We are about to examine the word that is made known to us by GOD within us. This may prove to be a struggle as it is mostly within the context of the old witness and when this is read the veil remains over it. This veil keeps the secret things secret, as in being without the Holy Spirit as it is HE Who searches the deep things of GOD and makes these things known to us of a renewed spirits. as walk is His righteousness as did Abraham as explained by Paul in Romans. Where we find the "ha" added to Abram means grace in faiths acceptance. Also know this, it is both religion and politics that hinder our hearing and seeing GOD face to face in Christ. Also know and understand that when Jesus' flesh was rent upon the cross that the temples veil was also rent from top to bottom showing the end of all the Law and the Prophets of Jewish history in our humanity. And when He was resurrected all of humanity was resurrected in Him in His justification of righteousness and holiness of image and likeness restored to all humanity. Paul in his introduction in 1Corithians 1:2-3 tells us this: "To the Ekklesia of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be (sir named) saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours: Grace to you and peace from GOD our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ." Grace and Peace express the sum total of every benefit of purpose and plan of GOD towards us. Paul here brands his gospel message with the words in order to distinguish the message of the revelation of finished work of / in Christ, as the basis of faith from the Mosaic Law of works which restricts a person to their own efforts to justify themselves. It is now a matter of grace verses reward and peace verses striving.
GOD as our Teacher, The Divine Teacher,
Exodus 4:15 of 10-17 "But Moses said to the LORD, "Oh, my Lord, I am not eloquent, either in the past or since You have spoken to Your servant, but I am slow of speech and of tongue." Then the LORD said to him, 'Who has made man's mouth? Who makes him mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, the LORD? Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall speak.' But Moses said, "Oh, my Lord, please send someone else." Then the anger of the LORD was kindled against Moses and He said, 'Is there not Aaron, your brother, the Levite? I know that he can speak well. Behold, he is coming out to meet you, and when he sees you, he will be glad in his heart. You shall speak to him and put the words in his mouth, and I will be with your mouth and with his mouth and will teach you both what to do. He shall speak for you to the people, and he shall be your mouth, and you shall be as God to him. And take in your hand this staff, with which you shall do the signs.'"
Deuteronomy 4:36, 39 of 32-40 "For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that GOD created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire, as you have heard, and still live? Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for Himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown, that you might know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him. Out of heaven HE let you hear His voice, that HE might discipline you. And on earth HE let you see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of the fire. And because HE loved your fathers and chose their offspring after them and brought you out of Egypt with His own presence, by His great power, driving out before you nations greater and mightier than you, to bring you in, to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is this day, know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other. Therefore you shall keep His statutes and His commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time."
Psalm 25:12 of 12-15 "Who is the man who fears the LORD? Him will HE instructs in the way that he should choose. His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land. The friendship / kinship of the LORD is for those who revere Him, and HE makes known to them His covenant. My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for HE will pluck my feet out of the net (of religions deception and delusions)."
Psalm 32:8 of 8-11 "I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with My eyes upon you. Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you. Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD. Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!"
Psalm 71:17 of 17-21 "O God, from my youth You have taught me, and I still proclaim Your wondrous deeds. So even to old age and gray hairs, O God, do not forsake me, until I proclaim Your might to another generation, Your power to all those to come. Your righteousness, O God, reaches the high heavens. You Who have done great things, O God, who is like You? You have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again; from the depths of the earth (after two days) You will bring me up again. You will increase my greatness and comfort me again."
Psalm 94:10 of 8-11 "Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise? He who planted the ear, does He not hear? He who formed the eye, does He not see? He who disciplines the nations, does He not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge— the LORD—knows the thoughts of man, that they are but a breath."
Isaiah 2:3 of 2-4 "It shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and shall be lifted up above the hills; and all the nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that HE may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go the instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between the nations, and shall decide disputes for many peoples; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore."
Isaiah 28:26 of 22, 23-29 "Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the LORD God of hosts against the whole land.
Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech. Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground? When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border? For he is rightly instructed; his GOD teaches him. Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod. Does one crush grain for bread? No, he does not thresh it forever; when he drives his cart wheel over it with his horses, he does not crush it. This also comes from the LORD of hosts; HE is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom."
Isaiah 48:17 of 17-19 "Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: 'I am the LORD your God, Who teaches you to profit, Who leads you in the way you should go. Oh that you had paid attention to My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea; your offspring would have been like the sand, and your descendants like its grains; their name would never be cut off or destroyed from before Me.'"
Isaiah 54:13 of 11-17 "'O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires. I will make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones. All your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children. In righteousness you shall be established; you shall be far from oppression, for you shall not fear; and from terror, for it shall not come near you. If anyone stirs up strife, it is not from Me; whoever stirs up strife with you shall fall because of you. Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals and produces a weapon for its purpose. I have also created the ravager to destroy; no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed, and you shall refute (condemn) every tongue that rises against you in judgment. This is the heritage of the servants (one who sides-with) of the LORD and their vindication from Me, declares the LORD.'"
Jeremiah 32:33 of 26-35 "The word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: 'Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for Me?' Therefore, thus says the LORD: 'Behold, I am giving this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and he shall capture it. The Chaldeans who are fighting against this city shall come and set this city on fire and burn it, with the houses on whose roofs offerings have been made to Baal (Master to have dominion over) and drink offerings have been poured out to other gods, to provoke Me to anger. For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in My sight from their youth. The children of Israel have done nothing but provoke Me to anger by the work of their hands', declares the LORD. 'This city has aroused My anger and wrath, from the day it was built to this day, so that I will remove it from My sight (in 68-70 ADE) because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke Me to anger—their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. They have turned to Me their backside and not their face. And though I have taught them persistently, they have not listened to receive instruction. They set up their abominations in the house that is called by My name, to defile it. They built the high places of Baal in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, to offer up their sons and daughters to Molech, though I did not command them, nor did it enter into My mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.'"
Micah 4:2 of 1-5 (the LORD God is speaking) "'It shall come to pass in the latter days (the days of the Lord Jesus) that the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established as the highest of the mountains, and it shall be lifted up above the hills; and peoples shall flow to it, and many nations shall come, and say: "Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob, that HE may teach us His ways and that we may walk in His paths." For out of Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. He shall judge between many peoples, and shall decide for strong nations far away; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore; but they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree, and no one shall make them afraid', for the mouth of the LORD of hosts has spoken. For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the (now secret and hidden) name of the LORD our God forever and ever."
At this moment I have no next destination from the LORD so I will just sit and wait on Him. While I read my new "Mirror Study Bible, the Romance of the Ages" written by Francois du Toit.
Saturday, September 29, 2018
Friday, September 28, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.06.2 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
And yet again I am deviating from my norm by looking at Romans 4 (ESV) as it relates to our acquiring a new or renewed mind. In the margin of this chapter, I have written Redemption and Justification as our new nature of GODS Character restored within us all. I will in all possibility interrupt with what is inspiration as I have done over the years of this blogs history. And even more so with the new "Mirror Study Bible's" addition to my collection of the external word. As it confirms what I have been sharing though in slightly different language but the same thing none the less, as the Word within us all is expressed by us as we are known.
Romans 4:1-8, 9-12, 13-15, 16-25; 5:1 "What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture (of Genesis 15:6 which states that he believed GOD!) say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness." Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom GOD counts righteousness apart from works (of the Law in Psalm 32:1-2): "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the LORD will not count his sin."
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised (while a gentile). He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
The Promise Realized Through Faith
For the promise to Abram, Abraham, (Where "ha" was added by GOD to indicate the change in both Sara and Abram, this being of Yehovah's [Jehovah's] faith) and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the (Mosaic) Law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the (Mosaic) Law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the Law brings wrath, but where there is no (Mosaic) Law there is no transgression.
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the Law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written (in Genesis 17:5), "I have made you the father of many nations"—in the presence of the GOD in Whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence (that which is not yet seen) the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarai, Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of GOD, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to GOD, being fully convinced that GOD was able to do what HE had promised. That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness." But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in Him Who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification."
This equates to this equation; His cross = our sins, His Resurrection = our innocence, His death brought closure to our fallen nature and worldly mindset; His resurrection is proof of our redeemed righteousness!
Romans 5:1 "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Another translation to this could be: The conclusion is clear: our righteousness has absolutely nothing to do with our ability to keep moral laws; it is the immediate result of what Jesus accomplished on humanity's behalf. This gives context to faith and finds expression in unhindered, face to face friendship with GOD! Jesus as the Christ (our own image and likeness awakened) is Head of this union!
The LORD willing I will look into GOD as our Divine Teacher next time.
Romans 4:1-8, 9-12, 13-15, 16-25; 5:1 "What then shall we say was gained by Abraham, our forefather according to the flesh? For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God. For what does the Scripture (of Genesis 15:6 which states that he believed GOD!) say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness." Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in Him Who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom GOD counts righteousness apart from works (of the Law in Psalm 32:1-2): "Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven, and whose sins are covered; blessed is the man against whom the LORD will not count his sin."
Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? For we say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness. How then was it counted to him? Was it before or after he had been circumcised? It was not after, but before he was circumcised (while a gentile). He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.
The Promise Realized Through Faith
For the promise to Abram, Abraham, (Where "ha" was added by GOD to indicate the change in both Sara and Abram, this being of Yehovah's [Jehovah's] faith) and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the (Mosaic) Law but through the righteousness of faith. For if it is the adherents of the (Mosaic) Law who are to be the heirs, faith is null and the promise is void. For the Law brings wrath, but where there is no (Mosaic) Law there is no transgression.
That is why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the Law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written (in Genesis 17:5), "I have made you the father of many nations"—in the presence of the GOD in Whom he believed, who gives life to the dead and calls into existence (that which is not yet seen) the things that do not exist. In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, "So shall your offspring be." He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarai, Sarah's womb. No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of GOD, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to GOD, being fully convinced that GOD was able to do what HE had promised. That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness." But the words "it was counted to him" were not written for his sake alone, but for ours also. It will be counted to us who believe in Him Who raised from the dead Jesus our Lord, who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification."
This equates to this equation; His cross = our sins, His Resurrection = our innocence, His death brought closure to our fallen nature and worldly mindset; His resurrection is proof of our redeemed righteousness!
Romans 5:1 "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ."
Another translation to this could be: The conclusion is clear: our righteousness has absolutely nothing to do with our ability to keep moral laws; it is the immediate result of what Jesus accomplished on humanity's behalf. This gives context to faith and finds expression in unhindered, face to face friendship with GOD! Jesus as the Christ (our own image and likeness awakened) is Head of this union!
The LORD willing I will look into GOD as our Divine Teacher next time.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.06.1 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
I am deviating from my norm to share this from John18:28-32, as written in the "Mirror Study Bible" by Francois du Toit, 2012
John 18:28-32 (KJV) "Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death: That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die."
John 18:28-32 (ESV) "Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover. So Pilate went outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" They answered him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you." Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die."
