False repentance is grounded in selfishness, rather than the honor of God, because it has nothing to do with the honor of God, and only has to do with the regret that a person has because of the consequence of sin. It's not built on the fear of hell, or the fear of dishonoring God. False repentance also leaves the feelings unchanged. The love of sin is not subdued and the passion for holiness is not initiated. False repentance leads men to hypocritical concealment. Once you've falsely repented, now you've got to keep it up. And so you just lay on one more level of hypocrisy after another to keep up the deception. That leads eventually to self-deception and to a deadly false security where you begin to believe the lie you're living that you wanted originally others to believe and now you've come to believe it, and that is that you really are God's when in fact you're not. And that hardens your heart. Each time shallow sorrow washes over the emotions of the heart, and doesn't truly break that heart, the fountains of feeling are more and more dried up. And then the conscience is seared and then you're irretrievable.

John MacArthur

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Vegetables, Dairy		Entrees, Vegetables, Usenet	4	Servings

INGREDIENTS

8	oz	Marinated artichoke hearts, drained (2 small jars); save marinade for dressing
8	oz	Cream cheese, softened
1/2	c	Grated parmesan cheese
2	tb	Butter, softened
20	oz	Spinach, cooked, drained and squeezed dry (use 2 packages of thawed frozen spinach, or about 1 1/2 lb cooked, fresh spinach)

INSTRUCTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.  Spread artichoke hearts in the bottom of a
buttered casserole dish, in roughly one layer. Top with spinach.
Cream together the cream cheese, butter and cheese and spread evenly on
top. Bake covered for 30 minutes, then uncovered for 10 minutes.
  NOTES:
*  Vegetable casserole with artichokes and spinach -- This is a fattening,
but good, vegetable dish.
: Difficulty:  easy.
: Time:  5 minutes preparation, 40 minutes baking.
: Precision:  no need to measure.
: Vicki O'Day
: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Palo Alto CA
: hplabs!oday
: Copyright (C) 1986 USENET Community Trust
From Gemini's MASSIVE MealMaster collection at www.synapse.com/~gemini

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