Chapter Eighteen "Put On the New Man"

CHAPTER 18

PUT ON THE NEW MAN

We are living in this existence INSIDE OUT thanks to Adam and Eve.  Note, this following text, which  is in Geneses 6:3, is implying this, which I have commented on in other writings, "we BECAME Flesh," is linked to this idea of our being inside out.  As I have said many other times the use of the word flesh isn’t in this case referring to our skin bodies, we already were in a skin body, in the context of this verse in Geneses.  Flesh in that Geneses text can and should be linked to..."And every imagination of their hearts were evil continually."  Remember, the flesh, this living soul, was to be the channel through which our human spirits were to express its self.  At the fall of humanity, the human spirit was cut off, and the living soul, this flesh, began to “act independent” (sin) from God through their now dormant spirit.  You hear this in Paul’s comments, “having BEGUN by the spirit, are you now brought to maturity by the flesh?”  Our origin expression was as I have said, in this order, human spirit, in a body, expressing its self through a living soul of intellect, emotions, and a free will that would surrender always to the intellect, emotions of this human spirit which ALWAYS follows the will of its Father, God.  You understand what John meant in I John 3:9 “Whosever is born of God doeth not commit sin; for His seed (human spirit) remaineth  in him; and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.”  (How many times is this single verse misunderstood!).

 Getting passed any idea of the word evil, see it this way.  Every imagination of their thoughts, plans, and opinions had come to exclude any idea of God...His thoughts, purposes, and each did what was consider right in their own mind...God was not being consulted.  That is the nature of true evil.  We are falling into that state again as predicted, “as it was in the days of Noah.”

 Now to my point of this article and what I meant by our being INSIDE OUT.  This is what you might call a paradox; it means: ...”a statement that seems contrary to common sense yet is perhaps true.”  So, for the moment throw out your common sense to which we in the FLESH are used to hearing or seeing, and hear what I have learned, and experienced, in the paragraphs that follow.     

 "Come on Paul, we are INSIDE OUT?"  What do you mean by inside out?"

We are commanded to "Work out something in us, and in doing so, though it would produce  fear and trembling, it would be our deliverance.   The religious text called it working out our “salvation”.  I won't use that word here because it is DEAD, thanks to religion.    What NEW WORD would bring this alive?  (Something I am asking as I type this and now wait for an answer....not from my mind or yours)

Waiting; here is what I got: “Working out that which has been hidden under the mask of what is termed "the Flesh” which is The mask of perception.”

We look in a mirror and make judgments, form opinions and thoughts of what we see.    Beyond our common senses we read that we are being re‑newed day by day, yet what we see contradicts what we read in a biblical text.  We see "the outward man decaying."  Is this outward man decaying?  Yes, we would reply.   Paul (the Apostle) made this observation in the early writings of his experience.  Later on he discovers something greater and changes in this view which he observed with his eyes and common senses.  Hear what he said,

 "Put ON the inward man."

 "What?  How do you put on the inward man?"

 Now understand, we know that there is a coming resurrection where this corruptible will take on incorruption that THE DEAD in Christ will gain.  But did Paul see something that would benefit us here and now, something in the form of longevity of life? 

I have no doubt that Paul did see this.  He had so wanted to know Christ (the anointing) and its power and resurrection ability through what the man Jesus had accomplished, that he taps into it and begins its experience.  The expression of his experience is seen throughout his writings.  Of course there were those in his day and now in our day that totally misunderstood what it was that Paul saw and was experiencing.  We call it religion.  Paul had not wanted to produce just another religion.  He had enough of this just battling the dead letter of Judaism of his day.  Why would he want to have just produced another religion to content with; hundreds of religions with divisions within each.

 So back to the question that I raised, “Can we put on this inward man?”  I want to give you Kenneth Wuest’s Expanded Greek Translation of Paul the Apostles statement in Rom. 12:1-2, then share with you my personal experience of this text…. “I therefore beg of you, please, brethren, through the instrumentality of the aforementioned mercies of God, by a once-for-all presentation to place your bodies at the disposal of God, a sacrifice, a living one, a holy one, well pleasing, your rational, sacred service, (rational, in that this service is performed by the exercise of the mind).  And STOP ASSUMING AN OUTWARD EXPRESSION THAT DOES NOT COME FROM WITHIN YOU and is not representative of what you are IN YOUR INNER BEING, but is patterned after this age; but change your outward expression (Metamorphose) to one that comes from within and representative of your INNER BEING, …(How?)…by the renewing of your mind, resulting in your putting to the test what is the will of God, the good and well-pleasing and complete will, and having found that it meets specifications, place your approval upon it.”

