Posted on 09/20/2009 4:29:11 AM PDT by Cvengr
C. Gate #3: Self-Righteousness Arrogance.
1. Introduction.
a. Self-righteousness means to be righteous in one's own esteem; in fact, to be Pharisaical. Our Lord condemned self-righteousness in His great dissertation of Matt 23, which begins: "Woe unto you, scribes, Pharisees, hypocrites."
b. Self-righteousness is generally associated with arrogance. It is the arrogant reliance on one's own assumed, inconsistent, and hypocritical righteousness.
c. Self-righteousness is the arrogant conviction that one's own righteousness is superior to that of all others. It is the conclusion that one's own righteousness is so great that intolerance of all others becomes the modus operandi of blind arrogance.
d. The writer Edison Marshall once said, "All the self-righteous cruelty of a woman whose happiness has been given up for others." This is heard today as "after all I've done for you."
e. Self-righteousness arrogance is defined as divorcement from reality; it is the logical progression from preoccupation with self. It always produces a system of fantasizing, of bolstering self at the expense of others.
f. There are six categories of self-righteous arrogance.
(1) The arrogance of legalism.
(2) Personality arrogance.
(3) The arrogance of morality.
(4) Authority arrogance.
(5) Crusader arrogance and Christian activism.
(6) The arrogance of Christian service.
(7) Transference arrogance
g. Arrogant self-righteousness is the motivational arrogance which manifests itself in these six categories, all of which comprise another step in the drive toward unreality. By the sixth category, the person is locked into arrogance, explaining why believers can become mentally ill. If a believer divorces himself from Bible doctrine, he divorces himself from reality, and the drive toward unreality results in becoming mentally ill.
2. Arrogance of Legalism.
a. From self-righteousness originates the arrogance of legalism, taught in Galatians and in six chapters of Romans.
b. The arrogance of legalism is the vanity of the unique experience and erroneous emphasis on human achievement.
c. It begins with believers not understanding the uniqueness of the Church Age, their portfolio of invisible assets, their escrow blessings, the divine decrees, equal privilege and equal opportunity in the protocol plan of God, their union with Christ producing a royal family of God and a new species, the divine dynasphere, the indwelling of the Trinity, and the great power experiment of the Hypostatic Union and how it is perpetuated into the Church Age.
d. Failing to understand these things, they go back to the Mosaic Law. The Mosaic Law has three elements: the laws of divine establishment, which explain freedom, privacy, property, and life; ritual explaining the Gospel; and ritual explaining the modus operandi of the faith-rest drill. Such believers go back to the Old Testament in order to use the morality of Israel as the Christian way of life.
e. The morality of Israel was for both believers and unbelievers. However, the Christian way of life is a supernatural way of life and demands a supernatural means of execution.
f. Self-righteous arrogance includes any form of legalism. It has three general categories.
(1) Salvation by works or human achievement; adding to faith for eternal life. But the Scripture makes clear that only faith is required for salvation. Yet people are not satisfied with the work of Jesus Christ on the cross and want to add their works to it. However, salvation was finished on the cross. It is blasphemous and legalistic to try to add some system of works to the efficacious, unlimited atonement work of Christ on the cross.
(2) Spirituality by works, in which people observe certain taboos and call it spirituality.
(3) Blessings from God on the basis of works, human achievement, self-sacrifice, morality, giving, conforming to a church program, or participating in some ritual.
(a) The legalist has no understanding of the holiness of God, made up of divine justice and divine righteousness. God imputes His own perfect righteousness to us at salvation for justification so that we can become the objects of God's personal love, and so that God can bless the perfect righteousness in us with logistical grace blessings.
(b) God found a way to bless us without compromising His character. God doesn't bless you because of anything you do, but because you have His perfect righteousness.
g. This can also be classified as blind arrogance, in which the vanity of being divorced from the realities of Bible doctrine lead to the erroneous conclusion that the believer is victorious, mature, or great because of some unique experience, some sacrificial modus vivendi, or some system of human works. Blind arrogance concludes that the plan of God succeeds or fails on the basis of how you function, rather than on the basis of logistical grace.
h. Self-righteous arrogance is the motivation, while legalism is the function which comes from that motivation.
i. Legalism may be defined as the pomposity of the energy of the flesh, the blasphemy of Christian works being substituted for the divine provision of grace, the insolence of replacing our portfolio of invisible assets with the conceit of pretensions from human ability.
j. The irrationality of legalism is the same as the arrogance of morality. When there is any malfunction of this self-righteous arrogance, the individual is always shocked. When self is shocked, he makes the conceited conclusion that Bible doctrine doesn't work; that "the plan of God has failed because I have failed."
k. Self-righteous arrogance correlated with the arrogance of legalism concludes that the plan of God succeeds or fails on the basis of human works, rather than concluding the truth, which is that the plan of God succeeds on the basis of what He does in grace, working on our behalf.
l. Therefore, legalism establishes false standards and measures spiritual success on the basis of complying with these false standards.
m. Legalism has two blasphemous functions.
(1) Salvation through keeping the Law is answered in Gal 1-3 and Rom 13:3-4.
(2) Spirituality through keeping the Law is answered in Gal 4-6 and Rom 7-8.
n. Self-righteous arrogance seeks to impose its standards on others, judging them for not complying.
3. Personality Arrogance.
a. From the arrogance of legalism comes a change in personality, called personality arrogance.
b. Self-righteous arrogance seeks to dominate people, policy, and authority in its periphery. Self-righteous arrogance establishes false standards and then seeks to impose those standards on other people.
c. Therefore, self-righteous arrogance produces a domineering personality and a bully, a person who assumes that he is never wrong in human interaction, a person who often claims sinless perfection. Yet 1 Jn 1:8 says that anyone who "assumes he no longer sins is a liar and doctrine is not in him."
d. The result is the blind leading the blind, or personality arrogance motivated by self-righteousness rejecting human privacy, forcing erroneous standards on others in the name of Christianity. People have a right to make their own mistakes before the Lord. Correction comes either through the teaching of Bible doctrine or divine discipline.
e. Personality arrogance is irrational and never satisfied until everyone in his periphery is a puppet on a string dancing to his tune, using his standards, fulfilling the principle of the blind leading the blind. Anyone who succumbs to personality arrogance and legalism falls into the worst possible ditch. As a result, the world at large concludes an erroneous concept of Christianity.
