Peace.
The Son of God is come and gives us an understanding. He opens up the Scriptures to our understanding and we are to be found of Him doing His commandments….remembering to have brotherly love.
Whosoever is born of God (God is love) does not sin…speak evil against what he hears the Spirit saying in this coming time. He that is begotten of God keeps himself by being of “little strength” ….few words….towards what he hears the Spirit saying. We are to be swift to hear and slow to speak...slow to wrath.
1 John 5:18-21 KJV
(18) We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
(19) And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
We hear His voice speaking the Word of Truth and we show that we know Him by keeping His commandments in response. Blessed are those whom He finds keeping His commandments as they shall be able to enter in to the understanding.
(20) And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life
(21) Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
We show we know Him if we keep His commandments rather than continue to follow after our fleshly lusts: envy, strife, contentions, covetousness, etc. If we say we know Him yet not keep His commandments, then the Truth is not in us.
1 John 2:3-9 KJV
(3) And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
(4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
If we KEEP HIS Word, the love of God is completed within us. We hear His voice and KEEP His commandments as the Son of God is come and gives us an understanding. We show that we know Him that is true especially at this time of hearing His voice.
(5) But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
We must be found walking in the Spirit even as He walked.
(6) He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
(7) Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
(8) Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
(9) He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
We are to gird up the loins of our minds and REMEMBER to let brotherly love continue (let your lights be burning).
Luke 12:35-40 KJV
(35) Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
When the Son of God is come to give us an understanding, we are to be like men who wait for the Lord and open up unto Him immediately when we hear His voice.
(36) And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when He comes to open up our minds to His understanding be found “watching”…awake to His righteousness. He shall come forth and serve them with the meat of the Word of Truth. They shall be able to enter in to the understanding of the mysteries of the kingdom.
(37) Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
We are counseled to “awake” out of our sleep up to 3 times if they are found initially resisting the Spirit.
Blessed are those who shall awake at the “second watch” or even the “third watch” and finds them casting off the works of darkness and putting on His righteousness. We are warned to awake to His righteousness and if we do even in the third warning to awake, then we are blessed servants.
(38) And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
(39) And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
(40) Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
We are to be “ready” …be found awake to His righteousness…for the Son of man comes at an hour we think not. He comes speaking in the brothers sent out by Him who speak before God in Christ the words of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:19-21 KJV
(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.
But some will be found not ready…not awake to His righteousness. Church people (who dwell on the earthly wisdom of envy and strife) shall not be found as they should be as they will be found behaving badly towards what they hear.
(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:
They will be found sinning…speaking evil against what they hear..and not repenting of their uncleanness…
(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.
They are counseled to awake up out of their sleep. Even in the “third watch”, blessed are those who are found awaking to His righteousness.
2 Corinthians 13:1-6 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:
Some will not think that it is Christ speaking in a brother….but they have the greater witness inside their very hearts that it is Him speaking.
(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.
We must be found of “little strength” towards the “open door”…the mouth of the Lord who speaks His words to our understanding. We are to examine ourselves whether we are truly in the faith and PROVE ourselves that we are by showing that faith through good works.
(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.
The Son of God is come to give us an understanding and so we are to be found girding up the loins of our minds and be “sober” and not drunk on the wine of wrath towards what we hear a “stranger” speaking in the Spirit.
1 Peter 1:13-16 KJV
(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;
We are to be found obedient children (to have love for another) and not be found as we were in our envy and strife and contentions according to the former lusts in our ignorance. He is come to give us an understanding and we are to be found holy as He is holy.
(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.
Let us hear His voice walking in the garden in the “cool” of the Day. “Cool” = SPIRIT. Let us be found of Him walking with Him in the Spirit.
Genesis 3:8-9 KJV
(8) And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
(9) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Let us hear and remember to have brotherly love (love your neighbor as yourself) and entertain “strangers” who may come speaking His words in the Spirit. Let us keep His WORD: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:14-26 KJV
(14) For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(15) But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
When we hear His voice opening up the Word of Truth to our understanding, we are to be found of Him walking in the Spirit and not behaving in the flesh (envy, strife, contentions, etc) of our previous ignorance as we behaved in the churches of men that do not know the Word of Truth.
(16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
(17) For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
(18) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
(19) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
(20) Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
(21) Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
We are to eat of the trees of the garden.
