Now then mortification is the negative side of
this causal function of the minds effects on the desire to choose. Not
too much is talked about in the nature of vivification. But vivification
is the gracious source of all underlying communications of the
supernatural experiences in these connections from the inward world of
the mind ... desire... and the willing nature of living in this calm
assurance so that we can face this puzzling world. Vivification is
having a connection to the flow of the divine source of reality... the
power... gracious affections.. supernatural longings... so that the soul
can lean on this deep well of attributable connections in these divine
communications to the understanding. The word is ingested and implanted
as the source of life... all of the attributes that are part of life...
Gods life flow. The sense reality is infused with the union of Christ.
Now then... Christ has authority over all powers...here then is this
eternal enrapturing of Christ immediate presence that goes before... in
front... under ... over.The understanding is under the domination of all
things coming together in Christ. These longings are beyond the
experience of any effects the soul experiences in this communication of
the worlds forces.
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Some people disparage Calvin by saying that
God designed evil for the purpose of destroying people. Since God
decreed the sin of the first man then He had destructive purposes that
He placed upon man. But how can we be angry at the perpetrators of
crimes if in fact we are putting God in that same category? What is the
difference in God and a criminal?
But instead of explaining this
in terms of how God views one small sin let me explain this in how God
protects us. Obviously if there is one sin then it is not only a deed
done against God but against mankind. Here is the problem. If God is a
God of destruction then what kind of reaction would be acceptable other
than to rejoice in the destructive acts that man do against one another?
I do not think we can have a God who is half in the destructive mood
and half in the renewal mood.
Obviously since sin entered the
world and God decreed it to enter then the question is for what reason
did God allow sin to enter into the world? This question produces more
questions. There is a lot of mystery about why God would allow sin and
destruction. So since God does not address this in detail then we are in
danger of adding to the destructive purposes of sin and thus adding to
the sorrow of sin. If we try to pursue the things that are mysteries
then we add sorrow to ourselves.
The point is that God has
decided to protect us from destruction by giving us a clear view of the
difference between what sin does and how God acts to renew the earth.
Its like this..if i did not know what the diseases was that was killing
people then i would not know what to avoid. I would not be familiar with
my own susceptibility to the dangers of catching that disease. But if
the disease was shown to me then i could avoid it. Well God has not
explained all the reasons that He has decreed sin but He has given us an
explanation about identifying it and having a full remedy so that we do
not suffer the physical and mental effects of it.
But we know
that sin has brought the curse of death. And yet God has given us a
desire to live. That desire in the bible is called a blessing. And on
the other hand the consequences of sin is to be cursed. So the question
is since God has not explained the reasons He decreed sin then isnt it a
curse to us to try to explain the evils and the destructive
consequences in trying to blame God? And this is the whole point of God
declaring that He alone is the judge of the earth. Its for our own good.
So God knows that we would try to act as a god if we accused
Him of being unjust in decreeing sin. But God does not explain Himself..
He just declares that He is a God of salvation and in order to set the
world back in order He must curse sin for the purpose of protecting His
people from its curse.
Its just like when you were raising kids
and you said that the wise thing was to pick your fights. Some things
you let slip by because these things would pass because they were
immature at the time. So you did not become overbearing. The bible warns
about our not covering over a multitude of sins. So God in distancing
us from being the arbitrators of ultimate justice because He has cursed
and blessed some allows us to empathize with all men. God has given us
all freedom to fail and move on by Him taking the responsibility of
being the ultimate arbitrator.
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The
circumstances that the apostle was dealing with were much different
than we have in the culture of the church. These members of Corinth came
out of this baptism of the Holy Spirit in which there were miraculous
incidents occurring with that baptism. It was an experience as if men
were drunk with wine. The atmosphere was electric. So electric that the
church was meeting every day in a devotion to the scripture and to the
supper that was in a unity that was beyond our experience. They met to
pray and confess their sins to one another constantly. It was not in the environment of will worship. There were prophetic utterances, a fire of holiness. But it was a generation who crucified
Christ. It was the gospel preached in power by the apostles who were
themselves experiencing a boldness that was supernatural. There was a
unity that drew the people to the message that constantly overcame their
devotion to worldly things and dumb down discipleship. They believed
that they had been unable to repent on their own, because the message
was so strong in so many people that the unified experience of
deliverance from sin was visible through the reaction to the message in
the large crowds. People were under such conviction that there was
weeping, real repentance, and really profound unified rejoicing. They
rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, and the scripture says
that whole towns were unified in this baptism of rejoicing. ( a
reference to the churches in that community.)
