On another Christian forum a series of events that unfolded over the past few months have been concluded by me in the following commentary. I believed such would be of great and eternal benefit to any and all who might share in and profitably consider its words. O(o)ur gift to you:
Whomever,
The saga continues; our adversary exposed.
I was awakened this morning with the Spirit of God revealing to me what has been occurring in the spirit realm and behind the scenes regarding my presence and postings on this forum.
(Xxxxxx, Yyyyy and others: While even this explanatory post will likely also be found unacceptable by you, I must state that it is in no way whatsoever a personal attack upon any of you. While I could have possibly written it in such a way so as to leave all of you out of it, since you posted what you have about me on nearly every thread Ive ever started on this forum, after reading this you and everyone following along would easily make the personal connection anyway so it will be more easily understood if I use what has already been said by all of us as an illustration of these Truths.)
As it turns out, the attacks against me are not really about me anyway.
To repeat from a prior post:
"Because they hate Me[, Jesus, or, the Word], they will also hate you."
I had always understood this verse to mean that because we are all as humans also spiritual beings, and the adversary knows whom belongs to God, that in the spirit realm he then causes others to hate those whom are either born-again children of the Father or who were once chosen as a people of God (Hebraic "Jews"). And while that is still likely true, theres a more profound explanation as well.
For example, here and on other threads Xxxxxx says he does not accept my words because he does not accept me for whom I claim to be. I now see that this is irrelevant. Then theres Yyyyy, who claims he is not attacking me as a person, but merely my supposedly bogus posts. Also irrelevant.
The Word declares that as we become more like Christ, as we attempt to live more godly in this world, we will assuredly suffer persecution, i.e. be hated/despised/rejected of men. But these who attack are not really hating/despising/rejecting us as people, but what we represent (so in essence, Yyyyy is correct).
There are numerous commandments in the New Testament. To all the world are given The Two Commandments of unconditional Love, and for which all the world, Christian or not, is guilty. Then there are the numerous additional commandments to believers, also which go mostly undone.
Most all Christians are living in disobedience to most of the NT commandments, and those they do think themselves to be following are usually done so only in part or by them being feigned of the flesh and not completely and genuinely in and of the Spirit. So when faced with this reality, rather than allow themselves to be exposed by the Light of Truth they instead opt for one of several alternatives.
If we can disavow the one proclaiming such Truths, either by perverting the written Word by watering it down and interpreting it to mean something less than what it does, or if we can discredit the person heralding the deeper truths of God, we erroneously feel and believe and assert such Truths are not truth at all. We can then re-establish in our minds, and in the examples given also here in public on this forum, that we are in The Way and innocent of any disobedience and rebellion.
For those rare few who have come by Grace to a place of accepting and implementing all the Truth of God, the aforementioned is not an acceptable option. For such, they have come to experience the reality of the Truth which says His commandments are not at all grievous and His burden and yoke very, very light and easy. They have entered the "sabbatismos" rest, the result of relying solely upon the Spirit of God, and no longer wrangle with the self-righteous attempts of flesh.
But for those not so walking in the Spirit, since its impossible for the flesh to obey the things commanded and required of God, these must continually work to annul through whatever means whatever is not able to be obeyed.
So I now understand these who attack me personally and in their hearts have allowed the adversary to cause them to hate me, are not despising me so much as they are God Himself. It is God and His Truth they hate and despise. And for those who say they dont hate me but my words only, since just as Jesus and the Word are synonymous, I too and my words/postings are one and the same: we cannot be separated, so when someone rejects my words they also likewise and by default reject me as well, and their claims to the opposite are totally invalid and a mere state of denial. (After all, the Word says if we dont Love our brother then we do not Love God, so we must either prove and believe those claiming to be our brothers and sisters are in reality not brethren, or we must pretend and assert we do Love them even though by whats in our heart the Lord knows we do not - and will someday expose and prove.)
So in Truth we hate and despise and reject and persecute What and Whom [sic] we do not find possible the means to obey: Truth and God.
What really angers me is our adversary: he has duped us into believing what he has, and thereby ensnared us to do his will and not Gods perfect Way. Hes kept us hidden from the fact that one day ALL who ever lived and currently live will one day be resurrected and made to stand and appear before the Throne of God and all of creation, when and where our hearts will be laid bare and its self-justifications, self-validations, and self-righteousnesses will be revealed as Truth.
But I would beseech all who pass by here and consider these words: why not rather allow such an unraveling and revealing of the heart to be now and in private, where and when our nakedness shall only be seen by us and our Creator and not the entire world? Why not now while theres still an opportunity to obtain repentance and cleansing and the experience of these iniquities being divinely removed "as far [away from us] as the East is from the West"?
Do we really want to wait until "that great and terrible day of the Lord," when we will stand there with our hat in our hands and any presently used words of excuse then found fleeting and unable to be uttered under the scrutiny of too bright a Light?
For those who do, God already knows we hate Him and His Word/Jesus, so why not now allow that which is only possible to alter our heart and cause us to be recipients of blessing and not cursing - by us exercising our own and the adversaries devices - have Its finished work?
"But you, when you [hopefully will] pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut the door, pray to the Father which is in secret: and your Father whom sees in secret shall reward you openly."
In His Love for your potentially eternal and blessed souls, bro. jim
"Knowing therefor the terror of the Lord, [I attempt to] persuade men . . . and I trust [by Faith] also are made manifest in your consciences."
