Thanks in1
.. but I would rather do things out in the open.
We are to study
.to show ourselves approved unto God. We do labor
.as a WORKMAN for Him.
What we rest from is our own religious works of righteousness in order to do His works
so that He may work THROUGH us. We forsake our own religious thoughts and ways for His. The kingdom of God is indeed within
it comes within. God shall reign over our hearts
.for He creates the heart of man to dwell in with His Word of Truth.
2 Timothy 2:15 KJV
(15) Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workmanthat needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
We are to thirst for His knowledge
.to seek His knowledge with every fiber of our being. We are to receive His words and KEEP them within our hearts.
His knowledge does come from without. The Word does come externally through the air
. heaven
.to our ears above
and we are to keep His words internally in the heart where the Word takes root and grows up within us so that we may become ONE with Him. The heart is to be re-created by the Word of Truth for a place for His Spirit to dwell in...a place where He can work through.
Proverbs 2:1-6 KJV
(1) My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
(2) So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
(3) Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
(4) If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
(5) Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
(6) For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
What religious man currently teaches and practices comes from within his own earthly heart
from his own imagination. The earth refers to religious mans own heart
.where every imagination of the thoughts of his heart has become only evil continually.
Genesis 6:5 KJV
(5) And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
From WITHIN
out of the hearts of men
proceed his evil thoughts. Religious man preaches and does things for his own covetousness which is hidden in the heart
.for his own glory. He preaches himself only
seeking to bring honor to himself only. All of these things are done of course under the guise of doing it for Him
.in His name. That is all part of the deception. He preaches the Word of God deceitfully
.as a cloak for the covetousness in his own heart.
All the wonderful works of religious men done in His name are really works of iniquity
.covetousness
.that comes from WITHIN the heart of man. But the Word will come WITHOUT in this last day
.to the ears of all. He comes on a cloud
a cloud of witnesses
who will be preaching the Word of Truth. The ears of man is to hear and keep it so that the heart of man can be regenerated.
Mark 7:20-23 KJV
(20) And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
(21) For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
(22) Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
(23) All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
There will be a conflict in this last day
.between religious mans imagination of the thoughts of his own heart with which he has been working his religious things all these years and the hearing of the revealed Word of Truth which comes FIRST EXTERNALLY to the ears
. apart from the heart. He will want to initially oppose what he will hear in order to keep his own thoughts and ways. His Word is greater than our own hearts though.
What we hear in the ear
.His knowledge in our understanding
.we are to preach upon the housetops. In other words, dont hide it from others.
Matthew 10:26-27 KJV
(26) Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.
(27) What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.
We are to give attendance to reading
.to exhortation
.to teaching.
1 Timothy 4:13-16 KJV
(13) Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
(14) Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
(15) Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
We are to do these things out in the open so that others may hear.
(16) Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.
We dont hide His knowledge from others
.but put it out there so that others may also see the Light
the Light of the knowledge of God.
Luke 11:33 KJV
(33) No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.
We are to rest from the works of religious man that we have been bogged down in
..six being the number for man.
Exodus 31:15-17 KJV
(15) Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD:whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
(16) Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
(17) It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
As Solomon states
.all the labor that his hands had wrought was nothing but vanity and vexation of spirit
.and there was no true profit under the sun. This also applies to religious mans works today which have had their time and place.
Ecclesiastes 2:11 KJV
(11) Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
The six days refers to the works of religious men. They are the times of this ignorance of religious men who have labored after the things done in their own fleshly wisdom
coming out from within the imagination of their own hearts. He is not the religious works of our own hands that have been worked in the six days of ignorance. He is not our church buildings, our ministries, our denominations, our pastors, our preconceived thoughts, etc.
Acts 17:29-31 KJV
(29) Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.
(30) And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
(31) Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
We are to rest from our own religious knowledge and the resulting works in order to receive His knowledge and do His works. Jesus worked on the Sabbath
.he worked the works of God
.or rather God worked through him.
Jesus made clay and opened the eyes of the blind on the Sabbath. We also shall do His works by preaching the revealed Word of God
opening the eyes of understanding for others. God will work through us. We will be co-workers with God in the re-creation of others hearts that have become darkened by ignorant men who preach things for their own glory.
John 9:13-16 KJV
(13) They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
(14) And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
(15) Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
(16) Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
Jesus WORKED the works of God on the Sabbath. His works were not his own but the Fathers.
He healed people. In Him, we shall also do His works
.healing others from the religious envying, strife and hatred. We will be the vessels through which God works who will take them out of the current religious world and heal them and let them go.
Luke 14:1-5 KJV
(1) And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
(2) And, behold, there was a certain man before him which had the dropsy.
(3) And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
(4) And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;
(5) And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
We will do His works if we can rest from our own. We have to rest from our own efforts to let Him work through us. We preach His Word
and the Word does everything. There is working power in His Word that we will preach. We
.being used by Him
. can lift others from the pit of religious mans ignorance once we have rested from our own labors.
Matthew 12:8-13 KJV
(8) For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
(9) And when he was departed thence, he went into their synagogue:
(10) And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
(11) And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
(12) How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
(13) Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
He that will believe on the Word of Truth, the works that He does shall we do also
..for He will work through us if we can rest from our own religious thoughts and ways and receive His in this last day.
John 14:9-15 KJV
(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.
(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.