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We are to overcome the old man of religion so as not to share in his sins and plagues in the coming Day of wrath. Those that can overcome shall not be hurt of the “second death”….the wrath of God that will come upon the unbelievers of the revealed Truth (the Word of Christ) in the churches.

(Rev 2:11 KJV) He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

We are to awake to His righteousness and put on the “new man”…Christ Jesus. We are then to seek after His wisdom and knowledge…which are those things from above. We are to no longer seek man’s religious, earthly wisdom which is from below….devilish. Wherever man’s religious wisdom is, there are divisions, strife and envying and every evil work.

(Col 3:1 KJV) If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

We are to set our affection on the things of God which are from above….and not on the things of religious man….who is earthy and corrupt in his thinking and ways.

2 Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

As a church, many are “dead” in trespasses and sins….but they are forgiven because of the ignorance of the Truth that is in them. Our life has been “hid” with Christ in God….we are forgiven because we know not what we do. Our “life” does not shine forth because of the old religious man’s corrupt deeds. The rest of the world only sees a strife-filled divided church. But we are to believe in His revealing of the Word of Truth in this last day….the Word of Christ….so that we may overcome with His revealed KNOWLEDGE. Then our life will no longer be “hid”…but shall shine forth for all to see.

3 For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

If we can overcome, then we can be preachers of the revealed Word of Truth…and that Truth is Christ Jesus. He is THE Truth! We can then preach the knowledge of Christ in his purest form…in the revealed knowledge of God. When we can overcome and then preach Christ who is our life (whenever Christ shall “appear”…be manifested through our preaching)…..then WE also shall be manifested with Him in glory. We share in His glory by preaching the revealed Truth….our life shall no longer be “hid”…but shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of God. We will preach the manifestation of Christ….the Truth….whose life will shine through us….if we can overcome.

4 When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Those that will be able to overcome through believing and doing of the Truth, shall shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of our Father.

(Mat 13:43 KJV) Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

If we can overcome the old man of religion’s corrupt ways and thinking by the believing and doing of the revealed Truth, then His life shall no longer be “hid’….but shall shine through us. Our life…our “light” shall break forth as the morning…we shall shine forth the glory of Jehovah…shining forth in the kingdom of the Father. We shall no longer be “dead” in Christ but truly alive…shining forth His manifestation by the preaching of Jesus Christ….the revealed Truth. And wherever He is manifested by our preaching of the Truth….we also appear with Him in His glory. Praise God!

(Isa 58:8 KJV) Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.
9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

We can preach the revealed Truth to the spiritually hungry and thirsty. Our “Light”…the life of Christ Jesus…shall no longer be “hid” to the rest of the world. Our “Light” shall rise in obscurity…..it will no longer be “hid….and our “darkness” shall be as the noon day.

10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon day:
11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.

But first, we are to overcome…to mortify the deeds of the old man of religion. His deeds are corrupt….they are motivated by his covetousness….which is the abomination of desolation that we are to flee from.

Col 3:5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

The “children of disobedience” are those of the churches who will not believe in His wonderful revelation of the Truth when they hear it. They will not overcome the religious, prideful man who seeks after the things of his own denominations.

6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

As a church, we have all walked and lived together…tares with the wheat. But the time is coming when we are to depart from the company of the unbelievers of the Truth in the last time.

7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

We are to put away the old man with his deeds…..overcome. We have been “dead” and our life has been “hid.” The life does not shine through the “dead”…for it is “hid.” We have been “dead” because of the old man’s deeds.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

We are to put on the new man which is RENEWED in KNOWLEDGE….KNOWLEDGE….KNOWLEDGE…..the revealed knowledge of God…and then we can preach the revealed Truth. We can preach the appearing of Christ….and share in His glory by doing so….. “ the shining.” We shall be in the image of Him…of the new man who is a new creation.

10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

We are to let the word of Christ dwell in us richly in all wisdom…..TEACHING and admonishing one another. By the teaching of the revealed Truth, we manifest Christ through us….the Light…and life of Christ. Our life will no longer be “hid” but shall be apparent to all around us.

(Col3:16 KJV) Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
17 And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

We can “shine” in His knowledge…revealing it to others…teaching and admonishing one another. We can turn others to His righteousness….shining the Light of Christ through us as the stars in the heavens.

(Dan 12:3 KJV) And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
 
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Satan and his ministers have led many of the church down the path to spiritual ruin. Many in the churches currently live in strife, envying, divisions…and hatred of one another. This is evident by the existence of many denominations and their disputing over the many, different interpretations of the Scriptures. These interpretations are based upon man’s leaning upon his own wisdom….which produces the confusion…Babylon…in the churches. Many pastors have become rich by seeking after the things of Babylon. They are drunk with her “wine”…..the wine of Babylon = covetousness. They have led many into “death”….hating one another. Whoever hates his brother abides in “death” ….this is not about literal death.

(1 John 3:14 KJV) We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

But the many in the churches who are abiding there in “death” are in ignorance of the full knowledge of the Truth that shall be revealed in these last days. Their sins are forgiven them for they know not what they do. His sacrifice for the ignorance of many covers their sins. Only a few in the churches have entered into true life. Only a few have His life shining in them as they love one another…despite all of the warring factions of the churches. But the “dead” shall hear His voice in this last day….they shall hear His revealing of the Truth. And by His revealing of the spiritual knowledge shall many “awake” to His righteousness. The many in the churches shall cast off their religious works of darkness and will love one another….in the ONE mind of Christ. The revealing of the Truth shall unify the many of the church that have been “asleep.” Their life shall no longer be hid….as they shall “shine” in the kingdom of the Father as the sun…putting on the whole armor of Light…..the knowledge of God….Christ Jesus.

(Rom 13:12 KJV) The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.

Many have been “dead” in trespasses and sins. They have hated each other in their various denominations. Many in the churches have had their behavior dictated by covetous preachers….the lusts of men….who place grievous burdens (doctrines and commandments of men) upon them. Spoken to the church:


(Eph 2:1 KJV) And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins:
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

But the “dead” shall hear His voice in this last day….and many shall “awake” to His righteousness. Many shall hear the revealing of the Truth….the opening up of the Scriptures in the mind of Christ. “All that are in the graves” are those many in the churches that are “dead” in trespasses and sins. The Life of Christ does not shine through them as they hate one another over doctrinal differences and envious thinking. The “Light” does not shine through them because they are living in ignorance. They are “dead”…darkened….so that the life of Christ is “hid” from shining towards others. They shall hear His “voice”…His preaching of the Truth in this last day….as Christ is “manifested” through us.

