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THIS is the THIS and THAT column. THAT means THAT THIS section is loaded with news THAT either matters or doesn't really matter. THIS time the new THAT matters is as follows:

You probably think THAT THIS is about time THAT the look has finally came your way -- No excuses, just a sincere, deep apology THAT asks one question -- "Will you forgive us?" Thanks!!!!!

Our album "Crux of the Mosh" is doing quite well. THIS album features 12 songs THAT really mosh.

Crux: is the most important part
Mosh: loud music in compulsive reactions

THE CRUX OF OUR MOSH IS JESUS CHRIST!

If THIS is the first issue of The Look THAT you have ever read, we want you to pick up THAT pencil and write us letting us know how much you liked, hated, loved, or admired THIS issue. Send us news for THIS column THAT you think other people might be interested in. Now iit is time to move on with other news THAT you might be interested in knowing about.

Torn Flesh is now completing new material for our next album called (take a guess!!!!!!!!!) due out in March of 1991 on Talking Town, REX Records. The new album will feature 14 songs. Nine of those songs join together to make one long TRUE story called "Trilogy of the Damned". The main message in "Trilogy of the Damned" deals with acceptance or serious issues. "Voluntary Manslaughter" is about the crucifixtion of Jesus. "Skeletons in the Closet" is about the power of forgiveness from past, haunting sins. "Color Schemes" attacks the growing issue of racism -- a scrifice for the human race -- not just for the white man's face -- Other tunes are "Don't Tell Me What To Do", "Cranium Disjunction", "Fate Worst Than Death", "Road Kill" and others. For more information on Torn Flesh tunes you can call our Mosh Line -- 614-***-****. THIS Mosh Line is open all day and all night. Call it and listen to a message from a band member. The message changes every month and at the sound of the tone you can leave prayer requests, or messages for us to hear!!! So far we have received calls from every state in the United States, Canada, Germany, Holland, and a few unknown origins. Call, keep in touch with us and let us know what is happening in your life.

SHUT UP

WE HAVE RECEIVED A FEW LETTERS AND PHONE CALLS IN REGARDS TO THE SONG "MANS BEST FRIEND". PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHY WE TELL GOD TO SHUT UP AT THE END OF THE SONG. THE REASON IS TO GIVE AN EYE OPENING LOOK AT THE RESPONSE WE GIVE TO GOD EVERYTIME WE SIN. SIN IS TO WILLFULLY STEP OUT OF THE GUIDELINES AND WILL THAT GOD HAS GIVEN TO US. EVERYTIME THAT WE SIN, IT IS THE SAME AS TELLING GOD TO SHUT UP. TO SIN IS TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY -- NOT GOD'S WAY. TO SIN IS TO TURN YOUR BACK ON GOD. TO SIN IS TO TELL GOD TO SHUT UP!
- He gives us the very best.
- As we pet Him on our laps
- But all He gets from us
- Are left over table scraps
GOD LOVES US AND REALLY CARES FOR US. SOMETIMES IT'S EASY TO START GIVING HIM ALL THE COMMANDS, WHILE IN LOVE WE SHOULD BE FOLLOWING HIS COMMANDS!

BAND NEWS

Torn Flesh has gone through a couple of member changes. Drummer Jim Brown married Kim Bradford; now her name is Kim Brown. They are both now someplace in Minnesota. He has been replaced by Jon Michael Garee. Jon plays a double bass Pearl set. He's married, and he and his wife Sherri live in Grayson, Kentucky where he is attending Kentucky Christian College. He's majoring in Christian Education.

Bassist Mike Holbrook has spent the summer in England with a group from K.C.C. (Kentucky Christain College). He has left the band to further his education, youth ministry and soccer career. He has been replaced by John Woods of Ashland, Kentucky. John is married and he and his wife Missy have a brand new baby daughter! John is a carpenter and is interested in street ministry.

The other three members of the band are...Aaron Brown - guitar, Jayson Matthews - other guitar, and Greg Hudson - ?vocals?. Sandy, Sherri, Kris and Jelece are the Torn Flesh road help.

Right now we encourage all of you to be challenged by the lyrics and take a deep sincere look into the meaning of each song. And, we ask that you would please keep us and our families in prayer as our new album will be coming out soon. Also pray for our ministry, that it will keep going full throttle through Satan's turf.

DID YOU KNOW?

