Hey Rich,

This is a long holiday weekend in Canada, so I guess I’ll have to wait until my intern has a chance to listen to the teleseminar audio and pore over the report and send me a digest. ;)

Ok, I would like to finish this post, but my attention’s waning — gotta go read more email…

:P

Kidding aside – great work (as always) on the report and on the mini-launch sequence…love watching the process!

Lou D’Alo

Hi Rich,

Thank you for this wonderful “wake-up” call. It is a challenge to get started online given all the options at your disposal. Harder yet when you have to digest and apply all the information from a variety of sources since there are so many skills that an Internet entrepreneur must master.

I would like to see a leading industry group or consortium put together a guide on Internet marketing and profitability for the small business entrepreneur. This guide and its corresponding products would be backed by credible Internet marketing organizations, field experts, and specialists. The reports or information products would be 1) “peer reviewed” by the “best of the best” in Internet marketing and 2) flow from one report to the next. As an aspiring Internet marketer, this would be an attractive package for me to purchase. Rather than purchasing so many special reports and then trying to make them all fit together which leads back to the points you made in The Attention Age Doctrine.

Thank you for the wonderful report!
Rafic

As an Australian I am surprised to see so many other Aussies here, G’day Everyone.

I have just listened to the audio and it’s just a little bit like the report great on sales, great in defining the problem but the content leaves me feeling a little empty.

I am sure your seminar will be full.

With all this hype so close to the event I am wondering if you are concerned about whether you can going to fill the seminar. It’s a massive fear of loss pitch, congratulations.

Finally I have no doubt that the seminar will be very good, probably worth the the money provided your speakers give fully any hint of waffly pitches (like the report and this call) on their behalf will leave attendees feeling like they have justed wet themselves in a three piece suit (warm all over but deeply embarrassed to find themselves in this state).

Hi Rich,

I am afraid but I don’t get it, hopefully with the next one I’ll see the light.

Do you mean that interruptions make or break a bussines?

Hi Rich,

I just received your e-mail about the “event”. Right now, for me with a sick wife, travel is out of the question. I am hoping that when the event is wrapped up that you will be able to make at least a part of the material available to those like myself. Since the report you released was just the first part I am sure I can count on you to finish it up but I am hoping that the additional information will include material from the event. I deeply appreciate the work you are willing to share with us. As I have read the first part I realize that at best my entry into the market place could probably be termed ill timed at best but hopefully, with the information you are sharing, that entry can be smoothed out a little.

I have one comment about the report. You don’t mention it specifically but one of the things that I feel has been a great contributor to the decline in the market has been an attitude that with great marketing, service is no longer necessary or a factor in success. In my life time I have seen business turn from being concious of the customer’s needs to running their businesses for their own convenience and the customer can “like it or lump it”. I think this attitude is going to have to turn back around.

Thanks again for what you are doing.
Ken

Rich – an interesting read, if a little verbose and long-winded like other commenters have mentioned.

Your client list – whilst extremely impressive – also contains the names of some of those who have been grabbing our attention, over-hyping and then under-delivering. Perhaps you have some responsibility for creating this monster that you’re now trying to tame?

You are most definitely a business ‘guru’ to watch & learn from – and it’s interesting to see your next move & how you’re positioning yourself more widely than just the internet marketing world.

You are clearly a marketing genius – I think you could leave out some of the hype – people would still listen to you without it.

Rich, I am a psychologist myself.

I am building my own psychology practice and my online business is actually an adjunct and not really a business as yet. I’ve only made $75 from an affiliate program which I sincerely use and believe in which is not an online ‘product’. I have no list really. So, given that I have mostly used your program to help me with understanding how to grow my psychology practice and I am not sure attending the conference really helps me although I am considering it.

I find this article interesting and salient, but as one of your coaching clients (who is right now working on increasing my own integration of the material in the 12 month program I am in now and who has not commented or asked questions before…), I partly feel that this is a synthesis of that program.

