Indifferent To What Happens To You.
(Personal note.)
by
Dean Gotcher
"And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?" Hebrews 12:5-11
When you love someone (truly love someone) you are indifferent to what happens to you in protecting them (willing to risk loosing their love for you when you correct, reprove, chasten them, protecting them from their "self," i.e., from doing wrong, disobeying, sinning, i.e., "lusting" after the things of the world). When they love themselves ('justifying' their "self," i.e., their "lusting" after the things of the world before others) they are indifferent to what happens to you when you get in their way, i.e., when you try to protect them from their "self," i.e., from "lusting" after the things of the world. For example: in a discussion you are concerned about your (and their) being right and not wrong according to established commands, rules, facts, and truth, making you indifferent to your carnal desires of the 'moment (including your desire, i.e., willingness to compromise the truth in order for them to "love" you—for 'justifying' their "lusting" after the things of the world, affirming your "lusting" after the things of the world, i.e., their affirmation, which is the heart and soul of socialism). In dialogue you are concerned about your "self," i.e., your "lusting" after the things of the world, making you indifferent to what happens to those who get in your way. This is the different between the father's/Father's love for his/His children, correcting, reproving, chastening them when they are wrong that they might learn to do right and the children's love for their "self," "lusting" after the things of the world, i.e., not having "the love of the Father" in them 'justifying' (to their "self") their dissatisfaction with, resentment and hatred toward the father's/Father's restraint, i.e., toward the father's/Father's authority for getting in their way, being indifferent to what happens to him/Him—and anyone who things and acts like him/Him.
"For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 1 John 2:15
"In the dialogic relation of recognizing oneself in the other ["the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life"], they experience the common ground of their existence." (Jürgen Habermas, Knowledge & Human Interest, Chapter Three: The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as Social Theory) It is in dialogue we discover our commonality with one another, i.e., our common "self interests" in each other, 'justifying' our "self," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," i.e., what we have in common, i.e., that which is "of the world" only.
"And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men ["the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life"] is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15
"The heart is deceitful above all things [thinking pleasure is the standard for "good" instead of doing the father's/Father's will, i.e., having to set aside your carnal desires of the 'moment,' i.e., having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order (as in "old" world order) to do the father's/Father's will, i.e., in order to do right and not wrong according the father's/Father's established commands, rules, facts, and truth], and desperately wicked [hating the father's/Father's authority that "gets in the way," i.e. that prevents, i.e., inhibits or blocks you from enjoying the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world stimulates]: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9 You can not see your hate of restraint as being evil, i.e., "wicked" ("desperately wicked") because your love of pleasure ("self interest"), getting in the way, blinds you to it. Like a drug, pleasure (dopamine emancipation), i.e., "self interest," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," which the world stimulates blinds you to your hatred toward restraint, i.e., blinds you to your "wickedness" which is being expressed toward those who are preventing (or trying to prevent) you from having access to the drug, i.e., to pleasure (dopamine emancipation) when you are doing wrong, disobeying, sinning—making you not just wicked but "desperately wicked" in your effort to attain it, keep it, or get it back.
If you have "the love of the Father" in you—having humbled, denies, died to your "self" in order to do right and not wrong according to the Father's established commands, rules, facts, and truth, i.e., in order (in and through His Son Jesus Christ) to do the Father's will, loving others as He loves you, i.e., loving others in His love, by His Holy Spirit—you are indifferent to what happens to you (you can stand alone, with the truth, at all cost to you, having put your trust in Him).
"Thus saith the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD." "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is." Jeremiah 17:5, 7
If others "love the world" and "the things that are in the world," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, " if and when you get in their way to pleasure, i.e., their carnal desires of the 'moment' which the world stimulates, i.e., their "self interest" they are indifferent to what happens to you. Without having "the love of the Father" in you, you are no different than those "of the world"—"lusting" after not only "the things of the world" but also the approval (the affirmation) of men, thinking about (fearing) what will happen to you if they turn on you (for getting in their way), fearing their rejection.
"And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 John 2:16
Without having "the love of the Father" in you all you have is "the love of the world," i.e., your "self interest," that which is passing away. Unlike the Father, who, in His love for you, will "take care of you"—having sent his Son, Jesus Christ to died on the cross, covering your sins by His shed blood— those in love with "the world, and the things that are in the world" will "take care of you" when you (and anyone else who) get in their way (killing the unborn, the elderly, the innocent, the righteous, etc., and/or anyone else, being indifferent what happens to them) without having a guilty conscience, being indifferent to what happens to you. When you "build relationship" with others based upon common "self interests," i.e., "lusting" after "the things of the world" you are no different than them, being indifferent to what happens to them when they get in your way as they are indifferent to what happens to you when you get in their way. Without having the "love of the Father" in you, all you have is the "love of the world," which, being indifferent to what happens to you (where you will spend eternity), is passing away, leading to eternal death. When you share the truth with others who are caught up in the process of 'change,' i.e., the things of the world (even doing "wonderful" things in the name of the Lord) and get that "deer in the headlights" look from them, you are talking to someone who, not having "the love of the Father" in themselves, is indifferent to what happens to you, thinking about themselves (what "the group" will do to them) instead.
