Logical Modalism

In the climate we have in our society today there is an indirect mythology that is developed by having a sense of desperation due to the high levels of depravity. Now then living as if there are easy answers can give this mythology of success its life flow. I do believe in balance , not only in the sense of seeing these different faculties of the soul and how we develop a healthy paradigm, but i can see were this same inward reality can be like a working balance in these social norms. In other words it is incumbent on us to not over react out of a fear of finding ourselves under the burdens of a society of these supposed addictions. On the one hand we have a very disciplined view of life in which we focus on creating a culture where everyone has a behavior that finds its healthiness in these shared activities that are ordered, and on the other hand we have the personal liberties , that is a world in which we develop our identity in our individual likes and dislikes. This view is what makes us to come to a situation with an undefined method, or trying to be original in finding a solution to these different problems that present themselves as we live our lives. If we keep our view about these two extremes then i believe we will develop a healthy balance between the desire to have new information, the ability to measure reality in a more balanced way and the avoidance of the temptation to see only our particular system of morals as better than the next guys.

The one thing we do not want to do is to work ourselves into a very narrow model for free thinking and free expression. I mean in the sense of developing a healthy view of having common sense as it relates to our reasoning in these different situations. I think the revelation of God has this component of wisdom that gives us a wide variety of views to our understanding in order to have a general peaceful balanced life. This is that we should avoid at all cost being molded by this present system of the world. And it is very much of a strong temptation to divide our systems of healing and our ability to reason in the world of intuitive originality that we have this ongoing battle. The world has become a place where there is a remedy for every problem we face, a place were we are learning to develop our ideas through the process of systems and finding answers with a limited knowledge of the scope of history and the application of many facets of truth to a particular method.

The world is a rough ocean

Ive got to respond here. Maybe i can offer some insight into just how it has come to this point where we have lost control of our own financial direction. I believe in free markets. I believe that if you put any financial system up against free markets then you are going to lose. The problems that we have had in this country stem from a continued increase in the federal budget even tho the taxes were not as high as they used to be, well not when you add up all the different taxes, those hidden ones as well. But for ten or so yrs it has been cheaper to do business outside this country. Now the reason is because of the size of the federal budget. The only reason business has done this is because they are interested in making profits. Theres no difference in how business was conducted in the soviet union. Any time you create an environment that is anti business , that is you eat into their profits then your going to have a big deficit. And the truth is that we have failed to create that environment in this country. Shoot it was cheaper to buy gas in Russia , and that was a big factor in slowing our markets down.

So that since we have been so unfriendly to business all of these yrs, we have had a big trade deficit. Our dollars were going outside the country. And since free markets are gummed up with over regulation and no incentives then plus a bulging federal government, shoot the department of education exploded under Bush. Well then we are now beholden to these foreign countries who have been subsidizing our debt cause we cant compete with the world cause we are just like socialist. Look its very simple, get out of the way of business, cut the federal government. Get rid of the department of education, that teaches people to like expanded government. And get back to bringing business into this country. Just like we did to Russia that is we subsidized Russia, then under Reagan we stopped and we brought them to their knees. Thats what is happening to our socialist country rite now. Ok i blown off some steam.

A world in termoil

Ive got to respond here. Maybe i can offer some insight into just how it has come to this point where we have lost control of our own financial direction. I believe in free markets. I believe that if you put any financial system up against free markets then you are going to lose. The problems that we have had in this country stem from a continued increase in the federal budget even tho the taxes were not as high as they used to be, well not when you add up all the different taxes, those hidden ones as well. But for ten or so yrs it has been cheaper to do business outside this country. Now the reason is because of the size of the federal budget. The only reason business has done this is because they are interested in making profits. Theres no difference in how business was conducted in the soviet union. Any time you create an environment that is anti business , that is you eat into their profits then your going to have a big deficit. And the truth is that we have failed to create that environment in this country. Shoot it was cheaper to buy gas in Russia , and that was a big factor in slowing our markets down.

So that since we have been so unfriendly to business all of these yrs, we have had a big trade deficit. Our dollars were going outside the country. And since free markets are gummed up with over regulation and no incentives then plus a bulging federal government, shoot the department of education exploded under Bush. Well then we are now beholden to these foreign countries who have been subsidizing our debt cause we cant compete with the world cause we are just like socialist. Look its very simple, get out of the way of business, cut the federal government. Get rid of the department of education, that teaches people to like expanded government. And get back to bringing business into this country. Just like we did to Russia that is we subsidized Russia, then under Reagan we stopped and we brought them to their knees. Thats what is happening to our socialist country rite now. Ok i blown off some steam.

