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BBB:Marks of a Jackass

   The Bible word, of course, is "ass" (see Job 11:12), but we
forebear due to the feelings of many thin-skinned readers in the
Laodicean church who gave up using Bible terminology a long time ago.

   At any rate, donkeys can be IDENTIFIED. A number of identification
tags bear the name "mark," as in "watermark" for papers and stamps,
"bench mark" for border lines, etc. Certain groups, books, ideas,
philosophies, etc., bear "marks" by which they can be recognized
immediately. Paul says, "I BEAR IN MY BODY THE MARKS OF THE LORD JESUS"
(Gal. 6:17). The Antichrist's Catholic followers will eventually have
to bear a "mark" (Rev. 13:16-18).

   Now, in the last forty years the Body of Christ has been infiltrated
with a peculiar type of EDUCATIONAL HUMANISM that eventually permeates
every major work. No one would have spotted this type of humanism
unless they themselves had been exposed to a college education; as a
consequence, the deadly virus has succeeded remarkably in infecting
almost every part of the Body in the last forty years.

   What we are speaking of is not the standard material found in The
Humanist or the religious "Liberalism" of the "Modernist" or
"Neo-Evangelical." What we are speaking of her is far more subtle than
"religious humanism." What we are speaking of here is the appearance in
Christian periodicals (magazines, advertising brochures, newspapers,
etc.) OF A VOCABULARY THAT IS PLAINLY THE VOCABULARY OF AN UNSAVED
SOCIALIST.

   If you want to watch this thing at work, read the ads for Bob Jones
University published in The Sword of the Lord, or the ads for Pensacola
Christian College published in various magazines, or the ads for
Tennessee Temple. (We will show you the "earmarks" in a minute.) In the
Bible this peculiar secularized, humanistic vocabulary is called "GOOD
WORDS AND FAIR SPEECHES" (Rom. 16:18), and the "WORDS OF MAN'S WISDOM"
(1 Cor. 2:4), and "GREAT SWELLING WORDS" (Jude 16). It escapes the
notice of ALL THOSE WHO USE IT. They assume (without evidence) that
they are being "Christian" and effective in their use of this
vocabulary. The vocabulary is standard in every classroom controlled by
the NEA and it is the vocabulary of AN UNSAVED ATHEIST WHO IS AMORAL.

   Now, we have chosen only one publication to illustrate these
"earmarks," although we could have chosen a dozen. However, ONE will do
just fine, and the one we have chosen is the official, standard organ
of publicity of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church. It comes to our house
monthly and has for four years. It is called "MINISTRY"--International
Journal for Clergy. In the edition that I quote we find the special
denomination "PREACH EDITION" (Nov. 1988), and the reader had not
better make any mistake about it. He should underline the words and
memorize them and look for their reappearing in THE FUNDAMENTAL
LITERATURE PRINTED AND PROMOTED BY THE SWORD OF THE LORD, FAITH
MAGAZINE, PULPIT HELPS, AND THE SCHOOL CATALOGUES AND "YEARBOOKS" OF
THE "MILITANT" CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS. It is one barn. All the donkeys bray
alike--saved or lost, Communist or Catholic, humanist or cultic,
fundamentalist or liberal.

   Here are the "earmarks":

   1. "TASK FORCE recommends hike." There are no "task forces" anywhere
in or out of scripture. The term is borrowed from military jargon
during World War II. It is an AP, INS, UPI word.

   2. "A DRINKING PROBLEM." No one has a "drinking problem." That is
university rot. You are a drunk, or a lush, or a boozer, or a bimbo, or
at BEST a "chronic alcoholic." You don't have a "problem." You have a
sin. "Problem drinkers" are classroom subjects of unsaved students
majoring in sociology.

   3. "THIS WILL TOUCH OUR LIVES." No way. "Reaching out to TOUCH and
COMMUNICATE" is part of the SIECUS sex education curriculum stuck into
the Anaheim schools back in 1968 after all the white people left the
area because they didn't want blacks undressing their six-year-old
white children in the first grade. NEVER "TOUCH" ANYONE'S LIFE. Preach
the hell out of them, or witness to them, or teach them the Bible, or
sympathize with them, or pray with them (and for them), but don't ever
"TOUCH THEIR LIVES" with ANYTHING, including a red hot poker. Don't
talk like a jackass.

   4. "WILL BE FEATURED" in her "NEW ROLE." No Christian was ever
"FEATURED" in any "ROLE." The second word is holistic and Gestalt
psychology taken out of classrooms where people only play "roles" in
life as they imitate someone's "lifestyle." The term is a movie term
used by the Associated Press.

   5. "ENRICHING YOUR DEVOTIONAL LIFE." Go stick your head in a bucket.
No one is "enriched" with anything. The term is a term meaning "quit
memorizing and studying and learn how to smoke pot and belly dance" so
you can match the culture that invaded the schools in 1964.
"ENRICHMENT" is the hackneyed term of a professional educator involved
in world socialism; the term is MEANINGLESS even when defined. It has
no MORAL content.

