Pride Of Life. by Dean Gotcher

by
Dean Gotcher

"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

"Prior to therapy the person is prone to ask himself, 'What would my parents want me to do?' During the process of therapy the individual come to ask himself, 'What does it mean to me?'" (Carl Rogers, on becoming a person: A Therapist View of Psychotherapy)

"What can I get out of this person and/or this situation for my 'self?'" It is called "self interest," i.e., "lust," i.e., carnal desire, i.e., "the pride of life" which includes not only the 'justification of "self," i.e., "lust," i.e., "self interest" but also the praises (affirmation) of men, which negates the guilty conscience for doing wrong, disobeying, sinning, i.e., for "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world, i.e., the current situation and/or people are stimulating so anyone who gets in the way, including the unborn, the elderly, the innocent, and the righteous can be negated (killed) with 'justification.' "Building relationship upon self interest," i.e., the dialoging of opinions to a consensus process "seems to" be "good" until you are the next one on the chopping block. But since you did not care about others who got in your way, why should those of "self interest" care about you when you get in theirs, i.e., no longer bring them pleasure, are a burden and/or pain, or no longer server their 'purpose,' i.e., "lusting" after the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world, i.e., the current situation and/or people are stimulating, with the praises, i.e., 'justification,' i.e., affirmation of men—with everyone dying in their sins. In dialogue, in an opinion, in the consensus process there is no father's/Father's authority, there is only the child's carnal nature, i.e., "self," i.e., "self interest," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life."

"Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil." Proverbs 16:5-6

"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 is abomination in the sight of God." Luke 16:15

"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" Jeremiah 17:9

Your heart establishes the child's carnal nature in you, i.e., your "lust" for the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) that the world stimulates as the standard for "good" instead of doing the father's/Father's will, i.e., having to set aside your carnal desires ("lusts") of the 'moment' that the world stimulates, 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. Your heart is "desperately wicked" in that it hates restraint, i.e., hates the father's/Father's authority for "getting in the way," i.e. for preventing, i.e., inhibiting or blocking you from enjoying the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' (dopamine emancipation) that the world stimulates. You can not see your hate of restraint, i.e., your hatred toward the father's/Father's authority, i.e., the Karl Marx in you as being evil, i.e., "wicked" ("desperately wicked") because your love of pleasure, i.e., your "lust," i.e., your "self interest" (getting in the way) blinds you to it. Like a drug your "lust" for pleasure (dopamine emancipation), i.e., your "self interest," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," i.e., that which the world stimulates blinds you to your hatred toward restraint, i.e., blinds you to your hatred toward the father's/Father's authority, i.e., blinds you to your "wickedness"—which is being expressed toward the father/Father (and those who have faith in and obey him/Him), who is 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—as being "wicked," making you not just "wicked" but "desperately wicked" in your effort to attain pleasure, keep pleasure, or get pleasure back, which includes the praises (affirmation, i.e., 'justification') of men, with you removing or attempting to remove anyone who is getting in the way. No matter how much you try to 'justify' your "self" before men, seeking after and getting men's approval (affirmation), i.e., pleasing men you can not be or become "good."

"There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." Proverbs 16:25

Only God is good. The only way you can become "good" in your eyes (and in the eyes of others) is to 'justify' your "self" (and their "self"), i.e., your "lust" (and their "lust") for the carnal pleasures of the 'moment' that the world stimulates, becoming God your "self" (making them God as well), determining right from wrong, good from evil according to your (and their) carnal nature, i.e., from your own "self," i.e., from your "sensuous needs" ("the lust of the flesh") and "sense perception" ("the lust of the eyes"), i.e., from your "sense experiences" of this life ("the pride of life"), with pleasure being "right" and restraint, i.e., the father's/Father's authority, getting in the way of pleasure being "wrong." (Karl Marx, MEGA I/3) Any time you turn behavior into a "science" all you can have is "self interest," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" as an outcome—so the "behavior scientist" can "lust" after the carnal pleasures of the moment' that the world, i.e., the current situation and/or people are stimulating without having a guilty conscience, with the individual's/the group's affirmation. Affirmation, i.e., the praises of men is not only intoxicating, but addictive and possessive as well. Question the use of psychology in the "church" today and see how intoxicated with, addicted to, and possessed by "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life" it has become.

"Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God." 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and in his Father's, and of the holy angels." Luke 9:23-26

Any time you find your "self" in a dialoguing of opinions to a consensus, i.e., "Be positive, not negative" meeting (which is most meetings these days, including the "group grade" classroom, youth group, etc.,) you are in a meeting 'justifying' your "self," i.e., "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," i.e., that which is "of the world" only, i.e., the god in you over and therefore against the father's/Father's authority, with the facilitator of 'change,' as a charlatan, pedophile, pimp, seducing, deceiving, and manipulating those present, turning them into "human resource," i.e., one of Thorndike's chickens, Skinners rats, or Pavlov's dog so he can use them for his own carnal pleasures and gain, buying and selling their soul on the open market of the "lusts" and "praises" of men, with their affirmation. The road to "Utopia" is paved with the bodies of those who got in the way, with "the pride of life," i.e., "What can I get out of this person and/or situation for my 'self?'" leading the way. Anytime you participate in the dialoguing of opinions to a consensus process, 'justifying' your "self" before men, you become god, i.e., a god amongst god's following after and worshiping "God," i.e., "the son of perdition," i.e., the facilitator of 'change.'

"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