tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81543388046340242792024-02-08T08:00:34.509-05:00the BASIC faithUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154338804634024279.post-77923483104335208252019-05-13T09:02:00.001-04:002019-05-13T09:02:48.352-04:00Can God blot out a saved person’s name from the book of life; can the saved person lose salvation?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Can
God blot out a saved (gospel believing) person’s name from the book of life?</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moses (law) fails to atone (reconcile,
reunite, make peace with God)</span></u></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And it came to pass on the
morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I
will go up unto the </span></span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">;
peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span class="text"><sup>31 </sup>And
Moses returned unto the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="text">, and said, Oh, this people have
sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.</span> <span class="text"><sup>32 </sup>Yet
now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of
thy book which thou hast written. <sup>33 </sup>And the </span><span class="small-caps"><span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span></span><span class="text"> said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot
out of my book.</span> <span class="text"><sup>34 </sup>Therefore now go,
lead the people unto the place of which I have<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless
in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them. </span>Exodus 32:30-34</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jesus (grace) atones, justifies
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But God commendeth his love
toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. <sup>9 </sup>Much
more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath
through him. <sup>10 </sup>For if, when we were enemies, we were
reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we
shall be saved by his life.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span class="text"><sup>11 </sup>And not only so, but we also
joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the
atonement.</span> Romans 5:8-11</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the
flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin,
condemned sin in the flesh: Romans 8:3</span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And he is the propitiation [atonement,
appeasement] for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the
whole world. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">1 John 2:2
[Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For whatsoever is
born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the
world, even our faith. <sup>5 </sup>Who is he that overcometh the world, but
he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God? </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 John 5:4-5</span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[Jesus said] He that overcometh, the
same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of
the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his
angels.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
Revelation 3:5 [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Can
the saved person lose salvation?</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The indwelling promise</span></u></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Now he which stablisheth us with
you in Christ, and hath anointed us, is God; <sup>22 </sup>Who hath also sealed
us, and given the earnest [pledge, security] of the Spirit in our hearts. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">2 Corinthians 1: 21-22 [Emphasis
added]</span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In whom ye also trusted, after
that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also
after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span class="text"><sup>14 </sup>Which
is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased
possession, unto the praise of his glory.</span> Ephesians 1:13-14 [Emphasis
added]</span></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But ye are not in the flesh, but
in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man
have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. </span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Romans 8:9</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">That is, They which are the
children of the flesh, these <i>are</i> not the children of God: but the
children of the promise are counted for the seed. Romans 9:8 </span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The gift</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For the wages of sin is death; but the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">gift</span> of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans
6:23</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The security</span></u></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">And I give unto them eternal
life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my
hand.</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> <span class="text"><sup>29 </sup>My Father, which gave them me, is greater than
all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.</span> John
10:28-29</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">For the <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">gift</span>s and
calling of God are without repentance. Romans 11:29</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">God cannot lie</span></u></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God is not a man, that he should lie;
neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not
do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Numbers 23:19</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God’s chastening</span></u></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But when we [saved people] are
judged, we are chastened [corrected] of the Lord, that we should not be
condemned with the world. </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">1 Corinthians 11:32 [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">(3)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
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is this matter important?</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: "calibri" , "sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The hope</span></u></div>
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<span class="text"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In hope of eternal life, which God,
that cannot lie, promised before the world began; </span></span><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Titus 1:2</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Conclusion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">God cannot blot out a saved person’s
name from the book of life because God cannot lie. God the Son did what Moses couldn’t:
He atoned for sin via His cross and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">promises</i>
salvation to those who believe in Him. He also promises that NO man (including
the saved person himself) can pluck a saved person out of God’s hand. The Holy
Spirit is the pledge of this atonement. God chastens this child of God, but salvation
is an eternal gift never to be revoked. Thus, saved people can confidently
rejoice in their hope and rest in the knowledge that God, not man, initiates
every aspect of salvation; “In meekness instructing those that oppose
themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging
of the truth;” 2 Timothy 2:25</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154338804634024279.post-86434024331809376482014-07-26T21:21:00.001-04:002014-07-26T21:50:56.626-04:00Give Glory To The LORD Your God<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-size: small;">Give Glory To The LORD Your God</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">It
is my sincere hope that this short study will exhort the true believer to unashamedly
and unreservedly practice doctrinal purity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">First,
a little background!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
Apostle Paul gravely commanded, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I charge <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">thee</span> therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall
judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Preach the word; be instant in
season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and
doctrine.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
having itching ears;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And they shall turn away <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">their</span> ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But watch thou in all things, endure
afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry (</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">2 Timothy 4:1-5)</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are living in that time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">God
plainly declares His Holy Bible to be without error and sufficient, or enough,
as we shall shortly discover. God lovingly gave us His Bible to be studied, clearly
understood, and obeyed. After all, Jesus, God in the flesh, said, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">i</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">f ye love me, keep my commandments (</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">John 14:15)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">; a preposterously ruthless <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(for the wages of sin is death,</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but the gift of
God <em>is</em> eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord;</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
Romans 6:23)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
demand if it were not possible. For this very purpose, God, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Who hath also sealed us, and given
the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts (2 Corinthians 1:22) </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">sent His Holy Spirit to the believer;
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is
come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but
whatsoever he shall hear, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that</span>
shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He shall glorify me: for he shall
receive of mine, and shall shew <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it</span>
unto you (John 16:13-14)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">for God is not <em>the author</em> of confusion, but of peace, as in
all churches of the saints (1 Corinthians 14:33).</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">This
does not imply that authentic Christians cannot fall into sinful behaviors; but
that our lives are marked by an overriding pattern of godly obedience, as the
Apostle John carefully explains throughout the book of 1 John. For even Holy
Spirit-indwelled Christians are incapable of keeping the law, to God’s standard
of perfection, in our natural bodies; we don’t always obey the Holy Spirit and
we’ve already committed sin offenses prior to our conversion—offenses that must
be accounted for by a just (equitable) God.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Moreover,
just for the sake of contrast, if unbelieving man could somehow keep God’s moral
law (as taught by mans’ philosophies, psychologies, and world religions—all
stress some form of mans’ inherent goodness, self-godhood, and good works to be
saved), then Jesus’, God the Son’s, gracious atoning work on the cross would be
insignificant. Therefore, if the God of the Bible is indeed who He says He is,
and if His Words are true, then He is sovereign (supreme ruler) in all aspects
of salvation, and subsequently, doctrine…just as His Bible declares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Thus,
we will briefly investigate 7 foundational terms (Wisdom, Written, Way, Word,
Workman, Walk, Warning) that may help us to better understand our God-given