f. Personality arrogance attacks the teaching of Bible doctrine at two points: its subject matter, and its communicator.
g. Personality arrogance is the superimposition of personal and false opinions over the principles of God's Word. If the pastor does not agree with their false concepts, personality arrogance attacks the pastor, seeking to discredit him and his ministry. In this way, personality arrogance is seen in a Christian seeking to destroy true Bible doctrine.
h. Personality arrogance is the manifestation of a fragmented, flawed life. When there is a fragmented life, some people gravitate to the self-righteous personality; others gravitate to the lascivious personality. Prolonged involvement in the cosmic one means possession of the tragic flaw. No genius, no talent, no ability, no success, and no prosperity can erase the tragic flaw.
i. So personality arrogance is where one uses his personality to dominate a cell of weak people within a system in order to be antagonistic toward the policy and leadership of that group. This does not mean every dominant personality is arrogant. But dominating personalities in a local church or in any organization must beware of setting up their personal and too often erroneous opinions against the authority of doctrine, of the local church, or against any other legitimate authority, policy or organization.
j. Personality arrogance finds the acceptable, dominating, or pleasing personality setting false spiritual standards for a group, rather than allowing Bible doctrine to do so. Therefore, this type or arrogance amalgamates with conspiracy arrogance.
4. Arrogance of Morality.
a. Legalism, personality arrogance, and the arrogance of morality all go together. There are two categories of morality found in the Bible.
(1) True morality is based on the laws of divine establishment as delineated in the Mosaic Law and in Romans. True morality is designed for both believer and unbeliever. It is related to responsibility to government, society, and the authorities delegated by God under the laws of divine establishment. Genuine morality includes respect for privacy, freedom, property, and life.
(2) Pseudo morality is used by apostate Christians as a substitute for the Christian way of life. It is used by believers involved in the cosmic system and the stages of reversionism. Their morality is distorted into a system of evil, from which comes cruelty.
b. True morality is designed for both believer and unbeliever as the guardian of human freedom, the protector of privacy, property, and life, and the basis for providing both evangelism and the right to hear Bible doctrine taught.
c. True morality is the basis for the function of the four divine institutions. A divine institution is for all people, believers and unbelievers. The first two divine institutions existed in the garden: volition as divine institution #1 and marriage as divine institution #2. But both malfunctioned even in the perfection of the garden. So if they malfunctioned in perfect environment, they will certainly malfunction now in less than perfect environment. Divine institution #3 is family; divine institution #4 is government.
d. Morality is conformity to the laws of divine establishment, including its authority, its ethics, its motivation, its character, conduct, honor, and integrity. It is conformity to all the four divine institutions.
e. Arrogant self-righteousness distorts human morality into a system of works in opposition to the protocol plan of God. Salvation by morality, spirituality by morality, and blessing from God by morality are the three tenets of this blasphemy.
f. But salvation is not by morality, legalism, or any system of self-sacrifice.
(1) Eph 2:8-9, "For by grace are you saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast."
(2) Tit 3:5, "He saved us, not on the basis of works which we have done in righteousness [self-righteousness], but according to His mercy by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit."
(3) Rom 3:20, "Because by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified in His sight, for through the law is the knowledge of sin."
(4) Rom 3:28, "We maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law."
(5) Gal 2:16, "Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Christ Jesus, even we have believed in Christ Jesus that we might be justified by faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no person shall be justified."
(6) Gal 2:20, "I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me, and the life that I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and delivered Himself up on my behalf [for me]."
g. The protocol plan of God for the Church Age produces something higher than morality through residence, function, and momentum inside the divine dynasphere. It produces virtue and the ten problem solving devices.
h. Morality is for believer and unbeliever, but morality is not the Christian way of life. Something higher is produced through the grace policy of God and the availability of divine power: virtue.
i. Morality is the function of the human race living under the laws of divine establishment. Virtue is the function of the believer who, under the filling of the Spirit, has advanced to spiritual adulthood inside the divine dynasphere. Virtue and grace orientation must be added to morality to avoid arrogance and the fragmentation of your life.
j. The key to virtue is residence in the divine dynasphere under the enabling power of the Holy Spirit and momentum from metabolized doctrine.
k. Christianity does not reject morality but produces something higher than morality: the virtue of gates #5 and #6 of the divine dynasphere.
(1) Gate #5 is spiritual self-esteem when one has personal love for God and the beginning of +H, or sharing the happiness of God. Gate #6 is spiritual autonomy when one has impersonal love toward all mankind and the continuation of +H.
(2) These two gates combine to produce virtue-love and a +H strong enough to face the momentum tests of gate #7, so that one reaches gate #8, spiritual maturity, where virtue-love continues to be used as the great problem solving device, and +H reaches a fantastic peak. This is the virtue in the Christian way of life, which is infinitely superior to morality.
l. The virtue of the Christian way of life is two-fold: gate #5 as motivational virtue, spiritual self-esteem, and personal love for God; and gate #6 as functional virtue, spiritual autonomy, and impersonal love for all mankind. This virtue-love is infinitely superior to any form of morality since it comes through the filling of the Spirit and consistent function in the divine dynasphere under the three R's: reception, retention, and recall of Bible doctrine.
m. Anything the unbeliever can do is not the Christian way of life. Unbelievers can have the most fantastic morality and humility from the laws of divine establishment. The unbeliever can be very moral, but he is not a born-again Christian and so is not living the Christian way of life.
n. However, unbelievers can also have morality arrogance when the unbeliever substitutes in pride a personal and false standard of morality for the true standard of divine establishment morality. Unbeliever morality arrogance is illustrated by the individual, who, on the basis of false standards of morality, refuses to sign up for the draft, or refuses military service when his country is at war.
o. Morality arrogance is the ignorant and self-righteous believer substituting human morality for virtue-love produced by the ministry of God the Holy Spirit and consistent cognition of Bible doctrine. Furthermore, morality arrogance has -H,whereas virtue has +H.
p. It takes a lot of ignorance of the Word of God and a lot of arrogance from self-righteousness to substitute human merit and morality for divine virtue.
q. Arrogance from the cosmic system robs morality of its true divine purpose and substitutes self-righteousness.
r. Self-righteousness combines with arrogance to establish false standards of morality. Self-righteous arrogance superimposes those false standards on others.
