TWO CREATIONS
Thursday, June 2, 2016


There are two creations that exist.  One we all know and can see but the other is one that few know and none can see.  The creation account in the bible's book of Genesis is the creation that we all can see and know.  It is the physical universe composed of matter, space, time and energy. Carnal Israel used these physical things to worship a spiritual God in shadow form. Our first state of existence is in this physical creation.  Genesis means “beginning” and records how God made humanity as a living being created by God after God's image and likeness but in a physical (shadow) way. See the Hebrew word for image “Tselem” in Strongs;

Strong's Ref. # 6754
Romanized  tselem
Pronounced tseh'-lem
from an unused root meaning to shade; a phantom, i.e. (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence, a representative figure, especially an idol:
KJV--image, vain shew.

 Adam was a shadow image a living breathing creature or a soul made from the dust of the ground; the physical matter of the earth was his body, and the breath of life from God, the spirit of man that is a non physical spiritual component.  The breath of life from God is our human spirit that the bible also refers to as the spirit of man.

KJV Job 32:8
8.  But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.

It is important to realize that this existence as a physical being is not the completion of what God's desire for us is.  God desires us to become like Him but God is a spirit and not composed of flesh.  God also desires us to be love as He is love and live forever, have immortality.  In the first Genesis Adam was offered all of these things but because of his sin they were not given.  Adam did not fall from grace, as many believe, but rather rejected salvation.  The tree of life contained all the elements needed for man to become like God in spirit rather than in flesh.  This is why we have two creations, one flesh and the other spirit.  It is only when someone has God's Holy Spirit that they become a part of the new spiritual creation.  People without the Holy Spirit remain a part of the first physical creation.  The new spiritual creation is something that cannot be seen by the physical eyes or detected with the physical senses. The union of the human spirit, or spirit of man, with God's Holy Spirit is what makes a person a new creation.  The spirit of man is changed, transformed from within, our minds are our spirit and this type of change is invisible.  Jesus Christ was a manifestation of Gods love in the flesh in this first creation, the physical universe.  Christ was how God interfaced the spiritual with the physical creations.  Jesus stated that He was not of this creation, the first physical creation, but was of the spiritual power that created all things including himself. Jesus was the beginning of this second Genesis or spiritual creation.
KJV Revelation 3:14
14.  And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; these things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God;

The spirit of Jesus was of the spiritual creation and Jesus was the first born of many. The mind or spirit of Christ was, while he was a man here on Earth, not of this first physical creation but of the second spiritual creation. The body of Jesus was physical but the true essence of Jesus was filled with the Spirit of his God.  Just as your human body is not what you really are, your human spirit is what you really are. Your body is the instrument used to reflect, to carry out, what your spirit desires. Everything humans think, say or do originates in our human spirit as thoughts and intents and we use our bodies to act out the desires of our spirit.  An analogy of this would be a flashlight, without the batteries a flashlight will not function.  Our human spirit is like the batteries enabling our physical life to function.  Just like a flashlight, our life will only operate for a limited time.  Death is a part of this physical creation because Adam rejected immortality in the Garden of Eden when he did not eat of the tree of life.  Adam ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil which caused him and us all to surely die; God withheld immortality from us because of sin. If Adam had eaten of the tree of life he would have received immortality because the tree of life symbolized God's Holy Spirit as well as the new creation or new covenant.  The tree of life would have accomplished God's desire for humanity if Adam had eaten its fruit.  In the new creation or covenant we must eat the flesh and drink the blood of Christ who is the tree of life, the bread from heaven.  The new covenant is Genesis two or the second Genesis based on spirit and not flesh.  The first Genesis or old covenant is based entirely on flesh because Adam had rejected the Spirit of God.  God did not force Adam to eat from the tree of life and God also allowed the serpent access to Adam and Eve.  God wanted Adam and Eve to choose, by their own free will, which tree they would eat of.  God knew Adam would fail but yet offered Adam the choice showing us that God wanted that choice to be Adams. Sin and death entered the world, this physical creation, because of their choice.  Humanity brought sin and death upon themselves because they obeyed the serpent rather than God.  Thus the physical creation was cursed by God and the result of Adam and Eve's choice was put into effect.  The knowledge of good and evil is in all of us and we all are capable of doing both.  Just having knowledge with out the power to control it is dangerous because it can lead to sin and sin brings death.  This is why God forbid Adam and Eve the knowledge of good and evil.  The power of the Holy Spirit was in the tree of life and was the power needed to always do good and reject evil, with the tree of life Adam and Eve could have knowledge with power to always do good.  This would have made them truly like God. This would have made them like Jesus Christ, a man with the new creation mind incapable of sin just as his God and Father. God inspired the prophet Isaiah to declare His son the Christ a success years before he would be born.
KJV Isaiah 42:1-4
 1.  Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
 2.  He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.
 3.  A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.
 4.  He shall not fail nor be discouraged, till he have set judgment in the earth: and the isles shall wait for his law.

