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Waldenses:
Christ’s Altar is My
Confessional
The Waldenses rejoiced
that Christ was their confessional:
“Many were undeceived in regard
to the claims of Rome. They saw how
vain is the mediation of men
or angels in behalf of the sinner. As
the true light dawned upon their
minds, they exclaimed with rejoicing:
“Christ is my priest; His blood
is my sacrifice; His altar is
my confessional.” They
cast themselves wholly upon the
merits of Jesus, repeating the words,
“Without faith it is impossible
to please Him.” Hebrews 11:6.
“There is none other name under
heaven given among men, whereby we
must be saved.” Acts 4:12.”
GC 74.
It is absolutely
astounding to hear this Structure
professor of theology describe his
experience in finding a Father
confessor type of Spiritual Director.
I feel very sorry that he did not
take his heart to the Lord in secret
prayer, and that instead he opened it
to a human being in a new
confessional-spiritual directorship,
and is now advocating this terrible
departure from Protestantism to
others across the board in ministry.
“I hate the work
of them that turn aside; it shall not
cleave to me. A forward heart shall
depart from me: I will not know a
wicked person.” Psalms 101: 3,4.
The Phenomenon
of a State of Imagined Euphoria in
Transgression
Notice what happened
to Eve when she crossed the border
against the resistance of conscience
and moved into the domain of
rebellion against God. She imagined
she was entering a plane of higher
existence, and experienced a rush of
a state of euphoria. Then she became
an evangelist for sin and rebellion:
“When she
“saw that the tree was good for
food, and it was pleasant to the
eyes, and a tree to be desired to
make one wise, she took of the fruit
thereof, and did eat.” It was
grateful to the taste, and as she
ate, she seemed to feel a
vivifying power, and imagined herself
entering upon a higher state of
existence. Without a fear,
she plucked and ate. And now, having
transgressed, she became the agent of
Satan in working the ruin of her
husband. In a state of
strange, unnatural excitement,
with her hands filled with the
forbidden fruit, she sought his
presence, and related all that had
occurred.” PP 55, 56.
Are we not to take all
of our inner heart to the Lord alone
in secret prayer that none but the
Lord is to hear? Are we not to hold
to the Word of the Lord in faith?
Submitting to
Jesuit-trained Men
This is not just one
personal departure, but Derek has
become a leader in training the
ministry to submit the soul to man,
and Jesuit-trained men at that,
rather than to God. He has become a
change agent, seeking to convert the
rest of the church structure to this
hallmark of Roman Catholicism.
Spiritual Directorship is the
hallmark of Roman Catholicism as
opposed to true Protestantism.
None But the
Prayer-Hearing Go
“In secret
devotion our prayers are to reach the
ears of none but
the prayer-hearing God. No
curious ear is to receive the burden
of such petitions.” MB 84.
The Secret
Place
“When thou
prayest, enter into thy closet.”Have
a place for secret prayer. Jesus had
select places of communion with God,
and so should we. We need
often to retire to some spot, however
humble, where we can be alone with
God.
No Man Needed
to Act as Mediator
“Pray to thy
Father which is in secret.” In
the name of Jesus, we may come into
God’s presence with the
confidence of a child. No man
is needed to act as a mediator.
Through Jesus we may open our hearts
to God as to one who knows and loves
us.”
Serious Prayer
It is now that we need
to revive the practice of secret
prayer to our heavenly Father. Great
men of God have taken prayer
seriously, and made prayer one of the
most important functions of their
lives. Luther prayed three hours a
day at the height of the Reformation
crisis. Wesley said that he did not
think much of a man who did not spend
five or six hours in prayer a day.
Oliver Cromwell prayed for hours on
end. George Washington prayed for
long periods of time. Jesus prayed
all night.
Serious Prayer
“In the secret
place of prayer, where no eye but
God’s can see, no ear but His
can hear, we may pour out our most
hidden desires and longings to the
Father of infinite pity, and in the
hush and silence of the soul that
voice which never fails to answer the
cry of human need will speak to our
hearts.” MB 84.
What the Lord
Says About Confessing the Secret
Things of the heart to Man
“He who kneels
before fallen men, and open
in confession the secret thoughts and
imaginations of his heart, is
debasing his manhood and degrading
every noble instinct of his soul.
In unfolding the sins of life to a
priest, --an erring, sinful mortal,
and too often corrupted with wine and
licentiousness, --his standard
of character is lowered, and he is
defiled in consequence. His
thought of God is degraded to the
likeness of fallen humanity, for the
priest stands as a representative of
God. This degrading confession of man
to man is the secret spring from
which has flowed much of the evil
that is defiling the
world and fitting it for the final
destruction. Yet,
to him who loves self-indulgence, it
is more pleasing to confess to a
fellow mortal than to open the soul
to God. It is more palatable to human
nature to do penance than to renounce
sin; it is easier to mortify the
flesh by sackcloth, nettles, and
galling chains than to crucify
fleshly lusts. Heavy is the yoke
which the carnal heart is willing to
bear rather than bow to the yoke of
Christ.” GC 567, 568.