(John 5:28 KJV) Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,

Those that will receive the love of the Truth and DO the Truth shall be “resurrected” into true life. They shall awaken to His righteousness and cast off the works of the old man of religion. They shall overcome. They shall put to death the old man of religion. They shall pass from “death” into life because they will love one another in Jesus Christ…who is the Truth.

29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.


For man shall be judged by how he will respond to the revealing of the Truth...his own words either for the Truth or against it.


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

After hearing the revealed Truth…His voice, they shall willingly and obediently put to death the “old man” of religion who is corrupt in so many ways and has been deceived by Satan’s ministers. Putting to death of the old man is the “second death”…those who can overcome the old man shall not be “hurt” of the “second death.”

Rev 2: 11 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

But those who refuse to put to death the old man of religion shall suffer “hurt” of the “second death”….for that old man…that man of sin shall be destroyed. And all of the things that the old man struggled to hang onto in the face of the revealing of the Truth shall be burned away in a most unpleasant manner. The “old man” is the “man of sin” who will rise up against the revealing of the Truth. Many in the church shall seek to hold onto their “lives” of the old man of religion. They shall rise up in pride to oppose and contradict the revealing of the Truth….they shall hate His Truth….for it means giving up the things of this current religious order. Those who will stubbornly cling onto their “old man” shall have their “old man” destroyed the hard way….the “second death.”

(2 Th 2:3 KJV) Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

The revealing of the Truth shall expose what is in the hearts of all men…whether he be a good tree….receiving the love of the Truth….or a bad one….bringing forth evil fruits against the Truth. Those who will receive the love of the Truth shall put to death the old man that they had been living with. His image is destroyed willingly for the image of God in Christ Jesus. Those that will love the Truth shall crucify the old man willingly…putting off his religious, covetous deeds. They shall put on the “new man” which is renewed in KNOWLEDGE….the revealing of the Truth. They shall not be hurt of the second death.

(Col 3:9 KJV) Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

We are to awake out of the “first” death…..the death of hating one another in our religious assemblies…and put to death that way of life…the second death. The old man of religion’s behaviors is corrupt according to covetousness and is to be put to death by the revealing of His Truth.

(Eph 4:22 KJV) 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;
24 And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

The old man of religion lives in “death”…hating one another…living in divisions…lying to each other by man’s preaching of his falsehoods.

25 Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Those of the churches who will hear and love the Truth shall willingly destroy that “body of sin.” The old man is to be crucified in Christ Jesus…who is the KNOWLEDGE of God. He is the Wisdom of God….he is the Truth of God…he is the Way of God…he is the LIFE of God…He is the express image of God that we are to put on. Those that will put to death the old man of religion shall no longer serve sin….the missing of the mark of the Truth. They were previously led astray by covetous preachers. They shall not be hurt of the second death….for they crucify the old man in obedience to the hearing of His voice….the Truth. The previous “body of sin” is to be willingly sacrificed…crucified with him.

(Rom 6:6 KJV) Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
8 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:
9 Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

But those who will seek to stubbornly cling on to the old man’s religious ways and thoughts shall have their “old man” destroyed the hard way. One way or another…the “old man” gets destroyed.

(2 Th 2:8 KJV) And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

They shall be judged because they will not have believed in the Truth when they will hear it. They shall be judged because they will continue in the religious ways of the “old man”…the “man of sin”…..in his pleasure of unrighteousness religious works.

(2 Th 2:12 KJV) That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

In the second death, the religious pride of man shall be humbled the hard way. His things that he will seek to cling on to shall depart from him….and he shall become an example for all others to see. He will lose his inheritance….just like Esau. He shall suffer shame for his prideful behavior against the Truth. He shall be corrected by his own wickedness…as he will be given over to a rejected mind to be filled with all unrighteousness. Wickedness shall burn like a fire and destroy all of his things that he will labor in the “fire” for. His denominations shall degenerate into severe infighting and confusion….weeping and gnashing of teeth…rage and infighting. They shall wax worse and worse …as the “old man” is destroyed the hard way. They shall suffer “hurt” of the “second death”….all because they will not have believed in the Truth when they will hear it. They shall perish in their OWN corruption. Their soul…their “old man”…their “man of sin”…shall be destroyed the hard way.

(2 Pet 2:12 KJV) But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

And at the “last”…they shall mourn this when their body of sin is destroyed…when the old man is destroyed the hard way:

(Prov 5:11 KJV) And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
 
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We, as Christians, are to hear His “voice” in this last day. The Greek word for “voice” is “phone”….which means “a tone, a saying, a language”….and it is akin to the word “phaino”…which means “to shine, to lighten.” His “voice”….His disclosure…His teaching…His Light…His knowledge….will be revealed through the interpretation of the Scriptures. He opens up the Scriptures in the Spirit of Truth for our understanding and we are expected to have FAITH in what we hear with our “ears.” He instructs us into His Way in this last day.

(Heb 3:15 KJV) While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.

And we are to REMEMBER…REMEMBER….REMEMBER…the past. Not all who came out of Egypt were saved….for they heard in the desert but some did “provoke.” Not all of the Christian church will be saved as well….for some are going to “provoke” after hearing the Truth. History repeats itself. We are to remember.

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

Some in the Christian church will willfully continue to sin after hearing the revealed Truth. It is all going to be repeated…and those who will not remember the past are doomed to repeat it.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

They shall not enter into His rest. They are to rest from their own religious works…works of the “ground”…but they in their stubbornness will love their works more than the Truth. They will not BELIEVE in the revealing of the Truth….and will continue to hang on to man’s religious wisdom and practices….his earthly works.

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?

So now we understand the future by looking at the past (prophecy)….for some will not enter into His rest because of their unbelief in the revealing of the Truth.

19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom…we are to fear. We are to be in awe of His revealed Truth. “Let us therefore fear….”

4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

Just like thousands of years ago, there will be those people of the churches who will harden their hearts after hearing His revealed Truth preached in this last day. They shall hear the eternal gospel but it will not profit them for it will not be mixed with faith.

2 For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.

Our Father in heaven shall instruct… (the meaning of “torah”)… us into the Way with His Truth….just as He instructed Cain. We are to hear His “Law”… the “torah”… the “instruction”…..and DO IT. We are to overcome the “old man” of religion….who is like Cain, a “tiller of the ground”…whose works are based on his own earthly, religious wisdom. Religious man…the “old man”…is busy producing the fruit of man’s covetousness of his own heart. His grand church buildings…his church growth…his great ministries….his religious merchandise…are all fruits of the “ground.” Abel was a “keeper of sheep.” We also are to “keep the sheep”….be our brother’s keeper. We are to keep our Father’s “Law”…His instruction within in our hearts. We are to love Him and love one another which is the true sacrifice. Cain was a “tiller of the ground.” His sacrifices were not acceptable and neither are the current religious organizations’ works in this last day.

