Genesis 1: 6- 8

Peace to those who may read.

The people have BECOME without form (without His righteousness) and void (without understanding) as all have turned away.

Yet, we are to be REGENERATED…recreated...by the washing of REGENERATION and the RENEWING of the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:1-9 KJV
(1) Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,
(2) To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.

We have been without form : sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another

(3) For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But after that, the kindness and love of God our Savior appears toward man: “let there be light”.

(4) But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared,
(5) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;
(6) Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
(7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

We are to be careful to maintain good works at the hearing of His voice in the Spirit. Good works completes our faith. Faith without good works is dead.

(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.
(9) But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

The Lord sends His people out to speak His words to our ears and we are to give ear…giving heed on how we hear. He that will hear what the Spirit is saying through His servants whom He sends out shall hear Him and will enter in to greater understanding.

Luke 10:16-18 KJV
(16) He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
(17) And the seventy returned again with joy, saying, Lord, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
(18) And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

We must be found honoring the Son especially at the hearing of His voice. He that will hear His word and believe on Him that sent the Son has everlasting life….in this world (and not after we “die and go to heaven”). This is a “here-and –now thing” and not a hereafter. His eternal life is now as we who believe have everlasting life…present tense. Jesus is alive now. He is risen now…and so we are to arise to experience His life now even as He is alive.

John 5:23-30 KJV
(23) That all men should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which hath sent him.
(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

The “dead”….who are dead in sins and trespasses in the denominations of men…shall HEAR the voice of the Son of God and they that HEAR shall live…now. True hearing is DOING good towards the hearing of His voice.

(25) Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
(26) For as the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself;
(27) And hath given him authority to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man.

Some shall hear His voice and come forth and do good ...producing fruits of righteousness....towards what they hear. They shall come forth and be found doing good and shall stand up to having His everlasting life. True hearing is DOING His Word…His Saying: to have love for one another. We cross from death unto life by the love shown towards those brothers whom He sends out to speak His words to our ears. We are to remember to let brotherly love continue and entertain "strangers" and their words....the "angels" of the Lord.

Others shall not hear (ever hearing and yet not believe) and shall stand up to do evil against what they hear and will be judged for their hard speeches against His voice.

They will not agree with what is being said as it does not conform to the word of men as preached in the churches of carnal men whose understanding has been darkened by the “god of this age”…. which is their own belly of which they serve in order to feed. They are minding the earthly things when deceptively handling the Word of God: what to eat, drink and what to wear.

(28) Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
(29) And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

As He HEARS our responses to His words, He judges. By our own words shall we be justified or condemned in the judgment.

(30) I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

A wise man will HEAR and will increase learning. A man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. Those who will hear and believe and DO His will (have love for those “strangers” sent out by Him to speak His words in the Spirit) will enter into His understanding. More shall be given them as they shall understand a proverb and the interpretation. They shall understand the words of the wise and their dark sayings as the Lord opens up the Scriptures to our ears and minds. The only way to enter in is to become like a “little child”…with meekness. Blessed are the meek.

Proverbs 1:5-6 KJV
(5) A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
(6) To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.

Jesus comes to teach us. If any man WILL DO HIS WILL, he shall know of the teaching (doctrine) whether it be of God or whether He speaks of Himself. We are to be found willing to DO His will so that we may enter in to His understanding. We are to will to do His will so that we may understand. The wicked shall not understand as they seek their own vain glory when they speak evil of another for what he preaches.

John 7:14-18 KJV
(14) Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.
(15) And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?
(16) Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.
(17) If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
(18) He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

By His KNOWLEDGE shall the righteous servant justify many.

Isaiah 53:11 KJV
(11) 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.

The Lord comes to “open His mouth” and teach us as He opens up the Scriptures to our understanding.

