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VOLUME 11, ISSUE 19 WAY OF LIFE LITERATURE MAY 7, 2010HUGH HEFNER SAVES HOLLYWOOD SIGNPlayboy founder Hugh Hefner has helped save the famous Hollywood sign by donating nearly one million dollars topurchase the land as a public trust. By raising $12 million the Trust for Public Land purchased the Cahuenga Peak areawhere the sign sits, saving it from investors who planned to build luxury estates there. The pornography mogul said, “Mychildhood dreams and fantasies came from the movies, and the images created in Hollywood had a major influence on mylife and Playboy.” We have no doubt that this is true. Hollywood is a symbol for decadence and the flaunting of God’s lawsand has had a incalculable influence for evil in modern society throughout the world, encouraging people to live in a fantasyworld without God. Hollywood actor and California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said the sign is “a symbol of dreamsand opportunity.” Indeed it is, but the dream is the one that John Lennon sang about, the vain dream that there is no heavenor hell, particularly the latter.ConclusionFriends in Christ, do not be discouraged by any of this. It is God’s will that we know the times (1 Ch. 12:32; Mat. 16:3)and that we be as wise as serpents and harmless as doves. These things remind us that the hour is very late, and we need tobe ready for the coming of the Lord. Are you sure that you are born again? Are you living for Christ day by day? “Andthat, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when webelieved. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on thearmour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, notin strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the luststhereof” (Rom. 13:11-14). This material is sent only to those who personally subscribe to the Fundamental BaptistInformation Service list. To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE or CHANGE ADDRESSES go to http://www.wayoflife.org/fbis/subscribe.html. Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, 866-295-4143,fbns@wayoflife.org. David Cloud is the director of Way of Life Literature and author of the Friday Church News Notes.! PAGE 4