Rapport in the Cosmic System

 

1 John 4:5, "They [false teachers, the Gnostic] are out from the cosmic system; therefore, they teach from the source of the cosmic system, and the [believers and unbelievers involved in the] cosmic system understands them."

 

αὐτοὶ ἐκ τοῦ κόσµου εἰσίν· διὰ τοῦτο ἐκ τοῦ κόσµου λαλοῦσιν καὶ ὁ κόσµος αὐτῶν ἀκούει.

 

The cosmic system is Satan's strategy as the ruler of this world to control believers as well as unbelievers. Satan's cosmic system is composed of two separate power spheres namely Cosmic 1 and 2.  Cosmic One is Satan's exploitation of believers through their own arrogance.  Cosmic Two is Satan's propaganda to educate and promote antagonism toward anything related to God, His word or anyone learning or teaching His word.  Cosmic one represents Satan's attitude from the time of his prehistoric fall up to the prehistoric angelic trial.  Cosmic Two represents Satan's attitude from the time of Adam's fall in the garden to the end of the Millennium.  Cosmic One emphasizes arrogance and abnormal preoccupation with self, whereas Cosmic Two emphasizes antagonism and intolerance toward the plan, purpose, and will of God, as well as toward all Christians executing it.  Thus, Cosmic One is Satan's philosophy in the prehistoric angelic conflict, whereas Cosmic Two is Satan's philosophy in human history as the ruler of this world.

 

A few points for elaboration:

     

1. Both believer and unbeliever in the cosmic system share the same frame of reference and so both like and even enjoy the false teaching which emanates from that system. This explains why the unbeliever dislikes and even hates hearing about the gospel, and why the believer dislikes and even hates accurate Bible teaching.

 

2.  In the cosmic system, the unbeliever and believer will pursue and learn Satan’s counterfeits to everything in God’s plan. The unbeliever of course will learn the counterfeits related to the gospel, whereas the Christian will learn the counterfeits related to the spiritual life.

 

3. Therefore, the unbeliever becomes prejudiced and biased against the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the Christian becomes prejudiced and biased against true Bible teaching. This becomes a double whammy for them for they are not only learning Satan’s cosmic system, but at the same time are proceeding through the Eight Stages of Reversionism.

 

Introduction to Satan’s Cosmic System:

 

Definition

 

The cosmic system is Satan's strategy as the ruler of this world to control believers as well as unbelievers.  (However, our study will primarily deal with Satan’s strategy regarding believers.)  Satan's cosmic system is composed of two separate power spheres namely Cosmic 1 and 2.  Cosmic One is Satan's exploitation of believers through their own arrogance.  Cosmic Two is Satan's propaganda to educate and promote antagonism toward anything related to God, His word or anyone one learning or teaching His word.  Cosmic one represents Satan's attitude from the time of his prehistoric fall up to the prehistoric angelic trial. Cosmic Two represents Satan's attitude from the time of Adam's fall in the garden to the end of the Millennium.  Cosmic One emphasizes arrogance and subjectivity. Cosmic Two emphasizes antagonism and intolerance toward the plan, purpose, and will of God, as well as toward all Christians executing it.  Thus, Cosmic One is Satan's philosophy in the prehistoric angelic conflict. Cosmic Two is Satan's philosophy in human history as the ruler of this world.

 

COSMIC ONE:

                         

1. Emphasizes arrogance; preoccupation with self.        

2. Target: ego, self-consciousness of soul.

3. Results in preoccupation and obsession with self to the exclusion of God and man.

4. Emphasizes self in contrast to God and objective reality.

5. Represents Satan's attitude at time of his prehistoric fall.

6. Represents Satan's philosophy in the prehistoric angelic conflict when he was obsessed with self in maximum arrogance.        

7. The believer in cosmic one assumes the arrogance of Satan at his fall.

8. The believer is a slave to self. 

 

 COSMIC TWO:

 

1. Emphasizes animosity, hatred, antagonism toward God and His plan.

2. Target: truth or doctrine.

3. Results in antagonism toward Christ as the living Word and doctrine as the written Word.

4. Stresses human viewpoint over Divine viewpoint.

5. Represents Satan's attitude from the time of man's historical fall to the end of human history.

6. Represents Satan's philosophy as ruler of this world after the fall of man. Now he is obsessed with destroying the plan of God as the #1 enemy of the plan of God.

7. The believer in cosmic two becomes inculcated with the antagonism of Satan which antagonism began at the fall of the human history.   

8. The believer is a slave to Satan.

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Ephesians 2:2, "in which sphere [in spiritual death] you formerly walked [as an unbeliever] according to the lifestyle of this cosmos [Satan’s cosmic system], according to the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit [Satan] who is now operational [working via Cosmic 1 & 2] in the sons of disobedience [believers not executing the spiritual life]."

 

The religious Jews who lived during Christ 1st Advent did not understand Christ since they rejected revelation from God.  Certainly today, cosmic unbelievers and cosmic Christian cannot understand the Christian who is advancing in the spiritual life and executing God’s plan though a Christian can understand those in Satan’s cosmic system through the Word of God. 

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DOCTRINE OF COSMIC ONE

 

Gate 1: Motivational Arrogance.

 

All arrogance starts with thinking, moves into motivation, and from there moves into decisions and actions.  By definition, motivational arrogance is a complex of mental attitude sins, all of which are related to arrogance or have their foundation in the basic concept of the sin of pride.  Pride is defined as inordinate self-esteem, unreasonable conceit, insolence (impudence), being anti-authority, vanity, and employing the three arrogance skills: self-justification, self-deception and self-absorption. Furthermore, pride is an inflated concept of self, and the exaggeration of one's own self-importance. The complex of sins in motivational arrogance includes pride, jealousy, bitterness, hatred, vindictiveness, implacability, revenge motivation, self-pity, guilt reaction, and operation overthink.

