Spiritual Warfare and Work Sentences

The 3 Great Divides & Two Great Practices:

1. Worshiping the creation rather than the Creator

2. Seeing Jesus as merely a great teacher rather than Lord and Savior

3. Thinking one can be justified and made righteous by one's own works rather than by faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ in His life and on the cross (self-righteousness and self-justification vs. the righteousness of Christ and justification by faith alone in Christ)


Two Great Practices:

1. Act now as if you're in the Kingdom of God now, and God can trust you.

2. Do the two conscious shocks as the means to being in covenant with God.


Overriding Kingdom of God Attitude:

Gratitude over resentment always for everything.

+ + + + + + +

In every locality/event there is something to hold on to. To discern and use as a foundation for that place/event.

Leverage in the spiritual world involves containing force.

Initially meeting the forces in a contained space with strength and fearlessness and awakeness and honesty towards what you're up against is necessary to be able to then stand within that space with presence and power. Honesty in accepting and acting upon what you discern is necessary. If you discern/intuit unfriendliness yet pretend all are friendly you will not survive that environment. Innocence works and protects somewhat in early stages, but not when real stand-your-ground-and-be-present warfare is demanded.

Aim devours emptiness (vanity) in an event. Aim can be simply testing and tempering being. Aim can also be discerned in any event or action along the lines of the three lines of Work.

Influence can be gathered from seemingly still air. The stars invisible in the blue sky.

The six approaches work for particulars; a general stance of awake wariness is best for the overall situation.

Thoughts will be thrown just like words and should be intentional. Thoughts too should confront challenges and nonsense from the environment. If your words be clear and intentional but your thoughts be unintentional, chaotic, and dishonest - or just vain - you will not set your presence and control your own domain in the environment. Though the devil cannot listen to your thoughts you can throw your thoughts to such a degree that the shallowest in the environment can pick them up.

Moving inward and vertical in time (fifth and sixth dimensions; first and second conscious shocks) to the moment (the moving time of the environment or event) gives speed of perception advantage. Feeling the force and direction and fullness of time. Seeing her world history in an eyelash. A god at the tea party more inward to and above the moment. Still visible to crude sense, invisible otherwise is the god if not showing shame or fear inside. If a god through and through.

Acting on what you are able to know and to see and foresee is different from merely knowing and seeing or foreseeing the thing/event. Prayer is action bridging the vision and the event in time.

+ + + + + + +

1. Self-remembering ignites our being (cosmos) and fills it with a higher energy.

2. Non-identifying defines and secures the boundary of our being (cosmos).

3. Separation (I from 'it') sets the true north of our being (cosmos), orientating us and setting us on the foundation within.

4. External-considering orientates us with other cosmoses.

5. Transforming negative emotion connects our cosmos with the Kingdom of God and feeds us through that connection.

6. Learn to see cosmoses, to discern them.

7. When born you are a cosmos and a cosmos knows what it needs (the infant cries). When you die you are still a cosmos and you acclimate as a cosmos to the new state and situation you come in to. You are a cosmos within a cosmos(es) in contra-distinction to cosmoses.

8. The world and the devil and false personality (the flesh) wants you to 'come apart' as a cosmos; to have breaches in the boundary of your cosmos, a promiscuous traffic with the world. To stand your ground is to maintain the boundaries of your cosmos; to not allow anything external - the world, the devil - to connect with features within your cosmos that make up false personality and thus control you (control you, or, your cosmos); i.e. to attach reins within you as cosmos. (If the features of false personality are not manifesting then false personality is not there, and if not there then there is nothing for the world and the devil to attach reins to from without to control you.) The world and the devil want to be what fills your cosmos, to make the content of your cosmos to be the impressions and illusions and fears and desires and fascinations of the devil's kingdom.

9. The practical observation of cosmoses is seeing them in oneself. Becoming conscious in a higher and lower cosmos is like becoming conscious of different centers within you (emotional, instinctive, moving, etc.) with their different speeds.

10. A person single (no marital mate, no lover) is one kind of comsos. A person married or with a lover is another kind of cosmos. I.e. the two states have potential for different kinds of complete cosmoses (ideally, we can say, charitably). The single person develops the complimentary sides within his/her being. It's romantic to think that two people can develop as two, but two people are the norm of the world, and in such a situation the person who is part of a 'couple' *won't* be in conflict with the world or with one's flesh or the devil. Hard truth.

+ + + + + + +

#
Christian says:
October 29, 2009 at 10:01 pm

Money (or worldly gain), power (or worldly honor), and sex (or worldly pleasure) are not idols they are temptations.

A false idol is something like left-wing politics (Marxism, communism, socialism), or worship of the state; or environmentalism, or worship of mother earth; or multiculturalism, or worship of the ‘noble savage.’

These things don’t just replace God, they are sacrificed to (including human sacrifice) and they make the worshipers conscience feel easy. These false idols forgive their worshipers.

It’s difficult for modern day Christians to see real false idols because most modern day Christians are completely in the power of the false idols they can’t see.

Again, money, sex, power: these are staple *temptations* in the devil’s kingdom, they are not false idols.
Reply
#
Christian says:
October 29, 2009 at 10:13 pm

Unbelievers have a consciousness of guilt – of sin – that they need to have expiated. They refuse to approach God or the only Mediator between man and God, so they set up a false god.

Molech and Baal were not temptations.

Worship of the state is not a temptation. It is a god that is sacrificed to and that gives expiation to a sense of guilt and sin.

The Hollywood ‘liberal’ who makes a ton of money then gets involved in left-wing politics and issues is looking for expiation and is seeking a god to perform that for him/her.

They will sacrifice their freedom to these false gods. Their individuality. Regarding multiculturalism they will sacrifice their culture and civilization and the very safety of their neighborhoods (the ‘noble savage’ can do no wrong, in fact the more the ingratitude, the more the violence, the more the hatred directed by the noble savage to the false idol worshiper's culture the more the false idol worshiper will feel expiated for their 'sacrifice').

People will sacrifice humans to the state. Genocide. In some cases when abortion is a dogma in a person’s mind it becomes human sacrifice.

Money, power, and sex doesn’t expiate the innate sense of guilt and sin in a person. They are not false idols, they are temptations.

Interesting a modern Reformed author would write a whole book on idols and get it so wrong. This is because Reformed Christians have forgotten about subjects like false idols (spiritual warfare would be another).

Read John Owen’s Biblical Theology to learn about false idols and the worship of false idols.

+ + + + + + +

Observe (with conscious labor and intentional suffering) these 7 things:

1. Yourself and active reasoning
2. The person(s), place, thing, event your attention is on
3. Place, or surroundings
4. Your aim
5. The different points-of-view, intents, self-interests and motivations of others around you
6. The unspoken and spoken communications and the web of relationships between others and with others around you; and forces and laws in effect
7. Your conscious role