What I mean is speed reading, using mindmaping, using some of the other technologies you have suggested in your “resources” for that program seem to fit part of where you are going. Also, your emphasis upon integrity there seems to fit with the notion of ‘getting attention’ form the market. As does the issue of delivering upon promises. In other words, the goal becomes to become the only e-mail that people open except for those from friends. Yes, you have gotten to that status in my e-mail box, but I feel like I need to study how you have done that in itself.

Also, so although this is a different label and packaging than the coaching program, I wonder is it really different?

I do feel that your materials and content are excellent which is why I have stayed on in the program. Yet, if the first two days are primarily speed reading, mindmapping, and strategies for stopping interuptions I feel that I need to work on those more and I am focusing upon on them at home, so why go to the conference and practice there? Is two days really enough time to integrate, initiate and stabilize such behaviors? I’m skeptical of that. Realize I do think these things are all critical. Yet, these changes require more time.
The truly critical issue is actually implementing these things in your daily life which itself is not guaranteed by attending your conference.

Furthermore, I hope you offer some or most of the material online so I can buy what is most salient for me at a pace that fits me. Besides, my wife, who is a physician has a malpractice case in which she is the defendent and she leaves on Sunday and she wants my support and presence at home to send her off. I feel in my heart I need to be there for her. So, I am only really considering the first two days.

So, back to the main point, if this program is mostly a synthesis of your existing program and mostly involves ‘resources’ you have made available there I would rather pick up the content after the conference. Will you make it available to at least your coaching clients? That would be great and show great loyalty on your part.

The other issue that has been a challenge in your coaching program is that the amount of material combined with the process of ‘internalizing the material’ and actually taking it to heart really requires some time to make these changes. As a result some of the content simply goes over people’s heads and past their hearts (or at least mine!) because, as you seem to suggest, we can only focus upon one thing at a time in a quality way. My fear is I will get saturated with information and have little real time to integrate this whereas staying at home and picking up the information more slowly over time may work better for integration.

Just a few thoughts.

Charles Shinaver III, Ph.D.

Thank you for making your report available. I am recovering from a head injury sustained in a car accident last year and am not fit to fly. If I were, I would be on a plane from the UK to Florida for your event!

I had thought it was my current state of fitness that was causing me problems but there was a huge ‘aha’ moment as I read your report and much relief as I realised it isn’t just me!!

I hope you’ll keep in touch through your mailing list and I hope that you will let those of us who cannot attend how your event goes.

Wishing you well
Dee

What can I say, Rich?

You’ve done it again! Congratulations!!

I recommended your new study to all my friends and networking partners, and was so inspired by it that I created a new blog celebrating all of your greatest accomplishments at: http://strategicprofitsvideos.blogspot.com/

You are my daily inspiration, Rich. Thank you for giving us freedom and a chance to start dreaming again!

I can’t wait to get the sequel of your newest and greatest bestseller…

God Bless you,

-Val Slastnikov

Hello Rich,

Let me start by saying that the Attention Age Doctrine is an extraordinary document. A document focussing on a number of things and especially hilighting the fact that the sheer bombardment of business opportunity after business opportunity flooding our inboxes, is causing more than our electronic mailbox to buckle.

For, what happens next is that it causes our concentration, focus and unswerving attention, to perform a triple coil, double wheelie, axle flip. I’ve no idea what I’ve just written, only to say that our fleeting, uncontrollable monkey mind is all over the place, unable to sit still for a moment.

However, there’s one insight I’d like to mention which may not be too popular. In fact, if there was an Internet Marketing lynch mob, they’d be lining up, taking it in turns to ‘have at me’.

Here’s the insight:

Looking at the rosta of people you’ve coached, going with the one’s you’ve partially listed in your marketing documents, it seems as if the people you are coaching to extraordinary success, are the very ones causing many to have the attention deficit and the fleeting concentration virus!

