CONCERNING THE FLESH
CHRIST CAME, THE LORD GOD WILL BEAR ME WITNESS THAT I HAVE NOT USED THE
PHILOSOPHY OF MEN NEITHER OF MINE NOR OF ANY MAN, WHEN I WRITE TO YOU
CONCERNING GOD'S WORD AND OTHER GOSPELS. BUT AS HE HAS COMMANDED US IN THE LAW
TO HEED HIS WORD. SO WHEN THE LORD ASKED HIS PEOPLE TO EXAMINE ALL WORDS WITH
EXTREME CAREFULNESS, THAT ANY WHO SPEAKS OF ANY OTHER god OR SAY THINGS
CONTRARY TO HIS OWN WORDS, THAT PERSON SHALL BE REPROVED AND FOUND GUILTY BY
THE LAW, THEREFORE I BY THE LAW DID EXAMINE EVERY WORDS CAUTIOUSLY; SEEING
WHETHER THEY ACCORD WITH THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD. AND SO DO I THAT I
MIGHT NOT BE FOUND WANTING IN BLASPHEMY UNTO GOD'S NAME. ALSO IF I SHOULD SPEAK
NOT ACCORDING TO WISDOM OF WORDS, LIKE PAUL TAUGHT THE GENTILES, I WOULD BE THE
ANTICHRIST. FOR WHY SHOULD I SAY THAT JESUS CHRIST CAME NOT IN THE FLESH, WHEN
HE WAS BEEN CRUCIFIED IN THE FLESH. WHAT BENEFIT HAVE I; IF I SHOULD LIE THAT
HE CAME NOT IN THE FLESH KNOWING FULLY THAT ALL KNEW HIM IN THE FLESH BEFORE HE
WAS CRUCIFIED, BUT NOW NO MORE. HOWEVER I LEARNT FROM THE WORD OF PAUL, THAT
HIM COULD HAVE WISHED HIMSELF BEING ACCURSED FROM CHRIST; AS WHEN THE SCRIPTURE SAYS HE THAT WAS HANGED ON A TREE IS
ACCURSED OF GOD, AND EVEN AS JOSHUA WARNED THE ISRAELITES TO KEEP THEMSELVES
OFF FROM THE ACCURSED THINGS OF THE CITY OF JERICHO.
EVEN SO PAUL WISHED
HIMSELF TO BE KEPT OFF FROM CHRIST FOR THE SAKE OF HIS BRETHREN AND KINSMEN IN
THE FLESH, WHO WERE THE ISRAELITES THAT OWNS THE ADOPTED, WHO WERE AS IF THEY ARE THE FATHERS CONCERNING THE FLESH CHRIST JESUS CAME.
ALSO IT IS EVIDENT THAT ALL ARE NOT ISRAELITES, WHICH ARE OF ISRAEL: NEITHER SHALL ALL BE CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY ARE THE SEED OF
ABRAHAM, INSTEAD IN ISAAC SHALL THY SEED BE CALLED. THOUGH THEY BE SEED OF ABRAHAM BY ADOPTION,
BUT NOT THE LEGITIMATE SEED OF ISAAC BY THE PROMISE OF GOD.
REMEMBER THAT AMONG THOSE
FATHERS AS WHOSE FLESH CHRIST CAME: HAPPENED TO BE JOSEPH, WHO TOOK JESUS AS
SON EVEN THOUGH CHRIST CAME OF THE FLESH AMONG THE ADOPTED, BY WHOM MARY
CONCEIVED. CONSIDERING THE FACT THAT SHE WAS ESPOUSED TO JOSEPH, AND CHRIST BEING
CAME AS IN THE FLESH, AND NOT THE SEED, AND SHALL THE FLESH BE AMONG THE LEGITIMATE PROMISE OF GOD? NO: THEY WHICH ARE OF THE
FLESH ARE NOT THE CHILDREN OF GOD. IF I MAY ASK; WHAT MANNER OF A MAN SHALL HE
BE, THAT THE LORD WOULD SHOW MUCH COMPASSION AND LOVED TO SHOW HIM MERCY, THAN
THE OTHER WHO DID NO EVIL OR GOOD WHO WAS IMPUTED HATE. SHALL THEN ALL SAY THAT
GOD WAS PARTIAL? AND HOW CAN THAT BE, IF YOU HAVE NO UNDERSTANDING AT ALL IN
THE WORD OF THE LORD? FOR MANY DESIRED THE MERCIES OF THE LORD UNTO THEM
ALWAYS, WHILE FEW WHO BEING UNTAUGHT OF GOOD OR EVIL WERE NOT SHOWN SUCH MERCY
FROM THE LORD GOD, AND WAS LIVING UNDER THE BOND OF GOD SERVING THE OTHER, UNTO
WHOM GOD HAD SHOWN EXCEEDING MERCY AND LOVE. FOR HE WHO WAS HATED WAS UNDER THE
BOND AS A SERVANT; [TILL HE SHOW MUCH GREAT
STEADFASTNESS TO HIS MASTER, THAT HE MIGHT BE CALLED A PECULIAR PERSON FROM AMONG
OTHERS BY HIS MASTER.] BUT THEN AS THE LORD GOD SEE IT FIT TO PUT THIS FEW
UNDER HIS BOND AND TO SERVE HIM WHOM HE HATH SHOWN MERCY AND LOVE FOR HIS DEEDS
AND IMAGINATIONS, HAVING BEING CRAFTIER THAN THE OTHER UNTO WHOM WAS OPPRESSED
FOR NO CAUSE. SHOULD THIS BE CONSIDERED A FAIR JUDGEMENT FROM THE LORD? THAT I
SAY NO, FOR THE LORD GOD WAS NOT FAIR AT ALL IN HIS JUDGMENTS, HE IS NOT A FAIR
JUDGE. FOR WHY SHOULD THE UNTAUGHT BE HATED FOR JUST NO CAUSE, WHY WOULD HE
CHOOSE TO REMAIN UNTAUGHT OF GOOD AND EVIL? LEST HE MIGHT OBTAIN THE MERCIES OF
THE LORD. HOWEVER HE BEEN UNTAUGHT THEREFORE SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT BY THE INTENT
OF HIS BROTHER'S IMAGINATIONS, HAVING NO THOUGHTS OF EVIL AGAINST HIS BROTHER,
YET HIS BROTHER TOOK ADVANTAGE OF HIM.
ALSO HE NEITHER KNOWS THE
BENEFITS OF HIS OWN BIRTHRIGHT HE SOLD UNTO HIS BROTHER OUT OF DESPERATION, FOR
HE KNOWS NEITHER OF BOTH WHAT IS GOOD OR BAD TO DO BECAUSE OF THE BOND WHICH
WAS IMPUTED ON HIM. BUT THE LORD GOD IS NOT UNRIGHTEOUS AND THERE IS NO FAULT
WITH HIS JUDGMENT. WHAT THEN? SHALL WE ALL BE THEN LIKE JACOB? THAT THE MERCIES
OF GOD MAY ABOUND WITH US CONTINUOUSLY WITHOUT CEASE? FOR ESAU HAD REMAINED
UNTAUGHT. ALSO FOR THIS CAUSE, GOD SHOWED MERCY ON WHOM HE HAD COMPASSION, AND UNTO
WHOM FOR THE IMAGINATIONS OF THEIR HEARTS HAVE KNOWN WHAT IS GOOD AND BAD, NEVERTHELESS
THE LORD GOD OUT OF HIS LOVE, SHEW MERCY MORE UNTO JACOB AND MADE HIM RULE HIS
BROTHER, THOUGH THE LORD INTENDS IT NOT FOREVER UPON ESAU FOR HE WAS UNDER THE
BOND OF GOD.
ALSO FOR THE SCRIPTURE
SAITH IN A PLACE THAT A TIME SHALL COME WHEN HE SHALL BE FREE FROM THE YOKE HIS
BROTHER PUT ON HIM WITH THE INTENT OF HIS HEART, AND TO SERVE HIM OUT OF
DESPERATION, AND AT THE TIME HE SHALL HAVE DOMINION OVER JACOB, THE FATNESS OF
THE EARTH AND THE DEWS OF HEAVEN FROM ABOVE SHALL BE HIS DWELLING PLACE AND BY
THE SWORD SHALL HE LIVE.
THEREFORE GOD SHEWED MERCY
UNTO JACOB OUT OF LOVE FOR ALL THE EVIL HE DID UNTO HIS BROTHER AND STILL HAS
MUCH MERCY ON HIM BECAUSE HE DESIRES THE COMPASSION OF GOD ALWAYS, SINCE HE WAS
TAUGHT OF GOOD AND EVIL, EVEN FROM HIS MOTHER, AND LIVES IN IT ALWAYS. ALSO AS
PHARAOH DID UNTO THE SEED OF JACOB, WHEN GOD HARDENED HIS HEART, THAT HE MIGHT
SHEW HIS GREATNESS AND ALSO SHEW MERCY ON PHARAOH AND HIS PEOPLE TO PUT ISRAEL
UNDER HIS YOKE, YET IT PLEASED THE LORD TO HARDEN HIS HEART THAT HE MIGHT SHEW
THE GREATNESS OF HIS POWER AND GLORY TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH. WHEREFORE
ALL THE MUCH MERCIES AND COMPASSIONS OF GOD, HE DID PUT ON THEM THAT THEIR EVIL
DEED WHICH IS GOOD BEFORE THEM MIGHT BE REVEALED.
FOR WHY SHOULD YOU ALL THOUGHT
TO LIVE BY THE MERCY OF THE LOVE OF GOD ALWAYS, WITHOUT DISCERNMENT. WHO THEN
WAS SIN IMPUTED? ESAU BECAUSE OF HIS BOND OF BEEN UNTAUGHT, OR JACOB BECAUSE HE
WAS TAUGHT BY HIS MOTHER? WHAT ANSWERS HAVE YE, SEEING THAT GOD'S LOVE GOES TO
THE PEOPLE WHOM HE HAVE MUCH COMPASSIONS ON. FOR WHERE THERE IS EVIL THAT IS
GOOD BEFORE MEN, THERE WILL ALSO BE MERCY ON THEM, OTHERWISE THERE WILL BE NO
COMPASSION ON YOU. FOR GOD IS ABLE TO DESTROY THESE IN HIS WRATH WITHOUT MERCY
IF SO BE THAT YE DESIRED TO LIVE ON WITH THE IMAGINATIONS OF YOUR HEART.
