Personal Update 1303

THE WAR ON GUNS
Dr. Steve Elwart

THE CHURCH IN THE END TIMES EPIGENETICS: PART 2
Dr. Chuck Missler

MARCH 2013
Marc Hodges
THE BLOOD AND THE LAMB
Dr. Dan Stolebarger
DEFINITION OF AN OVERCOMER
Nancy Missler
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Dr. Steve Elwart
THE WAR ON GUNS
p.6 The Church in the End Times: Dr. Chuck Missler Lets take stock of ourselves: Is the Gospel preached in your church? What is the status of Biblical literacy in your fellowship? Is our Christianity lukewarm? p.20 Epigenetics Part 2: Marc Hodges Epigenetics is one of the fastest-growing areas of biological research worldwide. It is also upending long-held views about people, society, and life. p.28 The Blood and the Lamb: Dr. Dan Stolebarger As Believers we need to see the patterns and then be able to unpack the ways in which Yeshua can be seen as the completion or the fulfillment of Passover. p.35 Definition of an Overcomer: Nancy Missler Overcomers are those who have learned how to master the flesh and prevail over the world and the devil through Christ.
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THERE IS NO DOUBT that gun violence in the U.S. is a problem, but so is the progressive loss of freedoms. The Second Amendment is very short because when it was drafted, no explanation was needed. How it is interpreted today depends on your worldview.
As Proverbs 18:13 states, He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him. As maturing Christians, we should find value in diverse views challenging us to further study and to be open to additional perspectives. While we may not agree with all the details in each article, we see great value in them. These articles are intended to stimulate discussion among the Koinonia Institute membership as well as our Personal Update subscribers.
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - DR. CHUCK MISSLER, EXECUTIVE EDITOR - DR. GORDON MCDONALD, MANAGING EDITOR - TRACY MCDONALD, DIRECTOR OF PRINTING DAVID HANSON, LAYOUT EDITOR - GARRETT MCDONALD EXECUTIVE RESEARCH ANALYST - STEVE ELWART Personal UPDATE is a registered trademark of Koinonia House, Inc.. Copyright 2013. All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. Volume 23, Number 3. Personal UPDATE is published monthly for the supporters of the ministries of Koinonia Institute, Inc. Physical address: 4055 East 3rd Avenue, Post Falls, Idaho 83854. Mailing address: P.O. Box D, Coeur dAlene, Idaho 83816-0347. Phone Orders: 1-800-KHOUSE1 (1-800-546-8731). Office Phone: 1-208-773-6310. Fax: 1-208-773-6312. Koinonia House Website: www.khouse.org. Online Store: http://resources.khouse.org. To Subscribe call: 1-800-546-8731. The Koinonia House mission is to create, develop and distribute materials to stimulate, encourage and facilitate serious study of the Bible as the inerrant Word of God. Koinonia House, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)3 company. The Koinonia Institute mission is dedicated to training and equipping the serious Christian to sojourn in todays world. President/Founder Dr. Chuck Missler COO Mark Gustafson Executive Director of Education Dr. Dan Stolebarger Executive Director of Research and Analysis Dr. Gordon McDonald KI Project Manager Mary Gehl Provost Clint Robertson Registrar Stan Honn Dean Pat Poole.
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TIME FOR A CHANGE
HANGE. WE WERE PROMISED CHANGE. Change that would usher in a new era of peace
and prosperity. This was the campaign promise. Four years later, enough voters in this last election believed that change still, in the face of four years of evidence to the contrary, had a chance to have a positive effect on our culture, our economy and our way of life. Mysterious. What we are left with is an ever-increasing encroachment by our federal authority on the most fundamental freedoms accorded us by our founding fathers. Clearly the framers of the Constitution, its amendments, and the Bill of Rights were concerned about this very situation. Now we have before us the arduous task of protecting, for our childrens sake, the heritage that so many have given their lives for in the past. History repeats itself over and over as unscrupulous and unlawful men try to curtail these inalienable and God-given rights of freedom of choice and self-determination. We change this first in our own lives. We must remain clean before God if we are to prevail. Never has it been more important to think and act as we know we should. Our perspectives and our decisions are only as effective and pure as our hearts. Our dedication to the Word of God is absolutely essential. If we be found with hatred or malice, we will only produce the same. The end never justifies the means. The principles we dedicate and live our lives according to are the ones we will be judged by. Our country needs prayer. We need repentance and grace. Our country needs the sleeping giant to wake up before what is left is taken away. It is time for a change......in us.
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AMERICA TEACHER FIRED FOR GIVING CURIOUS CHILD A BIBLE A Phillipsburg, N.J. substitute teacher has been terminated for the year after sharing a Bible verse with a student and subsequently giving the child a Bible. The school boards decision follows an October incident in which Walter Tutka quoted the Bible saying, So the last will be first, and the first will be last to a student who was last in line to leave the classroom, WFMZ reports. For more info: Read more. INTERNATIONAL BRITAIN IN HARD SPOT TO BATTLE JIHADISTS Britain has vowed a tough response against militants in North Africa, but behind its tough language lies the ugly reality of a fast-shrinking army, deep budget cuts and little U.S. interest in another costly war in a distant desert. For more info: Read more. MIDDLE EAST EGYPTS MORSI TO MEDIATE BETWEEN FATAH AND HAMAS Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi is set to mediate talks in Cairo between the leaders of Fatah and Hamas to help implement a unity pact signed in 2011. Egypt helped broker the deal between Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Fatah party, and Hamass Khaled Meshaal. The Islamist movement ousted Fatah from Gaza in 2007 after winning Palestinian elections the previous year. For more info: Read more. ENTERTAINMENT RAPPER EMINEM MAY HAVE GIVEN LIFE TO THE LORD Reports are surfacing about the rapper, Eminem, becoming a born again Christian and turning his life over to the hands of Christ. According to Gossip Cop, the rapper will no longer succumb to the rigors and expectations performers in the industry are facing today. The Christian Posts blog has further stated that Eminem is building a relationship with God and using that to help him spiritually, and with his addiction problems. Are these rumors or facts, though? For more info: Read more. ARCHAEOLOGY ANCIENT SHILOH MAY HAVE BURNED Recent archaeological findings in Samaria, Israel shed light on the incomplete story of the destruction of Shiloh, the ancient capital of Israel. An uncovered broken clay pitcher lying in a layer of reddish ashes was discovered near the ancient site where the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, was placed during the Judges period. For more info: Read more.
