Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Life Into Christ-Introduction-By Michael Clark and George Davis


Life Into Christ
http://awildernessvoice.com/LifeIntoChrist.html

Introduction

By Michael Clark and George Davis

Jesus not only gave His life on the cross to take away our sins, but He gave Himself to us that He might live His life through us. We are not doomed to live out a life of sin in our sin-prone weakness. Paul wrote to the Roman saints, "Know you not that so many of us that were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into His death?" Notice the two into's. These are that same word in the Greek, eis. Yes, Jesus died once for all who were placed by the Father into Him, but that is not all....



"As long as we expect God to do for us what we ask or think, we limit Him. When we believe that as high as the heavens are above the earth, His thoughts are above our thoughts, and wait on Him as God to do unto us according to His Word, as He means it, we shall be prepared to live the truly supernatural, heavenly life the Holy Spirit can work in us—the true Christ life."

Andrew Murray

The Two Covenants, 1898



"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we hit it."

Michelangelo



Introduction


This has been a difficult book to write. On the one hand we have seen something supernatural and heard the Spirit call unto us, "Come up here," and we have set out to describe that call we have heard. How do you put in human words those things that the Spirit speaks to our spirits? Language at best is the result of the fall of man. It was called Babel because they were cast into confusion by not speaking the same language to one another. When we wrangle with doctrines, the result is the same.


If you minister or write with a motive of building something temporal (to make a name, or build a legacy on this earth), you are doomed to add to the confusion of Babel. All fleshly motivated builders reject the Cornerstone, the tried and true Stone on which and by which all eternal habitations are built. Sooner or later that Stone not cut with hands falls from heaven and strikes this unholy mixture of iron and clay in its feet and its glory fades from memory or becomes a living example of everything that is wrong.


The other thing that makes a book like this difficult is the awareness that when you set out to illuminate a truth that is beyond where most of us exist, you can be seen as setting forth an exclusive calling. This is not our heart. The call is to whosoever wills. The question is, are we willing to leave those things built by men, those comfortable doctrines that say, "I'm okay, you're okay." Will we go humming on down the path, content with our mediocrity as nominal believers, or will we press on into the depths of the Son of God? The goal of the gospel of Jesus is summed up in His final prayer to our Father: "That they all may be one; as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us." To exist as Christians that are divided into sects and denominations, to even be divided against one another inside these groups, even in our own congregations, is a blatant testimony that we are living in Christian mediocrity and have fallen short of the goal of the high calling of Christ. Jesus is one with the Father and extends that same wondrous existence unto us.


One final word. This document is not a treatise on proper usage of Greek or Hebrew. We are not scholars, but brothers who have set out early in our lives to have hearing ears tuned to the voice of God. We have set out to leave everything that attracts and fortifies our sinful selves and live lives that require constant repentance as God shows us His more excellent ways. With Paul we can say,


I'm not saying that I have this all together, that I have it made. But I am well on my way, reaching out for Christ, who has so wondrously reached out for me. Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward--to Jesus. I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back. So let's keep focused on that goal, those of us who want everything God has for us. If any of you have something else in mind, something less than total commitment, God will clear your blurred vision--you'll see it yet!

(Philippians 3:12-15 MSG)


Let us press into the Son and we will walk together in His love.

Chapter 1: What is Salvation?
Chapter 2: Saved by Jesus' Life
Chapter 3: Christ's Body, "Bone of His Bone"
Chapter 4: Identification in Jesus' Walk
Chapter 5: Christ Crucified - the Logic of God
Chapter 6: Identification in the Cross of Christ
Chapter 7: The Cross of Christ, Our Cross
Chapter 8: Identification into His Glory
Chapter 9: Into All Truth
Chapter 10: Power of His Resurrection - Identity in Jesus' Life
Chapter 11: Let Us Go On
Chapter 12: Christ's Righteousness is Our Righteousness
Chapter 13: Identity in Christ, Our Wisdom and Knowledge
Chapter 14: Power in God's Kingdom - Laying Down Our Lives
Chapter 15: Thou in Me and I in Thee
Appendix
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Pyromaniacs: Prophecy and Signs and Wonders

Pyromaniacs: Prophecy and Signs and Wonders:

QUOTE:

"We'll get to that, because I have a veritable laundry list of stuff I want to get through on this today, but let's start off by being fair: if you type the search 'bentley site:charismamag.com', on the second or third page of that search you'll see that in the reader forums at Charisma, many readers there were plainly distancing themselves from Bentley, plainly denouncing him as a fraud. It just seems that the editorial staff of Charisma couldn't find a way to sort of harness the spirit there and find out, one way or the other, if the critics had a foot to stand on -- biblical, pneumatological, podiatrical or otherwise.

