In To A Dancing
God Sam Keen
describes the new "wineskin" religion of
carnality. The reader should be aware that
"wineskin" is not used as a metaphor. Rather, it is a
world-swept "paradigm" created by turning the
Word's of Jesus upside down. Its premise is that
worship should be celebrative and exhilarating to
"bring the worshippers into the presence of God."
To that end, worship is "performed" for
the watching audience by those talented and
trained to move the emotions through external
means. Remember that we noted above that a
performing priest or priestess in Donandar's cult must be master level with at least two
entertainment skills,
The goal of such worship is to
"upset their equilibrium" or "comfort zone" or
"bring them to the brink of mental and emotional disaster
just so they can be jerked back at the last
possible moment." This will condition them, like
Pavlov's dog, to salivate when the "worship
facilitator" or "worship manipulator" rings his
little ding-dong.
Sam Keen is honest in that he
knows that such worship is "primitive" which
means that it appeals to the carnal senses. In
this sense, it is identical to the worship of
the Jews when they fired God and demanded a king like the nations so that they could worship like the nations. These lusted-after nations were
the Babylonians, Egyptians and Canaanites.
They said to
him, "You are old, and your sons do not walk
in your ways; now appoint a king to lead [a]
us, such as all the other nations have. 1
Samuel 8:5
They also wanted to worship
like the nations and they did especially under
David and Solomon. However, they would never get
away with it:
You say, "We
want to be like the nations, like the peoples
of
the world,
who serve wood and stone." But what you have
in mind will never happen. Ezekiel 20:32
As with the drum beating of
the Keeper's attempt to worship Jesus as "a
phallic kind of guy--
"Primitive religion is not believed, it
is danced." "The word must be discovered in the flesh." "If the church fails
to develop a visceral theology and fails to
help modern man rediscover his flesh and his feelings it will neglect a common
source of grace as well as the seed from
which compassion grows."
With all
phychologically-driven change devices, the goal
is to know self and even worship self or a charismatic figure "used"
in the idolatry of talent:
"The more I
know of myself the more I recognize that
nothing human is foreign to me." "In the
depth of each man's biography lies the story
of all men." "The Sunday
morning barrier against being touched or moved
except by words addressed to the congregation
audience should
be torn down."
"Authentic life is not governed by a spirit of
seriousness. It is graceful, light and
playful."
However,
"From the time
when the rites were held promiscuously, with
men and women mixed
together,
and when the license offered by darkness had
been added, no sort of crime, no kind of
immortality, was left attempted. There were
more obscenities practiced between men than between men and women.
Anyone refusing to submit to outrage or
reluctant to commit crimes was slaughtered as a sacrificial victim. To regard nothing as
forbidden
was among these people the summit of
religious achievement. Men, apparently out of their wits, would utter prophesies with frenzied bodily convulsions: matrons, attired as Bacchantes, with
their hair
disheveled
and carrying blazing torches, would run down
to the Tiber, plunge their torches into the
water and bring them out still alight -
because they contained a mixture of live
sulfur and calcium. Men were said to have
been carried
off by the gods - because they had been
attached to a machine and whisked way out of
sight to hidden caves; or to submit to violation." Titus Livy, History of Rome, Book 39.13
Keen
continues: "The
time is ripe to return to the primitive, the carnal -- there is a time for words, it has lasted from the time
of the Reformation to the present, now we are sick of being inundated in an
ocean of verbiage -- the word must be
rediscovered in the flesh, religion must return to the dance."
The Seekers, Keepers and
Jubilators identify this as "The
Post-Denominational World." You should know that
it is just the spiritually-empty call for a
second incarnation based on human phylosophy.
The dance, hand-clapping,
hand-waving gestures, strutting around on the
podium or dancing-while-preaching and many other
external means are calculated to tranquilize the
rational, judgment-making power in order to
build on the flesh - the feelings of
exhilaration. This is as violently charismatic
as you can get. The poor souls do not know why
they waste all of that human, carnal energy and
the "audience" is still not "revived."
