Peace unto you.
The “holy angels” are the holy messages of the Lord who is come to give us an understanding.
He interprets the Scriptures (the words of the biblical saints) to our ears and we are to be quick to hear and slow to speak.
Whoever is ashamed of Him and His words in “this adulterous and sinful generation”, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the “holy angels”….His WORDS.
We are to hear His words and glorify the Father in heaven as He comes in the glory of His Father.
“My WORDS” = the “holy ANGELS”. He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels....His words (His messages) that He sends out to our ears and hearts.
Mark 8:38 KJV
(38) Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Let us not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord but be partakers of the afflictions of the good news according to the power of God who saves us. Our own church “countrymen” shall not believe in His testimony and will persecute those who will.
2 Timothy 1:8-13 KJV
(8) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
He has abolished (rendering it idle) death in the here and now and has brought life and immortality (undecaying of the mortal body) to light through the good news. We are not to be ashamed of His testimony of these things when others shall persecute us for believing this is so.
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
(11) Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
(12) For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
(13) Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
We are to hear His voice….His testimony…and rejoice at what we hear.
John 3:29-36 KJV
(29) He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
He must increase and we must decrease as His thoughts and ways are higher than our own religious thoughts and ways.
(30) He must increase, but I must decrease.
He that comes from above is above all. Earthly men will speak out in their earthly wisdom (envy, strife, contentions, covetousness) against His testimony. His testimony will not conform to what carnal men have been preaching. We must hear and OVERCOME our wrath. Earthy, natural men will not receive His testimony as it is spiritually discerned.
(31) He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
(32) And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
He that will receive His testimony has set to his seal that God is true.
(33) He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
The words of God = the holy angels sent out to our ears. They are the "reapers" who will divide the believers from the unbelievers in the churches of men.
(34) For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
(35) The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
(36) He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
The earthly man will not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him neither CAN HE KNOW THEM. The natural man will continue to receive the words of men that men preach in their carnal understanding and will reject what the Spirit is saying as it does not conform to what men are preaching in their church.
1 Corinthians 2:12-14 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.
(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.
There is a “generation” that will not listen. We must depart from their company.
“This adulterous and sinful generation” is defined in Proverbs 30 and describes the state of the churches (gatherings) of men today. They will not hear His words…His testimony… and so we must save ourselves from this crooked generation (Acts 2:40).
Proverbs 30:11-15 KJV
(11) There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
They are pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness as they will continue to stubbornly preach things that they ought not…the doctrines and commandments of men…for money’s sake. They will not receive the words of the Lord who comes to give us an understanding. Instead, they will lean upon their own understanding and reject what He says…His testimony. They will resist the Spirit in the hardness of their unbelieving hearts and speak evil with their mouths.
(12) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
(13) There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
(14) There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
And their message is always: “GIVE, GIVE”. They are minding earthly things as they preach in order to get their earthly needs met: what to eat, what to drink, what to wear. This is all we ever hear in their congregations where there is no knowledge of God found.
(15) The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
We must come out from among them and be separate. What do we have in common with those who will hear His words and will not believe in them as they continue to remain in their churches (in the “graves”) where men are preaching themselves as they handle the Word of God deceitfully for dishonest gain? They will seek to remain among the “graves” of their churches rather than come out from among them.
Why seek the living among those who are “dead” in their trespasses and sins who think that they are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness?
They preach themselves for money’s sake and preach in their churches that we have to “die and go to heaven” when Jesus IS RISEN now so that we may have His eternal life NOW in this earth. Jesus WAS dead and IS ALIVE NOW forevermore…and so we are to have His life now when we keep the death of our Lord in our bodies so that His life appears in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 4:5-11 KJV
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
(9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
And again, He that raised up Christ (who WAS dead and IS RISEN…IS ALIVE NOW forevermore) from the dead shall also enliven our MORTAL (subject to death body) bodies by His Spirit that dwells in us. This is a here-and-now thing and not after we “die and go to heaven” as universally preached by those who are preaching themselves for money in order to get their earthly needs met (what to eat, drink and wear). They are minding earthly things and cannot understand that the good news is for the here and now. The “god” of this world….their belly….has blinded their minds lest they understand what the good news is for the here and now.
Romans 8:11-14 KJV
(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.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Let us hear the Spirit of Truth and deaden the deeds of the body. Let us live according to the Spirit...especially when we hear the Spirit speaking to us today.
