Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.4 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.

Okay kids are you ready, I mean really ready, to awaken from from your slumber? Your enemies surround you, yes, they are even within you, in your own imagination's and reasoning powers. That was what King David tells us in his Psalms and his son tells us in Proverbs, if we seek not first the Father of our creation first and foremost. Trust NO man or organization of his creation, to do so is to trust the arm of the flesh and is doomed to failure just as the Words of GOD tells us all from within us. (Jeremiah 17:5-8) Also keep this in mind, the synoptic gospels are the close of the old era of Jewish history, as Acts is the beginning of the Age of Grace and faith, in the law of love and life. Okay, lets turn to worldly builders as seen by Job and then by way of a few examples and then to men's plans before heading into unworldliness, the LORD willing.

Worldly Builders, example of,

Job 27:18 of 13-23 "This is the portion of a wicked man with GOD, and the heritage that oppressors receive from the Almighty: If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword, and his descendants have not enough bread. Those who survive him the pestilence buries, and his widows do not weep. Though he heap up silver like dust, and piles up clothing like clay, he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver. He builds his house like a spider web (some translation may say a moth), like a booth that a watchman makes. He goes to bed rich, but will do so no more; he opens his eyes, and his wealth is gone. Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off. The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place. It hurls at him without pity; he flees from its power in headlong flight. It claps its hands at him and hisses at him from its place."


Jeremiah 22:14 of 13-17 "'Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, who says, "I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms," who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion. Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know Me?' declares the LORD. 'But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.'"


Daniel 4:30 of 28-33 "All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. At the end of twelve months he was walking on the roof of the royal palace of Babylon, and the king answered and said, "Is not this great Babylon, which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?" While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, 'O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: The kingdom has departed from you, and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. And you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom HE will.' Immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles' feathers, and his nails were like birds' claws."


Luke 6:49 of 46-49 (Jesus is speaking) "'Why do you call Me "Lord, Lord," and not do what I tell you? (Malachi 1:6 of 6-14) Everyone who comes to Me and hears My words and does them, I will show you what he is like: he is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when a flood (the enemies of man and the trials and tribulations of life) arose, the stream broke against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built. But the one who hears and does not do them is like a man who built a house on the ground without a foundation. When the stream broke against it, immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house was great.'"


Luke 12:18 of 13-21 "Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." But He said to him, 'Man, who made Me a judge or arbitrator over you?' Then He said to them, 'Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.' Then He told them a parable, saying, 'The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, "What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?" Continuing he said, "I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry." But GOD said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul (My breath) is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward GOD.'"


Now for the Presumptuous Plans, of man, examples of,

The Men after the Flood,

Genesis 11:4 of 1-9 "Now the whole earth had one language and the same words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth." The LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built. And the LORD said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.' So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth."

The Natural Man,

Proverbs 19:21a of 18-25 "Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death. A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again. Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the LORD that will stand. What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. The reverence (fear) of the LORD leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm. The sluggard buries his hand in the dish and will not even bring it back to his mouth. Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge."

The Luxurious King,

Jeremiah 22:13-14, 17 of 13-17 "'Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms by injustice, who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing and does not give him his wages, who says, "I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms, who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion." 'Do you think you are a king because you compete in cedar? Did not your father eat and drink and do justice and righteousness? Then it was well with him. He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me?' declares the LORD. 'But you have eyes and heart only for your dishonest gain, for shedding innocent blood, and for practicing oppression and violence.'"

The Rich Fool,

Luke 12:18 of 13-21 "Someone in the crowd said to Jesus, "Teacher, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me." But He said to him, 'Man, who made me a judge or arbitrator over you?' Then He said to them, 'Take care, and be on your guard against all covetousness, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.' And He told them a parable, saying, 'The land of a rich man produced plentifully, and he thought to himself, "What shall I do, for I have nowhere to store my crops?" And he said, "I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build larger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods. And I will say to my soul, "Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry." But GOD said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul (My breath) is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?' So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.'"

The Venturesome Business Man,

James 4:13 of 13-17 "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." 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."


