Posted by Lou Pilder on April 21, 2016, at 15:42:47
In reply to Re: the Word is a prison » Lou Pilder, posted by Tabitha on April 21, 2016, at 14:58:11
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> > The Spirit of Truth can come into you to dwell in your heart. This is a new Spirit outside of your natural reasoning that does not know the mysteries of the Kingdom of God. This Spirit enables you to overcome addiction and depression.
> > When the Spirit indwells you, the mysteries that are to those that have not had the Spirit come into their hearts are revealed to you.
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> I have heard people describe their born again experience similarly. In my observation, their initial sense of revelation does not last over time. They also seem to become more and more isolated, because it is a matter of life and death to them to hold onto their beliefs, yet others around them don't share the beliefs. To me it seems a very high cost.
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> > And in the encounter with the Rider on the white horse, He said to me, "It is given to you to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but to those that reject the Spirit, it is not given. For the Word is a seed that falls on the hearts of men and if the heart is wicked, the seed can not grow, as they hear the Word and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of the world chokes the Word."
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> I think that is an example of a rhetorical superpower. You take a position, then claim that if others don't agree, it demonstrates that they are somehow defective. At that point there is nothing they can do to engage with you-- they either agree, or are automatically wrong. You say that there exists a Spirit that can transform you, then if other people don't believe such a Spirit exists, that is merely evidence that their hearts are wicked. It's a good weapon-- the people that don't adopt your belief are not only wrong, but wicked.
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> Tabitha,
I have come here to seek and have saved the lost sheep. These are those that know that their heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked.
Lou
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