It should be self-evident that
anything devoted to the human senses in the
belief that it has some magical or spiritual
power is, defacto, devoted to the flesh by
people attempting to drown the church in another
flood of words devoid of faithful Biblical
content. This was how the antichrist tried to
sweep the church off the face of the earth
before it could really get started. THE CIRCLE DANCE RELEASES
POWER
In
a report on a gathering called "Catch The Fire
II" in Moscow, Bill Cassada reports that power was released through dancing in a
circle at Rosa Church, the largest
charismatic church in that city:
"We were absolutely
connected with the Holy Spirit during this
glorious time of adoration to our Lord. There were approximately 1000
people in attendance, and everyone was
gloriously entered in. Over towards one side
near the front,
Kathleen
Balassi danced in a circle
of praise
with several of the youth from the St Louis
team and Russian children as well.
Near the end of the worship time, the worship team played a tune well-known to
us, "The River is here.' It was not
difficult to sing along with that one!
Soon the
place was really hoppin' as a dance chain quickly
formed (not hard to do here, Russians love
to dance!) and 50-60 people were leapin'
and dancin' to the music around the
sanctuary. Also,
all during worship,
Russian women
from the church danced before the Lord in their
folk costumes. One of their team members is
currently studying with the Bolshoi Ballet
Troupe, so you know the quality of this dance
group is excellent! They joined in the
festivities with the other dancers, the end
result being several of the troupe lying on the
floor, blasted by the Holy Ghost! To say the
worship was robust and meaningful would be
somewhat of an understatement. You shoulda been
there!"
In an "Update
from Tula [Russia]: May 10th, 1996," we find
another testimony of dancing in a circle "before
the Lord":
"We had been
so involved in the prayer with Lana that
neither of realized what had begun around us.
An exhuberant flow
of worship
had spread throughout the theatre. Everywhere people were
dancing to the Lord in victorious praise.
The prayer time had erupted into a party of
thanksgiving and joy. Even my own two left
feet seemed to be screeming at me, "Dance, you fool...Dance!" Just then a line of people
swept past me. They had come dancing down
the aisle from the back to the front of the
theatre and were making the turn back when
one of them grabbed my arm and pulled me
along. I resisted initialy (sic), as I
flashed back to a church I'd visited once in
the States who regularly broke into this
kind of line-dance. I remember how I'd ridiculed
them and written it off as the kind of
unbridled emotionalism I would never stoop
to.
Lately I'm
learning, with God to be careful what I say I'll
never do, because I'll probably end up doing it.
I threw the thought out of my [mind] and joined
in, at least for a couple of laps. Within
moments the chain of dancers spanned, unbroken,
all the way down one aisle, across the front, up
the other aisle and across the back to create a
full circle."
The
Charismatic
Influence
If our presupposition, based
upon our understanding of Scripture, is that
the Charismatic and Vineyard movements are not of God (see
our papers on the Vineyard Movement), then
something is terribly amiss at the Promise Keepers conferences. Not only are the founders of
Promise Keepers, many of the key leaders,
and a number of favorite speakers Charismatic, but the very worship, music and methods of Promise Keepers spring from
the Charismatics well. I believe that in a very
real sense
Promise
Keepers is the machinery that is moving the
evangelical church wholesale into the
Charismatic camp, without most even
realizing it.
One
example at the Clergy Conference will
suffice at this time: Jack Hayford, one of
the most often used speakers at Promise
Keepers conferences, attempted to teach the
thirty-nine thousand
pastors
how to "dance
in the Lord."
He said he had learned a little dance in Africa and later the Lord
spoke to him directly saying,
"May
I have this dance?" At this point he
demonstrated his dance before the
pastors.
Hayford
and Promise Keepers were subtly introducing
thousands of pastors to some of the heretical teachings of the Charismatic
movement. The focus was on a Charismatic
form of worship dancing in the Lord! The real issue, one that
seemed to be missed by most of those
pastors,
is that
this man is claiming direct
revelation from God!
Where
was the outrage among those pastors? Are
they being anesthetized by Promise Keepers
to the extent that those who claim direct
revelation are accepted without rebuke? If
so, where will this lead?
The fact
is that when you fall into a Charismatic
fit as at Promise Keepers in Atlanta you have sold
your birthright for a mess of effeminate
soul food and you can no longer discern.
"The role of 'praise and worship' music
according to
those who are involved with it is to bring
people 'into the 'presence of God'.
Religious ecstasy as seen in 'Toronto Blessing'
or at Brownsville with the characteristic
weeping and laughing, and being 'slain in the
spririt' is defined as the 'anointing of
the presence of God.'
