There s NO Freewill?

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What is the one unique defining characteristic of those who understand There s NO Freewill? Lorraine Day, M.D. The condition of my character determines whether or not truth can even be revealed to me. Before I can understand God s Word, there must be something in my character that conforms to the likeness of God. Until God has changed my life from the inside out, I will only be able to see from the perspective of my own biases. I will be a captive to the propaganda that has been inculcated in me by every or any Christian dogma that prevails in ALL denominations. I will only be able to see through my 5 senses sense knowledge rather than seeing truth through the mind of God. God must perform a surgical procedure on me by using my external circumstances TROUBLE to bring about internal purification.... that I may know Him... Phil 3:10 We are on this earth for one reason, and one reason only: to get to KNOW God, and to learn to TRUST God with everything in our life. Just this week, I received a call from a woman inquiring about information for her friend who has 4 th stage cancer and is in hospice. When I began relating briefly the Ten Steps in the Health Plan, and how one s choice of treatment has eternal consequences ( Will you obey God, rather than man? Acts 5:29), the woman on the other end of the line said, Oh, my friend is VERY CLOSE to God. Yet, her friend had been trusting in doctors and their poisonous chemotherapy and damaging radiation (both of which CAUSE cancer) for over 10 years since she had been diagnosed with cancer. And look where that plan had taken her - - - to hospice, whose only goal is helping the patient DIE! She had been trusting Doctors man and their damaging treatments rather than trusting in God and HIS totally natural Ten Step Health Plan, yet all the time she has believed that she has been VERY CLOSE to God. God gives us the following Promise: If you follow My laws, My commandments and My decrees, I WILL keep you FREE from EVERY disease. Deut 7:11-15

The very fact that this woman is NOT FREE from EVERY disease and is in fact on Death s Door proves that she is NOT following God s laws, commandments and decrees while all the time she is deceiving herself, and her friends and family, into thinking she IS VERY Close to God. Christians have NO IDEA of the shockingly clever ways of Satan and his deception. For instance, ALL the False Flag attacks that have been taking place recently are believed to be REAL by probably 98% of All Americans, including 98%+ of Christians, including Sandy Hook, the Boston Bombing, the Charleston church shooting, and apparently also the Chattanooga Marine killing. But the deceptions are heaped on top of deceptions. As an illustration: One of the marines who was supposedly killed by the lone nut terrorist in Chattanooga, was named Lance Cpl. Skip Wells. But it turns out that a man named Lance Cpl. Larry Wells, who looks IDENTICAL to Lance Cpl. Skip Wells, was killed in an attack in Najaf, Iraq, on August 6, 2004. But the deception goes even deeper. It appears that this man, even though he supposedly has died TWICE, is not really dead at all. It seems he appeared on the Bill O Reilly show on July 22, 2015 (under another name), nine days AFTER the Chattanooga Marine massacre. (See last 2 pages of this study.) Christians are NO MATCH for Satan and his deceptions. The only One who can expose Satan is Jesus Christ. The vast majority of ALL Christians are totally deceived about and totally ignorant of the events that are happening in America and the World today, because they are NOT connected to God. They are connected to their church an organization that has as its head, the U.S. Government (through it s 501c3 status) and NOT Jesus Christ. It is the evil U.S. Government that is the tool of Satan in bringing about these atrocities and false flag operations (with the goal of taking away ALL freedoms from Americans), that is the head of ALL the denominations, churches, and church schools (including Christian high schools, colleges, and universities) in America! Your circumstances are not random A true Christian is not to take the initiative toward self-realization, but toward knowing Jesus Christ. A spiritually vigorous saint never believes that his circumstances simply happen at random, nor does he ever think of his life as being divided into the secular and the sacred. He sees every situation in which 2