A world turned upside down

I give you a personal testimony here. I believe that the bible offers us a blue print for the way we are to conduct ourselves , that is the way the world is to function in order for there to be the ultimate expression of freedom to ones neighbors, to ones treatment of all the things in his environment. I am saying this because man was given a glorious dispensation to rule over creation. The earth was made for man, but God rules the air and the heavens. The cross is how we experience this freedom to love that was extended to us as an example and to us as the ruling effect in us in acting toward one another in society. This world view is not without certain order in Gods divine election. I mean there is a great mystery that precedes this Utopian order. Every man desires to have perfect authority over creation. This is what God puts in the heart of man as man has a restless heart until His longing for eternal things is satisfied. So that the lack of this divine order frustrates the peaceful rule of Gods design for man.

One of the reasons i moved my family to the country was so that i could find an expression of this order. Its funny to me to be in a society where there are people who are always focused on the doing part and yet at the same time their teaching offers a blue print that falls short of the scriptural mandate to live in a society of this natural order that God has placed for man to be. Most men who are of the free will philosophy are more interested in creating an environment that placates something in between what is required and what is to be the goal. This is like living in a no win situation.

But I have prayed and longed for a society that worked according to the old boundaries of marriage and community. That is women staying at home and teaching the kids so that there was a philosophy of life in which the community had shared values. I think that women given to the natural role are the creators of this kind of connection. My kids were raised the old fashion way. So i am arguing that the blue print that God has set up in a very practical way has the best outcome when we have people of different orthodoxies living at peace with one another. Its impossible for men to generate this kind of peace. We were not made to be women. What i am saying is, that there is an undercurrent in our most orthodox churches of people who live in a society that has lost this other world so that we live in a dream world that is turned upside down so that the frustration level is equal to the depth of teaching and it is the nexus of a coldness that permeates the worship of Gods people. I do not think we can take these things litely.

We were warned in the late 60s and early 70s that our education of our children would have a dramatic effect on the level of worship and the kind of attendance to orthodox churches. Now we are 30 plus yrs later and we are seeing the effects of this strife that we face as a result of these things having to be a personal anxiety toward one another and the world. We are seeing love wax cold.

I raised my children in a community that was naturally given to peace. There was not much disunity among those who had different views of faith. I think we have this backwards today. We are more interested in orthodoxy than we are to reteach the divine order of creation. We love our orthodoxy in a very dysfunctional society. And that the dysfunction is not generally from how we were raised but by the kind of society we create in our families. I think we are dealing with living among scorpions and snakes in this kind of society.

A holy war

I believe that society is made up of men who seek power by control. And all idol worship has this threading environment. Otherwise the mindset of the kinds of hierarchy would be convincing one person who worships a different kind of god to agree with someone who is more powerful who worships at the altar of his particular god to be convinced that he is rite by a pragmatic paradigm. That is just foolish and separates passion and desire from the human experience. Because what ever people trust in carries the weight of love and hate. So that in the communities of these different paradigms of power struggle there is this environment of boundaries that have this threatening component. Such that Paul was preaching the gospel to people who made idols and who had the component of free market idealism. Take away their profits and you are immediately cast into a world of a war of words and systems of ideas that are structurally set for men to profit and control.

This is the nature of evil that exist in the world. We are involved in a holy war of what people trust in as what that kind of environment has as its norms in peoples minds. We see things that do not appear, we determine the abnormality of this intense hatred by being under the obligation to know and feel what is real in a world of the mixture of false assumptions that are under the surface as if we were in a war where pain was the means by which we are made to feel and act in a certain way. Yes, Christ does give us wisdom, not just in a war of the intellectual , but He has given us the power to determine for everyone, what is going to be the proper way of living in the world. In a sense , spiritually speaking, we are either crucified or we are a hermit. I hope that we are not the frog in the hot pan.

Whole counsel understanding

There is something we do in trying to explain these terms of how we view reality as if we are teaching ourselves through the teacher. Now i do not doubt that this is from a weak perspective of the importance of being without a specific application of truth to us without first applying ourselves to the general evangelical entire counsel application. There are these temptations to be under the allusion of being in a frame of understanding from this sensitivity in a legal sense in receiving a teaching to hear the voices that do not have their origins from grace. In a sense we are dumb sheep and we follow after some kind of frame of reference in which we have very little perspective , having been used to these short focuses in receiving the teaching under these different frames in our disposition.

This is not really the historical fashion of what is defined as being under the obligation to receive the teaching in a whole counsel fashion. If we just accept that the whole counsel is all that God requires, then i do not think under further observation of the historical teaching of the whole counsel that we have read from our fathers as if we have the whole understanding of what they were saying. It is the fashion to receive the word with much rejoicing because in the frame of receiving the word we are receiving it as having the nature of what the teaching is defining so that we are receiving it as if it was gifted to us by His grace. That is, there is a difference between receiving a teaching under the obligation of a legal spirit or nature, and receiving it under the nature of the spirit of grace. So that it would include this divine illumination or having a taste in a complete way of the eternal and invisible understanding of the wholeness of the teaching so that we are receiving it not in the letter but in the Spirit, written on our hearts as if it were with the full understanding as if it was related to the whole of scripture. Its more than just an application but it is a divine light to our understanding in a spiritual wholeness.