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Dr. Chuck Missler - Founder
THE CHURCH IN THE END TIMES
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LETS TAKE STOCK OF OURSELVES: WHY IS THE DIVORCE RATE AMONG CHRISTIANS NO BETTER THAN AMONG UNBELIEVERS? IS THE GOSPEL PREACHED IN YOUR CHURCH? WHAT IS THE STATUS OF BIBLICAL LITERACY IN YOUR FELLOWSHIP? IS OUR CHRISTIANITY LUKEWARM?
ohn must have been puzzled. Exiled to the lonely island of Patmos, he has just begun to receive what will become known as the most elevated vision of things to come given to any person in the history of the planet earth. The vision begins with a resurrected, immortal Jesus of Nazareth dictating seven letters for delivery to the pastors of seven churches that existed during the latter half of the first century. With BIO eyes of flames like fire and feet like bronze that glows in a furnace, the Dr. Chuck Missler God-manwho once was dead and now is alive forevermoreis ill. President/Founder, In fact, He is about to vomit!1 Koinonia Institute For those who recognize the role and perspective of the seven After a distinguished military career and more letters of Revelation 2 and 3, it is clear that we are, indeed, in the Lathan 30 very successful odicean Age. The focus and design of each of the letters have local, years in the corporate admonitory, and personal application. However, they also profilein business environment, Chuck was led to pursue advancethe history of the church through two thousand years. (In a life-long endeavor of teaching the Bible on any other order, this wouldnt be true.) a full-time basis. He These seven letters constitute report cards of the performance founded Koinonia House, organization of each church, containing commendations and admonitions regarding an encouraging devoted to people to study the Bible. He needed correction: good news as well as bad news. And, apparalso founded Koinonia ently, each church is surprised. Those who thought they were doing Institute to enable people well, were not. Those who thought they werent doing so well were en- to have a Kingdom effect on the world today. couraged and doing better than they knew. (Each of these letters gives us insight and food for introspection.) However, two of them have no good news at all: Sardis and La-
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odicea. Sardis is dead; Christian in name only.2 Unfruitful denominationalism, apparently. Regarding Laodicea, Jesus is really sick of lukewarm Christianity. He is about to vomit: So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. John writing on Patmos Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: 3
They think they are rich and in need of nothing, but are actually miserable, poor, blind, and naked. Thats about as graphic and antithetical as you can get. There are many who lay the blame for the astonishing and sinister years of the Holocaust in Germany in the 1940s at the feet of the silent pulpits in Germany. Lets take stock of ourselves: Why Regarding Laodicea, is the divorce rate among Christians no better than Jesus is really sick among unbelievers? Is the Gospel preached in your of lukewarm church? Can you even define it? (1 Cor 15:1-4). What Christianity. He is is the status of Biblical literacy in your fellowship? Is about to vomit: ...I there an effective program underway to improve it? (We could continue to explore the impending enslavement of will spue thee out of America, but thats a topic for another article!) my mouth... We cant help but notice the silent exodus of people slipping out the back doors of many churches almost unnoticed: attracted but not retained; interested but not inserted into fellowship; touched but not transformed. They looked in briefly but were disappointed in what they saw. We also notice that many serious believers
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shun the label Christian; they meet during the week in study groups, but have not found a Sunday fellowship they find fruitful or challenging. It is relevant to recognize that our present concept of church is a product derived from 4th century politics. It ought to be obvious to even the casual observer of history that the real story of the church is not the one recorded in secular history.4 Who were the Waldensians? The Lollards? The Stundists? The Anabaptists? The Priscillians? The Bogomilians? Petrobusians? Patarenians? These names were given by their enemies to those who Notice that the claimed only the name of Christ, and who were prepared to Lord is outside suffer for His cause rather than submit to those man-made the Laodicean traditions that they believed contradicted the Word of God. The1se were independent fellowships that were outlawed and door, knocking! persecuted. Those intrepid believers, of whom the world was not worthy, were not only persecuted by civil authorities, they were denounced, defamed, and decimated by the professing church. While many of us may have some awareness of the history of tensions between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants, it may come as a shock to discover that Protestant leadership also persecuted deviant groups who attempted to adhere to Biblical doctrines.5 And some still do. As we approach the end times, our Lord admonished us: As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me. To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Fa t h e r i n h i s throne. 6 Notice that the Lord is outside the Laodicean door, knocking! And His call is to
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the individual. How insightful The Lords displeasure to Laodicean lukewarmness is in stark contrast to a note that was found in the room of an anonymous African martyr:7 Im part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy Spirit power. The die has been cast. I have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. Im a disciple of His.
And His call is to the individual. How insightful... NOTES

1. Adapted from Dr. William Welty s foreword to The Kingdom, Power, and Glory The Overcomers Handbook, 2009. 2. Revelation 3:1-6. 3. Revelation 3:16,17. 4. We call your attention to The Pilgrim Church by Edmund Hammer Broadbent, 1931. It was out of print for many years, but has been reprinted by Gospel Folio Press in 1999; PO Box 2031 Grand Rapids MI 49501. 5. W h y w e r e t h e Quartodecimens excommunicated? Check them out in any reliable encyclopedia. 6. Revelation 3:19-21. 7. Passed on by Dr. Bob Moorehead, The Way of the Master.