   6. "AN EXPERIENCE IN RENEWAL." The word is "revival." There is no
"renewal" for anyone but a professioal psychologist engaged in keeping
a reprobate on "drugs" till he adjusts. The term is a favorite,
hackneyed cliche for someone who doesn't wish to discuss "good or
evil," "just or unjust," "right or wrong," or "black and white."
"RENEWAL" is the earmark of a jackass. A LAODICEAN, CHRISTIAN JACKASS.

   7. "A POWER LADEN ENCOUNTER." The last word is a favorite with
people who cannot say "convert," "saved," "meeting," "revival,"
"repentance," or similar words. An "encounter" with a book or a sermon
is nothing but you reading or hearing the sermon. All international
socialists in the NEA were given the word "encounter" to add to a
vocabulary that uses ANY word as long as it doesn't have MORAL or
IMMORAL content.

   Jackasses are AMORAL.

   8. "A FULL SENSORY EXPERIENCE FOR SPIRITUAL FORMATION." A full sack
of baloney for a depraved idiot. NOTHING is "formed spiritually" by any
"sensory experience," and there is no such thing as a "FULL sensory
experience" in reading any book, or hearing any sermon, or going to any
school, or watching any TV program, or studying anyone's work. "FULL
SENSORY EXPERIENCE" IS FOUND IN DRUGS.

   9. "EMPLOYEE REMUNERATION." Blank. You pay him or he goes broke.

   10. "NOW THIS IS THE NORM IN THIS AREA." There are no "areas" unless
you can walk on them and measure them with a surveyor's line; there is
no "NORM" anywhere in modern education, as the NORM shifts with the
"SOCIAL MILEU." "These areas" and "this area" IS THE ABSOLUTE AND FINAL
IDENTIFICATION of the educated nut who lost his vocabulary and had to
pad it with what they taught him in sociology classes": ALL MODERN
FUNDAMENTALISTS USE THE TERM.

   11. "THIS PILOT PROGRAM." There are no "pilot" programs. There never
have been. There have been first and second programs, and good and BAD
programs, but PILOT PROGRAMS are the programs cited by those who have
had their "PILOT LIGHTS" blown out. It is educational, sociological
MADNESS.

   12. "THE CRITERIA SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED." No, it shouldn't. The
facts should have some more facts to back them up. TALK CLEARLY. Don't
talk like a jackass so people will think you have been to college.
"CRITERIA" is a philosophical term that came from unsaved atheists. It
means what you think you or someone else is certain of, depending upon
what you want to believe. THE CRITERIA for the Christian is a BOOK. YOU
CANNOT "IMPLEMENT" it with anything. You can EXPOUND it, TEACH it,
EXPLAIN it, PREACH it, ILLUSTRATE it, and APPLY it, but you could no
more IMPLEMENT it than you could "implement" the Resurrection.

   13. "NEW RESOURCES FOR PASTORS." "Resources" are what you have in
the ground that you can use to stay alive with. (Ain't that a CRITERIA,
man!) Your RESOURCES are prayer and the Bible, and if you want SUCCESS
(not "resource") you can study Larkin, Pember, Bulinger, Scofield,
Torrey, Greek and Hebrew texts, lexicons, commentaries, etc. THERE ARE
NO NEW "RESOURCES" FOR PASTORS. A computer is not a resource; it is an
aid or a handicap, and sometimes both.

   14. "THE FINAL DRAFT: THE BOTTOM LINE." The term is not as bad as
the others, as it came from the business world, in particular the
insurance world and the architect's world. Overuse will mark the user
with his family tree. It will "earmark" him.

   15. "DO YOU WANT TO COMMUNICATE WITH OTHERS"? You do? Get on the
phone, write a letter, or shoot the bull over a cup of coffee. The word
is taken out of classes on psychology where people have a hard time
"communicating" with each other. The unsaved atheist seeks
COMMUNICATION with Soviet Russia and the Communist party. The apostate
Catholics seek to "communicate" with Charismatics who have given up the
Bible as the final authority. Problems in "communications" simply mean
YOU CAN'T CONVINCE THE OTHER PERSON YOU ARE RIGHT. The term is a
Swindoll-Dobson-Schuller- MacArthur term which means "LET YOUR WIFE RUN
YOUR BUSINESS." For blacks it means, "How do you get access to the
white man's money and jobs?"

   Jackasses bray in the same language.

   16. "ENHANCE YOUR RAPPORT." No, defuse you dud. Paul never "enhanced
his rapport" even when John the Baptist was "enhancing his rapport" so
he could "reach out and touch" in those "areas" where "sharing and
caring" enabled people to "communicate"!

   17. "RECOIL FROM UNATTRACTIVE PEOPLE." No, GET AWAY FROM WICKED MEN.
Don't "recoil" from anything; not even the "lifestyle" of those who are
"alienated" from you. All of this is from psychology and sociology
classes in college.

   18. "A RESTRUCTURED ECONOMY." Communism. You "restructure" anything
that is old-fashioned or based on COMMON SENSE or EXPERIENCE; you
simply make adjustments to bring it into line with sin, death, and
hell. "Environmentalist" is another word for Communist, and another
word is "Political ACTIVIST." These are the stock-in-trade of the
pie-on-the-earth- now-and-now boys who cannot talk or write straight
because they can't THINK straight.