John 18:28-32 (Mirror Study Bible, the Romance of the Ages) "then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium, the Roman governor's judgment hall - it was still early in the day so the Jews didn't go into the court room for fear of contracting some impurity, which would have obliged them to separate themselves from eating the Passover. Then Pilate went outside to face them and asked, What accusation do you bring against this man?" They answered, "If he wasn't an evildoer we wouldn't have wasted your time with this court case in the first place." Then Pilate said, "Take him and judge him according to your law." They said, "Our law does not allow a death sentence." This was also to confirm what Jesus said about his manner of death. ~"The Mirror"
(I would be lifted up - crucifixion was not a Jewish punishment - 1John 3:5 We have witnessed with our own eyes how, in the unveiling of the prophetic word, when he was lifted up upon the cross as the Lamb of GOD, he lifted up our sins and broke its dominion and rule over us! (John 1:29 "Behold, the Lamb of GOD, who takes away {airo} the sin of the world! The word airo means to lift up. John 3:13 No ane can fully engage in heaven's perspective, unless one's heavenly origin is realized! The Son of man declares humanity's co-genesis from above! John 3:14 (This is my mission: See the prophetic relevance - this is how the veil will be removed!) Remember how Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so the Son of man will be lifted up! (John 12:31-33 "'Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out; and I, when I am lifted up from the earth will draw all judgment unto me.'" He said this to show by what death he was to die." John 3:13 and 14 are most significant since they point to the very essence of the mission of Jesus - the co-begotteness of the human race now our co-crucifixion and co-resurrection on the third day into newness of life! 1Peter 1:3) John 3:15 In the same prophetic pattern, I will be lifted up for all to see and be equally persuaded in the echo of the life of the ages now redeemed within them!) ~"The Mirror"
John 18:28-32 (KJV) "Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover. Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death: That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what death he should die."
John 18:28-32 (ESV) "Then they led Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the governor's headquarters. It was early morning. They themselves did not enter the governor's headquarters, so that they would not be defiled, but could eat the Passover. So Pilate went outside to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" They answered him, "If this man were not doing evil, we would not have delivered him over to you." Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law." The Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death." This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to show by what kind of death he was going to die."
John 18:28-32 (Mirror Study Bible, the Romance of the Ages) "then they led Jesus from Caiaphas into the praetorium, the Roman governor's judgment hall - it was still early in the day so the Jews didn't go into the court room for fear of contracting some impurity, which would have obliged them to separate themselves from eating the Passover. Then Pilate went outside to face them and asked, What accusation do you bring against this man?" They answered, "If he wasn't an evildoer we wouldn't have wasted your time with this court case in the first place." Then Pilate said, "Take him and judge him according to your law." They said, "Our law does not allow a death sentence." This was also to confirm what Jesus said about his manner of death. ~"The Mirror"
(I would be lifted up - crucifixion was not a Jewish punishment - 1John 3:5 We have witnessed with our own eyes how, in the unveiling of the prophetic word, when he was lifted up upon the cross as the Lamb of GOD, he lifted up our sins and broke its dominion and rule over us! (John 1:29 "Behold, the Lamb of GOD, who takes away {airo} the sin of the world! The word airo means to lift up. John 3:13 No ane can fully engage in heaven's perspective, unless one's heavenly origin is realized! The Son of man declares humanity's co-genesis from above! John 3:14 (This is my mission: See the prophetic relevance - this is how the veil will be removed!) Remember how Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so the Son of man will be lifted up! (John 12:31-33 "'Now is the judgment of this world, now shall the ruler of this world be cast out; and I, when I am lifted up from the earth will draw all judgment unto me.'" He said this to show by what death he was to die." John 3:13 and 14 are most significant since they point to the very essence of the mission of Jesus - the co-begotteness of the human race now our co-crucifixion and co-resurrection on the third day into newness of life! 1Peter 1:3) John 3:15 In the same prophetic pattern, I will be lifted up for all to see and be equally persuaded in the echo of the life of the ages now redeemed within them!) ~"The Mirror"
Tuesday, September 25, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.06 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
Before moving on I want to take a few minutes to review Genesis 1:26-27 with 2:7 from the KJV+ first then the ESV, and old Hebrew Lexicon Dictionary, not from the Strong's all though it uses the same alpha numeric indexing system. Why? You may ask, because within it's context is the very reason and purpose that Jesus came on a mission of extreme purpose, to restore to GOD that which was perverted in the fall from grace.
Genesis 1:26-27 "And God H430 said,H559 Let us make H6213 man H120 in our image,H6754 after our likeness:H1823 and let them have dominion H7287 over the fish H1710 of the sea,H3220 and over the fowl H5775 of the air,H8064 and over the cattle,H929 and over all H3605 the earth,H776 and over every H3605 creeping thing H7431 that creepeth H7430 upon H5921 the earth.H776 So God H430 created H1254 (H853) man H120 in His own image,H6754 in the image H6754 of God H430 created H1254 HE him; male H2145 and female H5347 created H1254 HE them."
From the ESV of Genesis 1:26-27 "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD H3068 God H430 formed H3335 (H853) man H120 of the dust H6083 of H4480 the ground,H127 and breathed H5301 into his nostrils H639 the breath H5397 of life;H2416 and man H120 became H1961 a living H2416 soul.H5315"
From the ESV of Genesis 2:7 "then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Now for the hard part,"
Image H6754: an image or form of something as the shadow of the original.
Likeness H1823: co: Blood ab: Likeness: The pictograph [d] is a door representing the idea of moving back and forth. The [m] is a picture of water and can represent any liquid especially blood. Combined these pictures mean "the moving back and forth of water" or the "flowing of blood". Similarly, the grape plant takes water from the ground and moves it to the fruit where the water becomes the blood of the grape. The blood of man is also water, which moves through the body. When the blood is shed, the man or animal becomes silent. A son from the blood of his father resembles his father.
Likeness: A son from the blood of his father resembles his father. kjv: likeness, similitude, like, manner, fashion.
Formed H3335 (H853): Press: To pressed or squeeze out of shape or into a shape as when pressing clay into a shape.kjv: distressed, straitened, straits, vex, narrow, form, potter, fashion, maker, frame, make, former, earthen, purpose.
Also: Thought: The forming of thought in the mind.
H853: I. Plow-point: The plow-point is used to cut a deep furrow in the ground for planting seeds. [A common grammatical word that precedes the direct object of a verb]
II. Sign: A sign, mark or wonder (as a sign). [Aramaic only]
III. At: Something that moves near something to be with it. Also used as grammatical tool to mark the direct object of the verb. kjv: plowshare, clutter, sign, against, with, in, upon. co: Mark ab: Agree: The coming toward a mark. A standard, or flag, with the family mark hangs as a sign. An agreement or covenant by two where a sign or mark of the agreement is made as a reminder to both parties. Agree: Two parties to be in agreement. Mark: The sign of an agreement between two parties.
co: Entrance ab: ?: The entering into the area of destination.
Breather H5301: kjv: blow, breathe, seethe, lose, snuff, give up.
Breath H5397: Breath: [Hebrew and Aramaic] kjv: breath, blast, spirit, inspiration, soul.
Life H2416:Stomach: Literally the organ that holds food (see Job 38:39) but figurative of life. [Hebrew and Aramaic] kjv: live, life, beast, alive, creature, running, living thing, raw, springing, appetite, quick.
Now that I have that off my chess I will turn my attention to the task at hand, that of discovering our Divine Teacher, this has two listing one being Christ the other is GOD, all this on the renewed mind side.
Christ our Teacher, the image and likeness, our Teacher-instructor,
Matthew 4:23 "And Jesus went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel (not the Law or that of religions repentance) of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people."
Matthew 5:1-2 "Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up on the mountain, and when He sat down (as a college prophesier takes his seat at the head of the student body), His disciples came to him. And He opened His mouth and taught them."
Matthew 7:28-29 "When Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at His teaching, for He was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes."
Mark 6:34 of 30-44 "The apostles returned to Jesus and told Him all that they had done and taught. And He said to them, 'Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.' For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When Jesus went ashore He saw a great crowd, and He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things. And when it grew late, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat." But He answered them, 'You give them something to eat.' And they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?" And He said to them, 'How many loaves do you have? Go and see.' And when they had found out, they said, "Five, and two fish." Then He commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. And taking the five loaves and the two fish He looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And He divided the two fish among them all. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men."
Luke 4:14-15 "Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about Him went out through all the surrounding country. And He taught in their synagogues, (a place of opportunity) being glorified by all."
Luke 5:3 of 1-11 "On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on Him to hear the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, He asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down (took His prophesiers seat again) and taught the people from the boat. And when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, 'Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.' And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at Your word (instruction) I will let down the nets." And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man (he expressed religions mindset of guilt and shame), O LORD!" For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, 'Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.' And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed (walked as in agreement) Him."
John 3:3 of 1-3 "Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from GOD, for no one can do these signs that You do unless GOD is with him." Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again (no repentance required here nor is there water baptism, as these are religions burdens of slavery imposed upon redeemed humanity) he cannot see the kingdom of GOD.'"
John 7:14, 17 of 14-18 "About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when He has never studied?" So Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19 of 15-22) If anyone's will is to do GOD's will, he will know whether the teaching is from GOD or whether I am speaking on My own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of Him Who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.'"
John 8:2 of 1-11 "Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning He came again to the temple. All the people came to Him, and He sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in their midst they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" This they said to test Him, that they might have some charge to bring against Him. Jesus bent down and wrote with His finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask Him, He stood up and said to them, 'Let him who is without sin (religions burden of guilt) among you be the first to throw a stone at her.' Once more He bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before Him. Jesus stood up and said to her, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned (spoken religions lie against, the fallen mindset of dia-ballos) you?" She said, "No one, LORD!" And Jesus said, 'Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no (repentance required of her) more.'
Genesis 1:26-27 "And God H430 said,H559 Let us make H6213 man H120 in our image,H6754 after our likeness:H1823 and let them have dominion H7287 over the fish H1710 of the sea,H3220 and over the fowl H5775 of the air,H8064 and over the cattle,H929 and over all H3605 the earth,H776 and over every H3605 creeping thing H7431 that creepeth H7430 upon H5921 the earth.H776 So God H430 created H1254 (H853) man H120 in His own image,H6754 in the image H6754 of God H430 created H1254 HE him; male H2145 and female H5347 created H1254 HE them."
From the ESV of Genesis 1:26-27 "Then God said, 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
Genesis 2:7 "And the LORD H3068 God H430 formed H3335 (H853) man H120 of the dust H6083 of H4480 the ground,H127 and breathed H5301 into his nostrils H639 the breath H5397 of life;H2416 and man H120 became H1961 a living H2416 soul.H5315"
From the ESV of Genesis 2:7 "then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
Now for the hard part,"
Image H6754: an image or form of something as the shadow of the original.
Likeness H1823: co: Blood ab: Likeness: The pictograph [d] is a door representing the idea of moving back and forth. The [m] is a picture of water and can represent any liquid especially blood. Combined these pictures mean "the moving back and forth of water" or the "flowing of blood". Similarly, the grape plant takes water from the ground and moves it to the fruit where the water becomes the blood of the grape. The blood of man is also water, which moves through the body. When the blood is shed, the man or animal becomes silent. A son from the blood of his father resembles his father.
Likeness: A son from the blood of his father resembles his father. kjv: likeness, similitude, like, manner, fashion.
Formed H3335 (H853): Press: To pressed or squeeze out of shape or into a shape as when pressing clay into a shape.kjv: distressed, straitened, straits, vex, narrow, form, potter, fashion, maker, frame, make, former, earthen, purpose.
Also: Thought: The forming of thought in the mind.