I wont look back, let up, slow down, back away, or be still. My past is redeemed, my present makes sense, my future is secure. Im finished with low living, sight walking, small planning, smooth knees, colourless dreams, tamed visions, mundane talking, cheap living, and dwarfed goals. I no longer need pre-eminence, prosperity, position, promotions, plaudits, or popularity. I dont have to be right, first, tops, recognized, praised, regarded, or rewarded. I now live by faith, lean on His presence, walk by patience, lift by prayer, and labour by power. My face is set, my gait is fast, my goal is heaven, my road is narrow, my way rough, my companions few, my guide reliable, my mission clear. I cannot be bought, compromised, detoured, lured away, turned back, deluded or delayed. I will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the presence of the adversary, negotiate at the table of the enemy, ponder at the pool of popularity, or meander in the maze of mediocrity. I wont give up, shut up, or let up, until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up, paid up, and preached up for the cause of Christ. I am a disciple of Jesus. I must go till He comes, give till I drop, preach till all know, and work till He stops me. And when He comes for His own, He will have no problems recognizing memy banner will be clear! Some further thoughts about specific challenges for the Church in the End Times, and suggested remedies, are the subject of a featured Briefing Pack this month. See page 10.
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THE WAR ON GUNS

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by Dr. Steve Elwart Executive Analyst, Koinonia Institute
HERE IS NO DOUBT THAT GUN VIOLENCE IN THE UNITED STATES IS A PROBLEM, BUT SO IS THE PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF FREEDOMS. THE SECOND AMENDMENT IS VERY SHORT BECAUSE WHEN IT WAS DRAFTED, NO EXPLANATION WAS NEEDED. HOW YOU INTERPRET THE TEXT TODAY DEPENDS ON YOUR WORLDVIEW.
There are a few topics that are guaranteed to stir up fierce debate within the United States: Abortion, the Freedom of Religion, and the Freedom of Speech, to name a few. The Right to Bear Arms is another. There are good and knowledgeable people on both sides of the issue and recent tragedies have brought this debate into sharp focus. Some people question why, with so much crime and violence in the country, would people want to keep the sale and possession of firearms legal. Others point out that far more violent crimes are committed with other weapons, such as clubs and knives. Many on Capitol Hill would like to ban all firearms outright, but there is one thing preventing them from introducing such a lawthe United States Constitution. The Second Amendment to the Constitution states: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
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The meaning of this amendment has been heatedly and vociferously debated over the last 50 years. As with most things in the law, many court decisions have revolved around a single word or phrase. In this case, what does the term people mean? Does people refer to a group of people, such as a militia; if so, what is a militia? BIO Those who favor gun rights put forth the idea that the right to by St e ve El w a r t keep and bear arms is an individual right just as are the freedoms Executive Analyst of speech and religion. Those who favor gun control stress that the Koinonia Institute right applies only to collective groups, such as the military and police Steve Elwar t is the Executive Analyst for the forces. Koinonia Institute and How you interpret the text depends on your worldview. There are has been a member of the Institute since 2006. He those that believe that the Constitution is a living, breathing docuhas spent 40 years in the ment; they believe that the meaning of the Constitution changes over Oil Industry. In those 40 years, Steve has had the time and that the implementation of this document needs to change as opportunity to work not well. They believe that any court decision, especially those of the U.S. only in private industry, Supreme Court, can interpret the meaning of the document in the light but also as a consultant with numerous of the current culture and government agencies. As a Subject Matter Expert laws set forth in other on energy, automation, countries. a n d c y b e r s e c u r i t y, Steve has worked There are also those with two presidential that believe that the mean- administrations, several cabinet level departments, ing of the Constitution as well as numerous depends on the original congressional staffs and state commissions. Steve intent of the document; has also served as interim that the interpretation of pastor of his church. the Constitution should be made in light of the original meaning of the text at the time of its writing.
Living and Breathing vs. Original Intent
The Second Amendment is very short be-
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cause when it was drafted, no explanation was needed. As Chief Justice Taft said: The language of the Constitution cannot be interpreted safely except by reference to the common law as it was when the instrument was framed and adopted. To look at what the English Common Law was, one can look to writings outside Chief Justice William Howard Taft, 1925 the fledgling country by an Englishman well versed in that law. In 1782 Granville Sharp (a strong supporter of American independence) said, The laws of England always required the people to be armed, and not only armed, but to be expert in arms.1 The Second Amendment To those that believe that the Constitution is a living document subject to modern interis very short because when it was drafted, no pretation must look past the men who wrote the explanation was needed. Constitution for the basis of their argument. The term itself as it applies to the Constitution comes from the title of the 1927 book The Living Constitution by Professor Howard McBain, while later efforts to promote the concept were credited to such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and Woodrow Wilson. Supporters of a strict interpretation of the Constitution go back much farther. As explained by Noah Webster (the Founder responsible for Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution), serious error can result when the original intent is erased or ignored: [I]n the lapse of two or three centuries, changes have taken place which obscure the sense of the original languages. The effect of these changes is that some words are now used in a sense different from that which they had [and thus] present a wrong signification
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or false ideas. Whenever words are understood in a sense different from that which they had when introduced mistakes may be very injurious.2 To avoid such mistakes, President Thomas Jefferson wrote in a letter to Supreme Court Justice William Johnson: On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of The argument that the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable the Second Amendone in which it was passed. ment only applies to Constitution signer James Madison agreed with Jefferson, stating:
I entirely concur in the propriety of resorting to the sense in which the Constitution was accepted and ratified by the nation. In that sense alone it is the legitimate Constitution. And if that be not the guide in expounding it, there can be no security for a consistent and stable, more than for a faithful exercise of its powers. What a metamorphosis would be produced in the code of law if all its ancient phraseology were to be taken in its modern sense.
hunting and target shooting misses the mark.
