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Except insofar as the one single act of "inviting Christ into our 
hearts" when we are born again (which He grants on the basis of 
His grace alone), we cannot (indeed, we dare not) "allow,"
"permit" 
or "invite" God to do anything. HE ALLOWS, PERMITS AND INVITES US. 
He is SOVEREIGN in the most ABSOLUTE and COMPLETE way. Nothing can 
intrude on His sovereignty - and, as we just suggested, that extends 
even insofar as our "ability" or our "free will" (so-called, and 
- again - which we possess by grace alone) to invite Christ into 
our hearts. Indeed, concerning this very matter, the Bible says:  

"Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall 
the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me 
thus?  

"Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make 
one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?" (Rom. 9:20-
21)

Dear Christian, listen to me very carefully: we are the clay; He is 
the Potter. The clay is in no position to "allow," "permit," or 
"invite" the Potter to do anything. And if we believe otherwise, 
we merely prove our own conceit and arrogance. Now what we are 
talking about here is serious stuff. There is nothing whimsical 
about it at all. This has nothing to do with "how many angels can 
dance on the head of a pin." There are very practical and 
"down-to-earth" outcomes that are involved here. And what do we 
mean by that? We mean there is an exceedingly dangerous thought 
behind this kind of thinking which springs from the darkest of 
sources and implies that man - when he invites Christ into his 
heart - becomes co-equal with God; that man becomes INTRINSICALLY 
one with God; that he becomes as much a son of God as Christ is; 
that he becomes as much God as Christ is. This is LUCIFERIC! And, 
naturally enough, because it is Luciferic, it leads people easily 
and quite naturally to the Antichrist, whether they are Christian 
or not.  

Brothers and sisters, we are sons and daughters of God by 
ADOPTION, and that is all. That does not make us co-equal 
with Christ. Yes, it's true that the Bible says:  

"For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons 
of God." (Rom. 8:14)

And again it says:

"The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are 
the children of God ..." (Rom. 8:16)

But how is it that we become children of God? The Bible very 
clearly tells us: by ADOPTION. Isn't this what verse fifteen 
says - the one that comes EXACTLY between the two above referenced 
verses:  

"For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; 
but ye have received the Spirit of ADOPTION, whereby we cry, 
Abba, Father." (Rom. 8:15)  

And this is confirmed by Galatians 4:5 that says that we have 
been redeemed so -  

"... that we might receive the ADOPTION of sons." (Gal. 4:5)

And by Ephesians 1:5:

"Having predestinated us unto the ADOPTION of children by Jesus 
Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will ..." 
(Eph. 1:5)  

We are sons and daughters of God by ADOPTION, not by nature. 
We do not share in the Godhood of Christ. We do not have 
CREATIVE power, as does the Godhead. To think otherwise is 
SATANIC in the most PROFOUND sense of that word.  

ONENESS WITH CHRIST

Yes, as believers (as the church) we are called to be one with 
Christ - but, again, we are not called into intrinsic oneness with 
Him, but into the oneness that intimate fellowship confers upon us; 
the same kind of close, confidential and dear fellowship (oneness) 
that a husband and wife have with one another. A husband and wife 
are one, but they do not become intrinsically one, they do not meld 
into each other; they are one in fellowship - and it is this kind of 
oneness that we have with God. This is what Ephesians 5:31-32 says:  

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall 
be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. "This is 
a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church." 
(Eph. 5:31-32)  

The Bible says that they become "one flesh!" But they do not 
become "one flesh" intrinsically; they do not become a new being 
(really a monster) that is now half man and half woman. They 
become one in fellowship. That's what happens when we become 
one with Christ.  

Again, I say, when we accept Christ into our lives, we do not 
thereby become a "little Jesus" or a "little god." God does not 
confer upon us GODHOOD, and in saying this I am, of course, 
more than aware that that's precisely what apostates and 
"renegades from the faith" like Kenneth Hagin and Kenneth 
Copleand believe. For example, Kenneth Hagin says:  

"That's who we are; we're Christ."

