Overcoming Lust Part 2

 What does a man desire out of life?  Marriage is, ideally, a once in a lifetime thing.  Marriage is a major life event that can make or break someone.  This is something young men and older men should reflect on.  I have a song for this. 

The Question:  What constitutes a marriage exactly? 

A marriage would be a commitment plus a consummation.  Jesus Christ is a priest.  He sees everything.  A marriage would not necessarily need to have a government approval, a priest, or witnesses. 

Given a couple was married in "secret," did dad and mom have other plans?  There could potentially be problems there.  It may be good to have permission, and witnesses. 

The Body of Christ is society.  There may be rules for a community.  Given someone is part of the Body of Christ, a Christian society, they should follow the rules.  The basics of a marriage may be a commitment plus a consummation.  There may have ended up rules in place, and a tradition, for a reason.  Follow the rules. 

Have you ever seen the movie "Blue Lagoon?"  Two young people were shipwrecked.  They ended up married.

Was a female, a "long term girlfriend," and rationalizing "trial marriages?"  She was a long term prostitute who was giving a man things he should have in marriage.  Stop trying to rationalize sin.  Repent. 

Out of all the Laws of Moses, what were gentile Christians suppose to do?  One of the things was abstain from sexual immorality.  (Acts 15:29)  This would be fundamental to the religion.  Christians are instructed to not join their body with a prostitute.  (1 Corinthians 6:16-18) 

In 1960, there was prayer in schools.  A lot has changed since 1960.  The Modern World was built on Christian Tolerance.  Christian tolerance was built upon a shared sense of values.  We are in Post-Modernism where people have worked to break down that Christian Tolerance.  There has been a culture war.  Christians need to separate themselves from Non-Christians, and live in Christian communities.  You should know your neighbors.  Given your neighbors were not Christians, there may be problems.  At the school board meetings, everyone there should be Christian because you are living in a Christian community, in agreement of The Standards.  Sin is missing the mark, not making the standard.  

Overcoming Lust

 Men compete.  Men compete in sports.  Men compete in school.  Men compete in the work place.  Men compete in love.  There are rules in sports.  There are rules in school.  There are rules in the work place.  Should there not be rules for love and dating?  Overcoming lust may be a shift of perceptions with The Lord Jesus Christ.  That is what we are going to work on today. 

Young man, he is thirteen or so, and he has been discovering girls and women.  They are pretty.  His buddies on the playground, they have been dating already.  They came back with stories of their exploits.  How is the competition building here for love?  Our young man was developing how to look at girls.  In competition with his buddies, he may have needed to "Get his."  He may have needed to "Know that he could."  "Dating" may have become a game of conquests.  This was driven by The Ego. 

We are going to fast forward, and our young man is sixteen.  How is he looking at his female classmates?  It is healthy to desire a mate.  It is healthy to desire a potential wife.  The competition for having a wife, it shifted towards sin and debauch.  It is good to appreciate beauty.  It is bad to be looking at the opposite sex, looking to use them outside of marriage in sin. 

Fast Forward another 20 years, and our man is now 36.  He has been married for six years, and has two kids.  He was a wondering eye.  He settled.  He had all his excitement in sin, but was tired of it.  He started looking for something permanent.  He settled for someone.  Six years after being married, he had a wondering eye because he was still in competition with his playground buddies from middle school.  Maybe he looked at a celebrity like Leonardo DiCaprio and thought, "Why does he get the girls, and why can't I?"  His unhealthy competition from Middle School may have shifted to being in competition with celebrities and rock stars.

Given our man started going to Church, and was seeking the Lord Jesus Christ, part of overcoming lusts may be to identity that there was an unhealthy and sinful competition.  Our man lets go.  He lets go of the competition.  He says "I don't care."  He stops caring about what other men are doing, and instead, he reflects inward, and looks to make himself a better man in Christ.  

God is love.  Our thirty six year old married man, he works to forget those past flings, past girlfriends, he drops the competition, and he works to love his wife, and think only of her.  This is a good place to be to start listening to God's Holy Spirit.  The Holy Spirit is a teacher and a councilor.    

