RELATIONSHIPS
MARRIAGE IS A SHADOW OF THE RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE IN CHRIST


SEPT. 10 2003
Modified April 6, 2016
 

ASV EPHESIANS 5:32
 32.  THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT: BUT I SPEAK IN REGARD OF CHRIST AND OF THE CHURCH.

ASV 1 CORINTHIANS 6:16-17
 16.  OR KNOW YE NOT THAT HE THAT IS JOINED TO A HARLOT IS ONE BODY? FOR, THE TWAIN, SAITH HE, SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.
BUT HE THAT IS JOINED UNTO THE LORD IS ONE SPIRIT.

JUST AS IN THE FLESH A MAN AND WOMAN BECOME ONE, IN THE SPIRIT WITH GOD WE BECOME ONE WITH GOD, THE ATONEMENT OR AT  ONE  MENT.


KJV John 17:21
 21.  That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

KJV John 17:23
 23.  I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.

KJV John 17:26
 26.  And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
Ephesians 5:32-33
32.  THIS MYSTERY IS GREAT: BUT I SPEAK IN REGARD OF CHRIST AND OF THE CHURCH.
 33.  NEVERTHELESS DO YE ALSO SEVERALLY LOVE EACH ONE HIS OWN WIFE EVEN AS HIMSELF; AND LET THE WIFE SEE THAT SHE FEAR (respect and obey) HER HUSBAND.

THE WIFE IS THE MANS HELPER OR HELPMATE IN THE FLESH JUST AS THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE HELPER IN THE SPIRIT. In the kingdom we will be the help mate of Jesus and rule and reign with him. Husbands and wives should help one another in their growth in Gods love.  Rather than bite and devour one another in constant arguments yield to Gods spirit to work out problems in Love. Spend time with each other, be not strangers to one another but rather the best friend each other has in this world.

A MAN SOWS A SEED INSIDE THE WOMAN TO PRODUCE AN OFFSPRING IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS. INSIDE THE CHURCH OF GOD, THE WOMAN, GOD SOWS THE SEED OF HIS SPIRIT TO PRODUCE A GODLY OFFSPRING IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS. THE PROPHETS SPOKE OF THIS CONNECTION OF MARRIAGE AND THE CHURCH.

KJV MALACHI 2:14-15
 14.  YET YE SAY, WHEREFORE? BECAUSE THE LORD HATH BEEN WITNESS BETWEEN THEE AND THE WIFE OF THY YOUTH, AGAINST WHOM THOU HAST DEALT TREACHEROUSLY: YET IS SHE THY COMPANION, AND THE WIFE OF THY COVENANT. (Marriage is a covenant with God, the man and the woman)
AND DID NOT HE MAKE ONE? YET HAD HE THE RESIDUE OF THE SPIRIT. AND WHEREFORE ONE? THAT HE MIGHT SEEK A GODLY SEED. THEREFORE TAKE HEED TO YOUR SPIRIT, AND LET NONE DEAL TREACHEROUSLY AGAINST THE WIFE OF HIS YOUTH.

A HUMAN CHILD IS WITHIN THE MOTHERS WOMB SUBMERSED IN AMNIOTIC FLUID REFERRED TO AS WATER AND WHEN THE CHILD BREAKS THROUGH THE WOMB AND COMES OUT OF THE WATER HE IS BORN. BAPTISM IS THE SPIRITUAL BIRTH IN SYMBOLISM OF BEING BORN AGAIN IN THE SPIRIT. THIS SPIRITUAL BIRTH MAKES ONE A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST.

ASV EPHESIANS 5:22-33
 22.  WIVES, BE IN SUBJECTION UNTO YOUR OWN HUSBANDS, AS UNTO THE LORD. (This is the woman’s challenge and a device of Satan to attack her, to get her to sin)
 23.  FOR THE HUSBAND IS THE HEAD OF THE WIFE, AND CHRIST ALSO IS THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH, BEING HIMSELF THE SAVIOUR OF THE BODY.
 24.  BUT AS THE CHURCH IS SUBJECT TO CHRIST, SO LET THE WIVES ALSO BE TO THEIR HUSBANDS IN EVERYTHING.
 25.  HUSBANDS, LOVE YOUR WIVES, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO LOVED THE CHURCH, AND GAVE HIMSELF UP FOR IT; (This is the man’s challenge and where Satan will get him to sin)
 26.  THAT HE MIGHT SANCTIFY IT, HAVING CLEANSED IT BY THE WASHING OF WATER WITH THE WORD,
 27.  THAT HE MIGHT PRESENT THE CHURCH TO HIMSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, NOT HAVING SPOT OR WRINKLE OR ANY SUCH THING; BUT THAT IT SHOULD BE HOLY AND WITHOUT BLEMISH.
 28.  EVEN SO OUGHT HUSBANDS ALSO TO LOVE THEIR OWN WIVES AS THEIR OWN BODIES. HE THAT LOVETH HIS OWN WIFE LOVETH HIMSELF:
 29.  FOR NO MAN EVER HATED HIS OWN FLESH; BUT NOURISHETH AND CHERISHETH IT, EVEN AS CHRIST ALSO THE CHURCH;
 30.  BECAUSE WE ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY.
FOR THIS CAUSE SHALL A MAN LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND SHALL CLEAVE TO HIS WIFE; AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH.


