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see, i'm sure people have convinced themselves that
this sort of thing, tossing cards in the air, is placing
a random element into their lives and that they are
embracing some sort of "chaos" but this is exactly not so.
it is exactly the opposite, this sort of thing removes
all possibles and maybes from the system and imposes
an understanding based on a strict, set in stone,
stream of events.
of course this includes all forms of numerology and
astrology as forms of making some sort of vain attempt
at "reading the tea leaves" in a foreordained universe.
it doesn't imply chance and possibility,
it implies an absolutely prestructured environment.
it removes personal responsibility and forms the basis
for a cop-out that says, "i was born to be a pisshead
and that's what i am, a pisshead."
i like numbers and stars just as much as the next person,
but i'm already convinced that God did not bring certain
apparent troubles in to the universe by Divine Foreknowledge.
in fact, i've harped on that on
several occasions as well of late.
don't trick yourself.
it's not some sort of "i'm here to quash
you freewheeling spirituality" type
of thing here.
quite the contrary, i can spot dumdumitus
when i see it, cuz me and the Great Gazoo
go way back.
little green punk.
only he's not really green.
he just tries to blend with the frogs sometimes.
God can know all things that can be known and still
leave open the matters of chance and maybe that
aren't fully brought into being as of yet.
we don't believe in a God who causes you to do
harm and then punishes you for doing what
you were caused to do by God.
that's just perverse.
take this opportunity to drop a pebble in the well
and know for a certainty that you are causing
an effect all your own.
"i have six different places i may like to go
on vacation, but i'm not able to decide which
place to go, so i roll a single die, and whatever
number comes up, that's the place i go on vacation."
that's just inserting a probability in to your
decision making because either you cannot decide
or you don't want to decide.
i just wanna harp on this a tiny little bit.
look, you take a sheet of paper and you
write some things you'd like to do on it.
1. see Lake Victoria
2. paint a picture of picasso
3. cut off someone's ear
4. fill in the panama canal
5. have a banana milkshake
so fine, you may want to eliminate
[4] because it's just plain impracticable.
you may go ahead and do [5] cuz it's real easy.
so then you've got [1] [2]
and [3] to choose from.
only now, you can't make up your mind,
each are equally desirable.
so -then- you break out the die and
attach each outcome to a number on a cube.
now you're allowing random probability
to enter into your decision making process.
this is *not* a predictive methodology.
this is *not* "fortune telling"
and if it comes up [3] you aren't demanded to do [3]
but faced with the possibility that you *must* do [3]
you may then, come to the proper conclusion that it
was never an outcome to be desired in the first place.
and then there's just [1] and [2]
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bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is
within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."
71) Jesus said, "I shall destroy [this] house, and no one will
be able to rebuild it."
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He who abides in Me, and I in him,
bears much fruit; for without Me
you can do nothing. If anyone does
not abide in Me, he is cast out as
a branch and is withered; and they
gather them and throw them into the fire,
and they are burned. If you abide in Me,
and My words abide in you, you will ask
what you desire, and it shall be done
for you. By this My Father is glorified,
that you bear much fruit; so you
will be My disciples.
John 15:5-8