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Controlling the Human Mind #1 Bible App Bible App HOMEAboutBeliefsHoly Days SabbathPassoverUnleavened BreadPentecostTrumpetsAtonementTabernacles8th DayCalendarSunset TimesLibrary LettersStudiesTranscriptsMessagesVideosBookletsBooksHymnalArticlesLive ServicesDonationsContact Controlling the Human Mind #1 The Last Frontier #1 Fred R. Coulter—November 1, 2008 - PDF | MP3 Audio| [Up] Your browser does not support the audio element. Track 1 or Download Your browser does not support the audio element. Track 2 or Download This study will be some background and why God made and created us the way He did. We'll examine some of the things the way that the human mind works, but this is going to be a very extended series. We won't have it every Sabbath. We'll have it different Sabbaths. I have three books with me. I have two more at home and I probably will end up with some more books. The reason that there is so much research on the human brain is because of the influence of Satan the devil, to control the human brain; hence, control all human beings. That's why during the Feast of Tabernacles, 2008—days 3 & 4—I went through The Singularity Is Near. I realize that I did a lot of reading out of the book, by the same title, by Ray Kurzweil. I think as we go down in time, you'll understand how important that is. Sidebar: Ray Kurzweil was in Silicon Valley and San Jose, and he had a seminar with the leading chipmakers. They're going fast as they can to try and bring about the control that they desire. What about the human brain? Let's look at something that's very important. Here is a fundamental key in understanding about the mind and also the heart, because the heart, the mind and the brain are all connected together: Proverbs 4:23: "Above all guard the door of your mind with diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." the purpose of life where we're going what we're doing your choices What you let into your mind is what comes out of your mind! What I want you to do is, memorize that verse because this is so important in our day, today. It would be nice if we could all live in some sort of hidden valley some place, cut off from all the modern conveniences. That might be hard for a lot of people. They even had a TV show where they did that with a family and man, did the kids rebel at first—'No TV games.' They had to: make their own toys work with animals help dig up the ground grow their own crops grow their own food raise chickens for their own eggs and meat cows for their milk and meat Right at first they had quite a rebellion: no television no telephone no Internet no Blackberries At the end of the year, they'd become so adjusted to it that they didn't want to leave. It shows that a lot of things that we get used to and we have been taught and educated with is so important when you talk about, "Above all guard the door of your mind with diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." Think of that in relationship today to education with kids. You think of that in relationship to what they are taught, and the children do not have a thought structure that is resistant to things that are not right, when they are presented in acceptable ways. We'll get into some of the subtleties of that a little later, but not here. Think about this also, in relationship just to something we do everyday: watching television. I try and watch the news, and I do a lot of watching of National Geographic and History channel, but think about the commercials. What I want you to do in relationship to this, I want you to do your own research in your own way. Sit down and just analyze: What do you watch on television? What is the news that you believe? What are the commercials that enter into your mind? What images does it really cause in your mind? They know! Let's just take the latest ad for the super Lincoln. I forget what model it is, but the driver comes up to the car and he presses his entrance code on the window. Then, he has his own handprint, which has been sensitized and read into the door handle, so that he can open it, and he gets into his car. I was watching this the other night and I thought: How does this sell a car? It's not selling the car, it's selling an emotional experience! To start the car, he has again, his bio-recognized finger for starting the engine. Then: flashes of lightening, showing power it shows the RPM going up and flashes of lightening around that he's ready to take off in the car he puts his foot down on the gas and the speedometer and RPM go up with flashes of lightening around this Then he's going down the road in a flash of lightening; you don't even see the car to see what it's like until the end. They show you the front of it, and they have sold an experience! That's how highly sophisticated it is. When you watch these ads, I want you to think about: What are they selling? What are they teaching in addition to it? There are a lot of what they call subliminal things that are put into the background. Such as: adultery fornication homosexuality freedom of expression resistance to authority Of course, you have to hear both sides of the story. Think about all of those things. Do yourself a little favor. If you can't run a mental log on it, maybe you can run a little log that you can write down some things: your impression of what they are trying to do to enter into your mind, to get you to do something that they want you to do. That's why it says here, "Above all guard the door or your mind with diligence, for out of it are the issues of life." This is where choice comes in. Let's see some more Proverbs with this, you're going to be amazed how much through the course of the series we're going to be in the books of Proverbs and Psalms. Proverbs 16:1: "The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, are from the LORD." In other words, God made you so that: you can think you can plan you have feelings you have emotions you can choose you can be persuaded you can be dissuaded you can be subtly influenced if you allow it Maybe you think, 'Oh, no! Not me!' All right, how about some poor pitiful little person sobbing, crying and telling you a good heartbreaking story. You help them out, out of the goodness of your heart. They had this right down here near where we meet. They had mommy and some kids out there on the corner of the street: Out of work! Please help us!