command to revere (worship) and mirror (obey) God’s doctrine, the Bible, in our
daily walk with our Savior.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Let’s
begin our study!</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Wisdom</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Proverbs 1:7 </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
fear of the LORD <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> the
beginning of knowledge: <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">but</span>
fools despise wisdom and instruction.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs
4:7 </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Wisdom <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> the principal thing; <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">therefore</span> get wisdom: and with all
thy getting get understanding.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">James
1:5-8 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">men</span> liberally, and upbraideth not;
and it shall be given him. But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he
that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For let not that man think that he
shall receive any thing of the Lord.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A double minded man <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span>
unstable in all his ways.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Written</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Psalm
40:7 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it is</span> written of me,</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hebrews
10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,)
to do thy will, O God.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Way</span></i></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and
the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Word</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hebrews
1:1-4 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto
the fathers by the prophets,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hath in these last days spoken unto us by <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">his</span> Son, whom he hath appointed heir
of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who being the brightness of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">his</span> glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding
all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins,
sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Being made so much better than the
angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Revelation
19:13 And he <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">was</span> clothed with a
vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s review!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Wisdom, Written, Way, Word)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus, God the Son and The Word of
God, declares that He is the only true path to God the Father and that God the
Father now speaks to us through The Word of God, Jesus, in the Bible (Psalm 40:7 and Hebrews 10:7), in these last days. In
other words, the Bible is, at present, a closed Book. There will be no <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">new</i> revelation from God the Father,
despite the contrary (to the Bible) claims of some that God is still speaking
to them (remember Paul’s warning in 2 Timothy 4:1-5; and, if God is still
speaking to men, then the Bible is still being written) and the ungodly
intermingling of God’s Word with mans’ atheistic, evolution-based, morally-relativistic
(what is true for you might not be true for me, but both are equally true), self-exalting
and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sinless</i>, philosophies,
psychologies, and world religions (which offer superseding revelation <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">by unbelievers</i> apart from God and His
Bible). Jesus declares that the Book, the Bible, is about Him and all those who
wish to understand this Book need only faithfully ask God, in reverence and awe
(fear), for such wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So far, so good—let’s continue!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Workman, Walk, Warning)</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Workman</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2
Timothy 2:15-16 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth
not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. But shun profane <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> vain babblings: for they will
increase unto more ungodliness.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2
Timothy 3:13-17 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving,
and being deceived.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and
hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">them</span>;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures,
which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in
Christ Jesus. All scripture <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span>
given by inspiration of God, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span>
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto
all good works.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2
Peter 1:3-4 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">pertain</span> unto life and godliness,
through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whereby are given unto us exceeding
great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Walk</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2
Timothy 2:4No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">this</span> life; that he may please him who
hath chosen him to be a soldier.</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Warning</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proverbs
16:18 Pride <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">goeth</span> before
destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jeremiah
3:15 Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give glory to the LORD your God,
before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains,
and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> make <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it</span> gross darkness.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret
places for <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">your</span> pride; and mine
eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is
carried away captive.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s review!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Workman, Walk, Warning)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A result of his evil sin nature, man
is easily led captive by his own wicked heart <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(The heart <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> deceitful
above all <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">things</span>, and
desperately wicked: who can know it? Jeremiah 17:9)</i> and his pride, or
self-glory (self-worship or the worship of man, which is worshipping the
creature). And, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">because that, when they
knew God, they glorified <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">him</span>
not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their
foolish heart was darkened. </i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Professing
themselves to be wise, they became fools, </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and
fourfooted beasts, and creeping things</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(Romans 1:21-23)</i>.
This first chapter of the book of Romans earlier teaches us why evil unrepentant
pride soon progresses into the gross darkness the prophet Jeremiah warns about;<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> for the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth
in unrighteousness;</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them;
for God hath shewed <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it</span> unto
them (Romans 1:18-19)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.
God’s people are commanded to, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">love not
the world, neither the things <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that are</span>
in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him
(1 John 2:15)</i>, but rather to </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">walk
in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham (Romans 4:12)</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. And, God promises that His Word,
the divinely-inspired (God-breathed) Bible, is all that a believer needs for
life and godliness. Consequently, man is instructed to study and rightly divide
God’s Bible or face God’s wrath; once again, a preposterously ruthless demand
if it were not possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So, let’s summarize!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
Bible is all about Jesus Christ, but man wickedly corrupts God’s Bible by mingling
his own foolishness (mans’ wisdom) and creating new (false) revelation, thereby
defaming Jesus, God the Son. God is clear— the Bible, a closed book, is His <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only</i> Self-written source of doctrinal
purity and all glory rightly belongs to the divine Author. A failure to revere
and obey God’s doctrine will yield gross darkness. Furthermore, every believer
can practice doctrinal purity simply by obeying God’s Biblical instructions. The
true believer’s cry must be Sola Scriptura, or by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Scripture alone</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">An urgent plea from this writer!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Please, if you know someone (pastor
or layman) who needs to hear this message, share it. It is our duty as true
believers to warn those who profess to believe, as well as those who openly
deny God. Romans 1:28 says, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">and even as
they did not like to retain God in <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">their</span>
knowledge, God gave them over to a <u>reprobate</u> mind, to do those things
which are not convenient</i>, thus this is a salvation issue—it is (eternally) serious!
This writer’s personal opinions are irrelevant, but God’s words on the matter
are plain and clear, as we have discovered. The topic will undoubtedly produce
strife in the modern church and you <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">will</i>
suffer for standing firm for the Bible. Yet, Jesus said<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…be of good cheer; I have overcome the world (John 16:33)</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Give glory!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When battling apostasy, an old
seminary professor was heard to exclaim, “I’m just a newsboy, but God is the
Editor. If there is a conflict with the content, it must be taken to the
Editor” (a true account).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Be a good soldier and may God bless
you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more information, visit</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154338804634024279.post-74818747022445424392014-03-30T23:25:00.001-04:002014-07-26T21:25:11.015-04:00A Solemn Entreaty to Every Church, Pastor and Christ-professing Congregant<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A Solemn Entreaty to Every Church, Pastor and Christ-professing
Congregant</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Please forgive this uninvited intrusion. This is not
an assault--rather a desperate plea to the modern church to repent. In my personal search for a
godly leader, I have discovered that most contemporary Christian <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pastors</i> fervently cling to and teach,
knowingly or not, mans’ wisdom and not God’s. Consequently, you, the reader, be
you clergy or laity, might fall into this same category. Thereby, I lovingly urge
you to examine yourself, to see whether ye be in the faith (2 Corinthians 13:5).