"The extract from an article
published in 1987 quotes John Wimber, founder
of the Vineyard churches and his wife Carol who also instrumental in their
founding in 1977. The Vineyard church
at Toronto Airport gives its name to Toronto
Blessing, Bill McCartney founder of Promise
Keepers is a member of a Vineyard
fellowship as are others on the Board of the
organization.
VINEYARD
FELLOWSHIP
After she
had a dream in 1976 of standing preaching to a
large crowd a seven-point sermon on the gifts
of the Spirit, at the final point, 'a
sensation like hot electricity' hit her head, travelled down
her body, then up and out of her mouth. She
awakened speaking in tongues. The sensation
of heat and electricity is typical of that
experienced in the current revival.
She said 'Soon God stopped showing me what
he had wanted to do in the past and began to
show me what he was going to do in the
future. I had a strong sense of God's
desire for his bride, for the whole Church -
Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox.' (Riding the
Third Wave - 1987)
In the
article "Worship: Intimacy
With God
the philosophy behind the 'praise and worship' found in the Vineyard
churches it is explained that there is a
'well-thought out philosophy' guiding how God is
worshipped through music and movement in order to achieve the goal through
"Worship: Intimacy With God" .
"To
understand how we worship God, it is helpful
to learn about our fellowship's history, which
goes back to 1977. At that time my wife,
Carol, was leading a small group of people in
a home meeting that evolved into the Anaheim
Vineyard. I'll let her describe what happened
during that time.
"After we
started to meet in our home gathering, I
noticed times during the meeting -- usually
when we sang -- in which I experienced God deeply... occasionally
we sang a song personally and intimately to Jesus, with lyrics like
'Jesus, I love you.'
Those
types of songs both stirred and fed the
hunger for God within me... Thus we began to
see a difference between songs ABOUT Jesus
and songs TO Jesus. "About that time we
realised our worship blessed God, that it
was for God alone and not just a vehicle of
preparation for the pastor's sermon. This
was an exciting revelation. After learning
about the central place of worship in our
meetings, there were many instances in which
all we did was worship God for an hour or
two.
"At this
time we also discovered that singing was not the only way to
worship God. Because the word worship means
literally to bow down, it is important that
our bodies are involved in what our spirits
are saying. In scripture this is
accomplished through bowing heads, lifting
hands,
kneeling, and even lying prostrate before God. ... we are blessed as we
worship him.
He visits
his people with manifestations of the Holy Spirit. "Thus
worship has a two-fold aspect:
communication with God through the basic means of
singing and praying, and communication from God though teaching and
preaching the word, prophecy, exhortation, etc. We lift
him up and exalt him, and as a result are
drawn into his presence where he speaks to
us."
"In the
Vineyard we see five basic phases of worship, phases through which leaders
attempt to lead the congregation.... as we
pass through these phases we are headed
toward one goal:
intimacy with God.".... The fourth phase is
described as "God Visits His People when
"Expression then moves to a zenith, a climactic point, not unlike physical lovemaking... We have expressed what
is in our hearts and minds and bodies,
and now it is time to wait for God to
respond.
Stop
talking and wait for Him to speak, to move. I call this, the
fourth phase, visitation:"
A "second blessing" style experience,
the ability to speak gibberish, prophetic pronouncements, ecstatic
feelings, sexual orgasms, falling down,
trances, uncontrollable laughter and crying,
psychic experiences of clairvoyance and
clairaudience are all part and parcel of Eastern
mystical practice.
The
Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement is therefore
regarded by the Eastern yogis of Hinduism and
Buddhism as an immature variation of its own
practices. Alan
Morrison
- The
ME, Inanna - Ea - Gift of Wisdom and
Music
- He
gave me the art of lovemaking.
- He
gave me the art of kissing the
phallus.
- He
gave me the art of prostitution.
- He
gave me the resounding
musical instrument.
- He
gave me the art of song.
- He
gave me the art
of the elder.
- He
gave me the kindling
of strife
The
fifth phase is called "Generosity "The fifth phase of worship
is the giving of substance. The church knows so little
about giving, yet the Bible exhorts us to
give to God. it is pathetic to see people
preparing for ministry who don't know how to
give. That is like an athlete entering a
race, yet he doesn't know how to run. If we
haven't learned to give money, we haven't
learned anything... " From Source
Wouldn't you know it, pagan
religions always charged for their worship
rituals, their books, their trinkets.