 

The first victim of motivational arrogance was the greatest creature-genius of all time.  This arrogance motivated Lucifer the Son of the Morning to reject God’s plan. It was his vanity of beauty and splendor which brought about his arrogance.  Ezekiel 28:17a, “Your right lobe was lifted-up [puffed-up with arrogance] because of your beauty. You corrupted your wisdom by reason of your splendor.” Once arrogance made its way into Satan’s thinking, he became excessively ambitious “I will raise my throne above the shining ones (the angels) of God” as found in Isaiah 14:13.  It made him ambitious to the point of irrationality and insanity, “I will make myself like the Most-High [God the Son]” as per Isaiah 14:14b.

 

Arrogance is a real or imagined sense of superiority which distorts reality, resulting in presumptuous self-righteousness and a false sense of destiny (to be ‘like God’).  Thus, arrogance was the original sin of the prehistoric angelic conflict, and became the motivation for the woman's original sin in the garden for she said yes to Satan’s temptation, “you will be like God.” Arrogance is the most basic motivational sin of human life. It is the foundation for all sins, human good and evil, both moral degeneracy related to self-righteousness and immoral degeneracy based on lust related to sex, chemical and criminal arrogance. Thus, arrogance divorces the believer or unbeliever from the realities of life i.e., personal divorcement (Hitler and the Nazis were going to take over the world), historical divorcement (The citizens of a Client-Nation can reject truth and continue to prosper.  A government can print money as a substitute for productivity.), and divorcement from spiritual reality (The Christian can become spiritually great apart from the Two Power Options).

 

Gradually arrogance forces reality out of life, which is how believers become neurotic and psychotic. After all mental illness is a form of divorcement from reality. An example of mental illness is paranoia (excessive or irrational suspiciousness or distrustfulness of others, leading to a psychosis characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur).  The Jews of the Exodus generation had delusions that Moses was trying to persecute and murder them (Exodus 14:11; 17:3).  Their arrogance could not accept the fact that they hated Moses and wanted to kill him.  So, these sins were repressed into their subconscious.  After which they accused Moses of their very own sins which is called Projection in psychology, “for you have brought us out into this desert to kill this whole assembly with hunger” (Exodus 16:3b).

 

Arrogant persons are easily deceived and are also very vulnerable to flattery. We have all heard of the wealthy person who was deceived by some smooth talker into investing his funds into some financial scheme which did not pan-out, and so he lost his entire investment, or the arrogant woman who was flattered out of her virginity.  2 Timothy 3:6, “For among them are those [immoral Christian men] who creep into homes [slyly enter the homes] and seduce [captivate] silly women [morally weak women because there is no doctrine in their souls] who are overwhelmed by their sins and are carried away by various lusts.”

 

Arrogance becomes motivation for both inordinate ambition and inordinate competition. When inordinate ambition manifest itself in a lust for power, all integrity and honor vanish. Proverbs 11:2, "When arrogance comes, then comes dishonor; but with the humble is wisdom." In its place, there is deceit and lies. (Sounds like American politicians). This becomes a tragic flaw which neutralizes the beauty, genius, ability, and potential of anyone who entertains it. This arrogant flaw gives a false perspective of life, resulting in a drive toward happiness, but failing to reach it. The politician who seeks power and approbation in the hope of obtaining happiness, a hope he never realizes.  He fails to see his own instability and inconsistency and his impact on others from preoccupation with self which preoccupation drives his lust for power.

 

What does the Scripture say about arrogance?  Proverbs 13:10, "Through arrogance comes nothing but strife; but wisdom is with those who receive instruction."  Proverbs 16:18, "Arrogance precedes destruction, and before a fall a lifestyle of arrogance." Proverbs 29:23, "A person's arrogance will bring him low, but a lifestyle of humility will attain honor."  Isaiah 13:11, "I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity [cosmic involvement].  I will put to an end the arrogance of the proud. Furthermore, I will humble the pride of ruthlessness [tyranny]." James 4:6, "God gives greater grace. This is why the Scripture says [Proverbs 3:34], `God makes war against the arrogant [believer], but He gives grace to the humble [believer].'" 1 Pet 5:5-6, "In the same way, young men [the members of the congregation], be under the authority of the pastors. All of you [in the congregation], fasten yourselves to each other with grace thinking, because `God makes war against the arrogant and gives grace to the humble.'  Therefore, humble yourselves under the powerful hand of God, that He may promote you at the proper time." Romans 12:3, "For I say through the grace which has been given to me and to everyone who is among you:  Stop thinking of self in terms of arrogance, beyond the point of what you ought to think, but think in terms of sanity for the purpose of being rational without illusion, as God has assigned to each one a standard of thinking from doctrine.” The believer's arrogant lust for ascendancy in life destroys the right priorities in the Christian way of life and replaces them with a false scale of values and gives him false goals in life.  Arrogance emphasizes self and people to the exclusion of God emphasis.

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Gate 2: Negative Volition Arrogance

        

1 Timothy 6:3-4 is the transition from gate 1 to gate 2. 1 Timothy 6:3-4, “If anyone teaches a different doctrine [false doctrine] and does not concur with sound doctrine; those doctrines of our Lord Jesus Christ even doctrine pertaining to the spiritual life (4) he has become puffed up with arrogance, understanding nothing [He doesn’t understand anything about the spiritual life] having a morbid obsession about controversies [He wants to argue about everything he doesn’t understand or agree with.) and verbal conflicts from which originate jealousy, strife (discord), abusive language, evil speculation [as found in certain gates of Cosmic 2]. The doctrines come from our Lord Jesus Christ because all precedence for the Church Age was established in the dispensation of the Hypostatic Union.  Mental attitude arrogance results in preoccupation with self, which results in indifference to Bible doctrine, which results in accepting the cheap substitutes of emotional activity, legalism, human good, and becoming a loser in the Christian life.  A fragmented believer that is a believer out of fellowship with God has personality conflicts with people who have wronged him, and he is morbid about it. He cannot deal with personality conflicts objectively.  An example of evil speculation is making a villain out of someone else after you've pulled the pin on your own spiritual life.  It's a speculation; it isn't true at all. 

