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LOVE OF THE TRUTH

By Dr. Pat Holliday, PhD

The Holy Spirit in Proverbs said, "The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the

righteous yieldeth fruit," (Prov. 12:12). Again, He said, A man shall not be established bywickedness: but the root of the righteous shall not be moved," (Prov. 12:3). The Book of Jobgives an eternal principle. "Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one." (Job 14:4).The impure doctrines of our present church systems have muddied the waters of religion untilit hardly favors the Holy Bible and the true church. Revival is impossible until we return to "thelove of the truth," (2 Thess. 2:10). The love of the truth is the saving power of God.

The Apostle Paul reveals our position i n Jesus, But ye are a chosen generation, a royalpriesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him whohath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light: 10 Which in time past were not apeople, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtainedmercy. 11 Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts,which war against the soul; 12 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that,whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shallbehold, glorify God in the day of visitation, (1 Pet. 2:9 -12).

The Apostle James ties the condition of a double-minded person to his/her thinking that divideshis/her mind that switches between two positions and either one of these position hold a firmparticular standing in the persons mind. The Bible brings out that this condition concerns a

person that exist in a state of confusion resulting in being unstable in every part of his/her life.This state can cause a person to become variable in character or condition highly or violentlyreactive. This condition can cause an unsound mind. "But if he asks, he must believe and notdoubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. Thatman should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man,unstable in all he does," (Jam. 1:6-8).

The above Scripture says, "That person is unstable in all his ways." Author William MenziesAlexander gives the following characteristic of demon possession. Another characteristic wouldinclude: automatic representation and persistent and consistent acting out a "new personality.This is evidenced by a knowledgeable and intellectual power neither possessed by the subjectnor explicable on the pathological possibility. Also noted is a change of personality that willinvolve complete modification of moral character. These are but the misapprehensions of anuninstructed mind and may be briefly dismissed. The passage from sanity to insanity implieschange of personality. The change follows a recognized pathological order. There is sometimesa morbid exaltation of certain faculties; but never any real augmentation of intellectual power.

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