Whole counsel understanding

There is something we do in trying to explain these terms of how we view reality as if we are teaching ourselves through the teacher. Now i do not doubt that this is from a weak perspective of the importance of being without a specific application of truth to us without first applying ourselves to the general evangelical entire counsel application. There are these temptations to be under the allusion of being in a frame of understanding from this sensitivity in a legal sense in receiving a teaching to hear the voices that do not have their origins from grace. In a sense we are dumb sheep and we follow after some kind of frame of reference in which we have very little perspective , having been used to these short focuses in receiving the teaching under these different frames in our disposition.

This is not really the historical fashion of what is defined as being under the obligation to receive the teaching in a whole counsel fashion. If we just accept that the whole counsel is all that God requires, then i do not think under further observation of the historical teaching of the whole counsel that we have read from our fathers as if we have the whole understanding of what they were saying. It is the fashion to receive the word with much rejoicing because in the frame of receiving the word we are receiving it as having the nature of what the teaching is defining so that we are receiving it as if it was gifted to us by His grace. That is, there is a difference between receiving a teaching under the obligation of a legal spirit or nature, and receiving it under the nature of the spirit of grace. So that it would include this divine illumination or having a taste in a complete way of the eternal and invisible understanding of the wholeness of the teaching so that we are receiving it not in the letter but in the Spirit, written on our hearts as if it were with the full understanding as if it was related to the whole of scripture. Its more than just an application but it is a divine light to our understanding in a spiritual wholeness.

The effects of false teaching

Its interesting to have a reaction to the regulating of teaching. The moment that we say that the church is to be regulated by the word of God then there is a reaction to us being too dogmatic. And i know that you like certain teachers. So that you would defend that teacher because they have a certain appeal in their presentation. And there is some truth in saying that you dont agree with all of the persons teaching. And i am sure that there is a balance between the charisma of a person and the teaching. So that some people are attracted to a teacher not for some of the teaching but how a person is effected by that teaching. So that to focus on being dogmatic about the proper way to teach may be a form of legalism.

But every student of the word of God is faced with the danger of accepting something first in the understanding that is not accurate and then having a disposition formed by that understanding. We are not important in the sense of our personal likes and dislikes about what we think is the standard of truth. But at the same time it matters how we are treated as a student under the teacher. So we are important. But we need to see that there is a difference between the balance between how a certain teaching brings on the desired effect to bring on the proper choices, and the evidence of a life of holiness toward others. That is having faith and living it out. I am not sure this is a balance but there is a progression here. Since teaching is not just an intellectual effect , but it is of a spiritual nature. Since the effect of teaching in a spiritual sense is the cause of our choices, then we can say that bad teaching causes a spiritual sickness of the soul that will effect our living it out.So we are forced to be dogmatic so that we will have the full effects of the spiritual conversion in our desires in order to walk in a manner worthy, that is choosing what is best according to the nature of the dogmatic desire. Which is the strongest desire.

If we think that our choices determine our living it out before men, then there will be a mechanical element to our performance. It would be short sited to not acknowledge the powerful effects of all of the workings of the word of God and the Spirit of God in focusing on the origins by the willing effects in that conversion experience. To say that there is a balance between faith and works may be to avoid a dogma of acknowledging the effects of the means in coming to a proper choice. The dogma of this is that we are in a spiritual understanding of the frames of mind by the spiritual dogma according to the teaching. So that we know that the sickness of a person according to the teaching is a lack of understanding by the effects of the spiritual power in the desire. Thats why accurate teaching is of a nature of its own conversion effects on the soul. If we just focus on the balance between faith and works then we may be creating a mechanical faith.

The Arminians Machine-ology

Therefore persons cannot reasonably make this improvement of the doctrine of necessity, that they will go into a voluntary negligence of Means for their own happiness. For the principles they must go upon, in order to this, are inconsistent with their making any improvement at all of the doctrine: for to make some improvement of it, is to be influenced by it, to come to some voluntary conclusion, in regard to their own conduct, with some view or aim: but this, as has been shown, is inconsistent with the principles they pretend to act upon. In short, the principles are such as cannot he acted upon at all, or, in any respect, consistently. And, therefore, in every pretence of acting upon them, or making any improvement at all of them, there is a self-contradiction.

