Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

If only we could get salvation doctrine correct among ourselves and then move on to separation - treating Worldlings circumspectly with gentleness and wisdom and treating Christians with teaching, rebukes, exhortations, encouragements, reproofs, shunning (not as enemies, but as siblings in Christ), then we would not be confused about who is a Christian and what we should do. Love the siblings in everything and do loving action to your enemies, but know who your enemies are, according to the Scriptures, and don't be their friends, which is enmity with God (according to what God told us by that Special Book He wrote to us). God is knowable by His Special Spirit and by His Holy Book, but the World obfuscates Him, His words, His desires and His actions with pseudochrist look-alikes.  Don't believe them, believe Him, comparing preaching with Scripture like the noble Bereans did. Believing 1 Corinthians 15:3b-8 results in doing Romans 10:9a, 10b, 13 for salvation and Romans 10:9b, 10...

Only accept soft language when it comes from speech that comes from and is loaded with truth.  Even a hard voice from true intention is useful, but beware the easily performed soft talk that comes from and is loaded with deceit!  Their viciousness is hidden, but the strength of the truth is only unpleasant to the ear of the person who feels the pain of fear in their attempt to hide from the truth.

Let the child deal with problems of different types simultaneously and of different degrees sequentially.

Consider how God's Law kept God's people until the Holy Spirit could be sent to us after the New Covenant was made between God and Humanity.  In the modern secular World, however, extreme gobs of laws are needed on every front, because people can't use love and conscience to guide us when they don't have a new nature and the leadership of Christ and the Holy Spirit helping us as we Christians do, and we enjoy it greatly!  All those laws that structure the World can be compared with no written ordinance for Christians.  The World wants to make its own version of love to compensate, but John Lennon and the rest just couldn't get an adequate version in, because no love compares with Christ's love. The Law of God was, indeed, needed as nursemaid until humans could come in under the New Covenant, but now the Holy Spirit and the new nature of the Scripture-believing person who has confessed Master Jesus does not need the thousands upon thousands of laws the secular Wo...

Criminal rights - citizen's over reactions to government seeming stupidity, which is obstinacy. When smart people in powerful positions of leadership obstinately seem stupid in their decisions, their cause is sometimes to get a screen to do the opposite when the people cry out for it.  For example, we can imagine more totalitarianism arising from governmental decisions to release criminals and to refuse to arrest them and to purposely mislabel looting and theft, and things like that.  The idea is that after the people have had just about enough of the criminal activity, they will cry out for a firmer hand - and then the sneaking leaders will give entirely too much of what the whole country seemed to cry out for, which will make a cover for the new normal, always referring back to when the country wanted criminals to have a firm hand and no talk of rights. While this phase over overloading the opposite is happening, secondary causes are often woven in, and the leaders, themselv...

The Bible describes the local congregation as having an Overseer (also called a Bishop), which I take to be an administrator and expediter of the whole.  One aspect of meetings is that any of the Christians attending who have something to speak forth on behalf of God (called Prophets) should stand and deliver it to the whole congregation in an orderly manner, that is, not interrupting each other and giving way in a loving way so others can speak.  Elders are older Christians who handle various problems and organize subcommittees, like those who made sure all the qualifying widows got their share of support from the congregation; note that they were spiritual, though their job seems basically mundane; perhaps it was because daily maintenance of the qualifying widows took a particular love.  And congregations seem to have been places where the Christians could meet each other on a more or less equal footing, which is in stark relief and great contrast with the hierarchical ...

Do you think that the application of goodness to individuals in a group hardens that group to evil? For instance, has the profession of soldiering been somewhat (more than natural) hardened against the corruption of evil by the generations of preaching and preaching's consequent action that 1) enemies should be treated with goodness in general, and 2) the authority with the sword should be obeyed, because he is God's servant to reward righteousness and punish evildoers? Or is the only useful effect applied to those Christians who preach and believe the preaching to do it, for instance, to respect the soldier or police officer with an expectation that they will do right? Are evil spirits that would affect the Worldlings in those positions or groups affected by the Christians' infusing of righteous action into those groups and positions, such that the groups are not as affected by those evil spirits as they would be without the Christians' acts, or do only we Christians b...

Why Police Should Radically Change Questioning Protocol -OR- The Logic of Country-Wide Police Conspiracy Against the Law at a Fundamental Level 1. Pretending authority to compel answers damages law which fundamentally acquiesces to a specific list of unalienable rights, including freedom over personal speech. 2. Relying on such damage to the law is incompetence in serving the law. 3. Having rooms designed into police buildings for the specific purpose of performing such questioning is evidence of a conspiracy among all police organizations to commit this damage to the law. 4. Therefore, forgoing competent work, the police as a whole have conspired to pit themselves against the functioning of the law.

The rich use certain laws to dominate societies.  Those laws should be highly advertised and normalized by the creation of new, similar laws attached to situations the masses deal with (instead of being attached only to special circumstances for large corporations or other places to be determined upon a review of the law), or they should be entirely purged, to the effect that the rich cannot dominate societies without the probability of the masses countering it.  The final disposition of any such law should be based on its morality as defined by YHWH and His famous Son Jesus the Messiah.