And, as a fellow professing believer in Jesus Christ, I must, in good
conscience, diligently warn and likewise assist you with sound Biblical
instruction regarding the blasphemous mingling of God’s Holy Word and mans’
foolish philosophies, psychologies, and world religions, for the three are
synonymous. After all, psychology (particularly the study of the mind and
psychoanalysis) itself is but another religion, by definition (a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sinless</i> self-focused set of beliefs
based on Darwinian Evolution and Humanism), complete with its own God-less (but
not necessarily god-less—humanism often entertains an irreverent spirituality) system
of morality called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ethical relativism</i>
(what is true for you may not be true for me, but both are equally true). Furthermore,
this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unscientific</i> theoretical
discipline (as compared to the real science of Biology, for example, which
produces findings that can be readily observed and replicated) is strangely
compatible with every other philosophy and world religion of mans’ contrivance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The absolute exclusivity of Jesus Christ and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">His</i> doctrine is the fundamental truth of
the true Christian belief and of the Gospel itself. Thus, the matter (the
profane mingling of unholy psychology and Holy Writ) is not a trivial one, for
sound preaching is paramount to saving souls—preaching the one, unadulterated
Gospel of Jesus Christ’s sinless life, substitutionary death, and glorious
resurrection! In other words, this matter is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">salvation</i> issue. In direct contrast to Biblical Christianity,
psychology is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sinless</i> religion and
those who teach and preach psychology in the Christian church make God a liar
(1 John 1:10) and teach and preach another gospel (Galatians 1:6)!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In accord
with Scripture, I judge doctrines, not hearts, and I make no definitive
statement about any man’s salvation—God knows. I am fully aware of the divisive
nature of this letter and I anticipate one of three likely responses by the Spirit-convicted Christ-professing reader: 1)
this challenge will be a stinging rebuke to an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">unbeliever</i> and viewed as a personal attack; 2) this challenge will
be an alarming wake-up call to a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">false</i>
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">convert</i>—consequently, God may grant
repentance and faith or the false convert may stop his ears and harden his
heart; or 3) this challenge will be graciously received as a loving correction from
one brother to another deceived<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> brother </i>in
the Lord (for we are all subject to being led astray); the true believer will
bow the knee to the Bible and change his erroneous thinking to correctly align
with God’s Word. Regardless, I very humbly (for I only parrot God’s command to
preach the doctrine once received) exhort you to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Biblically</i> study the matter, repent, and place your complete faith
in Jesus Christ. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">On a personal note, I am deeply troubled that I
cannot find a true man of God—one that will preach only <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God’s</i> doctrine and to whom I can submit myself and my family for
sound Biblical teaching and fellowship. And, I am astonished that so many <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pastors</i> are also licensed psychological
counselors—a flaunted (spiritually) idolatrous union by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Biblical</i> definition. Moreover, if this letter describes you, pastor
or layman, I pray that the Holy Spirit convicts your heart and drives you to
repentance before Almighty God. Christianity is now largely in a state of
apostasy, no small part due to psychology, and those who mingle mans’
foolishness with God’s Word are actively preparing the way for Antichrist. Yet
thankfully, the matter can still be quite easily corrected, at least on a
personal and individual-church basis—by simply repenting and promptly removing and
renouncing all vestiges of man’s philosophies/psychologies/world religions from
teaching and preaching. Instead, preach the word (2 Timothy 4:2). Jesus is
coming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, beloved, remember ye the words
which were spoken before of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How that they told you there should
be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts.
(Jude 1:17-18)</span></i></span></div>
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For more information<br />
<a href="http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2014/07/give-glory-to-lord-your-god.html">http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2014/07/give-glory-to-lord-your-god.html</a> </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154338804634024279.post-40463564663565589202014-02-05T16:10:00.000-05:002014-08-11T15:51:31.511-04:00Is Love a Robotic Act?<br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u>Is
Love a Robotic Act?</u> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">An brief examination of mans' accountability, mans' response, and God's sovereignty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><u>Mans' accountability</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Love
God and obey.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That thou mayest <strong>love</strong> the LORD thy God, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> that thou mayest <strong>obey</strong> his voice,
and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell
in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to
Jacob, to give them (Deuteronomy 30:20)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">If ye <strong>love</strong> me, <strong>keep my
commandments</strong>. And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another
Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;<strong> </strong></span></i><i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Even</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> the Spirit of truth; whom the world
cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him;
for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you (John 14:15-17)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Trust, know, believe and serve.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">But let all those that put their
<strong>trust</strong> in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest
them: let them also that love thy name be joyful in thee (Psalm 5:11)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For God so loved the world, that he
gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever <strong>believeth</strong> in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For God sent not his Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">(John 3:15-16)</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
we have <strong>known</strong> and <strong>believed</strong> the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he
that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Herein is our love made perfect,
that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we
in this world.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear:
because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We love him, because he first loved
us (I John 4:16-19)</span></i></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God,
that ye <strong>believe</strong> on him whom he hath sent (John 6:29)</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">O
wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I
thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself <strong>serve</strong>
the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin (Romans 7:24-25)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Love one another.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not
us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beloved, let us <strong>love one another</strong>:
for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He that loveth not knoweth not God;
for God is love.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because
that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through
him (I John 4:6-10)</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Man is commanded to love and obey God, and to trust God, know God, believe God, serve God, and to love one another.</span><br />
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<u><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mans' response</span></u><em><br /></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Hard
hearts kindle wrath.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">But
they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears,
that they should not hear. Yea, <strong>they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone,
lest they should hear the law</strong>, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent
in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great <strong>wrath</strong> from the LORD
of hosts (Zechariah 7:11-12)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><strong>Kiss the Son</strong>, lest he be angry, and
ye perish </span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">from</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> the way, when his <strong>wrath</strong> is kindled
but a little. Blessed </span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">are</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> all they that put their trust in
him (Psalm 2:12)</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Mans' natural response is to kindle (stir up) God's wrath (fury) by making his heart stone (hardening his heart), lest he hear God's law (and be converted; <em>Psalm 19:7 </em><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><em>The law of the LORD is perfect, <strong>converting the soul</strong>: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple</em>).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What shall we do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now when they heard <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">this</span>, they were pricked in their
heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span> brethren, <strong>what shall we do?</strong></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then Peter said unto them, <strong>Repent,
and be baptized</strong> every one of you <strong>in the name of Jesus Christ</strong> for [because of]
the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the promise is unto you, and to
your children, and to all that are afar off, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">even</span> as many as the Lord our God shall call.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And with many other words did he
testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then they that gladly received his
word<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>were baptized: and the same day
there were added <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">unto them</span>
about three thousand souls. (</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Acts
2:37-41).</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Mans' commanded response is to repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><u>God's sovereignty (complete rule)</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">God
calls, and man receives His word to be saved. God does all of the saving work in
salvation. Even <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">if</i> we allow that
receiving God's word (hearing the law) is an overt act of man, (it is a moot point because), a
dead man (Ephesians 2:1, Colossians 2:13) cannot help himself. God does all the
work—God grants repentance (II Timothy 2:25) and God quickens (Romans 8:11). Nevertheless,
God declares that man must receive the word </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that</span> they may recover themselves<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his
will (II Timothy 2:26)</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Man
is not programmed to love and obey God; quite the opposite, man is a lover of
darkness (John 3:19) and unquestionably dead in his trespasses (Ephesians 2:1,
Colossians 2:13). Thus, true love is not and can never be a robotic act. </span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">By God's sovereign will, man must choose to stop his ears and harden his heart or to receive God’s word. And, God alone saves a helpless, hopeless, and spiritually-dead man crying out for a
Savior.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have you heard God's law and received His Word?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk&feature=youtu.be"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk&feature=youtu.be</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;">For more information about God's Word</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times;"><a href="http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2014/07/give-glory-to-lord-your-god.html">http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2014/07/give-glory-to-lord-your-god.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Emerging Apostasy...The Tie That Binds</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I'm
not a reverend. I'm not a minister. I'm not a theologian. I'm not an
evangelist. I'm a psychologist. I have a Ph.D. in child development.” (James
Dobson)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">These 3 videos provide an excellent
foundational understanding of the emergent church and psychology’s’ (IE Focus
on the Family and James Dobson) deadly influence on contemporary Christianity. The
emergent movement and psychology are intimately connected, emphasizing personal experience and emotion, both of which the Bible
gravely warns about. </span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.holybibleprophecy.org/films/church-of-tares-purpose-driven-seeker-sensitive-church-growth-new-world-order/"><span style="background: yellow; color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.holybibleprophecy.org/films/church-of-tares-purpose-driven-seeker-sensitive-church-growth-new-world-order/</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.holybibleprophecy.org/films/the-real-roots-of-the-emergent-church/"><span style="background: yellow; color: windowtext; line-height: 115%; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.holybibleprophecy.org/films/the-real-roots-of-the-emergent-church/</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Billy Crone’s video (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rise of Wickedness Part 3</i>) truly
presents the matter in a Biblical perspective. Regarding psychology,
including so-called “Christian” counseling (an oxymoron), go to</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.getalifemedia.com/index.php/bible-prophecy-list/the-final-countdown-the-ultimate-version" target="_blank"><span style="background: yellow; color: windowtext; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-highlight: yellow;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.getalifemedia.com/index.php/bible-prophecy-list/the-final-countdown-the-ultimate-version</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Scroll down to<strong> <i>Part 6-The Rise of Wickedness
Part 3</i></strong></span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(Here's a direct link: </span><a href="http://www.getalifemedia.com/sermons/fc2012/fc2012-18.wmv"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.getalifemedia.com/sermons/fc2012/fc2012-18.wmv</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> )</span></em></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Also see</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.thebereancall.org/search/node/psychology"><span style="color: windowtext; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.thebereancall.org/search/node/psychology</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/mainpage.html"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.psychoheresy-aware.org/mainpage.html</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2013/newsletters20131021.htm" target="_blank"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/newsletters/2013/newsletters20131021.htm</span></span></a></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8154338804634024279.post-60045136571204486062014-01-26T15:07:00.001-05:002014-03-31T15:04:13.303-04:00It’s not rocket science--all truth is not God’s truth!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s
Not Rocket Science--All Truth Is </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 115%;">not</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">
God’s Truth!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">By
request: regarding <u>Love and Respect </u>by Emerson Eggerichs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“Based
on over three decades of counseling as well as <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">scientific</b> and biblical research, Dr. Eggerichs [PhD. Psychology] developed the Love
& Respect Conference which he presents to live audiences around the
country.” [Emphasis added]</span><br />
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<a href="http://loveandrespect.com/about-us/">http://loveandrespect.com/about-us/</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Really!
What <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">science</i>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">“A
lengthy study appointed by the American Psychological Association (subsidized
by the National Science Foundation and involving eighty eminent scholars)
concluded that psychology is not and cannot be a science [Koch, 1969]…psychological
theories have “more in common with primitive myths than with science…[Popper,
1975]”.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Hunt,
D., & McMahon, T.A. (2008). <i>Psychology and the Church</i>. Bend, Oregon:
The Berean Call.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Also
see <a href="http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-oxymoron-of-christian-psychology.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2013/11/the-oxymoron-of-christian-psychology.html</span></a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">What
does the Bible Say?</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Jesus saith unto him, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">I
am</b> the way, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the truth</b>, and the
life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. (John 14:6) [Emphasis added]</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book,
If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that
are written in this book:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And if any man shall take away from
the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the
book of life, and out of the holy city, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">from</span> the things which are written in this book. (Revelation
22:18-19)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">There
is no compromise to be found between God’s Holy Word and a Bible-hating humanistic,
atheistic, satanic, evolution-based psychology. The only Truth is God’s truth
and the Biblical context of Jesus’ own words in John 14:6 completely destroys
the silly assertion that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all truth is God’s
truth</i>. You are being deceived if you are taught otherwise. True Christians,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">please</i> run from the wolves! This is a
matter of faith. It is high time to demand sound doctrine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Also
see <a href="http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2013/11/isall-truth-really-gods-truth-thosewho.html"><span style="color: blue;">http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2013/11/isall-truth-really-gods-truth-thosewho.html</span></a>
</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you
this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">were</span> on the other side of the flood,
or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my
house, we will serve the LORD. (Joshua 24:15)</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So pick your side for Jesus is
coming soon. You have been Biblically warned.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The Oxymoron of <i>Christian </i>Psychology</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“With
an eye toward understanding the inner workings of the mind and using that
knowledge to reduce human suffering, psychologists and Buddhist monks may have
more in common than they realize, and possibly even compatible methodology.