The law by commandments demanded that humanity not sin and always do good but gave no power to us to perform.  We had to provide our own power or righteousness to keep the law.  The Holy Spirit does not help you to refrain from murder or adultery when you are under the law; you must refrain by yourself.  You must perform a spiritual labor that you have not been given the power to accomplish. That power was rejected in Eden but the knowledge of good and evil was not. God gave to humanity what Adam and Eve chose for us but did not give the power by His Spirit to perform. Actions and words that reveal sin begin in the human spirit that the law did not address.  Sin begins in the human spirit and can be manifested by words and deeds. The spirit origin is itself sin and worthy of death. Gods salvation is not for the flesh but for the spirits of just men made perfect. God's love was in the tree of life and was also with held from humanity.  God's love is what can fulfill the law when it works through us by the Holy Spirit.  This is the power needed to control the knowledge of good and evil so that we always do the good and reject the evil. This is how and why Jesus could not have sinned. Under the law it became our works to keep a law that gave us the knowledge of what good and evil is but not the power to be a success to become righteous by performing those works.  The works come from ourselves and not by God's power and are not considered righteous for this reason.  This is why Paul said righteousness did not come by the law.  Faith believes that God does the works through us by the Holy Spirit based upon Godly love, which will do no sin. This is how Jesus fulfilled the law. In this way God has all the glory and man has none.  Abraham was called the father of the faithful because he was not justified by any works but simply because he believed God and this was counted by God as righteousness.  In the new covenant it is the same, by faith, we realize that any works in the law are our own and not God's, we stop working, we take a life long Sabbath, to let God do the works.  The Holy Spirit is the power we need and our only duty or obligation is to yield, submit, to God and not resist His Holy Spirit by trying to perform on our own by doing works of the law.  Either we do it or God does it and since we cannot and God can we must in faith submit to God.  The fulfillment of what the weekly Sabbath only symbolized is our rest we have in Christ, we rest or Sabbath, from trying to perform works under the law that we cannot do so that God can do the works.  The works of the Holy Spirit are not our works but God's.  Our works are filthy rags and will not produce Godly righteousness and give immortality.  Jesus Christ was the son of God just as Adam was but filled without measure by his Fathers Spirit. Jesus could keep the law because He had the power.  Jesus demonstrated to us how to become like God while paying the price of our sins committed while under the law.  If we believe this we can have the promise of salvation, we must believe that Jesus was God’s son and saved us otherwise will not be saved.  Jesus started a new creation by bringing a great light into the world.  The body of Jesus was made from the dust of the ground, Mary, and His Spirit and flesh was sinless because he was not a son of Adam but was born the son of God.  God interacted with His physical creation in the person of Jesus Christ.  Jesus loved his Father and always did God’s will.

There are certain qualities of God that are imputed to the one who has Faith in Jesus Christ; God's love, God's righteousness and God's glory are all gifts imputed to the saints.  No one has these qualities without having the Holy Spirit.  Jesus demonstrated all these things to us so that we could with the Spirit imitate Him.  Jesus was a model or pattern for us to emulate and copy by yielding ourselves to the Holy Spirit that does the works through us. The tree of life in Eden contained all these qualities but was rejected by Adam and Eve.  The physical creation therefore does not have any of the qualities that only God can give.  Jesus was called the second Adam because He was the beginning of the new spiritual creation.  Jesus had no human father and neither did the first Adam.  The first Adam was of the Earth or dust of the ground and had a human spirit but the second Adam, Jesus, had an Earthly body but a human spirit that was totally merged with God. He and his Father were one.
The human spirit is not the Spirit of God but an inferior spirit that has no life inherent or self-existence.  God has self-existence and is eternal and is a Spirit and this was the Spirit that was in  Christ.    God has a glory that no other being has that excels far beyond what we can understand.  The law had glory as well because it was a shadow of God's glory that did not equal God's glory.  Those who keep the law glory in themselves by their own works in self-righteousness.   Those who are in grace and faith have God's glory imputed to them and do no works because God does them by the Spirit.  God's love is the power needed to not sin and God's love is the fulfillment of the law. Whatever is not of Gods love is sin. God's love is also a gift imputed by the Holy Spirit that we do not have by ourselves.  God is righteous because He is love and love is not sin.  Jesus had no sin, was righteous, was the glory of God and had God's love.  Jesus had all these qualities of God while being a man in a fleshly body and therefore was called a manifestation of God in the flesh. You can not be a saint and an heir to the promises if you do not believe that Jesus was the son of God.   God gave the physical body and blood of Jesus, who He tabernacled in, as the sacrifice for our sins.  God, living in Jesus, could fulfill the law. The Father who sent him did the works. The church of God becomes the mother of the saints because the church is the bride of Christ.  Scripture says that God was manifested in the flesh, shown or demonstrated by the one called Jesus.  In Jesus was all the fullness of what Gods character is in the form of a human being.  Jesus is not God and did not come to Earth as the Almighty God but as a man and Jesus provided us with an example of how we can become  love as he and his God are love.  Jesus could do this because He was empowered by his God and father.  There is only one God and there never was any other and never will be any other.  