Redefining actions into words allows lies to seem like truth.  For instance, this happens when someone says they don't endorse something, even as they host it and make fliers for it and otherwise advertise it.  It's basic hypocrisy, but it's also the wickedness of magic, where reality, itself, is made to seem different than it is for the purpose of tempting to sin; that is, when that endorsement is to a temptation to sin.  All such deception is wicked, and God sees. Another example is when lies are used to dominate someone over a long period of time, then the dominator speaks to the dominated about using lies to dominate someone else.  If the dominated doesn't immediately excoriate the dominator for his lies, then he loses the opportunity to ever say he was tricked into being dominated. A main method of ensourcelling magic is to change definitions, especially from an action to a description or a passive state or to a heart-based, and therefore unable to be proven, co...

Attempting glory, you've emptied yourself of light; your light is darkness. Making your face appear to shine with willpower, you're deceived; you despise any lack of lies. Pretending emotional solvency imagines your mask is in place, but you are a hypocrite; you burnt your love. Confess Master Jesus, believing His death is for our sins Just like the Bible said He was buried and God raised Him again On the third day, just like the Bible said He was seen again He will enliven you again when you believe and confess Him. This is life. This is light. This is love. He is life. He is light. He is the only love and the only Source of it.

The lackluster ability of the police, due largely to their rigid formalism on the side of fear and their lack of forms that would help them do their duty, works against justice and makes righteousness seem stupid in the steely sight of the wicked World.  The police need to go after crooks, regardless of petulant, mocking rules which they set for themselves (or those which are set for them by petulant, mocking legislators, glad-handing chiefs and conspiring egomaniacal puppeteer judges and prosecutors).  Going after crooks, the useful police officer abrogates attempted control over what top law has already regarded as beyond its purview and forgoes questioning of the suspect altogether and looks for clues instead of mealy-mouthed trickery in the silly hope of the suspect giving himself away.  Plea deals are the least useful thing to the officer of justly executed law, and humility is seen as strength.  Why, oh why, would such an upstanding citizen-officer pay the slig...

Concerning freewill or freedom of choice, I can't find its reference in the Bible to salvation, though I've heard sermonizing about such a connection, which says that if God didn't give me freedom to choose Him, then I'd have reason to complain that He makes me get saved or makes me to not get saved.  But the Bible doesn't say that we choose Him, but He chooses us when He calls us (along with predestinating us) who are being saved.  So, I think some controversy and debate occurred in the past about this freedom of choice, but I don't see any basis for it in the Bible.  In fact, I see the opposite concept, that God calls us and we simply don't refuse Him, and that Jesus didn't lose any whom the Father gave to Him.

There is a difference between me having my own thoughts and feelings and me communicating my own thoughts and feelings to you through my intonation. You might say that I should modulate my intonation better to hide my thoughts and feelings in order to make it clear that I am not intending to communicate them when they are negative. I say that you should learn to ask the question of whether or not I am intending to convey negativity, not only because it will help you regulate your own feelings, but also so you can base your own thoughts on better information, whether I intend the communication or not, which will give you basis for different conclusions, insofar as you believe that you should base your next thought or feeling on what you think I intend to communicate with you (that is, whether you are going along with a certain prescribed formula of conversation with me at this time). Holding back my natural reactions is different from not intending communication.  Like holding in a ...

"..implacable, unmerciful.."; "..even their women change.." The corruption of the sinful body makes the female not more sinful but more terrible when she sins, because it corrupts a greater potential for the insight that comes from a deeper soulish reality than men naturally enjoy.  Likewise, the bullish action he can affect through his numbness to those same soulish traits, which are so beautiful in women and children, is stolen by the feminization of the male.  In Christ, there is not male and female, but both can be saved by the same gospel; however, we are still male and female, with all the attendant realities which exist whether or not we care to cultivate them or whether or not we attempt to invert them, knowing them so precisely to do so, like a greedy and insolent thief who sees what the other has and desires it only because the other has it. Adam was told directly by God, yet sinned on purpose and with full knowledge.  Eve was not told by God directly, but...

The conspicuous absence of the gospel in the many places the Church interacts with the World to help it demeans Christ's salvation doctrine by relegating it to the great many things that seem useless to help the World.  Why isn't knowledge of salvation included with free lunches and medical care?  It could be written on large banners on the wall or lunch trays so it doesn't seem to be "preachy".. Gasp!  WHY?! Why try to get in to places that you believe would exclude you for telling it?  Isn't the Church meant to interact with the World foremost by telling Worldlings how to be saved so that some of them might become siblings in Christ?  Is the love of giving a sandwich or the privilege of being allowed around a group of Worldlings better than the love of giving them the gospel?  But do you, dear sibling, know the gospel?  Churches are confused and unaligned over it, but the Bible is explicit: believe the facts about the Master that are listed in 1 Cori...

One segment of the Church thinks the Holy Spirit gives multiple blessings while the other segment sees one blessing.  They call these blessing by different names, which might not matter, but there is the structural difference between the two views between a phenomenon and continual work. On the one side, the second blessing of the Holy Spirit is marked by speaking in tongues, and then away you go as a fully-fledged Christian who, presumably, has more authority than those Christians who have not spoken in tongues.  There could be other formulations of this idea of the second blessing that doesn't include speaking in tongues as the only particular sign. On the other side, the Holy Spirit is simply with every Christian who has been saved, and He decides when and how to gift us with speaking in tongues or other gifts.  This idea must discuss why there was a distinction in the Bible between salvation and His power by the laying on of hands.  I think that at the very begin...