 

There are three stages where doctrine can be rejected namely at the Gnosis stage, the Epignosis stage and finally at the application stage.  At the reception stage (Gnosis Stage), arrogance rejects doctrine by failure to be consistent in the daily exposure to Bible teaching or if one is consistent, he may distort it due to a lack of concentration or because of arrogance.  Subjectivity bends what is taught to suit his own purpose.  At the Epignosis Stage, arrogance attacks this stage by making doctrine your servant instead of your master. Also, doctrine stored as epignosis can also be removed through black-out and destroyed through scar tissue of the soul. At the application Stage, arrogance rejects doctrine at the recall stage by failing to apply metabolized doctrine to experience through the utilization of the ten problem solving devices of the protocol plan of God.  Recall is the application of metabolized doctrine to the various and multifarious experiences of life.  Arrogance attacks this stage by relating metabolized doctrine to personal self-righteousness or to personal self-justification.

 

Negative volition rejects the following: Reception includes finding the right pastor, i.e., someone who is faithful in the verse-by-verse teaching of Bible doctrine under the principle of line upon line, precept upon precept.  Consistent if not daily exposure to Bible teaching either through attendance at a local church where doctrine is taught, called face-to-face teaching or through a consistent program of non-face-to-face teaching, such as audio, video, radio, television or the printed word.  Positive volition toward doctrine means that doctrine has #1 priority in your life, and nothing takes precedence over it, including Christian service.  Concentration and the avoidance of distractions, whether they are from your own soul or from others.  2 Timothy 3:2-7, "For persons [Church Age believers] will be lovers of self [in Cosmic One], lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers [abusive], disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy [wicked], without love [virtue-love], implacable [unforgiving], slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of good [of intrinsic value], treacherous, thoughtless [rash], being puffed up or conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having an overt appearance [outward form] of being spiritual, although they have denied its power [the two power options].  Therefore, avoid these believers.  For among them are those believers who creep [worm their way] into homes and captivate [gain control over] weak- willed women who are loaded down with sins, led on by multifarious lusts, always learning but never able to come to the epignosis knowledge of truth."

 

Gate 3:  Self-Righteous Arrogance

 

Self-righteousness means to be righteous in one's own esteem; in fact, to be Pharisaical. Our Lord condemned self-righteousness in His great dissertation of Matthew 23, which begins:  "Woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites."  It is the arrogant reliance on one's own assumed, inconsistent, and hypocritical righteousness. Self-righteousness is the arrogant conviction that one's own righteousness is superior to that of all others. It is the conclusion that one's own righteousness is so great that intolerance of all others becomes the modus operandi of such blind arrogance.  You’ve heard someone say, "after all I've done for you." Self-righteous arrogance is defined as divorcement from reality; it is the logical progression from preoccupation with self.  It always produces a system of fantasizing, of bolstering self at the expense of others.  There are seven categories of self-righteous arrogance such as: (1) The arrogance of legalism; (2) Personality arrogance; (3) The arrogance of morality; (4) Authority arrogance; (5) Crusader arrogance and Christian activism; (6) The arrogance of Christian service; (7) Transference arrogance:

 

Arrogant self-righteousness is the motivational arrogance which manifests itself in these seven categories, all of which comprise another step in the drive toward unreality. By the seventh category, the person is locked into arrogance, explaining why believers can become mentally ill.  If a believer divorces himself from Bible doctrine, he divorces himself from reality, and the drive toward unreality results in becoming mentally ill.

 

(1) The arrogance of legalism: From self-righteousness originates the arrogance of legalism from which comes the vanity of the unique experience and erroneous emphasis on human achievement.  It begins with believers not understanding the uniqueness of the Church Age, their portfolio of invisible assets, their escrow blessings, the divine decree, equal privilege and equal opportunity in the protocol plan of God, their union with Christ producing the  royal family of God and a new spiritual species, the ten problem solving devices, the indwelling of the Trinity, and the great power experiment of the Hypostatic Union and how it is perpetuated into the Church Age.  (Failing to understand these things, they go back to the Mosaic Law for their spiritual life.)  Self-righteous arrogance includes any form of legalism. It has three general categories.  (1) Salvation by works or human achievement namely adding to faith for eternal life.  (2) Spirituality by works, in which people observe certain taboos and get involved in some type of Christian service and call it spirituality; (3) Blessing by works which teaches that blessings from God is based on works, human achievement, self-sacrifice, morality, giving, conforming to a church program, or participating in some ritual.  This leads to the erroneous conclusion that the believer is victorious, mature, or great because of some unique experience, some sacrificial modus vivendi, or some system of human works. Self-righteous arrogance is the motivation, while legalism is the function which comes from that motivation. Self-righteous arrogance correlated with the arrogance of legalism concludes that the plan of God succeeds or fails on the basis of human works, rather than concluding the truth, which is that the plan of God succeeds on the basis of what He does in grace, working on our behalf.  Therefore, legalism establishes false standards and measures spiritual success on the basis of complying with these false standards.  Self-righteous arrogance seeks to impose its standards on others, judging them for not complying.