Matthew 5:1-12 KJV
(1) And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him:
(2) And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

Blessed are the poor in spirit….that is, poor in breath…as they shall be found of Him using few words…being of “little strength” against what they hear His voice teaching.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. The church in “Philadelphia” was found with “little strength” towards the “open door”…the open mouth that speaks His words. Those who are found “poor in breath” towards His teaching shall enter in to understand….theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

(3) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
(4) Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the meek….

(5) Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled with the bread of heaven. They shall enter in to understand. The wicked shall go “hungry”

(6) Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
(7) Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
(8) Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.

Those who are found to be peacemakers (the “son of peace”) shall be called the sons (children = sons) of God.

(9) Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Those who will hear and not believe and will be found not doing His will shall persecute those who do hear and believe. Those who are born after the flesh will persecute those born after the Spirit. The enemies will be of our own household…our own church families shall persecute us and cast out our names as evil….as “evil doers”.

(10) Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
(11) Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
(12) Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Of His own will does He beget us with the Word of Truth…and we are to take heed on how we hear: being swift to HEAR and being slow to speak (poor in spirit…poor in breath) and slow to wrath.

James 1:17-20 KJV
(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.
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.

(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.

We are to be found DOERS of the Word…the Saying: love one another…and not hearers only. A true hearer is a DOER of the Word…a “doer of the work”.

(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.

If a man does not bridle His tongue towards what he hears (the Word of Truth), then that man’s religion is vain…empty. It is not profitable and he will not enter in to understand. The word heard does not profit those who are not being mixed with faith in those who hear.

We are to fear God and keep His commandments so that we may enter in to know the mysteries of the kingdom

(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.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The visible things were created and represent His eternal power….His invisible qualities are understood by what we clearly see with our literal eyes.

Genesis 1:1 KJV
(1) In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

Romans 1:
(20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Yet, the earth BECAME without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

How so? Men became vain in their imaginations (their reasoning, discussions, etc). Their foolish heart was darkened as we all have turned away. There is none that is righteous (no, not one) as all have turned aside after his own way. Professing themselves wise (seeking after their own vain glory as they speak evil of another in their judgment of them), they became fools. There is no righteousness….there is no understanding as the earth became without form and void.

Genesis 1:2-3 KJV
(2) 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.

But God regenerates man in His abundant mercy, goodness, kindness that He shows towards us.

The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters as He sends His servants out to speak as they are moved by the Spirit in His name and the name of the Son. He sends the Son to give us an understanding so that we may know Him who is true.

(3) And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

The earth BECAME without form and void as men BECAME vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened.

Romans 1:
(21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
(22) Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

But the merciful God commands the light to shine in our darkened hearts to give the light of the KNOWLEDGE of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ..

2 Corinthians 4:5-6 KJV
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

This light is in our very own hearts and is the witness of God of His Son whom we hear speaking through those men who speak as they are moved by the Holy Spirit. We receive the witness of men as we hear them speak the words of the Spirit but the witness of God within our very own hearts is greater. We are to take HEED on how we hear as we witness the light that arises within our own hearts when we hear His voice.

2 Peter 1:19-21 KJV
(19) 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:
(20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
(21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

Which brings us to Genesis 1: 6-8.

The “firmament” ….the “expanse” …refers to our expanded HEARING. Faith comes by HEARING, and hearing by the word of God: “And God SAID….”.

He that has ears, let him hear….”let there be an expanse…”

The Hebrew word for “firmament” is “raqiya” meaning “to beat or spread out”. We are to expand our hearing as we hear His voice speaking to us. The only way to expand our hearing is to be humbled as only by being as a little child shall we enter in to understand. We are to be swift to hear and slow to speak and slow to wrath.

Genesis 1:6-8 KJV
(6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Some will hear and some will not…and there will be a division of believers and unbelievers over what we hear: the Word of God spoken in truth and sincerity through the Spirit whom the Lord sends. Some shall be found from above while some are from below.

The “waters” are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues (Revelation 17:15).