As to that objection against the doctrine, which I have endeavoured to prove, that it makes men no more than mere machines; I would say, that notwithstanding this doctrine, man is entirely, perfectly, and unspeakably different from a mere machine, in that he has reason and understanding, with a faculty of Will, and so is capable of volition and choice; in that his Will is guided by the dictates or views of his understanding; and in that his external actions and behaviour, and in many respects also his thoughts, and the exercises of his mind, are subject to his Will; so that he has liberty to act according to his choice, and do what he pleases; and by means of these things, is capable of moral habits and moral acts, such inclinations and actions as, according to the common sense of mankind, are worthy of praise, esteem, love, and reward; or, on the contrary, of disesteem, detestation, indignation, and punishment.

In these things is all the difference from mere machines, as to liberty and agency, that would be any perfection, dignity, or privilege, in any respect: all the difference that can be desired, and all that can be conceived of; and indeed all that the pretensions of the Arminians themselves come to, as they are forced often to explain themselves; though their explications overthrow and abolish the things asserted, and pretended to be explained. For they are forced to explain a self-determining power of Will, by a 69power in the soul, to determine as it chooses or wills; which comes to no more than this, that a man has a power of choosing, and, in many instances, can do as he chooses. Which is quite a different thing from that contradiction, his having power of choosing his first act of choice in the case. J Edwards

Divine illuminations

This truely is a place where there is a true sense of that intuitive spark of divine consciousness. And yet, every desire we have is of its own nature. Since we are made new by the Spirit, then there is no desire that we have that is not transferred by grace. I find in this life that my natural inclination is to become sullen by the weight of some kind of fallen spiritual paradigms with the thoughts of this earth and a conscious independence to rest in my own power. Its so subtle that it just creeps up on my spiritual awareness. But since there is a deep well of heart issues, those desires that we have for the eternal, then there is nothing that we can do to smother them completely. So that we are most miserable creatures under the burden of our sin and our lack of thankfulness. This comes in just resting from any struggle.
When we desire to have all of the blessings of the promises of God, then we are made to rejoice. But our understanding only comes by increasing these desires since what we desire is what is going to be done in the end. And since we have this inner world of acting, then we are living in the reality of His life in us when we are having the springs of His Holy Spirit increasing the life of Christ as a constant disposition of living in the eternal conscious communications of His revelation. We know this because we gain an understanding of the nature of these attributable paradigms that lighten the weight of this struggle in temptation and cause us to be raised up in our affections to spend our hours longing for eternal immunations of His love and faithfulness. If we have a taste of His goodness, then all is well with our souls. Oh that the Spirit would baptize us in the confidence and assurance of the reality of the glorious knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. Oh that divine illumination that translates us into a hope that is sure and steadfast. We must get used to living with a level of eternal communications in the deep recesses of our souls. To hear when there is silence, to long for Him when there is only voices around us that are complaining, and to be enraptured in His eternal powerful resurrection calling that takes us out of this world so that we are lost in His wonder and praise. For when we have desires for His glory then we will experience the pleasure of having fellowship with His Spirit.

Divine light

Theres nothing wrong with planning, but God determines the outcome. And if He determines the ultimate outcome that is either eternal death or eternal life, since He will bring all peoples together before the judgment throne. So that whatever He declares at that time is what will happen for all eternity. Then we know that He has ordered all of these events in the knowledge He has as the future judge. Other wise He would need to be reminded of each persons experience. But if He is judge then He better be all knowing or we would all be able to stand in our own arguments. But God does bring all men to shut their mouths before Him. Who could stand before God if He judged us according to our sins? How can we be silenced if He did not know all of the sins of all of the world at all times?
Thank God that when we come to Him we come to a God who knows the beginning from the end or that He intimately knows all things. For He opens His hand all all the creatures are fed.
And since our lives begin when we are called to Him from all eternity, then our past sins are not brought to our account, since He has taken care of them for all eternity, they are not declared to be in our account as if time had a principle that could hold us down in our guilt and shame. We have busted out of time and now we stand in eternity before the all seeing eyes of God. And now we see with eyes that are beyond the past in time and our future is beyond time. Now our experience in this life is declared to be real in our position we hold in eternity. Our past is remembered no more since we are always looking to our calling, and that reality is our calling into a new view of our past. We have connections to the pre existence of that word spoken about us from the counsel of the Father into all eternity. We hear that divine call as if He is standing there telling us in a voice we can hear with our physical ears.
We know that our understanding of the present circumstances and our future plans are only as good as we can hear Him calling us into fellowship with the Spirit from our being cause to be raised up above this earthly kingdom to that heavenly kingdom where we receive from His providence. Now our future is far greater than we could ever imagine. We hear Him determine to teach us the absolute safety of all that we will need and do in the future. Since He has shown us His goodness by how He has made all these things to work in the universe, we know that if He has care for the smallest particles and the number of all of these very small things, that we being able to have a reflection of ourselves as being called from eternity past, then we are far more able to see that we are going to receive gifts far greater than we could ever imagine. So that what happens in this life is only a very small gain to our knowledge compared to growing in the knowledge of Him in all eternity.

