Looking for the way? Do not look for it in Nature or in gods that are made by the hands or the imaginations of men, Look for it in Jesus!!!     Ever notice how non-believers in the way of Jesus Christ have such great anger management issues? THOUGHT Here is a THOUGHT, T rust H im O bediently U nderstanding G ODS H oly T estament  see LUKE 12:22-34. The word THOUGHT also says THOU     OUGHT T  O (think)   see 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5, 1 TIMOTHY 4:15, 2 TIMOTHY 2:15.  In 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5,  The word THOUGHT says THOU     OUGHT T  O T  OUGH it     OU     T   For the word OUT see JOHN 10:9, 12:31, 15:19, MATTHEW 7:5, 8:16, 1 CORINTHIANS 5:7, 2 CORINTHIANS 6:17, EPHESSIANS 4:29, COLOSSIANS 3:8-9, 1 TIMOTHY 1:5, 2 TIMOTHY 2:26 & 4:17, 2 PETER 2:9, 1 JOHN 4:1, JUDE 1:21-23. In REVELATION 19:11-14 The one who's name is called THE WORD OF GOD IN RED vesture is comming on a white horse with an army on white horses. Will you TOUGH it OUT, (cowboy up) Bear your cross and follow him in the good fight of faith? If you follow the WORD IN RED you believe and do what it says to do, Notice that in verse 13 HE was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood  (in otherwords HE is called the WORD OF GOD in RED)   see JOHN 18:36, 1 TIMOTHY 6:12, 2 TIMOTHY 4:7 and HEBREWS 10:32. Get to know the Spirit of Jesus Christ who dwells in you, whenever you dwell in him! Do you see Jesus as the one who lives in you?     Surrender to the protective custody of the only one who has real power. When you surrender to Jesus as your lord and that means you have made Jesus Christ the Supreme Micro-Manager of your entire Life from that moment on. Surrender (willful submission) also means you have done so out of your own free will with no outside influence from someone else pressuring you and saying "repeat after me" a statement like that made from coercion is not considered a real confession at least not to someone like God, who loves justice and it will not stand up to the requirement of truth in his court. This is called decision-ism and it is spiritually unlawful to force or push a decision on someone.  Anyone who has a problem with this thought can allow me to bring a spouse caught in adultery, to the other spouse, and let me have them repeat a confession with an apology and a claim to submit to a commitment and renewed relationship with them and see what they think about this absurd idea. The Gospel of Jesus Christ does teach us to preach reconciliation However it does not teach us to lead anyone into a prayer of reconciliation, that Job belongs to heart of the convert alone. As you know Jesus says "no man can come to Me unless the Father draw him" [John 6:44] What Kind of arrogance would think that we [not God] could draw a man to Jesus by having him repeat a sinners prayer. He also says, "you have not chosen me, but I have chosen you" [John 16:16] So if this Vital Decision is not coming from the Spirit of truth within the heart of its own design, then it is not coming from the Spirit of God. Christians do not bring people to, because it is the Spirit of the Father that brings people to Christ and it is Christ who chooses them when they are called. Many are called but few are chosen!   When you are chosen and called, have no doubt that you can do what you are called to do, like sowing and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ not the gospel of who-ever else you have heard but the words in red gospel, called the gospels. The word Gospel means good news but many Christians have a good news that is different from the Good news Jesus preached, because they like to leave out what they consider negative things (like the condemnation or judgment of God) or add positive things (like prosperity, and decision-ism) We have all heard this oath 'The Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth"  This is just another way of saying "The Truth without leaving anything out of it, or adding anything to it" This is how we should preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Any thing less or anything more is another Gospel!!!!!!  Doubt is simply a lack of faith, and it is like calling someone a liar when you doubt him or do not trust him. A very common equality issue among the denominations of Christians along with the abomination [the so called chain of command of authority in a church] involves a lack of faith. Mark 10:42-43/Matthew 20:25-26. Lu 10:20 -  Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Our Spiritual authority is over all spiritual wickedness in the world, but no authority exists over the spirit of God, that includes the Spirit of God in others. That arrogant spirit that would rule over the Spirit of God in another is the same spirit that wants to sit in the throne of God as if he where God himself.  2 Thessalonians 2:4  Watch out!!! if the enemy cannot destroy your confidence in the one who lives in you, he will try to make you over confident with his own desire to be exalted above God and raise his own spirit up from within your flesh. Simply put the enemy wants your confidence anywhere but in the place it belongs, which is in the power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He wants your spirit to have a lack of confidence or to be overconfident like his is. When we see other Christians as less than ourselves, it is a lack of faith in the Spirit of Jesus who lives in them remember Jesus did say "as you did it to the least of these my brethren you did it to me!" Matthew 25:40/45. If you see other Christians as more than us, then it is a lack faith in the Spirit of Jesus who lives in Us John 14:20, either way it is a lack of faith in God!!! Remember what Jesus says about doubt! We are are equally guilty!!! The mystery is to forgive others so that we can be forgiven, because we are not all equally forgiven, however we all have the opportunity to be equal in forgiveness!!!   We are all asking to be called, so when we are chosen and called, have no doubt that we are able to do as we are called to do!   Believe in the same Jesus who also lives in others, guiding them to his own purpose, just as he guides you into your purpose!!!  And for the sake of Christ remember that when someone falls it is an opportunity for them and/or us to learn by the experience, and it may be why they were lead into the temptation to begin with, trust our Lord he knows what he is doing or allowing the enemy to do. He will do as he sees fit with those who under his authority. All things work together for the good of those who Love God. There is no fear for the believer in anything other than God! So there is only one opinion that matters and it is not mine it is not yours. However by tradition Gods opinion may or may not be revealed in the counsil of servants who sent to you to reveal it to you. Therefore we should all be convienced by the Spirit of truth sent to guide us, and remember Spirit may not always be understood, but Truth is, and God seeks those who will worship him in Spirit and in truth!!! Even Daniel, Samson and David had no fear of Lions! Jesus says that a man’s enemies will be those of his own house. There are many enemies out in the world, but we must not forget the one in our flesh (House) that serpent will always be around untill we shed our flesh. What good is it to flee the lion and meet a bear, and then flee the bear to your house (flesh) to rest where a serpent bites you? When God is with us who can be against us, because to die is Gain and the only place better to be than right in the center of Gods will, is in his presence! Fear not simply keep watch and do what is right in the always seeing eyes of the Lord. Remember there is no such thing as privacy under the Lord. Only in deception does a word like privacy have meaning, and the deception is that there is no god, which only a fool has said in his own delusion like a little child who covers his eyes and thinks no one can see him.   Mt 18:14 -  Even so it is not the will of your Father, which is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.    Lu 15:7 -  I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.   Lu 15:10 -  Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.  Let Jesus Choose those who are called!  If all things are possible with God, Then why is it impossible for God to lie?   I believe that nothing is impossible with God, yet it is impossible for God to lie. There is no contradiction because of this fact. What happened when God said "let there be light"? There was light! Therefore it is known when God speaks: what he speaks becomes reality, making all things possible with God. See Luke 1:37. Also it is impossible for God to lie because what he speaks becomes reality! See Hebrews 6:18. For this very reason you will know a false Prophet. God said it in Deuteronomy 18:20-22 If God says it then it will by all means come to pass! Also I have heard that in the Hebrew tradition there is no distinction between the word used to name a thing, and the thing itself. Prophecy is proof of God!       The single most greatest sign, A man can have that God is a true reality is the change in that mans Life, which is an undeniable sign to others. Just as the sign of Jonah, everyone who repents is changed and forgiven.  What was Jesus was writing in the dust?  Jesus says seek and you will find. I was seeking the answer to what it was that he was writing in the ground when they brought the adulterous woman to him for Judgment.   I am convinced that after I prayed for the answer, that I received it in Scripture.   If you are interested in knowing what I received; I have to warn you the answer is almost undeniable. You must however realize that this is only commentary to what the Spirit of god has given to me personally it may or may not be meant for all to know it.    John 8:1-11 1 Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives. 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them. 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, 4 they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. 5 Now Moses in the law commanded us, that such should be stoned: but what sayest thou? 6 This they said, tempting him that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. 8 And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground. 9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more.   Jesus says he can only do what he sees the father do.    I can only see the father witting with his finger two times, and one was the Ten Commandments, which would explain why all the men went away one by one. Paul an expert of the law says "the law saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and that all the world may be come guilty before God (Jesus) Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his (Jesus) sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin"  This explains why the eldest, having more sin due to age, and more wisdom to see it had left first. It is because they knew what point Jesus was making.   We know that Jesus was not affraid to bring up the The Law (Ten Commandments) to humble men who was in need of this great and wonderful service of being humbled by God's Law.  Matthew 19:16-22  16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? 17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments. 18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, 19 Honour thy father and thy mother: and, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 20 The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet? 21 Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. Notice Jesus only mentioned from the last Six of the Ten Commandments which he also sums up as "love thy neighbor as thyself" but then proves the man as falling short of the first four of the Ten Commandments by asking him to sell all that he had to give to the poor. Jesus sums up the first four of the Ten as Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength. This (the first and greatest commandment) requires enough faith in God to surrender our self totally to his provision. So this rich young man was proven to fall short of the commandments by failing to give up his possessions and Follow Gods will as spoken by his Prophet. Just like what happened with Moses, when the people failed to trust God when they followed Moses out of Bondage. This Man failed to trust God and Follow Jesus out of Bondage.  Mt 22:40 -  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.     I can just imagine Jesus who is more wise than any Man knowing that the Pharisees were coming to ask him for his judgment to try to trick him, wrote the Ten Commandments for them to see what sin is, and then when he stooped down again to write with his finger on the ground to write the other thing that God wrote on the wall for King Nebuchadnezzar's Son King Belshazzar in Daniel 5:5-28 Mene, Mene, Tekel, Uppharsin. This is the interpetation Mene;"I have Numbered thy Kingdom, and finished it. Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances, and found wanting. (Upharsin) Peres; Thy Kingdom is divided and Given to the Gentiles.      Jesus often used the Law to show men thier need for Gods Mercy and the Need for others to also have mercy in order to recieve Gods Mercy. This is the very reason why we have the law it is written for the self righteous who think they are Good and deserve salvation without grace, besides all of us come from and return to the dust of the earth, so it makes sense that God is writing his law in Dust, because we are yet to be raised and are in the dust.   This is also something the eldest men would have known more readily because it was foretold in the prophets. Jeremiah 31:31-34 They knew Jesus was at the very least a prophet who was reminding them of Gods promise to write His law in the hearts of men, whom they know themselves without doubt was formed from the dust, and are referred to as dust, by the prophets and by scripture. Lu 11:20 - But if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. By the scripture of the Prophets they would also know that God has a nature of wrath and of mercy towards whole nations, tribes or groups, and if one in or out of the group were guilty then the whole group as one would often have to enter into or even in some cases display the wrath, or mercy as one people or a whole group acting as one. So Jesus overturned as the father does (Ezekiel 21:26-27) and exalted him that is low, and abased him that is high, and showed them that they were all sinners by making them who were high, abased as the one deserving the judgment of death or mercy, and exalting the one who was abased as themselves, making them all as the one who loves mercy whose name is Jesus the Christ.   Luke 6:37 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: They all learned this lesson first hand from Christ Jesus, up close and in person. Please do not forget that Jesus did not justify her sin he simply forgave it and wasn’t that enough? We have to forgive to be forgiven, but remember he does not have to forgive because he has no sin, and only he can cast the first stone if he chooses to, and I can think of no better way to tempt him to, than to justify sin in his presence or especially during his judgment of it.   Jesus says that he cannot do any thing unless he sees his father do it.   John 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.   The father wrote the Ten Commandments with his finger.     Ex 31:18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.   Man is formed from the ground, so man is as the ground.   Genesis   2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.   Ge 3:19 -In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.   Job 34:15 - All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.   Job 10:9 -Remember, I beseech thee, that thou hast made me as the clay; and wilt thou bring me into dust again?     Isa 26:19 - Thy dead men shall live; together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.   Ps 40:2 -He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.   Jer 18:6 -O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? Saith the LORD. