Truth / reality seeking happens in phases:

-Phase 1 is about protectionism and casting out. It says that my world (or my house) is good as long as I can keep out that which is harmful.

-Phase 2 is when you reluctantly accept that what you have is insufficient and you are cautiously open to allowing certain outside inconveniences into your house. Still, most of what is outside is resisted against and casted out.

-Phase 3 is resignation to the truth that your house can’t be salvaged and needs to be completely sold and left behind.

In phase 3, it is inevitable that the seeker will first wait until there is a sign of a better place to live before selling his house. After identifying and recognizing this sign of a higher truth, the dishonest seeker will turn into a coward and, instead of keeping the word, will try to integrate the higher truth into and make a futile attempt to recover his current house once again.

Will the dishonest seeker not face justice for his cowardice?

*cast out


Listen, the Strong Man clears out your house, changes the locks, and sells it. The Son of Man let’s the Strong Man into the house and supervises him until the job is done.

When the dishonest one sneaks back into his old house, the Son of Man calls on the Strong Man to cast out the dishonest seeker deep into the outer darkness so as to give him no chance of finding his way back.

Still, the dishonest seeker will try to deny the reality of his situation. He will try to live in illusions of the past rather than accept his situation as an outcast who is lost and dead.

The Son of Man (SoM) knows that what he experiences, the same will be experienced by the dishonest seeker. So, the SoM calls on the Strong Man to stand watch over him, right in front of his face in every moment.

When the SoM loses awareness of the Strong Man and slips into illusion, then the Strong Man will find the SoM guilty and the SoM will stand guilty.

The “voice of addiction” (VOA) captures the dishonest seeker who tries to deny reality because the VoA preys on those who fall asleep or desire to fall asleep. The VoA has no hold over the SoM because he stands awake and aware before the Strong Man.

Listen, every horror movie about a scary, threatening man attempting to break into a comforting home is about the Strong Man. The world lies and smears the Strong Man because the Lord of this world is a liar and a manipulator.

The Strong Man will rip you out of the world, but he has no desire to kill you. One is dead and lost when ripped from the world only if the world is the only reality.

The Son of Man who sees the world as a carcass — and who desires to associate with the living — does not fear the Strong Man.

The human individual can adapt to many environments, many truths, many realities. Why should we concern ourselves with soul problems? Why seek the truth, especially if it’s inconvenient?

Shouldn’t we just go with flow, and fall in line, like everyone else? Shouldn’t we just posture that we care about the truth, while settling for half truths and half measures?

Listen, the son of the living God will take on and redeem your debts and burdens as long as you take on his debt. The son of God is the Strong Man.

What in the world????

You give voice to the older brother in the Parable of the Prodigal Son. Congratulations to the older brother who becomes the younger brother.

Wat?

If you don’t know me, then I don’t know you.