Saturday, September 7, 2019
Do You Believe Christ is the Word?
Most Christians today violate more of the word of God than they obey, because deep in their heart they do not take seriously that the Bible was Authored by Jesus Christ Who is called "The Word."
To negate the Word of God is to negate Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:1-5 "1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
To negate the Word of God is to negate Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:1-5 "1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
4 In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men.
5 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it."
Do Not Practice What the Pagans Do!
Exactly true Trudi!!! One way the devil has to deceive people is to make them believe something is just innocent fun or good for them. We ought to resist doing what the pagans do.
1 Thessalonians 5:20–22
20 do not despise prophetic utterances. 21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22 abstain from every form of evil.
Jeremiah 10:2–4
2 Thus says YHVH, “Do not learn the way of the nations (pagans), And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations are terrified by them; 3 For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. 4 “They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter.
Trudi Gretsinger said this:
If you think doing Yoga is okay and harmless.....after all, you probably do not meditate with this.....
Well read this....get educated......
If you think that you can use yoga only for physical training and not be affected by its spiritual side, you are wrong. You are wrong if you believe the many websites and teachers in the West who declare that yoga is just a harmless physical exercise.
The Bible warns of such spiritual seduction: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;” (1 TIMOTHY 4:1).
The Roots of Yoga
Let us take a small look at the roots of the yoga tree - and also have a smell at some of its fruit - for well did Christ say in MATTHEW 7:16 “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
It was the Lord Krishna (one of Hindu's many millions of deities), in the Bhagavad Gita, who introduced the ritual of yoga as a way of achieving union with the universe. The Sanskrit word yoga actually means "union" or "yoking", aiming at bringing about the union of the human spirit with the spirit of the universe. But what is more deeply meant is a separation from the physical illusion of life.
A great part of Hindu teaching is that this world and all we see, is nothing more than an illusion.
Ironically, while yoga in the west is, more often than not, promoted as a way to achieve health and a better way of living; in the east, where it originated, it is more openly understood to be a way of dying.
How Yoga Became Popular in the West
Although yoga has been known to the West since before Christ, and has been practiced in the East for almost 3000 years, it really only took off in the West in a significant way around the same time of the explosion of the drug culture in the 60’s, and the growth of certain types of music.
Many people involved with psychedelic drugs were (and are still today) attracted to any experience that offered an expansion of conscience, or a change of perceived reality.
One of the Lies Today
One branch or path of yoga is called Hatha Yoga and this is probably what most people in the West associate with the word "yoga" – believing it is being practised only for mental and physical health.2
Some of the positions in yoga are not quite as harmless as they may appear, but are obviously of occult origin, as in the “cobra”, which is usually followed by “greeting the sun” – and taking the pose of the “mountain”. These are all positions which are designed to welcome Hindu gods.
Ouija boards, Tarot cards, Astrology signs and symbols may all seem harmless to some, but like yoga, they have an idea attached
Of course, it could be asked whether something purely physical can have any spiritual implications. One needs only look at such practices as Ouija boards, Tarot cards, Astrology signs and symbols may all seem harmless to some, but like yoga, they have an idea attached to them that is the problem..
Karma & Reincarnation
Yoga was specifically designed as a way to escape the constant and never-ending deaths and rebirths of reincarnation - ("...the fire of yoga burns all Karmas", Kundalini Yoga, by Sri Swami Sivananda).
Does one remember what one did wrong? Believers in reincarnation will respond with "in the sub-conscience" but how may I change if it is locked away in my sub-conscience? How can I learn from it?
The idea of karma however goes so far that some believers will not help people - as you may inadvertently be helping someone who is in trouble due to bad karma, and who is supposed to be working it off - and so by helping them you actually take away their chance to work it off.
This all stands of course in total opposition to the Word of God - as stated in HEBREWS 9:27 - "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
Is it not a strange situation that in India, where the teaching of karma and reincarnation has been alive for longer than anywhere else in the world, that the economic progress there only breeds social injustice and that poverty, starvation and terrible suffering just continue to increase?