So what's to learn from this? I mean, what's the take-away, given the context that I have opened this can of worms by linking Dr. Piper's response to these events?"


READ HERE:
http://teampyro.blogspot.com/2008/08/prophecy-and-signs-and-wonders.html

I dreamt I went to a carnival-By Bryan Hupperts

I dreamt I went to a carnival-By Bryan Hupperts
bryanhupperts@hotmail.com

2004

I dreamed I went to a carnival billed as THE GREATEST CARNIVAL SHOW ON EARTH! As I pulled in to the lot, there were smiling greeters with flashlights who guided me expertly as I parked.

I exited my vehicle to the sound of excitement, the glare and flash of multi-colored lights and the screams of thrill seekers on the various rides. The cacophony was almost overwhelming. I followed the crowd of people who were happily murmuring about the various things they had come for: blessings, thrills, to be fed, to be entertained.

I had just paid the full admission price when someone started walking towards me from the shadows. While I could not quite recognize his face, I knew he was a friend. He said, “Why are you wasting your time and money here?”


“But,” I stammered, protesting, “This is the greatest carnival show on earth.” He was silent for a moment, then replied simply, “We’ll see.” And off we walked together into the charged, frenetic atmosphere that was the carnival.

The sights and sounds of merrymaking were amazing! This was a traveling show and it brought out the crowds. There were singers, actors, dancers, and those skilled at rhetoric, yet each seemed hell-bent on outdoing the next person. “Is this some sort of contest? Is there a prize?” I asked my guide. He replied, “Yes, it is a contest, but they already have their reward.” I didn’t grasp his cryptic remark and shrugged it off.

We walked down the midway amid the swarming crowd. There was so much competing for my attention that it was difficult to focus. There was a Big Top with the curious sign that read Trap Ease; perhaps it was a typo. The finely dressed ringmaster told jokes, made people laugh, and encouraged people to buy his videos and tapes “for a blessing,” but I didn’t hear the rest since we kept on walking. I wasn’t sure why, but I began to be uneasy, afraid.

Carnies would hawk their particular game and attraction promising fame, wealth, beauty, and personal satisfaction if I would only step up and lay my money down. At the nudging behest of my quiet companion, we stopped at a game of Balloon Pop.

The fast talking carnie assured me that all I had to do was pop the balloons with a dart and I would win fabulous prizes. I paid the fee, took careful aim, and threw dart after dart but I kept missing. Was this game rigged? My friend then handed me a curiously bloodstained dart with the word TRUTH inscribed on it, and said simply, “Use this.” I took it, aimed carefully, threw it and popped balloon after balloon. The carnie shrieked and finally excommunicated me from his booth – no prizes awarded. He accused me of cheating!

There was a trained Lion of Judah in a cage doing tricks for the ringmaster to the squeals and delights of the crowd. “Make him heal,” yelled one. “No, make him bless me with money,” cried out another. And the strange thing was that the lion seemed to be going along with it. However, as I got closer to the exhibit, I looked into the lion’s eyes… It was not the Lion of Judah at all, but instead a killer lion stalking its prey, seeking someone to devour. He was a fraud, but he looked almost like the real thing. I jumped back and we walked away as the beast growled menacingly at us.

There is not space to tell of the baptismal dunking booth, or the house of smoke and mirrors that distorted reality through the haze of religiously themed rose-colored glasses. Especially disturbing was the Fortune Telling Prophet who, as his sign promised, would give you a guaranteed, genuine Word From God for an Activation Fee of $40.00. I was ready to kick over his crystal ball, but my companion stopped me. “This is their festival, not mine,” he said. We walked away.

The carnival was overcharging for the love feasts of corn dogs and lemonade and I kept getting the feeling the food and attractions were supposed to be provided for free, but perhaps it was just a feeling. After all, business is business.