Our next subject is the unworldliness, which we will look at if the LORD wills.

Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.3 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.

We are still looking into the worldly mindset of man and his plans as directed by an unseen unknown force that man thinks is his own, especially those of a elitist mindset. For over the ages those of this corrupt way of thinking and imaginations have slowly taken over the higher levels of education in all fields of in diversity, to where even the former schools of the purest of intents now stand among the most wicked. For they all have replaced GOD with their own plans and purposes all the way down to our local churches, schools, governments and financial institutions. Enough said let us turn our attention to the task at hand, our looking into sinful imitation. Beginning with the old witness books, where all ground rules are found, as given by the wisdom of GOD and is then summed up by Jesus as recorded in Matthew 23:1-12, after which He gives eight woe's to the elitist's of His day, which carries on still. Hear and take heed to what your instructor says herein.

Sinful Imitation of worldly people and customs condemned:

In Committing Popular Sins,

Exodus 23:2 of 1-3 "You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness. You shall not fall in with the many to do evil, nor shall you bear witness in a lawsuit, siding with the many, so as to pervert justice, nor shall you be partial to a poor man in his lawsuit."


In False Worship,

Deuteronomy 12:30 of 29-31 "When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, and you dispossess them and dwell in their land, take care that you be not ensnared to follow them, after they have been destroyed before you, and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, "How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do the same." You shall not worship the LORD your God in that way, for every abominable thing that the LORD hates they have done for their gods, for they even burn their sons and their daughters in the fire to their gods."


In Bad Governmental (Politics) Policies,

1Samuel 8:19-20 of 19-22 "But the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel. And they said, "No! But there shall be a king over us, that we also may be like all the nations, and that our king may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles." When Samuel had heard all the words of the people, he repeated them in the ears of the LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, 'Obey their voice and make them a king.' Samuel then said to the men of Israel, "Go every man to his city."


In Heathenish Practises,

2Kings 17:15 of 7-18 "This occurred because the people of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, Who had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods and walked in the customs of the nations whom the LORD drove out before the people of Israel, and in the customs that the kings of Israel had practiced. And the people of Israel did secretly against the LORD their God things that were not right. They built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city. They set up for themselves pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every green tree, and there they made offerings on all the high places, as the nations did whom the LORD carried away before them. And they did wicked things, provoking the LORD to anger, and they served idols, of which the LORD had said to them, 'You shall not do this.' Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and every seer, saying, 'Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments and My statutes, in accordance with all the Law that I commanded your fathers, and that I sent to you by My servants the prophets.' But they would not listen, for they were stubborn, just as their fathers had been, who did not believe in the LORD their God. They despised his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers and the warnings that he gave them. They went after false idols and became false, and they followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom the LORD had commanded them that they should not do like them. And they abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made for themselves metal images of two calves; and they made an Asherah and worshiped all the host of heaven and served Baal. And they burned their sons and their daughters as offerings and used divination and omens and sold themselves to do evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger. Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and removed them out of His sight. None was left but the tribe of Judah only."


In Following a Bad Example,

Matthew 23:2-3 of 1-12 "Then Jesus said to the crowds and to His disciples, 'The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy (religious) burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, and they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others. But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher (even the Spirit of GOD), and you are all brothers. And call no man your father on earth, for you have one Father, Who is in heaven. Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ. The greatest among you shall be your servant. Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.'"

From here we will look at, the LORD willing, worldly builders, to close out this portion.

Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.2 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.

Still on point with our theme of having a worldly mindset and our looking into the evils of perilous effects of such thinking's. Listen with all care of spirit, dependent on the Spirit of GOD within you, to what is stated with our passages as not all is as the false religions of this evil age proclaim them.
To begin I want to look at what Daniel Webster has to say about this words meaning, before turning to Matthew 13, as taken from his 1828 dictionary; perilous: "a. Dangerous; hazardous; full of risk; as a perilous undertaking; a perilous situation. 1. Vulgarly used for very, like mighty; as perilous shrewd. 2. Smart; witty; as a perilous [parlous boy.]"