 

(2) Personality Arrogance: From the arrogance of legalism comes a change in personality, called personality arrogance. Self-righteous arrogance seeks to dominate people, policy, and authority in its periphery. Self-righteous arrogance establishes false standards and then seeks to impose those standards on other people. Therefore, self-righteous arrogance produces a domineering personality and a bully, a person who assumes that he is never wrong in human interaction, a person who often claims sinless perfection. Yet 1 John 1:10 says, “If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar and doctrine is not in us." The result is the blind leading the blind, or personality arrogance motivated by self-righteousness rejecting human privacy, forcing erroneous standards on others in the name of Christianity. (People have a right to make their own mistakes before the Lord. Correction comes either through the teaching of Bible doctrine or divine discipline.) Personality arrogance is irrational and never satisfied until everyone in his periphery is a puppet on a string dancing to his tune, using his standards, fulfilling the principle of the blind leading the blind. Anyone who succumbs to personality arrogance and legalism falls into the worst possible ditch. Personality arrogance attacks the teaching of Bible doctrine at two points: its subject matter, and its communicator. Personality arrogance is the superimposition of personal and false opinions over the principles of God's Word. If the pastor does not agree with their false concepts, personality arrogance attacks the pastor, seeking to discredit him and his ministry. So, indirectly, personality arrogance seeks to destroy true Bible teaching.   

 

(3)  The Arrogance of Morality: Legalism, personality arrogance, and the arrogance of morality all go together. There are two categories of morality found in the Bible. True morality is based on the laws of divine establishment as delineated in the Mosaic Law. True morality is designed for both believer and unbeliever. It is related to responsibility to government, society, and the authorities delegated by God under the laws of divine establishment including its ethics, motivation, character, conduct, honor, and integrity. Genuine morality includes respect for privacy, freedom, property, and life and the basis for providing both evangelism and the right to hear Bible doctrine taught. Arrogant self-righteousness distorts human morality into a system of works in opposition to the protocol plan of God. Salvation by morality, spirituality by morality, and blessing from God by morality is the three tenets of this blasphemy. The protocol plan of God for the Church Age produces something higher than morality through residence, function, and momentum in the spiritual life. It produces virtue and the ten problem solving devices. Morality is the function of the human race living under the laws of divine establishment. Virtue is the function of the believer who, under the Filling of the Spirit, has advanced to spiritual adulthood. Virtue and grace orientation must be added to morality to avoid arrogance and the fragmentation of one’s spiritual life. Morality-arrogance is the ignorant and self-righteous believer substituting human morality for virtue produced by the ministry of God the Holy Spirit and consistent cognition of Bible doctrine. Furthermore, morality-arrogance produces a pseudo happiness in contrast to sharing God’s happiness by the execution of the spiritual life. Morality has limitations which are completely ignored by arrogance. Morality cannot provide salvation, but the arrogant seek salvation through morality and works. Morality is not spirituality, but arrogance alleges so. The morality of establishment cannot compare with the virtue produced by the two power options of the spiritual life.  Morality relates to freedom; the spiritual life relates to that which is greater than freedom: the Christian way of life, the foundation for all systems of freedom in life. Morality is not the means of establishment function in the client nation, but the result of it. Therefore, morality is everything from paying taxes to serving in the military, respect for law and law enforcement agencies, recognition of the privacy of others, respect for freedom, and recognition of the sacredness of the property and lives of others. Morality demands that the believer and unbeliever be law-abiding citizens and patriotic, dedicated to the principle of freedom plus the authority necessary to protect that freedom; willing to join the military, pay taxes, and do jury duty. Morality is related to freedom: freedom to believe in Christ, freedom to learn Bible doctrine, freedom to grow in grace, or freedom to reject Christ and to reject learning Bible doctrine. So morality is very vulnerable. Just add arrogant self- righteousness and the virtue is gone from morality.

 

(4) Authority Arrogance: Legitimate authority in life is defined as those powers delegated by God to the human race in such categories as husband over wife, parents over children, government over the people, management, coach, teacher, professor, senior rank in the military, judge on the bench, police officer, and the traffic light. When does legitimate authority break-down? Well, authority-arrogance always begins in the home. The family is divine institution #3. The parents have the opportunity of teaching their children establishment principles, the greatest of which is respect for authority. The objective of parenthood is to train your children in all the principles of life, especially respect for authority in every area of life.  Christian parents have an additional responsibility of evangelizing their children and after their salvation, to teach them the spiritual life. In the spiritual realm, the royal family of God includes the Word of God, the pastor of the local church, and the volition or self- determination of the believer to respond to or reject Bible doctrine. While God has delegated authority in these realms, such authority is useless without human consent. Human acceptance of authority is often negated because arrogance rejects authority with devastating results, such as crime, violence, terrorism, civil disobedience, and revolution. All misery comes from individual volition, from making decisions from arrogance, and from losing all sense of destiny in life. It comes from our failure to accept authority and learn. Authority arrogance is the enemy of freedom, privacy, property, and life. Privacy is destroyed through gossip, maligning, judging, which stems from jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, or hatred. Freedom is destroyed through the malfunction of our divine institutions in the arrogant attack upon authority. Freedom without authority is anarchy; authority without freedom is tyranny.

 

Authority arrogance results in the destruction of freedom through socialism, crime, drug addiction, violence, crusader arrogance, the attempt of self-righteousness to superimpose one's will on others. Drug addiction takes away one's individual sense of responsibility, and destroys the proper use of volition. Authority arrogance attacks free enterprise by destroying capitalism via redistribution of wealth and lately via lock-downs. Authority arrogance attacks military establishment, destroying the command structure (for example peer ratings) necessary for the preservation of the nation. Authority arrogance attacks law enforcement, destroying government authority.