They realized the
God was supernaturally saving and adding to the church by this baptism
of Christ with fire. The Holy Spirit was doing visible wonders in their
midst. They were convinced that the word of God had a profound effect on
the ministry of the Holy Spirit. The apostles spoke the word of God
boldly , that is it worked in that there was an instant unity in the
assembly so the people left knowing that Gods visible presence was
beyond those who were effect and responded to the message. There were no
invitations, just visibly supernatural expressions on each face. People
were brought to a supernatural rejoicing that could not be generated on a
human level.
There was a perseverance that was experienced in a
unified way. They met daily to persevere against the judiaziers. They
were persecuted and yet were growing stronger in unity and in numbers.
The worship was not only in jerusaleum , but spread into the whole known
world at that time. It even spread to the gentiles who were more unable
to receive the message of grace than any other people. They experience
the baptism with fire so that the apostles had to acknowledge that it was
a wonder beyond their ability to play down. Even the roman leaders were
afraid of the multi
There really is no where to turn in that disposition except to a cry for help. There really are no feelings left to depend upon. There is nothing to say except help me. And in that crying maybe one day a hope will arise in the heart and will drive out that emptiness and blackness. In the cry in desperation is an outlet for that glimmer of hope. Then seeing that God has hidden Himself that drives out mans self determination and confidence. Its a very big difference between a cry from the heart of a self confident person and a cry from the heart of a desperate person. First a desperate person realizes that the cry to God for help is only going to end in the return of the desperation, and maybe even more depths of desperation. So is a sense the cry for help leads to a more desperate disposition. Maybe this experience is put into the human physic in order to drive the sense of helplessness deeper into the heart through experiencing levels of desperation.
I mean if you begin being desperate, and you think that is all there is and then you begin to smart from that desperation and you cry out to God for help, for grace, but then the experience of desperation is just beginning and so you are brought down in experiencing more desperation as it were increasing your helplessness. Well that decline is what brings about a much deeper cry from the heart. A much more sincere cry. The sincerity of the cry equals the level of the desperation.
In meditation there is a sense of what can happen when a person goes down into the depths of desperation in order for God to teach him not to trust in himself. In meditation there is a focus on Christ as Savior so that the deep level of the desperation brings about the realization of an answer from a persons cry that makes that answer more supernatural in the desperation. The supernatural element in deep desperation comes in the focus on Christ in the scripture, and Christ becomes more important than the desperation or the life of the person.Although in response to that supernatural sustaining God leaves nothing to the person to glory in himself because of the level of the desperation and its continuance convinces a person not to rely on self feelings. In desperation what is more important than the feelings is the actual words and promises of God that are written down. So that these cries and focus actually bring about a sustaining of a person in the desperation as if a person were under water receiving oxygen from a tank in order to continue to live. If we learn from our desperation, to tarry long in the word, holding onto every promise, looking for deliverance, waiting for Christ to speak peace to us, all of these things that are overshadowed by the sense of deep desperation will sustain us even tho we do not have a sense of Christ being near. See, there is a lesson of faith that can only be learned in helplessness. There are more unseen and unfeeling sensations, more narrow human mindset, a narrowing of a persons loves and dependencies. There is a desperation that pushes a person to meditate so often that unless Christ becomes so real that person would be more desperate.
The doctrinal reasons that cause these devoted things to take a place among the congregation is put on the back shelf. One is a devotion to a system of mans philosophy. People love to have practical explanations for relationships. They make these rules equal with the scripture and that kills the devotion. Devotion to scripture is a work of the Holy Spirit as the scripture is ingested into the heart. After awhile grace becomes bigger than life bu the Spirit causing the desires to grow. A supernatural unity is developed from single mindedness to the scripture. The Spirit and the scripture work to change a persons heart for better fellowship and a deeper holiness. The behavior change comes as a result of an inflamed heart spurred on by grace in the working of the Spirit with the word inflame the heart. Any thing that is introduced as relational equivalent to the scriptural motif kills the unity of the church by creating pharisee-ism.
Another thing that kills devotion is quenching the Spirit. The church is not necessarily an institution that offers teaching, but it is an organism. Gifted people are educated by the Spirit to use their gifts in the service of one another. Quenching the Spirit is placing service as the central goal, and ignoring the organism motif. The Holy Spirit regenerates each person of whom He adds to the church for a specific purpose. The Holy Spirit works in each individual heart to bring about the unity that was originally purposed for that individual in regeneration. The Holy Spirit lust for control, by cause us to praise our Father, in corporate prayer and to go directly to the Father individually so that praying without ceasing is keeping us holy. We will not be guilty of quenching the Spirit. The Holy Spirit causes a believer to long for the word of God, desiring to experience revival, causing a person to devote himself to spiritual things, illuminating us to apply these truths as He works in the unity of the fellowship so that a we can discern spiritual forces of evil and pray accordingly.