Our Founding Fathers had a very clear idea of what the meaning of the Constitution was in general and the Second Amendment in particular: [T]he said Constitution [should] be never construed to prevent the people of the United
The Signing of the Constitution
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States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. Samuel Adams The right of bearing arms is declared to be inherent in the people. Fisher Ames3 The great object is that every man be armed. Every one who is able may have a gun. But have we not learned by experience that, necessary as it is to have arms, it is still far from being the case? Patrick Henry The argument that the Second Amendment only applies to hunting and target shooting misses the mark. When the Second Amendment was written, hunting was an activity people did to put food on the table and target shooting was unheard of, given the cost of musket balls. The Second Amendment was written The Second Amendment by a group of people who had just fought was written by a group of a war against an oppressive government people who had just fought bent on keeping the colonies under suba war against an oppressive jugation. (The Battles of Lexington and Concord, the first military engagements of government bent on the Revolutionary War were fought because keeping the colonies under 700 British Regulars were given orders to subjugation. seize the arms that were being held by the citizen militia in Concord, Massachusetts.)
The Bill of Rights
Patrick Henry
None of the items in the Bill of Rights (the first 10 amendments to the Constitution) gave people new rights; they were an affirmation of existing rights, some of the Founders wanted to assure they kept. The Bill of Rights came about as a result of a compromise to get the Constitution itself ratified. Some of the Framers would not sign the document
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unless they were assured these amendments were put to a vote by the new states. Others, such as Thomas Jefferson, did not want to itemize the rights at all since he believed that by itemizing the rights, future administrations could argue that these were the only rights the people were guaranteed. (For more information on the framing of the Constitution, please see The American Constitution in the October 2012 issue of Personal Update).
A Slippery Slope
There are many people that believe this strict interpretation is not valid. Elliot Mincberg, Vice President of the group People for the American Way has stated, It was the framers that intended that the Constitution would adapt to changing circumstances. Using this argument for judicial and legislative activism is, in the mind of strict constructionists, a slippery slope. Over the course of history, there have been a series of Supreme Court decisions that have been very controversial and whether one believes that taking an activist stance in these cases depends on their political philosophy. People that applaud the decision in Roe vs. Wade legalizing abortion were horrified with the Courts decision in regard to the Florida Recount in the 2000 Presidential Election, essentially stopping the recount in that state with George W. Bush in the lead. It was Floridas electoral vote that gave the election to Bush.
The Pathway to Change
The framers of the Constitution did realize that it would need to be revised and updated over time. However, it is not reasonable to assume that natural, God-given rights can be altered or abolished by nine people who United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C. sit on the Supreme Court for a limited period of time. The framers (and the states that ratified the Constitution) provided a method for the people, not the courts or legislatures, to change the document. Article Five of the Constitution describes the method for modifying the document.
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Article Five of the Constitution states that amendments may be proposed by either: Two-thirds of both houses of the United States Congress; or By a national convention assembled at the request of the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states. The proposed changes must then be ratified either by approval of: The legislatures of three-fourths of the states; or State ratifying conventions held in three-fourths of the states. It is this method of updating the Constitution that must be followed. As Samuel Adams compellingly declared: [T]he people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it. And the federal Constitution, according to the mode prescribed therein, has already undergone such amendments in several parts of it as from experience has been judged necessary.4
This is a slow, cumbersome, tedious process, as it should be. Even with this process, the country has had second thoughts about the few changes that were made. The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution which prohibited the manufacturing, importing, and exporting of alcoholic beverages took effect in 1920 and subsequently repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment in 1933. Given that amendments passed under this Teetotaling rally during Prohibition complicated process have been changed, how many rulings made by an activist judiciary need to be changed as well? From the time the Constitution was ratified, it has been under assault, by lawmakers and the courts. Under the guise of fairness and safety, unjust bills have been passed and unseen bureaucrats have made pronouncements that carry the force of law. People have had the use of their
From the time the Constitution was ratified, it has been under assault.
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property (and sometimes the property itself ) denied them for the common good or to preserve the environment. They are no longer protected from unreasonable search and seizure in the name of public safety. They cannot practice their religion in the name of tolerance. They are murdered in the womb in the name of privacy. This loss of freedom has not occurred under the presidential administration of just one party. The Patriot Act signed into law by G.W. Bush, then expanded and continued by Barack Obama, is just one of many examples of American citizens being systematically stripped of their rights. Now, the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is on the table, for our safety. There is absolutely no doubt that gun violence in the United States is a problem, but so is the progressive loss of freedoms. The current fight over gun control is not only a reflection of how the United States, as a country, will address the issue of violence, but also a debate over how far an activist court and federal legislature can go in circumventing the basic law of the land that protects the Peoples God-given rights. John Dickinson, a signer of the Constitution, Governor of Pennsylvania, and devout Quaker, put it this way. Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness. We claim them from a higher sourcefrom the King of kings, and Lord of all the earth. They are not annexed to us by parchments and seals. They are created in us by the decrees of Providence, which establish the laws of our nature. They are born with us; exist with us; and cannot be taken from us by any human power without taking our lives. In short, they are founded on the immutable maxims of reason and justice. It would be an insult on the Divine Majesty to say that he has given or allowed any man or body of men a right to make me miserable.5
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1. Sharp, G. (1782). Tracts, Concerning the Antient and Only True Legal Means of National Defence by a Free Militia. London. 2. Webster, N. (1833). The Holy Bible with Amendments of the Language, ppiii. New Haven: Durrie & Peck. 3. A framer of the second amendment in the first congress. 4. Independent Chronicle (Boston), January 21, 1796, Sam Adams to the legislature of Massachusetts on January 19, 1796. 5. John Dickinson, The Political Writings of John Dickinson (Wilmington: Bonsal and Niles, 1801), Vol. I, pp. 111112.
