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only a Right thing done in a Right way is Right.

Therefore the only conclusion with regard to people comes to be that you CANNOT EVER build your happiness on someone else's unhappiness. A few words do not reestablish lost authority nor does sin solve any of the problems in life.

One of the biggest problems in the practice of evil at any level is the Self Righteousness of it all. Self Righteousness is a facade for adding evil to sin. Once you become Self Righteous about a sin you committed you will never solve it because you are going to operate on the momentum of evil. The momentum of evil always says Injustice Demands Injustice. You can be honorable one day and totally dishonorable the next. However this should never occur and the one thing a man should maintain at all times and under all conditions and at all costs is his HONOR and INTEGRITY. You maintain honor and integrity by being sure that after a sin, EVIL does not follow. You will always lose honor and integrity when you follow up a sin with evil.

In the home, in business, in social life, and when holding positions of responsibility, much of the time we find women trying to cover their regretable actions after they do them. This results because women are responders and this is instinctive and natural with them. Then immediately and from then on they refuse to take responsibility for what they have done. When sin is involved in destruction or setting aside of authority it is then not only sin but is formed into evil with the resultant anarchy. Then everyone who got involved in this sin thing will all have an individual solution. When you try to solve this sort of problem with an individual or even collective human solution all you do is cause more and greater problems.

Selfishness and selfcenteredness are the twin facets of PRIDE and this is MENTAL ARROGANCE. Pride when attacked or injured will submerge into the soul under the pressure of the attack until the pressure ignites it and causes it to explode resulting in all the other Mental Attitude Sins. These Mental Attitude Sins when they surface in the soul result in FALSE MOTIVATION and combine to form EVIL in the thought processes of the soul. This EVIL is expressed in verbal and overt sins focused on rejection of Bible Doctrine and the Laws of Divine Establishment principles and involvement in every facet of Human Good function in life. THIS EXPLAINS MUCH OF OUR SOCIETY TODAY IN THE UNITED STATES. Believers who have some doctrine and then neglect doctrine tend to become very selfish, self centered and thoughtless but they can recover through consistency in Perception, Cognition, Inculcation & Metabolization of Bible Doctrine.

For every believer in life there is the function of 2 antithetical concepts.

Blessing by association

Cursing by association

Compatibility with other believers is based on their advancing together with you. If there are believers who are going along for the ride but ignoring the Bible Doctrine sooner or later there will have to be a break up or there will be an intrusion and distraction from false compatibility. When a believer recovers from reversionism he must move from one doctrinal message to another until he finally arrives at Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. If someone who is advancing to Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God has been a blessing to you this is blessing by association. If and when they break into Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God your blessing increases. At some time in life you will say “What is the source of this blessing” and sooner or later you must personally catch on to Bible Doctrine yourself. If you never catch on to Bible Doctrine as the source of the blessings which have come to you eventually you will move into reversionism and stay there as a test for others until God removes you from this life by the function of reversion Divine Discipline including, warning, intensive and dying Divine Discipline.

We all have friends and can look back to see we have gone one way and they another. As with Joshua we must say as for me and my house we will serve the lord” and they will separate not willing to commit to consistent Perception, Cognition, Inculcation & Metabolization of Bible Doctrine. It is the quintessence of stupidity for any believer to remain in reversionism since this means he never understands any blessing or any Divine Discipline which comes his way and therefore cannot be reached by God either by blessing or Divine Discipline. When Blessing comes by association you may never have the ability to penetrate the screen of blessing and see the source as Bible Doctrine and eventually Occupation with the Person of The Lord Jesus, The Christ. Divine Discipline comes to believers in order to jog their memory with regard to Bible Doctrine and many never understand that Divine Discipline is God speaking and advising us of the importance of Bible Doctrine and of spiritual growth. A person who cannot be reached by either Divine Discipline or recognizing the source of blessing by association is too dumb to live. However they do live and develop a callous of stupidity that is so thick that to break through the thick hide God gives them horrible things in life. They then always turn around and blame God and other people who have been a blessing to them in the past and anyone in their periphery for these problems and it never occurs to them to simply blame themself. Then they die horribly and miserably and they never catch on to anything until an instant after death. These people may be very smart with high IQ and smart about many things in life but are spiritually stupid and it is inexcusable to be spiritually stupid.

The truly tragic situation with regard to reversionists is that they cannot be warned because they reject all the sources of authority which bring such warning. Reversionists are always ungrateful and their lack of gratitude expresses itself in arrogance and their taking advantage of others. This is the ARROGANCE OF REVERSIONISM. Anything you do for a reversionist will never be appreciated. It is in fact most often resented because reversionism harbors jealousy, arrogance, vindictiveness, pettiness, and great resentment. The reversionist does not have the power for appreciation nor the capacity for love but these should go together in the soul. With capacity for love you have appreciation for others and what they do for you. Any person who is arrogant and has hangups always wants a maximum expression of gratitude from others. If you have no capacity no matter what people do for you there is no appreciation and this is what is evident in spoiled children. Children are not spoiled by giving them things but ONLY by NOT training and disciplining them in their childhood and by allowing them to manifest the pettiness of Mental Attitude Sins, permitting that to go unchecked. Children are spoiled by the Mental Attitude Sins of Arrogance, Resentment, Pettiness and jealousy.

“The Decisions we make determine the life we live”; One bad decision always leads to another bad decision. Judgment is impaired by reversionism, by the domination of an overbearing wife and by Mental Attitude Sins of pettiness, jealousy, vindictiveness and arrogance. Arrogant people cannot make good decisions and they always think they can go it alone. By being