And then a wave of nausea began to rise in my throat as I took the spectacle in. It was like music without a melody, or a painting without color. There was a growing sense of – violation. And suddenly, in the distance like a welcome breeze on a hot, humid day, I heard a quiet sound, almost like a chorus of voices rising in song. I turned and began to walk towards the music, walking away from the beguilement and clang of the carnival.

My head began to clear and, as I was walking away, the lettering on the carnival signs began to rearrange to read, THE GREATEST CARNAL SHOW ON EARTH! “How do I get out of this madhouse? I am almost ready to hurl,” I asked. My companion agreed, saying, “I am almost ready to vomit, too.” He pointed me towards the Tunnel Of Love. As I walked towards it, I began to notice others quietly leaving the carnival one or two at a time, sometimes in small groups, walking away from the carnival following the drift of the music that led inexorably towards the little boats that rode the gentle waters of the Tunnel of Love.

As I stepped into the little boat, my companion spoke from behind, “I’ll see you on the other side where we will dine together,” and he was gone. And in the Tunnel of Love there was no fear. The clang of the carnival began to fade as the music and singing grew louder. It was, it was… worship, but worship as I had never experienced, for it was borne of passion and offered up in Spirit and Truth! It washed over me, cleansing me, inviting me to join my voice to the swelling chorus of adoration and praise sacrificed to the Most High God. And as the darkness began to fade as the Tunnel of Love gave way to LIGHT!

2004 - Bryan Hupperts - SheepTrax Media
http://www.sheeptrax.com/

Sunday, August 17, 2008

Why False Teachers Have So Many Followers

Why False Teachers Have So Many Followers:

"Why False Teachers Have So Many Followers
by Sandy Simpson, 7/28/08



1 John 4:4-6 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spirit {Or spirit} of truth and the spirit of falsehood.

The reason why false teachers, who deny one or more of the core doctrines of the Faith, gain so many followers is that they are saying what the world wants to hear. They organize their churches so that they cater to unbelievers, and once non Christians come in they are fed a diet devoid of the essential nutrition of the Gospel and sound doctrine. False teachers conduct surveys to see what non-believers are looking for in a 'church' and then provide those things. False teachers claim they are bringing people into the Kingdom when in fact they are bringing them out of the world and back into the world, the only difference now being that they are spending their money in support of some apostate leader and/or group."

read here:

http://www.deceptioninthechurch.com/somanyfollowers.html

Friday, August 15, 2008

The Belt-By Mary Adams

The Belt

Saturday, August 16, 2008 12:22 AM
meamin@mtaonline.net

THE BELT

Beloved, I see a belt.

It once was used to hold up garments that covered the Body.

Yet the body has lost weight; and though the belt is tightened again and again, suddenly it holds up nothing.

All has collapsed.

There is nothing left except the belt and the clothing lying on the floor.

Strange.

The body was still eating.

But not of the Living Bread.

The body was still drinking.

But not from the Living Waters.

The body was still excercising.

But not strengthened with might by His Spirit.

When she began to lose weight and become undernourished, she assumed the belt would hold things together.

Notch by notch she would call upon the belt to secure her garments and cover her nakedness. But there was only so many notches, and when there were no more, everything collapsed to the floor.

Too late, it was discovered that It was not the belt that held the clothes to the Body.

It was the Body itself.


"Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame." (Rev 16:15)

A vision re Todd Bentley in The Dragon’s Mouth and Then Being Tossed Aside

A vision re Todd Bentley in The Dragon’s Mouth & Then Being Tossed Aside

By Miriam Franklin
5th June 2008


In a vision I had, about one month or more ago, I saw Todd Bentley clearly being ‘hung out to dry’ by others (that I thought were his associates in the prophetic/church movement) on a washing line. This reflects the expression ‘being hung out to dry’. Although I understood the expression, although not the context, the vision made no sense from a human persepective, as Todd was then, and still is, seemingly at the top of his game by human standards, and why would they want to do that to him when he is flavour of the moment - yet I saw it so clearly and deniably and knew it was the Lord speaking. And while ’sitting’ on this, and the subsequent second vision, the visions and meanings has remained with me, and conviction has grown this will indeed happen (if Todd does not repent and get right with God).

