Title: 13
Author: Joe G
Last saved by: Paul J. Davey
Company: GDC

Clanking Chains		07-04-29-A.CC02-745 /

Principles from 1 Jn 1:6: Failure to Admit Sinfulness Leads to Self-Righteous Arrogance; the Problem of Moral Degeneracy; Progressives’ Inversion of Thought

9.	The believer who lives the truth has spent time not only learning the Word but also applying it to life and circumstances.
10.	When confronted by thought testing he applies the three stages of the faith-rest technique.  When challenged by people he has the poise and grace to switch from personal love to unconditional love.  When the two link up for system testing both problem-solving devices apply.
11.	And, it is extremely important to remember, that when the fifth column of the sinful nature’s lust patterns win volitional approval it results in periods of status quo carnality.  But the advancing believer is quick to use rebound; fellowship is immediately restored and he is back in the battle.
12.	Those who live in the cosmic systems must never forget that their exit visa back into fellowship with God is simply confession alone to God alone.
13.	Yet there are some cosmic believers who claim they do not sin while there are others who assert they do not have a sinful nature.  Both are involved in the arrogance of ignorance.  This is nothing but warmed over Gnosticism.
14.	The person that sells himself on the idea he does not sin inevitably moves into self-righteous arrogance which is expressed by asceticism and legalism.
15.	By regarding himself as pretty close to perfect he assumes he is in fellowship with God.  But instead he is blind to the fact he is really superimposing his personal moral standards not only on others but also on God.
16.	Truth is defined by God, not by man.  When the latter occurs such an individual will often move into iconoclastic arrogance: he calculates that someone he observes is living up to the legalistic code of conduct he has invented. He then puts that person up on a pedestal and becomes his groupie.
17.	A person in iconoclastic arrogance imputes perfection to a person he admires but who is completely unaware of the lofty status assigned to him.  When he violates the standards that the iconoclast assumed he would keep sacrosanct, then his admirer turns on him and seeks to destroy him.
18.	Today, Progressive ideology has metastasized into the souls of a group of legalists whose standards are born right out of the heart of hell.  The dichotomy is that their legalism is often very licentious but this is not unusual when inversion of thought occurs.
19.	Progressives actually have no set standards.  Their values vary based on whatever contributes to their long march through the institutions.  Whenever a traditionalist violates Progressive standards then that person must be removed from the battlefield.  It is done through character assassination, the selling of the public lie, or by the claim that one of its many taboos has been violated.

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