Your Reference Point Is Your Point Of View. by Dean Gotcher

Your Reference Point Is Your Point Of View.
(Personal note.)

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

"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

"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10

When you are pressured to compromise the truth in order to "get along with others," i.e., in order to receive the approval of men you determine your reference point, whether it is in compromise, i.e., the approval of men or in the truth, i.e., doing the Father's will. Your point of view from then on is either "What does the Father want me to do?" or "What can I get out of this for me?" and "What is going to happen to me if I am rejected by the group?" If you compromise the truth in order to become a part of "the group" what will you do to the person who continues to preach, teach, and discuss the truth, exposing you, i.e., condemning you for compromising the truth?

"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)

"Experience ["the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life"] is, for me, the highest authority." "Neither the Bible nor the prophets, neither the revelations of God can take precedence over my own direct experience." (Rogers)

You can not serve both the flesh (the world) and the Lord. You can only serve one or the other, i.e., your "self," i.e. "the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life," seeking the approval of men or the Lord, doing the Father's will.

"No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Luke 16:13

"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

"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

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths." Proverb. 3: 5-6

Who you refer to in your communication with others—your "self" and the world, i.e., through dialogue 'justifying' your "self," i.e., your "feelings," i.e., your "lusts" of the 'moment' that the world, i.e., the current situation and/or people are stimulating or the Lord Jesus Christ, doing the Father's will, i.e., preaching, teaching, and discussion his Word—reveals your point of view, i.e., who you serve. If you are into your "self," and the world that stimulates pleasure in you, you will turn to the world, i.e., to those who will 'justify' your "lusts" of the 'moment' for direction. If you are in the Lord, you will turn to Him. If you feel pressured to do so for the sake of approval of men, you are still under the influence of the approval of men, i.e., "the world" and its "lusts." If there is anyone or anything between you and the Lord (making the Lord and His Word subject to the opinion of men) it is still you and the world directing your step, i.e., who is your reference point, i.e., your point of view. Only when there is no one or no thing between you and the Lord is the Lord Jesus Christ your reference point, i.e., your point of view—which requires you to daily humble, deny, die to your "self," endure the rejection/hostility of men (for not affirming their "lusts"), and follow the Lord, doing the Father's will.

"It is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jeremiah 10:23

Relationship is based upon the things of the world, i.e., what we have in common with one another. Fellowship upon doing the Father's will. If your communication is upon building relationship, your reference point is your "self" and the world that stimulates pleasure ("lust") in you and in the other person. If your communication is upon doing the Father's will, your reference point is the Lord Jesus Christ and His Word, "casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" 2 Corinthians 10:5. What happens to you on the day of judgment depends upon which reference point, i.e., point of view you lived by.

"... and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." 1 John 1:3

"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