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SERENITY NOT SERENDIPITY
CALLED TO BE SAINTS, NOT RECONSTRUCTED TO BE ROBOTS
Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson
Presented by World Wide Web Witness Inc.
PREFACE
Man in the image of God is becoming all but anything through contortions and distortions:
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psychic passion mover, religious
surrealist, social dictator, determinist dragooned, |
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liberationist enchained, liberty
lover on a controlled cruise, |
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dreamer fiddling with atomic power,
distraught dynamic dim in wit, |
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genius worker estranged and
alienating from the source of his own mind, |
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spiritual loft maker, dismal in performance: |
these all figure in the work of the playwrights, not this time of literary cast, but human kaleidoscope, as man is formed, forged, deformed, deluded.
It is not so difficult really. Robots under the regality of shallow minds, this is increasingly a specialty for all the determinist delusionists*1, whether their thought is simply private, socially governing or politically enforced. Serendipitists, alert for wonders without source, pleasure seekers in philosophic hiding, these too are not a few, and are of diverse kinds.
As man seeks to control the thought, society and even vocabulary of man (in Australia a ludicrous law was even passed to exclude certain WORDS from political literature), and others of his human race seek to exclude such controls, only to implement others, given various salubrious sounding names, there is need to realise that liberty is not a poetic name for licence, but a provision for law-abiding living, when the law is the law of God. This, like laws of the road, gives vast liberty; but its violation removes it altogether, first in scope, then in kind.
The splendour of the regality of God, the marvel of His individuality-preserving Spirit, the elixir of His presence, the reality of His grace, these are quite simply things without which man becomes, sooner or later, trash. Hell supplies a route end for that desecration. The desecration itself however is the grief of griefs, that man sails straight at the rocks, while disdaining those who point out the unwisdom of such folly! More and more, vessels are being made bigger, to take more billions on board, for the experience of a death-time, collision with Christ. It is done by seedy captains, in sleazy spiritual quarters, where intoxication rules, even that of spirit (cf. Ephesians 4:17-19).
The Rock, Jesus Christ, is the foundation on which to stand, and by no means the fixture to face in confrontation. Truth is like that, and He is it. Collision with that merely eviscerates your stupidity, and the worse that is, the more serious is that operation.
An interesting term with many ramifications is discussed in Ch. 1 to come, and a stimulating article on it is currently found at this URL:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2004/02/01/a_scholars_serendipity/
It is not serendipity but spirituality which is needed; and that not vague self-made ideas about things spiritual, divorced from God and torn from His word in strips, and impregnated with erratic philosophy, as is the custom with mankind, but God's own provisions, pronouncements and good pleasure. Then it is avast to truth and avaunt to dimness, such as we find in Isaiah 8, as it moves on into Isaiah 9, dimness of anguish.
This world is whirling into greater darkness BECAUSE it has greater sin in greater and more universal efforts to ditch Christ, the only demonstrable basis for truth, and hitch up its soul onto the nearest post, sitting hapless in the moving ground. It is good to reflect (sometimes as one dentist of my acquaintance declared) on these things; just as it is well to find land before building, and rock as a basis. It is wise to reflect early, long and with fearless fervour, and to find Him who when sought with all the heart, and mind, and soul, is surely found. He is not distant from any one of us; but divorce has sour relationships, and not knowing your Maker is a very vulnerable and even vicious type divorce. It is better, far, to be reconciled (II Corinthians 5:17ff.).
On these things, see for example Barbs 6 -7, Repent or Perish Chs. 2 and 7 and Deity and Design, Designation and Destiny.
See Repent or Perish 7 , Christ Incomparable ... Ch. 2, and Indexes.
CONTENTS
SERENITY NOT SERENDIPITY
CALLED TO BE SAINTS, NOT RECONSTRUCTED TO BE ROBOTS
FIGURING, TRANSFIGURATION AND TRUTH
Life
has its Prelude in Creation,
but this is the Drama of its Culmination
CALLED to be SAINTS
NOT RECONSTRUCTED to be ROBOTS
PSALM 16
BODIES AND SOULS, MATRIX AND MYSTICISM -
and CHRIST, WHERE GLORY RESTS
I TOLD YOU SO!
SERENITY NOT SERENDIPITY
CALLED TO BE SAINTS
AVAST! IT IS HIS MAST, WHO IS MASTER OF ALL
NOT THE PRESUMPTION OF SERENDIPITOUS HOPE
BUT THE PEACE OF PREDESTINATIVE PRECISION
Ephesians 1:4
BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS
AND ITS ORCHESTRA
I Peter 3:21
THE UNIVERSAL HEART
ATTACK,
AND THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE, JESUS CHRIST
The Shaking of the Shakeable
Powers
and the Strengthening of that which Remains
Hebrews 12:25-29
THE UNIVERSAL SIN
ATTACK,
AND THE ONLY ANSWER, JESUS CHRIST
"COME
AND HEAR, ALL YOU WHO FEAR GOD,
AND I WILL DECLARE WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR MY SOUL."
Psalm 66
STORIES ABOUT
STORIES AND FACTS ABOUT TRUTH
THE UNIVERSAL POISON GAS
ATTACK,
AND THE ONLY FRESH AIR, JESUS CHRIST
A TALE OF TWO PITIES
News 426, The Australian, Monday November 9, 2009
STORIES ABOUT
STORIES AND FACTS ABOUT TRUTH
THE UNIVERSAL SIN
ATTACK,
AND THE ONLY ANSWER, JESUS CHRIST
A TALE OF TWO PITIES
News 426, The Australian, Monday November 9, 2009
THE LIFE OR THE LIE,
THE ONLY ESCAPE
FROM THE LATTER,
THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
Isaiah 30 et al.
in FOCUS
CALLED TO BE SAINTS -
NOT RECONDITIONED TO BE ROBOTS -
BY JESUS CHRIST
"IN RETURNING AND REST YOU SHALL BE SAVED."
CALLED TO BE SAINTS -
BY JESUS CHRIST
DO YOURSELF NO HARM ... THANKS BE TO GOD WHO GIVES US THE VICTORYTHROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST
Acts 16:28-31 with I Corinthians 15:51-57
THE PURITY OF THE HEART OF GOD IS SO ABSOLUTE
THAT PREDESTINATION SIMPLY SEALS WHAT
FOREKNOWLEDGE FINDS AND LOVE SEEKS IN GRACEWITHOUT FRUSTRATION WHEN IT IS CALLED NAMES
"IT PLEASED THE FATHER ...TO RECONCILE ALL THINGS T O HIMSELF ...
HAVING MADE PEACE THROUGH THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS"
Colossians 1:19