There are no exceptions to this and no reasons that will be approved of by God for us husbands not fulfilling this. Wives have their obligations as well.

WHEN A MAN MARRIES HE LEAVES HIS FATHER AND MOTHER AND CLEAVES TO HIS WIFE. IN THE SPIRIT WE MARRY CHRIST AND COME OUT THIS WORLD TO CLEAVE TO HIM. The church is Jesus’ Eve.

KJV 2 CORINTHIANS 11:2
 2.  FOR I AM JEALOUS OVER YOU WITH GODLY JEALOUSY: FOR I HAVE ESPOUSED YOU TO ONE HUSBAND, THAT I MAY PRESENT YOU AS A CHASTE VIRGIN TO CHRIST.

ASV ROMANS 7:4
 4.  WHEREFORE, MY BRETHREN, YE ALSO WERE MADE DEAD TO THE LAW THROUGH THE BODY OF CHRIST; THAT YE SHOULD BE JOINED TO ANOTHER, EVEN TO HIM WHO WAS RAISED FROM THE DEAD, THAT WE MIGHT BRING FORTH FRUIT UNTO GOD.
 

We see many parallels in human marriage and our relationship to Jesus as his church.  It is in human relationships that we as saints of God are provided opportunity to grow in Gods love and honor the covenant we made with God. Of all relationships marriage is the one Paul focuses on and this is because the two who were formerly strangers are to become one flesh.  If in a marriage we cannot grow in Gods love then we will fail in all other relationships in our lives. 
We know that whatever is not of Gods Love is sin.  We learned from the Fathers spirit about His love and all the wonderful benefits it provides in the article “The Wife of the Lamb”  and how we must love by being a doer and not just a hearer in the article “Doers of the Word”.  The spirit of the Father is at this time bringing all these things into a more perfect understanding, making them reality to us.  I cannot stress to much the importance of what God is doing to us now; this is our salvation held out before us and we must reach out to God to receive it.

The sexual union in marriage is symbolic of the Holy Spirit of the Father.  In marriage we do not have sexual relations with any other person just as we have no spiritual relations with any other God.  For this reason God commands sex in marriage.  If one or the other refuses to see this and withholds that which is the right of the other and the command of God then they commit sin against their mate and God.  This will lead to an opportunity for Satan to tempt the one denied what is their right to develop the lustful eye which is then their sin and so you see one sin leads to another.

KJV 1 Corinthians 7:1-5
 1.  Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote unto me: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.
 2.  Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
 3.  Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence (sexual intercourse): and likewise also the wife unto the husband.
 4.  The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
 5.  Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency (Failure to control sexual behavior).

God created us sexual creatures but sex is to be in a Godly prescribed manner and to depart from this will bring problems. 
If a wife truly knows that her husband loves her she will not have a problem submitting to him just as we know, as the wife of the Lamb, that Jesus loves us.  Husband and wife need to speak to one another in love and not with  harsh or disrespectful language; a soft answer turns away wrath, speak the truth in love.  When we violate these God given principals it will destroy peace and harmony and lead to a multitude of sins.  We have seen this in the carnal world and in our own marriages; why do we invite so much pain and suffering when if we only obey a loving God we could have much joy. 
God is showing us these things by living demonstrations in our lives and teaching us now that His way is the better way.  I have violated all of these principals in my marriage and not only I but Coni has suffered for it.  God has led me to see this and taught me more perfectly His way of love and I responded and sought Gods forgiveness and Help from His spirit to change my ways.  I have been blessed for it.  As mentioned in the article “Doers of the Word” most all sin we do involves relationships we have with other people and our not using the spirit power of Gods love to address those situations that Satan attacks us with. 
What is at steak here is everlasting life in the kingdom of God; an immortal impeccable existence.  There is absolutely nothing worth giving that up for. 

If you notice the original date of when this article was written, it was September 10, 2003, almost 13 years ago.
We had some fundamental understanding of these things but now we have been enabled by God to see them more clearly.  We should be most thankful.

Brethren; Not only in our marriages but in all of our relationships love one another fervently with a pure heart even if you do not receive it back for this is what God and Jesus did for us.