When God first made the physical creation all things were very good, that is as perfect as they could be in the physical sense.  After sin entered, this creation was cursed; plants, animals and humans all experienced the effects of this cruse.  Now we live in that cursed creation that is waiting for its redemption and restoration to its former beauty when Jesus returns.  While this present cursed creation exists God has called and chosen out of it a people for His own name called the saints.  These saints are no longer a part of this cursed creation.  People who are not called out remain under that curse.  Jesus became a curse for the saints who were formerly under the cruse.  The saints become like Jesus was when He was on the Earth in human form.  Jesus started a new creation that is separate in all ways from the old cursed creation.  The new creation of Jesus is spiritual while the old creation is physical or carnal.  The saints are no longer carnal but spiritual and this change cannot be detected by any outward appearance.  The saints' physical bodies are considered dead because of sin but their spirits are considered alive because of faith in Jesus.  Baptism symbolically represents this death of the body and life in the spirit.  At the return of Jesus the saints receive a new spiritual body in the first resurrection.  If someone is a saint they are not carnal and are under no curse or condemnation of the current cursed physical creation.  Spiritually God keeps the saints sinless by the process of grace through repentance and forgiveness of any sin they may commit.  The carnal man cannot repent or be forgiven because he is not under grace and not a part of the new creation of Jesus.  The Holy Spirit of God joined with a human spirit is what makes a new creation.  Carnal human beings do not have the Holy Spirit.  Spiritual knowledge and wisdom from God is given to the saints as well as God's nature, God's love and God's glory.  Everything that anyone needs for salvation is given as a free gift from God to the one who has faith in Jesus and believes the gospel.  A saint submits to the power of God's Spirit that performs all the works of a saint.  The saint performs no works but God works through the saint.  The love of God is not sin and this type of love is what is an absolute necessity for the successful fulfillment of anyone's salvation.  God's love is what will save us and not anything that we can do.  The law or works of the law is something that you do apart from God as your own works and will not be considered by God to be of any value at all. 