"Guru
Bwagwham Shree Rajneeshru tells one of his
followers in his book, "Dance Your Way To God," 'just be
joyful . . . God is not serious . . . this
world cannot
fit with a theological god . . . so let this be your
constant reminder - that you have to dance your
way to God,
to
laugh your way to God' (p. 229).
Rajneeshru is referred to as being 'drunk on the divine,' and encourages his followers
to come and 'drink' from him.\
His spiritual
'wine' was
often passed along with a single touch to
the head. Rodney Howard Browne who has
passed the holy laughter on to others calls
himself a Holy Ghost bartender dispensing
the new wine."
Jeff Walling
(Note: Several e-mails make it clear that
whether literal or figurative, the image of
dancing with God is taken by people as the authority to
dance literally. Miriam and David are seen as
supporting modern writers. One writer, who has
the "fullness," believes that song, music and
dance were given by God for his pleasure. He even
lands on the dance team like a helicopter.
Jeff
Walling, asks using similar terms:
"Don't
you want to dance?
"I do. I
want to be swept away on a cloud of
music and laughter. I want to experience the sheer bliss of waltzing and gliding across the
room to the sound of an orchestra in full swing. And not just
with anyone. No, I want to dance with the one who invented dancing. I
want to dance with God.
(Never had that dream. I would like
to ask Him about black holes or how He still
creates a human out of a single cell. No,
God didn't invent dancing. We understand
that it comes out of the young's (men or
beast) play
instinct.)
"And guess
what? He wants to dance
with me.
"And he wants to dance with you too.
My
God said: "And I will
walk (be
conversant) among you, and will be your
God, and ye shall be my people. Leviticus
26:12. Can't ever remember any comments
about a real or mystical dance by God.
No. God
didn't invent dancing. He put the play
instinct into children so that they
could learn to interact with others.
However, when Paul became a man he put
away childish acts and words. This is the
play instinct which is misused by adults
as they try to dance their way into the
presence of God Who, according to Paul, is
already in our midst wanting to speak to
us through His Words as we speak to Him
through our prayers. The dance was
reserved almost totally to young girls or
lost men trying to bluff men trying to
find the Lost God -- David.
The One, Invisible,
Incomprehensible, without-body-parts God of
the universe manifests Himself to us as Jesus
Christ in whom resides full Deity:
For in
Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in
bodily form, Colossians 2:9
Of course Jesus, who
promised to be in our midst, lives in a
glorified sense as the One and Only Holy
Spirit. He is enthroned at the seat of His
kingdom which is "within you."
Now, we have to ask what we know
about Jesus which would make us hallucinate
that He wants to dance, literally or
spiritually, with a male worshipper? We know
for a fact that He was repulsed by the
Dionysus-influenced Jewish clergy who tried to
manipulate His emotions. For Him to have
fallen into the chorus dance of the women or
effeminate would have meant that Judas had
really triumphed over Him in defiance of Psalm
41. This triumph was outlawed "when the
congregation comes together" (Numbers 10:7):
Ruwa (h7321)
roo-ah'; a prim. root; to mar (espec. by
breaking); fig. to split the ears (with
sound), i. e. shout (for alarm or joy): - blow an
alarm, cry (alarm, aloud, out), destroy, make a joyful
noise, smart, shout (for joy),
sound an alarm, triumph.
In Daring to Dance With God by Jeff Walling, seeks perhaps
a spiritual dance which produces the same effects on the body.
Many
"gospel" songs use the same motif to create self-pity in the listener which, of
course, is translated as spiritual. Muslims
reject instrumental music because it tends to
accentuate whatever is going on in your own brain as you listen. This makes it self worship. Click To See for Yourself.
Jeff
Walling: "For a while I accepted
my misery quietly and put
aside any dreams of dancing
with God as fantasy. Don't pity
me for this. You see, I had no idea how
miserable I was. If you had asked
about my burden, I would
have responded like the country mule who,
when asked by the city mule how he
stood the weight of the huge pack on his
back, replied, "What pack?" After all, few
around me seemed to have any more joy than
I. And the few who did were suspect. They
obviously didn't know that Christianity
was serious business.
