tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44153828417689793152024-03-12T19:45:12.506-07:00Apostolic Wordsapostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.comBlogger185125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-26589796433573115792020-03-08T17:25:00.001-07:002020-03-08T17:25:33.428-07:00The Potter, The Clay, and A Vessel of HonorJeremiah 18:1-6 The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words. Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 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.<br />
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In life you either need inspiration or desperation.<br />
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I have tried to do the best I can in order for you to ‘see’ how great it is to be the hands of the Potter!<br />
Wheels… looking at the picture just to give you an idea… a wheel beneath… hidden from view… moved by the feet… connected to the wheel which can be seen… the Old Testament is the unseen and it’s meaning can only be revealed by the feet of them who preach of the gospel and bring meaning to the wheel which can be seen…<br />
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There are stages to turning clay into a vessel…wedging…centering…forming…trimming…sitting…firing…<br />
Clay is usually found in the watered area…swampy…dirty…you cannot find clean clay…oxymoron clean dirt…there is no perfect clay…when you find clay in the swamp its full of all kinds of elements…<br />
There are different kinds of clay…each clay has different mineral content…some can handle the elements better than others…some need more heat, some can’t take the heat…<br />
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We type out as Clay.<br />
Isaiah 64:6-8 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities. But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.<br />
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The noted surgeon, Dr. Charles Mayo, in addressing a large convention recently said in part: “The physical value of man is not so much. Analyzed the body of a man weighing 150 pounds. It contained ''enough water to wash a pair of blankets, enough iron to make a ten penny nail, lime sufficient to whitewash a small chicken coop, enough sulphur to kill the fleas of a good-sized dog." All these elements, he estimated, can be purchased at a drug-store for 98¢.<br />
Now think of the fact that God formed us from the dust of the ground.<br />
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Genesis 2:6-8 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 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. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.<br />
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God took hunk of clay and put it in the garden of Eden! A living, breathing, hunk of clay; mankind formed by His hands.<br />
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BEFORE you can even put the clay on the wheel you have to work some of the inconsistencies out of the clay…the pockets of air…the noticeable debris in the clay…It is kneaded and rolled and pushed into a workable lump for use…this is called wedging…the object is to disperse the water and to remove air. Likewise, when we come into the Truth, embedded within us… this body of clay… is every wind of doctrine… AND GOD BEGINS TO DEAL WITH THESE DOCTRINES WHICH CANNOT REMAIN IN US! He has to get the lies out.<br />
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What do you think the clay would be saying to the potter? This hurts…why are you doing this to me?<br />
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What do you think the potter would be saying to the clay?<br />
Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.<br />
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Church is not some assembly line creation of duty… get in line… eat a cracker, sip some wine, repeat some songs or prayers and leave the same way you came in…No it's a Potters workshop!<br />
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God sees a vessel in this hunk of clay…Every piece of clay is unique to the Potter…no one piece is the same!<br />
The clay is molded and shaped by the Potter…It’s a personal relationship between the Potter and the clay. A lot of the shaping is done by hand BUT the eyes of the Potter never leave the clay.<br />
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Psalm 34:15 The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.<br />
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Once the Potter has pulled and cleaned the clay, HE now places it on the wheel…<br />
The most important thing is to center the clay…the hardest thing to learn by the potter is how to keep the clay centered and balanced…it is the potter’s job to put the clay on the wheel and then work to center the clay on the SPINNING WHEEL!<br />
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How??? THROW IT ON THE WHEEL! The potter has to make sure it sticks to the wheel…<br />
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The potter uses His finger to create a seal but if the clay is not centered…the potter can do one of two things… peel it back up off the wheel or depending how far off center it is on the wheel, he can pound the clay into the balanced center…<br />
Centering is a struggle…it is as though the clay fights with the hands of the potter…with one hand he centers the clay…with the other he pours water and forms it into the center of the spinning wheel…<br />
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Tools used by the potter… Sponges, hooks, wires, carving instruments, etc<br />
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The MOST IMPORTANT TOOL is the hands of the POTTER ... five fold ministry..the hands of God<br />
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WATER! Just enough water…too much water and it weakens the clay…too little water and it is too difficult to shape and mold<br />
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Isaiah 41:17-18 When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the Lord will hear them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them. I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.<br />
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Ephesians 2:1-7 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.<br />
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Step 1 - Start with a wedged ball of clay.<br />
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Step 2 - Throw it down as close to the center as possible.<br />
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Step 3 - Use the palm of one hand and the side of the other hand.<br />
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Isaiah 49:16 Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.<br />
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Step 4 - Don't let the clay move your hands, make your hands move the clay.<br />
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Once the potter knows the clay has adhered to the wheel and is centered He can NOW work to create a vessel…NOTHING can happen before this process has passed…<br />
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Step 5 - Spend a lot of time on the wheel.<br />
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Proverbs 20:6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?<br />
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Psalm 31:23 O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.<br />
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Proverbs 25:19 Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.<br />
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Psalm 101:6 Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.<br />
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If the potter takes his hands off too quickly it will cause the clay to become uncentered again…the Potter IS sensitive to the clay…the Potter must begin to form the inside of the lump…He takes his thumbs and presses into the heart of the clay…to begin to make a vessel…its starts with the inside first!<br />
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Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.<br />
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Matthew 23:25-26 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.<br />
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The clay then is lifted up…This is when the Potter begins to mold the lump of clay into a vessel…the walls are formed and thinned…always rising…<br />
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When the inside of the cylinder is growing correctly the outside takes care of itself…what happens on the inside will show up on the outside!<br />
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Isaiah 29:15-16 Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?<br />
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FIND THE HIDDEN ROCK…<br />
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Psalm 139:13-15 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.<br />
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The aim of the potter is not to force the clay but to grow the clay toward a single point…<br />
1 Peter 5:5-7 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.<br />
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Romans 9:20-24 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?<br />
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Remember there are stages to turning clay into a vessel…wedging…centering…forming…trimming…sitting…firing…<br />
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Romans 8:28-29 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.<br />
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There is one thing you can count on… those who are not chosen to be on the wheel…will never understand what’s happening to you while you are on the wheel…<br />
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2 Timothy 2:19-21 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity. But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour. If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.<br />
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<u><b>Even though the clay has been formed into a vessel, it's still not ready for use. </b></u><br />
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Matthew 3:11-12 I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance. but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.<br />
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The Lord walked with the disciples and his Word formed them but they weren’t ready…Peter, the clay, rebuked the Lord, saying you will not go to the cross. Then Peter the air dried clay vessel said, I will go with you until the end.<br />
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Luke 22:31-34 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death. And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.<br />
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When thou are <u>converted </u>Peter…<u>after the KILN…after the fire</u><br />
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You cannot use the vessel until it has been through the firing process TWO TIMES… the first firing process is called the bisque firing…<br />
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Though formed and air hardened into a leathery vessel, the vessel is still unusable… it cannot hold water, it is easily broken, it will not hold up, nor can it withstand any kind of pressure… plus there are still some impure elements within the clay that needs to eliminated and the only way to do this is through the fire…<br />
Initial baking is called bisque / 1800 degrees / three days and then 1900 and then the 2400 salt Kiln.<br />
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1 Corinthians 6:19-20 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.<br />
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1 Peter 4:12-13 Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.<br />
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Sufferings of this<br />
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Romans 8:17-19 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.<br />
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Isaiah 60:21 Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.<br />
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The work of the Potter to make a vessel of honor.<br />
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Elder David Greenapostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-15683943333518794242019-08-17T14:30:00.004-07:002019-08-18T13:14:56.550-07:00The Blood MoonFrom the very beginning, Men have endeavored to interpret the scriptures. Abraham and his son understood the meaning of allegories. Abraham was spoken to and preached to by the Lord before His coming in the flesh. God gave Abraham hope that what he was doing, he was doing in allegory. Abram would become Abraham and he would be the father of those who had faith in Jesus Christ.<br />
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God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself. This Abraham knew this before the time. God had told Abraham he would have a son and that he would be die for the sins of the world and resurrect from the dead.<br />
Gal 3:8-9<br />
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. 9 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.<br />
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When Abraham was treading up Moriah to the place of the sacrifice and worship to God, he understood that God would indeed raise from the dead when he came as a human being, relating such a thing when he said, in answer to Isaac’s question, where is the sacrifice: God will provide himself a lamb. Abraham believed God, and consequently believed Isaac who was his son was a figure, a type or shadow, an allegory of Christ Jesus.<br />
Abraham also believed God because he spake to Abraham concerning his linage and progenitors, that they would come from Isaac. They could not come from Isaac if he were dead. So, accounting God was able to raise him up, even from the dead: he took Isaac up the hill to sacrifice him. Allegories then played a big part in Abraham obeying the word of God that came to him.<br />
Heb 11:17-19<br />
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son, 18 Of whom it was said, That in Isaac shall thy seed be called: 19 Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.<br />
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The dream of Joseph, the son of Israel.<br />
According to the dream of Joseph that God gave to him, the interpretation of the sun, moon and stars are here revealed. Vs. 9. The sun, the moon and the stars made obeisance to me. ISRAEL INTERPRETED HIS DREAM TO MEAN: THE SUN WAS ISRAEL, THE MOON WAS HIS MOTHER, THE STARS WERE HIS SONS. Israel observed the saying while the brothers hated him the more. His brothers envied him and would separate from him by evil means.<br />
Gen 37:5-11<br />
5 And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.<br />
6 And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:<br />
7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.<br />
8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.<br />
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.<br />
10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?<br />
11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.<br />
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NOW FINDING OUT THE REASON FOR THE LIGHT AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE THEY WERE MADE.<br />
The greater light was to rule the day. This light is the sun because when the sun is risen we have daylight. The lessor light was to rule the night. This light was the moon because in the night the moon gives it light.<br />
God doesn’t to anything without it having a meaning and purpose. So forever, God intended for the moon to rule the night and for the sun to rule the day.<br />
Gen 1:16-18<br />
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, 18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.<br />
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The apostle Paul, gives understanding concerning the day and night.<br />
Paul eludes to the fact that to be under the law is to be in darkness or in the night. He also eludes to the idea that if we are the children of the teachings of Christ then we are children of the day and not the night.<br />
False teachings are those containing the law and will come upon the world; these are a mixture of Moses law but containing the name of Jesus Christ. They claim to be children of the day but refuse the doctrine which make them so.<br />
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1 Thess 5:1-8<br />
5 But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.<br />
2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.<br />
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.<br />
4 But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.<br />
5 Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.<br />
6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.<br />
7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.<br />
8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.<br />
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The doctrine which comes from the apostles is the light of the world, as Jesus was the light of the world. When he gave his doctrine to the apostles, he gave them the light for the world. The light for the world is the perfect law of liberty. Just as those in darkness needed the law as their light, so those in light must have the light of the world which is the doctrine of Jesus Christ for their law, the perfect law.....<br />
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Mal 4:1-2<br />
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.<br />
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2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.<br />
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In the transfiguration God showed without a doubt that Jesus was the one to be listened to. He was clothed as with the sun. This event on the mount of transfiguration convinced the apostles that Jesus was "the more sure word of prophecy" and did in fact shine as the sun before them. The voice of God spake and said this is my beloved son or my own human body, in whom I am well pleased. God relayed the information that he, himself was in the son here. Of this they were eyewitnesses of his majesty. Jesus is the sun of the people of the day. He must rise in our hearts in order for us to be children of the day.<br />
2 Peter 1:16-21<br />
16 For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.<br />
17 For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.<br />
18 And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.<br />
19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:<br />
20 Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.<br />
21 For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.<br />
Matt 17:1-2<br />
7 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,<br />
2 And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.<br />
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John 8:12-18<br />
12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.<br />
13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him, Thou bearest record of thyself; thy record is not true.<br />
14 Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go.<br />
15 Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man.<br />
16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: for I am not alone, but I and the Father that sent me.<br />
17 It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.<br />
18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me.<br />
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<u>THE NIGHT</u><br />
The sun is the light of the day while the moon does not have it’s own light. The moon therefore is a reflection of the sun. The law also is a reflection of types , shadows and metaphors of the new testament where the light of the world does shine.<br />
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The law must be fulfilled in order to have done what it was intended by God.<br />
James 2:8-10<br />
8 If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: 9 But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. 10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.<br />
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The law is the moon.<br />
Nothing can be made perfect by the law because it does not have enough light. Thou shalt not kill is the commandment of the law, but Jesus sheds light on this and says, whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. You see! There is much more to thou shalt not kill than literally taking a life. Light says, do not be angry.<br />
Matt 5:21-22<br />
21 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not kill; and whosoever shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment:<br />
22 But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.<br />
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So a man is not justified when he sees only what the law indicates. He must understand what the law means, by having the light shed on it. So as long as one does not kill literally, he is justified by the law. Does this make him a good person? No! It makes him a person who abides by the law of the moon. He is a child of the night. Now if he sees the light, he will no longer allow anger to rule him and he will not backbite or scheme against his brother because he is a child of light.<br />
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So we see that no man is justified by the light of the moon, he can only be justified by the light of the sun. If he thinks himself justified by the light of the moon, he is deceived. There is none good but one and that is God, why? Because God is light and in him is no darkness at all.<br />
Gal 2:16<br />
16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.<br />
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FELLOWSHIP WITH THE FATHER AND THE SON<br />
So those who keep the commandments but will not take responsibility for the light and fulfillment of the commandments are children of the night. There are those who keep the law and claim a relationship with God thereby. There is in fact no relationship with the Father if we do not recognize the work he did in the son. God gave the law to Moses and to Israel but he himself was the light like the sun and not only the lessor light of the moon or law. Jesus Christ is the light and he is God. God is light and he is Christ Jesus.<br />
1 John 1:1-5<br />
1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; 2 (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;) 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ. 4 And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full. 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.<br />
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How does one walk in darkness? By obeying the law and not the perfect law. By being good by the law and not by the fulfillment of the law, which is the perfect law. To obey the law is walking in darkness or the night, by the light of the moon.<br />
1 John 1:6-7<br />
6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:<br />
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.<br />
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BEASTS COME OUT DURING THE NIGHT BUT THEY STAY AWAY DURING THE DAY<br />
There are beasts in our nature which must be killed but they are not destroyed by the moon of the night. The beasts must be destroyed by the light which shows them for what they are.<br />
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Ps 104:19-20<br />
19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down.<br />
20 Thou makest darkness, and it is night: wherein all the beasts of the forest do creep forth.<br />
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Peter in his message...<br />
Referenced this scripture found in Joel 2:31. Referring to the moon being turned into blood, The sun turned into darkness and the moon into blood. Of course after all the scriptures previously used, we know the moon is the law and the sun is Christ Jesus (he perfect law.) The apostle doctrine consisted of the perfect law of liberty and not the old law of Moses. The apostle knew that their doctrine of the sun would be turned into darkness by those who would not fulfill the law but remain partially in it, while claiming the name of Jesus Christ.<br />
Those who refused to accept the perfect law instead of the law of Moses turned the law of Moses into blood.<br />
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For by the law shall not man be justified. Simply believing the word of God and receiving the promise of the Holy Ghost which would come by it would set them on a journey away from the night into the day light.<br />
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Now those who still use the law without the promise of the Holy Ghost are children of the night. Those who claim Jesus outside of the Gospel are children of the night. Those who receive the Holy Ghost and understand that remaining in the apostles doctrine for sustenance of their soul are alive and children of the day. Those who still serve the literal bread and the wine are children of the night and not of the day. The children of the day are those who understand the bread is the words of Jesus Christ given to the apostles. To continue having saints eat bread and drink literal wine is to turn the law into blood.<br />
Acts 2:17-21<br />
17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams: 18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will pour out in those days of my Spirit; and they shall prophesy: 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: 20 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come: 21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.<br />
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HOW DO MEN CALL UPON THE NAME OF THE LORD?<br />
Is it just a call to the Lord with our voices? No! Don’t get me wrong, Jesus will hear those who genuinely call his name. He will then begin to draw you and unfold himself to you. But merely calling with your voice does not save you. The gospel message of who Jesus is and what he brought in the perfect law must be preached. Israel was guilty of crucifying the light of the world, they were guilty of hating the light of the doctrine of Jesus Christ, loving the darkness of the law more than the light of Jesus Christ.<br />
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This is what they had to repent of, loving being good on their standards of law opposed to the light of the world. They took by their wicked hands and slew the very Lord of glory. He had the doctrine that, if men obeyed would gain for them power over the grave; the doctrine of eternal life. This is the reason the gospel message is repent and be baptized everyone of you in the name of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the name above all other names. Jesus Christ is the name that validates the perfect law he taught his disciples and builds his church with. The perfect law of liberty which was in the disciples validates them to use his name. This is the reason why those who received the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost remained steadfast in the apostles doctrine and fellowship. The gospel message is: REPENT! Turn from all previous commandments of the law, to the commandments of Jesus Christ and the perfect law.<br />
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Now this is how you call upon the name of the Lord. You repent of your previous ideas of service to God to surrender to the perfect law and to become a child of light and not of darkness.<br />
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Now what does a blood moon have to do with the scriptures and with the fulfillment of Gods word? Nothing, absolutely nothing. This is a major error by the perpetrators of such <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">folderol</span>! Doesn’t Gods word make more sense to you than science, concerning the blood moon? Our gospel message is being turned into blood by those who hold to the law and the commandments of Moses, not seeing the commandments of the perfect law of liberty given to us by God in Christ.<br />
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Gods intent was to foreshadow his word with miraculous bread from heaven and the wine brought to Abraham by Melchezidec King of Salem. The wine is the Holy Ghost and the Bread is the word of God. Like the moon is the law and reflection of light, Jesus Christ the sun, is the light of the world. The truth, the way and the life.<br />
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WHO SHALL BE ABLE TO STAND?<br />
STAND WHEN? When the preachers of the new testament fell from their places in the church because of the moon being turned into blood. This means law was used to "save" people but only destroyed them. When a false gospel is preached this is what transpires. When people are told they are saved without following the doctrine of the apostles, this is turning the moon into blood. Using it to kill people instead of saving them.<br />
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The law can be used if it is used lawfully. To use the law lawfully it must be used as types and shadows wanting fulfillment. Jesus's perfect law must be seen as the fulfillment of the law. Any gospel message which does not contain repentance, baptism and the promise of the Holy Ghost is not valid. If you are prompted to accept the Lord into your heart as your personal savior, it is invalid. God will not come into a heart that has the slightest idea that they are "good enough" to receive God, without turning from a “I am good theory” first.<br />
The only ones who can stand are those who understand the difference between the law and the perfect law. The truth of God in the apostles opposed to truth any other way. They will stand.<br />
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I predict that those who escape his wrath must first understand his word. They cannot put darkness for light and light for darkness.<br />
Rev 6:9-17<br />
9 And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? 11 And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled. 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. 15 And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains; 16 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?<br />
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Woe unto the blood moon perpetrators. Woe to those who put salvation as possible by accepting the<br />
Lord as your personal savior. Any man who can do this crucifies the truth. Repentance from believing self is good enough for salvation without the baptism of the Holy Ghost and speaking in other tongues. Any one who claims salvation is possible by simply calling upon the name of Jesus is a crucifying the truth. Jesus came to fulfill the law by his perfect law of liberty. This is the reason he was crucified, they hated his doctrine and his teachings. Now millions are being swayed to this false doctrine. Millions are losing out with God because they do not know the truth. Millions upon millions are so quick to bite into a literal moon turning to blood. When the scriptures indicate an entirely different picture.<br />
Isa 5:20-23<br />
20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! 21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! 22 Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine, and men of strength to mingle strong drink: 23 Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!<br />
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THE CHURCH IS CLOTHED WITH THE SUN<br />
A great wonder in heaven: this was not literal heaven but the heaven of where Christ raised men to sit with him and his truth. The point being: the women was clothed with the sun. Israel first of all was never clothed with the sun of the apostles doctrine. Israel was never clothed in the teachings of Jesus Christ. Israel crucified Jesus because they loved the darkness of the law and hated the light of the world. Men loved darkness rather than light. This is the beautiful thing about understanding, the moon is the law and the church raises above the law. Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all. Seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. In his power and majesty.<br />
The church is crowned with the twelve apostles not the twelve tribes of Israel. The tribes of Israel are under the law and must be used in rightly dividing the word of truth. The moon was under her feet which is the ministry of the apostles doctrine. The doctrines of the law are placed under the doctrines of Christ. The apostles of the new testament are the crown of twelve stars. This is further validated by the fact that the woman was clothed with the sun, which means the light of the world or the doctrine of Christ.<br />
Israel was not clothed with the sun. The church was travailing in birth, pained to be delivered, meaning more than ready to be delivered of child. The dragon stood before the women ready to be delivered. These are they who refused to leave the law of Moses and surrender to the light. Attempting to sway those in the truth with the literal interpretations of the law. This is a picture of those who refused to leave the law of darkness and to fight against the light of the truth in Christ.<br />
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This is where the false church emerged. This is when the false church began to use governmental authorities to fight for it against the truth. The church being with child of the gospel to be delivered by those on fire saints who had come from an upper room, cried to God and travailed in pain to be delivered.<br />
The seven heads of this false church were given partly in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream. 1. Egypt 2. Assyria 3. Babylon 4. Medio Persia 5. Greecia 6. Rome pagan 7. Rome papal....this papal authority rose after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Then those who refused the truth of God from the apostles, made their own consisting of the elements of the law. Same pass-over articles, same literal priests instead of Pastors and elders. Candlesticks, bread and wine (Eucharist) communion instead of the Holy Ghost and preaching.<br />
There has been war in heaven ever since. Not in outer space but in the world of religious doctrines. The devil are those who refused the doctrine of the apostles and the perfect law for their own mixture with law. The devil and his ministers now fight against the Lord and his ministers for the truth.<br />
Rev 12<br />
12 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars: 2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. 3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads. 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born. 5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne. 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, 8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. 9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. 10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night. 11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death. 12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time. 13 And when the dragon saw that he was cast unto the earth, he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child. 14 And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood. 16 And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17 And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.<br />
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This is a picture of all false teachers and preachers who left the doctrine of the apostles and Acts 2:38 for a private interpretation of the word, one which does not make sense. The false teachers and their false doctrines have prevailed in the earth. To the person seeking truth, they can clearly see that what is being preached does not match the word of God or what the apostles proclaim. They were cast out with their accept the Lord, believe on the Lord and call on the Lord, doctrines. Remember you cannot call upon the Lord unless you have heard that Jesus came with the perfect law to fulfill the law, the law must be turned from and the new law turned to. Now all the preachers who are in the false doctrines, can be found out in the scriptures. People are simply not interested in looking for the answers in the scriptures.<br />
Let me say this: millions will be lost because they do not care to look into the scriptures for answers and light.<br />
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THE TAIL<br />
The prophet that speaketh lies and perpetrates the law for light is the tail. Those prophets who claim<br />
Christ while they themselves keep the law. Those prophets who refuse the necessity of Acts 2:38 repentance, water baptism and the receiving of the Holy Ghost. Accept the Lord without repentance, receive the Holy Ghost without repentance is false. God will not come into a vessel that still hates the truth and believes themselves good by their own standards.<br />
Isa 9:15-16<br />
15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.<br />
16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.<br />
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THE LIGHT IS THE IMAGE OF GOD, THE MOON IS AN IMAGE OF CORRUPTIBLE MAN<br />
There were those who came into the church and actually knew God by the apostles doctrine but were drawn away by the false prophets of the law. The prophets who used the Romans to aid them in their gospel overthrow. The moon was being turned to blood. The sun into darkness before that great and notable day of the Lords return. Using the law they professed themselves to be wise and became fools as a result. They thought to be good before God in their own natural way and in their own nature without repentance.<br />
Rom 1:20-23<br />
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:<br />
21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.<br />
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,<br />
23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.<br />
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THE FINAL SCRIPTURAL ANALOGY<br />
Instead of using the doctrine of the apostles, evil seducers and men who claimed Christ in the beginning of the church, refused to use the gospel message in order to make one of their own by the law. Instead of repentance being a turning from the law for salvation, it has been made into being sorry for our sin. Being sorry for sin is not bad but we should have the knowledge that it is the law or else we could easily fall into the same quagmire the religious world has fallen into.<br />
Now false preachers of today say “accept the Lord as your personal savior” this is a quagmire of law and flesh mixed. To make the word of God a piece of bread and serve it for salvation is a quagmire. To attempt to make a christian out of bread and wine without the word of God is a quagmire. “Believe on the Lord” is another term used to solicit salvation to the lost.<br />
This is all blood doctrine. It is a doctrine that turns the law into blood. Instead of the law being used lawfully has types and shadows, it is being used for salvation, this is blood doctrine. There is only one way into the church and that is by Acts 2:38 the gospel with the promise. When the moon or law or mire is used for salvation it turns the sun into darkness instead of the light that it is. The promise of the Holy Ghost speaking with other tongues is negated, this is turning the sun into darkness.<br />
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I will possibly finish the narrative on the 12th chapter of Revelations another time. The points I intended to relate concerning the blood moon have been made. Please do not fall for such ignorance as to think the literal moon has anything to do with the prophecies in Joel and Acts. There are many more scriptures that I could have used but I have tried to keep it simple.<br />
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Peter sums up the understanding of the scriptures when he states that there will be false teachers among you who will bring in damnable heresies. Declaring the way of truth (which is the SUN) shall be evil spoken of. Who through confederate and disguised words make you into simply a thing of merchandise. God did not spare these preachers; called angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell or the grave, delivering them into the chains of the darkness of the law. The darkness that is light for night creatures. These preachers shall be reserved unto judgement in the same way those in the days of Noah and in the days of Sodom and Gomorrah.<br />
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These preachers are NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS.....do you hear that brother and sister, NATURAL BRUTE BEASTS. I have thought at length on what the apostle meant and more and more I understand by seeing those around the world who are bent and determined to make what God intended to be fulfilled by his word to be natural. To use a natural substance for a spiritual man. This is next to insanity. To think a spiritual man can be fed by a natural food and it will affect him spiritually. They are BRUTISH about their intelligence and about what they read being expounded exactly like it is. They're brazen in their way, insist and demand their doctrine is a doctrine of God because it contains information found in the law. Oh! By the way the gospels are in the law and are still law. The law ends when the administration of the spirit takes over in Acts 2.<br />
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Blood moon enthusiasts are so proud to know so much about the luner and solar system workings. Yet they are completely ignorant of these truths. Why? They are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth because they have turned the moon to blood and the sun into darkness. Darkness: Act 2:38 is not necessary, the promise of the Holy Ghost is received when it has not been received. The wind of Gods Spirit came through the upper room, the trees were the people and the sound of the wind was speaking in tongues. That has never changed and never will. When the wind blows there will always be a sound in the trees. A distinct unmistakable sound. So is everyone born of the Spirit. They will speak with other tongues or the Spirit of God has not blown through them or into them. Change this message and you have turned the moon or the law into blood. You have darkened the Sun or the light in the apostles doctrine.<br />
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2 Peter 2<br />
2 But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of. 3 And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not. 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment; 5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly; 6 And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly; 7 And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8 (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;) 9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: 10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. 11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;<br />
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THE WORD OF GOD IN THE APOSTLES IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD<br />
Those who refuse holiness and balk at the promise in Acts 2. Those who can tell the best stories and teach men how to worship God outside of truth are turning the SUN into darkness and the moon into blood.<br />
Riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceiving.<br />
While they feast with you. Here it is: EYES FULL OF ADULTERY! WHY? Because under law all they need to do according to the commandment is to not commit adultery. The law says nothing about looking. Jesus law does!<br />
If a man look upon a woman with lust he has committed adultery already. Jesus's LAW IS THE SUN, MOSES LAW IS THE MOON. The law gives a little light but not enough. Without the Holy Ghost and a true altar there is no possibility of ceasing from sin. But with the altar of the perfect law there is.<br />
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Peter gives reference to a Prophet who thought he could riot in the day time. Balaam who sold the truth for the wealth and prestige of Moab. Died as a result. Further Peter gives reference to those who speak great swelling words of vanity and allure through the lusts of the flesh verse those who had escaped through the truth of the apostles doctrine and gospel message.<br />
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2 Pet 2:13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness; 16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage. 20 For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. 21 For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.<br />
22 But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.<br />
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The final sound (vs22) is to identify the false prophets, who use the law as dogs turning back to his own vomit again. The sow that was washed, the false prophet turns back to wallowing in the mire.....<br />
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Submitted by: Pastor W.J. Davidson<br />
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<span data-offset-key="2h2ej-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Just as Abraham found out that Sodom didn't have the voice to make even ten righteous in the city, he sought a city that had foundations, whose builder and maker is God. The new Jerusalem the holy city. </span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="coc18-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV — (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) the voice comes to ears that hear and faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God; spoken by a preacher. If your desire is for the world you will miss the voice and you will pitch your tent toward Sodom. But if you will hear what the Spirit is saying, you'll be in the new Jerusalem.</span></div>
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-35517653792132347332019-04-02T15:40:00.000-07:002019-04-02T15:40:04.558-07:00The importance of the family<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-top: 6px;">
Ephesians 6:1-2 KJV — Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)</div>
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Jesus stepped down into a body and submitted Himself to His earthly parents. He put Himself in a family. A father and mother.<br />Luke 2:51 KJV — And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and was subject unto them: but his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.</div>
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It matters what family you're in. Who your mother is and Father is.</div>
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Romans 8:14 KJV — For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.</div>
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There are two mothers, one is the bondwoman and one is the free woman. You're under one or the other. If you're going to be in the new heavenly Jerusalem, you've got to be under the mother that brings forth the promised seed. You have to be she who has a husband.</div>
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Isaiah 54:5 KJV — For thy Maker is thine husband; the LORD of hosts is his name; and thy Redeemer the Holy One of Israel; The God of the whole earth shall he be called.</div>
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2 Corinthians 11:2 KJV — For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.</div>
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The importance of the family that you are burned into is your salvation.</div>
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-81569094216308521652019-02-11T10:00:00.001-08:002019-02-11T10:00:08.496-08:00COMMUNION Part 4 of 4<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">To take the literal bread for communion is a fable, intimating a man can be saved by literally eating.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">2 Tim 3:16-4:4</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">4 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1. Preach the word: where is eat the bread? Reprove, how do you do that with bread? Rebuke,how is that drInk? Exhort with all eating and digestion...etc......<br />a. The idea that one is not serving communion when taking the literal bread and wine is a huge mistake. How then would you eat and drink damnation if it were only to remembrance service?<br />b. Is the eating of the bread necessary for salvation? I challenge the ministering population on this question. Don’t say you spiritualize everything. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Facts: Something’s must be spiritualized Or they could never be true.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">How can I take this literally?</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Rev 12:1-3<br />12 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:<br />2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.<br />3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.<br />a. A big woman I would say<br />b. If it is literal heaven, then she could also fly.<br />c. if literal sun and moon: she was mighty big to be clothed with the sun and stand on the moon, a little out of proportion I think.<br />d. She was pregnant on top of it all: this may explain why she was so big. Point made I think.<br />e. If this is not understood spiritually, It is very far fetched and unbelievable</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The kingdom of God was not made known under the law.<br />The kingdom of God was made known to us by Jesus Christ: Righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.<br />Rom 14:17-18<br />17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost.<br />18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God, and approved of men.<br />a. Meat or drink has nothing to do with righteousness, peace or joy in the Holy Ghost.<br />b. If you continue to keep a literal communion of bread and wine: you are natural and not spiritual.<br />Mark 14:25</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">25 Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. If Jesus is the vine of the grape and we are the branches, this means we have been given the same nature of Christ to produce the fruit of the vine of his word, not a literal vine.<br />b. The literal wine he drank would not be available to anyone until he comes back for his church. Until then he is the vine and we have the wine from it which is the Holy Ghost.<br /> <br />The carnal saints took the literal Lords supper and made it a feast. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Literal feast:1 Cor 2:13-3:3</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3 And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2 I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. The carnal walk as men and not saints of God.<br />b. To be carnal is not to be able to understand a type or shadow spiritual meaning.<br />c. Jesus fulfilled the tabernacle as the tabernacle and the high priest who walked in it.<br />d. Jesus fulfilled the priesthood spiritually: his doctrine given to the apostles became the teachings of eternal life to the church.<br />e. Paul could not relate the word of God as being the bread which came down from heaven in the form of the Lord Jesus Christ because those whom he ministered were carnal.....They could not see anything in the spiritual sense.<br />f. The first and second born for instance meant the first born nature and the putting on of Christ through the new birth in the Spirit, by hearing and obeying the Gospel. This is called "Having eaten it up".<br />g. If we see the spiritual meaning of the carnal ordinances, we have the mind of Christ, because his mind was a spiritual mind, his understanding of law and himself fulfilling it was his mind.<br />Luke 22:15-16</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">15 And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">16 For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">John 15:25</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The feast: is eating now of all the miracles of types and shadows that only make sense after we see Jesus as the fulfilment. The first and second born. The Temple, the High priest, the shewbread, the inner light of the candle, the golden candlesticks, the vail which is to say his flesh. How is it one understands these great truths and accepts the literal bread and wine for memorial or communion? </b><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">A</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">cts 2:38-39</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1 Cor 11:25</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><u>This cup is the new testament in my blood:</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Repentance, Baptism and infilling of the Holy Ghost is the new will of God after the death of the testator.<br />b. When we eat the word and drink of the promises of the new testament we are drinking the cup.<br />c. He said: This cup is the new testament in his blood......He was merely telling them what the symbol meant.<br />Heb 9:28</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. We look for his second coming because we understand and believe the words of his first coming to fulfil the law.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />Jesus refused to die in the camp to justify the law, He died without the camp of the law keepers to justify all those who would hear His word and obey Him.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: blue;">Heb 13:11-13</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">12 Wherefore Jesus also, that he might sanctify the people with his own blood, suffered without the gate.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">13 Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Let us go to him without the camp bearing his reproach. What reproach? The reproach of leaving the literal types and shadows for the fulfilment of them.<br />b. Jesus people no longer take a literal bread as those in the literal camp of Israel.<br />c. Jesus people who hear and know the truth will leave the camp of the literalists to bear the reproach of them who insist the literal bread must be taken for salvation. Or the literal bread must be taken in order to remember him. This is an abomination to God.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />The reading of the will they ate together literally but it was not communion: it was the receiving of the Holy Ghost which placed them in fellowship.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Acts 2:38-42</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">39 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">41 Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><u>fellowship</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The Passover lamb</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">John 1:29</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. What old testament lamb ever did this? Take away the sin of the world.<br />b. He said taketh: meaning perpetually a lamb which doesn't need to be offered often or yearly.<br />c. This is the feast of the new testament saints, not symbols eaten at a literal table, but the word of God eaten into our minds so we may be passed over in judgment.<br />d. If judgment begin at the house of God where shall the ungodly and sinner appear? In the white throne judgment! Because their sins were not washed away by the word of God.<br /> <br />David even understood what the feast stood for and knew it would be fulfilled in Jesus Christ.</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Ps 23</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3 He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">4 Yea, though I walk through the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">valley of the shadow of death,</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">5 Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. The reason God chose David was because he was spiritual.<br />b. unafraid to spiritualize like David? He saw the Lord as his shepherd, meaning he understood the that the literal shepherd represented something greater, spiritually understood.<br />c. David did not lie down literally in green pastures: he saw the good shepherd head the literal sheep to spiritually green healthy pastures.<br />d. David understood still waters to represent the comfort and refreshing of his soul. Spiritual<br />e. David never walked literally through the valley of the Shadow of death, he understood that the Valley of the SHADOW OF DEATH was the law. The law was what he walked through to make it to the end pleasing God and overcoming the wicked of his native countrymen.<br />f. God did not walk literally with David but David understood God to be there in the same way a Shepherd would guide and protect his own as he walked with them.<br />g. What kind of a table suppose it would have been that God prepared for him in the presence of his enemies? A literal one? No! A spiritual one: David was full of the Word and Scriptures concerning Abraham and is ancestors. This he possessed during the tightest situations with his enemies.<br />h. Anointest is over and over again not just a literal one time anointing. My cup of blessing runs over. He certainly was not talking about a literal cup.<br />i. Goodness and mercy he felt assured of because he had spiritual understanding. </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Acts 2:29-32</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. David knew Jesus of his own loins would set on his throne.<br />b. David had this promise of God and it fed him spiritually.<br />c. He ate from the understanding he had in the truth.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Jude knew what the feast was</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What kind of a feast is a piece of bread with a swallow of wine or grape juice? It is not what a </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">normal individual would call a feast. A feast would consist of a large variety of different foods </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">or a large assortment of breads. It could be a large quantity of bread. Jude knew what the feast </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">was and we should also know what the feast is. </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Jude 1:12 </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">1. Those who depend on law for salvation: are clouds without water, the water being the Holy Ghost.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2. Since they trust in the law and not the apostles they are carried about by every wind of doctrine.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3. Who began in Christ but turned to the law: their fruit withered, twice dead, dead through repentance</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">receiving life from Christ: returning to law leaving the father as prodigals. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">4. They turning to the law, pluckt themselves out by the very root which is Jesus and his apostles </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Doctrine</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">Submitted by: Pastor Davidson</span>apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-57744152347313143632019-02-11T09:59:00.006-08:002019-02-11T09:59:50.270-08:00COMMUNION Part 3 of 4<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As there were those who claim circumcision must be done, there were those back in the days of the Apostles who also kept the Lords supper literally.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Paul says when we come together for church it is not to eat literally, if you're hungry, eat at home.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1 Cor 11:19-22</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">19 For there must be also</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"> <u>heresies</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">is not to eat the Lord's supper.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Heresy is to change the meaning of the word of God deserting the true meaning: to continue to eat the literal feast was to pervert the true meaning derived from types and shadows.<br />b. Paul clearly states here that the problem was some had interpreted communion with Christ to mean eating a literal supper.<br />c. Paul clearly states here that THIS IS NOT TO EAT THE LORD'S SUPPER saying they had houses to eat and drink in. This clearly states that the church service is not include, food and drink to fill the literal belly. The heart must be affected for eternal life, not the literal belly.<br />d. Those who remained literal were right if in fact taking something literal is an ordinance.<br />e. In fact the ordinance was made clear but not to the one who cannot get past the language of 1 Cor 11 to understand the meaning. Preaching and having church was the ordinances revealed by the apostle Paul.<br />f. Heresy is taking the word which is fulfilled spiritually and keeping it literal.<br />g. The guilty will answer to God like the trinitarian who baptizes both in titles and Jesus name to be safe. Something is the matter with this picture: it indicates one does not know what they truly believe.<br />h. So, literal eating is not a true reflection of what should happen in a church service. The word of God should be eaten by all and all have the same opportunity to hear.<br />i. To eat literally, allowed many undesirable things to occur, one had more food than another, one is drunken, having drank to much wine, another is hungry not having enough. When the word of God is preached and taught this does not happen, this cannot happen.<br />j. Heresies, eating in church opposed to eating at home. Foolishness to eat in church what you can eat at home. At home however, you cannot eat truth and drink the spirit from hearing preaching. So if you are hungry don’t wait to go to church because church is never to be had with the literal symbols which represented something greater than themselves.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">While they feast with you: what kind of feast was Jude speaking of?</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">2 Peter 2:13-16</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">16 But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Roit in the daytime</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The law is darkness and Jesus words was light. Many refused the apostles doctrine as being correct so they believing the types and shadows still to be here: rioted while the truth was revealed.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Spots and blemishes</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Without spot nor wrinkle: to be unspotted by the world and the law by believing the doctrine of the apostles.<br />b. To keep the law as a means of salvation in anyway is a spot.<br />c. To push types and shadows as useful in anyway other than their proper use is to have wrinkle.<br />d. Look how they sport themselves thinking they have scripture to back up their literal views when In fact they have none.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Going back to the law from the words of the Apostles and grace is to be bewitched.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Gal 3:1-3</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1. Christ calls for perfection in the new testament: at least that is the goal. The law can make nothing Perfect, but a bringing in of a better covenant can: the better covenant is the preaching of the word which fulfills the literal bread, the drinking of the Spirit of God and not a drink of literal wine. Acts 2:38 and the apostles doctrine is a better covenant than the types and shadows of the law<br />2. Heb 7:19 19 For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God. Preaching of the word not eating literal bread.<br />3. Leaving the Spirit and preaching that brought the Spirit, to go back to eating bread and drinking wine on the literal feast day of Abib 14<sup>th</sup>, is an abomination to God and it is being bewitched. Making a doctrine more appealing to the flesh than the commandments of Christ. Acts 2:38 contains a commandment to repent and be baptized along with the promise of drinking into the Holy Ghost.<br />4. Apostle Prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints....Given up to go back to the law, why? Why? Because it is easier and no study is involved. But this is the beginning of the mystery of iniquity. Disobedient to the apostles doctrine while Claiming salvation through another unapproved method. Law and Grace mixed. The mystery of iniquity: how men can claim to possess Jesus Christ in various way and methods while being disobedient to the apostles doctrine. This is the mystery of iniquity. How man can be in iniquity against the apostles yet proclaim to the world they have salvation. Iniquity is being disobedient to the ministry God set up on this earth through the apostles whereby men can find salvation and be saved. To eat a cracker and drink wine is iniquity, the false church is<br />built upon iniquity and claim that their leader, who is the false Christ has been given the authority of God here on earth. By this precept millions are duped and lost. God will prove who is the only potentate and high priest of our profession, namely Jesus Christ. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Balaam forsook the right way in type of those who would embrace truth and turn from it to make the literal a stumbling block to the church.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">1 Tim 1:5-8</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">6 From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">7 Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.<br />8 But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Balaam being able to hear the voice of God as did some who sat in church feasts, left for the richer more prominent life. Unto Balak the king of Moab. Balak desiring to have Israel cursed by the prophet Balaam, offered Balaam a position and promotion in his kingdom for doing so.<br />b. As certain men came into the church claiming agreement with the apostles, but without allegiance, changed the truth of God into a lie and served and worshiped the creature more than the creator. Of which Balaam was type and shadow. These evil men who crept into the church unawares, took what they wanted from the doctrine of the apostles and changed the truth of God into a lie. Claiming Christ but using the law unlawfully, by keeping the literal elements of the old testament instead of replacing them with the fulfilled word of God.<br />c. If the spiritual meaning of the law cannot be seen or determined, the law is good only in the literal sense. There were those who desired to be teachers of the law but had no clue to its spiritual meaning. This means using it in the literal sense without being able to comprehend its spiritual meaning was an unlawful act. Leaven is not yeast in the doe but false doctrine of the Pharisees. Meat did not mean the meat from an animal. I have meat to eat that ye know not of. This meat was the doing of the will of God. To use literal bread with any connection to eternal life is using the law unlawfully. No man is crowned in the ministry except he strive and fight for the faith lawfully. The faith with the spiritual meaning and not the literal and natural.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Wandering stars who wandered from their place in Christ for the law of Moses: To whom is reserved the blackness and darkness of the law forever.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Jude 10-13</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">10 But these </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally,</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">11 Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.<br />a. Come curse me this people Balak said to Balaam. I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord,said Balaam, but Balaam taught Balak how to cast a stumbling block before the people by getting them to worship at the altar of baal at Peor. The altar of Baal is a type of going back to the law of Moses in the new testament. Take those who have the commandments of God and entice them to another altar which allows them more liberality. Keeping the literal law and using literal bread and wine is a curse unto Gods people. Yet many who claim to preach the Gospel of Acts 2:38 still practice law when it comes to communion. It seems the Balaams of the new testament have done their job well. The false teachers have managed to convince God fearing men the literal is demanded, using I Cor 11 and the words of Jesus at the last supper. This is the new testament in my blood.....the drink represented the new testament promise of the Holy Ghost purchased with the literal blood of Jesus. Take eat this is my body which is broken for you. The body of Jesus was not yet broken, the cross was not yet taken, Jesus was speaking of the bread representing his body the word of God. Which after his death would be broken for his church. The first message spoken by Peter on the day of Pentecost, was the breaking of the bread. Using old testament scripture that pointed to Jesus as being made Lord.<br />b. Going before God as Satan presented himself before God could not get God to curse those whom he had blessed. But introduce them to another sacrifice more liberal and more free, brought the evil right into the congregation by a young man of Israel and a young woman of Moab. Brandishing their new found freedom to fornicate and be together right in front of the elders of Israel. It is exactly the same today. Those who take the Eucharist are free to do as they please as long as they honor God by their taking the literal bite and drink.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">What does the word of God mean here?