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Now in part one, what we dealt with was
the exercises of Loyola.

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And we saw how the spiritual exercises of
Loyola are being applied in the world

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today in many forms and many guises,
and that they are a counterfeit to faith.

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Faith is the substance of things hoped
for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Faith is something that you grasp because
it says so.

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The Word says so, therefore it is.

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Faith is total trust.

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The spiritual exercises are hands-on.

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You experience, you have a feeling,
you have a meeting with whatever it is you

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are imagining until it becomes real.

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So it is the counterfeit to faith.

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Now, unfortunately, this has crept into
every aspect of Christianity.

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And it is a very delicate subject because
everything we're going to speak of is in

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vogue today.

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And because it is in vogue doesn't
necessarily mean that it is from God.

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The Reformation rejected the spiritual
exercises as a means of finding your

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relationship with God, and Luther taught
that the just shall walk by faith.

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You walk by faith.

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Now, how are they putting spiritual
exercises into practice?

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Ignatius Loyola said the first thing you
have to do is imagine the place.

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You must visualize it, and it must become
a reality, and then you must actually get

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to the point where you communicate on a
one-to-one basis, and there are various

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rituals that you go through until you
finally have this spiritual experience.

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Now, the first megachurches to put it into
practice were some of the very big

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evangelization churches that beamed it up
throughout the world on their television

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networks.

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Robert Schuller.

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Here is Paul Yonggi Cho, head of the
world's largest church in South Korea,

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and he wrote a book, The Fourth Dimension,
and Robert Schuller said the following in

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regard to visualization in the foreword to
this book.

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He said, I discovered the reality of that
dynamic dimension in prayer, fourth

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dimension, in prayer that comes through
visualizing.

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Don't try to understand it, just start to
enjoy it.

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It's true, it works, I tried it.

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Now, visualization is the first method,
if you like, of the spiritual exercises of

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layala, and it is a form of hypnosis.

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Psychologist Michael Yapko explains many
times therapists aren't even aware that

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they're doing hypnosis.

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They're doing what they call guided
imagery, which is visualization,

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or guided meditation, which are all very
mainstream hypnotic techniques.

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If you need hypnosis to capture your loved
one, then you're in big, big trouble.

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If you can't do it with being yourself,
then forget it.

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Here we have the Inner Experience
Explored, Mystical Experience Registry,

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Carl Jung.

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Now, we'll tie psychology, we'll tie
spiritual meditation and visualization

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together with all of these techniques in
order to experience a phenomenon.

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Now, Carl Jung had mystical experiences
himself.

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The Swiss psychologist and major
contributor to psychotherapy, Carl Jung,

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cultivated the ability to have visions
from deep imagination.

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Some would label these explorations as
mystical experience, while others would

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say they are more akin to the sort of
creating thinking artists did.

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So there's a fine line here.

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In addition to these experiences,
Jung had several spontaneous visions when

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he was recovering from a heart attack when
he was about 69 years old.

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All of his visions are described in detail
in his book, Memories, Dreams,

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and Reflections.

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And I want you to see how this happened
and where he went.

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I'm going to read one of them.

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This comes from the Mystical Experience
Registry, Jung's recorded active

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imagination experience.

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Jung uses a visual technique that he has
found helps him go deeper into active

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imagination.

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This technique is realistic visualization
as descended a great distance.

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In this experience he figures that he has
descended about a thousand feet.

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So you go down, down, down, down.

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There he discovers a cosmic abyss.

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Next he sees something like a moon crater
and then he has the feeling that he's in

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the hand of the dead.

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Near the steep slope of a rock he catches
sight of two people, one an old man and

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the other a beautiful young girl.

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I want you to notice what he's what he's
seeing and as he's visualizing this.

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He summons up his courage and approaches
them.

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He listens carefully to what they say.

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The old man turns out to be the biblical
figure Elijah and the girl Salome.

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Now there's an odd couple.

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That's an extremely odd couple.

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Elijah, who was translated without seeing
death.

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Elijah, the type of the anti-typical
end-time Elijah.

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Salome, a totally different type.

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She was the daughter of Herodias.

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She's the one who danced before the king.

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She's the one who asked for the head of
John the Baptist.

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That's an interesting typology.

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We'll deal with that in the next lecture.

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So here is this odd couple.

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One for good and one for evil.

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And what does he imagine?

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What a strange couple he muses.

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But Elijah tells Jung that he and Salome
belong together for all eternity.

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What do we have here?

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We have yin-yang.

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We have the fusion, the cosmic fusion,
pantheistic fusion of good and evil.

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And they belong together for all eternity.

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Along with the two is a third,
a large black snake.

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Jung sticks close to Elijah and keeps his
distance from Salome.

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I would do that too, by the way.

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You could lose your head in the process.

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You never know.

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Over time, Jung holds conversation with
Elijah, who eventually changes into

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another figure, Philemon.

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Philemon teaches Jung about the nature of
human consciousness.

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Jung begins to see how autonomous inner
figures can act.

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It is the inner figure that seems to hold
this knowledge, not Jung.

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Again, Jung's inner figure changes.

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This time it alters to take on the form of
the Egyptian notion of the spirit car.

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Vintage edition of memories, dreams,
reflections.

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There is the quotation.

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So here you have the full catastrophe.

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Good, evil, inner voices, and the soul
spirit, which is the car, which is part of

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the human makeup.

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Now let's go to St. Louis University.

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Ignatian passion, the challenge of the
cross in the 21st century.

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Now we're talking Jesuits, straight up.

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Ignatian passion.

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Carl Jung and the spiritual exercises of
Ignatius Loyola.

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Presenter Anthony Timor, PhD, special
assistant to the president, Georgetown

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University, Jesuit University.

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Fascinating.

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What do a 20th century Swiss psychoanalyst
and a 16th century Spanish mystic have to

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say to each other?

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Talking about Ignatius Loyola and Jungian
psychology.

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This workshop is based on the premise that
Carl Jung offers a uniquely compatible

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psychological framework for understanding
the dynamics of the spiritual exercises of

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Ignatius Loyola.

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Here we have a marriage of convenience.

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It will begin with an overview of the
structure of the psych according to Jung.

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The Jungian framework will then be applied
to the spiritual exercises.

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Some of the themes covered will be the
archetypical imaginary in Ignatius's

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account of his conversion experience at
Loyola, discernment of spirits,

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movement of the self towards wholeness,
the principle and foundation of the

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desires of the authentic self,
connecting to unconscious psychic energy

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and hearing the call of the king,
the practice of Jungian active imagination

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and Ignatian contemplation.

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This is a cult to its very core,
but this forms the basis of modern

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spirituality.

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Gone is the walk where you walk by faith
and you trust the Lord because he said so.

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Gone is the faith where you have a
relationship with Jesus Christ.

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Now you have to experience it in a
tangible, touchable feeling.

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So it's no longer faith, it's no longer
substance of things hoped for and evidence

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of things not seen because it becomes a
reality.

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Let's see how the same contemplation works
outside of the church.

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According to Marianne, A Course in
Miracles is a self-study program,

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this is the Oprah Winfrey website,
of spiritual psychotherapy contained in

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three books.

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It is not a religion but rather a
psychological mind training based on

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universal spiritual themes.

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So here you have the same type of approach
completely outside of the spiritual realm

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and we're moving into a totally different
realm here and it's being offered in a

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secular capacity.

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So let's have a look at how they do this.

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Here is a discussion, the power of
meditation with Oprah and Sheryl

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Richardson, Oprah and life coach.

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Please note the terminology.

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The terminology is even the same.

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Coach, Sheryl Richardson, talk about the
importance of meditation, explain how you

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can get started centering upon yourself.

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Here we go, Sheryl.

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So don't worry if nothing miraculous
happens in the next five minutes,

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as long as you spend five minutes of quiet
time with yourself just turning your

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vision inward, which is what closing your
eyes allows you to do, you've succeeded.

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You've accomplished something very,
very important.

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As a matter of fact, probably one of the
most important things in your life.

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So I'm going to just do a five minute
meditation, guided visualization.

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You're getting the connecting,
getting the dots together here?

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You might want to put things down on the
floor around you, get comfortable,

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sit in a way that feels comfortable to
you.

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That's the basis of the first step towards
hypnosis.

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Oprah, so just start there and you will be
surprised by the discipline that comes

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from doing it on a regular basis,
how your life begins to unfold for you

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differently.

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I call it centering upon myself.

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Fascinating stuff.

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Alright, so we find it in the secular
world, the mega media, and millions of

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people are drinking it in, in the
spiritual and the non-spiritual world.

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Let's go to another world.

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Let's go to the sports world.

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Here is the official webpage of the
Olympics that have just taken place.

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The Beijing 2008 Olympics.

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One world, one dream.

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Isn't that interesting?

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There's so much to read between the lines.

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One world, one dream.

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This is the mega movement to the one world
mindset.

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Well, let's have a look.

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Black Pope Hans Kollenbach, the Jesuits
general, what do they have to say in this

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quote?

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The Jesuits in sport.

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They're the ones in government.

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They're the ones behind professional
sports.

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The owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers in
2000 is the Knight of Malta.

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The owner of the Detroit Lions in 2000 is
the Knight of Malta.

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All the top owners of these ball clubs for
the most part are Knights of Malta,

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getting the people whooped up on this
hoopla over games and sports while they're

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busy creating a tyranny.

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Well, that's a quote from an author,
and they do own the sports world.

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They are the masters of visualization.

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That's where their spiritual exercises
come from, and they're using it in sports.

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Visualization and sports psychology,
you can check it out anywhere you want.

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Mind training for triathlon, whatever the
mind can conceive and believe,

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it can achieve.

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That's the power of positive thinking.

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Do you lack confidence?

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Do you need this, that, that, and the
other?

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I'll show you how to do it.

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The essential component to visualization.

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Visualization is the best method I've seen
for programming yourself for success.

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Through the all-powerful subconscious
mind, the key to all sport.

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This is the simple act of regular mentally
imagining yourself performing at your peak

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level.

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They say it's even more important than the
training.

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You sit down, you relax, and you run in
your head, and you win.

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Power of positive thinking.

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Trouble is, what if everybody starts doing
that?

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Who's going to win then?

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Just a thought, never mind.

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So here your subconscious goes into
overgear.

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Effective visualization is the answer to
overcoming most triathletes' problems and

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reaching the next level of improvement.

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The main reason why the daily
visualization recording is so effective,

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now you get a recording and you just play
it into your ear, is because of automatic

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relaxation.

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Now listen, this is their own words.

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The hypnotic relaxation recording places
you in an easy and automatic state of

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relaxation, perfect for visualization.

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The visualization gets more powerful each
day.

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The recording has to be designed to become
stronger and more effective by day.

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It can even work while you're asleep.

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Now imagine a relationship with Jesus
Christ, and Jesus compares a relationship

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with your wife, in a husband and wife
situation.

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So if I want a good relationship with my
wife, I get my pendulum out, I get my

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music out, and I go oooooooo until her
eyes go oooooooo and then I get a maid.

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That's pathetic.

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That's pathetic.

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Let's take another one.

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Are you a better swimmer than your results
are showing?

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Mind training for swimmer.

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And who are the trainers?

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Craig In clinical, what?

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Hypnosis.

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Many techniques, such as visualization,
had to be specially tailored and

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specialized to suit swimmers.

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Otherwise, they simply didn't work.

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And so, many head coaches, swimmers around
the world, and also many U.S.

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university competitive swimming programs
use this technique.

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Here's another one.

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Get in the zone and stay there.

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Who are the people training these people?

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The psychotherapist, hypnotherapist,
author, lecturer, then they give his name,

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psychotherapist, 24 hours of clinical
experience.

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He trains, who?

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Golfers, tennis players, baseball players,
martial arts, bowlers, fencers,

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the whole shooting match.

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Everybody comes to him to get this hoopla.

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The power of visualization.

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Here's another man, author, and there's
his name, he's a master educator on mental

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training to achieve peak performance,
psychologist who has worked with Olympic

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athletes and teams, Canada,
da-da-da-da-da.

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What did he do?

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Realities beyond hypnosis.

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Are you getting the drift?

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That we're not making this up?

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Power of visualization has helped millions
of people achieve goals.

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So you need visualization to achieve your
relationship on a spiritual level as well.

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So now let's go to blatant New Age.

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New Age, Ascended Masters Research Centre,
gems from the Ascended Masters,

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true visualization and excerpt from I Am
Discourses.

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Where are we going?

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Now we're going to visualize ourselves to
the point of being God.

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True visualization is God's attribute and
power of sight acting in the mind of men.