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel.   Jesus (God the Son) wrote the Ten Commandments on/in the ground (men) just like prophecy foretold he would.   Jeremiah 24:7 And I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.   Jeremiah 31:31-34 31 Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.   Jeremiah 32:40   And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.   Jesus was writing Gods laws in the hearts of men yet to be raised from the ground in their conscience.  Hebrews 8:6-13 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, a new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away. Jesus (God the Son) wrote the Ten Commandments on the ground, so that every mouth would be stopped, and the entire world became guilty before God, because by the Law was the knowledge of sin. This is why one by one from the oldest to the least which heard Jesus and saw the Ten Commandments were being convicted by their own conscience, and went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, because no flesh was justified in his sight and just as it was revealed by Paul. Romans 3:19  Now we know that what things so ever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. Romans 3:20  Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.   Romans 7:7  What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.   Jeremiah 31:34  “For they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more”   But we cannot forget what Jesus told Her and one other He said Go and sin no more.    John 5:14 - Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto thee.   John 8:11 - She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, neither do I (God the Son) condemn thee: go, and sin no more.   We must always remember that God still reserves the right to judge us as he sees fit, otherwise we will lose the fear of God and the beginning of our wisdom.  Jesus does not teach once saved always saved and I for one rejoice in that because my fear of God is good for me, and helps me overcome.     Jeremiah 18:8 ”If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.”   Jeremiah 18:10 If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.       Writing on the ground with the finger of god   Notice how in the word heart you can move the letter ‘H’ to the end of the word and it becomes earth, this is because the heart is made from the earth and it is just a vessel for the life or spirit that is within it.   Please do not get me wrong God would have been righteous to allow the stoning of this woman if he knew in her heart that she would continue rejecting Gods way, after all the Law did call for stoning in the Old Covenant which she would have remained under had she rejected Jesus Christ as Her savior.   The judgment belongs to God and his judgment is always righteous even in the event of condemnation, and it is good news for us that Jesus Christ was sent to give us a New Covenant, one which shows us that while seeking righteousness, offering mercy is more righteous than righteousness itself. Jesus never justified sin because forgiving it was enough.   In the Old Testament it was the blood and death of an innocent lamb offered to God, which redeemed men with his mercy and forgiveness of their sins. Perhaps a reminder to God of what he had done in the future for us to be forgiven for our sins with the gift of his only Son, the innocent Lamb of God as a sacrifice for our mercy and forgiveness of the sins of others. The plan of this new covenant is beyond brilliant, because now we are the ones required to give mercy in place of and because of his sacrifice. John 3:16     Ezekiel 21:26-27 26 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high. 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he (Jesus?) come whose right it is; and I will give it him.   Micah 6:6-8 6 Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? 7 Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?   Micah 7:18-20 18 Who is a God like unto thee that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger forever, because he delighteth in mercy. 19 He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 20 Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers from the days of old.     Matthew 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.   Matthew 9:13 But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.   Matthew 12:7 But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice; ye would not have condemned the guiltless.   Luke 10:37 And he said, “He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise”     The Spirit of God, to those who have insight, teaches several things.   1 That if God must Judge men, then we are all equally Guilty under his Law. Romans 3:19-20 & 7:7   2 That Jesus was the only one qualified to cast the first stone, proving himself as God the Son, because judgment belongs to God alone. If men try to Judge they themselves become judged, in the same measure, but if they do not condemn they will not be condemned.   3 Making all men know that they must forgive to be forgiven by God himself shown by his own example of judgment in this event.   4 Jesus Proved as a Prophet, that the time of the promised New Covenant was indeed fulfilled in Him, at that very moment. By first showing them all to be Guilty making them all desperately need this Promised New Covenant, and at the same time making them all equally forgiven, bringing down the high minded and exalting the repented and proving himself to be a Child of God by being a perfect example of a peace maker. By making all men equal (Guilty and forgiven at the same time) also most of all peaceful one to another. Jeremiah 31:31-34   5 Jesus became at that moment, the perfect example that God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son (to the world), that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.    6 Jesus was the sign of Jonah that all who repent (change thier minds, and surrender to Gods reign over them) will be saved.   7 By telling the woman who was forgiven to go and sin no more, Jesus proves that forgiveness comes with the responsibility and commitment, to live in Gods will. [Submission] Jesus also proves to whom much is given, much is required.   8 Jesus shows the world that it must submit to a real and Living God, who is not a rulebook, but a living Spirit and God, who was supposed to be revealed in Spirit within that rulebook. John 6:63   Jesus did say that he did not come to destroy the Law but to fulfill it as only a God can do, proving that only the Christ could fulfill what the Law calls for. We have to ask ourselves since only Christ is perfect and kept the law flawlessly, why not follow his ways to be perfect as he is perfect, rather than our own ways?   Could Jesus have been writing the sins of the Pharisees in the ground?     In a way this could be true, only because the Law (the Ten Commandments) is everyone’s sins.  Paul says in Romans 3:19-20 that the purpose of the law is to show everyone thier sins and to make all flesh guilty (However this does not mean that we cannot be forgiven for them) and Paul was the undisputed expert of the law.   Also Jesus says I can do nothing unless I see my father do it or say nothing unless I hear my father say it. This is the clue that led me to believe that Jesus was writing the Ten Commandments in the ground, because the Father is seen writing them with his finger and also Daniel 5:24-28 the phrase "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." Which Daniel interprets meaning to, from these words "Mene" the noun (fifty shekels) or a verb 'to number' and "Tekel" the noun (a shekel) or a verb 'to weigh' and "Upharsin" the noun (Half a shekel) or the verb "to divide'.   Daniel can easily interpret this as follows, [Fifty shekels] Mene; God has numbered thy kingdom and finished it (taken account of you, or simply taken you into account). [A shekel] Tekel; Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting (meaning you fall short or you do not measure up to the standard set forth), against the Law or Ten Commandments perhaps? [Half a shekel] 'Peres' a consonant of Upharsin; Thy Kingdom is divided, and given to others.   Men like the Pharisees learned in these sayings of Law and prophets would have known right away Jesus a prophet in thier eyes was making things very clear to them. In perhaps First as a teacher or school master, providing them with the mirror of the Ten Commandments to show them thier sin, and perhaps second even more as a prophet telling them God has taken account of thier kingdom weighed it in the balances, and has found it wanting, and Gods kingdom will be taken from them divided up and given to others. Ga 3:24 - Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. Ga 3:25 - But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.   Matthew 21:28-46 28 But what think ye? A certain man had two sons; and he came to the first, and said, Son, go work to day in my vineyard. 29 He answered and said, I will not: but afterward he repented, and went. 30 And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not. 31 Whether of them twain did the will of his father? They say unto him, “The first.” Jesus saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, “That the publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you.” 32 For John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye believed him not: but the publicans and the harlots believed him: and ye, when ye had seen it, repented not afterward, that ye might believe him. 33 Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country: 34 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it. 35 And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another. 36 Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise. 37 But last of all he sent unto them his son, saying, they will reverence my son. 38 But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, this is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance. 39 And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and slew him. 40 When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen? 41 They say unto him, He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and will let out his vineyard unto other husbandmen, which shall render him the fruits in their seasons. 42 Jesus saith unto them, did ye never read in the scriptures, the stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner: this is the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes? 43 Therefore say I unto you, “The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.” 44 And whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken: but on whomsoever it shall fall, it will grind him to powder. 45 And when the chief priests and Pharisees had heard his parables, they perceived that he spake of them. 46 But when they sought to lay hands on him, they feared the multitude, because they took him for a prophet.   Blessings in the God of living Spirit, and in that same Spirit revealed in Jesus Christ Called Holy,   Reverend Joe Mann Evangelist   Monday, March 17, 2008   What is the purpose of the Church? Category: Religion and Philosophy Should the church expect people to serve the church or should the people expect the church to serve the people? Ask not what you can do for the church, but ask what you all who are the church can do for the Lost! The answer is speak the words Jesus told us to speak [The Gospel of Jesus Christ, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John] speak and learn this, not what a church wants you to speak and learn. It is the power of the Gospel unto Salvation not the power of church! A wise man once said that going to church does not make a man a Christian any more than going to a stable makes a man a Horse.  It is hearing, believing and Obeying the Gospel of Jesus Christ that makes a man a Christian. It is not servicing a church that makes a church! It is serving Jesus Christ and his Gospel that makes the Church. Serving Jesus Christ and his Gospel is the only service that builds the Church, because those that hear and do the will of God are the only Church body and the only precious bride of Christ and his true brethren. God has defined Idolatry in Exodus 20:1-11 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. Today’s so called church’s are created in the image of the world and the businesses in it.  A church or ministry has taken the place of God in many people’s lives today  they listen to it and serve its own desire for growth, rather than growth of the Spirit of Gods Only begotten Son (His Spiritual Body) and by doing so they disobey God himself, who sent his Son to represent God as God the Son, Lord and Savior to all creation. Not by might, not by strength (numbers) but by my spirit says the Lord. I have seen far too many who are actively placing their faith in a church (Idolatry) rather than placing their faith in the reason that the Church (gathering) Body of Christ even exists. The Church is not gathering where everyone serves (answers to) one man ’unless that man is Jesus Christ’. A Church is a Gathering where One Man Jesus Christ himself serves everyone. If only those gathered would be used for the Gospel’s sake, rather than the sake of the gathering more to gather for the sake of gathering. It is a shameful display by men to serve something that is being created by the minds and hands of men rather than serving what has already been perfectly created by God himself which is the Way of God in the world yesterday, today and forever. I speak of The Way of Christ as seen in the Gospel of Christ in the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. Not to take away from the importance of the Church or rest of Scripture which Speak of Christ, but All Scripture is not the power of the Gospel unto Salvation, but rather a revelation of it and commentary to it, for all scripture is for Gods Glory. The same God who Glorifies his only begotten Son Jesus Christ and  has given all things to him and those who are in him as an inheritance. Only a Fool would and has disregarded Gods Son in order to create his very own ministry or church (his own  way) to serve God in others with. Behold the Kingdom of God is within! and it is within the Way of Christ, because Christ is the Way the truth and the Life and no man comes to the Father but through the way of Jesus Christ. Without a person’s complete faith being in Jesus Christ, a person is not even in "The Church" anyway, because it is faith in Jesus Christ that forms the Church. You see the true Body of Christ listens to the Head of the body not to the body, unless that body is simply passing along the message without adding or taking away from that message. When a part of the Body adds or takes away from the message that the head sends then there is a disease and the disease is not part of the body!!! The disease can be acting like part of the body and it can even control over part of the body like a tumor, but then again when this happens the tumor is no longer part of the body, because it is no longer listening to the head but rather to the disease.  In my humble opinion when this false faith is present in a so called church; I refer to this tumor as a cult, because like in all cults the freedom to serve the head no longer exists. And because the disease wants control of the tumor even though the tumor is pretending to be part of the body & its sustenance is from the Body; the tumor needs to be removed from the body because of its sin of not listening to the head. And because of its sin it is expecting the body (the real Church) to serve the body (the tumor part of disease [a church disorderly to Christ] and its own desire for growth within the true Body) rather than the good growth which still listens to the head who is Christ within the Spirit of our Father who is the same essence and is one heart soul and mind of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Jesus says – John 5:19 - Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things so ever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.  