Being 69 years old at the time of this writing, I understand what it meant by the outward man decaying.  I see it in the mirror and find that I fight this image that I see.  I do not want to go with the world’s ideas of dealing with this or accepting it.  I longed for, as Paul the Apostle longed for, the power that God had offered to us through the resurrection of Jesus and to know that power now in my time of deepest need.  One year ago, I had said to my family that I was going to raise the roof on my house.  I was told that I was too old to do such a thing.  I fought this at their disapproval.  One year later, winning this battle, not necessarily against them but against this OUTWARD IMAGE I saw in the mirror, one year later I simply went up on my roof and started removing it; two months later it was completed.  How did I do this?  With the strength of the INWARD MAN and the assistance of my son Eric, who at this time is in the strength of his youth, which one day will dwindle and learn what I demonstrated to him…PUT ON the inward man, once the outward man fails, and the strength of youth is gone.  I can say to those of you who are reading this, that what I teach I practice, and have found that what appeared as a paradox, ”statement that seems contrary to common sense yet is perhaps true,”  IS TRUE.  If I had listened to common sense, it would have not happened and this article would not have been written.  If I have went with the fear and trembling that came with my attempting to PUT ON THE INWARD MAN, the roof would still need to be raised and the truth of Paul’s experience would not have been known by me.   God Bless…Paul

Chapter Seventeen "The Strength of Sin"

CHAPTER 17

THE STRENGTH OF SIN

I Cor. 15:56 “The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law.”

Well known verse of scripture; looking at the verse prior to this verse 56, we have verse 55 which ask a question, “O death, where is your sting?  O grave, where is your victory?”  I want to reach deeper than most have done to uncover things hidden, not being revealed.  So, let’s take this a step at a time.  O death, where is your sting?  The answer is addressed in the very next verse. “the sting of death is sin.”  We know that by one man, Adam, death entered this experience; because he was tricked into “acting independent from God;” before this mankind didn’t know this experience of death or the grave, he could have lived in a constant state of victory. 

The next question asked is, “O grave, where is your victory?”  Again, the answer is hidden in the very next verse; not as obvious as the question of the sting of death, which clearly says that if you get cut off from God, the true source of sustainability, than you are on your way to dying.  As we look around us we see that this is true.  We spend out whole life fearful of this single enemy of death.  How can we gain victory over this enemy?  There have been secular and religious attempt to conquer this thing of death; we have found that we can only postpone it but none have come to a place where they can say that they have conquered it, thus would see humanity not living beyond the cut off age of around 100 to 122.  The search for the fountain youth evades us. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_people

Yes, we know that the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus does assure our resurrection after death; but again, can we even begin to think that anyone could avoid death and its sting?  We know that before this fall of Adam, this would have never entered the picture.  Yet, this isn’t the case, we have this enemy before us.

This enemy has “strength” which we have seen in our struggle against it.  As much as we fight it, it appears to always win.  So the question is, “Where does it get its strength?”  We are told that the strength of sin is the law.  When we hear this we are puzzled; we are puzzled because we know that the Law came from God Himself.  Why would God give law that was unto our death in that it strengthens it?  Either this is the case or we are missing something in what Paul the Apostle was attempting to convey to us.  Well, what follows addresses this; so follow what I am about to share with you. 

We must get into the “purpose” of the law.  Why was the law given; was it to give strength to our enemy?  This idea of Law reaches beyond just the Ten Commandments; it embraces any idea of law or rule either from God or manmade.  We have established laws around laws for so long that many times their origins are lost.  If this were the issue, I would pursue this in this article; but as we get into this more we will discover that this isn’t the real issue.

Imagine with me; let’s just say that someone comes up with a system that claims to conquer death.  What would be the test that it works?  Well, I guess it would be that if any individual would apply it they would not die.  We have never seen this and at this point in time have given up any hope that they ever will, thus accept death as something inevitable.  We only seek to find ways to postpone it.  

Imagine with me some more; imagine that there is a way to conquer this thing of death that not only postpones it but eventually conquers it; yet at this moment is hidden right before our eyes.  The Bible uses a Greek word, “Mystery,” which is defined: “something always there, yet hidden waiting to be revealed.”  How about that I claim that an individual named Paul the Apostle attempted to reveal this and got shot down for doing this; that only died because he had accomplished his mission sharing this in hope that some future generation might see it and live long enough to see the return of Jesus Christ, even if this meant living beyond the known cut off, of what history has recorded, of some individual living to the ripe old age of 122.    Can you at least imagine it in the realm of possibility?  What would you have to lose?  People might think you to be crazy for sure.  They might think that you are stepping beyond scientific and religious beliefs; which in truth you would be.  Then again, what would you have to lose to even begin to look into this matter of life beyond known cut off’s?  So you are laughed at; so what.  But if what you find does sustain your life beyond any recorded record, you will be the one laughing as you bury those around you.

