Trying to Fit into the Worldly Systems?

The meanings of liberalism and conservatism persist to the present from the beginnings in the French Revolution. And both can be found in the Church. Neither wants to be led by the Holy Spirit and yielded in obedience to Him.

The liberals want to eliminate or distort the Bible. The conservatives want to follow the Bible as dead letter. But what about those who do seek to follow Christ and allow the Holy Spirit to reveal the meaning of the Bible? The liberals call them conservatives. The conservatives call them liberals. They don’t fit into the worldly systems.

In the 1800s, Satan built on the foolishness of liberalism with false science and false intellectualism to cast doubt on the history in the Bible. Satan then worked to weaken the church and teach the church to walk without the leading of Jesus Christ, without Wisdom and Truth that flows from Christ.

The conservatives tried to put God’s flowing River of revelation into cisterns for safe keeping, but they were broken cisterns that couldn’t hold the River of God.

Since then, Satan has promoted sexual sin, envy, covetousness, murder, stealing, disobedience to parents, disrespect for authority, and disrespect for God. You see it all around you. Those have been active in the fallen human nature since the fall of man in the Garden of Eden, but they are now coming to the maturity of evil.

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MAKING UP STUFF-CALLING IT TRUE

Modern rationalism fully bloomed in the 1600s with Descartes who said, “I think, therefore I am”, Spinoza, and Leibniz. This line of thought led to liberalism and the bloody French Revolution of the late 1700s. It was a revolution against the authority of kings but also against the Catholic Church. While Martin Luther and others protested against the Catholic Church in the 1500s for spiritual reform, the French revolution was different. Very different! The French Revolution went as far as trying to de-Christianize the world with guillotines.

At the core was a belief in human reason versus Christ. The rationalists avoid thinking about the pitiful inability of the human mind to reason to truth. They refuse to think about the fact that reason without truth consists of making up stuff and calling the made-up stuff “true.” Of course, the Church has always been subject to putting human reasoning over divine revelation. Notice the warnings against false prophets in the Old Testament along with the promise that God would speak to them if they would stand in His presence.

And the conservatives who opposed the liberals weren’t looking to press onward with Christ. They just wanted slow or no change.

In 1789, during the early stages of the French Revolution, the Estates-General met to debate the future of France. Delegates had to choose sides—not just figuratively, but physically—on where to sit in the assembly hall. On the right sat the conservatives. The liberal radicals and revolutionaries sat on the left. This division was so clear and symbolic that newspapers and politicians started using “left” and “right” as shorthand for political leanings — and it stuck!

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SATAN’S MESSAGE-CONTROL CABAL

Satan has been working through a false-prophet cabal. This cabal consists of schools, all types of media, fact-checkers, and others. It creates a solid wall of coordinated messaging that is extremely effective for propaganda. The cabal has normalized many perversions. It made many corruptions popular.

First, Satan introduced rationalism, the notion that the human mind can self-generate knowledge without the benefit of observation, experience, or divine revelation. Satan used Plato to promote the idea that eternal truths are grasped by reason, not the senses.

For a man who denies the Almighty God, this would seem to make sense. after all, we can’t get outside ourselves to be objective. We interpret everything we take in from our senses, and we need knowledge of the truth and wisdom to accurately interpret any observation or experience. Where does that knowledge and wisdom come from if the human mind can’t self-generate truth?

After all, people who don’t know God are able to design buildings and cars that work. Plato didn’t know about cars, but the people of his day did design things that made sense. Plato’s error was that he didn’t consider the God option. Here’s what he missed. Jesus Christ is the Light, and He gives of His Light (wisdom and knowledge) to every person.

Some people refuse to thank God or give Him the glory. They take the glory for themselves. However, they gradually lose the distinction between the wisdom and knowledge Jesus gives and the lies demons and the carnal, deceitful, and desperately wicked human give. Eventually, they can come to the point where they can’t tell the difference between a man and a woman.

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The government upon His shoulders

For unto you a child is born, unto you a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. ~ Isaiah 9:6

I ask that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know the hope of His calling, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints, and the surpassing greatness of His power to you who believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength, which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms, far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in the present age but also in the one to come. And God put everything under His feet and made Him head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all. ~ Ephesians 1:18-23

The government will be upon His shoulders. The shoulders are part of His body. God has an inheritance in the saints, the believers. Everything will be under Jesus’ feet. The feet are part of the body. God’s surpassing power is toward His body. It’s toward those who believe. His body is the fullness of Him. He fills all in all. He fills everything in everything.

God’s Word Translation says, “The church is Christ’s body and completes Him as He fills everything in every way.”

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You Can Take Part in God’s Endgame

This is where you go down to the nuts and bolts of taking hold of all God’s promises. Learn what God’s purpose is and how you can take part in it. Learn how God intends to set you free from sin and what you need to do about it right now.

Truth is important, but it does no good unless you apply it to your life. Be transformed. Be transfigured into the image and likeness of Christ. Walk in His power and righteousness as you never thought possible. God’s end game is even higher than that.

It’s all in the Bible, but you need to ask God for the Holy Spirit so you can understand the Bible. The Bible tells you that the human mind can’t receive the things of God. It can’t take the truth.

