May 30, 2021

How are faith and forgiveness tied together?





Dear R. George,

From time-to-time in these weekly emails, I want you to hear from our Bible teacher – Pastor Nat Crawford. His passion for Jesus really spills over into the insights he shares. I appreciate so much when you let me know how much his Bible teaching is helping you grow closer to Jesus each day, too.

Have a great week!
Arnie
 



I remember a few years ago when I was teaching a course on personal values. One of the values was faith, and a cornerstone of faith is forgiveness. After this session, an upset woman approached me.

"I will never forgive this person who hurt me. I can never do it. That will be their punishment."

"Oh. I'm just curious. Are you a Christian?"

"Why yes! This is my church."

"A nice one at that. But what do you do with Jesus' words in Matthew 6? Jesus said, 'if you do not forgive others their sins, God won't forgive yours?'"

She made a "hmph" sound and walked off.

I feel bad for that woman who thought withholding forgiveness was the right power move. But it was disobedient to God and harmful to her life. She forgot, or didn't know, that there is freedom in forgiveness.

But this freedom only happens when we practice three kinds of forgiveness.

Forgiveness received. King David knew mistakes. He knew about disappointing others and God. But he knew with confidence that forgiveness was at his disposal. All he had to do was ask and receive it. King David wrote in Psalm 86:5-7, "For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving, abounding in steadfast love to all who call upon you. Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer; listen to my plea for grace. In the day of my trouble, I call upon you, for you answer me." God doesn't deal out forgiveness begrudgingly. God offers it freely for His children. But we need to ask with a repentant heart and then receive it with gratitude.

Forgiveness given. Paul wrote in Colossians 3:13, "Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive." Forgiveness is hard, but it is possible. We, as forgiven people, have the duty and privilege of extending God's mercy and grace to others.

This forgiveness, however, does not make us a doormat or permit others to hurt us. But what it does is allow us to forgive continually (Matthew 18:21-22) while trusting God. God is the ultimate judge who will make all things right. Our forgiveness is evidence that we trust God's sovereignty and goodness.

Forgiveness practiced. Two people could have been trapped by their pasts: Peter and Paul. Peter denied Jesus three times. But Jesus forgave Peter and commissioned Him (and others) to build the church. Peter could have taken himself out and said, "no way." Instead, he practiced forgiveness and forgave himself.

Paul was a persecutor of the church. He hated Jesus and His followers. People died through the authority of Paul. But later, Paul would write, "But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus" (Phil. 3:13b-14). He could have been chained to his past sins. Instead, he practiced forgiveness and forgave himself.

There is freedom in forgiveness. We don't need to live in bondage to guilt. We don't need to be chained down by the hurt from others. We don't need to live in our past. We are forgiven. Therefore, we are free. So begin to receive, give, and practice forgiveness. When we do this, we will win the day.

Nat Crawford

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Human psychodrama on the world stage: Power Outside the Matrix






Human psychodrama on the world stage: Power Outside the Matrix
by Jon Rappoport
As the drama called Human Life on Planet Earth advances in the 21st century, we are seeing an escalation of lower-brain emotional responses to events. And this is according to plan.

I want to emphasize the underlying propaganda message. It's very important to understand that message:

"As more and more people are unable and unwilling to employ logic and rationality, those qualities diminish in importance, and you should abandon them because…they don't serve you. They aren't useful."

You can see where this would lead. More and more people would surrender to their own stimulus-response mechanisms, and the overall level of chaos would increase and expand.

There is no situation in which you should abandon your own ability to employ reason and rationality, no matter what other people are doing. Their surrender should not become an excuse for you deserting your own power on any level.

The two most formidable individual powers are logic and imagination. 

Logic is essentially grounding and stabilizing. It allows you to analyze any situation or cluster of information and see through to its validity or invalidity, beyond deception. 

Imagination takes you soaring. It allows you to see your greatest vision for your life---and therefore act toward its fulfillment.

Others around you may be succumbing to their own misperceptions and lack of energizing spirit---but that doesn't mean you have to.

And as an aside, if you decide you want to help those you care about and lift them up, try doing it without logic and imagination and see how far you get.