 

DOERS OF THE WORD
Thursday, March 24, 2016


KJV James 1:19-26
19.  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
 20.  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
 21.  Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 22.  But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 23.  For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
 24.  For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
 25.  But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
 26.  If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

What we have been taught thus far by the Spirit of the Father concerns doctrine; the truth of God on various subjects.  We have learned about life and death, sin, the law and grace, the true identity of God and Jesus and many other things.  We first had to learn the truth now we must apply the truth in our lives.  We knew sin is lust in our thoughts but we have yet to learn how to not lust.  We need to address the carnal things in our lives that are sin and by the power of the Spirit develop the nature of God and Jesus so as to avoid sin.  The wife of the Lamb article was about LOVE and that we as saints need to love one another as well as our carnal neighbor.  We learned in that study all the many wonderful things that come to us because of this love.  When it came to learning the truth in doctrine I was used to bring you the words and God, by His Spirit, God opened your understanding to the words.  This however is a very different thing; being a doer of those words, and I cannot do that for you, nor you for me, we travel this road ourselves with God and Jesus.

KJV Philippians 2:12-16
12.  Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
 13.  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
 14.  Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
 15.  That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;
 16.  Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

  This is a very serious thing and it is our testing to prove us and to be found as a people who live and practice what we have been taught.

KJV 2 Peter 1:3-12
 3.  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:
 4.  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
 5.  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
 6.  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;
 7.  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.
 8.  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
 9.  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
 10.  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:
 11.  For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
 12.  Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

KJV 1 Corinthians 6:1-8
 1.  Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?
 2.  Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
 3.  Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
 4.  If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.
 5.  I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?
 6.  But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
 7.  Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
 8.  Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

KJV Galatians 2:17-18
17.  But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
 18.  For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

KJV Philippians 4:4-8
 4.  Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.
 5.  Let your moderation be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand.
 6.  Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
 7.  And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
 8.  Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

KJV Titus 3:8
 8.  This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

KJV Hebrews 2:1
 1.  Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

KJV James 2:20-24
 20.  But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
 21.  Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
 22.  Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
 23.  And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
 24.  Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

KJV James 5:9
 9.  Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.

KJV Romans 6:1-11
1.  What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
 2.  God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
 3.  Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
 4.  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
 5.  For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
 6.  Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
 7.  For he that is dead is freed from sin.
 8.  Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
 9.  Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.
 10.  For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.
 11.  Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

KJV Ephesians 4:22-32
 22.  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
 23.  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
 24.  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
 25.  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
 26.  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
 27.  Neither give place to the devil.
 28.  Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
 29.  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
 30.  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
 31.  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
 32.  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

KJV Colossians 3:1-10
 1.  If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
 2.  Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
 3.  For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
 4.  When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.
 5.  Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
 6.  For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
 7.  In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
 8.  But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
 9.  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
 10.  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:


The private things, the secret things we hide from others are seen by God.

If we do not seek God for help in doing and remain only a hearer of the word; God will know.

KJV Numbers 32:23
 23.  But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.
 
The Holy Spirit is called “the helper” because we need help from the Father to be a doer.  We are not ignorant of the truth of these things.  What thing in any of our lives is worth giving up the awesome future God wants to give us?  This will begin with us, the saints, because if we cannot be doers to each other then how can we be fit for the kingdom of God?  Let us all seriously examine ourselves to see our sins and with God overcome them.


There is an angelic being called Satan and he is our enemy.  His goal is to destroy us, to get us to commit the unpardonable sin. Scripture informs us that the saints are aware of the tactics Satan uses to attack us.

KJV 2 Corinthians 2:11
11.  Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

Satan will use the carnal streak that remains in each one of us to cause us to respond to troubles and challenges of this life in a carnal way rather than a spiritual way.  This will cause all kinds of problems in the relationships we have in this life.  We fall into this trap by not going to God first but rather responding with the old man or woman, the carnal part of us that we have not yet killed. 

KJV Ephesians 4:22-24
 22.  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
 23.  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
 24.  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

KJV Colossians 3:9-10
 9.  Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
 10.  And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

We all are like spiritual drunkards staggering through life and God wants to sober us up.  We can be drunk on sin.  Have you ever noticed that we seem to repeat sin over and over?  This is because we all too often rely on our own efforts which are carnal to deal with the issues of life and do not go To God for the help we need.  We pay the price of a spiritual hangover afterwards.  Satan wants us to stay drunk and never get the help from God that we need.  We are engaged in spiritual warfare with Satan and without God we will lose.  We must end the cycle of behavior that leads to the hurt and pain sin causes.  If your life is not happy it is because you are drunk and the life of a drunk is not a good life. 

A drunk will say, think and do things that they never would when sober, sin is the same way.  In any human relationship when we allow anger, hatred, envy, jealousy, pride, vanity and failing to honor commitments we have made then we are spiritually drunk. 

KJV Isaiah 29:9
 9.  Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

KJV Isaiah 56:10-12
10.  His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
 11.  Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
 12.  Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.


KJV 1 Thessalonians 5:6-9

 6.  Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
 7.  For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
 8.  But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
 9.  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

DO NOT allow pride, embarrassment or ignorance blind us to not address these sins.