</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1 Cor 11:23-24</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. No one before Jesus had ever given the spiritual understanding concerning the feast of passover but Jesus tells the disciples what the typology stands for. Jesus Christ was the word of God in flesh. In another place He said except ye eat my flesh and drink my blood. He was not speaking of his literal body. Here he is giving understanding to the disciples that he was the completion of the loaf of all the scriptures and that as he was broken they also would brake the bread of life<br />to the lost.<br />b. This is my body: The church is the body of Christ and it is the bread which will feed the world.<br />1 Cor 10:17</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">17 For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Because we have eaten the word of God and have drank the Spirit of God we are now the body and bread of the Lord Jesus Christ.<br />b. We must eat the word and drink the Spirit of God discerning the body which is the church or saints of the living God.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The leaven of the New Testament:</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1 Cor 5:6-8</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. The old leaven is the law, the law without fulfillment in Christ is leaven or false doctrine.<br />b. Purge out the old leaven by getting out everything of the law and allow the teachings of Jesus to make you a new creature or lump.<br />c. Let us keep the feast of the church service without that which the law allowed. The law allowed malice as long as it did not turn to murder. The law allowed wickedness of heart As long as it did not escalate into murder and evil doings.<br />d. Jesus spake of fulfilling the law: you have heard it said of them of old time thou shalt not commit adultery, but I say whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already in his heart. He was speaking about removing evil thought from the heart before they became acts and deeds.<br />e. Purge out the old leaven, the teaching of the literal law and preach Christ the fulfilment of it.<br />f. What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh condemned sin in the flesh. Jesus condemned what the law let go.<br />g. The law could make nothing perfect, I can easily understand that the feast of literal food in the passover was not intended to make anyone perfect and could not. But Jesus words given to the apostle could, did and does. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The feast is kept between us and Jesus</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">In writing to the church of the Laodiceans Jesus told them where they must change to have fellowship with him. Simply if they would eat his word he would eat their sincerity and they would feast together. Anytime we open our hearts to eat his word he immediately comes in to feast on our obedience and desire to comply. This is to sup with the Lord Jesus, but to eat and drink literal symbols is not going to bring the same results. If we hear his word and keep malice and wickedness in our hearts he will not sup with that. The feast must be kept with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth. The literal must removed from the equation.<br /><span style="color: blue;">Rev 3:17-22</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked: </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">18 I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">19 As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">20 Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">21 To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">22 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Rev 3:14-16</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">14 And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. The problem with the Laodiceans was how they supped, they had Jesus on the outside because they had embraced the false teachings of the law and the eating of literal bread, and he could not get in. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">b. The voice of the Lord must be heard on this most important of subjects concerning eternal life, and Jesus word must become the one and only focal point of everyone. There cannot be a mixture of old and new testament if one will be hot and on fire for God. The law makes one cold the faith of Christ and his apostles makes one hot, the mixture of the two makes for a lukewarm saints.<br />c. The law leaves one in the condition described here: wretched, miserable, poor, blind and naked. Lukewarm: buy of me gold, Jesus words and life was tried in the fire, buying the truth of the New testament is what makes one rich, not literal riches as thought by law. The false church is the rich church with literal gold made temple and articles. The real church is rich in the faith of the truth of the apostles.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="color: blue;">Rom 7:24-8:2</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">8 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Paul is simply stating that the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus which comes to fulfil the law, is the only thing which delivers a person from being wretched.<br />b. The law is the law of sin and death, there is no salvation in the law and no man can be justified by the law. So! The words of Jesus delivers one from the keeping of the old testament letter.<br />c. No literal bread nor wine can deliver, it keeps one bound and Laodicea was bound because from being more affected by people and the commandments of men than by God, this is what they had to overcome.<br />d. Paul was saying he served the law of Christ and his apostles with his mind, but with the flesh he saw a law in his members bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which was in his members. How then could he be delivered from this wretched condition? By being in Christ Jesus body and hearing the words of Christ, walking after the Spirit and not after the flesh he would be delivered from this pit. Walking after the doctrines of Christ he would be delivered from the body of lust, sin and death. </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Paul confirmed the church service<br /><span style="color: blue;">1 Cor 14:39-15:11</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">40 Let all things be done decently and in order.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">15 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">11 Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Let all things be done decently and in order.<br />b. He gave understanding on how to have church<br />c. The Bible is not written around having communion with a piece of bread and a small cup of</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">wine</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">What is the feast?<br /><span style="color: blue;">1 Cor 5:8-12</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Certainly the feast is not a piece of bread and drink of wine.<br />b. The feast is who Jesus is, why he came, the changing of the covenants, the continuance of the seed of Abraham in us, the eating of his word and his sacrifice which fulfilled the old testament types and shadow....this is the feast.......not a morsel of bread for the stomach.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">c. Notice the feast must be free from the old leaven</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">or the old teachings of types and shadows</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">. </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Is this not understandable? Is not the fulfilment of these types and shadows the true feast.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">d. This is the fly in the ointment of the apothecary, the mixture of old leaven with the new testament commandments of the apostles.<br />e. If there is a man calling himself a brother still embracing the law with the law of Christ. Oh! by the way, there are two laws not one. If you love me keep my commandments, Jesus gave his commandments to the apostles who wrote them to the new testament church. Jesus clearly has commandments the law never had. Do not have church with a man who is looking to doctrines outside of the apostles doctrine. Feeding themselves without fear, twice dead plucked up by the roots. There is spiritual fornication as well as literal, a spiritual fornicator is one who embraces teachings of the law mixed with Christ. This is old leaven. </b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Gal 3:29</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">29 And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Knowing we can be the chosen seed through Jesus Christ is part of the feast.<br />b. Eat the whole lamb: we are to eat all the word of God and digest it into works.<br />c. What Jesus did to bring us the feast: he became the living sacrifice he had called for In Abel and Cain in the beginning.<br />d. The sacrifice is tied into every phase of scripture and is the reason men are in contact with God or they are not. Cain refused and lost his contact. Abel’s blood cried to God from the ground because he offered the right sacrifice.<br />e. The passover was all about the sacrifice, he who obeyed and killed the sacrifice and ate it, was passed over when death came to Egypt and to the first born of both Egyptian and Israelite.<br />f. Jesus becomes our passover, when we eat the word and drink the spirit in the feast of the Church service.<br />g. Those who sit in our spiritual services thinking they are alright because they comply by eating a literal supper, are spots and blemishes not receiving the truth but are natural.<br />h. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God. They are foolishness to him because they are spiritually discerned.<br />i. Just musing: I would never give this understanding of the truth up to be on the greatest of Platforms preaching to the largest crowds and desiring my name in lights. Balaam did this and there are many wonderful men of God who are sincere and brilliantly intellectual who cannot see the truth. While they may have great capabilities and preaching prowess, all of this pales in comparison to knowing the truth and acknowledging it. To hold this truth and continue on in taking literal symbols is to reside in condemnation. This is holding the truth in unrighteousness.<br /> <br />God changed the order of the priesthood: because everything in the old order was type and shadow. Decayed and ready to cease, like its priests; who advocated the death of Christ Jesus.<br />Heb 5:6-10<br />6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.<br />7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;<br />8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;<br /><span style="color: blue;">9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;</span>10 Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec.<br />a. Jesus was made perfect because he brought the faith that would make us ready for eternal Life. The literal bread makes nothing perfect nor affects us in any way other than remaining a type and shadow. The literal was made only to represent the more important and fulfilled. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">b. Upon the understanding I will give to this man Peter, I will build my church. The fact that Peter knew who Jesus was, that he was God in a body, the word of God made flesh, dwelling among us. He therefore used the word of God on the day of Pentecost and Jesus promised to build his church upon this rock. Jesus gave Peter instructions to preach the word and answer the questions of the people with the preached and taught word of God.<br />c. The church cannot and must not be thought to be built upon any unfulfilled teachings of the Law of types and shadows. If anyone would have known the meaning of Jesus sayings it would most assuredly been Peter. Peter did not offer the Eucharist on the day of Pentecost neither did he give it as the answer of what the speaking in other tongues and the noise of it meant. This is that which was spoken of the prophet Joel....etc.....Joel did not prophesy a literal eating of bread but of an outpouring of the Spirit of God.<br /> <br />Why was there a change of the priesthood? Who was Melchizidec? Why did Arron die and the priesthood change, all Old Testament preists die: But Jesus never dies and His priesthood never changes, why?<br />Answer: His priesthood could never change because His fulfullment was final: never to return to the law. His fulfilling the old with the new will never again change. The word of God preached is the unchanging sacrament.<br />Heb 7:24-27</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">24 But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">25 Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">27 Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. Jesus is the new testament priest because there was a necessity to change from a priesthood that died and could only get the people forgiven for one year through the literal tabernacle.<br />b. Jesus fulfilled the tabernacle and the priesthood which Aaron represented. It was never meant for the priesthood of the old testament to be brought into the new testament. It was never meant by God for any of the types and shadows to be carried over into the new testament.<br />c. Every article in the tabernacle had a spiritual meaning: stood for something greater than the literal article itself.<br />d. The law was types and shadows but Abraham lived by faith as do those in the new testament who hear the word of God fulfilled and obey it. Melchisidec showed himself to Abraham after The battle of Chedorlaomer to received tithe of him.<br />e. Abraham is the type of those who live by the faith of the word of God without mixing it with law, this is the reason Melchisidec came to him.. Jesus became our high priest after the order of Melchisidec, not Aaron, so we may understand we are children of Abraham by faith and not by law or letter. Abraham was before the law and our faith is premised upon that which was before the law so, that the law could be seen and understood as being types and shadows only.<br />f. The literal bread is of the law, the wine is of the law. It was never meant to be a new testament way into eternal life. The fulfilling of both of those items is the way into eternal life. This is one of the reasons Jesus became our high priest after the order of Melchisedec.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />A better covenant not the same covenant; a better bread and better wine: The word and the spirit.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Heb 8:1-6</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;<br />2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.<br />3 For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.<br />4 For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:<br />5 Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">6 But now hath he</b><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "aharoni";"><span style="color: red; font-family: "aharoni";"> obtained a more excellent ministry, </span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">by how much also he is the mediator of a </b><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "aharoni";"><span style="color: red; font-family: "aharoni";">better covenant, </span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">which was </b><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "aharoni";"><span style="color: red; font-family: "aharoni";">established upon better promises.</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. The true sanctuary and tabernacle is the body of Jesus Christ, the church.<br />b. Jesus was a priest but did not offer gifts according to the law.<br />c. The priests of the old serve as types of heavenly things, pertaining to the church, which was Fulfilled by the church.<br />d. The true tabernacle is the church which the Lord pitched and not man. Man pitched the old testament tabernacle, Jesus pitched the church.<br />Eph 4:10-13</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">e. Jesus ascended after he had first also descended, and gave some, apostles, prophets, evangelists and some, pastors and teachers; for the perfecting of the saints, the work of the ministry and the edifying of the body of Christ. A piece of bread and drink of literal wine cannot do this.<br /><br />Keep the ordinances as I delivered them unto you:</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">1 Cor 11:17-26<br />17 Now in this that I declare unto you I praise you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse.<br />18 For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.<br />19 For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.<br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">20 When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's supper.</span></span>21 For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.<br /><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;">22 What? have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you in this? I praise you not.</span></span>23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:<br />24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.<br />25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.<br />26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.<br /><span style="color: blue;">Heb 9:1</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. The old testament had ordinance of divine service and a worldly sanctuary, literal ordinances which needed fulfilled by spiritual understanding. Seeing them fulfilled ans the pascal lamb was fulfilled in Christ the lamb of God.<br />b. The literal temple was a worldly sanctuary the same as the bread is a part of the worldly. The literal ordinances which could not make those in service to them perfect.<br />c. Only the word of God can deal adequately with the conscience: carnal ordinances were to made to be spiritually understood. These were imposed upon Israel until the time of reformation.<br />d. Which stood only in meats and drinks. The kingdom of God is not meat or drink but righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.<br /><span style="color: blue;">Heb 9:9-10</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">a. The ordinances Paul delivered where not carnal ordinances but spiritual, he spake of the bread and wine of the last supper but gave the ordinances as being the preaching of the word and communion of the Holy Ghost: this is the church service. Not a place where bread feeds a literal stomach but where the word feeds the mind.<br />b. Those who feed the bread to their congregations are performing an abomination before God.<br />c. God can and will overlook this for a time but will require it later when a man should have Studied to show himself approved unto God....<br />d. To eat anything literally in the house of God is to despise the church of God.<br />e. If anyone is hungry do not come to church to eat, eat at home and come to church for your soul to be fed. The literal must be fulfilled by the spiritual. The law is spiritual, meaning it Is full of literal things that have a spiritual meaning. A meaning we must know.<br />2 Tim 2:15<br />15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Submitted by: Pastor Davidson</span></span>apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-32395722299097383332019-02-11T09:59:00.004-08:002019-02-11T09:59:31.435-08:00COMMUNION Part 2 of 4<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus makes it undeniably clear: Literal bread is not communion.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">John 6:55-58</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. Referring to the literal manna which his people ate, who also lived and died.<br />b. Speaking of his word as bread, if it is eaten, men shall live forever.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">c. Why is this not clear? Because those in groups who believe like the false church will rail.</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">d. Certainly one would not conclude Jesus to be speaking literally here, but was he referring to a<br />literal bread and wine as eating him? NO! A million times no. The word is what he was speaking of.<br />e. This is that bread: Jesus again referring to the literal manna and the fulfilment of it being<br />himself and the word he spake. </b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">HERE IS THE DRINK:</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The Holy Ghost does not come by a literal drink of wine. It comes as it did on the day of Pentecost.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 12:13</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. If anyone thirst, let him come unto me and drink.<br />b. If thou knewest the gift of God and who it was that asked thee to drink, thou wouldest have<br />asked him and he would have given the living water. The living water is the wine, prefigured<br />by the blood. When the Spirit is received and drank: the blood has been drunk.<br />c. It is by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, not by a drink of wine.<br />d. Men fear to give up their foolishness of embracing the law, did we begin the Spirit and shall<br />we be made perfect by the flesh? If we received the baptism of the Holy Ghost, do we think<br />eating a literal bread will enhance that? No! The Spirit of God and the new testament doctrine<br />of the apostles is far greater than the flesh or the teachings of law. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Jesus assures them that the natural meat is not everlasting life:</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">John 6:26-27</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">27</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Labour not for the meat which perisheth,<span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: blue;"> but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life</span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">, which the Son of man shall giv</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">e unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. The meat that endureth unto everlasting life is the Word of God.<br />b. The doctrine Jesus gave to the apostles is the meat or will of God.<br />c. As Jesus gave them literal bread, he also gave them their teachings, which believed brings<br />eternal life.<br />d. My meat is to do the will of him that sent me.<br />e. Could it be that Jesus is trying to say: labor not for bread and wine, the kind that perishes?<br />f. Labor for the understanding of the word of God which endures unto everlasting life. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">The church sells it's birthright when they keep the literal and refused to understand it spiritual.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Heb 12:16</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. The cup Jesus spake of here in Mt. 26:39 was the cup of suffering. Nothing literal about this cup </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">he speaks of.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Matt 26:39</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. To eat the literal bread for communion or even acknowledge it in a memorial service is to<br />detract from the power God meant to be given to his word.<br />b. To sell you birthright in the new testament is to bye the morsel of literal bread as a doctrine<br />into eternal life.<br />c. Millions have sold their birthright into eternal life for a lie and morsel of literal bread which<br />cannot produce eternal life. The saints of God are still confused although they may be sitting<br />under a strong and powerful ministry, advocating the use of literal bread has anything to do<br />with eternal life is an abomination. The law makes desolate and Jesus came to revive those<br />in the spiritual graveyard of desolation by revealing the spiritual meaning of those things<br />under the law.<br />d. The false doctrine of the false church: eat a literal bread and continue to be exactly what you<br />as a good person are. There is none good but one and Jesus was the good shepherd which<br />gave his life for the sheep. The rich ruler decided to continue following the law and refused<br />to follow Jesus. Jesus was good because he fulfilled the old testament types and shadows. Jesus<br />had the words which actually made goodness. This the law does not have. What the law could<br />not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful<br />flesh, condemned sin in the flesh. The sin that the law could not reach was the heart, the law<br />dealt with the outward but not how the inward should correspond with the outward. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Are we all great big loaves of bread?</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 10:16-17<br />16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?<br /><span style="color: blue;"></span><span style="color: blue;">17 For we being many are one bread,</span> and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.<br />a. The cup of blessing which we bless is having found the Gospel which allows us to drink his Spirit. This is breaking the bread....understanding that the literal drink is the Holy Ghost. Once<br />the meaning of the natural has been discovered there is no more need for the literal. Once the meaning of the temple was discovered, there was no more need for the temple. Once the meaning<br />of the priesthood was discovered, there is no more need of the old testament literal high priest. The priesthood is fulfilled in the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers.<br />b. To receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost is a blessing.<br />c. To hear the word from a God sent man who represents the Apostles Doctrine is a blessing.<br />d. When we eat the word and it becomes our thinking, we then can give that same word out and the Church becomes one bread. One bread by hearing and doing the truth not by eating a piece of bread and drinking a tad bit of wine but hearing the word.<br />e. We are one bread because we have eaten of that one bread, the word of God<br />f. We are not one bread because we eat a literal bread...the false church is one literal bread of<br />the law and by the law shall no flesh be justified. </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The birthright is to hear and receive the promise of the Holy Ghost.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The old Testament was fulfilled in Christ: No longer is communion a literal supper. The Old Testament was weak through the flesh, not having sufficient commandments.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1. Eating a literal bread is not a new birth. The false church eats the bread and drinks the wine while living as best they can through their own conscience and fleshly capabilities. They sold</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the birthright of the promise to receive the Holy Ghost.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2. This is claiming grace and living the law. By the law shall no flesh be justified.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a. The Catholic church has sold its birth right for it’s holy Eucharist.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">b. The Catholic church has succeeded in bringing the literal law into the New Testament where it should not be. We can no longer be saved by O.T. symbolism. It must be by faith in hearing the word of God</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">c. They have changed the truth of God into a lie to worship and serve the creature.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">d. By making literal bread the life and not the Word of Truth the life they have sold their birth right to satisfy the lusts of the flesh.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">e. Any church that believes that communion is a literal taking of bread and wine are deceived.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;">f. </span>The cup of blessing which we bless is that cup of receiving the baptism of the Holy Ghost and promise of eternal life. This is the cup of the new testament, not a literal cup.<br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The image made like corruptible man is what the law could make: the glory of God can only be obtained by and through the Apostles doctrine.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rom 1:21-23</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a. To birds, fourfooted beasts and creeping things, this is what the law can make as an image.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">b. The image of God cannot be obtained their old testament types and shadows. Jesus is the</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">image of the invisible God and his doctrine is the only doctrine that can produce a sacrifice</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">in the likeness of his image.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">c. So returning to the law of types and shadows, cannot make a man in the image of the living</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">God.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">d. They imagined they could keep the literal law without being in obedience to Christ law and</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">obtain salvation, claiming Christ and living the law is the strong delusion God has sent into</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">this world to dupe those who do not receive the love for the truth.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">e. It really doesn’t matter what false doctrine you have embraced or who the teacher was that</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">taught you. It doesn’t matter what group or organization you may be in, if the truth revealed</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">here is, clear, plain and believable but is rejected, the delusion will replace it. The love of the</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">truth is greatest of all achievements in this life.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">f. Holding the truth in unrighteousness, if one knows the truth and does not preach it, but</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">continues in law pleasing the people and flesh, they will be guilty. To know this truth and</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">continue eating literal bread and drinking literal wine for communion: is damning. It is like</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the man who baptizes in both titles and in the name just to be sure. One is right and the other</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">is wrong. To do both is a confusion and the man who performs such a baptism is also confused.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Jesus takes His disciples from the literal unto the spiritual again</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">John 4:32-34</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. Jesus Christ was clearly saying meat represented doing the will of God.<br />b. Not a natural meat to eat as the disciples thought.<br />c. Many today are still caught up in the natural and cannot see the spiritual.<br />d. To be spiritual is to understand the meaning of a type, shadow, metaphor. allegory.<br />e. Jesus spake spiritually, using natural things which had greater meaning, Jesus explained<br />his using meat in the spiritual sense, as a type of doing the will of God.<br />f. When David said my cup runneth over, he did not mean a literal cup, he meant his cup of<br />blessings from God.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">What is meant by Paul when he calls the rock in the wilderness, that spiritual rock, that rock is Christ?</b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">1 Cor 10:3-4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">3 And did all eat the same spiritual meat;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. The manna was the bread from heaven which symbolized the word of God.<br />b. The water from the rock Moses struck symbolized Christ when he was smitten and the<br />Holy Ghost was given on the day of Pentecost as a result.<br />c. The rock and the manna were literal, but they represented as types, something which would<br />be fulfilled at the coming of Jesus Christ and the outpouring of the Holy Ghost after hearing<br />the Gospel message.<br />d. The water coming out of the Rock symbolized the Holy Ghost.<br />e. The Rock itself was a symbol of Christ our Rock who was God.<br />f. For something to possess spiritual meaning; it must represent something greater in meaning<br />than its literal self. </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> </span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The word of God has been wrested concerning communion:</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Wrest: </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">5186 natah (naw-taw');</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a primitive root; </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><u>to stretch </u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">or spread out; by implication,</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> <u>to bend away </u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">(including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application (as follows): </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">KJV-- + afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown,</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><u> pervert,</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, out), take (aside), </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><u>turn (aside</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">, away), wrest, cause to yield.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. The scripture is not interpreted correctly if it is not read figuratively.<br />b. The reason: Paul referred back to what Jesus said to his disciples under the law.<br />So they would once again remember the interpretation of what Jesus said, not that<br />communion was literal but that communion was spiritual and the words of the Lord<br />were allegorical or a shadow as when he spoke of the bread and the meat previously<br />mentioned. Jesus was in the old testament and was a type and shadow himself, a type of<br />the body of Christ the church. The words he spoke, he used the literal to make clear the<br />spiritual understanding to the apostles. At the last supper this was the case. They fully<br />understood that they would fulfill the literal on the day of Pentecost.<br />c. When Jesus spoke of meat he did not mean natural meat.<br />d. When Jesus spoke of bread he did not mean literal bread.<br />e. When Jesus took the cup and spoke of the wine he was referring to his Spirit which is the<br />blood of the New Testament.<br />f. When Jesus spoke of the bread he was speaking of the Word of God in preaching in the New<br />Testament.<br />g. This is what Paul was doing when he quoted Jesus, he was referring back to symbols to make<br />the point of spiritual communion.<br />2 Pet 3:16</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. 1Cor 11 is scripture that if interpreted wrongly can mean a mans salvation.<br />b. If a man truly believes the symbols are communion he will lessen the value of the Word of God<br />in his own life and be destroyed.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Submitted by: Pastor Davidson</b>apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-5214955065575009972019-02-11T09:59:00.002-08:002019-02-11T09:59:11.855-08:00COMMUNION Part 1 of 4<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The only communion is spiritual</span></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;">Meaning: The literal hearing of the word of God and receiving of the Spirit of God</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">There are no more symbols</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">To take a literal bread and wine is not communion</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;">The bread and wine were symbols of the true communion of the preached word and the Holy Ghost</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;"></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><b>The law:</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Heb 10:1</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers there unto perfect</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. We do not pick up a literal wood cross, why should there be a literal supper of wine and bread?<br />b. All old testament types stood for what should be done spiritually in the new testament.<br />c. We must literally hear and obey the word of God, this is literally eating his flesh for he was the word of God.<br />d. To continuing in the symbols using the symbols for salvation and communion, we do not fulfil the types, instead we use them as substitutes for the real.<br />e. The old testament was a schoolmaster, teaching us the things we must do in the new testament<br />by explaining with the things that are made, such as the unleavened bread and wine.<br />f. This literal feast with natural objects was not real communion but a type of what we should literally do in eating the word of God and drinking into his Spirit.<br />g. When we are in church service we literally hear and digest the word of God into our spirits, this is how we literally have communion with the Lord Jesus Christ.<br />h. We cannot take of the symbols of the true, which is bread and wine and expect them to do anything for us spiritually.<br />i. The literal bread represents the word of God and was never meant to be used in a service to be Jesus Christ flesh. When anyone eats a piece of literal bread they are not eating his flesh but a piece of doe which represents is and symbolizes the word of God.<br />j. The word of God is literally the flesh of Jesus Christ: or God became a man.<br />k. When wine was drank it was never meant to be the literal blood of Jesus Christ but merely a representation of the true, which is the Spirit of God we drink when we partake of his Holy Ghost.<br />l. In the old testament they never had the real thing the symbols stood for, but we possess both the word of God which was fulfilled in JESUS CHRIST and made known to us, and the Holy Ghost which was given on the day of Pentecost.<br />m. When we literally hear the truth and drink of his Spirit we are made like unto his image, not when we literally eat a piece of bread and drink a cup of wine. Eating a piece of bread and drinking a cup of wine does in no way change us into his image or likeness. It in no way conveys any type of communion with the Lord.<br />Jesus Christ was born under the law as a type of the body of Christ in the New Test. The new testament was not in force until after the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and not until the Holy Ghost was given and the Gospel message preached by the Apostle Peter on the day of Pentecost.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Gal 4:4-5</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">4. But when the fulness of time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">5. To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. The fact that Jesus ate a literal supper with his disciples was not evidence we should do it in the New Testament<br />b. When he said this do in remembrance of me he was referring to the preaching of the word of God of which breaking of literal bread was a type of.</b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">c. He had evidently explained the bread and the wine to his apostles, when he spake this. They certainly understood what he meant because they did not serve bread and win on the day of Pentecost</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 11:24</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">c. He was not speaking for them to do the same thing as he, because he was performing the last supper as a type and shadow of what we would be performing in the New Testament by preaching the word with promise of the Spirit.<br />d. Because men can only do exactly what the scripture declares and cannot see that Jesus<br />was giving reference to the bread and wine of which the disciples understood as being a type and shadow, they have set it in their hearts to appeal to the literal and carnal being deceived<br />by the doctrine of the false church<br />e. The preaching of the Word of God and the in-filling of the Holy Ghost is the only true communion. There is no communion with literal symbols. Just like there is no longer a literal temple, the church is a holy temple in the Lord.<br />f. Jesus body was not yet broken and the Gospel message was not yet seen through the death,<br />burial and resurrection, but what we read and what he taught his disciples can clearly be seen when you read the epistles. The epistles clearly reflect that the apostles heard and knew much more than we have recorded in the Gospels.<br />g. This is why there was no bread and wine on the day of Pentecost and there is no reference as to when to perform any literal observance of bread and wine. The word of God was preached on the day of Pentecost and when heard and obeyed, the Holy Ghost was given. This is communion, there is no communion or necessity of taking anything literal like bread and wine. The church began with the Gospel message and the baptism of the Holy Ghost as central figures for salvation. Not literal bread and wine. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><br /></span></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">IT IS SPIRITUAL BECAUSE</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms"; font-size: large;">:</span></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a. Jesus would have left us better instructions to facilitate unity and oneness.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">b. What should we serve it in?</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">c. What kind of wine? Grape juice? There was none needed at Pentecost.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">d. How often should we have it? Once a year or once a week.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">e. Should we serve alcohol to the alcoholic?</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">f. Wouldn't it be right to have communion with Jesus every service?</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">g. If literal communion is right then we are damned by not eating and drinking it every service.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">h. We are damned if we do not eat the word and drink the Spirit.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">i. Different churches have kept all the old testament symbolism because they</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">cannot see this truth, are we to follow them and condemn all who do not take the literal</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">bread and wine? They kept the literal priesthood instead of recognizing the five fold ministry</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">given us by Jesus, Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and teachers for the edifying of the</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">body of Christ. It was never meant that we should have a literal pope or potentate when Jesus</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">is our the high priest of our profession.</span><br /><span style="font-size: large;"> <br />Why should we think that Jesus was talking about something else besides literal wine and bread?</span></b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Matt 16:6-7</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a. The disciples were literal while Jesus was not talking about a literal leaven.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">b. This is where men go astray: refusing to understand what the literal in the old testament actually represents and symbolizes, which must be fulfilled in the new testament.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">c. If you take the Word of God literal in the law, you will become a man of the letter and not of </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">the Spirit. Those who use the law literally are called by Paul natural brute beasts.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">d. Jesus was speaking here about the doctrine of the Pharisee’s and not a literal leaven.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">e. The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">f. If the literal rock cannot be understood to have a greater meaning, it becomes of no use. That </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">spiritual rock that followed them was Christ. Jesus fulfilled the literal rock in the wilderness </span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">this is what made the rock spiritual, the literal had a greater meaning.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 2:14-15</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.</span><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br />a. This word is sent in judgment to those who refuse to see and understand the truth concerning</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">communion: there is only one literal thing we do in the new testament and that is baptism.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">b. The apostles baptized in Jesus name but never ever served communion with bread and wine.</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">c. So to the intellectual and gifted, meaning the wise and prudent, hide yourself by seeing the</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">truth here: because he reveals it to babes and sucklings. The spirit of babes and sucklings</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">d. The reason the spiritual can judge all things is because they understand the meaning of the</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">literal types and shadows of the old. They see. They see what the law meant to be and do not</span><br /><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">use it unlawfully.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">What was Jesus speaking of?</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Matt 16:8-12</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"> Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><u>O ye of little faith</u><span style="font-size: large;">, </span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">9 Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">10 Neither the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">12 Then understood they how that </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;">he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red;"></span>a. First, it is evident you can't have faith unless you understand his words beyond the literal and natural sense.<br />b. Jesus expected his disciples to see beyond the miracles to the reason for them.<br />c. Jesus expected his disciples to correlate the multiplication of the bread with the Word of God.<br />d. They reasoned: it is because we have taken no bread literally, when Jesus was relaying to them a spiritual principal.<br />e. The leaven of the Pharisees was the false doctrine of the Pharisees.<br />f. As Jesus made his disciples to understand the false doctrine of the religious element of that day and hour so today, here and now is the same. Add old testament types into the fulfilled teachings of the apostles and you have not cast out the bondwoman and her son.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">It is vain worship to worship the letter and not understand the spiritual sense of Jesus statements.</b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Matt 15:4-9</span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. Literal bread does nothing for the heart, but the word effects the heart, literal bread the stomach.<br />b. Literal bread satisfies the natural appetite but does nothing of the inner man and the soul.<br />c. The word of God satisfies the appetite of the soul and spirit.<br />d. From the old testament literal unto the new testament spiritual is the key.<br />e. Preach the word not feed the literal bread! The false church commandment is you must eat<br />the literal bread, this is a commandment of men. </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.</b></span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. The commands in the New Testament in 1 Cor 11:24 spoken by Paul the Apostle were words re-iterating Jesus and what he had said to the disciples at the last supper.<br />b. He was in no way saying to take bread and wine literally as some churches have interpreted.<br />c. If we command the saints to take the literal bread and wine we are again making commandments that Jesus Christ never intended making his word of none effect.<br />d. Jesus statement to the disciples was for them to understand that their preaching the Word of God was to always be done, with him in remembrance.<br />e. The bible clearly states "How can we be saved without a PREACHER and how can he preach unless he be sent? Faith cometh by hearing not by eating!<br />f. Never does it say how can we be saved without the wine and bread.<br />g. If we enter the house of God with malice or contempt for the preacher or brother expecting to hear the Word of God in this condition, it is eating the bread unworthily.<br />h. To say communion is taking the literal bread and wine is to worship the Lord in vain.<br />i. To hear the Word of God and do it is to worship the Lord.<br />j. Why call ye me Lord Lord and do not those things which is say? </b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">Where does eternal life come from?</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">John 6:53-54</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">54 </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">; and I will raise him up at the last day.</span><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">a. If the literal cup of wine and the literal piece of bread where actually communion then it would be true what the some churches teach.<br />b. Eternal life would come through a piece of bread and a cup of wine.<br />c. All other factors would be irrelevant.<br />d. Our lives would center around the Eucharist instead of hearing the preached word of God.<br />e. We do not receive the Spirit of God by eating literal bread.<br />f. If the Spirit of him that raised up Christ dwell in you, he shall also quicken or make alive your<br />mortal bodies. So eating a literal bread does not promise the same Spirit that raised up Christ.<br />But a fake and phony substitute.<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: large;">The disciples knew Jesus words were eternal life and not a literal bread.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">John 6:63-68<br />63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: <span style="color: blue;">the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.</span><br /><span style="color: blue;"></span>64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.<br />65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.<br />66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.<br />67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?<br />68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.<br />a. Jesus here speaking of flesh which profits nothing: that flesh is the law without fulfilment.<br />b. The words Jesus spake to them, he claimed to possess: spirit and life, never a literal bread.<br />c. The people who killed him once walked with him and did not believe him.<br />d. The Jew who desired to keep the law of Moses became Jesus enemy.<br />e. Judas Iscariot could sell him to those in the law because he himself never believed the words Jesus spake as fulfilling the literal symbols of the old testament.<br />f. The disciples knew Jesus had the words of eternal life and that the law did not. They received the understanding as a result of their desire to be disciplined of the word.<br /> <br /><span style="font-size: large;">The accuser of the brethren are those who remain natural and accuse those who give the fulfillment of the types and shadows.</span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Acts 24:5-8</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">8 Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">a. The way the accuser of the brethren was cast down: Jesus taught and those who refused his </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">teaching, accused him of things he did commit because they were natural and he spiritual.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jesus rose from the dead, proving his doctrine superseding the law was correct, accurate, </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">truth and his apostles were authenticated also.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">b. The apostles fought against those who accepted Christ but not his apostles and their doctrine, </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">determined to keep the law and reject the necessity of any spiritual understanding.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">c. They accused him of speaking evil against the temple, because he had given the spiritual </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">meaning of the temple as being the temple of our bodies. The holy temple the church.</span></span><br /><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">d. The body of Christ, the church that was born on the day of Pentecost was the spiritual f</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">ulfillment of the literal temple.</span></span></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Submitted By: Pastor Davidson</b></span></span>apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-68314850779933629552019-02-08T17:05:00.003-08:002019-02-08T17:05:21.014-08:00AN OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE (Part 4)<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">DOES GOD DO EVIL? DOES GOD SEND EVIL SPIRITS?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">There is an evil spirit that comes from the Lord. There is an evil spirit that comes from man. God’s evil spirit comes as a result of men desiring evil, like in Saul. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Isa 45:7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Judg 9:23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">23 Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 Sam 16:14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 78:48-49</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">48 He gave up their cattle also to the hail, and their flocks to hot thunderbolts. 49 He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Isa 19:14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">14 The LORD hath mingled a perverse spirit in the midst thereof: and they have caused Egypt to err in every work thereof, as a drunken man staggereth in his vomit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">II Th 2:11-12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">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.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Amos 9:3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 17:13-15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">13 Arise, O Lord, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword: 14 From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes. 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HOW DID THE LUNATIC GO MAD?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> God sent madness to Israel through their rulers. Since the Priesthood turned from Gods truth, they left no room for God to heal and bring sound judgment. The people in turn were smitten with the curse of God on them. Legion was mad because of a land God forsaken and cursed by unclean spirits that had caused him to be mad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Words describing Mad are: Crazy, demented, deranged, insane, lunatic, angry, enraged, furious, infuriated, and irate. These are the description of a God forsaken society. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Legion was full of unclean spirits produced by unbridled thought. A fallacious government and priesthood who would not keep the commandments of God, who had corrupted itself through tradition and iniquity in heart was responsible for the condition of the land. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2 Chr 7:13-15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> This scripture is plain. God will send the devourer and pestilence among the people for their turning away from hearing his voice and obeying his commandments. The reason for this is the same reason God destroyed the earth with the flood. All spirits start with a wrong attitude toward God. Evil thoughts could not predominate in a man’s mind and remain there continually if God were in his thoughts. The way to keep unclean spirits out of the mind is to eat the thoughts of God and not contrary and evil thoughts that are produced from the heart. Mark 7:21 The Pastor of the church is a watchman to see that evil thought does not take over the minds of those in the church. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 10:4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 6:5-6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Deut 28:28</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">28 The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Isa 44:24-25</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">24 Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">25 That frustrateth the tokens of the liars, and maketh diviners mad; that turneth wise men backward, and maketh their knowledge foolish;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Jer 51:7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">7 Babylon hath been a golden cup in the LORD's hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Through the false church he will cause the nations to go insane. When men cannot hear truth, when they have forsaken the truth, no longer can they have a sound mind. False religion that cannot put a man on the truth will cause him to have obscured judgment. The curse of God is on them who turn from the truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Hosea 9:7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">WHO IS THE SERPENT? THE OLD SERPENT?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 3:1</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 15:19</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Mark 7:21-23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The serpent is the evil thought from the heart. When a man listens to his thought above Gods thoughts he becomes evil in that he does that which is contrary to the will of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">James 3:7-8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Here is the connecting verse that illustrates the difference between the serpent and the beasts of the field. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field. Why? The very verse itself implies that the serpent was not one of the beasts of the field. This verse in James compares the beast of the field with the tongue. The tongue is human but it is as a serpent full of deadly poison. The thoughts of Eve were more subtle than any beast of the field. The serpent spoken of by Moses was the deadly and subtle thought that came from Eve's mind. She first ate of her false thoughts that opposed and contradicted Gods word. Then she gave her thoughts she had taken to Adam by speaking to him with her voice. Adam accepted the idea of Eve and knowingly disobeyed God to have sexual relations with Eve. Was this sin? Yes! God had joined them together in espousal not to be consummated until the time set by God. Espousal was a standard in Israel passed down from the beginning. Mary was espoused to Joseph. We are espoused to one husband even unto Christ. What made it sin was that they fell to lust and Cain was conceived out of lust and not the love relationship God had approved of.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The serpent was produced out of Eve's heart by her observing and questioning the truth she had been given. The serpent was produced by the lust of the eyes, flesh and pride of life. The sexual relationship looked good. One that would enhance knowledge and make one wiser. The pride of life was that surely they would not die for such an action. After disobeying they sewed fig leaves together to cover their private parts because they became ashamed of their sin. They did not eat an apple and cover their midsection. Cain was a product of this sin. The serpent is the spirit produced by questions and thoughts that challenge God and his truth through observations and natural assumption. The serpent was not literal. The serpent was not some half made animal walking on two or four legs. The serpent was the spirit produced by carnal thought. This spirit in man was cursed by God to go upon the belly that produced it. The belly is the heart. For out of your belly shall flow rivers of living waters, this spake he of the spirit which was not yet given. God here was speaking of the heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Num 21:8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">8 And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Jesus Christ became sin for us and he showed us the way of salvation was through the cross. The natural cross is not the victory, but the spiritual cross in that we are to crucify the old man as Jesus was crucified. The serpent was not put on a pole as a type of Christ mistakenly. The serpent was a type of our old man which would have to be crucified. Adams nature was what caused sin to enter upon us. Adams nature is in each of us. In order for us to have victory we must see that Adams nature is crucified spiritually. Not on a cross literally, but spiritually. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">John 3:14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2 Cor 5:21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The serpent spirit is the old man which must be destroyed for us to have victory in Jesus Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 6:6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">ARE WE SURE THE SERPENT IS THE EVIL SPIRIT IN MAN?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Here are the scriptures that support the carnal mind being the serpent and old man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 58:3-5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. 4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> David knew the truth and proclaimed the spiritual things with the things literally made.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 140:1-4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man; 2 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. 4 Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Eccl 10:11</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The babbler is as a serpent. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2 Cor 11:3</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">By listening to false doctrines and evil men. Men who were trying to take them back under the law. We are under the law of the Spirit of God. The law of the spirit will not permit us to serve God and knowingly allow fornication to continue in our midst. Men who cannot understand the types and allegories of the scripture. The anointing is taken away when we lose sight of our spiritual goals. Spiritual works and not the literal works of the law are what we must maintain in Christ. Prayer, repentance, confession, sincerity etc.....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rev 12:9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> The serpent is full grown here. The serpent that started in Eve has now become full grown through the apostates that left the Apostolic doctrine and fought against the apostles and preachers of the N.T. church. These false teachers and Apostles gave themselves to the carnal nature and not to truth in the same way the serpent appeared to in Eve. The serpent is that spirit which questions and contradicts truth. The serpent appeared in the time of the Lord just before the N.T. church appeared at Pentecost. These are the spirits that were against the spiritual church born at Pentecost.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 23:33-34</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? 34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Here Jesus prophesied of the old serpent called the devil drawing away the third part of the stars of heaven spoken of John in the 12th chapter of the book of revelation. These serpent spirits would challenge, question and attempt to draw men back unto the law changing the truth of God into a lie, to worship and serve the creature more than the creator. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rev 12:9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Paul and the Apostles cast out the false prophets from the church only for them to continue with another Gospel. The devil changes truth. The carnal mind is the god of this world and the false prophets that changed the truth were the serpents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">In simple summary: The devil is the spirit in men who have changed the truth and chosen another gospel. The devil is not an entity or person or angel cast out of Gods abode. He is the spirit in the false church and prophets who oppose the truth of the living God. These false Apostles have drawn men away from N.T. truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE PROMISE TO THE CHURCH WHO REMAINS AND BELIEVES TRUTH</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Mark 16:17-18</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Luke 10:19-20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">LIONS:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 57:4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 Pet 5:8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Peter spoke of the lion, having received his understanding from the prophets of old. He read the writings of David and had the revelation of who the devil was. The devil were those of the concision who roared against those who had revelation beyond the literal. The concision could not accept the fact that God had done away with their natural observances and rituals for the spiritual revelation. Circumcision was of the heart and not literal. The feasts were spiritual feasts now that Jesus Christ had come and fulfilled the meaning of the types. The Lamb, the light, the bread, the wine, the incense, the tabernacle articles and all. Peter was speaking about the Jews who were against the revealed truth in Jesus Christ endeavoring to bring back the converts back into the bondage of the law. Here are the revelations of David recorded in Psalms.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 10:4-9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4 The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them. 6 He hath said in his heart, I shall not be moved: for I shall never be in adversity. 7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">8 He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor. 9 He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 17:9-12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">9 From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about. 10 They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly. 11 They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth; 12 Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 22:12-16</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion. 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels. 15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death. 16 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Here is the picture of the crucifixion. When the roman soldiers and the chief priests of Israel gaped upon him with their mouths. Here is the roaring lion of 1Peter 5:8. Men who were against the truth of God using the Old Testament law to devour New Testament revelation. The literalist Jew saying Jesus profaned the temple when he spoke of destroying the temple. Of being a man and making himself God. These same men crucified him and persecuted the church. These same men were the roaring lions </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Peter wrote about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Prov 28:15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">15 As a roaring lion, and a ranging bear; so is a wicked ruler over the poor people.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Here is the scripture that furnishes part of Peter’s terminology. The writer of Proverbs says a wicked ruler is as a roaring lion over the people. Those who do not know the truth of God will be devoured by the ruling religious element in that area. The word of God must be known or else the people will be destroyed for lack of knowledge. For a lack of knowledge my people parish. The wicked use the word of God and their governmental influence to change the people to what they want them to believe. The same way Nebuchadnezzar set up a god and commanded all to worship it. He was as a roaring lion to the three Hebrew. Saul of Tarsus was as a roaring lion to Gods New Testament church before his conversion.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> 1 Peter 5:8 was not talking about a spirit individual in the air. He was talking about Satan as the spirits in wicked rulers such as the Jewish Pharisees and Sadducees that opposed the truth of God. These rulers walked about seeking whom they could devour with their doctrine. Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees was the warning of the Lord Jesus.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">RIGHTLY DIVIDING THE WORD OF TRUTH</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2 Tim 2:15</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Luke 13:20-21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">20 And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God? 21 It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE FIRST MEASURE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 5:14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE SECOND MEASURE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 11:13</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> John introduced Christ Jesus......this was the last phase of law before the church.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE THIRD MEASURE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Eph 1:14</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Phil 1:6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">James 5:8-9</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh. 9 Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">There is clearly three changes of administration: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>From Adam until Moses </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Form Moses law until John introduced Christ which was the end of the law.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 10:4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Also the fulfilling of the law: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 5:17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. From the first coming of Jesus Christ to the second coming of Jesus Christ at the end of the age.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The old man was not mentioned in either of the first two measures or parts here mentioned. The old man was not mentioned until the third or final part which was from John until the coming of the Lord Jesus. Simply because the Lord was not ready to reveal in the Old Testament or first two parts. In the Old Testament he gave the types and shadows of the thing he wanted to destroy. Moses having received understanding of the creatures being types of the spirit in man revealed the enemy in the Garden of Eden was the serpent. When men do not understand this simple principal in the scripture they leave the truth for their own understanding. God made with the ability to reason and make a choice of right or wrong. He made the animals without this ability, they must simple serve their nature. If man therefore chooses to serve himself he becomes as one of the creatures of God. If man chooses his own thoughts and refuses Gods thoughts, this is serving the creature and not the creator. The law revealed the sin of the creature and the things God would not tolerate. An animal cannot do the commandments of God because it cannot reason but man who can reason can chose to refuse God and serve his own nature. So Moses in the first part revealed the reason for Adams downfall was the serpent of the thoughts and the speaking of those thoughts to Adam by Eve. The types begin in Cain and Abel. Cain the first born or the type of the creature nature. Abel the type of the second born or the Christ nature. These types continue in Ishmael and Isaac. Ishmael the type of those under law born of flesh. Abraham having relations with the bond woman Hagar which is a type of the law. Isaac the child of promise was the second born which in type is the New Testament saint who has received the promise of the Holy Ghost. Esau and Jacob: Esau the firstborn a type of the flesh nature. Jacob the second born a type of the New Testament saint who with two natures prevails to dominate the base nature and win Christ. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Israel was a type of the New Testament church. In order for the church to become fully mature and do the work of God it must leave its old men and women in the wilderness, saving those who had faith in God. Joshua and Caleb were the only ones allowed into the land of promise along with all those who were under the age of 18. This is the type of having to put off the old man and crucify the old nature in order to prevail in the church and on to eternal life, our promised land.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> David was the King Priest who had the revelation of the law, what it meant and was a type of. He understood what the creatures were a type of, what the tabernacle meant and he used this understanding to worship God. His revelations kept him the king. His revelations caused him to prevail over his enemies because he knew what God required through understanding the types. He knew the creatures were types and used them frequently in his writings as allegory of the wicked. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 34:10 Ps 35:17 Ps 57:4 Ps 58:6 Ps 104:21 Ps 58:4 Ps 140:3 Ps 7:2, 10:9, 17:12, 22:13, 91:13</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Satan in the Old Testament was understood to be the evil spirit of man, produced from the heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Why didn’t God make provisions for fallen angels?</span><br />