But that's a lie, and those who believe it have fallen into the 
same EXACT sin that bewitched both Lucifer and Eve! And in believing 
this lie, they prove who they are: That they are of their father the 
devil -  

"... FOR HE IS A LIAR, and the FATHER OF IT." (John 8:44)

WHAT DOES ALL THIS SAY ABOUT BUSH AND THE PROMISE KEEPERS  

What then does that say about the "new dominionists?" What's 
that say about Bush who has embraced the dominionist mindset? 
The "new dominionists, naturally, are loathe to admit that the logic 
of their thinking propels them into LUCIFERIC spheres of thinking; 
but in denying it, they are simply denying the obvious and hoping 
that most people will accept their denials at face value and let it 
go at that. Most Christians, of course, do. But the logic is crushing 
and it breaks out everywhere in their theology (such as it is).  

Take the matter of how the "new dominionists" understand "prayer 
and intercession," and especially how "prayer and intercession" 
impact their view of dominionism. Wentroble "spills the beans" 
in this way:  

"One of the keys available to the apostolic church (i.e., the 
"New Order Christian" or the "New Order Church") is prayer and 
intercession. Apostolic people intercede. The prayers, however,
are not only for personal needs. They have a burden for the lost. 
They cry out for the Lord to be glorified in their cities ...  

"During the '70s and '80s, the Church received much revelation 
about God's name as Jehovah Jireh. Teachers (like Kenneth Hagin, 
Kenneth Copeland, Charles Capps, Oral Roberts, etc. - editor) 
expounded on Scriptures revealing God's will to bless His people. 
He is the God who 'shall supply all our needs according to His 
riches in glory in Christ Jesus' (Phil. 4:19). That truth will 
never change. God is a covenant-keeping God. When we walk in 
covenant with Him, He provides for us."  

POVERTY RESULTS FROM LACK OF FAITH

Wow! Think about that! - the problem of poverty and all the social 
ills that result from poverty does not stem from the stinginess and 
deceitfulness of the rich, but in the lack of prayer on the part of 
the poor; when the poor walk in "covenant" with God, their financial 
problems will be solved. Now that's music to a rich man's ears.  

And if the poor pray night and day, and still nothing happens, then 
there must be something wrong in their hearts; maybe some 
"hidden sin" that they need to root out first before God will hear 
their prayer - perchance the sin of envy (maybe towards the rich)? 
of jealously? of covetousness?  

Meanwhile, as the poor are sent scurrying out to find the "hidden 
sin" in their lives, the rich can rest confident in their wealth, 
secure in the thought that the poor are now too busy finding sin in 
their own lives and in the lives of their neighbors to really think 
that much about how the rich actually got rich - mostly by deceit and 
treachery! Come on now! - isn't that how the Rockefellers got rich? 
Isn't that how the Mellons got rich? And the Morgans? And the 
DuPonts? Read your history books - after all, it isn't much of 
a secret.  

Oh well, the poor are too busy praying and rooting sin out of their 
lives and the lives of their neighbors to think too much about that 
now. Again, all we can say is, Wow! - that's the kind of program 
the George Bush's of this world can get behind, to say nothing of 
the super-rich like Sumner Redstone, Lawrence Ellison, John 
Chambers, C. Michael Armstrong, Tom Feston, etc.  

LETTING THE RICH OFF THE HOOK

All this certainly let's the rich off the hook! No wonder the rich 
love Christianity. No wonder the wealthy have always lined up behind 
the church, from the old European elites like the Hapsburgs in 
Austria, the Hoehenzollerns in Germany, and the Romonovs in 
Russia to the new elites in this country like the Rockefellers, 
the Scaifs, the Mellons, the DuPonts, etc. And no wonder they are 
lining up today to support the cultural agenda of the conservative 
Christian community. But this is a depraved and immoral 
PERVERSION of the Scripture - and it is precisely for this \
reason that the Bible says,  

"... the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles ..." (Rom. 2:24)  

Nonetheless, the perversion continues, and so much so that the 
rich and their lackeys among the Congressional Republicans and 
in the Bush Administration have come to believe that a dollar 
spent on Christians saves twenty dollars spent on the poor 
- Republicans like Tom Delay, Dick Armey, Dan Burton, Helen 
Chenoweth, J.C. Watts, John Peterson, Ken Calvert, Bob Livingston, 
Karl Rove, John Ashcroft, Don Evans, Jim Nicholson, Bob Barr, Asa 
Hutchinson, ad nauseum.  

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