The good news is for the here and now: the appearing life of Jesus in our outer mortal flesh gives us His eternal life (which He is already experiencing in heaven as He WAS dead and IS ALIVE now and forevermore) so that we may display His appearing glory to this dark and dying world.
We must keep the “daily” sacrifice of our Lord (always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus) so that we might experience His incorruptible life now in this mortal body.
2 Corinthians 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
We are not to be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord who saves us and calls us with a holy calling. He has abolished death(rendering it idle) and has brought life and immortality (undecaying of the mortal body) to light through the good news. This is a “here-and-now” and not a “after we die and go to heaven” as preached by all.
It is not because of our works of so-called righteousness that He saves us but because of His own purpose and GRACE.
2 Timothy 1:8-10 KJV
(8) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
But there have been men who have crept in among us “unawares”. These ungodly men are turning the grace of our God into “lasciviousness” and are denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. They are preaching for earthly things as they covet after other’s “gold, silver and apparel” so that they may have their earthly necessities met. They lead MANY away from the Truth so that the life of Jesus is never made manifest in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving. The deception in the churches of men is vast as they deny that Jesus IS COMING in the mortal flesh....our mortal flesh. They are removing the keeping of the "daily" sacrifice out of our lives so that we might live according to their lusts. The life of Jesus is being taken away from this earth by those who are preaching themselves for money. They come in their own authority and many receive them.
We must earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:1-5 KJV
(1) Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
(2) Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
(3) Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
(4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
These ungodly men are being destroyed in their pursuit of having their earthly needs met (by preaching deceptively for gain) as their mortal bodies are perishing from off this earth. They do not really believe what the Lord has done for us and do not follow His commandments and lead many astray from having love for one another. We must REMEMBER how the Lord saved the people out of the land of Egypt but afterward destroyed those that did not believe.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
They are utterly perishing in their own corruption as they receive their wages of unrighteousness. They love the wages of their unrighteousness as they love to get paid for their preaching. They preach “good words and fair speeches” in order to deceive the hearts of the simple as they lead MANY down the broad way to the destruction of their mortal flesh from off this earth.
We have MANY church cemeteries filled with many “faithful” church goers who have fallen victim to those “natural brute beasts” who were made to take and destroy. They have no understanding. A man who is in honor that has no understanding is like the beasts of the earth that perish.
That is their job: to take and destroy those who really do not believe as they do not DO His commandments...turning away from the keeping of the holy commandment. The Lord destroys from off this earth those who do not believe (by keeping His commandment to have love for one another).
2 Peter 2:12-22 KJV
(12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
(13) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
Those who were made to take and destroy beguile the MANY unstable souls. They have a heart exercised with covetous practices. They are cursed children as they are actively being destroyed from off this earth because they have forsaken the right way and are going astray always as they love the wages of unrighteousness. They love to get paid for their preaching instead of working with their own hands to support their own earthly necessities and they speak flattering words to lead others astray from the Way of righteousness.
MANY are being led down the broad way to the destruction of their mortal flesh from off this earth. MANY are perishing along with those “natural brute beasts” that have no understanding of the Scriptures that they are wresting to their own destruction.
(14) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
(15) Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
(16) But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
(17) These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
They promise “liberty” to those who are just escaping the pollutions of the world (“Egypt) through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. They turn MANY from the holy commandment (to have love for one another) with their “great swelling words of emptiness”.
They promise them freedom from keeping His commandments….and yet they bring many into their “bondage” of man’s doctrines and commandments that do not save the flesh of anyone who is entangled by them.
There are divisions because of the doctrines and commandments of men. There is hatred of one another as many set aside the commandment of God (the holy commandment to have love for one another) in order to keep the traditions and commandments of men. If we keep company with them, then we are perishing along with them in their bondage. It would have been better not to know the way of righteousness rather than knowing it and turning away from the holy commandment. Why stay in the churches of men where there is envy and strife and hatred of one another? The mortal flesh is not being saved in their company as they handle the Word of God deceptively for monetary gain. They are retailing the Word of God and have NO UNDERSTANDING of the Scriptures because of their covetousness. The "god of this age" ...their belly...has blinded their minds to the gospel so that they can not understand. The "god of this age" is their belly that they are preaching in order to feed rather than working with their own hands to support their own necessities.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
They flatter with the tongue as they speak good words and fair speeches in order to deceive those who are just escaping the pollutions of the world (“Egypt”). They do not serve the Lord Jesus but only their bellies as they seek payment to fill their earthly needs from those they are deceiving.