I remember the hard time I had as I approached the age of 62; my dad had suddenly died at that age.  I fought this by getting into this study, and now I am 68 years of age and looking beyond his death.  I have a new goal of getting past 72, the age that my friend and spiritual mentor died.  We find that we do work out our salvation with fear and trembling; fear and trembling caused by those around you who say what you are doing is impossible and that say “you never know.”  They are shocked to find out that you haven’t consulted a doctor in over 25 years.  They are shocked that you “trust” God to sustain your life with your silly ideas.  They fear for you what you are fighting, the fear of death.  They see signs of your aging and laugh at you saying, “Boy, you are getting old, face it!”  Little do they know that though the outward man is decaying, yet in the INWARD MAN you are being renewed day by day and that you are learning to put off the old decaying man and putting on this new man; a being that is the only reason you are still here and alive.  Little do that realize that what Jesus accomplished would sustain you, keep you, and that through what He accomplish you now live and move and have your very being.  You have come to realize what has always been there and now is revealed, that through Him all things hold together and consist; that apart from this and your coming to experience it, you would be like the rest, “on your way to dying.”

If you think for one moment that I haven’t had questions about this, you would be wrong.  I have wrestled these questions to the ground and have complied notes in a book I have called, “Rights of the Unfallen Adam,” that testify to my struggle. I have seen God’s sustainability in areas of my life which verge on what would be called miraculous; yet could claim that it should have been, and now can be just a natural experience of individuals that would look beyond their being born cut off from God through the fallen nature of Adam, now restored to the full rights of an Adam who never fell and conquered sickness, disease, death and the grave for us all; the Unfallen Second Adam, Jesus Christ the Son of God, who became a son of man like us, taking our place and now has restored rights to all who dare claim the rights of an unfallen Adam. 

Yes, the sting of death was sin; our being cut off from God through the fall of Adam.  But the law was only given to reveal this condition we find ourselves in, and our heading for certain death.  The Law only saved us in that it revealed this death process, “the soul that sins, shall die.”  Who can deny it?  But I Cor. 15:57-58 cleanly tells us, “But thanks be to God, which gave us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.  Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in THE WORK OF THE LORD, for as much as you know that your labor is not in vain IN THE LORD.”

So, “O grave, where is your victory?”  The only answer is given, “Victory THROUGH our Lord Jesus Christ.  “I am crucified, NEVER THE LESS, I LIVE, yet not I (self effort), but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh (natural world) I LIVE BY THE FAITH OF THE SON OF GOD, who loved me, and gave Himself for me.  I do not frustrate the grace of God; for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.” Galatians 2: 20-21

There is so much to this, beyond what I have just shared; which will be added to the book I mentioned, “Rights of the Unfallen Adam.”  I have found that most can’t get pass the idea of cheating death, let alone to even get past chapter one of this book; oh well, I keep searching and adding more to this book; maybe one day when I get past the ripe old age of 123 where it might gain some attention; or I just live long enough to be “Alive” at Christ’s return, thus the death problem will no longer be a problem.  It matters little to me, I’m not doing this study out of the fear of death, because I believe we do have the assurance that the dead in Christ will rise first, and we who are yet living shall be caught up together with them, thus shall we ever be with the Lord.  For me, I want to be still living and changed in a moment if this is possible; I am gathering more and more that says, IT IS POSSIBLE!

Chapter Sixteen "Prolonging Life - Wisdom's Cry from Proverbs

CHAPTER 16

PROLONGING LIFE – WISDOM’S CRY FROM PROVERBS

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Here are a few proverbs to ponder which will appear throughout many of the chapters contained in this book.  Many times their direct quotation won’t be seen, but believe me, the ideas they expressed are in implied in my writings.   Paul

Prov. 3:1-2 “My son, do not forget my teaching, but keep my commands in your heart, for they will PROLONG YOUR LIFE many years and bring you prosperity.”

Prov. 3:16 (Wisdom) “LONG LIFE is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.”

Prov. 3:21-22 “My son, preserve sound judgment and discernment, do not let them out of your sight; they will be LIFE for you, an ornament to grace your neck.”

Prov. 4:4 “…Lay hold of my words with all your heart; keep my commands and you will LIVE.”

Prov. 4:10 “Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the YEARS OF YOUR LIFE WILL BE MANY.”

Prov. 4:13 “Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your LIFE.”

Prov. 4: 20-23 “My son, pay attention to what I say; listen closely to my words.  Do not let them out of your sight, keep them within your heart; for they are LIFE to those who find them and health to a man’s whole body.  Above all else, guard your heart, of it is the wellspring of LIFE.”

Prov. 6: 20-23 “My son, keep your father’s commands and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.  Bind them upon your heart forever; fasten them around your neck.  When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.  For these commands are a lamp, this teaching is a light, and the corrections of discipline are THE WAY TO LIFE.”

Prov. 7:1-3 “My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.  Keep my commands and you will LIVE; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.  Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.”

