MHR EP 2617 Free Will, Yours or Theirs? #FreeWill

It has been stated that "religious existence is to provide an effective means of controlling individuals and society as a whole". Denominations & religions are human created institutions, not found in scripture, so who made the Free Will decision to create those “beliefs”, established those “norms”, and set those “values” to control society as a whole?

“Heaven never seeks to control; free will is proof of that.” © Is it your free will decision to allow somebody else’s free will decision to limit your view of God and heaven, or will you use your free will decision to allow heaven to prove itself to you.(c) The choice Really IS Yours.

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_01 (00:01):
Are you letting someone else's free will
decision run your life?

SPEAKER_00 (00:07):
What if I told you that there's more to it?
That there are benefits andresources from heaven that are
available to help you in thislife, and you've never heard
about them.
Are you curious?
Well, join Gordon Merrill as hedigs deeper into making heaven
real in this life.

SPEAKER_01 (00:32):
Welcome back to Making Heaven Real.
Control.
What did you just think of?
What's your immediate reactionin your soul or in your spirit?
Military strategy has long beento control the captives in some

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way or another to reduce thethreat of those people uprising
or returning to their previouslifestyles or their previous
governing processes or worse yettheir independence.
We have accounts in the Bible ofthe children of Israel, for
example, having four majorexiles noted in Scripture.

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And that doesn't even count theEgyptian exile early in Genesis.
Exiles are strategies that wereused to expel people from their
land, which back then was theiridentity.
The land they had in theirfamily and passed through their

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family was the biggest part oftheir identity.
They also used things likephysical destruction of their
cities, or even destructingtheir religion, their spiritual

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beliefs.
Had some temporary results, butit didn't work.

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A simple search on Google willturn up hundreds of hits around
the topic of religious control.
Religion embraces the holy, thegood, the truth in individuals,

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according to one source,ultimately creating a set of
beliefs, norms, and values forsociety to follow.
It has been argued that one ofthe many reasons for religious
existence is to provide aneffective means of controlling

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individuals and society as awhole.

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So if this was set up as aneffective means of controlling
individuals and society as awhole, who?
I'm gonna sound like an owlbefore we get done with this
here, but who created thesebeliefs?
Who made the decision toestablish the norms?

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And what motivated those norms?
Who set the values to controlsociety as a whole?
One of the beliefs that we havethat we hold true for making

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heaven real is that we don'tdiscuss and argue denominations
and religions.
Why?
Because denominations andreligions are human created
institutions.
You won't find them anywhere inScripture.

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So if you're holding on tovalues that have been taught to
you for years by a denominationor religion, it comes back down
to who there's that owl again,made those choices.

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Now back then that person hadthe ability to make a free will
choice to decide which way to gowith that decision.
We've talked about free willchoices and the choice you make,
how that affects you and othersaround you, and maybe even a lot

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of people around you.
We've also talked about how youare impacted by a free will
choice from somebody else thatyou had absolutely no input into
that choice or that decision.

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But in this particular case, wehave a situation where free will
choices were made by somebody oreven a team of somebody's a
while back to determine a set ofthings that were established as

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either a belief, a norm, or avalue for that religion or
denomination.
Now, is it your decision toaccept that?

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Well, let's talk about this alittle further.
I heard a preacher on YouTubenot too long ago who was
basically talking about thissubject only from a different
aspect.
And basically says, if we lookat ourselves, our inner being,

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the spirit that's within all ofus, you connect to your power,
your abilities, your gifts, yourtalents, your love, and the
gorgeous, enormous light thatshines from within you.

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We believe that we have theability to rise above anything,
to look within anything and findthe sacred within it.
Does it mean ignoring what'sgoing on?
Does it mean sitting back anddoing nothing or ignoring what's

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going on around us?
But it does mean that we have torecognize a calling for us to do
something.
Whether it's just a prayer,whether it's taking action,
helping others, or having aninfluence to help better the

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life of others.
All of that represents a choicewithin us.
None of that represents anythingwhere somebody made the choice
for you.

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Heaven put us here for a humanexperience.
But we are not human in origin.
We are a heavenly spirit who hasbeen put in this body for this
human experience to follow thisparticular life's plan that was

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charted for us before we camehere.
But this human body and thishuman that we occupy is not the
first one.
May not be the last.

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Who are we as humans to think wehave any influence over limiting
God unless we make the free willchoice to do so?
Now make no mistake.

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The person or team of peoplewho, for religion or
denomination, made the choiceyears ago to limit God, that's
that's their choice, that'stheir eventual outcome.
But whether you accept thatbecomes your free will choice.

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But each of us is a heavenlyspirit.
As such we have ingrained,created heavenly abilities
available to us.
Abundance, guidance and theability to manifest.

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That doesn't sound likequalities of a controlling,
restraining, and manipulativeheaven.
If you've ever wondered ifheaven has the desire to control
you, the mere existence of freewill is proof that's not true.

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If you have the ability to makea free will decision to
basically tell heaven no, thenthere's absolutely no control
involved in that.
So free will is proof thatheaven does not control you.

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We're trying to control you.
So if you run across to anythingwhere it shows that we are
trying to control individualsand society as a whole, it's not
of heaven.
Being placed under control neverends well for humans.

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Why?
Because the primary portion ofeach of us is that heavenly
spirit that knows free will isalways an option.
No matter where you are, whatcircumstance you're in, what

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controlling situation you're in,you know deep down in your soul
that free will is always anoption.
And we've already said that thefact that free will exists is
proof that heaven doesn't wantto control you.

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Or will you use your free willdecision to not follow that and
allow heaven to prove itself toyou?
Like we said, it's your freewill choice at this point.

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Allowing the free will choice ofothers to dictate the parameters
that control your life is a formof control.
Exercise your free will and openup to heaven and allow your
spirit team to show you a freer,better way of abundance,

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guidance, and manifestedprovision.
The choice is really yours tomake heaven real in your life.

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