The evils Effect of Perilous,

Destroys the Influence of the Truth,

Matthew 13:22 of 18-23 (Jesus is speaking) "'Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.'"


Deludes Men into a State of False Security,

Matthew 24:38-39 of 36-41, 42-44 (Jesus is speaking) "'But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only. For as were the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and they were unaware until the flood came and swept them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Then two men will be in the field; one will be taken and one left. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken and one left. Therefore, stay awake, for you do not know on what day your LORD is coming. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into. Therefore you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect HIM.'"


Makes Earthy Affections Supreme,

1Corithians 7:32-33 of 32-35; the counter part is in 2Corithians 11:2 of 1-11 "I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife, and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the LORD, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the LORD."

2Corithians 11:2 of 1-8, 10-11 "I wish you would bear with me in a little foolishness. Do bear with me! For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ. For I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ. For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough. Indeed, I consider that I am not in the least inferior to these super-apostles. Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge (light); indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached GOD's gospel to you free of charge?..... As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia. And why? Because I do not love you? GOD knows I do!"


Molds the Activities and Plans of a failed life,

Ephesians 2:2-3 of 1-10 "And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. But GOD, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which HE loves us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace (in) you, you have been saved— and raised us up with Him (Him being GOD) and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, so that in the coming ages HE might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us (Who are) in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of GOD, not a result of works (of obedience to the Mosaic Law), so that no one may boast. For we are His workmanship (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7) (and religion perpetuates the knowledge of the tree of forbidden fruit of Genesis 2:15-17 and the resistance of GODS revelation as spoken in 3:15 as the heel, as it has nothing to do with what follows), created in Christ Jesus for good works (of faith by grace), which GOD prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them."


Leads to Religious Apostasy,

2Timothy 4:10 of 9-15; James 5:5 of 1-6 "Do your best to come to me soon. For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia. Luke alone is with me. Get Mark and bring him with you, for he is very useful to me for ministry. Tychicus I have sent to Ephesus. When you come, bring the cloak that I left with Carpus at Troas, also the books (my letters), and above all the parchments (epistles). Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the LORD will repay him according to his deeds. Beware of him yourself, for he strongly opposed our message." 
 
James 5:5-6a of 1-6 "Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. But Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the LORD of hosts. You have lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the righteous person. He does not resist you."

Our next subject is titled "sinful imitation of worldly people held in customs condemned," which we will look into next the LORD willing.

Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6.1 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.

Picking back up where we left off with the warnings of retaining a worldly mindset and its warning against such action on our part.


Warning against a Worldly Mindset, continued
(Deuteronomy 32:15 of 15-18 "But Jeshurun (Israel or any such likeness of mans fleshly, worldly religions) grew fat, and kicked; and grew fat, stout, and sleek; then they forsook GOD Who made him and scoffed at (scorned) the Rock of his salvation. They stirred Him to jealousy with strange gods; with abominations they provoked Him to anger. (look at Genesis 19:12-13 of 12-14, as this relates to 2Corinthians 6:11-7:4 and Revelation 17-18, 18:4 of 4-8.) They sacrificed to demons that were no gods, to gods they had never known, to new gods that had come recently, whom your fathers had never dreaded. You were unmindful of the Rock that bore you, and you forgot the GOD Who gave you birth.")


Psalm 17:10 of 6-12; Jeremiah 5:28 of 20-29, 50:11 of 11-16 "I call upon You, for You will answer me, O God; incline Your ear to me; hear my words. Wondrously show Your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at Your right hand. Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings, from the wicked who do me violence, my deadly enemies who surround me. They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak (proudly, boastfully) arrogantly. They have now surrounded our steps; they set their eyes to cast us to the ground. He is like a lion eager to tear, as a young lion lurking in ambush."