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SCIENCE & THE BIBLE
Marc Hodges Research Analyst, KI
EPIGENETICS PART 2
EPIGENETICS IS ONE OF THE FASTEST-GROWING AREAS OF BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH WORLDWIDE. IT IS UPENDING LONG-HELD VIEWS ABOUT PEOPLE, SOCIETY AND LIFE.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made... And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us... John 1:1-3, 14
n last months article on epigenetics, we discussed how scientists are grappling with two inherent limitations in using science to discern truth: the flawed natures of the scientific method and of people. In addition, science assumes that facts are neutral. However, the Bible tells us there is no neutral fact. There is singular truth and malicious deception. These cautions must be kept in mind as we continue exploring the new science of epigenetics.
Changing Views of Bio-Information
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by Marc Hodges Research Analyst Koinonia Institute
Marc Hodges is a former wildlife biologist and served as a police officer. He is now an entrepreneur, a successful developer of public safety data systems, and a carpenter. Marc seeks to help others put Scripture ahead of science in their lives.
Bio-information is the biochemical instructions through which living things grow, maintain, and reproduce themselves. DNA has long been considered the library of bio-information and the controller of systems in cells and creatures. Beginning largely in the 1990s, scientists have been finding this view unsatisfactory. What we see in the DNA of a cell or creature is not fully what we get in its body or behavior. Something else is going on between the instructions contained in DNA (the genotype) and the resultant product (the phenotype). This something else has been dubbed epigenetics, meaning above genetics or outside of genetics.
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And again, contrary to a core belief of the DNA era (the second half of the 20th century), epigenetic research reveals that significant bio-information can be acquired in creatures lifetimes through experiences and choices. This information can then affect their bodies and behavior, and can also be inherited Computer rendering of DNA double helix by their descendants for at least several generations. All this without changing the creatures underlying DNA. The existence of these effects is being explored in humans with positive early results. Thus far, epigenetics has been considered a Early results indicate biochemical switching system that turns existing people may experience bio-information in DNA on and off, or dialing it up certain health and down, depending on internal needs and/or cues received from the environment. However, the view consequences from of epigenetics as a bio-information language system their choices... in its own right is emerging,1 and is casting doubt on the view of DNA as the sole blueprint Genetics Lab at University of California, Berkeley for life.2 It appears DNA will be seen as the creatures consistent, slowly changing bioinformation baseline that is largely insulated from the creatures environment. In contrast, epigenetics will be viewed as the fast-changing, environmentally responsive bio-information system that provides rapid adaptability for the creature and passes these adaptions to its descendants in a resettable way.
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Ripple Effects
Epigenetics is one of the fastest-growing areas of biological research worldwide. It is upending long-held views about people, society and life. Early results indicate people may experience certain health consequences from their choices that affect not only themselves but their descendants (see last months article). For example, diet, nurturing, smoking or abuse ...that affect not only by parents might affect the health of their children, grandchildren and perhaps great grandchildren. themselves but their Health effects of sustained joy or exposure to a descendants. toxin might last for generations. The way we treat other people might cause epigenetic changes that impact them and their descendants. Our descendants may interact with their descendants, perhaps experiencing the consequences of the actions we, their progenitors, took. This is a sobering responsibility. Encouragingly, some of these effects appear resettable by making better choices. As epigenetic discoveries penetrate the public mind, we should expect efforts to expand the reach of law, government regulations, and the education lobby.3 Where a chemical manufacturer is today liable for the effects of its product on one generation of exposed persons, with epigenetics the injured parties span multiple generations. If the state has an interest in removing children from parents based on current allegations, its leverage will be multiplied when the effect is seen to impact generations of the unborn, regardless of how hypocritical this may be in relation to abortion policy. If education can change behavior, affecting life choices here and now, the funding justification is magnified when future generations are at stake. On the other hand, Computer rendering of a chromosome epigenetics undercuts a core justification for carbon emissions control plans and other environmental regulations. It suggests that some creatures can adapt very quickly, within several generations as opposed to
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supposed eons, to certain effects of rapidly changing environmental conditions.4 This adaptability may happen as fast or faster than problems posed by climate change or gradual habitat loss. Epigenetics raises questions about what a species really is. And, at what level of bio-information is conservaArmed Forces DNA Laboratory in Rockville, MD tion appropriate? The flexibility of epigenetics tends to support the species conservation strategy of Noahs Ark: its not necessary to save every species of creature, just every category of creature.5 It also supports the creationist view of todays creatures having diversified rapidly from Gods initially created creature kinds. Prior to epigenetics, new bio-information was thought to arise only at a glacial pace through the accumulated mistakes of DNA copying erPrior to epigenetics, rors. This is one reason many believe the earth is billions new bio-information of years old: it would take a very long time for this slow, was thought to arise haphazard process confounded by occasional global catasonly at a glacial trophes to create the vast complexity of bio-information around us. But epigenetics says certain bio-information pace through can be created very rapidly,6 raising questions for scientists the accumulated about when life began.
Epigenetics Parallels the Bible
mistakes of DNA copying errors...
