God, Spirit, & Truth
Posted: October 25th, 2008, 2:09 am
HEALING SHELTER MINISTRIES #129d Re-Written 25OCT08 http://groups.msn.com/AHealingShelter/welcome.msnw
Gatekeepers—Part Four: God, Spirit, And Truth
by rev dave c
For more than one hundred years extreme elements of the intelligentsia in our Western Culture have been waging a war of aggression against the Church by working to discourage, discredit and deny all fundamental Christian beliefs. Foundational to our faith is the knowledge that Jesus Christ (the Son of God/the Second Person of the Triune Godhead) is our Creator, our Sustainer, our Savior, and our Lord. Secular Humanism holds Chance In Nature as our creator, Humanity as our savior (if we are to be “saved” at all), and Eclectic Pragmatism (“truth is relative to desires, agendas, and circumstances”) as lord. The denial of God as a person who is actively involved in the affairs of mankind is absolutely essential to the tenets of Humanism. It is crucial for all humanistic religions to refute any spiritual existence that could supplant the supremacy of Man as governor of his own rational and material affairs. While non-Christian politicians, legal and medical professionals, entertainers, and athletes have become a Levitical-like priesthood in service to the Post-Modern Temple; anti-Christian psychologists, teacher/philosophers, and artistic media savants of all types are the 21st Century cultural high priests who enter into the “unholy of unholies” for self-infatuation, self-gratification, and self-glorification as they sacrifice the very population whom they claim to serve.
As Lord, we are told in Isaiah 33:22 that Jesus Christ is our Judge, our Lawgiver, and our King. Is it any surprise that we hear those who would kill the Church scream at the mention of His name...or the Ten Commandments...or the Bible? There is no greater threat to secularists than the suggestion that we are accountable now, and for eternity, to a God who is invisible and supernatural. He is, as Francis Schaeffer titled his book, The God Who Is There. We know that God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth (Jn 4:24). It is precisely against these three points that the enemy strives his hardest. The elimination of a spiritual God from our public lives, the elevation of our concept of soul (which is actually the sentient aspect of existence) to a level where it is fused and confused with spirit (which is the ultimate source for sapient existence), and the establishment of truth as relative to circumstances because there is no absolute truth are literally a Satanic conspiracy designed to destroy humanity’s desire and ability to worship the True God.
Consider for a moment the devolution of “Negro spirituals” into the “soul music” of the 1960’s, then into the “disco” of the 70’s/80’s, and the “gangster rap” of the 90’s as just one example of our culture passing from a God based society into one that worships the triune god of “I, Me, and Mine.” What was originally inspired by, and devoted to, a spiritual need to express love for, and from, the person of Jesus Christ, became the self-absorbed desire to express the individual human “soul power” of the mind and body, and finally the utter giving over to musical expressions of blatant lusts of the flesh which must inevitably extend into mindless violence against society (particularly women and children). These changes in Black music are just a reflection of the paradigm shift that has been taking place throughout our culture of the past 50 years. During that time sex has passed from a celebration of marriage between one man and one woman, to “whenever you’re ‘in love’ it’s okay,” to “it’s healthy to experiment,” then to the widely studied (but little discussed) anything goes promiscuity of homosexuals—and millions are suffering and dying from STD’s. Pregnancy, once considered a gift from God within the confines of the family, has become the socially championed single mother’s tribute to liberated courage, and for 30 years it has been “A Woman’s Right To Choose” (where the sentence is never finished, “...to kill her baby.”)—and 50,000,000 children have died in the worst holocaust in the history of inhumanity. John 10:10 tells us that the thief (the devil) comes to steal and kill and destroy. A perusal of recent video releases are dramatic evidence that we have become a nation that craves graphic depictions of gratuitous sex, verbal and physical violence, gory deaths, and all other manner of evil. We worship the Deceiver with our addictions (Ro 1:18-32).
Commensurate with this foundational paradigm shift, from kindergarten through our universities, American school systems increasingly adopt curricula propagating a “value neutral/amoral” agenda that states: “Truth resides in every person’s situational decisions, not in some mythological God, god, or gods” (but means: “Real power must actually and always remain exclusively with us as an elite group of ‘enlightened’ culturati who are far removed from the ignorance and squalor of the common masses”). For 50 years this “double-speak” has been daily reinforced via the increasingly obvious and arrogant anti-Christian biases of the news and entertainment industries. The plan is simple and direct: “If Christians worship God in spirit and in truth...we will make ’God’ illegal, while eliminating any real meaning for both spirit and truth through intellectual, physical, and material seduction. At worst, Christianity will be neutralized—at best, it will be destroyed.”