s. The arrogance of morality assigns functions and purposes to morality which God never intended in the invention of morality for the human race, to include salvation by works, spirituality by works, and blessings from God by works.
t. Morality has limitations which are completely ignored by arrogance. Morality cannot provide salvation, but the arrogant seek salvation through morality and works. Morality is not spirituality, but arrogance alleges so. The morality of establishment cannot compare with the virtue of the divine dynasphere. Morality relates to freedom; the divine dynasphere relates to that which is greater than freedom: the Christian way of life, the foundation for all systems of freedom in life.
u. Morality is not the means of establishment function in the client nation, but the result of it. Therefore, morality is everything from paying taxes to serving in the military, respect for law and law enforcement agencies, recognition of the privacy of others, respect for freedom, and recognition of the sacredness of the property and lives of others. Morality demands that the believer and unbeliever be law-abiding citizens and patriotic, dedicated to the principle of freedom plus the authority necessary to protect that freedom; willing to join the military, pay taxes, and do jury duty.
v. As believers we have a tremendous responsibility. There is no greater system for serving God and country than in our advance to maturity. The USA needs most of all a pivot of mature believers. The issue is pivotism versus activism. Pivotism means believers in the divine dynasphere, advancing to maturity, forming the pivot. Activism means believers in the cosmic system, demonized, practicing some form of civil disobedience. Freedom in the client nation should be used for self-determination toward the plan of God, not in protests.
w. This anticipates crusader arrogance. Crusader arrogance is immoral when it rejects the freedom of others, intrudes on the privacy of mankind, and rejects the right of the individual to believe in Christ and to be evangelized apart from false doctrine.
x. Morality is related to freedom: freedom to believe in Christ, freedom to learn Bible doctrine, freedom to grow in grace, or freedom to reject Christ and to reject learning Bible doctrine.
y. Arrogance and demon influence distort morality into a system of works related to arrogance rather than truth. One must decide between arrogance and truth. This conflict precedes the creation of man, for the same issue was in the prehistoric angelic conflict.
z. Arrogance and demon influence of the cosmic system therefore is the enemy of morality and Christianity as a way of life.
aa. The laws of divine establishment, or the integrity produced in the divine dynasphere, are the only systems of truth that will protect any client nation.
bb. Humility is the key to true morality. Humility recognizes establishment authority as the norm for life. It is the key to the perception of doctrine for the believer. The filling of the Spirit is the status of humility for the believer.
cc. Humility is not only capacity for life, flexibility, and teachability, but it accepts the authority of the pastor-teacher, and concentrates on the content of the teaching of doctrine. It is obvious that true morality cannot exist without humility.
dd. But arrogance from the cosmic system robs morality of its virtue and turns it into a system of degeneracy by substituting self-righteousness, called moral degeneracy. There are two antithetical systems of degeneracy: moral and immoral. Too often immorally degenerate unbelievers become morally degenerate believers because of self-righteous morality without doctrine. Both systems of degeneracy are equally devastating.
ee. So morality is very vulnerable. Just add arrogant self-righteousness and the virtue is gone from morality.
ff. Immorality is a state of the soul, and sins are only the result of immorality, not the definition of it.
5. Authority Arrogance.
a. Authority arrogance always begins in the home. The family is divine institution #3. The authority in the home is the parent(s). The parents have the opportunity of teaching their children establishment principles, the greatest of which is respect for authority. The objective of parenthood is to train your children in all the principles of life, especially respect for authority in every area of life.
b. God has delegated authority under two categories to preserve and perpetuate the human race to the end of the millennial reign of Christ.
(1) The laws of divine establishment include the four divine institutions: volition, marriage, family, and government /nationalism.
(2) Authority for the royal family of God includes the Word of God, the pastor of the local church, and the volition or self-determination of the believer to respond to/reject Bible doctrine.
c. Legitimate authority in life is defined as those powers delegated by God to the human race in such categories as husband over wife, parents over children, government over the people, management, coach, teacher, professor, senior rank in the military, judge on the bench, police officer, and the traffic light. In the spiritual realm, the royal family of God has additional authority related to Bible doctrine and the pastor-teacher.
d. While God has delegated authority in these realms, such authority is useless without human consent. Human acceptance of authority is often negative because arrogance rejects authority with devastating results, such as crime, violence, terrorism, slavery, dictatorship, revolution, and civil disobedience.
e. The acceptability of authority in life is dependent upon human volition, which is the great weapon defense against demonization of the believer. However, volition cannot be used in arrogance but in cognizance. God has given us the great weapon of volition. But being arrogant, you will never grow up. Arrogance rejects all legitimate authority in life. You are never justified to reject authority on the basis of injustice. If you do, you are a loser!
f. Arrogance is the product of its own decisions, such as rejection of legitimate authority, and the assignment of power to those who represent evil, moral, or immoral degeneration. Rejection of authority is inevitably manifest in some way, such as in our drug problem today.
g. All misery comes from individual volition, from making decisions from a position of weakness, from arrogance, and from losing all sense of destiny in life. It comes from our failure to accept authority and learn.
h. Authority arrogance is the enemy of freedom, privacy, property, and life. Privacy is destroyed through gossip, maligning, judging, which stem from jealousy, bitterness, vindictiveness, or hatred. Freedom is destroyed through the malfunction of our divine institutions in the arrogant attack upon authority. Freedom without authority is anarchy; authority without freedom is tyranny.
i. Authority arrogance results in the destruction of freedom through crime, drug addiction, violence, crusader arrogance, the attempt of self-righteousness to superimpose one's will on others. Drug addiction takes away one's individual sense of responsibility, and destroys the proper use of his volition.
j. Authority arrogance corrupts the divine institutions: volition, marriage, family, and government.
(1) Authority arrogance attacks free enterprise, seeking to destroy capitalism and management through the redistribution of wealth, and pressure on management from stockholders and labor. Authority arrogance attacks management and business authority.
(2) Authority arrogance attacks military establishment, destroying the command structure necessary for the preservation of the nation.
(3) Authority arrogance attacks law enforcement, destroying government authority.
(4) Authority arrogance reflects lack of enforced and genuine humility in the life.
(a) In divine institution #3, the child is born under the authority of parents. There need not be any mutual love between child and parent. The parent communicates his authority through verbal teaching (not tactile); his love is expressed verbally.
