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Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom
[1] Sexual Healing, David Kyle Foster, Regal Books From Gospel Light, Ventura, California, 2005
[2] I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me, Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, Hal Straus, Penguin Group, Chapter 2, 45-49
[3] I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me, Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, Hal Straus, Penguin Group, Chapter 2, 43-45
[4] I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me, Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, Hal Straus, Penguin Group, Chapter 2, 43
[5] I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me, Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, Hal Straus, Penguin Group, Chapter 10, 208-209
Introduction to the Exchanged Glory Series
[6] In order to avoid misunderstanding, I should point out that there is a difference between a sex addict and a sex offender. Some people get the two confused. A sex addict is someone who is dependant on sex. A sex offender is someone who commits a crime involving sex. Only a small percentage of sex addicts are sex offenders, and not all sex offenders are sex addicts.
Chapter One. The Growing Struggle
[7] Though I don’t believe that any particular flavor of sin is genetic, I do believe that human nature tends toward sin, and that some have greater weaknesses in one area versus another. For example, some find it easy to fall into uncontrolled anger, others into greed, and others into various sexual sins. Circumstances also influence us toward certain wrongs. I don’t believe that any of this gives us an excuse to disobey God, however. He calls for us to overcome our weaknesses by His strength.
[8] The 1970’s was a different time. It wasn’t as dangerous for people to stop and give a stranger a ride.
Chapter Two. Disappointed, Comforted, and Overwhelmed
[9] I am also grateful for Josh McDowell and Dick Day’s book, Why Wait, which I read almost ten years later. It helped me, for the first time, to really understand why sex outside of marriage was wrong. Before reading the book, I knew that God said to save sex for marriage (which was enough to cause me to cry out for help and to avoid having sex with another person), but I had trouble seeing how something that seemed so natural and desirable could be wrong. Why Wait, Josh McDowell and Dick Day, Here’s Life Publishers, Inc., 1987, www.josh.org.
[10] I think that if I had been committing sins that more seriously affected others, like fornication or trying to justify myself, it would have been necessary for the church to discipline me in some way to protect the people I might hurt.
Chapter Three. A Few Thoughts about the Fear of the Lord
[11] The Greek word “phobos”, which can be used in the phrase “the fear of God” (2 Corinthians 7:1), is sometimes translated terror (II Corinthians 5:11, Romans 13:3, I Peter 3:14 KJV). What could be more terrifying than being thrown into hell?
[12] One helpful saying to explain “justified” is that God sees me “just as if I’d never sinned.”
[13] The Greek word for ‘perfect’ can be translated ‘mature.’
Chapter Four. Surprised by Wrath and Mercy
[14] My ability to understand the Holy Spirit was immature, and a mistaken idea that could have derailed the entire encounter had come in. Fortunately, I didn’t blindly accept the mistaken idea. I tested it by the Scriptures, and this opened my eyes to see more clearly the real message: that I deserved to go to hell but Jesus had saved me.
[15] There is an overlap between unrighteousness and ungodliness. We could say that ungodly acts are unrighteous, and unrighteous acts are ungodly. I am stressing the difference between the two words because I live in a society that tends to think that “bad worship” is harmless. I want to point out that it isn’t.
[16] In the first version of this book I called this the false god of tolerance. As time went on, it seemed good to change the name to something more descriptive and less controversial: the false god of permissive-love.
Chapter Six. Therefore God Gave Them Over
[17] Romans 1:18-31 is the Scripture that helped me to understand how I had been bound by a smoking fetish. I realize that it describes what happens to unbelievers, not Christians. As I grew to understand the spiritual and psychological forces associated with ungodliness, however, I became convinced that something similar to it can happen to God’s children. False gods produce a lack of wisdom in our hearts, which keeps us from fully walking in God’s ways.
[18] The best protective wall against sin is a new nature in Christ together with the wisdom of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. I will look at these starting in the next section.
[19] I believe that sin is genetic in the sense that it is part of the human makeup. I also believe that each of us have different weaknesses toward one sin or another. Some people are more susceptible than others to the deceptions that lead to homosexuality, but that is not the same as saying that they were born gay.
[20] I will look at the addictive mindset in much more detail in the second book of this series.
Chapter Nine. Stuck in the Old Self
[21] An Affair of the Mind, Laurie Hall, A Focus on the Family Book published by Tyndale House Publishers Avon Books, Wheaton Illinois, 1996, 248.
[22] The Normal Christian Life, Watchman Nee, Copyright 1957 by Angus I Kinnear, first published by Gospel Literature Service, India, American Edition published in 1977 by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, www.Tyndale.com, by permission of Kingsway Publications, Ltd, Sussex England.
[23] In the church I attend, people are encouraged to develop their gifts and share in meetings, even giving full length sermons if they have the gift to do so.
[24] The asthma was probably brought on, in part, by a lifetime of exposure to second hand smoke together with the short time I smoked in college. It cleared up for many years starting in the 1990s when the laws were changed to eliminate second hand smoke from public buildings.
Chapter Ten. Falling off the Tightrope
[25] Existentialism is normally an atheistic philosophy, but it is possible to construct a god who works with some of its principles.
Chapter Eleven. Escape to the New Self
[26] These tests were done while the patients had their skulls surgically opened for treatment of focal epilepsy. Amazingly, the electrodes were applied directly to the brains of still conscious patients. (W. Penfield, Memory Mechanisms, A.M.A. Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 67 (1952): 178-198, with discussion by L. S. Kubie et al.). I read about these experiments in I’m OK, You’re OK, Thomas A. Harris, M.D., Avon Books, 1973, 25-33.
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