Peace.
The man was sent forth from the Garden of Eden to “till” or serve the ground from where he was taken from. He became as a JUDGE supposedly for God to know good and evil. More on that later.
Genesis 3:22-24 KJV
(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.
(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.
This driving of the man out of the Garden of Eden is God giving man over to a “reprobate” (an unapproved or rejected) mind to do those things which are not “convenient”. The man is sent forth to serve the ground….the carnal mind…the fleshly mind. To be carnally-minded is death. There is no peace in serving the “ground"…the fleshly mind (behaving in envy, strife, hatred of one another, etc.).
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge as men “profess themselves wise” and set aside His commandment to have LOVE for one another in order to keep the teachings and commandments of men (of which MANY use to judge others as “evil doers”…partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of which they should not be).
They do not receive the LOVE of the truth and be saved as their mortal bodies are perishing from off this earth without the life of Jesus being made manifest in the mortal flesh which would have given them His eternal life in this earth.
The "tilling of the ground" is the serving of the carnal mind...the reprobate mind.
Romans 1:28-32 KJV
(28) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Those who do such things are given over to a reprobate mind to serve the ground…the flesh…being filled with all unrighteousness (as they do not receive the LOVE of the Truth and be saved)…
(29) Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
(30) Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
(31) Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
….until they die under the judgment of God. They take pleasure in those who also do these unrighteous things. They sit together in the churches of carnally-minded men and approve of the things that they do.
(32) Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
God placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim and a flaming sword which turns every way to keep the Way of the tree of life.
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.
This “flaming sword” is the sword of the Spirit. The way to the tree of life is to kill (“mortify”) the deeds of the body THROUGH THE SPIRIT (the flaming sword) so that we shall LIVE…the way of the Tree of Life. Jesus is the WAY, the Truth and the life. We follow Him who died for us and is alive now forever more.
If we continue to “till the ground”….live after the flesh, we shall die under the judgment of God…under the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:13-14 KJV
(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.
Those who are led by the Spirit of God (killing the deeds of the body with the flaming sword), they are the sons of God.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
He gives us power to BECOME the sons of God through His Spirit. If we truly believe on His name (authority), then we DO His will (being led by the Spirit) and become the sons of God in this earth.
John 1:11-13 KJV
(11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(12) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
(13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Those who serve the ground…the carnal mind…have no understanding as the Cherubim (the parables) hide this knowledge of God from their fleshly minds. The mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven are not given to those who are minding and serving the flesh in their envy and strife. They are ever learning but are never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth so that they might be saved...so that their mortal flesh should be given His life in this earth. Instead, they perish from off this earth.
Matthew 13:11-14 KJV
(11) He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
(12) For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
(13) Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Those who serve the carnal mind shall hear the Spirit but not understand and see and shall not perceive.
(14) And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Only those who DO His commandments can enter in to understand. The natural man thinks that the things that he hears of the Spirit are foolishness. They are spiritually discerned. Only the spiritual mind (to be spiritually minded is life and peace) can understand the spiritual things while the natural mind cannot understand lest they see with their eyes and hear and understand and should be “converted” and He should heal them. “To be converted” = to turn.
(15) For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
(16) But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
The flaming sword TURNS every way. We must be CONVERTED by killing the evil deeds of the body THROUGH THE SPIRIT (the flaming sword) in order to LIVE in this earth and not perish from here. If we do not kill of the deeds of the body through the Spirit (the sword of the Spirit), then we shall die under His judgment of death.
Genesis 3:24 KJV
(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.
There is NOW...NOW...NOW NO CONDEMNATION ….God’s judgment (DEATH)…to those which are in Christ Jesus who walk NOT after the flesh but after the Spirit. They have converted….turned. The flaming sword of the Spirit TURNS (converts) in every way.
They have killed the deeds of the body through the Spirit (the sword of the Spirit that TURNS every way) and are always led by that Spirit. They have used the flaming sword...the power...and have become the sons of God in this earth by they killing of the deeds of the body through His Spirit. He gives us the power to become the sons of God (by the killing of the deeds of the body through the flaming sword of the Spirit) and live His everlasting life in this earth.