                             

Where does this arrogance originate and how does it affect the local church?  The organized humility of the home includes a system for teaching. No parent is always fair. Yet children must learn to face situations which are not fair and still respect and obey the authority of their parents. Without respect for parents and without learning to take responsibility for their decisions, children leave home immature. At salvation, eternal life is imputed to the human spirit. Now the organized humility is the local church, the authority for enforced humility is the pastor; and again, you have volition (positive or negative) to exercise toward the authority of the doctrine and of the pastor. Authority arrogance attacks the pastor who is faithful in teaching doctrine, distracting believers from learning the Word.  So vital is the doctrinal message to the royal family of God that many Scriptures warn against undermining the authority of any pastor. No matter how bad or good any pastor is, he is not your responsibility; God can handle him magnificently! Isaiah 54:17, "`No weapon formed against you will prosper, and every tongue that accuses you in judgment, I [you] will condemn.  This is the heritage of the servant of the Lord, and his vindication is from Me,' says the Lord." Hebrews 13:17, "Keep obeying those pastors who themselves are ruling over you. Submit to their authority, for they keep watching for the benefit of your souls as those who have to render an account." The pastor receives his authority from God through the delegation of the spiritual gift, proper preparation, and a call from a specific congregation. The pastor exercises his authority through exegetical teaching of the Word of God. His authority does not exist apart from the Word. Thus, the local church becomes the environment for the authority of teaching the Word of God. It is inevitable that some persons in a congregation will become dissatisfied or disenchanted with a specific ministry. If the dissatisfaction originates from some form of arrogance, the believer will suffer from the law of volitional responsibility plus divine discipline. If the fault lies with the pastor, God will punish him beyond anything you could even imagine. If you change churches or reject a ministry, do so without undermining the authority of the pastor. Leave him entirely in the Lord's hands. Otherwise, you will reap triple-compound divine discipline doubled; so, you get discipline six-fold. In the home, children are blessed by accepting parental authority; they are cursed from rejecting parental authority. In the local church, believers are blessed by consistent positive volition toward the doctrine; they are cursed by negative volition toward doctrine. Just as a child or adolescent in the home who rejects parental authority is disciplined for authority arrogance all his life, so the believer who rejects the authority of good Bible teaching spends his entire Christian life on earth under discipline.

 

Authority arrogance comes from having more authority or power than you can handle. Instead of producing a sense of responsibility and challenge to leadership, it produces arrogance. Such a person has no capacity for authority, and no sense of responsibility toward God or others in relationship to that authority. He relates that authority only to himself. He uses his authority for his own personal advancement rather than to fulfill the purpose and policy of an organization.

                  

All legitimate organizations have three principles of normal modus operandi:  authority, a purpose, and a policy. Institutional arrogance attacks one or more of these three principles of organizational modus operandi. Institutional arrogance assigns more importance to self, the opinions of self, and self-righteousness, and thereby undermines the authority, attacks the purpose, and seeks to destroy the policy of a legitimate organization. Changes in purpose and policy of an organization must be accompanied by consensus or respectful approach to authority through a form of grievance committees. To bring about changes in authority, purpose, or policy of an organization through any function that undermines that authority is generally associated with some form of arrogance. When you are on the job, what you think is not important. What is important is the purpose, the policy, and the authority of the organization.  Your opinion is totally inconsequential. We all face the temptation of this institutional arrogance when we are overlooked, maltreated, under an inferior or jackass authority, etc. But if you succumb to this temptation, you've had it! 

 

Conspiracy arrogance, a sub-category of authority arrogance is the function of a mutual admiration society designed to overthrow legitimate authority. The mutual admiration society is composed of two categories of arrogance and subjectivity. The arrogant who have aggressive subjectivity. The inadequate who have passive subjectivity. The arrogant one assumes that he is greater than the system and the authority structure of the system. The inadequate one assumes that the system has overlooked his talent and ability. The arrogant leads the inadequate in forming a conspiracy against a person or persons who represent authority in that system. These societies are started by someone who is ambitious to take over. This takeover starts with complimenting, then socializing with the inadequate. As they criticize, they slowly but surely build up their own organization to take over. The pattern for conspiracy arrogance is the subject of Psalm 12:2-4, “They [mutual admiration society] speak each one [arrogant] to his friends [inadequate] with lips of flattery. They speak heart to heart [idiom for double standard]." The arrogant flatters the inadequate so that he will join him in the conspiracy, using the old ploy, "You have been overlooked; you are better than they." The arrogant flatters the inadequate, causing the inadequate to become dissatisfied with authority. They both malign and slander the authority. Finally, they both combine to form an effective conspiracy. The purpose of the conspiracy:  the arrogant wants to replace the authority, and the inadequate wants to be recognized by the authority as being great in the organization. Psalm 12:3-4, "The Lord will destroy all flattering lips [conspiracy of the arrogant], the tongue [conspiracy of the inadequate] which speaks boastful things, who have said, `We will triumph in this conspiracy with our tongues. Our lips are with us; who is our master?'" They use verbal language to undermine the authority by slander, gossip, maligning, judging, and false propaganda. Their authority arrogance is seen in the last rhetorical question:  "Who is our master?"  They are an authority only to themselves and recognize no other.

 

Absalom is the perfect illustration: 2 Samuel 15:2-6, “And Absalom rose up early, and stood beside the way of the gate: and it was so, that, when any man had a suit which should come to the king for judgment, then Absalom called unto him, and would say, ‘Of what city are you? And he would reply, ‘Your servant is of one of the tribes of Israel. (3) Then Absalom would say to him, ‘See, your claims are good and right; but no man listens to you on the part of the king. (4) Moreover, Absalom would say, Oh that one would appoint me as judge in the land, then every man who has any suit or cause could come unto me, and I would give him justice! (5) And it was so, that, when any man came near to prostrate himself before him, he would put forth his hand, and take hold of him, and kiss him. (6) In this manner Absalom dealt with all Israel who came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole away the hearts of the men of Israel.”

