The Lord comes to open up our understanding to the Scriptures so that we may know our sins and know His will and His commands
..and to do them. The many that have gone astray after their own ways and thoughts are to be justified in the belief of His revealed knowledge in this last day.
[FONT="]Isaiah 53:11 KJV[FONT="][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](11)[FONT="] He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]We are like sheep who have all gone astray
.turning every one to his own way
.away from the Way of righteousness. We have leaned upon mans erroneous private interpretations of the Scriptures that has brought divisions, envy, strife and hatred into the churches. Mans wisdom has brought the sword, the spiritual famine, the pestilence and death and Hades into the churches. But we are forgiven for we know not what we do. We need to have His Light shine in the darkness of our own vain, religious hearts and imaginations so that we may understand our sins of ignorance
.so that we may turn BACK to Him. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Isaiah 53:6 KJV[FONT="][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](6)[FONT="] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]We have BECOME without form and void in our worship of Him
..for we have NO true UNDERSTANDING of His ways and thoughts. We are children who need to be instructed and corrected and guided back into the Way of righteousness
..back to truly loving one another in Christ Jesus. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Jeremiah 4:22-23 KJV[FONT="][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](22)[FONT="] For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]The hearts of the many in the church have become without form and void
..empty and unprofitable
.in the worship of God. Religious mans understanding has brought the works of darkness into the churches
.works that are based on NO TRUE UNDERSTANDING. [/FONT]
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[FONT="](23)[FONT="] I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]But God sends His Son
.the Truth
the Light
.to give us His knowledge so that we may return to Him
.so that we may be recreated by the renewing of the Holy Spirit within us. We are to be regenerated by His knowledge
..we are to be RENEWED in the mind by His knowledge. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Genesis 1:2-4 KJV[FONT="][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](2)[FONT="] And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](3)[FONT="] And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](4)[FONT="] And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]He comes to give us His knowledge by the opening up of our understanding of the Scriptures. The Light shall shine a dark place
.our hearts and minds. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]2 Peter 1:19-20 KJV[FONT="][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](19)[FONT="] We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](20)[FONT="] Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]As a church, we are to awake out of the sleep of religious mans erroneous ways and thoughts. We are to cast off the works of darkness and put on the armor of Light
.the knowledge of God
our Lord Jesus Christ. [/FONT]
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[FONT="]Romans 13:11-14 KJV[FONT="][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](11)[FONT="] And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](12)[FONT="] The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.[/FONT][/FONT]
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[FONT="]We are to no longer walk with those who preach and do error in the church. Drunkenness = covetous ways and thoughts. Those who make merchandise of the church with their covetous teachings are those who are rioting and drunken
.who are in chambering and wantonness
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[FONT="](13)[FONT="] Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](14)[FONT="] But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.[/FONT][/FONT]
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By His knowledge, we shall wake up and see this
.wake up to see the abomination of desolation
.covetousness
.standing where it ought not be. The abomination of desolation is the covetousness of religious man who stands in the temple (we are the temple)
.making merchandise of the sheep. Jesus found the abomination in the temple
.those who were selling their goods to the people of God. They desolated the temple by making it into a house of merchandise. NOTHING is different today.
[FONT="]John 2:14-16 KJV[FONT="][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](14)[FONT="] And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](15)[FONT="] And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;[/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT="](16)[FONT="] And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house of merchandise.[/FONT][/FONT]