Sanctification and Holiness

 Given someone is reading on this blog, faith is a journey, and hopefully, someone is working on their journey of faith.  Part of that journey may be Sanctification.  Sanctification happens through God's Holy Spirit.  Can you hear what the spirit is saying to the Churches?  (Revelation 2:11)  Given someone could, does that make them Schizo?  Christianity has been around a lot longer than Psychology, a discipline rooted in Occult Mysticism.  People like Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, they were into the Occult, and have been terms Mystics.  Can you see why? Freud and Jung, they were shaping how men perceived themselves and perceived God.....which is part of Spiritual Warfare. 

Sanctification is a process.  Sanctification comes in a personal relationship with The Lord Jesus Christ.  Holiness has a definition. 

King David, he was not allowed to build The Temple of God.  Why?  David was a man of war, who shed the blood of men made in the image of God.  Having shed the blood of men, David didn't meet a standard of Holiness to build God's Temple.  David was anointed and blessed by God.  Jesus is of the line of David.  David did not meet a certain standard of Holiness. 

From Torah, we can come to understanding of the character of God, and definitions of holiness.  In 2014, I started going through Sanctification with God.  Sanctification is a process where someone is being made holy to come closer to God.  Someone was confessing their sins.  Someone may have gone through a stage of being a Penitent Man like in "Indiana Jones."  There may be stages a man goes through. 

The Question:  Is there anything in particular Man on Fire does in an understanding of Holiness? 

Yes. 

However, what God has me do, it may be more personal to where I am in Sanctification, and not necessarily something that needs to be placed over a Church. 

I have been working for God full time since 2014.  Shrimp was one of my favorite foods.  I ate shrimp till about 2017 or so.  One day, God pointed out to me that I shouldn't eat shrimp anymore.....more so, we don't eat things that eat dead things.  I stopped eating shrimp and lobster and so on.  I started becoming aware of steak that was bleeding, and that it needed to be cooked better.  I would not put dietary requirements over a Church.  In Sanctification, a personal relationship with God, I reached a point where I needed to change some habits.   

I don't follow the Laws of Moses.  In the Laws of Moses, we may derive definitions of holiness.

Something to reflect and pray on.  

More on Gnosis through God Part 3

 Today, we are going to get into some subject matters that various Christians, on various sides of politics and theology, they have liked to fight me on.  Were you comfortable, and part of The World?  Being comfortable and complacent, some people have had opinions on theology.  Opinions are like armpits.  They stink.  What is the objective Truth?  

A nation or a family, who loved God, and was doing more the right things, they may have been blessed.  They were fruitful.  King David and King Solomon were blessed by God.  Israel was fruitful.  There were military victories, and plentiful harvests, and wealth through trade and discovered gold.  A family or congregation that was doing more the right things, there may have been blessings there where people were fruitful.  There is another side of blessings where someone was looking to control or manipulate God.  That would be something like a Prosperity Gospel or some Satanists singing Psalms.  Given someone was breaking down the Bible, looking to "Cast Spells," to control or manipulate, that would be sorcery.  Around the Prosperity Gospel, given I saw a particular fruit, we may be able to investigate, and find links into the occult...probably Freemasonry; however, there may also be some other things going on.  

God Almighty is God you cannot control.  Pagans made gods looking to control something. 

God, through Moses, lead Israel out of Egypt.  The Hebrews, they saw the miracles, they saw prophecy fulfilled.  The Hebrews had understanding of the inner workings of God.  Moses went away for 40 days and 40 nights. When Moses came back, he found that the Hebrews, even Aaron, they had built a false idol, and they were associating things God had done with a false god they had made out of gold.  God Almighty is God you cannot control.  Pagans made gods looking to control something. 

What do you want?  Do you want money?  Do you want attention?  Do you want "Mystical Powers?"  What do you want?  Given The Lord is your shepherd, you shall not WANT.  (Psalms 23) 

Say "I don't care." 

Saying "I don't care" is different from being in a state of not caring.  Personally, I lived with depression for about five years in my later 20's.  I hated life.  I woke up hoping to die.  "Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life." (John 12:25)  There is a hard knocks of life way to get to the point where someone hates their life.  Various Church fathers and monks, they lived in periods of isolation, they fasted, they lived hard. 

Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, he was loved.  His mom may have made him his favorite meals every so often.  He may have had some games he liked playing with his dad and brothers.  Joseph was given a coat of many colors.  Joseph was loved and honored.  One day, Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery. 

Living in slavery, deep down in Joseph's soul, he may have given up ever seeing his mom and dad again.  Sitting in slavery, or prison, he may have dreamed of nicer times, the favorite meal is mom made for him, the animals he played with in his dad's herds.  He may have had to let go of all that.  In Joseph's misery, he sought God, and held tight to God. 

Towards growing in faith, and being more spiritual, someone has to reject The World and reject things physical.  There may be some hard knocks of life ways to get there.  Saint Nicholas, he was made a bishop at age 20.  This was way too young.  A pagan emperor came into power, and Saint Nicholas ended up spending time in prison.  He may have had to hold tight to God.  This was the Hard Knocks of life way towards coming closer to God. There is also better ways, where someone is choosing God, and choosing to do the right things seeking God.  God is long suffering.  Our trials bring us closer to God.  (James 1:2-4) 

Something to reflect and pray on. 

 

More on Gnosis through God Part 2

 God has good plans.  What does someone love doing?   Where is their passion at?  Given someone was employed in an office somewhere, and they were hating life, it may be that they were doing something outside of God's good plans.  Given someone had a hobby in a science or a hobby inventing things, and that is where their passion was, it may have been in God's good plans for them. 

A man's body is a temple.  Jesus lives in a man through his Holy Spirit.  Part of learning to talk to God is intuitive. The Spirit of God works through what you know.  Given someone didn't have a lot of science knowledge, he may have a hard time perceiving things in certain science fields.  Personally, I had a well rounded "General Education."  I am aware of a lot, but not much of an expert in anything.  

I received a calling from God October 2013.  I started feeling smarter, and able to comprehend certain things faster.  I had a four year degree in Social Studies Education.  January 2014, I went back to school for a second undergraduate in Construction Management.  I had to take classes in science and math, leading toward calculus.  I felt smarter, and more able to handle certain topics than I had been prior to having God. 

I was also aware of God's Judgement.  I may have been aware of it prior to October 2013.  It may be that I had the gift of prophecy, and didn't realize it.  I had visions of God's Judgement, and World War III, and I felt Construction Management would be a good career choice.  There will always be something that needs rebuilding?  February 2014, God seized my mind in a way......The Hand of God came upon me.......I couldn't stop thinking about God and God related things, and was having a lot of epiphanies. 

I became aware of God's plan for me.  In being aware of God's plan for me, I may have become aware of God's plans for other people.  Given I was to write about a certain topic, I may have been taking Glory.  There is Glory in discovery.  There is Glory in creating something.  It may have been in God's plan for someone else.

Something to reflect and pray on.  This is my testimony. 

More on Gnosis through God

 You may need some prior reading for this one. 

Previously:  "Gnosticsm a Heresy vs Gnosis via Theosis"

Previously:  "Allegorical Thinking"     

The Question:  Given someone gained Gnosis with God, related to Theosis, what stops him from developing an invention that changes the world or makes him rich?

In what I have received from God, I grew in an understanding of "The Stone Rejected."  (Psalms 118:22)  I received a calling around the age of 30.  (Luke 3:23)  I had been rejected a lot in my 20's or so.  More so than rejected.....I was depressed, and made goals to get out of depression.  What was going to make me happy?  The goals I made kept falling through, not working out, and I would make new goals.  I found that anything that I wanted, or a goal I made, I received from God in God's Kingdom, in God's own way.  Possibly in an allegorical way. 

I was in the US Army, and depressed in my 20's.  I made an effort towards joining US Army Special Forces, believing that being a Green Beret would make me happy.  I was a Physical Training test away from going to Selection.  I decided not to.  My personal life was a mess.  I didn't have support at home as a single soldier, nor support from friends or family.  I was alone.  I was being honest with myself.  I scrapped the plan to be a Green Beret, and made new goals.  That was my life for about five years, that is, making goals to get out of depression, and finding dead ends.  

In God's way, I allegorically became like God's Special Forces.  It is something someone may be able to seen in actions taken.