(7) And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
(8) And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

We are to “bow down” our ear….which means to “stretch out” our ear and hear the words of the wise and apply our heart unto His knowledge that we hear. Even the Hebrew word for “ear” (ozen) means “broadness” or to “expand”.

Proverbs 22:17 KJV
(17) Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.

If we receive His words and DO His commandments so that we incline our ear unto wisdom and apply our heart to understanding…..

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;

….we shall then understand the fear of the LORD and find the KNOWLEDGE of God.

(5) Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

He gives us wisdom. Out of His mouth comes KNOWLEDGE and understanding.

(6) For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

But when He does, we must not “unbraid” what we hear. To “unbraid” is to defame…to rail at…what we hear. If we “unbraid not”, then it shall be given to us. But if we waver in faith, then we can not enter in to understand. Even what was sown in the heart shall be taken away.

James 1:5-8 KJV
(5) If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
(6) But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
(7) For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
(8) A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

“Let there be an expanse” of hearing: He that hears, let him hear what men who are moved by the Spirit are speaking. Let his hearing be expanded by DOING His will.

Ezekiel 3:27 KJV
(27) But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

How shall we hear without a preacher who is truly SENT by Him…coming in His authority…His name? Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God.

Romans 10:14-18 KJV
(14) How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
(15) And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
(16) But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?
(17) So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
(18) But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.

We are to hear His voice from heaven and do good works towards Him. Good works COMPLETES our faith. Faith WITHOUT good works is dead.

James 2:17-26 KJV
(17) Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

some will say that they have a name for being alive...yet are dead without good works towards what we hear the Spirit saying to our hearing ears.

(18) Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
(19) Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
(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.
(25) Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

Faith without good works is a "dead" church.

(26) For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

The church is “Sardis”….meaning “red ones”…shows us a church without good works in the hearing of the Spirit. He that has ears, let him hear…..let there be an “expanse”.

True hearing is DOING His will towards what we hear. The church in Sardis has a name that they live (I have FAITH) but is DEAD as they have no accompanying good works to complete their faith. They shall be “red” in wrath towards what they hear and will speak evil. Their works are not found to be “perfect”…that is , complete…before God as they will be full of wrath at what they hear the Spirit saying.

Revelation 3:1-6 KJV
(1) And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

"Be watchful"...that is, AWAKE to His righteousness and put on Christ Jesus and not fulfill the works of the flesh by being angry and speak out of our bitter envy and strife in our hearts. We must overcome our wrath.

(2) Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

We are to “awake” out of our sleep and remember to let brotherly love continue. Blessed are those servants whom He finds “awaking” out of their sleep and putting on His righteousness (white garments) even in the second or third watch….that is, after having been warned 2 or 3 times. To walk with Him in "white" (light) is to hear His voice and respond with good works which completes our faith before Him.

(3) Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
(4) Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

We must overcome our wrath and be found of Him walking in love….being clothed in white raiment.

(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.
(6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

To be continued…

This is a parable about the regeneration of man by the hearing of the Word of God spoken in the Spirit. We are to be found of Him producing the fruit of righteousness towards His voice.

The “good ground” ….that is, the good earth….produces the fruit of righteousness with patience towards that hearing of the Word of God.

Luke 8:15-18 KJV
(15) But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
(16) No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.
(17) For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.

We must take heed on how we hear for whosoever has, to him shall be given. "Let there be an expanse".

We must produce fruits of righteousness towards what we hear which shows and completes our faith.

(18) Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken even that which he seemeth to have.

The “GOOD” earth ….as God saw that it was good…is the good heart that produces fruits of righteousness with patience towards what he hears. The “earth”…the dry ground of the heart…no longer has the waters of strife and envy as the heart that hears and keeps the Word produces fruits of righteousness. It produces peace….grass. Blessed are the peacemakers.