John 8:19 - Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered; "Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. " John 14:7 - If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. John 17:21 - That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. MT 11:27 - All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Lu 10:22 - All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him. John 5:18 - Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the Sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.  When it comes to who we should listen to Jesus says it best when he says John 5:25 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live. John 5:28 – "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice," John 5:37 - And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape. John 10:3 -To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out. John 10:4 - And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice. John 10:5 -And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. John 10:16 -And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd. John 10:27 - My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: The redeemed do not put their faith in the Church but rather put their faith in the Savior Jesus Christ. Granted he is a God of the living who dwells within his people, but you will know his voice as the Holy Spirit reminds you what he himself says in the Gospel. Also you will not hear his voice in the stranger, because Christ is not a Lord who forces himself over you, like a wicked husband. That is the way so many church’s that are in fact cult religions do things. Lording over another mans servants saying "serve us because we represent the lord" and they are Liars for they seek not the will of God, but rather the will of their own church, and they have not the love of God because they force their opinions and their will over others in a display of ungodliness towards the children of the Most high. It would be better for them to to have a great stone tied to them and be cast into the sea than to offend one of these little ones, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these who hear (from Jesus) and do the will of God. He seeks those who serve him freely and willingly because they have Love for God more than love for Life and this kind of love for God is eternal life. The Holy Spirit in others will not speak of himself, but rather of What Jesus says. The ones who have been set over you are the writers of the four Gospels’ it is to these you should submit yourselves to, because they are not speaking for themselves, they are speaking what they have been told by our Lord to speak which is the gospel and is the power unto salvation, because it is the seed (word of God) from the first fruit (Son) of God (Jesus) witch has in itself seed to reproduce after his own kind and every tree which does not bear this fruit will be cast into the fire. We being the Bride (The Church) is to receive this seed that is become alive in us and is to come forth from Him in us into others that they may also be born again and have Life eternal within themselves for others to receive as well. Eternal Life in God is to ignore (forsake) everything that is not God in life for yourself or in others, to seek Gods will in all things, forgiving sin and never justifying it within yourself or in others. Evangelist Joe Mann THE BACKWORD IMAGE I was watching a tape about Christ one day and the commentator said that he was reviled for spending time with tax collectors and sinners. So I paused the tape, wrote down the word "reviled" and started to look for a dictionary. I found out later that reviled means verbal assault; they were talking trash about the Lord who came to deliver. anyway, before I found the dictionary, the Holy Spirit, through a thought voice kind of thing which is hard to explain, said, "spell it backwords." I said, "o.k." and I was amazed to find out that reviled spelled backwards spells deliver I then realized that we are backwards because, he came to deliver and he was reviled. In the Lord who came to deliver, we live.                                          In those who reviled him, is evil. So if we  (live) (backwards)=(froward) we are   evil.  (just like the backword) But you cannot LIVE in EVIL because it is backwards and the opposite of living is dying. You see to live in GODs will is living for eternity, but being in sin, That is to be evil is dying, and getting closer to eternal death in the lake of fire. The bible calls this froward because in the time of the end many shall run to and fro (Daniel 12:4). We are all wards in God's creation. The question is, are we going TOWARD God or FROWARD (from) God? A WARD is defined as a prisoner in a prison ward, or a patient in a hospital ward. so you can be in satans prison or GODs house of healing (the CHURCH). See Psalms 101:4 and Proverbs 2:12, 15 & 17:20 The bible says we are made in the image of God. Have you ever looked at a mirror image? If you move your RIGHT arm the image will move its LEFT arm and words are backwards. Just like us! Seeing now how the original and the image are contrary one to another in regard to what is RIGHT and what is LEFT, look at Galatians 5:17. The flesh and the spirit are contrary, one to the other. If the spirit is RIGHT, then the flesh is what's LEFT. LEFT behind in the world when the spirit is RIGHT with god. While we look at mirror images, we can reflect on the words of Christ (Matthew 23:12).   Jesus says, "Whosoever shall exalt himself1 shall be abased2, and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted." Have you ever noticed the reflected images of a mountain in a pond? In the image, the part of the mountain which is the most humble (lowest) and least is in reality the most exalted part of the mountain. This is done by God who created it. Jesus says in Matthew 13:32 and 18:4 and in Luke 9:48 that the least will be the greatest. Notice that in the image reflected on the pond, the lowly part (Matthew 11:29) is, in reality, the peak of the mountain (John 13:12-16). Like some mountains only the peak has a pure and white robe. (Revelation 3:4, 6:11, 7:9 and Psalm 51:7 and Isaiah 1:18, 61:10. 1  Anyone who loves only HIMSELF,is saying I'M in the FLESH . H SELF (backwards reads flesh) I'M in the FLES H 2 He that is abased for God from his own free will, like in Philippians 4;12 is ABBA BASED or ABASED. notice the first sound in the word ABASED sounds like ABBA. ABBA which is the Aramaic word for father, used by Jesus and Paul to address God in a relation of personal intimacy. ABBA must come first in the foundation of your beliefs, or rather your beliefs should be BASED on ABBA GOD first. Like in the acronym of J.O.Y. which is Jesus, Others, You. note: the word You comes last.  A B B A B A S E D A B A S E D In other words, A life BASED on God the Father which leaves us ABASED.  Acid can cause destruction, but ABASE can neutralize that destruction. We should ABASE (humble) our selves and neutralize our own destruction. Notice that in a mirror image when one moves to the right, the image appears to move to its left to block you from coming in.This represents strife and opposition to reality (truth). Have you ever noticed how a lie is contrary to truth? A mirror reflection is not real; it's a lie about what is real but it looks real. A house of mirrors is a place where we are surrounded by lies that tell us everything is about us. when we live in our own house of mirrors, it's a complicated deception we live in. Surrounded by the unholy trinity of me, myself, and I,and that's all I can focus on or care about. The house of mirrors is a world of deception created by us for us to deceive ourselves.  I named my house of mirrors denial. We thought about a hotline for denial at our church, but then maybe no one would call. I worked for United Airlines as a welder, and we frequently used mirrors to observe our work inside parts and engines. when you move your hands, while looking at a mirror, everything is backwards: when you want to move to the left in the mirror you have to move right with your hands and when you move left with your hands, you move right in the mirror. Learning to move correctly while using a mirror is like learning to do what's right while living in our sinful nature, the flesh. They are always contrary one to the other (Galatians 5:17). When darkness comes, you will either shine like a star with the light of God or you will hide like RATS, because your deeds are evil and you love the darkness rather than the light (John 3:19).                                                  The word                                                      RATS is the backword of the word STAR The devil says, "Let me have this little PART of your life. The backword of PART is TRAP. Even a snare only needs part of you. The devil's A#1 TRAP IS A PART. He'll tell you almost anything to get you APART from the Church. things like, "You don't need them," "They have it all wrong," "Find a better church." The devil would love for you to EXALT yourself because he knows what you're really doing is getting ABASED into the kill zone. Just like a lion or a wolf separates a sheep from the flock just before the kill. I know this happens because it happened to me. God helped me with the word.  In the word APARTMENT is the words MEN and APART and the backword A TRAP.                                              APARTMENT                                                          MEN                                              APART                      (= A TRAP) I was about to try to live in my own APARTMENT instead of the House of the Lord. The word APARTMENT also says MEN APART are A TRAP. See Luke 11:44.                                      Serve God NOW                          and you have NOW WON  A NEW LIFE.                                           see JOB 22:21 do it now!  I used to be too KOOL to LOOK to Jesus for my answers. 9-27-2007 Looking At parables from the right Spirit       When we are seeking to understand the things of God we must be in the right Spirit, Because God is Spirit, and He seeks those who will worship him in Spirit and in truth. For example: Most of us have heard the phrase it is better to teach a man to fish than it is to give him a fish. But how many people have looked at this thought carefully and know that it is much deeper than just that? To teach a man to fish is just the beginning of the thing, because lets face the truth, it is hard work to fish when you are not in the right Spirit and fishing becomes a heavy burden. However if you teach this man to give others who are in need, his fish for free! Keeping only what he needs, then his work becomes a great Joy and is Spiritually rewarding for all involved. This is how the Spirit of God is increased on earth, this gives god glory, this is being a good and faithful steward of what God has given his Stewarts called the Spirit that is Holy (true riches) and must not be hidden in the earth (us who are raised from the dust, by everything our parents ate and we eat) See Matthew 25:14-30.   With the same Spirit of what is above when you read this teaching of Christ it becomes clear why the lord of this story (Jesus) commended his Steward, and says the unjust Steward is wise.   Luke 16:1-18  1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. 2 And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. 3 Then the steward said within himself, what shall I do? For my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed. 4 I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. 5 So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, how much owest thou unto my lord? 6 And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 7 Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore. 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light. 9 And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into everlasting habitations. 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. 11 “If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?” 12 “And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?” 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. 14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15 And he said unto them, “Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.” 16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.   In this teaching that is Spiritually discerned by the way Jesus in the Spirit of God teaches from Gods point of view therefore it must be received in that context, not from a worldly point of view but from a godly point of view. With that in mind which way do you think is more important to God having the stuff or having a Spirit like his? Jesus teaches to forgive debts, so forgiving debts is a commendable thing in the eyes of our Lord, if the steward is forgiving debts then he can be forgiven for his debts to his lord. This is the opposite of the parable in Matthew 18:21-35 where the servant was forgiven but would not forgive, even opposite in that the servant was forgiven first in one parable and was forgiven last in the other parable, does this remind anyone of how the two Covenants work in the Old Covenant man is forgiven first (and then became unforgiving), and in the New Covenant man is forgiven last (because he was forgiving others first). The ways of God can be seen like this too, Our Father God created man with the possibility of eternal life, then came disobedience then came death, However the Son of God gives men Death then comes obedience then comes eternal life, we call this redemption.   Also think about whom it is that gets the glory for the forgiveness of debt. If the servant is forgiving the lords debt then it is not the servant who gets all the credit if the lord approves of it, so to those who are forgiven much also love much and much is required making the Lord prosperous in more ways than one. REGARD  If you do not REGARD the WORD of GOD that righteousness can be a, D RAG      (backword) I R T Y       DRAG and a dirty RAG see ISAIAH 64:6 & 5:11-16, LAMENTATIONS 4:16 and LUKE 18:4. FROWARD The bible calls this froward because in the time of the end many shall run to and fro (Daniel 12:4). We are all wards in God's creation. The question is, are we going TOWARD God or FROWARD (from) God? See Psalms 101:4 and Proverbs 2:12, 15 & 17:20 HEART                                 The word heart says,                                                    earth                                                  he                    who has                   an                               ear                                        let him                       hear                  and                                     then                           he                    (JESUS)                                                     art                 (is)                 in the                         heart                 (EZEKIEL 3:10-11)                                         Earth he who has an ear let him hear, and then he (JESUS CHRIST) art (is) in the heart.                              see MATTHEW 10:27, 13:9 & 13-16, 13:43, 17:5.                                    MARK 4:18-24,9:7.                                   LUKE  8:18, 9:35, 11:28.                                    JOHN  14:20-23, 5:25 Taking pleasure in sin is proof that the spirit is dead. In otherwords we are dead to the flesh, or our spirit is dead?  see COLOSSIANS 2:12-13, and 1 CORINTHIANS 14:25.  He who has an ear is he who hears the WORD (JOHN 1:1) of GOD into his heart. LIKE in MATTHEW 13:19 & 23, combined with  LUKE 6:45 & 10:42.  We have to realize that when our heart is in GOD,  GOD is in our heart  it is the same thing. They both have become one, so to speak. Its just that god is bigger than us and our hearts, just like new wine becomes bigger than the old wine skin (Old heart) and new wine skin (new heart) grows. The new heart is not hardened like the old wine skins are hardened.                                   see ISAIAH 51:7.                                         JEREMIAH 3:15 (us in his heart),15:1, 17:9-10,  20:8-9, 24:7 ( twenty four hours a day,seven days a week.), and 32:37-42.                                         