Romans 8:1-14 KJV
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
(4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Those who are driven out to “till the ground”…the fleshly mind…do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. The fleshly mind sets aside the commandment of God to have love for one another in order to keep the doctrines and commandments of men of which they judge and hate each other over in their envy and strife.
(5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
To serve or till the ground is to be carnally-minded. To be carnally-minded is DEATH as they who are minding the flesh are returning to the dust from where they were taken. They are perishing as we speak in the churches of carnally-minded men who set aside His commandment in order to keep the commandments of men.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
The carnal mind is hostility against God for it is not subject to the law of God NEITHER CAN IT BE. Those who are in the flesh CANNOT please God...even their "good works" are rejected.
“Eden” means “delight”…and those who are in the Spirit “delight” in keeping His commandments of righteousness (choosing to do those things that please Him) while the fleshly mind does not and does things which do NOT please God . They are "outside" and tilling the ground...the fleshly mind.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But if we have the Spirit of Christ, The Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead shall also make alive our MORTAL BODIES by His Spirit which dwells in us. This gives us His eternal, heavenly life in this earth…one in which we do not perish from this earth but have an everlasting life.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
We are now debtors to Him not to live after the flesh.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Again, if we live after the flesh we shall die but if through the Spirit (the flaming sword) do kill the deeds of the body, we shall live. It is through the sword of the Spirit that we kill the deeds of the body so that we may be converted and live.
(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.
Those who are serving the ground (the fleshly mind) in the churches of carnally-minded men have NO UNDERSTANDING of the Scriptures as His knowledge is hidden by parables. They listen to man's fleshly wisdom in their churches where there is NO KNOWLEDGE being preached.
1 Corinthians 2:12-16 KJV
(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM because they are spiritually discerned. The “cherubim”…the parables…the imaginary figures…are keeping the natural men who are serving the ground out of this understanding.
(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The spiritually-minded has the mind of Christ. He that is spiritual judges all things. (And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us ...those who are spiritually-minded....having the mind of Christ... to know good and evil). The carnal mind uses the commandments of men to judge others supposedly knowing what and who is good and evil.
(15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
They listen to the “serpent”….the false prophets who come along posing as ministers of righteousness.
They are given over to the false prophet’s unapproved mind (reprobate intellect) who deceives them will all power and signs and lying wonders and with all of the deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that are perishing from off this earth (under the judgment of God upon them) because they receive not the love of the Truth that they might be saved. They set aside His commandment to have love for one another. They turn from the Holy Commandment to have love for one another in order to wallow in the envy and strife of which they once escaped from. They are PERISHING in their mortal bodies from off this earth.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 KJV
(9) Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
(10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
God sends them a strong delusion that they should believe THE lie…the same lie from the very beginning…so that they ALL might be condemned who believe not the Truth but have pleasure in their unrighteousness. The false prophet falsely prophesies “peace and safety” in his church and those who do not receive the love of the truth are deceived by them. There is no peace there as we find the judgment of God in their midst: the sword, the severe famine of hearing His Word of truth, and death.
(11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
(12) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
They believe THE lie…the same lie from the very beginning.
A breakdown of the lie:
“You shall not surely die” should be literally translated as “killing (or dying), you shall not surely die”. By “killing” another with our tongues (which is speaking evil of another), we shall have peace and safety supposedly. Yet, there is no peace in doing so.
“For God does know….” = we are doing God “service” for killing others supposedly in His name or authority. We are doing these things supposedly in His authority which is not having love for another as commanded by Him.
“…then your eyes shall be opened…” = you shall be seen as wise for doing so.
“ ….you shall be as gods (that is, JUDGES) knowing good and evil” = you shall be as judges (in God’s name or authority). A judge knows who or what is good and evil and those who do such things think that they are actually doing God service in His name (we do these “wonderful works” in your Name).