These commonalities are driving collaborations between some psychologists and
Buddhist monks.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec03/tibetan.aspx"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.apa.org/monitor/dec03/tibetan.aspx</span></a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">A self-centered
(Godless and sinless) humanism</span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“Psychotherapy
is first and foremost a human endeavor</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">…</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Psychotherapy
draws on many theories, including behavioral, cognitive behavioral, family
systems, feminist, humanistic, psychodynamic, and cultural competency orientations…</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">There
are few differences among bona fide therapies, widely practiced over time, that
have a coherent theoretical structure and a research underpinning. (4,6)”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.apadivisions.org/division-31/publications/articles/new-jersey/goodheart-short.pdf"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://www.apadivisions.org/division-31/publications/articles/new-jersey/goodheart-short.pdf</span></a></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">The
Apostle Paul ties a selfish humanism to sorcery and magic</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">2
Timothy 3: 2-8 <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">For men shall be lovers
of their own selves</b>, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false
accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Having a form of godliness, but denying the
power thereof</b>: from such turn away. For of this sort are they which creep
into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers
lusts, Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses,
so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning
the faith</b>. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">[Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Exodus
7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians
of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Compare
modern psychological principles with magician Aleister Crowley’s (known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Beast</i> and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wickedest man alive</i>), “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">do
what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law</b>” and Satanism. [Emphasis
added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“Other
characteristics of theistic Satanism may include a belief in magic, which is
manipulated through ritual, although that is not a defining criterion, and
theistic Satanists may focus solely on devotion. Unlike the LaVeyan Satanism
founded by Anton LaVey in the 1960s, theistic Satanism is theistic as opposed
to atheistic, believing that Satan is a real being rather than a symbol of
individualism. ..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“The
Church of Satan is an organization dedicated to the acceptance of the carnal
self, as articulated in <i>The Satanic Bible</i>, written in 1969 by Anton
Szandor LaVey.”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">An
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">un</i>-holy witchcraft</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">“<a href="http://www.searchquotes.com/quotation/Psychology_cannot_tell_people_how_they_ought_to_live_their_lives._It_can_however%2C_provide_them_with_/405509/" title="Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change."><span style="color: windowtext;">Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live
their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal
and social change.</span></a>” (Albert Bandura)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Effective psychodynamic and
cognitive–behavioral approaches to therapy have always depended heavily on the
patient's ability to produce vivid memory and fantasy images</b>. More
recently, developments in cognitive neuroscience have prompted intense interest
in conscious experience, of which <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">imagery
and imagination are key components</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Authored
by Yale Professor Emeritus Jerome Singer, who has been actively researching
daydreaming and imagination for more than 50 years, this volume is a
comprehensive survey of the research evidence for our capacity to generate
images, and the processes involved. Drawing on a lifetime of experience both
practicing psychotherapy and training clinicians, Singer argues forcefully that
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">using imagery in psychotherapy is not an
esoteric technique for a few specialists but rather is easily integrated into a
variety of therapeutic approaches</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clinicians
are shown how to make use of their patients' as well as their own ability to
generate images. These techniques can be used regardless of the clinician's
theoretical orientation. The author's intellectual breadth and clinical
experience are apparent in every chapter, and the reader emerges with a renewed
interest in this <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">unique human ability</b>.”</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> [Emphasis
added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">“During guided imagery, patients think
about what is happening to their bodies, and how their bodies should respond in
order to be healthy.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“The
most potentially dangerous practice used by inner healers and by some <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">psychotherapists </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> is that of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">imagery</span>.
There is a natural imagery that occurs in all our minds. However, the type of <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">imagery<b> </b></span>often used by many
inner healers comes right out of the occult. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">There are three techniques (practices) used by mental alchemists
(occultists) to manipulate reality with the mind. They are:</b></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Thinking—positive mental attitude or changing
circumstances by thought.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. Speaking—mantra or positive confession.</span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. Visualizing or imaging—picturing in the mind. </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">[Emphasis added]</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
most powerful of these three occult practices is that of <b>imagery</b> or
visualization. All of the senses have images. The images of touch, sound,
smell, and taste can be formed, but they are not as powerful as images created
through visualization…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">They refer to it as contemporary
Shamanism. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Shamanism is witchcraft!</b> [Emphasis
added] Bressler and Rossman don’t care what wisdom figure you use. Jesus would
be just fine with them. In fact, Rossman says that the most used inner guide by
Catholics is the Holy Guardian Angel. What is the difference between a
shamanistic practice of using any imaginary figure, including Jesus, and some
Christian asking you to imagine Jesus? Or, is <b>imagery</b> as used by David
Yonggi Cho in his book <i>The Fourth Dimension</i> any different from the <b>imagery</b>
used by Bressler, Rossman and a host of other teachers of imagery <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">outside the church?</b> [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Biblical
instruction and warning</span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">And GOD saw that the wickedness of
man <em>was</em> great in the earth, and <em>that</em> every imagination of the
thoughts of his heart <em>was</em> only evil continually. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(Genesis
6:5)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Thou
shalt not suffer a witch to live. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(Exodus 22:18)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Hear,
O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. I
have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths. When
thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou
shalt not stumble. Take fast hold of instruction; let [her] not go: keep her;
for she [is] thy life. Enter not into the path of the wicked, and go not in the
way of evil [men]. Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(Proverbs
4:10-15)</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">In meekness instructing those that
oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the
acknowledging of the truth; </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that</span> they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil,
who are taken captive by him at his will.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(II Timothy 2:25-26)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">And the rest of the men which were
not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that
they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and
stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Neither
repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> (Revelation 9:20-21)</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">There
is a reason why psychology is in the church.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false
teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying
the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And many shall follow their
pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And through covetousness shall they
with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time
lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (II Peter 2:1-3)</span></div>
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it is a matter of unbelief.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">All scripture <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> given by inspiration of God, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> profitable for doctrine, for
reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God
may be perfect, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">throughly</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">furnished unto all good works</b>.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> (II Timothy
3:16-17) [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><em>Christian</em> psychology is an oxymoron, for modern psychology is a Humanistic and increasingly-Pagan endeavor.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> (Colossians
2:8)</span><br />
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foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Psalm 11:3)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><a href="http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2013/11/isall-truth-really-gods-truth-thosewho.html"><span style="color: windowtext;">http://basicfaith.blogspot.com/2013/11/isall-truth-really-gods-truth-thosewho.html</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Those
who integrate psychology with Christianity declare, "All truth is God’s
truth." Under this umbrella statement, they embrace the speculative
notions of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Albert
Ellis, Carl Rogers, and a host of other psychological theorists, depending upon
their own individual biases.”</span></span></div>
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(Godless and sinless) discipline driven by human experience and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">self</i> improvement ideals</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Psychology
