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Strategy
for Defeating Diaprax
“Finally, my
brethren, be empowered, strengthened, in the
Lord, and in the strength of the might of
Him. Clothe yourself with the full, complete
armor, including shield, sword, lance,
helmet, greaves, and breastplate of God-of
God’s presence, and from God, provided
by God, in order for you to be able to stand
against the methods (Greek. methodias), the
scheming, the craftiness of the devil.”
Ephesians 6:10,11 (Greek, amplified)
The
Orientation of the Soul
There are often
imperceptible, yet deeply profound changes
that take place in a person’s spiritual
life based on what enter that person’s
mind and heart. The Lord called upon His
people to be a Country people, a Wilderness
people, a Mountain people-to move out of the
cities a century ago, as the cities became
hotbeds of iniquity. He warned that city life
is false and artificial. The invasion of
personal space by a crush of humanity
devastates the spiritual powers of the soul.
Cultivating
the Reality of God’s Presence
In Country Living,
the Lord explains why country living is so
important. “Cut off to a great degree
from contact with and dependence upon men,
and separated from the world’s
corrupting maxims and customs and
excitements, they would come nearer to the
heart of nature. God’s presence would be
more real to them. Many would learn the
lesson of dependence upon Him. Through
nature, they would hear His voice
speaking to their hearts of His peace and
love, and mind, soul, and body would respond
to the healing, life-giving power. –MH
190-192. (1905)
Moses, Elijah, and
John the Baptist all knew about this.
Surrounded by the mountains and deserts,
there was little to distract the mind from
knowing and depending upon God. God becomes
real to the soul. God becomes more
important than interpersonal human
relationships. This is critical to
salvation. Discipleship rests upon it. Jesus
said that if any man would be His disciple,
he must come to Him hating father, mother,
wife, children, brethren and sisters, and
even his own life, or he cannot be His
disciple. Luke 14:26.
The Reality of
God’s Presence Precedes Christ’s
Call to Discipleship
If God is not real to
a person, this first element, this first
condition, of discipleship will not take
place. We must be trained to hear His voice
in the soul, separate and distinct from all
other voices. This takes time this takes separation.
Consider the days when America was young.
There was no television, no radio, no
Internet.
The intensity of the
bombardment of the soul with the things of
man was not there in the life of the
wilderness. However, there was the Bible,
nature, field, woods, and mountains-the
things that imperceptibly draw the soul to a
defined and real knowledge of God. When the
truth of Adventism swept the nation in the
1840s, multitudes recognized the voice of God
in it, saw that it was Biblically based, and
accepted.
Technology Has Spread
Evil Everywhere
However, today the
soul is bombarded with humanity, with
humanity’s corruption and vileness. The
city has penetrated everywhere through
technology, and the young walk along with it
pounding its vileness into the soul through
earphones. It is everywhere. Even farmers in
the combine today have air-conditioned cabs
and the media bombarding their minds with the
demonic culture of the day. God is cut off
from the soul. What of the young people?
Virtually every influence tends toward hell.
“Christians”
With an Alien Orientation
All of this means
that when the person does not want to be a
Christian but does not experience a
repentance not to be repented of, they are
filled with an orientation that is alien to
the Holy Spirit, and their
“Christianity” becomes one that is
dominated by man rather than God. Conviction
is dim; character is shaped by the culture of
man, rather than the culture of the Word of
God.
Such people are ripe
for dialectical praxis, which has as its
basis the destruction of conviction, the
destruction of the hold on God, and the
destruction of true faith and conscience, and
the redirection of the soul to making
human interpersonal relationships the
dominant issue. The soul is suffocated.
The person who puts the relationship with God
in all areas first, rather than putting
interpersonal relationships first, is looked
upon as “unloving” and
“maladjusted.” His convictions are
looked upon as suspect, as strange, as
unheard of, as detrimental to “love and
unity.” The church group moves in, the
pastor moves in, to eliminate these
“pre-set” ideas that are so
unrealistic, so out of touch with a society
that claims to be Christian, yet does not
know God.
Only as one knows God
personally, really, experientially, and
clearly and unequivocally puts God’s
voice above the attenuated voices of man, is
there hope for the soul. To do battle with
dialectical praxis, the person must have an
ironclad character, anchored in actual union
with Christ by faith, in steel conviction
that will not let go of the voice of God. The
soul at every point must be garrisoned.
Doing Battle With
Dialectical Praxis
- Recognize that true
conviction, based on a sound
understanding of the Word, instilled
by the Holy Spirit, is evidence in
your soul of the Holy Spirit’s
presence. Thus, true conviction
is the authority of God Himself in
your soul. Thus, conviction is worth
dying for. Conviction must be made to
be what it is-far, far greater than
the weapons of hell. Conviction is your
weapon. Armed and shot by angel
hands, conviction is what wins souls
out of Satan’s grasp into the
kingdom. Take your stand on
conviction. My soul is bound to the
Word of God. It is unsafe for a
Christian man to go against his own
conscience. Here I stand. I can do no
other. So, help me God.