The entire law that God gave to Moses is for this present cursed physical creation.  Through out the law were many shadows or symbols that hinted or pointed to the future when Jesus would be on Earth and do what the law only hinted or symbolized.  The works of the law are physical and not spiritual works because physical, non-spiritual people do them.  You do not receive the Holy Spirit because you keep the law but if you keep the law you will not receive the Holy Spirit.  The law applies to the flesh only and not the spirit of a person.  Grace applies to the spirit of a person and not the flesh.  Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God therefore the law will not produce salvation.  No normal human being that has ever or will ever live can by any type of work in the law be considered by God as righteous.  God is righteous and His Spirit in us is what makes us righteous and not our keeping the law.  Righteousness does not come by the law but is an imputed gift from God to those of faith in Jesus who was also righteous.  What is more righteous the law or God? The law applies to sinners who have not yet come to grace.  The law is for the flesh and not the spirit of man.  The law is for Genesis 1; this present physical cursed creation.  The saints “Passover” into the new spiritual creation of Jesus when they in faith believe His gospel. The gospel is the message Jesus preached telling us how we can Passover from the cursed physical creation to the spiritual creation.  Jesus took the curse that normally would have come upon us on to Himself.  The curse is death because of sin defined by the law.  To be under the law is to be under the old covenant of the current cursed physical creation.  In the new spiritual creation the law passes away only for those who will in faith believe.  The law will pass away forever and for everyone when the new heavens and Earth come into being and the old heavens and Earth pass away as well.  The things Jesus taught in His gospel are far more important than the law because the law will not produce God's will for humanity.  If the law could have Jesus would have died for nothing and a new covenant would have not been necessary.  The knowledge of good and evil was the fruit of the tree that condemned all of humanity to death.  The law is what defines good and evil; it is knowledge, the knowledge of sin.  We have no power to control this knowledge and we sin which kills us.  The law gave knowledge but not power.  The law said thou shalt not but gave no ability to us to not.  The truth is that we all think, say and do sin because we cannot control ourselves due to a lack of power.  The power we need was in the tree of life.  The law came as a result of eating the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil from the tree that would cause us to surely die.  The law was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil because the law defines these things for us but gives us no power to control the knowledge.  Giving the law to humanity was like giving a monkey a loaded gun.  God gave the law because humanity chose that tree.  Humanity reaped what they had sown.  We all kill ourselves because of our sins.  The law does not give life; it kills all of us.  The answer is to stop trying to keep a law that will only kill us and throw ourselves on the mercy of God.  God will live in the one of faith in Jesus and do absolutely everything that you need to have done, all the works are God's, and none are yours.  Salvation is God working in you while the law is you working for yourself.  Your wages will be sin and death but God's wages will be life everlasting in righteousness, love and peace.  The fruit of God's Spirit are the wages of God working in you and not your own wages that you have earned of yourself.  In Genesis 2, the new spiritual creation of Jesus, you cannot sin a sin that will lead to death because you have access to forgiveness upon repentance. There is no condemnation from God or the law.  The only way you can fail is to commit the unpardonable sin, which is refusing to repent, and with spiritual knowledge live a life of evil.  This behavior will lead to everlasting death. God is eternal and has existed without human beings with no ill effects, no tarnish to His glory, so if some go to everlasting death it is no poor reflection on God. God is not worshipped with men’s hands as though He needed anything; God does not need us we need Him. No person can be a part of both creations at the same time.  Saints must come out of the world and be separate and God will receive them.  Being lukewarm is to be in the world while claiming to be of the new creation.  This is why you cannot serve two masters.  This is why God forbid the fruit of both trees in Eden to Adam and Eve.
Any human being that is alive and found guilty of the unpardonable sin at the great white throne judgment will be destroyed with fire when the old heavens and Earth are burned up and replaced with the new heavens and Earth. 
There is no way that humanity could have ever known these things unless God through Jesus, the prophets and the apostles revealed them to us. 

CONSCIENCE
Friday, April 8, 2016


KJV Ephesians 4:20-21
 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:

Jesus is the mediator between God and the saints.  The spirit of Yahweh teaches us through Jesus.  The Father gave Jesus access to His power to dwell in the minds, the consciences, the spirits of the saints.  This is the hope of our glory.

KJV Matthew 28:18
18.  And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

KJV Colossians 1:27
27.  To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:

KJV 1 Corinthians 6:17
 17.  But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.

KJV Ephesians 2:18
 18.  For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

Our mind is our human spirit, our conscience.  Jesus is in our mind, spirit or conscience.  This is the voice in all of God’s saints.  We often mistake this voice as our own but it is Jesus.  When we sin the spiritual connection of the mind of Christ and our mind convicts us of the sin, leads us to repent and to ask for forgiveness and the power to overcome.

KJV Acts 24:16
16.  And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

We saints must exercise spiritually to maintain a good conscience.

KJV Romans 2:15
15.  Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

KJV Romans 9:1
 1.  I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,

KJV 1 Corinthians 8:12
 12.  But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

KJV 2 Corinthians 1:12
12.  For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.

KJV 2 Corinthians 4:2
 2.  But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

KJV 1 Timothy 1:5
5.  Now the end of the commandment is LOVE out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

KJV 1 Timothy 4:2
2.  Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

KJV Titus 1:15
 15.  Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

KJV Hebrews 9:9
 9.  Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;

KJV Hebrews 9:14
14.  How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

KJV Hebrews 10:22
 22.  Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

KJV 1 Peter 3:21
 21.  The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us (not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ:

Even carnal people under the law to a small degree have this inner voice convict them as law breakers.  Spiritual people have this voice of Christ in their minds by faith and grace by the spirit of the Father through Jesus Christ.  God speaks to us through Jesus.

KJV Isaiah 50:4-5
 4.  The Lord God hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.
 5.  The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

KJV John 6:45
45.  It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.

