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AGITATION, COGITATION, ASPIRATION  AND CONCLUSION

 

 

 

Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson

 

PREFACE

Agitation is  another name for the phenomenon of "men's hearts failing them  for fear" (Luke 21:26), and the  allied  processes of frustration, bitterness,  belligerence, bucolic violence, which are  now  almost as closely associated with much of this present world as are drunkenness, drunks, indulgence and a hopelessness towards happenstance, found in the remnants of drug use, whatever the style of  drug  in mind. It also covers the seeking for meaning, the confrontation with evidence, the acid-washed  hearts that are bare in parts only,  and tending to be thread-bare, together with the solemn seeking which is intent on being sincere, through many perils.

Cogitation is the power to reason, doing pitched battle with mere prejudice and  convenience,  seeking truth without care for the results, if only it be found, and the results of this as in  SMRTMR and Light Dwells with the  Lord's Christ, for example. Aspiration deals with the genuine desire,  as exemplified in the early section of The Heavenly Man, with Brother Yun, that will not be satisfied without the word of the God who made us with His own words, and has exhibited these not only in our very construction, but testably and reliably in the Bible.

Conclusion  deals with the  fact that there is no room for doubt, though plenty for pout; and though the 'natural man', man without God who made him, spouts spirited calls to deviationism, these do nothing to reduce the finality of the conclusion. This in turn  enables inclusion; or not. It is a magnificent spectacle, God with ample and to spare,  man with resistance seeking freedom  from  ANYTHING except what binds him  to  irrational thought, capacity for capers, and a remedy-less recklessness which has  appeal to very many. As however in the case of the Titanic, being bound to an imperious  mob, or  master, with a hard-driving Captain,  does not reduce the poignancy of the togetherness as this ship goes down.

The Titanic illustrated what the titans of this Age activate: in the  end, it  all sinks. You need  not something man  makes, as if it were unsinkable: you need the God who made the oceans - and you.  Mercifully, He has made  a way of access,  not over the rocks, but to one Rock,  refuge,  redeemer and deliverer.  It is enough. There is no bifurcation. God knows and says exactly what He means,  whether speaking the DNA or the doctrine, which includes the reality of remedy. God does not dither: it is one,  as He is, Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, forever.

So vast is the alienation (as  seen in  Ephesians 2, 4:17-19, Romans 1:17ff., 5:1-12), that many images and  angles of access to these things help,  as in the day of Hosea (Hosea 12:10); but that  to which the help points is just the same (Galatians 6:14, Hosea 13:14):

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one God  with
 

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one resolution,
 

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one word for rejection or ingestion,
 

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one truth,
 

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one command to all  to repent (Luke 13:1-3, Acts 17:30),
 

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one crucifixion for sin,
 

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one resurrection of the self-same body (I Corinthians 15),
in its new heightened state, so that it would not rot, as foretold (Psalm 16), 
 

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one singular sending of the Holy Spirit (Luke 24),
often bringing breezes of revival as forecast in Acts 3:19ff.,
and sending prongs of peace to those whom He finds, 
 

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one Saviour who once paid the cost for our loss (Hebrews 9-10),
 

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one liberty in the God of our creation (II Corinthians 3:17),
through the action of His redemption (Matthew 20:28),
 

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one peace,
 

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one joy, manifold in mood, vital in spirit, dispensed to His saved ones,
and irremovable by man! (John 16:22).

Pondering such things in the milieu of rebellion and turmoil, the cauldron of outreach and deliverance, is a contribution,  for billions are lost,  and many have  somewhat different initial needs and appetites. May the Lord bless those who seek, and help to find Him,  those who seek  with all their hearts (Jeremiah 29:13).

This volume moves in dimensions of morals, metaphysics, Messiah and modern developments, with exposition from the Bible. The metaphysical  however is a branch of  logic, directed to certain fields, not  the  form of it which deals with delusions  as if they had  some standing and no need of the exacting pressure of rationality, verification and validation. Dialogue is also used in Ch. 8, The Clever Kid.

 

 

CONTENTS

Chapter One

NOTHING HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH THE BIG BANG

A BIG NOISE ABOUT TRYING TO BE  BRAVE ABOUT BEING LOST

 

Chapter Two

THE PERTINENT PRELUDE

THE MATTER OF GETTING HERE

BEFORE GOING ANYWHERE,

OR NOT

 

Chapter Three
 

MORALS: TODAY, YESTERDAY AND  TOMORROW

LAW THROUGH MOSES GRACE THROUGH CHRIST

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Chapter Four
 

 The Mastery of the Messiah, Jesus Christ

Luke 21:36, Luke 9:23, II Peter 1:, Philippians 3:21 

 

Chapter Five
 

CHRIST SAYS IT AND DOES IT 

 

SHOCKS, SHUDDERS:

 REASON FOR RUDDERS

 

Chapter Six
 

CONCLUSION

CONCLUSION can be simply an end,

a result of  rEasoning or a due end,

good  or bad.

 

Chapter Seven

 

WONDERS ON  THE WAY

 

The Sermon on the Plain

Luke 6:17-42

 

Chapter Eight

 

WHO ME, SIR ?

The Wit of the Clever Kid

 

Chapter Nine

COGITATION AND CONSEQUENCE

THE CAST OF LIGHT FROM JOEL

 

Chapter Ten

 

THE GENERATION, THE COMING,

THE COMPASSION, THE ENTRY