(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.
Why seek the Living among the dead? Why keep their covenant with death and their agreement with the grave? Let us fear God and hear and be found in meekness....they "bowed down their faces to the earth"
Luke 24:4-6 KJV
(4) And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
(5) And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
He is not there but IS RISEN.
(6) He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
Why seek the living among those who are “dead” in trespasses and sins and preach what they do not understand with stammering lips?
The “wizards” peep and mutter as they preach (without understanding) the Word of God deceitfully for unjust gain. Why go to their “church” and recognize their authority in such matters of God when they do not have any understanding?
Isaiah 8:19-22 KJV
(19) And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
To the law (the law of Christ: have love for one another) and to the “testimony” of Jesus. If they do not speak according to this saying, it is because there is NO LIGHT in them as they have no understanding.
(20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
The wicked shall not understand as they are driven to darkness.
(21) And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
(22) And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
We must depart from those who are called “brothers” but are covetous as they preach things that they ought not be (the doctrines and commandments of men) for money’s sake. They have no understanding of the Scriptures because of their covetousness hidden within their hearts. They have a stammering tongue that we cannot understand.
Isaiah 33:18-19 KJV
(18) Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
(19) Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
Those who are preaching themselves have the good news hid as the god of this world (the belly that they are preaching for….serving for as they are minding the earthly things) has blinded their minds of those that really do not believe in the testimony of Jesus who has abolished death in the here and now and has brought life and immortality to light through the good news. They will not be found renouncing the hidden things of dishonesty as they will continue to handle the Word of God deceitfully for pay.
2 Corinthians 4:1-6 KJV
(1) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
(2) But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
(4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Some will hear His testimony and not believe and will give themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness. They will hear and speak evil towards what they hear because they do not want to give up preaching for a paycheck. They will give themselves over to their wrath and speak evil because their hearts will go after their covetousness.
Ephesians 4:17-23 KJV
(17) This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
(18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
(19) Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
(20) But ye have not so learned Christ;
If we hear Him and are taught by Him (as the truth is in Jesus), we are to put off the behavior of the old man who is contentious in his envy and strife.
(21) If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
(22) That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
(23) And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
We are to hear His voice and “awake” from the former behavior of the old man who did not know anything and arise from the “dead” so that Christ shall give us light…His knowledge. Those who will be found loving their “sleep” shall not understand. They will not arise from their sleep and be satisfied with the bread of heaven. They will not enter into His knowledge but will remain “outside” it.
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.
(17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Instead of being drunk with the wine of wrath, we are to be filled with the Spirit…drinking in what we hear the Spirit saying…..the living water.
(18) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
We are to hear His voice and REJOICE within our hearts at what we hear and give thanks unto 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 Lord comes to open up our minds to the understanding of the Scriptures through the Spirit. We are to hear His voice in the “tabernacle of the congregation” and be found doing His will (to have love for one another) rather than be found “drunk” on the wine of wrath where the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. Let us not be found “drinking wine”…wrath….when we go to hear His voice as He opens up our minds to His knowledge.
Leviticus 10:9-11 KJV
(9) Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Men will be found behaving badly towards what they hear the Spirit saying in this coming time…..and those who will not hear and be found as obedient children (doing His will) are not found the children of God.
(10) And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
(11) And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
“Wine” is a mocker and strong drink is raging. Whoever does not bridle his tongue from speaking out in wrath deceives his own heart.
Proverbs 20:1 KJV
(1) Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife…..especially at the hearing of the Spirit of Truth.
“Meddling” = to be obstinate. Every fool will be found obstinate against what they hear. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. (1 Samuel 15:23).
Proverbs 20:3 KJV
(3) It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging….whoever does not bridle his own tongue deceives his own heart. That man’s religion is vain….empty. We must overcome our wrath and be found a DOER of the work…..remembering to let brotherly love continue.
James 1:25-26 KJV
(25) But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
(26) If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Whoever abides in the Lord will not speak evil against what they hear. They will not sin. Those who do speak out in wrath have not seen Him neither have known Him.
1 John 3:6-15 KJV
(6) Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
(7) Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
He that commits sin…speaking evil out in wrath against what they hear the Spirit saying… is of the devil.