(22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
(23) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
(24) And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
(25) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
(26) Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Of His own will does He beget us with the Word of Truth so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. We are to be the first to hear and trust in Christ whose eternal life shall be made manifest in our mortal flesh. Blessed are those who hear and believe on Him without seeing Him (that appearing eternal life of His in our mortal flesh)...yet.
James 1:16-22 KJV
(16) Do not err, my beloved brethren.
(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.
We are to hear what the Spirit is saying …being swift to hear and slow to speak and slow to wrath. The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. We are to be found DOERS of the Word.
(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 is slow to wrath is of great understanding…as he shall be able to enter in to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
Proverbs 14:
(29) He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. He that rules his spirit…his breath…his words …is better than he that takes a city.
Proverbs 16:32 KJV
(32) He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Blessed are the “poor” in spirit…that is, breath. When the Lord opens up His mouth and teaches us in the Spirit, we are to be found “poor” in breath by being slow to speak. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:1-3 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,
(3) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The church in “Philadelphia”…meaning “brotherly love”…is found being holy as He is holy…as they hear the open mouth that speaks the words of the Lord and is found of “little strength”…that is, poor in words..poor in spirit. Blessed are the poor in spirit.
Revelation 3:6-13 KJV
(6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
(7) And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
They hear His opened mouth that teaches them and are found of Him being “poor in spirit”…poor in breath…poor in words. They use “little strength”…that is, they are found of few words.
Those found in their wrath will speak evil, proud words….found in great strength so to speak. But…. he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty (the STRONG) ; and he that rules his spirit (being found poor in words) than he that takes a city.
The “open door” is the open mouth of the Lord who speaks to us in the Spirit through His servants…the “strangers” sent out by Him to speak His words. We are to be found obeying His Word to have love for one another (Philadelphia = brotherly love). We keep His commandment and not deny His name…His authority.
(8) I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
(9) Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
But those who “dwell upon the earth”…that is, dwelling on the earthly wisdom of envy, strife, wrath, etc….shall be tempted to speak out against what they hear the Spirit saying.
(10) Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
(11) Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
(12) Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
(13) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Those who “dwell on the earth” will be found harboring bitter envy and strife within their hearts. They are to overcome their wrath….their bitter envy and strife…and be found of Him walking in white in the wisdom that is from above and not of the earthly wisdom. The wrath of man does not WORK the righteousness of God.
James 3:13-18 KJV
(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.
(15) This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
(16) For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
(17) But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
(18) And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Let us hear His words. The Son of man comes to open up our minds to His understanding at a hour we do not expect and we must be found of Him remembering to let brotherly love continue.
It will come as a snare on all of those that “dwell on the face of the whole earth” as they are found behaving in their earthly wisdom (wrath, envy and strife towards what they hear the Spirit saying). The day comes upon them “unawares”. They are counseled to “awake” from their sleep and cast off the works of darkness.
Luke 21:33-38 KJV
(33) Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
(34) And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
(35) For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
(36) Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
He comes to teach us and we are to be found children of the Day. In the DAY TIME He teaches us in the temple. At NIGHT, He went out.
(37) And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Let us be of the children of the Day and come “early in the morning” to hear Him in the temple.
(38) And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
We are to be children of the Day and not of the “night”. Let us not “sleep” but remember to have brotherly love towards a “stranger” who comes speaking His words in the Spirit of the Day.
1 Thessalonians 5:5-9 KJV
(5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
(6) Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Those who are “drunk” are found drunk in the wine of wrath in the “night” as they do not have love for their brother. Those who say they know God but hate their brothers are walking in the darkness.
(7) For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
(8) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
(9) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
We are to be found “awaking” to His righteousness and arise from the “dead” so that Christ shall give us His Light. While we have the Light, we are to become children of the Light by walking in the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:13-20 KJV
(13) But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
(15) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
(16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
We are not to be “drunk” with the wine of wrath towards what we hear the Spirit saying. Instead, we are to be filled with the Spirit… drinking in what we hear so that we may have His life. We are to walk in righteousness...in the Spirit.
(17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
(18) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Instead of speaking evil out in the drunkenness of the wine of wrath, we are to be filled with rejoicing and singing within our hearts…giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(19) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
(20) Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
The Son of God is come and gives us an understanding. He opens up the Scriptures to our understanding and we are to be found of Him doing His commandments….remembering to have brotherly love.