Scientific disciplines are converging on a central idea: a fundamental currency of the physical universe appears to be information. Information assembles and directs the universe and its inhabitants. This isnt news to believers in Christ. The Bible anticipates and confirms this discovery, and identifies both the information and its source: the Word.7 The Word both is and is from God. Man is made in His image and God made the creatures.8 Given these linkages, we can expect that bio-information systems will exhibit characteristics that parallel human language and Gods Word as we experience it both in and
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through the Bible. This is precisely the case with epigenetics, which models the inheritable yet resettable effects of sin presented in the Ten Commandments.9 Epigenetics, taken together with DNA, also parallels other Biblical types. In the Bible the jot and tittle are crucial.10 These are small squiggles added to Hebrew words which dramatically change the words meaning. For example, a jot added to the Hebrew word Lord in Psalm 110 made the word into My Lord. This was the same jot Jesus used to simultaneously silence the learned arguments of the Pharisees, bridge the Old Testament with the New, and point to the divinity of the Christ.11 Similarly, in one of the first major epigenetic ...but epigentics says biochemical mechanisms discovered, tiny methyl certain bio-information tags comprised of a carbon atom with attendant can be created very hydrogen atoms have been found to attach during a creatures lifetime to certain parts of the DNA rapidly, raising questions for scientists molecule as a result of the creatures activities and about when life began. experiences. These tiny tags turn genes, which are like words in the DNA, on and off or up and down. They cause significant changes in the meaning of the DNA and significant changes in the creature. Like the jot Jesus used, discovering the existence and power of these bitty chemical tags appended to the words of DNA has changed our view not only of DNA, but of ourselves and our very origins. It will change us as well. In another parallel, critics of the Bible point out that its full of contradictions: Old Testament teachings vs. New; Jesus, fully man and fully God; grace vs. works, etc. Critics say it means the Bible is DNA Lab at Bowie State University unreliable. But the late Jewish political scientist and expert on Biblical covenant in American governance, Daniel J. Elazar, concluded these apparent contradictions are designed features, not flaws:
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...the Biblical political teaching must be discovered in the same manner that all Biblical knowledge must emerge, by careful examination and analysis of the text with careful attention to recurring words and patterns and the reconciliation of apparent contradictions. 12 (emphasis added) To that method we would of course add prayer, the Holy DNA as viewed under an electron microscope Spirit and the examination of fruits. But we get the point. Predestination vs. free will is one of these well-known apparent contradictions in the Bible. The classic Nature vs. Nurture debate in biology flows from this Biblical contradiction. In the Nature view, You are your DNA and DNA, like predestination, controls you. In the Scientific disciplines Nurture view, choices and free will matter. are converging on a With knowledge only of DNA, science built central idea... a skewed worldview where DNA controls everything in life. Epigenetics is DNAs apparent contradiction and reintroduces free will. The reconciliation between DNA and epigenetics, like the reconciliation of predestination and free will, is correcting this skewed worldview and yielding new insight into life and therefore God. Finally, the inter-responsibility between people that epigenetics emphasizes parallels yet another major Biblical command: ...Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Matthew 22:39 Using the Bible to Direct Science
Patterns and types in nature often have a fractal-like quality. The pattern, type, or its echo is seen again and again at differing scales of space, time and conceptual complexity.
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1. Hake, S.B., A Xiao and CD Allis. (2004). Linking the epigenetic language of covalent histone modifications to cancer. Br J Cancer. 90(4): 761769. 2. Srinivasan, D.G. and J. A. Brisson. (2012). Aphids: A Model for Polyphenism and Epigenetics. Genetics Research International. Vol. 2012, Article ID 431531. 3. Witherspoon, N. et al. (2012). The Public Health and Policy Implications of Epigenetics and Pediatric Health Research. Environ Health Perspect 120:a380a381. 4. L l a m a s , B . e t a l . (2012). High-Resolution Analysis of Cytosine Methylation in Ancient DNA. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30226. 5. Genesis 6, 7. 6. Llamas et al. 7. John 1:1-3,14. 8. Genesis 1. 9. Exodus 20:5, 6. 10. Matthew 5:18. 11. Matthew 22:41-46. 12. Elazar, D.J. (1998). Covenant & Polity in Biblical Israel: Biblical Foundations & Jewish Expressions. p. 12. New Jersey: Transaction Publishers.
This same quality is seen in the Bible. As we have described with epigenetics, the natural world echoes the patterns and types found in the Bible. This similarity might be taken as a sign that the Bible and nature are both of natural origin. But the Bible predates modern scientific discoveries about nature, and anticipates and then confirms these discoveries in detail. This tells us that both the Bible and nature are of supernatural origin. The Bible does not just call attention to the existence of epigenetics, foreshadow the basic principle of how it ...that a fundamental operates, and model its currency of the physical effects and management. universe appears to be It flags epigenetics as an information. example of one way to use the Bible to drive scientific discovery: search out and reconcile apparent contradictions in the Bible and seek out their parallels in the physical world. Scientists may, as Johannes Kepler once said, think Gods thoughts after Him. But will science on its own lead to God? Apparently not: 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
This Truth leads to the most amazing discovery of all: And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.
John 17:3
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The foundations of scientific materialism are in the process of crumbling. Philosopher of science Stephen C. Meyer shows how the digital code in DNA points powerfully to a designing intelligence behind the origin of life. Unlike previous arguments for intelligent design, DNA By Design presents a radical and comprehensive new case, revealing the evidence not merely of individual features of biological complexity but rather of a fundamental constituent of the universe: information. That evidence has been mounting exponentially in recent years, known to scientists in specialized fields but largely hidden from public view. A Cambridge University-trained theorist and researcher, director of the Discovery Institute Center for Science and Culture, Dr. Meyer is the first to bring the relevant data together into a powerful demonstration of the intelligence that stands outside nature and directs the path life has taken.