Jeremiah 5:28 of 20-29 "Declare this in the house of Jacob; proclaim it in Judah: 'Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not. Do you not fear Me?' declares the LORD. 'Do you not tremble before Me? I placed the sand as the boundary for the sea, a perpetual barrier that it cannot pass; though the waves toss, they cannot prevail; though they roar, they cannot pass over it. But this people have a stubborn and rebellious hearts; they have turned aside and gone away. They do not say in their hearts, "Let us fear the LORD our God, Who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest." Your iniquities have turned these away, and your sins have kept good from you. For wicked men (the elders of religious men) are found among My people; they lurk like fowlers lying in wait. They set a trap; they catch men. Like a cage full of birds, their houses are full of deceit; therefore they have become great and rich; they have grown fat and sleek. They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and they do not defend the rights of the needy. Shall I not punish them for these things?' declares the LORD, 'and shall I not avenge Myself on a nation such as this?'"

Jeremiah 50:11-12a of 11-16 "'Though you rejoice, though you exult, O plunderers of My heritage, though you frolic like a heifer in the pasture, and neigh like stallions, your mother shall be utterly shamed, and she who bore you shall be disgraced. Behold, she shall be the last of the nations, a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert. (look at Jeremiah 51:43, 45 of 41-44, 45-48 with Revelation 18:4 of 4-8) Because of the wrath of the LORD she shall not be inhabited but shall be an utter desolation; everyone who passes by Babylon shall be appalled, and hiss because of all her wounds. Set yourselves in array against Babylon all around, all you who bend the bow; shoot at her, spare no arrows, for she has sinned against the LORD. Raise a shout against her all around; she has surrendered; her bulwarks have fallen; her walls are thrown down. For this is the vengeance of the LORD: take vengeance on her; do to her as she has done. Cut off from Babylon the sower, and the one who handles the sickle in time of harvest; because of the sword of the oppressor, every one shall turn to his own people, and every one shall flee to his own land.'"


Ezekiel 16:49 of 42-43, 44-52 "'So will I satisfy My wrath on you, and My jealousy shall depart from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry. Because you have not remembered the days of your youth, but have enraged Me with all these things, therefore, behold, I have returned your deeds upon your head,' declares the LORD God. 'Have you not committed lewdness in addition to all your abominations?'
'Behold, everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: 'Like mother, like daughter.' You are the daughter of your mother, who loathed her husband and her children; and you are the sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and their children. Your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite. And your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. Not only did you walk in their ways and do according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live,' declares the LORD God, 'your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did an abominations before Me. So I removed them, when I saw it. Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed. Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.'"


Luke 6:25 of 20-26 "Jesus lifted up His eyes on His disciples, and said: 'Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of GOD. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh. Blessed are you when people hate you and when they exclude you and revile you and spurn your name (Christ) as evil, on account of the Son of Man! Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy, for behold, your reward is great in heaven; for so their fathers did to the prophets. But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.
Woe to you who are full now, for you shall be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you shall mourn and weep. Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.'"


Revelation 3:17 of 14, 15-22 "And to the angel of the church in Laodicea write: 'The words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of GOD's creation.
'I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot (today we might call these of the left, liberals, of this mindset). Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see. Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline, so be zealous and repent. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come into him and eat with him, and he with Me (this is to be in agreement or to be harmony with GOD). The one who conquers, I will grant him to sit with Me on My throne, as I also conquered and sat down with My Father on His throne. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.'"

The LORD willing next time we will look at "evil perils."

Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 6 the worldly mind verses the renewed mind.

My base scripture is taken from Romans 12:1-2, where we find this statement of the Spirit within Paul: "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 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." Following the first section I will turn my attention to the warnings against our keeping the "mind set on worldliness" and then I will begin to look at such things as an evil perils, and sinful imitations, to name but a few, over the next few posts.

To begin let us look at what Isaiah stated back in 30:1-2 of 1-5 for a moment: "'Ah, stubborn children,' declares the LORD, 'who carry out a plan, but not Mine, and who make an alliance, but not of My Spirit, that they may add sin to sin; who set out to go down to Egypt, without asking for My direction, to take refuge in the protection of Pharaoh and to seek shelter in the shadow of Egypt! Therefore shall the protection of Pharaoh turn to your shame, and the shelter in the shadow of Egypt to your humiliation. For though his officials are at Zoan and his envoys reach Hanes, everyone comes to shame through a people that cannot profit them, that brings neither help nor profit, but shame and disgrace.'"