(Gen 4:2 KJV) And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

“In the process of time” = these last days of the revelation of the Truth.

3 And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD.

Love is the greatest….the “firstling of the flock.” The “fat” thereof: Love is kind…love is patient…it does not envy…it is not proud….it is not rude…it is not self-seeking…it keeps no record of wrongs.

4 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

There will be “no respect” for religious man’s offerings. The works of the old man of religion are corrupt…of the earth….of the “ground.” Religious man lives in envy, strife and hatred of one another because of his earthly works. We are to “keep the sheep” instead…just as Abel. Religious man in this last day is going to hear the Truth: that his worship of God is in vain….nothing but doctrines and commandments of men….of the “ground”….. not profitable.

5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Religious man shall become “wroth” at the hearing of the Truth…that his works are in vain.

6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

In the “resurrection” which is the standing up of the spiritual Truth…the preaching of the revealed Truth…those that will do “well” towards the Truth shall be accepted. Those that will hear, believe and do the Truth…it shall be credited to them as righteousness. Their “sacrifice” shall be accepted. The “Cain” of this last day is instructed into the Way by our Father who opens up the Scriptures to our understanding. We are to hear His “voice” and obey. We are to overcome sin….we are to rule over “him”….to rule over the “old man.” Sin lies at “the door”…..at the “mouth” of men. We are to be judged by how we respond to His instruction. For by our words either for or against the Truth shall we be justified or judged. We are not to provoke…to harden our hearts against the Truth…His voice….His instruction. We are to overcome the old man of religion and rule over sin.

7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Those that will stubbornly not receive the love of the Truth are going to persecute those in the church that do. They shall be like Cain and hate their own Christian brothers who do receive and do the Truth.

8 And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

WE are our brother’s keeper….keeper of the sheep.

9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?

We are to keep the sheep…to love one another…and not be as Cain who slew his brother. The acceptable sacrifice of the “firstling of the flock”….of Christ Jesus = to love one another. Love is the greatest.

(1 John 3:11 KJV) For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

But there will be those “Cains” of the church who will hate those who will receive the love of the Truth…who will do the Truth. The Cains of the church will continue to hold onto their own evil works of the “ground.”

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.

“Marvel not”…the religious system of man shall hate those who will love the Truth.

13 Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Those that can rule over the old man of religion shall pass from “death unto life”…by loving the brothers.

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 lay down our “lives”…our “souls”….for the brothers…keeping the sacrifice of Christ that is acceptable to the Father. We are to lay down our doctrinal differences….our church ways and practices…and come together as ONE in one mind and Spirit. We are not to harbor bitterness for one another as religious man currently does in his denominations.

16 Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Those who are born after the “flesh” shall persecute those who are born after the Spirit. And so there will be those in the churches who will speak evil…defame...gossip…stab in the back…those who will receive and do the Truth in this last day. They shall be like Cain and hate those whose sacrifices are righteous….acceptable.

(Gal 4:29 KJV) But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.

All those who will live godly in Christ Jesus…who is the revealed Truth…shall suffer persecution from their own brothers….church people who will not receive the love of the Truth and overcome to be saved.

(2 Tim 3:12 KJV) Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
13 But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.




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Like Cain, they will not heed the instruction of the Father. They shall be the “man of sin” who shall rise up against the brothers who will do the Truth. They will not rule over sin…but sin shall rule over them (the man of sin) and they will be given over to a rejected mind to be filled with all unrighteousness. Sin lies at the door of man's mouth when the Truth is being revealed. For what is in the heart of man shall come out of the mouth when he hears the Truth....but he can overcome with His instruction.


(Gen 4:7 KJV) If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

Those that will not overcome will be given over to the uncleanness of their hearts to work all unrighteousness. They shall perish in their own wickedness. Their wickedness shall be upon their own heads as punishment....the "mark." Their works shall increase in all unrighteousness…waxing worse and worse.

(Gen 4:11 KJV) And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand;

Their works shall no longer produce their yield for them…as the things their souls lust after shall depart from them.

12 When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
13 And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear.

They shall not understand His knowledge….for His “face” shall be hid from them. What little they have had will be taken away from them. No one shall slay them...they shall perish in their own wickedness. The "old man" shall be destroyed.

14 Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.

The Son of man comes to save men and not destroy them. Their own wickedness will destroy their “old man” in a very hurtful way. Their own wickedness shall reprove them. Their own wickedness shall be upon their own heads. They shall be given over to a reprobate mind to work all unrighteousness...and all the bad things will come about on them as a result.


15 And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
16 And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

Those who will not obey the instruction shall be punished from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power….just as Cain went out from the presence…the “face” of Jehovah. They shall lose their inheritance among the saints of God.

(2 Th 1:7 KJV) And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:
9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;

Those who will willfully…stubbornly continue to sin…after the hearing of the revealed Truth, shall be cut off from among God's people and his own iniquity shall be upon him....the "mark."

Num 15: 30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Those who will hear the sound of the trumpet….the disclosure of the Truth and take not warning….his blood shall be upon his own head. We are to hear the “sound of the trumpet”….to hear His “voice” in this last day. We are not to harden our hearts.

(Ezek 33:3 KJV) If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.

Their reward shall return upon their own heads….the “mark.” No one shall “slay” them….but they shall perish in their OWN corruption.

(Oba 1:15 KJV) For the day of the LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

The old man shall die in his own iniquity.


(Ezek 3:19 KJV) Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
 
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The “man of sin” shall be revealed for all to see….for the revealing of the Truth shall expose what is in the hearts of men. The collective “man of sin” shall hate the righteous who will have received the love of the Truth and be saved in these last days. The “man of sin” will be our own brothers in the churches who will not receive the love of the Truth when they hear it. They will be our brothers just as Cain was brother to Abel. “Abel” means “vain, empty”….and those in the church who will follow in Cain’s path shall also consider those who do receive the Truth as “vain”….as foolish….. “Raca”… “empty.” Cain was angry with his brother without cause…and so will be those of the church who, like Cain, shall be angry with their brothers whose sacrifices are righteous. Their anger…their persecutions…their reviling…shall be without cause…and they will call us “empty”… “fools”…for receiving the love of the Truth. Cain was angry…envious… at his brother without a cause for it.