Personal Result of Yoga - Awakening Kundalini
It may be true that the asanas (positions) and even perhaps the pranayama (breathing) can have health benefits, but the ultimate goal in yoga is something much more sinister. Very few Western yoga teachers actually touch upon this aspect of yoga – but according to the ancient texts, it is indeed the main aim - the asanas and the pranayama really intend to produce the awakening of what is known as "kundalini power", which is taught as being a snake coiled around the base of the spine.
When this serpent is awakened, it will then move up through the body, through the "chakras" (the so-called life-force centres) and once it reaches the "crown chakra" (or the top of the head) it will explode into the so called "thousand-petalled lotus".
This is when the danger really starts, and for many people from this point onwards it is almost impossible to return to any semblance of normality. The ancient texts actually include a warning about this, but most Western teachers are either ignorant of it, being too aware of the vast revenues that yoga can bring in, or are indeed themselves deceived and are willingly leading people down a very dangerous path.
What Do You Do about It?
Things may not have become as bad as that for you, but be aware anyway – if you practice yoga, you practice Hinduism; and the more you do it, the more you open yourself up to the spiritual side of it. Thousands of others have experienced very similar things while practising yoga. Not all have been as fortunate as I in being set free from this – many have become insane, or indeed been driven to suicide.3
Yoga is not just a harmless physical exercise, it opens the door to demonic control. On which side do you ultimately want to stand? The devil’s or Christ’s? The consequences are more serious than you might realise.
JOHN 10:10 - "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
And how is this abundant life given by Jesus Christ?
JOHN 3:5 - "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
1 Thessalonians 5:20–22
20 do not despise prophetic utterances. 21 But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good; 22 abstain from every form of evil.
Jeremiah 10:2–4
2 Thus says YHVH, “Do not learn the way of the nations (pagans), And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens Although the nations are terrified by them; 3 For the customs of the peoples are delusion; Because it is wood cut from the forest, The work of the hands of a craftsman with a cutting tool. 4 “They decorate it with silver and with gold; They fasten it with nails and with hammers So that it will not totter.
Trudi Gretsinger said this:
If you think doing Yoga is okay and harmless.....after all, you probably do not meditate with this.....
Well read this....get educated......
If you think that you can use yoga only for physical training and not be affected by its spiritual side, you are wrong. You are wrong if you believe the many websites and teachers in the West who declare that yoga is just a harmless physical exercise.
The Bible warns of such spiritual seduction: “Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;” (1 TIMOTHY 4:1).
The Roots of Yoga
Let us take a small look at the roots of the yoga tree - and also have a smell at some of its fruit - for well did Christ say in MATTHEW 7:16 “Ye shall know them by their fruits.”
It was the Lord Krishna (one of Hindu's many millions of deities), in the Bhagavad Gita, who introduced the ritual of yoga as a way of achieving union with the universe. The Sanskrit word yoga actually means "union" or "yoking", aiming at bringing about the union of the human spirit with the spirit of the universe. But what is more deeply meant is a separation from the physical illusion of life.
A great part of Hindu teaching is that this world and all we see, is nothing more than an illusion.
Ironically, while yoga in the west is, more often than not, promoted as a way to achieve health and a better way of living; in the east, where it originated, it is more openly understood to be a way of dying.
How Yoga Became Popular in the West
Although yoga has been known to the West since before Christ, and has been practiced in the East for almost 3000 years, it really only took off in the West in a significant way around the same time of the explosion of the drug culture in the 60’s, and the growth of certain types of music.
Many people involved with psychedelic drugs were (and are still today) attracted to any experience that offered an expansion of conscience, or a change of perceived reality.
One of the Lies Today
One branch or path of yoga is called Hatha Yoga and this is probably what most people in the West associate with the word "yoga" – believing it is being practised only for mental and physical health.2
Some of the positions in yoga are not quite as harmless as they may appear, but are obviously of occult origin, as in the “cobra”, which is usually followed by “greeting the sun” – and taking the pose of the “mountain”. These are all positions which are designed to welcome Hindu gods.
