Pastors outline and commentary 3-15-09

The Spirit of truth. The world cannot receive Him, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him."John 14:17

The world—that is, the world dead in sin, and the world dead in profession—men destitute of the life and power of God—must have something that it can see. And, as heavenly things can only be seen by heavenly eyes, they cannot receive the things which
are invisible.

Now this explains why a religion that presents itself with a degree of beauty and grandeur to the natural eye will always be received by the world; while a . . .
spiritual, internal, heartfelt and experimental religion will always be rejected.

The world can receive a religion that consists of . . . forms, rites, and ceremonies.
These are things seen. Beautiful buildings, painted windows, pealing organs,
melodious choirs, the pomp and parade of an earthly priesthood, and a whole apparatus of 'religious ceremony', carry with them something that the natural eye can see and admire. The world receives all this 'external religion' because it is suitable to the natural mind
and intelligible to their reasoning faculties.

But the . . .quiet, inward, experimental, divine religion, which presents no attractions to the outward eye, but is wrought in the heart by a divine operation—the world cannot receive this—because it presents nothing that the natural eye can rest upon with pleasure, or is adapted to gratify their general idea of what religion is or should be.

Do not marvel, then, that worldly professors despise a religion wrought in the soul by the power of God. Do not be surprised if even your own relatives think you are almost insane, when you speak of the consolations of the Spirit, or of the teachings of God in your soul. They cannot receive these things, for they have no experience of them; and being such as are altogether opposed to the carnal mind, they reject them with enmity and scorn.

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We are constantly urged as God’s elect to bear up under trials. We are given marvelous

promises: Rom 16:20/Rev 2:9,10 / 1Pet 5:10/ 2Tim 1:12 / 2Tim 3:12

The emergence of all Anti-Christ systems have three purposes : Rev 17,7,8,11,14

(1) To expose the wicked for His malicious and God hating schemes: Vs 36

Method? Prosperity / Flattery : 11:24 8:24,25 - 11:32 / Prov 26:28/ 29:5/ Ps 12:2/ Ezekiel 12:24/ Job 17:5- [ The first coming] of the antichrist: 11:24-27. 171bc-168bc

The second coming of the AntiChrist- is in the truth:167bc-163bc. 3and1/2yrs.

Vs 28 horinzotal/36 - 8:10 flattery/destruction: 1Thess 5:1-7 Peace,Peace:

Freedom from poverty, without an ethical premise, leads to materialism, and empty self gratification.

Freedom from Parental authority , without, a clear view to adult responsibility and privileges, leads to adolescent wastefulness, and the childish consequences of broken relational experiences.

Freedom from the constraints of a sound moral compass, without an internal conviction of righteousness, produced by the grace of God, leads to secret hypocrisies, and the inviolable fruits of sin.

Freedom from law of delayed gratification, without the personal principles of meritocracy, leads to a welfare mentality , that demands that someone else pay for your existence.

Freedom from totalitarianism, without the necessary checks and balances of government, to constrain the excesses of government, leads to oppression, manipulation and bondage of a free people.

FREEDOM from the God of the universe, is death!

“Eternal vigilance, is the price, for freedom”

“ The one thing left, in this nation, by which we have a faint chance of surviving the one world government, is the freedom of thought, dialogue, dissent, debate, the marketplace of ideas, “ FREDDOM of SPEECH”

When in the name of social peace, you no longer hear the gospel, you have entered into the matrix.

I fear the next generation of useful idiots and unthinking, young impressionable, green shirts, will be the permanent downfall of this 250yr experiment called national freedom.