This is
the common theme of denying the value of
Jesus, as the rural Shepherd who
came to lead by still waters, as inadequate
and we must look for an urban
rapper or rocker to lead us
into supercharged worship which, like
morphine, removes the burden for the moment.
I would suggest that we all quit looking at
ourselves in the mirror and return to the
Incarnate Word Who said:
Come to
me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest. Matthew 11:28
The burden
Jesus came to remove was "anxiety from
religious ceremony" and is defined exactly
as Jeff defines his burden.
Phortizo (g5412)
for-tid'-zo; from 5414; to load
up (prop. as aa vessel or animal), i.e.
(fig.) to overburden with ceremony (or spiritual
anxiety): - lade, be
heavy laden.
The rest
of us are tired of having
burden laders rise again after Jesus put them on the unimployed role:
kop-iaō
Tired of:
orkheomai
, dōsō toi Tegeēn possikroton orkhēsasthai to
dance in or on,
Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.66,
cf. Lakōnika skhēmatia orkheisthai dance
Laconian steps, Id.6.129
; “o. pros ton aulon skhēmata” Id.Smp.7.5
, “tōn humnōn hoi men ōrkhounto hoi de ouk ōrkhounto” Ath.14.631d.
Tired
of: phi^losophos
, ho, A. lover
of wisdom; Pythagoras called himself philosophos, not
sophos, Cic Tusc.5.3.9, D.L.Prooem.12;
“ton ph. sophias phēsomen epithumētēn einai pasēs” Pl.R.475b,
2. philosopher, i. e. one
who speculates on truth and reality,
hoi alēthinoi ph., defined as
hoi tēs alētheias philotheamones,
Pl.R.475e;
Revelation 2:1 Unto the angel of the
church of Ephesus write; These things saith he
that holdeth the seven stars in his right
hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven
golden candlesticks;
Revelation 2:2 I know thy works, and thy
labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst
not bear them which are evil: and thou hast
tried them which say they are apostles, and
are not, and hast found them liars:
Revelation 2:3 And hast borne, and hast
patience, and for my name’s sake hast
laboured, and hast not fainted.
phort-izō
, phortia ph. tinas load
them with burdens, Ev.Luc.11.46;
perissē dapanē ph. ta koina
“hudatis -izousa ton ophthalmon” encumbering,
Hes.Op.690;
phortioumenos meli to
carry away a load of honey,
Aenigma Sphingis (ap.Sch.E.Ph.50):
Now when the Sphinx was oppressing
and ravaging our city, after my husband's
death, my brother Creon proclaimed my
marriage: that he would marry me to anyone
who should guess the riddle of the crafty
maiden. It happened somehow [50] that my
son, Oedipus, guessed the Sphinx's song;
[and so he became king of this land] and
received the scepter of this land as his
prize. He married his mother in ignorance,
luckless wretch! nor did his mother know
that she was sleeping with her son.
IF JEFF WALLING AND THE
NEW PEPPERDINE
REPROGRAMMING INTO THE CHRISTIAN
CHURCH WILL GET JOBS THEN.
Rest From;
ana-pauō
, poet. and Ion. amp- ,
fut. Med. anapausomai:
aor. anepausamēn
make to cease, stop or hinder
from a thing, “kheimōnos . . hos rha te ergōn anthrōpous anepausen” Il.17.550;
a. tina tou planou give
him rest from wandering, S.OC1113;
tous leitourgountas a. (sc. tōn analōmatōn) to
relieve them from . . , D.42.25,
cf. 42.
Rest From;
leitourg-eō
, 2. perform religious service,
minister, “epi tōn hierōn” D.H.2.22;
“tō Kuriō” Act.Ap.13.2,
etc. (Written lit- in Rev.Et.Anc.32.5
(Athens, i B.C.), etc., cf. leitourgion, leitourgos.）
D.H.
2.22
ei de kai dia gunaikōn edei tina hiera sunteleisthai
kai dia paidōn amphithalōn
hetera, hina kai tauta genētai kata to kratiston,
tas te gunaikas etaxe tōn hiereōn tois heautōn andrasi sunierasthai,
kai ei ti mē themis ēn hup' andrōn orgiazesthai
kata nomon ton epikhōrion,
tautas epitelein
kai paidas autōn ta kathēkonta
leitourgein:
Acts 13:2 As they ministered
to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost
said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the
work whereunto I have called them.