Ouija boards, Tarot cards, Astrology signs and symbols may all seem harmless to some, but like yoga, they have an idea attached
Of course, it could be asked whether something purely physical can have any spiritual implications. One needs only look at such practices as Ouija boards, Tarot cards, Astrology signs and symbols may all seem harmless to some, but like yoga, they have an idea attached to them that is the problem..
Karma & Reincarnation
Yoga was specifically designed as a way to escape the constant and never-ending deaths and rebirths of reincarnation - ("...the fire of yoga burns all Karmas", Kundalini Yoga, by Sri Swami Sivananda).
Does one remember what one did wrong? Believers in reincarnation will respond with "in the sub-conscience" but how may I change if it is locked away in my sub-conscience? How can I learn from it?
The idea of karma however goes so far that some believers will not help people - as you may inadvertently be helping someone who is in trouble due to bad karma, and who is supposed to be working it off - and so by helping them you actually take away their chance to work it off.
This all stands of course in total opposition to the Word of God - as stated in HEBREWS 9:27 - "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:"
Is it not a strange situation that in India, where the teaching of karma and reincarnation has been alive for longer than anywhere else in the world, that the economic progress there only breeds social injustice and that poverty, starvation and terrible suffering just continue to increase?
Personal Result of Yoga - Awakening Kundalini
It may be true that the asanas (positions) and even perhaps the pranayama (breathing) can have health benefits, but the ultimate goal in yoga is something much more sinister. Very few Western yoga teachers actually touch upon this aspect of yoga – but according to the ancient texts, it is indeed the main aim - the asanas and the pranayama really intend to produce the awakening of what is known as "kundalini power", which is taught as being a snake coiled around the base of the spine.
When this serpent is awakened, it will then move up through the body, through the "chakras" (the so-called life-force centres) and once it reaches the "crown chakra" (or the top of the head) it will explode into the so called "thousand-petalled lotus".
This is when the danger really starts, and for many people from this point onwards it is almost impossible to return to any semblance of normality. The ancient texts actually include a warning about this, but most Western teachers are either ignorant of it, being too aware of the vast revenues that yoga can bring in, or are indeed themselves deceived and are willingly leading people down a very dangerous path.
What Do You Do about It?
Things may not have become as bad as that for you, but be aware anyway – if you practice yoga, you practice Hinduism; and the more you do it, the more you open yourself up to the spiritual side of it. Thousands of others have experienced very similar things while practising yoga. Not all have been as fortunate as I in being set free from this – many have become insane, or indeed been driven to suicide.3
Yoga is not just a harmless physical exercise, it opens the door to demonic control. On which side do you ultimately want to stand? The devil’s or Christ’s? The consequences are more serious than you might realise.
JOHN 10:10 - "The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly."
And how is this abundant life given by Jesus Christ?
JOHN 3:5 - "Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
Setting Our Sights on Christ Not on Man
2 Corinthians 3:17-18
"…17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."
When I was much younger and having babies I was told by Christians that I should name my children after famous men from the Bible to give them great men to emulate as they grew up.
I questioned this practice because it didn't make sense to me. I didn't believe that someone automatically became the character of the man they were named after simply because they had that man's name.
Then as I pondered that all men are fallen, all men need a Savior and no one is without sin, it occurred to me that naming a child after a man would not only reflect the idea of the good of that man it would also reflect the evil of that man. Since it was evident to me that all men have some good and all men have some evil but that an unregenerate man is basically all evil, then it made no sense to me to guide our children toward revering a man or woman they were named after.
Romans 3:23
"23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
It occurred to me that God said we should emulate Christ, only He is worthy to be followed. Following the character of any man is to set our sights on men rather than on Christ.
Names in the Jewish culture had meaning to describe the man's character and were guided by God Himself in many cases. As we read God's word we see this in the Hebrew culture. However we see no mandate in the word of God for Gentiles to name their children according to a genealogy.
God's people, the Jews, had a special mandate from God concerning names because they were the special people with an heritage down from David through the line of Christ.