FOR ESAU NOT HAVING EVIL
THOUGHTS AGAINST HIS BROTHER WAS UNDER THE YOKE OF HIS BROTHER, HAVING DONE NO
EVIL TO HIM, YET IT PLEASED THE LORD TO SET ISRAEL UNDER THE YOKE OF PHAROAH,
THAT HE MIGHT BE OPPRESSED FOR HIS DEEDS, BUT ESAU HAS POSSESSION FROM GOD. MOREOVER
FOR THE LOVE GOD HAD ON JACOB, HE SHEWED HIS MERCIES ON HIM TO REDEEM THEM AND
TO GIVE THEM AN INHABITATION BY ALL THE WONDROUS WORK HE DID, THAT THEY MIGHT
BE A PECULIAR PEOPLE UNTO HIM, YET THEY GAVE NO HEED TO THE LAW AND THE COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD, AND LIVED IN THE EVIL THAT IS GOOD BEFORE THEM AFTER THE IMAGINATION OF
THEIR OWN HEARTS, AND CHANGED NOT.
THEREFORE ONCE AGAIN GOD
WILLING TO SHOW HIS LOVE TO THE WORLD, SENT CHRIST JESUS THE AUTHOR AND
FINISHER OF THEIR FAITH THROUGH GRACE WHICH HE BROUGHT UNTO THESE FOR THE
REMISSION OF SIN, DIED ON THE CROSS, TO REDEEM THEM WITH HIS BLOOD AND FROM THE
WORD OF THEIR ENEMY, BY BREAKING THE CHAINS OF COMMAND SET UPON THIS PEOPLE,
AND SET THEM AT LIBERTY FROM THE LAW, THAT HIS
PEOPLE MIGHT BEAR GOOD FRUITS UNTO THE LORD WHOSE MERCIES ENDURETH FOREVER, THAT EVIL MIGHT ABIDE
CONTINUALLY, FOR BY THE THOUGHTS OF ONE MAN SHALL ALL BE PERFECTED UNTO
RIGHTEOUSNESS. FOR HE SHALL GIVE ALL THAT LABOUR REST FROM THE BOND GOD PUT ON
THEM, SO THAT THEY MIGHT BE LOVED FOREVER IN THE ABUNDANCE OF THE MERCY OF GOD
THROUGH GRACE. FOR BY ADAM CAME DEATH, BUT THROUGH CHRIST CAME GRACE UNTO LIFE
EVERLASTING TO THEM THAT SHOULD LIVE BY THE MERCIES OF GOD.
HOWEVER THE LORD GOD SAITH
UNTO MOSES, SAYING ON THE DAY I WILL VISIT THEM, I WILL VISIT THEIR SIN UPON
THEM. FOR I SHALL NOT BLOT YOU OUT OF THE BOOK FOR THE SAKE OF THESE PEOPLE
THROUGH YOUR COMPASSION.
THEREFORE TO YOU THAT IS
UNTAUGHT OF GOOD AND EVIL, REMAIN UNTAUGHT, LET CHRIST BE THE WISE TEACHER TO THOSE
THAT ARE LEARNED OF THE GOODNESS OF HIS CROSS BEFORE THEM, UNTIL ESAU ATTAIN
HIS DOMINION. FOR THERE IS NO PROFIT OF BEING TAUGHT OF GOOD AND EVIL, IT IS NOT A PLEASURE OR GAIN TO THE LORD GOD THAT YOU ARE RIGHTEOUS, RATHER KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THAT IS YOUR WHOLE DUTY TO THE LORD. THAT YE MIGHT BE ABLE TO DISCERN BOTH AS THE LORD COMMANDS. FOR HAD ADAM REMAINED
UNTAUGHT OF BOTH, THEN WOULD HE HAVE PASSED THE TEST WHICH WAS COMMANDED HIM TO
OBSERVE. SINCE IT'S BY THE BOND OF THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD SHALL THE UNTAUGHT
ATTAIN LIFE, WHILE THE TEACHINGS OF CHRIST JESUS THROUGH WHAT HE SAID, SAYING "WE SPEAK THAT WE DO KNOW" AND BY HIS CROSS CAN
NEVER BENEFIT THE UNTAUGHT, WHEREAS THE COUNSEL OF THE COMMANDMENT OF GOD, CAN
NEVER BE ATTAINED BY KNOWING GOOD OR EVIL, BUT BY
KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS AS YE WERE TOLD TO DO. IT IS BETTER TO OBEY THAN TO KNOW, AND TO UNDERSTAND WITHOUT EXPERIENCING. FOR EVEN THE SERPENT SAID TO EVE THAT GOD KNOWS THAT YE SHALL BE AS gods, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL. WHICH ADAM
NEVER HEARD FROM GOD INSTEAD WAS TOLD TO OBEY UNTO THIS DAY.
THIS GOD, AS FAR AS IT WAS
MENTIONED OF THE DEVIL'S WORD SAYING HE KNOWS, WHILE HE HEARD NOTHING
FROM THE LORD GOD WHO COMMANDETH YOU, GIVES YOU A GLIMPSE OF THE NATURE OF THE
GOD; HE SAYS HE KNOWS WHEN TELLING LIES, COMPARE TO THE LORD GOD THAT PROVETH
THEE AND HUMBLED THEE TO DO THEE GOOD AT THE LATTER END, IF THOU FORGET NOT HIM
AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS WHICH HE COMMANDETH US TO OBEY. FOR THERE IS NOTHING GOD
DOES THAT YOU KNOW EVEN THE DEVIL KNOWS NOTHING OF HIS WAYS, EXCEPT IT WAS
REVEALED UNTO THEE BY HIS WORD.
A WORD OF ADVICE, WHEN A
WIFE WAS CAUGHT IN THE SIN OF ADULTERY, TO HER IT BECOMES EVIL, BUT IF SHE IS
NOT CAUGHT, IT'S AS GOOD BEFORE HER?
SECONDLY WHEN A MAN WAS
CAUGHT LIED WITH ANOTHER MAN AS WITH WOMAN, WHEN CAUGHT; IT'S EVIL UPON THEM,
BUT IF NOT CAUGHT; IT SEEMS GOOD BEFORE THEM.
AND LASTLY, YOU WERE
COMMANDED NOT TO TOUCH THE FIRE, TO HIM NOT TOUCHING IT: IT'S THEREFORE GOOD,
BUT WHEN HE WAS CAUGHT TOUCHING IT, IT BECOMES EVIL UPON HIM. LIKEWISE EVE AS
SHE DID ATE FROM THE TREE KNOWING IT WAS GOOD FOR FOOD AND IS DESIRED TO MAKE
HER WISE, BUT WHEN THE LORD GOD CAUGHT THEM IT BECAME EVIL UNTO HER AND HER
HUSBAND. AND SO FOR THIS REASON WAS IT CALLED "GOOD AND EVIL"
Romans 9:1-5,7-33 KJV
I
say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in
the Holy Ghost, [2] That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my
heart. [3] For
I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: [4] Who are Israelites; to whom
pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and
the service of God , and the promises; [5] Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came , who is over all, God blessed
for ever. Amen. [6] Not as though
the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: [7] Neither,
because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. [8] That
is, They which are the children of the flesh,
these are not the children of God:
but the children of the promise are counted for
the seed. [9] For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and
Sara shall have a son. [10] And not only this ;
but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; [11] (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according
to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) [12] It was
said unto her, The
elder shall serve the younger. [13] As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I
hated. [14] What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid. [15] For he saith to
Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. [16] So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him
that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. [17] For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same
purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my
name might be declared throughout all the earth. [18] Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy , and whom he will he hardeneth. [19] Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault?
For who hath resisted his will? [20] Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest
against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it , Why hast thou
made me thus? [21] Hath not the potter power over
the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
another unto dishonour? [22] What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his
power known, endured with much longsuffering
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: [23] And that he might make known
the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory, [24]
Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
[25] As he saith also in Osee, I
will call them my people, which were not my people; and her
beloved, which was not beloved. [26] And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was
said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children
of the living God. [27] Esaias also crieth concerning Israel,
Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a
remnant shall be saved: [28] For he will finish the work, and cut it short in
righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth. [29] And
as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had
been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha. [30] What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to
righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. [31] But Israel, which
followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of
righteousness. [32] Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it
were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; [33] As
it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and
whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Isaiah 28:15-16 KJV
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: [16] Therefore thus saith the Lord God , Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone , a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Philippians 3:10 KJV
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Romans 6:3-4 KJV
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? [4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Revelation 1:18 KJV
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Isaiah 54:11 KJV
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
1 Peter 2:6 KJV
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: [16] Therefore thus saith the Lord God , Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone , a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
Philippians 3:10 KJV
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;
Romans 6:3-4 KJV
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? [4] Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Revelation 1:18 KJV
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
Isaiah 54:11 KJV
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.
1 Peter 2:6 KJV
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.
Isaiah 8:13-14 KJV
Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your fear, and let him be your dread. [14] And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
1 Peter 2:6-10 KJV
Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. [7] Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner, [8] And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed. [9] But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light: [10] Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.
1 John 4:2-3 KJV
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that
Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: [3] And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus
Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of
antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already
is it in the world.
2 John 1:7 KJV
For many deceivers are entered into
the world, who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh. This is a
deceiver and an antichrist.
1 John 3:1-2 KJV
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that
we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not,
because it knew him not. [2] Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when
he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
Hosea 1:8-11 KJV
Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah, she conceived, and bare a son.
[9] Then said God , Call his name
Lo-ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God . [10] Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand
of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where
it was said unto them,
Ye are not my people, there
it shall be said unto
them, Ye are the sons of the living God. [11] Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be
gathered together, and appoint themselves one head, and they shall come up out
of the land: for great shall be the day of Jezreel.
Joshua 6:16-19 KJV
And it came
to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua
said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city. [17] And the
city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord : only
Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house,
because she hid the messengers that we sent. [18] And
ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make
yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make
the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. [19] But all the silver, and gold,
and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord : they shall come
into the treasury of the Lord .
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 KJV
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be
put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: [23] His body shall not remain all
night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance.
Genesis 27:38-40 KJV
And Esau said unto his father, Hast thou but one blessing, my
father? bless me, even me also, O my father. And Esau lifted up his voice, and
wept. [39] And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold,
thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from
above; [40] And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and
it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break
his yoke from off thy neck.
Jeremiah 33:10-11 KJV
Thus saith the Lord ; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say shall be desolate without man and without beast, even
in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate,
without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast, [11] The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of
the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that
shall say, Praise the Lord of hosts: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord . For I will cause to return the
captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the Lord .
Deuteronomy 1:37-39 KJV
Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also
shalt not go in thither. [38] But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before
thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to
inherit it. [39] Moreover your little ones, which ye
said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil,
they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess
it.
Job 22:2-5 KJV
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself? [3] Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him , that thou makest thy ways perfect? [4] Will he reprove thee for fear of thee? will he enter with thee into judgment? [5] Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14 KJV
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. [14] For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
John 10:14-15 KJV
I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep , and am known of mine.
