire and have not, so you kill and quarrel, you do not acquire because you don't pray. And when you do pray, you don't have because you pray wrongly, so that you may spend it upon your pleasures. Do you think the scripture says in vain that the Mentality which God has made to dwell in us desires to jealousy and envy?"
The Bible starts out in Genesis over the issue of good and evil, the latter of which I Timothy 6:10 elaborates upon, "For the love of money is the root of all evil, which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows." It might behoove us to read the preceding verse (9), "but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction." It would be an easy commentary to point out that stupid idiot in the White House. However, what you see in the world is often times a reflection of a more subtle wickedness in high places on a local level. Of course, the obvious is the mutant judeo-Christian equivalent of Baal worship which has dragged its denominational baggage into Identity.
One of my many projects is to write about and expose the treacherous leadership in Christian Identity or whatever they tag themselves as. There's nothing wrong about the Identity message; it's just that some of the messengers are in it for thirty pieces of silver. 'Leaderless Identity: Crisis in the Church Militant' has already become a controversial book before it is even completed. The love of money spoils things rotten. I have over 25 years of observing the rise and fall of various Identity ministers. There seems to be a pattern. Perhaps we're on the verge of WWIII because of the spiritual warfare going on within our own Movement.
Let me give you a few examples of good men who do nothing but corrupt the meaning of life, 
so the only thing they'd be good at is spoiling things, and to do so, they must think more highly of themselves than what they ought to; just like Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft. There's a cowboy preacher in Colorado who will go unnamed (because he plays the game of never naming who he's talking about), but I think those who are into the Movement will know who I'm talking about. He's recently tried to reinvent himself as some sort of 'snake stomper' in a reformatted newsletter. For someone who says he never begs for money, his feature article is begging for your tithe as 'the perfect investment'. The subtle part is that he interweaves your prosperity with your financial support of his failing ministry. Let me quote a few gems of jaded wisdom. Naturally, he sprinkles (or should I say baptizes?) scriptural truths with self-serving promotion of himself. His racial consciousness drowned several years ago and all that's left is a dripping wet fan club. 
Quotes from the 'Snake Stomper' newsletter, followed by my commentary:
"The Christian who does not tithe will not prosper. They may seem to do well for a season, but eventually will find themselves under an unexpected crisis. Their disobedience places them under the curse of failure. They cannot prosper."
This is churchianity, not Christianity. "Blessed are the poor in spirit" (Mt. 5:3). Is prosperity the measure of a Christian? Is fear of a crisis to be our motivation?
"Many Christians feel they may dictate the use of their tithe. They designate how or when it is to be spent. This is wrong. Those who pay the tithe have no authority to control its use."
Well then, what you have is an unaccountable dictator. It should be noted that he has no church board or elders to answer to. People may not have an authority, per se, but they do have the freedom to tithe elsewhere. He doesn't say why it would be wrong to have wise counsel in these matters.
"Paying the tithe with conditions attached is not really paying at all. Such a person is still in control and has not relinquished his influence over it. Rest assured, that such a policy will bring frustration and disappointment, not blessing."
I would think the frustration and disappointment would come from not knowing what the policy of those receiving the tithe is. How would someone be blessed from an erratic and irresponsible ministry? This cowboy collected $300,000 to buy interest in a short-wave radio and TV station in Pennsylvania, and it was kicked off the air. He lost all that money and never told anybody what he was going to do about it, other than to ask us to pray about it for several years and then let it fade off into the sunset. I find that a gross malfeasance of stewardship and totally incompetent.
"The Priests were given the responsibility of dispensing the tithe to its proper use. Those that God entrusted with the use of the tithe must answer to Him."
Well, isn't that a nifty rationalization, that you don't have to be answerable to anybody?
"We may disagree with the judgment of those who receive the tithe. They may even misuse it, or violate God's directive. That is their problem. They must answer to God for their stewardship. God will deal adequately with those who misuse the tithe entrusted to their care".
God also deals with the blind who follow the blind.
"It is to be used to provide for those who serve Him in spiritual leadership .... "
The problem is the arrogance of leadership that is bankrupt of spiritual direction and demanding that the world owes them a living because they're so great. What good is any leader if they are delusional? Are they serving themselves or God? What are their fruits?
"That which is holy unto the Lord is to be handled with great care and reverence."
Is he talking about handling the tithe over to himself as something holy when he allowed jews into his church and niggers to speak at his annual camp? Perhaps this would give new meaning to Mt 7:6, "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs". To be fair, the remainder of the article was good biblical teaching, which has already been articulated by others, but the subliminal seed has been planted in the readers mind that this cowboy preacher has his Christian act together and deserves your financial support.