Let me explain.

Mike Filsame, John Carlton, Jim Daniels, Tellman Knudson, Brad fallon, Chris Carpenter, Jeff Walker, etc, are all pretty well known in the Internet Marketing circles.

But look, when you get each one of them endorsing, recommending, tooting each others horn about their products, their courses, their insights and wisdom, doesn’t it just ring huge bells that through your coaching, there’s a huge party of back slapping and money raking going on.

And, who suffers?

Exactly. The very same people you refer to in your Attention Age Doctrine, the one’s who are on a merry and devastating road to nowhere… except Internet Marketing doomdom and crippling finances because of shelling out for everything under the sun.

Now don’t get me wrong. I think it’s important to share vital information that could be crucial to someone through a recommendation.

But, can you see how the cycle of confusion is carried onwards? Can you see how guru edorsing guru endorsing guru endorsing guru… leaves the poor, hapless, real honest bonafide business opportunuty seeker, beweildered, flustered and up the Internet creek without an iota of what the heck to do next?

I hope you can Rich because I think the problem is a big one and is perpetuated somewhat through your teachings to these gurus. See, they in turn, just like highly trained marketing ninja assassins, are out to make a killing at the expense of the sanity of the people they’re supposedly aiming to help.

Maybe I’ve picked up the wrong end of the stick here but it just seems a glaringly obvious insight to me.

Thanks,

RC Hireker

Abosolutely great and so true. Am dilligently working on getting all ifno out of my brain onto computer and organized so that I can think again. Brilliant remove the clutter. Oh so simple but only Rich would come up with something like that.

I posted in the very beginning and hopefully soon will reveal my success story.
Finally

Hugs Tenderspirit

Hi Rich,

I think that the global economy is on the move again – from the “Attention age” to the – “INTENTION AGE”:

“The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of money, and that they come ready-made. You don’t need advertising to make them /… / In The Intention Economy, the buyer notifies the market of the intent to buy, and sellers compete for the buyer’s purchase (by getting his attention somehow in some way – you said it Rich). Simple as that.” (Doc Searls, The Intention Economy)

http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000035

What do you have to say for the “Attention age” defense?

Thanks for all your reports!

Eyal

Hello, Rich -

Thank you for the Attention Age. You’ve put into words what we’ve been experiencing for the last few years. Humankind has evolved more in the last 50 years than in the previous 500. For the first time in our history we’re evolving to keep pace with our technology instead of the climate change that previously drove us.

I find it almost impossible sometimes to concentrate on any moneymaking tasks because I’m worried I don’t have the latest, up-to-date info, etc. The only way I can access my creativity is to switch everything off and sit quietly for an hour with a notebook and pen. Guess what – it works!

One thing, though: surely infomarketers are as much to blame for the Attention Age as our technology? Whenever I buy an ebook or eproduct, I’m invariably sent shedloads of ‘essential’, ‘miss this at your peril’, ‘must-read/listen-to’ bonuses. So I counted up all the bonus products I’ve got (excluding the products I originally bought). Total: 116. How many have I actually read? 10. And I’m a speed reader! Now, I completely realise and appreciate that internet entrepreneurs are trying to give their customers value for money and thanking them for buying something, but I’m merely suggesting they ease off blitzing their mailing lists with too much info which will probably never be read.

I felt a bit let-down at the end of the Attention Age. You absolutely nailed the problems we’re all facing with info/spam overload, and then you spoil it a little with that competition, exhorting contestants to go marketing-crazy with press releases, emails, forum/blog posts etc. What the…? Maybe I misunderstood the purpose of your document.

However, thanks to you, Rich, I’ll be decluttering my excess eproduct bonus collection tonight with a sense of relief, and concentrating on restoring my abilities to focus and think. I look forward to reading the next instalment of the Attention Age.