Whenever I enter a church, no one ever asks me if I believe the basic gospel message or confess Master Jesus.  They assume that life-building exercises will eventually cause whoever wants to be saved to privately ask the pastor what must be done for salvation, or else they assume that the most casual expression of interest in Jesus is salvation, and some think we can fall away from salvation and come back based on our will-worship in keeping from consciously sinning or that our consent to call ourselves Christians will save us.  But there is a definite biblical way to be saved and there is a definite separation between the Church and the World (believing 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 and doing Romans 10:9, 10, 13).  And once the meeting house is cleansed of the World, we can move on to understand and practice Church disciple and shunning on the one hand and eternal security of salvation on the other.

"Surrender your life to the Lordship of Christ, repenting of your sins" is preached in some congregations as salvation doctrine.  It is subjective by measuring how much and in what way that surrender is done.  Does repenting of sins mean the literal and straightforward giving up of every single sin, seeing how this is in order to be saved in the first place, or does repenting of sin (singular) mean believing those four tenets of salvation doctrine Paul learned and then wrote to the Corinthian congregation in 1 Corinthians 15:1-8 and calling on the name of the Master for salvation by verbally confessing "Master Jesus" (Romans 10:9, 10, 13), turning away from sin as a single thing toward the one Master Jesus the Messiah?  Just what is meant by "repenting of your sins"?  Are the two concepts compatible or opposites: making yourself, through a choice of your willpower, to stop all sins and think that that is surrendering your life to the Lordship ...

Should the Church help the World?  Only if we make it obvious that their soulish and physical lifting does not compensate for their lack of justification in the eyes of God.  Teaching the World the benefit of society won't make them children of God.  We should definitely tell them how to be saved, and, to do that, we have to get together first on the issue (1 Corinthians 15:3b-8 and Romans 10:9, 10, 13). The Church should definitely help the Church, even though the Church hasn't often cooperated in such mundane matters as we rely on the World for, and most of our actions and livelihoods are in the World.  It doesn't need to be that way.  It shouldn't be that way, because God's love and truth cause us to be able to create society among ourselves without fear, in the free usefulness we desire so that no one but Christ controls our communities wherever two or three are gathered together in His name. We should love our enemies - that's true.  We should, even mo...

Next time you go to church, look them all in their faces and speak with them a little, and find the meek, lowly and humble ones who know their sin, and befriend them, asking if they need anything and inviting them to eat with you at your home over a Bible study and prayer, mutually worshiping God.  Home Bible study and simple but true brotherly love is a fine way to proceed past the mockery of Churchianity we suffer.  "Master Jesus, help us find Your people to love honestly and to communicate with freely, to our mutual benefit and joy.  And thank You for it, greatest God.  Amen."

Disentagling repentance and sorrow reveals that repentance does not mean sorry feeling, but sorry feeling can go along with repentance, and it often does.  Repentance is to turn away from and stop a previous belief or action.  Sorrow often enforces a willed choice to stop doing the repented thing, but sorrow does not guarantee that.  When we are sorry, we often resolve not to do what made us sorry again, which is repentance.  Also, when we explain why we did something, we mean to show that the situation reveals why we don't want to do it again, or that we have some reason or can show some desire to resolve ourselves against doing it again.  Repentance is not a feeling of sorrow, it is an act of the will to keep from doing a thing in the future.

There are some times when we quietly stuff our emotions and hold back our true words in situations when we should feel freely and speak to help that we harden out hearts against truth. We've been recently trained in our societies to freely feel, so now realize that your speech is powerful for righteousness when it is true, except the hearer disregard God's truth that you speak, and powerful for evil when it is false, except the hearer disregard your falsehood. Feel, seek, see, do, speak God's Truth, and know sanity.

Did Satan have authority over the Earth which he took from Adam when Adam obeyed him to sin?  If so, then it seems that  Satan give up that authority when he allowed the sinless man, Jesus, to die.  Dying only comes from sin, but Jesus did not sin, therefore, to murder him with the authority of the state reflects on the higher authority of the world-ruler.  Is this the reason that a perfect man dying was necessary for God's plan of redemption of the world from Satan's rule of sin?  No man was found among us, so God sent His only sired son to Earth in the human body to die for our sins.

Free will is not an internal state but an objective one.  If we feel trapped into an addiction, that does not mean we cannot stop - we can choose not to do it, even though that choice causes anguish and pain, so free will - which is soulish - is objective and not internal, like the subjective experience of happiness or the sensation of pain, which is physical and not soulish. Belief is spiritual, and it drives our soulish choices.  Our environment, past actions or other forms of causation do not drive our souls, but our beliefs directly drive our thoughts, emotions, willpower, non-twitch reactions - twitch reactions are physical in the present but a mix of soulish and physical when they are being trained - and our choices are also driven by our beliefs. Believing truth sets us free.  Master Jesus the Messiah is the Truth.

Jesus controls the Earth.  He moves concentrations and thinner groups and individuals who can do this or that right where He wants us to be and around whom He wants us to be around to work together with our different skills, different levels of mixes of skills and of adoration of Himself and wisdom of spiritual maturities.  Master Jesus has that precision of control over the Earth that the Satanic rulers crave but cannot have no matter how they attempt control and mock and murder.  God rescues us and gives us life and purpose!  One day, Jesus will come here, destroy, rebuild and establish physical reign worldwide.  Then He will control even more directly and show us how putting the Earth under human authority can and should be done, and His own will be very happy, indeed!

Don't be weakened in love, dear Church, thinking that kindness to God's enemies actually outweighs truth concerning His great salvation!