H853: I. Plow-point: The plow-point is used to cut a deep furrow in the ground for planting seeds. [A common grammatical word that precedes the direct object of a verb]
II. Sign: A sign, mark or wonder (as a sign). [Aramaic only]
III. At: Something that moves near something to be with it. Also used as grammatical tool to mark the direct object of the verb. kjv: plowshare, clutter, sign, against, with, in, upon. co: Mark ab: Agree: The coming toward a mark. A standard, or flag, with the family mark hangs as a sign. An agreement or covenant by two where a sign or mark of the agreement is made as a reminder to both parties. Agree: Two parties to be in agreement. Mark: The sign of an agreement between two parties.
co: Entrance ab: ?: The entering into the area of destination.
Breather H5301: kjv: blow, breathe, seethe, lose, snuff, give up.
Breath H5397: Breath: [Hebrew and Aramaic] kjv: breath, blast, spirit, inspiration, soul.
Life H2416:Stomach: Literally the organ that holds food (see Job 38:39) but figurative of life. [Hebrew and Aramaic] kjv: live, life, beast, alive, creature, running, living thing, raw, springing, appetite, quick.
Now that I have that off my chess I will turn my attention to the task at hand, that of discovering our Divine Teacher, this has two listing one being Christ the other is GOD, all this on the renewed mind side.
Christ our Teacher, the image and likeness, our Teacher-instructor,
Matthew 4:23 "And Jesus went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel (not the Law or that of religions repentance) of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people."
Matthew 5:1-2 "Seeing the crowds, Jesus went up on the mountain, and when He sat down (as a college prophesier takes his seat at the head of the student body), His disciples came to him. And He opened His mouth and taught them."
Matthew 7:28-29 "When Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at His teaching, for He was teaching them as one who had authority, and not as their scribes."
Mark 6:34 of 30-44 "The apostles returned to Jesus and told Him all that they had done and taught. And He said to them, 'Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.' For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves. Now many saw them going and recognized them, and they ran there on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. When Jesus went ashore He saw a great crowd, and He had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. And He began to teach them many things. And when it grew late, His disciples came to Him and said, "This is a desolate place, and the hour is now late. Send them away to go into the surrounding countryside and villages and buy themselves something to eat." But He answered them, 'You give them something to eat.' And they said to Him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii worth of bread and give it to them to eat?" And He said to them, 'How many loaves do you have? Go and see.' And when they had found out, they said, "Five, and two fish." Then He commanded them all to sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups, by hundreds and by fifties. And taking the five loaves and the two fish He looked up to heaven and said a blessing and broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples to set before the people. And He divided the two fish among them all. And they all ate and were satisfied. And they took up twelve baskets full of broken pieces and of the fish. And those who ate the loaves were five thousand men."
Luke 4:14-15 "Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit to Galilee, and a report about Him went out through all the surrounding country. And He taught in their synagogues, (a place of opportunity) being glorified by all."
Luke 5:3 of 1-11 "On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on Him to hear the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon's, He asked him to put out a little from the land. And He sat down (took His prophesiers seat again) and taught the people from the boat. And when He had finished speaking, He said to Simon, 'Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.' And Simon answered, "Master, we toiled all night and took nothing! But at Your word (instruction) I will let down the nets." And when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking. They signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them. And they came and filled both the boats, so that they began to sink. But when Simon Peter saw it, he fell down at Jesus' knees, saying, "Depart from me, for I am a sinful man (he expressed religions mindset of guilt and shame), O LORD!" For he and all who were with him were astonished at the catch of fish that they had taken, and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. And Jesus said to Simon, 'Do not be afraid; from now on you will be catching men.' And when they had brought their boats to land, they left everything and followed (walked as in agreement) Him."
John 3:3 of 1-3 "Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from GOD, for no one can do these signs that You do unless GOD is with him." Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again (no repentance required here nor is there water baptism, as these are religions burdens of slavery imposed upon redeemed humanity) he cannot see the kingdom of GOD.'"
John 7:14, 17 of 14-18 "About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when He has never studied?" So Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me. (Deuteronomy 18:15, 18-19 of 15-22) If anyone's will is to do GOD's will, he will know whether the teaching is from GOD or whether I am speaking on My own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of Him Who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.'"
John 8:2 of 1-11 "Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. Early in the morning He came again to the temple. All the people came to Him, and He sat down and taught them. The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in their midst they said to Him, "Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. Now in the Law Moses commanded us to stone such women. So what do you say?" This they said to test Him, that they might have some charge to bring against Him. Jesus bent down and wrote with His finger on the ground. And as they continued to ask Him, He stood up and said to them, 'Let him who is without sin (religions burden of guilt) among you be the first to throw a stone at her.' Once more He bent down and wrote on the ground. But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before Him. Jesus stood up and said to her, 'Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned (spoken religions lie against, the fallen mindset of dia-ballos) you?" She said, "No one, LORD!" And Jesus said, 'Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on sin no (repentance required of her) more.'
Monday, September 24, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.05 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
I am going to do something different here, I am going to Genesis 1:26-27 to get a look at what is our true life, the narrow path of law, as revealed there and then look at what may be linked to this passage in my study Bibles. Now this may be grounds already covered but it is the mission assignment that Jesus came to redeem and restore within all of Humanity, in one fell stroke, by the death of mans flesh, in which He was clothed or housed in. Which brought the re-genesis of the image and likeness of GODS presence within all of humanity. It is this that grace speaks of while the Law only addresses the outward world of sin. And sin is religions force of resistance for the dark side of non-re-genesis-ed humanity. Now here's the secret hide in GOD the words "image and likeness," means Christ.
Genesis 1:26 of 26-27 Then GOD said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So GOD created man in His Own image, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them."
Psalm 100:3 "Know that the LORD, He is GOD! It is HE Who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture."
Isaiah 64:8 "But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we are all the work of Your hand."
Now what is revealed by Jesus about this is often spoken of in veiled language by Him.
John 14:23 of 23-26 " Jesus answered him, 'If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. And the word that you hear is not Mine but the Father's Who sent Me. (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22) These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, HE will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7; Ephesians 2:10, 4:24 and Colossians 3:10).'"
1John 5:6-7 of 6-10 "This is He Who came by water and blood (natural birth)—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the Truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of GOD is greater, for this is the testimony of GOD that HE has borne concerning His Son (those redeemed and restored to His image and likeness of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7). Whoever believes in the Son of GOD has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe GOD has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that GOD has borne concerning His Son (of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7)."
Acts 17:28 of 22-31 "So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, "To the unknown god." What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. For the GOD Who made the world and everything in it, being LORD of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is HE served by human hands, as though HE needed anything, since HE Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. For HE made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek GOD, and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him. Yet HE is actually not far from each one of us, for "'In Him we live and move and have our being;' as even some of your own poets have said, "For we are indeed His offspring." Being then GOD's offspring (processing His image and likeness, of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7), we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance GOD overlooked, but now HE commands all people everywhere to repent, because HE has fixed a day on which HE will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom HE has appointed; and of this HE has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead."
Christ-likeness, the ultimate aim of the Gospel,
Romans 8:29 of 28-30; 1Corinthians 15:49 of 42-49 "We know that those who love GOD all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom HE foreknew (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7) HE also predestined to be conformed to the image (likeness, exact copy of) of His Son, in order that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom HE predestined HE also called, and those whom HE called HE also justified, and those whom HE justified HE also glorifies (sanctifies)."
1Corinthians 15:49 of 42-49 "So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. (this is John 19's death and the LORD's resurrection of Matthew 27:51-54; 1Corinthians 15:51 of 50-57, 5:2, 4 of 1-5; Ephesians 4:8 of 7-16 [Psalm 68:18 of 15-18], Colossians 2:15 of 8-15) It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body (John 12:24); it is raised a spiritual body (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7). If there is a natural body (Genesis 3), there is also a spiritual body (Genesis 2:7). Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being (Genesis 2:7, then the change in chapter 3)"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit (the redemption of mans original being of the image and likeness of Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7). For it is the spiritual that is first, and then the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man (Adam) was placed on the earth, made earthy, a man of dust; the second man (Adam) is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image (likeness, exact copy of) of the man (Adam) of heaven."
2Corinthians 3:18 of 12-18 "Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. For their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ (the second Adam) is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom (from religions veil). And we all, with unveiled face, can see as face to face, beholding the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the LORD Who is the Spirit."
Philippians 3:21 of 17-21; Colossians 3:10 of 5-11 "Now Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enabled Him even to subject all things to Himself."
Colossians 3:10 of 5-11 "Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is spiritual idolatry (the religion of old). On account of these the wrath of GOD is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; for Christ is all, and in all."
2Peter 1:4 of 1-11 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our GOD and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of GOD and of Jesus our LORD. His divine power (grace with faith) has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him Who called us to His Own glory and excellence, by which HE has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD in Jesus Christ (the image and likeness redeemed and restored to all humanity). For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you have entrance into the eternal kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ."
1John 3:2 of 1-3 "See what kind of love the Father has given to us (in Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7), that we should be called children of GOD; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are GOD's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when HE appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as HE is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as HE is pure."
The LORD will we will look next to our Divine Teacher.
Genesis 1:26 of 26-27 Then GOD said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.' So GOD created man in His Own image, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them."
Psalm 100:3 "Know that the LORD, He is GOD! It is HE Who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture."
Isaiah 64:8 "But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we are all the work of Your hand."
Now what is revealed by Jesus about this is often spoken of in veiled language by Him.
John 14:23 of 23-26 " Jesus answered him, 'If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. And the word that you hear is not Mine but the Father's Who sent Me. (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22) These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, HE will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7; Ephesians 2:10, 4:24 and Colossians 3:10).'"
1John 5:6-7 of 6-10 "This is He Who came by water and blood (natural birth)—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the Truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of GOD is greater, for this is the testimony of GOD that HE has borne concerning His Son (those redeemed and restored to His image and likeness of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7). Whoever believes in the Son of GOD has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe GOD has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that GOD has borne concerning His Son (of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7)."
Acts 17:28 of 22-31 "So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, "To the unknown god." What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. For the GOD Who made the world and everything in it, being LORD of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is HE served by human hands, as though HE needed anything, since HE Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. For HE made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek GOD, and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him. Yet HE is actually not far from each one of us, for "'In Him we live and move and have our being;' as even some of your own poets have said, "For we are indeed His offspring." Being then GOD's offspring (processing His image and likeness, of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7), we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance GOD overlooked, but now HE commands all people everywhere to repent, because HE has fixed a day on which HE will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom HE has appointed; and of this HE has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead."
Christ-likeness, the ultimate aim of the Gospel,
Romans 8:29 of 28-30; 1Corinthians 15:49 of 42-49 "We know that those who love GOD all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom HE foreknew (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7) HE also predestined to be conformed to the image (likeness, exact copy of) of His Son, in order that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom HE predestined HE also called, and those whom HE called HE also justified, and those whom HE justified HE also glorifies (sanctifies)."
1Corinthians 15:49 of 42-49 "So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. (this is John 19's death and the LORD's resurrection of Matthew 27:51-54; 1Corinthians 15:51 of 50-57, 5:2, 4 of 1-5; Ephesians 4:8 of 7-16 [Psalm 68:18 of 15-18], Colossians 2:15 of 8-15) It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body (John 12:24); it is raised a spiritual body (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7). If there is a natural body (Genesis 3), there is also a spiritual body (Genesis 2:7). Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being (Genesis 2:7, then the change in chapter 3)"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit (the redemption of mans original being of the image and likeness of Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7). For it is the spiritual that is first, and then the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man (Adam) was placed on the earth, made earthy, a man of dust; the second man (Adam) is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image (likeness, exact copy of) of the man (Adam) of heaven."