The message from those who hate Jesus is loud and clear: “There is no God.” “There is no Spirit.” “There is no Truth.” This is the message of the priests of Humanism as they worship a god fashioned after their own image and likeness. As Believers we know that we are created in the image and likeness of God, Himself, and we are called to be the gatekeepers for the Church, for the government, and for the very foundations of our culture. Because God is Spirit, we must worship in spirit and in truth. These are the words of Jesus Christ, and this is the will of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Gatekeepers—Part Four: God, Spirit, And Truth
by rev dave c
For more than one hundred years extreme elements of the intelligentsia in our Western Culture have been waging a war of aggression against the Church by working to discourage, discredit and deny all fundamental Christian beliefs. Foundational to our faith is the knowledge that Jesus Christ (the Son of God/the Second Person of the Triune Godhead) is our Creator, our Sustainer, our Savior, and our Lord. Secular Humanism holds Chance In Nature as our creator, Humanity as our savior (if we are to be “saved” at all), and Eclectic Pragmatism (“truth is relative to desires, agendas, and circumstances”) as lord. The denial of God as a person who is actively involved in the affairs of mankind is absolutely essential to the tenets of Humanism. It is crucial for all humanistic religions to refute any spiritual existence that could supplant the supremacy of Man as governor of his own rational and material affairs. While non-Christian politicians, legal and medical professionals, entertainers, and athletes have become a Levitical-like priesthood in service to the Post-Modern Temple; anti-Christian psychologists, teacher/philosophers, and artistic media savants of all types are the 21st Century cultural high priests who enter into the “unholy of unholies” for self-infatuation, self-gratification, and self-glorification as they sacrifice the very population whom they claim to serve.
As Lord, we are told in Isaiah 33:22 that Jesus Christ is our Judge, our Lawgiver, and our King. Is it any surprise that we hear those who would kill the Church scream at the mention of His name...or the Ten Commandments...or the Bible? There is no greater threat to secularists than the suggestion that we are accountable now, and for eternity, to a God who is invisible and supernatural. He is, as Francis Schaeffer titled his book, The God Who Is There. We know that God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth (Jn 4:24). It is precisely against these three points that the enemy strives his hardest. The elimination of a spiritual God from our public lives, the elevation of our concept of soul (which is actually the sentient aspect of existence) to a level where it is fused and confused with spirit (which is the ultimate source for sapient existence), and the establishment of truth as relative to circumstances because there is no absolute truth are literally a Satanic conspiracy designed to destroy humanity’s desire and ability to worship the True God.
Consider for a moment the devolution of “Negro spirituals” into the “soul music” of the 1960’s, then into the “disco” of the 70’s/80’s, and the “gangster rap” of the 90’s as just one example of our culture passing from a God based society into one that worships the triune god of “I, Me, and Mine.” What was originally inspired by, and devoted to, a spiritual need to express love for, and from, the person of Jesus Christ, became the self-absorbed desire to express the individual human “soul power” of the mind and body, and finally the utter giving over to musical expressions of blatant lusts of the flesh which must inevitably extend into mindless violence against society (particularly women and children). These changes in Black music are just a reflection of the paradigm shift that has been taking place throughout our culture of the past 50 years. During that time sex has passed from a celebration of marriage between one man and one woman, to “whenever you’re ‘in love’ it’s okay,” to “it’s healthy to experiment,” then to the widely studied (but little discussed) anything goes promiscuity of homosexuals—and millions are suffering and dying from STD’s. Pregnancy, once considered a gift from God within the confines of the family, has become the socially championed single mother’s tribute to liberated courage, and for 30 years it has been “A Woman’s Right To Choose” (where the sentence is never finished, “...to kill her baby.”)—and 50,000,000 children have died in the worst holocaust in the history of inhumanity. John 10:10 tells us that the thief (the devil) comes to steal and kill and destroy. A perusal of recent video releases are dramatic evidence that we have become a nation that craves graphic depictions of gratuitous sex, verbal and physical violence, gory deaths, and all other manner of evil. We worship the Deceiver with our addictions (Ro 1:18-32).
Commensurate with this foundational paradigm shift, from kindergarten through our universities, American school systems increasingly adopt curricula propagating a “value neutral/amoral” agenda that states: “Truth resides in every person’s situational decisions, not in some mythological God, god, or gods” (but means: “Real power must actually and always remain exclusively with us as an elite group of ‘enlightened’ culturati who are far removed from the ignorance and squalor of the common masses”). For 50 years this “double-speak” has been daily reinforced via the increasingly obvious and arrogant anti-Christian biases of the news and entertainment industries. The plan is simple and direct: “If Christians worship God in spirit and in truth...we will make ’God’ illegal, while eliminating any real meaning for both spirit and truth through intellectual, physical, and material seduction. At worst, Christianity will be neutralized—at best, it will be destroyed.”
The message from those who hate Jesus is loud and clear: “There is no God.” “There is no Spirit.” “There is no Truth.” This is the message of the priests of Humanism as they worship a god fashioned after their own image and likeness. As Believers we know that we are created in the image and likeness of God, Himself, and we are called to be the gatekeepers for the Church, for the government, and for the very foundations of our culture. Because God is Spirit, we must worship in spirit and in truth. These are the words of Jesus Christ, and this is the will of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Amen.