Mr. Cross, clearly you are the most obvious person to respond to my request, and I make the request again, asking for your response. I’m not going to play soft and fluffy with you as the stakes are too high. At one time you claimed to be a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ and had a position of authority in the institutional church. You probably have spent a good bit of time reading the Bible and know the verses that I repeatedly use. However, you have also taken verses, such as Matthew 19, and make a mockery of them and refuse to defend your position. You use a man who argued from the Talmud, the document that has Jesus burning in feces in hell, and refuse to state if you follow or reject the Talmud. It seems you are living out 2Tim 3:6 and my wife is the victim. The next verse speaks of “a knowledge of the truth” that some don’t find. The truth is the Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6), but I think you know about that, but do you really know Him? Someone who knows Lord Jesus Christ demonstrates that by keeping his commandments (1John2:3). His commandments are summarized in Deuteronomy 6 and Leviticus 19. I think you aware of that, but I am asking again that you live that. I made a clear case with you in the February 13 voicemail, but unfortunately it was ignored (http://family.kozlowski.org/Voicemail-2019-02-13). So I ask again, be a man not a wimp! Come to the table and demonstrate that you are a follower of Christ and willing to reconcile. Otherwise you are a fraud and I am calling you out on it. A man who loves his family would do no other. You have been pointing them to a pseudo-Christ. You have either been deceived or you are a deceiver. Are you planning on standing before the Lord to celebrate how you stood in the way of our reconciliation and my family’s reconciliation, or do you want to celebrate the Lord’s gift of pursing reconciliation with me? This clumsy and foul man has faced abandonment by many corporate interests, the institutional church, and my own family, but NOT THE LORD! I have seen death at my door several times, had others die that I knew, had less than subtle threats made against me, and been around those who carry out those kinds of threats, including the fatal, but as I have matured, none of that hinders me. What disappoints me is those that claim Christ, but turn to the state, such as the court system, or use the executive branch, probably illegally, to threaten me, but still think they are following Christ. After all that has occurred, a “natural man” would seek revenge. If there is any evidence of the grace of the Lord in my life, it is the fact that I seek reconciliation and not revenge. In the video I used an example of a relationship I have with a Mormon friend, Cory. We started with some strong words with each other, but because of the clarity of our dialog his emails to me now end with “Love, Cory”. We are not trying to destroy each other, but both have hope that in our dialog we will find the truth. You might be aware that there is strong evidence that the Mormon Church is falling apart. It is my hope that my friend Cory will be one who is part of the exodus and finds the real Jesus Christ. You might also be aware, at least is it seen by many on the outside, that the PCA is also falling apart. Just as with Cory, it is my hope that you, Jim Cross, will find the real Jesus Christ. The one who is the creator. The one who entered His creation to redeem His elect. The one who commands His elect to reconcile with each other. Please stop shunning me, and open a dialog with me. Please demonstrate that we both follow the same Lord! I have often thought of the last conversation I had with your dad. Things were very different as it seems the façade that he seemed to always wear was gone and we had a wonderful in depth dialog on the joy of being a follower of Christ, and we talked as brothers. We saw him once more before his death and he was highly medicated. The opportunity to celebrate the joy of Christ only really happened once, and then death came. As the video describes, the opportunity to share that joy with John Painter did not come at all, but he died knowing that I didn’t hate him. Mr. Cross, before one of us is dead, please know that I don’t hate you, irrespective of the hateful deeds that have occurred. I desire to celebrate the joy of Christ with you. You have refused to answer, so I will continue to be more public in an effort to break down the walls between us. It should be clear by now that threats, sending the police, and silence will not stop me. If you want to stop me, you are going to have to kill me. But you know that would only be grace to me. Please come to the table as my brother. |
- - - Two years ago an artist and friend, John Painter, died. He was many years younger than me. The circumstances around his death had a great impact on me. Out of respect for him, and because I am in possession of some high resolution digital copies of his art, I did a video with them and spoke about some of our dialog on art. While the man, John Painter, is the initial subject, the relationship with John Painter becomes the focus. Our relationship, up to his death, I suggest is an example of what a fallen man can do to attempt to live out the Lord’s command to reconcile. On the day his wife, Diana Painter, sought me out, about an hour later I did a video, “Heart Attack”, which was inspired by that conversation (http://kozlowski.org/2017-02-08+1). Some years before I had a mild heart attack, undoubtedly due to Takotsubo cardiomyopathy or “broken heart syndrome”, and for several months had profound heart failure symptoms. But with a radical change in lifestyle, mostly diet, those issues are gone. This was without “professional medical care”. While I mentioned my improved health in the video, subsequently I have walked marathon distances, and recently hiked Big Frog Mountain (http://kozlowski.org/2019-02-02+1). My health recovered marvelously. My relationship with John Painter had a reasonable close. Our day of death is approaching for all of us. I wonder how the relationships with Jim Cross, Render Caines, and Chris Bitterman will end? As my pursuit of reconciliation with John Painter can be demonstrated. So can my pursuit of others. Will they remain suborn to the end, or come to the table for dialog? Does Matthew 5:24 mean anything to them? |
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