KJV Psalms 107:27-28
 27.  They reel to and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and are at their wit's end.
 28.  Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, and he bringeth them out of their distresses.

Have you ever been at your wits end?  The result of sin is pain and suffering therefore if your life with others has pain and suffering there is sin somewhere.

If you were the only human being on Earth your sins would be limited for you could not commit adultery, murder, theft or lie.  Most of our sins involve relationships with other people; friends, strangers, parents, brethren, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, children.

It is in these relationships that Satan can use against us, these are some of his devices.  How we as saints conduct ourselves can have a positive or negative effect.  In the carnal world we see that people hurt one another in all the relationships listed above.  The carnal response to being hurt by another is to hurt back, to seek revenge, this can be in words or deeds or both.  It is not the character of the Father or the Christ to react to others in this way.  Scripture teaches us how we should handle these problems.

KJV Proverbs 15:1-7
 1.  A Soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
 2.  The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
 3.  The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.
 4.  A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
 5.  A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
 6.  In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.
 7.  The lips of the wise disperse knowledge: but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

KJV Matthew 5:25-26
 25.  Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
 26.  Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.

KJV Matthew 5:38-48
 38.  Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth:
 39.  But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
 40.  And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also.
 41.  And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.
 42.  Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
 43.  Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
 44.  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
 45.  That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
 46.  For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?
 47.  And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?
 48.  Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.


KJV Romans 12:21
 21.  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

By responding in LOVE much sin, hurt and suffering can be avoided  This is for us impossible without the spirit of the Father helping us.  This practice must begin in our small group using this love from God in every situation.

In my life I have had a problem with anger in dealings with people at the paper mill.  I did not use the spirit of the Father but my own carnal methods and this made things worse and was sin to me.  My temper caused my own pain and sorrow.

KJV James 1:19-20
 19.  Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
 20.  For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

This sin of anger was also in my relationship with Coni as I lost patience with her when she wanted my help with projects around the house.  God has given me a wonderful helpmate in Coni; she works a full time job, cleans the house, does the laundry, cooks the meals, keeps her self attractive for me, and works outside; I am a blessed man to have her and I should not have treated her in this way.  I believe God used this trial to teach me my sin.  I prayed about this  asking God not only for forgiveness but for the power to overcome this sin.  Since that time Coni has noticed a change in me and is aware of my prayer about the matter. Our relationship has improved and we are more loving toward one another.  If I would happen to have a relapse I would hope that she would understand and forgive me knowing that we all are weak and subject to mistakes.
I learned, grew and overcame with God and Christ in this matter and I know that we all can as well.

KJV John 16:33
 33.  These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

KJV Acts 14:22
 22.  Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

KJV Romans 5:3-4
3.  And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;
 4.  And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

KJV Romans 12:12
12.  Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer;

KJV 2 Corinthians 1:3-7
3.  Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort;
 4.  Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
 5.  For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ.
 6.  And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation.
 7.  And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.

All of us in our lives will face trials and tribulations.

KJV 2 Timothy 3:12
 12.  Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

KJV 2 Peter 2:9
9.  The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

This is how we grow and bear fruit to God.

KJV John 15:4-5
 4.  Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
 5.  I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

KJV Ephesians 5:9-10
9.  (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)
 10.  Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.
 
We must overcome and be a doer of the word.

KJV Psalms 38:1-22
 1.  O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
 2.  For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.
 3.  There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin.
 4.  For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me.
 5.  My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness.
 6.  I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.
 7.  For my loins are filled with a loathsome disease: and there is no soundness in my flesh.
 8.  I am feeble and sore broken: I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart.
 9.  Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee.
 10.  My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
 11.  My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
 12.  They also that seek after my life lay snares for me: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.
 13.  But I, as a deaf man, heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth.
 14.  Thus I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs.
 15.  For in thee, O Lord, do I hope: thou wilt hear, O Lord my God.
 16.  For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
 17.  For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me.
 18.  For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
 19.  But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
 20.  They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries; because I follow the thing that good is.
 21.  Forsake me not, O Lord: O my God, be not far from me.
 22.  Make haste to help me, O Lord my salvation.

BE A DOER


KJV Matthew 7:19-27
 19.  Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
 20.  Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.
 21.  Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
 22.  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
 23.  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
 24.  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:
 25.  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
 26.  And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:
 27.  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

KJV Luke 6:46-49
46.  And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
 47.  Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
 48.  He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
 49.  But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.


KJV John 3:21
 21.  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.

KJV James 4:17
17.  Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.


KJV 1 John 2:17
 17.  And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.


We should know that our private sins must be addressed.  We all must be honest with God and not allow pride or embarrassment to keep us from doing what must be done..

KJV Psalms 19:12-13
12.  Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.
 13.  Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

KJV Psalms 69:5
5.  O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.