When we react to the charismatic movement we quench the Spirit. Our struggle in the church is with spiritual forces in the heavenlies. We must bring these Satanic attacks are under control in order to bring a unity that mirrors a Christo centric focus in the revived desire. The difference in a charismatic focus and the working of the Spirit is a doctrinal focus rather than worship style. All spiritual battles are won when sin is dethroned and deliverance occurs.
Spiritual
battles begin by deception of the mind first and
they effect the emotional well-being of the church. First armininism
mans mystical experience by misunderstanding the work of the filling of the Spirit. It grows into complete confusion in the of the unity of the
church. When human faith becomes the
focus, a competitive spirit is more attractive than the work the Holy Spirit. This Satanic attack violently creates disunity.
When we focus on the absolute sovereignty of
God through the Spirit in the work of regeneration, then we are letting
God be God in exercising His sovereign will. Once we see that God does
as He pleases we will trust that our regeneration
is the work that will not quench the Spirit. We will learn to rest in Christ , embracing
justification by faith and our inability to control how much the Holy
Spirits works in us. We will grow in our spiritual understanding of the nature of His
filling. We will not be deceived, we will know how to war against the
wiles of the devil. We will grow in distrusting our own abilities .
When
we accept Calvinism we glory in our weakness because
we experience the Spirit witnessing with our Spirit. We will experience revival by rejoicing with joy unspeakable and full of glory.
In understanding of the Spirits work in us and a submitting to His will we acknowledge God to be God. We eat of the riches of all of the good things of the doctrines of grace. We will be filled up with devotion that is warmed by the Spirit filling. We will learn to recognize Satanic schemes and false forms of worship. We will begin to battle in the Spiritual realm. There is no turning back. The amount of over flowing joy causes us to lust for more of the Spirit and the fellowship in the word.
Our unshakeable faith has only one particular object. Because we're poor and indigent, we really live in a state of pronounced change and social instability in this fragile body. We feel the sharp pain of people who aggressively challenge our nonage faith. Because we're still uncertain, we encounter enormous opposition. With this necessary war going on within and without, we're left in despair, always failing to be completely devoted to Him. How to respond to this bad state both internally and externally? How can we demonstrate to those around us that we're unfeignedly devoted to the sacred object of our enduring faith with bottomless confidence flowing from us and apparent to those around us? Being insecure about our apparent torture, we waver in our confidence, crying out to him all day. Our sincere devotion to Him without trusting in godly mercy really leads us to stay for Him all day. Since we're fluently misled, it must naturally come our all-in-one. Our lifelong devotion is tied to how well we rest with Him. It's endured only when we're fully induced that if we don't completely enjoy Him, we're veritably unhappy. After resting in Him in our helplessness, so we really want to witness what joy in the Holy Spirit. When we witness the joy of the Lord, we concentrate on Christ crying out for mercy all day. However, we will witness weakened solicitations, If we don't retain the strength of faith. We should meditate on his sincere love and dedication, naturally fastening on the sacred object of our love by being unfeignedly devoted to him. We witness deep devotion laterally by looking diligently at him and counting on his sacred word. Because we adequately secure a sure base of his love and fastness, he has separated our sins from us, indeed though the east is far from the west. Its saintship, the word is alive as a present comfort in our considerable time of need. His expert advice is new every affable morning. Indeed though the violent world is full of despicable troubles, It clearly strikes our long- time friend who's with us. He remains forcefully our faithful companion who walks with us as we precisely develop social connections. We rest in an imposing presence, warmly appreciating the fact that generally surrounds us, feeling Him near, bearing precisely to be passionately devoted to a true friend. We can submissively solicit him to adequately give us with a sign of his gracious kindness as we walk precisely with him. However, also we will be fiercely devoted as lifelong musketeers in all of our extraordinary circumstances, If we unfeignedly believe that he'll really remain all ours.. Inescapably, this happens to a faithful friend who really comes to our miraculous deliverance, as he adequately handles our particular circumstances. As our fiery devotion increases, it fluently becomes our everything. We approach him, unfeignedly wanting to know him, unfeignedly contending with him, as we laterally witness the joy of eternal deliverance. Our eternal advocate creates in us his eternal devotion by bringing us back to him.
