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+ The snake oil peddler became a stock character in Western movies: a travelling "doctor" with dubious credentials, selling some medicine (such as snake oil) with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific evidence, typically bogus. To enhance sales, an accomplice in the crowd (a "shill") would often "attest" the value of the product in an effort to provoke buying enthusiasm. The "doctor" would prudently leave town before his customers realized that they had been cheated. This practice is also called "grifting" and its practitioners "grifters".
> Video Trailer like Aladdin
+ Rhonda Byrne
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> Australian daytime-TV Producer
> Released first as a 92-minute film on DVD in documentary format which consists of a series of interviews and dramatizations related to her premise of the law of attraction
- It’s been seen in every country around the world
> Came as a book Nov 06 - 4 million in print
> Now on audio CD
> Said to be worth an incredible $40 million because of “The Secret”
- In TIME "list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the of 2007
+ Promoters - MEG RYAN,
> NICOLE KIDMAN,
> OPRAH WINFREY - In this book, you’ll learn how to use The Secret in every aspect of your life—money, health, relationships, happiness, and in every interaction you have in the world. You’ll begin to understand the hidden, untapped power that’s within you, and this revelation can bring joy to every aspect of your life.
> LARRY KING, - “The Secret -- the phenomenon taking the country by storm. The book so in demand, it’s selling out faster than they can get it back in the stores”.
+ Now PARIS HILTON - Monday June 11, Paris Hilton called Barbara Walters from jail to update her on how things were going. - She told Barbara she was reading three books,
> NEWSWEEK “That God had given her a second chance” “The Secret,” [“The Power of Now - A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”] (Eckhart Tolle Quote “True salvation is freedom from negativity”, He Recommends - The Way of the Wizard, 365 Nirvana Here and Now,) and the Bible.
+ The underlying premise, the Law of Attraction
.- "Everything coming into your life is attracted to you by virtue of what you’re thinking."
- 1910 book - The Science of Getting Rich,
- She Proclaims “I couldn’t believe all the people who knew this. They were the greatest people in history: Plato, Shakespeare, Newton, Hugo, Beethoven, Lincoln, Einstein."
It teaches that:
> You’re a Magnet! You attract your dream lover, wealth, success
> You’re a Creator! You can think anything you want into existence.
> You’re got the Power! The universe is at your command..
> Don’t focus on anyone but yourself.
+ BreakPoint Audio
+ Rhonda Byrne’s Teaching
> Under Acknowledgments
“I would also like to acknowledge and express my gratitude to the following people ... for generously sharing their wisdom, love and divinity. (xiii)
The Secret Revealed
The Secret give you anything you want: happiness health and wealth (1)
- The Secret is the law of attraction (4)
- The greatest teachers who have ever lived have told u that the law of attraction is the most powerful law in the Universe ... Shakespeare, Browning, Blake, Beethoven, da Vinci, Socrates, Plato Emerson, Newton. Goethe, Hugo ....
- Religions such as Hinduism, Hermetic traditions, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and civilizations , such as the ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, delivered it through their
writings and stories.(4)
- You are the most powerful magnet in the Universe! You contain a magnetic power within you that is more powerful than anything in ths world an this unfathomable magnetic power is emitted through your thoughts (7)
- The law of attraction says that like attracts like... (7)
+ If you can think about what you want in your mind, and make that your dominant thought you will bring it into your life (9)
> Col 3:2Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
> Mt 22:37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
- Your thoughts become things! Say this over to yourself... (9)
> Php 4:8-9 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 9 Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me, do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
- Thoughts are magnetic and thoughts have a frequency. As you think, those thought are sent out into the Universe and have magnetically attract all like things that are on the same frequency . Everything sent out returns to the source. And that source is You. (10)
+ You are the most powerful transmission tower in the Universe. Your transmission creates your life and it creates the world (11)
> Ps 2:1-4 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? 2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying, 3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. 4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
> Ge 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name,......
+ The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought! You create your life through your thoughts and the law of attraction .... (15)
> It was God that spoke the Universe into existence
> Gen 1:3,6,9,11,14,20,24,26 “and God said”
+ Your life is in your hands, No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in you life you can begin to consciously choose you thoughts, and you can change your life. There is no such thing as hopeless situation. Every single circumstance of your life can change! (19)
2 Co 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
HOW TO USE THE SECRET (45)
You are a creator .... Some great teachers created stories to demonstrate how the Universe works .... the essence of these stories is the very truth of life (now she uses the story of Aladdin) ... The Genie always says one thing “Your wish is my command”.
P. 46 .... there’s absolutely no limit whatsoever to the wishes. Think about that one. .... the Genie has simply answers your every command. Te Genie is the law of attraction, and it is always present and always listening to everything you think, speak, and act .... You are the Master of the Universe and the Genie is there to serve you. .... To fulfill your wish. (46)
Ge 3:5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
Ps 12:4Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
2 Ti 3:1-2This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, .......
+ MONEY
You have got to feel good about money to attract more to you
....
Start to say and fell; “I have more than enough.” There is an abundance of money and it’s on its way to me.” “I am a money magnet.” “I love money and money loves me.” (107)
> Lk 16:13 No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
> 1 Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
BE FOR SELF
Many of us were taught to put ourselves last .... You must change that thinking (119)
Mk 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, If any man desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.
Php 2:3-4 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
There is no blackboard in the sky on which God has written your purpose, your mission in life (177)
Ro 8:28-29 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son....
Pr 14:26-27 In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.
Ps 16:11Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
Your life will be what you create it as and no one will stand in judgment of it or ever. (177)
2 Co 5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.
Heb 9:27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
My Secrets
Pr 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and
forsaketh them shall have mercy.
Je 23:24 Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the
LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Ec 12:14 For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing,
whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Ps 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy
countenance.
Ps 19:12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
Know His Secret
Ps 25:14 The secret of the LORD is with them that fear him; and he will shew them his covenant.
Ps 91:1 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Is:9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
- These are the names of Jesus
NKJV Note to “wonderful” (hard to understand, secret)
- Judg 13:18 Manoah father os Samson - Theophany an appearance of God to a person
– Judg 13:18 - And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
- The secret made known to all
Jn 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
- Dwelling in the secret place of the most high is in Jesus.
- Jesus is in all we have, all we are, and all we hope to be or hope
for.
Ps 91:1 - Key word here is “dwell”
Continued Trust
The Secret to Trust - Discover and Knowing Christ
1. Found through His Word
2. Sought Out through Prayer
3. Demonstrated through Obedience
