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Exchanged Glory III: Wise as Serpents
[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
[6] Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, Bill Cadden, 2006, 39
[7] Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, Bill Cadden, 2006, 72-76
[8] Cadden, Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, 76
[9] Cadden, Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, 58-61
Chapter Two. Wisdom Shouts in the Street
[12] Exploring the World of Dreams, Benny Thomas, Whitaker House, 1990
[13] Lord willing, Exchanged Glory IV: A Time for Every Purpose will describe how dreams became a major part of my recovery. When I first attempted to interpret them in the early 1990s, I didn’t have the wisdom to do it well, and I eventually lost interest. Then in 1998, I read through the dreams I had written down years earlier and realized that they symbolically described much of what I had experienced during the past several years! This helped me to find the faith to persevere and develop the skill to make dream interpretation a part of my life.
Chapter Three. Wisdom Killer 1: Loving Simplicity
[14] Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.
[15] When I say I disconnected from my emotions, I mean that I used my reason to figure out what needed to be done and my will to force myself to do it. I went into “robot mode,” ignoring my emotions while I controlled my external actions in order to do what was required.
[16] By suppressing I mean that I tried to directly control my emotions with my mind and will, which eventually degenerated into controlling them with my anger. In effect, I said to myself, “You’re an idiot, but I’m not going to let you ruin my life. If the best I can do is to bully and chastise my emotions until they back off and hide, then that is what I will do.”
[17] Lord willing, I will describe how they caused me trouble in Exchanged Glory IV: A Time for Every Purpose.
Chapter Four. Loving Simplicity in a Complex World
[19] Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.
[20] Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.
Chapter Five. Wisdom Killer 2: Delighting in Scoffing
[21] Cadden, Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, 30-32
Chapter Six. Wisdom Killer 3: Hating Knowledge
[24] Love is a Choice, Dr. Robert Hemfelt, Dr. Frank Minirth, and Dr. Paul Meier, Thomas Nelson Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee, 1989, 105.
Chapter Seven. The Day of Adversity
[25] Cadden, Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, 23-24
[26] Ibid, 64, Cadden, Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, 21-22
Chapter Eight. A Practical Guide to Gaining Wisdom
[27] Lord willing, I plan to give more details of this story in Exchanged Glory V: God Meant it for Good.
[28] Cadden, Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, 77
Chapter Nine. The Lord Gives Wisdom
[29] Cadden, Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, 14-36
[31] Cadden, Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, 42-48
Chapter Ten. Wisdom and Sexual Freedom
[33] Cadden, Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, 25-29
[34] Cadden, Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, 32-36
[35] Cadden, Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, 71-76
Chapter Eleven. What does it Mean to Lust for a Woman?
[36] I believe that Matthew 5:29-30 uses hyperbole (exaggeration to make a point) in order to press on us the seriousness of lusting and privately acting out. It is important to understand that Jesus isn’t calling for us to amputate body parts. Our eye and our hand are never the true cause of our sin; our heart is. “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, …” Matthew 15:18-20. We should not deal with lusting by amputating, but by coming to the throne of grace, repenting, and putting in place the necessary safeguards to keep us from sin.
[37] Cadden, Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, 52-54
[38] “Research on Memory done by psychologist James L. McGaugh at the University of California suggests that experiences that occurred at times of emotional arousal (which could include sexual arousal) get ‘locked into the brain by an adrenal gland hormone, epinephrine, and are difficult to erase.’ Cited in Victor B. Cline, Pornography’s Effects on Adults and Children (New York: Morality in Media, n.d.), pg 7.” An Affair of the Mind, Laurie Hall, A Focus on the Family Book published by Tyndale House Publishers Avon Books, Wheaton Illinois, 1996, 67-68, 265.
[39] Breaking Free, Understanding sexual addiction and the Healing Power of Jesus, Russell Willingham, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, IL 60515, 151-158.
[40] One again, hyperbole (exaggeration to make a point) seems to be the Bible’s figure of speech of choice when it comes to sex. Though I have been tempted to try to convince my wife that this scripture commands me to be sexually active with her at all times, I know better. This verse means that a husband should be caught up with his wife, and that he should attempt to be with her regularly.
[41] Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright © 1994, 2003 Biblesoft, Inc. and International Bible Translators, Inc.
Chapter Thirteen. The Fairytale Stronghold
[42] All of these statistics were found at http://www.blazinggrace.org/index.php?page=3Dporn-statistics. There are many more on the web page.
[44] While a sexually addicted person doesn’t need to reveal every detail of his or her sin to their spouse, they do (at the very least) need to provide enough openness so they can pursue recovery. Walking in this transparency is tricky business, however. I recommend that a person seek counsel from a pastor or other skilled counselor before doing so.