I do believe it is possible that God gives names to the heart of a parent that reflect what the character of that child will become. But only God knows the character of a child. Naming a child after someone because we like them or they have done something good has no magical power or influence over a child's character. It is better to hear from God in the naming of our children so that they reflect their own character and not that of another man.
I know this is true because I know many people in my lifetime who have been named after family members who were nothing like their namesakes. They didn't emulate them or even know much about them to be able to emulate them. Some of these people were a disgrace to their namesake and others became better than the one whom they were named after.
1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."
God would never tell us to become like another man. But He does tell born again believers to become like Christ.
If you were not named after someone you were special. You were a blank slate that God could shape into whatever He wanted without prejudice.
Also remember that God has His own name for us based on our own character, personality and talents. Each individual will stand before the Lord for who they are, not anyone they were named after.
A woman will stand before the Lord alone without her husband to give an account of her life, it will not be based on the life of her husband. Every human being will stand alone before God to give an account based on their own decisions, their own trust in Christ or lack of trust in Christ.
No one will be able to use anyone else as an excuse for their actions or lack of actions. No one will be using their name sake as a reason why they did anything.
The person we were named after does not live in us, does not direct us and has no influence over us, only Christ is all that for us.
I guess my point is this; do not be hindered by the example of the person you were named after, set your sights higher toward Christ Who saved you, lives in you and guides your path.
Only Christ is worthy to be emulated!
Psalms 118:8 - "[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."
Those who are born again trust in Christ alone!
"…17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. 18 And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into His image with intensifying glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit."
When I was much younger and having babies I was told by Christians that I should name my children after famous men from the Bible to give them great men to emulate as they grew up.
I questioned this practice because it didn't make sense to me. I didn't believe that someone automatically became the character of the man they were named after simply because they had that man's name.
Then as I pondered that all men are fallen, all men need a Savior and no one is without sin, it occurred to me that naming a child after a man would not only reflect the idea of the good of that man it would also reflect the evil of that man. Since it was evident to me that all men have some good and all men have some evil but that an unregenerate man is basically all evil, then it made no sense to me to guide our children toward revering a man or woman they were named after.
Romans 3:23
"23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,"
It occurred to me that God said we should emulate Christ, only He is worthy to be followed. Following the character of any man is to set our sights on men rather than on Christ.
Names in the Jewish culture had meaning to describe the man's character and were guided by God Himself in many cases. As we read God's word we see this in the Hebrew culture. However we see no mandate in the word of God for Gentiles to name their children according to a genealogy.
God's people, the Jews, had a special mandate from God concerning names because they were the special people with an heritage down from David through the line of Christ.
I do believe it is possible that God gives names to the heart of a parent that reflect what the character of that child will become. But only God knows the character of a child. Naming a child after someone because we like them or they have done something good has no magical power or influence over a child's character. It is better to hear from God in the naming of our children so that they reflect their own character and not that of another man.
I know this is true because I know many people in my lifetime who have been named after family members who were nothing like their namesakes. They didn't emulate them or even know much about them to be able to emulate them. Some of these people were a disgrace to their namesake and others became better than the one whom they were named after.
1 Corinthians 2:15-16 "…15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment. 16 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, so as to instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ."
God would never tell us to become like another man. But He does tell born again believers to become like Christ.
If you were not named after someone you were special. You were a blank slate that God could shape into whatever He wanted without prejudice.
Also remember that God has His own name for us based on our own character, personality and talents. Each individual will stand before the Lord for who they are, not anyone they were named after.
A woman will stand before the Lord alone without her husband to give an account of her life, it will not be based on the life of her husband. Every human being will stand alone before God to give an account based on their own decisions, their own trust in Christ or lack of trust in Christ.
No one will be able to use anyone else as an excuse for their actions or lack of actions. No one will be using their name sake as a reason why they did anything.
The person we were named after does not live in us, does not direct us and has no influence over us, only Christ is all that for us.
I guess my point is this; do not be hindered by the example of the person you were named after, set your sights higher toward Christ Who saved you, lives in you and guides your path.
Only Christ is worthy to be emulated!
Psalms 118:8 - "[It is] better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man."
Those who are born again trust in Christ alone!
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