WE MUST REMEMBER AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA, THAT WE LIVE ADMIDST A SPIRITUAL WAR SURROUNDING US WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF DESTROYING OUR SOUL IN HELL. WE AS JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA SHOULD HAVE ONE MAIN OBJECTIVE HERE ON EARTH AND THAT IS TO AVOID HELL: TODAY IN AMERICA MOST OF US JOHN Q. PUBLIC OF AMERICA DO NOT EVEN KNOW THAT WE ARE CONCEIVED INTO THIS WORLD IN CAPTIVITY TO SATAN WHO IS OUR SPIRITUAL FATHER WHO IS CALLED THE STRONG MAN ARMED, AND WE MUST BE RESCUED BY JESUS THE STRONGER, WHO MUST BIND SATAN IN ORDER TO RELEASE HIS ELECT AND THEN HIS ELECT MUST BE ADOPTED BY OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN: SATAN DOES EVERYTHING POSSIBLE TO KEEP US FROM KNOWING THAT WE ARE BORN INTO THIS WORLD IN CAPTIVITY TO HIM, ESPECIALLY TO KEEP US FROM KNOWING OUR SOUL IS BOUND IN SALVATION: THUS HE ATTEMPTS TO SILENCE THOSE WHO PREACH THAT OUR WILL IS BOUND IN SALVATION AND THAT WE DO NOT HAVE A FREEWILL TO ACCEPT OR REJECT JESUS, AND WHY DOES HE WANT US NOT TO KNOW THAT BUT BECAUSE HE IS THE KING OF THE FASTFOOD FREEWILL DOCTRINE. SATAN AND HIS MINISTERS OFFER US A FASTFOOD FREEWILL JESUS AS A COUNTERFEIT JESUS IN THIS SPIRITUAL WAR TO THWART OUR EFFORTS TO MAKE A PILGRIMAGE TO STRAIT IS THE GATE AND TO WAIT ON JESUS TO CHOOSE US WITH NONE OF OUR FINGERPRINTS ON HIS CHOOSING US. WE MUST WAIT ON JESUS TO FIND US WE DO NOT FIND HIM. AT THE TIME PRECEDING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION THERE WAS A GREAT BONDAGE OF THE WILL AWAKENING THAT WAS IGNITED IN JONATHON EDWARDS CHURCH IN 1734 AND WAS FURTHERED BY GEORGE WHITEFIED, AMREICA’S GREATEST EVANGELIST, WHO PREACHED OVER PREACHED OVER 18,000 SERMONS, MOSTLY IN THE FIELDS, FROM 1740 TO 1770. BUT AS THIS GREAT AWAKENING WAS MAKING A GREAT EFFECT UPON THE COLONISTS, SATAN KICKED INTO HIGH GEAR PLANTING TARES AMONGST THE WHEAT, THAT IS, ALMOST CHRISTIANS AMONGST THE TRUE CHRISTIANS TO DELUDE THE AWAKENING, AND THUS IN 1746 JONATHON EDWARDS WROTE HIS TREATISE ‘ RELIGIOUS AFFECTIONS’ TO HELP THE AMERICAN COLONISTS TO DELINEATE BETWEEN THE ALMOST AND TRUE CHRISTIAN IN ORDER TO HELP THEM KNOW WHETHER THEY HAD BEEN DECEIVED BY SATAN INTO THINKING THEY WERE A CHRISTIAN WHEN THEY HAD NOT YET ARRIVED AT TRUE SALVATION. ISN’T THAT THE MAIN PURPOSE OF A PASTOR, TO HELP KEEP US OUT OF HELL BY HELPING US TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE TRULLY SAVED. IN THIS TREATISE JONATHON EDWARDS GOES INTO GREAT DETAIL TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE GENUINE AND ALMOST CHRISTIAN. IN AMERICA TODAY OUR PASTORS ARE GIVING AWAY SALVATION LIKE THE BANKERS WERE GIVING AWAY HOUSE LOANS, BEFORE THE 2008 BANKING COLLAPSE, TO PEOPLE WHO COULDN’T AFFORD THEM AND THE BANKS EVENTUALLY COLLAPSED. THE SAME THING HAPPENS WHEN THE PASTORS OF AMERICA DO NOT DILIGENTLY DISTINGUISH BETWEEN AN ALMOST CHRISTIAN, AND A TRUE CHRISTIAN, BUT GIVE OUT EASY SALVATION, THE EFFECT OF THE CHURCH UPON AMERICA ENDS UP BEING A MORAL MELTDOWN FOR THE CHURCHES ARE FILLED WITH PROFESSING BUT NOT TRUE CHRISTIANS. THIS TREATISE IS WORTH LISTENING TO, TO HELP US DETERMINE THE STATE OF OUR SOULS.