“Amalek”….meaning the “people who lick”…flatter others with the tongue (they “lick”). They speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
They meet us by the Way of righteousness just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world in order to flatter us into keeping company with them in their churches in order for you to pay them. They beguile the unstable souls….those who are “feeble”… “faint and weary”. They do not fear God.
Deuteronomy 25:17-19 KJV
(17) Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
(18) How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
(19) Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
There is NONE that understand. There is NONE that seek after God.
Romans 3:9-18 KJV
(9) What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
(10) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
(11) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
(12) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
The life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of any who are being deceived by those who are preaching for pay. Their throat is an open sepulcher for those who listen to them are being led down the broad way to the grave. There is NO UNDERSTANDING among them. The gospel is not being understood as they are serving their own bellies. They are preaching that we have to die and go to heaven when Jesus was sent to this world so that THIS world might be saved. Those who believe in Him shall NOT PERISH from off this earth but have His everlasting life as He IS ALIVE now.
(13) Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(14) Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
(15) Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their church ways. We MUST NOT sit together with them or perish along with them.
(16) Destruction and misery are in their ways:
The false prophets prophesy "peace" in their churches....but there is NO PEACE as many are "sick and dying" in their company. Many are filled with "sores" as they seek to feed on the "crumbs" that they preach.
(17) And the way of peace have they not known:
(18) There is no fear of God before their eyes.
These are “false brothers” as Paul calls them in Galatians. “Galatia” means “white or milk” and Paul speaks to those new Christians who are babes in Christ who have not much understanding. The newborn Christians are those who are JUST escaping the pollutions of the world (Egypt). This presents an opportune time for those who come forth to flatter with the tongue (the "Amaleks" = the "people who lick"= those who flatter with the tongue).
( Hebrews 5:12-14 KJV
(12) For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
(13) For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.)
These “false brothers” have been brought in unawares. They come in alongside us stealthily in order to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus so that they may bring us into their bondage…their church doctrines and commandments of men.
The “Amaleks” come forth just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world (being newborn“babes” in Christ who are using “milk” only) and seek to bring us into their bondage….their church denominations of man’s teachings and commandments. The life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of any of their churches. MANY are being led astray down the broad way to the destruction of their mortal flesh from off this earth.
Galatians 2:3-16 KJV
(3) But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
(4) And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
(5) To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
(6) But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
to be continued...
We must keep the “daily” sacrifice of our Lord (always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus) so that we might experience His incorruptible life now in this mortal body.
2 Corinthians 4:10-11 KJV
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
We are not to be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord who saves us and calls us with a holy calling. He has abolished death(rendering it idle) and has brought life and immortality (undecaying of the mortal body) to light through the good news. This is a “here-and-now” and not a “after we die and go to heaven” as preached by all.
It is not because of our works of so-called righteousness that He saves us but because of His own purpose and GRACE.
2 Timothy 1:8-10 KJV
(8) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
But there have been men who have crept in among us “unawares”. These ungodly men are turning the grace of our God into “lasciviousness” and are denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ. They are preaching for earthly things as they covet after other’s “gold, silver and apparel” so that they may have their earthly necessities met. They lead MANY away from the Truth so that the life of Jesus is never made manifest in the mortal flesh of those they are deceiving. The deception in the churches of men is vast as they deny that Jesus IS COMING in the mortal flesh....our mortal flesh. They are removing the keeping of the "daily" sacrifice out of our lives so that we might live according to their lusts. The life of Jesus is being taken away from this earth by those who are preaching themselves for money. They come in their own authority and many receive them.
We must earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
Jude 1:1-5 KJV
(1) Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
(2) Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied.
(3) Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
(4) For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
These ungodly men are being destroyed in their pursuit of having their earthly needs met (by preaching deceptively for gain) as their mortal bodies are perishing from off this earth. They do not really believe what the Lord has done for us and do not follow His commandments and lead many astray from having love for one another. We must REMEMBER how the Lord saved the people out of the land of Egypt but afterward destroyed those that did not believe.
(5) I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
They are utterly perishing in their own corruption as they receive their wages of unrighteousness. They love the wages of their unrighteousness as they love to get paid for their preaching. They preach “good words and fair speeches” in order to deceive the hearts of the simple as they lead MANY down the broad way to the destruction of their mortal flesh from off this earth.
We have MANY church cemeteries filled with many “faithful” church goers who have fallen victim to those “natural brute beasts” who were made to take and destroy. They have no understanding. A man who is in honor that has no understanding is like the beasts of the earth that perish.
That is their job: to take and destroy those who really do not believe as they do not DO His commandments...turning away from the keeping of the holy commandment. The Lord destroys from off this earth those who do not believe (by keeping His commandment to have love for one another).