Bless you, you make a really excellent point then. You see in the psalms David resounded the established supremacy of Christ the coming deliverer who's and constantly was in objective reality the King of the Universe and the Controller of all effects for Him and through Him and in Him will endure all effects! Despite in the days of David, he laterally endured the absolute and warm concurrence of His redoubtable adversaries, and these determined adversaries weren't just nations but idolatrous nations for that. And God was courteously pleased to give David that kind of effective leadership in the world of sound when the time was right. He was the ultimate world leader. And it was an elegantly ordinary principle on which David thrived. Because he gratefully conceded the lordship of the approaching king! Everything was grace enough. David's obedience didn't antecede faith, but was the result of God's grace given to him as child faith. David freehandedly handed a welcome withdrawal from a face-to- face force support for grace and living in this grace. He was a man with all the favors of the flesh, but everything he endured laterally was the result of God fruitfully working through him, instructing him in all his fleshly functions. God has authorized him to fight victorious battles. David rested in God's fastness by truly enjoying his life in constant prayer, unfeignedly counting on God for everything. He was motivated enough to unite everything, indeed in death, with violent ages of private prayer. He warred in the Spirit by being biddable in amusing godly creative thoughts. He knew there was only one holy place to go to for welcome relief. Although when his family laterally suffered the fallout of his sin, he was confident that his prayer would be satisfactorily answered. God doesn't constantly execute his godly discipline because he's confined to his sacred pledges. As David sought, God sought with all his might, his extra curricular woman was assured and latterly gave birth to Solomon. David knew that the Spirit would quicken his heart when he entered the throne room of God, anyhow of his own workshop. He took retreat in God, and since David no doubt had a heart for the poor and the tormented, he abominated the arrogant with all his heart. Because he took retreat in God, he was lowered to watch for a crippled boy. David was thrilled to act on behalf of the indigent indeed though he'd been driven to the depths of despair. He did not trust his own obedience, he did not trust these right- allowing people. Although Michael mocked David, nonetheless, worshiping God with all his might, he unfeignedly enjoyed a deep face-to- face relationship with Christ that transcended all essential concinnity with our Father by chancing retreat in the Father who was the man after the heart of God.
Isa 19:3. \"Then the spirit of the Egyptians will be demoralized within them;
And I will confound their strategy,
So that they will resort to idols and ghosts of the dead
And to mediums and spiritists.
Gen. 11:1. Now the whole earth used the same language and the same words.
6.
The LORD said, \"Behold, they are one people, and they all have the
same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which
they purpose to do will be impossible for them.
7. \"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, so that they will not understand one another's speech.\"
9.
Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused
the language of the whole earth; and from there the LORD scattered them
abroad over the face of the whole earth.
I have been thinking
about this whole principle of integration. The paradigm is not in itself
evil but what man does with the paradigm makes it evil. Integrating is
taking the parts of something and uniting them to make them a whole.
The philosophy of integration in this country that has blossomed presently seems that truth is measured by this paradigm. The evil in all of this is mixed with intentions that are
good. People uniting to build a tower of integration. There are many different jobs to accomplish in
building the tower. The communication is the key to integration. The parts are put together in the unity of integrated personalities, integrated philanthropy, integrated
churches as the new movement. The cumulative effect whose
evolution starts with denying the existence of God of unity in integration swallows up many people like a ship that is sinking. The force of the ships descent into the ocean
dragged people from the surface.
Integration is a philosophy are of mans
invention. From the fall man has had this nagging desire to deny the
existence of God and form a garden paradise of his own. It starts with the blindness in mans mind of the reality of
his inability to think properly. Man begins to develop integrated processes with the intention of placing himself at the
center of his world and in his blindness he builds his own tower so that
people unite around him. The
arrogant deception of cause and effect in his thinking are the building blocks of his integration.
In denying
God he basically denies the process of cause and effect. The integrated
philosophy is pragmatic. Pragmatism is more than just
what works the best, it is in our culture finding how to produce unity
by denying the cause and effect paradigm.
