Thinking about the difference in people

I listened to a recording of a talk given by New Age type guru of the 1960's and '70's Alan Watts. At least part of it. Enough of it. I had read probably three or four of his books back in my pre-Christian days. Nothing was surprising. I'd already been shocked when going back to influences I'd had in my early life and seeing how shallow they were. It really is just seeing how shallow the world is in general when in rebellion from the truth. Emerson is another good example.

Those influences aren't totally worthless, or some of them anyway. They can represent a level we are at at the time we are engaging them. We just have to not get stuck at those levels and keep climbing to the summit where disturbing influences like the Bible reside. Actually the Bible is beyond summit.

So I was thinking of Alan Watts and his untimely death and wondering what makes an Alan Watts different from me? Because there is a big difference. Despite the fact that he was famous, and I'm a nobody; he was influential, and I'm not...why was he like he was until his death and I'm like I am as I write this?

It's because we both, like all human beings, have a spirit. That spirit is in our soul. My spirit is capitalized (Spirit); his spirit is not. I have the Spirit of God, the Holy Spirit in my soul. Alan Watts through his life and at death had and has the spirit of rebellion, or the spirit of Satan in his soul.

I.e. my connection with God's creation is the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, the Holy Spirit - the Spirit of the Kingdom of God. Alan Watts' connection with God's creation is the spirit of the Kingdom of Satan. The spirit of the world, the flesh, the Devil.

When I die, like Alan Watts has died, my connection will take me to be with God. Alan Watts' connection has taken him to be in Hades, where the unregenerate go at death. What happens with him from there the Bible doesn't say explicitly, other than in time, at the Second Coming of Jesus, he will be judged to hell fire. Whether there's any hope for him in that 'in between' time the Bible doesn't say explicitly. The Bible wants us to realize the 'terror of the situation', so that we don't think we can keep putting things off to the future, because time does have an end. There is a harvest.

Anyway, that is the difference between myself and someone like Alan Watts. It's a difference that transcends worldly fame; and it's real.