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When one consciously pictures in his mind
the desire he wishes fulfilled,

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he is using one of the most powerful means
of bringing it into his visible,

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tangible experience.

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I am God.

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I can do it.

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I have the power within me.

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This is the language of the serpent.

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Dave Hunt writes in his Occult Invasion,
Occultism has always involved three

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techniques for changing and creating
reality.

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Thinking, speaking, visualization.

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There is no doubt that this technique is
not a religious technique solely.

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It is used across a broad spectrum of
human activity.

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Now let's get back to Robert Schuller.

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He says, you don't know what power you
have within you.

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You make the world into anything you
choose.

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Yes, you can make your world into whatever
you want it to be.

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This is power religion.

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True religion is magnifying Jesus,
and he must become more and I must become

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less.

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It is important to remember that
meditation in any form is the harnessing

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by human means of God's divine laws.

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We are endowed with a great many powers
and forces that we do not yet fully

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understand.

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The most effective mantras employ the M
sound.

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You can get the feel of it by repeating,
I am, I am, I am, I am, I am, many times

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over.

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Isn't that a blasphemy to say that I am?

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Move into mighty moods of meditation,
he says.

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Draw energy from the centers of sacred
solitude, serenity and silence.

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Sacred silence.

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Find yourself coming alive in the garden
of the prayer called meditation.

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That's your own little private place.

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Yes, the new ages have grabbed hold of
meditation.

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Hey, Christian, hear me.

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Let's not give up the glorious God-given
gift of meditation by turning it over to

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those outside of our faith.

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So now they're using this hypnotic tool,
and any form of hypnosis is never from

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God.

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Why?

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Because God has never designed that one
mind should be subject to another in

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anything.

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You are a free agent, accountable to God
and not to someone else.

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True meditation is always word-based.

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Psalms 119, 140, 48.

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Mine eyes prevent the night watchers that
I might meditate in thy word.

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Contemplate the word.

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Not visualize all kinds of things and
then, you know, let it happen.

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When I remember thee upon my bed and
meditate on thee in the night watchers,

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I will meditate also all thy works and
talk about thy doings.

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That is, living the word.

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Believing the word and talking about the
goodness of God.

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The word meditate, siak, a primitive root.

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To ponder, to converse, to commune,
complain, declare, meditate, muse,

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pray, speak, talk.

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So when the Bible uses this word,
it says, talk to God.

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He's your friend.

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Don't go, ooooh, go and talk.

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Talk like with a friend.

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Pastor Steve Mitchell, Garden City Grace
Brethren Church, quotes Schuller as

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saying, The secret of winning unchurched
people into the church is really quite

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simple.

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Find out what would impress the
non-churched in your community,

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then give it to them.

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Wow.

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Whatever it takes, just do it.

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He took his cues from Norman Vincent Peale
and began an approach to ministry that all

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but did away with expository preaching
centering on God's word.

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It's replaced that.

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And decided to address what he felt were
people's psychological and emotional

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needs.

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While you don't have to go to church for
that, you can tune in to Oprah Winfrey for

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that.

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You don't have to go to church.

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You can do that elsewhere.

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This approach shifted the focus from God
to man.

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And ultimately gave birth to a lot of what
we see today in terms of pragmatic or

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do-whatever-works-to-get-the-folks-in
strategy regardless of whether we see

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these methods in the Bible or not.

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He's right.

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We're getting a man-centered religion.

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Schuller said blatantly the church's
problem is that it had a God-centered

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theology for centuries when it needs a
man-centered one.

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Self-esteem, the new reformation.

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Page 115.

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So we have to get away from this
God-centered religion to a man-centered

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religion.

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And my question is, where did he get that
idea from?

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Did he make it up?

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Malachi Martin, keys of this blood.

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Roman Catholic pontifical professor.

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At the conclusion of Vatican II,
Pope Paul VI told the bishops that their

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church had decided to opt for man and to
serve man to help him build his home on

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this earth.

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Man with his ideas and his aims.

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Man with his hopes and fears.

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Man in his difficulties and sufferings.

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That was the centerpiece of the church's
interest, said the pontiff to his bishops.

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So where did he get the idea?

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He got it from his Roman Catholic mentor,
the Pope.

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That's where he got it from.

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This is a new theology to get the whole
world into one big soup tank.

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He writes, Robert Schuller says,
Self-esteem then or pride in being a human

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being is the single greatest need facing
the human race today.

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I strongly suggest that self-love is the
ultimate will of man.

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Good grief.

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That what you really want more than
anything else in the world is the

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awareness that you are a worthy person.

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Do not fear pride.

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The easiest job God has is to humble us.

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God's almost impossible task is to keep us
believing every hour of every day how

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great we are as his sons and daughters on
the planet.

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He'll have to change the hymns.

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We'll have to sing from now on,
How great we are!

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How great we are!

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Isn't that terrible?

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What does Timothy say to Timothy?

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This know also that in the last days
perilous times shall come for men shall be

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lovers of their own self.

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You know the verse.

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I don't have to read it to you.

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Self-love is something which the Bible
condemns.

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The whole aim of Christianity is emptying
yourself and pouring yourself out for

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others.

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Not centering on self and imagining your
great I am experience.

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This author writes, by beholding Christ
you will become changed until you will

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hate your former pride, your former vanity
and self-esteem.

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Here we have two opposing Gospels.

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Your self-righteousness and unbelief you
will cast these sins aside as worthless

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burden and will walk humbly, meekly,
trustfully before God.

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You will practice love, patience,
gentleness, goodness, mercy and every

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grace that dwells in the child of God and
will at last find a place amongst the

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sanctified and the holy.

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The two religions are diametrically
opposed to each other.

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The biblical view and the modern view.

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It is through this avenue of self-esteem
and self-sufficiency that Satan will seek

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to ensnare the people of God.

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Wow, I think this person knew what she
wrote about 120 years ago.

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Through this avenue of self-esteem that
God's people will be ensnared,

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we will move from the lowly image to this
image of power.

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Where does Schuller stand with Rome?

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Schuller has sympathized with Catholicism
in the past.

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In 1972 he invited Catholic Bishop Fulton
Sheen.

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That man had some interesting things to
say about in-time events.

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Wow, fascinating.

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And he said we're right on the button,
just two sides are going to oppose each

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other.

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To his pulpit and joined with Catholic
Bishops at their Mass and their annual

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Mary Hour.

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So he's had that experience.

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Schuller said it's time for Protestants to
go to the shepherd, to the Pope,

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and say what do we have to do to come
home?

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When Schuller was planning for the
building of his Crystal Cathedral,

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he made a special trip to Rome to ask for
the Pope's blessing.

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So if he gets his blessings there,
why not his theology as well?

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He's got Vatican II theology, and who were
the champions of Vatican II theology?

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The Jesuits.

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In 1985, the Paulist National Catholic
Evangelization Association and Tyndall

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House Publishing jointly published What
Christians Can Learn From One Another

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About Evangelizing Adults, which contained
a chapter by Billy Graham, and the book

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called for greater cooperation between
Protestants and Catholics, and so-called

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evangelism.

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And there were articles by Cardinal
Benadine, Robert Schuller, Bill Bright,

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Jack, all the others.

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You know, this is how it works.

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And then he makes this mega-statement.

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I like this statement.

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It's very interesting.

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I'm dreaming a bold, impossible dream that
positive-thinking believers in God will

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rise above the illusion that our sectarian
religion have imposed on the world,

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and that leaders of the major faiths will
rise above doctrinal idiosyncrasies,

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choosing not to focus on disagreements,
but rather to transcend divisive dogmas,

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to work together to bring peace and
prosperity and hope to the world.

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You take away doctrine, you're left with
liturgy.

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No doctrine, liturgy.

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No doctrine, no methodology, no roadmap to
Jesus.

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Replace it with a roadmap to self.

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That's the modern theology.

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All right, groundwork.

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Let's take it to the next level.

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Willow Creek, spawning the children.

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Both Belibles and the Saddleback leaders
all received their training from Shula.

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And where are we going with this spiritual
exercise?

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These were the mega-churches that started.

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We've moved beyond that.

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We're just going through a little bit of
history.

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Let's have a look at their buzzwords.

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Understanding the new terminology.

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This is the visualization.

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This is the terminology from Willow Creek.

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Visualization, formation, mentoring,
that's coaching, spiritual direction.

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We spoke about that the previous night.

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Consensus, ecumenism, seismic shifts,
inter-spiritual community, changing face

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of worship, stemming the tide.

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When you hear these buzzwords,
run!

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What do they teach at Willow Creek?

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Meditation promoter Kerry Wyatt Kent
writes positively about monastic

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communities.

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Fascinating.

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What did Ignatius Loyola say in his
spiritual exercises?

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Praise much, monastic institutions.

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Here we're going back to monasticism.

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Martin Luther wrote that article that it
is the worst evil that has ever been found

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on the planet.

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The worst evil.

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When King Henry VIII, who was not a good
man himself, said, clean up this mess,

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what they found in the monastic system is
not fit for description.

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Evil system.

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Well, let's continue.

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Fascinating.

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Monastic community, emergent church,
rediscovering spiritual formation.

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All of these buzzwords.

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Kent identifies Scott McKnight as part of
this mystical shift.

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McKnight acknowledges the Catholic
connection to the contemplative practices.

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Kent also brings into our article priest,
the Roman Catholic priest Richard Rohr.

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We need to know what we're dealing with.

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Richard Rohr, who is in the same camp as
someone like Matthew Fox, who speaks about

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the coming of the cosmic Christ.

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Who is in the same camp as Thayla de
Chardin, the Jesuit.

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All these people.

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And then she has no problem with the
Jesuit priest, Paul McAteno, who says,

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how big is your God?

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This is Willow Creek.

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Let's have a look at these people.

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Who are you?

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Richard Rohr, who are you?

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Well, this comes from a Roman Catholic
webpage.

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He's, of course, a Roman Catholic priest.

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Bongos, dancers, Father, Mother,
God.

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Richard Rohr mass at the Los Angeles
Religious Education Congress.

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Rohr changes some of the prayers of the
liturgy of the Eucharist, opening the

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preface as he prayed, Father, Mother,
God, before the consecration of the host.

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Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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Following the consecration, Rohr said,
The Christ's blood will be poured out for

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you and for all, so you will know your
sins are forgiven.

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In prayer for the departed, he referred to
them as especially your own beloved who

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are already with the Lord.

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Here we have Roman Catholic doctrine.

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Roman Catholic Jesuit-trained individuals
running the spiritual aspects of Willow

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Creek.

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And then there are institutions of repute
who send thousands of people for education

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and training so that they can give
spiritual direction within the church.

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And we're all over the world.

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These spiritual directors are popping up
to train people in all the churches of the

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world as to how to obey your spiritual
director.

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A cadaver like a corpse.

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Rohr prefaced the Our Father by saying,
And now, knowing we are more than we are

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many, though we come from different places
and races, we all share the same Father,

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Mother, God.

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Excuse me, I don't have a Father,
Mother, God, so I don't know who you're

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sharing yours with, but definitely not
with me.

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Here is their magazine, Willow Creek
Magazine, rediscovering spiritual

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formation from monastic communities to the
emergent church.

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Spiritual formation continues to shift and
change a whole new generation of

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Christians.

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So now suddenly we must all be changed and
we must experience this spiritual

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formation.

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Thirty years ago, most evangelicals had
never even heard the term spiritual

37:59.550 --> 38:00.170
formation.

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Today it is the subject of Christian
conferences, retreats, even the emphasis

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in countless seminary programs.

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Scott McKnight, New Testament scholar,
author, professor of religious studies at

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North Park University says, Even the
acceptance of the term spiritual formation

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represents a shift in thinking,
especially amongst evangelicals.

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Richard Foster's 1978 bestseller,
Celebration of Discipline.

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Who are these people?

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These people are people who believe in
this cosmic Christ who will come,

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this New Age entity that will finally fuse
everyone into one inrecognizable blob.

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And then he talks about how we do this.

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We reintroduce the evangelicals to
classical spiritual disciplines.

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Please note the words.

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Reintroduce to classical spiritual
disciplines.

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What are they?

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Solitude.

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Who spent their time in solitude?

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Monks?

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They went and sat in a cell and there they
had to perform their spiritual exercises.

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Silence.

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Fasting.

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A more contemplative approach to Scripture
and prayer.

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So now I have contemplative approaches.

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Visualizing.

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Who practiced that, by the way,
and who taught it?

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Ignatius Loyola.

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This is a Jesuit strategy to replace faith
with this material.

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Such spiritual disciplines have been part
of the Catholic tradition.

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This comes from whose webpage?