- 85% of people who don't receive Jesus Christ before age 18 never will.
- 23% of teenagers claim to be influenced by the church or youth groups.
- Only one out of every five teenage Christians read their Bible daily.
- Over 1 million 12 to 17 year olds have tried cocaine.
- Today, 11,000 young people wil try an illegal drug.
- Last year 6,000 people under the age of 18 committed suicide.
- About 5 million teens are living in the streets, wver 4million of these end up as prostitiutes. The other million will end up dead. Half of these kids have run away from home -- the rest were thrown out!
- Cocaine use among high school children has hit an all time high, with about 16% of all high school students trying it.
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85% of people who don't receive Jesus Christ before age 18 never will. Millions of teens teeter on the brink of losing control of their lives while lost in the nightmare of drug abuse, alcoholism, crime, perversion, prostitution, homosexuality, satanism, and molestation. Secular music promotes all of these nightmares mentioned and seem to provide no hope, a relentless life that is dark and full of filth. Torn Flesh is taking a stand against the perversion that is going on in todays secular music world. As part of Psalms 150 Ministry, we challenge you to join us and pray for teens and children that are affected by the dark clutches of what the world says is life. With seemingly no future. Together we can share our future with them. Hell is real, God is real. People are real. Problems are real, and solutions are available. Please call us -- 614-***-****.

- Greg Hudson

ANTICHRISTS AMONG US

FOR OUR STRUGGLE IS NOT AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT AGAINST THE RULERS AGAINST THE AUTHORITIES, AGAINST THE POWERS OF THIS DARK WORLD AND AGAINST THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF EVIL IN THIS HEAVENLY REALM. (ephesians 6:12) AS TIME HAS ADVANCED THE ENTIRE CONCEPT OF SATAN AND HELL HAVE BECAME MORE POPULAR AMONG THE MOVIE INDUSTRY, MUSIC INDUSTRY, NOVELS, NEWS PAPERS, POSTERS, AND RELIGION. IT HAS COME TO THE POINT THAT MANY PEOPLE NOW TAKE THE REALITY OF SATAN AND HELL "LIGHTLY". THE FOLLOWING TRUE STORIES SHOULD UNLIGHTEN YOU TO THE REAL DARK SIDE OF HELL.

1) AT AGE 18 HE IS A SELF PROCLAIMED SATANIC HIGH PRIEST. WITH FIREY RED HAIR AND LONG FINGERNAILS, HIS INTEREST IN THE SPIRITUAL FORCES UNLEASH AROUND THE COMMUNITY OF CHESAPEAKE IN A DEVILISH UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT. WITH THE SATANIC BIBLE ON HIS COFFEE TABLE SURROUNDED BY CANDLES AND SKULL FIGURES ON THE FLOOR ALONG WITH VARIOUS BOOKS OF SPELLS AND WITCHCRAFT, I ASKED HIM ABOUT HIS CHURCH AND PURPOSE OF WORSHIPPING SATAN. HE BELIEVES THAT JESUS CHRIST WAS JUST A GREAT TEACHER IN HISTORY AND IS NOT THE SON OF GOD BUT RATHER EVERYONE IS A SON OF GOD. HIS IDEAS WERE EXTREMELY NEW AGE AND FULL OF DECEPTION. SEVERAL ANIMALS HAVE DISAPPEARED IN HIS NEIGHBOR HOOD BUT HE DENIES ANY SACRIFICES. IN JULY A HUMAN ARM WAS FOUND ALONG THE RIVER BANK JUST 1 MILE FROM HIS HOUSE. THE ARM WAS FOUND BY A YOUNG BOY AND HIS FRIEND WHO WERE PLAYING ALONG THE RIVER AGAINST HIS MOTHER'S WILL. SINCE THEN HIS MOTHER HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS THREATS AND ACCUSATIONS ON THE TELEPHONE WARNING HER TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON HER SON.