Whosoever is born of God (God is love) does not sin…speak evil against what he hears the Spirit saying in this coming time. He that is begotten of God keeps himself by being of “little strength” ….few words….towards what he hears the Spirit saying. We are to be swift to hear and slow to speak...slow to wrath.
1 John 5:18-21 KJV
(18) We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
(19) And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness.
We hear His voice speaking the Word of Truth and we show that we know Him by keeping His commandments in response. Blessed are those whom He finds keeping His commandments as they shall be able to enter in to the understanding.
(20) And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life
(21) Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.
We show we know Him if we keep His commandments rather than continue to follow after our fleshly lusts: envy, strife, contentions, covetousness, etc. If we say we know Him yet not keep His commandments, then the Truth is not in us.
1 John 2:3-9 KJV
(3) And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
(4) He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
If we KEEP HIS Word, the love of God is completed within us. We hear His voice and KEEP His commandments as the Son of God is come and gives us an understanding. We show that we know Him that is true especially at this time of hearing His voice.
(5) But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
We must be found walking in the Spirit even as He walked.
(6) He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
(7) Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
(8) Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth.
(9) He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
We are to gird up the loins of our minds and REMEMBER to let brotherly love continue (let your lights be burning).
Luke 12:35-40 KJV
(35) Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;
When the Son of God is come to give us an understanding, we are to be like men who wait for the Lord and open up unto Him immediately when we hear His voice.
(36) And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
Blessed are those servants whom the Lord when He comes to open up our minds to His understanding be found “watching”…awake to His righteousness. He shall come forth and serve them with the meat of the Word of Truth. They shall be able to enter in to the understanding of the mysteries of the kingdom.
(37) Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
We are counseled to “awake” out of our sleep up to 3 times if they are found initially resisting the Spirit.
Blessed are those who shall awake at the “second watch” or even the “third watch” and finds them casting off the works of darkness and putting on His righteousness. We are warned to awake to His righteousness and if we do even in the third warning to awake, then we are blessed servants.
(38) And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
(39) And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.
(40) Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
We are to be “ready” …be found awake to His righteousness…for the Son of man comes at an hour we think not. He comes speaking in the brothers sent out by Him who speak before God in Christ the words of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 12:19-21 KJV
(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.
But some will be found not ready…not awake to His righteousness. Church people (who dwell on the earthly wisdom of envy and strife) shall not be found as they should be as they will be found behaving badly towards what they hear.
(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:
They will be found sinning…speaking evil against what they hear..and not repenting of their uncleanness…
(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.
They are counseled to awake up out of their sleep. Even in the “third watch”, blessed are those who are found awaking to His righteousness.
2 Corinthians 13:1-6 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:
Some will not think that it is Christ speaking in a brother….but they have the greater witness inside their very hearts that it is Him speaking.
(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.
We must be found of “little strength” towards the “open door”…the mouth of the Lord who speaks His words to our understanding. We are to examine ourselves whether we are truly in the faith and PROVE ourselves that we are by showing that faith through good works.
(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.
The Son of God is come to give us an understanding and so we are to be found girding up the loins of our minds and be “sober” and not drunk on the wine of wrath towards what we hear a “stranger” speaking in the Spirit.
1 Peter 1:13-16 KJV
(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;
We are to be found obedient children (to have love for another) and not be found as we were in our envy and strife and contentions according to the former lusts in our ignorance. He is come to give us an understanding and we are to be found holy as He is holy.
(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.
Let us hear His voice walking in the garden in the “cool” of the Day. “Cool” = SPIRIT. Let us be found of Him walking with Him in the Spirit.
Genesis 3:8-9 KJV
(8) And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
(9) And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
Let us hear and remember to have brotherly love (love your neighbor as yourself) and entertain “strangers” who may come speaking His words in the Spirit. Let us keep His WORD: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Galatians 5:14-26 KJV
(14) For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
(15) But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
When we hear His voice opening up the Word of Truth to our understanding, we are to be found of Him walking in the Spirit and not behaving in the flesh (envy, strife, contentions, etc) of our previous ignorance as we behaved in the churches of men that do not know the Word of Truth.
(16) This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
(17) For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
(18) But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
(19) Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
(20) Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
(21) Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
We are to eat of the trees of the garden.
(22) But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
(23) Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
(24) And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.