EZEKIEL 11:17-20 notice verse 19, 36:24-38 notice verse 26-27, compare them to JOHN 6:51,& 63. The bread, his flesh given to replace hearts of stone in us, and his word given as a new spirit to be put within us.                                           PROVERBS 2:10, 4:4, 4:20-23, 10:8, 14:33, 19:21, 20:5 and 21:1.             PSALM 31:31, 86:11, 119:11 In this verse remember, to hide something is to put it inside something else. The greatest treasures from our fathers kingdom is hidden inside obedience  which is Gods excuse to bless us.                                   JOB 22:21-30, ROMANS1:5, 5:19, 6:16 and 2 CORITHIANS 10:5  DEMON This may intrest some the word NO MED = DEMON. Ever see someone like this without thier (MEDs) MEDICATION! RELATIONSHIPS I have found three rules to apply in any relationship. 1. To take is forbidden. 2. To give is required. 3. Expecting something to be received, is not required.  I have found four attitudes for me to assume in any relationship. 1. When someone is wrong, I assume the role of a loving father. 2. When someone is right, I assume the role of a loving son. 3. When someone is in need of help, I assume the role of a loving brother. 4. When someone just wants fellowship, I assume the role of a friend who listens.  NATURALLY Have you ever noticed how liars call every one a liar?, and a thief calls everone a thief?, and cheaters accuse everone of cheating?  Lets look at JUDE verse 10 "But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know NATURALLY, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves". JUDE the main word in the word JUDGE sums it up pretty well in this verse. you must understand, wisdom has been around since creation it is not something evolved as only the true science OF fiction can do. Wisdom comes from and belongs to GOD! so be a good steward of it. Just look at the backword of the combined words " I EVOLVED "<>" DEVILOVE " It says DEVIL LOVE or DEVIL I LOVE or DEVIL I LOVE EVIL or I LOVE EVIL DEVIL or VILE or I LOVE VILE EVIL or VILE DEVIL I LOVE.  That alone should be clear enough.  We Christains still have trouble just like other people, except now we deal with them the right way. We blame them all on sin, which could be Adams, mine or someone else’s. Now! we know its not Gods fault when things seem wrong and we know that this world is temporary but the next one is eternal. The way is seen and we see. John 3:19 tells us where from (condemnation) and John 3:17 and 3:18 tells us where to (eternal life). Remember, if we truly believe someone we will take their advice and do what they tell you to do.  I do and it's what I was always looking for. Life still has hardships but God doesn't change life for us, He changes us for life. GODS WORD AND CLAY IN EYE OF THE BLIND MAN   Can you see what happens when God and Gods word comes together? Godsword! See Ezekiel 21:3-5 & Revelation 19:15 God The Son, speaking Gods Word! Also Gods word comes to get her, so we can be one and all join together! See 1 Thessalonians 4:17 do you (come together) join Gods word, reach out to get her (the lost sheep, the bride, the body of Christ) and speak Gods word? Can you see what happens to those who serve God? They serve! See John Chapter 9 then notice verse 39. We are all like this blind man; we are born with our minds eye (the light (life) of the body) blind. When what came out of the mouth of our Lord Jesus entered the Ground (good ground, they which hear the word, us!). He made Clay (the clay is us, the potter is God, Isaiah 29:16, 64:8 and Jeremiah 18:1-6). The Clay is the vessel containing the anointing of the Spirit, That spirit is every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God (Jesus is called the word of God, because he speaks every word that comes to him, out of the mouth of God, he is the spirit and the life shooting forth from God) See John 6:63 and Matthew 4:4. Jesus anointed (applied and appointed us, to) the eyes of the blind man, by using the Clay. Notice that the Clay was anointed first. I want to make one thing very clear to anyone who reads these comments, I am not worthy to be spit on by Someone like Jesus, and I do not deserve that kind of mercy compared to what I deserve in the lake of fire. I do know however that I am forgiven, and this I do not deserve. It is by no means of my own to receive that Grace so amazing to me. I would consider being spit on by such a Holy God to be a blessing beyond all that has ever happened to me or ever will, compared to that which I truly deserve. I will always need more of him in my life, however I pray Jesus will have more of me to serve in His. But let his will be done through and through, within me, on me, to me, for me, from me, around me and without me, for his is the power, the glory, and the kingdom forever and ever Amen. Then Jesus says “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.” John then tells us that the translation of Siloam is sent. It is much, much more than just sent! Follow close as we journey through the Glory of Gods words given to man. Siloam #4611 in the Greek dictionary of the concordance defines it as of Hebrew origin #7975, a pool of Jerus. Hebrew #7975 is a twin word of #7974 Which comes from #7973 a missile of attack (spear or dart (arrow) figuratively it is a shoot of growth, (as in branch) to dart, plant, or put off, sword, weapon. #7975 also comes from #7971 a prime root to send away, for or out (in a great variety of applications) such as cast away conduct, cast out conduct, earnestly forsake, give up, lay down, leave, let depart, push away, put away, put out, to set out (as in candle), shoot forth, shoot out (as in grow), sow out, spread out, grow long, and stretch forth. (Read Isaiah chapter 35 *note verse 5) We should now know that Jesus sent this man who was born blind, (and has Clay, what god made) us in = (I ‘r’ (are) in his spirit, Psalm 40:1-3 (on and in his eyes) on and in his blind mind, 2 Corinthians 3:14, 17.   Jesus applied the Clay he made, on the blind mans eyes and sent him to the pool of repentance to wash, the man washed (cleansed himself), and came and went forth seeing and Praised God! He declared Jesus as the one who opened his eyes, so that he could believe in and see the Son of God, and to hear from Gods Son about the Judgment concerning those who see or not. (John 9:35-39)    He declared Jesus as the one who opened his eyes, so that he could believe in and see the Son of God, and to hear from Gods Son about the Judgment concerning those who would see or not. (John 9:35-39) Brown is repentance of dirt or Clay. Green is Growth in the works of God. Red is the word of God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. Blue is the spirit of and from Gods mouth (the anointing appointment of his will, that's leads, and binds us in the dust together).          THIS IS AN A.P.B.             ALL POINTS BULLETIN!    Be on the lookout for a wanted Criminal last seen operating in various local Churches. This is a sincere and real attempt to help leaders locate and eradicate this infamous criminal from all operating in our safe houses. He can be found being Guilty of disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, theft, destruction, performing a deceptive business practice and he commits perjury to justice. He is considered to be armed and dangerous, he is known to deceptively arm himself with words in the bible, along with lies and deceit. He knows our language well, yet he lacks understanding in our ways. He has an overwhelming need to succeed (at any and all cost). M O His M.O. (modus operandi) is as follows, This disorderly and destructive troublemaker whispers in this guy’s ear about that guy, and that guy’s ear about this guy, causing division for his own purposes. This criminal uses his followers and even his own children, along with many other willing yet unaware victims of his con in order to achieve his own goals. Although His followers are frequently involved in random crimes, Satan himself leads organized crime, attempting to bring order into the destruction of the love, Joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance in Gods house, and in Gods Children.   Motives His motivating goals are; covetness, authority, control, leadership titles, fame, fortune, glory, respect from men, authority over others, pride, jealousy, revenge, and still the list goes on. Name Lucifer was his title as an angel, before he became the ultimate disgruntled employee. Aliases and A K A’s Devil, Satan, a Demon, Prince of darkness, Father of lies, Accuser of the brethren, Prince of this world, The flesh, Sinful nature, and General Evil when generally speaking as a General to the army of darkness. Disguises He is frequently disguised as a member wearing self-righteousness as a cloak, or even wearing the outward appearance of a sheep while trying to pull the wool over your eyes. He is at times disguised as a Church leader and He frequently disguises himself as the innocent victim when facing exposure. He will disguise himself by convincing others that the real devil is red, has horns and a tail. This is a distraction, which frees him to hide right in front of his victims, in plain open sight. Physiological profile Read his physiological profile found in Matthew 18:6, 10, 23-35 and 1 Peter 4:15 and 2 Peter 2:10-14, also Galatians 5:19-21.   Be vigilant and keep watch (1 peter 5:8). The book of Matthew chapter 16, verse 23 clearly demonstrates how even a church leader held in the highest regard could fall victim to Him on occasion, resulting in reprimand not rejection or replacement. Arrest procedure The arrest procedure must not be deviated from, and can be found in context in Philippians chapter 3. *Note: verses *8-9, *12-13, *21, Galatians 5:22-6:10 in combination with Matthew 18:14-18 and 1 Peter 5:2-3 and 2 Corinthians 10:5. We must by oath, Count the loss of all things before Christ, worthless. Worthless for the Excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus our lord: so that we may win Christ. To follow after and apprehend those things which we are apprehended of Christ (those things unto salvation and redemption, things within the doctrine of Christ) who shall change our vile body; and members of our body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body which is the (remnant, true Church) body of Christ, and those who overcome a sinful nature. The body which according to the working; he is able to subdue all things unto himself. To cast down imaginations, and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, and bring into captivity, every thought to the obedience of Christ. We must assist the elders who are in Christ with the feeding of the flock of God, which is among us, taking the oversight, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy bribes or the praise of men, but of a ready mind; Neither as being lords over Gods heritage, but being examples to the flock.   If a man is overtaken in a fault, ye that are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness (no brutality or use of force) for your own good so you are not tempted also into fault. For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. (In other words to others, I am nothing, however I rejoice within myself, not in comparing to the behavior of another, but in comparing myself to Christ alone do I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus) We must not get tired of doing the right thing no matter what others do, because our reward is coming. We must when opportunity allows, do good to all men, especially to them who are of our safe house of faith. It is not Gods will that even one of these little ones (that’s us) should perish. If a brother transgresses go and tell him his fault one to one, with him all alone if he will listen you have gained your brother. If he will not hear you take with you one or two more witnesses, so every word may be established. If he will not hear them tell it to the Church. If he will not hear the Church, let him be as a heathen and avoid him. (Romans 16:17-18) One way to deal with unreasonable and wicked men, who are disorderly meddling in other men’s matters, is that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed (2 Thessalonians 3:2, 6, 14-15) and allow that shame to restore or not. Remember our battle is with the spirit of evil not the victim’s evil uses. For example, not all men have faith some are blind. It would be unreasonable to get angry when a blind man steps on your toes so to speak, so you would naturally, with kindness and meekness restore the peace, this is the Godly way to treat the blind, or to restore a brother back into Godliness.   See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all. What are we building on? I just learned that before and after the middle chapter of the Bible, Psalm 118. That there are 1188 chapters, and the middle verse of the bible is Psalm 118:8, "It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man." Can you see the central significance of this verse, which is centered in the core of the doctrine of Gods word? (Matthew 16:23, 19:26, 22:21, Mark 7:8-9, Luke 12:21,31-34 / 16:15, 18:2-14 put this one and 2:14 together, John 12:43. I find it very interesting that the liars (John 8:44) in Matthew 22:15-22 when flattering Jesus spoke the truth (vs.16) while believing it was a lie. (2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 and John 5:44) It’s a big Ten four, that the rock is our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 10:4, Deuteronomy 32:4, 15,Psalm 31:3, 40:2, 62:2, *7, *94:22) *Notice the word refuge, which is a dwelling place (house). The sand represents men. (Gen 32:12, Jeremiah 33:22, Hosea 1:10, *Romans 9:27, Revelation 20:8) * notice how the remnant is the people (the sand) who the Lord has made an impacting impression on. They are humbled and pressed into service, so to speak. Think of footprints in the sand. The most humble part of the body of Christ is used to leave impressions on the sand of this world, and the bottom of the feet can be one of the most sensitive parts of the body in Christ. What a great honor it would be to be a member of this part of the body, leaving evidence of his presence in the world everywhere Christ goes. (Matthew 18:1-5, Luke 9:48) I heard a wise man say once; “evangelizing is where the rubber meets the road.” We should all leave tracks that resemble the correct impressions of Christ.   Gospel Tracts in the hand of the sand are like footprints at-hand in the sand. The Lord often uses me to leave his (Gospel) tracts in the sand. (In the hand of the sand)  Sometimes a free gift comes with responsibilities!     Consider the free gift of a puppy for example, it is a free gift but if you do not provide that free gift with the proper care that it requires for its life to exist it will die.   Salvation and faith are no different in this respect according to Christ in the parable of the sower and other doctrines that He was sent to teach us within his Gospel of good news. If we do not give our faith and salvation the proper care that it requires [in other words feed it (Jesus named the word of God) and give it the proper light (Jesus the life of men) then this free Spirit in Christ given to us will not survive] 2Co 11:4 - For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.   Ga 1:6 - I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:   Ga 1:7 - Which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. Preaching another kind of Good news (gospel) other than the one Jesus the Christ preached is deadly to all who speak or believe it, and this very common kind of good news that comes without the need to care for our new Spirit which is born again in Christ, can be fatal, if we put our faith in this other Gospel other than the one preached by Jesus Christ.   