 

(5)  Crusader Arrogance: Crusader arrogance is defined as self-righteous arrogance with strong or impulsive desires to superimpose one's opinion and principles on others without their consent. The person afflicted with crusader arrogance believes he is so right and his cause so just that he is justified in using any means to gain his objective, including violence, destruction of property, and causing others to lose their jobs or to be driven from their environment. The perfect illustration of this is the fundamentalist groups who attack abortion clinics. They do not know that the Word of God says that, in every case, God creates life and imputes it at the point of birth.  So, abortion in the first tri-semester of pregnancy is a private matter between a woman and her doctor, and it is no one else's business. Crusader arrogance ignores the honorable and judicial system for the redressing of grievances. Crusader arrogance believes in vigilante solutions which bypass governmental law and order. Hence, crusader arrogance practices and advocates civil disobedience.

 

(6) The Arrogance of Christian Service: Every believer is in full-time Christian service from the very point of his salvation until his death or the Rapture. Therefore, there is no such thing as dedication to full-time Christian service. Motivation for Christian service must relate to spiritual growth, to the ministry of God the Holy Spirit, to humility, and to cognition of Bible doctrine. To be effective, all Christian service must be related to humility. This is compatible with the filling of the Spirit and with the principle that God provided authority before freedom. Christian service performed inside the cosmic system, classified as wood, hay, and stubble in 1 Corinthians 3:12, will be burned at the Judgment Seat of Christ.

         

Therefore, Christian service should not be confused with spirituality. It is all too often executed while grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit. Christian service is a legitimate function in the protocol plan of God, but always as a result, never as a means. 2 Timothy 3:16, 17, "All Scripture is God-breathed and is profitable for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness. (17). that the man of God might be proficient [capable], having been well equipped [prepared] for every good work [Christian service].” Verse 17 is the result of verse 16. You are not spiritual or mature because of your Christian service. Christian service is never a substitute for momentum in the protocol plan of God and resultant glorification of God. Therefore, it becomes imperative to understand that Christian service is the result of momentum and spiritual growth in the protocol plan of God, not the means. Christian service must never be confused with spirituality or the filling of the Spirit, the means of effective service. The arrogance of works or Christian service is the erroneous conclusion and the false doctrine that Christian service and works are the means of fulfilling and executing the protocol plan of God. In Luke 14:11, Jesus said, "Everyone who exalts himself [arrogance of Christian service] shall be humbled [losers under divine discipline], but he who humbles himself [enforced and genuine humility] is exalted [by the fulfillment of the protocol plan of God]." Arrogance substitutes Christian service for spirituality and for spiritual growth, both of which are unacceptable to the plan of God. You were given a spiritual gift at salvation by God the Holy Spirit, eventually to be manifest in some type of Christian service. But the function of this gift and any other production is destroyed completely by this arrogance. Only the daily feeding on the Word of God can protect your motivation, guarantee your momentum, and maintain your status of genuine humility. Hebrews 6:1, "Not laying again the foundation of a change of thinking from dead works." Christian service without momentum in the protocol plan of God is dead works. It is the quintessence of human arrogance to assume that Christian service without doctrine in the soul is pleasing to God.

                  

(7) Transference Arrogance: Becoming involved in transference arrogance namely assigning one’s own arrogance to another. One example should do. Joseph's brothers assumed in arrogance that once their father Jacob died, Joseph would take revenge on them for selling him into slavery. It was the brothers themselves who had motivational and functional revenge in their souls which flaws they transferred to Joseph.  The brothers assumed that because they had such arrogant thoughts, that Joseph had them also. Therefore, they concluded that Joseph was biding his time, waiting to take his revenge on them, waiting until Jacob’s death. However, this was not true.                          

                         

Gate 4:  Sexual Arrogance

 

Not only is sexual arrogance defined as illegitimate sex namely any sex outside of marriage, but it is sex in which there is total preoccupation with self. This preoccupation disregards every factor of virtue or consideration of others. Sexual arrogance belongs to those who are classified in 2 Tim 3:4 as "lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." Hence, sexual arrogance is ritual without reality. It precludes love as a motive for sex, and so destroys the honor and integrity of the individuals involved. The result is one more step toward unreality.

 

Lasciviousness is a trend in the old sin nature which seeks self- gratification in some form of sex. When linked with arrogance, it produces three categories of sexual arrogance namely normal, abnormal and criminal. Normal sexual arrogance includes adultery, fornication and polygamy. Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone else other than his or her spouse. Fornication is voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons, and of course, polygamy is having more than one wife.  Abnormal sexual arrogance includes at least four categories: (1). Masturbation as sexual self-gratification, (2). Homosexuality as sexual activity with a person or persons of the same sex. This includes lesbianism which is sexual activity between two women. (3)  Incest is sexual intercourse between members of the same family. (4)  Voyeurism is sexual gratification while watching others engage in sex. Criminal sexual arrogance includes at least four categories. (1)  Rape is forcing a person against their will to have sex. (2)  Pederasty is an adult male having sex especially with boys. (This is popular with many Muslims.) (3)  Necrophilia is erotic attraction to a corpse or having sex with a corpse. (4) Bestiality is sexual relationship between a human being and an animal.

 

Promiscuity in the man and woman is detrimental to every facet of life, including the spiritual life. Above all, it is detrimental in developing capacity for love, life, and happiness. This is why the Word of God forbids adultery, fornication, pederasty, incest, masturbation, and bestiality. God is not trying to deprive anyone of fun; rather he is trying to guide the person toward happiness. Sex can only be a blessing as an expression of love in monogamy.