[15] As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my
life for the sheep.
Deuteronomy 8:11-16 KJV
Beware
that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his
judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day: [12] Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein ; [13] And when
thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied,
and all that thou hast is multiplied; [14] Then thine heart be lifted up, and
thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage; [15] Who led thee through that great and
terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought,
where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of
flint; [16] Who fed thee in the wilderness with
manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove
thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
IF IT HAD BEEN PAUL, HE WOULD SAY; SAYING I SPEAK THIS TO YOUR
SHAME? NEVERTHELESS I MYSELF LIKEWISE SPEAK THIS TO MAKE YOU SEE
AND UNDERSTAND. THEY SAY THAT NO MAN SPEAKING BY THE
SPIRIT OF GOD CALLETH JESUS ACCURSED: AND ALSO THAT NO MAN CAN SAY THAT JESUS
IS LORD, BUT BY THE HOLYGHOST. HOWEVER IT MIGHT
INTEREST YOU TO KNOW THAT I BARNE SPEAKING BY THE LAW OF GOD CALLETH JESUS
AN ACCURSED THING. SINCE THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE HOLYGHOST ARE BUT ONE
SPIRIT, FOR THEY ARE ONE. BUT LOOKING AT THAT STATEMENT, HAVE THEY FORGOTTEN SO
SOON THAT GOD HIMSELF SPOKE TO US IN HIS COMMANDS THAT, WE SHALL ALWAYS REMOVE
ALL ACCURSED THINGS FROM AMONG OURSELVES, AND THAT HE WHO WAS HANGED ON A TREE
IS ACCURSED OF GOD. HOW THEN WAS IT THAT THEY FORGOT TO SPEAK BY THE WORD OF
GOD ATLEAST, LET'S SEE IF THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND THE HOLYGHOST SPEAKS ACCORDING
TO THE WORD OF GOD? BY THEN WE WILL BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE ONE WITH GOD.
ALL THE SAME, GOD COMMANDED US NOT TO INVOLVE OURSELVES WITH DIVERS
OPERATIONS SUCH AS MINGLED SEED, MINGLED LINEN AND WOOLLEN WITH OUR GARMENT,
AND DIVERS WEIGHTS. FOR ALL THIS THINGS ARE ABOMINATION IN THE SIGHT OF GOD.
BUT UNTO THE SPIRIT WHICH WAS MADE MANIFEST, IT IS GOOD IN HIS SIGHT AND WANT
THE CHURCHES TO PROFIT IN IT.
1 Corinthians 12:1-7 KJV
Now concerning spiritual gifts , brethren, I would not have you
ignorant. [2] Ye know that ye were Gentiles, carried away unto these dumb
idols, even as ye were led. [3] Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus
is the Lord, but by the Holy
Ghost. [4]
Now there are diversities of
gifts, but
the same Spirit. [5] And there are differences of
administrations, but the same Lord. [6] And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. [7] But
the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.
Deuteronomy 21:22-23 KJV
And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be
put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: [23] His body shall not remain all
night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God
giveth thee for an inheritance.
Leviticus 19:19 KJV
Ye shall keep my statutes. Thou shalt not let thy cattle gender
with a diverse kind: thou shalt not
sow thy field with mingled seed: neither shall a garment mingled of linen and
woollen come upon thee.
Deuteronomy 22:9-11 KJV
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the
fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled. [10] Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an
ass together. [11] Thou shalt not wear a garment of divers sorts, as of woollen and linen together.
Deuteronomy 25:13-16 KJV
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small. [14] Thou shalt not have in thine
house divers measures, a great and a small. [15] But thou shalt have a perfect
and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may
be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. [16] For all that
do such things, and all that do unrighteously, are an abomination unto the Lord
thy God.
THESE ARE TRUE SAYING BY PAUL, FOR WE JUDGE THUS OF OURSELVES BUT
NOT BY THE LAW: THAT WHEN ONE DIED FOR ALL, THEN ALL ARE DEAD. AND BY OUR
JUDGEMENT; WE DECLARE THAT THROUGH HIS DEATH, ALL LIVE NOT TO THEMSELVES BUT
UNTO HIM THAT DIED AND ROSE AGAIN. ALSO BY THE JUDGEMENTS OF THESE; THEY
ACCEPTED THAT THEY KNEW NOT ANYMAN AFTER THE FLESH NO MORE, FOR THEY ARE ALL
DEAD THROUGH ONE MAN'S BAPTISM, AND AS THEY KNEW CHRIST BEFORE AFTER THE FLESH,
SO LIKEWISE THEY KNEW HIM NO MORE AGAIN. SINCE BY THEIR CIRCUMCISION THROUGH
THE SPIRIT, THEY WORSHIP GOD IN THE SPIRIT KNOWING THAT THEY WERE ALL DEAD AND
WERE LIVING UNTO HIM THAT QUICKENETH IN THE SPIRIT.
2 Corinthians 5:14-16 KJV
For the love of Christ constraineth
us; because
we
thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: [15] And that he died for all, that they which live should not
henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose
again. [16] Wherefore henceforth know we no
man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now
henceforth know we him no more.
Philippians 3:3 KJV
For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and
rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.
WHEN I STUDIED GOD'S WORD WHICH NO OTHER MAN TAUGHT ME EXCEPT BY
THE LAW AND COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, , I DO OBSERVE, I STRAIN NOT MYSELF OR MY
THOUGHTS WHEN READING, I GLANCE NOT, RATHER I GAZED STEADILY THAT THE TINIEST
LETTER MIGHT BE NOTICED. AND WHEN I REASONED ABOUT EACH LETTER I UNDERSTAND
WITH THE GUIDE WHICH WAS IN THE TABLES, SINCE I HAD NO SPIRIT OF GOD IN ME THAT
TAUGHT ME HOW. I HAD NO WISDOM OF THE SPIRIT IN ME, INSTEAD I UNDERSTAND BY THE
NATURAL INSPIRATION OF THE LAW OF GOD. WHEN I GAZED AT THE WORDS OF THE
PROPHETS, I DO SEE WISDOM IN SO MUCH THAT I ASKED MYSELF HOW WONDERFUL ARE
THEIR WORDS, FOR THE LORD GOD HATH GIVEN EVERYONE OF US DIFFERENT GIFTS; SOME
ARE GIFT NOT OBTAINED EASILY, AND SOME GIFTS GIVEN FREELY UNTO MANY, BUT MANY
WHO RECEIVED OF THE FREE ARE NOT AS THE SAME AS THOSE THAT RECEIVED BOTH GIFTS
AND FREE GIFTS. FOR BY THEIR GIFTS THEY GIVE UNTO MANY FREELY, EXPECTING
NOTHING IN RETURN FROM THEM THAT RECEIVED FREELY. BUT CERTAIN WHO RECEIVED
THEIR GIFT; WORK IN RETURN USING THEIR GIFT AS LEVERAGE, DEPENDING ON THEIR
ABILITIES, UNDERSTANDING THAT A GIFT SO WORKED FOR, IS NOT EASY TO COME BY. AND
WHEN THEY USE THESE GIFTS, THEY USE IT WISELY TO AVOID WASTING IT BECAUSE IT'S
HARD TO COME BY.
HOWEVER HE THAT RECEIVETH FREE GIFT WORKS NOT FOR IT, AND IS AT
LIBERTY TO DECIDE WHETHER TO USE IT SPARINGLY OR UNWISELY, KNOWING IT WAS GIVEN
TO HIM GENEROUSLY BY ONE WHO WANTS NOTHING FOR HIS FAVOUR. I WOULD NOT HAVE YOU TO BE IGNORANT OF THE GOOD GESTURE YE RECEIVE FROM ONE THAT GIVES FREELY
WITHOUT EXPECTING NOTHING IN RETURN, FOR YE WOULD NOT KNOW THE VALUE OF THE
GIFTS AS BABES EXCEPT YE WORK TO RECEIVE. FOR WHAT I RECEIVED, IT'S STILL THE
GIFT WHICH WAS CHOSEN BEFORE FROM AMONG ALL BY THE GREATER, TO BE RETURNED IN
HIS ORDER AND TO HIS SERVICES.
AND IN THE WORDS OF THE SAINTS AND PROPHETS I FOUND KNOWLEDGE THAT
ARE GOOD FOR EDIFYING. BUT IF I AM IGNORANT OF GOD'S WORD, I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE
TO TELL IF THE WORDS OF THE PROPHETS ARE GOOD, BUT BY THE LAW AND COMMANDMENTS
OF GOD" WAS I ABLE TO JUDGE MY ESTATE CAREFULLY. AND IF SO, THEIR WORDS
ALSO ARE BEFORE ME TO JUDGE IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAW; FOR IF THE ALLIANCE OF
THEIR ORDERS WORK AGAINST THE LAW, THEN IT SHALL BE REQUIRED BY THE LORD FOR
REPROVE. AND AS IT WAS TOLD IN THE OLD BY GOD HIMSELF SAYING ALL WORDS OF THE
PROPHETS MUST GO BY MY ORDERS AND ANY WHICH ACCORDS NOT WITH MY WORD SHALL BE
FOUND GUILTY.
SO THEREFORE HAVING OBTAINED
MY GIFT, NOT BY GRACE, BUT BY THE LAW OF GOD, I THEREFORE SAY THIS UNTO YOU
THAT YE SHOULD OBSERVE EVERY BIT OF THE LETTER WITH UNDERSTANDING FOR THEY ALL
ARE KNOWLEDGE. EPHESIANS SAID YE ARE DEAD IN TRESPASSES AND SIN, BUT WHY DEAD IN IT RATHER THAN DEAD FROM IT. ARE YE VOID UNDERSTANDING, KNOW
YE NOT THAT WHERE YE DIE IN; YE ARE IN IT, EXCEPT THE LIVING REMOVES YOU FROM
IT. BUT IF YOU WERE QUICKENED BY THE SPIRIT, YE WILL BE SPIRITS AND NOT LIVING
YET, FOR THE SPIRITS HAVE NOT FLESH AND BLOOD. JESUS ROSE WITH HIS FLESH AND
BLOOD SIGNIFYING THAT HE WAS NOT YET DEAD WHEREIN HE WAS CRUCIFIED, FOR HE WAS
NOT JOINED IN THE BURIAL RATHER HE WAS BROUGHT DOWN TO THE SIDE OF THE PIT,
WHERE THEY ROLLED THE STONE USED TO COVER THE ENTRANCE OF THE SEPULCHER THAT
THEY MIGHT PAY HIM VISIT. REMEMBER THAT HE IS QUICKENED IN THE SPIRIT, AND
ASCENDED UP ON HIGH FAR ABOVE ALL HEAVENS IN PRAISE, AND FROM THERE HE SHALL
COME IN THE CLOUDS IN POWER AND GLORY, AND HIS PEOPLE SHALL MEET HIM IN THE
AIR. FOR HE SAITH COMFORT ONE ANOTHER WITH THESE WORD. ALREADY HE HATH SAID
BEFORE WHEN HE HEALED THE PALSY SAYING THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU
SIGNIFYING THE RISEN WHEREWITH YE ALSO WERE QUICKENED TOGETHER WITH HIM IN
HEAVENLY PLACE IN CHRIST, FOR YE ARE ONE WITH HIM IN THE SPIRIT.