Genesis 3:4-6 KJV
(4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
(5) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
The woman was desirous of her own vain glory: wanting to be seen as wise and so spoke evil of another in judgment of others. It was pleasant to the eyes….she took pleasure in doing unrighteousness. Death and life are in the power (hand) of the tongue which is the weaker vessel to the “hidden man of the heart” and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it whether it be death or life. We are to choose life and not death. The hidden man of the heart is supposed to rule over the tongue.
(6) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
This is paraphrased in James 4. Those who speak evil of another are being JUDGES (“you shall be as gods knowing good and evil”) and are not doing the “law” to have love for another.
James 4:11-12 KJV
(11) Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
There is only one Lawgiver. God is the only Lawgiver.
Yet, the woman in the garden added her own “law” to God’s commandment (neither shall you touch it): “…and the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die”.
There is one Lawgiver (God) who is able to save and destroy. Yet, the woman in the garden used her added law (which she presented it as though God commanded it) to “destroy” another with her own judgment.
(12) There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
As Jesus pointed out: those who do these things (“killing you” with their false accusations, judgments) think that they are doing God service.
John 16:1-3 KJV
(1) These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
(2) They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
(3) And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing of God and cursing of other men. It can’t be both ways. Either make the tree good and its fruit good or the tree bad. Man certainly does not bless God by cursing other men supposedly in His authority.
James 3:8-18 KJV
(8) But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
(9) Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
(10) Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
(11) Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
(12) Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
The woman in the garden desired to be seen as wise and partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She wanted to be seen as wise and spoke evil of another using her added commandment (neither shall you touch it) as a basis for doing so. She believed the lie and practiced it….continuously eating from that “tree”.
Yet, who is the truly wise who is endued with knowledge among us? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
The woman envied another and desired to be seen as wise and exalted herself and spoke evil of another (thereby partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil) ….bad conduct. The tongue is in the transgression against the commandment of God.
(13) Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
(14) But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
to be continued....
The man was sent forth from the Garden of Eden to “till” or serve the ground from where he was taken from. He became as a JUDGE supposedly for God to know good and evil. More on that later.
Genesis 3:22-24 KJV
(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.
(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.
This driving of the man out of the Garden of Eden is God giving man over to a “reprobate” (an unapproved or rejected) mind to do those things which are not “convenient”. The man is sent forth to serve the ground….the carnal mind…the fleshly mind. To be carnally-minded is death. There is no peace in serving the “ground"…the fleshly mind (behaving in envy, strife, hatred of one another, etc.).
They did not like to retain God in their knowledge as men “profess themselves wise” and set aside His commandment to have LOVE for one another in order to keep the teachings and commandments of men (of which MANY use to judge others as “evil doers”…partaking of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil of which they should not be).
They do not receive the LOVE of the truth and be saved as their mortal bodies are perishing from off this earth without the life of Jesus being made manifest in the mortal flesh which would have given them His eternal life in this earth.
The "tilling of the ground" is the serving of the carnal mind...the reprobate mind.
Romans 1:28-32 KJV
(28) And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Those who do such things are given over to a reprobate mind to serve the ground…the flesh…being filled with all unrighteousness (as they do not receive the LOVE of the Truth and be saved)…
(29) Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
(30) Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
(31) Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
….until they die under the judgment of God. They take pleasure in those who also do these unrighteous things. They sit together in the churches of carnally-minded men and approve of the things that they do.
(32) Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
God placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim and a flaming sword which turns every way to keep the Way of the tree of life.
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.
This “flaming sword” is the sword of the Spirit. The way to the tree of life is to kill (“mortify”) the deeds of the body THROUGH THE SPIRIT (the flaming sword) so that we shall LIVE…the way of the Tree of Life. Jesus is the WAY, the Truth and the life. We follow Him who died for us and is alive now forever more.
If we continue to “till the ground”….live after the flesh, we shall die under the judgment of God…under the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:13-14 KJV
(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.
Those who are led by the Spirit of God (killing the deeds of the body with the flaming sword), they are the sons of God.
(14) For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
He gives us power to BECOME the sons of God through His Spirit. If we truly believe on His name (authority), then we DO His will (being led by the Spirit) and become the sons of God in this earth.
