Strategy for
Defeating Diaprax
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“Finally, my
brethren, be empowered,
strengthened, in the Lord, and in
the strength of the might of Him.
Clothe yourself with the full,
complete armor, including shield,
sword, lance, helmet, greaves,
and breastplate of God-of
God’s presence, and from
God, provided by God, in order
for you to be able to stand
against the methods (Greek.
methodias), the scheming, the
craftiness of the devil.”
Ephesians 6:10,11 (Greek,
amplified)
The
Orientation of the Soul
There are often
imperceptible, yet deeply
profound changes that take place
in a person’s spiritual life
based on what enter that
person’s mind and heart. The
Lord called upon His people to be
a Country people, a Wilderness
people, a Mountain people-to move
out of the cities a century ago,
as the cities became hotbeds of
iniquity. He warned that city
life is false and artificial. The
invasion of personal space by a
crush of humanity devastates the
spiritual powers of the soul.
Cultivating
the Reality of God’s
Presence
In Country Living,
the Lord explains why country
living is so important. “Cut
off to a great degree from
contact with and dependence upon
men, and separated from the
world’s corrupting maxims
and customs and excitements, they
would come nearer to the heart of
nature. God’s presence would
be more real to them. Many
would learn the lesson of dependence
upon Him. Through nature, they
would hear His voice speaking
to their hearts of His peace and
love, and mind, soul, and body
would respond to the healing,
life-giving power. –MH
190-192. (1905)
Moses, Elijah, and
John the Baptist all knew about
this. Surrounded by the mountains
and deserts, there was little to
distract the mind from knowing
and depending upon God. God
becomes real to the soul. God
becomes more important than
interpersonal human
relationships. This is
critical to salvation.
Discipleship rests upon it. Jesus
said that if any man would be His
disciple, he must come to Him
hating father, mother, wife,
children, brethren and sisters,
and even his own life, or he
cannot be His disciple. Luke
14:26.
The Reality of
God’s Presence Precedes
Christ’s Call to
Discipleship
If God is not real
to a person, this first element,
this first condition, of
discipleship will not take place.
We must be trained to hear His
voice in the soul, separate and
distinct from all other voices.
This takes time this takes separation.
Consider the days when America
was young. There was no
television, no radio, no
Internet.
The intensity of
the bombardment of the soul with
the things of man was not there
in the life of the wilderness.
However, there was the Bible,
nature, field, woods, and
mountains-the things that
imperceptibly draw the soul to a
defined and real knowledge of
God. When the truth of Adventism
swept the nation in the 1840s,
multitudes recognized the voice
of God in it, saw that it was
Biblically based, and accepted.
Technology Has
Spread Evil Everywhere
However, today the
soul is bombarded with humanity,
with humanity’s corruption
and vileness. The city has
penetrated everywhere through
technology, and the young walk
along with it pounding its
vileness into the soul through
earphones. It is everywhere. Even
farmers in the combine today have
air-conditioned cabs and the
media bombarding their minds with
the demonic culture of the day.
God is cut off from the soul.
What of the young people?
Virtually every influence tends
toward hell.
“Christians”
With an Alien Orientation
All of this means
that when the person does not
want to be a Christian but does
not experience a repentance not
to be repented of, they are
filled with an orientation that
is alien to the Holy Spirit, and
their “Christianity”
becomes one that is dominated by
man rather than God. Conviction
is dim; character is shaped by
the culture of man, rather than
the culture of the Word of God.
Such people are
ripe for dialectical praxis,
which has as its basis the
destruction of conviction, the
destruction of the hold on God,
and the destruction of true faith
and conscience, and the
redirection of the soul to making
human interpersonal relationships
the dominant issue. The soul
is suffocated. The person who
puts the relationship with God in
all areas first, rather than
putting interpersonal
relationships first, is looked
upon as “unloving” and
“maladjusted.” His
convictions are looked upon as
suspect, as strange, as unheard
of, as detrimental to “love
and unity.” The church group
moves in, the pastor moves in, to
eliminate these
“pre-set” ideas that
are so unrealistic, so out of
touch with a society that claims
to be Christian, yet does not
know God.
Only as one knows
God personally, really,
experientially, and clearly and
unequivocally puts God’s
voice above the attenuated voices
of man, is there hope for the
soul. To do battle with
dialectical praxis, the person
must have an ironclad character,
anchored in actual union with
Christ by faith, in steel
conviction that will not let go
of the voice of God. The soul at
every point must be garrisoned.
Doing Battle With
Dialectical Praxis
- Recognize
that true conviction,
based on a sound
understanding of the
Word, instilled by the
Holy Spirit, is evidence
in your soul of the Holy
Spirit’s presence. Thus,
true conviction is the
authority of God Himself
in your soul. Thus,
conviction is worth dying
for. Conviction must be
made to be what it
is-far, far greater than
the weapons of hell.
Conviction is your
weapon. Armed and
shot by angel hands,
conviction is what wins
souls out of Satan’s
grasp into the kingdom.
Take your stand on
conviction. My soul is
bound to the Word of God.