 

Sexual arrogance in the woman can manifest itself through seduction of important persons; e.g., Cleopatra's seduction of Caesar, Messalina's seduction of Claudius, or the famous Aspasia of fifth century B.C. Miletus who seduced the great Athenian statesman, Pericles. Sexual arrogance in the woman relates to the number and importance of her conquests. Her flirtatious attitude is designed to receive flattery and to stimulate her arrogance. On the other hand, male sexual arrogance includes a harem or a multiplicity of seductions. The more women with which a man has sex, the more intensified becomes his lust and arrogance. In conclusion, sexual arrogance in both women and men is extremely destructive to the soul.  It destroys any capacity for love, life and happiness that the person may have had.

 

Gate 5:  Criminal Arrogance

 

There are two categories of criminals in the world today: unbelievers and believers.

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All criminality is acquired through arrogance. No one is born with a genetic tendency toward crime. It is all a matter of arrogance; e.g., authority arrogance, mental attitude arrogance, self-righteous arrogance, sexual arrogance, the arrogance of unhappiness, and above all, psychopathic arrogance. All criminals are such because of their own volition, because they have made a decision to be a criminal. Environment is not the issue in criminality. The environment does not mold the criminal, rather the criminal molds the environment.  Honor and integrity can belong to all, not just to one social caste. There may be 8 siblings from a very poor home. Seven become wonderful responsible citizens while one becomes a criminal.  Criminals are criminals not because of their environment, but because they will to be so.

 

Criminality actually begins with rejection of authority in the home. Rejection of parental authority eventually results in the rejection of all legitimate authority including God’s Laws of Establishment, and therefore is totally disoriented to life. He seeks to superimpose his authority on society. In arrogance, he gives lip service to the authority he encounters, but in his soul, he despises any and all authority except his own. A law-abiding citizen may be irresponsible without being a criminal. But all criminals are irresponsible all the time.

 

The criminal lives inside the cosmic system. He is totally preoccupied with himself. He is hypersensitive about himself and insensitive toward others.  Strangely enough, he is very self-righteous, and filled with self-justification regarding his criminal deeds. It happens many time in prison riots during which criminals will kill other criminals.  When asked why they killed another criminal, they will answer because the other criminal deserved to die. He raped and killed children whereas I merely raped and killed adults for I would never touch a child.

 

The criminal is a bored person.  He wants excitement and proof of his power. In fact, the criminal's desire for excitement is so great that he becomes jaded without constant stimulation from excitement. To the criminal, living without excitement is a put-down. Therefore, the criminal requires constant stimulation related to his crimes, sex, torture, alcohol, or drugs, making others afraid of him. Eventually, only extreme criminal activity related to torture, rape, and murder is satisfactory as an antidote to his boredom.

 

All liars are not criminals, but all criminals are liars. For the criminal, lying is a way of life. Therefore, the criminal becomes a pathological liar. Habitual deceit and lying is the criminal's total disregard for the truth in any form. Lying is the criminal's standard way of dealing with the world, a part of criminal manipulation.

 

The criminal is saturated with a lust pattern of arrogance. He has sexual lust, killer lust, power lust, approbation lust, money lust, stimulation lust requiring extensive use of drugs or alcohol, cruelty lust from which comes torture and abuse of others, as well as homicide. From his arrogant preoccupation with self, the criminal is involved in a lust pattern from which it is almost impossible to break away. His only hope is to become a believer followed by intensive study of God’s word. He needs several years of listening to good Bible teaching just to become a normal human being with a normal soul filled with correct norms and standards and priorities etc.  Very few are able to make this transformation even after becoming believers. This is one reason why the Word of God demands the use of capital punishment for criminals.

 

The believer criminal: The arrogance factor in crime is the major issue. The only way a criminal can break out of criminal arrogance is by making good decisions; no one can help him. After conversion, there must be consistent positive volition toward doctrine. If there is any inconsistency, the criminal factor continues. The real problem for a believer-criminal is not occasionally getting doctrine, but permanently accepting the authority of some teacher and staying with doctrine. Any personality conflict immediately arouses the arrogance in him, and he's right back in the arrogance complex, and right back into crime. The criminal believer being anti-establishment is often, anti-God and anti-doctrine. The believer living in the cosmic system and involved in the various stages of reversionism (spiritual apostasy) is capable of burglary, robbery, kidnapping, shoplifting, mugging, blackmail, larceny, drug activity, prostitution, rape, murder, etc. The criminal often pretends to accept some authority, like that of pastor or evangelist or psychiatrist. Often, he appears to be positive to the Gospel, and even to believe in Christ. But all of this is to advance his own ends in most cases.

 

If you are interested in further study regarding how a criminal thinks, may I suggest reading, “The Criminal Personality: Volumn I, “A Profile for change” by Samuel Yochelson and Stanton Samenow.   

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Gate 6:  Psychopathic Arrogance

 

The pre-psychotic personality is subjective, inhibited, chronically worried, always stubborn, intolerant, inflexible, always lacking a sense of humor. This personality is further characterized by rigidity (inflexibility) which acts as a neurotic defense, plus arrogance related to self-righteousness, perfectionism, and/or the guilt syndrome. Instability is caused by the oscillation between these things. It is irritable, peevish (querulous in temperament or mood), complaining, unable to concentrate, depressed, and full of paranoid ideas (excessive or irrational suspiciousness and distrustfulness of others). It is full of anxiety, has a tendency toward hypochondria (extreme depression often centered on imaginary physical ailments), and has a morbid anxiety about one's own health accompanied by the conjuring up of imaginary illnesses.