Believe the doctrine of Jesus Christ, in that Grace and salvation without responsibilities, is a Lie and faith in it is dead! Just because a man claims Jesus, as his lord does not mean that he is saved by grace, and if that free gift is allowed to die it serves no purpose in his life! This is something that does not bear fruit and we all know that Jesus says everyone that does not bear fruit will be cast into the fire. Faith in Salvation from Grace that does not come with responsibilities to produce fruit of the Spirit to reproduce itself  (The Spirit of Jesus Christ that is Holy and that also is God) in the believer is a faith that is dead at least in the end anyway. It May comfort the owner for a season like in the parable of the sower, but when the angels come for the harvest it will be burned as tare, because it has no fruit to bear for Gods Spirit to use for Gods (who is Spirit) own purpose.   Once saved always saved? Perhaps always saved once would be a better way to see this phrase, because it undermines the authority in the responsibilities to our Faith in Jesus by down playing the works that come within his yoke. Mt 11:29 - Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. Mt 11:30 - “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. “ I would hope that everyone knows that a yoke is something that requires work.   Being an unprofitable servant or a servant who has no duties are two different things entirely we must not confuse the two in the eyes of the world we preach to.   If a man wishes to repent (change) then he will under no false pretenses on our part have to do things (this is called works) to tell someone they are required to nothing whatsoever is in fact a lie. They will have to repent, they will have to believe, they will have to grow and produce fruit or they are still dead before they even start.   Jesus makes this required work very clear so those who deny Jesus before men, Jesus will deny before the Father in heaven. Joh 6:28 - Then said they unto him, “What shall we do, that we might work the works of God?” Joh 6:29 - Jesus answered and said unto them, “This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.” For Christ’s sake, and Heavens sake, please do not deny his words, which are his Spirit and they are Life, before Men.    Which is better for all involved to say to everyone when giving people a free gift like a puppy or a Spirit of life that you love enough to take away from someone and give it to someone else, if they do not take proper care of it?   1. Please receive this free gift from my Lord it is completely free and requires nothing whatsoever on your part, other than for you say that you will receive it. Or 2. Please receive this free gift from my Lord it is completely free and it not cost you anything to receive it, however you will have responsibilities to care for it the way that he will instruct you to care for it himself in his own words which you must Hear, Believe and Obey, so it will not be taken from you and given to another who will care properly for it and you will come to know and to love this new life, as you grow in it and it grows in you and lives forever within you and you will live forever in this new Spirit.      The breath of life is Jesus Christ.     I believe the first two Chapters In Genesis do not contradict each other because of reason, the same reason an Artist (Like our Father most definitely is) creates an image before he forms the Image, God created man in his own image (imagery) and then He formed man from the dust of the Ground. Create is defined, originate, invent. No Invention has ever been invented without first being created in the spirit of the inventor. All inventions and reproductions of it, originate from the spirit of the inventor.   We also know that God is a spirit, so then the man in the Image of Gods own likeness has to be a spirit as well, which could then be breathed as a breath into the form. It works like this, When God speaks, His word is in the breath, and the word (spirit and life) is what made all things. The scripture’s here are pretty basic, so for now I will leave them out for clarity purposes. Breath # 5397 in Hebrew is defined, a puff, wind, *angry or vital breath, divine inspiration, intellect, or like an animal blast (that breathed), inspiration (not divine, 2 Thess. 2:11 delusion?), soul, spirit. This word for breath also comes from the Hebrew word for, Destroy # 5395, which means to blow away, destroy. Reborn Christians know that Gods word destroys everything that defiles now and later, for example the works of the flesh. I am most definitely blown away by Gods word, and it will destroy pride, thank God for that, because at the same time it gives life to the spirit of God in us as well. Ultimately, He will have mercy upon, whom he will have mercy, and he will destroy, whom he will destroy, and his righteous justice shall prevail. Judgment based on a person’s faith in their heart, seen in their fruit, and words, based on the words of Christ, Jesus says “the words I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.” See John 12:48. A righteous judgment, not a judgment based on appearance.   Ezekiel 37:9 in the context of 36:34 to 37:14 This is a vision of hindsight, insight and foresight, the divine inspiration and wisdom within the spirit of the Lords promise, of the New Testament. More proof of Christ the Lords doctrine on this breath of life, is found when God told Ezekiel to prophesy unto the wind, and say to the wind thus saith the Lord God: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. Remember even the winds and the seas Obey Jesus, who sends the word, spirit and life (comforter) from God to us. Notice the lord told him exactly what to say, just as Jesus told us in writing what to say. God made it easy for us; he gave us written a speech for the dead prepared by Jesus Christ, we just have practice what we preach, to know it by heart. In Genesis 2:7 God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. The word used for nostrils here in Hebrew # 639 has two key uses, 1. The face. Have you ever heard someone say “If you don’t like me, just tell me to my face”? Or “He got in his face”? Or “get out of my face”? Born again Christians know by experience that God is always in our face, we also know that it is necessary for our life. 2. Before the countenance, Anger, Wrath, also (from the rapid breathing in passion) suffering. Starting to get the picture, of why Jesus was hated? He was this in your face preacher to the evil within the proud. And at the same time, He was this preacher welcomed (like someone else’s breath after you drown) in your face, breath of life, to the humble. The Lion and the lamb, and we can have it both ways the choice is ours, because the word gets in our face and what comes out of our mouth is anger or praise, and this depends on, if we receive it, or try to get it out of our face. The proper way breathing is taught in through the nose, out through the mouth, remember that in the race to the prize, when we are talking to someone who is not saved.    Getting back to God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. Now here is the most interesting part. The Hebrew word we get this word breathed from # 5301 is defined, to puff, in various applications (lit. to inflate, blow hard, scatter, kindle, and expire; fig. To disesteem) blow, breath, give up, cause to lose [life], snuff. Do you remember John 3:16? And what about Jesus and his point of view God (breathed) disesteemed or brought him self in low regard, and was willing to give up his life, to send (the Breath) his words to us? (John 16:7-15) The form (man, the flesh) from the dust of the ground, had a spirit from God, but because of sin it died. So now the (breathed or spoken) Word of God has to be sown back into it before it can be born again of the spirit. Jesus says, "For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you" Is this The Word of God, which is sown in good ground? Yes!   When we preach, speak (sow) the words of Jesus (the word of God) which again, is "but the Spirit of our Father speaking in us" this is When He who is in Jesus, who is in you, may breathe the breath of life into the form of the dust which is but flesh on the earth (field). Jesus says, “the Holy Ghost whom the Father shall send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you”. Our Lord breathes the breath of life as he is speaking the Words through us that Jesus says, is Spirit and is life, sowing the seed in his field, remember it is not us that speaks, but the Spirit of our Father that speaks. When they that received seed into good ground (hear the Word, receive it in an honest and good (repented and reformed) heart, having heard the word and understand it) they are born again of the Spirit from our Fathers Breath of life. Just as the potter made it (clay) again another vessel, as it seemed good to the potter to make it, if you are not one with the potter, you will not know where the spirit came from, or it is going to, inside the potters mind while he is making it again another vessel, as it seems good to him to make it. In other words if you are not a spirit inside the artist, or the spirit of the artist is not inside you, you can not know what the artist sees as good, or even what he is going do with it. Jesus says, "Marvel not that I said unto thee, ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of Spirit." (The wind bloweth where it listeth, Acts 2:2?)   Nicodemus was told that the Spirit was like the wind and that he could not tell where it was coming from or where it would go, because he was not born again. He did not know that hearing those born of the Spirit are Words coming from God the Father, and hearing them is like hearing the wind. For divine inspiration Look for the word wind in Exodus 10:13,19 & 14:10 & 15:8,10. Most of all now Knowing the words of Christ is spirit, life and wind, read this parable again about hearing Christ’s words and doing them. Then watch what the wind (angry or vital) does to a man’s dwelling place, vessel, temple or spiritual place to worship god from and belief built on a foundation, know it will be built on the Rock (Jesus) vs. the sand (men). See Matthew 7:24-27 and 25:31-32. Also Job 1:19 says “and behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell…” Now we know that God turned Satan loose on Job to prove him, and Satan is a spirit and a wind that destroys just like hateful words can. If you hear and do what the words of Christ tell you to do, hateful words will not destroy your house or your temple for the spirit of god within you. Jesus says your dwelling on the Lord will not fall, in the storm of it because it is founded upon the rock. Notice there is no mention of the possessions other than the house during the persecution, trials and tribulation. This is covered in other doctrine, In Ephesians 4:14 Paul says “That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind (destruction) of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive,” He goes on to expose the prideful “vanity of their mind, to work all uncleanness with greediness” He is talking about today’s prosperity teachers. These are those false teachers who teach gain is godliness and are trying to gain in possessions, by founding the house on the sand, where the life is thought to be better, and they lose the house in the process. What good is it to gain the whole world and lose your soul, because the life of a man does not consist of what he posses, beware of covet ness. The only defense is contentment, therefore take no thought of what ye shall eat, or with what ye shall be clothed with, for the body is more than the clothes, and the life is more than the food. You can go build on that because that’s the rock of my salvation.    Jesus then tells Nicodemus If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe me not, how shall you believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? Let me attempt to paraphrase that parable "no matter what I say to you, Its like hearing the sound of the wind, you don't know where I am coming from or where I am Going with it, Because I am born of the Spirit, Which for you hearing me is like hearing the Wind"  In John 8:47 Jesus says it again "He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God."   Those of us who are born of the Spirit know exactly where we came from, and where we are going. All born again Christians are called by God and are laborers, we Come from the seed of the word of God who is Christ Jesus and (redeemed) we are sent going to others who are lost, and then to Jesus Christ who is with our Father in Heaven. Yes it is true, we do not know Gods ways because they are higher than our ways, but God showed us one way. That is the way of Jesus Christ, and for us there is no other way, not Abraham’s way, not the way of Moses, not king David’s way, not the apostle Paul’s way, not Muhammad’s way for Mad people, not Joseph smiths way, not Charles Russell’s way, not Moon’s way, not Mrs. Eddy’s way, not Ron L. Hubbard’s way, not Buddha’s way, not a ‘Hindu’ Hare Krishna’s way, and most of all, not My way. Look to the way (words) of Jesus Christ he is truth. If one thinks that his words are not absolute truth it is because they are condemned and do not want to admit this fact. Then comes the father of lies to dwell. They need only to cry out to Jesus, die to themselves and be saved I pray.   Another parable which shows this to be the doctrine of Christ is John 12:23-33 Where Jesus says (and I paraphrase) The hour has come to Glorify Gods only seed, Jesus Christ (a corn of wheat, within the bread, the body of Christ, born of the spirit) which has been sown into the Ground (flesh). This Corn of wheat (Jesus Christ) the son of man (Son of God, born inside a man, who is the son of Adam) has to fall (come down from heaven) into the Ground (man, field, world) and die, (on the Cross) it (Jesus) bringeth forth much fruit (us) & Galatians 5:22 in us.   It works like this a seed falls into the ground and dies, It becomes like a vine tree that brings forth much fruit after his kind, whose seed (word of God) is in itself, upon the earth: bringing forth life more abundantly with fruit and seed, after its own kind, all connected together as One vine tree of life. See Proverbs 11:30.     Notice, that in the wedding feast in Matthew 22:1-14 a man was there which had not a wedding garment (white robe) and he is cast out, now look at Revelation 7:9-17 and 19:6-9 and 21:9, 24-27. They the saints wearing white robes of righteousness, have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood (New Testament) of the Lamb. Remember the blood is the life, and the life is the spirit, and the words of Christ (New Testament) are spirit and they are life. You have to apply the Blood or it don’t wash, in other words you have to apply the New Testament, spirit, life, blood of the lamb, all of which is the words of Jesus Christ, who is speaking only the fathers words nothing added or taken away, the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Anything and everything else in my book doesn’t wash, and my book is called the Bible! The other words are good for many things but not for washing away my sin, or the robe, or saving a soul, because there is but one name by which we must be saved, for no man goes to the father but by Him, and anyone who does not know this truth is confused for lack of faith. He that receives not the words of Christ receives not the Father who sent him, because he loves the darkness, has no vision and will perish for lack of knowledge. He is blind and need only have an eye for the Light, which is Jesus Christ. They search the bible because in it they think they have eternal life, and it is the bible, which points to Jesus the Christ both before and after the words of Christ, and for which the whole context of it exist. No they suppose that Gain is godliness, and for this cause God shall send them (the father of lies) strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, being condemned because they, while taking pleasure in unrighteousness, received not the love of the truth that they might be saved, and what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul? In the end the choice will be his own sinful way to death in hell. This is the easy default way out of the world. But by choice, the only way out is this not of the world, deny yourself, bear your cross and follow me now, way of Christ our lord. Nowhere else is life in heaven forever and ever? No they would save their life in this world and they shall lose it, and they who would lose their life in this world (to this world) shall find it everlasting. Yes they strain out the flies, and drink down the elephant not knowing that it is the self interest and lack of faith that condemns them.  