(25) If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
(26) Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Of His own will does He beget us with the Word of Truth so that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures. We are to be the first to hear and trust in Christ whose eternal life shall be made manifest in our mortal flesh. Blessed are those who hear and believe on Him without seeing Him (that appearing eternal life of His in our mortal flesh)...yet.
James 1:16-22 KJV
(16) Do not err, my beloved brethren.
(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.
We are to hear what the Spirit is saying …being swift to hear and slow to speak and slow to wrath. The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. We are to be found DOERS of the Word.
(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 is slow to wrath is of great understanding…as he shall be able to enter in to understand the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
Proverbs 14:
(29) He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty. He that rules his spirit…his breath…his words …is better than he that takes a city.
Proverbs 16:32 KJV
(32) He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.
Blessed are the “poor” in spirit…that is, breath. When the Lord opens up His mouth and teaches us in the Spirit, we are to be found “poor” in breath by being slow to speak. Theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 5:1-3 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,
(3) Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
The church in “Philadelphia”…meaning “brotherly love”…is found being holy as He is holy…as they hear the open mouth that speaks the words of the Lord and is found of “little strength”…that is, poor in words..poor in spirit. Blessed are the poor in spirit.
Revelation 3:6-13 KJV
(6) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
(7) And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
They hear His opened mouth that teaches them and are found of Him being “poor in spirit”…poor in breath…poor in words. They use “little strength”…that is, they are found of few words.
Those found in their wrath will speak evil, proud words….found in great strength so to speak. But…. he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty (the STRONG) ; and he that rules his spirit (being found poor in words) than he that takes a city.
The “open door” is the open mouth of the Lord who speaks to us in the Spirit through His servants…the “strangers” sent out by Him to speak His words. We are to be found obeying His Word to have love for one another (Philadelphia = brotherly love). We keep His commandment and not deny His name…His authority.
(8) I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
(9) Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
But those who “dwell upon the earth”…that is, dwelling on the earthly wisdom of envy, strife, wrath, etc….shall be tempted to speak out against what they hear the Spirit saying.
(10) Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
(11) Behold, I come quickly: hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
(12) Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.
(13) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Those who “dwell on the earth” will be found harboring bitter envy and strife within their hearts. They are to overcome their wrath….their bitter envy and strife…and be found of Him walking in white in the wisdom that is from above and not of the earthly wisdom. The wrath of man does not WORK the righteousness of God.
James 3:13-18 KJV
(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.
(15) This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
(16) For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
(17) But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
(18) And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Let us hear His words. The Son of man comes to open up our minds to His understanding at a hour we do not expect and we must be found of Him remembering to let brotherly love continue.
It will come as a snare on all of those that “dwell on the face of the whole earth” as they are found behaving in their earthly wisdom (wrath, envy and strife towards what they hear the Spirit saying). The day comes upon them “unawares”. They are counseled to “awake” from their sleep and cast off the works of darkness.
Luke 21:33-38 KJV
(33) Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.
(34) And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
(35) For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.
(36) Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
He comes to teach us and we are to be found children of the Day. In the DAY TIME He teaches us in the temple. At NIGHT, He went out.
(37) And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.
Let us be of the children of the Day and come “early in the morning” to hear Him in the temple.
(38) And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, for to hear him.
We are to be children of the Day and not of the “night”. Let us not “sleep” but remember to have brotherly love towards a “stranger” who comes speaking His words in the Spirit of the Day.
1 Thessalonians 5:5-9 KJV
(5) Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness.
(6) Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober.
Those who are “drunk” are found drunk in the wine of wrath in the “night” as they do not have love for their brother. Those who say they know God but hate their brothers are walking in the darkness.
(7) For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.
(8) But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
(9) For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ,
We are to be found “awaking” to His righteousness and arise from the “dead” so that Christ shall give us His Light. While we have the Light, we are to become children of the Light by walking in the Spirit.
Ephesians 5:13-20 KJV
(13) But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light.
(14) Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
(15) See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
(16) Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
We are not to be “drunk” with the wine of wrath towards what we hear the Spirit saying. Instead, we are to be filled with the Spirit… drinking in what we hear so that we may have His life. We are to walk in righteousness...in the Spirit.
(17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
(18) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Instead of speaking evil out in the drunkenness of the wine of wrath, we are to be filled with rejoicing and singing within our hearts…giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
(19) Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
(20) Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;