Prov. 9:6 “Leave your simple ways and you will LIVE; walk in the way of understanding.”

Prov. 9:11 “For through me your days will be many, and YEARS ADDED TO YOUR LIFE.”

Prov. 10:16 “The wages of the righteous bring them LIFE, but the income of the wicked bring them punishment.”

Prov. 10:17 “He who heeds discipline shows THE WAY TO LIFE, but whosoever ignores correction leads others astray.”

Prov. 10:27 “The fear of the Lord adds LENGTH TO LIFE, but the years of the wicked are cut short.”

Prov. 11:19 “The truly righteous man attains LIFE, but he who pursues evil goes to his death.”

Prov. 12:28 “In the way of righteousness there is LIFE; along that path is immortality.”

Prov. 13:3 “He who guards his lips guards his LIFE, but he who speaks rashly will come to ruin.”

Prov. 13:14 “The teaching of the wise is a fountain of LIFE, turning a man from the snares of death.”

Prov. 14:27 “The fear of the Lord is a fountain of LIFE, turning a man from the snares of death.”

Prov. 14:30 “A heart at peace gives LIFE to the body, but envy rots the bones.”

Prov. 15:4 “The tongue that brings healing is a tree of LIFE, but a deceitful tongue crushes the spirit.”

Prov. 15:24 “The path of LIFE leads upward for the wise to keep him from going down to the grave.”

Chapter Fifteen "Objections to Our Experience"

CHAPTER 15

OBJECTIONS TO OUR EXPERIENCE

As of late, I have had a change in view of the affairs of this life; the world’s expressions and ideas of the words, hope, peace, happiness etc.  I hold these ideas as well, yet in a different way.  I seek to express these ideas and others, yet from an Eternal view not a temporal view.  All these ideas, if only in this life, come to an end as we have all experienced; brief moments that peak then fall.  It appears to be set up this way for a reason.  It has become something to be expected. 

There is a negative side to this I know.  Pessimistic is the word we use.  Kind of like the expression...”I feel sad when I feel glad, because I know I will feel sad again.”  So, my use of the word “expected”, I am not imply what this phrase is saying. We come to expect it, yet none of us want it.  It puts a damper on our world view, and is felt as hopelessness. “Why bother!”  You hear it said in these moments when things appeared to be going so well, then from that peak we head for yet another valley. 

Of course you have those that would give you the impression that everything in their experience is just honky dory.  Well, believe you me, that’s a lie.  That is someone not facing the reality of this experience.  It just doesn’t work that way.

Listen to what scriptures says of these.....  “Have you forgotten the exhortation which is of such a nature as to speak to you as to sons, “Son of mine, stop making light of the Lord’s discipline, correction, and guidance.  Stop fainting when you are being effectually rebuked by Him.  For the one whom the Lord loves, He disciplines, corrects, and guides, and He scourges every son whom He receives and cherishes.  It is for the PURPOSE discipline, correction, and guidance that you are enduring.  As those who by nature are sons is God dealing with you.  For what son is there whom the Father does not discipline, correct, and guide?  But “IF” you are without discipline, correction, and guidance, of which all sons have been made partakers, it follows therefore that you are bastards and not sons.  Furthermore, we have been having indeed fathers of our flesh as those who disciplined, corrected, and guided us, and we have been in the habit of giving them reverence.  Shall we not much rather put ourselves in subjection to the Father of spirits and live?  For on the one hand, they disciplined, corrected, and guided us for a few days upon the basis of that which seemed good to them, but HE disciplines, corrects, and guides for our PROFIT, TO THE END that we might partake of His holiness.”(Get pass this old idea of holiness.  What God is saying is, He desires for us to partake of an experience that this experience falls short of; you aren’t getting the WHOLE PICTURE –wholeness-holiness; so much depth to this thing of holiness which does include this idea of behavior but that behavior coming from see what God has to offer over and above what this world is offering).

 

So, we will have troubles in this life as well as good times.  It largely depends upon our relationship to this Father of ours.  Who is your father?  Is it this temporal relationship we call mother and father?  Well, we do listened to them for a time and adjusted to what they wanted us to be, kind of.  Yet, here is someone who is claiming to be our Eternal Father, what kind of relationship are we having with this Father?  What do we expect from Him?  To WHAT END does he discipline us?  The answer is above....TO OUR PROFIT.  Think of the text...”What’s a man to profit, if he gain the whole world, yet lose his soul?”

 Our fathers of this experience, did they have something to gain from our obeying them?  Sure, they could boast in your success.  Take credit for rearing you right etc.  You saved them a lot of headaches and expenses (money)...if you listen to their corrections and guidance; and if you didn’t follow the way of the Lord?  Well, we know the rest. 