BUT NOW WE SEE THEM THAT WERE ALREADY IN HEAVENLY PLACE IN CHRIST DEAD
AND HELD YET ON EARTH, EXPECTING HIM TO BE MANIFEST AGAIN IN THE SAME PLACES,
WITHAL HE IS ALREADY WITH THEM; FOR THEY ALREADY ARE SITTING TOGETHER WITH HIM
IN HEAVENLY PLACES AS WE HAVE SEEN THEM ON EARTH, BUT HE THAT THEY ARE
EXPECTING WILL SHEW HIS EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN TIME TO COME UNTO THEM
WHICH ARE SITTING WITH HIM IN HEAVENLY HOMES, WHEN THEY SHALL MEET HIM IN THE
AIR TO BE WITH HIM THERE AND FOREVER. ALSO IT WAS TOLD BEFORE BY GOD, THAT
THESE PEOPLE CREATED IN CHRIST AS HIS WORKMANSHIP SHOULD WALK IN THEM THAT DEED
THE WORK, FOR IT PLEASED GOD TO LEAVE THE WORKMANSHIP OF CHRIST IN HEAVENLY
PLACE WHERE CHRIST CALLED THEM. MOREOVER AS THESE WORKMANSHIPS OF CHRIST WERE
SOMETIMES ALIENS FROM ISRAEL AND FROM THE COVENANT OF PROMISE, THEY HAD NO HOPE
KNOWING THAT THERE WAS NO GOD IN THE WORLD AT THAT TIME, AND AFTER THROUGH
CHRIST'S BLOOD; THESE ALIENS DRAW CLOSE, SEEING THAT A GOD IN THE WORLD HAS
ABOLISHED IN HIS FLESH THE ENEMITY AND THE LAW OF COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, WHEREBY
THEY ARE KEPT FAR OFF AS ALIENS FROM ISRAEL.
THEREFORE CHRIST CAME AND PREACHED PEACE UNTO THEM THAT WERE AFAR
OFF AND US THAT ARE NIGH; RECONCILING BOTH UNTO GOD BY HIS CROSS, THOUGH WE LEARNT
THAT THROUGH THE PREACHING OF THE CROSS, MANY PERISHED FOOLISHLY, FOR IT WAS
PREACHED WITHOUT WISDOM OF WORDS THAT THE CROSS MIGHT BE EFFECTIVE. HOWEVER IT
IS PORTENTOUS FOR YOU TO BE HELD IN HIS DEATH, THAT WHEN HE SHALL APPEAR; YE
SHALL BE AS HE IS.
Ephesians 2:1-22 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. [4] But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith
he loved us, [5] Even
when we were dead
in sins, hath quickened us together with
Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) [6] And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: [7] That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace
in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. [8] For by grace
are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it
is the gift of God: [9] Not of works, lest any man
should boast. [10] For we are his workmanship, created in
Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that
we should walk in
them. [11] Wherefore remember, that ye being in
time past Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by
hands;
[12] That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the
world:
[13] But now in Christ Jesus ye who
sometimes were far
off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. [14] For he is our peace, who hath made
both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us ; [15] Having
abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments
contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one
new man, so making peace; [16] And that he
might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: [17] And came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. [18] For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the
Father. [19] Now therefore ye are no more strangers
and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and
of the household of God; [20] And are built
upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone ; [21] In whom all
the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:
[22] In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the
Spirit.
1 Corinthians 1:17-18 KJV
For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not
with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of none effect. [18] For the
preaching of the cross is to them that perish
foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is
the power of God.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 KJV
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first: [17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. [18] Wherefore comfort one
another with these words.
Romans 7:6 KJV
But now we are delivered from the law,
that being dead wherein we were held; that we should
serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
Galatians 2:20 KJV
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless
I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh
I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Numbers 18:6-7 KJV
And I, behold, I have taken your
brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given
as a gift for the Lord , to do the service of the tabernacle of the
congregation. [7] Therefore thou and thy sons with
thee shall keep your priest's office for every thing of the altar, and within
the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a
service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
CHRIST SPOKE SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT HE DOES KNOW, AND ABOVE ALL
TESTIFY THAT THEY HAVE SEEN, ONLY THAT HE SPOKE NOT FOR HIMSELF ALONE IN THIS
MATTER. WHO ARE THESE THAT HE MENTIONED, SAYING WE SPEAK THAT WE DO KNOW? ARE ALL THESE PRESENT IN HIS FATHER'S KINGDOM, SITTING TOGETHER
WITH HIM? YES THEY ARE, THEY ALL ARE IN THE SAME HEAVENLY PLACES, THEY ARE
THE ONES HE REDEEMED WITH HIS BLOOD SITTING CLOSE TO HIM ON EVERY SIDES OF
THE THRONE WHEREWITH HE SAT THEREON. FOR CHRIST HAD REVEALED UNTO US THE
RICHES OF HIS GRACE TO THOSE THAT HE REDEEMED OUT OF EVERY KINDRED AND PEOPLE
AND NATIONS, WHO REJOICES IN PRAISES SAYING WORTHY IS THE LAMB WHO HATH
REDEEMED THEM OUT OF EVERY PEOPLE, KINDREDS AND
NATIONS AND TONGUES, TO MADE THEM UNTO THEIR GOD, KINGS
AND PRIESTS AND THEY SHALL REIGN ON EARTH.
THEREFORE I THE WRITER LOOKED CLOSELY TO HIS WORDS AND SAW THE
GLORY OF THESE WHOM HE HAD REDEEMED FOR HIMSELF,
SAYING AMEN. AND MY HEART REJOICED GREATLY, THAT THE FOUR BEASTS AND THE TWENTY FOUR ELDERS ARE SURROUNDING
THE THRONE WHEREWITH THE LAMB TRIUMPHS, WHOSE ALSO ARE AMONG THE TEN
THOUSANDS TIMES TEN THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF THE BEASTS AND
THE ELDERS REDEEMED OUT OF VERY PEOPLE, TONGUES, KINDREDS AND
NATIONS.
THEN I ASKED MYSELF WAS IT THAT THE WORLD WANTS TO PERISH, THAT
THEY HAVE TURNED BLIND EYES UNTO THEMSELVES LIVING IN THE GLORY OF THE BEASTS
AND OF THE ELDERS OF THE BEASTS, WHOSE GOVERNMENT WAS ENTRUSTED UNTO THE FOUR
BEASTS THAT HAD THE FINAL SAY IN AMEN. WHO ARE NO LONGER PEOPLE,
KINDREDS, TONGUES AND NATIONS, BUT CHOSE TO BE CALLED BEASTS AND ELDERS, FOR
WHAT THEY SPEAK OF THEY DO KNOW AND TESTIFY THAT THEY KNOW UNTO THEMSELVES TO
THE GLORY OF THEIR LORD CHRIST JESUS.
THEREFORE CHRIST HAVING TOLD THEM MUCH ABOUT EARTHLY THINGS WHICH
THEY BELIEVE NOT, CHRIST KNEW ALSO THAT THEY WILL NOT BELIEVE EVEN IF HE TOLD
THEM ABOUT HIS HEAVENLY THINGS. SO FOR THAT REASON, HE SAID, SAYING; NO MAN
HATH ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT HE HATH ASCENDED UP FAR ABOVE ALL THAT IS CALLED HEAVENS. AND FROM THERE HE CAME DOWN EVEN THE SON
OF MAN WHICH IS IN HEAVEN.
AND IF I ASK YOU TO ASCEND UP ABOVE MY HOUSE, DO I EXPECT TO SEE
YOU IN MY HOUSE? WON'T I RATHER HOPE TO SEE YOU ON TOP OF THE ROOF OF MY
HOUSE, FOR THERE IS THE ABOVE.
WHO ELSE WAS HE THEN THAT HE SAID CAME DOWN? I UNDERSTAND THAT IT
WAS ONLY GOD WHO DID CAME DOWN IN THE PILLAR OF CLOUDS AND FIRE FROM HEAVEN
AND ALSO ASCENDED. BUT HE WHO WAS CALLED CHRIST CAME OUT OF THE WOMB OF HIS
MOTHER THE MORNING, AND FOR THAT REASON HE TESTIFIED HE WAS THE MORNING STAR.
REMEMBER THAT FROM THE WOMB, HE WAS LIFTED UP AS THE SERPENT JUST LIKE MOSES
DID LIFT THE SERPENT BEFORE.
PAUL TESTIFIED THAT NOW ALL HIS PEOPLE ARE FULL, AND HAVE GOTTEN
THEM RICHES AND HAVE REIGNED WITHOUT THEM AND ALSO HAVE COME TO KNOW THE SON
OF GOD CHRIST JESUS, THOUGH IT WAS SAID BEFORE: KNOW NO OTHER GODS. ALSO PAUL
THINKS THAT GOD HAS SET THEM THE LAST APOSTLES OF CHRIST AS PEOPLE DESIGNATED
TO DEATH. AS THE LORD SAITH BEFORE ACCORDING TO THE PEOPLE WHOM HE SHALL FED
TO THE FULL, AND AFTER THEY SHALL KNOW JESUS AND HOLYGHOST WHOSE ARE THE
FATHERS THAT SHALL BRING THEM TO THEIR DEATH. FOR REST HE SAID HE SHALL GIVE
THEM THAT LABOUR, BUT UNTO THIS DAY THEY HAVE NO CERTAIN DWELLINGPLACE.
John
3:5-16 KJV
Jesus
answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and
of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. [6] That which is
born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
[7] Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. [8] The wind
bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not
tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of
the Spirit. [9] Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things
be? [10] Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a
master of Israel, and knowest not these things? [11] Verily, verily, I say unto thee, We speak that we do know, and testify that we have seen; and
ye receive not our witness. [12] If I have told you
earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of
heavenly things? [13] And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came
down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven. [14] And as Moses
lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be
lifted up: [15] That whosoever believeth in
him should not perish, but have eternal life. [16] For God so loved the
world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him
should not perish, but have everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 4:8-15 KJV
Now
ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I
would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. [9] For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to
men. [10] We 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. [11] Even
unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are
buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace; [12] And labour, working with our
own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it: [13]
Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the
offscouring of all things unto this day. [14] I write not these things to
shame you, but as my beloved sons I warn you . [15] For though ye have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers:
for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.