Doesn't it seem odd that video games, popular fantasy and books about video games include concepts from every mythology, but these Worldling creators of such things don't include elements from the Bible?  It's as though they recognize the extreme separation between God's actual Word and artificial stories, even as they are fully willing to blaspheme God openly.  It's as though they're having fun with Greek or Hindu myths while purposely staying away from Hebrew history. I find it very odd that an RPG hasn't yet tried to twist and adapt the supernatural events of the Bible to their worlds, though I assume they will as the World becomes even more openly evil, as surely they wouldn't use God's Word or the events of Scripture in straight ways.  But why hasn't it happened yet, unless the World - even at this stage of open wickedness - intends to approach such a thing with delicacy.

I do love to tell the gospel.  It took me years to get over "repent and be baptized" and find "believe this" and "do that" "to be saved".  And, as a bonus for finding it, I see how to gain righteousness intermixed with but separate from how to be saved - to believe the Resurrection, and to live by the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus, Who raised Him up, gives us new life in Him and teaches our minds the mind of Christ as we move from faith to faith (or so I imagine threading God's Word together - I think I'm on the right track!).  Ahhh, the delight I carelessly indulge by knowledge that God is my Savior and not me, myself, even by "continuing" His work or some falsehood like that, which puts His work as a necessary beginning only.  And the irony that there IS a work (James was right) - if we DO believe, then we WILL call on the name of Master Jesus to be saved.  It all fits, and I don't have to twist my mind into th...

Why are churches so segregated?  Because black people LIKE their own culture and have the light-hearted joy in Christ to EXPRESS IT.  Stop trying to melt us together when we don't want to - we LOVE each other in the Church and have hardly stumbled on the great roadblock of SKIN COLOR (how childish!) that seems to hold up the World so much.  We don't care about your made up racism that tries to illogically group people for the purpose of "divide and conquer".  Families perpetuate both culture and the genes that strongly code for skin color - that's all, and there's nothing to be afraid of.  Let bluegrass be played by those who like bluegrass and Aretha be played over here, and microtonals be used over there, too, because they LIKE it.  That's all, you subverters of freedom!  Get away from there, and go find peace in Christ the same way we've ALL had to - by believing the tenets of salvation doctrine as per 1 Corinthians 15:3b-8 and by responding to that...

We have little maturity in the Church, but we seem to have some.  Don't teach the World deeper things of Christ - but love them without their understanding, because Christ's love draws them to Him, if ever they will be saved.  Teaching the World deeper things in a bid to entice them to Christ, however, just hardens their hearts against future teachings that are in context of what they already have learned appropriately in stages.  Tell them first:         God sent His only sired Son to Earth in the human body to die for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, then He was buried, then God raised Him from the dead on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures, and then He was seen by Peter, the Disciples, over 500 brothers at once, most of whom were still alive at the time Paul wrote to the Corinthian congregation this formulation of the gospel that Paul learned, and then Jesus was seen by James, the Apostles and then by Paul.  Believi...

Imagine a scenario where a person is attempting to say why they did something the other person in the context didn't like - at all!  But the second person interrupts as person number one is say, "I just...".  Now, consider apologies, how they describe a thought process that incorrectly led to the naughty decision, and how such an apology, an "I'm sorry", means that they do not intend to do it again - a situation that calls for forgiveness, like when a brother says, "I repent".  Now, back to our scenario.  Doesn't person two falsely forgive person one when he stops her from completing the justification, which is the opposite of saying, "I repent", because it means she is attempting to talk him into thinking the awful action is a right one?  Now consider that, on the surface, they sound almost the same - the intonation of anxiety in the explanation, but, without hearing the end of the matter, forgiveness is wickedly given to the unrepen...

If I suddenly seem grossly childish, be strong to suffer it.  Build up your ability in that way, dear Church, and be strong in our same Master and Savior Jesus Christ, even able to hear the next wisdom of His that comes from me after you see me suddenly seem grossly childish. And we will learn to speak together the wisdom of God, suffering together more confidently, needing to merely attempt trusting each other fewer times as we go on.

What is the state of reality concerning truth-pleas?  Worldlings will never be talked into it, but the Called will hear the truth and smile.

Because Worldlings thrive on evil deep inside themselves, yet they take advantage of the softer atmosphere that the Church has built over the centuries and pretend to hold to it, they take advantage of lots of little situations where their outward behavior varies from their pretense for profit.  This causes the Church to rely on false claims of nobility and the attendant false assumptions that come from them.  Some Worldlings desire hurts where it doesn't make sense.  And it gets stranger once an evil is normalized in society, such that greed is not really the bottom line for companies all the time, but becomes a cover for even more wickedness! When the Christian tries to anticipate and appease his Worldly friend, the biblical mandate to not make friends of the World shows purpose as the Worldling takes advantage of that Christian's failure to know who his enemy is, because that Worldling acts as an enemy, even to his other Worldling friends - it's their way to hate each ...

If you believe and confess and are saved in accordance with Scripture, then you will have a new nature, be glad of your salvation and of the domination God gives His own over our sins, and you will do right in accordance with your new nature, the guidance of the Holy Spirit of Life who raised Christ from the dead, and you will begin to imitate our Master Jesus the Christ.  Believing the Resurrection is not only a part of salvation but also of sanctification.  You gain righteousness by believing the Resurrection of the Christ (Romans 10:9b-10:10a).

Do you feel pressured by leadership on votes, messaging and fundraising?  Stand up to bullies and stop conspiring with that leadership to subvert your constituents' trust in you!  Remember: lying for money - even for your tax-based paycheck - is fraud.  Do what you really think leads! This message brought to you by a servant of Master Jesus the Messiah, the Truth.