Joy

Joy is a desire to know Him more, and a longing to seek Him with all of our hearts. It is from that deep longing that calls us away from the world, and then a knowledge in hearing that call, that we are not required to do anything to obtain His future favor. It is joy in Him alone. It does not focus on our requirements of what joy should be. It is what He is as present before we go into prayer that attracts us to His speaking to us in our communication to Him. We are going to Him who has promised to fill us with His love and give us rest from our burdens and trials. Here is where joy meets grief and overcomes sorrow. Whether we are in the process of trying to unburden our sorrow, or we are bubbling over with joy in coming to Him for the unspeakable experience of glory, this joy is unfeigned in its obtaining something from Him, since He is whatever we need. Our joy is possessed with His present protective power to overcome any conscious worry about a defect or a blemish in our circumstance. What ever irritation of the smallest magnitude, our joy is under the power of His silencing the smallest sense of the flesh, that we experience true silence under His peace that passes our understanding , or even the smallest irritation's to our understanding. When we Hear Him calling, we have a deep sense of joy.

Means and ends

So that the objection we are upon does not lie against the doctrine of the necessity of events by a certainty of connection and consequence; on the contrary, it is truly forcible against the Arminian doctrine of contingence and self-determination; which is inconsistent with such a connection. If there be no connection between those events wherein virtue and vice consist, and any thing antecedent; then there is no connection between these events and any means or endeavours used in order to them; and if so, then those means must be in vain. The less there is of connection between foregoing things and following ones, so much the less there is between means and end, endeavours and success; and in the same proportion are means and endeavours ineffectual and in vain. J Edwards

Coalescing into the mystical union with Christ

The word is that very breathe of God in which we experience the consequences of the Spirits work in our working. So that this antecedent action of the en grafted word in us is the communication of all that we have as Sons of God. Here we experience the consequences of Him acting upon us convincing us of our real identity. This is the speaking cause of all of our security. And since we are naturally drawn to these other antecedents of our fallen reflection of our identity, we will experience the consequences of a sorrowful disposition in having our hope deferred. So that we have this spiritual coalescing in an experience of the variation of carnality to spirituality in these communicative powers of absolute authority over all antecedents and consequences through His word and Spirit. These workings are the evidence of all of His ruler ship over all things in the working out of His ends for His glory. This is why He is intimately involved in our thoughts before we think them.

Justification by faith

(3.) The Scripture which affirms that “by the deeds of the law no man can be justified,” affirms in like manner that by “faith we do not make void the law, but establish it;” that “the righteousness of the law is 222fulfilled in us;” that Christ “came not to destroy the law, but to fulfil it,” and is the “end of the law for righteousness unto them that do believe.” And that the law must be fulfilled, or we cannot be justified, we shall prove afterwards. (4.) We are not hereon justified by the law, or the works of it, in the only sense of that proposition in the Scripture; and to coin new senses or significations of it is not safe. The meaning of it in the Scripture is, that only “the doers of the law shall be justified,” Rom. ii. 13; and that “he that does the things of it shall live by them,” chap. x. 5, — namely, in his own person, by the way of personal duty, which alone the law requires. But if we, who have not fulfilled the law in the way of inherent, personal obedience, are justified by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ unto us, then are we justified by Christ, and not by the law. J Owen

The scorn of the self righteous

If salvation is all of grace, then it is opposed to our natural inclination. Not just being in bondage to sin. It is our natural inclination to sin under the bondage to sin, but our love of our own righteousness is part of our hard heartiness. So that our will being in bondage to the love of the law also has a history of habitually inclined toward the objects of our lust as part of our lust in our understanding the world by our love for the self deception of how we are better by that. And if we come into our salvation with some of our old sinful habits, then we also are going to go through our addiction to the love of our own righteousness.

If the law was the principle way of experiencing freedom of the will, then how could we mortify that addiction to self righteousness? So that there is a cause of learning to live in Christ that is the opposite of the ordinary way of law keeping. The opposite way is training our desires by grace.

Substitution is the way of learning to think in a way that is beyond our understanding as a definition of having spiritual assurance and confidence in a dispositional way. It is that which in our newness of life , that we cannot focus on as our natural view of overcoming our dispositional consciousness of our legal trust. In this way we are always having a queer and odd collusion in our self reflective awareness. The truth is that we are so identified with Christ that we no longer are aware of our legal reflective habit. But we have many voices in this newness that are so familiar as having a false confidence by the physical eye toward those who are mis applying this secret habit, as the world and even the Christian world hardly ever come to the understanding of living without condemnation in the inward disposition of grace. And since there are very few examples, then we are left to overcome this disposition through many dangers and toils. This is the natural war of a liberated believer.