Genesis 1:11-12 KJV
(11) And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

But that on the "GOOD" ground (earth) are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience. The "waters" of envy and strife will have abated from off the "dry" heart...one that is humble and is of a contrite spirit.

(12) And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

“He that has ears to hear, let him HEAR” = Let there be an expanse (firmament) in the midst of the waters

Luke 8:8 KJV
(8) And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

The hearing of the Word of God as spoken by the Spirit in Christ Jesus will divide the believers from the unbelievers. Those who will hear are of the spirit of truth….from above…and those who will not hear are of the spirit of error…of below.

Genesis 1:
(6) And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
(7) And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
(8) And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

The “firmament” is called heaven for what we hear the Spirit saying in our ears comes directly from heaven. We hear His voice coming to our ears via the Spirit from heaven. The good news is preached unto us with the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. What we hear in our hearing ears is His voice from heaven.

1 Peter 1:12-16 KJV
(12) Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.

This is why we must “gird up the loins” of our minds and be sober….and not drunk on the wine of wrath of what we hear. We must be found of Him holy as He is holy.

How will He find us when we hear His voice? Will we be bogged down in the cares of this world (worried about meeting our earthly needs) or be found "drunk" in wrath?

(13) Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
(14) As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
(15) But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
(16) Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

TODAY, if we hear His voice, we are not to harden our hearts and speak out in our envy and strife. The “dry” ground must appear within our hearts in order for us to produce fruits of righteousness. The waters of envy and strife must abate from off of our hearts.

Hebrews 3:7-19 KJV
(7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
(8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
(9) When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
(10) Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
(11) So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
(12) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
(13) But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
(14) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
(15) While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
(16) For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
(17) But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

There is no rest for the wicked.

(18) And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?
(19) So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

The “waters” of Meribah (meaning: quarrel) are the waters of bitter envy and strife within our hearts. These “waters” must abate from off the earth….the dry earth must appear…the good heart…so that we may produce fruits of righteousness towards what we hear His voice speaking to our ears. We must not be found striving against His voice but be found holy as He is holy.

Numbers 20:13 KJV
(13) This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.

The heavens declare the glory of God to our ears and we must take heed on how we hear as the Lord opens up the Scriptures to our ears. We must hear and DO His will....His righteousness.

Psalms 19:1-5 KJV
(1) To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
(2) Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
(3) There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard.

In them has He set a tabernacle for the “sun”….as the light shines in a dark place until the day dawns and the day star arises in our hearts.

(4) Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,
(5) Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race.

He has set a tabernacle for the sun in our very own hearts as we hear the Scriptures being opened up by the Son via men speaking as they are moved by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven to speak to our ears. He that has ears to hear, let him hear....let there be an expanse to the hearing. He has set a tabernacle for the sun...as a bridegroom that comes out of His chamber.

2 Peter 1:18-21 KJV
(18) And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
(19) 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:
(20) Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
(21) For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

The religious establishment….the world…shall not hear as they will not believe in what they hear the Spirit saying to their ears. The “waters” below the firmament (the expanse of hearing) shall not hear and believe.

John 8:23-24 KJV
(23) And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
(24) I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

They are from “below” as they of the world speak from the world’s perspective and the world hears them.

1 John 4:4-15 KJV
(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.
(5) They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

He that is born from above knows God and hears us. Love is of God and every one that loves is born of God and hears the Spirit speaking from heaven. Those who are not of God will not hear as they will not believe it and will speak evil of it and of those who speak it.

(6) We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
(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.
(12) No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
(13) Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
(14) And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
(15) Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

Those from “below” will continue to commit sin….to serve sin by evil speaking of what they hear the Spirit saying.

John 8:
(34) Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin.
(35) And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever.
(36) If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

His Word has NO PLACE…no expanse…in them. They will not hear and will go about “killing the messenger” with evil speaking.

(37) I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you.
(38) I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father.
(39) They answered and said unto him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the works of Abraham.