39:48.330 --> 39:48.950
Willow Creek.

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Such spiritual discipline has been part of
the Catholic tradition for a long time,

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although they were often practiced
primarily within the walls of monastic

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communities.

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Faster and Willard brought them to the
evangelical community, although it took a

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while for mainline and evangelical
churches to embrace them.

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Marvelous, we're back to what Martin
Luther condemned as a horrendous travesty

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of justice.

40:17.210 --> 40:21.890
The monks all came out of the woodwork,
married and became normal.

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You need a wife to be normal, gentlemen.

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Excuse me.

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Not these people, they're going back to
monasticism.

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Eventually these became accepted and even
more institutionalized.

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Evangelicals began to think out loud about
these things.

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Many of that has happened even in the last
five years, says so-and-so, who formerly

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led the spiritual formation ministry in
Willow Creek.

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So what is happening in these institutions
is the spiritual exercises of Loyola being

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foisted upon a new generation of pastors
and mentors and coaches and spiritual

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advisors.

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And then it is brought into the Christian
church and we've regressed back to

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Catholicism.

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Mentoring goes mainstream.

41:15.050 --> 41:19.230
McKnight sees a trend towards a wider
acceptance and use of spiritual directors,

41:20.370 --> 41:25.010
which in the past were mostly a part of
the Catholic tradition.

41:26.330 --> 41:30.690
Mentoring was done informally in the
discipleship process years ago,

41:30.690 --> 41:34.410
but this is much more conscious and
intentional.

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You know, it's books like Alice Freiling's
The Art of Spiritual Listening,

41:40.130 --> 41:44.970
Margaret Gunther's Holy Listening,
The Art of Spiritual Direction.

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I need some guy to tell me how to run a
relationship and what to believe.

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What else are they saying?

41:56.710 --> 41:58.590
They're saying things are going to change.

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We need a seismic shift.

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We need rediscovering spiritual formation,
stemming the tide, changing the face of

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worship, shifts, mission set, mindset,
change or die.

42:11.790 --> 42:13.030
This is magnificent.

42:13.210 --> 42:14.310
We're going into a mega change.

42:14.390 --> 42:23.050
This is the final thrust for changing the
whole of Christianity into what was

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mystical, occult Catholicism.

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Here they write, seismic shift.

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The winds of change are blowing.

42:33.910 --> 42:38.550
Leaders and entire congregations are
making the choice to try something new.

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They are looking at the world culture,
norms and trends.

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They are daring to take a chance,
venture a risk, find another way.

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These pacessers are not compromising the
teachings of the Bible.

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They are embracing them in a way that will
reach a new generation.

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What a deception.

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These courageous pioneers are not fleeing
from the historical Christian faith and

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the gospel of Jesus.

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They are discovering innovative and spirit
anointed ways to make the message connect

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to an emerging generation.

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Is this generation ready to see this?

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A whole new cadre of leaders are being
raised up and they understand that the

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form, style, structures that have served
the church so well in the past are not

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sacred or sacreding away with them.

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We need something new.

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This seismic shift is shaking things up.

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And then he talks about this lady and how
she had to get accustomed to the new music

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and the new styles.

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And eventually what we have is mantric
music being played in the churches.

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Change or die.

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It's really very simple.

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If the local church refuses to change,
it will die.

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And this sad reality is being experienced
all over the world.

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So everybody is jumping onto this
bandwagon.

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I have news for you.

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Preach truth and the church will be full.

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Alright?

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So we have all the elements of the
spiritual exercises of Loyola.

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And all the names associated with Jesuit
theology associated with Willow Creek.

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Where many, many people go for this
training.

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Let's take it one step further.

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We're going through the progression.

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These are the last events in the history
of this world.

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We are one step away from heaven.

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Rick Warren.

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He's a global strategist, theologian,
pastor, philanthropist.

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The media has often named him America's
most influential spiritual leader.

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He's America's pastor.

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As a global strategist, Warren advises
leaders in the public, private and faith

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sectors on leadership development,
poverty, health, education and faith in

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culture.

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He has been invited to speak at the United
Nations, the World Economic Forum,

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the African Union, the Council of Foreign
Relations, Harvard's Kennedy School of

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Government, Time's Global Health Summit.

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I mean, this is an important man.

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Where did he receive his training?

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Also from Robert Shuler.

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Warren says, as a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations and Oxford Analytica,

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I might know as much about the Middle East
as you, responding to some notion that he

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might not know what's going on.

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This comes from World Net Daily.

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Oh, so in a moment of defensiveness,
he says he's a member of the Council of

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Foreign Relations.

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That's interesting.

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And he's a member of Oxford Analytica,
where all these Oxford professors,

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Hobnobbit, including those who don't
believe that God even exists.

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No, no, no, I'll correct that.

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Almost certainly does not exist.

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Oxford Analytica, what is that?

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It's an international independent
consulting firm drawing on a network of

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over 1,000 senior faculty members of
Oxford University.

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And these are the insider Oxford groups.

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Now let's look at some of his statements.

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It is my deep conviction that anybody can
be one to Christ if you discover the key

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to his or her heart.

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It may take some time to identify it,
but the most likely place to start is with

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the person's felt needs.

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Let's go and satisfy the needs,
and then you can start over there.

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God won't ask about your religious
background or doctrinal views.

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The only thing that will matter is,
did you accept what Jesus did for you,

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and did you learn to love and trust Him?

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It doesn't matter what you believe.

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You can believe anything.

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It doesn't matter about your doctrinal
views.

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So if he says, if you love me,
keep my commandments, and that's part of

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your doctrine, who cares?

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The last thing many believers need today
is to go to another Bible study.

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They already know far more than they are
putting into practice.

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Have you noticed that?

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Did you see that little video I put up
where we asked the people in Germany,

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and the one says, I'm a Protestant,
but I've never read the Bible.

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And the other guy said, the Bible is
something you don't read, it's just

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something you have.

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They know far more than they need already.

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Don't need a Bible study.

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Nah.

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Forget about a Bible study.

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Warren advocates breath prayers.

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Many Christians use breath prayers
throughout their day.

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You choose a brief sentence or simply a
phrase that can be repeated to Jesus in

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one breath.

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So now we're into mantras.

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That's akin to the Muslim with his beads
and the Roman Catholic with his beads.

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Just having reduced it from having to know
the whole Hail Mary to a little breath

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mantra.

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A typical breath prayer would be breathing
in saying, Yahweh, Yahweh, Shalom,

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Yahweh, Shalom, Yahweh, Shalom.

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What idiocy!

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Until you're finally so hypnotized that
your eyes are going around in circles,

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and then you can see whatever you want to
see in your imagination.

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That's a breath prayer.

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He says, that's just great.

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If you want Jesus to come back sooner,
focus on fulfilling your mission,

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not figuring out prophecy.

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So forget about the Bible.

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Forget about prophecy.

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Practice your little breath prayers.

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The spiritual formation movement had a
vital message for the church and has given

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the body of Christ the wake-up call,
he says.

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Wow, so he's also into spiritual
formation.

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Saddleback pastor Lance Whit writes about
the contemplative prayer visualization in

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his article titled, Enjoying God's
Presence in Solitude.

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These are the spiritual exercises of
Loyola.

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This is Jesuit counter-reformation
theology, and it has taken over the

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Protestant churches.

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We are designed to enjoy the presence of
God, but that's easier said than done.

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In the article, Whit uses Thomas Merton as
an example of someone who knew about

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solitude.

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But Merton's solitude was connected to
Buddhist sympathies.

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That's fascinating.

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Whit finishes his article with,
The goal of solitude is not so much to

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unplug from my crazy world as it is to
change frequencies so that I can hear the

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Father.

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Ah, so I need this direct contact.

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I don't want to walk with God by faith.

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He said I will take care of you,
therefore He is taking care of me.

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I want to hear Him.

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I want to hear this voice.

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Hello, my child, can you hear me?

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Let me just turn up the phone a bit.

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That's not faith.

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It's no longer faith, and if it's not by
faith, then it's sin.

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According to the Bible, Rick Morin has
promoted a book called, Sacred Pathways by

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Gary Thomas.

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In the new edition, A Time of Departing,
Jungen quotes Warren, who says of Thomas'

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book, Gary has spoken at Saddleback,
and I think highly of his work.

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He tells them how they can make the most
of their spiritual journeys.

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He places an emphasis on practical
spiritual exercises.

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Are you getting the terminology here?

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Fascinating.

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It is particularly difficult to describe
this type of prayer in writing,

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as it is best taught in person.

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In general, our ever-centering prayer
works like this.

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Choose a word, Jesus or Father,
for example, as a focus for contemplative

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prayer.

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Repeat the word silently in your mind for
a set amount of time, say 20 minutes.

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Brainwashing.

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Until your heart seems to be repeating the
word by itself, just as naturally and

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involuntarily as breathing.

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Here you go.

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Repeating this thing over and over.

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Listen to his New Age terminology.

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Rick Warren speaking.

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This is a time which calls for a critical
mass, or transformational leaders,

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who will commit to creating synergy of
energy within their circle of influence,

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so that new levels of social, economic
organization and spiritual success can be

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reached.

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We have not, however, developed the
leaders we need for this noble task.

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To reach such heights, we will need to
untap the leadership potential of skillful

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leaders who are successfully directing
various organizations and systems.

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Some of these men and women, knowledgeable
and committed to their profession,

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will be the transformational leaders we
need to create the needed synergy of

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energy.

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Is that religion, or hocus pocus?

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This is not religion.

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What does he say about ecumenism?

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I really do feel that these people are
brothers and sisters in God's valley.

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I'm looking to build bridges with the
Orthodox Church, looking to build bridges

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with the Catholic Church, with the
Anglican Church, and say, what can we do

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together that we have been unable to do by
ourselves?

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On interfaith, the Church is bigger than
any organization in the world.

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Then you add in Muslims, you add in
Hindus, you add in all the different

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religions, and you use those houses of
worship as distribution centers,

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not just for spiritual care, but for
health care.

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We're shifting the emphasis to needs-based
theology, man's needs.

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But theology is about God.

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Theos, God.

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I go to church to worship God.

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If you come to church to get your stomach
full, you're a bread and fish Christian.

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If you come to church to worship God and
your stomach gets fed, that's faith.

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Turn it around, it's presumption.

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And then he goes into his peace plan.

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Peace plan.

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Now this is fascinating.

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The peace plan is a massive effort to
mobilize one billion Christians around the

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world into a church-to-church outreach
effort.

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The peace plan is an effort led by small
group teams.

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Did we speak about them last time?

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Teams to attack the global giants of our
day.

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And what are the global giants that we
have to attack?

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Spiritual emptiness, corrupt leadership,
poverty, disease, illiteracy.

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Well, excuse me, that's a social program,
that's not religion.

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If you want to teach people about Jesus
Christ and salvation by him, then please

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use the Bible.

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And this is the peace plan, this is the
ultimate plan that unites the United

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Nations and all the churches of the world
into the last mega drive called peace.

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And my Bible says, when they say,
peace, peace, sudden destruction.

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Well, let's carry on.

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These global giants are attacked in a
holistic manner.

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First in the church's local community,
which he calls Jerusalem.

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Nearby community, which he calls Judea.

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Regional areas, crossing cultural
barriers, which he calls Samaria.

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And globally to the entire world.

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Rehwaran said repeatedly, this is why God
made me.

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Everything else I have done was simply
preparation for the peace plan.

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This is how you get to God's heart for the
world.

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Let's look at this peace plan,
this is fascinating.

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At a purpose-driven conference,
he stated, the peace plan will be a

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revolution for global Christianity.

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And I'm looking at a stadium full of
people who are telling God they will do

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whatever it takes to establish God's
kingdom on earth as it is in heaven.

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I have a problem with that.

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Whose theology is that?

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That's Roman Catholic theology.

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That's not biblical theology.

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Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven.

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Yes, we're looking for the kingdom of God.

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But the kingdom of God will only come when
the empires and structures of this world

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have been swept away.

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And we won't have a kingdom of God ruled
from Jerusalem here on this planet.

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Rick Warren's peace plan, number one.

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P stands for plant churches.

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E, equip leaders.

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A, assist the poor.

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C, care for the sick.

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E, educate the next generation.

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What's missing?

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There's no mention of Christ.

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There's no mention of the gospel.

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This is a social program.

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We don't need to call this worship.

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This is not worship.

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The UN Millennium Development Goals.

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Let's have a look at them.

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Match the five points of the peace plan.

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Pastor Warren lays out the global plan.

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In the 21st century, we are going global,
mobilizing the American church to help

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internationally.