To this I will now turn to the Lord Jesus to see what He said about such things, this will be found in Matthew thirteens teaching about the seed in verse 22 of 18-23: 'Hear then the parable of the sower: When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the evil one comes and snatches away what has been sown in his heart. This is what was sown along the path. As for what was sown on rocky ground, this is the one who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy, yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while, and when tribulation or persecution arises on account of the word, immediately he falls away. As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and it proves unfruitful. As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.'"

Next to Galatians 1, where in verses 3 through 5 we find this statement: "Grace to you and peace from GOD our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for our sins to deliver us from the present evil age, according to the will of our GOD and Father, in Whom be the glory forever and ever, says the Amen."

And next to 1John 2, where we find this statement in verse 15 of 15-17: "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love (seed, law) 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."

Now for more on the worldliness of man with the warning against such begin with:


Warning against Worldliness,

Matthew 16:26 of 24-27 "Then Jesus told His disciples, 'If anyone would come after (walk in agreement with) Me, let him deny (his worldly nature of) himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? For the Son of Man is going to come with His angels in the glory of His Father, and then He will repay each person according to what he has done.'"


Luke 21:34 of 34-38; Romans 12:2 of 1-2 (Jesus is speaking) "'But watch yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and cares of this life, and that day come upon you suddenly like a trap. For it will come upon all who dwell on the face of the whole earth. But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.' And every day He was teaching in the temple, but at night He went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet. And early in the morning all the people came to Him in the temple to hear Him."


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 as) 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 (made) perfect."


Colossians 3:2 of 1-4 "If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of GOD. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in GOD. When Christ Who is your life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory."


Titus 2:12 of 11-14, 15 "For the grace of GOD has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great GOD and Savior Jesus Christ, Who gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession who are zealous for good works."
Declare these things; exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no one disregard you (persuade you otherwise)."

Things to Avoid,
James 4:4 of 1-10; 1John 2:15 of 15-17 "What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with GOD? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of GOD. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture (Numbers 23:19 of 13-24) says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit that He has made to dwell in us?" (john 17) For He gives (us all) more grace (by Isaiah in 54:7 of 4-8). Therefore it says, "GOD opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble (Psalm 138:6 of 4-6, Proverbs 3:34 of 27-35, Matthew 23:12 of 1-23; 1Peter 5:5 of 1-5)." Submit yourselves therefore to GOD. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw nearer to GOD, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded (of James 1:8 of 5-8). Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the LORD, and He will exalt you."

Do Not Love the World,
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."

Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 5

I want to share what the Lord Jesus means to me in this posting. I have for the past nine years or so been sharing the Secret and mysteries of GOD in the anointing that is given His sons and daughters. From the standpoint of being one of His sons which has cause much trouble with allot of people out there. For they do not understand how this is or just how this all came about in the first place. Well here is the short of it, Psalm 31:14 states this by King David's hand:

Psalm 31:14 of 9-13, 14-18 "Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief; my soul and my body also. For my life is spent with sorrow, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Because of all my adversaries I have become a reproach, especially to my neighbors, and an object of dread to my acquaintances; those who see me in the street flee from me. I have been forgotten like one who is dead; I have become like a broken vessel. For I hear the whispering of many— terror on every side!— as they scheme together against me, as they plot to take my life.
For I trust in You, O LORD; I say, "You are my GOD." My times are in Your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors! Make Your face (grace) shine in Your servant; save me in Your (loving-kindness) steadfast love! O LORD, let me not be put to shame, for I call upon You; let the wicked be put to shame; let them go silently to Sheol. Let the lying lips be mute, which speak insolently against the righteous in pride and contempt."