Jude 1:14-16 KJV
And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these,
saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, [15]
To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them
of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all
their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him. [16] These
are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth
speaketh great swelling words , having men's
persons in admiration because of advantage.
Revelation 5:1-14 KJV
And I
saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and
on the backside, sealed with seven seals. [2] And I saw a strong angel
proclaiming with a loud voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and
to loose the seals thereof? [3] And no man in
heaven, nor in earth, neither under the earth, was able to open the book,
neither to look thereon. [4] And I wept much, because no man was found worthy
to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon. [5] And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the
Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. [6] And I beheld, and, lo, in the
midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain,
having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent
forth into all the earth. [7] And he came and
took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne. [8] And
when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell
down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full
of odours, which are the prayers of saints. [9] And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to
take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out
of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and
nation; [10] And hast made us unto
our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth. [11]
And I
beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and
thousands of thousands; [12] Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches,
and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. [13]
And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth,
and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, heard I saying,
Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto him that sitteth upon the
throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. [14] And
the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and
worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
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FOR MY MIND TROUBLETH WHEN I SEE THE WORD OF HIM WHO HAST ASCENDED UP VERY FAR ABOVE ALL HEAVEN, AND GAVE BOTH MEN AND
THE REBELLIOUS PEOPLE THE GIFTS OF PASTORS, EVANGELIST, PROPHETS AND TEACHERS,
WHICH WAS SHARED AMONG THEM WITH THE REBELLIOUS TOO. FROM FAR ABOVE ALL
HEAVENS, HE PERFECTED HIS SAINTS. YEA EVEN FROM FAR ABOVE ALL THRONE, HE
INTERCEDES FOR HIS SAINTS, THAT THE LORD GOD WHO'S THRONE IS IN HEAVEN, MAY
DWELL AMONG THEM.
FOR HE CANNOT MAKE ANOTHER HOME FAR ABOVE ALL HEAVENS EXCEPT THE
LORD WHO CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH, EVEN ALL THAT IS IN IT, HATH MADE
PROVISION OF THE UNKNOWN WHERE HE MIGHT RESIDES IN THE AIR ABOVE ALL HEAVENS
AWAITING THE COMPLETION OF HIS PLACES, THAT THEY WHICH SHALL MEET HIM IN THE
AIR MIGHT BE THERE TOGETHER WITH HIM FOREVER. ALSO THE LORD DELIGHTS IN GIVING
HIM A NAME WHICH ALSO IS ABOVE ALL OTHER NAMES BOTH IN HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND
THE THINGS UNDER THE EARTH, WHEREFORE GOD HATH EXALTED HIM WITH THIS NAME THAT
HAS MADE ALL NATIONS TO TREMBLED, THAT AT THE MENTION OF THE NAME JESUS WHICH
WAS NOT NAMED AT ANY TIME IN HEAVEN AND THE EARTH AND BENEATH, ALL SHOULD BOW.
THEREFORE IT SUFFICE GOD WHO IS ABLE TO DO ALL THINGS TO GIVE HIM THE POWER TO
DECLARE HIS NAME AMONG ALL THAT HIS FATHER HATH GIVEN HIM IN THE CHURCH.
HOWEVER I UNDERSTAND THAT AMONG EVERY NAME WE HAVE HEARD IN THIS WORLD THAT WAS
NAMED, GOD'S NAME IS FIRST, AND THERE WAS NOT ANOTHER NAME THAT IS ABOVE THE
FIRST NAME WE HEARD BEFORE THAT IS GOD'S, EVEN WHEN GOD SPOKE TO OUR FATHERS
FROM HEAVEN ABOVE, GAVE NO OTHER NAME GREATER THAN HIS, HOW THEN COULD A COMMON
NAME OF JESUS BE GREATER THAN GOD'S, WHICH JESUS DECLARED UNTO HIS CHURCH.
Psalm 68:18 KJV
Thou hast ascended on high, thou
hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the
rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them .
Ephesians 4:8-12 KJV
Wherefore he saith, When he
ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men. [9] (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended
first into the lower parts of the earth? [10] He that descended is the same also that
ascended up far above all
heavens,
that he might fill all things.) [11] And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some,
evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; [12] For the perfecting of the
saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:
Philippians 2:9-11 KJV
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: [10] That at the
name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth,
and things under the earth; [11] And that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Ephesians 1:19-21 KJV
And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who
believe, according to the working of his mighty power, [20] Which he wrought in
Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at
his own right hand in the heavenly places , [21] Far above all principality, and power, and might, and
dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in
that which is to come:
Deuteronomy 4:39 KJV
Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.
WHAT A MAN HE IS, THE FAITH OF THE OPERATIONS, HE WHO OPERATES AT
HIS OWN STAKES, A MAN OF HIS OWN WORD THAT HATH POWER TO DESTROY HIMSELF AT
RANSOM AND HATH POWER BUILD BACK HIS LIFE. HE WAS QUITE A WONDERMAN, TO HAVE
BLOTTED OUT THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCE GIVEN UNTO US BY GOD HIMSELF. JESUS
SPAKED BY HIMSELF; SAYING I WILL DESTROY MYSELF WITH THE NAILS ON MY CROSS,
FROM THERE I WILL BE ABLE TO REMOVE THE HANDWRITTEN ORDINANCES WHICH WAS
AGAINST MY CHURCH. FOR WHY SHOULD MY CHURCHES TAKE ORDERS FROM ANYONE APART
FROM ME CHRIST. NOT ONLY WAS HE ABLE TO DO THAT, BUT BEING THE HEAD OF ALL
PRINCIPALITY AND POWER, HE SPOILED OTHER PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS BY TAKING
WHAT BELONGS TO THEM FOR HIMSELF AND REJOICED EXCEEDINGLY IN IT. WHAT A
WONDERFUL MAN HE IS IN DEED.
FOR I BELIEVED THAT THE LORD ALWAYS COMMANDED MOSES TO DESTROY ALL
ACCURSED THINGS OF THE ENEMIES AND NEVER REJOICE IN THE UNHOLY THINGS, ONCE WON
AGAINST THE ENEMIES. SO WHY WAS THIS CHRIST JESUS TRIUMPH OVER THEM IN IT
Colossians 2:9-15 KJV
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
[10] And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality
and power: [11] In whom also ye
are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the
circumcision of Christ: [12] Buried with him in baptism, wherein also ye are
risen with him through the faith of the operation of God, who hath raised him from the dead. [13] And you, being dead
in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together
with him, having forgiven you all
trespasses; [14] Blotting out the
handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of
the way, nailing it to his cross; [15] And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew
of them openly, triumphing
over
them in it.
WHAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND IS THIS, THAT CHRIST TOLD A PARABLE UNTO
HIS DISCIPLES ABOUT A CERTAIN RICH MAN WHO HAD A STEWARD WHO WASTED HIS GOODS,
AND ASKED THE STEWARD TO GIVE ACCOUNT OF HIS SERVICES. BUT THE STEWARD WENT AT
HIS MASTER'S BACK AND CONNIVED WITH HIS MASTER'S DEBTORS TO RECORD FALSE
REPORTS FOR HIS MASTER. AND THE MASTER PRAISED THE STEWARD NOT KNOWING HE WAS A
DISHONEST FELLOW. AND WITH THIS PARABLE THE TEACHER WHICH WAS CHRIST ADVICED
THE CHURCH TO LEARN FROM THE STEWARD'S DEVIOUS ACT, ASKING THEM TO MAKE TO
THEMSELVES FRIENDS WITH THE UNRIGHTEOUS MAMMON, SO THAT THEY MAY TAKE THE
CHURCH TO THEIR EVERLASTING HABITATION WHEN THEY FAIL. FOR THE MAMMONS ARE THE
ONES THAT WILL COMMIT INTO YOUR TRUST THE TRUE RICHES OF CHRIST.
HAVE THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST READ THIS PARABLE WITH AN OPEN MIND AND
A WIDE OPEN EYES AND YET HAVE REMAINED BLIND TO THE FAULT, WHAT WAS IT THAT
THEY UNDERSTOOD NOT AT ALL THAT MADE THE CHURCH RIDICULED THEMSELVES.
Luke 16:1-12 KJV
And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man,
which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his
goods. [2] And he called him, and said unto him,
How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for
thou mayest be no longer steward. [3] Then the steward said within himself,
What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig;
to beg I am ashamed. [4] I am resolved what to do, that,
when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.
[5] So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him , and said unto the
first, How much owest thou unto my lord? [6] And he said, An hundred measures
of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write
fifty. [7] Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An
hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write
fourscore. [8] And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done
wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the
children of light. [9] And I say unto you, Make to
yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when
ye fail,
they may receive you into everlasting
habitations. [10] He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful
also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. [11] If
therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true
riches ? [12] And if ye have not been faithful
in that which is another man's, who shall give you that which is your own?
Romans 11:11-12 KJV
I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid:
but rather through their fall
salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. [12] Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world,
and the diminishing of them the
riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
NOW THERE ARE MANY PERSONS WHO HAVE BESTOWED MUCH GIFT UPON PAUL, CHRIST
AND OTHERS, SO THAT IN THE LATTER; MANY MIGHT THANK THEM FOR WHAT THEY DID. WHICH
I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH, BUT WHERE I HAVE A CHALLENGE WITH THEM IS THESE; GIVING
THE TESTIMONIES THAT CAME FROM THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE, RATHER THAN TESTIFYING IN
THE ORDERS WE HAD. FOR ALL WAS COMPLETED IN THE DAYS GOD COMMANDED US TO DO HIS
WILL, AND NOT PARTLY DONE WHEN HE SAID ADD NOT OR DIMINISH FROM WHAT I COMMANDED
THEE THIS DAY. BUT CHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE CAME AND ATTACHED THEMSELVES AS PART
OF GOD'S PEOPLE, WHICH WE NEVER HEARD ACCORDING TO ALL GOD'S WORD BEFORE, THAT
A PART OF HIM IN FLESH SHALL COME. INSTEAD WE HEAR THIS NEWLY IN PART OF THE
GOSPEL THAT CAME THROUGH godly AND SINCERE CONSCIENCE OF MANY THAT HAD THEIR
CONVERSATION IN THE WORLD, WHICH THE GENTILES RECEIVED IN PART SAYING THAT THE
SON OF GOD AND THE HOLYGHOST ARE PART OF GODHEADS. THOUGH BEING SEPARATE WHILE
GOD IS IN HEAVEN, AND CHRIST CAME DOWN TO EARTH WITH THE HOLYGHOST TO RESIDE IN
THE BODIES OF MEN. WHICH THE GENTILES ACKNOWLEDGED THEM IN PART, EVEN AS THEY
WERE ONE WITH CHRIST.