John 1:11-13 KJV
(11) He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
(12) But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
(13) Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Those who serve the ground…the carnal mind…have no understanding as the Cherubim (the parables) hide this knowledge of God from their fleshly minds. The mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven are not given to those who are minding and serving the flesh in their envy and strife. They are ever learning but are never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth so that they might be saved...so that their mortal flesh should be given His life in this earth. Instead, they perish from off this earth.
Matthew 13:11-14 KJV
(11) He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
(12) For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
(13) Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
Those who serve the carnal mind shall hear the Spirit but not understand and see and shall not perceive.
(14) And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
Only those who DO His commandments can enter in to understand. The natural man thinks that the things that he hears of the Spirit are foolishness. They are spiritually discerned. Only the spiritual mind (to be spiritually minded is life and peace) can understand the spiritual things while the natural mind cannot understand lest they see with their eyes and hear and understand and should be “converted” and He should heal them. “To be converted” = to turn.
(15) For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
(16) But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
The flaming sword TURNS every way. We must be CONVERTED by killing the evil deeds of the body THROUGH THE SPIRIT (the flaming sword) in order to LIVE in this earth and not perish from here. If we do not kill of the deeds of the body through the Spirit (the sword of the Spirit), then we shall die under His judgment of death.
Genesis 3:24 KJV
(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.
There is NOW...NOW...NOW NO CONDEMNATION ….God’s judgment (DEATH)…to those which are in Christ Jesus who walk NOT after the flesh but after the Spirit. They have converted….turned. The flaming sword of the Spirit TURNS (converts) in every way.
They have killed the deeds of the body through the Spirit (the sword of the Spirit that TURNS every way) and are always led by that Spirit. They have used the flaming sword...the power...and have become the sons of God in this earth by they killing of the deeds of the body through His Spirit. He gives us the power to become the sons of God (by the killing of the deeds of the body through the flaming sword of the Spirit) and live His everlasting life in this earth.
Romans 8:1-14 KJV
(1) There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
The Law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the Law of sin and death.
(2) For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
(3) For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:
(4) That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Those who are driven out to “till the ground”…the fleshly mind…do mind the things of the flesh but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. The fleshly mind sets aside the commandment of God to have love for one another in order to keep the doctrines and commandments of men of which they judge and hate each other over in their envy and strife.
(5) For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
To serve or till the ground is to be carnally-minded. To be carnally-minded is DEATH as they who are minding the flesh are returning to the dust from where they were taken. They are perishing as we speak in the churches of carnally-minded men who set aside His commandment in order to keep the commandments of men.
(6) For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
The carnal mind is hostility against God for it is not subject to the law of God NEITHER CAN IT BE. Those who are in the flesh CANNOT please God...even their "good works" are rejected.
“Eden” means “delight”…and those who are in the Spirit “delight” in keeping His commandments of righteousness (choosing to do those things that please Him) while the fleshly mind does not and does things which do NOT please God . They are "outside" and tilling the ground...the fleshly mind.
(7) Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
(8) So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
(9) But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
(10) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
But if we have the Spirit of Christ, The Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead shall also make alive our MORTAL BODIES by His Spirit which dwells in us. This gives us His eternal, heavenly life in this earth…one in which we do not perish from this earth but have an everlasting life.
(11) But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
We are now debtors to Him not to live after the flesh.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Again, if we live after the flesh we shall die but if through the Spirit (the flaming sword) do kill the deeds of the body, we shall live. It is through the sword of the Spirit that we kill the deeds of the body so that we may be converted and live.
(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.
Those who are serving the ground (the fleshly mind) in the churches of carnally-minded men have NO UNDERSTANDING of the Scriptures as His knowledge is hidden by parables. They listen to man's fleshly wisdom in their churches where there is NO KNOWLEDGE being preached.
1 Corinthians 2:12-16 KJV
(12) Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
(13) Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him NEITHER CAN HE KNOW THEM because they are spiritually discerned. The “cherubim”…the parables…the imaginary figures…are keeping the natural men who are serving the ground out of this understanding.