(b) The organized humility of the home includes a system for teaching. No parent is always fair. Yet children must learn to face situations which are not fair and still respect and obey the authority. Without respect, children leave home immature.
(c) At salvation, eternal life is imputed to the human spirit. Now the organized humility is the local church, the authority for enforced humility is the pastor; and again, you have volition (positive or negative) to exercise toward the authority of the doctrine and of the pastor.
k. Authority arrogance attacks the pastor who is faithful in teaching doctrine, distracting believers from epistemological rehabilitation at salvation.
(1) So vital is the doctrinal message to the royal family of God that many Scriptures warn against undermining the authority of any pastor. No matter how bad or good any pastor is, he is not your responsibility; God can handle him magnificently!
(2) Isa 54:17, "`No weapon formed against you will prosper, and every tongue that accuses you in judgment you will condemn. This is the heritage of the servant of the Lord, and his vindication is from Me,' says the Lord."
(3) Heb 13:17, "Keep obeying those pastors who themselves are ruling over you. Submit to their authority, for they keep watching for the benefit of your souls as those who have to render an account."
(4) The pastor receives his authority from God through the delegation of the spiritual gift, proper preparation, and a call from a specific congregation.
(5) The pastor exercises his authority through exegetical teaching of the Word of God. His authority does not exist apart from the Word.
(6) Doctrine is the mind of Christ and the final authority for every believer. We can choose to accept it or reject it. You cannot open the Bible and learn it for yourself. There's not a categorical doctrine taught that you could have ever dug out for yourself!
(7) Authority is delegated to the pastor as the teacher of doctrine. The local church becomes the environment for the authority of teaching the Word of God.
(8) So to obey means to listen to the doctrine taught, assimilate the doctrine, and follow the doctrine.
(9) It is inevitable that some persons in a congregation will become dissatisfied or disenchanted with a specific ministry. If the dissatisfaction originates from some form of arrogance, the believer will suffer from the law of volitional responsibility plus divine discipline. If the fault lies with the pastor, God will punish him beyond anything you could even imagine.
(10) If you change churches or reject a ministry, do so without undermining the authority of the pastor. Leave him entirely in the Lord's hands. Otherwise, you will reap triple-compound divine discipline doubled; so you get discipline six-fold.
(11) In the home, children are blessed by accepting parental authority; they are cursed from rejecting parental authority. In the local church, believers are blessed by consistent positive volition toward the doctrine; they are cursed by negative volition toward doctrine.
(12) Just as a child or adolescent in the home who rejects parental authority is disciplined for authority arrogance all his life, so the believer who rejects the authority of good Bible teaching spends his entire Christian life on earth under discipline.
(13) When dissatisfied by a pastor for whatever reason, good or bad, do not compound the problem with your own arrogant reaction. Avoid criticism of the pastor, no matter how wrong he may be in your opinion. Leave his punishment or discipline in the hands of the Lord who is capable of handling his failures without any help from you.
(14) Being critical of a pastor is presumptuous and becomes blasphemous, for you are taking the erroneous stand that God cannot punish a pastor unless you help. Authority arrogance will only destroy you, not the pastor who is the object of your hatred, bitterness, or vindictiveness. This same principle holds true for every authority in life.
l. It is important to avoid arrogance, to avoid being critical when you separate from a company, a business, a local church, or a military organization. Whether you were contented or discontented is not an issue. It is only arrogance that calls attention to self. The organization must continue to run. Being critical is the source of a tremendous amount of misery. Life will destroy the person who makes an issue out of self rather than an issue out of life.
m. Arrogant people always attack authority, and thereby destroy their own freedom. As freedom is wiped out in a client nation, that opens the door for greater and greater demon influence and demon possession, and so a nation is destroyed (illustration: England).
n. When people become stupid, they blame God for everything. In Rom 9:19-21, God is the potter; the potter's wheel is His authority. The "same lump" means we all have the same opportunity (free will), the same chances to be winners. A "vessel of honor" is the believer in the divine dynasphere; a "vessel of dishonor" is the believer in the cosmic system. Both choose from their own volition which they will be. Regardless of the combination of genes or the varying circumstances in life, we all have the same opportunities.
o. Attitude toward authority determines our decisions in life. Rejection of authority means decisions from a position of weakness; acceptance of authority means decisions from a position of strength.
p. The by-products of authority arrogance include:
(1) Impulsive arrogance.
(2) Institutional arrogance.
(3) Conspiracy arrogance.
q. Impulsive arrogance is the abuse of divinely-delegated authority or power.
(1) For example, David used his power as king and commander-in-chief of the Jewish army to murder Uriah the Hittite.
(2) For example, Elijah on Mount Carmel used his newly acquired power to murder the prophets of Baal. (3) For example, Peter used his power and authority to encourage legalism in Antioch, espousing the hypocrisy of racial discrimination against the Gentiles, Gal 2:11-13.
(4) Impulsive arrogance comes from having more authority or power than you can handle. Instead of producing a sense of responsibility and challenge to leadership, it produces arrogance. Such a person has no capacity for authority, and no sense of responsibility toward God or others in relationship to that authority. He relates that authority only to himself. He uses his authority for his own personal advancement rather than to fulfill the purpose and policy of an organization.
(5) Or, a person can have no responsibility or authority but possess power, such as the manipulative power by which you make people feel guilty, and have impulsive arrogance. This crosses conspiracy arrogance.
r. Institutional arrogance is the function of authority arrogance in conspiracy against any legitimate organization.
(1) All legitimate organizations have 3 principles of normal modus operandi: authority, a purpose, and a policy.
(2) Institutional arrogance attacks one or more of these three principles of organizational modus operandi.
(3) Institutional arrogance assigns more importance to self, the opinions of self, and self-righteousness, and thereby undermines the authority, attacks the purpose, and seeks to destroy the policy of a legitimate organization.
(4) Changes in purpose and policy of an organization must be accompanied by consensus or respectful approach to authority through a form of grievance committees.
(5) To bring about changes in authority, purpose, or policy of an organization through any function that undermines that authority is generally associated with some form of arrogance.
(6) Legitimate institutions which are vulnerable to arrogance include the following: various branches of government; business organizations and corporations; professional organizations such as school systems, police and fire departments, law firms, medical center, hospital organizations, engineering firms, military establishment; social and fraternal organizations; civic clubs; and local churches.