With thanks and all good wishes

Viviana

Hello Rich,
There is one thing that never seems to get spoken about and that is the secret
of your success and everyone else’s..CREATIVE THINKING.and its application…
It was only when you gave me the key to using mine that i have started to be successful ( ecommerce ) In your manifesto you suggested why applying your talent and not just your interest..gets results..
I asked myself what is my real talent..back came the answer “.A creative imagination “I had lots of ideas but no focus…
So my idea was ..use all my ideas AS THE BUSINESS ! thats how “testmyidea.com ” came about.. I am going to market to the people who have money..investors…..I have had one proposal from discovery beach and have had two meetings with YFM..one of the largest investors in the UK …..
What especially interests them is my contract with an enterprise center in Mian Channu Pakistan which will use TMI as the gateway page for all the english speaking students…….I have also started negotiations with a thailand contact..
One of my future press releases.is headed..WHY RICH SCHEFREN IS IN PAKISTAN
the 20million market…(I need his permission to use it )
I am having one of my inventions R&D by a USA company see yolob.com..
Much more…but it all was jump started by reading your comment about using your strengths……
PS..i am asking for $400,000 first funding……i am in the process of writing up the business plan….one of the entrepreneurs on tmi made me an animation for investor presentation..its on testmyidea,com under investor intro…
The biggest problem i have to solve (thanks to you !) I cannot cope with all the things that are happening so fast …it’s just me and my startup ..

Thanks again for the manifesto’s brilliant ian

Well, I finally got time to read the “doctrine”. (I have a hard time applying that word to that document.)
I can see that there might be a lot of people that are caught in interrupt mode, but I’m in internet marketing and I don’t have any of those problems. The people I see in my daily life don’t have any of those problems. Do you live in a different world?
I have noticed, ever since I started in IM, that it is a very different world than most people experience. It’s a lot more hectic and time-sensitive than the rest of the business world. So my view is that this “doctrine” only applies to a small portion of society, and it’s very easy to slip from the affected to the unaffected and vice versa.

it’s a wonderful informative letter to all those out there that have been caught in that trap. I am struggling to get off the ground as a newbie and have fallen into everyone of the traps you outlined. By doing this blog I am doing it again. This however is important and I can carify my thoughts now to concentrate on the one thing.I will concentrate on learning the technologies required to start and not get suckered into all the things the internet has to offer.Some are really good but I can’t do all of them. How long before the rest of the report comes out? I will be looking for it with baited breath. Please don’t keep us hanging on too long. I realise that the seminar is over and some of the content refers to things that are passed date, but this is too good just to gloss over.

1) The following are the proves that angels could perform miracles healing and there are falling angels in the Scripture to be against God too:

John 5:3-4, “In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”

2) The following are the proves that Angels could perform marvellous wonders:

Luke 1:7, “And they had no child, because that Elizabeth was barren and they both were now well stricken in years.” Luke 1:13, “but the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for their prayer is heard; and they wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John”. Luke 1:18, “And Zacharias said unto the angel, ‘Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my life well stricken in years.” Luke 1:19, “And THE ANGEL ANSWERING UNTO HIM, I AM GRABRIEL…” Luke 1:20, “AND BEHOLD, THOU SHALL BE DUMB, AND NOT ABLE TO SPEAK, UNTIL THE DAY THAT THESE THINGS SHALL BE PERFORMED, because thou believest not my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.” Luke 1:22, “And when he came out, HE COULD NOT SPEAK UNTO THEM”.

Matthews 28:1-2, “Now after the Sabbath, as the first day of the week began to dawn, Many Magdalene and the other Mary came to see the tomb. And, behold, THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, FOR AN ANGEL OF THE LORD DESCENDED FROM HEAVEN, AND ROLLED BACK THE STONE OF THE DOOR, and sat it.”

Acts 12:23, “Then immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and died.”