Those who are from “below” shall go about “killing” another who speaks what they heard of God. They “kill” with the tongue that speaks evil of another for what they hear and not believe.

(40) But now ye seek to kill me, a man that hath told you the truth, which I have heard of God: this did not Abraham.
(41) Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.
(42) Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.

Those who behave badly can not understand His speech as they do not keep His Word…His Saying to have love for one another.

(43) Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
(44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
(45) And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
(46) Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?

Those who are born from above hears God’s words.

(47) He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Those who are from below will persecute those who are born from above with evil words. They will cast out our names as evil….calling us “devils”.

(48) Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
(49) Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
(50) And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
(52) Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

The “waters” under the heaven (for they will not hear and believe) will be gathered together unto one place. The Word of God (“and God SAID…”) makes the “seas” of men who will not hear and believe. Men will be gathered together in their speaking out in their envy and strife.

But those who will hear and believe shall have those waters abate as the "dry land" shall appear.

Genesis 1:9 KJV
(9) And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.

God has made the “heaven”….the speaking of the mouth of His servant David in our ears via the Spirit of God. He has made the “sea”…the gathering of those who will not believe in what they hear the Spirit speaking. The “seas” of men RAGE against what they hear. They imagine vain things.

Acts 4:24-28 KJV
(24) And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:

God through His Spirit speaks by the mouth of His servant David (the "heaven").

(25) Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?

The “waters” under the heaven are gathered together unto one place against the Lord and against His Christ for they will be against what they hear the Spirit speaking from heaven. The "seas" of men rage against what they will hear.

(26) The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.
(27) For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together,
(28) For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Woe to the multitude of many people which make a noise like the noise of the seas. They will rage against what they hear the Spirit saying. The Word of God spoken in the Spirit produces the unpeaceful response of many men.

Isaiah 17:12 KJV
(12) Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!

The wicked are like the troubled sea when it cannot rest. There is NO PEACE to the wicked as they will speak evil of what they hear the Spirit saying. The Word of God spoken in the Spirit produces the negative responses of men…the raging “seas”. They gather together against the Lord.

Isaiah 57:19-21 KJV
(19) I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, peace to him that is far off, and to him that is near, saith the LORD; and I will heal him.
(20) But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.
(21) There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.

They will speak evil of those things which they know not as they will not enter in to His understanding. The wicked shall not understand as they speak evil of their brothers (who will speak what they hear the Spirit saying) and will continue to preach for money and will resist His government as they gather together in the gainsaying of Core.

They are raging waves of the sea foaming out their own shame.

Jude 1:10-13 KJV
(10) But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
(11) Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
(12) These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
(13) Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

We are to take heed on how we hear….let there be an expanse…..those who have ears to hear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying.

The Word of God as spoken in the Spirit sent down from heaven will not find an expanse in the hearts of those who will not believe. Those who will not believe shall trodden it down and speak evil of what they do not understand. The “fowls of the air” are the evil words of men that come flying out of their mouths in their wrath. The seed of the Word of God falls by the way side as they do not keep the Word in their hearts. There is no place…no expanse..to be had in their hearts as they will hear but not believe.

Luke 8:4-5 KJV
(4) And when much people were gathered together, and were come to him out of every city, he spake by a parable:
(5) A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the way side; and it was trodden down, and the fowls of the air devoured it.

They hear…but they do not believe in their hearts as it is sown by the “way side”. There is no place for it in their hearts for those who do not beleive. Then comes the devil in his wrath to take away the word out of their hearts lest they should BELIEVE and be saved. We are not to give a place for the devil.

Luke 8:11-12 KJV
(11) Now the parable is this: The seed is the word of God.
(12) Those by the way side are they that hear; then cometh the devil, and taketh away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved.

In our anger, let us not give place (an expanse) to the devil (the false accuser).

Ephesians 4:26-27 KJV
(26) Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
(27) Neither give place to the devil.