Chapter Fifteen. Turn to the Burning Bush
[45] I realize that I am reading a lot into this scripture. I believe the previous chapter of this book together with the next four support my point with scriptures that teach the same message more clearly. I summarize these scriptures with this picture of Moses at the burning bush, because it is an easy to understand and yet powerful metaphor of how we should respond to God.
Chapter Sixteen. “Underwhelmed” by God
[46] The Cross and the Switchblade, David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill, The Berkley Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Putnam Inc., 1977, Original copyright in 1962 by David Wilkerson.
Chapter Four-1. Naïve Theology
[47] The “Woodstock Generation” refers to those who grew up in America under the influence of the social changes that occurred during the 1960s.
[48] The Greek for “the smallest item in God’s law” talks about jots and tittles. A jot is a small letter of the Hebrew alphabet; a tittle is a part of a letter.
Chapter Four-2. Beyond Naïve Theology
[49] The Vindication of Tradition, Jaroslav Pelikan, Yale Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1984, 65
[50] Theology is the study of God. Hermeneutics is the study of how we should interpret and apply the Bible. Logic is the study of how we should think. Ethics is the study of how we should live. Apologetics is the study of how we should defend Christianity against false beliefs.
[51] When I learned about pragmatism, I finally understood my father and the society I was born into in the late 1950s. When I learned about existentialism, I discovered insights into myself and the 60’s revolution that had shaped me. When I learned about nihilism, I saw the deep-rooted doubt and cynicism of our culture today.
Chapter Twelve-1. Some Basics about the Law
[53] Cadden, Exchanged Glory: A Vision of Freedom, 28-29, Cadden, Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, 62-68
Chapter Twelve-2. Civil Punishments under the Law
[54] To understand some of what is at stake with the question of whether judicial laws are moral, consider the following illustration. If a man was made a judge in a country that required him to sentence innocent people to death, he would have to refuse. Killing innocent people would be murder, and “You shall not murder” (Exodus 20:13) is a moral law. When we have to choose between moral laws and man’s rebellious laws, we must obey God rather than human leaders (Acts 4:19-20). But consider what should happen if the same man was made a judge in a nation that didn’t allow for the death penalty. Would he be required to sentence murderers to death? If “Whoever kills any man shall surely be put to death” (Leviticus 24:17) is a moral law, he would. Moral laws have to be obeyed even when they get us into trouble with the government.
Because of this, if Old Testament civil punishment laws are moral, it is just about impossible for us to work within the system of any nation that doesn’t implement Old Testament standards of justice. Instead, I believe that we can be like Daniel in Babylon. We can work within an ungodly government, implementing its system of justice while we try to influence the nation toward the God of the Bible. It takes wisdom to do so, but I believe God calls some of His children to this task.
[55] The Westminster Confession of Faith puts it this way: “God also gave the Israelites, as a political body, various judicial laws. These expired with the state of Israel and make no further obligation on God's people than seems appropriate in contemporary legal codes” Chapter 19-4. The “general equity” is the understanding of justice that is included in the judicial laws that civil leaders should apply to our lands.
[56] The Law lets us know not only that we are separated from God, which leads to eternal punishment, but also that certain sins, which we call crimes, require justice on earth.
[57] This scripture is another reason that I consider the civil laws of the Old Testament to be ceremonial. If they were moral, could God have asked His people to suspend them after David committed murder and adultery?
Chapter Twelve-4. The Dowry Penalty
[58] Why Wait, Josh McDowell and Dick Day, Here’s Life Publishers, Inc., 1987, 47
[59] Ibid, 47, quoting from a Washington [AP] article.
[60] Ibid 49
[61] Ibid, 48, referencing, Seligmann, Jean. A Nasty New Epidemic, Newsweek, February 4, 1985, 72-73.
[62] Several commentators feel that Proverbs 5:1-14 speaks of men who have committed adultery. I believe that the suffering Solomon described fits better with what we would expect for those who indulged in immoral sex before marriage. It is possible, however, that the Israelites applied the principle of the dowry penalty to sex crimes that didn’t involve a virgin.
Chapter Twelve-5. The Fountain
[63] Why Wait, Josh McDowell and Dick Day, Here’s Life Publishers, Inc., 1987, 47-53
[64] Exchanged Glory II: The OK Stronghold, Bill Cadden, 62-68
Chapter Twelve-6. Protecting the Family
[66] Why Wait, Josh McDowell and Dick Day, Here’s Life Publishers, Inc., 1987, 60-61.
[67] Not all sex offenders are likely to repeat their crimes. There are some, however, who are a high risk to become repeat offenders.
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