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Submitted by: Pastor W.J. Davidson</div>
apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-30313269525916756582019-02-08T17:04:00.002-08:002019-02-08T17:04:37.274-08:00AN OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE (Part 3)THERE IS AN OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE TO PROVE THAT SATAN IS NOT A SPIRITUAL BEING OR INDIVIDUAL DEVIL.<br />
Where madness comes from Etc..........<br />
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THE BODY OF MOSES<br />
Acts 7:37-38<br />
37 This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. 38 This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:<br />
Jude 1:9<br />
9 Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.<br />
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Church: A body of people who are called out by God for a particular purpose. The church here stated was not the body of Christ. Christ means Messiah or Anointed.The church in the N.T. was anointed on the day of Pentecost. This was the church of Christ because the Holy Ghost that was in Jesus Christ came to his body the church. The church in the O.T. had Moses as the teacher and lawgiver. He went to Sinai and received the law. This church in the wilderness was the body of Moses. This church contained the teachings of God through Moses.<br />
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UNCLEAN SPIRITS<br />
Rom 1:20<br />
20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:<br />
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The secret to understanding spiritual things is revealed here in this verse. All things that are made are allegory or types of things not seen. The things not seen are spiritual, like spirits, God, etc.... Jesus used the literal serpents and vipers to relay understanding about the spirits of the Pharisees. Jesus used leaven as the type of false teaching of the Pharisees. He used meat as a type for doing the will of God, saying my meat is to do the will of him that sent me. He used a literal temple in reference to his body, destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up, making reference to his body and not the literal temple. All things spiritual, like what type of person we are, can be clearly seen by the things that are made. On this premise I begin concerning unclean spirits.<br />
A soul that is not cleansed by the washing of the water by the word of God is still in its uncleanness. The heart is not guarded, the individual not having the truth of God’s word to detect any evil thought the heart might produce. Thus the heart will produce uncleanness.<br />
Rom 1:24<br />
24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:<br />
Our hearts not guarded by the word of God will produce uncleanness.<br />
Prov 4:23<br />
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.<br />
Gal 5:19<br />
19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,<br />
The very works of the flesh produce uncleanness. The flesh here is referred to as the heart which only is affected by the five senses which is our carnal nature. Judgment from a heart which is only influenced by what it sees, hears, smells, touches, tastes. Being destitute of the knowledge of truth through the word of God.<br />
Eph 4:18-19<br />
18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.<br />
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Uncleanness is produced when understanding is darkened. When men revert back to their own understanding without the light of the word of God, they begin to feed once again upon their own thoughts and ideas. This is ignorance that causes the mind of man to become blind to the reality of God. Their heart will once again take rule and eventually produce actions of uncleanness.<br />
THE OLD TESTAMENT IS FULL OF HOW MEN TAKE UNCLEAN SPIRITS<br />
Lev 11:7-8<br />
7 And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you. 8 Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.<br />
Matt 7:6<br />
6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.<br />
Jesus called men swine and dogs. Certain foods could not be eaten else they who ate were considered unclean. They were not allowed to come into the camp of Israel for this trespass in touching or eating the unclean thing. Here is the type we want to explain as an unclean spirit. If a man eat of the wrong thoughts, of surmising thoughts, slanderous thoughts, covetous thoughts or thoughts of strife, he can become unclean. Thoughts of rebellion, hatred and resentment also, he can become a man with an unclean spirit. The unclean spirit is produced by eating words that are unclean. The Pharisees words were unclean and they were as swine. The Lord warned not to cast your pearls before the swine. They would just gobble it up and turn it into uncleanness.<br />
Num 19:13<br />
13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.<br />
People that are dead spiritually cannot be touched. This touch here is referring to having conversation spiritually. Listening to their heart through words in conversation. Here are the things that cause men to become unclean and possess unclean spirits.<br />
GOD IS THE GOD OF THE SPIRITS OF ALL FLESH<br />
In this we will endeavor to show that spirits are in the flesh and produced out of the<br />
heart of man.<br />
Acts 8:7<br />
7 For unclean spirits, crying with loud voice, came out of many that were possessed with them: and many taken with palsies, and that were lame, were healed.<br />
Unclean spirits in people can be multiple in type and vary. An unclean spirit in a person will cry out of that person. If a person thinks they have lost their dope they will cry out in anguish. If a person struggles with conviction after a Holy Ghost church service, many times they will cry out because they are being loosed from their habit or sin and the pain and effort it takes to make the transition is expressed through crying aloud. An unclean spirit must be in a human being to cry out with loud voice. Unclean spirits are in people.<br />
Acts 19:15-16<br />
15 And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?<br />
16 And the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, and overcame them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.<br />
Why didn't the evil spirit leap on the sons of Sceva? Because evil spirits are not in a bodily form nor are they spirits separate and apart from the flesh. Unclean and evil spirits are in fact spirits taken by a person with evil thoughts.<br />
Mark 7:21<br />
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,<br />
Evil thoughts originate from within out of the heart. Evil thoughts produce evil spirits.<br />
A man who has an evil spirit can project evil to another man through his thoughts being relayed by his actions and words. If one man tells another how he feels about a brother and what he has observed, this will relay whatever spirit he has to that man.<br />
Mark 8:31-33<br />
31 And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.<br />
32 And he spake that saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.<br />
33 But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men. This evil spirit was in Peter. Peter had just rebuked Jesus teaching revealing he had thoughts that were contrary to the Lords teaching. This is an evil spirit or devil called Satan.<br />
ORIGINAL SIN<br />
There is no supporting scripture or evidence anywhere that Lucifer is anything but a spirit in a man. Lucifer was the name given by God to the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon in Isaiah 14. But nowhere does the scripture suggest that what was written in Isaiah 14 is a picture of original sin. This scripture may reveal the pride of life in the actions of the king of Babylon but it in no way intimate’s original sin. To couple this scripture with revelation 12 and say original sin occurred between verse 1 and 2 of Genesis is merely guess work with not supporting scripture. Genesis 1 and 2 work together showing the steps in creation. The same way we make something out of a substance God made the worlds. First without form and void and then he began to create it. Not there was a devil that was in the earth and cause the earth to be without form and void. God had not yet said let there be light or there would still have been light. The earth being without form and void merely shows a stage in Gods creative process. Moses wrote the book of beginnings, don't you think he would write of the original beginning of sin as well as the beginnings of the heavens and earth?<br />
Certainly!<br />
Gen 3:6-7<br />
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat. 7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.<br />
Gen 3:17<br />
17 And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat [of] it all the days of thy life;<br />
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Eve ate the thoughts that sexual relations was good. She ate the thoughts of her own heart which was the serpent. Watch what the serpent said to eve. “Surely you won't die." A contradictory statement to what God had told them. This is exactly the same spirit that Jesus Christ addressed in Simon Peter in the N.T. God says: if you eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you shall surely die. The serpent says ye shall not surely die.<br />
Matt 16:21-23<br />
21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.<br />
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Notice how Peter contradicted Jesus prophecy and Jesus called that spirit of contradicting the word of God, the devil. Eve gave her thoughts to her husband Adam and he ate of her thoughts and took part of the evil with her. It takes two to perform the sin Adam and Eve performed in the Garden of Eden. The serpent was in Eden at the time of the original sin. Any time there is sin the serpent will be there because the serpent is the spirit that is produce when men eat of their own mind and understanding rather than truth. Our thoughts are a tree of knowledge of both good and evil. This mind cannot be eaten of and us survive the penalty of sin. The original sin was in the Garden of Eden not in heaven.<br />
Rom 5:12<br />
12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:<br />
If Lucifer was cast into the world to become Satan why doesn't the scripture declare it? If Satan is a person that God created and loved, why didn't God make provision for him with a blood sacrifice?<br />
Rom 5:14<br />
14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.<br />
Why doesn't the scripture say death reigned from Lucifer or Satan until Moses? Because death was pronounce against the original sin which was committed by Adam and Eve.<br />
Rom 5:15<br />
15 But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.<br />
It is clearly stated that it was by the offense of one not the offense of two. If Lucifer was the angel in heaven before Gods creation and he committed sin don't you think God would have made sure it was recorded in the book of beginnings instead of hiding it in the book of Isaiah in a prophecy against the king of Babylon? A record clear to us instead of leaving us in the dark on such an important happening? Surely so! If Adam was not solely responsible for the original sin why did Paul give him all the credit? Paul was an Apostle! Don't you believe he understood who committed the original sin? Of course he did! Adam was the one who committed the original sin. Sin started in the Garden of Eden not in heaven.<br />
Rom 5:17<br />
17 For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.<br />
Scripture only talks about the offense of man and not the offense of the fallen angels. If the angels brought sin into the world shouldn't God have made provision also for the angels? If not, why not? If one of those angels was Satan, should not God have told us he was the serpent in the Garden of Eden? Yes by all means yes! God used Moses to write the book of beginnings and Moses used terminology that he was used to, which was explaining the unseen by things which are made. In this case it was the serpent. The truth is people who believe that Satan was Lucifer before the creation of the world have not scripture to stand on.<br />
GODS PROPHETS WERE SPIRITUAL WRITERS<br />
Judg 9:7<br />
7 And when they told it to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said<br />
Judg 9:8<br />
8 The trees went forth on a time to anoint a king over them; and they said unto the olive tree, Reign thou over us.<br />
Why didn't Jotham use the names of those who the trees wanted to promote over them? Because he wanted to use something that would express the point concerning the worth and stature of the kings. Finally portraying Abimelech as the Bramble.<br />
THE HEAVENS:<br />
1 Cor 15:48-49<br />
48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.<br />
Eph 2:6<br />
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:<br />
To be obedient to scripture is to have a heavenly mind. The first image we bore was that of our earthly nature. The second image we shall bear is that of our heavenly Father Jesus Christ. Allowing the mind that was in Christ to also be in us. Although we are on earth yet there is a place in the spirit that is as high as the literal heavens are above the earth. This is the place Jesus is saying we are raised to.<br />
Heb 3:1<br />
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;<br />
Heb 12:22-23<br />
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,<br />
Isa 55:9<br />
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.<br />
Here is a picture of Gods thoughts opposed to men’s thoughts likened unto the difference between the heavens and the earth. God’s word is as the heavens in comparison to the earth. In other words higher. When a man thoughts change from his own to Gods word he dwells in the heavenly opposed to the earthy. The church is called in Heb 12 the Heavenly Jerusalem is speaking of the place where saints minds have been elevated from the earthy and carnal to understanding of the types and shadows being full of God’s word.<br />
Isa 51:16<br />
16 And I have put my words in thy mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion, Thou art my people.<br />
God was here talking about his word being spoken from the prophets mouth. All those hearing the word would be the heavens which should be planted.<br />
Ps 36:5<br />
5 Thy mercy, O LORD, is in the heavens; and thy faithfulness reacheth unto the clouds.<br />
David knew what Gods mercy was like. It could only reside in the heavens or places where Gods word had brought men to. His mercy was in confession and forsaking sin. His mercy was beyond the vail in the tabernacle. This was understood by David to be the place of the heavens. The place God had allowed men to reach by faith in the word of God. No way was David here talking literally but spiritually. Again the spiritual is when a literal part of creation is used to explain a spiritual meaning. God using heavens as the place of higher thinking and the realm in which his mercy is found.<br />
Ps 89:2<br />
2 For I have said, Mercy shall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness shalt thou establish in the very heavens.<br />
Having faith in truth is heavenly thinking. When a man or woman finds this place, then they shall see Gods faithfulness. When their minds have reached the place of the heavenly God establishes his faithfulness there. He will not establish his faithfulness in the low and earthy thinking mind. The disobedient and self-lauding mind is earthy sensual and devilish.<br />
James 3:14-15<br />
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.<br />
1 Cor 15:47<br />
47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.<br />
This first man is the old man of the saint which must be destroyed. Put off the old man and his deeds and put on the new man. This new man is the Spirit of God and the word of God hidden in my heart. The old man is the old way of thinking, using my own understanding without the truth of God. The old man has envy, strife and a multiplicity of other sins it portrays. This second man is the Lord from heaven. In other words Gods word is in us and our minds become as the Lords mind. David's prophecy in Ps 89.2 was first fulfilled and shown to us through David and his life but has since been fulfilled in the N.T. church. Here are the scriptures:<br />
Eph 1:3<br />
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:<br />
Eph 2:6<br />
6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:<br />
Heb 3:1<br />
1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;<br />
To this heavenly place in Christ Jesus is where we were called. We were brought out of the horrible pit of sinful thinking and degraded actions to a place of righteousness and holiness, which is the highway of the Lord. We are on a highway of holiness. God’s word has called us to this heavenly calling where our minds are elevated to the place of Gods faithfulness.<br />
Heb 6:4-5<br />
4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,<br />
Our thinking has been elevated through faith in the truth of God’s word which had given us a mind to one day sit in the literal kingdom and domain with spiritual bodies. God’s faithfulness can be only found in the heavens. The dead in Christ shall rise first 1Thess 4.16 those which have died in the heavenly mind elevated by Gods truth will be in the category to see Gods faithfulness. He will show his faithfulness to all through those who dwells in the heavens. The church are those who dwell in the heavens.<br />
Rev 12:12<br />
12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.<br />
The heavens here is the church that can rejoice because it has chosen to remain in the truth of the Apostolic doctrine of the Apostles of the Lamb. Because they cannot be removed from his promises nor find themselves under the wrath of Almighty God for disobedience and unbelief. The Devil here are those preachers and people who left the Apostolic truth changing the truth of God into a lie, who worshiped and served the creature more than the creator. These are wolves.<br />
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-85769424886902835262019-02-08T17:03:00.004-08:002019-02-08T17:03:47.623-08:00AN OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE (Part 2)<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE OVERWHELMING EVIDENCE OF SCRIPTURE BEARS THIS OUT.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HERE IS THE ORIGINATION OF EVIL:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Mark 7:21-23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Brethren these are the words of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, if we were to understand anything else, would he not have told us right here?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. We are defiled from within, not from without.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. We can, however, allow that without, what we see, hear, smell, taste and feel to affect our heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. If we allow these things which is our carnality to feed thoughts to our heart then we ourselves will become devils eventually being used of that evil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. The devil can come in at any time we are open for contrary thought and allow evil thought opposed to truth. For this reason, we must be given to learning and memorizing truth that we might hide his word in our hearts and gird up the loins of our mind with the word of God so we might not sin against God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Prov 4:23-27</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. 24 Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. 25 Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. 26 Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. 27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">A.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Here is where the serpent comes from and where we must guard to see that he does not enter our thinking processes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">WHAT DETERMINES A MAN TO BE A DEVIL OR SAINT?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Prov 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. This depends on what we allow to be put into our hearts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. It is not always what a man professes or what he may project in expression that will determine what he is, but as he thinketh in his heart so is he.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. If a man does not have his thinking changed from carnal to the truth of Gods word he will eventually (No matter how much he may not want to) be used for evil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The scripture contends: man is not a neutral entity only to be controlled by outside sources.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. He gains information and makes decisions based upon which thoughts he has chosen. Not that a supernatural being comes about him to put thoughts into his mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. This should help us to determine the importance of not just taking any thought without first carefully considering whether or not it is truth or a false doctrine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. Truth, a thought of my own or a doctrine of some man who has changed the truth of God into a lie only to worship the creature more than the creator.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE TONGUE IS THE FELLOW THAT RELEASES WHAT IS IN THE HEART OR THE UNSEEN PART OF MAN, AND IT REVEALS THE HIDDEN.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HERE THE APOSTLE STATES THAT IT IS FULL OF DEADLY POISON, AS A SNAKE.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rev 9:19 For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Isa 9:15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">FALSE PROPHETS THAT SPEAK LIES HAVE SPIRITS LIKE THAT OF SERPENTS AND DEADLY POISON IS UNDER THEIR LIPS. THEIR TAILS ARE LIKE SCORPIONS TAILS BECAUSE THEY KILL TRUTH WITH THEIR WORDS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 3:13-14 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Psa 58:3-5 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; 5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">DAVID KNEW THE SECRETS OF THE VISIBLE GIVING UNDERSTANDING TO THE INVISIBLE</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The spirits of the wicked will never listen to the truth spoken ever so wisely.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. DAVID SAID THE WICKED ARE ESTRANGED, THEIR POISON IS LIKE THE POISON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">OF A SERPENT.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Psa 140:2-3 Which imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they gathered together for war. 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">WHERE DO SPIRITS ORIGINATE?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Mark 7:21-23 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Pr 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Pr 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> The spirit of a man tells or reflects that which is in the heart. This tells God what kind of a man is in the body. The kind of thoughts he takes unto himself from his heart will determine whether he is good or evil. If he allows eats the evil thought produced by his heart he can become a murderer like Cain. If he refuses God for his own understanding he becomes unacceptable or he may be obedient to truth and have a beautiful holy spirit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Romans 8:1 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. 6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. 10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">NOTICE VERSE 8.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Are we in the flesh? Yes! Then according to this verse we cannot please God. Statement: Some preachers do not understand flesh. They say you cannot cast out flesh. This statement "you cannot cast out flesh" is untrue. When Paul spoke of flesh he was not speaking of the bodily material we are made of. He was speaking of taking the thoughts produced by the carnal mind or the mind that gives in to the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, which are all in the fleshly body. This mind sees only that which is natural and does not make a decision on that which is unseen or God. To be spiritually minded is to eat the word of God and to live after the spirit of God. The spirit of God is always known by truth. To know God who is a spirit is to know the truth which is the mind of the spirit. Hatred manifest from a person is a spirit. Strife manifest from a person is a spirit. Thievery is a spirit. adultery is a spirit. Our spirits are determined by the thoughts we accept or reject. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. Evil thoughts don't come from a devil on the outside putting thoughts into us, but from within out of the heart. Is not wickedness an evil spirit? Is not deceit an evil spirit? Is not murder an evil spirit? Is not lasciviousness: illicit sexual desire an evil spirit?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Mark 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. Everything that defiles a man comes from within from the heart. How do things get into our heart? Lust of the eye and flesh. We see things and we take them into our heart and then our heart responds. When we respond with the lust of the flesh and pride of life we take on ourselves an evil spirit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">EXAMPLE:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> We know there is one God because we have only one head and not two. We know also through the natural things created how to understand things unseen. We are what we eat. If we eat unhealthy food and drink we can't expect to be healthy but sick and weak. The same holds true of the spiritual, if we hear words and see actions that are evil and not good, our lives will be a product of that which we have eaten and digested into our thought processes. If truth and righteousness, we will be holy, if untruth and falseness, we will be evil and earthy. The same way bad food produces health problems</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">so does evil and illicit thought produces unwholesome and perverted lives and lifestyles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HOW THEN ARE EVIL SPIRITS CAST OUT?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">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:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind. God tried to do this with Cain but to no avail.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 4:7 If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it."(NEV)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.(KJV)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. God called sin a “him” in the KJV and explains that he is like a beast of prey crouching and ready to devour Cain. If Cain does not master him which is Satan then Satan will become his master instead of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE ONLY WAY TO OVERCOME THE DEVIL IS THROUGH FAITH! WATCH THIS!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Luke 22:31-32 And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat: 32 But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.(KJV)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. Watch the Lord speak to Simon Peter the same way he spoke to Cain in the beginning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. His answer to Simon was faith in the Word of God will cause you to overcome the Devil which was sin and the desire in Peter to control Peters life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. Notice he said Simon, Simon! Why? Because this was the name of Peter before he found Jesus Christ the word made flesh. Jesus stated the fact that he savored the things that were of men and not those things that were of God. The fact that Peter wanted to have victory other than the approved plan of God at the cross made his spirit Satan. Not that there was an individual inside of him but that he lacked understanding concerning the words spoken by the Master in going to the cross. This being true he became an enemy of the word of God. His spirit was not being motivated and governed by opposing thought. An individual called the devil had nothing to do with this. The devil is born from illicit unidentified thoughts produce from our own understanding. To Peter the cross was not the answer and he would not hear of the plan. This is what happens when faith in Gods word is not present. Gods word must be received in faith for our spirits to be favorably affected. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>This was carnal Simon who made decisions after the flesh. Remember the names changed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Abram to Abraham: from doubter to father of many nations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Jacob to Israel: from liar cheater to an Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Saul to Paul From the name of an Edomite to poor in spirit</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4. Our names must be changed from Adam to Jesus in Baptism.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> a. Notice Baptism is faith that the old man which is the devil must die. This is the confession of faith in the Word of God that we repent of our sin and believe that he will raise us by the Spirit of God to walk in newness of life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> b. Baptism is a type of what it will take a lifetime to do. We will spend an entire lifetime putting off the old man and putting on the new man which is Christ. This can only be accomplished by faith in the Word of God. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> c. When the preachers give us instructions with the Word of God through anointed preaching we must grasp them with faith and become masters of our flesh. (Meaning the thoughts of our mind that produces illicit actions).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Phil 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: (KJV)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">John 8:41-45</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. 42 Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. 44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Father: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The seed you are born of: There are two seeds in this world the seed of our own carnal mind and the seed of the Word of God. Notice the seed they (The Jews) were born of: meaning their lives were the product of the seed of the thoughts of their fleshly mind.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">44. The lusts of your father:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">I J 2:16-17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. If you say you believe the Word of God but your works are of the flesh you are a devil. Maybe not because you want to be but because you have not found out the principal of faith without works is dead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. Here is the serpent: When men who once professed to know truth turn from it to embrace a lie yet still profess to be scripturally correct, this is poison.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. The Pharisees would not accept the truth of Jesus Christ which was the perfection of their law and Jesus called them serpents.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4. They did not have some devil other than the devil of evil thought come and persuade them that Jesus teachings were not true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">5. Jesus produced an overwhelming weight of evidence that proved him to be the Messiah but they disregarded it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6. There is an overwhelming weight of evidence to support these teachings that spirits are in the flesh and the devil is the old man or nature of man. Man’s thoughts without the influence of the Word of God to change those thoughts produce works and actions that are not God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">7. This is why God will never allow a man to enter the kingdom by works of righteousness which men have done because he wants man to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God and not one thought from his own mind. With the intents from God and not from his own heart. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">8. This is why our works after faith has come are the only ones counted and he discerns our thoughts and intents by the preached word of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">James 2:19-22</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble. 20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect? (KJV)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Here is the secret to the scripture: James here refers to the Jew who professed one God but rejected the Lord Jesus Christ and the teachings of the Apostles.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. Here is the Devil in Revelation 12...The Devil and his angels....His: Masculine because the spirit is against Christ teachings opposed to feminine which would receive the teachings of the Apostles doctrine. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. The False church is the Woman who receives the false teachings of those who were against Christ from the beginning.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. The Jewish religionists endeavored to bring the saints and clergy of the Apostles teachings back under the literal or the law and letter. Natural circumcision, literal priests instead of Pastors and the five fold ministry. Abstinence from meats, back to the literal feasts and observance of days and the new moons. THESE WERE THE DEVILS JAMES WAS TALKING ABOUT. He did not make this statement talking about spirits outside of the flesh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Here James is speaking of the Jews of his day. The Jews who rejected Jesus Christ and also the Jews who crept in unawares to spy out the liberty of the Gentiles only to bring them into the bondage of continuing in the law. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gal 2:4-5</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: 5 To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Here was the tail of Revelations 12...False brethren</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gal 3:1-7</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? 2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? 4 Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain. 5 He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith? 6 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness. 7 Know ye therefore that they which are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Have ye begun in the Spirit to understand the types of the law to go back underneath the law.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. The law was of the flesh because you could do the law without having a revelation of what it stood for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. You could do the law and have a rank spirit. In the law, you could be in the flesh while claiming approval to God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. Under the law, you could hate your brother while not hurting him physically you could have your heart full of envy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. Under the law, you could be naturally circumcised and have a heart uncircumcised.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">f. Under the law, you could offer sacrifices and never offer the sacrifice of praise unto God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">g. Under the law, you could eat all right foods and have perfect health but be degeneration heart and spirit destitute of the word of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">h. You could be as Paul as touching the law blameless while killing the saints of the most high God who proclaimed the truth of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">i. The Jew had lost the truth of faith and had turned only to the letter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">j. This did not David. David had the revelation of the types and allegories of the old testament, the understanding of the heart and of the wicked and how it all worked.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">k. David understood that the miracles of God came by loving the law of God and having faith in God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">l. This is why God went back to Abraham before the giving of the LAW at Sinai.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">m. Abraham believed God and was justified before the law, those then that would try to bring saints and ministers back under the law were DEVILS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">n. The law was only given as a schoolmaster to lead us unto the anointing of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">NOTICE YE ARE OF YOUR FATHER THE DEVIL:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">39 They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. They sought to kill the Word of God instead of hear and have faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. These Jews said they had faith but in works they denied him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. They said they served God but when God stood before their face presenting truth they sought to kill him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">These were the works of the Devil. They believe in One God and tremble but they are in works devils. Now can you see that James was not talking about imps believing in one God and trembling. NO! NO! a thousand times NO! James was talking about men who believed in one God but would not follow Jesus Christ into regeneration and salvation in believing the Gospel, they believed in One God but in works were devils.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4. Ye are of your father the devil: Jesus was revealing who gave birth to their attitudes and spirits. The same evil was in Cain to destroy the one who obeyed the truth. While claiming to be Abraham children they were born of evil and lustful thought. They would not receive the truth but wanted to kill the truth because their deeds were evil. The devil here was the evil thoughts produced of the heart of which they were a product. They were born of those thoughts and not the thoughts of God. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">5. God is a person the devil is a person.....The devil is any one person who is born of the carnal thought. The sons of God are those who are born of the thoughts and spirit of God. Those spirits that oppose God are the spirits not born of God, which mean by spirit and truth. So can you see that God is a person against a carnal mind. That all who are of that carnal mind are children of the devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6. The works of the devil are destroyed by the gospel: Death, burial, resurrection. Death to the old man and body of sin. A promise and a new identification with the Lord Jesus Christ in burial. The infilling of the Holy Ghost to walk above the lusts of the flesh and pride of life. This is how Jesus destroyed the works of the devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">I J 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gal 5:19-21</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The works of the devil is to destroy what God says, with a lie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. The works of the devil is to make Gods word look impossible to live.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. The works of the devil is to taint the truth with accusations and imply it is a lie.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THUS THE DEVILS WORKS PRODUCE ALL THE WORKS OF THE FLESH.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE DEVIL OR CARNAL THOUGHT, PRODUCE IN MAN EVIL WORKS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. When Jesus died the death of the cross it was to prove all allegations and implications of the devil lies.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. When he rose from the dead and fulfilled his promises he made the devil a liar and his word true.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 Cor 15:6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">f. Herein lies the gospel message, without this understanding we can see why many today believe only in the message of be saved and not the message of putting on the Lord Jesus Christ and making no provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">g. Our salvation is in hearing sound doctrine and responding to the preached and taught word of God, putting off the old man and putting on the new man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Heb 12:23 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,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. In church is where our spirits are changed from devilish to being like Jesus. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. Spirits are in flesh and what thoughts you and I eat are what kind of spirit we will be.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. James was asking a New Testament church if this was the kind of salvation they also desired. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Prov 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but the LORD weigheth the spirits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Mark 3:11-12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">11 And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.12 And he straightly charged them that they should not make him known.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. Can an unclean spirit fall down? No! Unless the unclean spirit is in a man. So when Mark spoke of unclean spirits he was talking about the man who was controlled by unclean spirits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. Again our spirits are the candle of the Lord. Our spirit will either be clean or unclean, depending on the thoughts we take and digest into our mind to become what motivates us. The preaching of the Word in the church can perfect the spirits of the saints.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. The devil which is the old man or carnal nature of man can produce many different spirits. People can have both good and evil about them. They can choose truth in areas and their own thoughts in other areas. People live on different plateaus with different degrees of need for deliverance. Even in church, we are somewhere between babes and adult Christian.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4. The thoughts that are in us captivate us to the works of the flesh. If we have many thoughts and ideas contrary to the truth we can be full of unclean spirits. Now when we come to the knowledge of the truth and repent,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rm 8:1 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit. So you see condemnation leaves us when we quit leaning to our own thoughts. Now our spirits can talk to Jesus without our ever opening our mouths because he knows our thoughts. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 9:4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts? This is how the legion spoke to Jesus. Jesus saw this desire of these spirits as he did in Cain and in Peter and gave them leave to go into an unclean animal which was in type in the Old Testament as the unclean thoughts produced by our hearts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">This is why the bible says to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 Pet 1:13-14 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Our mind is made up of three different sections: One: the thinker or producer of thought. Two: The chooser or that which picks which thought it will eat. Just like we choose food. Three: the doer or part that actually puts the thought into action.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. We can have thoughts laying around for a long time because we won't shed loose of them. We entertain them and eventually because of situation or circumstance our heart becomes vulnerable and they are slipped into our doer. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">John 13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Pro 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. This is why we must gird up the loins or the reproductive part of our minds so that not just any thought has the ability to enter into our actions. The devil is this evil carnal heart of man that will sell out truth for money or mammon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Jer 17:9-10 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? 10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings. Only the word of God can know the heart. When it is preached the word of God will determine what spirit we are of.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Heb 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The mind is the heart and the mind does many things. It makes thought. It chooses thought. It conceives or takes in thought. Satan which is the carnal evil thought that the heart produces could not have put it into the heart of Judas if Judas’s chooser was not on the take. This is why we must keep or guard our hearts with all diligence. This is why we must wrap our minds up so not to let in every thought that comes out of our heart into our belly for digestion. Jesus said except you eat my flesh and drink my blood you shall have no part of me. What was he talking about? Of course, he was talking about the Word of God which was made flesh in him. He was the bodily representation of God on this earth. In action, in word and deed, God was in Christ. God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. Jesus was the spirit of truth, the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of truth. When we eat the word we eat the promise and receive the Spirit of that truth in the form of the Holy Ghost. When we eat the carnal earthy thoughts we receive of another spirit that is not of God. The gates or the chooser of Judas Iscariot’s heart was open to receive the thoughts produced by the heart. This is how the devil put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Luke 9:53-56</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">53 And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem. 54 And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? 55 But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of.56 For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. When James saw they were not received he went the carnal way to destroy them by fire. THIS SPIRIT WAS A VENGEFUL SPIRIT OF THE FLESH.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. Jesus simply made the statement that they were unaware of what motivated them to this end of killing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Those who say you cannot cast out flesh are simply not of understanding what flesh is in the bible. For instance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 6:13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1, Notice the end of all flesh: my question, was Noah part of all flesh? The answer is no! Noah was out of the fleshly mind and into faith following the Spirit of God. If God were speaking of the natural flesh only, the Word of God would be inaccurate saying all flesh, because Noah was certainly flesh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 6:17-18</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">17 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. Notice God was not talking about mans physical existence only but the spirit he was of. If he followed God or his own thoughts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. Watch this: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">SO WHEN YOU PREACH THE WORD IN SUCH A WAY TO CONVICT A PERSON AND STOP THEM FROM DOING EVIL, YOU HAVE CAST OUT A SPIRIT. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">When the Spirit of the Lord comes in and the praise and worship of God take over a service, that all by itself can convict us; by the goodness and joy that we would repent of any evil in our hearts.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD ALWAYS COMES REPRESENTING TRUTH IF THE TRUTH HAS BEEN PREACHED.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Also When Christ is produced out of our preaching this casts out the spirits of the flesh. God is the God of the spirits of all flesh, why can't God cast out the spirits he wants and leave the spirits he likes, while producing the other spirits that are lacked? He can!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">How did sin get into the world?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Most preachers will say what the Baptists have come up with, but this holds no validity. With all respect to those who hold the theory that the devil is a person all by himself. They say there was sin in heaven! Sorry! I can't buy that. The angels that sinned were not the kind that are before the throne of God worshiping day and night. These angels cannot and will not ever sin because they were never made with a will to sin. This is why the bible says Jesus was made a little lower than the angels. Because he had to come where sin was to redeem man from sin. The truth on "Good and Evil" was evidently lost when the truth on the oneness of God was lost. When truth is lost, men go around with their own ideas until truth is revealed once again. Study, prayer, fasting, sincerity with obedience were the one time ways to finding truth, now many have taken it for granted that what truth they came into was right. My brethren we cannot accept what the protestants and Catholic have given us if it does not contain and bear the overwhelming weight of evidence the scripture carries.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 8:5-6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">5 For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6 Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2 Pet 2:4</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Jude 1:6</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HOW DID SIN THEN ENTER THE WORLD?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Sin came into the world through Adam and Eve. When Adam and Eve were created they were perfect because they were able to be in Eden the paradise of God. Of course God knew they would sin because he gave them a nature to sin. This would then give </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">them the chance to chose to serve God or their own will.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 8:20 For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. This vanity is the sinful nature, the flesh, the devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. God would provide a better choice for them in hope, if they chose it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. Adam was an angel or a messenger from God to his wife and family.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. Angel: simply means messenger</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THESE EXAMPLES HERE ARE MESSENGERS OF GOD OR PREACHERS WHICH ARE GREATER IN POWER AND KNOWLEDGE THAN THE RAILING BRUTE BEASTS OF</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE CONCISION WHO ACCUSE THE MINISTRY AND THE CHURCH DAY AND NIGHT.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN IS THE CARNAL MIND OF MAN. THOSE WHO DO NOT EMBRACE TRUTH ACCUSE THOSE THAT DO. THE SAME AS THE PHARISEES DID JESUS AND HIS DISCIPLES. THESE ARE MINISTERS</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2 Pet 2:11 Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rev 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE ANGELS OF THE CHURCHES ARE THE MINISTERS OF THE CHURCHES THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE TO DELIVER THE WORD OF GOD AND WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THAT CHURCH. THEREFORE THE ANGELS THAT SINNED ARE NOT ANGELS INCAPABLE OF SIN BUT THE MESSENGERS OF GOD WHO WERE IN FLESH.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">CHAINS OF DARKNESS:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Jude 1:13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THESE ARE PEOPLE AND PREACHERS WHO WILL NEVER BE ENLIGHTENED BECAUSE THEY REFUSE TO BE UNDER SUBJECTION AND AUTHORITY OF THE APOSTOLIC MINISTRY.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Eph 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THIS IS THE FIGHT OF THE CHURCH. WE WRESTLE WITH THE FALSE DOCTRINES AND THE RELIGIOUS RULERS OF DOCTRINES THAT CANNOT BRING MEN TO LIGHT.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2 Cor 4:6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THIS DARKNESS IS THE CARNAL MINDS OF MEN WHICH IF NOT BROKEN BY THE LIGHT WILL REMAIN IN EVERLASTING CHAINS OF DARKNESS...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Eph 5:8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">John 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">John 8:12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 4:16 The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">ADAM AND EVE WHERE CAST DOWN INTO CARNALITY WHERE THEY WOULD BE WITHOUT GOD WALKING AND TALKING WITH THEM AND INSTRUCTING THEM IN THE WAY OF TRUTH. GOD MADE AWAY FOR THEM BACK INTO HIS FAVOR THROUGH THE OBEDIENCE OF FAITH. IF THEY WOULD SHOW FAITH IN HIS WORD TO DO THE TRUTH THEY COULD AGAIN FIND FAVOR WITH GOD. TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS DEATH. TO BE CARNALLY MINDED IS SPIRITUAL DARKNESS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Again to be carnally minded is to have a mind that is fed only by what can be felt, seen, touched, smelled and heard.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. To be spiritually minded is to have believed the Word of God, to have received of the promises of the Word of God and to be walking in the light of the Word.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">IS ISAIAH 14 PROOF OF AN ANGEL FALLING FROM HEAVEN? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Isa 14:4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The question was asked: Can't this be an allegory of the devil having fallen from heaven? The answer to this is no! Here is why?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">BABYLON THEN WAS A TYPE OF WHERE ALL FALSE RELIGION WOULD COME FROM. THIS KING WOULD BE THE TYPE OF THE ATTITUDE THAT WOULD CORRUPT THE CHURCH AND FLATTER THE WORLD BEGINNING IN THE DAYS OF THE APOSTLES. INSTEAD OF PLEASING GOD BABYLON WILL CHOOSE TO PLEASE MEN. BEGINNING WITH NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE HEAD OF GOLD SP0KEN OF IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL. THIS KINGDOM WOULD BECOME RELIGIOUS IN THE DAYS AFTER JESUS CHRIST ACCORDING TO THE IMAGE IN DANIEL WHICH HAD FEET OF IRON MIXED WITH MIRY CLAY. THE BABYLONISH KINGDOM TOOK ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">SPIRITUALITY DURING THE KINGDOM OF ROMAN EMPIRE IN IMAGE OF DANIELS VISION. BABYLON OF OLD IS ONLY A PICTURE OF BABYLON FUTURE.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">LUCIFER:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Brightness or Morning Star:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">This is a picture of the spirit of Nebuchadnezzar in the beginning of God using him. God raised up the king of Babylon for his own purposes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Isa 14:11-17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! 13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: 14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High. 15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. 16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms; 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">IN THESE SCRIPTURES THERE IS NO POSSIBILITY OF AN ANGEL FALLING FROM GODS HEAVEN.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. THIS IS A PROVERB AGAINST THE KING OF BABYLON (NEBUCHADNEZZAR)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. HE SET HIS THRONE AS A KING ABOVE THE STARS OF GOD WHICH ARE THE PROPHETS OF GOD.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. HE SAID IN HIS HEART..ALLOWED THE THOUGHT AND ATE IT, THAT HE WAS GREATER THAN GOD. WE KNOW HE WAS BROUGHT DOWN TO BE AS AN ANIMAL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4. BROUGHT DOWN TO HELL (SHEOL OR THE GRAVE) </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> a. NEBUCHADNEZZAR MADE THE EARTH TO TREMBLE AND SHOOK KINGDOMS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> b. CAUSED THE EARTH TO BE A DRIVING PASTURE. DESTROYED CITIES</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">5. IS THIS THE MAN....THIS WAS NOT AN ANGEL BUT A MAN WHO WAS LIFTED UP BY GOD TO BE RULER OF BABYLON HE NEVER GAVE GOD GLORY TO OPEN THE HOUSE OF THOSE WHO WERE TRAPPED BY HIS FALSE WORSHIP OF IDOLS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6. THIS RULER SHOULD HAVE STRENGTHENED THE NATIONS BUT INSTEAD HE WEAKENED THEM THROUGH HIS WORSHIP OF OTHER GODS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">7. THIS MAN WAS BURIED, SLEW PEOPLE AND DESTROYED THE LAND. DON'T EVEN TRY AND FIT THIS INTO THE EARTH BEING WITHOUT FORM AND VOID AND DARKNESS UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP. THIS WAS A PROCESS THAT GOD WENT THROUGH TO CREATE THE WORLD. ADAM WAS THE FIRST MAN AND SIN ENTERED THE WORLD THROUGH HIM AND NOT A PERSON CALLED LUCIFER. LUCIFER WAS THE NAME OF THE PROUD SPIRIT THAT WAS IN NEBUCHADNEZZAR. NEBUCHADNEZZAR FELL FROM HIS HEAVENLY PLACE IN THIS PROVERB, NOT FROM THE LITERAL HEAVEN OF GODS ABODE.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The purpose of a savior:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">A way to get out of sins condemnation had to be shown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rm 8:1 God sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh condemned sin in the flesh. No condemnation now to the man who is walking after the spirit of God and no longer after the thoughts and spirit of the flesh which is the devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HEBREWS 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">JESUS CAME TO DESTROY THE ONE WHO HAS THE POWER OF DEATH.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">PROVERBS 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. If life and death are in the power of the tongue and the tongue is empowered by the heart, Matt 15:8 Matt 12:34 Mark 7:21 Jer 17:9 Ja 3:1-4 and these things cause a man to do evil works of which Jesus said was the devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Heb 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">ROMANS 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. 7 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE BODY OF SIN MIGHT BE DESTROYED. THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF JESUS COMING TO DESTROY THE BODY OF SIN.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">JAMES 3:5-8 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">MATT 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HERE WE GO BACK TO THE HEART. THE HEART POWERS THE MOUTH AND THE MOUTH CONTROLS THE BODY AND LIFE AND DEATH. IF THE HEART IS WICKED THE TONGUE IS FULL OF DEADLY POISON AND IS LIKE A SERPENT OR A SCORPION.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THIS IS WHAT JESUS CAME TO DESTROY. HOW DID HE DO THAT? HE WAS TRUTH</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">AND HE WAS THE WORD OF GOD MADE FLESH. NO SIN LAID TO HIS CHARGE NO</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">GUILE FOUND IN HIS MOUTH. THE WAY TO ETERNAL LIFE WAS MADE PLAIN, A PATTERN THAT MAN COULD FOLLOW. DEATH COULD NOT HOLD HIM. HE OVERCAME THE CARNAL MIND. RM:8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. THIS PAINTS THE PICTURE: IF THE MIND IS A CARNAL MIND THEN THE MOUTH WILL DIRECT THE BODY INTO DEATH. THIS IS WHY WE ARE TO HIDE THE WORD OF GOD DOWN IN OUR HEARTS THAT WE MIGHT SPEAK THE WORD AND GAIN THE VICTORY AND NOT SIN AGAINST GOD.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">IF OUR HEART IS WRONG THEN OUR WORKS WILL BE ACCORDING TO WHAT IS IN OUR HEARTS. WE WILL SPEAK AND DIRECT OUR LIVES ACCORDING TO THE CONDITION OF OUR HEARTS.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">I Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">CAIN WAS THE FIRST PICTURE OF THE DEVIL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">ADAM AND EVE SINNED BUT THEY RETURNED FROM THEIR SIN. CAIN DID NOT AND WOULD NOT RETURN FROM HIS SIN. THIS IS HOW YOU CAN TELL THE CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL AND THE CHILDREN OF GOD. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Cain hated the truth because he thought God should accept him and his sacrifice although it was not what God had asked for. By this action he became the type of the Devil who would be the false teachers in the days of the Apostles, previously spoken of. Cain was marked with a mark on his forehead and the false church also has this mark, but today it is a spiritual mark. The mark of the lifestyle and testimony of their works.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">I Jn 3:9-10</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">I Jn 3:8-9 8 the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, that He might destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one who is born of God practices sin, because His seed abides in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God. (NAS)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THIS IS VERY SIMPLE: CAIN CONTINUED IN HIS SIN WHILE ADAM AND EVE REPENTED TO LIVE FOR GOD. THERE ARE MANY RELIGIONS WHO CLAIM TO BE SAVED WHO STILL PRACTICE SIN. THEY BELIEVE THEY CAN SIN BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SAVED BY A GOSPEL THAT IS REALLY NOT A GOSPEL AT ALL. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">IF THE GOSPEL BELIEVED DOES NOT DESTROY THE OLD MAN WHICH IS THE DEVIL AND PUT ON CHRIST THEN IT CANNOT STOP THE WORKS OF THE DEVIL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Luke 8:30-31</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">30 And Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Legion"; for many demons had entered him. 31 And they were entreating Him not to command them to depart into the abyss. (NAS)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Many spirits come out of a man when confronted with the truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. Cigarette demon cries for its existence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. Lying spirits, Alcohol, Drugs, Party spirits, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. Unclean spirits such as: Fornicating or adulterine, carousing Pornography, Lustful flirting, Fleshly dress, Lazy, Slothful spirits. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. Let us remain in the life while still claiming deliverance.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">f. There is no compromise with these devils, they must be left as Israel left Egypt.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">g. Pharaoh pled with Moses to leave the cattle, something that would connect them back to Egypt. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">h. Just leave one connection so they will have to return for it. These same different spirits in Legion entreated Jesus not to command them to depart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">In church:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Any time a visitor comes to church they are confronted with Jesus and these spirits immediately begin to cry for their existence.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. While Jesus is preparing to command them out, they are making their case for survival.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. Reasons and justifications to continue doing the things of the flesh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. It is easier to get the devils out of legion than to get a spirit out of the man who hasn't got a graveyard for his home.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. These spirits lost hold because it was time and the man saw all of his arguments weak futile cases. Anybody that worships the Lord will be loosed by the Lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. If there is worship for God then there will be an obedience to the command of the Lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">f. This man had come to the end of his journey and while holding to all the fleshly spirits was ready to die if not freed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">g. All the justifications was not enough to resist the command of the Lord Jesus You see when he worshipped it showed his will to serve the Lord. Jesus did not save this man against his will. He did not just walk up and cast out devils. He cast out devils because it was time for them to come out. This man was at the end of sins journey.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">NU 27:16 (And Moses spake unto the LORD, saying,)16. Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Spirits are in the flesh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. They get in the air through our attitudes, actions, and expressions.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. Paul said he didn't beat the air trying to destroy something in it but he hit at what counted. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1 Cor 9:26-27 I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air: 27 But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Devils:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Lev 17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The spirits in the Old Testament were those produced by worship of idols.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. Moses called idols "devils".