It's no longer what I want and what I feel and what I think that gets to determine my decisions every day.

I have to begin with a desire to please the Lord because I've been crucified with

Christ. And if you haven't arrived at that conclusion, but you're sitting in a

church and you think you're good to know with God, I'd like to ask you to invite

the spirit of God to help you understand yourself.

I don't want you to take my word for it.

I'm not the judge, I'm certainly not the jury, I'm not the arbiter, you won't stand before me.

But I do not want you to stand before the judge of all the earth

without having reconciled this for yourself.

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I'm working through a little series under the general title of escaping

the dissent into paganism.

And just so there's no confusion, I believe we're witnesses to our culture

plunging into paganism.

And it's not happening at some measured pace. It feels like we've reached that tipping point. We crested the top of the roller coaster. You know that point where even if you're in the very front seat on the experience you can't

exactly see the bottom of where you're about to fall to it feels like to me we're

plunging down that decline. I don't believe that it will be resolved or turned around by a

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