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President Kagan will welcome us to Rwanda
for a joint project amongst the

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government, business, and the church.

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Where did we hear that before?

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Who was here for the lecture?

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The beamable, sustainable princes.

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Did we hear something like that?

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That's fascism.

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Here we have fascism in progress.

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How will Saddleback tackle these huge
problems?

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With our peace plan.

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P is... and then he goes through that
ritual again.

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And Q, what is your greatest hope for all
of this?

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A second reformation.

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The first one was about belief.

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This one will be about deeds.

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It is about what the church should be
doing in the world.

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We will lay all this out for our people,
purpose, community, world.

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So this is a new reformation.

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And so I thought, you know, they're having
a peace plan.

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And we should have a new reformation too.

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And this is where this idea came from.

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Now look at the Millennium Development
Goals and the Peace Plan of Warren.

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Plant churches.

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Develop global partnerships for
development.

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These churches are partnerships for
development.

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Equip servant leaders.

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Lifelong learning.

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Assist the poor.

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Eradicate extreme poverty.

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Care for the sick.

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Reduce child mortality.

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Improve maternal health, combat HIV,
etc.

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Educate the next generation.

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Achieve universal primary education.

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They're identical.

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Why?

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Because they have the same author.

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And who runs them from their crown temple?

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The Jesuits.

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So this is a Jesuit megathrust
counter-reformation.

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Here is the UN Millennium Development
Goals.

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High-level event in the Millennium
Development Goals.

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When is it taking place?

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25 September 2008.

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All the mega-leaders came together.

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This is now!

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The eight Millennium Development Goals,
which range from having extreme poverty,

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halving extreme poverty, to halting the
spread of HIV, all of these must be

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reached by 2015.

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We're in the home straight.

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We have everybody on board.

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The church is going to play its role,
and the governments are going to play

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their role, and big industry is going to
play its role, and together we'll conquer

01:00:00.490 --> 01:00:01.090
the world.

01:00:01.910 --> 01:00:02.790
Four steps.

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The final genesis.

01:00:04.710 --> 01:00:05.790
This is the fourth step.

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Spiritual formation.

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Now let's talk about spiritual formation.

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Spiritual formation is the vogue.

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Spiritual formation is coming to your
town, and it's coming to your church.

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And forewarned is... what does it say?

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Forearm.

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Let's have a look at spiritual formation.

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Let's go to Taylal al-Shahdin.

01:00:31.530 --> 01:00:34.470
First let's establish his credentials.

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What was he?

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Jesuit.

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He was the mega-man at the UN.

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He is responsible for its spirituality,
which is Jesuit spirituality.

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Taylal and the Future Humanity,
edited by T.R.

01:00:54.510 --> 01:00:59.070
Meinert, this is a book about Taylal,
brings together essays by leading experts

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from a range of disciplines and
perspectives who reflect on Taylal's

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legacy for today's globalized world.

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These people were mega-thinkers in this
direction.

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Taylal dreamed of a humanity merging into
God, and each realizing his own godhood at

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the omega point, this belief has inspired
many of today's New Age leaders,

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and he is the most quoted New Age leader
in the world.

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Pantheism.

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That will be the omega of apostasy,
and spiritual formation is part of that

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omega apostasy.

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Listen to his terminology.

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And when you hear this terminology,
and when these buzzwords start falling,

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let your ears prick up.

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Taylal Deshardin spoke of value genesis.

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He spoke of collective co-creation.

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Combined effort.

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The omega point.

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The final stages of earth and of man.

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Cosmogenesis.

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These are all interesting words.

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Cosmos coming together.

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New genesis.

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Minds coming together.

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The point of union, of pantheistic fusion
of all things, is omega.

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Through Teilhard we hear about whatever
does not merge is evil.

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This is the new spirituality.

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We are being herded like cattle into a
common corral, driven by Hegelian

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dialectic, Teilhardian philosophy and
fear.

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Let's go.

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New genesis.

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You will have to change your exclusive
separatist ways.

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You will have to fuse into this
multifaceted new monster.

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In multiculturalism, every faction retains
its identity, yes, merges into a cosmic

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fusion.

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The Muslim, the Jew, the Christian,
the black, the white, the Hispanic,

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the Asian, they all integrate in one
culture, without one culture dominating

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the other.

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And then we need a new Christ,
divested of his biblical identity,

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to rise from the ashes to satisfy them
all.

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Here's a book, Brainwashing, a synthesis
of the Russian textbook on

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psycho-politics.

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Notice what they used in politics.

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Man is already a colonial aggregation of
cells.

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Cells.

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Cell groups.

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Man is an aggregation of cells.

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Where does that cell come from?

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Where does the word cell come from,
by the way?

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Who used it first?

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In the biological sense, it was used by
Robert Hooke, who looked into the

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microscope and he saw tissue and he said,
ooh, that looks like a cell.

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And he called it a cell.

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And what did it remind him of?

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Monastic rooms.

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Monasticism.

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Monks sit in cells.

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Okay.

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Considering him an individual would be an
error.

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Sickness could be considered to be a
disloyalty to the remaining organism on

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the part of one organism.

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We can see with ease that the revolt is
death.

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That the revolt of any part of the
organism results in death.

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Thus we see that there can be no
compromise with rebellion.

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That's why in a cell group, no rebellion
is allowed.

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You must be subject to your spiritual
director.

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And you must obey him as though you were a
corpse.

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Anyone refusing to be herded must be
amputated for the common good,

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Augustine argued.

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A horticulturist prunes a rotten branch to
save a tree and a doctor amputates a

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diseased limb to conserve life.

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Even so may the erring be constrained.

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This is Roman Catholic theology.

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That's why you may not speak or think or
say anything.

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Tyler de Chardin declared, The outcome of
the world, the gates of the future,

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the entry into the superhuman will open
only to an advance of all together.

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In a direction in which all together can
join and find completion in spiritual

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renovation of the earth.

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All together.

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Once complete, unity has been achieved.

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Christ who will be the omega point will
appear.

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Man will be more than man.

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What will be what Teilhard called
ultra-human.

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The cosmos will be transformed and the
glory of it all will be established.

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Malachi Martin, he should know.

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He writes that this is Teilhard's
philosophy.

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As we know, Teilhard merges pantheism with
his Christian doctrine.

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He says, as we know, the belief that the
human individual cannot perfect himself or

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fully exist except through the organic
unification of all men in God is essential

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and fundamental to Christian doctrine.

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We have to have this pantheistic fusion.

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Thus, perfection for Teilhard is not by
the individual becoming one with Christ in

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absolute self-surrender, forsaking all
others.

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No, Teilhard says that the individual
cannot perfect himself except through the

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organic unification of all men in God.

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It's pantheism.

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Thus, all human minds must be joined in
what he calls a super-organism.

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We need consensus theology.

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Remove that which is divisive.

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Please don't preach about the errors of
this doctrine or the errors of that

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doctrine.

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That's divisive.

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We'll even make laws.

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We'll call it hate speech.

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A general convergence of religions upon a
universal Christ who satisfies them all?

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That seems to me the only possible
conversion of the world and the only form

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in which a religion of the future can be
conceived.

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There is a Jesuit's thinking.

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Here's Matthew Fox, who's quoted on all
those webpages of all these organizations

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training these new mentors.

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And he calls it the cosmic Christ,
the coming of the cosmic Christ,

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Matthew Fox.

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It's replete with pantheism.

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Modern Christianity has been molded by
Jesuit encounter theology and spiritual

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formation.

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Guided by Ignatian spiritual direction
until the soul is fragmented, encounter

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dependent and subservient to the church.

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You become a moron walking after whatever
some leader has to say.

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It's horrendous.

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Document Vatican II.

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Now let's look where it comes from.

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In forming their consciences, the faithful
must pay careful attention to the sacred

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and certain teachings of the church.

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For the Catholic Church is by the will of
Christ the teacher of the truth.

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Don't ever speak against the church.

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The education of conscience is
indispensable for human beings who are

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subjected to negative influences and
tempted by sin to prefer their own

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judgment and to reject authoritative
teaching.

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That's Vatican II.

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That's why in all of these groupings you
may not go outside of consensus theology.

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You may not make a point and you will not
stick your head above the others and say,

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but doesn't this Bible verse say...

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No, you're not allowed to.

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So what is spiritual formation?

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What does it mean?

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Does the Bible know anything about
spiritual formation?

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No.

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Romans 12 verse 2.

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We need a transformation.

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The old man of sin must die.

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Conformed.

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What does that mean?

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To fashion alike that is conformed to the
same pattern, conformed to fashion self

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according to whom?

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According to Christ.

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The Bible speaks of Christ formed within
you, not having a form without.

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But little children of whom I travail in
birth again until Christ is formed in you.

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True Christianity follows the pattern man.

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And the pattern man is Jesus Christ.

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Not some spiritual director who has his
own problems.

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The pattern man is always Jesus.

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And here is my guide.

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As I said before, I can exchange ideas and
I can learn from those who have more

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experience than myself.

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Yes, I can.

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But I may never, never let such an
individual overshadow me.

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The Bible remains my standard and nothing
else.

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Now let's have a look where this leads.

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Opus Dei.

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Remember these are the people that wear
the little anklets and the little pain

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inducers.

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Like Ignatius Loyola said that your
penance must be internal but external as

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well.

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You must chastise yourself with pain
inducers and whips.

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But just make sure you don't kill yourself
in the process.

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Here is Opus Dei.

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By the way, a collection of 999 religious
maxims published by Escriva.

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Sorry, Saint Escriva.

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The founder of Opus Dei.

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999?

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Turn that upside down, what is that?

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606.

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And this is what he says.

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The true Christians must be disciplined
and obedient to their spiritual directors.

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Point number one.

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In my previous lecture did I show you in
the Protestant notes and handbooks on

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spiritual direction that the same
prerequisite was required?

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Yes or no?

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Absolutely the same.

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So this has been brought into
Protestantism.

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Opus Dei and formation.

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Maxim 377 of those 999 states,
And how shall I acquire our formation?

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How shall I keep our spirit?

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By being faithful to the specific norms
your director gave you and explained to

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you and made you love.

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Be faithful to them and you will be an
apostle.

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Oops.

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So spiritual formation literally means
being brainwashed to the point where you

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obey mindlessly to whatever your church
leaders have to say.

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God forbid if we get to that point of
brainwashing.

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35th Jesuit General Congregation at the
Vatican in 2008.

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These are the electors, the inner circle,
the outgoing and the new all together.

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And their spiritual formation,
spiritual direction has infiltrated the

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whole world.

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This is the text of the homily of the
papal legate, Cardinal Frank Rode,

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CM, Prefect of the Congregation for
Institutes of Consecrated Life and

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Societies of Apostolic Life, given at the
opening of the GC35 in Rome.

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This is the general congregation of the
Vatican of the Jesuits where they just

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voted in the new Jesuit General.

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And what was the speech about?

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Could you enlighten us, sir?

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This is his speech to these electors.

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Certainly and necessarily during this
congregation you are carrying out an

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important work, but it is not a
distraction from your apostolic activity.

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As Saint Ignatius teaches you in the
spiritual exercises, you must,

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with the same vision of the three divine
persons, look at the entire surface of the

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earth, crammed with men, listening to the
Spirit, the Creator, who renews the world

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and returning to the fonts to preserve
your identity without losing your own

01:13:46.570 --> 01:13:51.050
lifestyle, the commitment to discern the
signs of the times, the difficulties and

01:13:51.050 --> 01:13:53.070
responsibilities, blah, blah, blah,
blah.

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And then he says, now, the vision becomes
broader.

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It is not only for your own Jesuit brother
that you provide a religious and apostolic

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formation.

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There are many institutes of consecrated
life who, following an Ignatian

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spirituality, pay attention to your
choices.

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There are many future priests in your
colleges and universities who are

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preparing for their ministry.

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There are many people from both within and
outside the church who frequent your

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centers of learning, seeking a response to
the challenges which science, technology,

01:14:35.530 --> 01:14:38.970
globalization pose to humanity,
to the church and to the faith,

01:14:39.370 --> 01:14:45.250
with the hope of receiving a formation
which will make it possible for them to

01:14:45.250 --> 01:14:48.390
construct a world of truth and freedom,
of justice and peace.

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Who's behind formation?

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The Jesuits.

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And they were reminded of their duty to
introduce this to every single institute

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that falls under their influence.

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Your work must be eminently apostolic,
with a universal human ecclesial and

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evangelical fullness.

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You will do this everywhere.

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It must always be carried out in the light
of your charism, in such a way that the

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growing participation of laity,
that's all these trained spiritual

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directors who will tell you what the boss
wants you to believe, in your activities

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does not obscure your identity but rather
enriches it, with a collaboration of those

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who, coming from other cultures,
share your style and objectives.

