Joh 15:1 I Am the True Vine, and My Father Is the Husbandman

Just Who is Due Credit as Initiator, Creator, and Owner?

When May Credit Be Claimed by Right and by Whom?

How, When & by Whom Is this Principle to Be Applied Today?

Are Each of Us to Submit Willingly to just any a State (of affairs)?

So Who’s State Meant – or a Mend Ment - are We, am I, are you, to Submit to?

Who May Rightly Claim the Inheritance due a True Son and Daughter of the Creator, of Yahweh Elohim, of whomever, and Who, truly, has the Right to Claim “I am whom I am,” and none else, but ‘merely poor little me’?

Joh 15:1 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman.

Joh 15:2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Joh 15:4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot, bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

Joh 15:5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

Joh 15:6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

Joh 15:7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

Joh 15:8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Joh 15:9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved, you: continue ye in my love.

Joh 15:10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

Joh 15:11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.

Joh 15:12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

Joh 15:13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Joh 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.

Joh 15:15 Henceforth I call you not, , servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.

Joh 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever, ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may give it you.

Joh 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.

Joh 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.

Joh 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love, his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore, the world hateth you.

Joh 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.

Joh 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's sake, because they know not him that sent me.

Joh 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.

Joh 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.

Joh 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father.

Joh 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.

Joh 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:

Joh 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.

- May I claim any credit for initiating – together with Kari Onjukka – and then for designing and building – also together with Kari Onjukka – the “scoutstugan” at Ekebyholm? Have either I or Kari ever charged anyone for staying as our guests at this ever popular hostel?

- May I claim any credit for initiating and building – together with Kari, Kjell, Torbjörn, Erik, and Sven-Ingvar - the bird watching tower of yester year at Ekebyholm? Have either I or Kari ever charged anyone for staying or visiting as our guests at that structure?

- May I claim any credit for contributing towards the interest in sleeping under the open skies whenever possible?

- May I claim any credit for participating in and thus contributing to the initiatives of others?

- May I claim any credit for planting a seed of interest eventually sprouting into small plants of growths characterized by successes, self-improvements, healthful activities, and many other joys associated with, one-wheel biking at Nyhyttan by buying my first one-wheel bike in the late 1980ies or beginning 90ies when Hans was still not tall enough to even reach the pedals for a useful try?

- May I claim any credit for planting a seed of interest eventually sprouting into small plants of growths characterized by successes, self-improvements, healthful activities, and many other joys associated with, one-wheel biking at Nyhyttan by buying my second one-wheel bike, an extended tall version - in the beginning of the 90ies when Hans was now – together with his friends at Nyhyttan – able to successfully reach the pedals and start climbing upon the list of levels?

- May I claim any credit for planting seeds of interest towards a deeper study into the Word of God in some people within and without the SDA Church?

- May I claim any credit for building and then selling – at a price below cost of materials alone, let alone the cost against my own time and health – some 20 or 30 Canadian type canoes back in the 1960ies, each of which was hand-made out of sturdy fiberglass for durability and strength and out of a simple but attractive wooden edging for personality and comfort?

- May I claim any credit for attempting my best in creating a greater interest in the reality of our SDA inheritance known as the Health Message?

• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of quitting the use of strong alcoholic beverages?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of quitting the beer habit?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of quitting his smoking habit?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of quitting his tobacco habit?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of quitting his use of bad language?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of quitting his wasteful habit of reading useless fiction – in favor of finding real treasures of wisdom by reading the Word of God?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of quitting his attendance at official executions whereby the attendees gave their support and power to official and public murder – certainly often based upon very poor, hasty, or absent grounds - just as such decisions almost always are (simply because that is often all they can be when man is left to be the judge?!)
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of initiating and establishing local gatherings against the type of slavery, serfdom, and work, which did not favor real and eternal values such as family, health, happiness, security, delight, and joy?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of keeping the Seventh Day Sabbath?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of refusing participation in wars directed against ourselves as free sons and daughters under none but the Creator alone?
• Is there any value for us today in Joseph Bates’ standing up for – as possibly one of the first in his country and in the world at the time – and making a reality of standing up against the abuses against the many prisoners – many or even most of who are held without true and valid basis - within prisons everywhere?
• Is there any value for us today in taking to heart not only the writings of Joseph Bates as reflected in his autobiography, but also the writings carefully considering and expanding upon what was earlier known by the bible students of those early days?
• Is there any value for us today in carefully considering, and in applying in the here and now, the discoveries of our SDA pioneers?
• Is there any value for us today in carefully considering, and in applying in the here and now, the discoveries and the biblical principles carefully recorded by Ellen Gould White, one most gifted writer among our SDA pioneers?
• Is there any value for us today in making a reality of standing up – upon the shoulders of giants, such as Joseph Bates and Ellen Gould White – against the State’s abuses against the family units everywhere?
• Tiny infants and children being abandoned - for great parts of most every day - by their fathers and mothers into the hands of strangers while the parents themselves feel obligated to “work” as serfs under slave managers mostly known in terms of employers.
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that pills and a multiplicity of harmful patentable variants of natural healthful home remedies are necessary for keeping illness and disease at bay.
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief their efforts, time, money, and contribution – Is this not the same as slave labor? – is necessary in order to make possible an ever spiraling production of pills and harmful patentable “medicines.”
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief their efforts, time, money, and contribution – Is this not the same as slave labor? – is more valuable than time spent with their very own families doing whatever their Creator may choose to show them is most needed then and there?
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that it is God’s will we should be sacrificing family – whether husband, wife, infant, offspring, child, brother, or sister – for the whims of the State, the Woman of Rev. 17:5 all “arrayed in purple and scarlet color” – Aren’t those the colors of the flags of some very influential States and Commonwealths?
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that it is God’s will we should be submitting unto the man made “authority” of the State.
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that it is God’s will we should be contributing to schools – even church schools – offering education promoted by the State.
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that it is God’s will that anyone should ever contribute unto the destruction of any family, whether her/his own, or unto that belonging unto another.
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that it is God’s will that anyone should ever contribute unto a political system, wherein one officially sanctioned party, the Communists (e.g. in Sweden,) is officially promoting the destruction of the family, while most parties of the State officially sanction every conceivable perversion of that which is to be sanctified and kept for nothing but that which is defined within, and by, each family unit alone.
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that it is God’s will that anyone should ever contribute or consent unto, submit under, or obey, a Divorce Decree, or any other decree issued by any judicial power while such decree is having the effect that family relationships are being harmed and/or having the effect that contact, confidence, and respect between members within a family is not being built, but rather severed.
• Family members of all ages being duped into a belief that it is God’s will that anyone should ever sympathize with any thought or any action having the effect that a member of any family is effectively kept at a distance from anyone else among his or her family.
• Consider carefully the concept of False Sympathy!
• Consider carefully what kinds of prayers, what attitudes, what species of “caring for the wellbeing of the children of other families” that may be represented by the false fire lit by the priests – though the priests were once sanctioned for the Lord – as recorded in Leviticus 10:1-3.

- May I claim any credit for sharing freely with anyone who asks out of the pearls of health I learnt while being a student at Loma Linda University Medical School – paid for by the means provided by the Lord of Hosts not excepting the powers He is continually giving me for working with my own hands and by using my own mind - and at many other places not excluding Loma Linda School of Health.

- May I claim any credit by identifying with my father’s efforts in encouraging and financially helping Swedish students attend and pay for schooling at the SDA school at Ekebyholm, not excluding:

• His efforts – together with Norman Blomstedt most especially – in financially supporting the SDA School at Ekebyholm out of the funds produced by the physicians heading the institutions at Nyhyttan and Hultafors?
• His efforts – together with Norman Blomstedt most especially – in creating not only work, but also in creating tuition support programs for students at the SDA School at Ekebyholm - out of the funds produced by themselves, i.e. the physicians heading the institutions at Nyhyttan and Hultafors, which they had every right to claim for themselves and for their own families in accord with their given contracts with the State?

- May I claim any credit for sharing with you all the time I’d much rather have had alone with my father – not excluding:

• The annual vacationing time that was due unto my father but which was rarely if ever realized.
• The trice daily meal time meetings at home that could materialize at most once daily.
• The evenings with my father that were certainly cut short by two or three quarters daily by extra and apparently necessary evening work for the Nyhyttan’s Sanitarium, since given various other names.
• The time represented by the financial losses of my father’s, which losses were due to the failure of my father being given, by the other party, payment consistent with the terms of his contract – missing payments amounting to several years of accumulated remunerations.

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