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The concept of the ‘trash and treasure’ market is founded in the saying, ‘one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.’

This saying, in turn, is closely related to the proverb, ‘What is useless to one person, is valuable to another.’

This saying - and the proverb that relates to it – can be applied directly to all the ‘knowledge’ that exists in the world about God.

Someone who trusts in God’s direct Word and testimony alone, when it comes to learning about God and knowing God as he knows himself, will refer to all knowledge that comes directly from God as treasure.

And everything else, as trash.

To use a word from our proverb, to one who trusts God alone when it comes to learning the Truth about him, anything that does not come from God will be deemed useless.

They would view the Word of Jesus as the Word of God, so when Jesus asked his followers to watch for God’s Truth, they would watch for God’s Truth.

Not the perversions of it offered by those so arrogant they would ask the world to look their way in order to know God.

With this instruction, God, through Jesus, separated Truth – that which has come from God and all that is to come from God – from everything else that ever existed or will exist.

All else – no matter who it comes from – should be rendered trash and rejected.

That’s the Word of Jesus.

And the Word of God.

Together, they not only established the idea that all that comes directly from God is Truth, but also that everything that doesn't should be avoided.

Together, they established that all that does not come from God is the enemy of all that does.

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If we are trying to know God through things that do not come from God then we are not trying to know God.

To many who call themselves ‘faithful’, it is God’s direct Word and testimony that is considered trash.

It must be, because they offer and embrace the plethora of alternatives expressed by those God has labelled Godrobbers.

When God loses custody over the things said about him, we are being offered information he did not ask to be shared.

If we turn to this information to learn about God, we are turning to information that did not come from God and was expressed without his blessing.

God does not value it because it did not come from him, and yet, it seeks to explain him.

God does not even permit the existence of such information in the first place.

To God, any information about him that does not come from him sits in opposition to his own.

When applied to philosophy, the term, ‘knowledge’, is taken to mean ‘true, justified belief, certain understanding, as opposed to opinion’.

By that definition, no one other than God can ever offer knowledge about God.

For what anyone else says is speculative, opinionated and corrupt.

Not to mention non-consensual.

In short, to one who trusts God’s Word alone, and to God, it is trash.

Treasure – or Truth – to one who trusts God can only be found in one place.

And that is the Word of God.

They respect God’s right to sole custody over how he is understood and over all ‘knowledge’ that is made known about him in our world.

God has been active in recent years, offering his own testimony to the world.

He has been sharing the Truth as he sees it – just as Jesus promised.

But at the same time, he has also been tending to the information that exists in our world about him but does not come from him.

And which is offered with neither his blessing nor consent.

He has been tending to the trash.

In fact, God’s process of revelation began with the words, ‘Be and Trust!’

He repeated this phrase three times.

‘Be and Trust!

Be and Trust!

Be and Trust!’

Through these words we know with certainty exactly what God needs from us.

He needs us being what he asked us to be.

And trusting in his Word alone.

Not the Godrobbers who exploit him and the trash that comes out of their mouths.

As part of God’s crusade against those who exploit him, he has offered the term Godrobber, to describe anyone who steals or has stolen custody from God over how he might be understood.

And he has labelled any definition of him that has not come from him, a Godstitute.

A substitute for the one true God - a perversion that contradicts his own true nature and form.

In God’s eyes, he is who is. And can only ever be who he is.

He will never be who or what we might say he is.

Any speculation about who or what God is equates to the creation of a false and misleading god. A god who is not God.

Born from a source of information that is not God.

A source that in God’s eyes is not to be trusted.

God then went on to establish his position on declarations of faith.

To him, they mean nothing.

Instead, he asks everyone alive today the following questions, ‘whose information about me do you trust? Is it the knowledge that comes from me? Or the trash offered by a Godrobber?’

It is the sources of information on God we trust that reveals where our trust lies.

And where our trust lies is where we place our faith.

No matter what we say.

God has made it clear.

We either trust in him or those who offer speculation and opinion – misrepresentation – about him.

The Word of God and the word of anyone else who has claimed a worldly authority over him will never be of singular substance.

One offers knowledge about God – fixed, accurate and true – and the other, non-consensual trash.