(Mat 5:22 KJV) But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

Those that will receive and do the Truth…who will live godly in Christ Jesus…shall be persecuted by those of the church who will not receive the love of the Truth in this last day. The “Cains” of the church shall be revealed for who they are by their opposition to the Truth and their “persecution” of those who will do the Truth. The “Cains” of the church shall be revealed for all to see…..we shall “find him” rather easily by his wickedness…his hatred….his opposition. But we are not to “slay” them…to hate them. We are to bless those who will persecute us. We are to love our enemies who will oppose us over the Truth.

(Gen 4:15 KJV) And the LORD said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the LORD set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

The Hebrew word for “mark” is “owth” which means: a signal (lit. or fig.), as a flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence, etc.:--mark, miracle, (en-) sign, token.

The “mark”…the sign…. that we are to see in the future Cains of the church will be their wicked opposition to us….their “hard speeches” against those who will believe in the Truth. The “mark”…the signaling characteristic…the sign…the evidence…shall be their fierce opposition. This is their “mark”….their “evident token of perdition..”


(Phil 1:28 KJV) And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.

We shall suffer for His sake…for the sake of the gospel…for believing in the Truth. We shall receive persecutions from our own church brothers who will think that our acceptance of the revealed Truth is foolishness. "Abel" means "vain, empty."

29 For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

We are to patiently endure the persecutions and tribulations by those who will be fiercely opposed to the Truth. They can not harm us. Fear not.

(2 Th 1:4 KJV) So that we ourselves glory in you in the churches of God for your patience and faith in all your persecutions and tribulations that ye endure:

Once again…there is a “manifest token”….of the righteous judgment of God. Perilous times are coming for the church.

5 Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

God will recompense those who will trouble us with their harsh words and evil speaking. This is coming to the churches….the division between the wheat and the tares…and the tares will react in a most unpleasant manner.

6 Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
7 And to you who are troubled rest with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,
8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:


Like Cain....punished from the presence of the Lord.


9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
10 When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.

When the “Cains” of the church show forth their “manifest token” of their perdition….by their fierce opposition of those who will receive the love of the Truth, we are not to “slay” them. We are not to avenge ourselves……for the Lord says that the vengeance is His and that He will repay. We are not to “slay” Cain when we find “him” by his “mark” …the signal he shall give us…. his wrathful, wicked opposition. We are to remember Cain and Abel and the “mark”….the signal to look for.

(Rom 12:19 KJV) Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.
20 Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.
21 Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

We are not to “slay” Cain when the “man of sin” is revealed in the churches. We are to bless them that persecute us. Bless…and curse not.

(Rom 12:14 KJV) Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

We are not to “slay” “Cain” who will hate us….but we are to love our enemies…and bless them that will curse us because of our acceptance of the revealed Truth.

(Mat 5:44 KJV) But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

The Father shall make His “sun” rise on the evil and the good. His “sun” of the revealed Word of Truth shall rise in this last day. The Truth shall be revealed for all to see. He will send the “rain” of the Truth upon both the just and the unjust. It is the Truth that shall expose what is in the hearts of men…whether he is good or evil…whether he is just or unjust…according to how he responds to the revealing of the Truth. By our words shall we be judged. The good shall be persecuted by the evil….the just shall be opposed by the unjust. They will be the “unjust”….because they will hate without cause those who will receive the love of the Truth. They will have no “just” cause for their hatred and reactions.

45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

For no “disciple”….pupil…. of the Truth is above the Master. As his own brothers persecuted him…so shall our own persecute us with their reviling…..speaking evil of the Way of Truth.

(Mat 10:23 KJV) But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.
24 The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.
25 It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

We are to not fear them…but we are to fear God and keep His Word of Truth within our heart. There is nothing in our hearts that will not be revealed in this last day. The revealing of the Truth shall reveal what is in the hearts of men.

26 Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

We are to have no company with him….the wheat separated from the tares….so that he may be ashamed…so as not to share in their plagues and sins.

(2 Th 3:14 KJV) And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.

We are not to count him as enemy….but “admonish” him as a brother. We are to gently but earnestly rebuke those who will oppose themselves to the Truth.

15 Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

We are not to bring a “railing accusation” against them.

(Jude 1:9 KJV) Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

We are to let the Lord rebuke them….with His revealed Word. All Scripture is given by “inspiration of God” and is profitable for teaching, reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. His Spirit of Truth is what enlivens the Scriptures….the “inspiration.”

(2 Tim 3:16 KJV) All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

The “inspiration of God” is what made man become a living soul. He shall breath His Spirit of Truth into the understanding of the Scriptures which can enable us to become a living soul in Him. We can crucify the “old man” in His knowledge and live in Christ Jesus. All the “dead” who are in their graves shall hear His “voice”…His preaching of the revealed Truth. He sends the “rain” upon the just and the unjust. His “sun” shall rise upon the good and the evil.

(Gen 2:7 KJV) And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

He will “breathe” on us….and we are to receive His Spirit of Truth to know the hidden mysteries of the Word of God. We can overcome our sins with His knowledge.

(John 20:22 KJV) And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost:
23 Whose soever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whose soever sins ye retain, they are retained.

All Scripture as revealed by His Spirit of Truth is profitable for teaching and rebuke. His living Word is used for the rebuke. His truthful interpretation of the Scriptures is the inspiration of God. To “bless” those who will curse us is to “preach the Word”….to speak the good Words that we will hear the Spirit of Truth say. We repeat what the Spirit of Truth shows us in the Scripture of Truth.

(2 Tim 4:2 KJV) Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

It is His living Word that shall judge them in the last day.

(John 12:48 KJV) He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

The servant of the Lord must not strive….but be gentle unto ALL men. We must be PATIENT.

(2 Tim 2:24 KJV) And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

In meekness we are to instruct those who will “oppose themselves.”

25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
26 And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

For those who will resist the Truth with their hard and unrepentant hearts shall perish in their own wickedness. They shall have no rest day or night as their “old man” souls will be destroyed in the fire of their own wickedness. For whoever seeks to keep his current religious life….his “old man” SOUL...shall lose it.

(Rev 14:11 KJV) And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

And this is going to require the patience of the saints…those who will keep His commandments and the faith of Jesus. We, who will receive the love of the Truth, are to be patient as those who will resist the Truth suffer for their own wickedness…for their opposition. They shall be an angry group…enraged at those who will receive the love of the Truth. They shall “gnash their teeth” upon the righteous…..their evil tongues shall speak things full of poison. But we are to have patience and endure their evil speaking…their persecutions…for great will be our reward.