2) A NEW AGE NOVELTY STORE WAS FORCED TO GO OUT OF BUSINESS IN HUNTINGTON, WVA IN ORDER TO PAY THE TAXES. 251 BOOKS ON SATANISM, WITCHCRAFT, AND THE OCCULT WERE AUCTIONED. ALL OF THE BOOKS WERE BOUGHT BY ONE PERSON, A LOCAL MINISTER. MICHAEL EDDY, PASTOR AT THE BARBOURSVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH BURNED ALL 251 BOOKS SHORTLY AFTER THE PURCHASE. THE BURNING WAS DONE IN PRIVACY AND WAS NOT A PUBLIC DISPLAY BUT IN PROTEST AGAINST THE BURNING, A LOCAL SATANIC GROUP PUT OUT A CHALLENGE AND SAID THEY WOULD FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. EDDY RECEIVED A LETTER STATING THAT THE SATANIC GROUP WOULD TAKE 251 BIBLES AND HYMNALS FROM LOCAL CHURCHES AND BURN THEM IN A BLACK MASS. A HALF BURNED PAGE OF THE GOSPEL OF LUKE CONCERNING CHRIST'S DEATH WAS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE LETTER TO EDDY. MANY CULT FOLLOWERS BELIEVE THAT POWER WITHIN ANIMALS AND HUMANS CAN BE ABSORBED THROUGH RITUALS AND ALSO INCLUDES SEXUAL ACTIVITY, TORTURE, MURDER, DISMEMBERMENT, AND CANNIBALISM.

3) SEAN SELLERS SAT IN HIS PICK-UP SMOKING A CIGARETTE. HE TOSSED HIS DOUBLE EDGE BOOT KNIFE ONTO THE DASHBOARD AND OPENED UP HIS BRIEF CASE AND BEGAN SORTING THROUGH HIS BOOKS ON NINJUTSU, ASTRAL PROJECTION, WITCHCRAFT AND RUNES. HE THEN PICKED UP A BLOOD SMEARED COPY OF THE "SATANIC BIBLE" AND READ "Satan represents undefiled wisdom instead of hypocritical self deceit" PEOPLE ARE SO BLIND, HE THOUGHT. HE THEN TOSSED THE CIGARETTE ONTO THE PAVEMENT AND TOOK OUT A SMALL VIAL OF BLOOD FROM HIS POCKET AND DRANK IT THINKING, "and people think vampires only live in the movies". HE THEN FISHED INTO THE GLOVEBOX AND POURED OUTSOME No-Doze EATING THEM WITH TWO HITS OF SPEED. HE LEANED BACK AND THOUGHT: "speed, blood, satANISM, .... God I hate this life, how did I get so confused" BUT EVERYTIME HE ASKS THAT QUESTION HE REMEMBERS WHEN HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD. BENEATH THE FEW BOOKS HE WOULD CARRY HOME FROM SCHOOL WAS A NOTE BOOK FILLED WITH DUNGEONS & DRAGONS MATERIAL, HE WOULD STUDY THE MANUALS AND CREATE NEW AND MROE INTENSE DUNGEON MODULES. HE STUDIED D & D EVERY SPARE MINUTE IN SCHOOL. HE BEGAN STUDYING ABOUT WIZARDS AND WITCHES. A BABY SITTER HAD ONCE GIVEN HIM BOOKS ON SATANISM. SOON HE SPENT WHOLE DAYS LOOKING THROUGH THE LIBRARY PUTTING HIS HANDS ON EVERYTHING CONNECTED WITH EVIL, SATAN, VOODOO,, DEMONS, WITCHCRAFT, ETC.... HE KNEW THERE WAS POWER IN THE SUPERNATURAL WORLD AND WANTED TO LEARN HOW TO HARNESS IT.