God has also decided to redefine the word 'Truth' in the context of all the things we might 'learn' about him.

He has asked that all knowledge that comes directly from him – as in he said it and asked for it to be said – be considered Truth.

With a capital ‘T’.

He has done this to distinguish his direct Word – the things he wanted shared – from the speculative word of the Godrobber and the things he didn’t want shared.

Now all information brought into the world about God – and all that came before – is to be placed in one of two categories.

The knowledge that comes directly from God.

The Truth.

And everything else.

The trash.

God, and now our world, will always be clear in who it is we really trust.

Do we trust in the Truth?

The Truth being God’s own direct Word and testimony.

Or the ‘Trash’?

Trash, when it is speculation about God, also comes with a capital ‘T’ to show that the information being offered is not only lacking in credibility, substance and consent, but that its intention is to influence how people think about God, against God’s wishes.

Imagine deciding for yourself who or what God is, and then adding this self-serving perversion and fetishization of God into the pot that is our world’s collective information about God.

Invest in these monstrosities and we invest in the misrepresentation, exploitation and abuse of God.

We choose Trash over Truth.

If anyone believes in God’s revelation of Truth and his right to sole custody over the things made known about him in our world, they will never offer themselves as an alternative.

Or attempt to steer the thinking of our world when it comes to God in a direction God does not want it to go.

If God thinks the world needs to know something about him, he will share it himself.

Anyone who trusts God would believe this.

Offering oneself as an alternative to God’s word is not the work of the poor in spirit.

It is the way of the arrogant and proud.

The legacy of those who have done this was always going to become that of one who competed with God for custody over his Word and how he was understood by our world.

God has made it clear.

We trust in him – or another source.

To one who trusts God, his Word is treasure.

It is Truth.

All else is Trash.

To one who trusts God, treasure and Truth can only come from him.

Trash comes from the Godrobber.

But to those who embrace information that does not come from God, God’s Word is trash.

They seek learning from the misrepresentative, exploitative and non-consensual word of the Godrobber.

Information designed to influence how others think about God and information God never consented to being made known becomes treasure.

And because they trust and value this type of information, God’s own Word on himself is pushed aside.

His Word, to the Godrobber and their followers, becomes trash.

To them, God’s Word is inadequate.

They seek to know him through those who do not know him.

They seek to know God through those who have so little respect for God and his right to sole custody over all knowledge shared about him that they offer their unsolicited speculations and themselves as alternatives.

What they offer, in God’s eyes, is Trash.

Treasure and Truth are words reserved only for the direct knowledge that is shared by God in relation to himself.

But our world does not view God’s Word as treasure.

What our world ‘knows’ about God is based largely on information God told us to reject.

The big question is this.

Is God unfair for wanting sole custody over all knowledge made known about him?

Is he unfair for gatecrashing the world’s exploitation and abuse of him by revealing the Truth about himself as he understands it?

Or should he continue to suffer while those responsible for the exploitation and abuse – many of whom call themselves ‘faithful’ – continue to reap the worldly treasures that can be acquired through the mistreatment of God and the embodiment and expression of the crime against God that is Godrobbing?

Those who love God and seek to know God as he knows himself, and who trust in his Word alone will have little trouble in answering this question.

But those who have made a name for themselves robbing God of custody over how he is understood by our world have a lot to lose.

Especially those doing it today.

Because they did this when God was representing himself.

They were doing it at the exact time in history for which Jesus asked us to remain watchful.

Jesus’ call to watchfulness had an end date.

The moment God began revealing the Truth about himself to the world.

That moment has come…

and gone.

But the world was far too busy sifting through the Trash to see that the treasure that is Truth, had come.

Just as God had promised.

No one can know God through the exploitation of God, by those who do not know him themselves.

And so it is.

Amen.

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Postscript

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Today, it is a case of God versus the world.

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And his Word against the worldly faith.

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The world's exploitation of God, particularly of those who embody the worldly faith is laid bare in Contra Mundum: God Against the World.

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This book pits God's own Word and testimony against the 'word' on God of His Holiness Pope Francis.

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It pits his Word against science and atheism.

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And against those with a worldly faith who exploit God to make a name for themselves. Those he refers to as Godrobbers.

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Contra Mundum: God Against the World.

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