(7) When you are hired from your own free will, and then you don't like the authority, you immediately attack the very purpose for which the organization was founded, and you attack its policy. When you don't like something . . . who are you? You are there to follow the purpose, policy and authority of the organization. You are not the issue! Your job is to carry out the purpose of the company or organization; therefore, you are to obey authority.
(8) When you are on the job, what you think is not important. What is important is the purpose, the policy, and the authority of the organization. Your opinion is totally inconsequential.
(9) Institutional arrogance is disorientation to life in the area of legitimate institutions. It is the proud conclusion that an organization cannot get along without you (true of those in lower authorities), or the erroneous conclusion that you carry the organization (true of those in higher authorities).
(10) So there are two categories of institutional arrogance:
(a) The person who succeeds in an organization and distorts that success into a system of pride and assumption.
(b) The person who does not succeed in an organization and assumes that he is a victim of organizational discrimination.
(11) We all face the temptation of this institutional arrogance when we are overlooked, maltreated, under an inferior or jackass authority, etc. But if you succumb to this temptation, you've had it! Your life is completely miserable in every facet.
s. Conspiracy arrogance is the function of a mutual admiration society designed to overthrow legitimate authority.
(1) The mutual admiration society is composed of two categories of arrogance and subjectivity.
(a)The arrogant having aggressive subjectivity.
(b) The inadequate having passive subjectivity.
(2) The arrogant one assumes that he is greater than the system and the authority structure of the system. The inadequate one assumes that the system has overlooked his talent and ability.
(3) The arrogant leads the inadequate in forming a conspiracy against a person or persons who represent authority in that system. These societies are started by someone who is ambitious to take over. This takeover starts with complimenting, then socializing. As they criticize, they slowly but surely build up their own organization to take over.
(4) The pattern for conspiracy arrogance is the subject of Psalm 12. Verses 2-4 are very pertinent. Ps 12:2, "They [mutual admiration society] speak each one [arrogant] to his friends [inadequate] with lips of flattery. They speak heart to heart [idiom for double standard]."
(a) The arrogant flatters the inadequate so that he will join him in the conspiracy, using the old ploy, "You have been overlooked; you are better than they."
(b) The arrogant flatters the inadequate, causing the inadequate to become dissatisfied with authority. They both malign and slander the authority. Finally, they both combine to form an effective conspiracy.
(c) The purpose of the conspiracy: the arrogant wants to replace the authority, and the inadequate wants to be recognized by the authority as being great in the organization.
(5) Ps 12:3-4, "The Lord will destroy all flattering lips [conspiracy of the arrogant], the tongue [conspiracy of the inadequate] which speaks boastful things, who have said, `We will triumph in this conspiracy with our tongues. Our lips are with us; who is our master?'"
(a) They use verbal language to undermine the authority by slander, gossip, maligning, judging, and false propaganda.
(b) Their authority arrogance is seen in the last rhetorical question: "Who is our master?" They are an authority only to themselves and recognize no other.
6. Crusader Arrogance. (See also the doctrine of Christian Activism.)
a. Crusader arrogance is defined as self-righteous arrogance with strong or impulsive desires to superimpose one's opinion and principles on others without their consent.
b. The person afflicted with crusader arrogance believes he is so right and his cause so just that he is justified in using any means to gain his objective, including violence, destruction of property, and causing others to lose their jobs or to be driven from their environment.
(1) The perfect illustration of this is the fundamentalist groups who attack abortion clinics. They do not know that the Word of God says that, in every case, God invents life and imputes it at the point of birth; there is no life in the womb. They think they are right in their arrogance, and so they destroy property and intrude upon the privacy of pregnant women. But in reality, abortion is a private matter between a woman and her doctor, and it is no one else's business.
(2) Self-righteous arrogance has been the bane of the existence of American Christianity since the Pilgrims landed at Massachusetts. The Puritan Syndrome brought to this country then still flourishes today as never before. It is one of the great tragedies of blind arrogance.
(3) Prayer should be reserved for the privacy of your own home and in local churches. Prayer does not belong in public schools.
(4) Civil disobedience is moral degeneracy. Using force to get your way is moral degeneracy.
c. Crusader arrogance is righteous indignation out of control. Righteous indignation is usually just emotional anger, a terrible sin. True righteous indignation is very rare.
d. Crusader arrogance ignores the honorable and judicial system for the redressing of grievances.
e. Crusader arrogance believes in vigilante solutions which bypass governmental law and order. Hence, crusader arrogance practices and advocates civil disobedience.
f. Believers involved in crusader arrogance results in such things as trying to get prayer into the public schools and anti-nuclear and anti-war activities.
(1) Prayer does not belong in the public school. School is where you learn academic subjects and interaction in social life. Jesus made this issue very clear when He said to go into your closet, i.e., your private chamber, and pray.
(2) There is no sophisticated system of weaponry that can ever destroy the population of the earth. The very omnipotence of Jesus Christ sustains the universe for the perpetuation of history until the end of the Millennium, for the purpose of demonstrating to Satan that he is completely wrong in his appeal trial and that God is completely right. The angelic conflict will continue regardless of the ingenuity of man in his use of conventional or nuclear weapons.
g. If the Christian crusaders in America today had their way, we would have only Christian laws, making all unbelievers instant outlaws. This violates the entire principle of divine institution #4.
h. Believers involved in crusades are either ignorant of doctrine (blind arrogance), or they have scar tissue on their souls or blackout of the soul, or are involved in reverse-process reversionism. They have made false application of doctrine to problems in society.
i. Crusader arrogance is tantamount to playing God, a blasphemy no believer can afford.
j. Anti-gun crusades and the support of terrorism to gain so-called "civil rights" in other countries are also popular crusades today. We have no right to interfere in the government of another country.
k. Crusader arrogance self-righteously reacts against unjust and unfair situations, e.g., an unjust system of taxation.
7. The Arrogance of Christian Service and/or Works Arrogance.
a. Every believer is in full-time Christian service from the very point of his salvation until his death or the Rapture. Therefore, there is no such thing as dedication to full-time Christian service.
b. Motivation and status quo are the great issues in Christian service.
c. Motivation for Christian service must relate to spiritual growth, to the ministry of God the Holy Spirit, to humility, and to cognition of Bible doctrine.
d. The status quo for Christian service includes two factors.