12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

(Psa 37:12 KJV) The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming.
14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.
 
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Hi Wheeler , good to see you posting
I am unable to be on the computer much these days
SO much going on and need to get a new computer soon ..

That being said ...

I Love what Jesus said in Matt 5 and Luke 6
awesome things to learn and do as He teaches us to be perfect like Him and the Father in Heaven

20And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said, Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.

21Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.
22Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.
24But woe unto you that are rich! for ye have received your consolation.
25Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
26Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
27But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you,
28Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you.
29And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.
30Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.
31And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.
32For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.
33And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same.
34And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.
35But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
36Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.
37Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:
38Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
39And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?
40The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.
41And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
42Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.
43For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
44For every tree is known by his own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.
45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
46And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?
47Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
48He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock. 49But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

If only it was as easy to DO as it is to say
I struggle with doing ,more than I want to confess :(

God bless C ..
 
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Hi Chickapee…..good to hear from you. I was getting a little worried that all that cold up north must have froze your internet connection. lol! I hear you about being busy. I continue to ramble on here though….much to the dismay of many I’m sure. Yes, Matthew 5 is awesome!

Rambling study:

Our God has made known the end from the beginning. Let us REMEMBER His words. When we hear the bird of the spiritual morning crow….the opening up of the Scriptures in the Spirit of Truth…let us remember the Word and weep bitterly for our sins. We have denied we know Him with our religious works of men….those “works of righteousness”…which are NOT and for naught.

(Mat 26:74 KJV) Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] crew.
75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

The Spirit of Truth shall teach us ALL things….and bring ALL things to our REMEMBRANCE. Let us hear what the Spirit says.

(John 14:26 KJV) But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

The religious “world” of man’s church organizations can not receive what the Spirit of Truth will teach in these last days. The spiritual things will seem foolish to those who are naturally-minded in the churches.

(John 14:17 KJV) Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.

And like Cain…they shall be angry when they hear the Truth….that their worship of God is in vain….empty and useless….vain teachings and doctrines of men.

(Gen 4:5 KJV) But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

We cannot be redeemed by man’s religious doctrines and commandments….his traditions….his brand of salvation. We cannot be redeemed by following man’s wisdom of the Scriptures.

We are to BELIEVE in the preaching of Christ Jesus...His interpretation.
Man’s works of “righteousness” are nothing but the works of his own hands…the “silver and gold.” We have received our “vain behavior” through the tradition of religious man. The church fathers’ ways and teachings are profitless….and we….the children… have inherited their falsehoods and empty practices. These sacrifices are profitless…fruit of the “ground.”

(1 Pet 1:18 KJV) Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

But every person…no matter what denomination….shall be accepted if they do well: to hear His Truth and fear Him…and work His TRUE righteousness. These are the sacrifices that He will have “respect” for….not what man calls us to “sacrifice” in his earthly wisdom of his religious empire of dust. God is not a respecter of persons….nor man’s denominations….nor man’s church hierarchies.

(Acts 10:34 KJV) Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

But the Cains of the church shall put us out of their churches….hating us (“killing you”) because of the Truth. And yet they will think that they will be doing God service by doing so.

(John 16:2 KJV) They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

They will do these things to those of the church who will receive the love of the Truth. They will not have known the Father nor the Truth in their hearts….although they will profess they do.

3 And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

But blessed are you when men shall hate you…. “killing you.” They will think that they are doing God service in doing so. They shall separate you from their company…and shall reproach you…and cast out your name as evil because you will believe in the revealed Truth when it comes. These will be men of our very own households…in our own churches.

(Luke 6:22 KJV) Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
23 Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets.

Blessed are they which are persecuted for doing His true righteousness.

(Mat 5:10 KJV) Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Our own church people shall revile us and “persecute” us….all because we will have received the love of the Truth….which will be much different than man’s “truth.”

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

Those that will receive the love of the revealed Truth shall cease from religious man’s sins….his missing of the mark of the Truth. Those that will cease from the lusts of the religious organizations of men shall suffer in the flesh….by enduring the evil speaking against us by religious man.

(1 Pet 4:1 KJV) Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;
2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

They will think it “strange” that we will no longer “run” with them in their religious ways and thoughts. They will speak evil of us…the “suffering in the flesh.”

4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:


We are to remember the former things of old….for He has declared the end from the beginning. By remembering Cain and Abel, we can understand His plans for the church in these last days. We are to REMEMBER.

(Isa 46:8 KJV) Remember this, and show yourselves men: bring it again to mind, O ye transgressors.
9 Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

He declares the end from the beginning.

10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:

He will send His “rain” of the Truth upon us. The “sun” of the Truth shall arise in the spiritual dawning of His knowledge. Both the good and the evil shall hear His knowledge through the preaching of it.

(Mat 5:44 KJV) But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;
45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

How man receives this Truth is how he will be judged. A “good tree” shall bring forth good fruit…..belief in the Truth, repentance, love, peace, joy. But the “corrupt tree” shall bring forth “evil fruit:” unbelief, a hard and unrepentant heart, blasphemies, evil railing against those who will love the Truth, etc, etc. Religious man shall be judged by his own idle words that will come out of his own heart against the Truth.

(Mat 7:17 KJV) Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit.
18 A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
19 Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
20 Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

He shall send the “rain” of the Truth upon the hearts of man….the “earth.” What fruit will they bear? Will religious man bring forth the fruit of repentance when he will hear the Truth…. “drinking in the rain?” Will he hear and DO the Truth? Will he then receive blessing from God?

(Heb 6:7 KJV) For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

Or will he in his hardness of heart bring forth evil out of his heart against the preaching of the Truth with his “idle words”…the “fruits” of thorns and briers?

8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

We are to be patient unto the “coming”…the PRESENCE of the Lord. For the short-tempered wrath of man against the Truth works unrighteousness. Our God is patient with us….His patience is our salvation. He is patient with the “slow of heart” to believe...those who will be slow to believe in the hearing of the Truth. He waits patiently for religious man to bear the precious fruit of the earth…the heart…toward His revealed Truth.

(James 5:7 KJV) Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

He shall “unbraid” those who are slow of heart to believe…like he did with his own disciples who did not believe the report of Mary and the two disciples who had "seen" the Lord.


(Mark 16:14 KJV) Afterward he appeared unto the eleven as they sat at meat, and upbraided them with their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they believed not them which had seen him after he was risen.

He is patient with us for our slowness of heart to believe in His revealing of the Truth. He will “dig about” and “fertilize” those who will not immediately believe so that they may produce the fruit of repentance….the fruits of righteousness.