We must be quick to hear (let there be an expanse....let those who have ears to hear, hear) and slow to speak...and slow to wrath. The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. Let us lay apart all filthiness and "superfluity" of naughtiness (the "waters" of envy and strife must abate from off our hearts) and receive with MEEKNESS (the "dry" ground) the engrafted Word which is able to save our souls.

James 1:18-22 KJV
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
(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.

He that commits sin (speaking evil of our brothers) is of the devil. Whoever is born of God does not commit sin (speak evil) for His seed (the Word of God) REMAINS in him.

1 John 3:7-11 KJV
(7) Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
(8) He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
(9) Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

The children of the devil shall hear and not believe and will not do His righteousness as they will seek to "kill the messengers"...those least brothers of His sent out to speak His words to our ears.

(10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
(11) For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

To be continued….

The firmament or “expanse” is all about our hearing of the Spirit in the regeneration.

Jesus says to us: “he that has an ear, let him hear”….let there be an expanse in our hearing as what we hear comes straight out of heaven and into our ears.

We are to take heed on how we hear so that more knowledge shall be given to us. We are grow in His knowledge.

Revelation 3:6 KJV
(6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

Some will hear and continue to walk in the vanity of their mind against what is said as they stubbornly continue to preach for money. They will speak evil of what they hear because of the pay they reap from preaching is more on their earthly minds. They will work all uncleanness (evil speaking) with greediness….in defense of their preaching for money’s sake against what the Spirit says. They "GIVE THEMSELVES over" to these things rather than giving themselves over to the hearing of the Lord.

Ephesians 4:17-24 KJV
(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;

If we have truly HEARD Him and have been taught by Him, we are to put off the former behavior of the old man which is decayed according to the deceitful lusts.

(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;

We are to HEAR Him and be renewed in the spirit of our minds and put on the new man which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

(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.

If any man be in Christ, he is a new creation (creature)….in the here and now. We have His everlasting life if we are found abiding in Christ as we hear the Spirit and show love as He commanded us.

We pass from death (the old things) unto life if we HEAR His Word and BELIEVE on God that sent Him. Showing LOVE as He commanded show us our faith...the completion of our faith. A true "hearer" is a DOER of the work.

John 5:24-25 KJV
(24) Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.
(25) Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.

Good works completes our faith. We MUST be a DOER of the work and not be a forgetful hearer. We must show love towards our brothers….especially to those who come preaching His words in the Spirit of Truth.

James 1:25-26 KJV
(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.

The religious establishment shall hate us but we know that we have passed from death unto life because we love the brothers (those “strangers” who are sent by Him to preach His words in the Spirit sent from heaven). We hear the Lord’s voice (the Author of our faith) and we DO His commandment to have love for one another (the Completer of our faith) which is our salvation. We might have all faith but if we do not love our brothers than we abide in death. Faith without works is dead.

1 John 3:13-15 KJV
(13) Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
(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.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

The old things of tears, death, sorrow, crying, pain shall pass away for us now: And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

2 Corinthians 5:17-20 KJV
(17) Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
(18) And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;
(19) To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

The words of all the biblical saints as interpreted by Christ in the Spirit are to be heard and love shown so that we reconciled to God.

(20) Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ's stead, be ye reconciled to God.

We are to hear His voice (let him that has ears to hear, HEAR) and prove our selves that we are IN THE FAITH. How do we prove ourselves? By DOING GOOD WORKS towards what we hear the Spirit saying.

2 Corinthians 13:5-8 KJV
(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
(6) But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates.

If we continue to do evil after being warned 3 times, then we are REJECTED…. being reprobates.

(7) Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.
(8) For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Blessed are those servants who will “awake” to His righteousness after being warned 2 or 3 times….in the second or third watch of the night. We must awake and cast off the works of darkness. Those who are not found written in the book of life shall be cast away.

