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Waldenses: Christ’s Altar is My Confessional

The Waldenses rejoiced that Christ was their confessional: “Many were undeceived in regard to the claims of Rome. They saw how vain is the mediation of men or angels in behalf of the sinner. As the true light dawned upon their minds, they exclaimed with rejoicing: “Christ is my priest; His blood is my sacrifice; His altar is my confessional.” They cast themselves wholly upon the merits of Jesus, repeating the words, “Without faith it is impossible to please Him.” Hebrews 11:6. “There is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:12.” GC 74.

It is absolutely astounding to hear this Structure professor of theology describe his experience in finding a Father confessor type of Spiritual Director. I feel very sorry that he did not take his heart to the Lord in secret prayer, and that instead he opened it to a human being in a new confessional-spiritual directorship, and is now advocating this terrible departure from Protestantism to others across the board in ministry.

“I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me. A forward heart shall depart from me: I will not know a wicked person.” Psalms 101: 3,4.

The Phenomenon of a State of Imagined Euphoria in Transgression

Notice what happened to Eve when she crossed the border against the resistance of conscience and moved into the domain of rebellion against God. She imagined she was entering a plane of higher existence, and experienced a rush of a state of euphoria. Then she became an evangelist for sin and rebellion:

“When she “saw that the tree was good for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat.” It was grateful to the taste, and as she ate, she seemed to feel a vivifying power, and imagined herself entering upon a higher state of existence. Without a fear, she plucked and ate. And now, having transgressed, she became the agent of Satan in working the ruin of her husband. In a state of strange, unnatural excitement, with her hands filled with the forbidden fruit, she sought his presence, and related all that had occurred.” PP 55, 56.

Are we not to take all of our inner heart to the Lord alone in secret prayer that none but the Lord is to hear? Are we not to hold to the Word of the Lord in faith?

Submitting to Jesuit-trained Men

This is not just one personal departure, but Derek has become a leader in training the ministry to submit the soul to man, and Jesuit-trained men at that, rather than to God. He has become a change agent, seeking to convert the rest of the church structure to this hallmark of Roman Catholicism. Spiritual Directorship is the hallmark of Roman Catholicism as opposed to true Protestantism.

None But the Prayer-Hearing Go

“In secret devotion our prayers are to reach the ears of none but the prayer-hearing God. No curious ear is to receive the burden of such petitions.” MB 84.

The Secret Place

“When thou prayest, enter into thy closet.”Have a place for secret prayer. Jesus had select places of communion with God, and so should we. We need often to retire to some spot, however humble, where we can be alone with God.

No Man Needed to Act as Mediator

“Pray to thy Father which is in secret.” In the name of Jesus, we may come into God’s presence with the confidence of a child. No man is needed to act as a mediator. Through Jesus we may open our hearts to God as to one who knows and loves us.”

Serious Prayer

It is now that we need to revive the practice of secret prayer to our heavenly Father. Great men of God have taken prayer seriously, and made prayer one of the most important functions of their lives. Luther prayed three hours a day at the height of the Reformation crisis. Wesley said that he did not think much of a man who did not spend five or six hours in prayer a day. Oliver Cromwell prayed for hours on end. George Washington prayed for long periods of time. Jesus prayed all night. 

Serious Prayer

“In the secret place of prayer, where no eye but God’s can see, no ear but His can hear, we may pour out our most hidden desires and longings to the Father of infinite pity, and in the hush and silence of the soul that voice which never fails to answer the cry of human need will speak to our hearts.” MB 84.

What the Lord Says About Confessing the Secret Things of the heart to Man

“He who kneels before fallen men, and open in confession the secret thoughts and imaginations of his heart, is debasing his manhood and degrading every noble instinct of his soul. In unfolding the sins of life to a priest, --an erring, sinful mortal, and too often corrupted with wine and licentiousness, --his standard of character is lowered, and he is defiled in consequence. His thought of God is degraded to the likeness of fallen humanity, for the priest stands as a representative of God. This degrading confession of man to man is the secret spring from which has flowed much of the evil that is defiling the world and fitting it for the final destruction. Yet, to him who loves self-indulgence, it is more pleasing to confess to a fellow mortal than to open the soul to God. It is more palatable to human nature to do penance than to renounce sin; it is easier to mortify the flesh by sackcloth, nettles, and galling chains than to crucify fleshly lusts. Heavy is the yoke which the carnal heart is willing to bear rather than bow to the yoke of Christ.” GC 567, 568.