2Corinthians 3:18 of 12-18 "Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. For their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ (the second Adam) is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom (from religions veil). And we all, with unveiled face, can see as face to face, beholding the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the LORD Who is the Spirit."
Philippians 3:21 of 17-21; Colossians 3:10 of 5-11 "Now Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enabled Him even to subject all things to Himself."
Colossians 3:10 of 5-11 "Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is spiritual idolatry (the religion of old). On account of these the wrath of GOD is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; for Christ is all, and in all."
2Peter 1:4 of 1-11 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our GOD and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of GOD and of Jesus our LORD. His divine power (grace with faith) has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him Who called us to His Own glory and excellence, by which HE has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD in Jesus Christ (the image and likeness redeemed and restored to all humanity). For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you have entrance into the eternal kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ."
1John 3:2 of 1-3 "See what kind of love the Father has given to us (in Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7), that we should be called children of GOD; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are GOD's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when HE appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as HE is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as HE is pure."
The LORD will we will look next to our Divine Teacher.
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.04.1 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
Now here is a slight deviation from the norm. Quoting John 6:39 and 40 from the ESV and then something new.
John 6:39 (Jesus is speaking) "'This is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should lose nothing of all that HE has given Me, but raise it up on the last day.'"
Mirrored Paraphrase: "My Sender's desire is for Me to rescue every single individual - this is His gift to Me - that I will lose no detail of humanity's original identity mirrored in Me! My rescuing mission will conclude in their joint-resurrection! This is the completeness of time!"
Now its meaning for us; "This is His gift to Me (Psalm 2), ho dedoke moi. The phrase, hina pan apoleso ex auto, means, that I should lose nothing out of it. In the conclusion / fullness of time - te eschate hemera - This phrase occurs only in John - John 6:39, 40, 44, 54. See John 4:23 The end of an era has arrived - the future is here! Whatever prophetic values were expressed in external devotional forms and rituals are now eclipsed in the true spirit of worship from within - face to face with the Father - acknowledging our genesis in Him - this is His delight! The Father's desire is the worshiper more than the worship!"
John 6:40 (Jesus is speaking) "'For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.'"
Mirrored Paraphrase: "This is the desire of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son, through His eyes, and finds the conclusion of (eis) their persuasion in Him, will resonate (echo) the life of the ages! And I will raise him up in the final day!
Now its meaning for us: "the word theoreo means to gaze attentively. Jesus speaks here of mankind's joint resurrection in His resurrection as the final day! See Hosea 6:2 "After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him." The word eschatos means extreme; last in time or in space; the uttermost part, the final conclusion. What GOD said about 'you-manity' in their co-resurrection in Jesus, defines eschatology! Hebrews 1:1-3; Ephesians 2:5-6; Revelation 20:5 on the first resurrection."
Quoted from the new "Mirror Study Bible" the Romance of the Ages, by Francois du Toit, pages 62-63 of chapter 6 verses 39 and 40 of John's synoptic gospel. May of 2012, completed books of July 2018 copyright Francois du Toit 2012
John 6:39 (Jesus is speaking) "'This is the will of Him Who sent Me, that I should lose nothing of all that HE has given Me, but raise it up on the last day.'"
Mirrored Paraphrase: "My Sender's desire is for Me to rescue every single individual - this is His gift to Me - that I will lose no detail of humanity's original identity mirrored in Me! My rescuing mission will conclude in their joint-resurrection! This is the completeness of time!"
Now its meaning for us; "This is His gift to Me (Psalm 2), ho dedoke moi. The phrase, hina pan apoleso ex auto, means, that I should lose nothing out of it. In the conclusion / fullness of time - te eschate hemera - This phrase occurs only in John - John 6:39, 40, 44, 54. See John 4:23 The end of an era has arrived - the future is here! Whatever prophetic values were expressed in external devotional forms and rituals are now eclipsed in the true spirit of worship from within - face to face with the Father - acknowledging our genesis in Him - this is His delight! The Father's desire is the worshiper more than the worship!"
John 6:40 (Jesus is speaking) "'For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in Him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.'"
Mirrored Paraphrase: "This is the desire of My Father, that everyone who sees the Son, through His eyes, and finds the conclusion of (eis) their persuasion in Him, will resonate (echo) the life of the ages! And I will raise him up in the final day!
Now its meaning for us: "the word theoreo means to gaze attentively. Jesus speaks here of mankind's joint resurrection in His resurrection as the final day! See Hosea 6:2 "After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live before Him." The word eschatos means extreme; last in time or in space; the uttermost part, the final conclusion. What GOD said about 'you-manity' in their co-resurrection in Jesus, defines eschatology! Hebrews 1:1-3; Ephesians 2:5-6; Revelation 20:5 on the first resurrection."
Quoted from the new "Mirror Study Bible" the Romance of the Ages, by Francois du Toit, pages 62-63 of chapter 6 verses 39 and 40 of John's synoptic gospel. May of 2012, completed books of July 2018 copyright Francois du Toit 2012
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.04 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
Okay, we have a new mindset which is to be mindful that we please GOD by our having restore to HIM and to US His Image and Likeness in the Person of Christ. We are no longer or corruption, distorted perverse held by religions lies but are of the original man. We are Sanctified ones by our identity in the death of Jesus and His resurrection after His short visit in hell form which He led captivity captive to freedom in the heavenlies with us. Okay, sanctification and how it is secured and is enjoined. Bear this in mind as we progress, religion has for so long connected God's judgment with disease and sickness. But Jesus introduces us to GOD Who would rather become our distortion and diseases on the cross and go into our darkness and hell to deliver us from its claim, than to send sickness to us and send us to hell. For the language of the Law is "DO," while the language of Grace is "done." And Faith is GOD'S language. For GOD is LOVE and the job of the Son is Judgment of those who deny Him and His work. Now I must of the greatest necessity warn you the because of religions hands in the translation of Greek and Latin languages used not all language of your Bible is at all trust worthy, for it is worded to keep us in bondage and slavery to its own intents. For this reason alone I caution one and all.
Sanctification enjoined,
Exodus 19:22 of 16-25 "On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet GOD, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and GOD answered him in thunder. The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. And the LORD said to Moses, 'Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to look and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.' And Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You Yourself warned us, saying, 'Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.'" And the LORD said to him, 'Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest I break out against them.' So Moses went down to the people and told them."
Leviticus 20:26 of 23-26 "'And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. For I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, Who has separated you from these peoples. You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. You shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am Holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine."
Numbers 11:18 of 16-23 "Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Gather for Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you. And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone. And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD Who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"' But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and You have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!' Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them? To this the LORD said to Moses, 'Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not.'"
Joshua 3:5 of 5-6 "Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you." And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people."
1Samuel 16:5 of 1-5 "The LORD said to Samuel, 'How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for Myself a king among his sons.' And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, 'Take a heifer with you and say, "I have come to sacrifice to the LORD." And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for Me him whom I declare to you.' Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, "Do you come peaceably?" And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice."
2Chronicles 29:5 of 3-11 "In the first year of Hezekiah's reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them. He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken Him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs. They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel. Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and HE has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes. For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that His fierce anger may turn away from us. My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in His presence, to minister to Him and to be His ministers and make offerings to Him."
1Thessalonians 4:3 of 1-8 "Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please GOD, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification (of His Image and Likeness within you): that you abstain from sexual immorality (paraphrased meaning: the resolve of GOD is to declare His accomplished redemption of the life of our design in Christ. Fornication is a form of spiritual idolatry in the guess of religion, which is to be engaged with a distorted image of yourself. It is to be obsessed with something that you feel you must have in order to complete you. Just as Eve was attracted to eat the fruit of the "I-am-not-tree." ); that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know GOD (even having within them His image and likeness); that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the LORD is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For GOD has not called us for impurity, but in Holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but GOD, Who gives His Spirit to you."
1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "Now may the GOD of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (paraphrased as; It is not in my "I-was-ness" or "I-used-to-be-ness" or "I'm-trying-to-become-ness," but in my "I-am-ness!" The word "eirene, means peace, from eiro, to join, to be set at one again, in carpentry it is the strongest joint, referred to as the dove-tail joint. The word parousia, suggests immediate presence.) He who calls you is faithful; HE will surely do it."
Sanctification, how Secured,
John 17:17 of 6-19; Romans 15:16 of 14-21 (Jesus the redeemer of our image and likeness of GOD is speaking) "I have manifested Your name to the people whom You gave Me out of the world. Yours they were, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they know that everything that You have given Me is from You. For I have given them the words that You gave Me, (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22; Psalm 22:22-24, 25-31) and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given Me (of all generations and nations), for they are Yours. All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are One. (the Hidden family sir name, Christ. Not a religions name.) While I was with them, I kept them in Your name, which You have given Me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled (Psalm 41:9 of 4-9). But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your (grace and faith of love) word, and the world has hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the Truth; Your word is Truth. As You sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate Myself, that they also may be sanctified in Truth.'"
Romans 15:16 of 14-21 "I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by GOD, to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for GOD. For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ (the redemption and sanctification of your image and likeness of GOD within you, that restores us to a Genesis 1:26 and 2:7 being in GODS eyes); and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written (by Isaiah in 52:15 of 13-15), "Those who have never been told of Him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.""
1Corinthians 1:30 of 26-31 " For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you ware wise according to worldly standards, not many ware powerful, not many are of noble birth. For GOD chooses what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; GOD chooses what is weak in the world to shame the strong; GOD chooses what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of GOD.
1Co 1:30 And because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, Who became to us wisdom from GOD, righteousness and sanctification and (His image and likeness) redemption, so that, as it is written (by Jeremiah in 9:23-24), "Let the one who boasts, boast in the LORD!"
Ephesians 5:26 of 25-33 "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, (this raises the bar above all else to a higher standard as it awakens a level of commitment beyond any sense of duty or guilt.) that HE might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, (the spring of living water within us) so that He might present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be Holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of His body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24 of 18-25)." This mystery (secret) is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."
2Timothy 2:21 of 20-26; Hebrews 10:10 "Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself (by accepting the word of grace, "it is Done") from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the LORD from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies (of religion or politics); you know that they breed quarrels. And the LORD's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. GOD may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of (religions falseness of misdirection that is of) the devil, after being captured by him to do his will."
Hebrews 10:10 of 1-10 "For since the (Mosaic) Law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, He said (in Psalm 40:6 of 6-8), "Sacrifices and offerings You have not desired, but a body have You prepared for Me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings You have taken no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (to do Your will, O GOD, as it is written of Me in the scroll of the book (of Ezra 6:2 of 1-5, Jeremiah 36:2 of 1-3, Ezekiel 2:9 of 8-10, 3:1-2 of 1-3).'" When Jesus said above (of Psalm 40:6-8), 'You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings' (these are offered according to the Law of Moses), then He added (from Psalm 40 and again verses 7-8), 'Behold, I have come to do Your will.' He does away with the first in order to establish the second (the redemption of GODS image and likeness in man). And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
Hebrews 13:12 of 7-16 "Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of GOD. Consider the outcome of their (these were not a part of religion as they all had come out from among them as did Saul of Tarsus as he renounced the evil intents.) way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. We have an altar (the cross) from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp (for they have no power to sanctify, let alone redeem). So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through Him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to GOD (Romans 12:1-2), that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to GOD."
1Peter 1:2 of 1-2 "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of GOD the Father, in the Sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with His blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you."
Next goes our being in Christ's likeness of restore image and likeness of GOD, the LORD willing.
