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The 11th of August, 2024, will mark the occasion of the inaugural Amen Sunday.

Amen.

A word whose inclusion, use and application unites all three of the major Abrahamic religions.

A word taken to mean; ‘fixed‘, 'reliable', and 'true'.

Amen Sunday is also the day that begins Truth Week. A week where one takes time out to separate knowledge that has come directly from God – Truth – from ‘knowledge’ about God which does not come from him.

The latter being unsolicited and non-consensual speculation. And a theft of God’s right to sole custody and control over the things our world comes to know about him.

It is a week to separate the direct Word and testimony of God – the only source that can be considered ‘fixed’, ‘reliable’ and ‘true’ when it comes to understanding God as he wants to be understood – from the misrepresentations offered by those who have made themselves experts on God without his blessing.

In Truth Week we are reminded that if God did not say it about himself, or did not consent to it being said, it should never have been said.

No one who truly loved God, and believed him sacred, would ever defend their right to speculate about him in any way.

Let alone be the one who sought to influence how the world might come to understand God.

Amen Sunday and Truth Week provides the space and motivation to explore ‘trust’.

Is our trust in the things God says about himself and in the things he has revealed?

Or in ‘wisdom’ he did not share.

Establishing trust in God is easy.  

Two questions are all that is needed.

Did God say the things I am hearing or seeing?

Yes.

I trust them.

No.

I don’t.

This new and sacred day - and the week that follows - has its origins in God’s direct response to the rampant misrepresentation and exploitation of him which takes place daily on the Medium publishing platform.

The theme for Amen Sunday and Truth Week this year is singular.

‘God Outside the Exploitative Walls of Medium’.

On that platform God is not who he is.

He is who the writers there say he is.

There, custody over how the world comes to know and understand God is stolen from him and placed in the hands of those responsible for the thefts.

And there, the misrepresentation and exploitation of God is followed, supported and praised by those who do not seek to know God through his own Word, but through the things people say about him without his blessing.

It is a red-light district where God is dressed up and fetishized however the writers there wish to dress him up and fetishize him.

Speaking falsely about God, with neither his blessing nor consent, is celebrated on Medium.

As it is around the world.

Amen Sunday, along with Truth Week is God’s way of reminding the world that he alone has sole custody over how he is understood.

If God did not say it directly, it should never have been said.

God does not permit anyone to publish their personal and speculative ideas about him in a bid to influence how the world knows and understands him.

Only God’s understanding of himself counts.

Only God's understanding of himself is valid.

And only God's understanding of himself is to be trusted.

God said, ‘I Am who I Am’

He is something specific and he can only ever be who he is.

So our knowing God, loving God and trusting God can only ever be made real when the knowledge about God we trust comes from God, and when we love God as he is and as he knows himself.

Every definition or notion of God that has ever been expressed and was not sourced in God’s own direct Word, revelation and testimony, belongs to a false god.

It does not belong to God for it has not come from him.  

The creators of these false gods and their advocates and followers have broken their covenant with God.

They have honoured a false god.

Loyalty, trust and fidelity now belong to an alternative to the one true God.

And to things he did not say.

Amen Sunday - along with Truth Week - is God's way of saying, 'Do not trust what does not come from me.'

And that all knowledge about God that is not sourced in God, has been given life without his blessing.

We trust in God when we trust in what he says.

We cease to trust in God when we offer ourselves to the things that have not come from him.

This week, God will remind the world of many things we have forgotten.

And one of those things is that he should be honoured, respected and kept sacred.

In God’s eyes there is no such thing as a personal ‘god’.

And how could there be?

They are our creations. To reduce God to whatever limited and self-serving idea of him we wish to limit him to is an abomination of God's true identity.

And an alternative to God as he knows himself.

God is who he is.

He does not adapt who he is to suit our personal tastes.

He expects us to adapt our lives and our understanding of him to his own Word, revelation and testimony.

We cannot love and trust God if it is not God – as he truly exists – whom we love and trust.

A 'follow' for a writer on Medium who writes without God’s blessing and consent is an ‘unfollow’ for God.

Amen Sunday and Truth Week remind us of two other things.

When God speaks directly to the world what is said is fixed, reliable and true.

Not one word about God that does not come from God, can boast of these qualities.

When anyone speaks of God without his blessing, offering their personal opinion on God, or their own explanations for his behaviour, they should preface what they say with a warning.

‘God did not say what I am about to say. Nor has God given me his blessing to say the things I am about to say. What follows is my opinion about things I do not understand and does not reflect God’s understanding of himself. What follows is not Truth. I am attempting to sway the world into understanding God as I understand him – not as he understands himself. If you trust in the things you are about to read you cease to trust in God.’

When the things we hear about God come from God they are to be referred to as Truth.

With a capital ‘T’.

This is to distinguish knowledge that comes from God - Truth - from ‘knowledge’ about God that does not come from him.

Every word in the latter category is considered by God to be misrepresentative and exploitative.

And non-consensual.  

One of God’s sacred Laws demands that we do not steal.

Of all the thefts available to us, the worst is robbing God of custody and control over how he is understood.

When one does this they break many of God’s sacred Laws.

They create and honour a false God.

They steal.

And they commit adultery against God by offering and embracing an alternative.

Amen Sunday and Truth Week is also a week for people to reflect on the true recipient of their love, trust and faith.

Is it God?

Is it his direct Word and testimony and God as he knows himself?

Or does our faith, love and trust lay in an authority who has robbed God of custody and authority over how the world comes to know and understand him?

It is also a week to celebrate the way of life that is conditional expression and to remember through his own direct Word and the life of Jesus, God did not ask us to know him as he knew himself, but to be who he asked us to be.

Conditional expression is the way of life that honours God through its being.