- Conviction, seized
by the soul, must be grasped by
faith, a faith that is unconquerable,
the faith of Jesus. Conviction
must seize and take possession of the
soul, so that a person will die for
it, because it is the presence and
voice of God in the soul. Conviction
born of the Holy Spirit is the shield
of Omnipotence over your soul. Faith
in the unseen things of the kingdom
of God and His Word, held by the soul
in conviction, is your shield. Learn
to use your shield. The authority of
God Himself is infinitely greater
than any pressure from hell exerted
in cell groups, any board meeting,
and any collection of diapraxing
pastors, elders, or interrogators.
- Pick your terrain
for the fight. Fight on
ground, good ground, ground of the
Holy Spirit’s choosing If at all
possible, you choose the battlefield.
Do not let the enemy choose the
terrain, and arrange things in such a
way to try to overwhelm your faith
and conviction. Do not venture to do
battle on the devil’s ground.
However, if you are compelled for
reasons beyond your control to fight
on unequal ground, on the
devil’s ground, you will have to
pay all the more attention to the
supreme value of your convictions,
which are of more value than life
itself, and give good attention to
the use of the weapons in your
arsenal.
- Your task is too instill
conviction in the hearts of as
many as are willing. When confronted
with the enemy, work on the
conscience of those using diaprax to
instill conviction in them.
Remember, a person using diaprax can
not be a Christian, for diaprax is
the weapon to destroy faith,
conviction, judgment, and sound
wisdom. Diaprax is the weapon, formed
in hell, to destroy conviction. But
your weapon is conviction.
- Pastors, elders, and
other such who use dialectical praxis
in an attempt to subvert conscience
and conviction, but who appeal to
“church authority” for
their actions, must be seen exactly
and precisely for what they
are-emissaries and apostles from the
bottomless pit, using the favored
weapon of the Jesuit Order. Thus they
have no authority, for they have
forfeited all claim to authority by
being servants of Satan. They are
in the same position as Caiaphas,
Annas, and the pope. You do not give
them any authority in your soul-the
fortress held by Christ.
- On the other hand, the
name of Christ is the source of
your authority. “Christ’s
name was to be their watchword, their
badge of distinction, their bond of
union, the authority for their
course of action, and the source of
their success. Nothing was to be
recognized in His kingdom that did
not bear His name and
superscription.” AA 28.
- Conviction is your
authority, for it is the voice of
God, the voice of the Holy Spirit, in
your soul. When he (the Holy
Spirit) is come, He will convict the
world of sin, and of righteousness
and of judgment, Jesus said,
“Conscience is the voice of God,
heard amid the conflict of human
passions; when resisted, the Spirit
of God is grieved.” 5T 120.
- However, your conscience
must be trained in the Word of God to
faithful, prompt, and clear-cut
obedience. You must never
weaken your conscience by going
against it, for it is your great
shield wall line of defense for your
soul. The conscience must be formed
in submission to Christ alone, in
subjection to the Word of Christ, in
harmony with the law of God, and
every word that proceeds out of the
mouth of God. Conviction is your
sword of the Spirit-the Word of God.
You need to learn how to wield
your weapon. Jesus said, He that
does not have one, let him sell his
coat and get a sword. Luke
22:36. Part with anything rather than
your sword. You need to learn how to
fight for your soul with the
sword of the Spirit.
- Conscience is more
important than all else beside, more
important than church membership, for
the hierarchy will try to strike fear
in the heart of the dissenter-the
fear of excommunication, of
isolation, of rejection.
- But Jesus says,
take up your cross, the cross of
rejection, shame and reproach for
Christ’s sake, for the Holy
Spirit’s sake, for
conscience’s sake. That is
why Jesus said take up your cross.
When you lift the cross, it lifts
you, and separates you from
Satan’s power. Rejoice in
rejection, in shame, in reproach for
Christ’s sake! That is the
weapon of the Christian. The martyrs
went to the stake to be burned to
death singing! Peter sang in
prison. He considered the reproach of
a death on the cross to be too great
an honor, so he asked to be crucified
upside down.
- Understand the
power and the glory of standing
alone. There is infinite power in
standing alone on a conscience forged
by the Holy Spirit in the Word. Your
aloneness amplifies the presence of
the Almighty in you. He that is
you is more powerful than the world
and all else. One with God is a
majority. You must be prepared to
stand-alone. All
men forsook your Master, Christ.
“All forsook Him and fled.”
Mark 14:50. Paul had all forsake him.
2 Timothy 4:16. You must learn the
power of being alone, under God.
Luther declared, you must fear me,
precisely because I am alone, and you
are many. The power of the gospel
lies in you forsaking all for Christ.
You have nothing to hold you back
from the ultimate freedom of
following the Holy Spirit, the Author
of Liberty, in full freedom of
conscience.
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