(1) The filling of Holy Spirit, i.e., residence in the divine dynasphere.
(2) Momentum or spiritual growth.
e. There are four categories of Christian service.
(1) Christian service related to your spiritual gift.
(2) Christian service related to your royal priesthood.
(3) Christian service related to your royal ambassadorship.
(4) Christian service related to the laws of divine establishment.
(5) See the doctrine of Christian Service for details of each category.
f. The arrogance of Christian service results from cosmic involvement and functioning in the various stages of reversionism.
g. Christian service performed inside the divine dynasphere under the filling of the Spirit is legitimate and rewardable at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
(1) To be effective, all Christian service must be related to humility. This is compatible with the filling of the Spirit and with the principle that God provided authority before freedom.
(2) Humility can only be maintained through the consistent daily perception of Bible doctrine.
h. Christian service performed inside the cosmic system, classified as wood, hay, and stubble in 1 Cor 3:12, will be burned at the Judgment Seat of Christ.
i. Therefore, the momentum of the Christian life depends upon perception of doctrine under epistemological rehabilitation. Doctrine must always come before service.
(1) Christian service is most effective when the believer has momentum and reaches the three stages of spiritual adulthood.
(2) Christian service from your spiritual gift may be effective when you're out of fellowship and living in the cosmic system only because God honors the gift, not the person with the gift.
(3) However, Christian service is no substitute for momentum, and Christian service does not fulfill God's plan. You advance spiritually only through perception of doctrine.
(4) Therefore, Christian service should not be confused with spirituality. It is all too often executed while grieving and quenching the Holy Spirit.
(5) Christian service is a legitimate function in the protocol plan of God, but always as a result, never as a means. You are not spiritual or mature because of your Christian service. Christian service is never a substitute for momentum in the protocol plan of God and resultant glorification of God.
(6) Therefore, it becomes imperative to understand that Christian service is the result of momentum and spiritual growth in the protocol plan of God, not the means. Christian service must never be confused with spirituality or the filling of the Spirit, the means of effective service.
j. Arrogance, on the other hand, destroys the true priorities of the protocol plan and substitutes works for doctrine. The fragmented life can produce a phenomenal amount of Christian service, but it is all dead works.
k. There are two categories of works in Christian service, 1 Cor 3:11-15.
(1) Christian service or works as a means is the arrogance of Christian service.
(2) Christian service or works as a result is the legitimate function of the Christian way of life.
l. There are many things which distract the believer from fulfilling God's plan and the glorification of our Lord Jesus Christ. But perhaps the most subtle is the arrogance of Christian service and works.
(1) Believers often become involved in Christian service or in some legitimate Christian organization inside or outside of the local church, resulting in either neglect or inconsistency in their intake of Bible doctrine.
(2) Once you have lost momentum through the neglect of consistent doctrinal teaching, you will enter cosmic one. What you are doing causes you to be preoccupied with yourself rather than to be motivated by doctrine and the ministry of the Spirit.
(3) Apart from consistent cognition of doctrine, there is no execution of the protocol plan, no distribution of escrow blessings, and no glorification of God no matter how many good deeds or how many acts of service are performed.
(4) The arrogance of works or Christian service is the erroneous conclusion and the false doctrine that Christian service and works are the means of fulfilling and executing the protocol plan of God.
(5) When works involvement become the means of loss of daily perception, the believer in arrogance has substituted his works for Bible doctrine. This means loss of right priorities and the inevitable failure to fulfill the protocol plan of God.
(6) Works must be the result of spiritual growth, never the means.
(7) In Lk 14:11, Jesus said, "Everyone who exalts himself [arrogance of Christian service] shall be humbled [loser under divine discipline], but he who humbles himself [enforced and genuine humility] is exalted [fulfillment of the protocol plan of God by receiving escrow blessings]."
(8) Arrogance destroys true Christian service; self-righteousness distorts true Christian service. Instead of being legitimate production, it becomes a system of exalting self instead of the Lord.
(9) Arrogance substitutes Christian service for spirituality and for spiritual growth, both of which are unacceptable to the plan of God.
(10) Christian service must always be the result of the filling of the Spirit and of spiritual growth. Then the believer is legitimately both a hearer and doer of the Word.
(11) You were given a spiritual gift at salvation by God the Holy Spirit, eventually to be manifest in some type of Christian service. But the function of this gift and any other production is destroyed completely by this arrogance.
(12) Only the daily feeding on the Word of God can protect your motivation, guarantee your momentum, and maintain your status of genuine humility. Legitimate Christian service is only one of several applications of doctrine to experience.
m. The arrogant Christian involved in the cosmic system is a doer without doctrine. Therefore, his works are called "dead works."
(1) Heb 9:14, "How much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?"
(2) Heb 6:1, "Not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works."
(3) Christian service without momentum in the protocol plan of God is dead works.
(4) It is the quintessence of human arrogance to assume that Christian service without doctrine is pleasing to God.
(5) Arrogance substitutes Christian service for the execution of the protocol plan.
(6) The arrogance of Christian service produces dead works which emphasizes Christian service to the exclusion of Bible doctrine.
(7) Arrogance destroys the true priorities of the protocol plan of God, and substitutes works for doctrine.
8. Transference Arrogance.
a. Again, every believer is a walking grenade with the potential for a fragmented life. All the believer has to do is pull the pin. Becoming involved in transference arrogance is the most subtle way to pull the pin by way of self-righteous arrogance.
b. Joseph's brothers assumed in arrogance that once their father Jacob died, that Joseph would take revenge on them for selling him into slavery.
(1) That was transference arrogance.
(2) Those ten brothers were living fragmented lives, flawed even when living happily in Egypt.
(3) It was the brothers themselves who had motivational and functional revenge in their souls. They transferred to Joseph their flaws.
(4) The brothers assumed that because they had such arrogant thoughts, that Joseph had them also. Therefore, they concluded that Joseph was biding his time, waiting to take his revenge on them when Jacob died.
(5) So they transferred their own arrogant and evil motivation and thinking to Joseph.
(6) But Joseph was not like his brothers who lived fragmented lives, with a fear of retaliation.
(7) 1 Pet 5:5, "God makes war against the arrogant, but He gives grace to the humble."
(8) The arrogant person who pulls the pin of his own grenade assumes that because he is afraid, that the object of his antagonism is also afraid. This is transference arrogance.
