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Demetrics and Pauline Roscoe
“Culture”
1. A high level of taste and enlightenment results from extensive intellectual training and exposure to the arts.
2. The ways people live at a particular time and place.”
Grammarly
Here, we see that cultures develop out of the influence of the sophistication of their environment and have all to do with their arts and intellectual awareness and what people do with their time.
We can clearly see why ADONAI, GOD of Israel, separated the Hebrews from the land of Egypt to place them into a culture of Holiness. Early Hebrews had to learn the fear of GOD, which produces righteousness, morality, and ethics.
Genesis 22:12
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12 And He said, Do not lay your hand on the lad or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear and revere God, since you have not held back from Me or begrudged giving Me your son, your only son.
Exodus 20:20
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20 And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God has come to prove you, so that the [reverential] fear of Him may be before you, that you may not sin.
I was going through some emails early in the morning of 7/21/2022, around 04:00 a.m. when I saw a reply to some teaching about “A Holy Culture.” While sharing on Dr. Warren’s radio program in Cincinnati, I mentioned how cultures are initiated. Cultures are formed out of the results of exposure to intellectual enlightenment or recited philosophical orientation. In other words, whoever speaks a clearer message more frequently could initiate the following culture change.
When the Jewish Messiah taught His disciples to go and make proponents, the Lord didn’t mean to create a “love community as in America in the 1980s,” but a community that responds in love to every situation by doing the right thing on my neighbor’s behalf.
The closest Satan can come to imitating Yeshua, (Jesus Christ), is by using the word “love” but contorting its significance. From Satan’s mouth, love means accepting all behavior while judging nothing and getting along with everybody.
Yet, Our Lord and Savior taught;
Mark 6:11-13
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11 And if any community will not receive and accept and welcome you, and they refuse to listen to you, when you depart, shake off the dust that is on your feet, for a testimony against them. Truly I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the judgment day than for that town.
12 So they went out and preached that men should repent [that they should change their minds for the better and heartily amend their ways, with abhorrence of their past sins].
13 And they drove out many unclean spirits and anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.
Now we see that the age-old warfare between the culture of darkness against the culture of light was taught by the Jewish Messiah.
Angels fight with demons day and night.
Mark 16:15-20
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15 And He said to them, Go into all the world and preach and publish openly the good news (the Gospel) to every creature [of the whole human race].
16 He who believes [who adheres to and trusts in and relies on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] and is baptized will be saved [from the penalty of eternal death]; but he who does not believe [who does not adhere to and trust in and rely on the Gospel and Him Whom it sets forth] will be condemned.
17 And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new languages;
18 They will pick up serpents; and [even] if they drink anything deadly, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will get well.
19 So then the Lord Jesus, after He had spoken to them, was taken up into heaven and He sat down at the right hand of God.
20 And they went out and preached everywhere, while the Lord kept working with them and confirming the message by the attesting signs and miracles that closely accompanied [it]. Amen (so be it).
The greater influencer changes the culture. It’s the one who has the most dominant voice or the most impressive forms of art that will change its environment.
So it seems that the Gospel of The Messiah will greatly offend and insult the world and the Humanized Church, considerably.
The true members of the Messiah’s body will dethrone the human doctrine and reinstate the reality of the suffering Son of God, who purchased our sin death and empowered us to stand with God in a culture of Holiness.
1 John 2:4
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4 Whoever says, I know Him [I perceive, recognize, understand, and am acquainted with Him] but fails to keep and obey His commandments (teachings) is a liar, and the Truth [of the Gospel] is not in him.
You may have heard in the 1980s that Muslim nations called America “the great Satan.” In a recent article in Newsweek, a similar statement is made by Ramzan Kadyrov, a close ally of Vladimir Putin.
Putin Ally Waiting for Order to Smash West to ‘Smithereens’
Zoe Strozewski – Monday
Ramzan Kadyrov, the Chechen leader and top ally of Vladimir Putin, said Sunday that he is waiting on an order from the Russian president to blast Western countries to “smithereens.”
© Mikhail Svetlov/Getty ImagesAbove, Kadyrov seen during the State Council meeting in Grand Kremlin Palace, on December 23, 2015 in Moscow, Russia.
Kadyrov made the declaration in a Telegram post that announced the completion of a new Chechen regiment called “North-Akhmat,” which was one of four that the Chechen leader announced was being formed last month to help replenish Russia’s troops during its ongoing war with Ukraine. He wrote that Russia is the only country in the world to “speak out against the infernal abomination that the West spreads,” and that he is grateful that Putin “made such a correct decision and gave us the opportunity to take part in this sacred struggle against Satanism.”
“We are ready to go further on orders, to easily take Kyiv and the NATO countries,” the post read. “Our units, hardened in real battles, will not be able to resist any army in the world. We have experience, arsenal, faith, patriotism, idea and TRUTH! The West does not yet understand how strong WE are!”
Streaming Audio Recording – Easily Capture Online Audio Kadyrov added that with one order from Putin, “we are ready to smash the false-democratic, pseudo-liberal and military-barbaric campaign of Western states, which are corrupting the world community in an attempt to subdue the entire globe under them, to smithereens.”
Russian officials have repeatedly threatened Western countries, particularly those in NATO, against direct interference in the war in Ukraine. Putin has even warned of “retaliatory strikes” against countries that “create a strategic threat to Russia,” leading to fears that the conflict could spread beyond Ukraine’s borders. Experts told Newsweek in May that NATO has already crossed the line that Putin has said would justify such an attack.
What is astonishing to the western nations like the US is, did they call us Satanism? They are only observing the culture, but this is what I say, let us all repent for our friendly posture with the world; put differently, when we look like the world, sound like the world, and silence ADONAI’S judgment against sin, we are considered a Satanic tool.
James 4:4
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4 You [are like] unfaithful wives [having illicit love affairs with the world and breaking your marriage vow to God]! Do you not know that being the world’s friend is being God’s enemy? So whoever chooses to be a friend of the world takes his stand as an enemy of God.
John 15:19
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19 If you belonged to the world, the world would treat you with affection and would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world [no longer one with it], but I have chosen (selected) you out of the world, the world hates (detests) you.
James 2:5
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5 Listen, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and in their position as believers and to inherit the kingdom which He has promised to those who love Him?
1 John 2:15
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15 Do not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in him.
1 John 3:1-4
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1 SEE WHAT [an incredible] quality of love the Father has given (shown, bestowed on) us, that we should [be permitted to] be named and called and counted the children of God! And so we are! The reason that the world does not know (recognize, acknowledge) us is that it does not know (recognize, acknowledge) Him.
2 Beloved, we are [even here and] now God’s children; it is not yet disclosed (made clear) what we shall be [hereafter], but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall [as God’s children] resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He [really] is.
3 And everyone who has this hope [resting] on Him cleanses (purifies) himself just as He is pure (chaste, undefiled, guiltless).
4 Everyone who commits (practices) sin is guilty of lawlessness; for [that is what] sin is, lawlessness (the breaking, violating of God’s law by transgression or neglect—being unrestrained and unregulated by His commands and His will).
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