SPIRITUAL HALF BREEDS

/1 Comment/in , , , , , , , /by

SPIRITUAL HALF BREEDS

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

What is a spiritual half breed? Simply stated even though it is much more complex, is that whatever you refuse to allow the Lord Jesus to crucify on HIS cross within you is not of the Spirit of God. The title is not intended to be or sound hostile it is in reference are you all of Christ Jesus or only partially seeking Christ Jesus. You can’t have both kingdoms as you are either totally with/in Jesus or against Jesus. This is a difference between making Jesus Lord and Savior or just Savior! This is why there is little to no holiness, purity of heart and true Spiritual power in the modern church. An example would be Judas as Judas was taught by Jesus as the Spirit of God.

Judas denied the spiritual application of the blood and body of Christ Jesus at the last supper because each of us is to embrace the cross of Christ and willingly no matter the pain and suffering of dying to ourselves carry our own cross of Christ Jesus. Judas partook in the “natural” and gave an appearance of conforming to Christ but denied applying the cross of Christ by dying to himself! When you partake of the blood and body of Christ in communion you are partaking in the death of Christ thus committing and agreeing to dying to “self”. Without partaking in the death of Christ how can you be resurrected with Christ? This is why communion is not merely a symbolic remembrance but a spiritual process of laying down our lives for Christ Jesus.

Many partake of communion but not their own dying process of the cross of Christ. This is an outward appearance but denying the power of Christ Jesus. People who want the inheritance of the Kingdom of Heaven but not the Son Christ Jesus, the parable of the vineyard! Let us kill the Son so we may obtain his inheritance! They want salvation but NOT CHRIST JESUS. This is why you have celebrities and false pastors/Christians who will say “there are many paths to heaven”. These are demonic and evil people! Concerning the last supper Jesus openly states that one of them will deny Him. This is a call to personal reflection leading to repentance. This would mean Judas had an opportunity to repent but Jesus knowing the end from the beginning knew Judas would not. I have gone swimming in water many times in my life but I have only been baptized in water once! Did the water change or did I change? You see water baptism is an outer expression of an inner working of the new heart of flesh and the new spiritual rebirth in Christ Jesus. Don’t be fooled by those who get water baptized as a “traditional” method are truly reborn in Christ Jesus. That is why John the baptist rebuked the Pharisees!

They had not come seeking Christ! In fact the Lord just revealed to me more to share. Not only that water baptism is and outward declaration and decree that you have been born again and are a child of the living God Christ Jesus! You already received the new heart and new spirit of the Living God! Knowing this let me share that this will be the very same thing at the end of the age! When you are called by the “beast system” to deny Christ will you openly confess Jesus as Lord! This is already written in the book of Daniel with the three Hebrew men!

Daniel 3:13–18 (NKJV)

13 Then Nebuchadnezzar, in rage and fury, gave the command to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. So they brought these men before the king. 14 Nebuchadnezzar spoke, saying to them, “Is it true, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego, that you do not serve my gods or worship the gold image which I have set up? 15 Now if you are ready at the time you hear the sound of the horn, flute, harp, lyre, and psaltery, in symphony with all kinds of music, and you fall down and worship the image which I have made, good! But if you do not worship, you shall be cast immediately into the midst of a burning fiery furnace. And who is the god who will deliver you from my hands?”

16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego answered and said to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. 17 If that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. 18 But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up.”

You see there will be no pre-tribulation rapture! There was no pre-tribulation rapture for Shadrach, Meshack and Abed-Nego! I don’t have time to expound on the false doctrine and damming heresy of the pre-tribulation rapture but I will say “choose this day who you will serve” and prepare your heart and spiritual fortitude before the end of the age. The church has been fed lies and deceit so rather than building Kingdom Priests and Warriors for Christ they have embraced an “escape” mentality not being spiritually prepared for the end hour!

Here is what Paul writes about partaking in communion.

1 Corinthians 11:28–34 (NKJV)

28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink of the cup. 29 For he who eats and drinks in an unworthy manner eats and drinks judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body. 30 For this reason many are weak and sick among you, and many SLEEP. 31 For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged. 32 But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

33 Therefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat, wait for one another. 34 But if anyone is hungry, let him eat at home, lest you come together for judgment. And the rest I will set in order when I come.

Matthew 15:8–9 (NKJV)

8 ‘These people draw near to Me with their mouth,

And honor Me with their lips,

But their heart is far from Me.

9 And in vain they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

2 Timothy 3:1–7 (NKJV)

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

3 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

I have read many posts where prideful preachers make statements not to place blame their preaching because Judas had the best preacher so don’t blame their preaching. Are these pastors representing Christ or themselves with statements like this. When Jesus confronted Saul from Tarsus Jesus did not say why have you killed my servants or persecuted my servants. Jesus said why do you persecute ME! So why would a pastor make his sermons or preaching about himself! Paul preached Christ Crucified! They are hirelings not called of the Lord Jesus! The vast majority of preaching today is a “profession” not a calling of Christ Jesus and thus the preaching doctrines of men and demons. They preach a different Jesus from a different spirit and call themselves of the Holy Spirit!

If “the old man” is dead and the “new creation” is born you have NO PERSONAL IDENTITY in Christ Jesus. This is why I absolutely detest preachers who say you need to know your identity in Christ. NO! You need to know who Christ is IN YOU by growing in maturity in Spirit and Truth! Christ is not led by my spirit I am led by HIS Spirit! The sons of God are led by the Spirit of God! For example, CHRIST IN YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY NOT YOU IN CHRIST! Another example would be when the demon spoke and said Paul I know, Jesus I know but who are you! The demon did not mean it saw Paul, it means it saw Christ in Paul as we have NO authority of our own! Furthermore Paul gives us Galatians 2:20 that it was NO longer Paul that lived but Christ in him. It is a prideful statement to say our identity in Christ! Modern language and terminology with false spirituality! God created Adam in HIS image not the other way around!