—and the children are there. People would come by and give them $5.00 and $10.00, whatever. Someone who lived in the neighborhood said, 'Fred, why don't you check out behind the Denny's restaurant, because there's an RV back there and you will find that there are three families doing this. That's how they make their living.' Sure enough. I went behind Denny's and guess what I saw? The RV! They ran it in shifts. If it gets too hot or too cold then you change over. God has made us so that we are subject to a lot of thoughts—our own thoughts, other people thoughts; we are subject to feelings and emotions, ours and others. Here is the thing that is the catch with the way that human beings think. We're going to understand: how the human brain really works why God made it the way He did what we need to do with God's Spirit how we can really yield to God Verse 2: "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes…" Everyone is right. Everyone can give you a justification and an excuse, regardless of how righteous, look at Job; or how evil, watch MSNBC when they run their hardened criminal series. You see hardened criminals that are tattooed virtually from head to toe. They interview them. The criminals know they're evil, they know they're dedicated and they know they're right. Verse 1: "The preparations of the heart…" means that's how the heart, mind and emotions work. Also, what you put into it and how you give your output of it. "…the answer of the tongue..." (v 1) is the answer that you give for what you think. What you think, then, comes out this way: Verse 2: "All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes…" That's why they've exalted one's 'opinion' today. If you have an opinion, the opinion is sacred. What is your opinion? What do you think? Nobody asks the question: What did God say that we need to think? We're going to see some things that are going to be very important in helping us understand about the human brain, the human mind, the emotions, and so forth. I've got one book, here, by a Daniel G. Amen, M.D.—I've quoted from it a little bit—Change Your Brain Change Your Life. That's why there's such a thing as conversion, because you can change. That's why there are people in the world who do well. He has another book, Making a Good Brain Great. All of those are very helpful, but you have the problem that they don't know anything about God. Oh, they take some principles of God, but they really don't know anything about God. I have another book entitled Who Switched Off My Brain? Controlling Toxic Thoughts and Emotions, by Dr. Caroline Leaf. This becomes very important because: God made us to choose God made us to think God made us to decide We're responsible for our own thoughts and our own actions. Though others influence us, if we are not, Above all things guarding the door of our mind with all diligence then we are allowing people to take us, teach us, and put into our mind varying degrees of truth and falsehood. Verse 3: "Commit your works unto the LORD, and your thoughts shall be established." We will also come back to this. God made us so that we need to think in a right, properly and orderly way. The truth is that you can never, never, never—regardless of: how smart you are how good you are how disciplined you are what kind of life that you lead to the very best that you can—without God understand the purpose of life. Verse 4: "The LORD has made all… [everything that there is] …for His own purpose; yea, even the wicked for the day of evil." Let's understand a little bit more about human beings. Let's see and realize the things that we need to do. First of all, go back to the beginning, Gen. 1 and let's see how our mind, brain, heart and emotions are to work. God did not make us dunces and God did not have to have a prototype man that was a near Neanderthal, in order to figure out how to make us. I see Neanderthals every time I watch a little basketball or football. Remember, it says that God 'made all,' meaning everything that there is, for His purpose. The purpose of human beings is central to His purpose and plan. Go back to the sermon that I did on Creation and Re-creation and that will fill you in on the first part before the re-creation of the earth. In preparing the earth for the way that it is, God made it for human beings. Everything that is here on the earth, God gave to man for man's own dominion. Let's understand a fundamental very important thing concerning human beings. Genesis 1:26: "And God said, 'Let Us make man in Our image… [you did not evolve from slime] …after Our likeness…'" That in itself, states a great purpose, in that God has put into us, built into us, certain profound things that are important for us in our relationship to Him. "'…and let them have dominion…'" (v 26). Men were born to rule! They were created to rule! A great purpose! Take the whole earth, everything that is here, with all the complexity of everything that there is. Look at all the activities of man from low-tech to high-tech and to everything he can do. Those are all expressions of what God created within human beings. That's why we are 'after the likeness' of God. Not only that, the highest level of our operation in life. It is not the physical things that we can do. Those are important, but above that, the most important thing that God did in creating humankind, was to create us to give love and to receive love. As we find in the New Testament, love is the greatest. He also gave in us the thoughts of hope. Whether we believe in God or not: people will hope for better people hope to do well people plan to do well Also faith or belief, because the human mind was made to believe—not like an animal, not like a dog. A dog responds to control and food. A dog does have feelings and what we would say, emotion. I think God did this to help even the most helpless of human beings. When all else fails and they know nothing about God, a dog will keep them from going insane. It also shows that human beings need companions. All of these things are there. Why did God make us according to 'His image?' We'll leap ahead to the conclusion: that is so that we can be after His kind! That's the whole purpose of the Bible, the Word of God and the plan of God! Central to that is the human brain, the human mind and: choice love hope work dominion building That's why God made us the way that He did. He created him. "…He created them male and female" (v 27). God did this for the purpose of human beings sharing in His plan and creation, to reproduce their own kind, who then will be reproduced by God after His kind, according to the conditions of God. This is really something! This is tremendous what God has done! In this whole thing concerning reproducing, Verse 28: "And God blessed them. And God said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth…'"; which involves everything that God created man for and