Mon, Dec 3rd - 7:19PM
Mutual edification?
Those in the OT did not have the Promise that Jesus gave to Peter, regarding him being the little rock that the church was built on, in which the gates of Hell could never overcome. This is the Promise by which any under the new covenant may have their lives completely restored, no matter what, just as Peter denied the Lord three times, and was fully restored, even unto being able to restore others, as shown at the end of the gospel of John. Peter does speak in his letter, about there being a difference between suffering for our own sins, and the sufferings of Christ. However, through repentance, we are given to be able to come through our sins, unto suffering with Christ, and the glories that come after. In the OT, after David sinned with Bathsheba, after God's judgment came, the kingdom was not restored back to how it was beforehand. This was because in the OT, they did not have the Promise of being able to be born again, having the Holy Spirit in their corrupted body, with their insides being incorruptible. Therefore in the cleft in the OT, between sin and God, their bones could be broken. However, as it says in the Psalm also regarding the place of jackals, they still were given to partake of the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that follow. Just as jackals digest bones, and just as Christ's body died once and for all. Though His bones were not broken. That is the difference between the Old covenant and the New covenant. Under the new covenant, having the bones be broken, is only for the unprofitable servant. Though if anyone under the new covenant suffer for their own sins, they still have the promise, by which even those in captivity in the OT could repent, and partake of His sufferings and the glories that follow. Because the foundation for those who are born again, are the incorruptible insides. And this is what we can always come back to, as justification also means ‘just as the sin never happened.’ In this same way, once a person comes to Christ, and is in Him in sincere faith, through repentance, they again come onto the straight and narrow path, in which all suffering is partaking in His. Therefore the promise that was given to Peter and for the church under the new covenant is fulfilled, though David's kingdom did not return to it's former glory. However, in the OT, he was still delivered. As he said, 'that the bones you have broken may rejoice.' That is as the resurrection life, and the glories that follow His sufferings. Therefore also showing that the only difference between the old and new covenant is having the Holy Spirit abide inwardly, which is possible through the new birth that is possible under the new covenant. Also giving incorruptible insides. And this proves the possibilities of the Promise for the new spirit and heart, by which Hebrews also speaks of, saying that His law is written on them, and is unbreakable. It was the lie of the grey area existing between God and man, even in the new covenant which deemed this promise to only be for heaven. Also saying that in the new covenant that people's hearts were still sinful. Though they also eve claimed to have new ones. Using also Peter's words on being born again of incorruptible seed as the basis for this, distinguishing ‘seed’ from the substance of what is inward. People undertook this belief in a number of ways, saying things like Christ dwelt in the heart, but that the heart wasn't incorruptible. Saying also that a new heart was given, but that it wasn't incorruptible. But these are vain imaginations. Without the oneness of God, there is no new birth, which is necessary to be His. And God is not with sin, therefore those who are His who are born again, have new sinless, perfect, incorruptible insides. Therefore the church fell away, as shown in the letters to the churches in Revelation, from Ephesus to Laodicea, and unto the sour grape mentioned in Isaiah 18. Paul speaking about being able to justified from things through Christ that those under the law could not be justified from, also gives that under the new covenant we can even have the physical fully restored. David’s spiritual life was restored, though it was also effected by the physical which did not get completely restored. It is our spiritual gifts, which give us to remain in Christ, even when we do stumble. Therefore we may regard God and incorruption inwardly continually. It is wrong to say that we can only have one spiritual gift, or that there aren't all gifts existing currently. Peter does comment on spiritual gifts, and singularly, but his comment is in the context of one's gift, as a whole. For even Paul mentions himself having more than one gift. The gift of tongues and the interpretation of tongues is actually what is essential, in bridging the cleft that we still have between inward incorruption and outward corruption. Because the gift of tongues involves mysteries of the spiritual. This bridging what Paul spoke of in Romans 8 concerning the groanings that words can not express. Through the gift of tongues, we bridge these gaps, even as when we meet not all speak in