September 29, 2006   Evil or live In the Lord who came to deliver, we live.                                          In those who reviled  Him is evil. So if we  (live) (Backwards)=(froward) We are   evil.  (Just like the backword) But you cannot LIVE in EVIL because it is backwards and the opposite of living is dying. You see to live in Gods will is living for eternity, but being in sin, That is to be evil is dying, and getting closer to eternal death in the lake of fire. Matthew 25:31-46 31 When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: 32 And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats: 33 And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. 34 Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:    …41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, “Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.”   …46 And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.   I have raised sheep and I have raised Goats so I have noticed a major difference in the two. The sheep are very meek, trouble free and they are easily led. The Goats on the other hand are a lot of trouble they will ram and fight against you. They are not easy to love or to lead, they eat all the flowers and plants in the yard, climb on top of the cars, jump the fences, raid the feed supply, and they are not afraid to do all these things to the neighbors too. Oh and I must not forget this personal experience, they can be a disaster to a very young crop planted near by like the one I planted once that disappeared in one afternoon. The list goes on but I am sure that’s enough about goats for you to understand my point about them.      Notice how the ones set on the right (read the word live from left to right) Live, because that is what is right to God.   The right live! Live what is right.   The ones set on the left (read the word live from right to left) are evil because they chose sin and not what is right, which is to obey Christ. Therefore they are left out, because they are left when God chooses who are right (righteous), so then they being evil not written in the book are left over for everlasting fire.   The evil chose sin and not what is right, God chooses who are left over for everlasting fire.   It is right that the first who will be chosen are those who will last, and the last that are left and will be the first to go.     Exodus 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.   Jeremiah 2:3 Israel was holiness unto the LORD, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the LORD.   James 1:18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.   Revelation 14:4 These are they, which were not defiled with women for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.   1 Corinthians 15:20-34 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the firstfruits of them that slept. 21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive 23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming. 24 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. 25 For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. 26 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death. 27 For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him. 28 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all. 29 Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead? 30 And why stand we in jeopardy every hour? 31 I protest by your rejoicing, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily. 32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die. 33 Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. 34 Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.       Matthew 12:45  Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.   Matthew 19:30 But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.   Matthew 20:16 So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.   Mark 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.   Mark 10:31 But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.   Luke 11:26 Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.   Luke 13:30 And, behold, there are last which shall be first, and there are first which shall be last.   Those who try to last without Jesus as their lord shall be the first to lose their life and those who first come to Christ, as their Lord shall have life that will last forever.   Matthew 16:25 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.   Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it.   Luke 9:24 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.   Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.   Please do not settle for what is left go to what is right and that is Jesus Christ because he is our only hope. Consider this -  If God chooses to be completely and utterly without mercy for a thing, then this is what Gods people must believe this is what is right, fair and just. However if God chooses to have complete and total mercy even for the same thing then Gods people must believe this is what is right fair and just because Gods judgment is sovereign and Good no matter what opinion another may hold to. The character of the nature of Gods Spirit as revealed by Jesus Christ is completely reliable and trustworthy and Christ has revealed that all things possible with God. The Great ‘I am what I am’ is what he is whatever seems good to him in his own all-seeing eyes, take it or leave it. God is whatever God himself chooses to be, when someone asks you do you think God would do this or do that the only correct answer is "if he wants to" whatever God wants God gets. For example if God chooses to create man in his own image and in his own likeness including with a limited free will, much like his own, then this is what God will do. And if that man chooses to know Good and evil as God Himself knows Good and evil, then this is what God will allow even after his warning not to do so. (Gen 2:17)  If man being created in Gods own image must die because of evil, just Like Jesus died because of evil, then this is what man also will get in a limited way of course. If for God's sake man must now choose between good and evil, much the same way that God himself for mans sake must choose between good and evil, because man is created in Gods very own image not the other way around. In summary to know Jesus is to know the Spirit of God our creator, and to know the Spirit of our creator, is to know man who is made in our creators image and the Spirit that man has to mature into, as revealed by Jesus Christ who our creator said he was well pleased with, and who was also the same Spirit without measure as our creator. Mature and merciful to those who follow him to mature into this very same Spirit sent to us in Jesus Christ that our Creator sees as what's Good in his own free will and has decided to send to us and reveal his Son and to declare to himself the glory that only someone good like him (his Son) deserves to recieve.     Jer 18:8 -  If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.   Jer 18:10 -  If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.   Jer 26:3 -  If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.   Jer 26:13 -  Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.   Jer 42:10 -  If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you. Just because God does not change his mind about what is right and wrong diobedience for example, does not mean that he does not reserve the right to forgive or not, or whether or not to have mercy, or even to use that disobedience to teach those who fear God to get more wisdom and understanding and to fear God and love God even more bringing God even more Glory working all things together for good to those who love God. Man is created in Gods image to be creative as God himself is creative in nature. Jesus our revelation of who God is, and what Gods will is says what we are given freely to give freely. This might not be how you think, but that,s okay this is just what I think this Doctrine means. If God give us freely his creation to enjoy then we should (in his Spirit) do likewise after His own example. When you love someone (you must love others to be in the Spirit of Christ and God), and you demand payment for them to enjoy this God given creativeness. Then to a right Spirit you have become a whore involved in prostitution by the sinful nature of the flesh, which always demands something in return for its Love, and will never Love unconditional or know what unconditional love is, because the lack of experience of it gives them nothing to relate to. Imagine a man who would keep track of and charge his own family for every expense that he has incurred in the life of each / or even some family members, as a result of their being his family member in his care. Now with that thought in mind is this man a family member that you would enjoy spending the rest of eternity with? Because this is the spirit of darkness, who God wishes to eliminate from entering into his kingdom. Love is not Love unless it is free!  Matthew 17:24-27  24 And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? 25 He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? 26 Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free? There is no problem at all with believers giving offerings to other believers and ministers to the Body of Christ. In fact this is a required Spirit and it is commended, the problem comes in when the Church or believers demand such things from the family they have freely chosen to minister to, out of Love for the brethren of Christ. Anyone wanting proof of this needs to do is study the Main reason for the French revolution.  Matthew 6:25-34  25 Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? 26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? 27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature? 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: 29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. 30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith? 31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? 32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 34 Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. We (scholars) call this Simonism (Acts 8:18-24) this is when we try to buy or to sell the fruits of the Holy Spirit, which is given freely, to those who hear, believe and obey Jesus unconditionally [And that means freely, no buying or selling! Now, recieving from someones own free will and Spirit, without the use of influence from seeking Gain, is another matter entirely, see 1 Timothy 6:5-10]. Isa 55:1 -  Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.    Ge 2:16 -  And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: Ho 14:4 - I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him.   Mt 10:8 -  Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out devils: freely ye have received, freely give.     Ro 3:24 -  Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:   Ro 8:32 -  He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?   1Co 2:12 - Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.   2Co 11:7 -  Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?   Re 21:6 -  And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.   Re 22:17 -  And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.             Ask the Father in Jesus name (His Spirit) not the sheep! Seek ye first the kindom of God [with contentment] and what you need will be added to you.  Knock on at the door (Jesus Christ) and he will be opened to you. Deny yourself, bear your Cross and follow the way of Christ   Beware!   The modern doctrine of "Total depravity” with its Lack of free will, is far from the sound doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ!   Why is it so hard for some men to believe that God Almighty is not capable of creating Living souls with a limited free will of its very own? Clearly the nature of Gods creations has shown us this fact that is apparent all around us.   Men can take (and have done so countless times) something that has some truth within it and add to that truth a very deceptive lie, for example in this verse --- John 3:18 -  He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.   We can clearly see an eliment of total depravity within the state of unbelief, however this in no way rules out a mans free will!    Yet in this verse the Holy spirit has in fact ruled out a mans free will ---   2Th 2:11 -  And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:   We can clearly see that God is not limited to anything we may say or do, and Clearly God has the ability to over rule the natural order of his creation, but this in  no way "limits him to doing so" it is he himself who chooses to do so. Usually when God chooses to override the natural order of things like causing the sun to remain overhead, or parting the red sea we call it a miracle. To believe in miracles is to know that God can overrule the natural because he is supernatural, but the word natural is proof that God allows things to remain in a state that is not always within his own influence, after it is created.  Who can say God has not created man in his own imagine and likeness with regard to the free will to overrule the natural order of things within his own life? Why would Jesus say to the Church to overcome if we do not possess the ability (free will) to overcome?   If God has seen fit to create in his creation a free will and a predestination that works together for the Good of those who Love God, then who can deny it? A wise man says "With men it is impossible, but with God all things possible!!!"    Consider this thought my friends and Beware of many who would teach you another Gospel than the one Jesus Christ calls us to teach, preach and reach others. For example there are those who have you believe that we do not have a free will!  (This is a doctrine put forth by John Calvin and is called total depravity.)   Remember it is the Gospel of Christ we are called to preach not the gospel of John Calvin or Joseph Smith or Joe Mann, all these are men who are capable of making mistakes when they are not in the Spirit. Show me a man who Claims to be infallible and Jesus Christ will prove him to be a liar the first time he disagrees with what Jesus (truth) Says, Amen?   If there were no free will, would there be a need for Judgment? (Truly this need for an absence of free will is nothing more than wishful thinking about a gospel that needs no judgment or Lake of fire)   The Gospel that Jesus Christ has given includes judgment and a Lake of fire, and we know that God is Just. Only an unjust fool would cause a man to sin and then Judge and condemn that same man for what he himself has coerced or caused that man to do in some way and I think we can all agree that God is far from being unjust.   We know from Jesus the Christ our Lord, “it is not the Fathers will that one should perish” and we also know from Jesus that many will perish, so without the possibility of free will this would be impossible to explain to a man who loves the truth.   If there was no free will and If our Father in heaven always has his way (that not one should perish), then Jesus Christ has been proved a liar because it is Gods will that some should perish when some perish that is If God always has his way in a mans will. I can say without a possibility of a doubt that Jesus Christ is no liar and there is a judgment of men’s free will to love darkness rather than the Light.   Ever Since Jesus our Lord has come into the world with the Gospel, the term total depravity is a figment of men’s imaginations.   