(9) Joseph was not like his brothers, but was humble. "God gives grace to the humble."
(10) From their fragmented lives, Joseph's brothers transferred their flaws to him.
c. So transference arrogance is defined as the fragmented life which takes one's own flaws and transfers them to someone else. Actually, by pulling the pin in your own grenade, you make your own life miserable and confused and horrible.
d. The application of humility to your life is to know your own limitations.
(1) Napoleon was one of the greatest men in history, a genius in many categories. But he did not know his own limitations when he invaded Russia in 1812. He squandered the youth of France and of many other countries in one of the finest of armies by pulling the pin in the grenade and fragmenting his own life.
(2) Evil and arrogance go together.
(3) Adolf Hitler pulled the pin and lived a fragmented life. He did not know his limitations. He constantly interfered with a very brilliant general staff, which was why the Germans lost the war.
(a) He delayed German armor, making possible the evacuation at Dunkirk. Being flawed and fearful, Hitler transferred his fear to his general staff, fearing a trap. As a result, he halted his soldiers, saving over a quarter of a millions soldiers at Dunkirk.
(b) His invasion of Russia in 1941 and his refusal to permit the German army to retreat and escape from Stalingrad were also due to transference arrogance. They revealed his horrible life of arrogance.
(4) The greatest all-around genius who ever lived was Moses.
(a) Yet Moses pulled the pin of the grenade in his own life when he attempted to liberate the Jews from slavery the first time by killing a taskmaster. He turned to violence and force. The minute he became a fragmented person, he had to leave. It took forty years to put the pieces back together before he could return.
(b)Only God could liberate the Jews, not Moses.
(c) Moses had to learn his own limitations, and in the process, learn humility so that he could become God's servant, an instrument for the deliverance of Israel. He could never have been so used by God forty years earlier.
(5) How many times have you, aware of your own flaws and sins, assumed that these are the faults of others as well? Then you transfer to them your sins, failures, and faults. You accuse them, judge them, slander them, and think ill of them.
(6) A part of knowing your own limitations is to realize that those are your sins and flaws; don't transfer them to others.
(7) You pull the pin in this way through jealousy, bitterness, hatred, antagonism, self-pity, revenge motivation, or implacability.
(8) When we pull this pin, we then transfer our flaws to others who do not have our flaws, failures, and sins. We think they are afraid, antagonistic, bitter, or jealous, when in reality they are not. As a result, we have no good relationships with people in life.
D. Gate #4: Sexual Arrogance.
1. This gate may be classified as the arrogance of immorality.
2. Not only is sexual arrogance defined as illegitimate sex or sex outside of marriage, but it is sex in which total preoccupation with self disregards every factor of virtue or consideration of others.
3. Sexual arrogance belongs to those who are classified in 2 Tim 3:4 as "lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God." There's nothing wrong with pleasure, but when you put pleasure before God, you're in trouble.
4. Actually, God designed sex in the human race to be an expression of love in marriage, as one of the many manifestations of love between a husband and wife. Therefore, sex is designed for conjugal relationship.
a. Sex is not solely designed for reproduction.
b. Sex was designed to be an expression of love between one man and one woman. Hence, sexual arrogance is ritual without reality.
c. Sexual arrogance precludes love as a motive for sex, for the arrogance of immorality divorces this expression of love from honor and integrity. The result is one more step toward unreality.
5. Arrogance includes abnormal preoccupation with self. Sexual arrogance is merely an extension of sexual lust.
6. Lasciviousness is a trend in the old sin nature which seeks self-gratification in some form of sex. When linked with arrogance, it produces three categories of sexual arrogance.
a. Normal sexual arrogance includes adultery and fornication.
(1) Adultery is voluntary sexual intercourse between a married person and someone else other than his or her spouse.
(2) Fornication is voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
b.Abnormal sexual arrogance includes at least 4 categories.
(1) Masturbation as sexual self-gratification.
(2) Homosexuality as sexual activity with a person or persons of the same sex. This includes lesbianism which is sexual activity between two women.
(3) Incest is sexual intercourse between members of the same family.
(4) Voyeurism is sexual gratification while watching others engage in sex.
c.Criminal sexual arrogance includes at least 4 categories.
(1) Rape is forcing a person against their will to have sex.
(2) Pederasty is an adult male having sex with boys or molesting children.
(3) Necrophilia is erotic attraction to a corpse or having sex with a corpse.
(4) Bestiality is sexual relationship between a human being and an animal.
7. The trend toward lasciviousness in the sin nature seeks self-gratification in some form of sex, which becomes the arrogance of immorality or sexual arrogance.
a. Without capacity for love from Bible doctrine, sexual arrogance can only be an expression of lust, pseudo-love, self-gratification, sinfulness, and in some cases demonism in the operation of the phallic lust.
b. This is why sexual arrogance is mentioned in so many passages, as in Corinthians and Galatians, warning believers against the phallic cult. In Gal 5:19-20, sexual arrogance is related to demonization.
8. Sexual arrogance does not mean loss of salvation.
9. Polygamy in the man and promiscuity in the woman is detrimental to every facet of life, including the spiritual life. Above all, it is detrimental to capacity for love, for life, for happiness.
a. This is why the Word of God forbids adultery, fornication, and other related things such as pederasty, incest, masturbation, or bestiality.
b. God is not trying to deprive you of fun; God is trying to give you happiness, and God knows that you will never be happy under any system of fornication. It destroys your capacities.
c. Therefore, sex can be a great blessing or a distraction. Sex can only be a blessing as an expression of love in monogamy. But sex is a distraction as an expression of arrogance in polygamy, promiscuity, fornication, homosexuality, incest, bestiality, etc.
10. Sexual arrogance in the woman can manifest itself through seduction of important persons; e.g., Cleopatra's seduction of Caesar, Messalina's seduction of Claudius, or the famous Aspasia of fifth century B.C. Athens who seduced Pericles.
a. Sexual arrogance in the woman relates to the number and importance of her conquests. Her flirtatious attitude is designed to receive flattery and to stimulate her arrogance.
11. Male sexual arrogance includes a harem or a multiplicity of seductions. As degeneracy increases, this might go to other things. Rape is the criminal extension of this.
