The foolproof way to change how you behave

KAYODE CROWN

Copyright 2012 Kayode Crown All rights reserved. ISBN: 149420245X ISBN-13: 978-1494202453

DEDICATION
To those experiencing difficulties in any area of their behaviour. Your change has come.

CONTENTS
Introduction Part A: Principles 1 2 Behaviour-Change Systems Conscience and Law Part B: Redemption 3 4 5 The Plan The Steps The Fulfilment Part C: Practices 6 7 8 Instrument of Truth Preach Christ Appendix 24 26 29 15 17 19 8 11 6

INTRODUCTION
This book brings to our knowledge the fathomless wisdom that God employs to ensure behaviour change through the principles and practices of redemption. Our God is a thinking God, and his thinking is based on his own logic principles - whereby He executes his agenda. It is that logic that He applied to ensure that the crowning work of his creation, man, behaves properly. And the unveiling of that logic is the basis of this book, divided into three sections. We need to be exposed to divine reasoning so that we can fully key in to Gods divine agenda for our lives. This book seeks to do that by exposing the need and imperative for behaviour modification- Gods way, in PART A. The plan of God for behaviour change is encapsulated in one wordredemption. Explaining the meaning, basis, the actualisation and the effect is what PART B is all about. PART C explains the practicality of the divine plan of redemption in its full measure and its bearing on behaviour change. Welcome to change.

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PART A PRINCIPLES

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1 BAHAVIOUR-CHANGE SYSTEMS
Parents, teachers, the prison-justice system, the religious systems, the church among others, ensure that those under their jurisdiction act in accordance with the preferred tenets of the group. In the home, at school, through policing, in religious organisations and in the church, the focus is definitely on people. A. Parental system At home (in what we call the parental system), children are being brought up to be responsible citizens of the society, useful to themselves and to others. And this involves behaviour modification over a period of time. Normally, the process starts right from infancy till the individual reaches adulthood. An example is behaviour change from being in need of assistance to clean up to being able to do the same by oneself. The way in which parents ensure behaviour modification ranges from hands-on approach as in toilet training, by modelling, and also by instruction sometimes followed by reward or punishment, if the instruction was not carried out. The parental system is based on biological authority or the assumption of it (as in guardianship or adoption). All things being equal, we are meant to be under parental authority at birth and throughout the early years of our lives. God ordained the family system as the first bastion of learning towards God-oriented behaviour (Rom. 22:6, Deut. 6:7). But as with all other things in the aftermath of the fall of Adam in the Garden of Eden [the fall connotes the original sin committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and the consequent fallout in their relationship with God (Genesis 3)], the family system is subject to corruption. Generally, making it fall greatly short of the original design. The fall out of this are all around us, and they go without saying.
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B. Education system The school or education system is focused on behavioural change as regards institutional learning. An example is the behaviour change involved in learning how to read, write and do sums. Through rote and visual learning, examples and assignment, punishment and reward, behavioural changes are effected. The education system is based on informational authority. Soon after birth, we are thrown into the classroom world, under various authorities, comprising of teachers, head teachers, principals, lecturers and trainers who are to mould us into people that can offer valuable services to the society of which we are part. The educational system serves to prepare people largely for economic relevance. And because of that, it is limited as regards behavioural modification. C. Prison-justice system The prison-justice system is set up via the collective will of the community and nation. It is designed to effect behavioural change in the aberrant members of the society, through various lengths of incarceration or other forms of punishment. The fear of this is expected in part to make people behave. The prison-justice system is meant to reorient offenders by punishing them with fines or jail terms and in some cases train them in skills through which they can benefit the community rather than constitute a nuisance. The prison-justice system is based on what is called rule of law, which can be laid aside or made to stand on its head if a dictator-ruler comes along. The basis is legislative authority or the authority of the state (Rom. 13:3-4). This system falls short in the area of effectiveness for behavioural change because it is designed primarily to constrain and punish people involved in unacceptable bad behaviour, not stop it. D. Religious systems The religious systems (and this is not inclusive of the church) are based on what I call the interpretative authority of a person or group. That is, the interpretation of what truth is, as seen by the human or angelic (Gal. 1:8-9) originator(s) of such religious organisation. The fall out in this is that every truth purportedly delivered through that single person or any being seeming like an angel or any other heavenly messenger could as well have been a counterfeit truth by Satan in his agenda to deceive men and draw them away from God, no matter how plausible, sensible, logical, socially relevant, or miraculous their words or actions may seem (2 Cor. 11:14, Rev.20:3).

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Church The church, which is an open organisation of believers in Jesus Christ, comes with the promise of transforming lives. She is the custodian of the divine power of God (John 1:12) through which it ensures behavioural change by appealing to the supernatural energy of God inside everyone child of God, using Gods holy word- the scriptures (Psalms 119:11).

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