Sanctification enjoined,
Exodus 19:22 of 16-25 "On the morning of the third day there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud on the mountain and a very loud trumpet blast, so that all the people in the camp trembled. Then Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet GOD, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain. Now Mount Sinai was wrapped in smoke because the LORD had descended on it in fire. The smoke of it went up like the smoke of a kiln, and the whole mountain trembled greatly. And as the sound of the trumpet grew louder and louder, Moses spoke, and GOD answered him in thunder. The LORD came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up. And the LORD said to Moses, 'Go down and warn the people, lest they break through to the LORD to look and many of them perish. Also let the priests who come near to the LORD consecrate themselves, lest the LORD break out against them.' And Moses said to the LORD, "The people cannot come up to Mount Sinai, for You Yourself warned us, saying, 'Set limits around the mountain and consecrate it.'" And the LORD said to him, 'Go down, and come up bringing Aaron with you. But do not let the priests and the people break through to come up to the LORD, lest I break out against them.' So Moses went down to the people and told them."
Leviticus 20:26 of 23-26 "'And you shall not walk in the customs of the nation that I am driving out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I detested them. For I have said to you, 'You shall inherit their land, and I will give it to you to possess, a land flowing with milk and honey.' I am the LORD your God, Who has separated you from these peoples. You shall therefore separate the clean beast from the unclean, and the unclean bird from the clean. You shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything with which the ground crawls, which I have set apart for you to hold unclean. You shall be holy to Me, for I the LORD am Holy and have separated you from the peoples, that you should be Mine."
Numbers 11:18 of 16-23 "Then the LORD said to Moses, 'Gather for Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you. And I will come down and talk with you there. And I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them, and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, so that you may not bear it yourself alone. And say to the people, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you shall eat meat, for you have wept in the hearing of the LORD, saying, "Who will give us meat to eat? For it was better for us in Egypt." Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you shall eat. You shall not eat just one day, or two days, or five days, or ten days, or twenty days, but a whole month, until it comes out at your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have rejected the LORD Who is among you and have wept before Him, saying, "Why did we come out of Egypt?"' But Moses said, "The people among whom I am number six hundred thousand on foot, and You have said, 'I will give them meat, that they may eat a whole month!' Shall flocks and herds be slaughtered for them, and be enough for them? Or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, and be enough for them? To this the LORD said to Moses, 'Is the LORD's hand shortened? Now you shall see whether My word will come true for you or not.'"
Joshua 3:5 of 5-6 "Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you." And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people."
1Samuel 16:5 of 1-5 "The LORD said to Samuel, 'How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have provided for Myself a king among his sons.' And Samuel said, "How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me." And the LORD said, 'Take a heifer with you and say, "I have come to sacrifice to the LORD." And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for Me him whom I declare to you.' Samuel did what the LORD commanded and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling and said, "Do you come peaceably?" And he said, "Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice." And he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice."
2Chronicles 29:5 of 3-11 "In the first year of Hezekiah's reign, in the first month, he opened the doors of the house of the LORD and repaired them. He brought in the priests and the Levites and assembled them in the square on the east and said to them, "Hear me, Levites! Now consecrate yourselves, and consecrate the house of the LORD, the God of your fathers, and carry out the filth from the Holy Place. For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what was evil in the sight of the LORD our God. They have forsaken Him and have turned away their faces from the habitation of the LORD and turned their backs. They also shut the doors of the vestibule and put out the lamps and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the Holy Place to the God of Israel. Therefore the wrath of the LORD came on Judah and Jerusalem, and HE has made them an object of horror, of astonishment, and of hissing, as you see with your own eyes. For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD, the God of Israel, in order that His fierce anger may turn away from us. My sons, do not now be negligent, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in His presence, to minister to Him and to be His ministers and make offerings to Him."
1Thessalonians 4:3 of 1-8 "Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please GOD, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification (of His Image and Likeness within you): that you abstain from sexual immorality (paraphrased meaning: the resolve of GOD is to declare His accomplished redemption of the life of our design in Christ. Fornication is a form of spiritual idolatry in the guess of religion, which is to be engaged with a distorted image of yourself. It is to be obsessed with something that you feel you must have in order to complete you. Just as Eve was attracted to eat the fruit of the "I-am-not-tree." ); that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know GOD (even having within them His image and likeness); that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the LORD is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For GOD has not called us for impurity, but in Holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but GOD, Who gives His Spirit to you."
1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "Now may the GOD of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (paraphrased as; It is not in my "I-was-ness" or "I-used-to-be-ness" or "I'm-trying-to-become-ness," but in my "I-am-ness!" The word "eirene, means peace, from eiro, to join, to be set at one again, in carpentry it is the strongest joint, referred to as the dove-tail joint. The word parousia, suggests immediate presence.) He who calls you is faithful; HE will surely do it."
Sanctification, how Secured,
John 17:17 of 6-19; Romans 15:16 of 14-21 (Jesus the redeemer of our image and likeness of GOD is speaking) "I have manifested Your name to the people whom You gave Me out of the world. Yours they were, and You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. Now they know that everything that You have given Me is from You. For I have given them the words that You gave Me, (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22; Psalm 22:22-24, 25-31) and they have received them and have come to know in truth that I came from You; and they have believed that You sent Me. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom You have given Me (of all generations and nations), for they are Yours. All Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. And I am no longer in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to You. Holy Father, keep them in Your name, which You have given Me, that they may be one, even as We are One. (the Hidden family sir name, Christ. Not a religions name.) While I was with them, I kept them in Your name, which You have given Me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled (Psalm 41:9 of 4-9). But now I am coming to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. I have given them Your (grace and faith of love) word, and the world has hates them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. I do not ask that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one. They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. Sanctify them in the Truth; Your word is Truth. As You sent Me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate Myself, that they also may be sanctified in Truth.'"
Romans 15:16 of 14-21 "I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by GOD, to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit. In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for GOD. For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience—by word and deed, by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God—so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ (the redemption and sanctification of your image and likeness of GOD within you, that restores us to a Genesis 1:26 and 2:7 being in GODS eyes); and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation, but as it is written (by Isaiah in 52:15 of 13-15), "Those who have never been told of Him will see, and those who have never heard will understand.""
1Corinthians 1:30 of 26-31 " For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you ware wise according to worldly standards, not many ware powerful, not many are of noble birth. For GOD chooses what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; GOD chooses what is weak in the world to shame the strong; GOD chooses what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of GOD.
1Co 1:30 And because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, Who became to us wisdom from GOD, righteousness and sanctification and (His image and likeness) redemption, so that, as it is written (by Jeremiah in 9:23-24), "Let the one who boasts, boast in the LORD!"
Ephesians 5:26 of 25-33 "Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her, (this raises the bar above all else to a higher standard as it awakens a level of commitment beyond any sense of duty or guilt.) that HE might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, (the spring of living water within us) so that He might present the church to Himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be Holy and without blemish. In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church, because we are members of His body. "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh (Genesis 2:24 of 18-25)." This mystery (secret) is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church. However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband."
2Timothy 2:21 of 20-26; Hebrews 10:10 "Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver but also of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. Therefore, if anyone cleanses himself (by accepting the word of grace, "it is Done") from what is dishonorable, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the master of the house, ready for every good work. So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the LORD from a pure heart. Have nothing to do with foolish, ignorant controversies (of religion or politics); you know that they breed quarrels. And the LORD's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. GOD may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of (religions falseness of misdirection that is of) the devil, after being captured by him to do his will."
Hebrews 10:10 of 1-10 "For since the (Mosaic) Law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Consequently, when Christ came into the world, He said (in Psalm 40:6 of 6-8), "Sacrifices and offerings You have not desired, but a body have You prepared for Me; in burnt offerings and sin offerings You have taken no pleasure. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come (to do Your will, O GOD, as it is written of Me in the scroll of the book (of Ezra 6:2 of 1-5, Jeremiah 36:2 of 1-3, Ezekiel 2:9 of 8-10, 3:1-2 of 1-3).'" When Jesus said above (of Psalm 40:6-8), 'You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings' (these are offered according to the Law of Moses), then He added (from Psalm 40 and again verses 7-8), 'Behold, I have come to do Your will.' He does away with the first in order to establish the second (the redemption of GODS image and likeness in man). And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all."
Hebrews 13:12 of 7-16 "Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of GOD. Consider the outcome of their (these were not a part of religion as they all had come out from among them as did Saul of Tarsus as he renounced the evil intents.) way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. We have an altar (the cross) from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp (for they have no power to sanctify, let alone redeem). So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through His own blood. Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach He endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through Him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to GOD (Romans 12:1-2), that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to GOD."
1Peter 1:2 of 1-2 "Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of GOD the Father, in the Sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with His blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you."
Next goes our being in Christ's likeness of restore image and likeness of GOD, the LORD willing.
Saturday, September 22, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.03 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
I am about to regress for a moment or two, to look again at what happened when Jesus said "it is finished" while hanging on the tree out side of the camp, the Jerusalem city of David. Just what did He just bring about for all of humanity? In one word, our "redemption" our returning to GOD as God ones, by re-birthing, re-genesis of the image and likeness of GOD, by the opening of the seed of Genesis 3:15 within all who would but believe Him and walk as one by reception (as the works of James' teachings) in agreement. Now making all who would but "Believe" a Genesis 1:26 person at His seed (Genesis 1:26) incarnation within them/us, as He was before the beginning which took place in Genesis 2:7. You, if you have read my many posting on this blog, you have read and thereby heard me say that we are restored to a Genesis 2:7 being, well that was only part of it, for we were actually restored to a "new being" of Genesis 1:26 which was within GOD before the foundation was laid. This action was Jesus' mission or assignment of introduction too the image and likeness restoration, which all of humanity benefits of. LORD help me to make this clear for all, thank You.
It Is Finished,
John 19:30 of 28-30 "After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), 'I thirst.' A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to His mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished,' (Jesus' mission of the redemption of GOD'S image and likeness is now able to be restored to (en) Humanity) and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit."
Man Made in the Divine Image and Likeness,
(GODS ultimate creation of the very likeness of Himself, about to take form but before this happens we see the following of Genesis 1;26-27 where this is stated: "Then GOD said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So GOD created man in His Own Image, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them. For in Genesis 2:7 HE stated, "GOD breathed into man, the breath of life.")
Genesis 5:1 of 1-2; 9:6 of 1-7 "This is the book of the generations of Adam. When GOD created man, HE made him in the likeness of GOD. Male and female HE created them, and HE blessed them and named them Man when they were created."
Genesis 9:6 of 1-7 "And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for GOD made man in His Own image. And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.'"
Now comes the time of our reckoning because the next passage is in 1Corinthiians 11:7 of 2-16, but is best covered by Paul in 2Corinthians 5:14,17 of 14-15, 16-19 which states this: "For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died (John 19:28-30, Galatians 2:20 and 3:28); and He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him Who for their sake died and was raised.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (re-genesis-ed). The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from GOD, Who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ GOD was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting (their) our trespasses against (them) us, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation."
James 3:9 of 1-12 "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our LORD and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of GOD. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."
Man a Spiritual Being,
Job 32:8 of 6-14 "Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: 'I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.' I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.' For it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand. It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right. Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.' Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say. I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words. Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; GOD may vanquish (drive away) him, not a man.' He has not directed His words against me, and I will not answer Him with your speeches."