tongues, but the edification of the interpretation is the bridge for the body as a whole, concerning the direction and substance of the Spirit. And even when there is no interpretation, and the one person is only edified, it can lead unto the interpretation for everyone. Paul said to not forbid tongues, and to pray for the interpretation, and he gave the way to give the gift in meeting. We may know that every spiritual gift still abides currently, in the present day church, because we do not walk by sight, but by faith. Many religious leaders say that not every gift still exists currently. But they say this, as they look at the world around them, and base their stances on what they see. This is also how evangelism begins to be elevated over every other thing. Evangelism is important, but the whole word of God is not abiding in the gifts of evangelism or pastor. There is not equity without the present giving of the gift of apostle. And there is no spoken word of Christ, without the present giving of the gift of prophet. There is no bridge between the cleft that is present between the incorruptible inward person, and the corrupted outward person without the gift of tongues and interpretation of tongues. There is no light that can abide on the hill, to shine unto the world, without the gift of healing. And the present day church came unto the full lack of these gifts which many said no longer existed. And this is what led the church into being unspiritual, and business like; just as Israel was in Christ's day. For even His rest which is the Sabbath was regarded as it was in Jesus' day, as people did not include being on the cross with Jesus and partaking of His sufferings from the cleft, and striving for the straight and narrow gate with His resurrection life. Therefore also there is given the interpretation of what Peter spoke concerning the salvation in the last time, where the last time refers to the last time that God is dealing with the unprofitable servant- giving the talent to another, and having the vessel of dishonor go into perdition. As even the church which was given great and precious promises is judged in His righteousness, in the severity that Paul spoke of in Romans. Thereby also giving the interpretation of Zechariah 11, and the fulfillment of the prophecies of the prophets.
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Mon, Dec 3rd - 5:11PM
Pressing and shaking
Psalm 119 is broken up, by headings of the Hebrew letters, into 8 verses per letter. 8 is the number for new beginnings. And it is very much connected to Pentecost. Benny Hinn has taught about the Holy Spirit being as wind. Which it is. He taught about how with us being as a vessel or boat, that we can prepare ourselves, so that when the wind blows, we will be directed right. This is as Paul saying that we need all that we do, to be through God. That we may have His power, to will and to do of His good pleasure. Many people teach that this is impossible (to do this continually), and relate things such as always walking in the Spirit, as to meaning that the things that God does, are in this likeness. But that is very much so sacrificing in the clefts. But continually walking in the Spirit is what Jesus means, speaking about striving for the straight and narrow gate. Very often, people vainly imagine that there is a grey area between us and God, therefore giving place for corban. In the Psalms, it speaks about how when Israel was in captivity, that they were being broken, in the place of jackals. Jackals are able to actually eat bones, and digest them. One Promise to Jesus, was that not one of His bones would be broken. Even when He was crucified, they didn't break His legs, to see if He was really dead, they pierced Him instead. Jesus died very quickly on the cross, versus the length of time it usually took people to die. This was because the main way that Jesus died, was through a broken heart, as Psalm 69 shows. In this also, it is shown, how when Jesus became sin and died, that He was separated from the Father, for the first time ever. This also showing how God's wrath was fulfilled through His sacrifice, climaxing this way. Along with this, there is the understanding regarding pain. Because no pain that anyone could undergo, could ever compare to the pain that Jesus went through, being separated from God. Even as we are with Him on the cross, there is the fact that He died and rose first, and we only suffer with Him, as in looking to Him, and being with Him on the cross from the cleft. No matter what anyone says there is no likeness to the pain that Jesus went through, His spiritual pain, also surpassing even any of the physical pain He went through. Being separated from God, Jesus bore the sin of the unprofitable servant, for even the saved were completely dead in their sins, and separated from God, through their evil insides. This is also what Paul speaks about in Ephesians, going into how before being born again, all are separated from God. And that even when we were in that separation, God saved us. Therefore also showing how there isn't any kind of way, where we can better ourselves, leading