is the study of the mind and behavior. The discipline embraces all aspects of
the human <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">experience</b> — from the
functions of the brain to the actions of nations, from child development to
care for the aged. In every conceivable setting from scientific research
centers to mental healthcare services, "the understanding of
behavior" is the enterprise of psychologists.” [Emphasis added]</span></span></div>
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Billy Crone pulls no punches in this hard-hitting sermon</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="color: #111111; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“What is so-called Christian
psychology?...We are supposed to be pleased that the Bible has been reconciled
to humanism and has wonderfully been shown to be in agreement with the theories
of Freud, Jung, et al.! And we are asked to accept "new insight" into
the true meaning of God's Holy Word, an insight that was conceived by enemies
of the cross of Christ.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“So
it is made evident at last that the “God within”, to which men are turning
today, is no other than Satan, the great archenemy, who has been plotting man’s
destruction from the very beginning. Self-worshipers are devil worshipers, and
in some instances already this has been avowed by the followers of current
apostasy.” (Ironside, 2004)</span></span></div>
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H. A. (2004). <i>Revelation</i>. Grand Rapids, MI.: Kregel Publications.</span></span></div>
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you believe this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Biblical</i> truth? Does
your pastor?</span></span></b></div>
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scripture <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> given by
inspiration of God, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span>
profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in
righteousness:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That the man of God may be perfect, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">throughly</b> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">furnished unto all
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(II Timothy 3:16-17) [Emphasis added]</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">My son, attend unto my wisdom, </span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
bow thine ear to my understanding: </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That thou mayest regard discretion,
and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that</span> thy lips may keep
knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman drop <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">as</span> an honeycomb, and her mouth <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> smoother than oil:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged
sword.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Her
feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lest thou shouldest ponder the path
of life, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">her ways are moveable</b>, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that</span> thou canst not know <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">them</span>.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from
the words of my mouth.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of
her house:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto
the cruel:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">be</span> in the house of a stranger;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And thou mourn at the last, when thy
flesh and thy body are consumed,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised
reproof;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined
mine ear to them that instructed me!</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation
and assembly.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(Proverbs
5:1-14) [Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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with their mouth, and honoureth me with </span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">their</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> lips; but their heart is far from
me. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But in vain they do worship me, teaching <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for</span> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">doctrines the commandments of men</b>.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
(Matthew 15:8-9) [Emphasis added]</span></span></div>
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speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The cup of blessing which we bless,
is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it
not the communion of the body of Christ?</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For we <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">being</span> many are one bread, <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">and</span>
one body: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">for we are all partakers of
that one bread</b>.</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Behold Israel after the flesh: are
not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">What
say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice
to idols is any thing?</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But I <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">say</span>, that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the things
which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God</b>: and
I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils.</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ye
cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils</b>.</span>
</i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (I Corinthians 10:18-22) [Emphasis
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days perilous times shall come. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For men shall be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">lovers of their own selves</b>, covetous,
boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are
good,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Traitors,
heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof: from such turn away.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead
captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of
the truth</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(II Timothy 3:1-7) [Emphasis added]</span></span></div>
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charge <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">thee</span> therefore before
God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his
appearing and his kingdom; </span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">Preach the word</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">; be instant in season, out of
season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their
own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And they shall turn away <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">their</span> ears from the truth, and shall
be turned unto fables.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the
work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(II Timothy 4:1)
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charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds </span></i><em><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">they are</span></em><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
without water, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">carried about of winds;
trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots</b>;
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame;
wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Enoch also, the seventh from
Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands
of his saints,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are
ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly
committed, and of all their hard <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">speeches</span>
which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are murmurers, complainers,
walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">words</span>, having men's persons in
admiration because of advantage.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But, beloved, remember ye the words which were spoken before
of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How that they told you there should be <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">mockers</b> in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly
lusts.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These
be they who separate themselves, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">sensual,
having not the Spirit</b>.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy
faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(Jude 1:12-21)
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against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself
a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to
eat things sacrificed unto idols. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I gave her space to repent of
her fornication; and she repented not.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit
adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I will kill her children with
death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins
and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But unto you I say, and unto the
rest in Thyatira, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">as many as have not
this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak</b>;
I will put upon you none other burden.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But that which ye have <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">already</span> hold fast till I come.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> (Revelation
2:20-25) [Emphasis added]</span></span></div>
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of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then
he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is
come, he findeth <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it</span> empty,
swept, and garnished.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits
more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">state</span> of that man is worse than the
first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(Matthew 12:43-45)</span></span></div>
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now let me press a question upon my hearers, whether saved or unsaved. You must
also leave this scene shortly. What kind of works are going to follow you? If
you are saved, what have you been doing for the Lord? If you are unsaved, oh
then, I beg you to remember that your sin will follow after you—those sins for
which, in your folly, you thought you could atone by your own effort. When you
stand up, at last, poor and naked and miserable, before the Great White Throne,
you will find all of your sins there, and they will fasten upon you like the
hell-hounds that they really are and drag you down into the lake of fire. Do
not, I beseech you, turn away from this solemn truth. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The blood of Christ alone can wash you from all of those sins, and
then, as a believer in the Lord Jesus, you can live for Him in this scene</b>,
and your works will follow you to heaven because all that is done for Christ
