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John 17:17; NET Set them apart in the truth; your word is truth.
John 8:31-32; So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, "If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; (v32) and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."
Gal 5:1; It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not become subject to a yoke of slavery again.
1Peter 2:16; As free men, do not use your freedom as a cloak for the production of the evil of human good, but use it as slaves of God to produce Divine good.
We are presently in a study of satan's cosmic system, a system of arrogant demonic thinking that is comprised of lies and deceit from demonic viewpoint that since the fall in the Garden of Eden, separated from God in the darkness of spiritual death has become the viewpoint of the entire human race. 1Cor 2:14; Rev 12:9;
At this point in our study we are examining the various manifestations of the arrogance complex of satan's cosmic system. We have noted that arrogance creates weakness that makes the unbeliever susceptible to demon possession and the believer susceptible demon influence so arrogance is the point of satan's assault on people's thinking.
When we stopped last time we were looking at Phil 3:18-19; where we noted that believers who make emotion their criterion and associate emotion with Christianity are enemies of the cross.
They are cosmic, carnal believers who reject God's power and live like unbelievers because they are functioning in moral and immoral degeneracy that results in the production of the evil of human good that only makes the situation worse.
"Glorying in shameful things" violates God's mandate to live honorable lives through the function of virtue love. This requires accurate application of Bible doctrine to life and circumstances under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit.
Awareness of, obedience to and compliance with the mandates found in God's Word of truth under the ministry of God the Holy Spirit is the sine que non of actually solving problems with Divine good production.
All other production no matter how "good" it may appear to be to the uninformed is dead works that God has to curse and eventually destroy. Arrogant believers who live in the cosmic system are satan's stooges. There are too many stooges in our country today.
Emotional arrogance distracts from the execution of the protocol plan of God.
Rom 16:17-18; "Now I urge you, brethren, to watch out for those who are causing dissensions and apostasies contrary to doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.
v19 For such believers do not obey our Lord Jesus Christ, but they are slaves to their emotions who are serving themselves. And by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive other believers who are ignorant (of Bible doctrine).
"Being on the look out" is impossible apart from the Divine viewpoint that is acquired from the renovation of the thinking from persistent and consistent cognition of doctrine under the mentorship of God the Holy Spirit.
Arrogance is the root cause of all dissension, apostasy and division. 1Cor 11:18-19; This is what is occurring in our country today and God is in the business of destroying it at the most effective time so it becomes evident to everyone.
Our Lord established the pattern and provided the mandates regarding how to operate in God's power system for the Church Age. But arrogant believers have rejected God's protocol plan and the mandates of our Lord and rejected His authority because their irrational emotional arrogance.