up to being born again. Showing the only way of salvation is being born again, and that incorruptibly. This doesn't mean though, that everyone whose insides were separated from God, are still of those who love Him, though the talent is saved, while the vessel of dishonor goes to perdition. The separation from God is shown in how Jesus suffered outside of the camp. Suffering outside of the camp, is the testimony of outer darkness, which Jesus also bore on Himself, just as His body (which is the outer part of the human temple) was made sin. The pain of the unprofitable servant, is forever being stuck in sin, though being enlightened about what it means to be saved. Many who will be in the lake of fire, may not have the full punishment of this yet, until the very end. The unprofitable servant, is as a black hole. Though it also possible to feel the pain of the unprofitable servant as sin dwells in the body of the saved still. But the ultimate punishment of going to perdition, is the eternal state of the weeping and gnashing of teeth that there is in this. Jesus was always with God, and was always God, and therefore, even more so, any kind of pain that man can have in this likeness of the pain of the unprofitable servant, can not compare to the amount of pain that Jesus went through, as He began in perfection, and then went through what He did in suffering and dying. Even the saved who are given the foreknowledge of God, concerning always having been with Him, when they partake of His sufferings, still only partake of them, as from the cleft. The black hole that is present in the torturing and destruction of the unprofitable servant, is as having the should have, could have, would have's- knowing that nothing, not even one's eternal state, life, and interests, are ever going to alight- and at the same time, eternally going through the torture and destruction of finding all of this out. Just as God's grace goes out from Him, as His Word, and does not return void, but accomplishes what He sent it for, so does His light also do this. Even when the wicked manipulate His power, and use it for evil, His will still fully happens, as ultimately He has even more grace, and has the victory. And therefore the wicked are beat, even in what they call their strength. This is as what is happening eternally, regarding outer darkness and the lake of fire. For God's light, even in this present distress, in which His beloved are overcoming evil, is over all. When all is made new and incorruptible, this will be even more so. Therefore the light of God is as torture to the wicked, even as the demonic reacted to Jesus. And therefore as the wicked are outside of His kingdom and tortured and destroyed forever in the lake of fire and outer darkness, His wrath is fully appeased, even as His light shall go forth, that all may view the end of those who did not make God their trust- His beloved being able to see the wicked be tortured, as His light will shine, and their state, as in being as a black hole is made manifest. David, however, did speak, concerning his bones being broken through the LORD's discipline. How can this be? Even as David was a type of Christ, and given the LORD's name? For all who suffer for His sake, whether before, during, or after His sacrifice, still, and through God's eternal eye, suffer with Him, and are with Him on the cross. The chastening of the LORD, has never been in tough love. Not even in the OT, and through the Law of Moses. It may also be hard for some to understand how God can say that He never changes, and yet the Bible and His Word have different 'dispensations.' The way that He is not hypocritical, is in knowing that just as grace is the free gift of the power of God, and that even in the OT they were saved through grace and faith- God does not change, because He is as the play caller in a football game, and therefore He never changes, though the appropriation of all that He gives may differ. Christ having none of His bones broken, is also full testimony of Him being the Son of God, and the only perfect Person after Adam and Eve; and the only Person who had incorruptible life, even counting Adam and Eve. Therefore the Law of Moses was fully fulfilled in the Person of Christ. The Bible does say that Christ 'overcame.' And there is also some understanding concerning how someone has to be evil to have to overcome. When it says that God never called any angel His son, it is speaking in the context of being incorruptible. For the angels are also called sons of God. And no angel has incorruptible life yet, even the ones who have not fallen. Christ had incorruptible life within Himself, though also His body was corruptible- but it was not corrupted until His sufferings and death, when His body became sin and died. Christ was the only One who ever had the knowledge of good and evil, also knowing incorruptible life, without sinning. Adam and Eve even were without sin, before they fell, their bodies being corruptible but not corrupted. Christ overcame having the ability to not sacrifice Himself, as He was God, and fully free not to, and yet still poured Himself out. And