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The church is waiting for a light from you
to restore the census ecclesiae.

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This is the speech before the election of
the new Jesuit general.

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The spiritual exercises of the St.
Ignatius are your speciality.

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The rules of sentier cum ecclesiae from an
integral and essential part of this

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masterpiece of Catholic spirituality.

01:16:08.970 --> 01:16:15.490
They form, as it were, a golden clasp
which holds the book of spiritual

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exercises close.

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And it's based on Scripture and tradition.

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The doctrinal diversity of those who at
all levels by vocation and mission are

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called to announce the kingdom of truth
and love.

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Here's the mission.

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To the Jesuits themselves.

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Push this issue.

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Bring the world on board.

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And even our final enemy, overcome him
with spiritual formation.

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Who are the leaders of spiritual formation
in the world today?

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Let's see if they have Jesuit connections.

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These are the ones who are being quoted in
all churches of the world.

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Should I repeat that word?

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All churches of the world.

01:17:06.340 --> 01:17:07.050
Richard J.

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Foster, Christian psychologist.

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Interesting connection.

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International famed founder of Renovare.

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Foster is the founder of an organization
called Renovare, which has powerful,

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influential support from Christian world
leaders.

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The co-director is William A.

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Waswick, a former Lutheran pastor.

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Renovare from the Latin meaning to make a
new spirituality.

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So the spirituality that has kept
Christians alive for the last 2,000 years

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is finally at the point where it must be
scrapped.

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It's promoting the revival of meditative
and contemplative traditions of the

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Catholic mystics, Zen Buddhism and
psychotherapy.

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Let's have a look.

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Here's their own webpage.

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Bringing the church to the churches to
balance spiritual life.

01:18:06.110 --> 01:18:06.830
What are they teaching?

01:18:07.810 --> 01:18:09.890
Contemplative, the prayer-filled life.

01:18:10.090 --> 01:18:10.850
Interesting word.

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That's visualization.

01:18:13.390 --> 01:18:15.390
That's Ignatius Loyola, theology.

01:18:16.170 --> 01:18:19.570
Social justice, the compassionate life.

01:18:20.070 --> 01:18:22.430
Holiness, the virtuous life.

01:18:23.470 --> 01:18:26.510
Incarnational, the sacramental life.

01:18:27.690 --> 01:18:31.570
Charismatic, the spirit-empowered life.

01:18:31.710 --> 01:18:34.210
All of this is experiential theology.

01:18:35.850 --> 01:18:38.170
Evangelical, the word-centered life.

01:18:38.950 --> 01:18:40.750
I will believe that when I see it.

01:18:41.450 --> 01:18:42.910
How is it with your soul?

01:18:43.110 --> 01:18:48.430
The Renovare movement fosters spiritual
development as the heart of social

01:18:48.430 --> 01:18:49.150
justice.

01:18:49.670 --> 01:18:51.110
How is it with your soul?

01:18:52.210 --> 01:18:54.650
The name Renovare means to renew.

01:18:54.650 --> 01:18:57.030
And what are we going to deal with?

01:18:58.170 --> 01:18:59.290
Spiritual formation.

01:19:01.390 --> 01:19:02.510
Spiritual exercises.

01:19:03.050 --> 01:19:04.330
Spiritual gifts.

01:19:05.050 --> 01:19:06.210
Acts of service.

01:19:07.070 --> 01:19:08.110
This is a new religion.

01:19:08.850 --> 01:19:10.350
But it's really an old religion.

01:19:10.630 --> 01:19:12.690
It's an old occult counterfeit.

01:19:13.770 --> 01:19:16.370
His book, Celebration of Discipline,
there it is.

01:19:16.510 --> 01:19:18.470
Celebration of Discipline, there is the
man.

01:19:18.470 --> 01:19:25.570
The Path to Spiritual Growth is available
with a study guide and also a 13-session

01:19:25.570 --> 01:19:30.910
video-based curriculum designed to help
Christians experience authentic

01:19:30.910 --> 01:19:37.470
transformation through engagement with
classical Christian spiritual disciplines.

01:19:37.610 --> 01:19:39.270
What do you have in mind for us,
sir?

01:19:39.970 --> 01:19:41.230
How do we do this?

01:19:42.510 --> 01:19:46.650
He says, enough water has gone under the
bridge of spiritual formation.

01:19:46.650 --> 01:19:48.070
It's become a household term.

01:19:48.190 --> 01:19:49.650
Everybody knows what it is now.

01:19:50.290 --> 01:19:53.410
We've moved away from this not knowing
where it comes from.

01:19:53.750 --> 01:19:56.310
References in relation to Catholic orders.

01:19:57.790 --> 01:20:02.110
Today it is a rare person who has not
heard of the term seminary courses in

01:20:02.110 --> 01:20:05.770
spiritual formation proliferate like baby
rabbits.

01:20:06.010 --> 01:20:07.290
You're right, my friends.

01:20:08.030 --> 01:20:14.250
Huge numbers are seeking to become
certified as spiritual directors to answer

01:20:14.250 --> 01:20:20.510
the cry of multiplied thousands for
spiritual direction and more spiritual

01:20:20.510 --> 01:20:21.130
formation.

01:20:21.290 --> 01:20:23.450
A pastoral letter by Richard Foster.

01:20:24.030 --> 01:20:24.890
Let's go.

01:20:25.830 --> 01:20:27.270
We need this in the world.

01:20:28.650 --> 01:20:33.230
Quaker minister, that's what he was,
Richard Foster, published this work,

01:20:33.290 --> 01:20:38.110
Celebration of Discipline, The Path to
Spiritual Growth, hailed by none other

01:20:38.110 --> 01:20:44.010
than Christianity today as one of the ten
best books of the 20th century.

01:20:44.150 --> 01:20:45.730
I want to know what we're dealing with.

01:20:46.890 --> 01:20:52.110
Voted by the readers of that magazine as
the third most influential book after the

01:20:52.110 --> 01:20:52.450
Bible.

01:20:53.170 --> 01:20:55.190
That's pretty powerful stuff, would you
agree?

01:20:56.530 --> 01:20:57.970
Pretty powerful stuff.

01:20:59.330 --> 01:21:05.530
Let's read what Albert James Dagger of
Media Spotlight comments on this.

01:21:05.610 --> 01:21:13.070
He says, Unfortunately, all these
exercises serve to do is open the person

01:21:13.070 --> 01:21:19.030
to demonic influences that assuage his or
her conscience with a feeling of euphoria

01:21:19.030 --> 01:21:24.790
and even love emanating from the presence
that has invaded their consciousness.

01:21:25.650 --> 01:21:30.790
This euphoria is then believed to validate
that the person is on the right spiritual

01:21:30.790 --> 01:21:31.290
path.

01:21:31.290 --> 01:21:38.730
It may result in visions, out-of-body
experiences, stigmata, levitation,

01:21:39.010 --> 01:21:41.210
even healings and other apparent miracles.

01:21:41.770 --> 01:21:42.550
This is where we're going.

01:21:45.190 --> 01:21:46.670
What does Richard Foster teach?

01:21:46.790 --> 01:21:48.310
Quotes from him.

01:21:48.390 --> 01:21:53.150
The inner world of meditation is most
easily entered through the door of the

01:21:53.150 --> 01:21:53.930
imagination.

01:21:54.490 --> 01:21:55.430
Where did we read that?

01:21:56.190 --> 01:21:58.750
In the spiritual exercises of Loyola.

01:21:59.590 --> 01:22:00.210
Okay.

01:22:01.110 --> 01:22:03.970
This is the third most influential book
after the Bible.

01:22:04.850 --> 01:22:07.510
We fail today to appreciate its tremendous
power.

01:22:07.650 --> 01:22:12.190
The imagination is stronger than the
conceptual thought and stronger than the

01:22:12.190 --> 01:22:12.370
will.

01:22:13.010 --> 01:22:17.550
In the West, our tendency to deify the
merits of rationalism, and it does have

01:22:17.550 --> 01:22:21.410
merit, has caused us to ignore the value
of the imagination.

01:22:22.210 --> 01:22:27.850
So let's go into contemplative in an
imagineless void.

01:22:27.850 --> 01:22:29.530
Let's go into this kind of thing.

01:22:30.550 --> 01:22:35.990
Rooted in the senses, Jesus taught this
way, making constant appeal to the

01:22:35.990 --> 01:22:38.930
imagination and the senses.

01:22:39.530 --> 01:22:43.230
In his autobiography, oh, this is
fascinating.

01:22:43.470 --> 01:22:44.050
C.G.

01:22:44.230 --> 01:22:50.410
Jung describes how difficult it was for
him to humble himself and once again play

01:22:50.410 --> 01:22:53.590
imagination games of a child.

01:22:54.590 --> 01:23:01.470
Here we're going into psychology,
spiritual exercises, demonology.

01:23:02.250 --> 01:23:03.650
And then whom does he praise?

01:23:04.630 --> 01:23:11.710
Richard Foster says Ignatius of Loyola,
in his spiritual exercises, constantly

01:23:11.710 --> 01:23:15.710
encouraged his readers to visualize the
gospel stories.

01:23:16.070 --> 01:23:16.890
Who are these people?

01:23:18.050 --> 01:23:24.070
They are Jesuit-trained individuals,
or Jesuits themselves, who are bringing a

01:23:24.070 --> 01:23:30.070
new spirituality to all churches in the
world.

01:23:31.030 --> 01:23:38.750
This is the enemy of Christ working to
destroy true Protestant Christianity.

01:23:40.110 --> 01:23:45.250
Every contemplation he gave was designed
to open the imagination.

01:23:46.010 --> 01:23:49.190
Is he against Ignatius Loyola here?

01:23:49.470 --> 01:23:50.510
No, he's for him.

01:23:51.450 --> 01:23:57.150
He even included a meditation entitled,
Application of the Senses, which is an

01:23:57.150 --> 01:24:03.530
attempt to help us utilize all five senses
as we picture the gospel events.

01:24:04.410 --> 01:24:11.210
So you sat there in your room,
you said your mantra, with your stupid

01:24:11.210 --> 01:24:15.850
little breath prayer, until your eyes
start going round and round and round,

01:24:16.530 --> 01:24:21.910
and then you visualize the place,
you see where you are, and then you touch

01:24:21.910 --> 01:24:31.790
it, you taste it, you smell it,
you see it, until it permeates your entire

01:24:31.790 --> 01:24:37.370
being, and then it becomes a reality,
and you speak with the entity that appears

01:24:37.370 --> 01:24:42.710
to you, and it tells you whatever it wants
to put into your hypnotized mind.

01:24:44.130 --> 01:24:48.750
Celebration of Discipline introduces to
the church the so-called Masters of the

01:24:48.750 --> 01:24:49.910
Interior Life.

01:24:50.330 --> 01:24:54.070
Excuse me, who are the Masters of the
Interior Life?

01:24:54.830 --> 01:24:58.410
As Foster likes to call them, Medieval
Mystics.

01:24:59.410 --> 01:25:03.950
He declares that they alone have
discovered the key to true spiritual life.

01:25:04.210 --> 01:25:09.670
And who are these exemplary ones that we
have to follow in our spiritual

01:25:09.670 --> 01:25:10.910
contemplations?

01:25:12.570 --> 01:25:16.490
Besides Ignatius Loyola, he quotes Meister
Eckhart.

01:25:17.670 --> 01:25:22.650
Meister Eckhart is the ultimate example,
besides Loyola, of course.

01:25:22.650 --> 01:25:28.670
A Dominican monk who lived in the 13th and
14th century, and he ranks with the great

01:25:28.670 --> 01:25:34.170
Roman Catholic mystics such as Teresa,
Avila, John of the Cross, Julian Norwich,

01:25:34.270 --> 01:25:40.170
etc., Thomas Merton, Foster cites and
quotes Merton on at least nine separate

01:25:40.170 --> 01:25:42.310
occasions in Celebration of Discipline.

01:25:43.090 --> 01:25:47.670
He was a 20th century Roman Catholic who
emerged himself in Buddhism and

01:25:47.670 --> 01:25:53.170
contemplative imagination, and unity with
the cosmos in Nirvana.

01:25:54.250 --> 01:25:56.030
This is a new religion.

01:25:57.710 --> 01:26:00.770
The final category of discipline is the
corporate.

01:26:01.150 --> 01:26:06.530
Foster states that the first corporate
discipline is that of confession.

01:26:08.150 --> 01:26:12.810
Foster supports the position of the Roman
Catholic Church complete with penance and

01:26:12.810 --> 01:26:13.690
absolution.