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Dr. Dan Stolebarger Executive Director, KI
THE BLOOD AND THE LAMB
AS BELIEVERS WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE PATTERNS AND THEN BE ABLE TO UNPACK THE WAYS IN WHICH YESHUA CAN BE SEEN AS THE COMPLETION OR THE FULFILLMENT OF PASSOVER.
he types in the Bible often provide the key to deeper understanding. As Westerners when we hear the word prophecy our minds race to a kind of prediction/fulfillment motif while Eastern thought looks for patterns and then fulfillment. So when it comes to Pesach (Passover), as Believers we need to be able to see the BIO patterns and then be able to unpack the ways in which Yeshua can Dan Stolebarger, be seen as the completion or the fulfillment of the most fundamen- E x e c u t i v e D i r e c tal and foundational of all the Feasts. tor of Education, KI Dan was born and raised As we look back at the first Passover, lets look at the original inin San Diego, California. structions as found in the second book of the Torah. During his Senior year of
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On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, know Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. Early on, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. And if the Dan had a deep thirst for household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to the Word of God, as well as a desire to be a sold-out man his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to of God. Dan met Chuck each mans need you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb Missler and traveled with him to the Mediterranean shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from countries and Israel. Dan the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth left San Diego and moved to Coeur dAlene, Idaho to serve day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of as the Executive Director of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and Koinonia Institute. put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fireits head with its legs and its entrails. You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall
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burn with fire. And thus you shall eat it: with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lords Passover. For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the Lord. Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. So this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance.
Exodus 12:3-14
I know the story is familiar but lets take it one As we look back at the step at a time. First things first: you need a lamb. first Passover, lets And not just any lamb but one without a blemish! look at the original After sacrificing it you are to put its blood over the doorposts and lintel of your dwelling place. This instructions as found will be a sign in which, when observed by the Angel in the second book of of Death, he will then pass over the home and all the Torah. who have the blood over them will be protected. As we begin to unearth this treasure, let me call to your mind the following nuggets that are like jigsaw pieces that will complete this picture. Leviticus 17:11: For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you upon the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement for the soul.
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Hebrews 9:22: And according to the law almost all things are purified with blood, and without shedding of blood there is no remission. John 1:29, 35, 36: The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, Behold! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples. And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God! John 19:4: Pilate then went out again, and said to them, Behold, I am bringing Him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in Him. John 19:36: For these things were done that the Scripture should be fulfilled, Not one of His bones shall be broken. And again another Scripture says, They shall look on Him whom they pierced. Hebrews 10:10: By that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Next is the unleavened bread portion. I am always blessed to see the three matzohs wrapped in a matzoh toff in the middle of the Seder. If you look carefully you will note that the matzohs are striped and pierced. Isaiah 53:5: But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, And by His stripes we are healed. Psalm 22:16-18: For dogs have surrounded Me; The congregation of the wicked has enclosed Me. They pierced My hands and My feet; I can count all My bones. They look and stare at Me. They divide My garments among them, And for My clothing they cast lots. Zechariah 12:10: And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
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Hmm...why are there three and why is the middle one which has been broken in half then hidden? Why is that one the afikomen? Do I detect a pattern?
Summary: The Patterns Continue!
What we see is that blood was shed in order for a people to be purchased. Then they were schooled in the desert and gifted with the very Word of God. After this a land was given, but in order to possess the Land they had to We have been bought drive out the occupiers. with a pricethe His Purpose was to show Himself strong and create a people that would not only be His prized posprecious blood of the session (His firstfruits) but also that they might be a Passover Lamb! light to draw the nations unto the Lord! With that as the type lets look at a pattern. We have been bought with a pricethe precious blood of the Passover Lamb! We too are being schooled as we continue in the daily process known as sanctification. Our guide also is the Word of God (John 1:1). And the purposes are woven from the same cloth as well because our God commissions us to be a light that would shine for Him in this rapidly increasing darkness. The story continues as we look at the gifts of God to the Israelis as seen in the seven species. And guess what? With a little sleuth work it is not hard to see Yeshua as a fulfillment of each one of these as well. For more on these amazing discoveries check out my teaching, titled Revealing Jesus. May this Passover never be the same as you see the entire spectrum of what God had in mind! Next year in Jerusalem! Shalom! For further study, see also the following briefing Easter: What Really Happened? ORDER and The Feasts of Israel, on page 32.
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The Easter Story: What Really Happened? Most reasonably informed Christians are well aware that many of the traditions that surround the Christmas holidays have pagan origins and very little correlation with the actual events as recorded in the Bible. However, most of us are surprised when we discover that some of what we have been taught about Easter is not only in error, but deliberately so!
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DEFINITION OF AN OVERCOMER
THE KINGDOM, POWER & GLORY
OVERCOMERS ARE THOSE VICTORIOUS ONES WHO HAVE LEARNED HOW TO MASTER THE FLESH, PREVAIL OVER THE WORLD AND CONQUER THE DEVIL ONLY THROUGH CHRISTS LIFE IN THEM.
ast month, since Valentines Day was coming, we diverted a little from our series and talked about my favorite subject, the Love of God. Gods Love should be our passion, our goal and our purpose as Christians. The Epistle of John tells us the whole Bible is summed up in one word, (Agape) Love. BIO In order to love as God would have us, however, we must learn Nancy Missler not only how to be an open and clean vessel for Him to use, but also Di re c t o r / Fo u n d e r how to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil in our personal of Kings High Way lives. This article, then, is the first in a new series about overcomNancy Missler has published four studies: The Way of ingwhat overcoming is; how we overcome; and again, why overAgape, Be Ye Transformed, coming is so very important. Faith in the Night Seasons, and her latest, The Being an overcomer (so we can love as God desires) is what the Kingdom, Power & Glory. Christian life is all about. Its what we are called for, trained for and In addition to these popular also has published the purpose of our sanctification. Overcomers are the ones who will studies sheand Simple Series six Plain inherit the future kingdom, because they are able to produce works books, as well as two In His Likeness Series books. of the Spirit (works of Love) in their lives here and now. Nancy has been married In other words, sanctification (becoming clean and open vessels for over 50 years to Chuck Missler. They are the parents for Gods use) is what leads us to partaking (experiencing Christs of four grown children, one of whom has gone to be Life through us); and partaking is what leads us to overcoming (lovwith the Lord, and eight ing as God desires); and overcoming is what leads us to inheriting grandchildren. (ruling and reigning in the coming kingdom). Many of us have been taught that if we are true believers, we are automatically overcomers. The Scripture used as proof text is in 1 John:
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For whatsoever is born of God overcomes the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God.