Morris Recommends That New Pastors Find a Spiritual Director To Guide Them

In concluding his paper, Derek Morris recommends that the young theology student, who leaves the seminary for his first parish, should get a Spiritual Director as soon as he arrives at his parish: “In the years that followed I discovered experientially what Roy Oswald had concluded from his research of 102 Seminary graduates some years before: Crossing the boundary for Seminary to parish is never easy. Moreover, the need for personal spiritual formation is ongoing. However, the process of spiritual direction is a tremendous resource. He notes that ‘Those who had the good fortune of finding a spiritual father/mother/friend as they begun in the parish found the going somewhat easier.’ [Oswald. P. 18.]” –Derek Morris, Spiritual Formation in Ministry, pp. 11, 12.  And that is the point of Morris’ entire paper from the first to the last paragraph, that Seminary students need to find a Spiritual Director and to be under the direction of a Spiritual Director when they begin their work as a pastor in the field.

The Structure International Board of Ministerial And Theological Education Imposes Spiritual Formation

The Adventist world church created the International Board of Ministerial and Theological Education (IBMTE) in September 2001, designed to provide overall guidance and standards to the professional training of pastors, evangelists, theologians, teachers, chaplains and other denominational employees involved in ministerial and religious formation, or spiritual formation, in each of the church’s 13 regions around the world.”  -ANN [Adventist News Network] Feature: Church, Congregations Increase Focus on ‘Spiritual Formation,’ Feb, 3, 2004, www.Adventist.org

Now, by order of the GC IMBTE Jesuit spiritual formation and spiritual directors compromise all of the Structure ministerial cadre. Students in the colleges are now taking Spiritual Formation classes, Spiritual Formation groups have been formed in the churches, and a completely new class of ministers called Spiritual Directors has been established.

The Rejection of Christ’s Testimony Regarding Rome Is Now Breathing Spirit Into the Image of the Beast.

The rejection of the vision of Christ Himself given in the book of Revelation, the book of Daniel, and the Great Controversy, with reference to the terrible danger of Rome and the Jesuits, has completely compromised the Structure to the place where the Jesuits, by pen and Spiritual Directors, are now educating the full spectrum of the Structure ministry, from pastors to evangelists, theologians, teachers, chaplains, and all other employees involved in spiritual formation, the students in training, and the people in the pew, with the most fundamental Jesuit training-spiritual formation.

Ignatian Spirituality

The Jesuits have a name for it-Ignatian Spirituality.  Spiritual Directors now are imposing the very ‘spirituality,” Ignatius Spirituality, possessed by Ignatius de Loyola himself, upon all of Protestantism, including the Structure of Adventism, and even non-Christian religions such as Buddhism.

The prophecy of GC 564, 565, of Rome’s plan to wage “a fierce and determined conflict to regain control of the world, to re-establish persecution, and to undo all that Protestantism has done,” is now most strikingly being fulfilled.

Forming All of Protestantism, Including the Structure, in the Image of the Jesuit Order

The result of this training will be to form the entire Structure of Adventism, as well as the structures of the other Protestant churches, from Methodism, the Southern Baptists, Episcopalians and Salvation Army, to even the Mennonites, in the image of the Jesuit order. There is no more effective way than this formation of the image of the Jesuit Order could take place than to institute the very training of Jesuit Order in all the Protestant Churches.

The Jesuits ran the Inquisition (GC 235). The Jesuits ran the Nazi SS, which was formed in the image of the Jesuit Order, through Heinrich Himmler, whom Hitler said was ‘our Ignatius de Loyola,” and Himmler’s uncle in the SS, who was a Jesuit.

A Chilling Observation

It is impossible to know how many pastors are following Derek Morris’ example and advice and is now under the personal direction of the Jesuit-trained Spiritual Directors, who are co-ordinated by Spiritual Directors International; run by Jesuits [a Jesuit is the secretary of Spiritual Directors International], and Dominican, Franciscan, Benedictine and other priests and nuns. The thought that the Order that ran the Inquisition and Nazi SS has now been given an open door to form and run the Structure ministry is a chilling one indeed.

This major and critical development of implementing the most fundamental Jesuit training in all of Protestantism, and even Buddhism, is a fundamental component of the erection of the image of the beast, foretold in Revelation 13. This is the breathing into the image of the spirit of Jesuitism. The ultimate end result will be the imposition of the Mark of the Beast, and finally the universal death decree.

The Way of Truth

The way of truth is the way of Scripture itself, the way of true Protestantism. It is the way of faith in following the Master in true discipleship, being taught by the Master Himself, with no human mediator between the soul and Christ. The way of truth is the way of meeting the conditions of discipleship, coming to Christ, hating father, mother, brother, sister, wife, children, and even one’s own life, or we cannot be His disciple. Luke 14:26. The way of truth is the way of putting our trust in Christ alone, and not in any confidant or guide or friend. Micah 7: 5-7. For those who forsake all for Christ, He has promised a hundred fold more, with persecutions, and with the promise of eternal life with Him forever and ever. Please, my friends, be very vigilant and watch for these things that are overtaking Protestantism. The Holy Spirit will continue to guide you and family into all truth, and remember, Jesus Christ said, “I am the way the truth and the way, no man cometh unto the Father except by me. John 14:6.

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