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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1981
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Reagan hangs tough on budget cuts
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President
Reagan, who pressured Congress
to make historic budget and tax
cuts earlier this year, says he won’t
give in to pressure to ease up.
Reagan told a $l,000-a-person
Republican fund-raiser in New
Orleans Monday he will propose
slashing “tens of billions more”
from government spending if
necessary to balance the budget
by 1984.
That would be in addition to the
$13 billion in reductions he prop
osed last week for fiscal 1982,
which begins Thursday.
“We are not going to retreat
from this program one bit, be
cause we know it will restore the
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economy,” Reagan said.
“We’re going to keep going un
til we do,” he said.
As Reagan vowed to continue
his budget battle, the administra
tion also pledged to stand firm in
resisting congressional demands
military spending be cut substan
tially more than the president has
recommended.
Meantime, there were mixed
soundings on Capitol Hill and in
the financial community on how
Reagan’s latest budget cuts might
affect the economy.
To save a total of $16 billion,
Reagan’s latest proposals link $2
billion in Pentagon cuts with a 12
percent reduction in most other
federal programs and $3 billion in
new revenue from taxes and fees.
The administration contends
the plan will hold the 1982 deficit
to $43.1 billion, but others in and
out of government believe the de
ficit will go substantially higher.
Reagan’s initial $35 billion in
cuts, passed this summer, have
been criticized for hitting the poor
much harder than the wealthy
through drastic reductions in so
cial programs.
That has helped increase press
ure to make sharper cuts in the
Pentagon budget than those re
commended by the president.
Sen. J. Bennett Johnston, D-
La., who accompanied Reagan to
Louisiana Monday, told repor
ters, “My guess is we will cut the
military budget more.”
“I don’t think it will decimate
(the Pentagon budget), but cuts
will be higher” than the $13 billion
over three years that Reagan
seeks, he said.
David Williams, chairman of
Alliance Capital Management
Corp., told the Senate Budget
Committee that Wall Street solid
ly supports Reagan’s new budget
cuts, but he believes defense out
lays could be reduced consider
ably.
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THE KEY TO EXPERIENCING CHRIST
“As therefore you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in Him”
(Col. 2:6).* Receiving Christ is wonderful, yet it is only the beginning of the
Christian life. After receiving Christ we must leam to love Him, to walk in
Him, to abide in Him, and to allow Him to make His home in our hearts
(Eph. 6:24; Col. 2:6; John 15:4; Eph. 3:17).
As seeking Christians who are desiring to experience more of Christ in our
practical, everyday lives, we need to be clear about two crucial facts — first,
that we have a spirit (Job 32:8), and second, that Christ is in our spirit (2
Tim. 4:22). Christ is not only enthroned at the right hand of God, He is also
in us (Rom. 8:10). We may know vaguely that Christ is in us, but not know
His specific location within us. If we do not realize that Christ is in our spirit,
we shall only experience Him sporadically — perhaps during a crisis or a
time of special spiritual emphasis.
We all long to have a constant touch with Christ and to be filled with the
Spirit all the time. Frequently though, when we are seeking Christ, we are
like a person groping blindly for the light switch in a dark, unfamiliar room.
If we want to cease groping and have a consistent daily walk with the Lord,
we need to see that Christ is in our spirit. This key will unlock a treasury of
rich experiences of Christ. A treasure chest may contain millions of dollars,
but if we have no key to the chest, we remain impoverished. Likewise,
Christ is unsearchably rich, but if we neglect our human spirit, we shall have
difficulty enjoying our portion of Him.
How can we experience God? What organ must we use? First, we must
see what kind of substance God is. According to 1 Cor. 15:45, 2 Cor. 3:17,
John 14:16-20, and John 4:24, the Triune God is Spirit. Can we experience
God by using our physical body or by using our soul? No! These are the
wrong organs. We can experience God, who is Spirit, only by using our
spirit. John 4:24 says, “God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must
worship in spirit.”* The first Spirit is capitalized, referring to the divine
Spirit, God Himself. The second spirit is not capitalized because it refers to
our human spirit. God is Spirit, and we must worship Him in our spirit.
These two spirits are seen also in John 3:6 which says, “that which is bom
of the Spirit is spirit.”* Our spirit has been regenerated and made alive by
the Spirit of God. That which is bom of Spirit (the Spirit of God) is spirit (the
human spirit). This verse tells us which part of our being is bom again. We
are bom again, not in our body or in our soul, but in our spirit. At the
moment we believed, Christ as the life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45) came into
our spirit and mingled with our spirit, thereby joining us to Him as one spirit
(1 Cor. 6:17). We are one with the Lord in our spirit. If we know how to turn
to our spirit, we can experience Christ. This is the secret! This is the key!
Unbelievers have only physical life in the body and human or psychologi
cal life in the soul. Since they are not regenerated, they do not have the
eternal life of God in their spirit. Therefore, unbelievers can live only by the
soul or by the body. Before we were saved, we likewise lived only by the
human life in the soul or by the fleshly desires of the body. But since we
have been saved, we must leam to live by the divine life in our spirit. We
need to turn to our spirit! The residence of Christ is not in our body or soul;
He resides in our spirit, and if we would meet Him and experience Him, we
must turn to our spirit. Before we do anything, go anywhere, or say
anything, we must check with our spirit. What a change we would see in our
lives if we would leam to do this!