So, what does God, as our Father, get out of this?  He gets US.  Think about it.  Who is getting the short end of the stick?  If we are honest, the answer is He is not getting much; it is we who make out like a bandit.  What has it cost Him for us to gain?  His Son and His wealth...”though He was rich, He became poor, that we might be made the righteousness of God through His property.”   

Do we have any idea of what is being offered here?  Will we let any light affliction that appears to come from this God turn us off to Him, throw Him out and any revelational word as stated above in exchange for what this world might offer in His place?

This revelation not only states that we have this Eternal Father but also states that we have a Mother who is Mother of us all.  Getting past our ideas of Mother and Father, and seeing it for what it is, IT IS NOT anything we have thought with the limited experience we have had with these two terms.  You can catch the jest of what Jesus had implied when he gave the warning to call no man your Father.  Our limited idea of Father has distorted this image of God which He originally intended.  As good as our natural parents were or were not, it misses the mark.  And many are simply throwing out this intended Original Image of God the Father, because of a mistaken idea of that which they have experienced.  Equally so, this idea of discipline, correction and guidance has been distorted making God our Father out to be someone to be feared, hated, rejected.  Paul knew this and thus begged to differ with this view and said it in this fashion...”For you have not received the spirit of bondage again to FEAR, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry “ABBA FATHER”...(DADDY).....The Spirit itself bears witness with our spirits, that WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF GOD.  And if Children, then HEIRS; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ: if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be glorified together.  (Though He were a Son, learned He obedience by the things He suffered.)......Welcome to the club

Chapter Fourteen "Our Passover"

CHAPTER 14

OUR PASSOVER

This is an e-mail that I had sent out to selected friends and family that addressed many of the fears we can sense viewing current events that threaten not only us as believers but also the world around us.  What has God given to us to protect us from these coming scary circumstances of disease, foods being contaminated along with our water supply; allegations of science going astray with genially produced food supplies?  After long investigation and seeing what was the truth, I turned it over to the Lord.  What follows was what I believe He offered to them and us all today.

E-MAIL SENT

 I sent this to you, as the head of your house hold; I am asking you to do what I ask without question or pause.  As the head of your household, I want you to go and buy some sweet Red Wine; get a “small” cup, then read the following article.  Only after you have read this article and understood it – take that small cup with a small amount of Red Wine – lift it up and say what is said at the end of this article.  Here is the article:

COME TO PASS OR COME TO LAST?

I get what you might call a “Passover;” things come to pass over you then leave.  Now to the degree you focus on it, it last.  So, the question is, “Has this thing come to pass or do you want it to last?”  Don’t think about it, you don’t want it to last.  I can’t speak for others.  What if the Jewish people didn’t put the blood of a lamb on their door posts, what would have happened?  We have “the blood of the Lamb of God”, we must learn to plead the blood.”  Understand, we don’t sacrifice a lamb, and then physically paint blood on the edges of our doors to our home.  We don’t have this symbol.  What symbol were we given?  THE CUP – which was said, “It is the blood of the New Covenant, His shed blood for us; for as OFTEN as you drink this cup, do it in REMEMBERANCE of me.”

That’s the key; “remembrance;” using a symbol only for this purpose.  It isn’t anything in the wine; it is only what it causes you to remember.  Do this as often as you drink a small cup of wine, and it will pass over.  What do you want to pass over?  Did all those that got passed over deserve it?  It’s a matter of grace and mercy – you do for your family what Christ did for you.  You, as Joshua, paint the door post of each house.  What is happening to the world around you, be it sickness, plagues, financial woes or trials and tribulations, it will pass over your house.  If you can’t come to believe this, “Don’t do it.”

PASSOVER LEADS TO DELIVERANCE.

Having now read this article and believing it, take this glass with a small amount of Red Wine in it, LIFT it up and say:  “Then He took the cup, lifting it up, saying, “This is the cup of the New Covenent, of my shed blood for you; take and drink, for as often as you do this, do it in rememberence of me.”  Upon saying this drink it.  Don’t allow feeling silly stop you; don’t allow any feeling of unworthiness stop you, remember….it isn’t your worthiness but THE WORTHINESS OF THE LAMB.  This is His command, and your simple obedience to this command that bring about what He accomplished for your and the PASSING OVER of your house.

There are other things behind this which I didn’t want to put into this article; like why I have started doing what I am now asking you to do.  Yes, I did recently buy the red wine and yes I do what I wrote “as often” as I am lead to do this.  I am not a drinker, for me to do this is unusual.  I haven’t told my family what I do and would say to you; do not make a display about it.  If they should ask, then and only then, share with them what I have shared with you.  For some of you, don’t expect them to understand; they may think you’re crazy, saying things that might hinder your doing what I’ve asked; so, avoid this if possible; keep it between you and the Lord.  Not all in the household of Moses and Joshua understood what was going on; they didn’t need to.  It was after the fact that many were taught how the Blood of the Lamb protected them…the same applies to us today…WE HAVE ALWAYS NEEDED THIS!; NOW MORE THEN EVER!