2 Corinthians 13:1-5 KJV
(1) This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.
(2) I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:
(3) Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
(4) For though he was crucified through weakness, yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you.
(5) Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

The fear is this: when the Lord comes to speak to our ears in the Spirit, some will speak evil of what they hear (sin) and will not repent of their uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they commit and continue to commit even after being warned of such things. Men in the church will be found debating in their envy and strife and backbitings and whispering at the hearing of the words of the Lord spoken in the Spirit.

2 Corinthians 12:18-21 KJV
(18) I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
(19) Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
(20) For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
(21) And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

The Lord sends His servants out to speak what the Spirit says and whosoever sins are retained, they are retained. We must be found written in the book of life when the Lord opens His mouth to speak to us. We must hear His voice and be found doing His will.

John 20:21-23 KJV
(21) Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you.
(22) And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
(23) Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

We are to take heed on how we hear when the Lord speaks to us in the Spirit sent from heaven.

Revelation 2:1 KJV
(1) Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks;

Let there be an expanse in our hearing….

Revelation 2:11 KJV
(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.

We must hear and OVERCOME our own thoughts and ways…our wrath…our love of money…our fear….our hatred…our keeping company with those who are called “brothers” but are covetous…or we shall not enter in to understand the Scriptures.

WITHOUT (outside) are those who do not overcome. Outside are those unjust who will continue to be unjust when they hear the Spirit speaking and those who are filthy who will continue to be filthy. The wicked shall not understand. To every man will He give according as his work shall be towards the hearing of the Spirit.

Revelation 22:11-17 KJV
(11) He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
(12) And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.

Jesus is the author and completer of our faith.

(13) I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

By hearing His voice and DOING His commandments (the completion of faith), we may enter in to understand the mysteries of the kingdom. We enter in with the praise of our lips (the gates of praise). We are to rejoice at the hearing of His voice and be thankful for what He gives us so that a grand entrance is before us.

(14) Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

But outside are those who will hear the Spirit but be found not doing His commandments. Faith WITHOUT good works (the completion of our faith) is DEAD. Good works is a witness of our faith. Religious-sounding men will continue to do what they have been doing even after the hearing of the Spirit.

(15) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
(16) I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
(17) And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

Unto those who are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure. They will not believe in what they hear the Spirit saying and will behave in their following works very badly towards what they hear.

They profess that they know God but in works they deny Him.

They will resist the Truth and continue to preach things that they ought not for filthy lucre’s sake. Their works are not complete before Him as they will speak evil and continue to be filthy still even after hearing His voice. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still.

Titus 1:15-16 KJV
(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.
(16) They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

To be continued…

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters = let there be an expanse in our hearing ears. He that has ears to hear, let him hear. Hearing the Word of God spoken in Christ is very important.

The “waters” are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

OUTSIDE (without) are those who will NOT be found DOING His commandments as they will not understand even when they hear what the Spirit is saying. They shall not be able to enter in to His understanding.

Revelation 22:14-15 KJV
(14) Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.
(15) For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

Outside are those who “till the ground”….who sow after the flesh in their hatred, covetousness and envy and strife. If we live after the flesh (tilling the “ground” from where we were taken), then we reap decay of the mortal body until we mortally die under the judgment of God. The wages of sin is death….death to the mortal body.

Genesis 3:
(22) And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
(23) Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

Let there be an expanse = he that has ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 4:9-13 KJV
(9) And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

The “waters” are divided from the waters by the “expanse”…the firmament.

We, who are from above, are “alone” with Him (just as the disciples were with Him here in Mark 4:10) as we are divided from the unbelievers who only hear things in parables. Jesus explains the parables when we are “alone” with Him.

The unbelievers cannot receive the Scriptural interpretations of Christ for they are foolishness to them. They are spiritually discerned and are foolishness to the natural man who only sees parables.

(10) And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable.