Proverbs 20:27 of 24-30; Ecclesiastes 3:21 of 16-22 "A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way? It is a snare to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making vows. A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts. Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld. The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts."
Ecclesiastes 3:21 of 16-22 "Moreover, I saw under the sun in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. I said in my heart, GOD will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work. I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath (Not so for we have GOD'S breath as known by Genesis 2:7, where it states that "GOD Breathed into man the breath of life" being in His Divine image and likeness), and man (the flesh of) has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?"
Ecclesiastes 12:7 of 1-8 "Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;" before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit (breath) returns to GOD Who gave it (in Genesis 2:7). Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity."
Acts 7:59 of 54-60; 1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13, 6:20 of 12-20 "Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of GOD, and Jesus standing at the right hand of GOD. And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of GOD." This made them to cry out even more with a loud voices and stopping their ears and rushed together at him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "LORD Jesus, receive my spirit." And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, "LORD, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep."
1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13, 6:20 of 12-20 "Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. For we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of GOD, which GOD decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory. But, as it is written (by Isaiah in 64:4 of 1-7 and 65:17 of 17-25), "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what GOD has prepared for those who love Him"—for these things GOD has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of GOD. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of GOD except by the Spirit of GOD. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is GOD, that we might understand the things freely given (our restored, renewed image and likeness of Him, as known in Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7) us by GOD. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are (become) spiritual."
1Corinthians 6:19-20 of 12-20 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," for I will not be dominated by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and GOD will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the LORD (Romans 12:1-2, 2Corinthians 6:11-7:4), and the LORD for the body. And GOD raised the Lord Jesus and will also raise us up by His power (His Word). Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a (religious) prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written (in Genesis 2:24), "The two will become one flesh." For he who is joined to the LORD becomes one spirit with Him. (1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13 above and that of John 19:30 of 28-30) Flee from (all religious) sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, Whom you have is GOD? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify GOD in your body."
2Corinthians 4:16, 18b of 16-18; 1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "Now may the GOD of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He Who calls you is faithful; HE will surely do it."
James 2:26 of 18-26 "But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that GOD is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his (obedience and dependency) works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says (in Genesis 15:6 and Romans 4:3 of 1-8), "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of GOD. You see that a person is not justified by works but by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works (obedience and dependency of grace) is dead."
It Is Finished,
John 19:30 of 28-30 "After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), 'I thirst.' A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to His mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished,' (Jesus' mission of the redemption of GOD'S image and likeness is now able to be restored to (en) Humanity) and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit."
Man Made in the Divine Image and Likeness,
(GODS ultimate creation of the very likeness of Himself, about to take form but before this happens we see the following of Genesis 1;26-27 where this is stated: "Then GOD said, 'Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So GOD created man in His Own Image, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them. For in Genesis 2:7 HE stated, "GOD breathed into man, the breath of life.")
Genesis 5:1 of 1-2; 9:6 of 1-7 "This is the book of the generations of Adam. When GOD created man, HE made him in the likeness of GOD. Male and female HE created them, and HE blessed them and named them Man when they were created."
Genesis 9:6 of 1-7 "And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for GOD made man in His Own image. And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.'"
Now comes the time of our reckoning because the next passage is in 1Corinthiians 11:7 of 2-16, but is best covered by Paul in 2Corinthians 5:14,17 of 14-15, 16-19 which states this: "For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died (John 19:28-30, Galatians 2:20 and 3:28); and He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him Who for their sake died and was raised.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (re-genesis-ed). The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from GOD, Who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ GOD was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting (their) our trespasses against (them) us, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation."
James 3:9 of 1-12 "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our LORD and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of GOD. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."
Man a Spiritual Being,
Job 32:8 of 6-14 "Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: 'I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.' I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.' For it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand. It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right. Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.' Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say. I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words. Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; GOD may vanquish (drive away) him, not a man.' He has not directed His words against me, and I will not answer Him with your speeches."
Proverbs 20:27 of 24-30; Ecclesiastes 3:21 of 16-22 "A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way? It is a snare to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making vows. A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts. Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld. The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts."
Ecclesiastes 3:21 of 16-22 "Moreover, I saw under the sun in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. I said in my heart, GOD will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work. I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath (Not so for we have GOD'S breath as known by Genesis 2:7, where it states that "GOD Breathed into man the breath of life" being in His Divine image and likeness), and man (the flesh of) has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?"
Ecclesiastes 12:7 of 1-8 "Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;" before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit (breath) returns to GOD Who gave it (in Genesis 2:7). Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity."
Acts 7:59 of 54-60; 1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13, 6:20 of 12-20 "Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of GOD, and Jesus standing at the right hand of GOD. And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of GOD." This made them to cry out even more with a loud voices and stopping their ears and rushed together at him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "LORD Jesus, receive my spirit." And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, "LORD, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep."
1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13, 6:20 of 12-20 "Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. For we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of GOD, which GOD decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory. But, as it is written (by Isaiah in 64:4 of 1-7 and 65:17 of 17-25), "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what GOD has prepared for those who love Him"—for these things GOD has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of GOD. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of GOD except by the Spirit of GOD. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is GOD, that we might understand the things freely given (our restored, renewed image and likeness of Him, as known in Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7) us by GOD. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are (become) spiritual."
1Corinthians 6:19-20 of 12-20 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," for I will not be dominated by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and GOD will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the LORD (Romans 12:1-2, 2Corinthians 6:11-7:4), and the LORD for the body. And GOD raised the Lord Jesus and will also raise us up by His power (His Word). Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a (religious) prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written (in Genesis 2:24), "The two will become one flesh." For he who is joined to the LORD becomes one spirit with Him. (1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13 above and that of John 19:30 of 28-30) Flee from (all religious) sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, Whom you have is GOD? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify GOD in your body."
2Corinthians 4:16, 18b of 16-18; 1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "Now may the GOD of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He Who calls you is faithful; HE will surely do it."
James 2:26 of 18-26 "But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that GOD is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his (obedience and dependency) works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says (in Genesis 15:6 and Romans 4:3 of 1-8), "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of GOD. You see that a person is not justified by works but by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works (obedience and dependency of grace) is dead."
Friday, September 21, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.02 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
Well already then we are of the day and no longer of the night, left or of chaos with evil intents nor are we of the distorted mouth which has the poison of an asp under our lips. For we are of the redeemed image and likeness of our Father and His Son Jesus. After we have finally awaken and removed the shade from our life and lifted the veil of the old witness of covenant that is there for those of religious distortion and grandiose deception that condemns and leads to death. For we have become what Jesus was and is, He never changes, GOD's Sons and Daughter without shame, guilt, blemish or any scares of our former past caused by and brought upon by our past life in religious ruin of the tomb. Okay, now for the truth that matter to all of humanity be they great or lowly as in the floor sweepings as children. GOD is Truth, Light, Life, Love, Righteousness, Holiness and Godliness unsurpassed by mere human form, though the human form is GOD'S and GODS along for it is HE Who begot you in your mothers womb and not her and her husband's divination's as so many falsely suppose. With that out and said I will move on to our being the possession of Christ that pleases GOD our rightful and only Father. This flies in the face of the deceiving church, for within it's frame of lies and perversions of all kinds and sorts, as we have seen. Now it is of interest that our writers include Enoch in their writings but the many conventions of religious leaders removed his books from our witness against them record. Without GOD'S Spirit within us we do not hear or even see what is ours as our minds have been programed of religion not to hear, see nor accept the Truth. Jesus died to redeem GOD'S Image and Likeness within us all.
The Possession of, characterized as "Pleasing GOD:"
Renders Life Secured,
Proverbs 16:7 of 1-10 "The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished. By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the reverence (with fear) of the LORD one turns away from evil. When a man's ways please the LORD, HE makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. An oracle is on the lips of a King; His mouth does not sin in judgment."
A Characteristic of Christ,
Matthew 3:17 of 13-17 "Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" But Jesus answered him, 'Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.' Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately He was raised up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and John saw the Spirit of GOD descending like a dove and coming to rest on Him; and behold, a voice thundered from heaven said, 'This is My beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased.'"
John 8:29 of 21-30 "So Jesus said to them again, 'I am going away, and you will seek Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.' So the Jews in front of Him said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?" To this He replied, 'You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am He you will die in your sins.' To this they replied to Him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, 'Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. I have much to say about you and much to judge, but HE Who sent Me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from Him.' (Deuteronomy 18:15-81 of 15-22) They did not understand that He had been speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said to them, 'When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own authority, but speak just as the Father taught Me. And HE Who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.' As He was saying these things, many believed Him."
The Aim of the True Minister,
1Thessalonians 2:4 of 1-8 "For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. For though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness through our GOD to declare to you the gospel of GOD in the midst of much upheaval and conflict. For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved of GOD to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please GOD Who is in our hearts. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—GOD is witness within you. Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of GOD but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us."
The Christian's Duty,
1Thessalonians 4:1 of 1-8 "Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the LORD Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please GOD, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the LORD Jesus. For this is the will of GOD, your sanctification: (that you abstain by it from spiritual immorality) and outward fleshly sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the LORD is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For GOD has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but GOD, Who gives His Holy Spirit to you."
Enoch an Example of,
Hebrews 11:5 of 1-7 "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of GOD, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to GOD a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, GOD commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because GOD had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased GOD. And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to GOD must believe that HE exists and that HE rewards those who seek Him. By faith Noah, being warned by GOD concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith."
Benevolence a Means of,
Hebrews 13:16 of 7-16; 1John 3:22 of 13-22 "Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the oracles, word of GOD. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who serve the tent (old temple) have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sins are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify (restore GOD to their bodies by fulfilling His work of our redemption to GOD ward) the people through His own blood. Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach HE endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through Him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to GOD, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God."
1John 3:22 of 13-22 "Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does GOD's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in Truth. By this we shall know that we are of the Truth and reassure our heart before Him; for whenever our heart condemns us, GOD is greater than our heart, and HE knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before GOD; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him."
Now I must raise a flag of warning as the Bible is corrupted by religions handling theologians, of the words uses in its interpretation, that is right! All such books are not trustworthy even the much beloved King James Version, as it is the standard used for many others. IT requires us having GOD"S Spirit of Truth and Life redeemed within us to both hear and see the Word within us.
The Possession of, characterized as "Pleasing GOD:"
Renders Life Secured,
Proverbs 16:7 of 1-10 "The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the LORD. All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the LORD weighs the spirit. Commit your work to the LORD, and your plans will be established. The LORD has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the LORD; be assured, he will not go unpunished. By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for, and by the reverence (with fear) of the LORD one turns away from evil. When a man's ways please the LORD, HE makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice. The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps. An oracle is on the lips of a King; His mouth does not sin in judgment."
A Characteristic of Christ,
Matthew 3:17 of 13-17 "Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?" But Jesus answered him, 'Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.' Then he consented. And when Jesus was baptized, immediately He was raised up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and John saw the Spirit of GOD descending like a dove and coming to rest on Him; and behold, a voice thundered from heaven said, 'This is My beloved Son, with Whom I am well pleased.'"
John 8:29 of 21-30 "So Jesus said to them again, 'I am going away, and you will seek Me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.' So the Jews in front of Him said, "Will he kill himself, since he says, 'Where I am going, you cannot come'?" To this He replied, 'You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am He you will die in your sins.' To this they replied to Him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, 'Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. I have much to say about you and much to judge, but HE Who sent Me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from Him.' (Deuteronomy 18:15-81 of 15-22) They did not understand that He had been speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said to them, 'When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own authority, but speak just as the Father taught Me. And HE Who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him.' As He was saying these things, many believed Him."