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ps 115:4-8</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4 Their idols are silver and gold, the work of men's hands. 5 They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not: 6 They have ears, but they hear not: noses have they, but they smell not: 7 They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat. 8 They that make them are like unto them; so is every one that trusteth in them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The idols were devils that had to be made by the hand of men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. The men that made them, made them according to how they wanted the idol to command him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. Worshipping he did not know what. Worship of a false hope. An invention of man’s own heart.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. The men that made them were like them in that they cannot either see or hear and trust in themselves.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. David knew the men that made something out of his own heart to worship was as a devil.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">f. One of the main idols of their day was Baal......</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">THE JEWS REFER TO JESUS AS THE HEAD OF AN IDOL GOD </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">GODS, PAGAN </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">The Canaanite god most often referred to is Baal, which means "lord" or "master." The word could be used as a title for any person who owned something, or any god considered to be a lord or master. But the word Baal soon became identified with various regional gods that were thought to provide fertility for crops and livestock. As a god who symbolized the productive forces of nature, Baal was worshiped with much sensuality <Num. 22:41; Judg. 2:13; 1 Kin. 16:31-32>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Baal appeared in many forms and under many different names. The Bible often makes reference to the Baalim (the plural of Baal; KJV) or to the Baals (NKJV; <Judg. 2:11; 1 Kin. 18:18; Jer. 2:23>).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> The word Baal was often used in forming names, such as Baal of Peor <Deut. 4:3>; (Baal-peor, KJV). Peor was the name of a mountain in Moab. Baal of Peor was an idol of Moab (probably to be identified with Chemosh) which Israel was enticed to worship with immoral practices. In several passages the idol is simply called Peor <Nu. 25:18; Josh. 22:17>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Baal-Berith, which means "lord of the covenant," is a name under which Baal was worshiped in the time of the judges at Shechem, where he had a temple. In <Judges 9:46> he is called simply the god Berith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Baal-Zebub, which means "lord of the fly," was "the god of Ekron" <2 Kin. 1:2-3,6, 16>-- the name under which Baal was worshiped at the Philistine city of Ekron. This god was worshiped as the producer of flies, and consequently as the god that was able to defend against this pest. In the New Testament, reference is made to Beelzebub, a heathen god considered the chief evil spirit by the Jewish people <Matt. 10:25; 12:27; Luke 11:18-19>. The Pharisees called him "the ruler of the demons" <Matt. 12:24; Mark 3:22; Luke 11:15>, and Jesus identified him with Satan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The Jews were actually saying that Jesus possess the spirits that produce idol worship.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. That he was the head of the spirits of Baal Worship.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. Jesus Christ accused of being a devil or a spirit opposed to truth.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. The Jew of that how was blinded by their own hardness of heart and long sense stopped believing that there being in captivity was any fault of their own</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. The truth of worshiping God with their heart had long been lost by the Jew and replaced with the formalism of the law and the traditions of man and not of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">QUESTIONS:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">1. Where are the devils outside of the flesh found in the bible?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">2. Where is the whereabouts of Satan if he is a person?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">3. How does Satan pluck away the seed of the word of God when it is sown in different location on the earth? if he is not omnipresent?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">4. The devil is in the words of this days music, why do we have to play records backward to hear what the devil has to say.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">5. Why do we have people spit into hankies when we cast out evil spirits? Do they reside in saliva?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">6. Why would an evil spirit that has intelligence come into your room to torment you and cause you to get down on your knees to pray?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">7. Why would he appear in the form of a ghost to make you call on God? Is he stupid?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">8. God control the spirits of all flesh. Wouldn't he be the one who tries us just before he blesses us, like he did to Abraham when he went o Moria?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">9. We always say the devil fights the hardest just before the blessings of God comes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> a. Don't you think Abraham had some problems getting the provisions tied on his donkey and starting out for Moria.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> b. Don't you think it was hard keeping his command from his wife and his son.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> c. When we do the will of God why do we always blame a devil in the air for the things that happen? Could they not be God trying us to find out if we will quit or go on?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">10. Why do we think like Israel that the devil is responsible for all the bad that happens to us? Should we not check our and repent if necessary or if trouble is coming should we not handle it and praise God through it for his deliverance if we are clean out of sin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">11. If Jesus came to destroy a devil, I am sure he did according to Heb 2:14. If the devil is not the evil heart producing words and actions he destroyed then what did he destroy?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">12. If evil spirits are not in the flesh, name one place in the bible where they can be seen outside of the flesh. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> a. Remember man is upon earth but he goes before God in heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> b. Remember also spirits in men on earth come before God in heaven.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> c. God sees them but there is no evil in his abode.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Eccl 5:2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">13. Who was the Satan here? Was he still another person? Or Peters spirit? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 16:21-23</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Here was a spirit in Peter that wanted to possess him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. A spirit to stop Jesus from his work. His thoughts had conflicted with what the Lords thoughts were.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. We have them here revealed: Peter savored the things that were of men and not that which was of God. Peter saw a natural kingdom taken through miraculous power. Not a kingdom taken by the cross and the resurrection.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. Satan here can be construed to mean anyone who is religious thinking about the scripture in a contrary way and does not understand.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">JOB</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Job 1:6-7 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. 7 And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The sons of God are men who have flesh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Job 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. The foundations of the earth were laid in Adam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. When these foundations were laid in the sons of Adam they shouted for joy.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. They shouted for joy because they had received the word of God which made them the sons of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Here are the sons of God in the days of Noah when the sons of God looked upon the daughters of men.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. Brethren do you believe that these were angels which came down to lay with mankind. I sincerely hope not.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. They were those of Adams lineage who received the word of God which God laid in Adam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. In order to be a son of God you must have flesh and blood. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. Adam was a son of God, God being his spiritual Father and the earth being his Mother.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">f. Sons of God are those who are made and given birth from flesh and blood as from Adam.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Sons of God were as Peter, able to present themselves before God with Satan or evil ruling them and dominating their spirits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. God spoke the devil in the sons of God the same way he spoke to Peter in Mark 16. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. The friend or miserable comforters of Job were Elaphaz, Bildad and Sophar.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. Here is a story that contains the conditions of mans hearts and Gods efforts to cast out the evil of the heart for mans redemption.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. God allowed Satan that was in the Sons of God to move him against job without a cause.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">e. Not without a cause as far as his friends were concerned but as far as God was concerned.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">f. Since Satan was the spirit that moved God it was Satan that destroyed Jobs children and possessions. God sent an evil spirit on Saul it says one place in the scripture. God will use evil for good and his own purposes to bring about a good end. Since God was moved by evil the spirit that moved against Job was an evil spirit from the Lord. Not a personal devil who God allowed to do it. A man who holds jealousy and refuses to repent of it, God will send an evil spirit like he did to Saul. Saul then attempted to destroy David and the anointing. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">g. The scripture says Satan smote Job with boils but all sickness is the curse of God. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Read Deut 28. The blessings and curses of God. Satan is used in Job to identify the reason and cause behind the happenings. The reason it says Satan smote Job with boils is because this was an evil Spirit sent forth from God as sickness not an individual called Satan.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">h. No devil came before the throne of God reporting what he was doing. No devil angel can walk into heaven at their leisure. Only the sons of God who can appear before God in prayer making accusation.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">i. God pulled down the hedge from around Job to allow these evil spirits in his three so called friends to see that Job was not serving him for riches. But that he was serving him because he loved and trusted him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">j. God came to Elihu in the anointing whirlwind and gave Job the answers to his problem and trials. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">k. Job was not pleased with the three friends and made them go to job.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HOW MEN APPEAR BEFORE GOD?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Of course all men are seen by God, he is aware and observes all his creation but all men do not appear before God to speak to him and receive from him. This can only be accomplished by having obeyed his word and bringing a sacrifice.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Isa 1:11-12</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Cain and Able appeared before God in offering their sacrifices to him.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. Here in Isaiah it shows that Israel appeared before God with their sacrifices.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. This was not accepted because they appeared with evil in their hearts also.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. God would not accept their sacrifices while their hearts where unclean.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">SATAN CAME ALSO AMONG THEM:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Job 1:6 Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 16:21-22</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">21 From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. 22 Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> Of course Peter did this innocently wanting the best for Jesus while not seeing the will of God. Jesus detected Peter contradicting his words and shedding doubt on the validity of his word. Jesus could not let this pass because it was a breach against the Lord implying a possible mistake in God. The perhaps Jesus did not see clearly and have it all together. This Jesus labeled as SATAN or an enemy of God and man. This spirit of Satan was in Peter the disciple of Jesus. This is what Satan is, he is a spirit that comes from a wrong thought process of mans mind, that causes him to think differently than the will of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> A spirit of jealousy and accusation against Jobs righteousness and blessing from God were in the hearts of the Sons of God Eliphaz, Bildad and Sophar. God seeing these spirits in the Sons of God, spoke to them asking them if they had considered his good servant Job? Bringing all the good and upright qualities to light about Job. God did not suggest to the devil that he wanted him to try him! God was endeavoring to remove this animosity from their hearts through common observance of Jobs life. How does God speak to us? Through prayer God talks to us. We are supposed to have his word hid in our hearts that we might not sin against God. In prayer he brings these things out of our heart that should convict us and correct our thinking. God could not reach the sons of God because they were full of accusation and would not turn. This is the reason for the trials God brought on his servant Job. He proved through this trial that Job was truly a servant of God and that Eliphaz, Bildad and Sophar were in error with jealousy, envy and evil accusation against their brother in the Lord. Through this trial God removed Satan out of the hearts of the Sons of God. Jesus rebuked Peter and exposed the spirit that was in him and corrected the attitude before it went any further at that point. This spirit evidently remained in Peter because he cut off the ear of Malchus and would have defended the Lord with his life. Peter went through bitter trial to learn the evil of his own heart and the grip Satan held him with as he denied, cursed and retreated in defeat at the trail and execution of Jesus Christ. Faith was the ingredient that overcame the devil and converted his spirit from taking the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Kingdom by the sword to receiving the kingdom through obedience. The devil is the spirit that comes from men when their hearts thought is against the will of God and the truth of his word to do as a man would do and not as God would have him do. Spirits are real and the devil is real but he is the old man or old nature and not a literal person.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Matt 16:23-24</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">23 But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offense unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. 24 Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Satan is the spirit in us that opposes God and savors the things that is of man.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. This spirit was in Peter here in opposing Jesus going to the cross.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. Peter was under the law so we can see the picture of the old unregenerated man without the Spirit of God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. The devil is the old man with the old way of thinking, not receiving the word of truth to change his thinking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Rom 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> The first time the old man is mentioned is here in Romans 6 where Paul reveals to the church the purpose of Baptism. If we remain in the old mind thinking and making decisions based on our own understanding and thoughts, we will produce a spirit in disagreement with God. Our minds must be Baptized with the word of God, the old thoughts buried and the new thoughts of the Gods word taken. When this happens, the body which was propelled by the thoughts of our sinful nature will be destroyed and our new actions will be of righteousness. Here the devil is found out. When our hearts are circumcised we have destroyed the devil. When we crucify the old man we destroy the body that used to be used to sin. Jesus showed in his death burial and resurrection that the only way to life was thought death. Jesus came to destroy him who has the power of death that is the devil. If we crucify our old heart and the thoughts that are contrary to his word we will have destroyed the devil. If a spirit is on a saint we can through the preaching of the word or through the word of knowledge reveal the contrary thought and cast it out as Jesus did to Peter. The reason there are so many different spirits today in Pentecost is because the word of God is not revealed and the people do not study enough to see themselves and hear God talking to them. Our faith must be in the word of God the same way Peter's was for us to overcome and have victory.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Eph 4:22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">HERE IS THE POINT OF JOB.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Not that God had allowed the devil to talk to him about Job but that he had allowed Job to be stripped for several reasons. God did not instigate the devil to try Job. God endeavored to remove the evil from the Sons of God by asking them to consider and compare their accusations with the life of Job his servant. A good observation would reveal that Job was upright and feared God and that their accusations bore no merit.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> 1. His sons, daughters and wife had not lived for God in spite of Jobs walk with God and his continual prayer for them.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> 2. God took his sons and daughters because they would not live for God and walk after the leadership of their father Job.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> 3. Through this great trial God brought upon Job He removed the lies and evil spirits from Eliphaz, Sophar and Bildad.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> 4. God removed the self righteousness from Job and restored his wife from her doubts and unbelief. He gave Job double what he had lost in material things along with daughters that represented his teachings well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"> 5. Thus showing all that he did was just.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Satan was in the hearts of the sons of God, this is why God asked the question if they had considered his good servant job. Evil accusation was in the hearts of Jobs friends. Evil surmising and accusations in the heart is Satan. Satan is not a person but an enemy and adversary of the soul that comes out of our thoughts. Spirits are in men and come from wrong thinking. Wrong thinking comes from not being obedient to Gods truth. When we refuse to be obedient to God he chastens us that we would not be condemned with the world. The only way for Jobs friends to be saved and Jobs faith and righteousness vindicated was for them to face a trial and be able to see the error of their ways.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Job 42:10-11</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends: also the LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before. 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">a. Here was Gods confidence in the man, he believed he would forgive those who had evil against him, while having still maintained his own integrity with God.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">b. Job becomes the type of the O.T. church. Those who came into the teachings of Christ and the N.T. church are the daughters of Job after the trial.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">c. The only ones that will survive are those who find the covering of God in the Spirit to escape his wrath.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">d. The Lord tried to talk the spirits out of the sons of God, Elaphaz, Sophar and bildad but was unable to through his word alone so to remove the evil in them he brought the trial about.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "geneva" , serif;">Ends part 2 of 4</span><br />
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-12537639858497154332019-02-08T17:03:00.001-08:002019-02-08T17:03:12.184-08:00AN OVERWHELMING WEIGHT OF EVIDENCE (Part 1)THAT THE DEVIL IS THE CARNAL NATURE: THE OLD MAN<br />
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<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>There are so many views on the devil and theories about him and his imps, but is there really any information in the bible that might lead us to a better understanding of him and his whereabouts and identity? It seems that most of the information found on him and his beginning is very limited. Some say that if God wanted us to know about the Devil in more detail he would have given us more information. But I wonder if God hasn't really given us more information in the bible than what we realize. Also being the apparent great enemy that he is, should we not know more about this character and his tactics? When Paul said: "we are not ignorant of Satan’s devices" was he saying that to the church he apostled, or was he saying that to the church throughout the ages? If he was speaking of the church of today I am afraid that there are many churches who do not fall into this categorical statement of the great Apostle.<br />
There are ministers who allow such things as vomiting out the devil and spitting him up in a church service. Who believe that the devil knows about our thoughts and can implant them in us here in the U.S.A. and at the same time over in China in someone else. Wouldn't this make him omnipresent? Some ministers believe that the Devil has a headquarters in each major city but that he resides over each city as the General of his army of imps. Is this kind of doctrine upheld in the scripture? Some people say they have seen the Devil or perhaps one or more of his imps at some time or other. Is this founded in the Word of God? Some preachers of great influence with large congregations believe the devil has power to do bodily injury and to cause things to happen such as sickness and catastrophe. Of course to look at the scripture all these things might appear to be possible. Some preachers I have talked to said: they saw people picked up and flung in a circular manner and slammed down on the ground. Others believe the devil can come through walls and through keyholes, saying for scripture he is the prince and the power of the air. Some say they have seen the devil or effects of his presence like tables moving and such like when the word of God supports nothing of the sort. Some have said they have seen things that the bible doesn't uphold but because they have made certain statements to others about these certain instances or encounters with the devil they feel obligated to support their past stated experiences by saying they have seen these things with their own eyes. Many times we will see what we believe or suppose we have seen it simply because we have faith that it exists.<br />
It is not my intention to make anyone look bad or to belittle any God fearing person’s belief, yet many times just presenting truth can make it appear this intention exists.<br />
I have been in the Apostolic ministry for 20 years and have studied this subject intently and would like to present to you for your consideration another look at the scripture and perhaps a sobering insight into the depths of Satan. I believe that what is about to be presented for your consideration is the truth on the devil. <br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>1. What do the scriptures mean in the book of revelation chapter 12?<br />
Some of you brethren who believe that every scripture is literal will have trouble here.<br />
Verse one: And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:<br />
Was this woman literal? If so was the sun literal? If so was it the literal moon? My brethren because men are so literal is the reason why we have had no understanding concerning this chapter in the book of revelation. His disciples before Pentecost were literalists also. John 4:32 I have meat" to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith to them, My meat (Here is the meat)"is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work." AGAIN Matthew 16:6 Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees’. And they reasoned among themselves, saying, it is because we have taken no bread. (See they did not understand because they took him literal when he was speaking in allegory)Which when Jesus perceived, he said unto them, O ye of little faith, why reason ye among yourselves, because ye have brought no bread? (Jesus considered this little faith, "not knowing what he meant".) Do ye not understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? Both the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up? HOW IS IT THAT YE DO NOT UNDERSTAND THAT I SPAKE IT NOT TO YOU CONCERNING BREAD, THAT YE SHOULD BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF THE PHARISEES AND OF THE SADDUCEES'? THEN UNDERSTOOD THEY HOW THAT HE BADE THEM NOT BEWARE OF THE LEAVEN OF BREAD, BUT OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE PHARISEES AND OF THE SADDUCEES.<br />
Can you see how they could not understand him by believing literally? It was important to understand, and to do so they must understand that bread was doctrine. They also needed to understand that he called the meat he was eating, THE WILL OF GOD AND FINISHING HIS WORK.<br />
Jesus said to the Syrophonecian woman in Matthew 15:26 “But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.” What was the children's bread? Certainly it was the miracle that she was to receive. Certainly the children were Israel, whom he had come to. Who then was the dogs that he would cast the bread to? Certainly it was her being a gentile, which the scripture afore called dogs. Psalms 22:16 David called the wicked dogs. For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. This David spoke concerning the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Was it not Roman soldiers that drove the nails and was it not the circumcision that promoted his crucifixion.<br />
Phil 3:2-3<br />
2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision. 3 For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.<br />
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Paul plainly tells us that the dogs are they of the concision or those who were circumcised literally and uncircumcised of heart. Steven at the time of his being stoned identified the dogs by describing them as uncircumcised in heart and ears.<br />
Acts 7:51 Ye stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.<br />
Further Jesus was convicted by the literalists who turned his words against him to crucify him.<br />
Mark 14:58<br />
58 We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.<br />
John 2:19-22<br />
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days? 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.<br />
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Jesus spoke on a spiritual level and the disciples did not understand until after the resurrection. The literalist accused him of profaning the temple or speaking against the work of God prophesying the destruction of the temple. Jesus was speaking concerning his body not the building. The devil in the Bible is the same as these examples. When Jesus used the word devil he made it sound like another entity to the literalist. But to the learned they understood the devil to be the spirits that come from the heart of man. His control over evil spirits was that he could identify them through the countenance and visible expression and actions of the person. He knew the thoughts of the heart and the spirits that had been produced by those thoughts. All these devil were products of the curse of God. Jesus came to release them from their infirmities and madness. The devil that caused them to be bound was rebellion and false teachings. The poor people were under bondage because of the ministry that was over them.<br />
Matthew 7:6 Jesus said: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. Was he talking of literal dogs here? Absolutely not! He was talking of people who were unconcerned about truth and did not care for it. So now, can you see that the bible cannot be understood by reading it like a newspaper? Of course any good preacher knows that the church is typed out as a woman in the scripture. The sun in the scripture is Jesus Christ. Malachi 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. Peter knew this after study: 2 Peter 1:19 We have also a more sure word of prophecy, whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the DAY DAWN, and the DAY STAR arise in your hearts. Is this not the sun which we are to be clothed with. Revelation 19:8 Fine linen is the righteousness of the saints.<br />
Please I implore you not to cast this work away saying it is farfetched or just shrug off its truth by saying it's spiritual. Those who do not understand the Word of God must not cast it away and say it is not meant to be understood. It is time for men of the faith to understand the scriptures that they have allowed to lie dormant under their literalism view. Jesus came here to get a bride, he began this tall order in his earthly ministry. Paul utters:<br />
2 Corinthians 11:2 I have espoused you to one husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. Of course he was talking to the church at Corinth (The woman being the church collectively) or all the churches combined. The woman was taken out of Adam in the beginning. Adam being a type of the Lord Jesus. As the woman was taken out of Adams side so was the church taken out of Jesus side. Out of his side came blood and water. It was because of his death on the cross that his bride could come forth. The bride did not appear until after Jesus death, burial, and resurrection. The church could not be clothed with the Sun of righteousness until they received the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, which would then allow them to become the sons of God. John 1:12<br />
Romans 13: 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.<br />
Eph 4:24 And that ye put on the new man (Which is the Lord Jesus Christ), which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness,<br />
Col 3:10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him;<br />
Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son,.<br />
The church did not appear until Jesus was glorified,(John 7:39) He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive: for the Holy Ghost was not yet given; because that Jesus was not yet glorified. So now see then how the church was taken out of him through his death, burial, and resurrection? This woman appeared in heaven on the day of Pentecost.<br />
HEAVEN: Matthew 3:2 Concerning John the Baptist "And saying, Repent ye; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias',. The kingdom of heaven was not yet revealed to man for John said it was at hand, or fixing to come on the scene. Jesus foretells of its appearance in Matthew 4:17 saying Repent; for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Jesus who was the King of the kingdom, was going to set up headquarters in them and cloth them with himself. Romans 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Of course this woman did not appear in the literal heaven that God resides in before the creation of the earth.<br />
Many use the 12th chapter of revelations to confirm the theory of God casting Satan out of his good heaven. I contend that there never was a Satan in the literal place of Gods abode, which is the third heaven.<br />
The Apostle Paul spoke of this heaven in 2 Corinthians 12:2. The book of revelation is the book of future revelation not past revelation. Jesus was revealing through John in the book of revelation how his church would be corrupted and what the inhabitants of the earth could expect. The information also giving understanding to the church, that would need this information in the future to make it through the maze of false so called churches that would arise. So on the day of Pentecost the church was raised into the heavenly realm of the kingdom of God called the kingdom of heaven. It was a wonder how the church came into existence. Consider these scriptures. John the baptist speaking to the Pharisees concerning the people he was baptizing " Matthew 3:9 And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father; for I say unto you, that God is able of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham. Romans 4:25 Jesus was raised for our justification Romans 6:4 Like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. AGAIN Romans 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. 1 Corinthians 6:14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power, IS THIS ENOUGH? NO! of course there is a literal resurrection that we are going to be raised in but there is another raising in to the kingdom of heaven that must happen before we can be raised into our incorruptible and immortal bodies to be forever with the Lord at the resurrection.<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>SEE HERE: The church is a spiritual organism, Jesus Christ being the head of it. The church is his body; he is the Spirit of that body. As Jesus Christ is now sitting in power and authority over death and hell he has raised us up also to be in that place with him. Read: Ephesians 2:4 And hath raised us up together,(to where?) and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus;. This is the wonder in heaven that John saw in the book of revelation. A wonder in heaven, not Gods abode but the kingdom of heaven when it appeared on the day of Pentecost. This woman was the church, not Israel. Israel was never clothed with the sun of righteousness until Pentecost. The moon was the law which was a reflection of the sun, the sun being Jesus Christ. This woman stood on the law, no longer under it but raised above it. Galatians 3:23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed, Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith, But after faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster, For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ. (HERE IT IS AGAIN) Clothed with Christ.<br />
NOW WHERE ARE WE? Galatians 4: 26 But Jerusalem which is the New Testament church Hebrews 12:22 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. To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all,. BUT JERUSALEM IS WHAT: WHICH IS ABOVE IS FREE. The church, the woman Galatians 4:22 Sarah being the type of the church and Hagar a type of the law. Sarah a type of Jerusalem and heaven the church. This woman appearing in the book of Revelation is the church clothed with the righteousness of her husband, Jesus Christ, having been raised above the law standing on the law, having it for her foundation. CONTINUING NOW: This woman was the only woman that could ever bring forth a man-child. A man-child is a mature saint who has put on Christ. Israel could not produce a perfect Christian. This woman was in pain to deliver to the World a mature church that could be exemplary of its savior Jesus Christ. However, this pain to deliver was thwarted by the appearance of another wonder appearing in heaven also. Revelation 12:3.<br />
Acts 20:28 Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. FOR I KNOW THIS, THAT AFTER MY DEPARTING SHALL GRIEVOUS WOLVES ENTER IN AMONG YOU, NOT SPARING THE FLOCK. ALSO OF YOUR OWN SELVES SHALL MEN ARISE (See, they will appear in heaven also) speaking perverse things, to DRAW AWAY disciples after them. (Here is the serpents’ tail which drew the third part of the stars of heaven) Isaiah 9:15 The prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail. ALSO Jude 4: For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Jude 12 These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you feeding themselves without fear. clouds without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever. Revelation 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having, having seven heads and ten horns. 12:4 And his tail Isaiah 9:15 DREW the third part of the stars of heaven. Who are the stars. Revelation 1:20 The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS OF THE CHURCHES. Does this follow true with the scripture? Of course. Each letter in chapter 2 and 3 was addressed to the angel of the church in it's respective place.<br />
Isaiah 14:13 The king of Babylon exalted his throne above the stars or the prophets of God. Daniel 12:3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the STARS for ever and ever. Because there is no correct interpretation of the scripture in the book of revelation, it cannot, therefore, be used to substantiate a belief that there is a specific angel that fell from heaven. Using these scriptures to substantiate a literal devil besides what the bible declares to be evil men with the evil mind is a unscriptural foundation. Revelation 12 is speaking of the false apostles that left the original teaching of the apostles’ doctrine and traded their eternal life for what they thought the scripture was saying. The Devil in Revelation 12 was the mind or heart of man which changed the truth of God into a lie. His angels are they who were also persuaded by those who were carnally minded teachers. The book of Revelation has no scriptural support for the<br />
teachings of a devil that fell from heaven before the earth was finished being created.<br />
Rev 12:12 herefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.<br />
a. These evil teachers who changed Gods truth into a lie; believed their thoughts and interpretations instead of the Apostles of the Lamb.<br />
b. The Apostles doctrine is the twelve and only entrances to the city of God.<br />
c. All that the Apostles taught is the way into the city of God, first the church and then into Gods abode and eternity.<br />
d. The devil also knows scripture and believe there is only a short time in which to work.<br />
e. The devil is all the false teachers who have left the teachings of the Apostles yet believe there invented Gospels will prepare folks for heaven.<br />
f. These are fighters against the truth of God and they are working in these last hours to gain for themselves and their kingdoms as many souls as they possibly can. The devil knows that he has but a short time.<br />
g. Here are the twelve stars on the head of the church, the twelve Apostles.<br />
Jude 1:4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.<br />
a. Here is the war and the fighting in heaven: Ungodly men fighting against the truth of the Apostles and the holiness of their teachings. These ungodly men are the tail of Revelation 12.<br />
b. The grace of God is having the baptism of the Holy Ghost to live holy lives and be holy. Receiving the Holy Ghost is God having extended his grace toward us by giving us the power of his Spirit. By obeying the Gospel of Repentance, Baptism in water in Jesus Name. God then gives us the Holy Ghost which we did not deserve. This is true grace. Grace cannot be had any other way. The Holy Ghost is given to us so we may live above sin that it does not have dominion over us.<br />
c. Lasciviousness: These ungodly men changed the Gospel of true grace into a Gospel that allowed men to live in lasciviousness and still maintain their standing in God as if they were saved.<br />
d. A man denies the Lord God when he explains away the necessity of the Holy Ghost to live a holy life.<br />
e. To live a holy life and become a true saint of God it takes the power of God which is the Holy Ghost coupled with the Preached and taught the word of God in our lives. These false brethren who entered in unawares began to fight to bring their brethren back under the old covenant of the law and out from the true Gospel thus denying the Only Lord God even our Lord Jesus Christ.<br />
f. Men have changed the truth of the scriptures and the necessity of the Holy Ghost because they desired a way to be religious without having to be obedient to the truth.<br />
g. A way to appear approved of God while having taken their own thoughts.<br />
HERE IS THE WAR IN HEAVEN AND THE OLD SERPENT IS THE SAME ONE THAT WAS IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN THAT CHANGED THE FORBIDDEN TREE INTO A TREE THAT WOULD MAKE ONE WISE.<br />
Gal 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:<br />
Acts 15:1 And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.<br />
Acts 15:24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:<br />
I Jn 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us. (The false prophets drew men out from the apostles)<br />
a. This is how the tail drew away the stars or preachers from heaven.<br />
Rev 12:12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhibitors of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.<br />
a. The devils here believe they are right and doing a work for God thus they believe just like us that the time before the coming of the Lord is short.<br />
b. They are doing everything they can to reach as many as they can be for the return of Jesus Christ.<br />
2 Cor 11:13-15<br />
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.<br />
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. 15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.<br />
a. Satan himself is the carnal mind both in religion and out of religion. Those who profess that they are saved without truth. This is the carnal mind transformed into light.<br />
b. His ministers: Satan which is the carnal mind also has ministers, men who profess themselves saved but not by the apostle's doctrine. These false brethren were the beginning of the tail of revelation 12.<br />
Gal 5:10-13<br />
10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offense of the cross ceased.12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.<br />
I Jn 4:1 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.<br />
a. Here now are the prophets spoken of in Revelation 12 that left the Apostles teaching to go down to the world.<br />
b The inhibitors of the heavens are the church where the false prophets came from. The inhibitors of the earth are the people of the world who will be lied to and have the wrath of God brought on them because of the false prophet that came down to them from the heavenly realm of the church or apostolic doctrine.<br />
Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them. (These are false prophets drawing away disciples after them)<br />
Rev 12:4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.<br />
The church is the woman in heaven and the false prophet is listed above who drew away the stars or preachers after them.<br />
c. The old man is the devil....Thus they changed the gospel to one the old man was never crucified and Jesus Christ was never put on.<br />
d. The Jews of that day changed the truth of God into a lie by adding to the truth Law.<br />
e. An old testament priesthood, thus changing times and seasons. When the truth of God was revealed through the apostles teaching, they endeavored to bring them back under the law and its natural observances.<br />
Rom 1:22-25<br />
22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.<br />
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, <span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:<br />
<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>The Devil cannot be seen, but he can be understood by the things which are made.<br />
1.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Serpents tell us about the devil.<br />
2.<span style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Trees tell us about the devil.<br />
3. The belly and its appetite tells us about the devil.<br />
You can't see the evil heart of man but he can be understood by the things here stated. Of course, there are literal serpents and natural trees but when Jesus wanted to explain a spiritual thing he used a natural thing to do so. Men are afraid to use natural things as spiritual because they do not understand and are afraid to go too far so they introvert by making everything literal so they can understand it. This kind of attitude will not work if we are to understand the Bible and its teachings.<br />
Mat 23:33 Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?<br />
HERE JESUS WANTED TO MAKE THE POINT OF WHAT KIND OF SPIRITS THESE MEN HAD AND WHO THEY WERE, SO HE IDENTIFIED THEM.<br />
Mark 16:18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.<br />
THE KIND OF SERPENTS WE TAKE UP ARE OF THE SPIRITUAL TYPE, THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN A PROBLEM TO THOSE WHO ALWAYS TAKE JESUS LITERAL, THEY THINK IT MUST BE A SNAKE. When we take command of a spirit in a person we are taking command of it in the name of Jesus with the anointing of the Holy Ghost which is in us.<br />
Num 27:16 Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, There are no spirits in the air. The only spirits in the air are those which come out of the flesh. The heart makes the words and thoughts which are taken or rejected by the man. The man who takes an evil thought will project an evil spirit. The man who takes the Word of God for his thought will project and possess a holy spirit. Spirits are projected from us by our attitudes and expressions. Our actions speak loudly of what we believe. Jesus is not the God of the spirits of ghosts or goblins. Any spirits outside of the flesh of man are the angels of God. So When Jesus identified an evil spirit in a man he used the literal things that he made and that we understand so as to give us an example that we might see there attitudes and the real underlying thoughts of their expressions. The serpent is the reptile most people abhor because they are deadly, quiet and sneaky. The words and thoughts of the Pharisees were also.<br />
Luke 10:19-20 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.<br />
HERE JESUS PLAINLY STATES THAT SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS ARE SPIRITS. SPIRITS COME FROM THOUGHTS AND ARE UNSEEN BUT ARE REVEALED IN THE SPIRITS OF MEN. JESUS USES THE LITERAL SERPENT TO EXPLAIN A SPIRITUAL THING. A CORRUPTED HUMAN SPIRIT IS LIKE A SERPENT.<br />
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.<br />
James 3:7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:<br />
James 3:8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.<br />
WHAT IS IT THAT MAKES A MAN LIKE A SERPENT?<br />
Matt 12:34-35<br />
34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.<br />
a. James merely states that all manner of beasts can be tamed of mankind but the tongue of man can no man tame. This tongue can only be tamed by God.<br />
b. The tongue is just like one of the beasts of the field, but it is more subtle.<br />
c. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.<br />
d. This serpent that God had made was the spirit that could not be tamed in Adam and Eve.<br />
e. The scripture does not state that the serpent was more subtle than any other beast of the field because it was not one of the beasts of the field.<br />
f. This serpent spirit was produced out of the heart of Eve when she overrode Gods word with her own thought saying that the tree which God had commanded not to be eaten of was good for food.<br />
g. This thought taken by her from her own heart was the sly cunning serpent.<br />
THE SCRIPTURE CONTENDS: THAT THE THOUGHTS TAKEN FROM THE HEART DETERMINE WHAT KIND OF PERSON A MAN IS. EVIL OR GOOD. HOLY OR UNHOLY. DEVIL OR SAINT. NOT WHAT A DEVIL FROM OUTSIDE DOES TO THE INSIDE OF A MAN. THERE IS NOT SCRIPTURE TO SUPPORT SUCH A THEORY.<br />
Luke 6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good, and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.<br />
Matt 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.<br />
Jar 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?<br />
John 13:2 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him;<br />
a. The devil which are the evil thoughts that come from the heart of man.<br />
b. Judas had allowed the thoughts of turning Jesus over to the enemy to remain in his contemplative memory, they were always there but he had not yet made up his mind to take them and allow them to motivate and propel his actions.<br />
c. This is why Jesus said take not thought for tomorrow because he knew that we have anxieties about tomorrow and that we allow it to affect us today and now.<br />
d. Jesus was simply stating a fact that we should not take just any thoughts.<br />
e. The devil was the carnal mind that produced the evil thought of betraying the Lord.<br />
f. This is the reason Jesus called Judas a devil because he took thoughts that were contrary to truth and against the truth. Judas was a carnal person in that his heart was governed mainly by what his senses gathered and not by what he heard from the Lord. If we allow our hearts to gather only information through the senses and not by faith in truth our hearts are earthly, sensual and devilish.<br />
James 3:14-15 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.<br />
g. A seducing spirit is a spirit that has injected a thought from their own heart into their teaching and proclaimed it to be from the Lord.<br />
h. The devil put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot because the heart which produced the evil thought is the devil.<br />
i Judas Iscariot was on the take. He was ready to betray the Master. No outside devil came to Judas Iscariot and did this.<br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="background: white;">The true worshipers must worship the father in spirit and in truth (John 4:24). This should bother the perpetrators of the fictional devil. This scripture all by itself requires those who want to give God acceptable worship, to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>be open to finding truth. Brag about having friends, brag about the many manifold blessings you have had</span> in life, but the one real friend worth having is God himself. Just because we have the Gospel message of Acts<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj">2:38</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> does not mean we can leave all other scripture to fall to the ground. We must continue on in finding truth and worshiping God for it. If you’re settled on this demon falsity, I suggest that you might want to reconsider.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /><span style="background: white;">Isaiah 14 begins in verses 1 thru 3: The Lord will have mercy upon Jacob. He will restore them their land, take away sorrow and give them rest from the hard bondage from being oppressed by Nebuchadnezzar (King of Babylon). Then in verse 4, God injects a parable. A parable does not use specifics but allegorical terms. Like the parables Jesus had to interpret to his disciples, parables need interpretation. Attempting to decipher a parable one</span> must know the spiritual meanings behind the literal object. If spiritual meanings are not known, the message of the parable is lost.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>The proverb is against the king of Babylon which was at that point Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was the oppressor of Gods people at the time. God had just promised to deliver his people from the bondage of oppression and to send them back to their own homes. The question is posed, how the oppressor is ceased, the golden city of Babylon ceased. The answer Vs 5; the Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, the sceptre or power of the authority of Babylon. Vs 6 Referring to the king of Babylon as a tree (Seen in Vs 12), he continues. Identifying the king of Babylon as having been the ruler of these oppressed, who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, who ruled in anger, is persecuted and none hindereth. Simply implying he will be brought down and none will be able to prevent it.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Vs 7 As a result of his fall, the whole earth is at rest, and quiet, they break forth into singing. V8 The inferior fir trees rejoice at this fall, the cedars of Lebanon, since thou are laid down, no feller of trees has come up</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">against us, you were the problem. Vs 9 All those outside of righteousness is what “Hell” is comprised of; these are moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead (dead spiritually). This Hell is not a hell run by a demon</span> under the earth. Let the dead bury their dead, this is hell on earth. They are the chief ones of the earth, your fall has raised up all the kings from their thrones, the kings of all the nations.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Vs 10 They say: hast thou become as weak as we, are you become like us? You have fallen from your lofty estate. Vs 11 Your Pomp and royalty is brought down to the grave, the noise of thy viols (an instrument with six strings)</span> used to make merry. The worms which eat away the greatness of man as the worms that eat a dead man, are covering thee to eat away your greatness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">In the 12<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> vs. Nebuchadnezzar is given a name of mockery. How did the son of the morning fall? How did one so great topple? LUCIFER is the name given to Nebuchadnezzar by God to accentuate, what he once appeared to be: a son of the morning. Continued below:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /><span style="background: white;">Isa 14:1-17</span><br /><span style="background: white;">1 For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">2 And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land of the Lord for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">3 And it shall come to pass in the day that the Lord shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve,</span><br /><span style="background: white;">4 That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!</span><br /><span style="background: white;">5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked, and the sceptre of the rulers.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">6 He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet: they break forth into singing.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">8 Yea, the fir trees rejoice at thee, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, Since thou art laid down, no feller is come up against us.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">9 Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.</span><br /><span style="background: white;">10 All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?</span><br /><span style="background: white;">11 Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.</span><br /><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><b><i><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!</span></u></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Vs. 12. You seemed to be raised so high that you could not be cut down to the ground from your lofty elevation near the heavenly. Your rule has weakened the nations! Because it was done primarily for the greatness of self, to prove how extraordinary the powers of men can be. You did weaken the nations because you accentuated yourself and not the Almighty God. How are you cut down, this is why, because you did not acknowledge God as the supreme cause of the building of Babylon. You incorporated other gods into the equation of your greatness. Since you made yourself so high, God has<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>intervened in bringing you down a notch or two Mr. Lucifer the son of the morning. This has nothing to do with and angel falling from heaven somewhere between the first and second verses of the book of Genesis.<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /><span style="background: white;">All those who interpret scripture in that way are completely a foul. As I have previously stated, God created evil in his human creatures. The ability to sin is in his human creatures, not his angels. Again how art thou cut down to the ground? God brought you down Sir! God caused you to topple Mr. High and Mighty. God did this to make sure you knew: he rules and reigns in the kingdom of men.</span></span><br />
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<b><i><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">13 For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:</span></u></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Vs13. This is how you fell Mr. Lucifer, who was not and never will be indicative of an angel. Lucifer is referring to the lofty and lifted up Nebuchadnezzar. It was Nebuchadnezzar that fell not an angel from heaven. "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne: STOP, what throne did any angel have in heaven?</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /><span style="background: white;">NONE! King Nebuchadnezzar had a throne. He exalted his authority and throne above that of Daniel, Shadrach, Meschach and Abednago; which are stars, being prophets. Instead of God’s chosen sitting in the congregation, Nebuchadnezzar himself decided he would rule the congregation of God. Nebuchadnezzar simply broke all the rules and did what he wanted to in the kingdom of men. Because of his iniquity, which is sin against the ministry of God at that time, God brought him down.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><br /><span style="background: white;"> </span></span><b><i><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">14 I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.</span></u></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">The heights of the clouds; “so great a cloud of witnesses”, those witnesses were spoken to Nebuchadnezzar by Daniel and the prophets. Namely: Abraham, Isaac and Jacob along with the prophets who prophesied the coming of Jesus Christ. He raised up his throne above the knowledge which came from the prophets and patriarchs. So great a cloud of witnesses spoken of in the book of Hebrews, written by the apostle Paul. When Jesus comes back he will not come in literal clouds but among his resurrected prophets, patriarchs and saints. He cometh with clouds.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /><span style="background: white;">I will be like the most high, this was his one greatest mistake, and a literal angel knew this could never be, they were created for the sole purpose of serving God and in no way would their nature allow them to make such a choice. But Nebuchadnezzar did, Lucifer, the great did. There was never an angel called Lucifer or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>old Lou. God will forever hold those who agree with such a damnable teaching accountable for not studying</span> to show themselves approved unto God. For agreeing with the damnable doctrine invented by the scholars</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of the false church who had no spiritual understanding. Simply put, they are natural brute beasts made to<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>be taken and destroyed, along with all those who agree with their fantasy and falsity. Nebuchadnezzar made himself like the Most High, taking credit for all the wonderful works done in Babylon. The intellectual, the brilliant, the scholars, the pomp, honor for the greatness of man instead of the greatness of God.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">Lucifer?</span> See if you can stop yourself from toppling? See if you can prevent yourself from becoming like any other<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>king of the earth? Since you would not honor God for his wonderful works and kindness to you, see if you are big enough and great enough to stay on top now.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span><b><i><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">15 Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.</span></u></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">To the same pit of all other men like you. The pit of the evil heart, the pit of disobedience, the pit of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>self-worship and self-honor. The pit God raised you from until iniquity was found in you. Iniquity is sin against the ministry. The known ministry to Nebuchadnezzar was Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. He destroyed himself by not acknowledging the prophets and listening to the prophets. Anyone who does not</span> give attention to the prophets of God, remain in the sides of the pit of the evil thinking of the heart. The same<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>pit most of the religious world is in right now.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /><span style="background: white;">Dan<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1010483538" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">1:11</span></span></span></span><br /><span style="background: white;">11 Then said Daniel to Melzar, whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,</span></span><b><i><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">16 They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;</span></u></i></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">All those who look upon him after his descent will say: IS THIS THE MAN...IS THIS THE MAN...how did he make the earth tremble? How did he shake nations? He reigned supreme over the people of God until God had enough of his greatness and tyrannical reign. When he raised himself above Gods prophets and lifted himself up above all that is called God, God brought him down. God will also bring down the high and the mighty rulers of the darkness of this world who have also raised themselves up above all that is called God. Who sit in the temple of God. 2 Thess 2:4 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.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /><span style="background: white;">Just like Nebuchadnezzar. Actually Nebuchadnezzar was the head of Babylon just like the head of the false church is the head of Babylon. They too will come down, down, down. The folks that see this or want to see this will forever be rewarded if they seek the truth. Do not fall for the lies perpetrated from these pulpits</span>. which agree with the false church on this subject. There is no devil called LUCIFER. THERE was never an angel called LUCIFER. Lucifer is the name of a lifted up king who exalted his throne above the prophets of God and his authority above that of Gods. IS THIS THE MAN? He caused the earth to tremble, he subdued kingdoms and took captive Gods people. He refused to loose the house of his prisoners. He was a man who thought he was God. He was great but God asks the question: How art thou fallen from heaven or the high</span> heights of authority with God? The answer is simple: God brought you down and your greatness could do<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>nothing about it. So shall it be at the end of the age when the false church will be brought down to the ground from having raised itself into such a lofty heavenly place.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Vs 17 That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Nebuchadnezzar embrace the many gods introduced to him. Although he would not allow the God of Daniel, to be spoken against in any way without severe prosecution, he still embraced the worship of other gods. This sounds like the false church. They embrace Christ as the savior but Mary as intercessor, and heathen</span> gods are given the right to embrace Christ while remaining attached to their heathen gods and rituals.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span style="background: white;">They reject the idea of the Holy Ghost being given through faith. They have made the world a wilderness with their abomination which makes desolate. A method of salvation which does not bring salvation. The false church like Nebuchadnezzar worships God along with many other Pagan and unaccepted gods. They perpetrate a false message. Because they have exalted themselves instead of Jesus Christ as God. They have made the world a spiritual wilderness. Their prisoners cannot be released by their doctrines. They have rejected the gospel of acts<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="aqj">2:38</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> and have perpetrated a false and unaccepted doctrine for salvation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;">So who is Lucifer? He is the one who raises himself higher than God and makes himself bigger than the prophets.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Lucifer is here today in the false church. He is not in some invisible flying epitome of an evil devil. The scholars of fiction and imagination, are those who seek to destroy those things foreordained concerning themselves. Like the apostle Jude writes, men before of old ordained to this condemnation. Core, Cain and Balaam foreshadowed the spirit that would change the truth of Jesus Christ into a lie. This parable against Nebuchadnezzar is much of the same. It foreshadows the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>evil of a sinister group in the last day who will exalt their own throne above the prophets of God. Instead of making the foundation of their teachings rest upon the Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints and the edifying of the body of Christ, they make their own hierarchy and rules. Patterned after the Old Testament order instead of the New Testament order. A system that has made the world a wilderness except for where God has given his anointing for the church of the living God and the gospel of Acts<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1010483540" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">2:38</span></span>. </span>The kingdom of heaven is a kingdom of good and bad in it (Mat 13:24-30). The bad will be separated from the good and will be burned in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the furnace of fire created by the world and false church. The church will become the saints of God, by the Holy Ghost and fire (Mat 3:11). The fire of the purging by the Spirit of the living God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Vs. 42 of Mt. 13 is speaking of the furnace God has created which burns up holiness and sanctification. Without the church and true doctrine it cannot be gone through. The furnace of fire is the age in which we live. It was typified in Egypt. When God sent the children of Israel into Egypt for 400 years it was to burn off some of their sinfulness and iniquity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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20 But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Here in Deuteronomy God makes reference to bringing Israel out of the iron furnace of Egypt, to be a people unto himself. This is what God is doing in this very hour, he is bringing those who will believe the truth from the iron furnace of false doctrine perpetrated by the whore of revelation 18. The church by and large is blind and do not understand this. The doctrine which binds men into bundles to be burned is being done at this very moment. Those outside of apostolic teaching and those who have had apostolic teachings are leaving for the strong delusion created by the churches in iniquity against the apostles’ teachings. If a devil is in the air, those fighting for their very life and existence in Christ could be removed from their place, if they are not told the truth concerning the false churches and where Satan is. Satan is the spirit of the children of disobedience. Satan is the spirit in the pulpits of America and around the world who still advocate the law as possessing any form of salvation at all. No part of the law has the possibility of producing salvation, but it does produce a strong delusion to those who cannot see nor understand the truth. This strong delusion is the false churches of our hour, who sidestep the true gospel for the making of a false, when there is not one. They preach another Jesus when there is not another Jesus, there is only the one revealed in the apostles’ teachings. There is not a Jesus that saves without one receiving the promise of the Holy Ghost. There is not another Jesus that saves by repentance claiming the invisible new birth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is not another Jesus that allows us to eat and drink ourselves into the kingdom. No! There is not another Jesus that loves us so much that he will overlook our disobedience to the message of holiness because we believe in him in other areas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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People who claim to know Jesus right now, are being burnt up by the world created by God for that very purpose. The world we live in now, God has warned us about it time and time again. It will burn you up if you are a tare. It will burn you up if you do not contain the inner workings of the perfect law. The ones who will make it are those clothed with the Sun, those who have put on the Lord Jesus Christ. Just remember, somebody has to see it to preach it. It is no time to play with the fictional teachings of the false church, just because it sounds intellectually good. <span style="font-family: "malgun gothic" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Malgun Gothic";"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The twelve stars are not the twelve tribes of Israel. The twelve stars are like the children of Jacob, the disciples of the Lamb. The preachers of the New Testament gospel message. Her crown is, she received the teaching and perpetrates the message of the twelve stars of the apostles’ doctrine. The twelve tribes of Israel was a type and shadow of the twelve apostles. If this were a literal woman, she would need to have a very large crown. She is not literal but she is the church. How can anyone in their right mind attempt to make this woman, a literal woman? How can anyone in their right mind attempt to make this woman, Israel? It is virtually impossible for this woman to be Literal Israel. She is spiritual Israel, the church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The false church arises, and with its serpent nature doctrine, with the law of types and shadows for articles of salvation, attempt to devour her child as soon as it is born. The tongue talking, the gospel believing saints of God are looked down on by the religious hierarchy of the false church, who have kept the teaching of the law by and large while promoting the idea that Christ saves them by some kind of grace because they believed on him. Grace comes from believing the apostles’ doctrine and receiving the Spirit of Grace. The false church could not stand the idea of a church with such a miracle as is recorded in the book of Acts. They attempt to discredit the book of acts making it unnecessary for salvation. The book of Acts is the doorway into Gods miraculous church. This is why the book of revelation is so absolutely important, because it depicts the church crowned with apostolic teachings. How can anyone who is truthful, remove the writings of Luke and the Acts of the apostles as if portions of it are unnecessary? Every star in the crown was necessary to make the crown.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.<o:p></o:p></div>