(8) He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
(9) Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
IN THIS WAY are the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever does not the righteousness of God is not of God neither is he that does not love his brother whom he has seen. How can one say that they love God whom they have not seen when they show hatred toward their brother whom they have seen?
(10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
(11) For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
(12) Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
(13) Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
(14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
We are to be swift to hear the Word of Truth and be slow to speak against what we hear…slow to wrath. The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
James 1:18-22 KJV
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
We are to OVERCOME the wrath…laying apart all of the evil things that want to come out of our mouths at the hearing of the Word of Truth and receive with meekness the engrafted Word.
(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.
Those who will be found speaking evil shall not enter in to understand.
John 8:42-51 KJV
(42) Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Why will they not understand His speech? Because they cannot hear His Word…His Saying: to have love for one another. If God is their Father, then they would be found loving those whom He sends out to speak His words.
(43) Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
The children of the devil will be found “killing” another with their evil speaking….prating against them with malicious words. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer and has no eternal life abiding in them. They will go in the way of Cain who hated his own brother.
(44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
(45) And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
(46) Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
He that is of God hears God’s words. Those who will not hear them are not of God as they will go about “killing” another (who will speak the Word of truth) with their evil speaking rather than DO His will to have love for another.
(47) He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
The children of the devil will be found speaking evil of another…calling them “devils”…evil doers.
(48) Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
(49) Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
When we hear the Word of Truth spoken through the Spirit, we are to be found seeking God’s glory rather than our own. If we keep His saying (to have love for one another), we shall never see death in this earth.
(50) And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
We that are found loving those brothers sent out by Him to speak His words shall pass from death unto life. If a man keep His Saying (Word), he shall never see death.
1 John 3:14-15 KJV
(14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
The “holy angels” are the holy messages of the Lord who is come to give us an understanding.
He interprets the Scriptures (the words of the biblical saints) to our ears and we are to be quick to hear and slow to speak.
Whoever is ashamed of Him and His words in “this adulterous and sinful generation”, of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the “holy angels”….His WORDS.
We are to hear His words and glorify the Father in heaven as He comes in the glory of His Father.
“My WORDS” = the “holy ANGELS”. He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels....His words (His messages) that He sends out to our ears and hearts.
Mark 8:38 KJV
(38) Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.
Let us not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord but be partakers of the afflictions of the good news according to the power of God who saves us. Our own church “countrymen” shall not believe in His testimony and will persecute those who will.
2 Timothy 1:8-13 KJV
(8) Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
(9) Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
He has abolished (rendering it idle) death in the here and now and has brought life and immortality (undecaying of the mortal body) to light through the good news. We are not to be ashamed of His testimony of these things when others shall persecute us for believing this is so.
(10) But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
(11) Whereunto I am appointed a preacher, and an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.
(12) For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
(13) Hold fast the form of sound words, which thou hast heard of me, in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.
We are to hear His voice….His testimony…and rejoice at what we hear.
John 3:29-36 KJV
(29) He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
He must increase and we must decrease as His thoughts and ways are higher than our own religious thoughts and ways.
(30) He must increase, but I must decrease.
He that comes from above is above all. Earthly men will speak out in their earthly wisdom (envy, strife, contentions, covetousness) against His testimony. His testimony will not conform to what carnal men have been preaching. We must hear and OVERCOME our wrath. Earthy, natural men will not receive His testimony as it is spiritually discerned.
(31) He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.
(32) And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man receiveth his testimony.
He that will receive His testimony has set to his seal that God is true.
(33) He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is true.
The words of God = the holy angels sent out to our ears. They are the "reapers" who will divide the believers from the unbelievers in the churches of men.
(34) For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him.
(35) The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.
(36) He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
The earthly man will not receive the things of the Spirit of God for they are foolishness to him neither CAN HE KNOW THEM. The natural man will continue to receive the words of men that men preach in their carnal understanding and will reject what the Spirit is saying as it does not conform to what men are preaching in their church.
1 Corinthians 2:12-14 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.
(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.
There is a “generation” that will not listen. We must depart from their company.
“This adulterous and sinful generation” is defined in Proverbs 30 and describes the state of the churches (gatherings) of men today. They will not hear His words…His testimony… and so we must save ourselves from this crooked generation (Acts 2:40).
Proverbs 30:11-15 KJV
(11) There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.