(Luke 13:7 KJV) Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
8 And he answering said unto him, Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it:
9 And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

To “dig about” and “fertilize” is the “chastening” that will be received for being slow of heart to believe. He will deal with us as sons.

(Heb 12:7 KJV) If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
8 But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

The Father shall correct us as He will wait patiently for us to produce the fruits of His righteousness.

9 Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

The chastening for the present of those slow to believe will not seem joyous…but grievous. Nevertheless, afterward it shall yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness.

10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.

We are to hear Him speak…His voice…in this last day. He will speak peace to us…but let us not return back to the folly of religious man’s ways and thoughts. REMEMBER Lot’s wife.

(Psa 85:8 KJV) I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.
 
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Hi Wheeler , yes I have been STUCK in the ''holler '' many times/days this winter .. this has been a weird one , hot and bitter cold just days of each other , with much snow !
I love to read your ramblings
and Love the WORD OF GOD ......... I know only the Lord can make us new and clean and pure .. His will be done on earth as it is in heaven and I wait for it !

making our selves ready for the Lord s presence !
Jhn 3:29He 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.Rev 19:7Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath made herself ready.And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed [are] they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

wow!!
 
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Hi Chickapee…..so glad you are still considering my ramblings here. I like to “ramble on….sing my song…gotta keep a searching..”



This winter has definitely been a strange one…even down here. It’s been hot and very cold at times. Spring will be here before you know it.

Indeed, this is completely about His will being done in the earth as it is in heaven. It is about the hearts of His people returning to Him. The church readies herself for Him with the revealing of the Truth. They are to HEAR and believe in their hearts. The revelation of His Truth enables us to overcome the current religious thoughts and ways of natural-minded men. We can then all come together in one mind and one Spirit….as one new man…in Christ Jesus. We can come out of the envy, strife and divisions of religious man….the “old man” who is corrupt by deceitful desires.

(Mat 6:9 KJV) After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.
10 Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

The “rain” will come down….His Truth from above will be preached to a desolate, divided church. His revealed Word comes down as the “rain” upon our hearts and it will achieve what He has planned for us. It shall prosper in the thing He sends it to do. The preaching of the revealed Truth from above shall ready His church so that it may produce fruits of righteousness. His “rain” shall water the “earth.” He will open up the Scriptures to our understanding….the revealing of the Scripture of Truth…and we are to believe in our hearts.

(Isa 55:10 KJV) For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

His Wisdom that is from above (the pure early rain) shall produce the fruit of righteousness. The fruits of righteousness are sown in peace…..it will give “seed to the sower.”

(James 3:17 KJV) But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, 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.

Those that will drink in His “rain”…to consider His teaching of the Scripture of Truth….shall bring forth “herbs”….the fruits of righteousness…repentance, peace, love, joy in Him. Notice the “rain” has to come OFTEN upon it….for many are slow to believe…but eventually they will “get it” and act accordingly. We will receive blessing from God if we hear, believe and do the Truth. We shall depart from religious man’s works of “righteousness”…which are really works of darkness….and produce the TRUE works of righteousness. The earth is the heart….which is supposed to believe and not harden against the Truth.

(Heb 6:7 KJV) For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

He shall send His “rain” upon the evil as well. The “evil” will be those of the church who will resist His interpretation of the Scriptures in order to keep their own “biblical” wisdom. That which will bear thorns and briers when His early “rain” comes to them is rejected. They shall bear their evil fruit: pride against the Truth, evil speaking of the Way of Truth, persecution of those who will love the Truth, blasphemies against the Spirit of Truth, etc.

8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

His “rain” is coming….we shall “see” the Son of man coming in the “clouds” with great power and glory. These are not literal clouds….but people….His eyewitnesses.

(Mark 13:26 KJV) And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

He comes with a great “cloud” of witnesses…and we are to lay aside every “weight”….every sin…every teaching of religious man and his practices that misses the mark of the revealing of the Truth.

(Heb 12:1 KJV) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

Moses is a witness….he is part of that “cloud.” We will hear His voice interpret Moses and all of the prophets. Jesus Christ is the heavenly witness of Moses’ words….his words are the revealed Truth that has been hidden in the writings of Moses.

(Deu 31:30 KJV) And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.

We are to “give ear”(“ye heavens)……and “hear” with our hearts (O earth.) He will “speak”…give the “rain” from the “cloud” of witnesses.

32:1 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.

The teaching of Christ Jesus, who is the Truth, is the “rain” that shall drop from the heavens….and we are to receive His doctrine. The preaching of the Truth comes as the early rain. Most rain showers start with a few drops….and then comes the “big” rain for those who will hear with their ears.

2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass:
3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.

Our God is a God of TRUTH.

4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

We are to hear with our ears and understand with our hearts….and be converted and He shall heal. Hear…O heavens…and give ear...O earth. Note: this is written to the people of God who should hear and believe with their hearts and be healed of their envy, strife, hatred of one another, and divisions.

(Acts 28:27 KJV) For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

We are to “hear” His interpretation of the Scriptures….and believe with our hearts (O earth.) For Jehovah speaks….the “rain.”

(Isa 1:2 KJV) Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

We are to hear with our ears….open our ears…and see the “heavens open.” We are to hear His interpretation of the Scriptures…the opening to our understanding.

(Acts 7:56 KJV) And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

We are NOT to be like those who stoned Stephen for testifying the Truth. They “stopped their ears.” There is a link between the open ear….and heaven being opened…and the stopped up ear…and the heaven being shut.

57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

The shutting and opening of heaven is linked to the shutting and opening of the ears.

(1 Ki 8:33 KJV) When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:

God “hears” in heaven.

34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their fathers.

When man willfully stops ups his ears from hearing the Truth….there will be no latter “rain” …. “heaven is shut up.” It is sin for man to willfully stop up his ears from hearing the Truth.

35 When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

There is a link between hearing with the ears and heaven….

36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

Again, there is a link between hearing with the ears and heaven.....

(1 Ki 8:39 KJV) Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

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And if religious man shall not come up to “Jerusalem”…to His knowledge… to His wisdom…to worship the King…there shall be no “rain” to them. This means that they will have stopped up their ears from hearing the revealed Truth….the early “rain.”

(Zec 14:17 KJV) And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

They will be considered the “family of Egypt”….because, like Pharaoh, they will have hardened their man-based religious hearts against His revealing of the Truth. Those that will not hear and receive His rain in order to produce fruits of righteousness, shall perish in their own wickedness…there shall be the “plague.” There shall be no “rain”…no greater understanding of Him and His Word.