To those who will hear, the mystery of the kingdom of God is given to know. But outside are those who will hear and yet not believe in what they hear the Spirit saying. They will oppose what they hear as the natural man (the man who “tills the ground”…living after the flesh) will not receive the spiritual things spoken by the Spirit of God.

(11) And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:

These things are done in parables to those who are not given to KNOW the mystery of the kingdom of God ……Lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever….. …lest at any time they should be converted and their sins should be forgiven them.

The natural man does not accept the things spoken by the Spirit.

(12) That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.
(13) And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

These things are done in PARABLES (the “cherubim”) to those who are on the outside so that they may not know. The wicked shall not understand.

Genesis 3:
(24) So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

If we live after (sow after) the flesh (being a “tiller of the ground”), we shall die (the judgment of God). The wages of sin is death.

Romans 8:12-14 KJV
(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.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.

If a man sows after the flesh (in his hatred and envy and strife), then of the mortal flesh does he reap decay (corruption). He is a “tiller of the ground” by sowing after the flesh.

Galatians 6:7-10 KJV
(7) Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
(8) For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.
(9) And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

We must be found DOING GOOD unto all men…..ESPECIALLY unto those who are of the household of faith sent out to preach His Word to our ears.

(10) As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

Some church rulers are going to mock: whom is he trying to teach knowledge to? Whom is he trying to make understand doctrine?

Isaiah 28:9-15 KJV
(9) Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

To them who mock….everything is “out of context” as verses are lined up with other verses: For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little. The things taught by the Holy Spirit are spiritual things comparing spiritual things.

(10) For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:

They shall not enter in to understand…..

(11) For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.

They will not hear in their unbelief and will not enter into His rest.

(12) To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

The disobedient will stumble at the Word.....And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.


(13) But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
(14) Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
(15) Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

The Lord comes with a sword to separate the unbelievers from the believers….dividing the light from the darkness…..dividing the waters from the waters…separating the goats from the sheep....the wheat from the tares. A man’s foes shall be of his own household.

Matthew 10:34-42 KJV
(34) Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
(35) For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
(36) And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
(37) He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
(38) And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.
(39) He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.
(40) He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
(41) He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet's reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man's reward.
(42) And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

God raises us up together and makes us sit together above heavenly places in Christ Jesus (the “waters” that are above the firmament).

Ephesians 2:5-8 KJV
(5) Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved
(6) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
(7) That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
(8) For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

Yet, some will not hear His voice but think that the Lord delays His coming and will begin to strike His fellow servants whom He sends to speak His words to our hearing ears.

Matthew 24:48-51 KJV
(48) But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

They will take pleasure in their unrighteousness as others shall join along with them in their “striking” of others with malicious words in their unbelief of what they hear the Spirit saying. They shall not show brotherly love and will not entertain “strangers” and their words.

(49) And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
(50) The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

They will be found not doing His righteousness at the most critical time of their lives….the visitation of the Lord in their ears. He will cut them asunder and appoint them their portion with the hypocrites where there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

(51) And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jesus opens up our “ears” to His knowledge so that we may speak plainly….correctly interpreting the Scriptures in the Spirit. We are to speak the heavenly language…the heavenly knowledge…..the “waters” from above.

Mark 7:31-37 KJV
(31) And again, departing from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.
(32) And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

The “waters” are divided from the waters as He takes us aside from the multitude of unbelievers and puts His fingers into our ears which are “opened”. Jesus “spit” = EXPAND. He opens up our hearing as He interprets the Scriptures to our understanding so that we may speak correctly.

(33) And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
(34) And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.
(35) And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

We can then share the Word with others…..the more He charged them not to tell any man, the much more they published it. The “waters”…our speaking… bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life.

(36) And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
(37) And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.

With the mouth , confession is made unto salvation. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

Romans 10:8-14 KJV
(8) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
(9) That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
(10) For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
(11) For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
(12) For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.
(13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
(14) How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?