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and thirst,...in cold and nakedness" (II Cor. 11:23-27). Paul's was not a religion of limited liability nor of

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The world is a battlefield, and there are casualties and wounds in battle, but the battle is the Lord's and its end is victory. To attempt an escape from the battle is to flee from the liabilities of warfare against sinful men for battle with an angry God. To face the battle is to suffer the penalties of man's wrath and the blessings of

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God's grace and law.

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[The Institutes of Biblical Law, Rousas John Rushdoony, The Craig Press, Library of Congress Catalog Card

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Number 72-79485,1973, pp. 664-669]

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If you would like to learn more about the fascinating subject of this section, please see: 9

The Unlimited Liability Universe , Family Guardian Fellowship http://www.famguardian.org/Subjects/Spirituality/Articles/UnlimitedLiabilityUniverse.htm

4.2 The Main difference between God and Satan is How they Procure your Consent and 10 Cooperation 11

The method by which consent is procured characterizes the main distinction, in fact, between the nature of God and the 12 nature of Satan. 13

1. God always procures your consent voluntarily and with full disclosure. 14 1.1. He motivates people primarily through love. 15 1.2. He gave you a whole book full of his Truth, His Covenants, and His promises and described in excruciating detail 16 everything that happened both to those who accepted his covenant voluntarily and those who didn’t. 17 1.3. He wants to talk to you constantly through prayer. 18 1.4. He manifests Himself continually through the Holy Spirit, which is what most people call our conscience. 19 1.5. Everywhere we go, the Truth of the laws found in His Holy book are demonstrated to us in everything that 20 happens. 21 1.6. He doesn’t force you to do anything, but instead lets experience teach you what is right and wrong continually. 22 2. Satan always procures your consent through force, fraud, and deceit and without full disclosure. 23 2.1. He motivates people primarily through fear. 24 2.2. He exploits, magnifies, and propagates the human weaknesses that are the source of all of his power, including 25 fear, ignorance, and presumption. He intends to make you a prisoner of your own sin and weakness. John 8:34- 26 35. 27 2.3. He is called the father of lies. John 8:44 28 2.4. He is called the deceiver. Rev. 12:9, John 8:44. 29 2.5. Everything he does produces alienation and separation from God and promotes sin. 30 2.6. He acts out of pride and covetousness. 31 2.7. He seeks to destroy God and everything that was created in God’s image, which means all of human kind and the 32 entire earth. 33 The key to being a mature Christian is to be able to discern the subtle differences between God and Satan in procuring our 34 consent, cooperation, and allegiance and to recognize these forces at work in all the people we interact with, and especially 35 those in government. We are the sheep and our God is the good Shepherd. If we are to avoid harm, we must recognize our 36 shepherd and follow Him, but avoid Satan, who is a stranger, a thief, and a destroyer. To God, Satan is a "sheep poacher". 37 The parable of the Good Shepherd tells this story clearly in John 10:1-11: 38

"Most assuredly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he brings out his own sheep he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice ."

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Jesus used this illustration, but they did not understand the things which He spoke to them.

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Then Jesus said to them again, "Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who enter came before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by Me he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal, and kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. I am the good

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shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep."

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