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
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see LUKE 12:22-34.
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see 2 CORINTHIANS 10:5, 1 TIMOTHY 4:15, 2 TIMOTHY 2:15.
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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 inheaven. 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. 8And 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 thefingerofGodcast out devils, no doubt the kingdom ofGod 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 miryclay, 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: 32Not 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.
Jeremiah32:40
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 writethem 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. 12For 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.
Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him, Behold, thou art made whole: sinnomore, lest a worse thing come unto thee.
John 8:11 -
She said, Noman, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, neither do I (God the Son) condemn thee: go, and sinnomore.
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,Iwillrepentoftheevil that I thought to do unto them.”
Jeremiah 18:10
If it do evil in my sight, that it obey not my voice, then Iwillrepentofthegood, 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.19He 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,
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.