They are pure in their own eyes and yet not washed from their filthiness as they will continue to stubbornly preach things that they ought not…the doctrines and commandments of men…for money’s sake. They will not receive the words of the Lord who comes to give us an understanding. Instead, they will lean upon their own understanding and reject what He says…His testimony. They will resist the Spirit in the hardness of their unbelieving hearts and speak evil with their mouths.
(12) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
(13) There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
(14) There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
And their message is always: “GIVE, GIVE”. They are minding earthly things as they preach in order to get their earthly needs met: what to eat, what to drink, what to wear. This is all we ever hear in their congregations where there is no knowledge of God found.
(15) The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:
We must come out from among them and be separate. What do we have in common with those who will hear His words and will not believe in them as they continue to remain in their churches (in the “graves”) where men are preaching themselves as they handle the Word of God deceitfully for dishonest gain? They will seek to remain among the “graves” of their churches rather than come out from among them.
Why seek the living among those who are “dead” in their trespasses and sins who think that they are pure in their own eyes and yet are not washed from their filthiness?
They preach themselves for money’s sake and preach in their churches that we have to “die and go to heaven” when Jesus IS RISEN now so that we may have His eternal life NOW in this earth. Jesus WAS dead and IS ALIVE NOW forevermore…and so we are to have His life now when we keep the death of our Lord in our bodies so that His life appears in our mortal flesh.
2 Corinthians 4:5-11 KJV
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
(7) But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
(8) We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
(9) Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
(10) Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
(11) For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
And again, He that raised up Christ (who WAS dead and IS RISEN…IS ALIVE NOW forevermore) from the dead shall also enliven our MORTAL (subject to death body) bodies by His Spirit that dwells in us. This is a here-and-now thing and not after we “die and go to heaven” as universally preached by those who are preaching themselves for money in order to get their earthly needs met (what to eat, drink and wear). They are minding earthly things and cannot understand that the good news is for the here and now. The “god” of this world….their belly….has blinded their minds lest they understand what the good news is for the here and now.
Romans 8:11-14 KJV
(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.
(12) Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
Let us hear the Spirit of Truth and deaden the deeds of the body. Let us live according to the Spirit...especially when we hear the Spirit speaking to us today.
(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.
Why seek the Living among the dead? Why keep their covenant with death and their agreement with the grave? Let us fear God and hear and be found in meekness....they "bowed down their faces to the earth"
Luke 24:4-6 KJV
(4) And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments:
(5) And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?
He is not there but IS RISEN.
(6) He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,
Why seek the living among those who are “dead” in trespasses and sins and preach what they do not understand with stammering lips?
The “wizards” peep and mutter as they preach (without understanding) the Word of God deceitfully for unjust gain. Why go to their “church” and recognize their authority in such matters of God when they do not have any understanding?
Isaiah 8:19-22 KJV
(19) And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
To the law (the law of Christ: have love for one another) and to the “testimony” of Jesus. If they do not speak according to this saying, it is because there is NO LIGHT in them as they have no understanding.
(20) To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.
The wicked shall not understand as they are driven to darkness.
(21) And they shall pass through it, hardly bestead and hungry: and it shall come to pass, that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.
(22) And they shall look unto the earth; and behold trouble and darkness, dimness of anguish; and they shall be driven to darkness.
We must depart from those who are called “brothers” but are covetous as they preach things that they ought not be (the doctrines and commandments of men) for money’s sake. They have no understanding of the Scriptures because of their covetousness hidden within their hearts. They have a stammering tongue that we cannot understand.
Isaiah 33:18-19 KJV
(18) Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
(19) Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.
Those who are preaching themselves have the good news hid as the god of this world (the belly that they are preaching for….serving for as they are minding the earthly things) has blinded their minds of those that really do not believe in the testimony of Jesus who has abolished death in the here and now and has brought life and immortality to light through the good news. They will not be found renouncing the hidden things of dishonesty as they will continue to handle the Word of God deceitfully for pay.
2 Corinthians 4:1-6 KJV
(1) Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;
(2) But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
(3) But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:
(4) In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.
(5) For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.
(6) For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Some will hear His testimony and not believe and will give themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness. They will hear and speak evil towards what they hear because they do not want to give up preaching for a paycheck. They will give themselves over to their wrath and speak evil because their hearts will go after their covetousness.
