What Would Jesus Say To

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What Would Jesus Say To

• MADONNA

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A. God Is Not Hidden

• Madonna says she is a follower of KABBALAH.
• She is affiliated with a group called the
  Kabbalah Center.
• Rabbi Phillip Berg.

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A. God Is Not Hidden

• Berg and his centers have been universally
  condemned by orthodox rabbis and contemporary
  schools of Jewish mysticism.
• They consider it to be cultic.

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A. God Is Not Hidden

• Kabbalah is a form of Jewish mysticism.
• Mystics are found in many religious traditions.
• Sufis in Islam
• Monastic movements in Christianity

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A. God Is Not Hidden

• They usually deviate from the central belief
  systems.
• Kabbalah means what has been handed down or
  received teachings.
• Movement may have roots in earlier centuries.

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A. God Is Not Hidden

• BahirBook of Brilliant Light.
• Penned in 12th century.
• ZoharBook of Splendor.
• Penned in 13th century.

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A. God Is Not Hidden

• Zohar is the central text.
• Books purported to have been copied from ancient
  manuscripts.
• These ancient documents were written to
  interpret biblical texts.

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Central Tenets

• THROUGH KABBALAH WE DISCOVER SECRETS OR MYSTERIES
  OF GOD.
• Kabbalah is about pursuing secret knowledge of
  God.
• This knowledge is hidden in the words, letters,
  numbers and accent marks of the text.

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Central Tenets

• God IS FAR AWAY AND SO HOLY AND EXALTED THAT HE
  CAN HAVE NO DIRECT CONTACT WITH THE CREATED
  UNIVERSE.
• He interacts with the universe through ten
  emanations called SEFIROT.

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Sefirot

• Characteristics and qualities on one hand.
• Potencies through which Ein Sof unfolded the
  spiritual and physical worlds.
• The sefirot provide the hidden structure of all
  things. Human beings have a sefirotic structure.

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What Does the Bible Say?

• God is holy and pure.
• He creates by His Word and interacts with His
  creation both before and after the fall.
• With Adam and Eve before the fall.

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What Does the Bible Say?

• He comes looking for them and calling them after
  they sinned.
• He comes down to those who are foolishly trying
  to build a tower to Him.
• He speaks to Noah He enters a covenant with
  Abraham.

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What Does the Bible Say?

• He points to a time when He will come walking
  into His world.
• He fulfilled that promise to come in Jesus.
• Jesus said WHEN YOU HAVE SEEN ME YOU HAVE SEEN
  THE FATHER.

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B. God Is Not Depending On You

• Three levels of existence above the one in which
  we live.
• The ten sefirot permeate all four of these levels
  of existence.
• This world is a reflection of what is going on in
  the worlds beyond us.

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B. God Is Not Depending On You

• Our world is broken by sin and Ein Sof has
  withdrawn from it.
• We need to bring Him close again we need to
  repair the damage caused by sin.
• Tikkun Olamthe repair of the world.

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B. God Is Not Depending On You

• The means to accomplish it are found in Kabbalah.
• Doing MITZVOTH.
• We follow these to pick up the broken strands of
  light and to reconcile the realms of God.

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B. God Is Not Depending On You

• Mystical meditation and prayer are also used.
• Those who reach communion help others along the
  way by passing on their secret knowledge.
• It is another system of works.

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C. God Says You Need OnMore Red

• Madonna began to promote Kabbalah in her 1998
  album Ray of Light.
• She wears a Red String bracelet with seven knots
  in it to show her ties to the movement.
• The bracelet is to ward off evil eyes or looks of
  ill will.

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C. God Says You Need OnMore Red

• Comes from winding a red string around the tomb
  of Rachel in the land of Israel.
• Some call her the mother of the world.
• It is worn on the left wrist considered to be the
  receiving side of the body and soul.

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C. God Says You Need OnMore Red

• Madonna also utilizes soul cleansing water and
  empowered stones.
• What would Jesus say?

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C. God Says You Need OnMore Red

• Jesus would say you need to be covered fully in
  the blood of my cross to be reconciled to God to
  be cleansed, and to walk in the light.