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What the world and human psychology/philosophy would call escaping reality, fantasying and daydreaming, is what the word of God recommend as crucial and essential for salvation.
To pray, talk and walk with God. Develop a relationship with Him. Some would even go as far as to label it a mental disorder, because you talk to a being one can not observe, see. Because the world walk by sight (by the apparent), not by faith, in the unseen.
“Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.”
Hebrews 11:1
"for we walk by faith, not by sight." -2. Corinthians 5:7
“But as for you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you.” -Matthew 6:6. We are also asked to have our main focus and priority on God and the things of God and of a spiritual nature. 1. Creator (God) 2. Creation. In that priority. While those who are worldly minded (this could also include immature or even fallen Christians), will advice you to have your focus on this life, on this world and the things of this world primarily. Or downplay the importance of putting God and what he represent first. They will not differentiate between these two main commandments in terms of priority. Some even state they are one and the same. The world and particularly modern spiritualism and spiritualism that has crept into the churches, will also call those who obey the commands of God to be separate from the world, as being hateful/ fearful, even Satanic. See article on how Satan try to reverse the victory won by Christ in a separate note. The world also change or interpret the content of many other labels, like grace, salvation, love, happiness etc, different from the word and spirit of God. In this day and age of the "Happy human(ist) agenda", we should look closer at what constitutes genuine happiness. When Spiritualism teaches it is "all about energies", The word and Spirit of God says: "No", it is about an inner spiritual peace that surpasses human understanding. Why this is crucial not only for ourselves: -By twisting the ingredients and meaning/content of the genuine, including words and phrases, Satan accomplishes much. So much he even use it to try to reverse the victory Christ won against him, three times. This is one of his fiercest weapons. Likewise, professed Christian believers along with the world will use it also against believers in Christ. - It is not about high energies as Spiritualism and the world, and even some Christian churches teaches, it is about an increased inner peace in your mind and heart where you have escaped increasingly the confusion and spell of Babylon. When we reach the "mark" of a sanctification process completed, there will reign a fuller measure of Christ's happiness and peace in our hearts and minds, as we receive a fuller measure of His spirit. When we receive this peace that surpasses all understanding, it can survive everything, because we have built our house on the eternal Rock of Jesus. Built with the grace and power of God, not of ourselves. On the Rock and not on sand. Only this will be able to stand physical and mental afflictions in the storm's of life and in the great tribulation. Although, if you are or remain in Babylon, if you have built your house on sand, then your house will fall. "Fallen, fallen is Babylon". In Christ, and by walking His path, his higher/divine school; His "not so easy narrow path", and take up our cross and follow Him, we will gradually also be more filled with the Truth. So when we meet challenges and are confronted with doctrines of demons, we will be able to expose it and not be deceived. We will not be cast away with every wind of doctrine and moved to and fro, but stand balanced and SOLID anchored on the Truth. Not on tradition, not on the world, not on self. Not to the left or the right, but Centered in Christ. "Build Your House on the Rock
Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.” -Matthew 7:24-27
The Great Counterfeit and the Omega of apostacy
-Spiritualism and Satan's way. The way of the world and Babylon. Building a tower to their idea of happiness, of "heaven".
"CAIN AND ABEL REPRESENT TWO CLASSES THAT WILL EXIST IN THE WORLD TILL THE CLOSE OF TIME.
One class avail themselves of the appointed sacrifice for sin; the other venture to depend upon their own merits; theirs is a sacrifice without the virtue of divine mediation, and thus it is not able to bring man into favor with God. It is only through the merits of Jesus that our transgressions can be pardoned." - Patriarchs and Prophets 72, 73
If you have been deceived by this or a similar teaching, we can humble ourselves and ask God for forgiveness and He will cleanse us from that sin. But if we insist on sticking to the ideas and teachings representing self and this world and the fallen, then....only God knows. There is in the end only two ways, which will we choose? A main focus on the outer, hence circumcision in the flesh which represent the old order? Or a main focus and value on the inner values, and circumcision of the heart and mind? Representing salvation according to the new, mature, eternal law, covenant and order? See Romans 2:28-29 and Hebrews 8:10. Yet, we do not speak of either or here, but what our main focus and priority is, and where we believe salvation and the kingdom of God is represented by, first. Although the spell is heavy, there is an escape. I know, because I escaped myself, in Christ. But it was a painful process. Hopefully you do not need to go through anything similar as to what I had to go through to wake me up.
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