FOR ALL THEY HAVE KNOWN, THEY KNOW IN PART, AND PROPHESY IN PART,
BUT I USING PAUL'S DICTION UNTO YOU, WOULD WANT YOU NOT TO BE ABSENT-MINDED OF
THAT WHICH IS PERFECT THAT SHALL COME IN DEW TIME AGAINST THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE
IN PART; FROM AMONG THE GOSPEL YE HAVE HEARD, THOUGH THAT TO COME IS NOT
ANOTHER. SINCE ISRAEL IS BLINDED PARTLY IN THEIR CAUSE. FOR BOTH JEWS AND
GENTILES HAVE IN ONE WAY OR THE OTHER MADE TO PARTAKE IN THE DRINKING OFFERING OF
ONE SPIRIT. FOR THE SPIRIT CHRIST SPEAKS OF IS CALLED GOD.
NEVERTHELESS MY WRITINGS WERE DONE TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY USING THE
GUIDANCE OF THE LAW OF GOD, TO MAKE THEM LOOK PROFOUNDLY CLEAR UNTO YOU WITH MY
HIGHLIGHTS WHICH SHOULD BE A GUIDE TO YOU IN ALL GOD'S WORD, AND I, AND OF CHRIST WITH HIS DISCIPLES. SEEING THAT THE LESS HONOURABLE
MEMBERS OF THE BODY, HAVE THE GENTILES BESTOWED MORE ABUNDANT HONOUR, AND THE
UNCOMELY PARTS ALSO HAVE THEY ALSO BESTOWED ABUNDANT COMELINESS, EVEN AS THEY HAVE
BESTOWED MORE ABUNDANT HONOUR TO CHRIST WHO WAS LESS TO THE LORD GOD.
FOR WHEN I SAID: "AND I" MEANT THAT I TILL THIS DAY STAND
ALONE IN THE WORD OF GOD WHICH I WRITE UNTO YOU, FOR I HAVE CEASED FROM ALL THE
SECTS GATHERINGS IN THE WORLD, WHICH ARE STILL THE MEDIUM OF SELF DECIMATION TO THE BODIES THAT ARE ONE WITH THEM. FOR WHAT IS LACKING IN THEIR
BODIES HAVE THEY BESTOWED ABUNDANT HONOUR, AND ALL THAT IS COMELY TO THEIR
KNOWLEDGE IN SIMPLICITY, SHOULD YE HAVE NO NEED OF, THEY ARE OF NO VALUE.
CONSEQUENTLY WHAT I AM EXPECTING IS ABOUT TO COME, WHICH IS PREPARING
OURSELVES FROM THIS WORD OF GOD, AND TO WAIT UNTO THE VOICE OF GOD SOON, WHEN
HE SHALL APPOINT A PLACE FOR ALL TO DO HIS SERVICES, FOR THAT IS WHAT WE SHALL
BE LOOKING FORWARD TO SOON. SINCE FROM THE TIME OF OUR FATHER'S, WHEN GOD
SPAKED TO MOSES, HE CHOSE A PLACE FOR HIMSELF AND COMMANDED MOSES TO DO ACCORDING
TO ALL THAT WAS SHOWN TO HIM ON THE MOUNTAIN, AND THERE DID THEY CARRIED OUT
THE SERVICES ENTRUSTED TO THEM, UNTIL THE LORD ABANDONED US IN THE HANDS OF THE
FIVE LORDS OF THE PHILISTINE AFTER JOSHUA'S DEATH, WHOSE HAVE BEEN RULING OVER
US UNTO THIS DAY BECAUSE OF OUR REBELLION.
THEREFORE WE SHALL RETURN FIRST TO THE LORD'S HABITATION IN ISRAEL
AND AWAIT HIS VOICE, OR IF HE SHALL COME FIRST BEFORE US, THEN WE SHALL FACE HIS
JUDGEMENT AS AT THE DAYS OF THE SONS OF GOD, WHEN ONLY EIGHT SOULS WERE SAVED
FROM BOTH ALL LIVING CREATURES AND THE SONS OF GOD WHO ARE OF THE SPIRIT THAT
PERISHED. FOR IN MY SOUND MIND HAVE I SPOKEN TO YOU ALL TODAY, I HAVE MADE MY
WORD ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF GOD NOT TO SOUND SWEET AND DELIGHTFUL TO THE
HEARING OF MEN, FOR I SEEK NOT YOUR PRAISES UNTO ME, BUT THAT YE OBEY GOD'S
COMMANDMENTS NOW AND DO NOT ACCORDING TO WHAT YE KNOW FROM YOUR CONVERSATIONS
WITH THE SPIRITS.
WITH ALL BEEN SAID, IF MANY MEMBERS ARE IN ONE BODY, BUT HAVE NOT THE
SAME OFFICE, RATHER DIFFERENT OFFICES, I DELIGHT SO MUCH IN MY HEART, SEEING THAT
YE HAVE UNDERSTOOD ACCORDING TO PAUL'S WORD THAT ALL THAT IS IN PART HAVE NOT
THE SAME OFFICES WITH GOD'S OFFICE, AND SO WAS CHRIST OFFICE AND HOLYGHOST
OFFICE DIFFERENT FROM GOD'S OWN OFFICE. AND FOR THAT REASON, THEY CALLED NOT
CHRIST AN ACCURSED THING BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD AND CALLED HIM LORD BY THE
HOLYGHOST, BUT NEVER CALLED HIM ACCORDING TO THE LAW OF GOD THAT HE WAS ACCURSED
OF THE LORD GOD.
2 Corinthians 1:11-23 KJV
Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon
us by the means of many
persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf. [12] For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that
in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the
grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to
you-ward. [13] For we write none other things unto you, than what ye
read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end; [14] As
also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of
the Lord Jesus.
1 Corinthians 13:9-12 KJV
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. [10] But
when that which is perfect is come,
then that which is in
part shall be done away. [11] When I was a child, I spake as
a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a
man, I put away childish things. [12] For now we see through a glass,
darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Romans 11:25 KJV
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this
mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be
come in.
1 Corinthians 6:15-17 KJV
Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then
take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.
[16] What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for
two, saith he, shall be one flesh. [17] But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit.
1 Corinthians 12:12-21,23-27 KJV
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and
all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. [13] For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles,
whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one
Spirit. [14] For the body is not one member, but many. [15] If the
foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it
therefore not of the body? [16] And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the
eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body? [17] If the whole
body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were
the smelling? [18] But now hath God set the members every one of them in the
body, as it hath pleased him. [19] And if they were all one member, where were
the body? [20] But now are they many members, yet but one body. [21] And the
eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the
feet, I have no need of you. [23] And those members of the body,
which we think to be less
honourable, upon these we
bestow more abundant
honour; and our uncomely
parts have more abundant
comeliness. [24] For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant
honour to that part which lacked:
[25] That there should be no schism in the body; but that
the members should have the same care one for another. [26] And whether one
member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all
the members rejoice with it. [27] Now ye are the body of Christ, and
members in particular.
Romans 12:4-5 KJV
For as we have many members in one body, and
all members have not the same office: [5] So we,
being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
REMEMBER THIS WORD, IF I SHOULD DESIRE THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE SON
OF GOD JESUS CHRIST, I WOULD BE A SINNER, FOR WHY SHOULD I BE AMONG THOSE
THAT CRUCIFIED HIM KNOWING THAT THESE PRINCES CRUCIFIED HIM OUT OF IGNORANCE
JUST LIKE JESUS ASKED HIS FATHER TO FORGIVE THEM, FOR THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY
DO. I ALSO THE WRITER UNDERSTOOD THAT THESE PEOPLE TRULY ARE IGNORANT OF
CHOOSING TO CRUCIFY HIM, BECAUSE THEY DID KILLED HIM SO THAT HIS BLOOD SHOULD
BE USED FOR THE ATONEMENT OF THEIR SINS.
AND WHEN THEY OBTAINED THE ATONEMENT THROUGH HIS BLOOD, THEY
PRAISE HIM DECLARING THROUGH ALL NATIONS THAT HE HAS RISEN. MEANWHILE IF THE
GENTILES HAD UNDERSTOOD BY THE WISDOM OF GOD THROUGH PAUL'S TEACHING, WHY
THEY SHOULD NOT BE PARTAKERS WITH THOSE THAT KILLED JESUS CHRIST, THEY WOULD
NOT HAVE REJOICED WITH THEM FOR SHEDDING HIS BLOOD, KNOWING THAT IT WAS EVIL
TO JOIN THE PRINCES IN SUCH ACT. FOR BY THE WISDOM OF GOD, PAUL SPEAKS TO
THOSE THAT ARE PERFECT; WHO NEVER WANTED THE LORD JESUS TO BE CRUCIFIED AND
SHED HIS BLOOD FOR MANY, JUST LIKE I THE WRITER CONDEMNED THE CRUCIFIXION
WHEREWITH HE WAS KILLED.
ALBEIT WITH THE WISDOM OF GOD; PAUL SPEAKS TO THE PERFECT, BUT
WITHOUT WISDOM PAUL DECLARES UNTO YOU THE TESTIMONY OF GOD WHEREWITH HE DETERMINED NOT TO KNOW ANYTHING FROM AMONG YOU
EXCEPT
JESUS CHRIST AND THE HIS CROSS, WITHOUT
GOD. WHICH HE HAD MADE TO BE IN EFFECT; BY THE REASON OF THE
BLOOD THAT SAVES, WHILE THE PERFECT DID NOT WANT HIS BLOOD TO BE SHED TO SAVE
OTHERS. FOR IF YOU SHOULD BE AMONG THE PRINCES THAT CRUCIFIED HIM TO SAVE
OTHERS WITH HIS BLOOD, THEN THOSE WHO ACCEPTED HIS BLOOD FOR THEIR SIN ARE
THE SAME WITH THE PRINCES THAT KILLED HIM, THAT WHICH YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE
TAKING PART IN DOING.
1 Corinthians 1:17-18 KJV
For Christ sent me not to
baptize, but to preach the gospel: not with wisdom of words, lest the cross
of Christ should be made of none effect. [18] For the
preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which
are saved it is the power of God.