Humanism is horrible, hideous and hurtful. It leads to the illicit use of willpower to control others, which ends in the bitterness of the soul scraped empty.

The stoic tries to control his corrupt surroundings in fear, the hedonist allows himself to be swallowed up by his corrupt surroundings in lust and the Christian allows God to keep him in his corrupt surroundings in trust.

Doesn't police questioning, as it's usually done, misrepresent the law by false authority, since the law recognizes that the right to remain silent (or speak, with total freedom to speak and remain silent at will) comes from outside the law (as all rights do; privileges are from the law)?  The police officers and detectives cannot have authority from the law to compel speech.  Any law that attempts to give such authority immediately contends with that higher authority that gave the right, which fundamental law, so long as it has not been overturned according to the law, has admitted to and has bowed itself to.  Therefore, police questioning which pretends authority to question is illegal, and it commits the crime of treason, because it attempts, by the uniform, to undermine the law which bowed to the extra-legal authority that gave the right, and it is therefore a systemic damage and a betrayal of legal structure, itself.  A police officer who pretends to authority n...

1) The Bible openly talks about those who are saved sinning (1 John 1:8, Romans 7:14-25, Romans 10:9b, 10a, where Christians need to gain righteousness). 2) The Bible also says that God Who calls will powerfully cause the called ones to make it through to glorification (Romans 8:29-30; see verse 31). What more do you need but that, even if other passages (falsely) seem to scare us by teaching that a single sin means that we were never saved because those who know God do not sin (period)?  Or is that not your viewpoint in the first place? Biblical salvation doctrine is believing God's work to save us (the Father by planning it, Jesus by dying for our sins and the Holy Spirit by raising Him) and our verbal confession of Master Jesus which calls on His name for salvation is what saves us (see 1 Corinthians 15:1-3a, where Paul says that the following formulation is very definitely what we believe to be saved and Romans 10:9a, 10b, and 13, where he makes a definite and objective stateme...

I've noticed a trend in LitRPG books that says that even though it's just code, since it feels so real, destroying an NPC is the same as murder or being rude to an NPC is rudeness or lying to an NPC is lying.  The lie is that if we feel immersed in something, then that something becomes real (for us).  This is the type of judgement based on the surface that Jesus warned against in John 7:24a.  Follow Jesus' command in John 7:24b by practicing righteous judgement instead of that, and don't believe that your feelings or perceptions dictate reality, because such a stand is not only outright false, but it also attempts to rob God of the reality He actually created. Even outside LitRPG, popular Western culture generally is taking on the concept.  Gender identification pronouns is another example of it.  Saying that it is a hate crime to repeat biblical instruction is another example.

[Messages during a live Youtube video on channel called "Grace Wins".  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWn0LCX7R7U "GOD HAS YOUR BACK | Stop Worrying & Trust God | Give It To God - Christian Motivation & Inspiration"] Words are not weapons - God's Word is the weapon... accept this difference now (see - our words are mere persuasion to believe something; the power you're seeing from words is in the belief it causes) Believing truth is better than saying desire God never changes - He knows HOW to care for His own Perfect, complete love casts out all fear Psychological preparations often weaken us to assume fear.... Know the Bible - accept the Bible ..with thanksgiving.. And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he hears us, and if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. ye have not, because ye ask not. You ask, and receive not, because ...

The World allows a thing until it is casually accepted and its first basis is largely forgotten, and then it demands a reevaluation of the cause of the thing and immediately excoriates everyone who casually took part in its remembrance as though they purposely executed that, often changed, basis of the thing.  For example, the celebration of Columbus Day by those who did not have any reason to imagine him as a wicked racist but who barely had ideas that they were generally celebrating the existence of America.  The Worldlings' bait and switch trickery on this point makes those celebrators vile, due to the appearance of a switched meaning, even though the celebrators weren't celebrating it for the purpose of that switched meaning.  It's an illusion on the surface made by changing the substance underneath and ascribing motives to people in the past using a false standard.  In these cases, remember that those who purposely make such a switch are, themselves, right now i...

Dear Church, stop trying to save the World.  We must tell the World Christ's gospel in order to find in it those other members of the Church that haven't yet been saved.  We must do good to our enemy as a witness against them of the superiority of God's goodness without becoming their friends.  We must live with Christ's Church and love the siblings in Christ. Consider Bob Saget, star of "Full House", a show that was billed as funny and wholesome on its surface, but which indulged in lots of sex humor.  Bob's career changed, and he became a filthy stand up comedian.  We could have guessed when "Full House" was first being aired, but the advertised overlay of a wholesome family program obfuscated the sex jokes we were seeing, and Bob's later career change just reveals who he was at that earlier time. Dear Church, don't be confused by the seeming goodness of the World - it absolutely, viciously hates your God and you.  It really is your ene...

Paganism is at the core of psychological techniques that modify behavior by making the perpetrator experience what his victims do.  An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth sounds to the Pagan of today like it sounded to the Pagan of ages past like a valid and useful justice system, but Christ teaches to turn the other cheek to the cheek striker and to give more to the thief, because only God's love changes hearts.  Then, at the very end of things, He simply destroys the rest and does not practice any lie of trying to change them through psychological manipulation (which mere manipulation is more surface than affects on the spirit).