this is also what all of His beloved have in them, through Him. Because He died and rose first, giving us to have the word of faith, which is being able to be born again, having incorruptible insides- even right when we first believe. The Bible speaks about how the OT was an example, and even as we read the NT, we can notice the testimonies of Jesus Christ. But the main difference between the OT, and the NT, is that in the OT, they were enlightened to the knowledge of incorruptible life, without yet being able to fully possess it. The Holy Spirit was upon them, and those who loved God were in Him, and He in them, according to that. But even David prayed that the Holy Spirit might not be taken from him, therefore showing how that was possible in the OT; while after Pentecost, after His ascension, with the Promise of the Holy Spirit, those who love God may have the gift in which He will never leave. And even in the NT there still is the testimony of the unprofitable servant, who is the double vessel, in which the vessel of dishonor and wrath is prepared for destruction, while the talent, the vessel of honor, will go unto His loved. Through the Law of Moses, came the knowledge of sin. This meaning that the Law enlightened them unto the knowledge of good and evil, and they were told to follow the Law, because through it's testimonies they might awake unto the Spirit, and have Him upon them with the knowledge of incorruptible life. The way that David's bones could be broken, and yet he still be a type of Christ, is through the knowledge, in which under the Law, they were enlightened unto the knowledge of good and evil, and were to follow it that they might awaken to God, and have His Spirit upon them with the knowledge of incorruptible life- therefore his bones being broken, showing the example of how he could still go through the cleft in which in these things, he could not yet have the Promise of being born again inwardly having the Holy Spirit, and the Promise of Him never departing. For those who come to Christ, now, after His ascension and the Holy Spirit coming on Pentecost, it is still possible for people to become enlightened to God, and end up falling away, having the Holy Spirit depart from them. And this is why Paul spoke about running our race, and entering in, which is coming unto the Promised Land symbolically, where one's soul is established on earth as it is in heaven. The difference here between the OT and the NT being that it is now possible to have the soul established on earth as it is in heaven. Therefore concerning all who are enlightened to God, and according to that measure, there is the talent given, in which they are enlightened unto an eternal existence. In this, all who possess belief in God, are given the ability to eternally exist in His life. Those who have sincere faith are born again incorruptible inwardly, and may run their race, in the full hope of how they may have their soul established on earth as it is in heaven, believing throughout the race, that they already have this Promise. And therefore the soul being established is birthed through the spirit and heart which is already abiding in heaven. Those who fall away, are the double vessel, in which what is in heaven is kept there, while what is on earth goes down into perdition. And God gives the life that He wanted to create, unto His beloved, that it might still come to pass. While the name and memory of the wicked is cut off forever, and the life that was the talent, and that was in God, is given unto His beloved, having the testimony of what God wanted to create, but never did through the unfaithfulness of the wicked. And therefore the life that God wanted to create is given unto His beloved, to be created in the name of His beloved, which is from Him. The 3 heavens, from where God abides, unto the earth, which used to be without sin, are all able to exist within each other, and overlap. Therefore it is possible to have the soul, which abides in the second heaven, be established incorruptibly on earth, though the earth has not fully been made incorruptible yet. For the saved do have incorruption dwelling in their corrupted body, even presently. When the Psalm says that He broke His beloved in the place of jackals, as they were in captivity, it means that they partook of His sufferings. For though the wicked are to be tortured and destroyed forever, the body of Christ that was sacrificed and died, was sacrificed once for all time. And therefore the connection is given, concerning how jackals eat and digest bones. There is also a Psalm however, in which the wicked are to be given as a portion to the jackals. In this, the testimony of jackals being scavengers is given, as the wicked shall be divided up, after falling, and given into the hands of others. And this may be in the testimony of either the jackals representing other wicked beings, or His beloved. For even Joshua speaks about how the wicked were to be as bread for God's people. Therefore also the Proverbs are fulfilled, in which all of the wicked's prosperity shall be given to the righteous; and of how the lazy shall not roast what