3) Angels could appear in somebody’s dream:

Matthews 2:19, “…an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph…”; Matthew 1:20, “…an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream…”

As angels could perform wonders, are there any strongest proves to show that those wonders in contemporary Charismatic Churches are from God? If someone in contemporary Charismatic Church could prove it, we have to accept it. However, if nobody could prove whether the existence of wonder in contemporary Charismatic Churches is from God or the Holy Spirit or Angels, there is a danger that one would comment that certain wonders are from God or from the Holy Spirit or from Jesus Christ and, in case if they are not and it would turn up that we have forced God or Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit to bear the name of doer and indirectly we have abused the name of Jesus Christ or God or the Holy Spirit and this causes us to speak against Jesus Christ or God or the Holy Spirit indirectly.

Could contemporary Charismatic Church claim that the miracles and wonder they perform in the name of Jesus Christ, is accompanied by correct teaching (in accordance with God’s Word) and righteous living?

A good Christian performs a wonder through the name of Jesus Christ in the Church. Many audiences would claim that this be the work of God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit. As fallen angels could perform wonders, i.e. Buddhists could perform wonders as it is listed in the Internet too. What if the wonders in contemporary Charismatic churches are not from God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit, the surrounding audience that claims to be the work of the Holy Spirit/God/Jesus Christ, would have indirectly abused the name of each of them even though they might not be the one to do it and it indirectly causes the defamation of the name of God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit and they might have grieved as a result of the whole church speaking against them since they might not do it. The abusing of the name of Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit/God would cause the audience to commit continual sins as when and they address these be the work of God.

Can a Christian or a Catholics claim that he has followed the correct teaching and righteous living when day by day and month by month and year by year seeing people keep on claiming the wonders in contemporary Charismatic Churches to be the work of God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit without telling them the danger that they would have sinned against God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit what if the so-called, wonders, might not be their work then?

For holy bark, you could see people running around the churches crazily to bark here and there.

For Holy laughter, you could see people laugh without stopping.

For manifestation of the Spirit, you see people roll from one place to another without knowing what he/she has done after performing.

All these are not mentioned in the book of Acts.

A number of people in the church mention that they receive revelation from God through words of knowledge, prophecy, tongues speaking, words of wisdom. Many prophets arose previously claimed that year 2000 and 1987 were the end of the world. However, the year before year 2000 and 1987, none of these people that claim to receive so-called, special gifts of the Holy Spirit, say that these years 2000 and 1987 are not the end of the world. If it is the work of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit should have informed all these people to correct their mistakes.

LUKE 9:49-50 ABOUT THOSE THAT DO NOT FOLLOW JESUS BUT COULD PERFORM WONDERS IN JESUS’ NAME

Luke 9:49, 50 (TCNT), “Hereupon John said: “Sir, we saw a man driving out demons by using your name, and we tried to prevent him, because he does not follow you with us.” “None of you must prevent him,” Jesus said to John; “he who is not against you is for you.”

Were these people that were mentioned in Luke 9:49-50 to be the disciples of Jesus since it is mentioned that they did not follow Jesus?

The following are the verses to prove that God’s people would surely follow Jesus:

John 10:27, “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”

John 10:3, “To him the porter openeth, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calleth his own sheep by nam, and leadeth them out”.

From the above verses, it is obvious that the sheep will surely follow the shepherd, Jesus.

As the phrase, he is not against you is for you, is mentioned in Luke 9:49 instead of the phrase, he is not against you is for me Jesus, it does not show that all these people that could use Jesus to perform miracles were for Jesus but for us, disciples, especially Jesus had mentioned clearly in John 10:27 and 10:3 that Christians would surely follow Jesus. The possible interpetation for Luk 9:49 for him to mention that they were for us that it might be that they could assist us in bringing outsiders to the attention of Jesus Christ for our evangelism. However, they are not for Jesus since they do not follow Jesus since they would definitely follow Jesus if they are for Jesus.
Indeed the people as mentioned in Luke 9:49-50 that could perform wonders in Jesus’s name were not God’s people or else Jesus should have included these people ont top of the twelve disciples. Or in other words, if these people that could perform wonders in Jesus’ name were God’s people, there would be more that twelve disciples instead of remaining to be twelve all the time during Jesus’ mission and it proves the fact that Jesus’ name could be abused to perform miracles. Or in other words, despite these people as mentioned in Luke 9:49-50 were not following Jesus and were not the disciples of Jesus, they could use Jesus’ name to perform wonders.