KJV Psalms 79:9
 9.  Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name's sake.

KJV Psalms 90:8
 8.  Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

KJV Psalms 103:8-10
 8.  The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.
 9.  He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever.
 10.  He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

KJV Proverbs 10:12
 12.  Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

KJV Proverbs 28:13
13.  He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

KJV Isaiah 1:18
18.  Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

KJV Isaiah 59:2
2.  But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.

KJV Jeremiah 5:25
25.  Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.

KJV Jeremiah 16:17
17.  For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

KJV Lamentations 3:39-41
 39.  Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
 40.  Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
 41.  Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

KJV Luke 7:47
47.  Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

KJV Acts 26:18
18.  To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.


All of us have private matters in our lives that are sin.  Whatever causes anger, grief, fighting, discord, disrespect or any other negative thing that is against Gods love is sin.  Pretending they do not exist or ignoring them will cause problems in your spiritual walk with the Lord. 

I was given this message from Christ to give to us all. This is the time for us all to see the seriousness of these sins that have crept into our lives.  Since we are all married couples we need to work together as such to help one another in love, mercy and compassion toward one another asking God through Christ to help us with the helper HE has given to us all.  I know that if we do not address these things it will very seriously effect our salvation.  I have shared with you some of my sins and how I was shown to deal with them by seeking the power form God to overcome.  To be in Gods kingdom we must be over-comers.  Over-comers are doers of the word, not hearers only.

KJV Revelation 2:7
7.  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.

KJV Revelation 2:11
 11.  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

KJV Revelation 2:26
26.  And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

KJV Revelation 3:5
 5.  He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

KJV Revelation 3:12
 12.  Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.

KJV Revelation 21:7
7.  He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.

KJV 1 John 4:4
 4.  Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

KJV 1 John 5:4-5
 4.  For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith.
 5.  Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

KJV Romans 12:21
21.  Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.


  This article is different from those of the past because it involves personal and delicate issues that have never been addressed in this way.  I am not a spiritual sheriff out to gun down sinners for if I was I would have to shoot myself.  I have no power or authority over you but I do love you.  I know this message came from God through Christ to me for a reason and that reason is to get the bride ready by having her be a doer by overcoming her sins with the power of God.  The potential good that may come from this would heal our lives from the many wounds inflicted on them by the devil.  It will give us the ability to quench the fiery darts Satan throws at us.  It will produce the fruit of the spirit of the Father in us.  It will make us the sons and daughters of God. 


KJV Romans 8:12-13
12.  Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
 13.  For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

The Wife of the Lamb
Friday, January 29, 2016


KJV Revelation 19:7
 7.  Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.
We know that the wife of the Lamb is the church and the Lamb is Jesus Christ.  What does it mean for the wife to make herself ready?

KJV 2 Corinthians 11:2
 2.  For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
At the present time we are engaged to Jesus and married to him at his return but we must make ourselves ready.  A chaste virgin is spiritually innocent of adultery.  We have been taught by the spirit of the Father many truths and shown some about the future but now it is time to be doers and not just hearers of the word. That word is LOVE.

The prophet speaks of the bride, the wife, the seed which the Lord has blessed.

KJV Isaiah 61:9-10
 9.  And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles, and their offspring among the people: all that see them shall acknowledge them, that they are the seed which the Lord hath blessed.
 10.  I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.

KJV Isaiah 62:1-5
1.  For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
 2.  And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
 3.  Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
 4.  Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
 5.  For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.

The same words are in Revelation as white robes are the righteousness of the saints and crowns on their heads and a new name.

KJV Revelation 2:17
 17.  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

KJV Revelation 4:4
 4.  And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.

KJV Revelation 19:8
 8.  And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

These beings are the glorified saints, the wife of the Lamb; they are us. We know God, we know Christ and we know the gospel.  Lately we have learned some about the future.  Now we must make ourselves ready for that future. 
 
Qualities of the Wife

LOVE, FAITH, OBEDIENCE, FORGIVENESS, REPENTANCE, KNOWLEDGE AND GRACE.  All these things are connected and the power needed to perform any of them comes from the spirit of the Father.

Philippians 2:13
13.  For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.

KJV James 1:17
17.  Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
If we lack anything ask God for it.

KJV John 14:1-31
 1.  Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.
 2.  In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
 3.  And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
 4.  And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
 5.  Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?
 6.  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
 7.  If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
 8.  Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
 9.  Jesus saith unto him, have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
 10.  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (Same as Philippians 2:13)
 11.  Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.
 12.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
 13.  And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
 14.  If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.
 15.  If ye love me, keep my commandments.
 16.  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
 17.  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
 18.  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
 19.  Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me: because I live, ye shall live also.
 20.  At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. (John 17:21-23)
 21.  He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
 22.  Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
 23.  Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
 24.  He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.
 25.  These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you.
 26.  But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
 27.  Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
 28.  Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I.
 29.  And now I have told you before it come to pass, that, when it is come to pass, ye might believe.
 30.  Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
 31.  But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence.