The purpose of the law

Prior to the fall man had a moral ability. He was able to keep the law of God in order for his acceptance. Thats why it says in Gal, that those who live by the law will die by the law. So the law was the standard for mans being qualified to share in the relationship with God in the garden. Man was always under that obligation to keep the whole law. There was a tension as if it was a test to see if man could continue to keep the righteous standard of Gods requirements in order to obtain eternal life by upholding the standard and continuing in his obedience. When the serpent came on the seen man was fully able to resist that temptation by the power of his will in order to pass that test and fulfill his obligations. But man chose to have a knowledge of evil and being under the bondage of evil. The temptation was not wrong, that is having a new knowledge of evil. But being overtaken by the evil in that knowledge was not the design that man was intended to fall into.

If man would have not eaten of the tree, then he would have been able to enjoy the tree of life as being righteous without the ability to sin. But when man gave into the temptation then he became corrupted in all of his parts and died spiritually. And in his new view of himself after his corruption man was self conscious under a new power. He was under the power of guilt ,shame and fear as a result of falling under the power of sin. Instead of seeking God out, man was thought for the first time that he could hide from God. Man was darkened in his understanding and now thought that he could live by the law. Man tried to live by the law apart from Gods forgiveness. Man became self righteous. He was so blinded by sin that he actually thought that he could and did fulfill the requirements of the law by his own works in making his own garments.

This is the state of man in his blindness. He really believes that he can be righteous by keeping the law. But God says that the law only has one function for man since man no longer has the moral ability to do moral good. The law only shows man his sin. The law works death in man. The law is made to show man his sin by awakening his conscience to its requirements condemning him by the conscience voice of condemnation. The law an the conscience bring sin to be alive. Since man really believes that he is good, the law and its requirements bring man to understand that he is not good.

Man tries to feel sorrow for breaking the law, but the law only makes man feel as if his apologies are useless. The law and the conscience work to keep man from seeking forgiveness by grace. Because man is dead in sins and trespasses, then man cannot obtain grace in order to be able to meet the requirements of the law. Man only wants to keep the law by doing something to meet the requirements and then having a view of himself that he is able in himself to receive the good graces of others and of his god by doing the requirement or something to reconcile himself that he made up for breaking it.The more he tries to obey the law the more he must quiet his conscience since the conscience can only be quieted by grace and not by works.

Man is always trying to get into Gods good graces by this work. This work apart from the Spirit of God is the cause of all false religions in the world. Man obtaining righteousness by his own way in his own time. Man cannot obtain real righteousness apart from the saving work of Christ. So that the more self righteous man tries to live by the more he is obnoxious to the work of Christ. If you live by the law you will die by the law.
Thats why man must turn to Christ, or be regenerated and made righteous by grace through faith. The only way man can enjoy true freedom is apart from the works of the law. Christ has come and has made man completely righteous by imputing His righteousness to mans account. There is no work by the law that is good enough to obtain this righteousness. This righteousness is imputed once for all. It is not given out over time, it is not according to each work of man, it is not making man righteous in himself, it does not give man the ability to obey the law. It is only by grace through faith.

Practical Atheism

We have been justified by faith. That is we are declared righteous in the court of heaven and not by any thing that we have done. And we have been given Christ righteousness as our completed righteousness. We cannot do anything else to make this standing that we have as completely righteous, since we did not earn it in the first place. It was imputed to our account. And imputation is by grace. But we still are corrupted in every part. We still have the remnants of sin. We still have the tendencies to stray from our original position in being righteous in Christ. So we still can act like an atheist. Because every sin is an unbelief in His finished work. If we believed perfectly then we would not sin.
We can even act the part of a fool even tho we could never be a fool since we are united with Christ. So that since our position of being in Christ is by grace, then our sins are covered by Christ, even the times when we stray and sin greatly. And since our new life is by being identified with Christ, then we are given the power to persevere by being under His authority. We are so closely related to Him in His death and resurrection by that identity, that we no longer fear punishment for our sins as those who have no hope. So that His name and authority protects us from thinking that we could ever stand in our sins as condemned even tho we are practical atheist.

Soveriegn Grace

The bible is all we need to live a life of godliness. So that the word of God is the rule by which we measure all other truths. Truth is not a process of being transparent, by exposing the weaknesses and sins of others. Since our lives are spent in using our time in glorifying God and enjoying Him forever, then the rule of Gods revelation defines the kind of grace that determines our view of God and our view of the world. The word of God is the judge of all truth not our human process of coming to a unity of an understanding of the truth. So that grace is not a source of uniting different views of Christ , as if it covers false views, but it comes in how we define our view of Christ. Our unity is determined by how we come to an agreement by the teaching and not by how we process human relationships.

