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One Love
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|  Posted 10/31/2007 7:57 AM (GMT -6) |   | Using info from 2 Timothy 3 and Galatians 5.
This list is what characterizes "Anti-Christ" becoming in any given person. Meaning that to the extent that we indulge in these states of being in our lives...we are living in a dispositional UNreality that is against the Reality of the Holy Spirit of Christ. We channel the egocentricity, insanity, and defiance of the demonic, in a sense. (Remember what Jesus said to Peter?) Moreover, to the extent this occurs, our souls are "infected" with the Sickness, living in undead, animalistic life (spiritual zombies). The more we live in this, we more we demonstrate our sick condition...and the more we perpetuate things.
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When people are incarnating "Anti-Christ", they become...
--lovers of themselves (egocentrism)
--lovers of money
--boastful
--proud
--abusive
--disobedient to legitimate authority
--ungrateful
--unholy
--without love
--unforgiving
--slanderous
--without self-control (No sense of temperance)
--brutal
--not lovers of the good
--treacherous
--rash
--conceited
--lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God
--having a form of godliness but denying its power (by their actions)
--sexually immoral
--disposed towards general impurity and shamelessness
--constantly in idolatry (self-idolatry included)
--living by impious spiritual manipulation. (Using God for one's own ends)
--promoters of hatred
--promoters of discord
--jealous and envious
--prone to fits of anger and rage
--motivated by selfish ambition
--causing dissensions and factions (divisive relating)
--overindulgent, living in drunkenness and excessive sensuality (lack of self-control and body idolization)
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Here's the kicker.
How much of this do we see in "church" situations...or in our very daily or hourly everyday existence in this world?
One could say that we have a formal spiritual epidemic on our hands.
Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy upon us.
"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit of Christ, who is in you, whom you have received from God the Father? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."
"And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you." Post Edited (Epiklesis) : 10/31/2007 8:07:42 AM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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One Love
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| Posted 10/31/2007 10:41 AM (GMT -6) | | | Over and against the above...we have, I believe, the very heart of God demonstrated in a prayer...
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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
--St. Francis of Assisi
"Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit of Christ, who is in you, whom you have received from God the Father? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your bodies."
"And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies because of his Spirit who lives in you." | | Back to Top | | |
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selah
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| Posted 11/1/2007 1:03 PM (GMT -6) | | |
OK OK OK NOOOOWWWWWWww yer talkin!!! AMEN.
Really D. you are growing in amazing ways.
Great thread!! You're so freakin smart (no, not just because you finally agree with me, but that's
part of it  !
Miss you.
Blessings and love,
selah
Epiklesis said...
Over and against the above...we have, I believe, the very heart of God demonstrated in a prayer...
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Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand;
to be loved, as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
"When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love."
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Post Edited (selah) : 11/2/2007 6:53:32 AM (GMT-5) | | Back to Top | | |
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