Whomever,
The saga continues; our adversary exposed.
I was awakened this morning with the Spirit of God revealing to me what has been occurring in the spirit realm and behind the scenes regarding my presence and postings on this forum.
(Xxxxxx, Yyyyy and others: While even this explanatory post will likely also be found unacceptable by you, I must state that it is in no way whatsoever a personal attack upon any of you. While I could have possibly written it in such a way so as to leave all of you out of it, since you posted what you have about me on nearly every thread Ive ever started on this forum, after reading this you and everyone following along would easily make the personal connection anyway so it will be more easily understood if I use what has already been said by all of us as an illustration of these Truths.)
As it turns out, the attacks against me are not really about me anyway.
To repeat from a prior post:
"Because they hate Me[, Jesus, or, the Word], they will also hate you."
I had always understood this verse to mean that because we are all as humans also spiritual beings, and the adversary knows whom belongs to God, that in the spirit realm he then causes others to hate those whom are either born-again children of the Father or who were once chosen as a people of God (Hebraic "Jews"). And while that is still likely true, theres a more profound explanation as well.
For example, here and on other threads Xxxxxx says he does not accept my words because he does not accept me for whom I claim to be. I now see that this is irrelevant. Then theres Yyyyy, who claims he is not attacking me as a person, but merely my supposedly bogus posts. Also irrelevant.
The Word declares that as we become more like Christ, as we attempt to live more godly in this world, we will assuredly suffer persecution, i.e. be hated/despised/rejected of men. But these who attack are not really hating/despising/rejecting us as people, but what we represent (so in essence, Yyyyy is correct).
There are numerous commandments in the New Testament. To all the world are given The Two Commandments of unconditional Love, and for which all the world, Christian or not, is guilty. Then there are the numerous additional commandments to believers, also which go mostly undone.
Most all Christians are living in disobedience to most of the NT commandments, and those they do think themselves to be following are usually done so only in part or by them being feigned of the flesh and not completely and genuinely in and of the Spirit. So when faced with this reality, rather than allow themselves to be exposed by the Light of Truth they instead opt for one of several alternatives.
If we can disavow the one proclaiming such Truths, either by perverting the written Word by watering it down and interpreting it to mean something less than what it does, or if we can discredit the person heralding the deeper truths of God, we erroneously feel and believe and assert such Truths are not truth at all. We can then re-establish in our minds, and in the examples given also here in public on this forum, that we are in The Way and innocent of any disobedience and rebellion.
For those rare few who have come by Grace to a place of accepting and implementing all the Truth of God, the aforementioned is not an acceptable option. For such, they have come to experience the reality of the Truth which says His commandments are not at all grievous and His burden and yoke very, very light and easy. They have entered the "sabbatismos" rest, the result of relying solely upon the Spirit of God, and no longer wrangle with the self-righteous attempts of flesh.
But for those not so walking in the Spirit, since its impossible for the flesh to obey the things commanded and required of God, these must continually work to annul through whatever means whatever is not able to be obeyed.
So I now understand these who attack me personally and in their hearts have allowed the adversary to cause them to hate me, are not despising me so much as they are God Himself. It is God and His Truth they hate and despise. And for those who say they dont hate me but my words only, since just as Jesus and the Word are synonymous, I too and my words/postings are one and the same: we cannot be separated, so when someone rejects my words they also likewise and by default reject me as well, and their claims to the opposite are totally invalid and a mere state of denial. (After all, the Word says if we dont Love our brother then we do not Love God, so we must either prove and believe those claiming to be our brothers and sisters are in reality not brethren, or we must pretend and assert we do Love them even though by whats in our heart the Lord knows we do not - and will someday expose and prove.)
So in Truth we hate and despise and reject and persecute What and Whom [sic] we do not find possible the means to obey: Truth and God.
What really angers me is our adversary: he has duped us into believing what he has, and thereby ensnared us to do his will and not Gods perfect Way. Hes kept us hidden from the fact that one day ALL who ever lived and currently live will one day be resurrected and made to stand and appear before the Throne of God and all of creation, when and where our hearts will be laid bare and its self-justifications, self-validations, and self-righteousnesses will be revealed as Truth.
But I would beseech all who pass by here and consider these words: why not rather allow such an unraveling and revealing of the heart to be now and in private, where and when our nakedness shall only be seen by us and our Creator and not the entire world? Why not now while theres still an opportunity to obtain repentance and cleansing and the experience of these iniquities being divinely removed "as far [away from us] as the East is from the West"?
Do we really want to wait until "that great and terrible day of the Lord," when we will stand there with our hat in our hands and any presently used words of excuse then found fleeting and unable to be uttered under the scrutiny of too bright a Light?
For those who do, God already knows we hate Him and His Word/Jesus, so why not now allow that which is only possible to alter our heart and cause us to be recipients of blessing and not cursing - by us exercising our own and the adversaries devices - have Its finished work?
"But you, when you [hopefully will] pray, enter into your closet, and when you have shut the door, pray to the Father which is in secret: and your Father whom sees in secret shall reward you openly."
In His Love for your potentially eternal and blessed souls, bro. jim
"Knowing therefor the terror of the Lord, [I attempt to] persuade men . . . and I trust [by Faith] also are made manifest in your consciences."
