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SUMS, SUMMITS and IN SUM

Adding Things Up, and Getting Things Down

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson


 

 

Published by World Wide Web Witness Inc.

January 2010

 

 ISBN 978-0-9807675-0-6


 

 

PREFACE

 

There comes a time when one must simply look at the facts, see them in contour, note their construction, watch for their constrictions, abide by their constraints, and act as the case requires.

There is a time for imagination and the seeking of wisdom, of vision; and there is a time when one must rest in quest, with what is found.

There is a time to discover, and a time to abide by the discovery.

There is a time to  seek God and to know the meaning, in sum, of what He has made, and a time to abide in the summit from which the perspective which stands and does not vary, is obtained.

There is a time to seek, and a time to find. There is a time to work and a time to rest. There is a time to ascend, and a time to be abased. When one is abased, there is a time to find the summit from which one has come, and a time to be restored to it, in one's own proper place,  as a subject of the sovereign of life, not a muddled profusion of confusion, but the very light by which one has looked, searched and found.

On the other hand, there is a time when many stop seeking, because they will not find. Their guilty guile removes from them the summit, and their pride or pretension removes the abasement necessary before the divine escalator restores.

There is a time to thirst, and a time to have thirst quenched. There is a time when it is timely to drink of the water which in mercy Jesus Christ, the divine Saviour gives, and there is a time when it is too late.

Let us then, at THIS time, look at the sums, the totallings,  the summits, the provisions of the Lord, and see things in sum.

 

 

 



 

 

CONTENTS

 

Chapter 1  

 

IN SUM, UNDER THE SUN    

SOMETHING FOR NOTHING, FROM NOTHING, FOR NO REASON

DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ?

Let's Leave Alice to her Imaginary Chalice and Return to Reason

 

Chapter 2

 

THE PROVISION, INSTALLATION, PROCLAMATION AND CONSUMMATION OF SALVATION

Luke 2:29-32

"Lord, now You are letting Your servant depart in peace,

According to Your word,

For my eyes have seen Your salvation

Which You have prepared before the face of all peoples,

A light to bring revelation to the Gentiles."

What  is more important among summits, than the summit of salvation, and there what better than finding in sum its security, certainty and source, its meaning application and personal relevance!

 

Chapter 3

 

Birth!

of God on Earth, and

therefore of the

Day,

Age,

Roaring Rage,

Restoration

and Index to His Return

 

Chapter 4

 In Sum

Volition, Ultra-Volition: The Knowledge of God

WHOM HE FOREKNEW THESE HE PREDESTINED

The final solution, the  same as the first solution,

in the Bible, the word of truth

 

Chapter 5

 

Pain, Penalty, Innocence, Goads, Glory and God

In Sum

Vice, Virtue, Liberty, Love and Pangs

 

Chapter 6

PAIN HAS ITS POINT AND SALVATION HAS ITS POINTER

ALTERNATE MODELS, OTHER MASTERS, OTHER COSTS

 

Pangs, Purposeful Prayer and Putting Paid to Spiritual Promiscuity

A Personal Approach for Persons; 

and

The Pain of Separation from Source

 

Resurgent Life and Insurgent Death

The Elemental in the Ascendant:

Christ crucified, yea rather risen

Elements in Decline

Emergent Agonies, The Emergent Pseudo-Church,

a Submersible Decadence and a Subversive Culture:

This is not All, nor any Excuse.

 

 

Chapter 7

 

The Rigorous Exclusions and
Marvellous Inclusions of
The Kingdom of Heaven

 Matthew 18:21-25, Luke 11:3-7, John 15:22-25

 

Chapter 8                    Ain't Doing Nothing

 

Chapter 9

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE IT

FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS

SECURING SPIRITUALITY AND

MAKING SENSE OF THIS WORLD

 

Chapter 10

 

The Trinity, the Truth and the  Time

A Father-Son Dialogue

 

Chapter 11

Spirit, Conscience, Confidence and Conquest
 

 

Chapter 12

 

On Summits:

The Mind of God
Superimposing all Summits,
and the Mind of Man
at the Base

The Structure and Perfection of
The Spiritual Summons


Epilogue

Adding Things Up, and Getting Things Down

 

FINALE               The Creation and the Situation:

Creativity Experientially and Experimentally