"There are many stories of the conflict and tension that these new practices are producing between parents and children." (David Krathwohl, Benjamin S. Bloom, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives Book 2: Affective Domain) All "educators" are certified and schools accredited today based upon their use of what are called "Bloom's Taxonomies" (as their curriculum, i.e., teaching method) in the classroom, 'liberating' children (and adults) from "the love of the Father," so they can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., "lust" with impunity, i.e., with "the group's" approval (affirmation).
When you place your children in a classroom or follow anyone who does the worldly praxis of dialoguing their opinions with one another to a consensus (affirming each others "lusts" and "pride of life," i.e., 'justifying' their "self" before one another—which negates "the love of the Father" in them), you are allowing your children and follow those who, becoming indifferent to what happens to you, will do unconscionable things to you when you get in their way. In "the love of the Father" you are indifferent to what happens to you in your love for them, that they to might come to know "the love of the Father," who (along with you, in Him) is not indifferent to what happens to them, i.e., where they will spend eternity.
"Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven." Matthew 7:21
After all the gospel message is all about "the Father," who sending his Son, Jesus Christ to 'redeem' you from His judgment upon you for your sins, raised Him from the grave in order to 'reconcile' you to Himself. In essence the gospel message is the Son say "I want you to know my Father, i.e., I want you to know my Father's love for you," that you (being indifferent to what happens to you in this life, i.e., not fearing the rejection of men, looking forward to eternal life with the Father, His Son, and those in Him instead) might love others as He loves you, having "the love of the Father" in you.
"For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother." Matthew 12:50
"Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me." John 14:6
"Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved." Acts 4:12
"And call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven." Matthew 23:9
"Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?" James 4:1-4
"The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil." John 7:7
"And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved." Mathew 10:22
"Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ: By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." Romans 5:1, 2
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." 2 Timothy 4:3, 4
Facilitators of 'change,' i.e., psychologists, i.e., behavioral "scientists," i.e., "group psychotherapists," i.e., Marxists (Transformational Marxists)—all being the same in method or formula—are using the dialoguing of opinions to a consensus (affirmation) process, i.e., dialectic 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the students "feelings" of the 'moment,' i.e., from/through their "lust" for pleasure and their hate of restraint, in the "light" of their desire for group approval, i.e., affirmation and fear of group rejection) in the "group grade," "safe zone/space/place," "Don't be negative, be positive," soviet style, brainwashing (washing the father's/Father's authority from the children's thoughts and actions, i.e., "theory and practice," negating their having a guilty conscience, which the father's/father's authority engenders, for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning in the process—called "the negation of negation" since the father's/Father's authority and the guilty conscience, being negative to the child's carnal nature, is negated in dialogue—in dialogue, opinion, and the consensus process there is no father's/Father's authority), inductive 'reasoning' ('reasoning' from/through the students "feelings," i.e., their natural inclination to "lust" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment'—dopamine emancipation—which the world stimulates, i.e., their "self interest," i.e., their "sense experience," selecting "appropriate information"—excluding, ignoring, or resisting, i.e., rejecting any "inappropriate" information, i.e., established command, rule, fact, or truth that gets in the way of their desired outcome, i.e., pleasure—in determining right from wrong behavior), "Bloom's Taxonomy," "affective domain," French Revolution (Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité) classroom "environment" in order (as in "new" world order) to 'liberate' children from parental authority, i.e., from the father's/Father's authority system (the Patriarchal Paradigm)—seducing, deceiving, and manipulating them as chickens, rats, and dogs, i.e., treating them as natural resource ("human resource") in order to convert them into 'liberals,' socialists, globalists, so they, 'justifying' their "self" before one another, can do wrong, disobey, sin, i.e., "lust" with impunity.
"Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken." Jeremiah 6:16, 17
Home schooling material, co-ops, conferences, etc., are joining in the same praxis, fulfilling Immanuel Kant's as well as Georg Hegel's, Karl Marx's, and Sigmund Freud's agenda of using the pattern or method of Genesis 3:1-6, i.e., "self" 'justification,' i.e., dialectic (dialogue) 'reasoning," i.e., 'reasoning' from/through your "feelings," i.e., your carnal desires of the 'moment' which are being stimulated by the world (including your desire for approval from others, with them affirming your carnal nature) in order to negate Hebrews 12:5-11, i.e., the father's/Father's authority, i.e., having to humble, deny, die to, control, discipline your "self" in order to do the father's/Father's will, negating Romans 7:14-25, i.e., your having a guilty conscience when you do wrong, disobey, sin, thereby negating your having to repent before the father/Father for your doing wrong, disobedience, sins—which is the real agenda.
"And for this cause [because men, as "children of disobedience," 'justify' their "self," i.e., 'justify' their love of "self" and the world, i.e., their love of the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) which the world stimulates over and therefore against the Father's authority] God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie [that pleasure is the standard for "good" instead of doing the Father's will]: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth [in the Father and in His Son, Jesus Christ], but had pleasure in unrighteousness [in their "self" and the pleasures of the 'moment,' which the world stimulates]." 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12
© Institution for Authority Research, Dean Gotcher 2020