2 Peter 2:12-22 KJV
(12) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
(13) And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;
Those who were made to take and destroy beguile the MANY unstable souls. They have a heart exercised with covetous practices. They are cursed children as they are actively being destroyed from off this earth because they have forsaken the right way and are going astray always as they love the wages of unrighteousness. They love to get paid for their preaching instead of working with their own hands to support their own earthly necessities and they speak flattering words to lead others astray from the Way of righteousness.
MANY are being led down the broad way to the destruction of their mortal flesh from off this earth. MANY are perishing along with those “natural brute beasts” that have no understanding of the Scriptures that they are wresting to their own destruction.
(14) Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
(15) Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;
(16) But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.
(17) These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
(18) For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
They promise “liberty” to those who are just escaping the pollutions of the world (“Egypt) through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. They turn MANY from the holy commandment (to have love for one another) with their “great swelling words of emptiness”.
They promise them freedom from keeping His commandments….and yet they bring many into their “bondage” of man’s doctrines and commandments that do not save the flesh of anyone who is entangled by them.
There are divisions because of the doctrines and commandments of men. There is hatred of one another as many set aside the commandment of God (the holy commandment to have love for one another) in order to keep the traditions and commandments of men. If we keep company with them, then we are perishing along with them in their bondage. It would have been better not to know the way of righteousness rather than knowing it and turning away from the holy commandment. Why stay in the churches of men where there is envy and strife and hatred of one another? The mortal flesh is not being saved in their company as they handle the Word of God deceptively for monetary gain. They are retailing the Word of God and have NO UNDERSTANDING of the Scriptures because of their covetousness. The "god of this age" ...their belly...has blinded their minds to the gospel so that they can not understand. The "god of this age" is their belly that they are preaching in order to feed rather than working with their own hands to support their own necessities.
(19) While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
(20) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
(21) For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
(22) But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
They flatter with the tongue as they speak good words and fair speeches in order to deceive those who are just escaping the pollutions of the world (“Egypt”). They do not serve the Lord Jesus but only their bellies as they seek payment to fill their earthly needs from those they are deceiving.
“Amalek”….meaning the “people who lick”…flatter others with the tongue (they “lick”). They speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
They meet us by the Way of righteousness just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world in order to flatter us into keeping company with them in their churches in order for you to pay them. They beguile the unstable souls….those who are “feeble”… “faint and weary”. They do not fear God.
Deuteronomy 25:17-19 KJV
(17) Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way, when ye were come forth out of Egypt;
(18) How he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, even all that were feeble behind thee, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God.
(19) Therefore it shall be, when the LORD thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget it.
There is NONE that understand. There is NONE that seek after God.
Romans 3:9-18 KJV
(9) What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
(10) As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
(11) There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
(12) They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
The life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of any who are being deceived by those who are preaching for pay. Their throat is an open sepulcher for those who listen to them are being led down the broad way to the grave. There is NO UNDERSTANDING among them. The gospel is not being understood as they are serving their own bellies. They are preaching that we have to die and go to heaven when Jesus was sent to this world so that THIS world might be saved. Those who believe in Him shall NOT PERISH from off this earth but have His everlasting life as He IS ALIVE now.
(13) Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
(14) Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
(15) Their feet are swift to shed blood:
Destruction and misery are in their church ways. We MUST NOT sit together with them or perish along with them.
(16) Destruction and misery are in their ways:
The false prophets prophesy "peace" in their churches....but there is NO PEACE as many are "sick and dying" in their company. Many are filled with "sores" as they seek to feed on the "crumbs" that they preach.
(17) And the way of peace have they not known:
(18) There is no fear of God before their eyes.
These are “false brothers” as Paul calls them in Galatians. “Galatia” means “white or milk” and Paul speaks to those new Christians who are babes in Christ who have not much understanding. The newborn Christians are those who are JUST escaping the pollutions of the world (Egypt). This presents an opportune time for those who come forth to flatter with the tongue (the "Amaleks" = the "people who lick"= those who flatter with the tongue).
( Hebrews 5:12-14 KJV
(12) For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
(13) For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.)
These “false brothers” have been brought in unawares. They come in alongside us stealthily in order to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus so that they may bring us into their bondage…their church doctrines and commandments of men.
The “Amaleks” come forth just as we are escaping the pollutions of the world (being newborn“babes” in Christ who are using “milk” only) and seek to bring us into their bondage….their church denominations of man’s teachings and commandments. The life of Jesus is not being made manifest in the mortal flesh of any of their churches. MANY are being led astray down the broad way to the destruction of their mortal flesh from off this earth.
Galatians 2:3-16 KJV
(3) But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:
(4) And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
(5) To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.
(6) But of these who seemed to be somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person for they who seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
to be continued...