01:26:14.830 --> 01:26:16.730
So you have to do penance.

01:26:16.730 --> 01:26:21.770
We're going into the complete spiritual
exercises of Ignatius Loyola.

01:26:22.390 --> 01:26:26.850
I hope you don't start hanging yourself up
on hooks and beating living daylights out

01:26:26.850 --> 01:26:27.790
of yourself soon.

01:26:29.390 --> 01:26:30.730
And then, why not?

01:26:31.090 --> 01:26:36.230
Dietrich Bonhoeffer assures us that when I
go to my brother to confess, I'm going to

01:26:36.230 --> 01:26:36.670
God.

01:26:37.130 --> 01:26:41.070
And Foster wants us to know the assurance
of forgiveness is sealed in the Spirit

01:26:41.070 --> 01:26:44.770
when it is spoken by our brother or sister
in the name of Christ.

01:26:44.770 --> 01:26:53.670
So now, in the cell groups, you are
encouraged to confess to your mentor.

01:26:54.430 --> 01:26:59.770
He becomes, because it's a twelve around
one group, the alter Christos.

01:27:00.110 --> 01:27:06.990
We have Roman Catholicism, and we have
generated a multitudinous pack of priests

01:27:06.990 --> 01:27:13.430
who call themselves spiritual directors,
control your mind, make sure you don't

01:27:13.430 --> 01:27:18.730
rise up and think for yourself,
and crush underfoot anything that looks

01:27:18.730 --> 01:27:19.510
like dissent.

01:27:21.130 --> 01:27:25.530
Once when receiving the confession of a
lady, she looked at me and saw

01:27:25.530 --> 01:27:31.370
superimposed upon my eyes the eyes of
another who conveyed to her a love and

01:27:31.370 --> 01:27:35.910
acceptance that released her to unburden
her heart.

01:27:35.910 --> 01:27:37.870
That is sin.

01:27:38.950 --> 01:27:45.290
The Bible says, confess your faults one to
another.

01:27:46.510 --> 01:27:53.990
In other words, I go to my brother and I
say to him, Brother, I am sorry that I

01:27:53.990 --> 01:27:54.510
hurt you.

01:27:55.110 --> 01:27:57.330
I'm sorry that I did this and this to you.

01:27:57.390 --> 01:27:58.330
Will you forgive me?

01:27:58.650 --> 01:27:59.390
That's fine.

01:28:00.170 --> 01:28:03.590
I can also go to a friend and say,
You know what?

01:28:04.430 --> 01:28:06.390
I'm really struggling with my temper.

01:28:06.590 --> 01:28:08.010
Can you pray for me?

01:28:08.790 --> 01:28:09.410
That's fine.

01:28:10.490 --> 01:28:12.590
But the New Translations don't say faults.

01:28:12.670 --> 01:28:13.330
What do they say?

01:28:14.770 --> 01:28:16.950
Confess your sins one to another.

01:28:17.310 --> 01:28:19.530
I have a mega problem with that.

01:28:20.290 --> 01:28:21.750
Take your sins to Jesus.

01:28:22.390 --> 01:28:25.370
He's the only one who can forgive you your
sins.

01:28:27.390 --> 01:28:30.610
So this falls right nicely into this
package deal.

01:28:31.790 --> 01:28:33.590
His last discipline is celebration.

01:28:35.270 --> 01:28:39.170
Here we are to express joy in all that we
have learned thus far in the book,

01:28:39.230 --> 01:28:41.750
even participating in holy laughter.

01:28:42.090 --> 01:28:43.290
Let's have a cackle together.

01:28:46.510 --> 01:28:48.950
The third most influential book.

01:28:50.230 --> 01:28:54.210
As you enter the story, now please notice
what he's saying.

01:28:54.210 --> 01:28:55.990
You can bring Jesus into your presence.

01:28:57.050 --> 01:29:02.030
As you enter the story, not as a passive
observer, but as an active participant,

01:29:02.250 --> 01:29:04.330
you've imagined yourself into the scene.

01:29:05.330 --> 01:29:09.610
Remember that since Jesus lives in the
eternal now and is not bound by time,

01:29:09.750 --> 01:29:14.410
this event in the past is a living present
tense experience for him.

01:29:14.910 --> 01:29:18.850
Hence, you can actually encounter the
living Christ in the event.

01:29:19.830 --> 01:29:23.890
Be addressed by his voice and be touched
by his healing power.

01:29:24.310 --> 01:29:27.110
He can be more than an exercise of the
imagination.

01:29:27.590 --> 01:29:30.330
He can be a genuine confrontation.

01:29:30.930 --> 01:29:33.590
Jesus Christ will actually come to you.

01:29:34.290 --> 01:29:35.750
What have we got there now?

01:29:36.430 --> 01:29:40.110
This is occult to the highest degree.

01:29:40.770 --> 01:29:42.710
And this is what you do in the occult
world.

01:29:42.850 --> 01:29:44.770
You conjure up the spirit.

01:29:44.770 --> 01:29:51.570
Jesus said, I go to prepare a place for
you and I will come again so that you can

01:29:51.570 --> 01:29:52.810
be where I am also.

01:29:53.530 --> 01:29:56.130
Not I'm going to play hocus-pocus with
your mind.

01:29:56.870 --> 01:29:59.710
By faith, you accept that he is there.

01:29:59.850 --> 01:30:04.830
His book, Celebration of Discipline,
originally had the words New Age on page

01:30:04.830 --> 01:30:08.130
170, but this was changed to avoid
criticism.

01:30:08.130 --> 01:30:13.410
We of the New Age can risk going into the
tide became changed to we who follow

01:30:13.410 --> 01:30:15.590
Christ can risk going against the tide.

01:30:16.930 --> 01:30:18.330
He encourages astral travel.

01:30:19.450 --> 01:30:24.610
The fourth form of meditation has its
objective to bring you into a deep inner

01:30:24.610 --> 01:30:25.830
communion with the Father.

01:30:26.670 --> 01:30:29.270
Where you look at him and he looks at you
in your imagination.

01:30:29.710 --> 01:30:32.810
Picture yourself walking along a lovely
forest path.

01:30:32.810 --> 01:30:38.350
Take your time, allowing the blaring noise
of your modern megalopolis to be overtaken

01:30:38.350 --> 01:30:41.530
by the sound of rustling leaves and cool
forest streams.

01:30:41.610 --> 01:30:46.110
Then he says, after a while there is a
deep yearning within you to go into the

01:30:46.110 --> 01:30:48.650
upper regions beyond the clouds in your
imagination.

01:30:49.050 --> 01:30:53.710
Allow your spiritual body, shining with
light, to rise out of your physical body.

01:30:54.710 --> 01:30:58.770
Look back so that you can see yourself
lying on the grass and reassure your body

01:30:58.770 --> 01:31:00.470
that you will return momentarily.

01:31:00.470 --> 01:31:06.650
I practiced that when I did this under the
New Age training of my father-in-law.

01:31:06.770 --> 01:31:07.590
It's called Oob.

01:31:08.550 --> 01:31:09.270
It's a cult.

01:31:09.690 --> 01:31:14.390
You come out of your body, you go up into
the heavens, you experience whatever you

01:31:14.390 --> 01:31:14.610
will.

01:31:14.690 --> 01:31:15.630
You walk through walls.

01:31:15.770 --> 01:31:17.170
It's a hypnotic implant.

01:31:17.370 --> 01:31:18.410
It's not a reality.

01:31:18.850 --> 01:31:19.730
It's a lie.

01:31:19.890 --> 01:31:21.190
It's a hypnosis.

01:31:22.490 --> 01:31:25.210
And he's saying, do this and this is your
new spirituality.

01:31:25.510 --> 01:31:26.490
I don't even want to read it.

01:31:26.510 --> 01:31:27.310
It makes me sick.

01:31:28.730 --> 01:31:31.390
Then he teaches New Age mysticism and
pantheism.

01:31:32.310 --> 01:31:37.570
After you have gained some proficiency in
centering down, add five to ten minute

01:31:37.570 --> 01:31:38.310
meditation.

01:31:39.370 --> 01:31:41.170
Didn't Oprah Winfrey say the same thing?

01:31:42.130 --> 01:31:45.810
On some aspect of creation, choose
something in the created order,

01:31:45.950 --> 01:31:47.190
tree, plant, blah, blah, blah.

01:31:47.610 --> 01:31:50.550
And so you carry on and you become part of
everything.

01:31:50.730 --> 01:31:51.990
It's this cosmic fusion.

01:31:53.030 --> 01:31:58.070
A large part of Renovare's spiritual
discipline involves meditation on the

01:31:58.070 --> 01:32:00.610
writings of selected spiritual masters.

01:32:01.790 --> 01:32:03.670
Now, who are these spiritual masters?

01:32:03.830 --> 01:32:05.590
And there they are, from their own
webpage.

01:32:05.850 --> 01:32:10.890
St. Francis, St. Catherine, St. Teresa,
the other St. Teresa and St. John of the

01:32:10.890 --> 01:32:11.230
Cross.

01:32:11.590 --> 01:32:13.390
Those are your examples of Christianity.

01:32:13.870 --> 01:32:15.890
We're back to Roman Catholicism.

01:32:16.110 --> 01:32:18.450
This is the counter-reformation.

01:32:18.750 --> 01:32:20.430
This is Jesuitism at its work.

01:32:21.080 --> 01:32:25.030
Now, let's make absolutely sure,
I'm not guessing.

01:32:25.650 --> 01:32:31.990
We have to be thorough in our research,
because the criticism level will be

01:32:31.990 --> 01:32:32.970
severe.

01:32:35.130 --> 01:32:39.490
This is the Jesuit webpages, and who do
they promote?

01:32:40.190 --> 01:32:41.770
They promote Richard Foster.

01:32:42.350 --> 01:32:47.510
This is for www.jesuitvolunteers.org.

01:32:48.220 --> 01:32:51.610
So, volunteers to the Jesuit Order,
what must you read?

01:32:52.890 --> 01:32:55.070
Please read the following books.

01:32:55.570 --> 01:33:01.310
Simplicity, The Art of Living,
Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger.

01:33:01.530 --> 01:33:05.630
This is a very challenging and readable
book filled with facts and figures about

01:33:05.630 --> 01:33:07.710
global greed and waste.

01:33:07.810 --> 01:33:09.050
This is all social doctrine.

01:33:10.070 --> 01:33:13.050
Freedom of Simplicity by Richard Foster.

01:33:13.050 --> 01:33:18.610
The Jesuit webpages tell their Jesuit
students, read Richard Foster.

01:33:20.190 --> 01:33:21.570
Thank you very much.

01:33:21.870 --> 01:33:23.810
That tells me, don't read him.

01:33:27.320 --> 01:33:32.860
Be Still DVD was released in April 2006.

01:33:33.100 --> 01:33:37.780
Quote from the DVD, One of the great
things silence does is gives us a new

01:33:37.780 --> 01:33:39.060
concept of God.

01:33:39.480 --> 01:33:42.980
Sit there like a Buddhist, cross your
legs, empty your mind and become

01:33:42.980 --> 01:33:43.600
brainless.

01:33:45.020 --> 01:33:48.700
And when you are totally brainless,
listen for the voice.

01:33:49.880 --> 01:33:51.060
It will start speaking.

01:33:52.260 --> 01:33:57.020
The wonderful thing, says Richard Foster
about contemplative prayer, is that it can

01:33:57.020 --> 01:34:00.140
be found everywhere, anywhere,
anytime for anyone.

01:34:00.360 --> 01:34:04.620
We become a portable sanctuary so that we
are living our life wherever it is,

01:34:04.680 --> 01:34:07.220
aware of the goodness of God, the presence
of God.

01:34:08.020 --> 01:34:13.740
Oh, Divine Master, teach me this mute
language which says so much.

01:34:15.100 --> 01:34:18.020
Saying nothing, emptying your mind,
says it all.

01:34:23.280 --> 01:34:26.240
William Waswick, co-director with Richard
Foster.

01:34:26.960 --> 01:34:28.380
Comment from Albert J.

01:34:28.560 --> 01:34:28.940
Dugner.

01:34:29.800 --> 01:34:32.780
Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation,
Washington.

01:34:33.120 --> 01:34:33.880
This is interesting.

01:34:34.780 --> 01:34:35.940
They are all working together.

01:34:36.840 --> 01:34:37.180
Comment.

01:34:37.180 --> 01:34:42.440
The objective is to move from conscious
communication with God to being in the

01:34:42.440 --> 01:34:45.540
presence, as Bill Waswick puts it.