LATER HE MET A GIRL AT CHURCH AND THOUGHT HE HAD FALLEN IN LOVE. LATER SHE TOLD HIM TO GET OUT OF HER LIFE. SEAN BECAME ANGRY WITH GOD AND BEGAN TO HATE HIM. HE HAD PRAYED THAT GOD WOULD MAKE THAT GIRL LOVE HIM AS MUCH AS HE LOVED HER BUT NOW HE FELT THAT GOD HAD FAILED HIM. LATER WHEN HE MOVED BACK TO OKLAHOMA HE MET A NEW GIRL FRIEND WHO INRODUCED HIM TO A WITCH. THE WITCH TOLD HIM THAT IN ORDER TO GET REAL POWER YOU MUST FIRST PRAY TO SATAN. SHE TAUGHT HIM A SPECIAL INCANTATION TO CALL FORTH THE POWERS OF EVIL. HE WAS STILL ANGRY WITH GOD AND IT TOOK HIM A FULL DAY TO GET UP THE NERVE TO PRAY TO THE DEVIL. THAT NIGHT WAS THE TURNING POINT. HE QUESTIONED THE WITCH CONSTANTLY AND THE MORE HE STUDIED THE MORE HE KNEW THAT SATANISM WAS BEHIND D & D AND NINJUTSU. IN HIS OWN BLOOD HE MADE A PACT WITH SATAN. HE WROTE "I renounce God, I renounce Christ. I will serve only Satan. To my friends, Love. To my enemies, Death -- Hail Satan. HE AND HIS FRINDS THEN BEGAN BREAKING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS TO PROVE THEIR ALLEGIANCE TO SATAN. ONLY ONE COMMANDMENT REMAINED UNBROKEN, MURDER!. SATAN TOOK OVER HIS ACTIONS. HE DROVE TO A CONVENIENCE STORE AND A MAN WHO WORKED THERE HAD INSULTED HIS GIRL FRIEND AND REFUSED TO SELL HER A BEER. HE AND TWO TEENAGE FRIENDS WALKED IN. HOLDLING A COLD STEEL .357 MAGNUM, LOADED WITH HOLLOW POINTS, HE AIMED IT STRAIGHT AT THE VICTIM. ONLY ONE COMMANDMENT WAS LEFT, MURDER!

to be continued

WHY DID JESUS LEAVE HEAVEN?

JESUS LEFT HEAVEN TO LET HIS LIGHT SHINE IN THE DARKNESS OF SIN. THE BLINDERS OF SATAN HAD COVERED MENS HEARTS AND MINDS TO THE TRUE LIGHT THAT COULD LEAD THEM TO LIFE. IN HIM WAS LIFE AND THAT LIFE WAS THE LIGHT OF MEN (Jn 1:14). HOWEVER JUST BECOMING GOD IN THE FLESH WAS NOT ENOUGH NOR WAS THE TRUTHS THAT JESUS REVEALED BECAUSE (Jn. 1:5) SAYS THE LIGHT SHINES IN THE DARKNESS BUT THE DARKNESS HAS NOT UNDERSTOOD IT. BECAUSE OF SIN AND BECAUSE OF THE DESTRUCTION SATAN AND HIS DEAMONS WERE REAKING, GOD PROVIDED A MEANS THAT COULD 1) ALLOW SATAN TO BE DESTROYED AND 2) OFFER A MEANS OF ESCAPE FOR MAN.
YOU SEE SIN SEPERATES US FROM GOD BECAUSE GOD IS HOLY AND WE WERE CREATED TO BE LIKE HIM. WE TOO SHOULD BE HOLY BUT WE ARE SINFUL AND UNDER THE CURSE OF SIN, WHICH IS DEATH. (that was brought on because of what transpired in the garden of eden with Adan and eve and satan) BECAUSE GOD IS A "JUST" GOD, HE DEMANDS THAT WE PAY THE PENALTY THAT OUR SINS DESERVE, (DEATH). GOD HAS PREPARED A PLACE FOR SATAN AND HE DEMONS TO BE PUNISHED AND THAT PLACE IS CALLED HELL. ALTHOUGH IT WASN'T ORIGINALLY PREPARED FOR MAN. IF THE SINS THAT WE COMMIT ARE NOT PAID FOR OUR SOULS WILL SPEND ETERNITY IN HELL. NOW BECAUSE JESUS BECAME A MAN AND LIVED HIS LIFE WITHOUT EVER SINNING AND THEN SAID "I HAVE NOT SINNED AND DO NOT DESERVE HELL, I WILL TAKE THE SINS OF ALL MEN ON ME AND ENDURE ALL OF MANS PUNISHMENT IN ORDER TO REUNITE THEM WITH YOU GOD AND MAKE THEM HOLY AGAIN AND THEREFORE DESTROY THE WORKS THAT SATAN STARTED BACK IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN" SO JESUS LEFT HEAVEN TO DESTROY THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL (1 John 3:8) ADN TO SAVE MENS LIVES (Luke 9:56, John 10:10, John 5:40)
JESUS LEFT HEAVEN TO DO GOD'S WILL (Luke 22:42, John 5:30). ONE TIME JESUS WAS TALKING TO A SAMARITAN WOMAN AT THE WELL. THE DECIPLES WERE JUST RETURNING FROMA JOURNEY TO GET SOME FOOD. WHILE THE DECIPLES MINDS WERE ON THE FOOD, JESUS MIND WAS ON SPIRITUAL THINGS. AS THE DECIPLES URGED JESUS TO HAVE SOME FOOD, JESUS STERNLY BUT LOVINGLY REMINDED THEM OF THE REASON HE WAS HERE. "MY JOB IS TO DO MY FATHERS WILL AND TO FINISH HIS WORK". EVEN IN THE GARDEN JESUS PRAYED TO THE FATHER "not my will but your will be done) SOMETIMES WE LIKE THE DECIPLES GET OUR MINDS ON THINGS THAT ARE NOT SPIRITUAL AND GOD'S WORD AND SPIRIT STERNLY BUT LOVINGLY HITS US WITH THE REALITY OF A PURPOSE WE HAVE AS AMBASSADORS OF CHRIST. WE NEED TO HAVE OUR MINDS AND ATTITUDES AS THAT OF OUR LORD. (1 Peter 4:1) TELLS US WE ARE CHRIST'S AND OUR LIVES ARE HIS.