The very presence of the Gospel makes the term total depravity a Lie. It is the Gospel itself that overcomes total depravity (darkness) in a world that is condemned already until belief in Jesus Christ. Total depravity would be a world where Jesus Christ does not dwell in his brethren, and as Long as Jesus Christ is alive in this world the term total depravity is false because there is a way a truth and a life available to the world, and it is available to all men. It is in fact this truth which has in fact done away with total depravity (with the exception of Blasphemy of the Holy Ghost of course) and gives us all hope in things to come. Total depravity would be a place where Hope does not exist and hope for the world does in fact exist in this world today, I believe it is a sin to tell the world there is no hope, because the worlds hope has been, and now is, and will be in Christ and in Jesus Christ alone.    Once a man has heard the Gospel he has a choice to make from his own God given free will to choose. He must choose if he will Love the Light or love the darkness more than the light and which he is to follow. Granted we all love the darkness but not all love the darkness rather than the Light.  We also know that once a man has made his Choice to deny Christ before men that Christ has already made the choice to deny men who will deny him. It is therefore a privilege and a Hope to be forgiven / not a right!!!   Why would Jesus seek that men should overcome if there were no longer a need to overcome? Have the Words of Christ been preached in vain with regard of the need to keep watch and to overcome???   We even here on earth, have seen sovereignty in which men under that sovereignty still have free will. Is it so hard to imagine an enemy of that sovereignty being allowed to exist within that sovereignty because the sovereign authority loves his faithful subjects enough to allow free will (freedom) to exist?  We know that all things work together for the good of those who Love God and that God causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust alike.   Is God evil because he allows free will to exist???????????????????????????????   Consider this very carefully and then withdraw yourselves from these false teachers who would teach that men have no free will, because they are in fact teaching another gospel without judgment, without condemnation, without justice, a gospel without evil against Good where God has no enemy.  A gospel without common sense, a gospel without disobedience, and without a revelation of wisdom for babes, a gospel that to some men is more acceptable than the one preached by Christ our Lord which clearly contains a plea for men to make the right choices. A gospel that considers it vanity to make such a plea! A gospel without sin due to a belief in Gods sovereignty over every decision a man makes. Was it Gods fault that Adam chose to eat the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and evil or did God simply allow Adam to Choose to do so of his own free will (after Gods Very Own warnings not to do so??? Is it really Gods wish for us to blame him for our own will to sin, could we really sin at all without free will??? Just because God created Evil and darkness does not mean that God has compelled us to choose it over him!!!     Isa 45:7 - I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.   Do these men who teach that there is no such thing as free will; consider the Profit Jeremiah to be a fool when it comes to revealing the Free will of men in his prophecies?   Jeremiah 18:8 - If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.   Jeremiah 18:10 - If it does evil in my sight, that it obeys not my voice, then I will repent of the good, wherewith I said I would benefit them.    Jeremiah 26:3 - If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil, which I purpose to do unto them because of the evil of their doings.    Jeremiah 26:13 - Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.   Jeremiah 42:10 -  If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not pull you down, and I will plant you, and not pluck you up: for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.     How can anyone believe that God would tell men to do right and then prevent them from doing so? Unless they have chosen not to love the Truth already!     2 Thessalonians 2:3-12 3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth F5 that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (Listen to this God does allow free will) 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, (this is clearly a Choice) that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.  (Again clearly a choice to those who love the truth)       All a man needs to do to believe this false doctrine of no free will, (total depravity) is to give up your own understanding of scripture and love for the truth in order to adopt theirs!!!!!! This doctrine started with Martin Luther and is passed on into Calvinism and it attempts to eliminate conviction so that Faith may abound.   Truly conviction is the greatest ally to my faith because it is conviction that keeps me humble, keeps me striving to be Christ like, it keeps me watching vigilantly for the presence of my enemy within the flesh, it causes me to take every thought captive into the obedience of My Lord Jesus Christ. I ask you, why I would wish to eliminate something which proves to be so very valuable to my faith in doing the things Jesus has spoken. It is the conviction of my own free will that is something that increases my wisdom to fear God when I am wrong and to Love God who is always right and to keep myself within his will.   I need my fear of the lord to guide me ever closer to Jesus and his gospel which reveals the only perfect will of God in my life.   Simply put it is this free gift of freedom given to me by Christ that is the most valuable Gift I have to give away back to/for my Lord Jesus Christ. No man can pluck Christ’s gift of freedom from my hand, but I give it freely back to Christ my Savior along with a Life that no longer belongs to another but to him to present to his father in any way he sees fit to present it. His word in my life is final and it is just. Conviction is a needful thorn in my side to keep me on the side that is right in the Lords eyes, and to kick against the pricks I dare not do any longer!!!   Acts 9:5 - And he said, “Who art thou, Lord?” And the Lord said, “I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.”       Do not follow men who persecute the same Jesus who appeals to the free will of men to hear, believe and to do the Fathers will, as he himself has revealed it in perfection, Amen?

Supposing that gain is Godliness

Supposing that Gain is godliness   1 Timothy 6:6-12 5 Perverse disputing of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself. 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. 8 And having food and raiment let us be therewith content. 9 but they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. 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. 11 But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. 12 Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

The Word of God

The Word of God (And also short study about the false doctrine of the phrase “once saved always saved”)     The phrase “Word of God” is perhaps one of the most abused phrases in Christianity due to a serious lack of understanding coming from a lack of the experience of living out the Gospel of Jesus Christ. [Understanding (& discernment) comes from experience]   Christian reasoning is the reason most Christians do not have much credibility in the secular world today. For example Many Christians see the Holy Bible as the “Word of God” instead of the book which contains the word of God. The word bible originally comes from words that mean simply book. Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin biblia, from Greek, plural of biblion book, diminutive of byblos papyrus, book, from Byblos, ancient Phoenician city from which papyrus was exported   This Book approved (canonized) by the Catholic Church and later by the protestant movement collectively is what we know today as the Bible   B A S I C               I N S T R U C T I O N S B E F O R E             L E A V I N G           E A R T H                 Make no mistake about it, this collection of scriptures is (for good reason) the reason books exist today. The Bible is the first book printed and has been the all time best seller ever since that first book was printed. The Bible is the only book that can claim to be the Book that has consistently changed the lives of more people (some way or another) than any other book in history. This Book is the most powerful book ever seen, but the Word of God contained within it is the source of that power not the Book itself. Let us hear from the source of that Book about the book itself. 2Ti 3:16 - All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:   Note; that when this verse was written the Bible as we know it did not exist yet, so even the scripture that was not approved by the Cannon or the Protestant reformation is included in this verse. This means that scripture excluded by you and me today is still good for something under this verse. Even scripture which is outright rejected by righteous men of God is still good for reproof and for correction. This verse in no way tells us that “The entire Bible as we know it is the undisputable word of God” Even though I know personally that this (Book) Bible is undeniably the very source of Gods authority in my life. It is the phrase word of God applied to every word contained in this Bible which those of us who love the truth, object to as abuse of that phrase.   The phrase ‘Inspired by God’ can be taken to extremes and you could say that because all communication is a created by God and one could say that anything spoken or written is originally inspired by God.  How far you take this phrase in its definition is truly discerned by common reasoning. Again it is the experience of living the Gospel that provides the basis for common reasoning, understanding and discernment of knowing what is and what is not the word of God. For example if Jesus says to forgive to be forgiven and the Old Testament Covenant says “stone to death the adulterous woman” which then is the ‘Word of God’ for you today???????   Think about this; if the Pharisees and the accusers’ of Christ say something because of what Jesus says then what these blasphemers have said is not the word of God just because it is recorded in the Holy bible, is it? However if the Pharisees and accusers of Christ say something (even if it is recorded as scripture) because of what Jesus says, then truly this recorded in scripture response by them is in fact inspired by God, And it is good for reproof and correction.     Only some men are chosen to speak the Word of God as a prophet and Jesus Christ is the Lord of all those Prophets, so if they submit to every word Jesus has said to them as the highest authority available why then shouldn’t we when he comes to speak to us in the four Gospels? If men have broken the Covenant God has made with man, then does God’s Son himself (Inheritor of all creation) have the right to make a New Covenant with all creation that all the earth from that moment on will be Judged by on Judgment Day?  It is the word of God as spoken by Jesus Christ (Gospel) that declares this New Covenant and without this New Covenant we have no chance at all because we (all living flesh) are already condemned under the First one. Ro 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.   This Phrase ‘Power of God’ does not apply to, Leviticus, Proverbs, Psalms, Genesis or the Koran, another testament of Jesus Christ Mormon bible or any other Scripture that is not the Gospel of Christ; it applies to the words of Christ in red, which Christ being God is also the most faithful word of God known to man.   Using the Phrase 'The Word of God" requires using what we call reasoning without common reasoning it is impossible not to abuse this phrase and this phrase is widely abused by the Christian community as a whole. For example when referring to what we know as the Holy Bible or even a verse that is contained within it (regardless of who is being quoted as speaking to whoever they are speaking to) Christians abuse the phrase “Word of God” by applying it to that verse. I find it Very disturbing that a Christian would apply the Phrase (to a written statement quoting Satan) as the Word of God Just because it is written in the Holy Bible, this is absurd to a sound mind.  Abusive words even unintentional abuse to common reasoning is harmful to a nonbeliever’s interest in hearing the true word of God. It also gives others in the secular world an occasion to blaspheme the Lord Jesus and say that his way is harmful to a sound mind. The point that I wish to make here on this subject is simply this, in order to avoid abuse of the phrase the word of God you must use common reasoning and apply it to only the part of the Holy Bible that it applies to, such as when God himself is speaking. Let us see what God himself says about the ‘Word of God’ so that we can follow a rule of common reasoning here below in a few of Gods own examples.    (Look for what is common and what is ruled out in our understanding of this subject based on what God has said about it, not what Christians who ignore him say about it) Since Moses said God would raise a prophet like Him who we know as Jesus Christ I will show you how God promised to speak in him what we should always refer to as the Word of God that should never be added to or diminished from. And I will show you some valuable rules of thought that both of these Prophets of the two different covenants have common. They both present (Gods word) Gods covenant which cannot be changed by the men who are under them.   The Prophets (JESUS like MOSES) speak the WORD OF GOD and the priest’s (Like US) obey it and feed this word to the rest of the chosen people.   Exodus 4:10-17 10 And Moses said unto the LORD, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. 11 And the LORD said unto him, “Who hath made man's mouth?” or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? Have not I the LORD? 12 Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say. 13 And he said, O my Lord, send, I pray thee, by the hand of him whom thou wilt send. 14 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart. 15 And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do. 16 And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people: and he shall be, even he shall be to thee instead of a mouth, and thou shalt be to him instead of God. 17 And thou shalt take this rod in thine hand, wherewith thou shalt do signs.   Moses is Like Jesus and we are like Aaron, because we are made Brothers to Christ when we (like Jesus says in Mt 12:50) do the will of God.   No changes are to be made, but this was/is broken in both covenants.   De 4:2 - Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I (Moses like Jesus) command you.     Now Let us see what God said about the word of God that his Prophet Jesus will speak.   Deuteronomy 18:15-22 15 (Moses Speaking) The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him (Jesus) ye shall hearken; 16 According to all that thou desiredst of the LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not. 17 And the LORD said unto me, “They have well spoken that which they have spoken.” 18 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. 19 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him. 20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. 21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? 22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follows not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.     There are many things spoken in the bible that have not come to pass and do not even claim to be coming from God and we know from the verse above that if the thing does not come to pass, that this is a thing that the lord has spoken. I other words not everything written in the Bible is considered by God himself as the word of God.     Mt 4:4 - But he answered and said, “It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.”   