In the second vision, a few days later after the ‘washing line’ vision, I saw Todd Bentley symbolically in an enormous dragon’s mouth, and he was being shaken around from side to side by the dragon like a dog shakes a toy with its teeth, except there was no playfulness or niceness or joy about it. Todd was swung from side to side, from left to right, and then just as dogs do after a while, he let go - the dragon let go on one of the swings, and with enormous force Todd Bentley went falling through the air and hit the ground.

I believe these two visions to tie in.

The dragon (Satan) is described in Revelation, as coming with great anger in the Last Days and being unleashed upon the world with fury. He ’spiritually’ empowers the false prophet and the beast, as the Antichrist arises, to do great signs and wonders, even calling down fire from heaven that will fool the world. Many ‘Christians’ will exchange the truth for a lie in those days. Though the beast’s movement and its prophets have lacked a true spark of spiritual power, instead relying on lies, deceit and charlatanism, real dark spiritual power comes, at some point, enabling genuine spiritual wonders that are not invented or pretended.

Todd being figuratively in the dragon’s mouth means he speaks for the dragon as his false prophet (one of them, that is) and his being swung from left to right in the dragon’s mouth is possibly resembling his scope of influence in the world as he speaks at a ‘height’ - as the dragon was very tall and this could resemble Todd speaking to many far and wide.

However, for whatever reason, the dragon will toss Todd Bentley aside out of his mouth and as he does, Todd will ‘fall’, meaning that Todd will no longer be in the dragon’s mouth speaking for him on the ‘world stage’ as he is tossed aside. Sadly, I felt Todd Bentley being no longer the dragon’s mouthpiece was not for positive reasons by way of Todd repenting, as it was not like God rescued Todd to speak for Him (as he would do if Todd repented), but it seemed to me in some other negative way because of how it happened and the disdain and hatred there from the dragon towards Todd who was even still one of his own - he so clearly ‘belonged’ to the dragon in that sense, the Father of Lies.

Index to all Todd Bentley and Lakeland articles here

http://endtimespropheticwords.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/a-vision-re-todd-bentley-in-the-dragons-mouth-then-being-tossed-aside/

Monday, August 11, 2008

Several new interesting articles/ reports from around the world:

www.bombaylawyer.blogspot.com

End Times Deception » Blog Archive » The Damaging Side of the Toronto Blessing and a Look At Secular Hypnosis

End Times Deception » Blog Archive » The Damaging Side of the Toronto Blessing and a Look At Secular Hypnosis:

"The Damaging Side of the Toronto Blessing and a Look At Secular Hypnosis"

End Times Deception » Blog Archive » Making God’s People Trust in a Lie

End Times Deception » Blog Archive » Making God’s People Trust in a Lie:

"The following came from Believers in Grace Ministry, written by Pastor Bill Randles."

Fighting Back in the Culture War-A Comment

Fighting Back in the Culture War


Monday, August 11, 2008 11:54 AM

Hi,

I was on your site: http://visionsoftheseer.blogspot.com/2008/07/dave-daubenmire-voting-for-bugs.htmltonite - chasing down some audio from Coach Dave Daubenmire.

I met him here in Boise in May of this year and really wish I could find a spiritual father like that here where I live :(. My soul needs more salty words like that.

BYW - I am already on Andrew Strom's mailing list.Related to the Culture War, you might find some of what I have collected here to be of interest?http://www.blendedbody.com/_cl/_audio/_2ndgen/CenturyOfSelf/

And I highly recommend you listen to the audio at:http://www.blendedbody.com/_cl/_audio/_2ndgen/CenturyOfSelf/WilhelmReich/

Enjoy!

S. N.

- Boise-U.S.A

Saturday, August 9, 2008

www.bombaylawyer.blogspot.com

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

A Short History of Medicine

2000 BC -"Doctor, I have an ear ache."

"Here, eat this root."


1000 BC
- "That root is heathen, say this prayer."

1850 AD - "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion."

1940 AD
- "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill."

1985 AD -
"That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic."

2000 AD - "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root!"

Monday, August 4, 2008

Pyromaniacs: The Fallout of All Those Fads

Pyromaniacs: The Fallout of All Those Fads:

"The Fallout of All Those Fads"

My Redeemer Lives-Team Hoyt