CASTING OUT DEMONS MIGHT NOT NECESSARILY CAUSE ONE TO HAVE DISTURBED BY DEMONS AS MENTIONED IN ACTS 19:13-16:

Matthew 17:15-16, “Lord have mercy on my son: for he is lunatick, and sore vexed: for ofttimes he falleth into the fire, and oft into the water. And I brought him to thy disciples, and they could not cure him.” Matthew 17:18-19, “And Jesus rebuked the devil and he departed out of him: and the child was cured from that very hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, ‘Why could not we cast him out?’ ” Matthew 17:21, “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.” From these verses, it is obvious that the failure in casting out demons might not necessarily cause one to be disturbed by demons as that is mentioned in Luke 9:49-50.

PROOF THAT ANGELS COULD PERFORM MIRACULOUS HEALING AND THERE ARE FALLEN ANGELS TOO:

John 5:3-4, “In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water. For an angel went down at a certain season into the pool, and troubled the water: whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.””

From John 5:3-4, it shows that angels could heal various kinds of illnesses whether they are blinded, halt and withered. As angels could perform miraculous healings and there are so-called, fallen angels, it is irrational to jump into conclusion that certain illnesses be healed to be the work of God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit since some wonders might be the work of angels and/or fallen angels.

One might have quoted Luke 9:49-50 well that nobody should stop those people that perform miracles in Jesus’ name. However, he should meditate Matthew 7:22-23 carefully again that the so-called people to use Jesus’ name to perform wonders might be rejected by the Lord. For instance, if these people that are mentioned in Matthew 7:22-23 to use Jesus’ name to perform wonders are the work of God/Jesus Christ/the Holy Spirit, there should not be any strong ground for Jesus to reject them. However, Jesus will reject them despite they do perform wonders in Jesus’ name and there is a query the so-called wonders that they perform are from God. The following are the extracts:
Matthew 7:22-23, “Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you who practise lawlessness!’

HOLY LAUGHER, HOLY BARK, HOLY DRUNKARD & ETC.

 Holy Laughter, holy bark, holy drunkard and etc. are not found in the book of Acts during the Pentecost. Some Charismatic churches might use the word, leap, laugh, drunkard and etc. from the Old and New Testaments to support these movements. However, bear in mind that the word, leap, laugh, drunkard and etc. are mentioned instead of the full phrase of holy laughter, holy bark and etc. What if these practices are not from the work of the Holy Spirit, the insisting that these practices are from the work of Holy Spirit has caused one to abuse the name of the Holy Spirit and it would have grieved the Holy Spirit to accept the wrong saying that these are the work of them. However, the Holy Spirit does not do it. One has indeed blaspheme against the Holy Spirit by abusing the name of the Holy Spirit despite he does not do it. The blasphemy against the Holy Spirit cannot be forgivable according to the New Testament

DEFINITION OF BLASPHEMY IN HEBREWS/GREEK

blas’-fe-mi (blaphemia) in classical Greek and Hebrews means primarily ‘defamation’ or ‘evil-speaking’in general; ‘a word of evil omen’, hence, ‘impious, and irreverent speech against God’. The above is the extract pertaining to the meaning of blasphemy in Greek. Consider carefully about holy bark, holy laugher and etc. For instance, if these are not the work of Holy Spirit, the abusing the name of Holy Spirit by saying that these are the work of Holy Spirit is indeed delivery of irreverent speech against the Holy Spirit. For instance, if these are not the work of the Holy Spirit, the insisting that these should be directed from the work of the Holy Spirit might have abused the name of the Holy Spirit and caused defamation of its name and one might have in turn grieved the Holy Spirit since these might not be the work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit might be ended up to bear the name for the doer of holy bark, holy laugher and etc. What if it has grieved the Holy Spirit by insisting that these are the work of the Holy Spirit, our ignorance has ultimately caused the ultimate abusing and/or blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