1 Corinthians 2:1-8 KJV
And I, brethren, when I
came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto
you the testimony of God. [2] For I
determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. [3]
And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. [4] And
my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but
in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: [5] That your faith should not
stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. [6] Howbeit we speak wisdom among them
that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world,
nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: [7] But we speak the wisdom of God
in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom , which God ordained before the world
unto our glory: [8] Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had
they known it , they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
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REMEMBER THAT IN THE FOLLY OF PAUL'S GOSPEL, MANY UPHELD. FOR HIS
WORD WAS CLEARLY SHOWN, SAYING HE FEARED THAT BY ANY MEANS AS THE SERPENT
DECEIVED EVE WITH HIS CRAFT, SO SHOULD YOUR MINDS BE CORRUPTED FROM THE
SIMPLICITY THAT IS IN CHRIST. PAUL HAD AFOREMENTIONED UNTO YOU TO BEAR WITH HIM:
WHO SHALL BRING UNTO YOU ANOTHER GOSPEL THAT YE HAVE NOT ACCEPTED, WHICH GOSPEL
IS NOT ANOTHER. FOR HE SPEAKS THIS UNTO THOSE THAT BEARS IN HIS FOLLY CONCERNING
HIM THAT SHALL WRITE THESE YE READ NOW, WHOM HE SAID HE SPEAKS TO HIM WITH
WISDOM AND NOT WITHOUT WISDOM, WHOM BEARS NO MAN'S FOLLY AND CONTRARIWISE IS DETERMINED
TO MAKE YOU UNDERSTAND THE LAW AND COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AGAINST THE TESTIMONY OF
JESUS CHRIST AND HIS CROSS. FOR PAUL BEEN DETERMINED TO KNOW NOTHING MORE
EXCEPT JESUS AND HIS CROSS, I MYSELF IS DETERMINED TO PUT IT TO YOUR UNDERSTANDING
CONCERNING THE LAW AND THE TESTIMONY. FOR ANYTHING APART FROM THIS, THERE IS NO
LIGHT IN HIM. THEREFORE ALL THAT IS BIND AND SEALED AMONG HIS DISCIPLES, HAVE I
UNBIND AND UNSEALED FROM THEM BY LAW OF GOD UNTO YOU TO THE GLORY OF THE LORD
GOD.
LIKE I SAID BEFORE IN ONE MY WRITINGS, CONCERNING THEM YE BELIEVED
AND HONOURED MORE THAN THE CREATOR, WHICH I SAID THAT THEIR SECRETS IS TO
DESTROY YOU MANY WITHOUT THEM. FOR THE LORD GOD SPAKED UNTO OUR FATHERS BEFORE SAYING;
I WILL HAVE WAR WITH THE AMALEKITE FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION TILL I PUT OUT
THEIR REMEMBRANCE FROM THE EARTH. BUT UNTO PHARAOH, HE HARDENED HIS HEART, THAT
HE WILL GOT HIMSELF HONOUR UPON PHARAOH AND HIS HOST. ALL THESE ARE STORED UP
IN GOD'S TREASURES, BUT UNTO THEM THAT BEARS PAUL'S FOLLY ARE THE AMELEKITES.
HEAR YE THE WORD OF THE LORD, HAVE THIS PLACE THAT IS CALLED BY MY
NAME, BECOME A DEN OF ROBBERS? THEREFORE PAUL ROBBED OTHER CHURCHES TAKING
WAGES OF THEM TO DO YOU SERVICE. AND IN THIS CAUSE, HE DEVICE AN OCCASION TO
DESTROY THEM THAT DESIRE OCCASION WHEREIN THEY GLORY AS PAUL AND COWORKERS, EVEN
THE MAN JESUS CHRIST WHICH SHALL COME LIKE A THIEF For such are false apostles, deceitful
workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. [14] And no
marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
BUT IT IS CERTAIN THAT, ALL OCCASIONS SHALL BE CUT OUT FROM THE EARTH
AS THE LORD GOD HATH SWORN AGAINST AMALEK, BUT THESE LAID UP IN HIS STORE AND
SEALED IN HIS TREASURES SHALL BE WITH HIM. FOR GOD HIMSELF IS HE THAT DOES SET
GOOD AND LIFE OR EVIL AND DEATH, THEREFORE CHOOSE GOOD THAT YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE.
REMEMBER AS PAUL SAID; SAYING ARE THEY MINISTERS OF CHRIST (I SPEAK AS
A FOOL) I AM MORE, FOR SO ARE THEY THAT DESIRED
OCCASION TO BE MORE LIKE PAUL. SO PUT AWAY YOUR FOLLY AND BE NOT
LIKE PAUL, DESPISE ANY OCCASION THAT YE MIGHT HAVE LIFE. ALSO KNOW FOR CERTAIN
THAT WHAT I DO WRITE UNTO YOU, IT IS NOT BEING TAUGHT TO ME BY MEN. FOR EITHER
ONE WRITE AS IT WAS BEING REVEALED UNTO HIM BY JESUS CHRIST, JUST AS PAUL HAD
HIS REVELATION FROM JESUS CHRIST, SINCE WHAT THE FATHER IN CHRIST JESUS KNOWS,
THESE CALLED FRIENDS KNEW IT, EVEN AS CHRIST KNOWS AND REVEALS TO WHOM HE WILL,
FOR THEY HAD HIS MIND. BUT HE WHO WRITES AS IT WAS REVEALED
UNTO HIM ACCORDING TO THE HANDWRITING OF ORDINANCES, IS A SERVANT OF GOD, FOR
HE KNEW NOT WHAT IS IN HIS MASTER MIND JUST AS I HAVE WRITTEN TO YOU, FOR THIS
TWO ARE NOT FROM THE SAME MASTER.
REMEMBER THIS ALSO: THAT THE LORD GOD HAD NO INTENTIONS TO BEGUILE
YOU IN SERVING HIM, BUT HAVE SET BEFORE US; GOOD AND LIFE, OR EVIL AND DEATH TO
CHOOSE FROM. BUT CHRIST INSISTED YOU MUST COME TO HIS FATHER THROUGH HIM, AS HE
HAD PAUL BEGUILED YOU INTO BELIEVING CHRIST AND HIS CROSS.
2 Corinthians 11:1-14 KJV
Would to God ye could bear with me a little in my folly: and indeed bear with me. [2] For I am jealous over you with godly
jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a
chaste virgin to Christ. [3] But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be
corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. [4] For if he that cometh preacheth
another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another spirit,
which ye have not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with
him . [5] For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. [6] But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we
have been throughly made manifest among you in all things. [7] Have I committed
an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached
to you the gospel of God freely? [8] I robbed other churches,
taking wages of them , to do you service. [9] And when
I was present with you, and wanted, I was chargeable to no man: for that which
was lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia supplied: and in all things
I have kept myself from being burdensome unto you, and so will I keep myself .
[10] As
the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall stop me of this boasting in the
regions of Achaia. [11] Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth. [12] But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be
found even as we. [13] For such are false apostles, deceitful workers,
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. [14] And no marvel; for
Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.
[15] Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be
transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to
their works. [16] I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if otherwise, yet as
a fool receive me, that I may boast myself a little. [17] That
which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but
as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting. [18] Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also. [19] For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise. [20]
For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you , if a man take of you , if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
[21] I speak as concerning reproach, as though we had been
weak. Howbeit whereinsoever any is bold, (I speak foolishly,) I am bold also.
[22] Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites? so am I. Are they the seed
of Abraham? so am I. [23] Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons
more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians 12:14-16 KJV
Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you:
for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not
to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children. [15] And I will
very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you,
the less I be loved. [16] But be it so, I did not burden you:
nevertheless, being
crafty, I caught you with guile.
Galatians 1:6-13 KJV
I marvel that ye are so soon removed
from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: [7]
Which is not another; but there be
some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. [8] But though
we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which
we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. [9] As we said before, so say I
now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have
received, let him be accursed. [10] For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I
seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of
Christ. [11] But I certify you, brethren, that the
gospel which was preached of me is not after man. [12] For I neither received
it of man, neither was I taught it , but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. [13]
For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion, how
that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:
Isaiah 8:15-20 KJV
And
many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be
taken. [16]
Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. [17] And I will wait upon the Lord ,
that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. [18] Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for
signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount
Zion. [19] And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar
spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek
unto their God? for the living to the dead? [20] To the law and to the testimony:
if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in
them.
2 Peter 1:11-15 KJV
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the
everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. [12] Wherefore I will
not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye
know them , and be established in the present truth. [13] Yea,
I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting
you in remembrance; [14] Knowing that shortly I must put off this my
tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me. [15] Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease
to have these things always in remembrance.
Exodus 17:14-16 KJV
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book,
and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance
of Amalek from under heaven. [15] And Moses built an altar, and called the name
of it Jehovah-nissi: [16] For
he said, Because the Lord hath sworn that the Lord will have war with Amalek
from generation to generation.
Exodus 14:15-18 KJV
And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak
unto the children of Israel, that they go forward: [16] But lift thou up thy
rod, and stretch out thine hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children
of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea. [17] And I, behold, I will harden the
hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall follow them: and I will get me honour
upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
[18] And the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lord , when I have gotten me
honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
Deuteronomy 32:29-34 KJV
O that
they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter
end! [30] How should one chase a thousand,
and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord
had shut them up? [31] For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves
being judges. [32] For their vine is of the vine of Sodom,
and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are
bitter: [33] Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps. [34] Is
not this laid up in store with me, and sealed up among my treasures? [35] To me belongeth vengeance, and
recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity
is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste. [36] For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for
his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut
up, or left. [37] And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom
they trusted, [38] Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, and drank the
wine of their drink offerings? let them rise up and help you, and be your
protection. [39] See now that I, even I, am he, and
there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither
is there any that can deliver out of my hand. [40] For I lift up my hand to
heaven, and say, I live for ever.
John 15:14-15 KJV
Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. [15]
Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his
lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for
all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
1 Corinthians 2:16 KJV
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?
But we have the mind of Christ.
Philippians 2:5-6 KJV
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: [6]
Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
WHAT JOY HAVE I, IF I HAVE NOT DISCOVERED WHAT NO MAN ELSE HAVE NOT,
FOR ONCE I WAS A GENTILE AND BEAR A NAME IN THEIR MANNER, BUT NOW HAVE CEASED FROM
THEIR FELLOWSHIP, AND HAVE RETURNED TO THE ORIGIN WHERE AS MOSES BEEN BORN A
HEBREW, HAD A NAME WHICH WAS GIVEN TO HIM BY PHARAOH'S DAUGHTER WHEN HE GREW.
BUT I, EVEN I HAVE CHOSEN TO DISCONTINUE WITH THE NAME WHEREWITH I WAS BEING BAPTIZED
INTO HIS DEATH, THAT I MIGHT BEAR A NAME UNTO THE LIVING.