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Flawed Intellect

The intellect is a god. It’s a familiar idol. It gives the illusion of power and authority, but it has no legitimate power or authority. What is “intellectualism?” Merriam-Webster gives you this definition:
devotion to the exercise of intellect or intellectual pursuits
Bing search engine gives you these two definitions:

the exercise of the intellect at the expense of the emotions.
the theory that knowledge is wholly or mainly derived from pure reason; Rationalism.

Notice the Bing search engine compares intellect to emotions. Both are weak and incapable of rational thought without divine revelation. Both can react to divine revelation. Both can masquerade as the Holy Spirit. Reason can’t be rational unless it’s based on truth, and the human mind has no way to reason to any truth. Human emotion certainly doesn’t reason to any truth. If you are a follower of Christ, have devotion to Christ and exercise your spiritual senses in the spiritual realm.

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PROBLEM: YOUR OWN MIND AND YOUR OWN OBSERVATONS

This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals.

Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s difficult to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

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This Scripture mentions two items of idolatry. The first is your heart, meaning your mind. The second is your powers of observation. Your mind has no capacity for sound reasoning without divine revelation for truth. And if you fish around in your mind, you add to the truth God reveals.

Then, you defile the truth. It’s no longer the truth. Here’s another problem. You filter all your observations and experiences through the preconceived ideas in your worldview. It’s difficult to understand just how effectively your worldview adjusts your perceptions of what you observe or experience to match the expectations of your worldview.

Some people talk about being objective, but they’re deceiving themselves. You can’t be objective. You can’t get outside yourself to be objective. If you think your perceptions are pure, you commit the ontic fallacy. You need Jesus Christ and His Light guiding you in every part of your life. Only through the power of the living Christ can you overcome your inability to see reality as it is.

God reveals reality to you through your observations, and He speaks truth into your mind if you look to Him. However, when you worship human intellect, you’re being unfaithful to God. Of all the idols Christians worship, the worship of the intellect may be the hardest to abandon. If you come to God for wisdom, He will give you wisdom.

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INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

God considers His Creation as His wife. He calls you to love Him, trust Him, seek Him, and find Him. God created you to be joined to Him intimately.

He desires to lead you in every thought and emotion. He wants to flow through you in love, joy, and peace. He wants to do His works of righteousness through you as you willingly yield to Him. He wants to lead you, fill you with faith, and allow faith to give you access to His grace. He wants His grace to say His words and do His works through you as you yield the members of your bodies to His righteousness.

Jesus said only the words of the Father. Jesus did only the works of the Father. Every thought, word, and action came from His Father in Heaven.

That’s how it’s supposed to be for you. That union with God is the only place of fulfillment.

As you yield to His righteousness in this way, He transforms you into the image and likeness of Christ. He purifies the Lord Jesus Christ in you. It’s incremental transformation. The only place you’ll find true satisfaction is as God transforms you. God created you to transform you into the image and likeness of Christ.

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Committing Spiritual Adultery

and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring: ~ Numbers 15:39b King James Bible

If you put anything in the place of God, you are unfaithful to God. You’re serving an idol. When you follow other gods, that is unfaithfulness to God. It’s spiritual adultery.

Idols can be statues or demons, but the human intellect is also a deceptive idol, and many people worship the human intellect. They lean on their own understanding, but the Bible tells them not to do that. The Bible says the heart is deceitful and wicked.

The passage you just read from Numbers 15:39b is speaking of idolatry, which is spiritual adultery against God. It’s talking about your own ability to observe, sense, and reason–depending on that rather than being led by the Holy Spirit. Most people don’t realize how pitiful human reasoning is. You are unfaithful when you seek after your own heart, mind, and ability to observe. He rightly judges you as an unfaithful wife when you do that.

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God will work through you on your job.

You yourselves are our letter, inscribed on our hearts, known and read by everyone. ~ 2 Corinthians 3:2

He’ll work through you on your job. He’ll speak through you on your job. You’re not paid to spread the Gospel, but when God speaks through you, you speak His Logos. You speak His Rhema. You speak the living Christ. You can do your job by the Wisdom of God. Jesus Christ is the Wisdom of God. If you’re in a meeting, the words you say are alive with the Spirit even as you work on the job at hand and the business purpose of the meeting. You speak Christ and His Wisdom. That’s the Rhema of God. It causes faith in those who hear it even if you never mention the Gospel. If you’re an electrician, you can allow God’s love to flow through your hands. You can allow God to speak through the work of your hands. Those who see it and receive it are hearing the Rhema of God. If you’re a carpenter, you can allow God to work through you. You are a living letter from God to whoever watches you work as long as you flow in His love and wisdom. Just remain in the flow of the Holy Spirit and His Wisdom. Listen to His voice. Learn to let Him lead. Learn to follow Him.

He’ll do the same in your family. He’ll lead you and give you power for righteousness. He’ll do the same in all your relationships. You listen to His voice in ALL your ways. You live, move, and have your being in His utterance. Then, He teaches you as His student, and sets you free from sin. Sin has held you down. Your fleshly nature has enslaved you. Nevertheless, listening to Christ and yielding to Him will set you free.

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