HEALINGS IN CONTEMPORARY CHARISMATIC CHURCHES

In miraculous healings among Charismatic churches today, we could easily spot out that many sick will fall down before the healers lay hands on them. However, many sick would remain unhealed after the rally despite they did fall down before the healers, i.e. Pastors that perform miraculous healings. God is definitely powerful and can heal all kinds of sicknesses. However, there is a deficiency in the healings in contemporary Charismatic world. What if the wonders are not the work of the Holy Spirit, the commenting to abuse the name of the Holy Spirit that it is he that does the work might have grieved the Holy Spirit in case if these are not the work of the Holy Spirit and it ends up that one has abused the name of the Holy Spirit and has ultimately blasphemed against the Holy Spirit.

ALL BLASPHEMIES WHETHER TOWARDS THE HOLY SPIRIT OR GOD OR JESUS CHRIST ARE TO BE CONSIDERED AS SINS

Matthew 12:31-32, “Therefore I say to you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the BLASPHEMY AGAINST the Spirit will not be forgiven men. Anyone who speak against a word the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever SPEAK AGAINST the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.” As the phrase, speak against the Holy Spirit, is mentioned in Matthew 12:31-32 with the phrase, blasphemy against the Spirit, it implies that a person blasphemes against the Holy Spirit even if he speaks against the Holy Spirit. The same for abusing the name of the Holy Spirit in which it might have grieved the Holy Spirit to accept the false saying what if the works are not from the Holy Spirit. The word, forgiven, is mentioned in Matthew 12:31-32 with the phrase, every sin & blasphemy, it implies that all blasphemies are to be considered as sin or else why we should need God’s forgiveness for the blasphemies. The same in abusing God’s or Jesus’ name to support their miracles are from God or Jesus respectively and these are the acts of blasphemies to be considered as sins too.

THE  WELL-KNOWN VERSES IN MATTHEW 7:21-23

Matthew 7:21-23, “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you who practise lawlessness!”
What are the elements could be found in these verses above? There are:
1) They believe in Jesus Christ since Matthew 7:22, “(mentions that) Many will say to me..’LORD, LORD”. These people must have believed in Jesus Christ or else how they could call Jesus Christ to be their Lord as mentioned above then.
2) These people could use Jesus’ name to perform miracles since Matthew 7:22, “(mentions that) Many…have..prophesied…in your name, cast out demons in your name, and done many wonders in your name?”
3) Will they be accepted by Jesus Christ? Matthew 7:23, “…I will declare to them, I never knew you; depart from me”.

THE PRIDE AMONG CONTEMPORARY CHURCHES FOR THEIR NON-REPENTANCE

This is my general discovery upon Charismatic churches: Some Charismatic churches might not repent in order to do away their so-called, gift, in the churches due to they feel thieir reputations are most precious than the truth of the Bible and that causes them to persist in the practice. However, bear in mind that the insisting the so-called, gift, in their churches to be the work of the Holy Spirit might cause them to abuse the name of the Holy Spirit and that causes them ultimately to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit what if the miracles are not from the work the Holy Spirit. The act of insisting to defend their reputation more important than the truth of the Bible has indeed violated the great commandment of the Lord. For Matthew 22:37, “(mentions that) Jesus said to him, ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.” The act of having a high preference for their reputations rather that upholding the truth of the Bible implies that his love towards his own reputation is more significance than his love towards God.  For Matthew 22:37 has commanded us to put our love to God first instead of that has to be in replacement of our reputation.