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ON PSYCHOLOGY

Dear J. F.                                                                                                    September 6, 1994

       ...Beware of psychology. It is the new state religion. It was conceived by a very wicked man who told a mother whose son was a homosexual (what the Bible calls a "sodomite") that he could not cure him, but he could tell her son how to enjoy it. "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one" (Job 14:4).

      You will have to hear and read things that will try to draw your soul into the Devil's lair. Things you read will haunt you for years to come. You should have refused to take that course of study.

     I was very disappointed when I received an invitation to go to Atlanta for a pastors conference... "Four Things Pastors' Wives Wished Their Husbands Understood About Them"— "Helping Young Men Through Their Entry-Level Experiences" —"Let's Appreciate the Differences," etc. all smell of psychology. There is still no humbling of ourselves by prayer, seeking God's face, and turning from wicked ways. Americans are still seeking alternatives for conviction of sin with guilt and shame. I am sad.

ON THE PERNICIOUS NATURE OF "CHRISTIAN" PSYCHOLOGY

Dear J. D.                                                                                                      August 10, 1988

      ...It should be evident by now that the constant harping on "sex" by Christian counsellors has wrought a great deal of mischief in the Church. Since our conduct corresponds with the meditations of our heart, it is a very serious thing to use our tongue or pen in such a manner that will conjure up impure thoughts in the minds of others.

     I am much afraid that many Christian counsellors, often in order to obtain the accreditation of this world, have sat so long under the "counsel of the ungodly" that they have imbibed the pernicious notions of their mentors. Consider in the first place how we are continually told that people "have sex." People do not "have sex"—animals do. This notion reduces man to the level of a beast of the field ...

     Consider again, how the glorious mysteries of life are turned into crass and vulgar biological functions. Intimacy is a thing so holy the Apostle Paul used it to express the love of Christ for His Church.

     Third, it has become the practice for counsellors to bring God's eternal guidelines to the floor of mankind for discussion. To do so is to lend credence to views opposing Truth. Truth must never be placed in such a common or compromising position. God's way is very dogmatic, and uninteresting: "This is the way; walk ye in it." "I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life ..."

    (Deuteronomy 30:19). The eternal God does not submit His Law for the approval of men.

    Sin is not open to dialogue, for the Apostle Paul warned, "Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speak of those things that are done of them in secret" (Ephesians 5:11,12).

    God first inspired, then directed the Apostle to exhort us to "(cast) down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and (bring) into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ ..." (II Corinthians 10:5). I am convinced the attempts of some to salvage the lives of others have wrecked the spiritual life of the Church in our generation.

    If we would have our young people retain their virginity and to walk in modesty we must, according to Jeremy Taylor, help them maintain "an ignorance in the distinctions of the sexes, or their proper instruments; or if they accidentally be instructed in that," we must help supply them "with an inadvertency or neglect of all thoughts and remembrances of such differences" (Holy Living, p. 101).

    Which is the way of holiness? the way of the psychologist, or the way of Jeremy Taylor, and the Apostle Paul? The Holy Spirit tells us "It is a shame even to speak of those things that are done of them in secret" (Ephesians 5:12).

ON LEAVING HOME

Dear B. S.                                                                                                 November 18, 1987

       ...B., "Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat." When you were living at home, you lived "under law," but now that you are living away from home, you are living "under grace," Now it will be seen,

Do you love the Lord or no?                                                                               Are you His, or are you not?

ON OVERCOMING TEMPTATION

Dear B. S.                                                                                                  November 18, 1987

      ..."There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it" (I Corinthians 10:13). The theme in this passage is not temptation, but the faithfulness of God. ...

     Paul exhorted us to "Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (II Corinthians 10:5). And, Solomon counseled, "Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established" (Proverbs 16:3). The LORD says, "Give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways" (Proverbs 23:26).

    Play the man, and do battle in your heart. In the event you stumble, water God's altar with your tears. We will uphold you. "May God be gracious unto you."

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