Morris
Recommends That New Pastors Find a
Spiritual Director To Guide Them
In concluding his
paper, Derek Morris recommends that
the young theology student, who
leaves the seminary for his first
parish, should get a Spiritual
Director as soon as he arrives at his
parish: “In the years that
followed I discovered experientially
what Roy Oswald had concluded from
his research of 102 Seminary
graduates some years before: Crossing
the boundary for Seminary to parish
is never easy. Moreover, the need for
personal spiritual formation is
ongoing. However, the process of
spiritual direction is a tremendous
resource. He notes that ‘Those
who had the good fortune of finding a
spiritual father/mother/friend as
they begun in the parish found the
going somewhat easier.’ [Oswald.
P. 18.]” –Derek Morris, Spiritual
Formation in Ministry, pp. 11,
12. And that is the point of
Morris’ entire paper from the
first to the last paragraph, that
Seminary students need to find a
Spiritual Director and to be under
the direction of a Spiritual Director
when they begin their work as a
pastor in the field.
The Structure
International Board of Ministerial
And Theological Education Imposes
Spiritual Formation
The Adventist world
church created the International
Board of Ministerial and Theological
Education (IBMTE) in September 2001,
designed to provide overall guidance
and standards to the professional training
of pastors,
evangelists, theologians,
teachers, chaplains and other
denominational employees involved in
ministerial and religious formation,
or spiritual formation, in
each of the church’s 13 regions
around the world.” -ANN
[Adventist News Network] Feature:
Church, Congregations Increase Focus
on ‘Spiritual Formation,’
Feb, 3, 2004, www.Adventist.org
Now, by order of the
GC IMBTE Jesuit spiritual formation
and spiritual directors compromise
all of the Structure ministerial
cadre. Students in the colleges are
now taking Spiritual Formation
classes, Spiritual Formation groups
have been formed in the churches, and
a completely new class of ministers
called Spiritual Directors has been
established.
The Rejection
of Christ’s Testimony Regarding
Rome Is Now Breathing Spirit Into the
Image of the Beast.
The rejection of the
vision of Christ Himself given in the
book of Revelation, the book of
Daniel, and the Great Controversy,
with reference to the terrible danger
of Rome and the Jesuits, has
completely compromised the Structure
to the place where the Jesuits, by
pen and Spiritual Directors, are now
educating the full spectrum of the
Structure ministry, from pastors to
evangelists, theologians, teachers,
chaplains, and all other employees
involved in spiritual formation, the
students in training, and the people
in the pew, with the most fundamental
Jesuit training-spiritual formation.
Ignatian
Spirituality
The Jesuits have a
name for it-Ignatian Spirituality.
Spiritual Directors now are imposing
the very ‘spirituality,”
Ignatius Spirituality, possessed by
Ignatius de Loyola himself, upon all
of Protestantism, including the
Structure of Adventism, and even
non-Christian religions such as
Buddhism.
The prophecy of GC
564, 565, of Rome’s plan to wage
“a fierce and determined
conflict to regain control of the
world, to re-establish persecution,
and to undo all that
Protestantism has done,” is
now most strikingly being fulfilled.
Forming All of
Protestantism, Including the
Structure, in the Image of the Jesuit
Order
The result of this
training will be to form the entire
Structure of Adventism, as well as
the structures of the other
Protestant churches, from Methodism,
the Southern Baptists, Episcopalians
and Salvation Army, to even the
Mennonites, in the image of the
Jesuit order. There is no more
effective way than this formation
of the image of the Jesuit Order
could take place than to institute
the very training of Jesuit Order in
all the Protestant Churches.
The Jesuits ran the
Inquisition (GC 235). The Jesuits ran
the Nazi SS, which was formed in the
image of the Jesuit Order, through
Heinrich Himmler, whom Hitler said
was ‘our Ignatius de
Loyola,” and Himmler’s
uncle in the SS, who was a Jesuit.
A Chilling
Observation
It is impossible to
know how many pastors are following
Derek Morris’ example and advice
and is now under the personal
direction of the Jesuit-trained
Spiritual Directors, who are
co-ordinated by Spiritual Directors
International; run by Jesuits [a
Jesuit is the secretary of Spiritual
Directors International], and
Dominican, Franciscan, Benedictine
and other priests and nuns. The
thought that the Order that ran the
Inquisition and Nazi SS has now been
given an open door to form and run
the Structure ministry is a chilling
one indeed.
This major and
critical development of implementing
the most fundamental Jesuit training
in all of Protestantism, and even
Buddhism, is a fundamental component
of the erection of the image of the
beast, foretold in Revelation 13.
This is the breathing into the image
of the spirit of Jesuitism. The
ultimate end result will be the
imposition of the Mark of the Beast,
and finally the universal death
decree.
The Way of
Truth
The way of truth is
the way of Scripture itself, the way
of true Protestantism. It is the way
of faith in following the Master in
true discipleship, being taught by
the Master Himself, with no human
mediator between the soul and Christ.
The way of truth is the way of
meeting the conditions of
discipleship, coming to Christ,
hating father, mother, brother,
sister, wife, children, and even
one’s own life, or we cannot be
His disciple. Luke 14:26. The way of
truth is the way of putting our
trust in Christ alone, and not in any
confidant or guide or friend. Micah
7: 5-7. For those who forsake all for
Christ, He has promised a hundred
fold more, with persecutions, and
with the promise of eternal life with
Him forever and ever. Please, my
friends, be very vigilant and watch
for these things that are overtaking
Protestantism. The Holy Spirit will
continue to guide you and family into
all truth, and remember, Jesus Christ
said, “I am the way the truth
and the way, no man cometh unto the
Father except by me. John 14:6.