he took in hunting. The laziness and wickedness of the unprofitable servant, is not just 'coined' into being sins that people like to lay down in, and make provision for their flesh with, and lust after. The laziness and wickedness of the unprofitable servant, is namely how they are enlightened unto God, and living eternally; but how they sow a righteousness of their own, whether through graceful condemnation or attempting to rule with works- therefore not abiding in being one with God. The examples that are shown in the OT, even through people who were God's beloved, very much so show the meaning of what David's words regarding having his bones broken. The occult have taken stances in which they make God out to be deceptive, as if He gave the Law, and yet held people accountable to knowledge, about how they really weren't supposed to follow it. With David having his bones broken by God, and yet Jesus having the testimony of not having any of His bones broken, it is possible to see how God even made an example out of His own people, as to what the ends of sins are, and what salvation there is in Christ. In this way also, are the cultic stances overcome, and through perfect love. God does not have tough love, but He also doesn't dwell in sin. If anyone really cared about the sorrow and loss that there is in sin and death, they would turn unto God. God doesn't conduct Himself in a way in which His stances are like saying "My way or the highway." He is very compassionate, also having longsuffering. Showing Himself also, to have understanding, regarding sin and death. Just as it says that Jesus understands our struggles, having been tempted in every way. Even as His body was made sin and died, His insides also remained perfect. We may have hope in this, that we may overcome, because we aren’t to know Him according to how He lived before His sufferings and death. He was perfect before His sufferings and death, but we only know Him in His sufferings, death, and resurrection, therefore all the more giving us the power to overcome and abide in true life. When Paul spoke about how we always have a way out of sin and temptation, the context is in how through loving God, and becoming one with Him, that we can overcome. Very much of the church try to make that passage out to mean that we can always get away from sin. But their stance on that, is very much so hypocritical, and wicked. Firstly because the religion in the church is offended by the sins that they believe themselves to be abstaining from. Secondly, religion acquires pet peeve sins, which it wants to stay away from (like enforcing being offended). And the main reason that religion does this, and is actually not in God, is because the religious evil spirits hide themselves away even from sins, so that no one questions their current position. Religion can exist, and people not be in God, though they even claim to have grace, faith, and freedom. Religion itself, has the root meaning: 'to bind.' And James speaks about how if anyone is going to be bound to anything, that it is to lay down their lives for others. This actually therefore reproves the meaning also, of what Paul said concerning always having a way to get out of sin and temptation. For when people are visiting others who are alienated in the world, it is the Spirit which even more so, seeks to enlarge their heart, that they involve themselves with the love of God, and His will for His beloved to overcome- and that through love. The only religion that can be in God, as it also means 'to bind,' is for people to willfully choose to serve Him, as is the meaning of being a bondservant. But this position of being a bondservant, is not one in which people may make holy their lives, through attempting to abstain from sins- without becoming one with God. This is actually the same sinful attitude that the religious leaders in Jesus' day had. Being a bondservant in Christ, means that a person is making themselves fully accountable to the Spirit that they may grow in nothing else but Him- therefore continually leading them unto becoming one with God. And this is what the religious in the church miss, and thus are hypocritical. For they claim to be abstaining from sin, and yet do not continue in the oneness of God, which is also through being incorruptible inwardly. True holiness must have the root of inward perfection, and the way of being continually one with God, and thus also continually desiring His Promises. His Promises are neither icing on the cake, that we may be able to taste of, shall we abstain from sins; nor are they the ways of which we stay away from having sins like the world. The Promises of God, are the very root of us inheriting His power, which is His grace. And the goal in this, is to become one with God. And no one can become one with God, if their goal is only to not be like other people or things, that they deem sinful. What it means when it says that the fear of the LORD leads away from sin, is that if we truly fear Him, we will know that He won’t spare us; and therefore our goal will be for ourselves to not fall away, and be like ‘that.’ When Peter and Jude speak about the false teachers that also abide with those who carouse in the daytime, and how they speak evil of dignitaries, and Satan, this is the foundation for people who live like that (not wanting to be like other people and or things that they deem sinful). And this is also even what Paul is speaking about concerning the sorrow that leads to death, and this is also what John is speaking about, concerning sin that leads to death. The high priest Caiaphas, who lived in Jesus' day, gave the religious leaders the knowledge that they needed to feel right about themselves, and therefore go on to martyring Christ. And it was this knowledge by which Judas betrayed Jesus, also having Satan enter his heart. This attitude shows how they had no problem with crucifying Jesus, because they thought that since the Coming One was appointed to sufferings and death, that offering Him up would really not mean that they themselves were going against God- even if they thought Jesus to be the Christ. This is how Judas did what he did, thinking that if Jesus was supposed to die, even as He told His disciples He was to, that he might as well profit from it. This same attitude is how the religious leaders treated Peter and John in Acts. The religious leaders in Acts, in dealing with Peter and John, decided that if what was happening was from God, and they fought it, that they would be coming against God. And they thought that if it was not God, that it would go away. And they brought in the example of other instances in which the Jews had believed in 'uprisings.' Their position in this, was in false humility, and only based on the sorrow that leads to death, as they didn’t want any consequences against them, for trying to subdue what was going on. The religious leaders said that if they tried to directly come against what was happening, that it would move the people even more so, into following that way. Also saying that the 'uprisings' usually died down on their own. The religious leaders, in the instance with Jesus, also thought that because they believed Jesus to be blaspheming, that someone did have to die, being punished for this. And here also did Caiaphus' words give their own stance more place. In Acts, regarding Peter and John, the religious leaders attempted to let Peter and John go, telling them also not to preach in Jesus' name. But their hypocrisy was also very much so manifest, in how their whole stance was to not have a stance with what was happening- and then they beat Peter and John! The direction in which the religious leaders took, in these instances, show the lack of truth that they were positioned in- and also they are exposed for the doubleness they had, showing themselves also to not be in God. Very many times, even in the church nowadays, leaders attempt to test other people, through these kind of stances. And even say that Paul tested the sincerity of people's faith, using that as a foundation for what they do. Along with the cultic stances that have been taken against God, there are new age stances that have been taken, both in and outside of the church. New age is primarily any kind of belief, in which a solution is given, that doesn't actually bring FULL deliverance. New age, is also not something that is new to the world, though it did also manifest out of the Dark Ages. The stance that the church has been in, regarding not being able to be born again incorruptible inwardly, is very much so New age. The practice that New Age has regarding crystals, exposes their inability to actually give any kind of WHOLE deliverance. When the Bible shows the river that is clear as crystal, cleanness is being represented. But crystals, apart from the truth and oneness of God, are nothing in comparison to gems. New age abides in lukewarmness, and offers a kind of white witchcraft. The way that the religious leaders dealt with Jesus, also exemplifies the ways of the unprofitable servant, which are also shown in how even the people gave Him the ultimatum of Him showing them if He really was godly. The only form of actual respect that is in God, which also is the character and experience that the Bible speaks about, comes through knowing integrity to be 'believing what God says about us.' But this in context to His Spoken Word, and oneness with Him. Therefore also, being mature in God is evidenced from the lives of Samson, to Paul. When the bones of the wicked are consumed, then comes the black hole. When God deals with His beloved down unto the bone and marrow, it is with the born again person, love being made perfect, and the cleft- by which we look to Him, unto His oneness and great and precious promises, and partake of His sufferings. When the unprofitable servant judges and condemns, and does this even calling themselves faithful in God's house, but are not in Spirit and truth- they actually make the word of God void for themselves, and thereby fall away as the vessel of dishonor; and receive back unto them the measure that they judged and condemned, which is the worm that never dies, and the fire that is never quenched.
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