Text Box: AN OVERBLOWN SENSE OF SELF IMPORTANCE, OF SELF RIGHTEOUSNESS, EASILY RESULTS IN ETERNAL DAMNATION AND SERVES AS AN OBSTACLE TO MORAL RECOVERY

To make an image which is easy to visualize, substitute a person’s personal hygiene and the status of their clothing for the state of a person’s soul, mind, and heart. 

If a person has been rolling around in the dirt and filth, working up a sweat and letting it dry out, gotten crusty, groady, and nasty, and been in that condition for a period of time sufficient for them to become acclimated to the condition, that individual may not perceive their need for a cleansing bath, shower, or washing, and a change of clothing.

We could call such people the unaware, or the ignorant.

But that person is greatly different from the person who holds the position that simply because they are who they are, they have no need to bathe or to change their clothing. For such people, in their mind, in their opinion, it is impossible they or their clothing should or could ever become dirty or in need of cleaning.

We would be justified in calling these Text Box: people, stupid. Unfortunately, such people govern our country, are the celebrity role models for the masses, and are in administrative positions in every organization - even including various jurisdictions of the true church. They are stupid, but usually they are amongst the most successfully manipulative and scheming of individuals. They make statements which serve their own interests without knowing whether or not their statements are accurate, and so do in a very convincing manner. Most such individuals have long ago mastered the art of appearing to be knowledgeable, knowing, intelligent, and to appear to be acting without self interest. Since their statements and positions serve to enhance their own esteem, to stroke their own egos, and usually are in actuality made without study or knowledge of that of which they speak beyond what will serve their own self interests, usually their statements are inaccurate and their positions harmful.

Remembering this is an analogy, it is not their hygiene and clothing which are rancid, but their hearts, minds, and souls.

Their overblown sense of their own importance and their desire to be important are obstacles to their ability perceive their own situation, their own status, their need for cleansing, revision, and rejuvenation, their ability to effectuate their own moral recovery, and pave a wide and easily traveled path to eternal damnation for themselves and their followers.

They are fooled by their concept of themselves, by their own self image, by their own appearances. Be careful lest you also be fooled by their projection of their self images and self concepts; lest you be fooled by their appearances and pay the consequences in suffering.

Ref: 1 Cor. 12:2-11; Luke 18:9-14

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Text Box: WOMEN MUST CEASE INTERFERING WITH MEN EXERCISING GOD GIVEN MASCULINE QUALITIES

We know that the Mother of God, the Blessed Ever Virgin Mary, was and remains the epitome of human holiness, our best example, our most fervent protector, and deserves every title and acknowledgment of her holiness.

Though holiness and even the attempt to be or attain holiness are rare these days, there is one particular example she provides which is virtually totally lost in today’s world. It is not an example of holiness we usually expect. 

The example in her that is virtually lost in today’s world is, she raised her Son, Jesus Christ, to be a full fledged, honorable, MAN who refused to back down from what He knew was right, Who would give no quarter or compromise against evil, Who fought against evil, Who pulled His own weight, and Who definitely was not only not a pansy but was the opposite of being a pansy. Yes, Jesus Christ was and remains kind, gentle, compassionate, being the epitome of all things gentlemanly. But while Christ is the perfect gentleman, Christ was and is an individual of standards, principles, unbending and unyielding, actively engaging in both persuading those who are bent to go to hell to reform while simultaneously battling against them and should they not yield, damning them to hell for all eternity.

It is part of a woman’s makeup to avoid conflict and to seek peace. It is difficult to engage in a woman’s traditional domestic and non-domestic activities in an environment of uncertainty, or turmoil, or danger. Therefore women seek tranquility. But every woman who allows this desire for tranquility to dictate her course in life soon finds herself under the authority of someone else. If that authority is benevolent towards her, she may be unaware of her true condition, and may bask and grow under that benevolence. Of course there are many women who seek the control Text Box: Text Box: The individuals who are truly a puzzle are those who are totally opposed to God and who expressly do not desire eternal union with God.

By any measure of moral sanity they are impossible to comprehend as is their opposition to God.

Ref: 1 Cor. 12:2-11, Luke 18:9-14

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