The Lord Jesus is the person of the old witness, and covenant books that speak of Him as the LORD God, LORD, and many many more such phrases. HE has not changes as many people change for HE alone remains the same throughout time and immemorial. HE fulfilled all righteousness of the Law and the Prophets at His own baptism, just as we also do. Why? Because after words it is no long the I of selfish self-will that remains but the anointing (Holy Spirit, the Godhead) that is become activated within us. Which brings Galatians 2:20 of 15-21, where Paul speaking as a Jew's Jew states this:

Justified by Faith
Galatians 2:20 of 15-21 "We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we (Jews) know that a person is not justified by works of the Law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by the faith of Christ and not by works of the Law, because by works of the (Mosaic) Law no one will be justified. But (For) if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found (remain under the Law) to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not! For if I rebuild what I tore down, I prove myself to be a transgressor. For through the Law I died to the (Mosaic) Law (Romans 7), so that I might live to (in) GOD. I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of GOD, Who loved me and gave Himself for me. (By this) I do not nullify the grace of GOD, for if righteousness were through the Law, then Christ (the anointing in Jesus) died for no purpose."


Now we all should know that no anointing can die as it is GOD and GOD is Love, Light, Life and above all GOD is Spirit in which these are the narrow path of Life (law) that all seek to know. The word law covers this little hidden word throughout your Bibles but the King James among others because of the Strong's have it used wrong or applied wrongly in many cases. Strong's uses, blends one meaning applied for both, that of life and condemnation ending in death. Now I am not a theologian nor am I a Bible writer, I am filled with the Holy Spirit and it is HE that is my teacher tutor and instructor in all things of Christ.

Continuing with the saga of The Secret of GOD, part 4

In this post I want to return to Deuteronomy 18 and verses 15-22 and Acts 3 verses 17 through 26 where Peter speaks of this passage of Deuteronomy 18. Then to what Jesus is said to have stated by Matthew in chapter 25. I will allow only the word to speak for the word as best I can.

Moses writes: A New Prophet like Moses
Deuteronomy 18:15-22 "The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to Him you shall listen—just as you desired of the LORD your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly, when you said, "Let us not hear again the voice of the LORD our God or see this great fire any more, lest we die." And the LORD said to me, 'They are right in what they have spoken. I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put My words in His mouth, and He shall speak to them all that I command Him. And whoever will not listen to My words that He shall speak in My name, I Myself will require it of him. But the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that same prophet shall die. And if you say in your heart, "How may we know the word that the LORD has not spoken?"—when a prophet speaks in the name of the LORD, if the word does not come to pass or come true, that is a word that the LORD has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously. You need not be afraid of him.'"




Now for what Peter states: Act 3:17-26 "And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers. For what GOD foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that His Christ would suffer, He thus fulfilled. Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the LORD, and that HE may send the Christ appointed for you, even Jesus, Whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which GOD had spoken by the mouth of His holy prophets long ago. Moses said, "The LORD God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers. You shall listen to Him in whatever He tells you. And it shall be that every soul who does not listen to that prophet shall be destroyed from the people." And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also proclaimed these days. You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that GOD made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed.' GOD, having raised up His servant, sent Him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness."



Now hear what Jesus stated as recorded by Matthew in chapter 25 beginning with verse 31 through 46:
The Final Judgment
Matthew 25:31-33, 34-40, 41-46 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on His glorious throne. And before Him will be gathered all the nations, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep (the righteous) from the goats (those of the left, the unrighteous, this gotten from the two thieves who were hung with Jesus in His execution and herein as well.). And He will place the sheep on His right, but the goats on the left.'

Then the King will say to those on His right, 'Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave Me food, I was thirsty and you gave Me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed Me, I was naked and you clothed Me, I was sick and you visited Me, I was in prison and you came to Me.' Then the unrighteous will ask of Him, saying, "LORD, when did we see You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink? And when did we see You a stranger and welcome You, or naked and clothe You? And when did we see You sick or in prison and visit You?" To this the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these My brothers, you did it to Me.'

Then He will say to those on His left, 'Depart from Me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave Me no food, I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not welcome Me, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.' Then they also will answer, saying, "LORD, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?" He will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.' And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.'"