will abide for eternity.” (Ironside, 2004) [Emphasis added]</span></span></div>
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H. A. (2004). <i>Revelation</i>. Grand Rapids, MI.: Kregel Publications.</span></span></div>
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no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(John 14:6)</span></span></div>
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life: and they are they which testify of me.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(John 5:39)</span></span></div>
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written of me,) to do thy will, O God.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(Hebrews 10:7)</span></span></div>
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words of the wise </span></i></b><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">are</span></b></em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> as goads, and as nails fastened </span></i></b><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">by</span></b></em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
the masters of assemblies, </span></i></b><em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-style: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">which</span></b></em><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> are given from one
shepherd.</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many
books <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">there is</span> no end; and much
study <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> a weariness of the
flesh.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let
us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his
commandments: for this <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">is</span> the
whole <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">duty</span> of man.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For God shall bring every work into
judgment, with every secret thing, whether <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it be</span> good, or whether <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it
be</span> evil.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;">(Ecclesiastes12:11-14)
[Emphasis added]</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></div>
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than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the
woman, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not
eat of every tree of the garden?</b></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> (Genesis 3:1)
[Emphasis added]</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Ecumenism
via Sickness</strong></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u>Pedophilia; the new
s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ophistic</i> sickness?</u></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“"From
my experience, pedophilia is actually an illness. It's not a criminal
condition, it's an illness," he had said” [Cardinal <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Wilfred Fox Napier].</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/16/catholic-cardinal-says-that-pedophilia-is-not-a-criminal-condition/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/16/catholic-cardinal-says-that-pedophilia-is-not-a-criminal-condition/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“I
am very conscious that you can’t condemn people of an earlier era by the
standards of ours.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.salon.com/2013/09/10/richard_dawkins_defends_mild_pedophilia_says_it_does_not_cause_lasting_harm/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Frances
argued that such diagnostic constructs “also medicalize undesirable sexual
behavior and thereby provide a psychiatric excuse helpful to those who are
attempting to evade personal responsibility.””</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/01/American-Psychiatric-Association-Reclassifies-Pedophilia"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/01/American-Psychiatric-Association-Reclassifies-Pedophilia</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong><em>The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. (<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ecclesiastes </span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1:9)</span></em></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong><u>Doctrines
of devils and the Oxford Movement employ sophistry [deceptive and false reasoning historically employed by Jesuits] to redefine drunkenness</u></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“"After
years of struggling with the guilt and condemnation that came from thinking
that his drinking was his own fault and that it stemmed from a moral defect in
his character, Wilson was relieved to learn from a medical doctor that his drinking
was due to an 'allergy.'"<span style="font-size: small;"><sup> 16</sup> A.A.'s official biography of
Wilson relates,</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Bill
listened, entranced, as [Dr.] Silkworth explained his theory. For the first
time in his life, Bill was hearing about alcoholism not as a lack of will
power, not as a moral defect [sin], but as a legitimate illness....Bill's relief was
immense.<sup><span style="font-size: small;"> 17</span></sup></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Bill
would..."get" these things [from the spirit world]...long sentences,
word by word would come through...."<sup><span style="font-size: small;"> 22</span></sup></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">[A]s he started
to write [the A.A. manual], he asked for guidance....The words began tumbling out
[automatic writing] with astonishing speed....<sup><span style="font-size: small;"> 23</span></sup></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“Wilson joined the
Oxford Group and regularly attended its meetings at Calvary Church (NY),
pastored by Episcopalian Sam Shoemaker. Shoemaker urged his hearers to
"accept God however they might conceive of him...."<span style="font-size: small;"><sup> 26</sup> Here
was the origin of Step 3's "God <em>as we understood him</em>."” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The
Oxford Group had been founded by Frank Buchman (a Lutheran minister). It later
became Moral Re-Armament (MRA) through the mystical
"guidance" that was a large part of Buchman's life and which carried over both into MRA and A.A.
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<a href="http://www.thebereancall.org/content/god-you-conceive-himherit-be"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">http://www.thebereancall.org/content/god-you-conceive-himherit-be</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“A
humble Catholic [Jesuit] priest who never had a drinking problem was one of the
founders of A.A. in St. Louis, according to Bill W. He was Father Edward P.
Dowling, S.J., who also became one of the first clergymen to endorse A.A. and
make a personal effort to bring men and women into the Fellowship, beginning in
1940.”</span></div>
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[the Oxford Movement] was meant ultimately to absorb "the various English </span><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13674a.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">denominations</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> and
parties" into the </span><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07424b.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><strong>Roman Church</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">,
whence their ancestors had come out at the </span><a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12700b.htm"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Reformation</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">.”<strong> </strong>[Emphasis added]</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"> All roads lead to Rome. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /><em>
Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matthew 7:14)</em></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><br /></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><u>Biblical
truth and warning</u></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
when the Pharisees saw <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">it</span>, they
said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But when Jesus heard <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that</span>, he said unto them, They that be
whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But go ye and learn what <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">that</span> meaneth, I will have mercy, and
not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Matthew
9:11-13)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That if thou shalt confess with thy
mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the scripture saith, Whosoever
believeth on him shall not be ashamed</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Romans 10:9-11)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor
extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God</span></i><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span>(I
Corinthians 6:10)</span></div>
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heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this
thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;">
(I Timothy 4:16)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for all</span>.</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And every priest standeth daily
ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take
away sins:</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But this man, after he had offered
one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">From
henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.</span> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Hebrews 10:10-14)</span></span></div>
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Common Core <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">literally</i> Birthed in Hell</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Robert Muller, the father of global education, based his
school on the teachings (of a demon) that Alice Bailey received
telepathically. The demon’s teachings present Lucifer and the fallen angels as
sacrificial saviors. Bailey’s organization (Lucifer Publishing Company, now Lucis Trust) is
a United Nations Non-governmental organization. Common Core is the current version of this set of "standards" in the United States. Please note that this summary is not merely this author's opinion--read the following quotes from the actors themselves.</span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Simply connecting UNESCO & Muller to Bailey & her demon, Djwhal Khul</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“It
is an absolute honor to address UNESCO. During the last 65 years, UNESCO has
done so much to advance the cause of education and gender equity, alleviate
poverty, and promote peace. When UNESCO was founded in 1945, much of
Europe, Russia, and Japan lay in ruin…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">North Star</b> guiding the alignment of our
cradle-to-career education agenda is President Obama’s goal that America will
once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">That
goal can only be achieved by creating a strong <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">cradle-to-career</b> continuum that starts with early childhood
learning and extends all the way to college and careers.” [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“Many
are concerned that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the Common Core
Standards, once successfully implemented, will provide unfettered access of our
educational system by the United Nations. Some textbooks and curricula for our