01:34:46.040 --> 01:34:49.640
The Buddhist equivalent of being in the
presence would be to reach total

01:34:49.640 --> 01:34:52.180
enlightenment and eventually nirvana.

01:34:53.400 --> 01:34:54.480
You don't have to read anymore.

01:34:54.600 --> 01:34:55.820
This is Zen meditation.

01:34:56.900 --> 01:34:59.260
This is an ancient occult practice.

01:35:00.520 --> 01:35:09.740
No wonder we have to link up these
religions and why Buddhism and all its

01:35:09.740 --> 01:35:15.680
contemplative and other activities must
become mainstream.

01:35:16.460 --> 01:35:21.900
Bob Benedict with Buddhists, April 17,
2008 at the interfaith meeting.

01:35:22.200 --> 01:35:24.540
Notice that he's also doing the same
things.

01:35:24.980 --> 01:35:27.520
And Prince Charles does the same things.

01:35:27.900 --> 01:35:32.040
Here we are receiving these new
ideologies, new thoughts.

01:35:32.040 --> 01:35:34.760
Who created these thoughts in the first
place?

01:35:35.700 --> 01:35:37.220
Who is behind the Dalai Lama?

01:35:37.340 --> 01:35:41.820
Who gives him his power and his authority
out there as an exile?

01:35:42.460 --> 01:35:47.080
None other than these organizations
themselves, the Roman Catholic Institutes.

01:35:47.440 --> 01:35:49.420
Please note, here's a Buddhist gathering.

01:35:50.200 --> 01:35:51.800
Here is a statue of Buddha.

01:35:52.200 --> 01:35:54.660
And please look at that little picture
down there.

01:35:54.860 --> 01:35:58.960
Who is that individual bowing down to a
statue of Buddha?

01:35:58.960 --> 01:36:00.740
There she is enlarged.

01:36:00.820 --> 01:36:01.280
Who is she?

01:36:02.300 --> 01:36:03.260
Mother Teresa.

01:36:03.440 --> 01:36:09.180
She has no problem bowing down to a statue
of Buddha or a statue of Christ as long as

01:36:09.180 --> 01:36:11.120
it's an icon and not the real thing.

01:36:12.660 --> 01:36:16.500
And here's a Vietnamese Buddhist monk,
Thich Nhat Hanh, whatever.

01:36:17.260 --> 01:36:19.980
And he packed the stadium at what
university?

01:36:21.300 --> 01:36:22.580
Loyola University.

01:36:24.260 --> 01:36:27.460
Fascinating to initiate students in
Buddhist exercises.

01:36:27.460 --> 01:36:30.540
Catholic priest prays in a Buddhist
monastery.

01:36:31.200 --> 01:36:33.880
Let's get this spirituality into the
world.

01:36:35.060 --> 01:36:41.600
And this nice gentleman is a Jesuit
Catholic priest, Father Saju George from

01:36:41.600 --> 01:36:46.720
India, and he performs a Hindu dance
called Bharatan, and he claims that he

01:36:46.720 --> 01:36:50.060
gives momentum to God's word in tangible
form.

01:36:51.220 --> 01:36:58.440
So now, if we can dance while we're doing
our spirituality, then it all becomes

01:36:58.440 --> 01:37:04.500
tangible and touchable, and everybody gets
so excited in the spiritual world that it

01:37:04.500 --> 01:37:06.400
will enhance your spirituality.

01:37:07.760 --> 01:37:17.680
And so the nuns go, and we come into tune
with Vatican II, and we have transformed

01:37:17.680 --> 01:37:21.300
what used to be in the old days to
something new.

01:37:21.680 --> 01:37:24.040
Now let's go to the Shalem homepage.

01:37:24.040 --> 01:37:30.400
Did you know that some of these institutes
are the only places where you can be

01:37:30.400 --> 01:37:32.540
trained to be a spiritual director?

01:37:33.460 --> 01:37:37.820
You can't go to your own church to get
your training, because that's not good

01:37:37.820 --> 01:37:38.060
enough.

01:37:38.200 --> 01:37:43.560
We need specialist Jesuit-trained people
to train you how to be a good formation

01:37:43.560 --> 01:37:43.960
leader.

01:37:44.820 --> 01:37:49.700
So let's see what they teach at Shalem
Institute, where most of the spiritual

01:37:49.700 --> 01:37:51.220
directors are being trained.

01:37:51.220 --> 01:37:56.840
Consists of spiritual guide training,
retreat leader training, spiritual

01:37:56.840 --> 01:38:03.100
deepening programs, group spiritual
direction, sacred listening, contemplative

01:38:03.100 --> 01:38:05.440
leadership, flowing together.

01:38:05.800 --> 01:38:09.020
Can you see all this new-genesis and
oo-genesis?

01:38:09.360 --> 01:38:11.420
I nearly said something I shouldn't say.

01:38:12.160 --> 01:38:17.160
Anyway, here is this pleasant gentleman
who is the founder of these organizations,

01:38:17.940 --> 01:38:20.060
dressed in appropriate black.

01:38:21.380 --> 01:38:23.260
Some thoughts from the Shalem founder.

01:38:23.520 --> 01:38:24.380
I'm not going to read this.

01:38:24.780 --> 01:38:29.340
The heart is a dangerous place to our
minds, because there we depend upon

01:38:29.340 --> 01:38:32.740
something, someone beyond our control and
mental grasp.

01:38:32.860 --> 01:38:35.160
Our constricted ego self is rationalized.

01:38:35.780 --> 01:38:37.280
La, la, la, la, la.

01:38:37.400 --> 01:38:37.760
Hello!

01:38:38.100 --> 01:38:39.340
Please preach, Jesus!

01:38:41.940 --> 01:38:46.480
Shalem's work also involves the chant,
the body prayer practice.

01:38:48.460 --> 01:38:49.180
Fascinating.

01:38:49.860 --> 01:38:51.540
This is like Reiki and Quakerism.

01:38:52.420 --> 01:38:56.440
Traditional Reiki master will align and
tune in the energy centers of the

01:38:56.440 --> 01:38:56.800
students.

01:38:56.980 --> 01:39:01.840
After this process is completed,
the universal life force becomes amplified

01:39:01.840 --> 01:39:03.820
when drawn through the hands.

01:39:03.980 --> 01:39:05.180
This is a cult!

01:39:05.920 --> 01:39:08.200
Our bodies have a vocabulary.

01:39:08.860 --> 01:39:13.220
Simple breath prayer, simple body prayer,
body blessing.

01:39:14.660 --> 01:39:16.000
Can you imagine this?

01:39:16.300 --> 01:39:17.660
Please note these buzzwords.

01:39:17.920 --> 01:39:18.960
You will hear them.

01:39:20.900 --> 01:39:24.640
They're coming to us in a powerful way.

01:39:25.080 --> 01:39:26.560
This is how body prayer works.

01:39:26.680 --> 01:39:27.080
Listen to this.

01:39:27.460 --> 01:39:28.820
May your body be blessed.

01:39:29.380 --> 01:39:33.480
May you realize that your body is faithful
and beautiful friend of your soul.

01:39:33.480 --> 01:39:38.560
And may you be peaceful and joyful and
recognize that your senses are sacred

01:39:38.560 --> 01:39:39.320
threshold.

01:39:40.160 --> 01:39:45.900
May you realize holiness is mindful
gazing, feeling, hearing, touching.

01:39:46.400 --> 01:39:48.960
There you sit and you go through all of
these things.

01:39:50.280 --> 01:39:52.460
Here's the website of Unknowing.

01:39:52.960 --> 01:39:59.460
Is devoted to Christian mysticism,
interfaith, spirituality, Celtic wisdom,

01:39:59.680 --> 01:40:00.760
emergent theology.

01:40:01.860 --> 01:40:07.760
Shalem Product, Carl McCullman,
teaches contemplative prayer, propagates

01:40:07.760 --> 01:40:09.180
mysticism in religion.

01:40:09.300 --> 01:40:10.640
This is where it comes from.

01:40:11.800 --> 01:40:13.800
Abandonment of Protestant principles.

01:40:15.080 --> 01:40:17.740
Let's get to something else and let's get
into sacred dance.

01:40:17.960 --> 01:40:19.740
Are we getting that more and more in our
world?

01:40:21.280 --> 01:40:26.140
The whirling dervishes of Turkey,
the sacred dance of the Mebley Sufis.

01:40:26.140 --> 01:40:26.940
What does it do?

01:40:27.260 --> 01:40:31.240
Opens up the channel for this activity.

01:40:31.620 --> 01:40:34.060
Now here you have a Muslim variety.

01:40:34.400 --> 01:40:35.340
Notice the dress.

01:40:35.940 --> 01:40:39.920
The white robes, the beautiful movement,
and all of these things.

01:40:40.880 --> 01:40:46.800
The real reason why some evangelicals
dislike contemplative prayer, says this

01:40:46.800 --> 01:40:47.420
webpage.

01:40:48.160 --> 01:40:52.500
Here's an interesting article from the
Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal.

01:40:53.320 --> 01:40:58.020
David Harris, a former Baptist minister,
next month will be ordained a Catholic

01:40:58.020 --> 01:40:58.560
priest.

01:40:58.680 --> 01:40:58.900
Why?

01:40:59.060 --> 01:41:02.620
Because contemplative prayer changes your
mind.

01:41:03.460 --> 01:41:09.400
Ex-married, ex-Baptist minister to become
Catholic priest, married former Baptist to

01:41:09.400 --> 01:41:10.100
be a priest.

01:41:10.520 --> 01:41:15.000
He never considered his conversion to
Catholicism six years ago by the rejection

01:41:15.000 --> 01:41:18.020
of the Baptist faith that nourished him
from childhood, etc.

01:41:18.020 --> 01:41:21.980
He practices these things and you merge.

01:41:23.220 --> 01:41:30.240
Shalom Center propagates sacred dancing,
multi-religious interaction, dances of

01:41:30.240 --> 01:41:31.600
universal peace.

01:41:32.300 --> 01:41:38.420
And you have all these reverend doctors,
so-and-so, dancing universal peace into

01:41:38.420 --> 01:41:38.940
the world.

01:41:39.240 --> 01:41:42.380
And we become the tent of Abraham,
Hagar and Sarah.

01:41:43.160 --> 01:41:43.980
What does that mean?

01:41:44.620 --> 01:41:47.220
All religions jump into the same pot.

01:41:47.220 --> 01:41:52.040
And we have religious dialogue and we have
coalitions for social action.

01:41:52.540 --> 01:41:57.700
And we have a social gospel and we've
ripped the heart out of everything that's

01:41:57.700 --> 01:41:58.380
in the Bible.

01:41:59.020 --> 01:42:05.080
Sacred mission, our sacred guild,
sacred dance guild promotes sacred dances,

01:42:05.280 --> 01:42:10.700
prayer, means of spiritual growth,
connecting to the divine, integration of

01:42:10.700 --> 01:42:11.900
mind, body, spirit.

01:42:12.060 --> 01:42:13.060
I mean, it's fantastic.

01:42:13.640 --> 01:42:16.560
And who will be the mega-dancer on the
world?

01:42:16.560 --> 01:42:17.800
The Pope.

01:42:19.520 --> 01:42:22.320
Here is his team of dancers.

01:42:22.900 --> 01:42:23.820
Imagine this.

01:42:24.960 --> 01:42:30.380
Rome's Olympic Stadium, a group of 1,200
young women performed synchronized dancing

01:42:30.380 --> 01:42:35.260
in front of John Paul II during the
Vatican-sponsored sports jubilee.

01:42:35.900 --> 01:42:39.660
An estimated 100,000 people were in the
stadium to greet the Pope.

01:42:39.660 --> 01:42:46.980
And so we have St. Alphonsus Catholic
Church, Rock Church.

01:42:47.500 --> 01:42:51.880
We have the sacred dancing, dancing on the
altar, dancing in Luxembourg.

01:42:52.220 --> 01:42:56.040
The churches of Fulibert, the dancing
girls of Archbishop Niederhauer.

01:42:56.380 --> 01:43:03.760
And this is the dance that took place when
Pope Benedict had the Mass in the United

01:43:03.760 --> 01:43:06.360
States, in the Yankee Stadium.

01:43:06.360 --> 01:43:08.120
Spiritual dancing.

01:43:08.240 --> 01:43:09.660
Where does all this stuff come from?

01:43:10.260 --> 01:43:13.580
The Methodist Center for Spiritual
Formation.

01:43:13.720 --> 01:43:15.080
And now I want you to wake up.

01:43:16.720 --> 01:43:23.220
Now let's go to a Protestant webpage and
see how far the rot has gone.