18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

In the Light of the King’s countenance is LIFE….and His favor is as a “cloud” of the “latter rain.”

(Prov 16:15 KJV) In the light of the king's countenance is life; and his favour is as a cloud of the latter rain.

How much better is His wisdom (the rain) from above than religious man’s wisdom and understanding which is from below…the “gold” and “silver.” All of man’s church organizations are works that are done in vain. They worship God in vain…empty traditions of men.

16 How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver

To repeat, there is a link between hearing and heaven….as shown in Mark 7. Jesus looked up to “heaven” and said “BE OPENED.” Heaven shall be “opened” to those who hear with their open “ears.”

(Mark 7:34 KJV) And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened.

Heaven opens…..ears open. The Scriptures shall be opened for our hearing. And then we can preach the Word of God in TRUE heavenly wisdom and understanding. The “string” of our tongues shall be “loosed.” We can then speak the Word of God “plain”…with true meaning. Man speaks “Babylon”…confusion.

35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

Like Elijah…we can “pray”…we can preach His Truth….so that the heavens open for others and His “rain” can rain upon their hearts….the “earth”…and then we can bring forth the fruits of the Spirit…fruits of righteousness.

(James 5:17 KJV) Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.

But some will not endure sound doctrine…the teaching of the heavenly knowledge of God. But after their own covetousness….the abomination of desolation…they shall heap to themselves teachers having “itching ears.” They shall turn their ears from hearing the revealing of the Truth and shall RETURN BACK to their fables….their teachings, disputing, doctrines and commandments of men. The “family of Egypt” shall harden their hearts to the preaching of the Truth.

(2 Tim 4:3 KJV) For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

They shall not receive the latter “rain” which produces fruits of righteousness in the heart…in the “earth.” And where it does not “rain,” there is usually a “desert.” The wicked of the church will be those who will not endure sound doctrine….they will be preaching “peace and safety”….speaking “peace to their neighbors..” They will be thinking in their hearts that they will have peace and safety to continue playing church according to the way things have always been.

(Psa 28:3 KJV) Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

But Jehovah shall give them according to their deeds…according to their wickedness….according to the work of their own hands. He shall render them to their DESERT…their “desert” heart….to the uncleanness of their own hearts.

4 Give them according to their deeds, and according to the wickedness of their endeavours: give them after the work of their hands; render to them their desert.

In the “desert”…not much grows because there is a lack of “rain.” And so all of their religious works shall become profitless…their works shall be destroyed through their own wickedness. All because they will not regard the works of Jehovah…which is revealed by the early “rain” of the Truth.

5 Because they regard not the works of the LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
6 Blessed be the LORD, because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.

Because of their hardness and unrepentant heart…..there shall be no “latter rain”…no showers that shall bring them peace and joy and love and happiness. Their church organizations shall be completely polluted as the sit in the “wilderness”…the “desert.” The “showers” shall be withheld…..ever learning but never able to come to the FULL knowledge (epignosis) of the Truth…..the full, latter rain.

(Jer 3:2 KJV) Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.
3 Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a harlot's forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

But those who will drink in the early “rain” shall be “showered” with the “showers of blessing.” What a great wonderful promise!

(Ezek 34:26 KJV) And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing.

We shall then FULLY know that “I am” is Jehovah. We shall be delivered out of the hands of covetous pastors who only seek to make us merchandise…for they have only served themselves. The revealing of the Truth shall set His people FREE so that they may yield a harvest of true righteousness.


27 And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
 
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We have to “keep on rollin” with the changes as the Spirit of Truth transforms the Scriptures from man’s earthly understanding to His heavenly understanding. Man’s understanding of the Scriptures is profitless. Man’s wisdom of the Bible is the same old story…the same old, same old. “So if you are tired of the same old story, oh, turn some pages.” We are to hear the “new song” of the Truth….the everlasting gospel….the AGE of ages gospel….the best of the best…the new wine that is saved for last. The preaching of the good news of Christ Jesus….his heavenly witness of the Scripture of Truth…is the power of God unto our salvation to every one that will believe. We are to hear the Spirit of Truth preaching today and believe with our hearts. The more we hear…the more we believe… “faith to faith.” Our faith grows stronger every day as His “rain” of the Truth falls often upon the “earth” of our hearts. And so, in believe of the revealing of the Truth, we shall produce fruit of true righteousness.

(Rom 1:16 KJV) For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Our faith shall grow stronger the more we hear.

1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

Faith…belief…comes by HEARING and hearing by the Word of God that is preached in its heavenly interpretation. The opened Word of God = the opened heaven that shall send “rain” upon our hearts….His heavenly knowledge.

(Rom 10:17 KJV) So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

We are to believe with our hearts….the Word of faith.

(Rom 10:8 KJV) But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

We are to believe in our hearts His preaching of the Scripture of Truth in this last time. The witnesses’ words of the Bible had been “dead” in man’s minds and hearts….but they will come “alive” in His heavenly witness….and we are to BELIEVE in that witness that comes out of His mouth…and confess with our own mouths the Lord Jesus…who is that TRUTH.

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Like Abraham, we are to believe with the heart and it shall be credited to us as righteousness. Man believes unto righteousness with his heart and what is in abundance in the heart comes out of the mouth….the confession that it is TRUTH.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

We are to hear His heavenly witness of the Scriptures….the “deaf” shall hear the Words of the Book. In Isaiah 29: “Lebanon” shall be turned into a fruitful field. At the “heart” of the Hebrew word for “Lebanon” is “lebab” which means “heart.” Our believing hearts in His revelation of the Truth shall produce true fruits of righteousness….peace, love, joy, rejoicing. "Lebanon" = the heart of man.


(Isa 29:17 KJV) Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

The “deaf” in the churches shall “hear” with true understanding the “Words of the Book”….the Scripture of Truth. The “eyes of our understanding” shall see what is truly being said in the Scripture of Truth. We shall see out of religious man’s “darkness”…his leaning upon his own “understanding.”

18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

Those that will humbly accept the revealing of the Truth shall be joyful.

19 The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

But those who will be stubbornly stay with their religious, denominational pride shall be “consumed”….in their own wickedness. They shall scoff at the Truth in the last days…to their own detriment.

20 For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off:

Our Father in heaven shall send us the “new wine” of the Truth which shall gladden the hearts of men who shall hear and believe in their hearts. The “bread” of the Truth shall strengthen our hearts.