If we believe in sovereign grace then it will have an effect on our knowledge of how we approach a holy God in our sinful condition. Since salvation is all of grace, then anything less is not true grace, but a counterfeit. And yet, it is determined by our sin in not having a true understanding of grace by our sorrow and weakness from sin, that we are not judges of the standard of scripture but that the scripture is our judge so that we all will be brought under a proper understanding of Gods sovereign grace. If you do not agree then He will show you, that is the apostles directive in the standard of the word of God alone that stands as the measure of all other truth and human relationships.

In our natural state in Adam we are not only unable to do any good but we are also dead to sin and trespasses. So that the only hope of our having a proper spiritual understanding of spiritual good is by the rule and Spirit of the word of God. We not only cannot reason our way into a spiritual understanding of grace, but we must be given a new divine knowledge in order to understand spiritual life by this sovereign grace. So that it is not by our faith that we are made alive since our human faith is dead faith. But we are also unable to will by human faith to believe. We must be given new faith in order to have a knowledge of Christ in order to place our trust in Christ as the object of our faith. Since the knowledge that is foreign to our natural state in adam, then our believing is only in our own ability. That is our object of affection is our own way. So that God must subdue our wills by destroying our old will, and make us alive through His work in order for us to be saved. It is by grace alone, that is not in anything of our selves that we are saved. We offer Him nothing accept our sin, and He gives us His grace that was determined apart from anything in us , from all eternity.

So that we see that it is not according to our own righteousness that He saved us, by according to His mercy in Christ Jesus. And in our understanding of this grace then we are made completely new by a will that was not ours, but was given to us by grace in order for us to believe in an object that was not available to us in our unregenerate state. There is no other way for us to avoid the temptation to think in all of our lives of how we approach God, to submit to Christ as the most beautiful object of our affection and to be able to worship God unfeigned as the supreme ruler of the universe if we do not completely come to hearing His voice say Who are you oh man to talk back to God ? There is no real assurance unless we are convinced of sovereign grace.

Sins deception continued

Sin is a condition of total corruption of both the faculties of the soul and the entire body of man. Sin is in the heart of man and always at work in its plans, schemes , and plots but we must gain control over it. We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Or we resist sin at all cost by mortifying it in our thoughts by the word through the Spirit. So that the very seed of sin begins in the mind of man. Even on his bed he plots evil. Because in the heart of man is lust, greed, hatred, envy and a host of all other corruptions that make man faulty in his reasoning powers so that all of mans thoughts are futile. When man does not resist the desire to sin, he makes an idol , and he becomes like the thought he created so that he becomes like the idol he has made, he is greedy, hateful, lustful, envious and these idols that are man made are those paradigms that he lives his life by.

So that man loves what he creates in his own mind. And since his desire to cherish a lust has been his daily delight then man loves himself as a god. Every man has the potential to die in his atheism , if not as living without God, but practicing sin by his idols.

But the way of God is having power to exercise His will in spite of mans attempts to dethrone Him. God has spoken from eternity everything that comes into being. Since He has left us His revelation of Himself, that is natural revelation as well as special revelation, then we are only able to resist sin in these areas of casting down idols by that new life we have by His supernatural call from eternity , and not by any idea that we make to replace God as the cause of all things that come into being. If we are not totally unable to create an idea out of our own minds, then we are not able to resist the evil of an idea in ourselves. So that we rejoice in God as the cause of willing into existence all events past present and future for His own purposes of being good, for the purpose of giving Him glory. We know that He speaks nothing into being in the pleasure of our being enabled to glory in His work so that we will remain totally dependent on Him for everything.

We are saved for His glory, because He has given us a righteousness that is imputed to us as supernatural. Since we receive everything by His power over all things by Him exercising His will to do as He pleases, then we glory in that He willed our acceptance to not be anything in us, but only by the value of Christ life and death gaining the rite to rule all things. So that God might be exalted since anything that we design is always from a thing that already exist and is natural to a cause that exalts us by our pride of taking that causal glory from God. For God does not share His glory with man. And what ever good we have an understanding by is what God has declared and given by grace to us in the nature of who He is. The value of any good thing is in the nature of that thing.