(14) But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
The spiritually-minded has the mind of Christ. He that is spiritual judges all things. (And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us ...those who are spiritually-minded....having the mind of Christ... to know good and evil). The carnal mind uses the commandments of men to judge others supposedly knowing what and who is good and evil.
(15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
(16) For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
They listen to the “serpent”….the false prophets who come along posing as ministers of righteousness.
They are given over to the false prophet’s unapproved mind (reprobate intellect) who deceives them will all power and signs and lying wonders and with all of the deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that are perishing from off this earth (under the judgment of God upon them) because they receive not the love of the Truth that they might be saved. They set aside His commandment to have love for one another. They turn from the Holy Commandment to have love for one another in order to wallow in the envy and strife of which they once escaped from. They are PERISHING in their mortal bodies from off this earth.
2 Thessalonians 2:9-12 KJV
(9) Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
(10) And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
God sends them a strong delusion that they should believe THE lie…the same lie from the very beginning…so that they ALL might be condemned who believe not the Truth but have pleasure in their unrighteousness. The false prophet falsely prophesies “peace and safety” in his church and those who do not receive the love of the truth are deceived by them. There is no peace there as we find the judgment of God in their midst: the sword, the severe famine of hearing His Word of truth, and death.
(11) And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
(12) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
They believe THE lie…the same lie from the very beginning.
A breakdown of the lie:
“You shall not surely die” should be literally translated as “killing (or dying), you shall not surely die”. By “killing” another with our tongues (which is speaking evil of another), we shall have peace and safety supposedly. Yet, there is no peace in doing so.
“For God does know….” = we are doing God “service” for killing others supposedly in His name or authority. We are doing these things supposedly in His authority which is not having love for another as commanded by Him.
“…then your eyes shall be opened…” = you shall be seen as wise for doing so.
“ ….you shall be as gods (that is, JUDGES) knowing good and evil” = you shall be as judges (in God’s name or authority). A judge knows who or what is good and evil and those who do such things think that they are actually doing God service in His name (we do these “wonderful works” in your Name).
Genesis 3:4-6 KJV
(4) And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
(5) For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
The woman was desirous of her own vain glory: wanting to be seen as wise and so spoke evil of another in judgment of others. It was pleasant to the eyes….she took pleasure in doing unrighteousness. Death and life are in the power (hand) of the tongue which is the weaker vessel to the “hidden man of the heart” and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it whether it be death or life. We are to choose life and not death. The hidden man of the heart is supposed to rule over the tongue.
(6) And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
This is paraphrased in James 4. Those who speak evil of another are being JUDGES (“you shall be as gods knowing good and evil”) and are not doing the “law” to have love for another.
James 4:11-12 KJV
(11) Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
There is only one Lawgiver. God is the only Lawgiver.
Yet, the woman in the garden added her own “law” to God’s commandment (neither shall you touch it): “…and the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die”.
There is one Lawgiver (God) who is able to save and destroy. Yet, the woman in the garden used her added law (which she presented it as though God commanded it) to “destroy” another with her own judgment.
(12) There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?
As Jesus pointed out: those who do these things (“killing you” with their false accusations, judgments) think that they are doing God service.
John 16:1-3 KJV
(1) These things have I spoken unto you, that ye should not be offended.
(2) They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
(3) And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.
Out of the same mouth proceeds blessing of God and cursing of other men. It can’t be both ways. Either make the tree good and its fruit good or the tree bad. Man certainly does not bless God by cursing other men supposedly in His authority.
James 3:8-18 KJV
(8) But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
(9) Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
(10) Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
(11) Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
(12) Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
The woman in the garden desired to be seen as wise and partook of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. She wanted to be seen as wise and spoke evil of another using her added commandment (neither shall you touch it) as a basis for doing so. She believed the lie and practiced it….continuously eating from that “tree”.
Yet, who is the truly wise who is endued with knowledge among us? Let him show it by his good conduct, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
The woman envied another and desired to be seen as wise and exalted herself and spoke evil of another (thereby partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil) ….bad conduct. The tongue is in the transgression against the commandment of God.
(13) Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
(14) But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
to be continued....