It is the way of life that seeks to embody and express God’s Word, laws and instructions as they were taught, embodied and expressed by Jesus.

For Jesus was God’s own interpretation of his laws.

Jesus was God’s way of saying, ‘this is how I want my laws interpreted, embodied and expressed’.

And, ‘to prove you love me, and to make your love real, you must live this way!’

Without our conditional expression our love for God is not actioned and embodied.

It is not real.

Conditional expression is not like a religion or faith.

It does not exist unless it is happening.

If we are living with conditional expression, we are being who God asked us to be. We are existing as God asked us to exist.  

Conditional expression is founded on God’s direct request that we…

'Be and Trust.

Be and Trust.

Be and Trust.'

'Be' what God asked us to be.

And 'Trust' only in the things God has to say about himself.

If God wanted something made known about him, surely, he would make it known himself.

Not watch on voiceless, hoping the world would embrace the things made up about him and offered by those and he did not trust himself.  

God has never been voiceless.

But on Medium he is.

On the Medium writing platform God is not the author of things written about him.

The authorship there belongs to those who have stolen custody from God over how he is understood.

It is the home of those who create and embrace false notions of God.

There, people traffic their misrepresentations and exploitations of God with rabid enthusiasm and zeal.

The hubris there is palpable.

People there write as if no truth exists outside the walls of Medium when it comes to God.

And yet the opposite is true.

No Truth that comes from God and no Truth that exists with his blessing and consent actually exists within its walls.

Medium, to God, is a red light district of betrayal and exploitation.

My hope is that Amen Sunday - and Truth Week - will serve as an eternal reminder of the cruelty and neglect with which God is treated there.

And that those largely responsible for the abuse God experiences there refer to themselves as ‘faithful’.

They boast about their faith.

And mock, judge and ridicule the faith of others.

They stand on God’s shoulders to be seen and adored by the readers on Medium.

But God, by reclaiming sole custody over his Word and how he is understood, has stepped out from underneath them,

The platform they exploited to be seen, heard and adored - God - does not consent to their exploitation.

They do not stand with God.

They stand opposed.

They are his competitors.

They are the enemy.

God cannot, and will not adapt the Truth of who he is to give substance and credibility to the unsolicited assumptions we might wish to make about him.

There is no substance or credibility in anything said about God that does not come directly from him.

To offer such things, or trust them, is a breach of the Law.

God despises the writers on Medium because they compete with him.

There, the misrepresentation of God brings gold.

And Truth is non-existent.

God is sending a clear message to writers who exploit him on Medium, and more widely around the world.

'Knowledge that comes from me is Truth. Knowledge that doesn’t is not.

Trust in me is trust in me.

Love for me is love for me.

Trust and love offered to an alternative source is not.'

Amen Sunday and Truth Week is also a reminder of the faith and trust that sits outside the limitations of religion.

A faith and trust that should unite all who claim to belong to God.

And that is faith and trust in God.

And love for God.

Believing God exists does not benefit God. In fact, it can work against him if one decides they must provide the personally sourced ‘evidence’ for God’s existence.

It is this behaviour that has led to our world debating an ‘idea’ of God that God himself has deemed never to have existed.

God benefits from our being.

God benefits from our conditional expression.

That is the only way our love for him is embodied and expressed as he asked us to embody and express it.

God's children are not divided.

How could they be?

They belong to God.

Not the worldly exploitation of him.

Amen Sunday and Truth Week will serve as an eternal reminder there is faith and trust in God.

And faith and trust in something else.

The first time God ever spoke for himself, the option to place our faith and trust in God was established.

The first time someone made something up about him was the first time we could choose to place our faith and trust in an alternative to God.

False ‘gods’ begin when God’s direct Word and testimony ceases to exist.

And this is also the point at which trust in God ends.

If God is not saying it, God is not saying it!

To rob God of the right to define himself is unjustifiable.

It means God's own Word is forced to contend with every unsolicited misrepresentation of him that preceded his own revelation.

Instead of making space for God - the space Jesus asked his followers to preserve through their watchfulness - to define himself as he truly is, when and in whatever way he wants to, that space has been taken.

God's right to define himself as he is and his right to revelation has been hijacked.

Responsibility for the desecration and destruction of this space rests with everyone who has ever called upon the world to know God through them.

And it is the removal of this space, and his exploitation at the hands of those who have positioned themselves above him to steal that space, that have been the greatest contributors to the lifetime of suffering and abuse God has experienced at the hands of our world.

They did not know God.

They never had God’s consent to do what they did.

And while they showcase their misrepresentations of God before the eyes of the world, God suffers.

Each day this week – until Friday – I will share an aspect of the Truth as God sees it, but which does not exist on the Medium platform.

No one learns about God on Medium.

They learn from the misrepresentation and exploitation.

To those who stand opposed to the exploitation of God on that platform – and these people do exist – God says thank you!

I will also be taking my defence of God’s right to sole custody over how he is understood, to Medium.

What a concept that is.

Asking people who claim to love, trust and have faith in God not to speculate about him or reduce how he is understood to the own limited and personally centred idea of him.

But in the world of a billion ‘gods’ what choice does God have.

To those who misrepresent God on invite you to defend your right to misrepresent him.

But unless you have heard from him and unless you know who God is with 100% accuracy you are misrepresenting him.

And you operate with neither his blessing nor consent.

And so it is.

Amen

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God's distaste for the misrepresentation and exploitation of him which has become the trademark of many writers on the Medium publishing platform first appeared in the book, 22 Days of God and the Fight for Life.

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It played a more significant role in the book, The Road to Easter

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And then one writer who has done very well out of God on that platform was identified as the 'face of the worldly faith' in Contra Mundum - God Against the World

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