This building was constructed
60 or so years ago in South Dubbo as a Christian Church because that suburb was
growing fast and needed an extra place of worship. Recently, however, even
though that area has expanded greatly, the building had to be sold due to the
apathy of the people and is now a Mosque for the Dubbo Muslim population.
Generally speaking Australia
has become the ideal place to migrate to because you see Australia was
established as a British Colony and Our Constitution and laws were all based on
Christian ideals, so everybody is treated equally, paid fairly and supported by
very good education, health, and welfare systems. Sunday was declared a Public
Holiday to comply with the 10 Commandments and because of that anyone having to
work on that day had to be paid penalty rate compensation for being deprived of
the privilege of attending a church service on that day. Consequently for the
first 200 years Sunday was a day of rest and worship except for essential
service personnel. However in recent times, money hungry big businesses decided
to ignore the 10 Commandments and open and trade on the Lord’s Day thus
creating a seven day working week.
They say “Chickens come home
to roost” which means that when we neglect things or do wrong things, we will
pay the consequences later.
Let me tell you of one such
incident that will have very far reaching consequences: A couple of months ago
an organization, representing big business, started to promote the idea that
Penalty Rates for Sunday employment be abolished; they argue that we now have a
7 day working week (they should know, they deliberately created it) and there
is no need to pay compensation in the form of penalty rates to workers for
missing out on church now because most Christians don’t attend church anyway.
This is true of course so is difficult to refute. The Government and anyone
employing people will be overjoyed at this suggestion because if penalty rates
are withdrawn they stand to gain millions of dollars at the expense of the
workers. The Government won’t do anything about this in an election year of
course, but just wait until after the elections! Working people could lose
millions of dollars and Sunday would be meaningless.
Last week I pointed out that
our Law and Order System is having difficulty in coping with crime and violence
because in the past 50 years people have become less and less Church Attenders
and more and more watchers of cruel and violent D.V.Ds. and films. Now that is
the Spiritual equivalent of working
in a dirty job and not taking a shower to wash off accumulated dirt. Worse
still is the fact that children brought up like that have a far less chance of
learning about the Saving Grace of Jesus and a far greater chance of looking on
cruelty and violence as normal.
61% of Australians claim to
be Christians. If all these went to church for one hour on Sundays the “powers
that be” wouldn’t dare oppose that much “people power”. Also, and in any case,
we should all boycott shopping on Sundays, (except at the smaller shops for
emergencies). That would stop the seven day week trading; thus Sunday would
remain for us to enjoy and Penalty Rates would remain as the rightful
compensation for those who do have to work on that day.
You see God’s Commandments
were designed for our benefit and Jesus said He “came that we might have life, and have it more abundantly”. Ignoring
God might look like “a good idea at the time”, but will always cost us dearly
in the end.
If we don’t take a
pro-active role by attending church and not shopping on Sunday then we will
only have ourselves to blame when our Great Grandchildren say: “Tell me about
the thing called Sunday, what was it like?”
Best wishes as you share
this with as many as you can. Regards, Tom.
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