Monday, November 30, 2020
Ps 31 23 Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full." We must make a distinction between an unbeliever who is unable to please God and a sincere believer who undoubtedly possess the same inability but has been provided the nature of God to overcome sin and corruption. This is why in the bible a saint befall technically not a proud man. Hither are some remarkably classic examples of what I am saying. 36 11 "May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away." The Psalmist is gainfully employing a figure of speech considered alteration. We can interchange the wicked and the proud.Here the Psalmist calls and unbeliever the "proud" We must understand that as long as we are in this body we divide some of the same traits as the wicked. We struggle with the same sins. But the difference is we no longer are identified with the wicked. It is impossible for us to be righteous and then fall again and become unsaved. The bible clarifies this distinction so that we are not baffled about our eternal salvation. Enable me say this. I have memorized these Psalms and meditated on them for 30 years. After you employ them, you begin understanding the importance of the difference the names in appealing to God on behalf of His covenant people. Now do not take this personal, but you must understand anyone who has grown to this point knows how immature a person is who has not gone beyond just a superficial word study. There is a difference between using the Psalms so much that they remain a second language and doing a cross reference study. We cannot be identified a proud man because when the Psalmist properly speaks eternal curses against the determined enemy He gainfully employs the name of the enemy as "proud" .94 2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve."Presently this is terribly crucial, and we must look closely at the teaching of the curse. Because most prospective teachers avoid the effective teaching of the eternal curse that places these official names in their proper context. Because the teaching of the curse lays down the logical lines that we would not see if we were looking at these words pragmatically. Its easy to take a sacred word out of the proper context and use it flippantly. Now enable me talk about the relationship between justification and sanctification. Because modern theologians do not employ the eternal curses as the Psalmist typically does they do not see how important the state of eternal righteousness is as opposed to the state of eternal death. Its like any teaching. You can be influenced by the predominate teaching of the day which is Arminianism and Catholicism and however accept the doctrines of grace. This is how a teaching can be warped so that we cross the lines of sovereign grace. In my opinion because I have memorized the curses and blessings I believe it is very easy for a person to interpret something and not understand the emotional bias that he uses in the teaching. We must understand there is no substitution for advancing in this life by knowing the words enough to understand them like we use our English. In the Christian faith what we do not grasp is our propensity to express our own opinions into our form of speech. The Christian life remain a focus on words. It's scrutinizing the words so we can correct the continuous self talk that we repeat that is inaccurate. This life is replacing our own patterns of thought and articulating every word under the authority of the bible. You must understand the Psalms teach us to challenge our own self talk. This ethical behavior is absolutely essential to understanding and properly applying the bible. A person schooled in this effective discipline is like a experienced professional in understanding the potential problems with people who are vulnerable infants in their use of sacred scripture. You can get to the point where you do this discipline for hours a day and can see to identify the areas where a teaching is causing the problem Teaching is self talk and self talk is the view we learn about our reality. A person who uses the Psalms acquires a altogether diverse way of viewing the distinct parts of life. We learn to take a situation and put it through the Psalms pronouncing to take the disjointed parts of our experience and unify everything around us. After many years we are like a cartoon character who depends upon the extraordinary powers that we acquire from our pronouncements so we cannot exist without the discipline. We would yield the extraordinary view that we gain from the discipline. I sincerely apologize for my propensity to always correct someone. Its a habit of mine to detect an expression from a person and turn it over as part of the mediation in the Psalms. Its very hard for me to keep from processing the effective teaching without a very intent focus. My wheels are inevitably turning so to speak.I have an excuse because my mother befalls a Newton. I come from a family where everyone is employing as many ideas reading things about people, etc. its what made me hungry for knowledge.
Monday, November 2, 2020
If God alone is to be exalted then where does
that leave us with one another? Well this is very difficult to
understand since we are made to be in fellowship with one another. But
even tho there seemingly is a tension here about how we view other men
and our propensity to make idols, yet i believe that there are holistic
views of how God deals with us in light of the hidden corruption in the
depths of our souls. I think that Gods primary work is this method of
incisions and excisions. Because in the view of the sovereign movement
of the disposition of God we cannot judge the cause of a persons
particular corruption at the root of the image of the idol. This is why
we have a world view that is predominately supernatural and not a
progressive deterministic succession of falling into patterns of
corruption. The human soul is not defined by what we can see but it is
predominately deeper than we could fathom in all of the causes of these
corrupted behaviors.
We live in a world where Gods seeing, touching,
and speaking are a communication in the method of incisions and
excisions. This is why there seems to be no reason for how troubles of
this world have built into them the paradigm of this cause of
anthropomorphic mystery. God examines in this method. Every living thing
is changing from one moment to the next.
Let me apply this. In
talking with the modern day Palagian the basic communication is this. "I
do not like your God , somehow i must have some kind of autonomy. I
have developed a language to express this." In other words the
underlying communication is that "God is not like you say He is
therefore i am god." Now then we are filters. All religion is built on
developing a way to get to God instead of God coming down to man. There
is very sophisticated ways in the way we have been able to oppose Gods
method of supernatural and holistic communication to every problem. The
primary method of healing is in the communication itself. These methods
of war fare are mainly filtering through the child like opposition ...
as if your child developed a language that opposed your language in
order to be the adult. So its being able to filter the false proposition
in a multi language epistemology that will be the convincing
transformation.