CHURCH CONTROL – – – STEP ONE

Tell the people what to believe—

Then tell the people what they believe—

So they remember your words more than God’s Word—

So they memorize your words more than God’s Word.

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“Oh, no! We never said that.”

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But that is exactly what happened.

And that is how church leaders have controlled most of the people in their churches for millennia.

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+’Sacred’ Doctrines

+’Sacred’ Creeds

+”We Believe, Teach, and Confess . . .”

+”We Reject . . .”

+’Infallible’ leaders add to the Bible, and add, and add . . .”

+Our church has The Truth, which means our church has better truth than all the other churches. That may be partly true in some cases, but it is also the true secret to control.

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Repeating the opening statement here—it fits.

Tell the people what to believe—

Then tell the people what they believe—

So they remember your words more than God’s Word—

So they memorize your words more than God’s Word.

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“Did God really say?”

“What God really said was this . . .

Let us tell you what He really meant.

We understand what God says better than you.”

B I N G O !

Word for word from satan’s playbook—Genesis 3.

Works for him—six thousand years, and counting.

“REASONED AS A CHILD . . .”

Reason as a child.

Reason with a child.

“When I was a child, I reasoned as a child. When I became a man, I put away childish things.”

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A time comes when we no longer reason as a child—when one becomes a man/woman.

If we never get that, we can never reason successfully with a child.

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So, how and when does a man (a father, a mother) reason WITH a child?

How does a parent reason with a child?

—reason as a man (adult)?

or

—reason as a child?

How?

Reason as a man (adult), with or without the child’s comprehension, understanding, or agreement.

Consistent, TIMELY discipline works wonders on the above three (comprehension, understanding, agreement), at any age.

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When does a parent reason with a child?

Very, very, very critically important ! ! !

Reason with a child ahead of time—before the need arises for timely obedience or consequences for the lack thereof.

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Reasoning with a child at the time of disrespect, demonstrated through disobedience, is child abuse.

LEARN – – – KNOW – – – LEARN

One—LEARN—action, to gain information or a skill

Two—KNOW—non action, got what you learned

Three—LEARN—action, to do something with what you know

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A person can get One and Two on the internet.

Some people can get Three on the internet.

Some people do not get Three on the internet or by the example of others.

Some people get Three only by ‘have to.’

CROP or . . . ?

Catholics

Retreat

Over

Politics

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Catholics

Renege

Amid

Politics

NO MORE MANNA

Every day for forty years God provided complete food, manna, for the people of Israel.

The very day they crossed into the promised land, the manna stopped.

There is a time for waiting on God.

There is a time for action, to fight, to defeat enemies.

It is always a time to ask God what time it is.

“HE WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD”

+”let the little children come to me”

+”every child, born and unborn, is a precious gift from God”

+persecution addressed/prioritized before the United Nations

+insider betrayal

+”you will be hated by everyone because of me”

+”they’re not coming after me [only]—they’re coming after you”

+”the one who kills you will think he is doing God service”

+”by their fruits you will know them”

+”a good tree (person) brings forth good fruit”

+good words, good promises, promises kept

+”pray for the peace of Jerusalem”

+most powerful proof—no greater expression of support for Israel, than moving our embassy to Jerusalem

+”I will bless those who bless you (Israel)—I will curse those who curse you”

+US economy boomed—Iran busted

+”in you all nations on earth will be blessed”

+other nations got the message—by example, by direct negotiation assistance—and joined Israel in droves

+”he who is not for me is against me”

+getting harder to be a Christian in America

+getting easier to tell who is a Christian in America (the ones getting attacked)

+lines drawn—love America—hate America (Jeremiah Wright, hero to new Senator Warnock-D-GA, cursed America from the pulpit with Obama in the audience)

+lines drawn—love Jesus (love his followers)—hate Jesus (hate his followers)

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Jesus promised that His followers would experience the same opposition that He did.

“they persecuted me; they will persecute you”

And that explains the parallels partially listed above, between Jesus and Trump—

+why Jesus was so hated for doing God’s Will,

+why Trump was so hated for doing God’s Will,

AND, why everyone committed to following Jesus will be hated for doing God’s Will.

THE NEW ‘ADMINISTRATION’

It will soon become apparent that the term ‘administration’ will not accurately refer to the new government in Washington.

Administrations have come and gone in this country for centuries—some with a yawn, some with severe rhetoric, always with the assumption that change is possible, and the pendulum would always swing back from the brink—because this is America, with a Constitution that works, and because God honors what pleases Him.

But when the leadership openly rejects and blasphemes God and His people, there comes a time when God cuts the cable, and the pendulum comes crashing down with destruction, with no return.

GLOBAL GOVERNMENT = CCP

Alternate title:

BIDEN GOVERNMENT = CCP

(CCP—Chinese Communist Party)

HELLFIRE AND DAMNATION?

Don’t preach on hellfire and damnation in America today.

Don’t preach on exclusivity.

Don’t preach on sin.

Don’t preach on lgbt lifestyles.

Do preach on inclusivity.

Do preach on tolerance of lgbt.

Do preach on acceptance of lgbt.

Do preach on militant promotion of lgbt.

OR ELSE—or else we’ll have to ‘take care of you,’ and problems like you.

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Well, there is a place east of the Mediterranean that directly applies to this subject.

It’s 1300 feet below sea level—lowest land on earth.

It has water, but no life—super-concentrated salt water.

At one time it was thriving, just like America.

It also had the philosophies above, and practiced them militantly, as mentioned above.

Don’t object, or you won’t exist—both places.

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B U T G O D . . . ?

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God had the last volley in the culture war of Sodom and Gomorrah.

And they too thought they were “on the right side of history”—and ended up on the bottom side of history, literally.

If you like, you could try digging it up under the Dead Sea, where it’s been for four millennia after God nuked it—DEAD !

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Where does that leave America ?

We’ve got all that, like Sodom—plus SIXTY MILLION babies murdered before birth.

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Jesus said, “It will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah than for you.”

USA to USSA – – – MAGA to MACA

United States of America

to

Union of Socialist States of America

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Make America Great Again

to

Make America China Already

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Anybody have a different prediction?