MORE ON OUR PASSOVER

I have gotten responses from 4 of you on “Our Passover”…..I can’t convey enough to let you know that this isn’t my idea.  You each must determine if it is something given to me by the Lord or not.

“How shall we escape if we “neglect” so great a salvation?”  Today, if you have been following matters, there is no escaping what is coming; example:  You might think to counter what’s being said and not eat certain foods; you may think to not drink the water, using a purification system; you may wear a mask to filter the air they have poisoned not realizing that the pores of your body breath in this air; you can’t avoid what is coming; remember, “the hearts of men will fail them,” speaks not of only the emotions but the intellect as well.  Their hearts will fail them in that they will not be WILLING to turn to God for the escape and will think to either do the things mentioned above or totally neglect what they see as only conspiracy and not truth, thus doing nothing.  Paul the Apostle addressed this in I Timothy chapter 4….

“Now the Spirit spoke expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from foods, which God had created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth; for every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving; for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.  If you put the brethren in REMEMBRANCE  of these things, you shall be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine whereunto you have attained.

NEGLECT:  to disregard; leave unattended; act of neglecting; condition of being neglected; to “pass over” without giving due attention; omission of performance of an action or task.

“REMEMBER”…In the current affairs of matters, it is not a matter of right or wrong, but a matter of life or death, or I wouldn’t be sending this.  We were commanded to “not think about it,”….obedience precedes understanding…obey, and you will come to understand why; if you don’t, it won’t be a matter of heaven or hell, but a matter of things coming your way and not passing over you.  The dead in Christ will rise first, (you can be a part of this, death, or be a part of what follows)… and we that “ARE YET LIVING” will be changed in a moment, at the twinkling of an eye, together we meet Him in the air.”  It’s a matter of wanting to be alive when He comes and avoiding premature death; it isn’t a question of whether you will meet Him in the air.

Simple instruction; Real wine, small glass, daily….if you think about this, you won’t be doing this, thus what you do isn’t as commanded.  It’s not how I think or feel about this, it’s a matter of obeying…the turning away of the simple will slay them.  Your conscience (knowledge and current understanding of things) can work for you or against you.  Remember! We were to have our minds renewed, thus a New Conscience of things; an old mind set would not want to use real wine, thus disobedient; (something I at first thought coming from a Baptist background and

seeing real wine as evil)… or an old mind set might abuse wine thus be disobedient.  That’s why the order of “don’t think about it’ was given.”  Simply take a small glass (like a shot glass) pure in real sweet red wine, rise the cup in remembrance, daily.  We may have to die that others might live; die to our old mind set and do this simple action without changing it or asking why.

I didn’t write this to offend any of you; I hesitated knowing that it might.  Read the article I first sent, once again, see the simple act, and either do as instructed or not.  Imagine those in the Exodus Passover in Egypt not applying the blood of a lamb on their door post; changing it in any way; what would had been the consequences? 

LET IT PASS

This would go along with “our Passover” which I sent some time ago.  Without long explanation,  “all things” come that they may pass.  Some things only will take seconds, others minutes, hours, days, weeks and years; but they will pass.  DO NOT STOP THEIR PASSING.  Do not dwell on the aches and pains, cuts, bruises, rashes, swellings, and a thousand other symptoms that come and will pass, if you do not block their passing with either your thoughts or others.  Do not share this with those that you know would object; those who would “fear” for you in what you are doing.  If you do, this ends and another method begins; one which has no end; especially with all that you have read and heard; things which you by now know there is no remedy to it.  Fighting as others are fighting only delays those hell bend on the destruction of all flesh.  What I have given to you will “sustain” you until you are delivered from this world.  Do you believe this?  If not, then you had better get busy finding something better.  I can only say, “good luck;” because that will be all that is left, God is out of the picture for you.

Chapter Thirteen "The Sayings of Jesus"

CHAPTER 13

THE SAYINGS OF JESUS

We beginning with something Jesus claimed in John 8:51 “Verily, verily, I “SAY” unto you, If a man keep my “SAYING”, he shall never see death.”  In this opening text one of his sayings is, “he will never see death.”  So, as we get into these many sayings of Jesus, and learn to keep them, the result with be as He said, “NEVER SEE DEATH.”  Keeping this text in context, Jesus had “SAID” things before verse 51.  Let’s take a look at what he had said before this verse.

In John 8: 2 we see that He “taught them and us.”  What did He teach them, what can we learn?

