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Text Box: Yet many people reach out to touch their own desires, and call those desires God’s will, instead of reaching out to touch God. It is very easy to fall into this lie. Humans have a tendency to justify our sins, especially our favorite sins. Humans have an inclination to rationalize our sinful desires into being approved, especially if other people attempt to do the same with the same sins. This is how movie stars justify sexual intercourse without benefit of marriage, and the public uses the evil example of the movie stars to justify their own sins of lust. But such lust remais sin and those who commit them may sever themselves from the Body of Christ. Yet avoiding these problems is very simple and very easy. All one need do is to follow the lead of God The Holy Spirit. Avoid attempting to, “obtain the gifts of the Holy Spirit”. Just be surprised if He gives you one or two of the worldly spectacular ones, attempt to ascertain what He wishes you to do with them, and know that they will probably soon be taken away from you. There are, however, gifts of the Holy Spirit which you should attempt to obtain. Some of them are: Divine Love called Charity, Wisdom, compassion, selflessness, knowledge of true revealed dogma - which is expressed in the dogmatic statements of the Church and which never change. They are not determined by popular vote and once established they never change because they come from God and God never changes. The current debate within the Anglican Church regarding ordination of overt, practicing homosexuals, is a statement that the Anglican Church is not valid because it follows dogma established by humans and not dogma established by God. This is so because homosexual activity has been declared by God to be a sin, and the Anglican debate questions that declaration by God. The same is true for those who wish to change the definition of marriage to include same sex marriages,

Text Box: and those who wish to justify abortion which is murder. Seek to obtain the gifts of the Holy Spirit which are not spectacular. Seek to obtain the gifts which lead you to follow God’s will, especially if they are, “quiet gifts”. Think about the spectacular gifts, such as raising people from the dead. What if you had the power to raise the dead. Who would you raise from the dead? What criteria would you follow? What if you raised someone from the dead, and that person had gone to heaven, but because you raised them from the dead they had the opportunity to commit grave sin, committed grave sin, and then died and went to hell? Would you therefore also go to hell? If God decides to have you raise someone from the dead He will inform you of His decision and of the Who, What, When, Where, and How, but possibly not of the Why. But the prudent individual will not seek such ability, especially such ability to be used at the individual’s discretion. Hold fast to seeking the quiet gifts of the Holy Spirit, especially those of Charity (Divine, Agape Love), Wisdom, Prayer, gentle persuasion, tenderness, and the like. And if you are wise, you will ask that if He gives you one or more of the more spectacular gifts, that He will exercise such gifts Himself, and give you total guidance if you are supposed to exercise them. All have ears. Those who deny God and those who attempt to manipulate God hear their own voices. Those who attain eternal salvation keep quite, listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit which has already clearly spoken in the unchanging Dogma He has already stated, and follow it. Those who attempt to live their lives in this manner, not only will greatly increase the probability of their attaining eternal salvation. They will also give overt and obvious example of living in holiness, and of attempting to live in holiness, without being obnoxious.

Text Box: In this manner each can be instrumental in others also attaining eternal salvation. All because one seeks the Holy Spirit in the manner in which He is to be sought, and follows His lead rather than attempting to control or lead the Holy Spirit. Acts 2:1-11; John 14:23-31 +

Text Box: COMMENTS ON SOME INDICATORS OF OUR TIMES There have been many news stories and comments to the effect that politicians, celebrities, and individuals in general, should attend a church where the preacher preaches that with which the individual agrees. Perhaps going to a Church wherein is taught the TRUTH is too novel a concept, or not in accord with the popular principle that humans set dogma and truth. What a shame. Going to Church should be for: the purpose of worshiping God, not one’s self; learning what God has taught, not how to justify one’s selfishness; receiving God and becoming one with God, not attempting to usurp God’s place. THE HEADLINE STATED: Compulsion to eat might have biological cause Duuh, do you thinks so? Perhaps the biological cause has a scientific name, such as hunger? Rocovery School District pays retention bonuses Does that mean those students who remember what they were taught are paid? Fed chief admits recession possible Use of the word “admits” intrinsically implies the truth was intentionally withheld, that a lie was told and then the truth was forced or extracted. The headline therefore is biased in a manner to induce the thought in the reader, that the Fed chief initially lied and said a recession was not possible and was forced to admit the truth. However, not

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