Positionally (because of Jesus death for us on the Cross) it is absolutely true that we, as believers, are all overcomers. At our justification (our new birth), God gives us the power and the ability to overcome the world, the flesh and the devil. The problem is that experientially (moment by moment) many of us have no idea how to become overcomers! In fact, daily overcoming the world, the flesh and the devil is often very foreign to us. If its true that all believers are overcomers regardless of what they do here and now, then those living carnal, ungodly life styles (drugs, sex, alcohol, anything that is not of faith, Romans 14:23)
Overcomers are those who willingly relinquish how they feel and what they think and, by faith, choose to trust Gods indwelling power to bring it about.
1 John 5:4
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are right in saying, Hey, Im saved. It doesnt matter what I do with my life here and now! And if thats true, then why does 1 Corinthians 3:14-15 tell us: If any mans work [what we do here and now] abide They have learned which he hath built upon it, he shall receive a reward; If any to set themselves mans work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss, but he himself aside and depend shall be saved And also, 2 Corinthians 5:10, which says: upon His power For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that everyone may receive the things done in his body, accord- and His authority ing to that he hath done [here and now], whether it be good to bring about His or bad. will. The Greek word for overcome is nikao which means to conquer or gain the victory over something. It occurs 20 times in Revelation alone and means to have victory over hostile powers. Overcomers are those victorious ones who have learned how to master the flesh, prevail over the world and conquer the devil only through Christs Life in them. They are the genuine winners! (1 Corinthians 15:57; Romans 8:37) They have learned to set themselves aside and depend upon His power and His authority to bring about His will. Overcomers
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are those who willingly relinquish how they feel and what they think and, by faith, choose to trust Gods indwelling power to bring it about. (Galatians 2:20) Overcomers have survived the furnace of affliction and have come forth as pure gold. They have followed in Christs footsteps. If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me. (Luke 9:23) Overcomers are not perfect by any means, but they are always willing to choose Gods will over their own, again and again and again. Thats why they are called overcomers. Yes, its true that we all are meant to be overORDER comers because Christ, who is the real overcomer, lives in us. However, not all of us choose day by day to lay our lives down so that He can live His overcoming Life out through us. It would be like saying all those that have Gods eternal Life in their hearts, always show forth that Life in their souls. Unfortunately, we dont! A personal choice is always involved. Just like some of us choose at times not to love with Gods Love, nor use His wisdom nor rely upon His power. In the same way, we are not overcomers automatically! Again, it all depends upon our moment-by-moment choice to let Christ live His Life out We not only have through us by the power of His Holy Spirit. Gods authority Let me again emphasize this does not mean being perto make choices fect! None of us are perfect nor can we be. Jesus is the only we dont feel, but perfect One. But, as we make faith choices (choices we we also have His dont necessarily feel or even want to make), Jesus Life can strength to implecome forth from our hearts and He will enable us to produce ment those choices fruits of the Spirit.
in our lives.
The Authority to Overcome
God has not only given us His resurrection power to accomplish His will in our lives when we are unable to do so in our own natural strength, He also has given us the authority to choose His will even when we dont feel like it. After be-
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ing a Christian for over 55 years, I can honestly say this is one of the most important principles of our entire Christian walk. We dont have to feel our choices to do Gods will; we just have to be willing to make those choices. The Greek word for this kind of authority is exousia, which means the right to exercise power or the right of the person in charge. This authority originates with God because, if we belong to Him, He is obviously the Person in charge. He is the ultimate source of all authority. He, then, passed that authority on to Christ, and through Christ, to us. (Matthew 28:1820) Exousia belongs to God Himself, but He has commisIt all depends upon sioned us as His representatives so we, too, can be bearers our moment-byof His authority. (Philippians 2:13) The question so many ask is: Do we have the author- moment choice to ity to choose to do something we really dont feel or even let Christ live His want to do? Is this a legitimate choice? Can we override Life out through us our real feelings in order to do this? The answer is absoby the power of His lutely! Holy Spirit. We not only have Gods authority (exousia) to make choices we dont feel, but also we have His strength (kratos) to implement those choices in our lives. Otherwise, Gods power would be of no use to us. These are called sonship rights. John 1:12 confirms this: As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His Name. The Dictionary of New Testament Theology says, Our authority is founded in the rule of Christ. We exercise that power only by the authority or the dominion that God has given us. The Word of God gives us the authority, and the Spirit of God gives us the power. These phenomenal gifts are ours through our new birth and operational through sanctification. Whether we use them or not is up to us. Therefore, our constant prayer should be just as Jesus prayed in Matthew 26:39: Not as I will, but as Thou wilt. (Not my will, but Yours Lord.) * * * Next months article: Faith ChoicesThe Key to Overcoming. See also all of the other Kings High Way products on page 46.
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FROM THE EDITOR

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by Dr. Steve Elwart Executive Analyst, Koinonia Institute

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