12. Once in the arrogance complex, abnormalities can and will develop when interacting with criminal arrogance, psychopathic arrogance, or impulsive arrogance in which someone with authority abuses his authority.
a. For example, incest combines sexual arrogance with impulsive arrogance as a parent.
b. Rape combines sexual arrogance with criminal arrogance.
c. Promiscuity combines sexual arrogance w/blind arrogance.
d. Once a form of arrogance is established in the life, it leads to functioning under other forms of arrogance to produce abnormalities, sins, and evils.
13. David used his women for personal self-gratification. Once you use one woman for this, it's easy to use the second, third, fourth, etc. in the same manner because of arrogance.
a. Therefore, sexual arrogance inevitably produces an increased lust which is abnormal. As capacity for love decreases, sexual and abnormal lust increases.
b. The more women with which a man has sex, the more intensified becomes his arrogance, so that sex destroys thought. Once you are minus thought, you lose your integrity, your honor, your doctrine and its application. This explains how David became a coward and did not fight in the Ammonite War.
E. Gate #5: Criminal Arrogance.
1. There are two categories of criminals in the world today: unbelievers and believers.
2. All criminality is acquired through arrogance. No one is born with a genetic tendency toward crime. It is all a matter of arrogance; e.g., authority arrogance, mental attitude arrogance, self-righteous arrogance, sexual arrogance, the arrogance of unhappiness which is subjective preoccupation with self, and above all, psychopathic arrogance.
a. All criminals are such because of their own volition, because they have made a decision to be a criminal. Environment is not the issue in criminality. Honor and integrity can belong to all, not just to one social caste. Criminals are criminals because they will to be so.
b. The criminal has no restraint of mental attitude sins, and no compunction about the use of violence to attain his objectives, though this is often covered by a facade of hypocrisy with smart criminals.
c. The arrogance factor in crime is the major issue. The only way a criminal can break out of criminal arrogance is by doing it himself; no one can help him. After conversion, there must be consistent positive volition toward doctrine. If there is any inconsistency, the criminal factor continues. Many a criminal uses some form of religion as a front for his activities.
d The real problem for a believer-criminal is not occasionally getting doctrine, but permanently accepting the authority of some teacher and staying with doctrine. Any personality conflict immediately arouses the arrogance in him, and he's right back in the arrogance complex.
3. The criminal believer lives inside the cosmic system. He is totally preoccupied with himself. He is hypersensitive about himself and, strangely enough, very self-righteous, filled with self-justification for his evil deeds.
4. The criminal believer is anti-authority, anti-establishment, and often, anti-God and anti-doctrine.
5. A law-abiding citizen may be irresponsible without being a criminal. But all criminals are irresponsible.
6. The believer living in the cosmic system and involved in the various stages of reversionism is capable of burglary, robbery, kidnapping, shoplifting, mugging, blackmail, larceny, drug activity, prostitution, rape, murder, etc.
7. Criminality actually begins with rejection of authority in the home. Rejection of the authority of the parents eventually results in the rejection of all legitimate authority.
a. The criminal mind rejects all authority in life but his own, and therefore he is disoriented. He seeks to superimpose his authority on society. In arrogance, he gives lip service to the authority he encounters, but in his soul he despises any and all authority except his own.
b. Since the criminal mind rejects all establishment authority, he becomes the enemy of the client nation to God.
c. The criminal often pretends to accept some authority, like that of pastor or evangelist or psychiatrist. Often he appears to be positive to the Gospel, and even to believe in Christ. But all of this is to advance his own ends.
d. Regeneration in itself never changes the criminal; only spiritual growth can stop his criminality. If the criminal has a genuine conversion, he is still not out of the woods, because rehabilitation demands he break out of the cosmic system and accept the authority of doctrine and a pastor-teacher.
8. The criminal has a basic sense of insecurity related to various categories of fear, such as fear of ridicule, fear related to peer pressure, fear of being reduced to nothing, the fear of what psychology calls the zero state. The criminal fears the zero state even when he not in it.
a. A sense of insecurity leads the criminal to the state of transparency, in which the criminal believes that his worthlessness is obvious to all and that everyone perceives it.
b. In zero state, the criminal often blames others for his real or imagined failures.
9. The criminal has no control over his emotions, including anger and hatred.
10. The criminal is a bored person. He wants excitement and proof of his power. In fact, the criminal's desire for excitement is so great that he becomes jaded & requires constant stimulation from excitement.
a.To the criminal, living without excitement is a put-down.
b. Therefore, the criminal requires constant stimulation related to his crimes, sex, torture, alcohol or drugs, making others afraid of him.
c. Eventually, only extreme criminal activity related to torture, rape, & murder is satisfactory as an antidote to his boredom.
11. All terrorists are criminals, not patriots. Because of boredom, they often torture and abuse their hostages. They have the lust to hurt.
12. All liars are not criminals, but all criminals are liars.
a. For the criminal, lying is a way of life. Therefore, the criminal becomes a pathological liar.
b. Habitual deceit and lying is the criminal's total disregard for the truth in any form.
c. Lying is the criminal's standard way of dealing with the world. Lying is a part of criminal manipulation.
13. The criminal is arrogant and irrational. Arrogance causes the criminal to fall into inordinate ambition and inordinate competition.
14. The criminal is saturated with a lust pattern of arrogance.
a. He has sexual lust, killer lust, power lust, approbation lust, money lust, stimulation lust (requiring extensive use of drugs or alcohol), cruelty lust (from which comes torture and abuse of others, as well as homicide).
b. From his arrogant preoccupation with self, the criminal is involved in a lust pattern from which it is almost impossible to break away. This is why the Word of God demands the use of capital punishment for criminals.
15. The criminal unbeliever can be demon possessed.
a. This was illustrated by the Thugs of India, who were one of the most famous criminal organizations of all time. They were probably guilty of the most crimes ever committed in the name of religion. They worshipped Kali, the goddess of murder, sex and destruction.
b. Hard-core demon-possessed religionists in the Tribu-lation will be guilty of the greatest criminal arrogance, Rev 9:20,21.
c. The criminal believer can live under demon influence, but he cannot be demon possessed.
16. The criminal is involved in a locked-in arrogance. Therefore, he becomes vulnerable to psychopathic arrogance.
(c) 1989, by R. B. Thieme, Jr. All rights reserved.
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You’re NOT talkin’ about me...You’re talkin’ about Obama!
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Remarkable identifications arise with Obama when I get to Part 4.
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