Jesus Christ is the Stone Rejected.  (Acts 4:11)  The Stone Rejected, and various prophecy, it never stopped.  God has worked in particular ways.  God is a square.  For example, the Temple of God was destroyed twice, on the 9th of the Hebrew month of Av.  God works in particular ways.  Seeing into God's inner workings, I call "The Ties That Bind."  Seeing into something like "The Ties that Bind," and being aware of God's inner workings, a man is a Bond Servant or Slave of God.  

When I state that "The Stone Rejected" was profound in my calling......it was something God showed me.  I fit into God's plans.  It wasn't something that was taught to me in Church, or I learned anywhere other than from God. 

In June 2014, I was driving into North Carolina from Tennessee, and driving towards homelessness.  What does a man desire out of life?  I mentally put all my treasures, my hopes, things I longed for, I put those things in heaven with God.  I worked to make in on Earth as it is in Heaven. 

I became aware of a lot of things, to include God's plans for certain individuals.  I have a lane like a lane on a race track.  I stay my lane. 

Old News - Still Relevant - Brittany Spears and Kabbalah

 

Madonna, the singer of “Like a Prayer, which is a corruption of something, has been a Kabbalist.

News Article: Like Madonna, business bosses are turning to Kabbalah. But what is it?

What is Kabbalah? Kabbalah has been mysticism for deniers of Jesus Christ. The only way to the father is through the son.

What is the fruit of people who have been practicing Kabbalah? What is the Fruit of Madonna? By fruit, I mean, what does she produce? What she produces shows aspects of her character.

By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? (Matthew 7:16)

In “Like a Prayer” the singer Madonna was turning something Holy into something corrupt. It was a song about Baal worship, or turning something holy into something filthy. Anytime you hear or see someone referencing “The Bedroom is our Church” that may be a sign of something. With their mouths, they are giving themselves away. That may be their fruit.

Occultists have used Kabbalah. Why? It has been mysticism for deniers of Jesus Christ. The Golden Dawn which helped produce Wicca, who see themselves as modern day Witches, and The Golden Dawn which also produced Crowley, used Kabbalah. What was their fruit? What did they do? They were known to have ritualized sex or sex magic. They were known to be people who were well-to-do, who engaged in sexual depravity similar to Killing Kittens sex group started by “Friend of Kate Middleton.” Given someone is studying history, what have people associated with Kabbalah often been accused of?

Brittany Spears was part of Kabbalah. I did an internet search for “Brittany Spears leaves Kabbalah.” About nine months after she left Kabbalah, Brittany Spears shaved her head. She was going crazy, and had issues after leaving, and it culminated into something? Was she just mentally ill or was there something spiritual going on?

The Lord also says:

“Because Zion’s women are so haughty,
and walk with outstretched necks,
flirting with their eyes,
prancing[s] along as they walk,
and making tinkling noises with their ankle bracelets,[t]
17 therefore the Lord[u] will afflict sores
on the heads of Zion’s women,
and the Lord[v] will expose their private parts.

18 “At that time,[w] the Lord[x] will take away the finery of the ankle bracelets, headbands, crescents, 19 pendants, bracelets, veils, 20 headdresses, armlets, sashes, perfume boxes, charms, 21 signet rings, nose rings, 22 fine robes, capes,[y] purses, 23 mirrors, linen garments, tiaras, and veils.

24 “And it will come about that instead of fragrance
there will be[z] a stench;
instead of a belt, a rope;
instead of well-set hair, baldness;
instead of a fine robe, sackcloth;
and instead of beauty, shame.[aa]
25 Your men will die violently,[ab]
while your forces[ac] fall[ad] in battle
26 and her gates lament and mourn.
Ravaged, she will sit on the ground.”(Isaiah 3:16–26)

Did Brittany Spears end up with all of that? Not at this time. It may be possible that she had something put on her, and was under attack. She was also outside of God’s protection. She chose poorly. What is the point of this? Exposing what has happened spiritually.

Fear of God is a good thing. Fear of God takes away fear of man. (and other things) God is love. God’s love is fatherly. You are doing the right things? What do you have to fear? The only way to the father is through the son. Someone in “other mysticism” is wrong. Given someone is getting into sin, they have been wrong. Brittany Spears has been toxic. God is Holy and separate from sin.