Love within the wife, the bride, the church

KJV John 13:34-35
 34.  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
 35.  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

This love is our identity as Gods people.

While the people of the world do not have Gods love WE DO.

A portion given to us; this portion must grow.  We grow by applying the spirit power of the Father and always ask for more of that power of love.

Listen to what Gods apostles have to say about the importance of this love.

KJV Ephesians 4:11-32
 11.  And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
 12.  For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
 13.  Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
 14.  That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
 15.  But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:
 16.  From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
 17.  This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
 18.  Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
 19.  Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
 20.  But ye have not so learned Christ;
 21.  If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
 22.  That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
 23.  And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
 24.  And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
 25.  Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.
 26.  Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
 27.  Neither give place to the devil.
 28.  Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.
 29.  Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
 30.  And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
 31.  Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
 32.  And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
This love is the power to change our conduct and mind.

KJV John 13:34-35
 34.  A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
 35.  By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

KJV 1 John 2:10
 10.  He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

KJV 1 John 3:11
 11.  For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
The beginning is when Jesus began to preach the gospel.  It is the main focus of the gospel.

KJV 1 John 3:14
 14.  We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
We know we have everlasting life because we love.

KJV 1 John 3:18-19
 18.  My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.
 19.  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
 
This love assures us that we are of the truth.

KJV 1 John 3:22-23
 22.  And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.
 23.  And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment.
Our prayers are answered because of this love.

KJV 1 John 4:7-11
7.  Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
 8.  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
 9.  In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.
 10.  Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
 11.  Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
We are able to know God and Christ because of this love.

KJV 1 John 4:16-21
 16.  And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
 17.  Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.
 18.  There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
 19.  We love him, because he first loved us.
 20.  If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
 21.  And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

We can have boldness in the day of judgment and reduce our fears because of this love.


KJV 1 Peter 1:22
22.  Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

KJV 1 Peter 3:8-9
 8.  Finally, be ye all of one mind, having compassion one of another, love as brethren, be pitiful, be courteous:
 9.  Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing.

This love produces unity and blessings.

KJV James 2:8
8.  If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

We are approved and accepted because of this love.

We all need more of Gods love in us because we all yet still sin; for whatever is not of Gods love is sin.
 
A ready bride is one of love, we must make ourselves ready.

KJV 2 Corinthians 13:14
 14.  The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.

Why Are The Names Of The Tribes Of Carnal Israel Named On The Elect Saints

In Revelation 7 the elect saints are sealed and the number of them is 144000. They are the tribes of spiritual Israel. Why are the saints in tribes that were of carnal Israel, why are their names used for us?
In Genesis 48:5 Israel adopts Joseph's two sons Ephriam and Manasseh, who were Egyptians, as it says they would be sons of Israel just as Ruben or Simeon are. Also in Genesis 48:16 Israel says, "Let my name be named on them", the name of Israel.


KJV Genesis 48:5
 5.  And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

KJV Genesis 48:16
16.  The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.

Another scripture is Exodus 12:48. The carnal nation would accept a stranger into Israel provided they became circumcised and keep the law.

KJV Exodus 12:48
48.  And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

This is a shadow of our being grafted into spiritual Israel while the unbelieving carnal Israelites were broken off. In carnal Israel you could not eat the Passover unless you were born in the land but in spiritual Israel you had to be born again by the holy spirit to eat the Passover of Jesus.
The Father, the one true God, adopts us as His sons and daughters and we are every bit as much of God as Jesus is.

KJV Romans 8:14-19
14.  For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
 15.  For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
 16.  The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
 17.  And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
 18.  For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
 19.  For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

The saints are grafted in, adopted into spiritual Israel and The name of Israel is named on us as it was the sons of Joseph.

There are two Israels.

KJV Romans 4:13-14
 13.  For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.
 14.  For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

KJV Romans 9:6-8
 6.  Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
 7.  Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
 8.  That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed. (This shows the seperation of spiritual and carnal Israel)

KJV Romans 11:16-17
 16.  For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
 17.  And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;

We are the holy seed by adoption and are sons and daughters of God and Jesus Christ is our elder brother, the first born of many. WE are the Israel of God, twelve spiritual tribes, the first fruits of His creation.

KJV Galatians 6:15-16
 15.  For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.
 16.  And as many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercy, and upon the Israel of God.

KJV James 1:1
 1.  James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.

KJV Philippians 3:3
 3.  For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.


KJV Romans 8:23
23.  And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

KJV James 1:18
 18.  Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

KJV Revelation 14:4
4.  These are they which were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men, being the firstfruits unto God and to the Lamb.  According to scripture there were never very many of us.  The first fruits are a very small harvest but there will be afterwards other much larger harvests.  It is few now but many later.