he finds himself as the means of obtaining a greater knowledge of Jesus Christ, and he has an attitude of unrestrained abandon and total surrender about him. God is determined that we will have the realization of Jesus Christ in every area of our lives, and He will bring us back to the same point over and over again until we do. Self-realization only leads to the glorification of good works, whereas a saint of God glorifies Jesus Christ through his good works... Churches are always telling their members to Do something for the Lord. We are not here for self-realization, but to know Jesus Christ. In Christian work our initiative and motivation are too often simply the result of realizing that there is work to be done and that we must do it. Yet that is never the attitude of a spiritually vigorous saint. His aim is to achieve the realization of Jesus Christ in every set of circumstances. O. Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest, July 11 It is a whole lot easier to work for God than it is to be One with God. The church ceases to be spiritual when it becomes self-seeking, only interested in the development of its own organization. How to see God My vision of God is dependent upon the condition of MY character NOT God s character. My character determines whether or not truth can be revealed to me. Before I can say, I saw the Lord, there must be something in my character that conforms to the likeness of God. Paul said,... you are not your own... you were bought at a price... (1 Cor 6:19,20), then how can we possibly have Freewill? God wants us to keep our minds filled with the concept of God s control over everything. All is OF God, THROUGH God, and to (for) God. Rpm 11:36 Not even the smallest detail of life happens unless God s will is behind it. Therefore, you can rest in perfect confidence in Him. You can always say to yourself, God is my Father, He loves me, and I will never think of anything that He will forget, so why should I worry? The Lord never insists on having authority over us. He allows us to believe that we can make all our own choices. We can literally spit in his face, as others did at the cross, and He will never say a word. But once His life has been created in me through His redemption, I instantly recognize His right to absolute authority over me. 3

It is only a changed heart, one that is in synchrony with the heart of Jesus Christ, that recognizes and even embraces the fact of Christ s absolute authority over me. When one is truly born again he will NEVER have any desire to run his own life. Who would you rather have running your life? God or you? Who would you rather have making ALL the decisions in your life? God or you? Then WHY do Christians always demand that they have FREEWILL? Because they don t really KNOW Jesus Christ. The only Know a church. We Control what we are able to Explain We control what we are able to explain, consequently, it is only natural to seek an explanation for everything so we can CONTROL it. That is the goal of virtually ALL scientific and medical research: to explain the processes of life - - - so we can CONTROL the processes of life by DRUG medications, or mind control! It is the unworthiness in humanity that refuses to bow down or to submit to One who IS Worthy! The Lord never insists on obedience, but when we truly see Him, we will instantly obey Him. The level of my growth in grace is revealed by the way I look at obedience. Ibid. July 19 Looking for Thrills When we are in an unhealthy condition either physically or emotionally, we always look for thrills in life. In our physical and spiritual life this leads to our efforts to counterfeit the work of God s holiness in us. We seek life-threatening thrills, including hang-gliding, bungee jumping, parachuting, wing-suit flying, in our physical life, and thrills in our spiritual life, including what is called speaking in tongues or holy laughter, or even amassing riches as do the televangelists, and the wannabes who donate to them hoping they will receive the blessing of God in physical riches. In our emotional life, it leads to obsessions and to the destruction of our morality: promiscuous sexual behavior, pornography, drinking, drugs, etc. But the underlying foundation of Jesus Christ s kingdom is poverty, not possessions: not making decisions for Jesus, but having such a sense of absolute futility that we finally admit, Lord, I cannot even begin to do it. It is the 4

knowledge of our own poverty our own destitution - that brings us to the proper place where Jesus Christ can accomplish His work in us. Ibid. July 21 Universal Restoration This is the WILL of God, your sanctification... 1 Thess 4:3 It is God s WILL NOT His mere desire that we ALL be sanctified made holy forever. And God says, I watch over My word to perform it. Jer 1:12 In the process of sanctification, the Spirit of God will strip us down until there is nothing left but ourselves. Are you willing to have no friends, no father, no brother, and no self-interest simply to be ready for death? That is the condition required for sanctification. This is where the battle comes, and where so many fail. If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. Luke 14:26 Am I willing to reduce myself down to simply me? Am I determined enough to strip myself of all that my friends think of me, and all that I think of myself? Am I willing and determined to hand over my simple naked self to God? Sanctification is not something Jesus puts in me it is Himself in me (see 1 Cor 1:30). Sanctification means the impartation of the holy qualities of Jesus Christ to me. It is the gift of His patience, love, holiness, faith, purity and godliness that is exhibited in and through every sanctified soul. Sanctification is an impartation, not an imitation. Imitation is something altogether different. The perfection of everything is in Jesus Christ, and the mystery of sanctification is that all the perfect qualities of Jesus are at my disposal. Consequently, I slowly but surely begin to live a life of inexpressible order, soundness, and holiness... kept by the power of God... (1 Peter 1:5) Ibid July 23 5