1. There will be those that will test and tempt you, trying to trip you up.  What do you do in those moments? 8:6 “This they said, tempting him that they might have to accuse him.  But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.”  (here is what we learn):

a.        In those moments appear to have ignored them buying time.  They will continue to ask you as they did Jesus.  Under your breath, “Ask” God for an answer.  Don’t be forced into a quick reply.  Learn from another saying of Jesus, John 12:49-50 “For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent me, He gave me commandment, what I should say, and what I should speak. 50. And I know that His commandment is life everlasting; whatsoever I speak therefore, even as the Father said unto me, so I speak.”

b.      You heard their question yet are not distracted by it.  Look away, stoop down as Jesus did if it is feasible; wait for the Spirit’s words, then look up or stand up as Jesus did:  8: 7 “So when they continued asking Him, He lifted up Himself, and said unto them, “He that is without sin among you, let him cast a stone at her.” 

Up to this point, what can we draw from this?  They all were about to “JUDGE” this woman caught in adultery.  If they had starting throwing stones at her she would have died, correct?  They had done it in the past, this stoning of someone caught in adultery I’m sure, yet now when Jesus SPEAKS one of his sayings they don’t.  Thus she lives and now catch this,” they live.”  How so?  Listen to this other saying of Jesus, “Oh man that judges another, you condemn yourself, you do the same thing.”  Yet you might think, “Not everyone in the crowd had committed this particular sin of adultery that day.”  But notice this, God the Father through Jesus that day was not addressing a “single sin;” He was addressing the nature of us all.  For the first time in their self-righteous life, they saw something they had not seen before, “The Condition of us all.”  So, in light of our keeping the sayings of Jesus and living, if we would not judge we would live longer lives; we and the ones we judge.  Remember, love covers a multitude of sin.

One more thing must be brought out; the circumstances of that particular day.  The Jewish nation was under bondage to the Roman Empire and rules.  If Jesus had said to the crowd stone her, they would have done so, yet would have called the Romans to judge him for getting the crowd to stone the woman to death.  The Jews, under Roman rule, could not enforce their religious rules without first consulting Roman courts.  You see where the Pharisees were setting Jesus up; what is meant by their tripping him up in his words.  Also notice that if Jesus had simply said to let her go, they knew the crowd would stone him to death for breaking the laws of Moses.  He was damned if he did and damn if he didn’t.   Know this also, under the laws of Rome, the woman was in a legal profession, a prostitute. 

The crowd that day, by not throwing stones, were admitting their condition, they were not without the sin nature of Adam, and thus had some form of the by-product of that nature, acts of sin in their lives; maybe not this particular sin of adultery, yet they sinned.

From the least to the greatest, they saw this and the crowd that day lived along with the woman.  You hear it in some more of Jesus sayings, “Woman, where are your accusers?  She replied, “there are NONE.”  Then Jesus said, “Go, and sin no more.”

 So, where are your accusers?  Someone free of the sin nature of Adam; only that person would have the right to judge us.  Jesus was such a person, yet He doesn’t judge her or us.  With that understanding, go and sin no more.

Yet we go and sin again.  Why?  Could it be that we aren’t keeping in mind this one saying of Jesus, “you who are without sin, throw the first stone.”  Quit throwing stones (judging) and you will not sin anymore.  Remember the strength of sin is the law.  The more you judge the more you will sin.  When we see the true condition of all of us, then and then only will we cease to sin;  love your neighbor as you love yourself.  Keep His sayings and you will not see death in any form, physical, mental or spiritual.  The death process may have taken its toll in your life, but by ceasing to judge you put it on hold. (Don’t confuse decision making with judging.  We are all called to make decisions in life; judging others is a different matter all together.  That day they were trying to get Jesus to make a judgment; his “decision was to ask the Father, one we should all do. Note this also, this doesn’t mean finding a dead letter text and using it again one another.  The Jews that day were doing this; Jesus didn’t go with the dead letter, He sought the LIVING WORD.)

Chapter Twelve "Birthing"

CHAPTER 12

BIRTHING

This subject matter without a doubt will appear as heresy to the average Christian mind.  So, what I will ask you to do is to at least give it some thought before throwing it out.

Here are some of my thoughts that touched on this matter of birthing:

I want to bring up a subject matter that was introduced to me some time ago and sense then has been confirmed to me to be true.  Back then, before this confirmation, I had thought it to be heresy conflicting with my Christian beliefs. 

This subject matter of birthing has a lot to do with the original sin, the creation of Eve and the fall of Adam.  Later we see Paul dealing with this in the book of First and Second Corinthians where he had to deal with the Male & Female conflict of that Church.  Their carnal views of male and female is seen when Paul wrote that he had desired to speak unto them spiritual truth, yet he had to give them only the milk of the word.  He had spiritual truth to offer, which he had shared with other more advanced Churches that he had established, yet they were not ready for it.