The Aim of the True Minister,
1Thessalonians 2:4 of 1-8 "For you yourselves know, brothers, that our coming to you was not in vain. For though we had already suffered and been shamefully treated at Philippi, as you know, we had boldness through our GOD to declare to you the gospel of GOD in the midst of much upheaval and conflict. For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive, but just as we have been approved of GOD to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not to please man, but to please GOD Who is in our hearts. For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—GOD is witness within you. Nor did we seek glory from people, whether from you or from others, though we could have made demands as apostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children. So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of GOD but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us."
The Christian's Duty,
1Thessalonians 4:1 of 1-8 "Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the LORD Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please GOD, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave you through the LORD Jesus. For this is the will of GOD, your sanctification: (that you abstain by it from spiritual immorality) and outward fleshly sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the LORD is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. For GOD has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but GOD, Who gives His Holy Spirit to you."
Enoch an Example of,
Hebrews 11:5 of 1-7 "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of GOD, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to GOD a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, GOD commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because GOD had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased GOD. And without faith it is impossible to please Him, for whoever would draw near to GOD must believe that HE exists and that HE rewards those who seek Him. By faith Noah, being warned by GOD concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith."
Benevolence a Means of,
Hebrews 13:16 of 7-16; 1John 3:22 of 13-22 "Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the oracles, word of GOD. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them. We have an altar from which those who serve the tent (old temple) have no right to eat. For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sins are burned outside the camp. So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify (restore GOD to their bodies by fulfilling His work of our redemption to GOD ward) the people through His own blood. Therefore let us go to Him outside the camp and bear the reproach HE endured. For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come. Through Him then let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to GOD, that is, the fruit of lips that acknowledge His name. Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God."
1John 3:22 of 13-22 "Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you. We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brothers. Whoever does not love abides in death. Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that He laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does GOD's love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in Truth. By this we shall know that we are of the Truth and reassure our heart before Him; for whenever our heart condemns us, GOD is greater than our heart, and HE knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before GOD; and whatever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do what pleases Him."
Now I must raise a flag of warning as the Bible is corrupted by religions handling theologians, of the words uses in its interpretation, that is right! All such books are not trustworthy even the much beloved King James Version, as it is the standard used for many others. IT requires us having GOD"S Spirit of Truth and Life redeemed within us to both hear and see the Word within us.
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.01 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
Okay, we are now looking into the person of the new mindset, one who for lack of a better description seems to be in a state of limbo, neither here and neither there if you get my drift and meaning. That is right we have left the mindset of worldliness behind and before us, and are now moving forward into the kingdom of heaven and GOD mode, described as having the mind of Christ, that is to say having the mind of the anointing or the anointed one with the heart of GOD's design, as we are clothed as with Jesus, having put on Christ. It is of interest that I was just given a new Bible translation called the "Mirror Paraphrased Bible." I am still reading its introductions and praises section and I am already captivated by the words and phrases of description. Okay, now for the submission to divine will, to GOD's Will. The every first topic causes us to reflect on what I had stated earlier about there being two laws, they being the Mosaic Law of condemnation and death, and the law of life, which others call the life of liberty or liberation. And what the Strong's Bible word Dictionary in the Hebrew Language side uses one meaning that encapsulated both schools of thought. We know that GOD is light, love, life abundant and law, truth, grace, righteousness, holiness and godliness as these are His Divine attributes of character, as introduced to humanity by the son of man and the Son of GOD the man Jesus the anointed Holy Spirit lead one. There can be no condemnation unto death in either, as they are all but ONE, Genesis 1:1 and John 1:1. Jesus' mission was not to begin a new religion or the "Christ religion." His mandate was to reveal and redeem the image and likeness of GOD in our / His human form.
Submission to the Divine Will, GOD's Will (plan and purpose):
The Result of Inward Law, (the law of Life)
Psalm 40:8 of 6-8 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of Me: I delight to do Your will, O my (My) GOD; Your law (Will) is within My heart.'"
Prayer Essential to,
Psalm 143:10 "Teach me to do Your will, for You are my GOD! Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground! For Your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble! And in Your steadfast love You will cut off my enemies, and You will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am Your servant."
Establishes a Divine Relationship,
Matthew 12:50 of 46-50 "While Jesus was still speaking to the people, behold, His mother and His brothers stood outside, asking to speak to Him. He replied to the man who asked Him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, 'Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.'"
Christ the Perfect Example,
Matthew 26:42 of 42-46; John 5:30 of 30 "Again, for the second time, Jesus went away and prayed, 'My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.' And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, He went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then He came to the disciples and said to them, 'Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going; see, My betrayer is at hand.'"
John 5:30 "I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just, because I seek not My own will but the will of Him Who sent Me.'" (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22)
Tends to Spiritual Knowledge,
John 7:17 of 14-18; Acts 21:14 of 7-14, Romans 12:2 of 1-2 "About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?" So Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but His Who sent Me. (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22, this those in His presence knew full well by the phraseology used by Jesus) If anyone's will is to do GOD's will, he will know whether the teaching is from GOD or whether I am speaking on My own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of Him Who sent Him is true, and in Him there is no falsehood.'"
Acts 21:14 of 7-14 "When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day. On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied. While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'" When we heard this, we and the people there urged Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the LORD Jesus." And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, "Let the will of the LORD be done."
Romans 12:2 of 1-2 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of GOD, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to GOD, which is your spiritual worship. Do not (be) remain conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
Whole-heart Required,
Ephesians 6:6 of 5-8; Hebrews 13:21 of 20-21 "Bond-servants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bond-servants of Christ, doing the will of GOD from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the LORD and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the LORD, whether he is a bond-servant or is free."
Hebrews 13:21 of 20-21 "Now may the GOD of peace Who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to Whom be glory forever and ever. Amen."
The Rule of Everyday Life,
James 4:15 of 13-17; 1John 2:17 of 15-17 "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the LORD wills, we will live and do this or that." (Acts 18: 21 of 18-21; 1Peter 3:17 of 13-17) As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
1John 2:17 of 15-17 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the (fallen spirit) world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of GOD abides forever. (Mark 3:35 of 31-35, John 5:30, 7:17)"
If the LORD will we will be looking into our being the possession of Christ next.
Submission to the Divine Will, GOD's Will (plan and purpose):
The Result of Inward Law, (the law of Life)
Psalm 40:8 of 6-8 In sacrifice and offering you have not delighted, but you have given me an open ear. Burnt offering and sin offering you have not required. Then I said, 'Behold, I have come; in the scroll of the book it is written of Me: I delight to do Your will, O my (My) GOD; Your law (Will) is within My heart.'"
Prayer Essential to,
Psalm 143:10 "Teach me to do Your will, for You are my GOD! Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground! For Your name's sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble! And in Your steadfast love You will cut off my enemies, and You will destroy all the adversaries of my soul, for I am Your servant."
Establishes a Divine Relationship,
Matthew 12:50 of 46-50 "While Jesus was still speaking to the people, behold, His mother and His brothers stood outside, asking to speak to Him. He replied to the man who asked Him, "Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" And stretching out His hand toward His disciples, He said, 'Here are My mother and My brothers! For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.'"
Christ the Perfect Example,
Matthew 26:42 of 42-46; John 5:30 of 30 "Again, for the second time, Jesus went away and prayed, 'My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, Your will be done.' And again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. So, leaving them again, He went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again. Then He came to the disciples and said to them, 'Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going; see, My betrayer is at hand.'"
John 5:30 "I can do nothing on My own. As I hear, I judge, and My judgment is just, because I seek not My own will but the will of Him Who sent Me.'" (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22)
Tends to Spiritual Knowledge,
John 7:17 of 14-18; Acts 21:14 of 7-14, Romans 12:2 of 1-2 "About the middle of the feast Jesus went up into the temple and began teaching. The Jews therefore marveled, saying, "How is it that this man has learning, when he has never studied?" So Jesus answered them, 'My teaching is not Mine, but His Who sent Me. (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22, this those in His presence knew full well by the phraseology used by Jesus) If anyone's will is to do GOD's will, he will know whether the teaching is from GOD or whether I am speaking on My own authority. The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of Him Who sent Him is true, and in Him there is no falsehood.'"
Acts 21:14 of 7-14 "When we had finished the voyage from Tyre, we arrived at Ptolemais, and we greeted the brothers and stayed with them for one day. On the next day we departed and came to Caesarea, and we entered the house of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the seven, and stayed with him. He had four unmarried daughters, who prophesied. While we were staying for many days, a prophet named Agabus came down from Judea. And coming to us, he took Paul's belt and bound his own feet and hands and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit, 'This is how the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'" When we heard this, we and the people there urged Paul not to go up to Jerusalem. Then Paul answered, "What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be imprisoned but even to die in Jerusalem for the name of the LORD Jesus." And since he would not be persuaded, we ceased and said, "Let the will of the LORD be done."
Romans 12:2 of 1-2 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of GOD, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to GOD, which is your spiritual worship. Do not (be) remain conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
Whole-heart Required,
Ephesians 6:6 of 5-8; Hebrews 13:21 of 20-21 "Bond-servants, obey your earthly masters with fear and trembling, with a sincere heart, as you would Christ, not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bond-servants of Christ, doing the will of GOD from the heart, rendering service with a good will as to the LORD and not to man, knowing that whatever good anyone does, this he will receive back from the LORD, whether he is a bond-servant or is free."
Hebrews 13:21 of 20-21 "Now may the GOD of peace Who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep, by the blood of the eternal covenant, equip you with everything good that you may do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to Whom be glory forever and ever. Amen."
The Rule of Everyday Life,
James 4:15 of 13-17; 1John 2:17 of 15-17 "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit"— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, "If the LORD wills, we will live and do this or that." (Acts 18: 21 of 18-21; 1Peter 3:17 of 13-17) As it is, you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin."
1John 2:17 of 15-17 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the (fallen spirit) world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of GOD abides forever. (Mark 3:35 of 31-35, John 5:30, 7:17)"
If the LORD will we will be looking into our being the possession of Christ next.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.5 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.
Before getting into our targeted subject of "unworldliness," there is another "of our separation from" which we have already covered earlier to which I give honorable mention here and now. But before I pull together the scriptures of our subject for today I want to share what John Gill states in his Exposition of the Bible, as it has to do with the first passage of Romans 12:2.
Romans 12:2
"And be not conformed to this world,".... By this world is meant, either the Mosaic dispensation, and Jewish church state, so called in opposition to עולם הבא, "the world to come", the Gospel dispensation; in which there was a worldly sanctuary, and the rites and ceremonies of which are styled the rudiments and elements of the world; to which believers in the present state are by no means to conform, there being sacrifices and ordinances of another nature, it is the will of GOD they should observe and attend unto: or else the men of the world are designed, carnal and unregenerate men, among whom they formerly had their conversation, from among whom they were chosen, called, and separated, and who lie and live in wickedness, and therefore should not be conformed unto them: which is to be understood, not in a civil sense of conformity to them in garb and apparel, provided that pride and luxury are guarded against, and decency and sobriety observed, and the different abilities of persons and stations in life are attended to; or to any other civil usages and customs which are not contrary to natural morality and revealed religion; but of a conformity in a moral (holy) sense to the evil manners of men, to walk vainly, as other Gentiles do, to go into the same excess of riot with them; for this is contrary both to the principle and doctrine of grace (the true course of the law of life), which teach men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts: and of a compliance with the men of the world in a religious sense, by joining with them in acts of idolatry, superstition, and will worship, and in anything that is contrary to the order, ordinances, and truths of the Gospel (of Grace by faith).