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47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who did not receive the truth of the Jesus, keeping the law instead remained of the earth earthy. The devil was cast out of the apostles’ doctrine church into the earth, or into those who remained earthy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who believe the law saves, remain in the earthy and cannot rise to the heavenly heights of light and truth. So all who contended and fought against the apostles were cast out as the bondwoman and her son was cast out from Abraham in the types and shadows. Those who take the types and shadows literally and do not use them to accurately interpret the bible are "natural brute beasts". The natural brute beast is the teacher of the law who refuses the teachings of the apostles. Natural brute beasts, unable to comprehend the meanings of the metaphors. The meaning of the types and shadows. They take them literal and see no meaning beyond the natural. Natural brute beasts is what the church faced in its onset.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paul fought with beasts after the manner of men at Ephesus. Men who warred against him with their literal views. Refusing to acknowledge the need for Jesus fulfilling and the apostles’ teachings of the New Testament.<o:p></o:p></div>
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18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.<o:p></o:p></div>
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23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To deny the son of God is to deny the teachings of the apostles concerning the types and shadows of the law. No lie is of the truth. Anything brought over from the law into the New Testament for salvation is a lie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When the apostles’ doctrine is denied, the son of God who gave it to them is denied. When the son is denied, the fellowship with God is forfeited. The same has not the father. There are those who claim fellowship with the father while denying the apostles’ doctrine given them by the Son. These are anti-Christ. This is the anti-Christ Spirit. I am concerned about those who claim to be apostolic and continue to practice the teachings of the law. So! Do I believe these brethren are saved? Yes! If they continue in sanctification and holiness. Yet no church is exempt from the teachings of the scriptures of truth. There must be a penalty to pay for those whose only concern for evil is a flying devil and not the serpent in the false church which lives and breathes around them each and every day. The false teachings which reach for their souls and confront truth, who are froward and untoward. The same generation which Peter warned those on the Day of Pentecost. Save yourselves from this untoward generation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Through the instructions of the apostles, those who received the baptism of the Holy Ghost must be taught until Christ could be formed in them. Until they had necessary teaching which would save them from being devoured by the false teachings of the whore church depicted in the book of revelations 17 and 18.<o:p></o:p></div>
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13 Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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14 Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The dragons then were those deputized and armed by Pharaoh to bring back Israel into captivity. The dragons were identified by David as leviathan or the extension of the governmental powers of Pharaoh. So the red dragon was the governmental powers affected by the religious rejecters of truth. The false church influenced the powers of government. Paul breathing out threats to the church and actually causing some to be put to death as Stephen. While he stood by and watched him stoned to death. Saul of Tarsus was an extension of the religious powers which opposed the rise of the church. The seven heads that identify this dragon as governmental powers and authorities outside of the blood line of Jesus Christ. These powers raised during the time of Christ and the church. The first head is 1. Egypt, then: 2. Assyria, 3. Babylon, 4. Medes and Persians. 5. Greecia, 6. Pagan Rome and then the rise of 7. Papal Rome right after the church appears. Right after the church appears then appears also another wonder, it is a lying wonder, a complete evil and sinister wonder in heaven. Posing itself as being in the kingdom of heaven also. These crowns upon its head are the crowns of each ruling nation until its fulfilment in the whore of revelation.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you think to take the tail literally, I am sure it would be a huge tail on a large dragon. In order to gather a third part of the stars of heaven. The facts concerning the tail. The scholars of fiction and imagination attempt to use these scriptures to create a devil before creation who took a third part of Gods created angels drawing them with his tail. This is ludicrous and complete imaginary fairy tale. What a perversion of scripture to imagine an angel took with his tail the third part of Gods created angels and cast them to the earth. Here is the truth. The ministers of the false church fought with the apostles and ministers of the true church clothed with the Sun. The tail of that dragon or extension of government and religious authorities were false prophets speaking lies. The scholars of fiction and imagination teach that the devil actually had power to influence a third of heavens angels without God knowing it. Fiction and imagination, there is no biblical proof of such insanity. God created his angels with no will to sin, as previously stated. They cannot and could not sin. Their nature is not to sin but to serve God. This is the reason, once again, that God is mindful of man and the son of man and visitest him. Because out of the human family God will have a bride which chooses and overcomes her nature to be like him. That is divine, Godly, holy, upright, etc....all because she has been captured by the actions of her husband, Jesus Christ. When the false church did arise, it fought with the true. The ministers of the false church fought against the doctrine of the apostles and those who were loyal to it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am simply saying those who would believe a dragon with a huge tail drew the third part of Gods angels from his heaven before creation have a severe scriptural problem. A severe interpretation problem and an ego bigger than both. The scholars of fiction and imagination will stick together in their bundles and hold on to their fiction because they do not want to be ejected from their snug places in the denominational world. To believe a tail large enough that could draw a third of heavens angels has more problems than the false doctrine of “accept the Lord” which replaces the true Pentecostal experience. Again I will make reference to a strong and important fact, that when God made a book of beginnings, he made no mistakes in revealing the presence of evil as was necessary so that his people could gather information to keep them from the lie of the false church. The false prophet that speaketh lies is the tail. The ancient and honorable who follow truth is made the head. The false prophet that speaketh lies is the tail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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14 Therefore the Lord will cut off from Israel head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.<o:p></o:p></div>
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15 The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The third part: is not a literal cut in a pie like a cookie cutter: the third part is a period of time spoken of.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The first part of the bible is from Adam to Moses and the law. Then from the Law of Moses until Christ is the second part. The birth of the church until the coming of the Lord is the third part.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The day the church came into existence, the false prophets were cast from heaven or the place which at one time represented salvation to the earth. Out of the true teaching into the false teachings of the whore who refused the apostles’ doctrine but accepted Christ while keeping the literal articles of the law for salvation. The false church has been endeavoring to destroy the true church ever since. She has over a billion followers and I would say she has done a great job of deceiving the whole world. She looks like she has salvation and the key to eternal life. She depicts herself as having what is needed to gain heaven, but a close look at the scriptures will reveal she does not. She and her lying influence drew the preachers who once had a walk with God in truth, back to the teachings of the law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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8 And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.<o:p></o:p></div>
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9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The third part God will bring through the fire. While the bundles are being burnt up by the furnace of the electronic and supersonic world of games and atrocities on the World Wide Web. The church is being refined and made better if her teachers reveal to her the truth concerning the devil, the false church and who she is. The daughters and what they believe to be daughters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The teachings of the false church refines nobody and sanctifies nobody. The truth sanctifies and sets apart those who believe for the work of the church and for the edifying of the body of Christ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Paul here addresses the problem, the false prophets were at work attempting to drag saints back into the mixed teachings of Christ and the law. This is the picture of the foolish virgins. The foolish virgins took no oil, they returned to law which had no oil. They returned to what they had vomited up. They had received the Holy Ghost by the hearing of the Gospel message but now were questioning the need to have faith in the gospel or the words of the apostles.<o:p></o:p></div>
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18 Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.<o:p></o:p></div>
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20 But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.<o:p></o:p></div>
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If any man would leave the truth of the apostles to return back to doing literal things for salvation, they would deny the teachings of the Son of God namely Jesus who gave the apostles their doctrine. In doing so they would also deny the Father. Fact: the false church claims relationship with the Father while they deny the teaching of Christ through the apostles, this makes them to have the spirit of Anti-Christ. The teachings of Christ are clear, you must be born again of the water and the Spirit. The new birth consists of hearing a sound, which is speaking in tongues. Deny this teaching for a literal piece of bread and you are Anti-Christ. Deny the need for a Holy Ghost experience to put you in the body of Christ and you have an Anti-Christ spirit. Go ahead and claim the father, said the apostle John but if you deny the teachings of Jesus through his apostles you do not have the father you claim to have.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.<o:p></o:p></div>
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6 And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7 And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,<o:p></o:p></div>
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8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The man child of vs. 5. Is the mature Christian. Jesus was a mature spiritual being. His teachings make children into mature Christians. Capable of enduring false teachings and remaining in the kingdom of heaven. Angels are the preachers on each side. The ministers of the false church and the ministers in the true church. How can anyone in their right mind use these scriptures to teach an angel falling from heaven before creation? Without absolutely mutilating the scriptures to do so? They must pervert, mistranslate and misinterpret the word of God in order to use these scriptures in creating a catastrophic division and separation of God’s created angels before the creation. Before the creation there was no woman clothed with the Sun. Before creation there was no moon for a woman to stand on. The angels that sinned and kept not their first estate are human angels or messengers of New Testament truth, drawn into false teaching by the false and evil church. Using these scriptures to support a devil named Lucifer before the creation of the world is insanity and borders on stupidity by the scholars of fiction and imagination. Adam and Eve were the messengers who kept not their first estate. But the angels spoken of in scripture are those ministers who were cast out of the church, back to the law and into chains of darkness forever.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To be reserved unto the judgment with no way out or remedy. The devil fought and his angels against the apostles and their angels and they prevailed not because the gates of hell cannot and shall not prevail against the teachings of his church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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8 And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those that had spiritual understanding ejected those who did not. The false doctrines which attempted to infiltrate the church, which is heaven, were cast out into the earth. The earth are peoples who did not have the knowledge of truth according to the apostles’ doctrine. The verbiage suggests there had previously been a place where the literalists law believers could be. Those who stoned Stephen were those who represented the dragon, the civil faction influenced by the religious. The apostolic doctrine was used by the apostles to rid the heavenly Jerusalem, which is the church (Hebrews 12) from Satan, the same serpent that beguiled Eve was overcome by the truth and the apostles’ doctrine. The devil still deceiveth the whole world except for those who understand, embrace and love the truth. These scriptures can never be used correctly in placing a war in heaven before the creation. God made no mistakes and does not need men injecting false beginnings where they should not be. Never before was a man child used in this manner. The manner here suggests a man child as being a mature Christian person, either man or woman. This usage of the words “man child” does not indicate a particular gender.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The gates of hell did not prevail over the church, the church survived the war and cast out the Devil or serpent nature it so protected. The false teachers protected the serpent nature as being sufficient to gain eternal life by claiming the new birth in a literal drink and bite of bread. The church is still alive, and there will be a church in the end times which will grab the truth on the devil and use it to teach against the lies from those behind the gates of hell. The entrance way into hell are the teachings of this false church. The devil then came down from the heavenly place it had claimed and the church remained with the true teachings of Jesus in it. Preserved by the apostles’ doctrine. This truth concerning the apostles’ doctrine, men are blinded to. The apostles’ doctrine represents the ministry of God in the earth. Iniquity is the disobedience of men against the ministry, the workings against the truth proclaimed by the ministry. The word iniquity is not a simple sin such as lying, stealing etc....it is the open rebellion against the apostles’ teaching. Workers of iniquity. The workers of iniquity, did miracles, prophesied in his name, cast out devils and done many wonderful works. Yet they never knew him by their having obeyed his commandments. This is the fault of the false teachers of this hour. Only in the church where the apostles’ doctrine is taught can a man and woman find the place of no condemnation, where they put off the old man and put on the new man. Where the old nature is destroyed and the heavenly or divine nature put on.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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?<o:p></o:p></div>
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23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:<o:p></o:p></div>
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25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.<o:p></o:p></div>
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4 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.<o:p></o:p></div>
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2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:<o:p></o:p></div>
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4 When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Churches that believe the false teachings of the law mixed with Christ, who take hold of the one man who promotes them in the earth, who suggests to them to eat his literal bread for salvation and they do it. They suggest wearing an apparel other than putting on the doctrine of Jesus. But they still want to be called by his name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What is revealed here is the birth of denomination. The leaving of the truth in apostolic doctrine to begin a one universal church outside of the true. Connecting itself to the roots of the church at the beginning, claiming apostolic succession and a lineage directly to Christ teachings through the apostles. A literal priesthood instead of a fivefold ministry of apostles, prophets, evangelists and teachers, Jesus Christ being the Chief cornerstone of the church. It is the serpent nature of Adam which attempts to pose as the true divine nature required for eternity. The false Potentate, it is impossible to live the divine without having had a divine visitation in obedience to the gospel message. Inventing a woman to be the go between or mediator between God and man, inventing and honoring statutes and making saints of priests, inventing a religion claiming to possess the answer to gaining eternal life when, all it is about is money, wealth and intellectual prestige. Using literal clothes, uniformed to fit the Potentate and honor him as the vicar or the instead of Christ in the earth. Inventing offices not recognized by the New Testament scripture. Each and every person in the church are called to be saints and are considered by God to be a chosen generation and royal priesthood, called out of the darkness of the law into the marvelous light of understanding types and shadows and figures of the law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As the wrath of God was on the world in the days of Noah, so shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. When the Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair. Those of the false church are the daughters of men. The churches of the false church, the daughters of the harlot church are considered by many to be fair. The problem, the doctrines and teaching of the false church cannot hide a man from the wrath of God nor cause him to be covered by a sufficient covering to escape judgment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The devil knows he has but a short time, how is this? Is it that the devil knows he has a short time because he is some all-knowing individual which knows his time is almost over and God will destroy him? No! A million times no! The devil are those false churches who believe that Jesus Christ is coming the second time to rapture them away out of this world. While they embrace the falseness of the church are cast out of the heavenly realm of the kingdom of heaven, into the earth and down from the high teachings of the apostolic church. The devil churches believe Jesus is coming for them just like the apostolic church believes Jesus is coming for them. The difference is they will not seek truth and have ingested a lie instead of truth for a ticket to the eternal abyss. The false church which has bitten into the idea that living in the serpent nature is sufficient to gain eternal life. The serpent nature of Adam is alive and well in the earth. They have believed in a lie. What is that lie? They have believed that there is some kind of a birth which takes place at their believing. They believe that they are born again when in fact they are not. Those who know nothing about the serpent nature, the old man, the first man of the earth have no clue he needs to be crucified and destroyed. They attempt to put on Christ without the aid of the Holy Ghost which is the only way into the new birth. We cannot put off the old man, if we do not have the power of the Holy Ghost through prayer to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and not make provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof. The false church has caused the peoples of the earth to believe that once they are saved by acceptance or believing or whatever manner they have changed the truth of the gospel to perpetrate, nothing else is required or necessary in order to gain eternal life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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10 And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and night.<o:p></o:p></div>
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11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The accuser of the brethren. In the old testament and taking natural substances for justification and salvation does not stop the people from launching attack after attack on the just who live by faith in the word of God. Those of us who have believed and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost know that he was talking to his church as well as those around him: if thou knowest thy brother hast ought against thee first go and be reconciled with thy brother before you bring your gift to the altar. Why? Because men come to an altar often to accuse, like Jobs comforters accused him before God. Satan came amongst them, meaning in their hearts, not standing there with them in heaven. God does not allow Satan the privilege to come into his heaven at any time to bring him a complaint or charge against someone. NO! Satan comes into the presence of God when he has not been properly disposed of by repentance. So the accuser of the brethren is cast down, those who rejected the full teachings of the apostles’ doctrine for the false teachings of a cracker and wine for spiritual growth and victory. The false church made the true church its enemy and accused them before God day and night. Why you ask? The answer is this: they simply could not stand the idea of the apostles being so far beneath the intellectualism of that day, to have spiritual revelation that they would need to be taught to receive. They just kept things literal and made it simple. I have heard many say, well if you do not understand it make sure you keep it literal. They contend that the scriptures are literal. The Old Testament stories are all literal but they had a spiritual or hidden meaning beyond their literal value. Those who rejected Christ teachings concerning forgiving before going to the altar, are the accusers of the brethren.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The complete shedding of his blood. He hath shed forth this which you do now see and hear. Acts 2:33 Jesus was a two element man, a human and a divine. A physical and a spiritual. His blood was both human and divine. The human part was shed at Calvary and the spiritual part was shed at Pentecost. The natural blood did not raise him up. Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise it up. The blood of Jesus shed at Pentecost could not be seen as the blood at Calvary. It could be seen and heard, but it was the part of Jesus which he promised would raise up the church. There is more to Jesus than the literal, he destroyed the literal so he could live by the spiritual. Destroy this temple, the literal, but in three days I will raise it up by the spiritual with a new blood of the Holy Ghost and not Adam.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them! If this is a literal place in Gods abode, is John the writer of the book of Revelations implying that the angels should rejoice? Or those that have resurrected into it rejoice? I don’t quite think so. Rejoice ye heavens, the heavenly places in the church of Jesus Christ who have the apostles’ doctrine and understand the spiritual meaning of heaven and heavens. Does this mean there is no literal heavens? For those of you that would like to destroy the credibility of this work! There has always been a literal, but there must be a literal if that which is meant to be understood by the literal is necessary. Jesus is the rock. Jesus is not a rock, a literal rock, Jesus is as a rock foundation and sure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jesus the Lamb of God, Jesus is not a lamb. Jesus is as a lamb in manner and nature. I am the door. Jesus is not a literal door, but we have no problem understanding he was the only way to enter into the kingdom of God. So we spiritualize the door. I am the vine, Jesus was not a literal vine but was as a vine that came from the original. Jesus blood was literal and took care of the literal which was needed by the law to satisfy the demands of sacrifice. But the literal blood represented a greater more powerful blood which gives life and that blood is the Holy Ghost that brought life to the Church. The church overcame the devil by the Holy Ghost from the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. How did this work? They knew they had received the Holy Ghost evidenced by speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of God gave them utterance. The church overcame the false church which changed much of everything back to literal, by understanding they had received the promise of the Holy Ghost. That the word they received was able to destroy the falseness which they perpetrated.<o:p></o:p></div>
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11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.<o:p></o:p></div>
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12 Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea! for the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those of us who are in the heavenly realm of truth, know who we are and why we are who we are. We understand the apostles’ doctrine and believe the truth which insulates and isolates of from being affected by the false teachings of the Harlot church. The inhabiters of the earth are those who are waiting for a message of deliverance but my never receive the truth because the false church came down from the approved to preach the disapproved to a hungry world. The world biting into the false teachings of the Universal church and her daughters will acquire to themselves great wrath. Great wrath in the fact they never consulted the word of God to find answers but trusted in men and ministers to guide them while they refuse to read for themselves. The pomp, the intellectual scholars of fiction and imagination.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is an imagination for one to think about entering into Gods heaven based upon lies and doctrines founded by men outside and aside from the apostles of the lamb. It is an imagination to think anyone will go to heaven based on receiving only the literal and not understanding what it means. It is an imagination if one would think he or she might eat or drink themselves into heaven. It is fiction to think of the devil as an individual in the air free to roam. It is fiction to believe that each large city the devil has deputized spirits to oversee and command the evil. Unless you believe what has been revealed here. Then there is evidence of such a thing. Because of denominations, churches established in each city to thwart the teachings of those of us who still represent the truth of the apostles’ doctrine. It is true however to understand that false churches dot the area around each city. The serpent is loose in the serpent nature of Adam to disguise, misrepresent and falsify scripture, to keep himself alive, to kill those who represent truth with their wealth, pomp and lies.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This communication I dare say is spoken from the realm of the heavenly.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Heb 12:22-25<o:p></o:p></div>
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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,<o:p></o:p></div>
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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,<o:p></o:p></div>
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24 And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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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:<o:p></o:p></div>
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-46398411023098850072019-02-08T17:00:00.003-08:002019-02-08T17:00:50.453-08:00Evil in the world - last segment (Part 1 of 2)<div class="MsoNormal">
The book of revelation will reveal what happened in the early church as well as what is to come in the future. The book of revelation is not a book which can be read like a newspaper. Its words must be seen as carrying greater meaning than the literal. The 12th chapter of the book of revelation is what the scholars of fiction and imagination use to perpetrate the idea of a devil kicked out of heaven before the book of beginnings was written. They conclude simply that God did not give us everything he should have in the book of beginnings; that he purposely left out the devil falling from heaven, so he could reveal it to us in the book of revelations. This is simply not true. The book of revelations has nothing to do with the period before the creation. This will readily be seen when the true meaning is unfolded before us. I love the King James Version of the bible because it so clearly reveals the path of the serpent from the Garden of Eden to the end of the age. The serpent can be seen in all those who refused the new birth according to Acts 2: 38. Rejecting the truth concerning the new birth, the serpent finds a way to continue to exist regardless of what Jesus did on the cross and the birth of the church on the day of Pentecost.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The book of revelation, the 12th chapter is a metaphorical book which contains the reasons why the church age is found in such disarray and upheaval. This wonderful chapter is one of the most informative books to those who possess spiritual understanding. If one attempts to decipher its meaning without spiritual understanding, they will make a tremendous blunder and mess. But because the book in its metaphorical state, is so difficult to rightly interpret, it was taken by the scholars of fiction and imagination and used for purposes of creating a devil in Gods heaven before the creation. To dupe the simple and those who do not possess the ability nor knowledge to correct the wrong done. Some say we are not supposed to understand the book of revelation, it was written for only a certain few to comprehend. Wrong! God fully intended for all who have been granted the ability to rightly divide and see the meaning of the metaphors from the beginning to comprehend and save themselves as a result of it. To understand the 12th chapter of the book of revelations is to know who the church is, and to those who are genuinely interested in eternal life, it’s a sure foundation for remaining in the truth. They can see what has happened to those in the earth who have great wrath upon them for believing a lie. They can see the lie which has been promoted in the earth to cause such a thing to occur. This is all the plan and orchestration of the mighty God in Christ. If you cannot understand or if you simply want to throw it away, go back to your fairy tale, but I believe there will be severe consequences. There is no facet of truth which can be ignored. The true worshipers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth, for the father seeketh such to worship him.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The opening of the chapter begins by giving us from vs. 1, a lot of information worthy of note.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There appeared a great wonder in heaven. Was this heaven, Gods heaven before the creation? No! Absolutely not. This great wonder in heaven is identified as a woman clothed with the sun. The Old Testament church did not have the LIGHT OF THE WORLD and Jesus is called the SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mal 4:2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This woman had for clothing THE SUN, put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, Paul instructs the church and make not provision for the flesh. The church has Jesus on for its garment of righteousness. Fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. This woman cannot and does not represent literal Israel. Literal Israel never put on the Lord Jesus Christ. The great wonder was the fact that this woman was clothed with the Sun.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A Great wonder that Jesus created himself at his first coming. He gathered his 12 disciples and instilled within them the doctrine which would gain for mankind eternal life. He gave Peter the keys to the kingdom. Peter used those keys and opened the door to the kingdom on the day of Pentecost Acts 2. The keys to the kingdom were for all men to repent of having served the law which crucified the very God who had given them the law. Israel was the persecutor. All those who believed the preaching of Peter and the apostles obeyed the gospel message of Acts 2:38 and received the baptism of the Holy Ghost evidence by speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of God gave them utterance. They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship being clothed with the doctrine of the apostles which is the SUN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Now I am sure the scholars of fiction and imagination will attempt to take this scripture literally. It is impossible to take this scripture literal. What kind of literal woman could be big enough to be clothed with the sun? An awfully big woman in deed. She was also standing on the moon. Now we need to see and understand the spiritual meaning of the moon. The moon is the reflection of the sun literally. As the law contains only a reflection of the fulfilment in Christ. The church rose above the law and put the law under her feet when She received the truth of the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The lesser light rules the night in the creation of God. The Sun rules the day. The New Testament is the day. Jesus is the Day Star. It was he who brought the light to the figures and shadows of the moon or law.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who remain under law, remain rulers of the darkness of this world. The moon rules the night. The night are those who still believe and practice that the law in some way contains salvation. The law is darkness while the perfect law of liberty (in Mt. 5-7) with the apostles’ doctrine is the perfect law. The book of Acts is the recorded Acts of the Apostles who had the light of the perfect law. In acts 2 the Spirit of God is poured out upon all flesh who will obey the Gospel message of Jesus Christ and be birthed into the church by the Spirit of the living God. This light in the book of Acts is continually attempted to be extinguished by those of the darkness, who claim salvation without this light.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They continued steadfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, clothing themselves with the teachings of light, clothed with the Sun. Those who choose to remain in darkness under the law, did not receive the teachings of light. These ministers which rejected light become the rulers of the darkness of this world. Again those who choose to remain under any portion of law, in darkness cannot see nor do they use the law lawfully. The law must be used lawfully. What does that mean? It means that the law of darkness represented by the moon, must be used as types and shadows and not for salvation in the New Testament in any form. The type and shadow is done away with for the spiritual revelation and fulfilment in Christ. The presence of the glory cloud is fulfilled both in the coming of Jesus with the Spirit of God and then the church with the Spirit of God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It appears Joseph and his family knew figures and types and what they represented.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gen 37:9-10<o:p></o:p></div>
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9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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10 And he told it to his father, and to his brethren: and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Sun represented his father, the moon his mother, the stars his brethren. Of course we know this literally came to pass over time. His dream was true and accurate. The Sun represents God, the moon the Old Testament church, or the law which is a reflection, and those born of them stars. When Jesus who is the light of the world came to his church after his resurrection, in the form of the Holy Ghost, they (the church) put on the Lord Jesus Christ by being obedient to the apostles doctrine. This is how the church was clothed with the SUN. The moon being the law of types and shadows under her feet. No other entity could possibly be referenced that fits this description but the church. A wonder of wonders, how a church came into existence bearing the qualities of this woman. Clothed with the light of the world or the SUN, and the law under her feet. None other than the church of our Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus spent 3 ½ years making this great phenomenon come to pass. This is why the book of revelation says “a great wonder in heaven”. The church which was made by the same God who created the heavens and the earth. The church rules the day and is the perpetrator of Light. The false church who rejects light while claiming salvation through law, contain the rulers of the darkness of this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. The church did rise above the law when the Holy Ghost came and the doctrine of the apostles received. On the day of Pentecost the church was elevated above the law. When the new birth came in the form of the Holy Ghost the church was no longer under the law but above it. We have been raised to sit together with Christ Jesus in heavenly places.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The church that keeps the law instead of fulfilling it, produce children of the flesh and are the children of the flesh.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Gal 4:21-28<o:p></o:p></div>
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21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?<o:p></o:p></div>
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22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.<o:p></o:p></div>
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25 For this Agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.<o:p></o:p></div>
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26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.<o:p></o:p></div>
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27 For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and cry, thou that travailest not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.<o:p></o:p></div>
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28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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What did this: cast out the bondwoman and her son mean? If we answer this question, it will leave some in dire straits for not being obedient to the scriptures.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It was imperative for Abraham to cast out Hagar and Ishmael from his care and keeping. He was to no longer take care of them or identify with them. The thundering words to Abraham from God, were not simply given to Abraham but they were meant for the church which should come into existence. Cast out the bondwoman and her son. Anything relating to the bondwoman genders to bondage. Ishmael is the son of the bondwoman, God rejected him from being heir. This meant the doctrines of the law and those which spring from the law no matter how good they may seem, they are to be cast out. Those who trust in Sinai and the Ten Commandments have not seen the fulfilment of those commandments by the perfect law of liberty. Cast out eating literal bread, calling it communion, this is a “devil” big enough to disrupt and challenge the New Testament church. A literal drink of wine, this may seem insignificant but in reality it is the abomination of desolation. This false teaching of the law makes the life of the recipient lacking and empty. God considers this eating of bread as a dumb idol, worshiping him through a literal piece of bread and drink of literal wine, claiming some sort of spiritual experience. My friend there is only one experience that can adequately satisfy the hungry soul and that is the drink of the Holy Ghost and fire.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The partaking of the word to gain faith to receive the supernatural. An encounter with the almighty God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You will never eat your way into Gods kingdom, nor drink yourselves drunk in any good way with the metaphorical. Oh and if these literal things were truly communion, I for one would be eating it and drinking it all the time. Cast out the bondwoman with her doctrine of bondage, Hagar representing the law of darkness and her son an illicit product that should never have been. The church must cast out all illicitness if she is to be the bride.<o:p></o:p></div>
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30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As Abraham sowed a seed into Hagar that produced Ishmael. So the early church sowed a seed into the hearts of those who refused to turn from the law for the truth revealed in Christ. They believed the gospel to an extent but refused to give up the law. They did not truly repent as Peter indicated at Pentecost as “what they must do”. Those who had trusted law and given themselves to the law, crucified Christ. Why serve a law of such incompleteness? There were those who believed but did not repent of being law keepers. They received the teachings of the apostles in certain areas but held to the law in others. These are those to whom the scripture is written and eludes. The only way to propagate and publish the truth is to cast out all which pertains to unfulfilled law and those sons which are produced from it. This was the duty of the apostles, in order that they might save the church and its doctrines. This is where the apostles had to step up to the plate with their authority. This is where they were met with opposition and spoken of with less than dignity. The sacrifice which had been given to them by Jesus was rejected. Those who wanted the approval of those hierarchy and pomp, changed sides in an endeavor to overturn the apostles. Then came the idea of having a church without the spiritual understanding and thus the false church was created by the religious hierarchy of those who rejected the apostles’ teachings as unnecessary. They made their literal bread and wine salvation and called it the communion of Christ.<o:p></o:p></div>
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But after all of this the church put on the lord Jesus Christ and was clothed with the SUN. The teachings of the apostles. <span style="font-family: "malgun gothic" , sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Malgun Gothic";"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Abraham represents Christ and his seed. The seed of the word of God was sown both into the Jews and the gentiles. Those who refuse the perfect law of Christ in the apostles, rejected the promise of Acts 2 which the church readily received and was born with. Agar represents the law and those who remain in bondage under law, those who believe salvation comes in part by Jesus and part by law. The book of Acts will bear this out. There were those who believed in Christ but still remained loyal to the law demanding circumcision, some the whole law. It was from this precipice that the false church was born. The potentate, or Pope. Cardinals, and an illicit priesthood derived from the Old Testament types and shadows. These are the rulers of the darkness of this world. Who are under the moon, or law. The church with the light of the world or the Sun of righteousness have the moon under their feet. This is how you put the devil under your feet, put off the old man and his deeds and put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfill the lusts thereof. All those connected to this strange woman in any way are the sons and daughters of hell. This church is the gates of hell. Her steps go down into hell. Thank God for the truth and doctrines of eternal life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The desolate: who are the desolate?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Matt 23:37-39<o:p></o:p></div>
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37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!<o:p></o:p></div>
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38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.<o:p></o:p></div>
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39 For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.<o:p></o:p></div>
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When Jesus came unto his own and they received him not: he left them desolate as a result. Without the Spirit of God, without the answer to the allegories, without a root tied into the being of God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who reject the doctrine of the apostles and the clear teachings of acts for the new birth evidenced by speaking In other tongues, also remain desolate. The desolate are those who remain partially under the teaching of the law of types and shadows but who claim Christ as there savior. They do not understand grace, or what grace is. Grace is the favor of God and is given when anyone receives the truth found in<o:p></o:p></div>
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The book of Acts and the apostles’ doctrine. When the Holy Ghost is received, it is the Spirit of Grace.<o:p></o:p></div>
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There is no such thing as believing in God in some form or other and receiving Grace outside the obedience to the gospel message. Grace comes by obedience to the apostles’ doctrine. Faith in the Gospel message and a continuance in the apostles’ doctrine will find Gods favor. The grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared unto all men teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lust and thus live soberly and righteously. Jesus manifest the Holy Ghost life. Jesus was both God and man. The man part or serpent nature of Adam was totally under the control of the Holy Ghost in Christ. The father that dwelleth in me he doeth the works. The church in the same way, finds grace when it receives the Spirit of Grace and puts on the Lord Jesus Christ to walk as he walked. Believing the truth and obeying the gospel message causes one to receive the favor of God and nothing else. Simple believing in God does not acquire his favor. There are many who believe in God but will never manifest his life out of theirs. When the gospel message is believed, the Holy Ghost is given. Favor is found and continuing in the apostles’ doctrine makes favor complete. Death, burial and resurrection. Repentance from the law, buried with him in baptism, to show identification with the perfect law and not the Law of Moses. Receiving the Holy Ghost is the evidence that you have believed in the Gospel and have received of its promise. Smiling, jumping, raising hands in praise, all this is good but to receive the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues is the only way into his grace. This is what he died for, this is his Spirit which baptizes men and woman into the church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The desolate then are they who accept Jesus but refuse the doctrine of the apostles. The desolate are those who in any way continue in the law claiming some sort of spiritual meaning from it other than what it really means and stands for. Claiming some kind of spiritual approval by doing a cracker or drinking a literal sip of wine. This is sacrilege, meaning a disgrace to the intentions of the scriptures. Those who do not have the moon under their feet and that are not clothed with the Sun by having put on the Lord Jesus Christ by the aid and assistance of the Holy Ghost are the desolate. They have bitten into the teachings of the law students of the bible, the literalists, the scholars of fiction and imagination. Without the Holy Ghost working in his church, his people, his ministry, desolation occurs.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are quickened or given resurrection from the dead nature of Adam into the glorious liberty of the sons of God by receiving the Holy Ghost, the earnest of our inheritance, sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is that, speaking in tongues is the order of the day for the person who will be clothed with the sun and find the favor of God.<o:p></o:p></div>
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13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that Holy Spirit of promise,<o:p></o:p></div>
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14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Eph 2:4-6<o:p></o:p></div>
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4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,<o:p></o:p></div>
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5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)<o:p></o:p></div>
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6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:<o:p></o:p></div>
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By grace are ye saved: when you obey the gospel and receive the Holy Ghost, grace is found. The same spirit that raised up Christ from the dead should dwell in us and raise us out of the old Adam serpent nature, and it will. This is what Jesus died for, so his Spirit could be in us. If we attempt to claim his Spirit in any other form or fashion, we will lose what he favors. Doing his will finds his favor. To obey the gospel is doing his will.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The church arising above the law was a great wonder. We have never known what the kingdom of heaven looks like until Christ made us to understand it. It appears that Jesus is the treasure seeker and pearl seeker. The seeker for the good out of the bad. The true church will sever the wicked from the just.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The true church will be the good kept by the gospel net. The pearl of great price is the church and those in it who believed the words of Jesus and his apostles. Many churches shall arise from the seed sown by the Lord Jesus, but many will be churches darkness. Those having the apostles’ doctrine and the teachings of light are a great wonder even until this very day. If the church does not realize who she is and that her putting on the Lord Jesus by being obedient to the apostles’ doctrine, makes her his church clothed with the SUN, she may well not remain in the truth. It is imperative therefore to understand the book of revelation as being a necessary support for those who intend on making eternal life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.<o:p></o:p></div>
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45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls:<o:p></o:p></div>
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46 Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:<o:p></o:p></div>
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48 Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away.<o:p></o:p></div>
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49 So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,<o:p></o:p></div>
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19 And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who would hear the Gospel message could enter the church and the kingdom of heaven, those who rejected it would be loosed from the kingdom of heaven. This great wonder was the woman or New Testament church who believed the gospel of Jesus Christ and was raised out of law to appear in heaven.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The kingdom of Heaven has both good and evil in it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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24 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field:<o:p></o:p></div>
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25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.<o:p></o:p></div>
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26 But when the blade was sprung up, and brought forth fruit, then appeared the tares also.<o:p></o:p></div>
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27 So the servants of the householder came and said unto him, Sir, didst not thou sow good seed in thy field? from whence then hath it tares?<o:p></o:p></div>
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28 He said unto them, An enemy hath done this. The servants said unto him, Wilt thou then that we go and gather them up?<o:p></o:p></div>
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29 But he said, Nay; lest while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.<o:p></o:p></div>
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30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The law is incomplete and unable to make a saint of Jesus Christ ready for the coming of the Lord. The good seed are the children of the kingdom but then something happened that tares appeared among the good seed. The enemy that sowed them is the devil. Tell me you believe that a flying invisible devil named Satan sowed seed which made tares. This is a product of fiction and imagination. The see sown the makes tares are from those who accept Jesus but practice law. This teaching makes a tare. Claiming Christ while practicing law. Unable to put on the Lord Jesus because of believing that somehow they are saved by an acceptance of the Lord as personal savior. The enemy that sowed them is the devil, this identifies the devil. A tare is made by a doctrine unfulfilled in Christ, a doctrine which perpetrates for truth the unfulfilled types and metaphors of the Old Testament. Jesus sowed good seed, a seed which would become a beautiful garment and teachings of the SUN. Those who received Jesus and went back partially to the law are the sowers of the seed which produces tares. There was never a demon that fell from God literal heaven before the creation of the world that sowed a seed to make a tare. Repent of this diabolical interpretation and come to the light. Jesus sowed, those who refused his teachings eventually arose to sow a teaching containing both law and perfect law. A mixture of the seeds and a perversion of truth. I would like to make it clear that the devil is revealed in this parable. God made it completely clear that the devil is the spirit of the false church which denied his teachings for the natural teachings of the law. Unable to see any spiritual meaning, rejecting the apostles’ doctrine, they changed truth into a lie and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator.<o:p></o:p></div>
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36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away, and went into the house: and his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of the field.<o:p></o:p></div>
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37 He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;<o:p></o:p></div>
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38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;<o:p></o:p></div>
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39 The enemy that sowed them is the devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are the angels.<o:p></o:p></div>
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40 As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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41 The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity;<o:p></o:p></div>
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42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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43 Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The devil then is those who sow another seed other than the one Jesus sowed into the apostles (into their hearts, the earth). The devil can be found in those who keep the serpent nature of Adam and claim some kind of salvation through law as the new birth. Believing is not the new birth, it is the medium whereby we may find the new birth if we follow the scriptures. He that believeth on me as the scriptures hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water, this spake he of the Spirit which was not yet given. Those that teach law for salvation, never receive the Spirit of God but a literal drink. Those who teach law never understand the word of God, they are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those who teach a doctrine contrary to the apostles’ doctrine are in fact in INIQUITY. Disobedience to the teachings of the apostles. He has given some apostles, prophets, evangelists, some pastors and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints and for the edifying of the body of Christ. Pope and Old Testament teachings can no longer be substantiated in or by the word of God. The Spirit of God will never come, the new birth will never be realized by those who believe the partial teachings of the law mixed with the grace teachings of the apostles. The tares are the children of the wicked one, not of the holy one. The churches that exist in denomination alone are wide and varied. The churches which claim to teach the apostolic message still have law mixed with perfect law. The perfect law is the fulfilling of the law. The law can no longer be used for salvation in any way, can you hear this? Do you have ears to hear? He that ears to hear let him hear. There are millions of souls right now who are in the furnace of fire. The furnace that burns up the spiritual and destroys the soul. It is the false teachings of the false church which allow the flesh to live while claiming salvation by a form of law. If you take the literal wine and bread, you are mimicking the erroneous teachings of the false lying and damned church. No small deal: a woman clothed with the SUN.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Question? If falseness is an abomination to the Lord Jesus Christ, how then can we continue mimicking the harlot church? To do anything like she does? To serve the same bread to our people claiming it is communion for them? The Eucharist which killed multiple millions and millions of peoples in the inquisition. If one did not agree that the Eucharist turned to Christ in a person, they were killed, tortured and/or maimed. A Woman clothed with the SUN, a wonder, the truth personified in and to the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Those without spiritual understanding persecuted the just and righteous for protesting the Eucharist.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is amazing, the power of the false church. She has had all previously recorded history in all books and Encyclopedias’ either erased or changed to sufficiently cover up their wrong and insidious acts of persecution of those peoples who were not persuaded of her lies and falseness. The truth on communion is this: This do in remembrance of me: take eat this is my body. Remember and understand that rightly dividing the word of truth is essential here to understand. This act was done in the Old Testament and it was Jesus who was revealing for the first time what the bread actually represented in type and shadow.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The bread is his body. The bread is the word of God which is the creator of his body. Drink, this is the New Testament in my blood. Jesus is again revealing what the wine is a type of. The wine is the New Testament which is receiving the Holy Ghost. Receiving the Holy Ghost is the new will of God for the church.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Never did he intend for the church to take him literally. He fully knew that only those who gained understanding by the types and shadows would comprehend. All I am saying is: we cannot do both. We must understand and be willing to bear his reproach by speaking truth and spiritual understanding. The devil is the one who sowed this ungodly doctrine of receiving something spiritual from something literal, into the earth to produce tares. This is the reason for the desolate condition of so many churches in this hour. <o:p></o:p></div>