HAVE YE NOT SEEN WHAT CHRIST DID ONCE WHEN HE SUFFERED FOR SINS,
AND BEING PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH, BUT WAS QUICKENED IN THE SPIRIT: AND IN
THE SPIRIT, HE WENT AND PREACHED UNTO THE SPIRITS IN HIS PRISON; WHICH WERE THOSE
THAT SOMETIME AGO WERE DISOBEDIENT IN THE DAYS OF THE SONS OF GOD THAT TURNED THE
HEARTS OF MEN FROM GOD AND MADE THEM SIN GREATLY, WHICH DISPLEASED GOD SO MUCH.
AND HE ASKED NOAH TO PREPARE AN ARK TO SAVE HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY WHICH WERE
ONLY EIGHT SOULS AND NOT SPIRITS, BUT THE SONS OF GOD WHO WERE LED BY
THE SPIRIT WERE ALL PERISHED IN THE ACCOUNT OF THE FLOOD.
ALSO HEBREW SPOKE OF A CERTAIN FEARFUL THAT SEEKS OF THE JUDGMENT AND
FIERY INDIGNATION OF GOD UPON THE ADVERSARIES, EVEN AMONG THOSE THAT DESPISED THE LAW OF
MOSES AND DIED WITHOUT MERCY, AND OF THEM OF THE PRESENT WHICH CONSIDERED NOT
THE TERRIBLE PUNISHMENT THAT WILL COME FROM GOD AGAINST SUCH OFFENDERS, AS GOD ALSO
TRAMPLED THE SON OF GOD UNDER HIS FOOT, AND COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT,
IN WHICH HE SANCTIFIED HIMSELF, AN UNHOLY THING, AND ALSO DID DESPISED THE
SPIRIT OF GRACE THAT LEADETH HIM. WOULD YOU ALSO HATE MOSES LAW, AND FACE YOUR
PUNISHMENT LIKE THE SON OF GOD DID WHEN HE FELL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING
GOD?
1 Peter 3:18-20 KJV
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust,
that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but
quickened by the Spirit:
[19] By which also he went and preached
unto the spirits in prison; [20] Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while
the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Romans 8:14 KJV
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
God.
Hebrews 10:27-31 KJV
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. [28] He that despised Moses'
law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: [29] Of how much sorer
punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot
the
Son of God, and hath counted the blood of
the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing,
and hath done despite
unto the Spirit
of grace? [30] For we know him
that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord.
And again, The Lord shall judge his people. [31] It is a fearful thing to fall
into the hands of the living God.
John 1:17 KJV
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
UNDERSTAND ALSO THAT I WILL ALWAYS SAY THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN, YOU
MUST SERVE GOD ALONE, FOR EITHER YOU CHOOSE THE WORD OF GOD WHICH WAS WRITTEN
IN THE TABLES OF STONE AND WITH INK IN HIS LAW, OR YOU CHOOSE THE EPISTLE OF
THE SPIRIT OF THE LIVING GOD WHICH WAS MINISTERED BY PAUL AND MANY.
2 Corinthians 3:1-5 KJV
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others ,
epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? [2] Ye
are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: [3] Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the
epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the
Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.
[4] And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: [5] Not that we are sufficient of
ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
1 Corinthians 15:1-11 KJV
Moreover, brethren, I declare
unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and
wherein ye stand; [2] By which also ye are saved, if ye
keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. [3]
For I delivered unto you first of all that which
I also received, how that Christ died for our sins
according to the scriptures; [4] And that he was buried, and that
he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: [5] And that he was
seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: [6] After that, he was seen of above five
hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present,
but some are fallen asleep. [7] After that, he was seen of James; then of all
the apostles. [8] And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born out of
due time. [9] For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called
an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. [10] But by the grace of
God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain;
but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God
which was with me. [11] Therefore whether it
were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.
PAUL SOMETIME CHALLENGED ANYMAN WHO WAS CONTENTIOUS AGAINST HIS
WORD CONCERNING THE CUSTOM, WHICH THEY HAVE TAUGHT THE CHURCHES, AND I'VE
WAITED THIS LONG TO BRING HIS TEACHINGS AND OF OTHERS BEFORE THE JUDGMENT OF
THE LIVING GOD. DO YOU THINK I AM STUPID, FOR BEFORE ME THE LAW OF GOD STANDS
AGAINST HIS OFFENDERS, AND I JUDGE NOTHING WITHOUT MOSES LAW. HAVE NOT GOD
HIMSELF SET HIS ORDINANCE BEFORE ME TO OBSERVE, THAT I MIGHT REMOVE FROM ME, THE
ABOMINABLE CUSTOMS OF THE PEOPLE THAT IS BEFORE THEM, WHEREIN THEY DEFILE THEMSELVES.
WHAT CUSTOM SPEAKS PAUL OF? OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE THE EPISTLE OF
CHRIST WHICH THEY HAVE DECLARED BY THEMSELVES. HAVE NATURE EVER SPOKEN BEFORE? IN
WHAT COMMAND DID NATURE SPOKE CONCERNING THE CUSTOMS WE SHOULD OBSERVE? DID
NATURE CREATED ANYTHING THAT IT SHOULD COMMAND ANY TO REMOVE HIS LONG HAIR? YE
HAVE YOUR CUSTOMS, BUT I HAVE AN ORDINANCE TO OBSERVE. FOR GOD WHO CREATED ALL
THINGS FASHIONED US WITH ALL GOOD THINGS IN OUR BODIES, FOR THAT WHICH HATH
BECOME A SHAME UNTO YOU, HAVE GOD CREATED WHICH IS GOOD BEFORE HIM, FOR WHATSOEVER
YE JUSTIFIES YOURSELVES BEFORE MEN, THEY ARE ABOMINATION BEFORE GOD. IN
ADDITION, GOD COMMANDED MOSES TO LEVY FOR THE COLLECTIONS OF TRIBUTE, AND WAS
IT NOT MOSES THAT GOD GAVE CHARGE OVER THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE TRIBUTE
ACCORDING TO THE COMMAND OF THE LORD? AND IF CEASAR SHOULD BE IN MOSES STEAD TO
LEVY THE TRIBUTE, HAS HE COMMITTED ANY OFFENSE? HOW THEN WAS IT THAT CHRIST THOUGHT
TO HIMSELF THAT IT MIGHT BE AN OFFENSE IF HE PAYS NOT; FOR THE FEAR OF THE MEN IN AUTHORITY, FOR HE HAD IN HIS MIND
TO AVOID PAYING THE TRIBUTE. WHAT MAN WOULD SEE THE ORDINANCE OF THE LORD AS
OFFENSE, BUT WANT ALL MEN TO KEEP HIS CUSTOM? HOW WAS IT THAT THE GENTILES AND
CERTAIN JEWS LEFT THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, TO FOLLOW CHRIST CUSTOM? YET GOD COMMANDED US AGAINST SUCH AND TO AVOID
FOLLOWING MEN'S CUSTOMS, BUT ONLY TO KEEP THE LAW.
Numbers 31:25-31 KJV
And
the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, [26] Take the sum of the prey that
was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the
chief fathers of the congregation: [27] And divide the prey into two parts;
between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between
all the congregation: [28] And levy a tribute unto the Lord of the men of war which went out to
battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons, and of the beeves, and
of the asses, and of the sheep: [29] Take it of their half, and give
it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering of the Lord . [30] And of the
children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the
persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of
beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle
of the Lord . [31] And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord
commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 16:10 KJV
And thou shalt keep the feast of
weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine
hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord
thy God , according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:
Leviticus 18:29-30 KJV
For whosoever
shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall
be cut off from among their people. [30] Therefore
shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not
any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and
that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord
your God.
Matthew 17:24-27 KJV
And
when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to
Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute? [25] He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What
thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom
or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? [26] Peter saith unto him,
Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free. [27] Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the
sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou
hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give
unto them for me and thee.
Luke 4:14-17 KJV
And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went
out a fame of him through all the region round about. [15] And he taught in
their synagogues, being glorified of all. [16] And he came to Nazareth, where
he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to
read. [17] And there was delivered unto him the book of the
prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it
was written,
Matthew 22:15-22 KJV
Then
went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
[16] And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying,
Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither
carest thou for any man : for thou regardest not the person of men. [17] Tell us therefore, What thinkest
thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? [18]
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
[19] Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. [20] And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and
superscription? [21] They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them,
Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the
things that are God's. [22] When they had heard these words , they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.
Romans 13:1-8 KJV
Let
every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God:
the powers that be are ordained of God. [2] Whosoever therefore resisteth the
power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to
themselves damnation. [3] For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the
evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and
thou shalt have praise of the same: [4] For he is the minister of God to thee
for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the
sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon
him that doeth evil. [5] Wherefore ye must needs be
subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. [6] For for this
cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually
upon this very thing. [7] Render therefore to all their dues:
tribute to whom tribute is due ; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear;
honour to whom honour. [8] Owe no man any thing, but to love
one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
2 Thessalonians 3:1-7 KJV
Finally,
brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may have free course, and be
glorified, even as it is with you: [2] And that we may be delivered from
unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith. [3] But the Lord is
faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil. [4] And we have
confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things
which we command you. [5] And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God,
and into the patient waiting for Christ. [6] Now we
command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw
yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and
not after the tradition
which he received of us. [7] For yourselves know how ye ought
to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;
1 Corinthians
11:14-18 KJV
Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair,
it is a shame unto him? [15] But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her:
for her hair is given her for a covering. [16] But if any man seem to be contentious,
we have no such custom, neither the churches of God. [17] Now in this that I declare unto you I praise
you not, that ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. [18] For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that
there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.
THIS I DID SHOW YOU BEFORE: USING GALATIANS
3:20 AND 1 TIMOTHY 2:5.
BEFORE THE HEAVEN AND EARTH WERE CREATED,
GOD WAS ONE,
ACCORDING TO GALATIANS, IT SAY;
Now a mediator
is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
AND 1 Timothy SAYS;
For there is
one God, and one mediator between God and men,
the man Christ Jesus;
NOW SINCE THERE IS ONE GOD, AND ONE
MEDIATOR, FOR MOSES WAS A DELIVERER, WE CALL THE MEDIATOR BY HIS NAME:
Now A MEDI
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the man Christ
Jesus; the man Christ Jesus;
NOW THE MAN CHRIST JESUS IS NOT THE
MAN CHRIST JESUS OF
ONE.
AND SINCE GOD IS ONE, THEN THIS IS CLEARLY
SEEN :
NOW
THE MAN CHRIST JESUS IS NOT THE MAN OF GOD
Deuteronomy
6:4-5 KJV
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God
is one Lord : [5] And thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Mark 12:29 KJV
And Jesus answered him, The first of all
the commandments is , Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God
is one Lord:
Galatians 3:20 KJV
Now a mediator is not a mediator of one, but God is one.
1 Timothy 2:5 KJV
For there is one God, and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
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