DAILY TRUTH - Yes, Yoga Is Demonic
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What is the difference between Christian Meditation and Eastern Meditation, and what does it mean to meditate on the Word of God? How can we learn to memorize God's Word, and how can we apply it to our lives?
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are not synonymous meditation i believe that it necessitates it assumes memorization because you
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cannot begin to meditate on that which you have not committed to memory that which you do not
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No. Now, Christian meditation is absolutely opposed, is diametrically opposite to Eastern
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or mantra meditation. Eastern pagan demonic mantra meditation. Yoga would be an example.
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Oh, but I love yoga and I love wearing my tight painted on yoga pants. Oh, get saved.
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Get saved. All right. If you want to stretch, there are other ways to stretch at home.
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right? Then going to your yoga instructor. Your yoga instructor is a pagan, I promise you.
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They are. And they're not just trying to teach you to be physically healthy. They want you to
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be physically healthy. And by the end of that six-month class, worship Satan. That is the goal.
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So all that being said, mantra meditation, that was for free. You're welcome. You can leave a
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gift at the door. That was, you know, mantra meditation, pagan Eastern meditation. This is
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the dynamic difference between that and christian meditation it's not the christian thought that
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within the christian faith that there is no meditation there is i meditate david says in
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the psalms on your law day and night here's the difference mantra meditation eastern meditation
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it seeks to empty the mind of all rational thought and that by somehow emptying the mind of all because
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it sees rational thought. It sees the mind latching onto anything of substance as a mere
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distraction from real, true, inward enlightenment. But Christian meditation, however, in precisely
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opposite terms, Christian meditation only meditates on that which is substance, namely
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that which is eternal. The flower fades, the grass withers, but the word of the Lord
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endures forever. So in Christian meditation, David doesn't say, I meditate day and night.
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No, he says, I meditate on, there's substance there, there's rational thought, there's truth
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on thy law day and night. So in Christian meditation, what we must do is first, again,
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meditation, memorization, not the same. However, meditation assumes memorization. So first,
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we're committing God's precepts his law his commands his word to memory and then once the
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word has been hidden in my heart once it's been memorized I begin to meditate on thy law on thy
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law word thy truth which means I begin to think about the word and in thinking about the word I'm
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thinking at least two things number one I'm thinking about the word and its meaning and not
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what it means to me not a relativistic subjective interpersonal meaning well god's word means this
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to me and it means that to you and no no no if we have contradicting interpretations of the word of
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god we cannot all be right now you can and an egalitarian you know i'll throw you an egalitarian
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bone here you can all be wrong you can all be wrong together but you can't all be right
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that is God's meaning, it's not what it means to you,
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So memorize the word of God, hide it in your heart,
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In the first sense, thinking about its meaning.
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Second, we move from interpretation or meaning to application, doing.
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In light of this text, in light of meditating upon it and thinking about its meaning,
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and now deriving its meaning from God and not from myself, how then should we live?
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how do i live in light of the meaning of what god is saying in this given passage of scripture
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thinking deeply upon application this is what constantine did that vile vile enemy of the church
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a hero this is what king alfred did a hero they thought upon the scripture its meaning first
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and its application second? How does this scripture apply to all of life? Not just my
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pietistic private little heart. Jesus is not merely Lord of your heart. Jesus is Lord of all
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and not just all peoples, but every single realm of human life and society. He is Lord of the arts.
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He is Lord of medicine. He is Lord of business and economics, and he most certainly is Lord
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of Caesar. Caesar is not God. Caesar has a God above him, the one true triune God, the King of
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kings and Lord of lords, Jesus the Christ. And what Caesar does when he's born again and truly
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loves the Lord with all his heart and his soul and his mind is he seeks to understand the meaning
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of scripture as he meditates upon it day and night and also its application. Not just merely
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how Caesar should behave in his family, in his marriage, in his fatherhood, but how Caesar should
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behave and live as Caesar in the public square as one who legislates, as one who executes,
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as one who oversees the affairs of society in the civil realm. This is what it is to meditate upon