Ephesians 4:17-23 KJV
(17) This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
(18) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
(19) Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
(20) But ye have not so learned Christ;
If we hear Him and are taught by Him (as the truth is in Jesus), we are to put off the behavior of the old man who is contentious in his envy and strife.
(21) If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
(22) That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
(23) And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
We are to hear His voice and “awake” from the former behavior of the old man who did not know anything and arise from the “dead” so that Christ shall give us light…His knowledge. Those who will be found loving their “sleep” shall not understand. They will not arise from their sleep and be satisfied with the bread of heaven. They will not enter into His knowledge but will remain “outside” it.
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.
(17) Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
Instead of being drunk with the wine of wrath, we are to be filled with the Spirit…drinking in what we hear the Spirit saying…..the living water.
(18) And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
We are to hear His voice and REJOICE within our hearts at what we hear and give thanks unto 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 Lord comes to open up our minds to the understanding of the Scriptures through the Spirit. We are to hear His voice in the “tabernacle of the congregation” and be found doing His will (to have love for one another) rather than be found “drunk” on the wine of wrath where the wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God. Let us not be found “drinking wine”…wrath….when we go to hear His voice as He opens up our minds to His knowledge.
Leviticus 10:9-11 KJV
(9) Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations:
Men will be found behaving badly towards what they hear the Spirit saying in this coming time…..and those who will not hear and be found as obedient children (doing His will) are not found the children of God.
(10) And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
(11) And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the LORD hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.
“Wine” is a mocker and strong drink is raging. Whoever does not bridle his tongue from speaking out in wrath deceives his own heart.
Proverbs 20:1 KJV
(1) Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife…..especially at the hearing of the Spirit of Truth.
“Meddling” = to be obstinate. Every fool will be found obstinate against what they hear. For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. (1 Samuel 15:23).
Proverbs 20:3 KJV
(3) It is an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Wine is a mocker and strong drink is raging….whoever does not bridle his own tongue deceives his own heart. That man’s religion is vain….empty. We must overcome our wrath and be found a DOER of the work…..remembering to let brotherly love continue.
James 1:25-26 KJV
(25) But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
(26) If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain.
Whoever abides in the Lord will not speak evil against what they hear. They will not sin. Those who do speak out in wrath have not seen Him neither have known Him.
1 John 3:6-15 KJV
(6) Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
(7) Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
He that commits sin…speaking evil out in wrath against what they hear the Spirit saying… is of the devil.
(8) He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
(9) Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
IN THIS WAY are the children of God are manifest and the children of the devil: whosoever does not the righteousness of God is not of God neither is he that does not love his brother whom he has seen. How can one say that they love God whom they have not seen when they show hatred toward their brother whom they have seen?
(10) In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
(11) For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.
(12) Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
(13) Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.
(14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
We are to be swift to hear the Word of Truth and be slow to speak against what we hear…slow to wrath. The wrath of man does not work the righteousness of God.
James 1:18-22 KJV
(18) Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
(19) Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
(20) For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
We are to OVERCOME the wrath…laying apart all of the evil things that want to come out of our mouths at the hearing of the Word of Truth and receive with meekness the engrafted Word.
(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.
Those who will be found speaking evil shall not enter in to understand.
John 8:42-51 KJV
(42) Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
Why will they not understand His speech? Because they cannot hear His Word…His Saying: to have love for one another. If God is their Father, then they would be found loving those whom He sends out to speak His words.
(43) Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word.
The children of the devil will be found “killing” another with their evil speaking….prating against them with malicious words. Whoever hates his brother is a murderer and has no eternal life abiding in them. They will go in the way of Cain who hated his own brother.
(44) Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
(45) And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
(46) Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why do ye not believe me?
He that is of God hears God’s words. Those who will not hear them are not of God as they will go about “killing” another (who will speak the Word of truth) with their evil speaking rather than DO His will to have love for another.
(47) He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God.
The children of the devil will be found speaking evil of another…calling them “devils”…evil doers.
(48) Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?
(49) Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye do dishonour me.
When we hear the Word of Truth spoken through the Spirit, we are to be found seeking God’s glory rather than our own. If we keep His saying (to have love for one another), we shall never see death in this earth.
(50) And I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth.
(51) Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.
We that are found loving those brothers sent out by Him to speak His words shall pass from death unto life. If a man keep His Saying (Word), he shall never see death.
1 John 3:14-15 KJV
(14) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.
(15) Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.