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-90153254515512393642019-02-08T17:00:00.001-08:002019-02-08T17:00:26.187-08:00The evil in this world - Adam's nature<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This is a continuation on the thought of Adams nature. More explicitly the serpent part of that nature. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The serpent was that poisonous thought which comes from the heart and lies concerning the known truth. That produces rebellion and resentments. The serpent is the contrary thought that comes from within out of the heart (Mat 7:21). </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I would like to point out that Jesus dealt with this in two particular places. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">John 3:13-14</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">If God cannot be seen as Jesus, then there is deception here. There are many who can see that Jesus is God but they do not seem to grasp the greatest miracle of all; which is what he came into the flesh to perform. He took the serpent nature of Adam to the tree. If while looking at the cross you do not see a serpent hanging dead there, then you have the wrong God. The almighty God came into flesh and blood for one specific reason and that was to save sinners.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">In order for the master to do such a thing he had to become part of them to destroy that thing in them which had them in bondage and captivity to sin and death. The serpent nature of Adam, this is the reason God called for a serpent to be displayed on a pole and healed all who would look for a long period of time at it. Today it requires nothing less than to see the serpent on the cross Jesus took, this is the reason John wrote of it in John 3:14. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">God took his one, true and only body, the only begotten Son, the Son with both divine nature and human nature, the human nature is the serpent nature of Adam, and hung it on a tree. For God so loved the world and those bitten to death by the serpent nature of Adam, that he came himself to provide us with a remedy and a promise of salvation through himself. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">If you do not see a serpent on the pole it is because you cannot figure out what a serpent would be doing in Jesus; further how a serpent would have anything to do with salvation. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whomsoever believeth in him should not perish. The only way one would perish is to not see and investigate the serpent part of what Jesus did at Calvary. This is how he destroyed the devil and this is how each person destroys the devil through faith and a continued look into the perfect law of liberty. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jesus put on the perfect law and gave the perfect law to the world by the disciples. The world however does not want the perfect law, they want the lesser imperfect Law of Moses. Why? Because the Law of Moses deals only with the exterior and the perfect law deals with both interior and exterior. Keep the Ten Commandments and claim Jesus as your savior and your all set, right? Wrong! Can you not see that the old man which lived in the Law of Moses must be killed and he cannot be killed through law. He must be killed by the teachings of Jesus and the perfect law of the apostles. The Law of Moses could not kill the serpent nature it could only prohibit it, stall the inevitable which is death. The perfect law however kills the old nature and reveals to us the divine nature. This is the reason why the same Spirit Jesus accomplished this all with must be received by all those who will put off the old man and put on the new men. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We must receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost in order to accomplish the new birth. We must be led by the Spirit of God in order to be sons of God. For us to think we can live in the serpent nature of Adam and gain eternal life is a fairy tale thought. Baptism in Jesus name is necessary, it is to show the serpent nature of Adam must be buried and the divine nature of God put on. This is the Gospel. Any other gospel is not a gospel at all. The old man must die and the Holy Ghost promise of Acts 2: must be received. And with many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this untoward generation. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship etc.....</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Men and brethren, what shall we do? Peters divine authority and answer was REPENT! Repent from what? The Law of Moses you have been living by which crucified Christ. You have taken by your wicked hands and crucified and slain. Acts 2:23. They needed to repent of trusting any longer in the Law of Moses. Now was the time Jesus died for, to be able to point out the culprit and the cause of his murder. Now the out pouring of his Spirit to give a new birth, one that would grant eternal life and victory over death and hell. To prove his perfect law would lead to eternal life by his resurrection. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Acts 2:37-40</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This scripture illustrates that Jesus took upon himself the sinful nature of Adam, the serpent nature or the nature with the serpent in it. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood he likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that is the devil. The power of death and those that trust in the law of sin and death are why Jesus came with another law, called the perfect law of liberty. The law that would free men from their sins. By the sacrifice of himself as a lamb without spot nor blemish he died for the sins committed by the serpent nature. Those who continue to believe that somehow the Law of Moses can save them without the perfect law are in trouble. They remain trapped in the law of sin and death. There is no possibility of salvation attempting to remain in the serpent nature of Adam. “Accept the Lord as your personal savior” will keep a person trapped in the serpent nature of Adam. Believe on the Lord and thou shalt be saved. This is true but requires much more in the way of a continued believing and hearing truth. The law requires no new birth and those who keep the law of types and shadows use the natural elements for salvation. Bread and wine which represents the word and Spirit of God. The natural element cannot save you are anyone. The perfect law however begins with the Gospel message and is completed by the epistles and teachings of Christ. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rom 8:1-8</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The law of the Spirit of life in Christ is the perfect law of liberty. The law which frees men through the Gospel message of Acts 2:38. Death, burial and resurrection. What dies? The first nature is turned from (repent) to be killed. What is burial? The person identifies themselves with the perfect law of liberty in Christ Jesus through water baptism in Jesus name. What is the new birth? The infilling of the Holy Ghost. It is being born by the Spirit of God into the church with the apostles’ doctrine so the first born nature can be destroyed by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ through obedience to his word. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">To be carnally minded is death. To see the figures of the old in any other way beside figures is to be carnally minded. To be carnally minded is to keep the ten commandments and believe that is enough for salvation. To be carnally minded is to leave the allegories of the Old Testament remain simply literal, not seeing what they represent and stand for. So here goes.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">John 3:13-14 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There are many ministers and others who cannot understand this scripture and are blinded because of they’re seeing the serpent as literal. Seeing the serpent as the devil, who escaped Eden and now continues in an invisible state with his evil heard of angelic followers. The devil is the serpent, not one who escaped, but a title of a part of the evil nature of Adam. The serpent did not escape Eden to wander to and fro. The serpent left the garden in the nature of Adam. This is how the evils of sin continue to ravish those who gave themselves to it. Ishmael, Esau, Ham, Jeroboam, etc......this scripture in John 3 which says: as the serpent was lifted up even so must the son of man be lifted up. Does this not appear to be in conflict with rational thinking? Christ the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. Yes but as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he likewise took part of the same that through death, he might destroy him that has the power of death that is the devil. Those who remained in the law, stayed in a law that could only produce conviction of sin and finally death, having no remedy or escape from sin or death. The law could only prolong the inevitable and finally death would prevail and sin would conquer. So Jesus took on himself flesh and blood which contained Adams nature and the serpent. Jesus overcame the serpent in Adams nature by obedience to his own word and perfect law. The only way men will ever truly understand this scripture is to know the truth on the devil. The devil is the serpent in Adams nature. The devil is the firstborn nature. The serpent is the thoughts which come from the heart of the firstborn nature. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">THE FORESHADOWING OF THE DESTRUCTION OF SATAN</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Num 21:5-9</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The people of Israel had murmured and spoken against Moses and Aaron. For this the Lord sent literal poisonous snakes among them to bite them and to kill some of them. But along with the serpents he also gave a remedy. Many came to Moses acknowledging their transgression and asked Moses to pray for the serpents to be taken away from them. God did not take the fiery serpents away from them, but instead, he gave us a figure that foreshadowed his very coming in the flesh. Those who would continually look upon it would live. This is the figure for us, those that will understand and continually look upon the truth of Jesus coming in the flesh to take upon himself the serpent nature of Adam, will live. How can one adequately and wholly look upon Jesus and the cross he bore without understanding he took upon the serpent nature of Adam? Why must we continually look upon Jesus taking the serpent to the tree? Because he destroyed the serpent nature of Adam on the cross. The cross was denying the serpent nature to retaliate and win in that manner (after the flesh). He denied his own serpent nature of Adam in order to overcome death. The cross was not the end it was the answer for living. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he likewise took part of the same that through death, even the death of the cross he might destroy him that hath the power of death, the serpent nature is the one who has the power of death and that is the devil.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The people spoken of in Numbers 21 wanted the answer of how to cease from being bitten. God showed Moses the answer for them was to continually look on the serpent on the pole. When they continued to look upon the serpent on the pole, the literal serpents stopped biting them. When we look and see how Jesus’s perfect law gave him power over the serpent, when we see how he took the serpent to the cross, we can deny ourselves of the same lusts and temptations of our serpent nature and overcome being bitten by it ourselves. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made (Rom 1:20). This type and shadow makes the invisible serpent nature abiding in us clearly seen. Murmuring and complaining instead of rejoicing that God had brought them out of Egyptian bondage was definitely a poisonous bite. God sent them literal serpents with poisonous venom to make them understand what they were doing when they spoke such things. They were killing themselves with poisonous words and evil speaking. God has given us the answer also by revealing it to us in Jesus taking the serpent nature of Adam to the cross. The reason he never opened his mouth in retaliation or complaint, reveals the divine nature. Jesus in his dying gave us the possibility of being partakers of the divine nature through faith. This makes it clear why we are to hear the word of God and change accordingly. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Those who refused Christ Jesus choosing rather to remain in the serpent nature of Adam did so in direct opposition to the doctrine of the apostles and of Christ. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rom 1:20-25 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs. 20 if the Jew had attempted to see the truth through the figures of the Old Testament, they would have clearly understood the devil, the reason for the cross, the death, burial and resurrection. Paul is writing about those who had heard the words of Jesus and the Gospel message of the Apostles. To know God one must obey God. At one particular point these men knew God by keeping the commandments of Jesus’s perfect law, he wrote and also gave to his disciples. These men knew God but glorified him not as God, by not being thankful for the perfect law and they reverted back partially to the unfulfilled law. Through faith in the perfect law they had been enlightened but through returning to the unfulfilled law, their foolish heart was darkened by a law which could not save. The Law of Moses was meant to be fulfilled, anyone who returns back to Moses law after having known the truth in Christ’s perfect law, is like a dog returning to eat what he had regurgitated or vomited. To partake of anything to do with the Mass is sacrilege. The Mass incorporates the literal and unfulfilled type and shadow of bread. The Mass incorporates also the type and shadow of literal wine. This is an abomination to the Lord. Mass is an invented word to describe a scripturally illegal ceremony said to gain Christ and eternal life. The word fulfills the bread and the Holy Ghost the wine. Which is not part of the Mass. There is no such thing as Christ-Mass...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">None of this brings any glory to God, it changes the glory which belongs to God in fulfilling the types and shadows, back to worshiping and serving the creature by types and shadows. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 John 2:4-5 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The types and shadows of the law were revealed to Paul and the apostles. So Paul was writing here to make the church understand why there were those who still remained partially in the law and partially in truth. Although the law is truth, it is not usable for salvation if it is not fulfilled in the coming of Christ. There were many of the Jews that heard the Gospel message, who received the Holy Ghost and began to obey the commandments given by the apostles, of the perfect law of liberty. The book of Acts and the epistles contain the perfect law of liberty along with the words which were spoken by Jesus when he was in the body of his flesh. Paul writing here in vs 20. Relates the fact that many which had originally began right did not remain right. When they knew God by keeping the commandments of the perfect law, the apostles doctrine, ceased to believe it was necessary and turned back to their trust in the Law of Moses for righteousness. Now if they had simply taken the apostles at their word and received the spiritual understanding of the law, they would have seen clearly and never stopped their obedience to the truth. Seeing the meaning of the types and shadows as afore mentioned concerning the serpent on the pole. The spiritual understanding of that, was the coming of Christ, having taken upon himself the serpent nature of Adam and destroy it on the cross through death. God having created all of these types before his coming so that his fulfilling them could be seen clearly by the church.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 Tim 1:7-8</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The law used lawfully is used in types and shadows, patterns, allegories, figures and such to relay spiritual information for that which is fulfilled in the new testament church. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs.21 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">When one knows God it is by and through obeying him. Glorifying God is to take the truth in through faith and allow it to change your thinking and actions. This is a true worshiper, one who believes the word and becomes a doer of the word, reflecting the word in their spirit. The true worshiper must worship the Father in spirit and truth. The truth believed must reach the actions of the believer. This is a lifetime project and one that can only be done in the church. The beginning of their demise was their unthankfulness for having the truth. It was the Law of Moses that many held to in retaliation of the need of further refinement by the truth revealed in Christ. So now the serpent nature of Adam was again at work as in the Garden of Eden. The serpent nature of Adam was implying that the need for salvation by and through the apostles doctrine was not necessary. The sacrifice of Jesus was necessary to fulfill the law but the rest of the law could remain. In this way they became vain, and continuing on such a path became an imagination. They refused to see the types and shadows and the spiritual understanding they possessed.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Therefore denying the only Lord God even our Lord Jesus Christ. So instead of acknowledging the truth of God given to the church: some apostles and prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints and the edifying of the body of Christ, they instituted a Pope like a high priest, cardinals, and a religious hierarchy completely different than that given to the church by the apostles. They kept all of the literal articles of the Old Testament, making their use imperative. They changed the baptism of the Holy Ghost into a drink of literal wine; forsaking completely any need for spiritual understanding and enlightenment. So now they created the Eucharist of bread which when eaten turns from bread into Christ inside of the soul. For baptism they kept Old Testament sprinkling instead of the New Testament revelation of the apostles to totally immerse the candidate. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Their foolish heart was darkened. This one statement by the apostle reveals that they turned back to the law in places for salvation. They changed the truth of God into a lie, which was keeping the types and shadows for salvation instead of receiving the spiritual understanding of the apostles. Professing themselves to be wise they became fools. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This takes us to the place of the five wise and the five foolish virgins. The wise virgins took oil in their lamps choosing to believe the doctrine of the apostles, the foolish virgins took lamps with no oil, taking the false doctrines of the arisen false church. The serpent nature of Adam had been successful once again in the New Testament, wiggling its way to pervert the truth by making the serpent nature look good enough to bring salvation.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The serpent nature of Adam can convince one it is good and can attain to the divine nature without the divine anointing of the Holy Ghost and the doctrine of the apostles. No man can be accepted of God being in the serpent nature of Adam. The serpent nature must be replaced by the divine nature. The divine nature consisting of the qualities: 1. Faith. 2. Virtue 3. Knowledge 4. Temperance 5. Patience 6. Godliness 7. Brotherly kindness 8. Charity. The wise virgins received through faith the Holy Ghost and continued in the truth of the apostles adding the qualities of God to their lives and destroying the qualities of the Adam nature. The wise virgins obtained spiritual understanding from the apostles and Christ. The wise virgins were thankful and glorified God through being obedient to the truth of the New Testament teachings of the apostles. The foolish virgins glorify him not as God because they “shop” for the easier way: settling that the Adam nature can achieve eternal life in some way. They remain believing there is some power in the Law of Moses without being fulfilled in Christ, which will usher them into eternal life. They however are wrong, the door being shut to them so that they cannot enter. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs. 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Paul in the book of Romans writes to those in Rome, attempting to make them understand how to be carnally minded is death. To show them what happened in the beginning of the church to corrupt the true teachings of the apostles. The teachings they themselves had received from Christ himself, the very one true God of heaven.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jesus was the image of the invisible God and showed the true sacrifice which would be accepted of God by making himself a living sacrifice, destroying the serpent nature of Adam with his perfect law of liberty. Humbling himself and his serpent nature by living the divine nature through obedience to the perfect law. It was the perfect law of liberty that Jesus related and transferred to the apostles for the church to gain eternal life. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The apostles teaching the perfect law which would bring liberty over sin, was opposed by those who stood on the side of the Law of Moses without fulfillment in Christ and his sacrifice on the cross. The serpent will do anything to stay off the cross. The serpent nature of Adam is in every one of us, but there is and was a remedy given by God in Christ. Destroy the old nature by taking upon you the new one revealed by the apostles of the Lamb. Paul related the fact that those who once knew God by obedience to the apostles’ doctrine turned from that, going back to the image made by the law. The law requiring the destruction and separation of animals in various ways, the birds and four footed beasts and creeping things. This is what happens when the apostles’ doctrine is rejected for the insufficient sacrifices of the law. Men remain in their animal natures, the serpent nature of Adam. The nature cannot be changed by any literal object. The meaning of the object must be made known in order for people to be changed spiritually. The gift of the Holy Ghost is necessary for the new birth to take place. Then being led by the Spirit through the apostles’ doctrine is the only way the new birth can be effective and produce growth. The Holy Ghost and the apostles doctrine is the oil the foolish virgins did not get. The foolish virgins attempted to live for God in the serpent nature of Adam, which the law cannot destroy. There are many who claim salvation through the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus and his dying on the cross, yet while keeping the serpent nature of Adam, they attempt to portray the divine nature. This is impossible. The serpent nature of Adam must be destroyed, killed, wiped out, eradicated and replaced by the divine nature. This is a miraculous process and one that requires a lifetime of prayer and seeking God to accomplish. There is not condemnation while we through hearing the word and gaining faith in our churches, become partakers of the divine nature. We add by prayer and seeking God the qualities only he can give. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Here is the scripture that depicts the life of a foolish virgins: who worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever. It was not that they did not worship God, they just worshipped the creature, the serpent nature of Adam more than the Creator. This is how the foolish virgins became foolish, this is a great deception to those who are blind and looking for truth and do not know where to find it. The foolish virgins are very attractive to the flesh. The foolish appeal to those who would like salvation in a more moderate change and style. Because of such a deception being in the world many will never receive the truth. Because the truth has been changed into a lie by the foolish virgins. Therefore those who do not receive a love for the truth will find themselves in a church that worships God but the creature more. Churches that have “fifteen minute church” so the rest of the day can be used for the flesh and its desires is a foolish church. Thinking they have done some spiritual thing by literally eating for a spiritual supper. What an imagination. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2 Thess 2:7-12</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 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: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">People who see churches of all sorts are looking at a mystery. The problem is that they believe they are all teaching the correct doctrines that will do the job sufficiently for getting them into heaven. The mystery of iniquity is the strong delusion God promised to send those who received not a love of the truth. This is the reason for this writing. That men may be incited in some way to compare the words of scripture with what is being said here and see the deception in the world and its churches. Those who left the apostles doctrine committed iniquity against the ministry of God and his apostles. The only real and true ministry in the world. The apostles and the early churches which believe the truth were an opposing force against those who were given to change. Those who partially went back to the teachings of the law for salvation. The only way the Pope’s teachings and the doctrines of the false church will ever be destroyed are by the spirit of the mouth of those who know and represent the truth.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There is no invisible individual named Satan which is promoting evil in the earth. Satan is the spirit of the serpent nature of Adam. The false church arose by the cunning innuendos of the serpent nature of those who saw a way to claim salvation in Christ; while keeping portions of the law to make easier and more advantageous in making money. The false churches hierarchy arose as soon as the apostles were removed through martyrdom. Those who would not succumb to the teachings of the false church were martyred. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">All deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. For a while they looked the part but the compromise of the truth would soon corrupt entirely. The truth was not abandoned entirely, they changed it, refused to fulfil it, and killed those who did not agree. So instead of God giving a clear note on the subject, he let the falseness become a strong delusion, so that all who would not receive a love for the truth would believe a lie and be damned. These are not idle or small words. The devil then and his angels are those who preach the false doctrines omitting the need for the apostles’ doctrine and teaching. This evil is alive in the earth in men. Spiritual wickedness is not a flying bunch in the sky or invisible nowhere. Spiritual wickedness is when the word of God which came from the apostles is mutilated with the mixture of unfulfilled law. Making salvation possible without the baptism of the Holy Ghost evidenced by speaking in other tongues as the Spirit give the utterance. Making salvation possible by a drink or bite of food. Some believe the word and the food are necessary to enter heaven. The unfulfilled cannot be mixed with the fulfilled for salvation. It is a deception in the highest means. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Eph 6:12-19</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The lies I have heard from the scholars of fiction and imagination on these verses are more than heart breaking. I have heard men speak concerning the principalities as if they were invisible creatures in outer space and in our presence, invisible creatures that fell from Gods angelic host to make up spiritual wickedness thus affecting men from the unseen world. High places to them is space, outer space and in space around us. This is so far from the truth all because men refuse the truth on the serpent nature of Adam. They actually believe that all churches which have Jesus Christ proclaimed as savior are in fact saved. This is so far from truth. Spiritual wickedness is when men who had truth went back to portions of the law and changed truth into a lie. It is spiritual wickedness to proclaim a gospel message that does not have the baptism of the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues in it.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">It is spiritual wickedness to profess there is a pope or potentate who represents Christ as vicar of God in the earth when in fact there is no such thing. It is spiritual wickedness when the Old Testament types and shadows are used for salvation and the apostles’ doctrine turned from. The literal bread which has no saving quality in it at all. The only saving quality of bread is that it represents the word of God, it is the word of God which must be ingested for salvation not a bite of bread or drink of wine. There is no saving quality in literal wine and those that proclaim there is remain in spiritual wickedness. Their principals are perverted principals. Their powers are perverted and fake powers. Yet God will perform through them to promote delusion to those who refuse to love his truth. The evil day is the day when the false church and its doctrines are rampant and received by the masses. When the whole world seems to have been taken by falseness and lies. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Paul said this dilemma would take root, after his departure grievous wolves would enter in and destroy the churches. Wolves of false teaching and perverted doctrine of the law mixed with truth. Paul asked the church to pray for him that the mystery of the gospel could be made known by him. This was a tall undertaking and still yet it remains a tall undertaking. The mystery of the gospel is to be able to decipher and dig through the rubble of false teachers and present the gospel of Acts 2:38 along with the need for the apostles’ doctrine. Men with the serpent nature of Adam presented an alternative to the truth just like in the Garden of Eden, intimating absolute truth was not necessary to be totally observed to be saved. This is what men are who lift themselves above the doctrines of the apostles to pervert the gospel in presenting many other methods of salvation. They are spiritually wicked yet the world who is blind do not see them as such. If the true gospel is not revealed, if the mystery is not revealed of how so many gospels were created and perpetrated, men will be lost. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Spiritual interpretation is needed in order that the truth concerning a literal object can be understood. The rock that followed them, that rock was Christ! That rock was a literal rock but it represented Christ Jesus. This is correct interpretation. That literal rock in the wilderness was not Christ but it represented Christ. That rock was Christ, the apostle giving the spiritual meaning of a natural rock. Spiritual wickedness is to change this somehow and pervert it. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">CONTEND MEANS TO FIGHT FOR: CONTEND EARNESTLY OR YOU WILL NOT OVERCOME WHAT MEN HAVE DONE TO THE TRUTH WITH THE LAW.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jude 3-13</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 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. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jude is speaking of men who left the truth for the lies of unfulfilled law. Back to darkness, no water to give, no winds but false ones, only fruit that withers, twice dead, meaning they were alive once and died to sin to be alive in Christ, turning back to law are dead the second time. Plucked up by the roots, the teaching of the apostles of Christ. Raging waves of the sea, causing upheaval for the church, supporting the teachings of law and advocating them for salvation. They wander from the place that had them revolving around the Sun which is Christ and his doctrine. They are back to darkness reserved in the blackness and darkness forever. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The serpent nature of the law was revealed in those who did not want to glorify God by remaining faithful to the apostles’ doctrine. Going back and propagating the law as still retaining some sort of power for salvation, contending that it did not need to be fulfilled by the apostles’ doctrines and teachings. This is explained by Jude by using three characters in allegory to explain what exactly happened to the faith. The angels which kept not their first estate, Adam and Eve were deceived by the serpent nature of Adam and fell. They were figures of those who would receive the truth of the apostles’ doctrine and being taken by the serpent nature also. Cain was the first example.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Cain refused to offer the sacrifice God required to be accepted. Therefore Cain is the figure of those who went from truth and glorified him not as God by keeping the sacrifice of the apostles’ doctrine. They returned back to the law and darkness to offer the unaccepted sacrifice of law from the ground. As Cain killed his brother in jealous rage for being accepted of God. So those who rejected the true sacrifice of the perfect law in the apostles’ doctrine persecute those who received the perfect law of Christ.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">So the first figure and type of those who change truth into a lie is Cain. Who served the creature, Korah the second figure, who was part of Israel, attempted to usurp authority over the leadership of Moses was the next example. As Korah attempted to overthrow the leadership of Moses, so these men attempted to overthrow the apostles. Unsuccessful they brought to themselves swift destruction in leaving the truth. Yet in their leaving made the gospel message more and more difficult to find. Finally Balaam.......the prophet who did not belong to the nation of Israel. The prophet who had an insatiable desire to be elevated into a high position by the king of Moab. Although Balaam seemed to fear God and although Balaam actually heard the voice of God, yet he valued the higher position more than Gods voice. Moab was a Baal worshiping nation. I believe when Israel partially rejected the teachings of the apostles and of Christ, they are the ones who Baal depicts. In this case Moab could not overcome Moses and Israel through Baal, so he reached for the prophet that was known to have the word of the one true God. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This is the power of the serpent: knowing Israel could not be defeated by his nation, he attempted to hire a prophet and promote a prophet to honor in Moab in order to get it done. Facts are God refused to curse his people at the sacrifices of those in Moab by Balaam. Instead through prophesy and through Balaam’s prophesying, God blessed them. This is the place the scriptures speak of Michael the archangel contending with the devil about the body of Moses. Balaam would offer seven altars of sacrifice and God would plainly and emphatically say to them NO!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">He would not curse the body of Moses, which is Israel. Again the king of Moab would act as though God had said nothing, and offer another sacrifice of seven altars in another place. Again and again God said no and altogether blessed Israel instead. This was a definite dispute. Balaam was the devil working for the King of Moab who worshiped Baal. The spirit of these folks was the spirit of evil. Disputing about the body of Moses which is Israel. Literal Israel is not the body of Christ, the church is the body of Christ and the spiritual Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jude 9</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Cain: the changing of the true sacrifice</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Korah: the usurping authority over the true authority sent from God</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Balaam: the selling of ones talents for the promotion of an idol worshiping nation and the cursing of a righteous one</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This is how the faith was corrupted and this is how we earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1. We fight for the sacrifice which is accepted of God through the apostles’ doctrine.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2. We surrender ourselves to the doctrines and teachings of the apostles and oppose all other teaching which have corrupted it.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">3. We fight against the compromise of churches which have been affected by the sly cunning devises of people</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Such as Balaam who taught Balak the king of Moab, to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">A. The stumbling block was mixing the worship of God with that of idol worshipers (Going back to the law is the same as worshiping idols.)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 10:19-21</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Devils being used in this instance is speaking of idols. You cannot eat a literal bread and claim a spiritual understanding by being part of the true church. The church has the spiritual understanding of what bread and wine is. What the priesthood stands for, what the temple stands for. You can’t have both. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Taking a piece of bread and drinking wine for communion does not make you part of the body of Christ. By one spirit are we all baptized into one body. Such eating gives no one right to call Jesus their Lord. The only ones who can call him Lord are those who have received the Holy Ghost promise which is in the scriptures. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 12:1-3</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">It is spiritual wickedness to change the Holy Ghost back to a drink and tell folks some spiritual thing happened to them when they took a literal drink. It is spiritual wickedness to profess to be in a clergy consisting of Pope, Cardinals and unmarried priests. A ministry that cannot not be found in the apostles’ doctrine. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Those who claim the Holy Ghost in any other manner other than is prescribed by scripture cannot call Jesus Lord. This is a work of the serpent nature. The nature who does not want the cross. The nature that will lie to escape doing the will of God.</span></span><br />
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-34349078027822432142019-02-08T16:59:00.001-08:002019-02-08T16:59:50.173-08:00The evil that is in the world<div style="margin: 0in;">
<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">As a Pastor, I would like to write about the evil that is in the world. I do not understand how people are so blinded to evil and its origins. The bible cannot be understood if it is read literally. The bible is understood when the types, shadows, allegories, figures are properly seen through spiritual understanding. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Genesis is the book of beginnings, therefore if evil comes from a creature other than the human beings God created, then that would be recorded in the book of the beginnings. Our scholars of "fiction and imagination", make up their own Genesis for the devil. They conclude that God should have added something in the book of beginnings, so they inject the devil falling from heaven before Eden. Make no mistake, God missed nothing and the devil can be seen in Genesis clearly. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lucifer is not in the book of the beginnings, therefore Lucifer cannot be said to be the arch enemy of God everyone seems to think he is. Satan therefore had to have a beginning and somewhere in the book of beginnings God surely left us a record of where evil began. Nowhere but nowhere in the record of Gods days of creation do the scriptures mention Satan or an angel that fell from Gods abode to the earth. This is a misconception made up by those who attempt to add what is not written to what their imagination might create. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Somewhere after God created the heavens and the earth students of myth calling themselves scribes, claim there was a war in heaven and God cast Satan, whom they identify as Lucifer out of heaven into the earth. Lucifer became the serpent in the garden which talked to Eve. This is all a clever cover up of truth. God however fully intended it to be this way. The true student of the bible and the lovers of truth will soon agree, these far-fetched excuses for truth are phony, contemplated and erroneous attempts from men to say there is evil outside of the flesh God created. The irony, caught in a trap nearly impossible to escape from are those who have accepted the false teachings of intellectual and carnal creators of evil. Their own perverted rendition of what the false church fully intended in order to cover up their evil deeds and changing of the truth into a lie (Rom 1:20-25). Spiritual wickedness is not flying in the air, it is found in men who will change the words of Jesus Christ mixing them with unfulfilled Old Testament types and shadows to make a false church. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">According to these scholars of fiction, Satan is alive and well on planet earth, roaming to and fro, up and down in the earth. This is not all wrong, however their premise is wrong. There is no individual called Satan who has his converted angelic cohorts running with him to and fro in the earth. There is evil however in the world, but if not according to these fictionists, then what is the truth? Is there an angelic invisible being called Satan who is the General over his demon angels? No. If this is not true, if this is a fairy tale, then what is the truth? What does the truth reveal? Can proper information be found? The answer to this question is: yes! There is a devil but truly he has hidden himself sufficiently as to continue working evil in the world of religion and intellectualism. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />According to the scholars of fiction and imagination: an angel decided he would turn into a serpent, if taken literally I believe that means a snake. In this particular instance a talking snake in the garden of Eden. The garden of Eden is where God placed his creatures Adam whom he first formed, then Eve. It is quite interesting though that there is no other place in the bible other than Balaam’s mule whom God spake through, that an animal ever talked.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>When the mule talked it was a miracle produced by God, to speak to Balaam whom running from God was in an insane state of mind. Animals are not created with the ability to articulate and form words with meaning. They have their own mannerisms to communicate with one another but it is not a language like those in the human race. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Anyone who may take the side of an animal being able to articulate through speaking should quickly change your mind. Just like there is no link in human existence to connect man with ape, neither is there evidence an animal can talk; unless enabled like Balaam’s mule to one time and one time only by God. It is also interesting that the fiction scholars think the serpent was empowered by the invisible angelic individual called Satan. Satan became the incarnate evil demon in a snake. Further the scriptures are twisted and perverted by the fiction supporters of the devil, that he had legs. This is a must if the scriptures will be taken literally, because when he was cursed in the book of Genesis for having corrupted Eve, it was to go on his belly eating the dust of the earth forever. Then arises another extraordinary thing: Satan must have gotten off scott free because he, according to the biblical fictionists, is still here alive and well running to and fro. He just used the snake long enough to get the poor boy cursed and then he vacated. It may sound good to the innocent ear, but it is in fact a lie from those who bite into fictional imagery.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Those who believe God is all knowing or omniscient, did he not know this was going to happen in the garden of Eden? Did he make heaven a place where corruption and rebellion could enter? Is there a possibility that other angels could become disgruntled with God, his plans and also rebel and be ousted? I seriously do not think so. If God had created his angelic host with the capability to sin,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">he would have made provision for them to turn from their rebellion</span></u><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">. Did God just allow this one time rebellion, to leave poor Satan without a way back into the place he once possessed? No! The reason being, there was no portion of Gods invisible angelic host made with he capability to sin. The very nature of angels is not sinful or capable of sin. There is no possibility of anything but Gods will that can be done in heaven. Did God make room for rebellious behavior in heaven? No! Heaven is a place we as Gods creation are desirous to enter. Heaven is where we never have to worry again about the presence of evil, or the presence of evil prevailing. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />God did not take on himself the nature of angels because, his angels did not sin, neither could they sin. An angel is a messenger, whether it be a human angel or one of the angelic host of angels. Only the human angels have the capability to sin. Sin did not enter into the world by Lucifer, Satan or any other title which have been given to the evil of the world. by the scholars of fiction and imagination. Jesus took on him the seed of Abraham and the nature of Adam. God was concerned about reconciling the sins of the people not the sins of his angelic host. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />So then: am I saying there was no individual in the garden of Eden called Satan, Lucifer? Yes, I am saying that because the bible clearly speaks only of a serpent who was more subtle than any beast of the field. This very verbiage implies, that there was something there called a serpent which was more subtle than any beast of the field. There was a separation and the serpent was not one of the beasts of the field but a separate source of evil completely. More subtle than any beast, not any other beast, simply because it was not actually in the animal kingdom. Could it be that there are qualities in an human being capable of being described in figure as one of the beasts of the field? Yes! Example the faces of Jesus, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the Lamb. David calls young men who in their youth have the capability to devour, young lions. Humans have the capability to plan, follow and execute an attack, rape, war, theft, plot against the just. These are all qualities that reside in the human.The spirits of all flesh. Nowhere does the scriptures imply that there are spirits outside of the flesh or human arena.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Animals are included in the flesh, some animals God created with little or no aggressive manner, others however he has created to kill, ambush their prey and devour it. Lions, bears, snakes, etc..... did Satan get into the lion that found a man wondering and sought to devour him? Or did God give him a nature to kill the wondering prey? I choose to believe the latter. God did not allow or plan to have one of his angels fall from heaven and become the evil sinister monster and creature the scholars of fiction have imagined and taught. God did not create his angels with a nature to sin and then become omnipresent, like the scholars of fiction purpose. He must be everywhere at once because it is stated when the word is sown, those of the wayside soil have the devil come and pluck away the word immediately. The word is often sown around the world at the same time. If Satan is not an omnipresent spirit, then the scriptures are incorrect. I chose to believe the scriptures are truth and Satan is everywhere there is a human being. The difference between the human and an animal is their ability to comprehend and make a decision based upon what they have heard. Animals cannot read or comprehend human verbiage. They can comprehend gestures and sounds but not principals and character. The breed of dog or animal determines there character. You can get a bad dog, a bad horse, a bad animal, because they cannot overcome their nature like a human to stop bad habits. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">James in depicting the inadequacy of the law, described it like this. This unruly evil described by James, is the "more subtle than any beast of the field". This tongue of the serpent nature we have is untamable by men. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries etc. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Whatever is in abundance in the heart that is what the mouth and tongue let out. The law took control only of the outward man. The perfect law of Liberty given by Jesus to his apostles, demanded control of both inward thought and outward actions. The tongue can no man tame because, the heart has to be seen in order to change the conversation and manner of living. Only God can know the heart of man. Only God knows the heart. Only God when given control through faith, can change the heart into what it is suppose to be. So animals have been given a nature that can be modified through training but cannot be changed into that which is acceptable to God as being his image, able to give glory to God for the miraculous change.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">It appears here, that God did not like the spirits of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. For he wanted Moses to stand back and let him destroy the entire congregation and start another one. Moses interceded for the people, asking God to destroy only those men who had rebelled and attempted to usurp the God appointed authority of Moses. This is a spirit: attempting to overthrow the leadership God had set up, was a spirit of rebellion. The people did not like the results of Moses leadership and rebelled against it, inferring God would also receive their sacrifice as well as Moses. This infuriated God. What did Satan have to do with this? Did an individual angel inject into the hearts of these men to rebel against Moses and Aaron? Or did this spirit of evil come from within them out of their nature? Why would God swallow up these men in an earthquake if Satan had prompted this rebellion? He would not have. God is the God of the spirits of "ALL FLESH". </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Num 16:14-32</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up. And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer. And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces, and said,</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin,</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Sin is the transgression of the law. We are tempted when we are drawn away by our own lust and enticed. God cannot be tempted neither tempteth he any man. For when a man is tempted he is drawn away by his own lust.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">A little repetitious but true. Korah and company saw the authority of Moses and thought to use their position and powers with Israel to overthrow him. This is a spirit. Spirits come from within, anger is a spirit and is produced by provocation or dissatisfaction. Murder is a spirit and comes from wrath, anger and malice unchecked or not being dealt with properly. Men murder for money. When Cain was spoken to about repenting and doing right, getting rid of his wrath, he ignored the warning to overcome it, and allowed that spirit of anger to take control of his actions to become the first murderer. The father of that spirit was the nature of Cain he refused to subject to God. There was not a devil outside of Cain implanting thoughts, which is contrary to all scriptures. This is the idea of the scholars of fiction and imagination. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">his own lust</span></u><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">it bringeth</span></u><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">For </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">from within, </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">We were given a nature which we must overcome to be servant to God. We are instructed to become partakers of the divine nature through our expansion of faith. Add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge to knowledge temperance, to temperance patience, to patience brotherly kindness, the brotherly kindness charity. Sin did not enter into the world by an angel falling from heaven and entering into a serpent. Sin was not in the world when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. The serpent was not the sin that entered into the world.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Remember in order to sin, you must have a nature to sin and be in the human family. Angels do not have a nature to sin or leave the service of God. Adam and Eve sinned and were cast forth from the presence of God and the flaming sword was placed at the entrance barring them from return without passing through the sword of the angel.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Those who see only naturally and cannot see the types, shadows, allegories, figures are blind. Those messengers or angels that turned from Jesus word back to the law were certainly cast down to hell and chains of the darkness of the law to be reserved unto judgment. If this is taken literally, there are some discrepancies. The literal angels are now bound and will remain such until the judgment. They would not be free to enter snakes and animals and to implant evil thoughts into men. The idea presented here is not to indicate a falling from heaven at all, but a falling from a first estate. As Korah, Dathan and Abiram left the divine instituted authority of Moses and Aaron, the angels or messengers, or preachers of the New Testament perfect law, also left their first estate to be cast down into everlasting chains of darkness. The law is darkness, this is not literal darkness. Literal darkness is used to explain spiritual darkness. The unfulfilled law is darkness, the types and shadows of the law cannot save anyone or bring salvation unless they have been revealed and we have found their fulfilment in the teachings of the apostles and Christ. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The invisible things are God, the devil, spirits, the eternal power. All are seen in the book of beginnings and in the old testament types and shadows. Adams nature is first seen in Adam and Eve and their disobedience and fall from the garden of Eden. There instructions from God was not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God made trees and used them to represent men in various ways. Fruit trees, non fruit trees (as evergreens). We of course are admonished to be fruitful and multiply, naturally and spiritually. The only tree however God ever made which contained both good and evil is the mind of man. He is the only one who can make that choice for from himself. For from within out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. God warned them of eating of this tree. Why? Because they had not yet come to discern the capability of their own nature and the thoughts that spring from it.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The serpent was in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: namely man and his nature. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Adams nature was what caused Adam and Eve to fall from their steadfastness in Eden. Let me interject this concerning the nature of Adam. We are instructed to put off the nature of Adam (Old man) and become partakers of the divine nature. Why? Because in Adams nature rests the possibility of taking the spirits born from the serpent nature. Our thoughts can be like the poison of serpent or asps. Our thoughts can be devouring like the raging of a wolf or lion. Paul fought beasts in Ephesus after the manner of men. Why? Because those who remain in Adam’s nature, often present traits of that nature in various ways. The sly cunning of an Leopard, or snake, or bear. This is the reason the scripture in Genesis begins like this. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field. This serpent was the cunning thoughts of Adams nature in suggesting things contrary to the revealed will of God. Surely you won’t die says the heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked above all things. The serpent nature found in Adams animalistic nature. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">David understood that men could possess the spirits of animals in Adams nature. He wrote: Speaking of those who depended on their ferocious strength in their youth, yet without the wisdom of God. David admonished that if a man would seek the Lord, they would have strength and not lack.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />David spake of his soul being among lions, meaning men who had spirits like lions, this came from Adams nature. David said their teeth were spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword. David knew where evil came from and how it existed in the world. What? Do the teachers of fiction and imagination simply read right past these scriptures which so identify evil and it’s whereabouts. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Adams nature must be harnessed. The old testament could only regulate the outward actions of the inward thoughts from being committed. The law however did not deal with the heart. Jesus came with the perfect law to bring true liberty to the captives of the law. If the thoughts of the heart could be changed, then the outward actions would be controlled. Those in this nature without this revelation. David said would not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. The poison is loosed from the heart by the actions and tongue. David asked God to break their teeth or their bite. Their bite was to devour David and remove him from being King. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The law could not adequately deal with the nature of Adam. It could only control it somewhat. So Jesus took upon himself the seed of Abraham and Adams nature. Jesus is called the second Adam because he left us with another nature to enter in besides that of Adam. That is called the divine nature. The bride.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The angels of God desire to look into the salvation God has given unto man through his death, burial and resurrection. But they are unable because they have no will to choose, neither are they in sin to be redeemed. They are concerned about why God is so mindful of his human creation. God is mindful of his human creation because they are in sin and they will die in their sins if they do not choose the Gospel message that can save them from it. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Those who are in the bride will not be there because God created them with a nature to be his own. On the contrary God created them with a nature contrary in every aspect, concerning being his bride. Therefore God even Jesus, gave an incentive so great as to induce them to try. Induce them to accomplish, induce them to achieve and induce them to overcome the very contrary nature of Adam to become the bride of Jesus Christ. The difference between his created angels that cannot sin and the angels that could choose not to sin is the reason he is mindful of man. God gave man the ability to choose and make a right choice or wrong one, the bride will have purposely made herself ready for his coming. She made herself ready.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Jesus was made a little lower than the angels to suffer death, to take on the nature of Adam and overcome it in this life. There was no sin laid to his charge nor guile found in his mouth. He was led like a lamb dumb before his shearers. Never a mumbling word knowing that the cross would be the thing to eradicate and destroy the devil. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Within the nature of Adam is the devil. Satan is the evil thought of Adams nature. If the devil were an invisible creature only to be found in space somewhere supposedly hidden. Jesus would never had to have become a baby in a womb to take on flesh and blood as the children are partakers of. Men under the law live their whole lives in fear of death, not knowing what would be the outcome. Wondering if death were the end of it all. Jesus took upon himself the nature that is a little lower than the angels. This statement also intimates that the angels were made with a certain nature which would not allow them to sin. Humans can sin and have a nature that produces rebellion and disobedience against God. He took the serpent to the cross, he exhibited his perfect law over the creature and became the author of eternal salvation. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />The main point of the storm is pointing out the power of nature. The literal weather and nature represents the human nature. Jesus represents the divine nature. Many preach the storms of life and the antidote of calling on or not worrying if Jesus is one board. The implication of the story is that the divine nature has far more power than the human nature. The human nature can put you in a storm in a heartbeat. The divine nature might need to be wakened but when it comes awake and speaks to the Adams nature, it wins, it conquers, it prevails. The reason Jesus accused them of little faith was because having the divine nature on their ship was far more powerful than any sea or situation of nature. Where is the devil in all of this? They saw the waves and felt the wind, they saw the ship taking on water and becoming uncontrollable and unstable. They did what any follower of Jesus would have done, but when they called him they said, carest thou not that we perish. Actually they woke up the nature that was above the one that induced doubt. When they saw Jesus speak the word to the storm and saw it cease to exist, they were astonished. Dear scholar of fiction and imagination, where was the devil in all of this? Was he not in the nature? Was he not in the carnal observations of the minds of men? Did Jesus care whether or not they perished? Of course he did and he quickly came to the aid of the place the devil had taken them to, fear. God’s divine nature is greater than the serpent nature of Adam.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">After having written about a need for the renewal of the mind. After having written about putting off lying, putting off anger, to sin not. After having mentioned wrath: then he says: neither give place to the devil, which he has already revealed in a few words as the old man and his deeds. Do not give place to the devil which is the old nature to lie, speak lies, be angry, bitter and wrathful, hypocritical by a false holiness promoted by law and eradicated by the perfect law of Christ. The apostle’s doctrine. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This scripture in Ephesians 4:22 put off the former conversation the old man. Jesus revealed through the types and shadows that the devil was the first born nature and that he himself was the second born nature. Therefore Paul understanding this, wrote. Put off concerning the former conversation. What is the former conversation? It is the manner of living produced by keeping the law and living in the nature of Adam. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. What is true holiness? It is obedience to the perfect law which deals with both inward thought and outward actions. How do we accomplish such a task? </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">It is by being renewed in the (spirit) of your mind. The mind is where spirits come from. They do not come from without the man, they come from within, out of the heart. This is the greatest of incentives for those who desire to be one of the bride of Christ. The bride of Christ will become like him. Will be changed into the same image from faith to faith. Choosing rather to serve God than sin for a season. If folks do not know that the devil is the Adam nature, if saints do not know what they are fighting exactly, it well may keep them from being in the bride of Christ. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">There must be a renewal, there must be a change. Changing from the old nature to the new nature. This in essence is the new birth. It is not merely receiving the Holy Ghost, it is putting on the divine nature by the power of the Holy Ghost. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">In confronting the serpent that was in the garden, Jesus makes it plain, that whosoever does not consent to be with him is against him. Also that those who retain law, being teachers of the law, who refuse to hear the truth of Jesus are labeled by Jesus as serpents, or generation of vipers. The disciples were totally aware that the spirits were subject to them, yet Jesus said not to rejoice in that they had power over serpents and scorpion’s and all the power of the enemy, but to rejoice that their names were written in the lambs book of life. They had chosen to follow the perfect law of liberty given to the apostles by Jesus. Cain represents the first born nature as well as the Jews who would remain under the law refusing the new birth promised by the Lord. As the Jews crucified Jesus so those who remain blinded believing the types and shadows sufficient for salvation, Cain was their figure. Cain foreshadowed those who refused to offer the accepted sacrifice of the second born nature. Rather he would offer what was not accepted as also did the Jews and they crucified the Lord. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Jesus offered the first born nature a sacrifice to God. A sacrifice well pleasing to God as payment for the sins of the world. This is the only accepted sacrifice, the old man, the old nature, the serpent nature of Adam. This is how Jesus took the serpent to the tree. This fulfilled the serpent Moses raised on the pole for the healing of all those bitten. The Jews chose to turn back to the unfulfilled types and shadows. The types and shadows which Christ and his doctrines fulfilled, they turned back to the weak and beggarly elements of the law which cannot save in themselves. They chose to retain a literal priesthood with a potentate like the law, they chose to keep literal washing and sprinkling with literal water, they chose to keep food as a method of entering into the presence of God and the Kingdom of God. The Jews were the devils of that hour for sure. They rejected, they hated, they persuaded government to condemn by their envy, they witnessed falsely against Jesus. They were laughing when he did not take himself off the cross. They were the mockers which made fun at his blood being shed. He died for devils, just like he died for me when I was a devil. Judas Iscariot was a devil and he died for Judas Iscariot but Judas received it not, turning back also to law for justification, where it could not be found. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Some say the devil was laughing when Jesus was on the cross. I have thought this to be humorous over the years because the Jews were standing right there spitting in his face, making fun and jokes of his dying. They were the ones who challenged him, that if he be the Christ to come down off the cross. Their spirit was the devil. The devil wasn’t standing around invisibly laughing with all the invisibles. No! The invisible things from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made. (THE TYPES AND SHADOWS WERE MADE) Cain and Abel were made to be figures of that which is to come. This describes the invisible, the old nature which is invisible, and the new nature which is invisible. How to destroy the one and to put on the other, all done by and through faith in the Gospel message. The Spirit of God is that which quickens us to put on the Lord Jesus and become part of his blood line and lineage.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />These were men who openly refused the truth and despised the words of Jesus. These were as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, only open and unashamed. Jesus said they were the ones who killed the prophets and rejected the prophets of old. Those that rejected Christ for the law and to keep it, are the serpents. Those who are ministering<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the word but who refuse to obey the Gospel message and teach the truth concerning the new birth. A man must be born again. The only way a man can be born again is put off the first nature that captivates him and put on the new nature that frees him. So if you think Christ Jesus fought with invisible forces besides that of the first nature, the serpent nature of Adam, you are wrong.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-36342003498593737662018-11-11T15:13:00.001-08:002018-11-11T15:13:48.684-08:00Be Careful What You Long For Because You Sure Will Get It.“Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it unto thee.” -Genesis 13:17<br />
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In essence God said, Wherever you walk, that will I give you. So, logically Abraham would have walked in the places he desired the Lord to give him. Right?....right.<br />
“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.<br />
For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.” -Galatians 6:7-8<br />
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Sowing implies labor and you generally only labor for something you desire. People who want something carnal invest something into carnality and they may reap something carnal. People who want something spiritual sow something into their spirituality that they may reap something spiritual.<br />
We learn then, that whatever a man truly wants (which is made manifest by his works and what he sows) is what he gets.<br />
“I the Lord search the heart, I try the reigns, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” - Jeremiah 17:10<br />
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God said, I search the heart…why? To see its true desires...why? So He can give it what it truly wants. Why does He give to every man according to his ways (how he walks/lives) and doings? Because what a man does shows what he truly wants. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Not just with the literal mouth, but more so with actions. Actions speak louder than words. You can make your mouth say anything; your actions are what really speak. How you live and carry yourself speaks more to people than what you say.<br />
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“This I say then, walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.” -Galatians 5:16-17<br />
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This implies that if you walk in the flesh you shall fulfill the lusts (desires) of the flesh. Why will you fulfill the lusts of the flesh if you walk in the flesh? Because if that is how you are walking (carrying yourself), that reflects what you truly desire and God gives to a man according to the true desires of his heart. This verse also implies that if you walk in the Spirit you will fulfill the lusts of the Spirit. (Yes, the Spirit has lusts, see Galatians 5:17, they are just a holy and righteous lusts. All lust means is a desire and yearning for. The Spirit desires and yearns for righteous things.) Why will you fulfill the lust of the Spirit if you are walking in the Spirit? Because that is the way you're walking. You can only go where you walk. So, how you walk (carry yourself) reflects what you want, where you want to go, and where you will go. So, whether you walk in the flesh or in the Spirit, that is what you will get because that is what you truly want and God will give a man what he truly wants, whether it is good or bad.<br />
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“He reigned flesh also upon them as dust, and feathered fouls like as the sand of the sea:<br />
And he let it fall in the midst of their camp, round about their habitations. So they did eat, and were well filled: for he gave them their own desire; They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths, The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.” -Psalm 78:27-31<br />
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“I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways.” -Psalm 81:10-13<br />
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Also, Romans 1:18-23 speaks of men who were suppressing the truth for their own selfish desires and it says in verse 24,<br />
“Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves:” -Romans 1:24<br />
Why did God give them over to the lusts of their own hearts? Because the lusts of their own hearts is what they wanted.<br />
“And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;” -Romans 1:28<br />
Why did God give them over to do those things which are not convenient? Because they wanted to do those things which are not convenient.<br />
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“And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved, And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.” -2 Thessalonians 2:10-12<br />
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Notice how it says they received not a love of the truth…it does not say that the love of the truth wasn't offered, but that they just did not receive it. Why didn't they receive it? Because they didn't want it. They didn't want the love of the truth. There are only two things in this world. The truth….and lies. If you hate one, you will love the other. If you love one, you will hate the other. So if they didn't want the truth, the wanted lies. And because they wanted lies, God gave them what they wanted...a strong delusion. Those who don't want truth want strong delusion, and for this cause God shall send them strong delusion. Again, why? Because they had pleasure in unrighteousness. So, because they had pleasure in and delighted themselves in nrighteousness (lies), that is what God gave them. Not that God lies, but he uses the lies that the flesh creates and sends them to people who desire them. You reap what you sow…period.<br />
“The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.” -2 Timothy 2:6<br />
(Whoever sows is a laborer)<br />
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This is a truly terrifying message and cuts deep, but it is 100% truth. We have no idea of our hearts desire so we must watch and pray. We must ask God sincerely for righteous desires, that we may be right with Him and be molded to be like the one true Lord of all; that we may be with Him for eternity in a place without sin, pain, trouble, or sorrow. It will be a hard walk, but with the right heart and with the help and strength of Jesus Christ, the almighty God, we can do it. If you have repented, been baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and received the gift of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues, don't stop there.<br />
“Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgement.” -Hebrews 6:1-2<br />
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Continue to strive for more. If you stop then you will not make it to heaven.<br />
“But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” -Matthew 24:13<br />
If you have not obeyed Acts 2:38 then you must do so, and continue always to strive for perfection and excellence in Christ Jesus.<br />
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May the Lord help us all that strive for more in Christ to endure until the end, and enlighten the eyes of those who have not obeyed Acts 2:38. In Jesus’ name.<br />
Amen.<br />
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Submitted by: Micheal Pontrelli<br />
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-8711128801200194542018-11-11T15:09:00.001-08:002018-11-11T15:09:12.166-08:00Spiritual Parasites<br />
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<span lang="EN">Parasite: 1.) an animal or plant that lives on
or in an organism of another species from whose body it obtains nutriment. 2.)
a person who habitually relies on or exploits others and gives nothing in
return. This definition implies that a
parasite feeds, obtains nutrients from, and essentially drains its host.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Parasites can represent spirits, as they feed off and drain their host.