As Christians, the question is not only what we are going to do, but also
how we are going to do it. Is the source of what we are doing our soul or our
spirit? Many of us neglect to use our spirit. We are constantly exercising our
soul and our physical body, but not our spirit. We may pray, talk, debate,
discuss and even read the Bible mostly by the exercise of our soul. We can
even quote the Bible by using our soul!
When we pray or read the Bible, we must reject our soulish, natural life
and turn to our spirit in order to contact Christ and fellowship with Him. We
can never meet Christ by exercising the faculties of our soul. Of course we
should not think that the Lord desires us to give up the faculties of our mind,
emotion, and will. The mind, emotion, and will were created by God to be
used for His glory. Rather, the Lord’s desire is that we give up the cormpted,
natural life of the mind, emotion, and will, and let the life in our spirit spread
out and gain possession of our entire being. Then our mind will be sobered
and renewed (Eph. 4:23). How clear our understanding will become con
cerning the things of Christ! Likewise our emotion will be transformed to
love Christ supremely (Eph. 3:19). Even our will, which has at times been so
stubborn, will be strengthened to obey the lord in many ways (1 Pet. 1:14).
We will find ourselves experiencing a normal Christian life, one that is full
of the riches of Christ.
We need to exercise the spirit not only in prayer and in reading the Bible,
but in everything we do. If we do not have any confirmation in our spirit,
then we should stop what we are doing and saying (2 Cor. 2:13). Do not just
consider whether something is right or wrong. Christians should not live in
the outward realm of right and wrong, which is merely to keep religious laws
and regulations. If we are living and behaving according to religious laws
and regulations, then Christ is of no value to us (Gal. 5:4). Experiencing
Christ in our spirit is absolutely different from keeping religious laws. Our
deeper consideration should be, “Am I in my soul or in my spirit? Am I
doing it by myself or by the lord?” We are not speaking of the Lord
objectively in the heavens, but very subjectively as the life-giving Spirit
mingled with our spirit.
Suppose we find something we would like to purchase, our mind consid
ers it, our emotions like it, and by the exercise of our will we decide to buy
it. Yet, deep within our being something protests. This is our spirit; this we
must obey and follow. Or suppose we are about to speak something. It is not
sinful — in fact, it may be good. Yet, deep within we sense, “No, don’t say
it, your speaking is not of Me.” We must go along with this inner speaking
— this is the spirit. The spirit is the deepest part within us, the very
innermost part of our whole being. In all our living we must follow the
indwelling Christ within us. This is how we are led by the Spirit (Rom.
8:14). We must all walk and live in our spirit. This key has been missed by
most of Christianity, but the Lord is recovering it today so that we may
experience Him in a rich and full way. Let us practice turning continually to
our spirit where Christ dwells. Using this key will progressively bring us into
the rich experiences of Christ.
Come and Enjoy
“THE UNSEARCHABLE RICHES OF CHRIST... ”
Supper-Singing-Sharing
Calling reported proposals to
build the B-l bomber and MX
missile system “incredibly expen
sive” and “flawed in concept,”
Williams said the defense budget
could absorb an additional $10 bil
lion to $15 billion in annual cuts.
“A more coherent and logical
defense strategy, and a smaller
projected defense budget, would
be very beneficial to the stock and
bond markets,” he said.
Budget Committee Chairman
Pete Domenici, R-N.M., esti
mated the 1982 deficit could be
pared another $8 billion to $10 bil
lion, but doubted it would come at
the expense of the military.
Budget director David Stock-
man, in an interview on ABC’s
“Good Morning America,” also
discounted the prospect of more
Pentagon cuts. Reagan, he noted,
has said he “does not believe that
we can cut any additional dollars
from the defense budget.”
Investment analyst Joel Leff
told the Senate panel Reagan’s
economic policies were well-
intentioned but “so flawed that
they could lead to further finan
cial chaos.”
The problem, he said, is that
the administration’s formula over
estimates “the revenue side of the
budget in light of recently insti
tuted tax cuts.” The administra
tion argues the tax cuts will spur
the economy enough to keep re
venue up despite lower rates.
Policeman shool
rampaging bear
United Press International
BLACK DUCK, Minn. —
Police Chief Dan Savich has
been hunting bear for more
than 40 years, but it took every
bit of his skill to finish off a near
ly 300-pound bruin that chased
him down the street outside his
home.
“I shot my first bear at 11
years old,” he said Monday, but
this latest encounter was the
“first time in my life I was
scared."
Savich emptied his .357
Magnum pistol at the charging
animal while on the run, then
killed it with his big game rifle.
The incident began early
Saturday when Savich re
sponded to a call from a neigh
bor, Elsie Gemer.
“She called and said there
was a prowler pounding on the
wall, and breaking into the bed
room window,” Savich said. “I
told her to lock the door and
took my golden lab and ran
across the street.
“I was sure I could find him
with assistance of the lab. When
I came to the house, the dog
stopped and looked into a pine
bush. I ordered the prowler to
come out.”
It did.
“A very, large black bear
charged straight at me,” Satin
said. “The dog ran past me
didn’t get my gun out. Idii
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back, the bear was just a fa
feet behind, growling.
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back again and the bear was j|
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