All this is preface and prelude. It occupied me for more than a decade of research and investigation, as I saw the human psychodrama entering a new phase. Its hallmark was random emotional reaction.

Nothing wrong with emotions, but entering a space where they take you from pillar to post, sucking up and draining energy, while producing no visible progress along the line of fulfilling goals…that's not a good thing at all. It eventually ends up paralyzing the individual, who retreats from his most profound ambitions.

This was the setting in which I developed my third collection, Power Outside The Matrix. Here is a description of its contents:

This mega-collection is all about achieving power outside The Matrix and stabilizing that power.

It features a long section called: Analyzing Information in the Age of Disinformation.

This section is filled with specific examples of my past investigations. Based on 25 years of experience, it shows you how to take apart and put together data that lead to valid conclusions.

It is far more than a logic course.

It's an advanced approach to analysis.

Establishing power outside The Matrix requires that a person be able to deal with today's flood of information, misinformation, and disinformation. I've left no stone unturned in bringing you a workable approach to analysis.

There is a further extensive section titled, A Writer's Tutorial. People have been asking me to provide this Tutorial, and here it is in spades. But it's not just for writers. It's for any creative person who wants to grasp his own power, understand it, and use it to reach out into the world.

My Tutorial exposes you to lessons that go far beyond what is normally taught in writer's seminars. In fact, several core concepts in the Tutorial contradict ordinary writer's seminars, and thus give you access to inner resources that would otherwise be ignored.

Another section of this mega-collection, titled Power Outside The Matrix and The Invention of New Reality, features creative exercises you do on a daily basis that will help you move toward the goal of power outside The Matrix. The exercises are all about increasing your energy and stability---and about the invention of new spaces.

Access to your internal energy, in huge amounts, is necessary for a life outside The Matrix---rather than relying on the illusory energy that The Matrix seems to provide.

This is a key fact. I've developed the exercises for exactly that purpose: your energy, your dynamism, independent and self-sufficient.  

And finally, I have included a number of audio seminars that offer a wider perspective about The Matrix and what it means to live and work outside it.
Here are the particulars. These are audio presentations. 55 total hours.

* Analyzing Information in the Age of Disinformation (11.5-hours)

* Writer's Tutorial (8.5-hours)

* Power Outside The Matrix and The Invention of New Reality (6.5-hours)

Then you will receive the following audio presentations I have previously done:

* The Third Philosophy of Imagination (1-hour)

* The Infinite Imagination (3-hours)

* The Mass Projection of Events (1.5-hours)

* The Decentralization of Power (1.5-hours)

* Creating the Future (6-hours)

* Pictures of Reality (6-hours)

* The Real History of America (2-hours)

* Corporations: The New Gods (7.5-hours)

I have included an additional bonus section:

* The complete text (331 pages) of AIDS INC., the book that exposed a conspiracy of scientific fraud deep within the medical research establishment. The book has become a sought-after item, since its publication in 1988. It contains material about viruses, medical testing, and the invention of disease that is, now and in the future, vital to our understanding of phony epidemics arising in our midst (and how to analyze them). I assure you, the revelations in the book will surprise you; they cut much deeper and are more subtle than "virus made in a lab" scenarios.

* A 2-hour radio interview I did on AIDS in Dec 1987 with host Roy Tuckman on KPFK in Los Angeles, California.

* My book, The Secret Behind Secret Societies

(All the audio presentations are mp3 files and the books are pdf files. You download them upon purchase. You'll receive an email with a link to the entire collection.)

This is about your power. Not as an abstract idea, but as a living core of your being. This is about accessing that power and using it to invent realities without end.
Use this link to order Jon's Matrix Collections.
Jon Rappoport

The author of three explosive collections, THE MATRIX REVEALED, EXIT FROM THE MATRIX, and POWER OUTSIDE THE MATRIX, Jon was a candidate for a US Congressional seat in the 29th District of California. He maintains a consulting practice for private clients, the purpose of which is the expansion of personal creative power. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Jon has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic, and creative power to audiences around the world.
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