It is unsafe for a
Christian man to go
against his own
conscience. Here I stand.
I can do no other. So,
help me God.
- Conviction,
seized by the soul, must
be grasped by faith, a
faith that is
unconquerable, the faith
of Jesus. Conviction
must seize and take
possession of the soul,
so that a person will die
for it, because it is the
presence and voice of God
in the soul. Conviction
born of the Holy Spirit
is the shield of
Omnipotence over your
soul. Faith in the unseen
things of the kingdom of
God and His Word, held by
the soul in conviction,
is your shield. Learn to
use your shield. The
authority of God Himself
is infinitely greater
than any pressure from
hell exerted in cell
groups, any board
meeting, and any
collection of diapraxing
pastors, elders, or
interrogators.
- Pick
your terrain for the
fight. Fight on
ground, good ground,
ground of the Holy
Spirit’s choosing If
at all possible, you
choose the battlefield.
Do not let the enemy
choose the terrain, and
arrange things in such a
way to try to overwhelm
your faith and
conviction. Do not
venture to do battle on
the devil’s ground.
However, if you are
compelled for reasons
beyond your control to
fight on unequal ground,
on the devil’s
ground, you will have to
pay all the more
attention to the supreme
value of your
convictions, which are of
more value than life
itself, and give good
attention to the use of
the weapons in your
arsenal.
- Your task
is too instill
conviction in the
hearts of as many as are
willing. When confronted
with the enemy, work on
the conscience of those
using diaprax to instill conviction
in them. Remember, a
person using diaprax can
not be a Christian, for
diaprax is the weapon to
destroy faith,
conviction, judgment, and
sound wisdom. Diaprax is
the weapon, formed in
hell, to destroy
conviction. But your
weapon is conviction.
- Pastors,
elders, and other such
who use dialectical
praxis in an attempt to
subvert conscience and
conviction, but who
appeal to “church
authority” for their
actions, must be seen
exactly and precisely for
what they are-emissaries
and apostles from the
bottomless pit, using the
favored weapon of the
Jesuit Order. Thus they
have no authority, for
they have forfeited all
claim to authority by
being servants of Satan. They
are in the same position
as Caiaphas, Annas, and
the pope. You do not give
them any authority in
your soul-the fortress
held by Christ.
- On the
other hand, the name
of Christ is the source
of your authority. “Christ’s
name was to be their
watchword, their badge of
distinction, their bond
of union, the authority
for their course of
action, and the source of
their success. Nothing
was to be recognized in
His kingdom that did not
bear His name and
superscription.” AA
28.
- Conviction
is your authority, for it
is the voice of God, the
voice of the Holy Spirit,
in your soul. When he
(the Holy Spirit) is
come, He will convict the
world of sin, and of
righteousness and of
judgment, Jesus said,
“Conscience is the
voice of God, heard amid
the conflict of human
passions; when resisted,
the Spirit of God is
grieved.” 5T 120.
- However,
your conscience must
be trained in the Word of
God to faithful, prompt,
and clear-cut
obedience. You
must never weaken your
conscience by going
against it, for it is
your great shield wall
line of defense for your
soul. The conscience must
be formed in submission
to Christ alone, in
subjection to the Word of
Christ, in harmony with
the law of God, and every
word that proceeds out of
the mouth of God.
Conviction is your sword
of the Spirit-the Word of
God. You need to learn
how to wield your
weapon. Jesus said,
He that does not have
one, let him sell his
coat and get a sword.
Luke 22:36.
Part with anything rather
than your sword. You need
to learn how to fight for
your soul with the
sword of the Spirit.
- Conscience
is more important than
all else beside, more
important than church
membership, for the
hierarchy will try to
strike fear in the heart
of the dissenter-the fear
of excommunication, of
isolation, of rejection.
- But
Jesus says, take up your
cross, the cross of
rejection, shame and
reproach for
Christ’s sake, for
the Holy Spirit’s
sake, for
conscience’s sake. That
is why Jesus said take up
your cross. When you lift
the cross, it lifts you,
and separates you from
Satan’s power.
Rejoice in rejection, in
shame, in reproach for
Christ’s sake! That
is the weapon of the
Christian. The martyrs
went to the stake to be
burned to death singing!
Peter sang in prison. He
considered the reproach
of a death on the cross
to be too great an honor,
so he asked to be
crucified upside down.
- Understand
the power and the glory
of standing alone. There
is infinite power in
standing alone on a
conscience forged by the
Holy Spirit in the Word. Your
aloneness amplifies the
presence of the Almighty
in you. He that is
you is more powerful than
the world and all else.
One with God is a
majority. You must be
prepared to stand-alone.
All men
forsook your Master,
Christ. “All forsook
Him and fled.” Mark
14:50. Paul had all
forsake him. 2 Timothy
4:16. You must learn the
power of being alone,
under God.
Luther declared, you must
fear me, precisely
because I am alone, and
you are many. The power
of the gospel lies in you
forsaking all for Christ.
You have nothing to hold
you back from the
ultimate freedom of
following the Holy
Spirit, the Author of
Liberty, in full freedom
of conscience.
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