Sins deception

Sin is missing the mark by our not doing according to the His standard, or failing to do according to His standard by our neglect. And in our understanding of justification by faith which is the cause of our acceptance before our being regenerated, we must think rite by that grace in order for us to live with a rest that is required in our ongoing trust in His faithfulness. In approaching God through prayer we do not offer any goodness to Him, as He displays His mercy to us as being unable to please Him by any thing of our selves. This is why it is so important to understand the imputation of His righteousness as our only goodness.
If sin is missing the mark, then the teaching of our conscience by the law is going to lead us astray as the means to obtaining righteousness. Since temptation by the world, flesh and the devil does not only involve the attraction of the beauty of the object, but the law of the flesh in order to obtain victory over that sin as well. The world tries to convince the believer of the way of the flesh in order to obtain acceptance by God by a pride in thinking that God will reward us apart from Christ or that we bring goodness in our corrupted state.

Spiritual Desire

I am not interested in creating a blog where doctrine is impersonal. Every truth in life has a natural determination in its working on our hearts. First, we can only do according to our understanding of a particular action. And even though we are rational thinking beings and we do not always do what we know and understand is right. Yet as having a will that has a cause from desire, we follow our desires to either do the moral right or the wrong. The standard of being able is not from our resistance or our determination. The standard is our loving Him with all of our hearts and minds and wills. If we think we can accomplish anything by our resistance to the wrong, then we will be ignoring our thinking of the standard of loving Him as God. All of our lives essentially are coming before a perfectly holy God and living in the light of His will.

What is essential to our understanding of Him will determine our understanding of who we are, and what we are, as sinners with one another. Every action comes from a power that is either seen or unseen. We love Him with a power of desire that becomes our action before we actually use the means to obtain our view of our willing to work by those means, i.e. scripture work, prayer or the local church. We are being acted upon since we are fully passive in our being saved by faith and not by works, and we are fully active from the internal thought of desire. This is why we not only are saved by grace but we are enabled to do good in all of our lives by grace.
Faith is the means by which we know Him and are growing in our knowing Him more. So that in His light we see light. If we know Him, we know that we cannot do one thing without Him. Our life is living in Him by being connected to Him as a vine to the branches. We draw our life from Him in the flow of the engrafted word to our souls. Without faith it is impossible to please Him, because in believing we see how distressed we are, and how simple grace is in receiving life by Him. So we see that doing anything good comes from the nature of our relationship to Him, and our understanding of His nature in enabling us to will that which is good.

The Psalms

I have memorized the majority of the Psalms and have a practice of praying them for many years. I have learned through personal experience that the psalms are given to us so that we might keep our hearts on matters that are important and eternal.
The psalms are a relief in times of trouble, not just in experiencing the promises. We are reminded of God’s faithfulness. At the same time, there are all of these workings in our souls that we do not see, that create a working power to persevere in the promises with a longing to return for more. In this sense you will never be bored in prayer.

One of the purposes of praying and meditating on the psalms is that we are not always aware of what is really going on inside of us as the point of our anxieties, fears, or doubts. What the cries and the promises and the praises do is that they are determined to work in us by His power of will to bring out of us the reality of believing by receiving. We are always in need of these different realities of faith, in which we begin to enter His presence through the process of longing graces. Longing graces are longings that are natural to our experiencing regeneration and on to renewal. These spiritual longings are never satisfied on this earth, but rather increase. We long to see Him. We long to know Him. We long to have all of the things that come into our lives, be made straight and whole. God has given us these spiritual desires so that we might increase them. So we will not fall into sin and be tempted above that we are able.

The psalms are a place where we can take our anger, our problems, and all of our inner trials, and place them in the care of God. The psalms keep us from thinking that we can take care of these things in our own power. Since He says, when we are in trouble, we should pray. Then there is a perfect convergence of our burden to His care in the experiencing of His power by being reminded of His faithfulness by many different avenues of the accumulation of the experience of His power to longings in our past and present. By having a certain application of His assurance, our present longing is being satisfied. Praying the psalms is an experience as if I went in with a burden and came out feeling relieved.

My last explanation is very mysterious. I don’t think we can take credit as if we were fighting a personal devil by them, but we do not fight against flesh and blood. So these Psalms are given to us for our own spiritual protection and our family’s salvation and protection. And in this sense there are some very impersonal things that come as a result of these powerful cries. Since we do not know who the enemy’s minions are, or where the enemy is present, we are offered a fight that is only ours to resist and His to destroy. When we think of the attack as being in a given situation or a particular person, we have not been ridden of our personal anger in the battle. The psalms are the place where we fight by resistance and yet our heads are protected by knowing that He is taking care of all of our troubles in our defensive manner. Here is the experience of having a very strong resistance or being able to pin the enemy on a regular basis. It depends upon what the test is. And so the test becomes more and more resistant the more we are moved forward by His work. The Psalms are not an answer to our getting a victory by our own understanding. We are resisting knowing that He has a greater vision of what needs to be done and what is going to be best to protect us. He works through the means of prayer.