 

Psychopathic arrogance is a volitional drive toward unreality, and it begins with arrogance at a very young age. In the normal person, (the non-psychopathic person) the emotion is under the control and domination of the intellect, the right lobe or mentality of the soul, and so always blends with the intellectual life so as not to disrupt rational modus operandi. Arrogance, the seed for psychopathic arrogance, begins in childhood, where personality is dominated by primitive basic drives to the exclusion of rational behavior. This is seen in children who are permitted tantrums by permissive parents, children who are allowed to sulk, who are deceitful, obstinate, boastful, shameless, and erratic. Christian parents with locked-in legalism who are so involved in their own arrogance that they have actually established an environment for others, such as their children, to move step by step in the drive toward unreality into a psychotic condition. Parents living in the Cosmic System can rear their children under legalism from the cradle, creating the environment of unreality, so that if the children have the same predilections, they will move, step by step, toward a psychotic condition.

                

The mind in the normal soul is designed to control the emotions and to make the emotions responsive to certain things in life, but when emotion takes over the mind, then there cannot be any rational thought since emotion has no ability to think, to rationalize, and is not related to any field of cognizance. The emotions were designed to respond to what is in the right lobe: the frame of reference, memory center, vocabulary and categorical storage. In the psychopathic person, this normal subordination of emotion to the intellect is not present because of cultivated arrogance and cosmic involvement with its resultant drive toward unreality.       

 

Psychopathy is a general term for mental disturbances or mental disorders. However, psychopathy is also used specifically for certain mental disorders characterized by emotional instability, perversity of conduct, undue conceit, suspiciousness, lack of self-control, lack of social feeling, lack of truthfulness, lack of common sense, and lack of persistence. The psychopathic personality likes to surround himself with others who also lack common sense and who are also moving toward unreality. A society of arrogant people with no respect for legitimate authority, naturally breeds psychopathic personalities. This is prevalent in our fragmented society today. As a result, America's psychopathic persons find the environment in which they live so filled with categories of arrogance that their drive toward unreality seems perfectly normal to them! 

 

The arrogance of self-righteousness and legalism is one of the greatest contributing factors to this problem of Psychosis especially among believers. Typical characteristics of the psychopathic believer include the following: instability namely oscillation from self-righteousness in prosperity to self-pity in adversity, egocentricity regarding everything in relationship to oneself, and egoism which is an excessive love of self which divorces the individual from reality, so that eventually mental disorders occur. The psychopathic believer is the product of his own arrogance and multifarious bad decisions from a position of weakness (Decisions made out of fellowship with God). The environment for his bad decisions is provided by certain segments of so-called Christianity, the holy rollers, the Pentecostals, and the legalistic fundamentalists. These groups have provided a tremendous environment of unreality which is an incubator for these bad decisions.

 

In a psychotic state, the believer can no longer recover through perception of Bible doctrine and rebound technique; he first requires psychiatric treatment. Whereas normally, perception of Bible doctrine causes recovery from many things and puts us back on the right track, it cannot cause one to recover from a psychotic condition.  Until such a person has psychiatric treatment, there can be no recovery. Psychiatry has made tremendous advances in the field of drugs and medicine, so that the psychotic person can function in an almost normal manner. However, without the use of these medicines, it is impossible for such a believer to learn doctrine, regardless of how much and how often he listens. There can be no recovery without medicine!

 

It is the tendency of those who have provided the environment of unreality through legalism to try to resolve this problem of psychosis through prayer. This problem of mental illness cannot be resolved through prayer since prayer cannot reverse the process by which a believer has become psychotic. A thousand bad decisions cannot be reversed by fervent, daily prayers. That is not the purpose of prayer; prayer was never intended to reverse the law of volitional responsibility just as you are not going to deliver a person through prayer if he has just jumped off the Empire State Building.  He will hit the pavement with a splat!

 

The psychopathic believer or unbeliever lacks the ability to evaluate realistically the object of his emotional responses or reactions. Arrogant preoccupation with self excludes reality and leads to the drive toward a false object. For example, a psychopathic female may fall in love with a male in her periphery, making him the object of her hallucinations (imaginary perceptions) and fantasies. Pursuing this pseudo-love with arrogant fanaticism, the arrogant psychopath loses all objectivity, reasoning power, and moral stability. Regarding procedure, the psychopathic person parlays arrogance into illusion and hallucination. Also, because of his arrogance related to psychosis, he becomes very hypersensitive about himself. He may feel slighted where slighting does not occur. He may blame others for his failures and avoids taking any responsibility for those same failures. Because of his preoccupation with himself coupled with his hypersensitivity, he easily becomes jealous, implacable, resentful, bitter, and can easily entertain delusions of persecution. Apart from medicine, his situation is quite hopeless.

 

Locked-in arrogance in the psychopathic person results in several categories of psychopathic personalities, such as the manic-depressive person. How does this state begin? In the mild depressive state, the Christian has physical complaints which have no factual basis. This is followed by lack of confidence and a lack of a sense of destiny; instead, he has a sense of inadequacy, unable to stay with a job. This is followed by the manic phase where the believer is very self-righteous, very self-satisfied, and even arrogantly aggressive. He is childish, proud, and intolerant of criticism, irrepressible (without self-control), uninhibited, effusive (marked by excessive emotion or enthusiasm), and often unconventional in speech and manner. Such a person courts the limelight as boastful, flippant, argumentative, has wandering thought patterns, is easily bored, lacks the ability to sustain anything, and never has an enthusiasm sustained for very long.  Arrogance in the manic phase is characterized by hostility toward members of one's own family, combining arrogance with unreasonable and unprovoked anger. Oscillation of emotions is very common.  In the middle of exuberance, the person may suddenly burst into tears. The manic is self-righteous, officious, and meddlesome. Hallucinations (to affect with visions or imaginary perceptions) in manic excitement are usually arrogant illusions as the manic (unreasonable enthusiasm combined with an elevated mood) builds himself up in order to interfere and straighten out everyone. Therefore, the manic depressive-believer is characterized by alternating mania (emotional highs because of unreasonable enthusiasm) and mental depression.  He goes from being depressed to being very excited and self-righteous.