A spirit is a thought, or pattern of thoughts, or a mindset, or an attitude.
“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that
I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” -John 6:63. Words are
expressed thoughts. He was saying his thoughts were spirit. “A man's belly
shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth; and with the increase of his
lips he shall be filled.” -Proverbs 18:20. Now, we know that the mouth doesn't
literally produce fruit. So this scripture is spiritual. The fruit of the mouth
is the words a person speaks, and words are thoughts. We say nothing that
doesn't first start in our mind. The scripture is pretty much saying, how a man
thinks (his mindset) determines what he produces. “As a man thinketh in his
heart, so is he.” -Proverbs 23:7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know
that the heart is the mind. A bad mindset produces bad fruit, and a good mindset
produces good fruit. Now if we take this understanding and apply it where the
Bible speaks on the fruit of the Spirit, we understand that the Spirit is the
mindset of God; that mindset produces love, joy, peace, long-suffering,
gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance. I say all of that, to simply
say this: spirits are thoughts and thoughts determine how you think or your
mindset. So, spirits are mindsets. And if spirit is a mindset and parasites
represent a spirit...a parasite represents a way of thinking (a mindset).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
parasites consume your food, leaving you hungry after every meal and unable to
gain weight. The meal is having church and the teaching of the word, and the
parasite is whatever spirit (mindset) that rejects the word, and makes you
unable to grow in Christ. “And when he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and the
fowls came and devoured them up.” -Matthew 13:4. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Others feed off of your red blood cells,
causing anemia. People with anemia have a tendency to get cold quickly and they
fatigue easily. Fatigue: extreme tiredness, typically resulting from mental or
physical exertion or illness. Some people come to church, get hyped, and then
die out and have no determination or dedication to do what they said they would
do when they were motivated. The seed is received, it springs up, and it
quickly withers away when it comes time to perform the word and really grow in
Christ. “Some fell upon stoney places, where they had not much earth: and
forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth: and when the
sun was up, they were scorched; and because they had no root they withered
away.” -Matthew 13:5-6.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
parasites even cause itching and irritability. Anger is a fruit that a carnal
parasite (spirit/mindset) produces. That is not a good fruit. “Wherefore, my
beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to
wrath:” -James 1:19<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Some parasites even cause insomnia. “Thou
holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled I cannot speak.” -Psalm 77:4. Insomnia:
inability to sleep. To sleep is to rest. We know that there is a spiritual rest
in the Holy Ghost. That rest helps us not to worry and to trust God. But if a
carnal parasite (spirit/mindset) causes you to have insomnia (worry) you cannot
rest (trust God). And the Bible says that without faith it is impossible to
please God. “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.” -Matthew 6:34.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
that we know what some spiritual parasites are, the next questions are:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>how do we avoid getting them, and if we do
get them, how do we get rid of them. </span>In
order to know how not to contract them, we must know how they are
contracted. The most common way to receive a parasite is through uncleanliness.
Whether it is contaminated water, bad food, or from the eggs of a parasite on
the ground; it is caused by contact with something unclean.</div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One
example of a parasite that comes to mind is the mango worm. They are the larvae
of the mango fly and are laid as eggs in the dirt. The animal or human then
comes in contact with that dirt, whether it is by walking in that area
barefoot, or rolling around or sleeping in the dirt. The freshly hatched larvae
then burrow into the host's skin and feed on it. If the larvae burrow in at the
wrong spot (in the ear tunnel leading to the brain) it can cause death. The
worms, once settled in, are painful to have removed, and if enough burrow into
the host, it can be impossible to remove all the worms, and can lead to death
as well. Some patches on the host are so infested with worms that you cannot
even get a good grip to squeeze them out and become inflamed which causes an
animal extreme displeasure when someone tries to remove them, and they snap at
the one who is trying to help them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
dirt represents carnality. When you walk or step foot in carnality, or roll
around in (enjoy) it, you receive worms (spirits) and they destroy you and
deteriorate the good that is in you (the Holy Ghost). Once you receive or are
exposed to those spirits it can be hard and painful to remove them. If they
have enough influence it can completely separate you from God (cause spiritual
death). If there are too many and/or are too deep, the preaching of the word
won't have enough influence on you to be able to squeeze them out of you… also
causing spiritual death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
are parasites all around us in this unclean world, and we must be careful not
to step foot in the dirt they are in. If anything, God forbid, should
happen...it must be dealt with immediately and not be allowed to grow. This is
done by the preaching of the word, rebuke, correction, reproved, etc. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The worms are removed by the doctor squeezing
them out of the host. This is a type of the preaching of the word (goodness of
God) leading to repentance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Once
the worms are squeezed out, the problem is solved, but you can't squeeze them
out only halfway or even three-quarters of the way because it will wiggle its
way back in and continue to feed. You have to get it out completely.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">Another type of parasite is a mosquito. They
fly around in the air and land on a host. The parasite itself can even transfer
other parasites that it contains to the host. Of course, these mosquitoes
represent people, and the parasites they transfer are the spirits (thoughts)
they share. This is why we must be careful who we put ourselves around and what
we watch and listen to. “Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good
manners.” 1 Corinthians 15:33. The Greek word for communication, in this
context, means: companionship, intercourse, communion, communication. Of
course, the root word of communication is commune. Commune: 1.) Share one's
intimate thoughts or feelings with, especially when the exchange is spiritual.
2.) Feel in close spiritual contact. The definition implies the exchanging of
thoughts or ideas (spirits). So, communication can really be anything that you
associate yourself with and allow thoughts (spirits) and opinions to be
exchanged; even if it isn't face-to-face. When you watch a video, the creator
of that video is still communicating his thoughts and opinions to you; likewise
with music.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
people you talk with can be mosquitoes that transfer parasites (spirits). They
themselves can be a parasite: they are a spirit or a mindset. They have their
own certain way of thinking (mindset). This makes them a spirit. Just like we
have a spirit and other spirits (other people's thoughts) have been transferred
to us by experiences or teaching by other people. We never lose our spirit
(mindset/way we do things), we just add or subtract to our spirit. Our spirit
is affected by other people's spirit(s). Likewise, other people's spirits are
affected by ours. Like Legion, he himself had a spirit (his own way of doing things/
personal mindset), but contained many spirits (other mindsets/ ways of thinking
of certain things) that were transferred to him by people, circumstances,
experiences, etc. And obviously they were the wrong spirits, and were
transferred to him by the wrong people. Such examples represent why we should
set boundaries. We should mindful of what we watch and listen to, and who we
hang out with; because when spirits are received, they can be hard to get out.
Some spirits can only be cast out by fasting and prayer (see Matthew 17:21). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN">We must be sober and vigilant because our
adversary the devil is out seeking whom he may devour. Our carnal mind is
always lurking and waiting for an opportunity to grab hold of something carnal.
This is why the scripture says, “Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of
it are the issues of life.” -Proverbs 4:27. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But
put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to
fulfill the lusts thereof.” -Romans 13:14.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“But
the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore sober, and watch unto
prayer.” -1 Peter 4:7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Keep
back the servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over
me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great
transgression.” -Psalm 19:13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May
God give those who read understanding in the things written and bring them
further into perfection. In Jesus’ name. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Submitted by: Micheal Pontrelli</div>
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-12181441841370633172018-10-18T13:14:00.000-07:002018-10-18T13:14:14.989-07:00Joseph Today<br />
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In the story of Joseph you read how the jealousy of his
brothers caused him to go into slavery. [Gen 37:23, 28 KJV] The bible says
there’s no new thing under the sun and that the Old Testament is given for our
example. If you have ever had family betray you, you have an idea of what this
must have been like. Seventeen years old and your whole life ahead of you. Your
dreams of becoming this or that. You get up one day and per your fathers
command set out for a life changing, dream crashing, devastating and betraying
experience with your own family. Family, you know the ones that are supposed to
be “blood is thicker than water” companions by your side. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Each and every moment had hope, fears and imagination
running wild in it. If you haven’t received a life changing phone call, been
through a life changing event, then right you might not understand what he was
going through. But I’ve received that more than once and during those moments,
your mind is racing. He is now a slave. From the owner to the slave in one day.
He could really be beaten to death for disobedience. The mercy of God was to
put him in Potiphar’s house. It wasn’t to deliver him from slavery. In
Potiphar’s house he became favored. [Gen 39:1, 6, 21 KJV] <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here’s where I want to really begin. Joseph wasn’t some
super human perfect man. He was like you and I. How could he not be sitting
there imagining his father hearing that he was gone and not coming to look for
him? He had dreams of his brothers bowing to him. His father loved him and gave
him the very coat his brothers took off him that day. His father lived for God
and God talked to him. He knows its death or beating if he tries to run away.
Canaan is not a short distance to travel, if he even knew the way. Really what
else is he to do but serve? He believed there is a God of Israel. He believed
and loved the stories he had heard all his life. He wanted the blessing he was
told about. So he did what we would do, serve his master until his deliverance
would come. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I work at my job. Some days it’s easy, other days it’s hard.
I have good moments and bad moments. I haven’t found a better job yet. There
were days I wanted to walk off, days I said things I shouldn’t have. I’ve been
there twenty five years now and I’m still looking for a new job. Sure I
could’ve walked off, quit and lost everything. Everything meaning my favor with
God. God has through all my faults and mistakes, given me favor with the owner
and my boss. I am not some super human Christian that never did or said
anything wrong and yet God has been with me and I have favor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to believe it was the same for Joseph
because there’s no new thing under the sun. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I can imagine Joseph making himself comfortable in his
servant-hood. His boss made him the chief of all things. Maybe life wasn’t that
bad after all. Sure his father never searched for him and his brothers “got
away with” selling him. Oh year after year I can see the disappointment of each
new voice, new person, new gossip and yet no sign of his family regretting what
they did or his loving father searching for him. His dreams were now something
he pushed aside yet he still knew God was with him. Those little God winks as
we call them today. Telltale signs that let you know He does exist and for some
reason is allowing this. You don’t understand but you submit anyway. He is God
and maybe what you are going through will show itself one day. Maybe there’s
something coming you don’t see or know about that He is doing, cause you see
Him. You feel Him and you know He’s there; and all the other things we tell
ourselves today to help us cope with disappointment and life changing events. <o:p></o:p></div>
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How can I say “all this?” Really think about how you respond
to things today. You’re the same human being he was. You don’t know the whole
story either. But you can do like he did and live for God no matter what comes
your way. Not with a human perfection our mind likes to trip us into believing
in order to change the situation. If I were better, didn’t speak this or do
that. Well yes, you are learning, but I can’t see Joseph as perfect in
everything or else he would have been without sin. I only know of one who was
without sin and that is God. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The bible is clear that Joseph had forgotten his dreams (Gen
42:9) and was living daily in hopes of freedom in his requests to the butler. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>[Gen 40:14-15 KJV But think on me when it
shall be well with thee, and shew kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make
mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house: For indeed I was
stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and here also have I done nothing
that they should put me into the dungeon.] This is eleven years after that day.
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Another hope and another disappointment. The butler was
restored, the baker was hanged and Joseph was forgotten. I myself have made the
best of things and have had some great times, memories and was used of God
during this time of vanished dreams. I can relate on so many levels, except the
ones that speak of Joseph as if he were super human. As if he didn’t make a
mistake at all or else he wouldn’t have been used of God. No, Joseph loved the
God of Israel, his God. But he was in all points tempted and with sin. The
things the bible points out is the times where it showed he chose not to
willingly sin but to live for God during temptation. I have those moments too
and the others God doesn’t bring up unless it helps me and others to overcome.
He puts it under the blood with repentance. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Two years later and now thirteen years after being sold into
slavery, Joseph meets Pharaoh. (Gen 41) During those thirteen years he learned
how to manage and increase goods. He learned how to speak the Egyptian language
fluently. I can also say, since I am learning this, he learned how to control
his emotions and believe that God is working when you don’t see Him working.
When he went throughout all the land, he could’ve understood at that time the
dreams given to baker and butler. He could name it as a God working in his
benefit. It might have taken a few days to put everything together, after all
it was another one of those life altering experiences; from prison to a palace
in one day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[Gen 42:9, 18 KJV And Joseph remembered the dreams which he
dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye [are] spies; to see the nakedness of
the land ye are come. ... 18 And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do,
and live; for I fear God:]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Joseph had ups and downs, but maintained his belief that God
was God. Knowing that I can see at times God working in my life would lead me
to believe that after the dreams, he did too. He grew in wisdom and had
convictions. This is the key element in your life. Those convictions have kept
me out of a mess and in favor with God. <o:p></o:p></div>
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[Gen 50:19-21 KJV And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am
I in the place of God?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as for you,
ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it
is this day, to save much people alive. Now therefore fear ye not: I will
nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto
them.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the end of this story it’s easy to miss a few more
things. It was jealousy that his brothers needed to repent of. In order to
repent they had to come to the place of acknowledging God saw it and they
didn’t get away with it. They too had to confront it. Joseph had to go through
thirteen years period. It didn’t matter how much he prayed, how faithful he
was, how “perfect” his walk with God was or anything else people like to throw
are you proclaiming all the reasons you haven’t been delivered or are in the
situation you’re in. He had to be there for yes, himself, but because of his
brothers. It’s proven with Benjamin and no jealousy when given a double portion
and Judah willing to offer his life for him. What a change that took thirteen
years to produce. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When you’re going through your life changing, dream
shattering events and no deliverance seems to be coming your way; remember that
Joseph didn’t know the end of the story all those years either. Pray that God
will give you want you need to change as He sees fit and that if someone else
is the cause of your “event,” that you’ll have forgiveness and wisdom to deal
with it / them when the time comes. It will come. Hopefully you are not the
cause of someone else’s event. But if so, repent. Judah repented and was
converted. You know that God accepted him because He came through Judah and is
known as the Loin of Judah. Be all you can be and know that no one did anything
in the bible that you yourself cannot do, both good and bad. Flesh is flesh and
God is good!!!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Submitted by: Tina Marie</div>
<br />apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-10756701897161074632018-09-28T08:19:00.001-07:002018-09-28T08:19:09.986-07:00He alone is God and His name is Jesus<br />
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The goal in this is to state facts, ask questions (in most
cases answering with the obvious and logical answer) and to let God reveal that
He alone is God and His name is Jesus. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Strong’s
Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible and Strong’s Expanded Dictionary of Bible
Words, cognate 3068 Yhvh or Yehovah (used in Ex. 3:15) means: (the)
self-existent or eternal. This is derived from cognate 1961 hayah (used in Ex.
3:14) which means: to exist, be, become. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s look at the
various uses of Jehovah (the self-existent) throughout the old testament.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jehovah-Jireh: (the) self-existent will see (to
it)<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jehovah-Nissi: (the) self-existent (is) my
banner<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 3.)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jehovah-Tsidkenu: (the) self-existent (is) our
right or righteousness<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> 4.)<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jehovah-Shalom: (the) self-existent (is) peace<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->Jehovah-Shammah: (the) self-existent (is)
thither<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We see, through
examination of the use of this word, Jehovah is not actually a name such as
Darryl, Chris, Cory, Tony, Tyler etc., but acts as an adjective: describing the
nature of God…self-existent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What then does the
bible mean in Exodus 3:15? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“And God said
moreover unto Moses, thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, the self-existent
(Lord) God of your fathers, the self-existent (Lord) God of Abraham, the God of
Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name forever.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When you
understand that the definition of the word name is simply, <span style="color: #111111;">a word or set of words by which a person, animal, place,
or thing is known, addressed, or referred to</span>, you understand that the
Almighty was simply saying that He was always going to be known as the
self-existent God of the fathers of the children of Israel. He was not speaking
of a name such as Darryl, Chris, Cory, Tony, Tyler, etc., but was simply
stating that He was always going to be known by that<span style="color: #111111;">
word or set of words to the children of Israel. He truly is the self-existent
God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and He shall be known as that for
evermore, but He does in fact have a true name. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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How do we know? Well, when we use the same definition of the
word name and apply it to Matthew 28:19, we find something very interesting….<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Go ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost:” -Matthew 28:19<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We must do two
things here:<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We must realize it says name (singular) and not
names (plural). This means that Jesus was stating that there is one name that
applies to all three of the titles mentioned. Just as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>you or I can have multiple titles, but we
have a name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span></span><!--[endif]-->We must use what we know and apply our
understanding of the word name in its proper context. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we do these
things, we read it like this, “…baptizing them in the word by which the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost are all known by.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how we know
that the self-existent God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob has a true name now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is his name? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His name is Jesus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Son said, “I am
come in my Father’s name…” -John 5:43. This is hinting that the name of the
Father is Jesus. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, the Son’s
name is Jesus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last but certainly
not least, “But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will
send in my name…” -John 14:16. This tells us that the name of the Holy Ghost is
Jesus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is the Father,
Son, and the Holy Ghost.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is “…Alpha and
Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was,
and which is to come, the Almighty.” -Revelation 1:8<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that
there is not a threefold Godhead with three distinct, separate, but co-equal
and co-eternal individuals (making it Godheads, thereby implying three Gods),
but rather that there is only one God, who “is a Spirit” (John 4:24), the
Almighty God, who was “…manifest in the flesh…” -1 Tim. 3:16. Who made himself
a man, yet was not the product nor the offspring of a man but of God (that by
definition makes him the Son of God), though He came through a woman (which makes
Him the Son of man), that He (the Almighty God) could put the fullness of the
Godhead (His Spirit) in the body He created for Himself (Christ). “For in him
(Christ) dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” -Col. 2:9<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bible says, “God
was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself…” -2 Cor. 5:19.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Which God is that
scripture referring to? Isn’t there only one God? Isn’t that one God the
Almighty God?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This means that the
Almighty God was in Christ. After all, Jesus did say, “All power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth.” -Matthew 28:18. Did he not? Another word for power
is might. If Jesus has all might, doesn’t that make Him Almighty?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bible says that Christ
is the express image of God’s person (Heb. 1:3), and that He is the “…image of
the invisible God…” -Col. 1:15.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The definition of
Greek cognate 5287 (used in Hebrews 1:3 as person) is, essence. A synonym for
essence in the English language is spirit. The definition of synonym is, <span style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as
another word or phrase in the same language. So, essence and spirit mean the
exact or nearly the exact same thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our bodies are the
express image of our spirit (person). Our bodies simply hold our spirit. In the
same way, Christ (the body God made for himself) is the express image of the
Almighty God’s spirit, which was in Christ “…reconciling the world unto himself...”
-2 Cor. 5:19. That is why Jesus said, “…the Father is in me…” -John 14:11. The
body was simply the holding cell of God Almighty who “..is a Spirit...” -John
4:24.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Philip saith unto
him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. Jesus saith unto him, Have
I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that
hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the
Father? 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. “-John 14:8-10<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why would Jesus Christ
refer to himself as the Father (Almighty God) if he wasn’t? Was Jesus Christ a
liar? Does not the bible clearly say that “…in Him (Christ) is no sin…” -1 John
3:5? If Jesus Christ was not the Father in the Son, that makes Christ a liar,
and lying is a sin, but Christ “…knew no sin…” -2 Cor. 5:21 and cannot lie.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You will ask, “Why
did Christ say, ‘My Father is greater than I.’” -John 14:28? Jesus was
referring to the body He was in. Did not Paul do the same thing when he said, “…in
me (that is, in my flesh) dwelleth no good thing…” -Rom. 7:18? <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flesh is inferior to
God Almighty, is it not?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If man was made
lower than the angels (Psalm 8:4) doesn’t that mean we are lower than God too?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus was saying, “My
Father (the Spirit of God Almighty) who “…is in me…” (John 14:11) is greater
than this flesh. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why is the
manifestation of the Father greater than the manifestation of the Son? Because
the manifestation of the Father is not limited by the flesh. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But isn’t the manifestation of the Son, the
Father in the flesh?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then why can’t the manifestation of the Son
know the time and day of the end?<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is because of the
limitation of the flesh. When the Spirit of the Father manifested himself in
the flesh, He willingly limited Himself and gave up His omniscience that He
could be in the flesh and save us. No flesh and blood holds the ability to know
everything. So, God, loving our lives more than He loved His, sacrificed His
omniscience to come suffer the pains of this life and death that we may be
saved.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Speaking of being
saved, “…there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must
be saved” -Acts 4:12<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How are we saved? “…baptism
doth also now save us…” -1 Peter 3:21. How do we stay saved? We receive the
Holy Ghost and keep in unto the end. “<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But he that shall
endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.” </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">-</span>Matthew 24:13.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyways…saved by
baptism. What does this mean? It means our sins are remitted (forgiven). How
are our sins remitted? By baptism in Jesus’ name. (See Acts 2:38)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jews asked a
good question, “…who can forgive sins but God (the Almighty) only?” -Mark 2:7<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, this is
hinting that Jesus Christ is the Almighty God manifest in the flesh (see again
1 Tim. 3:16) because He has the power to forgive sins.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Second, this raises
a question. If God Almighty is the only one who can forgive sins, who’s name
but God Almighty’s has the power to remit sins? If the Almighty God is the only
individual who can remit sins, then His name is the only name that has the
power to remit sins. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Then Peter said
unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ
for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.”
-Acts 2:38<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as the word of
God has already established, “…there is none other name under heaven given
among men, whereby we must be saved.” -Acts 4:12<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only way the
apostles had the power to remit sins is through the name of Jesus Christ in
baptism. Is that not how our sins are remitted? Does it not say in Acts 2:38 to
be baptized for the remission of sins? Yes, it absolutely does. Baptism in
Jesus’ name is the only way to have our sins remitted, because Jesus Christ is
not here bodily anymore to forgive sins. Therefore, we must use His name. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A triune Godhead
that claims there is three separate but equal individuals, but is defying the
way God made things, one individual: it’s impossible and that would mean there
are three Gods. If there are three separate individuals in the Godhead and all
are God, there cannot be one individual God. There is nothing in creation that
can be three individuals, yet one individual. The doctrine of the trinity is
“…philosophy and vain deceit,” and is “…after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” -Colossians 2:8. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It is confusing and cannot truly be understood. In response
to such a statement, true trinitarians would say that the Godhead is so complex
that we can’t understand it. This is not true “For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal Godhead and power; so that they are without
excuse:” -Romans 1:20. </div>
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The bible does not teach there is a trinity, or a triune
God, nor three separate but co-equal and co-eternal individual persons in the
Godhead. In fact, you will not even find one of these sayings in the word of
God. The bible teaches that there is one God, the Almighty God, Jesus, who
revealed himself in the flesh (1Tim. 3:16) and died for our sins; “that
remission of sins (baptism) should be preached in his name among all nations,
beginning at Jerusalem.” -Luke 24:47. </div>
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That His Spirit, the Spirit of Almighty
God, Jesus, may dwell in us and continually cleanse us and purge us of all
ungodliness until “…Until the glorious appearing of the great God and our
Savior Jesus Christ.” -Titus 2:13<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Isa 43:10-15 KJV Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and
my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand
that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after
me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared,
and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore
ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. Yea, before the day was I
am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who
shall let it? Thus saith the LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; For
your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their nobles, and
the Chaldeans, whose cry is in the ships. I am the LORD, your Holy One, the
creator of Israel, your King.]<o:p></o:p></div>
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Submitted by: Michael Pontrelli<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-77021073579034725922018-04-17T12:06:00.002-07:002018-04-17T12:06:24.572-07:00Adams nature and the evil in this world<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This is a continuation on the thought of Adams nature. More explicitly the serpent part of that nature. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The serpent was that poisonous thought which comes from the heart and lies concerning the known truth. That produces rebellion and resentments. The serpent is the contrary thought that comes from within out of the heart (Mat 7:21). </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I would like to point out that Jesus dealt with this in two particular places. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">John 3:13-14</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">If God cannot be seen as Jesus, then there is deception here. There are many who can see that Jesus is God but they do not seem to grasp the greatest miracle of all; which is what he came into the flesh to perform. He took the serpent nature of Adam to the tree. If while looking at the cross you do not see a serpent hanging dead there, then you have the wrong God. The almighty God came into flesh and blood for one specific reason and that was to save sinners.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">In order for the master to do such a thing he had to become part of them to destroy that thing in them which had them in bondage and captivity to sin and death. The serpent nature of Adam, this is the reason God called for a serpent to be displayed on a pole and healed all who would look for a long period of time at it. Today it requires nothing less than to see the serpent on the cross Jesus took, this is the reason John wrote of it in John 3:14. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">God took his one, true and only body, the only begotten Son, the Son with both divine nature and human nature, the human nature is the serpent nature of Adam, and hung it on a tree. For God so loved the world and those bitten to death by the serpent nature of Adam, that he came himself to provide us with a remedy and a promise of salvation through himself. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">If you do not see a serpent on the pole it is because you cannot figure out what a serpent would be doing in Jesus; further how a serpent would have anything to do with salvation. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whomsoever believeth in him should not perish. The only way one would perish is to not see and investigate the serpent part of what Jesus did at Calvary. This is how he destroyed the devil and this is how each person destroys the devil through faith and a continued look into the perfect law of liberty. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jesus put on the perfect law and gave the perfect law to the world by the disciples. The world however does not want the perfect law, they want the lesser imperfect Law of Moses. Why? Because the Law of Moses deals only with the exterior and the perfect law deals with both interior and exterior. Keep the Ten Commandments and claim Jesus as your savior and your all set, right? Wrong! Can you not see that the old man which lived in the Law of Moses must be killed and he cannot be killed through law. He must be killed by the teachings of Jesus and the perfect law of the apostles. The Law of Moses could not kill the serpent nature it could only prohibit it, stall the inevitable which is death. The perfect law however kills the old nature and reveals to us the divine nature. This is the reason why the same Spirit Jesus accomplished this all with must be received by all those who will put off the old man and put on the new men. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">We must receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost in order to accomplish the new birth. We must be led by the Spirit of God in order to be sons of God. For us to think we can live in the serpent nature of Adam and gain eternal life is a fairy tale thought. Baptism in Jesus name is necessary, it is to show the serpent nature of Adam must be buried and the divine nature of God put on. This is the Gospel. Any other gospel is not a gospel at all. The old man must die and the Holy Ghost promise of Acts 2: must be received. And with many other words did he testify and exhort saying save yourselves from this untoward generation. And they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and fellowship etc.....</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Men and brethren, what shall we do? Peters divine authority and answer was REPENT! Repent from what? The Law of Moses you have been living by which crucified Christ. You have taken by your wicked hands and crucified and slain. Acts 2:23. They needed to repent of trusting any longer in the Law of Moses. Now was the time Jesus died for, to be able to point out the culprit and the cause of his murder. Now the out pouring of his Spirit to give a new birth, one that would grant eternal life and victory over death and hell. To prove his perfect law would lead to eternal life by his resurrection. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Acts 2:37-40</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call. And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This scripture illustrates that Jesus took upon himself the sinful nature of Adam, the serpent nature or the nature with the serpent in it. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood he likewise took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that hath the power of death, that is the devil. The power of death and those that trust in the law of sin and death are why Jesus came with another law, called the perfect law of liberty. The law that would free men from their sins. By the sacrifice of himself as a lamb without spot nor blemish he died for the sins committed by the serpent nature. Those who continue to believe that somehow the Law of Moses can save them without the perfect law are in trouble. They remain trapped in the law of sin and death. There is no possibility of salvation attempting to remain in the serpent nature of Adam. “Accept the Lord as your personal savior” will keep a person trapped in the serpent nature of Adam. Believe on the Lord and thou shalt be saved. This is true but requires much more in the way of a continued believing and hearing truth. The law requires no new birth and those who keep the law of types and shadows use the natural elements for salvation. Bread and wine which represents the word and Spirit of God. The natural element cannot save you are anyone. The perfect law however begins with the Gospel message and is completed by the epistles and teachings of Christ. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rom 8:1-8</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The law of the Spirit of life in Christ is the perfect law of liberty. The law which frees men through the Gospel message of Acts 2:38. Death, burial and resurrection. What dies? The first nature is turned from (repent) to be killed. What is burial? The person identifies themselves with the perfect law of liberty in Christ Jesus through water baptism in Jesus name. What is the new birth? The infilling of the Holy Ghost. It is being born by the Spirit of God into the church with the apostles’ doctrine so the first born nature can be destroyed by putting on the Lord Jesus Christ through obedience to his word. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">To be carnally minded is death. To see the figures of the old in any other way beside figures is to be carnally minded. To be carnally minded is to keep the ten commandments and believe that is enough for salvation. To be carnally minded is to leave the allegories of the Old Testament remain simply literal, not seeing what they represent and stand for. So here goes.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">John 3:13-14 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There are many ministers and others who cannot understand this scripture and are blinded because of they’re seeing the serpent as literal. Seeing the serpent as the devil, who escaped Eden and now continues in an invisible state with his evil heard of angelic followers. The devil is the serpent, not one who escaped, but a title of a part of the evil nature of Adam. The serpent did not escape Eden to wander to and fro. The serpent left the garden in the nature of Adam. This is how the evils of sin continue to ravish those who gave themselves to it. Ishmael, Esau, Ham, Jeroboam, etc......this scripture in John 3 which says: as the serpent was lifted up even so must the son of man be lifted up. Does this not appear to be in conflict with rational thinking? Christ the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. Yes but as the children are partakers of flesh and blood he likewise took part of the same that through death, he might destroy him that has the power of death that is the devil. Those who remained in the law, stayed in a law that could only produce conviction of sin and finally death, having no remedy or escape from sin or death. The law could only prolong the inevitable and finally death would prevail and sin would conquer. So Jesus took on himself flesh and blood which contained Adams nature and the serpent. Jesus overcame the serpent in Adams nature by obedience to his own word and perfect law. The only way men will ever truly understand this scripture is to know the truth on the devil. The devil is the serpent in Adams nature. The devil is the firstborn nature. The serpent is the thoughts which come from the heart of the firstborn nature. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">THE FORESHADOWING OF THE DESTRUCTION OF SATAN</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Num 21:5-9</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this light bread. And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people. And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The people of Israel had murmured and spoken against Moses and Aaron. For this the Lord sent literal poisonous snakes among them to bite them and to kill some of them. But along with the serpents he also gave a remedy. Many came to Moses acknowledging their transgression and asked Moses to pray for the serpents to be taken away from them. God did not take the fiery serpents away from them, but instead, he gave us a figure that foreshadowed his very coming in the flesh. Those who would continually look upon it would live. This is the figure for us, those that will understand and continually look upon the truth of Jesus coming in the flesh to take upon himself the serpent nature of Adam, will live. How can one adequately and wholly look upon Jesus and the cross he bore without understanding he took upon the serpent nature of Adam? Why must we continually look upon Jesus taking the serpent to the tree? Because he destroyed the serpent nature of Adam on the cross. The cross was denying the serpent nature to retaliate and win in that manner (after the flesh). He denied his own serpent nature of Adam in order to overcome death. The cross was not the end it was the answer for living. As the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he likewise took part of the same that through death, even the death of the cross he might destroy him that hath the power of death, the serpent nature is the one who has the power of death and that is the devil.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The people spoken of in Numbers 21 wanted the answer of how to cease from being bitten. God showed Moses the answer for them was to continually look on the serpent on the pole. When they continued to look upon the serpent on the pole, the literal serpents stopped biting them. When we look and see how Jesus’s perfect law gave him power over the serpent, when we see how he took the serpent to the cross, we can deny ourselves of the same lusts and temptations of our serpent nature and overcome being bitten by it ourselves. The invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made (Rom 1:20). This type and shadow makes the invisible serpent nature abiding in us clearly seen. Murmuring and complaining instead of rejoicing that God had brought them out of Egyptian bondage was definitely a poisonous bite. God sent them literal serpents with poisonous venom to make them understand what they were doing when they spoke such things. They were killing themselves with poisonous words and evil speaking. God has given us the answer also by revealing it to us in Jesus taking the serpent nature of Adam to the cross. The reason he never opened his mouth in retaliation or complaint, reveals the divine nature. Jesus in his dying gave us the possibility of being partakers of the divine nature through faith. This makes it clear why we are to hear the word of God and change accordingly. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Those who refused Christ Jesus choosing rather to remain in the serpent nature of Adam did so in direct opposition to the doctrine of the apostles and of Christ. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Rom 1:20-25 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs. 20 if the Jew had attempted to see the truth through the figures of the Old Testament, they would have clearly understood the devil, the reason for the cross, the death, burial and resurrection. Paul is writing about those who had heard the words of Jesus and the Gospel message of the Apostles. To know God one must obey God. At one particular point these men knew God by keeping the commandments of Jesus’s perfect law, he wrote and also gave to his disciples. These men knew God but glorified him not as God, by not being thankful for the perfect law and they reverted back partially to the unfulfilled law. Through faith in the perfect law they had been enlightened but through returning to the unfulfilled law, their foolish heart was darkened by a law which could not save. The Law of Moses was meant to be fulfilled, anyone who returns back to Moses law after having known the truth in Christ’s perfect law, is like a dog returning to eat what he had regurgitated or vomited. To partake of anything to do with the Mass is sacrilege. The Mass incorporates the literal and unfulfilled type and shadow of bread. The Mass incorporates also the type and shadow of literal wine. This is an abomination to the Lord. Mass is an invented word to describe a scripturally illegal ceremony said to gain Christ and eternal life. The word fulfills the bread and the Holy Ghost the wine. Which is not part of the Mass. There is no such thing as Christ-Mass...</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">None of this brings any glory to God, it changes the glory which belongs to God in fulfilling the types and shadows, back to worshiping and serving the creature by types and shadows. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 John 2:4-5 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The types and shadows of the law were revealed to Paul and the apostles. So Paul was writing here to make the church understand why there were those who still remained partially in the law and partially in truth. Although the law is truth, it is not usable for salvation if it is not fulfilled in the coming of Christ. There were many of the Jews that heard the Gospel message, who received the Holy Ghost and began to obey the commandments given by the apostles, of the perfect law of liberty. The book of Acts and the epistles contain the perfect law of liberty along with the words which were spoken by Jesus when he was in the body of his flesh. Paul writing here in vs 20. Relates the fact that many which had originally began right did not remain right. When they knew God by keeping the commandments of the perfect law, the apostles doctrine, ceased to believe it was necessary and turned back to their trust in the Law of Moses for righteousness. Now if they had simply taken the apostles at their word and received the spiritual understanding of the law, they would have seen clearly and never stopped their obedience to the truth. Seeing the meaning of the types and shadows as afore mentioned concerning the serpent on the pole. The spiritual understanding of that, was the coming of Christ, having taken upon himself the serpent nature of Adam and destroy it on the cross through death. God having created all of these types before his coming so that his fulfilling them could be seen clearly by the church.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 Tim 1:7-8</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm. But we know that the law is good, if a man use it lawfully; </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The law used lawfully is used in types and shadows, patterns, allegories, figures and such to relay spiritual information for that which is fulfilled in the new testament church. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs.21 </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">When one knows God it is by and through obeying him. Glorifying God is to take the truth in through faith and allow it to change your thinking and actions. This is a true worshiper, one who believes the word and becomes a doer of the word, reflecting the word in their spirit. The true worshiper must worship the Father in spirit and truth. The truth believed must reach the actions of the believer. This is a lifetime project and one that can only be done in the church. The beginning of their demise was their unthankfulness for having the truth. It was the Law of Moses that many held to in retaliation of the need of further refinement by the truth revealed in Christ. So now the serpent nature of Adam was again at work as in the Garden of Eden. The serpent nature of Adam was implying that the need for salvation by and through the apostles doctrine was not necessary. The sacrifice of Jesus was necessary to fulfill the law but the rest of the law could remain. In this way they became vain, and continuing on such a path became an imagination. They refused to see the types and shadows and the spiritual understanding they possessed.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Therefore denying the only Lord God even our Lord Jesus Christ. So instead of acknowledging the truth of God given to the church: some apostles and prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints and the edifying of the body of Christ, they instituted a Pope like a high priest, cardinals, and a religious hierarchy completely different than that given to the church by the apostles. They kept all of the literal articles of the Old Testament, making their use imperative. They changed the baptism of the Holy Ghost into a drink of literal wine; forsaking completely any need for spiritual understanding and enlightenment. So now they created the Eucharist of bread which when eaten turns from bread into Christ inside of the soul. For baptism they kept Old Testament sprinkling instead of the New Testament revelation of the apostles to totally immerse the candidate. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Their foolish heart was darkened. This one statement by the apostle reveals that they turned back to the law in places for salvation. They changed the truth of God into a lie, which was keeping the types and shadows for salvation instead of receiving the spiritual understanding of the apostles. Professing themselves to be wise they became fools. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This takes us to the place of the five wise and the five foolish virgins. The wise virgins took oil in their lamps choosing to believe the doctrine of the apostles, the foolish virgins took lamps with no oil, taking the false doctrines of the arisen false church. The serpent nature of Adam had been successful once again in the New Testament, wiggling its way to pervert the truth by making the serpent nature look good enough to bring salvation.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The serpent nature of Adam can convince one it is good and can attain to the divine nature without the divine anointing of the Holy Ghost and the doctrine of the apostles. No man can be accepted of God being in the serpent nature of Adam. The serpent nature must be replaced by the divine nature. The divine nature consisting of the qualities: 1. Faith. 2. Virtue 3. Knowledge 4. Temperance 5. Patience 6. Godliness 7. Brotherly kindness 8. Charity. The wise virgins received through faith the Holy Ghost and continued in the truth of the apostles adding the qualities of God to their lives and destroying the qualities of the Adam nature. The wise virgins obtained spiritual understanding from the apostles and Christ. The wise virgins were thankful and glorified God through being obedient to the truth of the New Testament teachings of the apostles. The foolish virgins glorify him not as God because they “shop” for the easier way: settling that the Adam nature can achieve eternal life in some way. They remain believing there is some power in the Law of Moses without being fulfilled in Christ, which will usher them into eternal life. They however are wrong, the door being shut to them so that they cannot enter. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Vs. 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Paul in the book of Romans writes to those in Rome, attempting to make them understand how to be carnally minded is death. To show them what happened in the beginning of the church to corrupt the true teachings of the apostles. The teachings they themselves had received from Christ himself, the very one true God of heaven.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jesus was the image of the invisible God and showed the true sacrifice which would be accepted of God by making himself a living sacrifice, destroying the serpent nature of Adam with his perfect law of liberty. Humbling himself and his serpent nature by living the divine nature through obedience to the perfect law. It was the perfect law of liberty that Jesus related and transferred to the apostles for the church to gain eternal life. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The apostles teaching the perfect law which would bring liberty over sin, was opposed by those who stood on the side of the Law of Moses without fulfillment in Christ and his sacrifice on the cross. The serpent will do anything to stay off the cross. The serpent nature of Adam is in every one of us, but there is and was a remedy given by God in Christ. Destroy the old nature by taking upon you the new one revealed by the apostles of the Lamb. Paul related the fact that those who once knew God by obedience to the apostles’ doctrine turned from that, going back to the image made by the law. The law requiring the destruction and separation of animals in various ways, the birds and four footed beasts and creeping things. This is what happens when the apostles’ doctrine is rejected for the insufficient sacrifices of the law. Men remain in their animal natures, the serpent nature of Adam. The nature cannot be changed by any literal object. The meaning of the object must be made known in order for people to be changed spiritually. The gift of the Holy Ghost is necessary for the new birth to take place. Then being led by the Spirit through the apostles’ doctrine is the only way the new birth can be effective and produce growth. The Holy Ghost and the apostles doctrine is the oil the foolish virgins did not get. The foolish virgins attempted to live for God in the serpent nature of Adam, which the law cannot destroy. There are many who claim salvation through the death, burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus and his dying on the cross, yet while keeping the serpent nature of Adam, they attempt to portray the divine nature. This is impossible. The serpent nature of Adam must be destroyed, killed, wiped out, eradicated and replaced by the divine nature. This is a miraculous process and one that requires a lifetime of prayer and seeking God to accomplish. There is not condemnation while we through hearing the word and gaining faith in our churches, become partakers of the divine nature. We add by prayer and seeking God the qualities only he can give. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Here is the scripture that depicts the life of a foolish virgins: who worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator who is blessed forever. It was not that they did not worship God, they just worshipped the creature, the serpent nature of Adam more than the Creator. This is how the foolish virgins became foolish, this is a great deception to those who are blind and looking for truth and do not know where to find it. The foolish virgins are very attractive to the flesh. The foolish appeal to those who would like salvation in a more moderate change and style. Because of such a deception being in the world many will never receive the truth. Because the truth has been changed into a lie by the foolish virgins. Therefore those who do not receive a love for the truth will find themselves in a church that worships God but the creature more. Churches that have “fifteen minute church” so the rest of the day can be used for the flesh and its desires is a foolish church. Thinking they have done some spiritual thing by literally eating for a spiritual supper. What an imagination. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2 Thess 2:7-12</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. 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: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">People who see churches of all sorts are looking at a mystery. The problem is that they believe they are all teaching the correct doctrines that will do the job sufficiently for getting them into heaven. The mystery of iniquity is the strong delusion God promised to send those who received not a love of the truth. This is the reason for this writing. That men may be incited in some way to compare the words of scripture with what is being said here and see the deception in the world and its churches. Those who left the apostles doctrine committed iniquity against the ministry of God and his apostles. The only real and true ministry in the world. The apostles and the early churches which believe the truth were an opposing force against those who were given to change. Those who partially went back to the teachings of the law for salvation. The only way the Pope’s teachings and the doctrines of the false church will ever be destroyed are by the spirit of the mouth of those who know and represent the truth.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">There is no invisible individual named Satan which is promoting evil in the earth. Satan is the spirit of the serpent nature of Adam. The false church arose by the cunning innuendos of the serpent nature of those who saw a way to claim salvation in Christ; while keeping portions of the law to make easier and more advantageous in making money. The false churches hierarchy arose as soon as the apostles were removed through martyrdom. Those who would not succumb to the teachings of the false church were martyred. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">All deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish. For a while they looked the part but the compromise of the truth would soon corrupt entirely. The truth was not abandoned entirely, they changed it, refused to fulfil it, and killed those who did not agree. So instead of God giving a clear note on the subject, he let the falseness become a strong delusion, so that all who would not receive a love for the truth would believe a lie and be damned. These are not idle or small words. The devil then and his angels are those who preach the false doctrines omitting the need for the apostles’ doctrine and teaching. This evil is alive in the earth in men. Spiritual wickedness is not a flying bunch in the sky or invisible nowhere. Spiritual wickedness is when the word of God which came from the apostles is mutilated with the mixture of unfulfilled law. Making salvation possible without the baptism of the Holy Ghost evidenced by speaking in other tongues as the Spirit give the utterance. Making salvation possible by a drink or bite of food. Some believe the word and the food are necessary to enter heaven. The unfulfilled cannot be mixed with the fulfilled for salvation. It is a deception in the highest means. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Eph 6:12-19</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness; And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints; And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The lies I have heard from the scholars of fiction and imagination on these verses are more than heart breaking. I have heard men speak concerning the principalities as if they were invisible creatures in outer space and in our presence, invisible creatures that fell from Gods angelic host to make up spiritual wickedness thus affecting men from the unseen world. High places to them is space, outer space and in space around us. This is so far from the truth all because men refuse the truth on the serpent nature of Adam. They actually believe that all churches which have Jesus Christ proclaimed as savior are in fact saved. This is so far from truth. Spiritual wickedness is when men who had truth went back to portions of the law and changed truth into a lie. It is spiritual wickedness to proclaim a gospel message that does not have the baptism of the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues in it.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">It is spiritual wickedness to profess there is a pope or potentate who represents Christ as vicar of God in the earth when in fact there is no such thing. It is spiritual wickedness when the Old Testament types and shadows are used for salvation and the apostles’ doctrine turned from. The literal bread which has no saving quality in it at all. The only saving quality of bread is that it represents the word of God, it is the word of God which must be ingested for salvation not a bite of bread or drink of wine. There is no saving quality in literal wine and those that proclaim there is remain in spiritual wickedness. Their principals are perverted principals. Their powers are perverted and fake powers. Yet God will perform through them to promote delusion to those who refuse to love his truth. The evil day is the day when the false church and its doctrines are rampant and received by the masses. When the whole world seems to have been taken by falseness and lies. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Paul said this dilemma would take root, after his departure grievous wolves would enter in and destroy the churches. Wolves of false teaching and perverted doctrine of the law mixed with truth. Paul asked the church to pray for him that the mystery of the gospel could be made known by him. This was a tall undertaking and still yet it remains a tall undertaking. The mystery of the gospel is to be able to decipher and dig through the rubble of false teachers and present the gospel of Acts 2:38 along with the need for the apostles’ doctrine. Men with the serpent nature of Adam presented an alternative to the truth just like in the Garden of Eden, intimating absolute truth was not necessary to be totally observed to be saved. This is what men are who lift themselves above the doctrines of the apostles to pervert the gospel in presenting many other methods of salvation. They are spiritually wicked yet the world who is blind do not see them as such. If the true gospel is not revealed, if the mystery is not revealed of how so many gospels were created and perpetrated, men will be lost. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Spiritual interpretation is needed in order that the truth concerning a literal object can be understood. The rock that followed them, that rock was Christ! That rock was a literal rock but it represented Christ Jesus. This is correct interpretation. That literal rock in the wilderness was not Christ but it represented Christ. That rock was Christ, the apostle giving the spiritual meaning of a natural rock. Spiritual wickedness is to change this somehow and pervert it. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">CONTEND MEANS TO FIGHT FOR: CONTEND EARNESTLY OR YOU WILL NOT OVERCOME WHAT MEN HAVE DONE TO THE TRUTH WITH THE LAW.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jude 3-13</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints. For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ. I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not. And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day. Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities. Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee. 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. Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core. These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jude is speaking of men who left the truth for the lies of unfulfilled law. Back to darkness, no water to give, no winds but false ones, only fruit that withers, twice dead, meaning they were alive once and died to sin to be alive in Christ, turning back to law are dead the second time. Plucked up by the roots, the teaching of the apostles of Christ. Raging waves of the sea, causing upheaval for the church, supporting the teachings of law and advocating them for salvation. They wander from the place that had them revolving around the Sun which is Christ and his doctrine. They are back to darkness reserved in the blackness and darkness forever. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">The serpent nature of the law was revealed in those who did not want to glorify God by remaining faithful to the apostles’ doctrine. Going back and propagating the law as still retaining some sort of power for salvation, contending that it did not need to be fulfilled by the apostles’ doctrines and teachings. This is explained by Jude by using three characters in allegory to explain what exactly happened to the faith. The angels which kept not their first estate, Adam and Eve were deceived by the serpent nature of Adam and fell. They were figures of those who would receive the truth of the apostles’ doctrine and being taken by the serpent nature also. Cain was the first example.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Cain refused to offer the sacrifice God required to be accepted. Therefore Cain is the figure of those who went from truth and glorified him not as God by keeping the sacrifice of the apostles’ doctrine. They returned back to the law and darkness to offer the unaccepted sacrifice of law from the ground. As Cain killed his brother in jealous rage for being accepted of God. So those who rejected the true sacrifice of the perfect law in the apostles’ doctrine persecute those who received the perfect law of Christ.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">So the first figure and type of those who change truth into a lie is Cain. Who served the creature, Korah the second figure, who was part of Israel, attempted to usurp authority over the leadership of Moses was the next example. As Korah attempted to overthrow the leadership of Moses, so these men attempted to overthrow the apostles. Unsuccessful they brought to themselves swift destruction in leaving the truth. Yet in their leaving made the gospel message more and more difficult to find. Finally Balaam.......the prophet who did not belong to the nation of Israel. The prophet who had an insatiable desire to be elevated into a high position by the king of Moab. Although Balaam seemed to fear God and although Balaam actually heard the voice of God, yet he valued the higher position more than Gods voice. Moab was a Baal worshiping nation. I believe when Israel partially rejected the teachings of the apostles and of Christ, they are the ones who Baal depicts. In this case Moab could not overcome Moses and Israel through Baal, so he reached for the prophet that was known to have the word of the one true God. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This is the power of the serpent: knowing Israel could not be defeated by his nation, he attempted to hire a prophet and promote a prophet to honor in Moab in order to get it done. Facts are God refused to curse his people at the sacrifices of those in Moab by Balaam. Instead through prophesy and through Balaam’s prophesying, God blessed them. This is the place the scriptures speak of Michael the archangel contending with the devil about the body of Moses. Balaam would offer seven altars of sacrifice and God would plainly and emphatically say to them NO!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">He would not curse the body of Moses, which is Israel. Again the king of Moab would act as though God had said nothing, and offer another sacrifice of seven altars in another place. Again and again God said no and altogether blessed Israel instead. This was a definite dispute. Balaam was the devil working for the King of Moab who worshiped Baal. The spirit of these folks was the spirit of evil. Disputing about the body of Moses which is Israel. Literal Israel is not the body of Christ, the church is the body of Christ and the spiritual Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Jude 9</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Cain: the changing of the true sacrifice</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Korah: the usurping authority over the true authority sent from God</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Balaam: the selling of ones talents for the promotion of an idol worshiping nation and the cursing of a righteous one</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">This is how the faith was corrupted and this is how we earnestly contend for the faith once delivered unto the saints. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1. We fight for the sacrifice which is accepted of God through the apostles’ doctrine.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">2. We surrender ourselves to the doctrines and teachings of the apostles and oppose all other teaching which have corrupted it.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">3. We fight against the compromise of churches which have been affected by the sly cunning devises of people</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Such as Balaam who taught Balak the king of Moab, to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">A. The stumbling block was mixing the worship of God with that of idol worshipers (Going back to the law is the same as worshiping idols.)</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 10:19-21</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing? But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that ye should have fellowship with devils. Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord's table, and of the table of devils.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Devils being used in this instance is speaking of idols. You cannot eat a literal bread and claim a spiritual understanding by being part of the true church. The church has the spiritual understanding of what bread and wine is. What the priesthood stands for, what the temple stands for. You can’t have both. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Taking a piece of bread and drinking wine for communion does not make you part of the body of Christ. By one spirit are we all baptized into one body. Such eating gives no one right to call Jesus their Lord. The only ones who can call him Lord are those who have received the Holy Ghost promise which is in the scriptures. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">1 Cor 12:1-3</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant. Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb idols, even as ye were led. Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">It is spiritual wickedness to change the Holy Ghost back to a drink and tell folks some spiritual thing happened to them when they took a literal drink. It is spiritual wickedness to profess to be in a clergy consisting of Pope, Cardinals and unmarried priests. A ministry that cannot not be found in the apostles’ doctrine. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Those who claim the Holy Ghost in any other manner other than is prescribed by scripture cannot call Jesus Lord. This is a work of the serpent nature. The nature who does not want the cross. The nature that will lie to escape doing the will of God.</span></span><br />
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-73919526344164253202018-03-01T10:10:00.001-08:002018-03-01T10:14:08.801-08:00The evil that is in the world -Truth needs to be told!<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
As a Pastor, I would like to write about the evil that is in the world. I do not understand how people are so blinded to evil and its origins. The bible cannot be understood if it is read literally. The bible is understood when the types, shadows, allegories, figures are properly seen through spiritual understanding. </h3>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Genesis is the book of beginnings, therefore if evil comes from a creature other than the human beings God created, then that would be recorded in the book of the beginnings. Our scholars of "fiction and imagination", make up their own Genesis for the devil. They conclude that God should have added something in the book of beginnings, so they inject the devil falling from heaven before Eden. Make no mistake, God missed nothing and the devil can be seen in Genesis clearly. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lucifer is not in the book of the beginnings, therefore Lucifer cannot be said to be the arch enemy of God everyone seems to think he is. Satan therefore had to have a beginning and somewhere in the book of beginnings God surely left us a record of where evil began. Nowhere but nowhere in the record of Gods days of creation do the scriptures mention Satan or an angel that fell from Gods abode to the earth. This is a misconception made up by those who attempt to add what is not written to what their imagination might create. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Somewhere after God created the heavens and the earth students of myth calling themselves scribes, claim there was a war in heaven and God cast Satan, whom they identify as Lucifer out of heaven into the earth. Lucifer became the serpent in the garden which talked to Eve. This is all a clever cover up of truth. God however fully intended it to be this way. The true student of the bible and the lovers of truth will soon agree, these far-fetched excuses for truth are phony, contemplated and erroneous attempts from men to say there is evil outside of the flesh God created. The irony, caught in a trap nearly impossible to escape from are those who have accepted the false teachings of intellectual and carnal creators of evil. Their own perverted rendition of what the false church fully intended in order to cover up their evil deeds and changing of the truth into a lie (Rom 1:20-25). Spiritual wickedness is not flying in the air, it is found in men who will change the words of Jesus Christ mixing them with unfulfilled Old Testament types and shadows to make a false church. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">According to these scholars of fiction, Satan is alive and well on planet earth, roaming to and fro, up and down in the earth. This is not all wrong, however their premise is wrong. There is no individual called Satan who has his converted angelic cohorts running with him to and fro in the earth. There is evil however in the world, but if not according to these fictionists, then what is the truth? Is there an angelic invisible being called Satan who is the General over his demon angels? No. If this is not true, if this is a fairy tale, then what is the truth? What does the truth reveal? Can proper information be found? The answer to this question is: yes! There is a devil but truly he has hidden himself sufficiently as to continue working evil in the world of religion and intellectualism. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />According to the scholars of fiction and imagination: an angel decided he would turn into a serpent, if taken literally I believe that means a snake. In this particular instance a talking snake in the garden of Eden. The garden of Eden is where God placed his creatures Adam whom he first formed, then Eve. It is quite interesting though that there is no other place in the bible other than Balaam’s mule whom God spake through, that an animal ever talked.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>When the mule talked it was a miracle produced by God, to speak to Balaam whom running from God was in an insane state of mind. Animals are not created with the ability to articulate and form words with meaning. They have their own mannerisms to communicate with one another but it is not a language like those in the human race. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Anyone who may take the side of an animal being able to articulate through speaking should quickly change your mind. Just like there is no link in human existence to connect man with ape, neither is there evidence an animal can talk; unless enabled like Balaam’s mule to one time and one time only by God. It is also interesting that the fiction scholars think the serpent was empowered by the invisible angelic individual called Satan. Satan became the incarnate evil demon in a snake. Further the scriptures are twisted and perverted by the fiction supporters of the devil, that he had legs. This is a must if the scriptures will be taken literally, because when he was cursed in the book of Genesis for having corrupted Eve, it was to go on his belly eating the dust of the earth forever. Then arises another extraordinary thing: Satan must have gotten off scott free because he, according to the biblical fictionists, is still here alive and well running to and fro. He just used the snake long enough to get the poor boy cursed and then he vacated. It may sound good to the innocent ear, but it is in fact a lie from those who bite into fictional imagery.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Those who believe God is all knowing or omniscient, did he not know this was going to happen in the garden of Eden? Did he make heaven a place where corruption and rebellion could enter? Is there a possibility that other angels could become disgruntled with God, his plans and also rebel and be ousted? I seriously do not think so. If God had created his angelic host with the capability to sin,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;">he would have made provision for them to turn from their rebellion</span></u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">. Did God just allow this one time rebellion, to leave poor Satan without a way back into the place he once possessed? No! The reason being, there was no portion of Gods invisible angelic host made with he capability to sin. The very nature of angels is not sinful or capable of sin. There is no possibility of anything but Gods will that can be done in heaven. Did God make room for rebellious behavior in heaven? No! Heaven is a place we as Gods creation are desirous to enter. Heaven is where we never have to worry again about the presence of evil, or the presence of evil prevailing. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />God did not take on himself the nature of angels because, his angels did not sin, neither could they sin. An angel is a messenger, whether it be a human angel or one of the angelic host of angels. Only the human angels have the capability to sin. Sin did not enter into the world by Lucifer, Satan or any other title which have been given to the evil of the world. by the scholars of fiction and imagination. Jesus took on him the seed of Abraham and the nature of Adam. God was concerned about reconciling the sins of the people not the sins of his angelic host. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />So then: am I saying there was no individual in the garden of Eden called Satan, Lucifer? Yes, I am saying that because the bible clearly speaks only of a serpent who was more subtle than any beast of the field. This very verbiage implies, that there was something there called a serpent which was more subtle than any beast of the field. There was a separation and the serpent was not one of the beasts of the field but a separate source of evil completely. More subtle than any beast, not any other beast, simply because it was not actually in the animal kingdom. Could it be that there are qualities in an human being capable of being described in figure as one of the beasts of the field? Yes! Example the faces of Jesus, the lion of the tribe of Judah, the Lamb. David calls young men who in their youth have the capability to devour, young lions. Humans have the capability to plan, follow and execute an attack, rape, war, theft, plot against the just. These are all qualities that reside in the human.The spirits of all flesh. Nowhere does the scriptures imply that there are spirits outside of the flesh or human arena.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Animals are included in the flesh, some animals God created with little or no aggressive manner, others however he has created to kill, ambush their prey and devour it. Lions, bears, snakes, etc..... did Satan get into the lion that found a man wondering and sought to devour him? Or did God give him a nature to kill the wondering prey? I choose to believe the latter. God did not allow or plan to have one of his angels fall from heaven and become the evil sinister monster and creature the scholars of fiction have imagined and taught. God did not create his angels with a nature to sin and then become omnipresent, like the scholars of fiction purpose. He must be everywhere at once because it is stated when the word is sown, those of the wayside soil have the devil come and pluck away the word immediately. The word is often sown around the world at the same time. If Satan is not an omnipresent spirit, then the scriptures are incorrect. I chose to believe the scriptures are truth and Satan is everywhere there is a human being. The difference between the human and an animal is their ability to comprehend and make a decision based upon what they have heard. Animals cannot read or comprehend human verbiage. They can comprehend gestures and sounds but not principals and character. The breed of dog or animal determines there character. You can get a bad dog, a bad horse, a bad animal, because they cannot overcome their nature like a human to stop bad habits. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">James in depicting the inadequacy of the law, described it like this. This unruly evil described by James, is the "more subtle than any beast of the field". This tongue of the serpent nature we have is untamable by men. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, adulteries etc. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Whatever is in abundance in the heart that is what the mouth and tongue let out. The law took control only of the outward man. The perfect law of Liberty given by Jesus to his apostles, demanded control of both inward thought and outward actions. The tongue can no man tame because, the heart has to be seen in order to change the conversation and manner of living. Only God can know the heart of man. Only God knows the heart. Only God when given control through faith, can change the heart into what it is suppose to be. So animals have been given a nature that can be modified through training but cannot be changed into that which is acceptable to God as being his image, able to give glory to God for the miraculous change.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">It appears here, that God did not like the spirits of Korah, Dathan and Abiram. For he wanted Moses to stand back and let him destroy the entire congregation and start another one. Moses interceded for the people, asking God to destroy only those men who had rebelled and attempted to usurp the God appointed authority of Moses. This is a spirit: attempting to overthrow the leadership God had set up, was a spirit of rebellion. The people did not like the results of Moses leadership and rebelled against it, inferring God would also receive their sacrifice as well as Moses. This infuriated God. What did Satan have to do with this? Did an individual angel inject into the hearts of these men to rebel against Moses and Aaron? Or did this spirit of evil come from within them out of their nature? Why would God swallow up these men in an earthquake if Satan had prompted this rebellion? He would not have. God is the God of the spirits of "ALL FLESH". </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up. And Moses was very wroth, and said unto the Lord, Respect not thou their offering: I have not taken one ass from them, neither have I hurt one of them. And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow: And take every man his censer, and put incense in them, and bring ye before the Lord every man his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; thou also, and Aaron, each of you his censer. And they took every man his censer, and put fire in them, and laid incense thereon, and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron. And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory of the Lord appeared unto all the congregation. And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment. And they fell upon their faces, and said,</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="color: red; font-size: 9.5pt;"> O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin,</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation? And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the congregation, saying, Get you up from about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram. And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel followed him. And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins. So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, on every side: and Dathan and Abiram came out, and stood in the door of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their little children.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind. If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me. But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord. And it came to pass, as he had made an end of speaking all these words, that the ground clave asunder that was under them: And the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their houses, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Sin is the transgression of the law. We are tempted when we are drawn away by our own lust and enticed. God cannot be tempted neither tempteth he any man. For when a man is tempted he is drawn away by his own lust.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">A little repetitious but true. Korah and company saw the authority of Moses and thought to use their position and powers with Israel to overthrow him. This is a spirit. Spirits come from within, anger is a spirit and is produced by provocation or dissatisfaction. Murder is a spirit and comes from wrath, anger and malice unchecked or not being dealt with properly. Men murder for money. When Cain was spoken to about repenting and doing right, getting rid of his wrath, he ignored the warning to overcome it, and allowed that spirit of anger to take control of his actions to become the first murderer. The father of that spirit was the nature of Cain he refused to subject to God. There was not a devil outside of Cain implanting thoughts, which is contrary to all scriptures. This is the idea of the scholars of fiction and imagination. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">his own lust</span></u><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">, and enticed. Then when lust hath conceived,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><u><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">it bringeth</span></u><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death. Do not err, my beloved brethren.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">We were given a nature which we must overcome to be servant to God. We are instructed to become partakers of the divine nature through our expansion of faith. Add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge to knowledge temperance, to temperance patience, to patience brotherly kindness, the brotherly kindness charity. Sin did not enter into the world by an angel falling from heaven and entering into a serpent. Sin was not in the world when Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden. The serpent was not the sin that entered into the world.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Those who see only naturally and cannot see the types, shadows, allegories, figures are blind. Those messengers or angels that turned from Jesus word back to the law were certainly cast down to hell and chains of the darkness of the law to be reserved unto judgment. If this is taken literally, there are some discrepancies. The literal angels are now bound and will remain such until the judgment. They would not be free to enter snakes and animals and to implant evil thoughts into men. The idea presented here is not to indicate a falling from heaven at all, but a falling from a first estate. As Korah, Dathan and Abiram left the divine instituted authority of Moses and Aaron, the angels or messengers, or preachers of the New Testament perfect law, also left their first estate to be cast down into everlasting chains of darkness. The law is darkness, this is not literal darkness. Literal darkness is used to explain spiritual darkness. The unfulfilled law is darkness, the types and shadows of the law cannot save anyone or bring salvation unless they have been revealed and we have found their fulfilment in the teachings of the apostles and Christ. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The invisible things are God, the devil, spirits, the eternal power. All are seen in the book of beginnings and in the old testament types and shadows. Adams nature is first seen in Adam and Eve and their disobedience and fall from the garden of Eden. There instructions from God was not to eat of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God made trees and used them to represent men in various ways. Fruit trees, non fruit trees (as evergreens). We of course are admonished to be fruitful and multiply, naturally and spiritually. The only tree however God ever made which contained both good and evil is the mind of man. He is the only one who can make that choice for from himself. For from within out of the heart proceed evil thoughts. God warned them of eating of this tree. Why? Because they had not yet come to discern the capability of their own nature and the thoughts that spring from it.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The serpent was in the tree of the knowledge of good and evil: namely man and his nature. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Adams nature was what caused Adam and Eve to fall from their steadfastness in Eden. Let me interject this concerning the nature of Adam. We are instructed to put off the nature of Adam (Old man) and become partakers of the divine nature. Why? Because in Adams nature rests the possibility of taking the spirits born from the serpent nature. Our thoughts can be like the poison of serpent or asps. Our thoughts can be devouring like the raging of a wolf or lion. Paul fought beasts in Ephesus after the manner of men. Why? Because those who remain in Adam’s nature, often present traits of that nature in various ways. The sly cunning of an Leopard, or snake, or bear. This is the reason the scripture in Genesis begins like this. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field. This serpent was the cunning thoughts of Adams nature in suggesting things contrary to the revealed will of God. Surely you won’t die says the heart that is deceitful and desperately wicked above all things. The serpent nature found in Adams animalistic nature. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">David understood that men could possess the spirits of animals in Adams nature. He wrote: Speaking of those who depended on their ferocious strength in their youth, yet without the wisdom of God. David admonished that if a man would seek the Lord, they would have strength and not lack.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />David spake of his soul being among lions, meaning men who had spirits like lions, this came from Adams nature. David said their teeth were spears and arrows and their tongue a sharp sword. David knew where evil came from and how it existed in the world. What? Do the teachers of fiction and imagination simply read right past these scriptures which so identify evil and it’s whereabouts. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Adams nature must be harnessed. The old testament could only regulate the outward actions of the inward thoughts from being committed. The law however did not deal with the heart. Jesus came with the perfect law to bring true liberty to the captives of the law. If the thoughts of the heart could be changed, then the outward actions would be controlled. Those in this nature without this revelation. David said would not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. The poison is loosed from the heart by the actions and tongue. David asked God to break their teeth or their bite. Their bite was to devour David and remove him from being King. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">The angels of God desire to look into the salvation God has given unto man through his death, burial and resurrection. But they are unable because they have no will to choose, neither are they in sin to be redeemed. They are concerned about why God is so mindful of his human creation. God is mindful of his human creation because they are in sin and they will die in their sins if they do not choose the Gospel message that can save them from it. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Those who are in the bride will not be there because God created them with a nature to be his own. On the contrary God created them with a nature contrary in every aspect, concerning being his bride. Therefore God even Jesus, gave an incentive so great as to induce them to try. Induce them to accomplish, induce them to achieve and induce them to overcome the very contrary nature of Adam to become the bride of Jesus Christ. The difference between his created angels that cannot sin and the angels that could choose not to sin is the reason he is mindful of man. God gave man the ability to choose and make a right choice or wrong one, the bride will have purposely made herself ready for his coming. She made herself ready.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Within the nature of Adam is the devil. Satan is the evil thought of Adams nature. If the devil were an invisible creature only to be found in space somewhere supposedly hidden. Jesus would never had to have become a baby in a womb to take on flesh and blood as the children are partakers of. Men under the law live their whole lives in fear of death, not knowing what would be the outcome. Wondering if death were the end of it all. Jesus took upon himself the nature that is a little lower than the angels. This statement also intimates that the angels were made with a certain nature which would not allow them to sin. Humans can sin and have a nature that produces rebellion and disobedience against God. He took the serpent to the cross, he exhibited his perfect law over the creature and became the author of eternal salvation. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And the same day, when the even was come, he saith unto them, Let us pass over unto the other side. And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships. And there arose a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the ship, so that it was now full.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish? And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />The main point of the storm is pointing out the power of nature. The literal weather and nature represents the human nature. Jesus represents the divine nature. Many preach the storms of life and the antidote of calling on or not worrying if Jesus is one board. The implication of the story is that the divine nature has far more power than the human nature. The human nature can put you in a storm in a heartbeat. The divine nature might need to be wakened but when it comes awake and speaks to the Adams nature, it wins, it conquers, it prevails. The reason Jesus accused them of little faith was because having the divine nature on their ship was far more powerful than any sea or situation of nature. Where is the devil in all of this? They saw the waves and felt the wind, they saw the ship taking on water and becoming uncontrollable and unstable. They did what any follower of Jesus would have done, but when they called him they said, carest thou not that we perish. Actually they woke up the nature that was above the one that induced doubt. When they saw Jesus speak the word to the storm and saw it cease to exist, they were astonished. Dear scholar of fiction and imagination, where was the devil in all of this? Was he not in the nature? Was he not in the carnal observations of the minds of men? Did Jesus care whether or not they perished? Of course he did and he quickly came to the aid of the place the devil had taken them to, fear. God’s divine nature is greater than the serpent nature of Adam.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. But ye have not so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another. Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">After having written about a need for the renewal of the mind. After having written about putting off lying, putting off anger, to sin not. After having mentioned wrath: then he says: neither give place to the devil, which he has already revealed in a few words as the old man and his deeds. Do not give place to the devil which is the old nature to lie, speak lies, be angry, bitter and wrathful, hypocritical by a false holiness promoted by law and eradicated by the perfect law of Christ. The apostle’s doctrine. Put on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">This scripture in Ephesians 4:22 put off the former conversation the old man. Jesus revealed through the types and shadows that the devil was the first born nature and that he himself was the second born nature. Therefore Paul understanding this, wrote. Put off concerning the former conversation. What is the former conversation? It is the manner of living produced by keeping the law and living in the nature of Adam. Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. What is true holiness? It is obedience to the perfect law which deals with both inward thought and outward actions. How do we accomplish such a task? </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">It is by being renewed in the (spirit) of your mind. The mind is where spirits come from. They do not come from without the man, they come from within, out of the heart. This is the greatest of incentives for those who desire to be one of the bride of Christ. The bride of Christ will become like him. Will be changed into the same image from faith to faith. Choosing rather to serve God than sin for a season. If folks do not know that the devil is the Adam nature, if saints do not know what they are fighting exactly, it well may keep them from being in the bride of Christ. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">There must be a renewal, there must be a change. Changing from the old nature to the new nature. This in essence is the new birth. It is not merely receiving the Holy Ghost, it is putting on the divine nature by the power of the Holy Ghost. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">In confronting the serpent that was in the garden, Jesus makes it plain, that whosoever does not consent to be with him is against him. Also that those who retain law, being teachers of the law, who refuse to hear the truth of Jesus are labeled by Jesus as serpents, or generation of vipers. The disciples were totally aware that the spirits were subject to them, yet Jesus said not to rejoice in that they had power over serpents and scorpion’s and all the power of the enemy, but to rejoice that their names were written in the lambs book of life. They had chosen to follow the perfect law of liberty given to the apostles by Jesus. Cain represents the first born nature as well as the Jews who would remain under the law refusing the new birth promised by the Lord. As the Jews crucified Jesus so those who remain blinded believing the types and shadows sufficient for salvation, Cain was their figure. Cain foreshadowed those who refused to offer the accepted sacrifice of the second born nature. Rather he would offer what was not accepted as also did the Jews and they crucified the Lord. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Jesus offered the first born nature a sacrifice to God. A sacrifice well pleasing to God as payment for the sins of the world. This is the only accepted sacrifice, the old man, the old nature, the serpent nature of Adam. This is how Jesus took the serpent to the tree. This fulfilled the serpent Moses raised on the pole for the healing of all those bitten. The Jews chose to turn back to the unfulfilled types and shadows. The types and shadows which Christ and his doctrines fulfilled, they turned back to the weak and beggarly elements of the law which cannot save in themselves. They chose to retain a literal priesthood with a potentate like the law, they chose to keep literal washing and sprinkling with literal water, they chose to keep food as a method of entering into the presence of God and the Kingdom of God. The Jews were the devils of that hour for sure. They rejected, they hated, they persuaded government to condemn by their envy, they witnessed falsely against Jesus. They were laughing when he did not take himself off the cross. They were the mockers which made fun at his blood being shed. He died for devils, just like he died for me when I was a devil. Judas Iscariot was a devil and he died for Judas Iscariot but Judas received it not, turning back also to law for justification, where it could not be found. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />Some say the devil was laughing when Jesus was on the cross. I have thought this to be humorous over the years because the Jews were standing right there spitting in his face, making fun and jokes of his dying. They were the ones who challenged him, that if he be the Christ to come down off the cross. Their spirit was the devil. The devil wasn’t standing around invisibly laughing with all the invisibles. No! The invisible things from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things which are made. (THE TYPES AND SHADOWS WERE MADE) Cain and Abel were made to be figures of that which is to come. This describes the invisible, the old nature which is invisible, and the new nature which is invisible. How to destroy the one and to put on the other, all done by and through faith in the Gospel message. The Spirit of God is that which quickens us to put on the Lord Jesus and become part of his blood line and lineage.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;">Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 9.5pt;"><br />These were men who openly refused the truth and despised the words of Jesus. These were as the serpent in the Garden of Eden, only open and unashamed. Jesus said they were the ones who killed the prophets and rejected the prophets of old. Those that rejected Christ for the law and to keep it, are the serpents. Those who are ministering<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>the word but who refuse to obey the Gospel message and teach the truth concerning the new birth. A man must be born again. The only way a man can be born again is put off the first nature that captivates him and put on the new nature that frees him. So if you think Christ Jesus fought with invisible forces besides that of the first nature, the serpent nature of Adam, you are wrong.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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apostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-80497137770057251902017-09-26T02:36:00.001-07:002017-09-26T02:36:54.258-07:00In your patience possess ye your souls.[Luk 21:19 KJV] In your patience possess ye your souls.<br />
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Patience is a hard thing to obtain because you have to have it to get more of it. Who wants to wait. Patience is steadfastness, constancy, endurance; all have the same thing about them, you have to practice them to gain them.<br />
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As I think about the old saints in the bible, God didn’t write about their greatness without writing about their failures. Or should I say seemingly failures. Patience is tried and tempered. Adam and Eve didn’t wait out the espousal period and hence lost their patience and sin entered into the world. Cain being that byproduct produce murder, jealousy and lies. Patience has a payday either way, the lack of or the fulfilled amount.<br />
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Abraham our father of faith earn his patience through his mistakes. Ishmael was conceived because of impatience. Before you judge, wait for a moment. have you lost your temper because the “fast food” line didn’t move fast enough. Maybe the person driving in front of you isn’t going the speed limit. You’ve been serving God faithful and have prayed for say 6 months on this subject, when is it going to happen? Abraham was 75 years old when God told him he would be the father of many nations. Given the history of humans and marriage, I’m guessing somewhere about 25 years old is when Abraham and Sarah were married. Do the estimated math and you have about 50 years of a barren womb. Now God gives him a promise and then doesn’t do it that next year. In fact 11 years later is when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael. Abraham and Sarah believed God, they just thought they would help Him in their impatience. Putting the waiting to be somewhere between 60 and 65 years when they “gave in” to impatience. Did they have ups and downs in this time frame, yes. Just like us today they had outside opinions telling them about their barren womb. No they didn’t have social media to help them see all the kids that their neighbors were having, but anytime they went into the city or were visited, the question of children came in loud and clear. The same questions of why not, how come and many of the things you are wondering today in your own mind as to why “it” hasn’t happened. Then think about this, all those years and Ishmael is born. Oh the rejoicing that went on, a son is born unto Abraham. Sarah now knew her womb was closed, it was her not him for sure. This isn’t just a story in a book. This is real people and their lives. Sarah lived 13 years with this in front of her face when God visited Abraham and told him that next year you’ll have your son, the promise, from Sarah. She laughed and God questioned her, why? Why, I’m 89 years old and have been desiring a child since I was a child myself. My...do you hear me, MY womb is empty and all these years have beat upon me. Does it seem like she has no patience to you? Wrong she served God and her husband despite the emptiness of her womb. What choice did she have? She could’ve given up on life and died. We know the story, she gave birth to Isaac when it wasn’t possible for her to even conceive a child.<br />
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Joseph spent all about 14 years as a slave and in prison combined. We can read over it quickly, but I assure you he didn’t live it as fast. Joseph had forgotten about the dream of his family bowing to him. Why because during the long years and “unjust” life he was living, with no promise of coming out of it, he had forgotten the dream until his brothers were actually fulfilling it. Patience...<br />
In your patience posses ye your souls. In the accounts I mentioned did you notice that their lives affect our lives today? Adam and Eve lost patience and now we are all born in sin. Abraham had Ishmael and likewise there has been strife ever since. But also, he is the father of faith. He still believed God when God told him to obey His word. The timing has to do with others, not just yourself.<br />
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Isaac couldn’t have been born earlier. Joseph couldn’t have come out of the prison sooner. Moses couldn’t have lead Israel out of Egypt sooner. The timing of the Lord isn’t just about you. It’s about all nations, people and times. Yes we think and want things now. While we go through our time of patience, impatience makes us forget that we don’t live unto ourselves. Flesh is selfish. God is thinking WAY bigger than our life alone. He wants to use you for the lives you don’t even know about. Abraham has no clue that his walk is impacting my walk with God TODAY. I’m not saying don’t exam yourself, but sometimes the only thing that is keeping you from the desire in your heart is timing. You don’t have that marriage yet, timing. You don’t have that job, baby, house.... timing. In your patience possess ye your souls. Possess your soul unto God. Keep it clean, holy and humble waiting on Him, don’t sell out. He has great plans.<br />
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[Isa 55:8-9 KJV For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.]<br />
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[Jer 29:11 KJV For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.]<br />
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Submitted by: Tina Marieapostolicwordshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04518319651323580863noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4415382841768979315.post-47971663140665949982017-09-20T05:08:00.000-07:002017-09-20T05:08:05.516-07:00Tithing today in the New Testament Church.<div class="MsoNormal">
Recent posts on social media were made and then deleted. The intent was to cause the reader to question the teaching of tithing in churches today. The post lead a reader to believe that NT churches have no business or commandment to teach that tithing is to be practice today. Social media has a way of spreading things fast and furious without much support. If one doesn’t take the time to really read and evaluate what is being said, you could easily accept a lie.<br />
The word of God is true. It’s a foundation that can be stood upon. It built the worlds and it created all things known and unknown to man. If you have a question, going to the word is the best way to find an answer. The KJV bible is the best English bible to learn from. (Please study that out and you’ll see why)<br />
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When you start talking about money, in a “give it” sense, you tend to lose the attention of people and not just in churches. Someone is always vying for your money, utilities, billboards, business, Hollywood, magazines, charities, homeless, family and friends… the list goes on. Then you come into the church and there’s tithes and offerings. Does the NT church have a right to preach that tithes should be paid and instruct that it should be 10% gross? Or should it be just a free will offering of what a person feels they can give. Most arguments start with the tithes being paid to the Levitical priesthood under the OT law and the law has been done away with. Also stated that it’s neither written nor commanded in the New Testament scriptures.<br />
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The OT Law isn’t being done away with; it’s being fulfilled. No you will not go to hell because you touch or eat a pig (an unclean animal). However if you have the “animal like” pig spirit, uncleanness in your heart, hence the reason for the list of unclean and clean in the OT, you need an altar. Jesus came to show us the “Perfect Law of Liberty.” In Mathew chapter 5 Jesus takes you to the Perfect Law, the heart. In living the Perfect Law you fulfill the OT Law. [Mat 5:17-18 KJV 17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.] Heaven and earth has not passed yet, you are either bound by the law or set at liberty in faith.<br />
[Mat 5:27-28 KJV 27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: 28 But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.] The OT Law is works of the flesh. The NT Law is works in faith.<br />
[Mat 5:20 KJV 20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.] How does your righteousness exceed the workers of the law? When your actions are no longer your righteousness but Gods righteousness in you by faith. [Gal 3:22-25 KJV 22 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe. 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.] If you have faith in Jesus, you’re going to work on your heart. Conviction will be there and you’ll find yourself not doing the works that the OT Law forbids. You’re not committing adultery because in your heart, you’ve killed the thought; thus by walking in the Perfect Law you are fulfilling the OT Law. Jesus being your High Priest, you confess /repent of your faults to Him and His blood covers you. There are so many things to go over here, which I can’t go over each one.<br />
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The OT Law is also known as Moses Law. This isn’t just the Ten Commandments; it’s all the commandments, statues, precepts, judgments and instructions of God to Israel. However I would like to point out that there were laws or commandments given prior to the OT Law. In the Garden of Eden we have a commandment by God to Adam. [Gen 2:17 KJV 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.] Adam is the first preacher and Eve is the first one in the pew. Adam relays it to Eve as “Do not eat from the tree or even touch it, lest you die.” One commandment right and they failed at that. Do you really think there was only one commandment? God walked with them daily. Adam named all the creatures. God knew he was looking for his mate during this timeframe. There was relationship there. Genesis 4 tells us that an offering had to be made at a time and that it could be accepted or rejected. When did God teach these requirements? Even if you say after the fall, God had to tell them what animals were clean and unclean. As you continue to read the word, you’ll see that altars were made, offerings were done and Men called upon the name of the Lord. God separated people by this. You were either a son of God or a son of man. The scripture doesn’t give every little event, but makes you search and by revelation you can “see” and understand.<br />
All history reveals that from the days of Cain and Abel to Noah and his sons, you had teachings that most just call the OT Law, animal offerings, tithes, putting things in order, obeying God and walking by faith, etc. Noah had three sons that he likewise taught. Those three replenished the earth and just like today when a story is told without telling it from the original story, you get variations. The Jews kept the books as sacred and read from them, plus God created the universe, keeping His word isn’t impossible. The bible is a very well written and kept history book. This is another reason why we use the KJV over all other versions.<br />
When you dive into other religions, you can see they have some of the old teachings but in different variations. Those posts claimed that tithe paying was a pagan tradition during the days of Abraham. Again the entire human race came from Noah and what he taught, plus what those who were before the flood, taught his sons. Pagan really?? God separated the people by obedience, not pagan worship and practices. <br />
Abraham offered tithes; Abraham had altars and offered clean animals on them. He knew how to put the wood in order. [Gen 14:20 KJV 20 And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.] [Heb 7:2 KJV 2 To whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all; first being by interpretation King of righteousness, and after that also King of Salem, which is, King of peace;] Abraham was visited by, talked with and recognized God. Paying your tithes unto God is part of walking by faith. Abraham walked by faith and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Abraham taught his children to tithe. Jacob made a vow until the Lord at Bethel.<br />
[Gen 28:20-22 KJV 20 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on, 21 So that I come again to my father's house in peace; then shall the LORD be my God: 22 And this stone, which I have set for a pillar, shall be God's house: and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee.]<br />
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Before Moses was born, his forefathers were paying tithes. They were paying a tenth to God. When the OT Law was written out the Levites had to pay tithes on tithes to God. V26<br />
[Num 18:24, 26, 28 KJV 24 But the tithes of the children of Israel, which they offer as an heave offering unto the LORD, I have given to the Levites to inherit: therefore I have said unto them, Among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance. ... 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe. ... 28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.]<br />
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God wasn’t creating a new law here. He has given what is rightfully His to the Levites to make provision for them. He still required that they give tithes back to Him. Tithing is 10% of all your increase. Jericho was the tithe of the land. You are not supposed to touch the tithe it belongs to God. He ordained it to be given to the priesthood, the ones who minister in the house of God, Bethel. Here is another thing; God also requires that if you use a portion of your tithes when you should be giving it, you have to pay an additional 20%. [Lev 27:31 KJV And if a man will at all redeem ought of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth part thereof.]<br />
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How serious is this matter. [[Mal 3:8-10 KJV 8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.]<br />
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God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Why do people think He changes? If you could rob Him back then, you can still rob Him now. God has called for obedience since the beginning. We don’t offer a physical animal anymore, but the “animal” like spirits that are in us; those have to be placed on an altar. Tithing and offering were done before the OT Law and are still being done today. There is a difference between the offering and the tithes. Offering is for the bills needs of the building and growth of the church, tithes is for the Pastor/Ministry. Offerings is another study, there are many types. But there is only one tithe. <br />
[Rom 12:1-2 KJV 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.]<br />
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God made decrees and ordnances for tithes and offerings… [Deu 26:12 KJV 12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled;] As mentioned before, the Levites had to pay tithes too… unto whom did they pay it? [Num 18:26 KJV 26 Thus speak unto the Levites, and say unto them, When ye take of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.] Unto the LORD. The tithes belong to God.<br />
[Luk 11:42 KJV 42 But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.]<br />
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God said to eat the whole lamb. It’s not pick and choose; it’s the whole book. The NT Church had letters of correction and guidance. We don’t have the letters to the Apostles from the churches. Only the letters back to the churches. Why bring out that Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedec, if tithing wasn’t a question. No doubt that the reference in Hebrews chapter seven that Abraham gave tithes to Melchisedec before the law and Jesus is now the High Priest of God forever more after the order of this same Melchisedec; was because the newly converted Jews didn’t see a reason to pay tithes anymore. There’s no Levitical priesthood right??? Paul was letting them know there is still a High Priest. We are the children of Abraham by faith, like Abraham and he paid tithes.<br />
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When you come into the church it isn’t “freedom from commandments” God still has laws and even though the OT Law could not make you perfect. It has a purpose. If there isn’t any commandments, what laws are being written in our hearts under this new covenant promise to us?<br />
[Heb 8:8-10 KJV 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:]<br />
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Paul to the church in Corinth he in correction writes: [1Co 9:1-18 KJV 1 Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord? 2 If I be not an apostle unto others, yet doubtless I am to you: for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord. 3 Mine answer to them that do examine me is this, 4 Have we not power to eat and to drink? 5 Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas? 6 Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working? 7 Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? 8 Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? 9 For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? 10 Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. 11 If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things? 12 If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of Christ. 13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar? 14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the gospel should live of the gospel. 15 But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void. 16 For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel! 17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 18 What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.]<br />
We are talking about tithing. The Apostles used the things of the law to correct the churches. Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. You are not going to bind the preacher that plows your heart with the word of God, by not giving him what is do according to God; the tithes. He has every right to eat of the vineyard. V11 sowing in your heart, reaping your tithes. You’re going to withhold your tithe (muzzle him) and think God is for that. No God will take care of the preacher, but you have robbed God and He will deal with you as a thief.<br />
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[Luk 16:10-13 KJV 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.]<br />
Mammon (mamōnas) money, riches and treasures (personified and opposed to God)<br />
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Does the NT Church have a right to preach and collect tithes and offerings? I believe with all the scriptures and examples above, you have concluded the answer is yes. Mammon is usually behind the posts on social media that questions or causes the reader to question giving up what they do dearly serve. I pay my tithes, not as a bill, but as a privilege; knowing that God blesses the giver and His government is perfect in every way. Really having a preacher that teaches you the truth of the word of God is a great gift from God.<br />
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Submitted by: Tina Marie<br />
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