 If you trace the writings of Paul, seeing them in the order of their writing, you see how these thoughts developed over a period of time.  To give you a brief idea of what I mean, First & Second Thess. were written around A.D. 54; then Galatians was written around A.D. 58; then after that came First & Second Corinthians around A.D. 59-60.  So prior to his comments to the Corinthians he had knew these things which I will share with you that come up out of the book of Galatians chapter 6 verses 15-16…”or in Christ, neither circumcision or uncircumcision avails anything, but a New Creation; for as many that walk according to this rule (or view, perspective of life) peace be on them and  mercy upon the Israel of God.”  In other words he was saying, if you want any peace in your life, in our case male and female relationships, you had better come to understand this view and perspective of life.

Now Paul takes this further earlier in this same book of Gal. 3:28  “There is neither Jew or Greek,  nor is there bond or free, there is neither MALE or FEMALE, for you are all ONE in Christ Jesus.”  Paul at this time knew this truth and had wanted to share this too those in Corinth yet because of their dull hearing and lack of spiritual insight could not.  It would have solved their conflict; and would solve many a conflict today if only we had the spiritual ears to hear.

Many church doctrines are built upon what is shared here to a carnal church without seeing it wasn’t the deeper spiritual side of this issue of male and female.  You see it in the past, where there were some churches that went so far as to have males sit on one side of the pews and the females on the other (the Shakers were one such group).  It gets crazy how they can twist the word of God.  Yet with the church at Galatia this was understood that there was neither male nor female.  What does this mean?  Well, I will be getting into this as this chapter develops.

Let me give you one more text from the book of Colossians before we go on; this was written by Paul around A.D. 64, so this is after his letters to the church at Corinth.  You see God expressing it through Paul once again thus revealing its importance.   Col. 3:11 “Wherefore, there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision, uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond or free, for Christ is all and IN ALL.” (Note, Paul doesn’t even bring up the male and female idea as he did with the Galatians, the Colossians knew it, the Galatians were learning it.)  You can see the greater depth of this perception in the closing remarks, “Christ is all and in all.”  This is the ultimate task of birthing; which in truth is an awaking to the reality of what Jesus accomplished for us “all.”  You see Paul’s attempt to get these Corinthians in his last letter to them to see this truth we are bringing out in this chapter, the truth beyond seeing “ALL” beyond a fleshly, carnal, natural view -  II Cor. 5:16 “Wherefore, henceforth know we no man after the flesh..”  Note the word, “wherefore,” when you see this word in scriptures always ask yourself, “what is it there for?”   Paul earlier reveals the secret of gaining the spiritual insight I desire to share with you all in this article; he is sharing it to a carnal people.  Here is the secret…II Cor. 5:14-  “For the LOVE OF CHRIST constrains us; because we thus judge, that if one died for ALL, then ALL were dead; 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.”

So to answer the question of “what is it there for; it’s because of what Jesus accomplished for ALL.  Thus we should no longer live into our particular race, gender, culture or creed.  This matter of birthing extends to ALL.  Though we are only dealing with one issue in this article of male and female, it touches every area of our lives.  If there is ever to be peace in this world, this one view, rule or perspective must be understood, and have ALL come to see what Paul in the context of this same chapter of II Cor. 5 brings out.  They missed it; let’s see if you catch the drift of what Paul and I now am attempt to convey…II Cor. 5: 17 “THEREFORE…if any man be in Christ, he is a NEW CREATURE; old things are passed away; behold all things are become new.” And all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself by Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation (Birthing).

This New Creature is just that.  It is not male or female; nor is it fashion after anything we have experienced in this life and its cultures, creed, gender differences or anything that can be named.  It is as I have been told that it is, A New Being, with a New sense of Reality, with New Power; all which, as this text clearly says, is from God.

Let me now take you deeper into what Paul later learns and I have come to experience and is what I am attempting to share with you the reader now.  The book of Romans is written after Paul’s letters to the Corinthians.  He had seen something and shares it with the Corinthian, yet later in the book of Romans takes it further.  Here is what he saw in II Cor. 4:16 “For which cause we fail not; but though our OUTWARD MAN perish, yet the INWARD MAN is RENEWED day by day.”

This idea of the outward man perishing addresses more than just the body; but also deals with views and perspectives that have us locked up in this experience; such as that of the Corinthians and their being wrapped up with this  male and female issue.  How do I know this?  You see Paul express it in this same chapter, II Cor. 4: 17-18 “For our light affliction, which is but FOR A MOMENT, works for us a FAR MORE exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”  The petty issues are a distraction of something far greater; at best they are only temporary.  To allow these temporary issues keep us from the eternal weight of glory that Paul mentions and desired to get them into is a matter of great loss.  He later, when he learns something deeper on this, writes to the Romans, “For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (Rom. 8:18)  This life can’t be compared to this glory, this New Reality, this New Being, and this New Power.