Acts 13:3 And when they had fasted and
prayed, and laid their hands on them, they
sent them away.
leitourg-os
, III. in religioussense, minister,
[theou] ib.Ps.102(103).21,
Ep.Rom.13.6,
al.; “tōn theōn” D.H.2.22,
cf. 73;
“tōn hagiōn l.” Ep.Hebr.8.2;
theois litourgoi
IV. Astrol., leitourgoi, hoi,
astral gods subordinate to the dekanoi, Iamb.Myst.9.2
2. c. acc. only,
put an end
to, “
boēn”
S.Tr.1262;
more freq.
rest, make to halt, “
a. strateuma”
X.Cyr.7.1.4;
“
lay it in a reposing posture,
Ael.VH12.64,
cf. NA7.29:
abs., “anapauson” give
me rest, Luc.Tyr.21.
2. abs., take
one's rest, sleep, Hdt.1.12,
2.95,
al., E.Hipp.211,
v.l. in Ar.Pl.
695, cf. Lys. 13.12,
etc.
3. rest
or settle upon an
object, “to tou Theou pneuma eph' humas anapauetai” 1
Ep.Petr. 4.14,
cf. LXXIs.11.2;
of shadow
After all,
don't the same second incarnation people selling
a new "paradigm" to soothe your troubled
mind, load the burdens on us in their first
incarnation as "pattern
preachers?"
We will
see what the man, Lord Jesus, thought
of those who wanted to dance with Him in the
choral or new
wineskin-dance with the women of Dionysus.
"But
understand this: the dance to which God
invites you is not one of the physical
realm--moving your body is a snap
compared to getting your spirit's movement
in time with God's tempo--no, the dance to
which this book is dedicated
is a dance of the heart, a dance of the
soul. It's a dance that will change your life. "
Jeff's legitimate next
wish is for more 'joy" in worship
services. But, Jesus
said that the Kingdom does not come with
observation meaning religious operations
or lying wonders.
"Or
possibly you're just plain scared. Exuberant (Meaning:
profuse, luxuriant, uninhibited, overly
elaborate, flowery, extreme: Webster)
expressions of praise and joy can rock a
good, conservative Christian back on his
heels (or Rap um onna
haid?). And abuses of our freedom in
worship have convinced some
believers that the Puritans were right:
too much celebrating of God's
goodness turns the spiritual brain to
mush. Every Hallelujah! is another
step on the path to "sloppy agape" and
"cheap grace."
The
"biblical" joy in which we can rejoice has
nothing to do with "joy as an extreme,
uninhibited act of worship." We don't
really live in "worship
services," you know. Joy is:
Chairo (g5463)
khah'ee-ro; a prim. verb; to be
"cheer"ful, i.e. calmly happy or well-off; impers.
espec. as salutation (on meeting or parting), be well: -
farewell, be glad, God speed,
greeting, hail, joy (-fully), rejoice.
This
kind of joy is not there for "happy
hour at the new wineskin pub." Rather,
joy is a quiet, calm, inner peace first
produced by receiving the Word of God into
the heart at the hands of the only
authorized "ministers"--
But he
that received the seed into stony
places, the same is he that heareth the
word, and anon with joy receiveth
it; Matthew 13:20
Jeff Walling: "But praise God for good news:
the fruit of
the Spirit
is still joy. And we can and should
experience it every day. What a relief to
know that we are not called to be miserable!
If real joy is not vibrantly alive in your faith each day,
it's time you protest. If you have shared
the feeling that there must be something
more to your faith, take heart and read on.
Vibrant: "quivering or vibrating
in such a way as to produce sound, throbbing with life
and activity, radiant, sparkling, vivacious." Webster.
All that
Christ gives us is to help us live as
pilgrims in a foreign land. We are not to
take roots and feed on the emotions of the
carnal. Look at these fruit and see if you
can find one which speaks of jumping joy
in the worship service induced by
charismatic, mind-manipulating devices.
Our God is not the god of the vivacious:
But
the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, Galatians 5:22
Meekness,
temperance
(self-control): against such
there is no law. Galatians 5:23
Joy
is:
Chara (g5479)
khar-ah'; from 5463; cheerfulness, i.e.
calm delight: -
gladness, greatly, (be exceeding) joy (-
ful, -fully, - fulness, -ous).