Let's talk about money, the tithe and the meaning of life. As a White Christian, we are meant to glorify God and we do that by eliminating evil from the body politic. There's plenty of judeo-Christians who drive Cadillacs. Does that mean they're right? Not unless they're driving over some antichrist for roadkill! The big mega churches today are built on tithes. But their only reward is apostasy, moving further away from the purposes of God.
Some claim the tithing law was nailed to the Cross. This is not true. Christ's blood sacrifice only replaced that part of the law that atoned for sin. Tithes are not for sin. The tithe is God's command to support the shepherds who in turn support the sheep and give their lives meaning. The Kingdom of God is a perfect world in which the love of money is eliminated.
From The Biblical Law of the Tithe and the Modern Israelite by Robert Alan Balaicius, Sacred Truth Ministries, P.O. Box 18, Mountain City, Tennessee "37683" ....
As Henry Ford pointed out in 'The International Jew', the Canaanite mindset is, "GET MONEY" (regardless of how). The mindset that made our nation great was the Puritan Work Ethic that simply kept in mind: "God commands me to work six days a week ... God commands me to do whatever I do to the best of my ability to glorify Him ... I will provide a good service." Henry Ford, himself, was overly generous to his employees; he set the standard for so-called "worker's rights" and "minimum wage" -- not as some communist union activist rabble-rouser with his hand in the pot; but as a beneficent employer. He was overly generous to his investors and benefactors who helped him to get started, and he was equally generous with his employees. Further, he provided a very good car for the lowest price possible so that nearly every American could own a car.
This all changed somewhere along the line. We took God's blessings for granted, demanded more and even began to steal these blessings from each other by incorporating Canaanite business practices that created this dog eat dog rat race. How can anyone think the modern business system is pleasing to God?
What a stubborn and foolish people we are. The average Christian is like a farmer planting a tomato field from a bag of seed. Though the bag is labeled 'Tomato Seed', in reality, it is filled with thistle seed. When confronted and told the truth, the farmer replies, "Well, it don't seem right to me that all these thistles are coming up and I don't see one tomato plant ... but my preacher/farm supply agent (whom I've known and trusted for 50 years) sold me this sack and he said it was pure tomato seed. I don't understand it, but I know he wouldn't sell me wrong ... so I'm just gonna keep a-plantin'."
Hint: the moral of the story is ... if you don't like what you are reaping, you had better start planting something else: plant the seeds of the crop you want to reap! Dig up the bad crop. Burn it with the old seed. Get new seed from a better source and plant it. Pretty simple, isn't it? Why can society not see this? The answer: they're so stubborn and sinful, they'd rather suffer than do things God's way.
If we had eyes that see and ears that hear, we could trace American history through the pernicious treadmill of usury and know how it deviated from God's law. It is the nature of society as we know it, that some will be poor; others middle class, and still others, possessing great wealth. Regardless of one's economic status in life, most people would like to be able to better themselves above the bare necessities of life. The Bible does make provisions for Christian business beyond the so-called perfect investment of name it and claim it tithing.
I have been the sorry witness of two Christian brothers who went into a business venture that went belly-up. I won't get into all the gory details of a very tangled web, other than to say that it is usually presumed that the borrower is the guilty party and that the lender is honorable. However, a common misrepresentation of God's law is that we are to "owe no man nothing" and that "the borrower is the servant to the lender". It's found in Proverbs 22:7, "The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender". This is not a command, not a warning; it's not even a suggestion. It is merely a declaration of fact. Borrowing is not the issue in this verse. The issue is being very careful from whom you borrow, so that you are not bound to an evil person. And indeed, the spoiler of this business undertaking reared its ugly head and started unreasonable demands of repayment on the loan outside the terms of the original contract. The borrower has honored the business agreement with regular, monthly payments. The lender had the gall to insist upon a new contract and that the balance of the debt be paid in full ... immediately, or else he would take his Christian brother to court. What makes this sordid tale so tragic is that the lender is a CI pastor. This is not leadership; it is dictatorship with the same mentality and spirit of a George Bush who takes your money and gives new meaning to life ... that it sucks.
If Christians want to make an investment into the future, they must get it into their heads that it's not to make money, it's to make a better world than the one we're in now. That can only happen if we give life meaning. The honor of our brotherhood, the unity of our fellowship and the duty of saints is not a one-way street. Each of us must do what he is capable of doing for the other. "He who gives, let him do it with simplicity, he who leads, with diligence, he who shows mercy, with cheerfulness, let love be without hypocrisy ... be devoted to one another in brotherly love, give preference to one another in honor" (Romans 12:8-10).
I hope this message has enhanced your priorities and makes you think twice about where your money comes from and where it's going and may that be the real blessing for a life with meaning.