01:43:24.080 --> 01:43:24.780
Is that fair enough?

01:43:25.840 --> 01:43:28.100
This is the Methodist webpage.

01:43:29.060 --> 01:43:34.600
Spiritual formation, formation gatherings
are the day or weekend retreat designed to

01:43:34.600 --> 01:43:39.540
meet the interests and needs of those
seeking a deeper walk in their spiritual

01:43:39.540 --> 01:43:40.080
journey.

01:43:40.740 --> 01:43:42.600
Now what are they going to train us for?

01:43:42.740 --> 01:43:44.880
Please note the programs are for what
years?

01:43:45.780 --> 01:43:47.520
2008 and 2009.

01:43:47.640 --> 01:43:48.280
That's now.

01:43:51.430 --> 01:43:52.670
Prayer Labyrinth.

01:43:53.650 --> 01:43:56.670
Encountering the Holy Spirit on the
journey within.

01:43:56.670 --> 01:44:02.750
Learn about the history of the labyrinth
and join fellow sojourners on the

01:44:02.750 --> 01:44:04.030
labyrinth prayer.

01:44:04.890 --> 01:44:06.730
A Methodist webpage.

01:44:08.070 --> 01:44:13.590
John Wesley wouldn't turn over in his
grave, he'd spin if he could.

01:44:16.490 --> 01:44:16.870
Methodist.

01:44:18.870 --> 01:44:20.390
Monastic spirituality.

01:44:21.710 --> 01:44:25.650
Monasticism and spirituality have always
been two sides of the same coin.

01:44:26.580 --> 01:44:31.890
In the last several decades many monastic
communities have sprung up as people have

01:44:31.890 --> 01:44:35.350
tried a formal religion and sought a
closer communion with God.

01:44:35.670 --> 01:44:39.850
We're becoming monks and nuns.

01:44:40.190 --> 01:44:41.230
Thais worship.

01:44:42.130 --> 01:44:45.690
Thais in many things in a small village in
southwest France.

01:44:46.030 --> 01:44:49.990
The name of its residential ecumenical
monastic community.

01:44:50.150 --> 01:44:52.830
You go there and you sing the Thai chants.

01:44:54.030 --> 01:44:54.830
Methodists.

01:44:57.430 --> 01:45:00.690
An introduction to iconography.

01:45:01.530 --> 01:45:03.710
We need icons in the church.

01:45:04.230 --> 01:45:05.330
We need little statues.

01:45:05.870 --> 01:45:07.390
We've lost our identity.

01:45:08.190 --> 01:45:12.390
Explore the ancient tradition of icon
through the eyes of iconographer and

01:45:12.390 --> 01:45:17.370
artist as well as understanding and
experience how icons can be aged to

01:45:17.370 --> 01:45:19.390
contemplation and prayer.

01:45:20.510 --> 01:45:22.290
What does the second commandment say?

01:45:22.990 --> 01:45:24.670
It forbids this.

01:45:25.390 --> 01:45:27.730
Now is this a Roman Catholic or is this
not?

01:45:29.010 --> 01:45:31.350
Is it Jesuit controlled or is it not?

01:45:34.810 --> 01:45:37.870
Journaling through active imagination.

01:45:38.890 --> 01:45:45.230
Have you ever thought that you would like
to journal but always end up starting in a

01:45:45.230 --> 01:45:46.410
blank sheet of paper?

01:45:46.770 --> 01:45:49.130
So now let's get this active.

01:45:49.290 --> 01:45:50.630
Wellness and health.

01:45:51.910 --> 01:45:52.890
It's also part of it.

01:45:52.890 --> 01:45:55.030
The New Ages are better at it than we are.

01:45:56.830 --> 01:45:58.670
Let's look at the Presbyterian webpage.

01:46:00.730 --> 01:46:01.890
What is spiritual formation?

01:46:02.170 --> 01:46:07.550
Spiritual formation is the activity of the
Holy Spirit which molds our lives into the

01:46:07.550 --> 01:46:09.370
likeness of Jesus Christ.

01:46:10.790 --> 01:46:16.230
This likeness is one of deep intimacy with
God and genuine compassion for all

01:46:16.230 --> 01:46:16.770
creation.

01:46:17.130 --> 01:46:17.690
Sounds good?

01:46:18.390 --> 01:46:22.430
The Spirit works not only in the lives of
individuals but also in the church,

01:46:22.610 --> 01:46:24.390
shaping it into the body of Christ.

01:46:24.550 --> 01:46:31.530
We cooperate with this work of the Spirit
through certain practices that make us

01:46:31.530 --> 01:46:34.670
more open and responsive to the Spirit's
touch.

01:46:36.770 --> 01:46:39.090
Disciplines such as Sabbath keeping.

01:46:40.150 --> 01:46:42.190
Works of compassion and justice.

01:46:42.630 --> 01:46:43.270
Discernment.

01:46:43.870 --> 01:46:45.150
Worship hospitality.

01:46:45.150 --> 01:46:47.510
Spiritual friendships.

01:46:48.130 --> 01:46:49.810
Contemplative silence.

01:46:51.670 --> 01:46:52.390
Presbyterians.

01:46:53.230 --> 01:46:54.410
Calvin will freak.

01:46:56.490 --> 01:46:58.610
Walking the sacred path.

01:46:59.270 --> 01:47:03.870
Join so-and-so with a wonderful journey
into the heart of the sacred center.

01:47:05.050 --> 01:47:10.290
And we'll go to the cathedrals through a
series of workshops, training of your

01:47:10.290 --> 01:47:10.630
choosing.

01:47:10.750 --> 01:47:13.510
We'll explore historical archetypes.

01:47:13.510 --> 01:47:18.550
We'll go to those holy people of the past
who were all Roman Catholic saints.

01:47:19.130 --> 01:47:21.310
The labyrinth as a tool.

01:47:22.570 --> 01:47:24.010
Labyrinth facilitation.

01:47:24.230 --> 01:47:29.950
Engage in ritual meditation, lecture,
art, music, sacred circle.

01:47:30.090 --> 01:47:31.430
What does all this nonsense mean?

01:47:32.990 --> 01:47:34.430
Let's go to sacred circle.

01:47:35.010 --> 01:47:36.430
Here is the labyrinth.

01:47:36.610 --> 01:47:38.610
You walk in the labyrinth.

01:47:38.610 --> 01:47:43.570
And you find your spirituality by not
knowing where you're going.

01:47:44.770 --> 01:47:46.850
And you light your little candles.

01:47:47.870 --> 01:47:49.810
And you have your little prayer beads.

01:47:49.910 --> 01:47:52.170
Who uses prayer beads like this,
by the way?

01:47:52.730 --> 01:47:54.450
Roman Catholic Church.

01:47:55.190 --> 01:47:57.070
The Sacred Circle Company.

01:47:57.190 --> 01:47:59.130
That's what the Presbyterians want to take
you to.

01:47:59.190 --> 01:48:03.070
It's an exciting, innovative partnership
offering the essential material,

01:48:03.470 --> 01:48:07.450
guidance and information for nurturing
spiritual wholeness.

01:48:08.450 --> 01:48:14.390
We specialize in resources for care for
the soul, labyrinth, small group studies,

01:48:14.830 --> 01:48:20.210
retreats, workshops, aids to meditation
and prayer, as well as mentoring for

01:48:20.210 --> 01:48:22.730
individual pilgrimages.

01:48:23.530 --> 01:48:25.990
Are these people crazy?

01:48:27.310 --> 01:48:29.850
The 12 heavenly practices of a new church.

01:48:30.750 --> 01:48:31.350
Stillness.

01:48:32.870 --> 01:48:33.470
Detachment.

01:48:34.130 --> 01:48:34.730
Humility.

01:48:35.170 --> 01:48:35.710
Silence.

01:48:36.570 --> 01:48:37.170
Discernment.

01:48:37.250 --> 01:48:37.530
Healing.

01:48:37.850 --> 01:48:38.450
Solitude.

01:48:38.790 --> 01:48:39.390
Devotion.

01:48:39.530 --> 01:48:39.950
Holiness.

01:48:40.110 --> 01:48:40.710
Simplicity.

01:48:41.010 --> 01:48:41.510
Delight.

01:48:42.070 --> 01:48:42.670
Heavenliness.

01:48:42.990 --> 01:48:46.430
Is there anything about salvation in Jesus
Christ here?

01:48:47.590 --> 01:48:49.130
God is doing a new thing now.

01:48:49.230 --> 01:48:51.830
God is creating a new church for the new
age now.

01:48:52.650 --> 01:48:53.990
And we have to be part of it.

01:48:55.270 --> 01:48:57.090
We need spirituality in practice.

01:48:57.090 --> 01:49:00.870
They quote the Presbyterian Office of
Spiritual Formation.

01:49:01.050 --> 01:49:03.650
Good definition, many resources offered.

01:49:04.050 --> 01:49:06.050
Go and study what these people are saying.

01:49:07.630 --> 01:49:09.350
Sealing versus formation.

01:49:10.630 --> 01:49:11.790
Revelation 7.3.

01:49:13.050 --> 01:49:16.510
Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the
sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed

01:49:16.510 --> 01:49:19.530
the servants of our God in their
foreheads.

01:49:20.530 --> 01:49:21.630
Isaiah 8.16.

01:49:21.790 --> 01:49:25.830
Bind up the testimony, seal up the law
amongst my disciples.

01:49:25.830 --> 01:49:28.750
I quote to you from a book called
Maranatha.

01:49:29.930 --> 01:49:35.290
Just as soon as the people of God are
sealed in their foreheads, it is not any

01:49:35.290 --> 01:49:40.130
seal or mark that can be seen but a
settling into the truth, both

01:49:40.130 --> 01:49:44.110
intellectually and spiritually,
so they cannot be moved.

01:49:45.050 --> 01:49:50.170
Just as soon as God's people are sealed
and prepared for the shaking, it will

01:49:50.170 --> 01:49:50.550
come.

01:49:52.210 --> 01:49:54.190
Indeed, it has begun already.

01:49:54.190 --> 01:49:58.670
The judgments of God are now upon the land
to give us warning that we may know what

01:49:58.670 --> 01:49:59.110
is coming.

01:49:59.290 --> 01:50:04.250
The days are fast approaching when there
will be a great perplexity and confusion.

01:50:05.250 --> 01:50:09.370
Satan clothed in angel robes will deceive,
if possible, the very elect.

01:50:09.570 --> 01:50:12.730
There will be God's many and Lord's many.

01:50:12.890 --> 01:50:15.050
Every wind of doctrine will be blowing.

01:50:16.470 --> 01:50:23.350
I want to suggest that spiritual formation
is the counterfeit to the sealing of God,

01:50:24.090 --> 01:50:28.510
the settling into the truth, so that you
cannot be moved.

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And we need to study the Bible as we have
never studied it before, and we need to

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cling to what is truth and righteousness,
and we need to cling to the testimonies

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given by God so that we don't fall into
these traps.

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And these traps are being prepared all
over the world.

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I don't need some hocus-pocus spiritual
mumbo-jumbo formation.

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I need a walk with Jesus Christ,
and that is all I need.

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Alice A.

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Bailey foretold of what she termed the
regeneration of the churches.

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Her rationale was this.

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The Christian churches and its many
branches can serve as a St. John the

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Baptist, as a voice crying in the
wilderness, and as a nucleus through which

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illumination may be accomplished.

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I don't need that kind of illumination.

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I'm crucified with Christ, says Galatians.

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Nevertheless, I live, yet not I,
but Christ lives in me.

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And the life which I now live in the
flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of

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God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

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The Jesuit counter-reformation is almost
complete.

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It has a few, very few loose ends that it
has to wrap up.

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Be careful that we are not wrapped up in
amongst those loose ends.

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Isaiah 64 verse 8, Yet, O Lord,
you are our Father, we are the clay,

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you are the potter, we are the work of
your hand.

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You belong to God.

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You don't belong to anyone on this earth.

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You don't belong to your husband.

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You don't belong to your wife.

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You belong to God.

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You are accountable to God for what you
believe and what you practice.

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And nobody, nobody has the right to merge
someone else's character into his.

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That is control.

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Control freaks do that.

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They use neuro-linguistic programming,
whatever technique they use.

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It's not from God.

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Jeremiah says in 18 verse 6, O house of
Israel, cannot I do with you as this

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potter, said the Lord.

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Behold, as the clay is in the potter's
hand, so you are in mine, in mine hand,

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O house of Israel.

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Our spiritual formation is a
transformation that has to take place

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under the hands of the only one you can
trust yourselves to.

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And don't let anyone rob you of your
sealing.