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The Enemy and Earth-life Bias [ELB] Earth-life bias [ELB] is my name for the work of the enemy in humans because the enemy also works through humans. ELB is the opposite of faith as referenced in the faith meter above. ELB is complicated because it is everywhere. With believers in general, ELB must be subtle or we would drive it out. This section draws our attention to the major successes of ELB in our lives, especially in the church where we least expect it. ELB is that pervasive. Section 3 shows us how to escape ELB after we recognize it. The greatest success of the enemy working inside believers occurs when our main focus remains on this season of life that we are born into. When it comes to God, we just add him as an accessory to this material life to call on when needed, even though the Scripture says we are born again into a new creation. This book was written to teach us how to live as a new creation. ELB’s number one goal is to keep us focused on this life with God as only an accessory and the conventional teaching of God’s promises or threats of the fiery pit plays right into the enemy’s hands. Typically it is not enough to send us to the fiery pit but enough to keep us from imaging our Abba Father to others as my first cover title illustrates and missing out on the full joy, peace and glory our Abba Father wants us to have in the Family. Which keeps us from doing our job in the Family business which is the big win for ELB. Please pray on that. ELB is a new subject because conventional teaching for much of what I am suggesting as ELB is normally preached as the battle between good and evil and often referred to as “spiritual warfare.” That makes for great sermons but it is not very helpful in the practical application of the Scripture because much of ELB minimizes the divine spirit world and we do not recognize ELB as sin or evil when often it is just not godly. In fact, much of ELB is done in the name of God by middlemen discussed in message S2M2. ELB is not just our human nature and surroundings, it is the primary work of the enemy through people to weaken our faith. Driving ELB out of our lives is driving the enemy out of our lives because ELB is the number one tool of the enemy as a deceiver. Let me give an example of ELB in action. Leviticus 18:17 is one of the best known verses in the Scripture, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” Believers say it often. But if we do not love ourselves, our neighbor is out of luck. That cannot be the best of love. In addition, when we live in that verse, we live on earth just as humans, us and our neighbor. Both times Jesus quotes Leviticus 18:17, he is being contested by a Jew with the Old Testament in mind and John had not been written, which presents Jesus as the word of God. But Jesus also raised the bar very high in John 15:11-13, “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” When we live in this commandment, Jesus’ only one by the way, we live in our Abba Father’s world in a state of love for everyone including our Abba Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. I have been waiting a long time to hear just one person say in public, “love one another as Jesus loved you.” Still waiting. This is ELB’s influence on conventional preaching/teaching that focusing on our relationship helps overcome. Please pray on that. All ungodly thoughts and behavior are post Jesus sins because they are not love. Drop the mic right here. If we would just live in the state of love, we would find great peace and joy. When we exegete [interpret] the Scripture for our relationship, our faith grows by orders of magnitude. Moving out to the big picture now, ELB in this world, our government, our spouse, our friends, and total strangers, all come at us 24/7/365. How we react to these interfaces reveals who we are. This life is not about believing or not believing, it is about how we react to the experiences that come our way. Please pray on that. The enemy is at war with our Abba Father and we are the treasure both are after. The invasion has already happened, there is no way to escape it. We fight to save our Family or we surrender. Our Abba Father has an “Achilles heel” with his Family in that he cannot be in the presence of sin. The enemy knows this and does everything he can to keep our relationship with our Abba Father as weak as possible to maximize sin in us. That is why I am so passionate about our relationship in contrast to the traditional teaching which is centered on salvation and God’s promises, character, power, and love. That is all about just him, not him and us together in the Family. The difference is profound.
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We cannot relate to a spirit God, a spirit Savior, a spirit Uncle, and a spirit enemy without embracing the spirit world. This book coined the phrase "Earth-life Bias" [ELB] to identify the enemy's work in our daily lives and illustrate how most believers just add our Abba Father as an accessory to this life instead of becoming citizens of Heaven and members of his Family. This book illustrates how pervasive ELB is in every aspect of our lives without criticizing any person, organization or denomination. They all serve our Abba Father’s purpose and all have Romans 10 in their Holy Bibles which shows us how to avoid the fiery pit. The rest of the Scripture is about our relationships. Esoteric knowledge of the Scripture is for scholars, we need to apply it to our lives. After revealing the ELB in our lives, we explain how to escape it by embracing the supernatural divine spirit world and how the “godly control system,” the heart, mind, spirit, soul connection with the Holy Spirit, Jesus and our Abba Father works. With that foundation, we show how build our faith, relationships, and marriages, converting “for better or worse” to sanctified marriage with vows to our Abba Father to do it his way. There is also a section on Daniel which brings our Abba Father into modern times, explains what is taking Jesus so long to get here, and answers a lot of questions about end times. This section is work but it is a giant faith builder, as you will see. But regardless of where we worship, we are individually responsible for own relationship with our Abba Father and this book will help any believer grow their faith and experience the full joy, peace and glory our Abba Father created for us.
About the Author
Our Abba Father let the author know it was time to go to work for him in 2008, there was no missing it. The first assignment was to go into gang territory in Los Angeles and help out which led to his jail/prison ministry. His first reaction was the same as Jonah’s when he was sent to Nineveh, “no way, God. I’m a suit and won’t last a day.” And like Jonah, he was soon on his way to L.A. Every step of the journey since has been led by our Abba Father. Today the author is a biblical counselor and jail/prison pastor specializing in re-entry and family re-unification. He is also Senior Pastor of a small church in Southern California. He had a biblical counseling overview in seminary, recognized it’s power and asked, why do people have to be hurting to hear the Scripture this way? It has been his preaching theme ever since. He has proven that biblical counseling can build character in incarcerated people (and everyone else) which is recognized by the justice system as rehabilitation and rewarded. His work will spread nationwide. Working with the entire family introduces a broad population to the power of biblical counseling which is the greatest faith and relationship builder there is in applying the Scripture to life. Everything comes together with the Scripture in the Sanctified Marriage between believers and Christ and husband and wife.