"But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind;" which regards not the first work of conversion and renovation; for in this sense these persons were transformed, metamorphosed, changed, and renewed already; but the after progress and carrying on the work of renovation, the renewing of them day by day in the spirit of their minds; see Ephesians 4:23; which believers should be desirous of, and pray for, and make use of those means which the Spirit of GOD owns for this purpose, attending to the spiritual exercises of GOD, as reading, meditation, prayer, conference, the ministration of the word and ordinances, which is the reverse of conformity to the world: and the end to be attained hereby is,
"that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God;" by which is meant not the secret will of GOD, which cannot be searched into, proved, and known, till time and facts discover it: but the revealed will of GOD, both in the law (of life and love by faith), as in the hands of Christ, which contains nothing but what is good; and which when done in faith, from a principle of love, and to the glory of GOD, is acceptable through Christ; and is perfect as a law of liberty (freedom from religions Law of Moses, that brings condemnation and the curse of death to all who practice it, see Jeremiah 17:5-8), and rule of walk and conversation; and which is to be proved and approved of by all the saints, who delight in it after the inward man: and also that which is contained in the Gospel; as that all that the Father had given as Christ should be redeemed by Him, that these should be sanctified, and persevered to the end, and be glorified; all which is the good will of GOD, an acceptable saying to sensible sinners, and such a scheme of salvation as is perfect and complete, and needs nothing to be added to it; and is, by such who are daily renewed in the spirit of their minds, more and more proved, tried, discerned, and approved of, even by all such who have their spiritual senses exercised to discern things that differ."
Unworldliness, by way of special references to,
(Jeremiah 17:5-8 of 5-8, 9-11, 12 "Thus says the LORD: 'Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.'
'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.'")
A Living Sacrifice,
Romans 12:2 of 1-2 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of GOD, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to GOD, which is your spiritual worship. Do not (be) remain conformed to this world, but be (continually) transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of GOD, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
1Corinthians 7:31 of 25-31 "Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the LORD, but I give my judgment as one who by the LORD's mercy is trustworthy. I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away."
Galatians 6:14 of 11-16 "See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the (Mosaic) Law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the (true hidden unknown) Israel of GOD."
2Timothy 2:4 of 1-7 "You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. For No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the LORD will give you understanding in everything."
Hebrews 11:24-26a of 23-29 "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing Him Who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned."
1John 2:15 of 15-17 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of GOD abides forever."
The following I was going to place at the end of 6.4's post but once into it I saw that it speaks more of our day and time, so here goes.
Evil Devices,
Psalm 36:4 of 1-4 "Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear (reverence) of GOD before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good. He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil."
Psalm 37:7 of 7-11, 12-15 "Be still before (be at rest in) the LORD and wait patiently for Him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land. In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there. But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.
The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for HE sees that his day is coming. The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright; their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken."
Proverbs 6:14 of 12-15 "A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing."
Proverbs 14:22a of 18-25 "The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous. The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends. Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness. In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly. A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful."
Proverbs 16:30 of 27-33 "A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good. Whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things; he who purses his lips brings evil to pass. Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD."
Proverbs 24:8 of 8-9 "Whoever plans to do evil will be called a schemer. The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind."
Isaiah 32:7 of 1-8 "Behold, a King will reign in righteousness, and His princes will rule in justice. Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention. The heart of the hasty (rash) will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly. The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink. As for the (rogue) scoundrel—his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right. For he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands."
Ezekiel 11:2 of 1-4 "The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. And HE said to me, 'Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city; who say, "The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat." Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.'"
Micah 2:1 of 1-5 "Speak, 'Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.' Therefore thus says the LORD: 'behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster. In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; HE changed the portion of this people; how HE removed me from it! To an apostate HE allots our fields." Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.'"
Romans 12:2
"And be not conformed to this world,".... By this world is meant, either the Mosaic dispensation, and Jewish church state, so called in opposition to עולם הבא, "the world to come", the Gospel dispensation; in which there was a worldly sanctuary, and the rites and ceremonies of which are styled the rudiments and elements of the world; to which believers in the present state are by no means to conform, there being sacrifices and ordinances of another nature, it is the will of GOD they should observe and attend unto: or else the men of the world are designed, carnal and unregenerate men, among whom they formerly had their conversation, from among whom they were chosen, called, and separated, and who lie and live in wickedness, and therefore should not be conformed unto them: which is to be understood, not in a civil sense of conformity to them in garb and apparel, provided that pride and luxury are guarded against, and decency and sobriety observed, and the different abilities of persons and stations in life are attended to; or to any other civil usages and customs which are not contrary to natural morality and revealed religion; but of a conformity in a moral (holy) sense to the evil manners of men, to walk vainly, as other Gentiles do, to go into the same excess of riot with them; for this is contrary both to the principle and doctrine of grace (the true course of the law of life), which teach men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts: and of a compliance with the men of the world in a religious sense, by joining with them in acts of idolatry, superstition, and will worship, and in anything that is contrary to the order, ordinances, and truths of the Gospel (of Grace by faith).
"But be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind;" which regards not the first work of conversion and renovation; for in this sense these persons were transformed, metamorphosed, changed, and renewed already; but the after progress and carrying on the work of renovation, the renewing of them day by day in the spirit of their minds; see Ephesians 4:23; which believers should be desirous of, and pray for, and make use of those means which the Spirit of GOD owns for this purpose, attending to the spiritual exercises of GOD, as reading, meditation, prayer, conference, the ministration of the word and ordinances, which is the reverse of conformity to the world: and the end to be attained hereby is,
"that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God;" by which is meant not the secret will of GOD, which cannot be searched into, proved, and known, till time and facts discover it: but the revealed will of GOD, both in the law (of life and love by faith), as in the hands of Christ, which contains nothing but what is good; and which when done in faith, from a principle of love, and to the glory of GOD, is acceptable through Christ; and is perfect as a law of liberty (freedom from religions Law of Moses, that brings condemnation and the curse of death to all who practice it, see Jeremiah 17:5-8), and rule of walk and conversation; and which is to be proved and approved of by all the saints, who delight in it after the inward man: and also that which is contained in the Gospel; as that all that the Father had given as Christ should be redeemed by Him, that these should be sanctified, and persevered to the end, and be glorified; all which is the good will of GOD, an acceptable saying to sensible sinners, and such a scheme of salvation as is perfect and complete, and needs nothing to be added to it; and is, by such who are daily renewed in the spirit of their minds, more and more proved, tried, discerned, and approved of, even by all such who have their spiritual senses exercised to discern things that differ."
Unworldliness, by way of special references to,
(Jeremiah 17:5-8 of 5-8, 9-11, 12 "Thus says the LORD: 'Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the LORD. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose trust is the LORD. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.'
'The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? I the LORD search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds. Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
A glorious throne set on high from the beginning is the place of our sanctuary.'")
A Living Sacrifice,
Romans 12:2 of 1-2 "I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of GOD, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to GOD, which is your spiritual worship. Do not (be) remain conformed to this world, but be (continually) transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of GOD, what is good and acceptable and perfect."
1Corinthians 7:31 of 25-31 "Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the LORD, but I give my judgment as one who by the LORD's mercy is trustworthy. I think that in view of the present distress it is good for a person to remain as he is. Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife. But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away."
Galatians 6:14 of 11-16 "See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ. For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the (Mosaic) Law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. For neither circumcision counts for anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creation. And as for all who walk by this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the (true hidden unknown) Israel of GOD."
2Timothy 2:4 of 1-7 "You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus, and what you have heard from me in the presence of many witnesses entrust to faithful men who will be able to teach others also. Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. For No soldier gets entangled in civilian pursuits, since his aim is to please the one who enlisted him. An athlete is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules. It is the hard-working farmer who ought to have the first share of the crops. Think over what I say, for the LORD will give you understanding in everything."
Hebrews 11:24-26a of 23-29 "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they were not afraid of the king's edict. By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seeing Him Who is invisible. By faith he kept the Passover and sprinkled the blood, so that the Destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them. By faith the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned."
1John 2:15 of 15-17 "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of GOD abides forever."
The following I was going to place at the end of 6.4's post but once into it I saw that it speaks more of our day and time, so here goes.
Evil Devices,
Psalm 36:4 of 1-4 "Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear (reverence) of GOD before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes that his iniquity cannot be found out and hated. The words of his mouth are trouble and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good. He plots trouble while on his bed; he sets himself in a way that is not good; he does not reject evil."
Psalm 37:7 of 7-11, 12-15 "Be still before (be at rest in) the LORD and wait patiently for Him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices! Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath! Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil. For the evildoers shall be cut off, but those who wait for the LORD shall inherit the land. In just a little while, the wicked will be no more; though you look carefully at his place, he will not be there. But the meek shall inherit the land and delight themselves in abundant peace.
The wicked plots against the righteous and gnashes his teeth at him, but the LORD laughs at the wicked, for HE sees that his day is coming. The wicked draw the sword and bend their bows to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose way is upright; their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken."
Proverbs 6:14 of 12-15 "A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, winks with his eyes, signals with his feet, points with his finger, with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing."
Proverbs 14:22a of 18-25 "The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge. The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous. The poor is disliked even by his neighbor, but the rich has many friends. Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor. Do they not go astray who devise evil? Those who devise good meet steadfast love and faithfulness. In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. The crown of the wise is their wealth, but the folly of fools brings folly. A truthful witness saves lives, but one who breathes out lies is deceitful."
Proverbs 16:30 of 27-33 "A worthless man plots evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire. A dishonest man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends. A man of violence entices his neighbor and leads him in a way that is not good. Whoever winks his eyes plans dishonest things; he who purses his lips brings evil to pass. Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD."
Proverbs 24:8 of 8-9 "Whoever plans to do evil will be called a schemer. The devising of folly is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to mankind."
Isaiah 32:7 of 1-8 "Behold, a King will reign in righteousness, and His princes will rule in justice. Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. Then the eyes of those who see will not be closed, and the ears of those who hear will give attention. The heart of the hasty (rash) will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly. The fool will no more be called noble, nor the scoundrel said to be honorable. For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink. As for the (rogue) scoundrel—his devices are evil; he plans wicked schemes to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right. For he who is noble plans noble things, and on noble things he stands."
Ezekiel 11:2 of 1-4 "The Spirit lifted me up and brought me to the east gate of the house of the LORD, which faces east. And behold, at the entrance of the gateway there were twenty-five men. And I saw among them Jaazaniah the son of Azzur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people. And HE said to me, 'Son of man, these are the men who devise iniquity and who give wicked counsel in this city; who say, "The time is not near to build houses. This city is the cauldron, and we are the meat." Therefore prophesy against them, prophesy, O son of man.'"
Micah 2:1 of 1-5 "Speak, 'Woe to those who devise wickedness and work evil on their beds! When the morning dawns, they perform it, because it is in the power of their hand. They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.' Therefore thus says the LORD: 'behold, against this family I am devising disaster, from which you cannot remove your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for it will be a time of disaster. In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; HE changed the portion of this people; how HE removed me from it! To an apostate HE allots our fields." Therefore you will have none to cast the line by lot in the assembly of the LORD.'"
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