That he
would grant you, according to the riches
of his glory, to be strengthened with
might by his Spirit in
the inner man; Epesians
3:16
Strengthened
with all might, according to his glorious
power, unto all patience and longsuffering with
joyfulness; Colossians
1:11
Now
unto him that is able to keep you from
falling, and to present you faultless
before the presence of his glory with
exceeding joy, Ju.1:24
Jeff
Walling: "He demands that we open
ourselves to the unexpected, the unpredictable, and even the unexplainable. The Bible is full of
instances where God chose to work in outrageous and shocking ways: Walls
fell down. Water stood up. Bread sprang
from the ground. And the sun stood still.
When you
turn yourself over to the unexplainable
you might come up accusing the Incarnate
God of the universe with being outrageous which is:
Outrageous: "having
the nature of, involving, or doing great
injury or wrong. Exceeding
all bounds of decency or
reasonableness.." Webster
Shocking includes:
"highly offensive to good
taste,
propriety, extremely revolting."
It is
hard to see how God can be seen this way,
but different people have different needs.
"And the
days of his surprises are far from over. (surprise
means "to come upon unaware.")
"So if you
have grown accustomed to an orderly and
predictable Christianity, I understand that
turning the God of all creation loose within you can be an unsettling concept. But
trust him. As Jesus said, he will not give
you a snake if you ask for a fish.
Isn't it surprising how
many 'scholars' fall for the notion that
the separated "Spirit" nature of God is
cut loose to roam around inside the carnal
body? We do not believe that Scripture
teaches this.
The word
unsettling in Greek is:
Throeo (g2360)
thro-eh'-o; (to wail); to clamor, i.e. (by
impl.) to frighten: - trouble
Thriambeuo (g2358)
three-am-byoo'-o; from a prol. comp. of
the base of 2360 and a der. of 680 (mean.
a noisy iambus, sung in
honor of Bacchus); to make an
acclamatory procession, i.e. (fig.) to
conquer or (by Hebr.) to give victory: -
(cause) to triumph (over).
That is
what they tried to do to Jesus. However,
Psalm 41 says that these were the people
with the Judas Bag using their little wind
instruments trying to get Jesus to dance
the Bacchus dance of the women or
effeminate. It would not work.
Paul
said that we are not to be
unsettled by anything which is claimed to
come by inspiration:
We are
"not to become easily
unsettled or alarmed
by some prophecy, report or letter supposed to have
come from us, saying
that the day of the Lord has already
come. 2Th.2:2
Jeff
Walling: "Whether
the well of your soul has been dry for a
long time or you just want a little more passion in your piety and spring in your step,
renewal and refreshment are available if
you will take time to seek them. I pray
that the simple biblical principles and
steps you'll find in this book will help you venture out
onto the dance
floor and
into his arms.
In
following articles we hope to show that
the "water of the Word" is the
refreshment which Jesus came to give us.
It is free of charge (Isa 55:1f)
"This book is designed to
help
you hear and accept God's
invitation. He's been offering it to
any who will listen ever since Jesus paid
the ultimate price on a hill outside
Jerusalem.
Many people apparently
feel the need for a "worship facilitator
to help lead you into the presence of God,
lift your holy hands, lay your holy hands
on others." This book will pick up where
Christ's old wineskin busted: it will let
you hear the Word and direct thy path to
thy olde book shoppe. One Jubilator can even
do what the Word claims for itself.
It may be dangerous to use
literal dancing, which is not what God
wants, as a model or paradigm for spiritual
worship. It may give ones authority to
practice literal dance in the worship
services. In the same way a "wineskin" creed
and making true worship like drunkeness and
exhilaration gives our youth to tap into the
literal wineskin with heavenly blessing. I
would not be daring to dance with God.
In section two we will
look at Rubel Shelly and Randy Harris as
they connect the notion of a mediating
priesthood, dance as worship and appeal to
Plato as the "father" of the notion that
God is an idea too big to get your arms
around.
Now, I
hear that you can even marry a "god."
The SPIRITUS is that of Abaddon or Apollyon who unleashed the
locusts of MUSES as dirty adulteresses
SHEPHERDS and Apollyon is the LEADER
OF THE MUSES. Since all of the
hypocritic artists get CAST ALIVE INTO
THE LAKE OF FIRE I'll be there will be
some Hot Dancing in the Old Town.