(Psa 104:15 KJV) And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

We are His trees that He has planted….the “cedars of Lebanon”….the strengthened hearts of us. “Lebanon” = our hearts = “lebab.” He shall strengthen our hearts with His revealing of the Truth…..make our hearts the “cedars of Lebanon.” Whoever shall humble himself at the Truth, shall be exalted.

16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap; the cedars of Lebanon, which he hath planted;

But those who will cling on to the old man of religion will harden their hearts against His Truth. This is the other “cedar of Lebanon” that the Day of Jehovah shall humble. Religious man …the old man…of some shall stubbornly strengthen their hearts…harden their hearts…against His Truth. Those “cedars of Lebanon”….shall be brought low. Their hearts shall be humbled…the hard way.

(Isa 2:11 KJV) The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
12 For the day of the LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:

In this context, the “cedars of Lebanon”= hardening the heart of religious man who shall exalt himself against the revealing of the Truth….who will not believe.

13 And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, that are high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,
14 And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,
15 And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,
16 And upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant pictures.
17 And the loftiness of man shall be bowed down, and the haughtiness of men shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.
18 And the idols he shall utterly abolish.

Religious man who exalts himself against the Truth shall learn to FEAR Him. He shall arise to “shake TERRIBLY the earth.” He shall SHAKE the HEART of man so that he shall FEAR Him to whom FEAR is owed. He shall bring down the exalted of heart down.

19 And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

Men’s hearts shall fail them for FEAR. The "kings of the earth" shall fear...for they stubbornly ruled over their own hearts in the revealing of the Truth.


(Luke 21:26 KJV) Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

Religious man in the hardness of his heart shall stop us his ears to the revealing of the Truth. “Go up to Lebanon”…those who have exalted themselves in their hardening of the heart.

(Jer 22:20 KJV) Go up to Lebanon, and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.

Our God shall speak to them in their prosperity…..in their covetous riches…but they will willfully not hear His Truth. They shall not obey His voice in this last day….their church riches keep them stubborn. Will the rich pastors listen to His voice…or will they harden their hearts….the “cedars of Lebanon?”

21 I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
22 The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness.

They will be the “inhabitant of Lebanon”…meaning they will harden their hearts against the Truth…they shall exalt themselves in their religious pride and understanding. But they shall learn otherwise….when the pangs come upon them for their wickedness.

23 O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how gracious shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

When religious man shall willfully sin after receiving the knowledge of the Truth, there shall no longer be any sacrifice for him. The “pangs” shall come upon them. When coveting conceives, it gives birth to sin…and sin when it is finished gives birth to “death.” Religious man shall lust after his own church riches and will speak against the revealing of the Truth….sin…and not obey the Truth. Sin lies at the “door” of man’s own mouth. And what comes out of his mouth is what is in his heart. It defiles him.


(James 1:15 KJV) Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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.

Sin lies at the “door” of religious man’s own mouth when he will hear the revealing of the Truth. His first reaction to the revealing of the Truth will tend to be in disbelief…that is why religious man should be swift to hear the Truth with his ears BUT be SLOW TO SPEAK…SLOW TO WRATH.

19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

For the wrath of man…the wrath against His revealing of the Truth…works NOT the righteousness of God. This is the WORK OF GOD….to believe in the Truth…..that is credited as righteousness.

20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

We are to lay aside our first reaction to hearing the revealing of the Truth….we are to instead humble ourselves to the engrafted revealed Word which will save our souls.

21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

We are to be DOERS of His revealed Word….and not HEARERS only.

22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

Those who shall believe in their hearts…and humble themselves, shall be exalted by Him. The righteous ( those that shall believe in the hearts) shall grow like a “cedar” in Lebanon. Their hearts shall be strengthened by Him…and they shall flourish in His Word of Truth…in the courts of our God.

(Psa 92:12 KJV) The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
13 Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.

We shall bring forth fruits of righteousness…in “old age”…in this last age of the revelation…the “Age of ages”….the Best of the best….in the regeneration of all things.

14 They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
15 To show that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
 
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I am amazed how much good in all this is .......

God is awesome !!!!!

Hope all is well with you and yours ...

she trust the Lord though this all ...
Sis is in a nursing home , but she is a great witness to the glory of God , who strengthens us all ... in Jesus peace c
 
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Hi Chickapee!

God is definitely awesome...yes!!!

Everything is well.....I hope your sis is doing okay. The Lord does strengthen us all....especially during the bad times. I was really shocked and sorry to hear about your sister. I keep her in my prayers. I just hope for the best.

Just wanted to let you know that I've jumped over to the "unorthodox theology" forum....as the rules changed recently for this one. I have been posting over there. I figured what I say is pretty "unorthodox" compared to the other discussions in here....so I didn't want to run afoul of the new rules.

God bless you and your family.

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Thanks for letting me Know Wheeler where you are at ,, :)
Pam is enduring the Chemo and radiation treatments well so far , I am not sure how .. but she is ! I know that no matter what happens we are the Lords !
She has been sharing some amazing insights with me and do see the Good in this and God 's love in the Body of Jesus Christ who strengthens us


1Jo 4:4Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

peace in Jesus C .....
 
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Chickapee,

Thank you for updating me about Pam. I really hate that for her. Yes, we are the Lord's no matter what happens and He has His plans for all of us. I know about having a sick loved one and how difficult it is to see them that way. It does require strength.....and we always need to rely on God no matter what.

You know...it might seem like I'm crazy in these forums...talking to myself and everything....but I'm just thinking out loud...trying to get things straight. Everything goes better in my mind when I do it in public for some reason. I know I babble like a child....murmuring and stammering around. Hopefully one day I will be able to speak clearly. Thanks for hanging out with the "crazy man."


Peace to you my Sister,

W

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Awe , I love your thoughts Brother ..
my nick name is ''crazy lady '' from my son who is in Basic traning in the Air Force right now ... so let us be fools for Christs sake ! Like Paul was not ashamed to announce of himself , seeing all the madness in this life and STILL KNOW GOD is with us though it all ..... :) am not an apostle , but am a believer in the Power of His Word and Holy Spirit in Truth ....
1Cr 4:10We [are] fools for Christ's sake, but ye [are] wise in Christ; we [are] weak, but ye [are] strong; ye [are] honourable, but we [are] despised.

Pam has not tolerated the chemo and they took her off it , it made her liver enzymes go through the roof .. she is still in radiation ,, but we have the most loving and wonderful Heavenly Father , because she is clear as a bell when we speak of the heavenly things ...... for this time I am truly grateful to have !!!

God bless you Bro W ... always to the end C .. :)
 
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