Anti-Anti's Modern Prosperendum

The World wants what Jesus gives those He justified, but they imagine that it comes from themselves, or their groups, or anything but God. Yet God is the only source of life. They desire, but their sin obscures this simple truth, and they mock. The name of the Lord Jesus is blessed, because He cares so very deeply that He gives everything to His own cherished blood-bought people, even Himself! The Worldlings are so very alone. Blessed be the name of the Lord, because we would be, too, without Him.

If you keep sensing something you don't like running through your mind over a period of time, don't think that you must extremely ignore what its details look like in order to resist it. The fact that it's been running through your mind over a period of time means you aren't resisting it as well as you'd like to, so look at it. Very prayerfully and with careful attention, allow yourself to perceive it totally. In that way, you can viscerally hate what it is, see what it's doing, understand it's nature more completely, not to accept it into yourself more completely, but to know how it's been undermining you in all its particular ways so you can undermine it, dominate that piece of your flesh, and directly pray for the Master to purge it from your mind. Looking at sin in order to purge it is not the same as looking at sin to wallow in it, so don't be afraid or stand still around the evil, hoping it won't notice you. It's in your body. Engaging ...

Society lauds petulant trouble with authority while society's laws (or is it only the customs?) are weirdly strict about verbal and non-verbal exactitudes of perceived respect. The mind becomes confused in the feel of its atmosphere. The soul's domination through entrapment of conflicting signals results in a self-limitation of communication and natural expression, which has been identified as common demonic fare (see Lester Sumrall's tiers of demonic involvement).

I heard a passage from a certain novel that promoted Christianity as self-acceptance and a lack of homophobia, but with overt reference to Jesus. This was strongly contrasted with a televangelist type working with a militia group and hanging pictures of himself in expensive places, but none of Jesus. The question was raised about how this preacher knew that the enemy of the giant church and the militia aligned with his rhetoric about being a satanic force that they should oppose. The preacher in the depths of mental trickery imposed by the novel's author said 3 things that defined his enemy's attributes with descriptions of satanic work, though they are mostly vague: they steal in a way that precludes being caught, they do harm with magic, and they play tricks and sow the seeds of chaos. In this setup of contrasting views of Christianity where, in fact, both have elements that Christianity opposes, but the first is the type the World likes, these 3 descriptions of alignment wit...

Fairness that restricts properly multi-round discourse, such as equal time in debates and the more subtle trap of snappy comebacks which give the nominally required but hardly sufficient single moment to the victim to explain the entrapping false accusation of sarcastic hurts, and logical fallacies that are incompletely applied to find internal conflicts in a few moments are not strong enough to show what the truth is. Language can be messy and manipulated. Our cognition is broken, even when used over long periods of time and with previously developed structures. The starting-point for gaining wisdom is respectful subjugation to the greatest and only God Yahweh by way of His Messiah Jesus in accordance with God's Scriptures. Wisdom can be used to know how to properly use the tools of careful consideration which we thought we could control by ourselves so that they work as expected to give us knowledge. Believe God to be saved, then become clean in your mind, and then you'll be ...

Consider this misguiding quote: "How do you know when someone is a believer? It is obvious. With heart, soul, mind, and strength they love the Lord. They willingly lovingly obey His law. They fear Him in the sense of worship. This is what salvation does. It is a massive transformation." - John MacArthur ("What's Wrong with Everybody?", March 14, 2022, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhlIynBmj-Q, retrieved August 25, 2024.) There's a deep mistake in the church about salvation. Even though the saved have access to the outward transformation described by John MacArthur in this quote, the lack of such outward transformation doesn't indicate a lack of salvation, because salvation does not hinge on it! It's not always obvious who the Christians are. We need to get things straight about it for self and others. We know we are saved because we believe the facts about Jesus' great saving work as laid out in 1 Corinthians 15:3b-8 and we have done what Scrip...

I heard recently that President Trump said he believes in God. Did he say that he believes that Jesus died for our sins like the Bible says, was buried, resurrected the third day like the Bible says, and we seen by Peter, the Disciples, over 500 brothers at once, James, the Apostles, and Paul the Apostle, and, because of believing those things, call on Jesus' name to save him by admitting out loud that Jesus is Master? Well, it *is* with the mouth that confession that Jesus is Master is made to gain salvation (but nobody can call on His name if they don't first believe who *that* particular Jesus is who completed the only possible saving work for us). According to 1 Corinthians 15:1-3a and Romans 10:14a, due to believing the four things listed in 1 Corinthians 15:3b-8, do the single thing mentioned three times in Romans 10:9-13 to be saved. Now, I didn't listen, but if you heard President Trump (or anyone else..) talk about God, did He bear witness to *this* particular Jesu...

Being dominated is a terrible thing. Some cultures impose ties like those in families in order to bind people to the wills of their dominators. In the sad experiences of those caught in their traps, there's a feeling of inability to resist which is cultivated with known techniques, and the resistance flairs into weak eddies of self-recrimination or enfeebled sadness about some trivial thing. Being dominated is a terrible thing. It warps a human being into the image of an animal that follows unwillingly outside of any right bonds of authority by freely acquiescing that will to its abuser. If demons are in a hierarchy, domination might be higher than murder and its arrogant peer, lust. Domination uses intelligence to twist personal bonds meant for more loving connections into the horror of unspeakable sorrow which has a threat of almost indescribable shape, and so I describe it and I speak of it here, because some might know, deep down, that they are being dominated even though they ...

I've sometimes wondered about Jesus' conversation with his mother at that wedding. The interaction seems interesting, but what does it mean? "It's not my time yet", he said, "Do what he says", she said. Why did she know that she got her request from him when he said that? Though I can't be certain, I can think of a reason that fits, and it's deeply kind as it speaks of the close, concerned, and the tenderly reconciling long-term conversation of mother and son. She knew he had to die for a good reason. But what mother would be able to stand enduring that knowledge for decades? They must have spoken about it enough for it to become an inside joke. He joked with his mother about his death enough times that she knew he was saying yes to her request of him that day. "Will you do something about this wine? It's running out too fast!". "Mother, you're embarrassing me to death, but it's not my time yet!" "Haha. Servan...

I know it's posed a difficulty for Christians, but there's a wall of separation. Not between an abstract idea and the state, such as that famous part of American law, but between the Church and the whole World. You can't be friends with the World, because that's being God's enemy. And so salvation doctrine makes a wall of separation between the Church and the World. That's what holiness means. He makes us holy. Don't try to resist Him. You'll be just like the axe-murdering Christian who has to harden his heart against God in order to continue in his sin, knowing that he's unrepentant as he willfully and continuously works against his Master as an axe murderer. He's still a Christian, so long as he believes those four facts about what Christ did and ha verbally confessed that Jesus is The Master (1 Corinthians 15:1-8; Romans 10:9-14a), and so long as he believes that what Christ did is effective to justify him in the face of God's judgement. B...

How Our Determined Freewill Invites God to Control Us by Faith 1) Faith causes us to automatically choose to do the works that spring from it. 2) That's how God controls us with the levers of our belief. 3) We have to try hard to gain the faith, moving from one level of faith to another level of faith. THEREFORE, 4) We agree with God's control of us, because we work hard to ask Him for the thing that directly controls our actions.