Sunday, September 23, 2012

O COME, HOLY SPIRIT

   Train up a child in the way in which he should go:  and when he is old, he will not depart from it.  (Proverbs 22: 6)
   If you are a Communist, were you trained in that way from the crib until you were at least five years of age?
   If you are a Catholic, were you trained in that way from the crib until you were at least five years of age?
   If you are an Islamist, were you trained in that way from the crib until you were at least five years of age?
   If you are a Baptist, Mormon, Socialist, Buddhist, or Hindu, were you trained in one of those ways from the crib until you were at least five years of age?
   If you have not been converted from one of those ways, are you still in one of those ways today?
   There is an old saying:  the early bird gets the worm.
   Therefore, the dogma, doctrine, or discipline that gets to your mind from the crib until you are at least five years of age will remain with you all the days of your life. 
   Understanding conditioned learning from Psychology 101, people know that the best way to change a nation is to change the children.  Teach children a way of thinking, from the crib until they are at least five years of age, and they will likely remain in that way all the days of their lives. 
   In the crib, your mind is fresh and new.  It has no "school of thinking" or education.  Your mind knows absolutely nothing at birth; consequently, from the education that is schooled in your mind, you become a walking-talking textbook in that dogma, doctrine, discipline, philosophy, or religion.  No matter if your mind is educated in lies, at birth you do not know the difference between lies or truth.  Your mind simply becames a recepticle in which information is planted, words are deposited, and you will therefore live out the words of your mind. 
   Then when you are old enough to speak, you will say:  "I'm a Catholic."  "I'm a Baptist."  "I'm a Socialist."  "I like Chevrolets, apple pie, and cottage cheese."
   Through conditioned learning, which is also mind control, you are taught what to be by people who educate your mind in the way that you should be according to them. 
   When other people try to convert you from the way that you were trained to be, you resist.  You fight.  You argue.  And you will likely get angry. 
   To believe that Christ is truth, instead of religion, or communism, or socialism, it is the Holy Spirit who teaches people the truth of Christ. 
   As Christ said, Nevertheless I tell you the truth:  It is expedient for you that I go away:  for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you.  And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:  Of sin, because they believe not on me; Of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and ye see me no more; Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.  I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot hear them now.  Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth:  for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak:  and he will shew you things to come.  He shall glorify me:  for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.  (John 16: 7-15)
   For it is not the messengers that convince people that Christ is truth, but the truth of the message is revealed by the Holy Spirit.  Therefore, it is the Holy Spirit who convinces us that we are sinners and directs us to Christ to redeem us of our sin; and when we humble ourselves and confess to God that we are sinners, and, invite Christ to save us from our sin, this is when salvation comes to us and frees us from the bondage of sin, which makes us ready for Heaven. 
   It is, then, the Holy Spirit who enables us to break from the ways we have been trained to be.
   Amen.

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