Author: PJD
Company: SymCast

©1998  Joe Griffin								98-08-23-A/JSH-011

Introduction: Victory through Faith: Principles from 1 John 5:4: Divine Power System, Gate 7: Momentum Test 5, Arrogance & Hatred

(5) The Cosmic Systems: Satan is the ruler of this world and he constantly seeks to control the kingdom he rules.  In order to do so he  manipulates the souls of men through duplicity and deceit.  The Scripture calls his kingdom the Κοσμος /kosmos /, translated, “the world.”  The duplicity and deceit he utilizes are referred to as “doctrines of demons” in 1 Timothy 4:1.  The system by which these doctrines are inculcated into the souls of men is the Cosmic System, or as we have called it in the past, the Satanic Academy of Cosmic Didactics.  There are two major fields of study in this Academy.  (1) The Arrogance Complex.  Submission to this curriculum results in man becoming preoccupied with himself.  He passes the course when he gets to the point that he emphasizes himself over of God and his own thoughts, opinions, and rationales over biblical truth. (2) The Hatred Complex.  This curriculum teaches a person to become antagonistic toward God, the Bible, Christianity, Jesus Christ, Bible   doctrine, and the overall plan of God.  He passes this course when the inventory of ideas which circulates in his stream of consciousness is human viewpoint instead of divine viewpoint.

Both of these cosmic complexes exploit our bad decisions by placing us under the mental slavery of satanic duplicity and deceit.  However, the two have different manifestations:

THE COSMIC SYSTEM

	(Those in)	(Those in)
	Cosmic 1: Arrogance …	Cosmic 2: Hatred …

1. are preoccupied with self.  	1. are antagonistic toward         			God and His plan.
2. are the enemy of self.	2.	are the enemy of God.
3. emphasize self instead of God.	3.	emphasize human 					viewpoint instead of 				divine viewpoint.
4. have Satan’s mental attitude	4.	have Satan’s mental
	at his fall.		attitude after man’s fall.
5. have philosophy of Satan in	5.	have philosophy of Satan   	the prehistoric Angelic Conflict.  		in the historical Angelic         			Conflict.