Heeding God's Word in Galatians 6:1-5, especially verse 4, that we should have gladness in our own proven works instead of glorying in others is to heed a commandment against the perversion that comes from over-judgement of others' evil that makes us feel good about our own works by comparison and also of relying on another's praise of our works.  It is a practical psychological help to live in our own successes and not be over-burdened with the evil of another or with the praise from another. This is not to say that we should neglect our siblings in Christ.  The spiritual ones among us have the work of restoring the sinning sibling, but even that job is with a warning to watch that we are not overcome by the same sin when we do it.  Even though this work exists, we still should live in our own works and not those of others from either a positive or a negative point of view.

Take the bottom-up view.  We have workers.  We have food production.  We have truckers and trucks.  And we have technology and the electricity to power it, for now.  Money is meta for work and trade - it's no end in itself.  So we shouldn't be ruled by money, especially if we start right now to rethink and to restructure our local and state-wide societies in America.  Half the country wants one thing and the other half another, and in Indiana, we want to survive.  We're fat - we could do it.  We're also keepers of some Christian reality, which much of the World is losing; we should be as independent from the federal government as we can be.  Maybe Ohio will trade with us.  Let's stretch out to call on the name of the Master Jesus first and foremost, and then we can ask for His blessing.  Then we'll try to restructure:  as long as workers can keep producing that food and those buildings, and as long as we leverage our techn...

Humility doesn't stop work, but it realizes that our greatest possible works are small compared with the works in God's kingdom. I was afraid of doing (which fear is a tip-off of its wrongness), because I falsely thought that humility required me not to show myself.  Perhaps my pride was so overweening and my need for validation so engrossed in the evil way of great pride that I, personally, needed to keep my head way down, but, generally speaking, humility does not require us to stay invisible.  Perspective is very useful in remembering our truly humble place in God's Universe.  Non-Christians are dead, Christians are Kings in training, angels do solid work, and our Master is King of Kings.  So, do right work usefully, giving God the credit for our ability to work, and be glad in our work, happy to be alive to do them.

Showing perfect joy on your face for the purpose of selling something is creepy as all get-out.  What our worldly societies have trained us to accept is more strange than it seems, even when we become partially aware of it from time to time.  Don't become afraid of where you find yourself, but try to express reality more and more - it's healthy, and it's very useful to do so!  For instance, take that picture perfect smile from your job and imagine the types of things that should elicit it.  Finding them should lead you to a better reason to smile.

John the Baptizer the Hebrew Priest made the radical choice to live in the wild, live like he's wild and to take a stand in his dress and food.  He preached in the wilderness to those who could not enter the temple.  He socially split away from the traditions of his peers, who were part of the rulership, and he is the ideal of social reformation by Jesus that Walter Rauschenbusch and others taught to the rich.  But Jesus' purpose was to die for our sins, not social reformation.  John the Baptist was not part of the New Testament, but he was the greatest man born of women, below the lowest of those in the New Covenant, which God has set with in humanity whom He has called due to Jesus' death for our sins. John the Baptist was a radical social reformer. Jesus the Messiah, our Master, has died for our sins, which is infinitely better!

Hearing the subtle intonation of many people who give themselves to sin, embarrassment is revealed.  The lustful, who thinks they should be, finds shame that they attempt to ignore.  This fact is evidence that sin in objectively wrong and stops freedom in those who submit to it.

We go through a period of mindlessly doing the things we have been taught.  And then we transition to a period of consolidation, where we think less of checking the boxes and more of the holistic drive to find what all those boxes are generally meant to accomplish. Both types of action are useful.  Knowing that there is an ebb and flow, don't get angry, confused or fearful that you find yourself in one mode instead of the other when you realize the other's usefulness. One type is the practice that trains you, and the other type is the test of doing.  The one gives the prerequisite, and the other gains the outcome.  One is piecemeal and the other holistic.  Both have their own use.

When the primrose dallies in the old miser's punch Her bitter cold cleaves as an unexpected weapon. His greed fuels her domination. Broken, they are eaten together.

Always remember: God's reality is better than the World's psychology.  His truth heals, but even the World's light is full of darkness, which cheats, and it lies.  His truth is simple and acceptable to the inward man, while the World's instruction loves to be misunderstood so it can change from person to person like the mirage of shelter for the soul. Knowing Christ's truth is not the problem for the Christian, but accepting it in the face of the wicked flesh takes the patience of tribulations that gives the experience to hope in His love, and the World cannot mimic the good things of our Master however it tries, and we are glad to be separate from that skewed attempt at painting what He has given us to live. Rest in Christ today, brother, and ignore the instruction of the World.

Consider careless speech that gets a job done but contains a lie.  "3 wouldn't equal 5 if I didn't really mean 'yes'".  Or, less abstractly, "I wouldn't have said something about it if I didn't want to give it to you".  Really?  You never would have even mentioned it if gifting it wasn't your exact intention?  Not even in passing, concerning it's interesting history or design parameters?  Perhaps you can think of a real situation that conforms to this description.  Consider it well, and realize that what to you is mere exaggeration or euphemism is a casual lie that comes across as particularly distrustful to children and people sensitive to language and to you, maybe.  It's a modern version of casual speech that disregards the importance of telling the truth.  You might be able to truthfully use exaggeration or euphemisms in some cases, so don't think I'm being overly restrictive, but also find where you are inadvertently ...