By the will of God most high we are spiritual Israel, the first fruits of God and the Lamb.

 
1948

God made a covenant with carnal Israel after bringing them out of Egypt but Israel broke that covenant and brought the curses of it upon themselves.  This curse has not been lifted; 1948 was not the fulfillment of Gods promise to Abraham. 1948 was an act of Satan to set up his end time deception. 


KJV Leviticus 26:12-46
 12.  And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
 13.  I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.
 14.  But if ye will not hearken unto me, and will not do all these commandments;
 15.  And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
 16.  I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
 17.  And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.
 18.  And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.
 19.  And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
 20.  And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
 21.  And if ye walk contrary unto me, and will not hearken unto me; I will bring seven times more plagues upon you according to your sins.
 22.  I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, and destroy your cattle, and make you few in number; and your high ways shall be desolate.
 23.  And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
 24.  Then will I also walk contrary unto you, and will punish you yet seven times for your sins.
 25.  And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
 26.  And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.
 27.  And if ye will not for all this hearken unto me, but walk contrary unto me;
 28.  Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
 29.  And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.
 30.  And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.
 31.  And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.
 32.  And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it.
 33.  And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
 34.  Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
 35.  As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
 36.  And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase them; and they shall flee, as fleeing from a sword; and they shall fall when none pursueth.
 37.  And they shall fall one upon another, as it were before a sword, when none pursueth: and ye shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
 38.  And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
 39.  And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
 40.  If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;
 41.  And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:
 42.  Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land.  (Did Israel ever do this; no they never have.)
 43.  The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
 44.  And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
 45.  But I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the heathen, that I might be their God: I am the Lord.
 46.  These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

It will be during the great tribulation that God will rescue Israel and remember the covenant of Abraham. Later all of carnal Israel will be resurrected from the dead in the second resurrection.

KJV Deuteronomy 4:27-31
 27.  And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.
 28.  And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.
 29.  But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. (Israel has never done this yet)
 30.  When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his voice;
 31.  (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.
The curse will end and the covenant be renewed when God raises up David to be their king.
KJV Ezekiel 37:1-28
 1.  The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
 2.  And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
 3.  And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? and I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
 4.  Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
 5.  Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
 6.  And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.  (This is the second resurrection)
 7.  So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
 8.  And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
 9.  Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
 10.  So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
 11.  Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
 12.  Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
 13.  And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O My people, and brought you up out of your graves,
 14.  And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.  (Do you think the Jews today Have Gods Holy Spirit?)
 15.  The word of the Lord came again unto me, saying,
 16.  Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions:
 17.  And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.
 18.  And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?
 19.  Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand.
 20.  And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes.
 21.  And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
 22.  And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.  (Did this happen yet?  No it has not.)
 23.  Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
 24.  And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.  (If David is not king in Israel today then Israel today is not the fulfillment of the promise to Abraham)
 25.  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
 26.  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

 (None of these things have happened yet therefore todays Israel is not what Irvin Baxter says it is.)
 27.  My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
 28.  And the heathen shall know that I the Lord do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.


Carnal Israel at this time is not Gods people and God is not their God.  In this current evil age God has written off Israel but will remember them in the latter days, during the tribulation, the time of Jacobs trouble.  Today the Jews are an antichrist people.  They do not accept Jesus as their messiah, they do not have the Holy Spirit and they are under the law and not grace and faith that is in the new covenant.

The church is and always has been Gods true elect saints while carnal Israel was only a shadow of the future of what Jesus Christ would bring. 

Satan is setting up his end time deception that will very closely resemble Gods plan and that is why the deception is so great that if possible it could deceive the very elect.

KJV Matthew 24:24
 24.  For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.

KJV 2 Kings 21:12-15
 12.  Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.
 13.  And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down.
 14.  And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance, and deliver them into the hand of their enemies; and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies;
 15.  Because they have done that which was evil in my sight, and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt, even unto this day.


KJV Jeremiah 7:22-34
 22.  For I spake not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices:
 23.  But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
 24.  But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
 25.  Since the day that your fathers came forth out of the land of Egypt unto this day I have even sent unto you all my servants the prophets, daily rising up early and sending them:
 26.  Yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
 27.  Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will not answer thee.
 28.  But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice of the Lord their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
 29.  Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
 30.  For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.
 31.  And they have built the high places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my heart.
 32.  Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that it shall no more be called Tophet, nor the valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter: for they shall bury in Tophet, till there be no place.
 33.  And the carcases of this people shall be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall fray them away.
 34.  Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

KJV Revelation 18:23-24
 23.  And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
 24.  And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

KJV Matthew 23:29-37
29.  Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
 30.  And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
 31.  Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
 32.  Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
 33.  Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
 34.  Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
 35.  That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
 36.  Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
 37.  O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

The Catholic church was not the first to use blue, purple and scarlet.
KJV Exodus 28:3-8
 3.  And thou shalt speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aaron's garments to consecrate him, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
 4.  And these are the garments which they shall make; a breastplate, and an ephod, and a robe, and a broidered coat, a mitre, and a girdle: and they shall make holy garments for Aaron thy brother, and his sons, that he may minister unto me in the priest's office.
 5.  And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.
 6.  And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.
 7.  It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.
 8.  And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

The Jews today mix the Babylonian talmund and the zohar with the torah making them the mystery of Babylon, the city where Jesus was murdered. 