everything that God created woman for. God is not stingy. People who think that God is a curmudgeon and is very restrictive, have no idea about God. "'…and have dominion over the fish of the sea… [Do we? Yes indeed!] …and over the fowl of heaven… [Do we? Yes!] …and over every living thing that moves upon the earth'"—meaning that man rules and reigns over everything that God created on the earth. He made it that way for man. Man is a very complicated being and with his mind, his thoughts and his heart, God created man and woman to rule, to reign, and to reproduce. Reproduction can be based on the way God wants it done—with love, with concern, with family—or man can turn into a near animal and just reproduce, like some of the dictatorships have. Just select the 'master race' and all of the women can have specified men to reproduce specified babies for the empire. Yet, in it we're going to see that God created every human being in a unique and special way. We are all unique to God. That uniqueness is because of what we understand as genes and chromosomes. Every cell of your body, from the top of your head and hair down to the bottom of the soles of you feet, contain your genetic code as to who you are. It's even in your saliva and everything that comes out of your body as well. That's pretty unique! That shows us the creation of God. God wanted man to participate in His creation. We know that God created Adam from the dust of the earth or the clay of the earth, as you could put it that way. He made woman from one of Adam's ribs, and then all their children. I don't know if Adam had a bellybutton or not, or whether Eve did. I want you to think of something very profound, here. As we read the first part of Gen., that seems so far away. During the Feast I talked a little bit about checking you bellybutton, because that shows you came from your father and your mother. It actually shows a whole lot more: When you go back and you read Luke 3 about the genealogy of Jesus Christ, where does it end up? Starting with Mary, where does it end up? Adam, the son of God! What does this tell us? This tells us the very fact that we have a bellybutton, and we are related directly back to Adam in an unbroken chain of reproduction! Think on that! This is quite a thing right here, Gen. 1 that God tells us. This shows that man has all these abilities, all these skills and it's diverse in different people to do different things. God made it that way. Now let's see how God creates human beings through procreation. We're going to learn an awfully lot here, with this. This is really quite a Psalm. This is something we really need to understand and also to help our children to understand. This is a special Psalm of David. Psalm 139:1: "O LORD, You have searched me and have known me." God knows every human being, whether good or evil, who they are and what they are. He knows everything about them at any time He desires to know. Because He's given choice, He does not come down here and communicate with us directly. This is one of the mysteries of God. How does He know everything that's going on in the world and yet, does not interfere to take away your choice and to take away your ability? He knows us! Verse 2: "You know my sitting down and my rising up… [You made me to stand and walk and talk] …You understand my thoughts afar off…. [He made us with the brain that we have] …You measure my going about and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways" (vs 2-3). How do your hands work? How do your feet work? How do you arms and legs work? How does you mind work? Verse 4: "For there is not a word on my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, You know it altogether." Who created Language? God did! This is also telling us that He knows what's going on in our mind. He set limits on us. We can only go so far and do so much. We can stretch out some of those limits, like we have in going to the moon, but we have to take the earth with us. We have to take food because there's no food on the moon. We have to take air with us or they have to be able to, through a machine, create oxygen in space, so you can breathe. They've also found out that if you're out in space too long that: you lose bone density the blood doesn't go the way it really needs to go the heart gets weak the vessels get weak —because we are really earthbound. They're trying to substitute some of that on the space station that they have up there by having some sort of artificial gravity to help keep men more human and in better shape, rather tan disintegrating because they're out in space. Nevertheless, we're limited. Verse 5: "You have enclosed me behind and in front, and laid Your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it" (vs 5-6). That's the thing that everyone wants. How did God do this? How does He operate? The whole purpose of conversion is to understand more of how God operates. We'll get into conversion much later because that's the whole purpose as to why we're here. For all of you who say there is no God, I want you to think about this; v 7: "Where shall I go from Your Spirit?.…" How are you going to get away from God? Who created the air? Who created oxygen? Who gave you the ability to breathe, to think and yes, even to come to the conclusion that there is no God? God did! Don't forget. He's not done with you, yet. If you don't believe in God, let's look at another Psa. For all the intelligentsia out there who do not believe in God, you think you're so smart and you think that you have the ability to improve human beings to near God-like qualities, let me assure you that you are limited. Psalm 53:1: "The fool has said in his heart… [you convince yourself] …'There is no God….'" What happens when people come to that conclusion? They feel free to do anything that they want, and any opinion that they choose, they will follow! It always comes down to sexual morals more than anything else, because we're sexual creatures. God made us that way for the purpose of sharing in His creation, not for the purpose of becoming: adulterers adulteresses whoremongers homosexuals lesbians What happens to everyone who doesn't believe in God, regardless of what kind of standard that they may have? Like the famous atheist who was on television several years ago—Michael Newdow—wants to take God out of everything in the government documents and to take God off of the back of the dollars: In God We Trust. That's not true. We don't trust in God, we trust in the Federal Reserve. A lot of people think that it is God, and they act like God. Sean Hannity said, 'Do you have a religion?' … truncated (27,010 more characters in archive)