The World's groupings of people and ideas tempts us to judge based on the surface, instead of practicing righteous judgement (John 7:24).  When properly used, proper groupings are shorthand listings of properties among the various items in the groups, but false groupings can be easily hidden to the eyes of those who don't spot check the properties and compare them with the shorthand conclusions placed on the group.  The shared properties have to lead to the conclusions about the group for the group to be effective. So, even though groups can be useful, wicked devices obfuscate the reality of items in groups by false labels attached to the group which do not equally attach to the items in the group and/or do not attach to the shared properties of the group.

Those who dismiss Hell as a metaphor that uses the local garbage dump as a symbol for death or whatnot are missing a certain point: The reality of God sending people to Hell is similar to burning your garbage!  It's not an insult.  It's a necessity for the same types of reasons that a whole culture who burns garbage does so.  It's the only way to deal with and the only place to put irretrievably corrupted human beings and fallen angels. Unlike the method of putting garbage in a static landfill, breaking it down to its component parts destroys it along with its impurities, except in the fumes that come from it and remain toxic until they are dissipated.  I don't know the intricacies, so the metaphor might be useful in a greater or only a lesser fullness, but I do know that those people who are in Hell for no less than the thousand years of the Millennial Reign of Christ are taken out of there whole enough to be judged, their names not found in the Book of Life, and th...

I asked the question, "Why would the unvaccinated pose a risk to the vaccinated?".  I found this 2-fold answer from a children's hospital: 1) Vaccines aren't always effective, and 2) The unvaccinated are used by the virus to continue to survive indefinitely in the community. So, the second part relies on the first part - after all, if vaccines were always effective, then it wouldn't matter that the virus exists in some cloud the vaccinated person might walk through some day. I think any conclusion that the unvaccinated are a risk to the vaccinated is a round-about conclusion.  If the vaccinated want to have better protection, they should demand better vaccines more readily than they should scold or ostracize the greater community.  The external, general attack vector is much harder to control than the protection of the internal, specific defense.  The impossibility of controlling the external factor is the reason that vaccines exist. Swatting the space that surrou...

I've heard the concept that if we Christians merely talk about our problems, then we give them credence.  I've heard a message that David glorified God, so don't use your tongue to talk about your problems.  That message is psychologically based instead of biblically based.  When we talk about our problems with defeat, then we fall into the trap defined by that psychological description, but merely talking about it doesn't mean we are talking about it in defeat.  It's useful and right to talk about our problems in order to get power over them by seeing the truth about their real dimensions. Be careful not to call human psychology biblical, and be sure not to use Scripture to validate something based on what it doesn't say.  When David says he glorifies God and says positive things, well, that doesn't speak against mentioning negative things!  David glorifies God, so don't you turn it into a message on how God doesn't want us to use our tongues to men...

The dividing line between the Church and the World is belief that Jesus died for our sins according to the Scriptures, was buried, God resurrected Him on the third day according to the Scriptures and He was seen by many witnesses afterward, and everyone who believes these things and calls on the name of the Master for salvation by verbally confessing Master Jesus will be saved!  The only thing in there about sin is that Jesus conquered it!  See 1 Corinthians 15:3b-8 and Romans 10:9, 10, 13.  After salvation, the way to be more righteous is to believe and think about the resurrection (Romans 10:9b-10a).  In our same Master and Savior Jesus Christ, we live under the law of the Spirit of Life and not under God's written ordinance, the 10 commandments or the law that says rap is stupid and un-Christian... because the 10 Commandments are simply things that have been superceded by the Spirit of Life's law, and that last one is human philosophy and strays from anything bibl...

"Sinning willfully", a phrase from Hebrews 10:26, is exemplary of a major split of viewpoint in the Church.  It's not the only major split, but this seems to me to be one of a handful of critical ones.  If you keep reading in Hebrews there, you'll come to verse 36, "don't throw your confidence away", and 38 and 39, where drawing back to perdition is contrasted with faith and belief to salvation of the soul.  And go up before the critical verse, which is fearful without a biblical context when it's given a fearful conclusion of the possibility of losing salvation by willful sin as its context, to verses 22 and 23, where "drawing near" contrasts with "drawing back" of the later verses.  This drawing near has the full assurance of faith, where the conscience is clean, so that we know we can profess our faith to others without wavering, knowing that He who guarantees it is faithful! It's a reference to sinning by denying the gospe...

Psychology is a useful tool, and it can help us discern soulish problems.  But the answer to soulish problems goes beyond the answers taught by psychology!  The human spirit cannot be coerced by shifting guilt or any such maneuver.  It's all about faith; and it's about obedience to God in the areas that we do know, so that our conscience becomes clean, which enables us to trust that God will answer our prayers!  Sweat through the temptation, asking God to help and thanking Him afterward when we see the help.  Do everything by plain truth.  Reach out to Master Jesus and Daddy God and wait; abide in Christ; don't dismiss or look away from the reality of your sin, but know that He is faithful to separate you from it; expect Him to do so, and wait on Him to do so, and then, when you know you are very clean, ask Him your heart's desire at that time.  He has overcome the destruction in you when He saved you by your belief in the tenets of the gospel (see 1 C...

Attention about the literal meanings of phrases - especially common phrases - should be given to disambiguate what one feels the phrase should mean and how it comes across - especially to those who have never heard that common phrase. There is a situation outside truth that builds a ratty nest of linked thoughts, few of which correspond to the meanings of the words employed.  Idioms in that kind of situation seem (in the minds of the speakers) to outweigh straightforward meanings, even when those meanings were at first known by the speaker and then purposefully employed as a cover for the idiomatic meanings the speaker covered up with them. The speaker forgets the truth and would falsely think he was righteous to demand the idiomatic meaning above the real one that he first started with, then used as a cover and then forgot the true basis he picked it as a cover in the first place. A simple demand to methodically hold to the meanings of each successive word, even with the humble ac...