Would God bless a people like this?  Does God have any nation or nations on Earth today or at anytime since divorcing ancient Israel for harlotry and idolatry?

The Protection of the Saints
Friday, September 4, 2015



God has promised His saints protection from the wrath of Satan during the tribulation. Jesus also gives us his word as well.

KJV Revelation 3:10
 10.  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

KJV Psalms 34:9
 9.  O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

KJV Psalms 37:28
 28.  For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

KJV Psalms 97:10
10.  Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

KJV Psalms 149:1-9
 1.  Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
 2.  Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
 3.  Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
 4.  For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
 5.  Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
 6.  Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand;
 7.  To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
 8.  To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
 9.  To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.


KJV Romans 5:9
9.  Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

KJV 1 Thessalonians 1:10
 10.  And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

This wrath to come is not Gods but Satans because in the time of Gods wrath we will be spirit beings so this is speaking of the tribulation, the time of Satans wrath.


KJV 1 Thessalonians 5:9
9.  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,

KJV Psalms 3:6
 6.  I will not be afraid of ten thousands of people, that have set themselves against me round about.

KJV Psalms 91:1-16
 1.  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
 2.  I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
 3.  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.
 4.  He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
 5.  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
 6.  Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
 7.  A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
 8.  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.
 9.  Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
 10.  There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
 11.  For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
 12.  They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
 13.  Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
 14.  Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
 15.  He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.
 16.  With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.


KJV Isaiah 54:13-17
13.  And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
 14.  In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.
 15.  Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
 16.  Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
 17.  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

By Grace Through Faith

How many of you are righteous?

When we repent and God forgives us, God imputes His righteousness to us.

KJV Romans 4:3-8
 3.  For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
 4.  Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
 5.  But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
 6.  Even as David also describeth the blessedness of the man, unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works,
 7.  Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.
 8.  Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin.

Grace keeps us in a continual state of righteousness by faith.

KJV Romans 5:20
 20.  Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:


Our spiritual condition is maintained by a constant cleansing of our sins.

KJV 1 John 1:9
 9.  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

This keeps the spots, blemishes and wrinkles out of our garments.

KJV Ephesians 5:26-27
 26.  That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,
 27.  That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

We need to be further clothed with the white robe of righteousness that we receive when we enter the kingdom. This will be our own righteousness and not imputed by God. This is the change.

KJV 2 Corinthians 5:1-4
1.  For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.
 2.  For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
 3.  If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
 4.  For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

Now, because of our faith, God calls us righteous, it is the righteousness of God by faith.  At present the righteousness in us is not ours, it is Gods imputed to us.

KJV 2 Corinthians 5:21
21.  For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

It is as if we wear baby clothes now but formal attire when in the kingdom.

KJV Matthew 22:11-14
11.  And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:
 12.  And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
 13.  Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
 14.  For many are called, but few are chosen.

We maintain the baby clothes with the gospel message; if we dirty ourselves God will change our diaper.

KJV 1 John 2:1-2
 1.  My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
 2.  And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

In the kingdom, God will have full grown sons and daughters that cannot dirty themselves anymore.  When we are baptized into Jesus, this is our first new diaper, our first cleansing of all past sins but we continue to dirty ourselves to the end of this life; however the frequency of those times we need changed should decrease as we grow talents.  This is bearing fruit to God, growing in His spirit.  This is how we, the saints, are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ.

For a broken spirit is to God a sacrifice and a broken contrite heart God will not despise.

KJV Psalms 51:17
17.  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

God knows our heart and that our sins break it as we feel sorrow and disgust over it, we repent, ask forgiveness and God forgives.

KJV 1 John 3:19-21
19.  And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
 20.  For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.
 21.  Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God.

All of this is Gods doing, it is His will.  Our broken human spirit because of our sins is a living sacrifice to God who knows we have a contrite heart.  Contrite means grief and sorrow over doing wrong, Godly sorrow, that leads us to repent.  King David committed adultery and murder; Psalm 51 was written to express David’s extreme sorrow over these sins, he repented deeply and we know God forgave him.  God will forgive us too.

This is the gospel, this is Gods will.  Our part in this is to believe and through our lives of experiencing this love and mercy be made stronger spiritually. 

KJV Romans 5:1-2
 1.  Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
 2.  By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

This grace is always present for us and we should boldly go to God to obtain mercy and forgiveness at any time.

KJV Hebrews 4:16
 16.  Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.