KJV 2 Timothy 3:14-17
14.  But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou hast learned them;
 15.  And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
 16.  All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
 17.  That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

When Jesus asked Peter; “Who do men say that I am?”
Peter gave the correct answer; “Thou art the Christ, the son of the living God.”  Jesus told Peter how it was that he knew what he knew.

KJV Matthew 16:17
 17.  And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

In a future time when the saints face great danger Jesus gave us this instruction.

KJV Mark 13:11
 11.  But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

The voice of teaching, the voice of mercy and forgiveness, the voice of conviction of sin and the voice of love is by the spirit of the Father through Jesus Christ.

KJV 1 John 2:27-29
 27.  But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
 28.  And now, little children, abide in him; that, when he shall appear, we may have confidence, and not be ashamed before him at his coming.
 29.  If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him.

The voice of Jesus is in our lives and we must listen for it.

KJV Psalms 29:4
 4.  The voice of the Lord is powerful; the voice of the Lord is full of majesty.

KJV Psalms 68:33
33.  To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

KJV John 18:37
 37.  Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

Brethren, we have heard the voice of Jesus teach us the truth.  Not Lee, Jesus, the son of God. 

KJV John 10:1-30
1.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
 2.  But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
 3.  To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.
 4.  And when he putteth forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.
 5.  And a stranger will they not follow, but will flee from him: for they know not the voice of strangers.
 6.  This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.
 7.  Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.
 8.  All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
 9.  I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
 10.  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.
 11.  I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
 12.  But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
 13.  The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
 14.  I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine.
 15.  As the Father knoweth me, even so I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.
 16.  And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.

The other sheep of another fold is us brethren.

17.  Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.
 18.  No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment have I received of my Father.
 19.  There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.
 20.  And many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?
 21.  Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
 22.  And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.
 23.  And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
 24.  Then came the Jews round about him, and said unto him, How long dost thou make us to doubt? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.
 25.  Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.
 26.  But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said unto you.
 27.  My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
 28.  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
 29.  My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
 30.  I and my Father are one.


Brethren, Christ is in us and we have his promise of that.


KJV John 14:18
18.  I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

FAITHFUL IN LITTLE


Our faith is not great but we do have a little.


ASV Luke 16:10
 10.  He that is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much: and he that is unrighteous in a very little is unrighteous also in much.

KJV Luke 19:17
 17.  And he said unto him, Well, thou good servant: because thou hast been faithful in a very little, have thou authority over ten cities.
 
God is not asking us to do some great thing, not yet, but if we are faithful by being a doer in these little things God will trust us with great things.  King David understood this and realized he must become as a child just as Jesus said;

KJV Matthew 18:2-4
 2.  And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,
 3.  And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.
 4.  Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.
David said…………

KJV Psalms 131:1-3
1.  Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.
 2.  Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
 3.  Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for ever.
 
We were taught by the Spirit of the Father through Jesus about making the bride ready, being a doer by the power of the Spirit in relationships focusing on marriage which is a shadow of Jesus and the church and how in our consciences we hear Jesus teach us.

Communication is essential to any loving relationship.  Prayer is communicating with God and Jesus.  Husbands and wives must communicate to one another in love concerning issues in their marriage that need addressed else they will never be solved.  Husbands and wives need to “call each other out”  on problems and address and deal with them in the way of love.  Often the silence of one is taken by the other that everything is ok when it is not.  We need to examine each other and ourselves to see if we are walking in the light.

KJV Ephesians 5:13
13.  But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.

KJV 1 John 1:5-7
 5.  This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
 6.  If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
 7.  But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.

KJV 1 John 2:9-11
 9.  He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
 10.  He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
 11.  But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Jesus is our light.

In my life I am learning by actual experiences how this process works.  Coni asked me constantly to not through my cigarettes on the ground in front of the house.  After learning all the things we have in recent times and my conscience convicting me that it was not love to ignore Coni.  I resolved to build a container to dispose of them and also tried to clean up the mess I had made.  This “little thing” is a demonstration as to how I could be faithful by doing.  When we do these types of little things it is as if we do them to Jesus himself.

KJV Matthew 25:40
 40.  And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

You see brethren, how these little things mean so much to God and Jesus and how that in a marriage we have the ideal opportunity to practice what we have been taught through actual living experiences.  We all need to weed out our spiritual gardens else the weeds will take over.  We all know what these weeds are, these problems we all face and we know what to do about them. 

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.