public schools have already been written by UNESCO and the International
Baccalaureate program that is currently in many school districts across the
United States.</b> Grabbing additional access is a natural next step. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Once they write the curricula, they must
have authority to develop all testing tools.</b> They will decide who becomes a
teacher and what preparation will be provided for that teacher. The
International Baccalaureate curriculum upsets parents and teachers because the
focus includes sustainable development, abortion rights, gay marriage,
universal disarmament and social justice curricula. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The UN involvement in the American educational system has already been
facilitated by treaties signed by American presidents from both parties. Those
documents include but are not limited to: Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, Treaty on the Rights of the Child, Civic Education: Classroom
Connections, and Agenda 21.</b>” [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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Nations Assistant Secretary-General] <span class="style31"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">created a "World Core Curriculum" and is known
throughout the world as the "father of global education</span></b></span><span class="style31"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">." There are 29 Robert Muller schools around the world
with more being established each year. The "World Core Curriculum"
earned him the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 1989. Based on this curriculum
and his devotion to good causes, Dr. Muller has recently drawn up a
"Framework for World Media Coverage" as a public service, as well as
a "Framework for </span></span><span class="style31"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness</span></b></span><span class="style31"><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">" and a "Framework for the Arts and Culture."”</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“UN
Secretary General U Thant, a former school headmaster from Burma, and my
spiritual master, often said to me when I was his assistant: "Robert,
there will be no <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">peace on Earth, if
there is not a new education</b>." He was right.” [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“From
the Preface: "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The underlying
philosophy upon which The Robert Muller School is based will be found in the
teachings set forth in the books of Alice A. Bailey by the Tibetan teacher,
Djwhal Khul</b> (published by Lucis Publishing Company, 113 University Place,
11th floor, New York, N.Y. USA 10083) and the teachings of M. Morya as given in
the Agni Yoga Series Books (published by Agni Yoga Society, Inc., 319 West
107th Street, New York, N.Y. USA 10025)."” [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">A new age dogma that defies the Biblical God</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“"I
would really render a service if I could show people how I became what I am
from what I was. It might be useful to know how a rabid orthodox Christian
worker could become a well-known occult teacher."”</span></div>
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she changed her mind when I explained to her that <strong>telepathic</strong> rapport was a
proven thing and a matter of scientific interest, that she was not either
clairaudient or clairvoyant and never would be and that (above all) the test of
truth was the truth itself. I told her that if she would write [automatic writing] for a period of
a month, the material transcribed would prove to her whether it contained
truth, whether it evoked intuitive understanding and recognition and whether it
had in it that which might be of value in the new spiritual era which was
impending.” [demon Djwhal Khul] [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“He then goes on to
enumerate the new age objectives which are <i>now</i> presented to disciples in
training for initiation. These are given in Volume II of <i>Discipleship in,
the New Age</i>, pp. 296/301, and repay careful study--they are briefly listed
here:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">1) <i>A sense of
planetary relationships</i>. This lifts the attention of the disciple from
himself and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">expands his consciousness
toward synthesis, wholeness, totality</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">2) <i>A sense of
intelligent supervision</i>. This means an unfolding recognition of "a
focussed control upon daily life, circumstance, the future and fate." It
gives a disciple "initiate insight into purpose and its unfolding
plan."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">3) <i>The sense of
orientation to humanity</i>. This involves the "<i>habit</i> of correct
orientation" towards humanity as the field of service. It requires <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">decentralisation and a new type of
sensitivity to world need</b>. [5]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">4) <i>The sense of
registered impression</i>. This concerns the Science of Impression which will
eventually be "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the major objective
of the educational systems" of the new age</b>. The Hierarchy considers
that humanity is now adequately intelligent to be trained in right
interpretation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">5) <i>The evocation.
of the will</i>. This is a new and most necessary development. The will is that
"<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">divine aspect in man</b> that puts
him en rapport with, and then controlled by, divine purpose, intelligently
understood in time and space and implemented by the soul as the expression of
loving application." The cultivation of this first ray perception is
"a potent mode by which the highest aspects of the spiritual will can be
unfolded."</span></div>
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that which is imminent</i>. The true disciple is concerned with that which is <i>spiritually
imminent</i>. This includes a right sense of timing. The disciple "must
awaken to that which is on the very verge of precipitation into human thinking
and life circumstances," so that he can take the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">occult and spiritual steps needed for revelation, "karmic
usefulness," and active cooperation</b>.” [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It is the special destiny of humanity to
become the planetary light-bearer</b>. Mind is the feature which distinguishes
humanity from other evolutions. It is intelligence that has lifted the human
being above the animal kingdom and which is fundamentally responsible for the
dominant position that humanity now holds in the mental, emotional and physical
worlds.” [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">“The
secret of the "fallen angels" is essentially the mystery which lies
behind the very Plan of evolution, for the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">solar
angels' willingness to "fall", to sacrifice themselves in order to
bring the light of the principle of mind to what was then animal man</b>,
marked the coming into action of the great Law of Duality by which matter,
form—negative and passive—could be <strong>quickened by spirit</strong>. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">This act of sacrifice at the dawn of human history is a thread woven
throughout the great scriptures and mythologies of the world</b>, including the
myth of Prometheus who stole fire (mind) for man, and the biblical story of the
Prodigal Son, who left the Father’s home to embark upon the path of experience
in the life of form and the senses—the journey to "<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">the far country</b>".” [Emphasis added]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><strong>A United
Nations Non-Governmental Organization (!)</strong></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">(NGO) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">World
Goodwill</i></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;">Biblical encouragement and instruction</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a
lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure
in unrighteousness</span></i><span style="line-height: 115%;"> (II Thessalonians 2:12). </span></span></div>
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conflict I have for you, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for</span>
them at Laodicea, and <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">for</span> as
many as have not seen my face in the flesh;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in
love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the
acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In whom are hid all the treasures of
wisdom and knowledge</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">
(Colossians 2:1-3).</span></span></div>
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with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty
angels,</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In
flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the
presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When he shall come to be glorified
in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our
testimony among you was believed ) in that day.</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">
</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would
count you worthy of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">this</span>
calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">his</span> goodness, and the work of faith with power:</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That the name of our Lord Jesus
Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our
God and the Lord Jesus Christ</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (II Thessalonians 2:7-12). </span></span></div>
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quit you like men, be strong </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">(I Corinthians 16:13).</span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Train
up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from
it</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> (Proverbs 22:6)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">An Iowa woman jokingly calls it "Satan's handiwork."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/2-2-parents-rail-against-common-core-math-060635222.html">http://news.yahoo.com/2-2-parents-rail-against-common-core-math-060635222.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">A Christian New Age researcher, Constance Cumbey, confirms:</span><br />
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<a href="http://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/radioliberty/082914a.mp3"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">http://mediaarchives.gsradio.net/radioliberty/082914a.mp3</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“We must move as quickly as possible to a one-world
government; a one-world religion; under a one-world leader” (former Assistant
Secretary General of the United Nations and father of global education Robert
Muller)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Dwight L. Kinman, <em>The World’s Last Dictator</em>
(Woodburn, Oregon: Solid Rock Books, 1995): </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">81.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“I have myself been deeply
influenced by Teilhard” </span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Robert Muller, Most of All They Taught Me Happiness
(Garden City, NY: Image Book, 1985): 116-117.</span></div>
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