There's an interesting fact that should be deeply considered by those in the Church who think that charity work is the highest calling in the Church:  Jesus healed many people, but He did not heal everybody.  Jesus fed many people, but the Word of God does not describe Him feeding everybody.  The early Christians did not regard waiting tables as the highest act, but set aside some to do organize food for the Christian widows who were regarded for good works and who needed it, while the spiritual men continued their spiritual work.  Those whom Jesus so famously fed followed Him into the wilderness for some time first.  He had pity on those who followed Him into a place they could not get back home from without fainting along the way, and so He supernaturally and gracefully remedied that problem for His followers. Feeding drug addicts who have no regard for Christ while they pretend to listen to the so-called sermons about their own way out of soulish difficulties...

I listen to a lot of wicked audiobooks, and I glean interesting, useful and even right things from them in places.  You might be surprised what's in a LitRPG book!  I recently heard a story that was meant to demonstrate that good and evil are mixed and not straightforward - that situations change the same behaviors from good to evil or from evil to good.  The story was given from the evil protagonist to his friend, who questioned his morality.  The author did a pretty complete job, except he didn't realize the real answer, but the friend gave up in defeat on the topic of real good and evil. Two things.  First, the Bible has taught us that we are not under written ordinances, but we are under the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus (Romans 8:2).  This true thing is what such a wicked twisting perverts.  There is objective good and evil, even if it cannot be given in a single rule.  We Christians have the standard inside ourselves, but the Wor...

Feelings - emotions as well as the more physical type - are another part of soulish experience (like focus) that I've confused with the spiritual faith.  I've mistaken feeling for communication from God, but I need to primarily use faith to hear Him, even though feelings and thoughts and the soul in general is a tool that goes along (seamlessly, from some point of view) with the spirit's actions to hear Him, but it starts and stems from faith in the spirit which is built up and learned from reading, understanding and believing and doing all the facts in the Bible.  The parts of the soul are shaped over time by that belief, so that feelings and focus settle onto truth, which along with faith is in the spirit. At the end (from a certain, general, point of view), the well-conditioned Christian who has learned the mind of Christ by adherence to the Holy Spirit's teaching (which is not had from feeling, remember, but from Scripture! It's so important!) has a soul and spi...

There is a worldly thought that the less educated don't understand God, and so, since they can't worship Him rightly (they say), their lowly suffering (which goes hand in hand with their lower education and fewer higher paying job prospects) helps wash their souls clean - this pagan idea mimics but twists the Scriptural teaching of shunning, where the unrepentant Christian is thrown out of the local congregation to make his way without the help of the Church, giving his body to Satan for the saving of his spirit. This has the effect of making Christians think that shunning is as evil as that pagan concept, which Christianity explicitly rebels against, as Christ went to the humble lowly ones who knew they were sinners, and James pointed out that the rich oppress others (James 2:6).

In "Good Cop, Bad Cop", both cops are on the same side and acting against another side.  President Trump is "Good Cop" to President Biden's "Bad Cop", but neither behave as Christians should.  If either is saved as Christ knows it, then good, but Christians have a higher standard of behavior than Worldlings.  If Christ knows that either is saved, such as President Trump might seem (though I've not heard him say that he believes the gospel or say that Jesus is Master), then any saved person must be reproved, rebuked and exhorted with all longsuffering and righteous doctrine, and they must be shunned if they continue in sin (such as lust and greed, just to name a couple).  The unsaved are only to be walked about circumspectly, with gentleness and wisdom, so that the Christian's reaction to the World is different from the Christian's reaction to the Church.  In either case, we must practice righteous judgment, not thinking ourselves are better...

Shattering expectations reaps a limited benefit, but slowly leading through change is better.  God tenderly gives us time to change a little each day.  Compared with the arrogant prodding of the violent father, His method is better, because it allows the internal structure to solidify, instead of creating firmness on only the outside.  It's slower to go wide, but it reaches deeper in its change.  God's goodness makes everyone He graces glad.

Hope is not probabilistic.  It is definite, and it's based on certain knowledge of future events sprung from certain faith in the producers and the origins of those events.  The World thinks that hope is a delicate delusion, broken by the acquisition of a knowledge that's not worth knowing.  How wrong they are, and how solid is the hope that's built on the faith we Christians have in our Master Jesus!

Dear Christian, be careful that you don't use prayer as an excuse not to act.  There is a time for action, after you believe that God gives you the outcome of your good prayer.  After preparing with prayer and belief of God's benefit to you about the thing (so long as the thing is according to His will, and every good and complete gift is according to His will), do.

Not being able to easily tell your loved ones about Christ is a common problem, sadly.  We know it was a problem that Paul knew about, because  He said, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, because it's the power of God of salvation for everyone who believes" (Romans 1:16). There's two sides to it: the strength of your own faith, understanding and emotions about what you're saying about God and your expectations (whether they are true or false) about the reaction from the person you're talking to about God. First, understand what you intend to say and how your words apply to your real life (don't just mimic or say what you've heard but practice the meaning of the words).  Understand what Christ has done for you - how He became sin, even though He never sinned, and how death is only the result of sin.  He never would have had to die, even of old age (and angels would have held Him up from falling and breaking a bone).  Even more serious than physi...