Mr 7:13 - “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” Mt 24:35 - Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Joh 3:34 - For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him. Joh 5:47 - But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words? John 6:63 - It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. Joh 8:47 - He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. Joh 12:48 - He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. Joh 14:10 - Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? The words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. John14:23 - Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. Joh 15:3 - Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Joh 15:7 -  If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. Joh 17:8 - For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me. Joh 17:14 - I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. Joh 17:17 - Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. Mt 8:16 -  When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: Mt 13:23 - But he that received seed into the good ground is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; which also beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some an hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Lu 8:11 - Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God. Joh 5:38 - And ye have not his word abiding in you: for whom he hath sent him ye believe not.       Anything that teaches against what Jesus Says even if it is written in the Bible is not the Word of God to us under the Covenant of Gods Prophet Jesus the Christ who has been sent to reveal it to us. A Christian today cannot claim to be saved by the Covenant of Moses if Christ (and His New Covenant) has been declared as the fulfillment and the promise of the first covenant. You are not saved by the first covenant you are saved because of the first covenant which by the way contains the new covenant promise to us through the Word of God spoken in the Prophets. See Deuteronomy 18:15-22 above   Jer 31:31-34 -  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: 32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the LORD: 33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, (Know him in Christ) from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.   Hebrews 8:6-13 6 But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. 7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. 8 For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11 And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13 In that he saith, “A new covenant”, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.     Hebrews 12:18-29   18 For ye are not come unto the mount that might be touched, and that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, 19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice they that heard intreated that the word should not be spoken to them any more: 20 (For they could not endure that which was commanded, And if so much as a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned, or thrust through with a dart: 21 And so terrible was the sight, that Moses said, I exceedingly fear and quake:) 22 But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, 23 To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, 24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel. 25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 for our God is a consuming fire.       Even the free gift of a puppy comes with responsibilities to that new life freely given.   Let no man deceive you about what Jesus teaches, because what Jesus teaches is our only hope freely given to us and this free gift comes with responsibilities, despite the works of the enemy in our churches this New Covenant is not a free ride on the finished works of Christ, unless you know that doing the word of God as spoken by Christ (our God the Son) is the finished works of Christ working in you until he returns to find us doing our duty to the final finished word of God in Christ as our New Covenant called the Gospel which is most definitely good news, because it means no more confusion  about Gods will for mankind, from mankind. [Even confusion is finished in the finished works (Gospel) of Christ]   Speaking of finished – some men teach the absurd Doctrine that because of these verses below that this is proof that we do not have to do anything at all for salvation because Jesus already finished his work. As a former lost soul and unbeliever in Christ I could not think of anything more absurd than hear from a so called Christian leader that I did not have to do anything at all to be saved because Christ already did it all for me and then in the next few sentences turn right around and tell me that I had to repent, that I had to believe and that I had to be baptized, that I had to forgive others, that I had to ask Jesus Christ to be my Lord (I think now that he already was but, I refused to serve), that I had to avoid sin, that I had to go to church etc. etc. etc. I pray in a spirit that loves you, that you get the point that I am making here. It is quite absurd to ask people to convert while you are telling them that they do not have to do anything (Which would also include converting). Telling people that they do not have to do anything does not come from the sound Doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ in fact it is another Gospel. Joh 17:4 - I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.   Joh 19:30 - When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.   Now look at this verse and compare -   Genesis 2:1-3 1 thus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.   Can anyone honestly say that the finished work of God here limits God from working still today?      Hear Believe and Obey the finished works of Christ our Lord which still can be the working of God in you unto salvation.   “Once saved always saved” is a phrase that refers to a lie of a finished work of salvation in you. As if the Living God in you is limited to past tense rather than that which was, that which is, and that which is to come, Just like his Salvation is not limited to only one tense.   If salvation comes from Christ alone and Christ is that which was, which is, and that which is to come; then salvation is also coming from this past, present and future tense as well.     “Once saved always saved once” is a better used context for this phrase, unless that you believe that being in the right Spirit is a one time event which would never require me to hear or believe and Obey God the Son Jesus Christ ever again because my salvation is already secure because of him and cannot ever be revoked God forbid!   Salvation is a process that is never finished unless it has been revoked already. Re 3:5 - He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels. Matthew 7:21-23 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. Do not let the sly deceptive work of the enemy and his doctrine deceive you when men in him say that “all our names, every one who is born is written in the book of life until God blots our names out of it” This doctrine would make Christ our Lord a Liar when he says - John 3:10-20 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things? 11 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and ye receive not our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? 13 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: 15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.   That false Doctrine of everyone’s name being written in the book of life until blotted out by God would have you believe that what Christ is saying above is a lie and that the world is not condemned already until those in the world are condemned when their names are blotted out of the Book of life. In others words more simply put that Christ has lied to us through his faithful witnesses about the world being condemned until belief in the Son of God, and that the world is not condemned until their names have been blotted out of the book of Life.   Would you believe these men who say that the world is innocent until proven guilty and then condemned, or would you believe Christ that THE WORLD IS GUILTY and condemned until they have been saved by belief in Christ our Lord? Who by the way teaches that men should do things, but also according to Christ our Lord men still have the opportunity to GO TO HELL if they chose not to come to Jesus take his yoke upon them, hear believe and Obey Him. Salvation cannot be forced on a man, and a man’s salvation cannot be forced on God!  We would all do well to remember that simple fact!!!!!!!   In the beginning of Salvation comes Justification (this is what is confused with the phrase ‘once saved always saved’) then in the present tense comes sanctification (cleansing) then in the future tense comes Glorification (true salvation and ultimate redemption) not the kind that produces the fruit of the Spirit without which a soul will be cast into the lake of fire, but the Kind of Glorification (Mind and body of Christ) that will be allowed to enter into Heaven.   Simply put on an individual basis, we have been saved, we are being saved and we will be saved. This is the correct way to look at our own salvation, (In the past tense) with Love, Praise and thanks giving, (In the present tense) with diligence, fear, trembling and last but not least (In the future tense) with HOPE, Faith and Confidence of Gods Just reward to all of us whether it be for good or for evil.

The hypocrite is exposed

The real hypocrite is exposed     Almost anyone who calls himself a Christian, believes in freedom of Speech for the marketplace of Ideas, in fact they will demand it when it comes to preaching the Gospel that Jesus tells us to Preach even if threatened or faced with death for preaching it.   But the true hypocrite is exposed in this, that one of the most obvious hypocritical things about those who are claiming falsely to be Christian leaders is that the very first thing they try to eliminate is free speech from others who speak the truth and the Gospel around them, while telling the whole world that free speech needs to exist so that men like themselves can preach their own Gospel. In other words they believe in free speech everywhere, but in their Church, because they will no longer be able to be seen as the greatest servant who is serving Christ. They envy others who are for real for God and know the Gospel and contrary to the duty to make disciples, they want to eliminate most competition to themselves to be seen of men as chosen and qualified, and they discourage others to do as they themselves do and severely violate free speech as they are Lording over the faith of others among them. They share this trait and way of exercising authority over one another with every taskmaster out in the way of the world; however Jesus says to his disciples that it will not be so among them.  I ask you Who can exercise authority over the Holy Spirit who is guiding those who walk in the Spirit, and remember for them there is no law, because they walk in Christ and walk not according to the flesh the way that men who desire to exercise authority over the same God who dwells in the man that dwells in the Spirit of God as revealed by Christ.   Don’t get me wrong, It is most wise to scold, rebuke and correct those who are preaching another Gospel and who are claiming to be serving the Gospel as feed for the sheep and who are claiming to be preaching it for Jesus Christ and who are Liars who simply preach whatever they darn well please, instead of preaching what Jesus says we must preach (His Gospel not ours recreated in our own imagination). However we do not need to silence everyone around us whom we disagree with and who are seeking to be in Gods will as described by Jesus Christ our Lord and the will of God (his Gospel) which can not be improved on by any other means.   No student is above his Master it is enough that the Student be as his master and repeat what he is told to repeat without being deceptive with what he has been given, by adding things to it and leaving things out of it on purpose, Praise God.   ·         We could do what Jesus says we should do which is to correct and rebuke them, and still Love them five minutes later, forgiving their disobedience to Christ without ever justifying it or even leaving it to remain unexposed especially in those among us who are claiming to know how to lead us into it, Amen? ·         We must have patience and long suffering and temperance enough to wait and see if they will do as Jesus says we must do or see if they will remain disobedient to the gospel of Christ in which case we should (as per Jesus) follow up with the two or three witnesses that every word maybe established and if necessary count them as unbelievers, not as the enemy unless the spirit they hear from is leading that man into the attempt to prevent the preaching and teaching of the real Gospel that is given to us to preach, so that they may be allowed to steal the sheep from Christ and preach another Gospel within our Gathering. ·         It is inevitable that ungodly men will preach another Gospel seeking gain for them selves; however they should only do so known to be openly disobedient and outside the overall gathering in Christ and outside the unchallenged claims of being in Christ when they are deceiving others. By challenged I mean let your light shine, let the truth shine and openly expose all liars with the truth of the words our Lord Jesus gave us to preach witch by itself exposes the lies of those who would steal away the sheep from the words of our Lord.     The first priority of evil men is to eliminate free speech as much as possible to hide the light of the candle (him in us) under a bushel and silence the truth of their errs and evil ways of unrighteous covetousness as they strive to rise to a position to exercise authority over all competition in the desire to be the greatest. This desire in the flesh to be greatest has always (even before conversion to Christ), included the delusion of authority over the gospel of Christ himself; who is in fact living in others and cannot be overruled in them, who teaches that his disciples will not do such things while seeking to be the greatest, but rather will submit themselves to one another as they know Christ in another. It is the spirit a man is in that we all submit to in the Church not the man who may or may not be in the right spirit, we have been freed from the bondage of the flesh not to become once again into the bondage of another mans flesh, halleluiah! They the many antichrist’s fall, because seeking to be the greatest they are left with fewer and fewer equals to fellowship with until they are themselves the greatest in their own mind. These antichrist who serve fewer and fewer again until they serve only themselves and are become hardened (calloused, insensitive to Jesus) in heart, And are by their own effort left with no other Christians to be accountable to, as the pope of their own Church becoming in strong delusion of grander, more and more infallible to become the greatest giver of Gods will to mankind as any self made antichrist is destined to become within his cult (a counterfeit church). Even the Neo-Nazi party here in the U.S. has a following of very real believers who think they are in the real Church in  Jesus Christ and are doing God a favor by following another Gospel of love for its members and Hate for others outside their own membership. What spiritual difference is there between them and most other Church Gatherings of true hypocrites in the U.S.?   There is really only one gathering in the written down Gospel of Jesus Christ which is the narrow gate, a way made straight by the Lord (Let Jesus make things straight for us all). Jesus Christ has given us a way in his Gospel that few find, because they are seeking a less narrow minded way to follow, so many are they who are seeking and find the wide gate of the open minded, and are themselves entered into the wide (open minded) way of the world that leads to destruction.