WE SHOULDN'T LIVE FOR OUR OWN EVIL HUMAN DESIRES BUT FOR THE WILL OF GOD. EVEN WHEN WHAT WE ARE DOING INS'T EVEL, WE SOMETIMES GET CAUGHT UP IN OUR OWN IDLENESS OR PERSONAL ENTERTAINMENT TO THE EXTENT THAT WE ARE MORE INTERESTED IN OUR OWN WANTS THAN IN OTHER'S NEEDS.
JESUS HAD HIS OWN WILL ALRIGHT BUT HE MADE HIS WILL TO CONFORM WITH THE FATHER'S. HIS ATTITUDE WAS "I'LL DO YOUR WILL EVEN IF IT KILLS ME" AND IT ULTIMATELY DID. BUT BECAUSE HE WAS IN HIS FATHERS WILL HE WAS RESURRECTED AND THROUGH JESUS/GOD'S GRACE, SALVATION WAS BROUGHT TO EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD. NOW WE MUST ACCEPT HIS WILL FOR OUR LIVES.

LAST BUT BY NO MEANS THE LEAST, JESUS LEFT HEAVEN TO RENEW THE FATHER'S LOVE. GOD IS LOVE AND NO GREATER EXAMPLE IN ALL THE WORLD HAS HAD, OR EVER WILL HAVE A MORE UNDENYABLE DISPLY OF LOVE. GOD DISPLAYED HIS OWNLOVE IN THIS: WHILE WE WERE YET SINNERS, CHRIST DIED FOR US (Rom 5:8) GOD MADE HIS OWN SON, WHOM WAS WITHOUT SIN (heb 4:15) BECOME SIN FOR US IN ORDER THAT WE COULD BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD THROUGH JESUS' SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF (2 corinthians 5:21)

WE WERE ALIENATED FROM GOD AND WERE HIS ENEMIES, BUT THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS, HIS BLOOD SHED ON THE CROSS, GOD HAS PROVIDED A WAY FOR US TO BE HOLY AND HE CALLS US HIS OWN, NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT WE HAVE DONE BUT WHAT JESUS HAS DONE (col 1:20-23). JESUS HIMSELF REVEALS HIS DEVINE LOVE IN HIS PRAYER IN JOHN 17:20-26. HE PRAYED THAT WE MAY BE ONE WITH HIM AND THE FATHER (NOT THAT WE BECOME A GOD BUT THAT WE ARE UNITED WITH THEM ETERNALLY FREE TO WORSHIP, SERVE, AND LOVE GOD WITHOUT ANY SIN THAT NOW SEPARATES THE WORLD FROM GOD). THAT IS THE WAY GOD CREATED US TO BE. JESUS HAS GIVEN US THIS GLORY (john 17:22) JESUS WAS SENT BY GOD TO SHOW THE FATHERS LOVE FOR US (john 17:23) AND ALSO TO SHOW HIS OWN LOVE FOR US. JESUS WANTS US TO BE WITH HIM (john 17:24) AND NOW WE ARE SENT BY JESUS WITH THE AUTHORITY OF HIS WORD AND THE POWER OF HIS HOLY SPIRIT TO GO AND TELL OTHERS OF THE REDEEMING LOVE THAT GOD HAS FOR THEM. (john 17:23, matt 28:18-20, mark 16:15-16)

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