Galatians 2:20–21 (NKJV)

20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

Matthew 16:24–26 (NKJV)

Revelation of Jesus’ Reward

Mark 8:34–37; Luke 9:23–25

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Christ Jesus will NOT empower the desires of the flesh or the things of this world, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh or the pride of life. All of these things in each of us is called to the cross of Christ for death within us. We are called to bare and personally go through the same cross Jesus went through! Remember the veil was NOT TORN OPEN until Jesus died! You can’t start your Christian journey at the resurrection it must be at the Cross! This is the same for each and every one of us. Yes because the veil was torn we have access but access does not allow darkness to enter! You see that is why we needed the Holy Spirit and are called to worship in Spirit and Truth as there is NO darkness in Christ Jesus so the flesh and earthly/human side of humanity can NOT ENTER through the veil! God will not be mocked and knows our hearts so if you are not willing to die to self how do you enter in? If you are not born again how do you enter into the Kingdom! The Father received the Son in Spirit so the Son who gave His life for us only receives us in His Spirit!

I am not writing this as a mere belief I am writing it just as Paul wrote it in his own personal experiences. You see many years ago during my devotion and worship to the Lord I was taken in the Spirit to the scourging post where Jesus was whipped, flesh torn open, beaten and yet Jesus had not gone to the cross to be crucified yet. The Father showed me the human side wanting to die right there and then however the Father poured out His grace upon His Son so that Jesus could make it to the cross. When the Lord attempts to crucify our flesh too many refuse the process rather than calling on the Lord’s grace to purge us, edify us, strengthen and help us walk in holiness. Denying the process is denying Christ!

2 Corinthians 12:7–9 (NKJV)

The Thorn in the Flesh

7 And lest I should be exalted above measure by the abundance of the revelations, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure. 8 Concerning this thing I pleaded with the Lord three times that it might depart from me. 9 And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV)

6 So he answered and said to me:

“This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:

‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’

Says the Lord of hosts.

I read online and get many personal messages about people going through hardship for provisions and right when they could receive their own revelations of the Lord’s faithfulness and being true to His Word they ask for handouts. Tell me when you can’t buy or sell where will your provisions come from? When you brothers and sisters in Christ also can not buy or sell will you still beg for assistance from others who do not have? It is past time that you let the Lord be the Lord and put to death your unbelief. Ask the Lord to crucify your unbelief! If you want to grow in faith you must take every single Word of God as Spirit and Truth and walk in obedience. Through belief and obedience faith will grow! Without obedience and faith you do not let the Lord do the supernatural. That is why both Jesus and Peter removed all people with unbelief before raising the dead. This is the same precept I wrote earlier about the fiery furnace. For Jesus to be revealed they had to be willing to believe and trust in the Lord even when their own lives were subject to death!

Psalm 37:25 (NKJV)

25 I have been young, and now am old;

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,

Nor his descendants begging bread.

Do you believe that the Lord is a pillar of fire by night, a cloud by day and will send manna from heaven? Will you return to Egypt as a slave for a morsel of food? I had one pastor message me for money as he stated he had given his money away to people in need of food but now had no rent money. Rather than give him money the Holy Spirit had me offer him Christ while I prayed for him. I said brother do not sell the hand of God short by seeking money. You need to trust the Lord inspired you to give away your money for others and you will receive revelations of God’s provision for your rent and I await your testimony of God’s faithfulness. I received testimony of God’s faithfulness about a week later that the Lord Jesus provided his rent money. Did not Jesus provide money for Peter through a fish! Do you believe ALL of the Word of God and the love, mercy, grace and provisions of the Lord Jesus? When your faith is tested will you stand firm in the Word of God in Spirit and Truth or will you concede defeat, unbelief and peril. Think COVID and Psalm 91! One important note about Psalm 91 is that you must fulfill the first line to obtain the whole psalm or apply the psalm.

1 Corinthians 15:14–19 (NKJV)

14 And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty. 15 Yes, and we are found false witnesses of God, because we have testified of God that He raised up Christ, whom He did not raise up—if in fact the dead do not rise. 16 For if the dead do not rise, then Christ is not risen. 17 And if Christ is not risen, your faith is futile; you are still in your sins! 18 Then also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished. 19 If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men the most pitiable.

Read what Paul said when he quoted I once knew a man either in the body or in the Spirit entered the third Heaven! Read Revelations where John said he was taken in the Spirit to heaven and saw Christ on the throne! The experience is so real that even the flesh, their minds and everything about their human side acknowledges this experience! That is why the human side makes quotes: “it was like” because when you experience these things it is beyond human comprehension as it is spiritual! Even Jesus said the Kingdom of Heaven is “like”. Read Matthew 13. Don’t be deceived the Glory of the Lord Jesus is for the here and now! You don’t have to physically die you too can be taken in the Spirit of the Lord.

Imagine you yourself going through this horrific personal experience and wanting to die right there but you knew you had not “FINISHED” what was required of you! Jesus did not stop short and when Jesus said it was finished it WAS FINISHED! Please take some time to really think and consider this. How could you on your own personal strength get to and on the cross on Calvary! As I was taken in the Spirit to this not with physical eyes but with spiritual eyes of enlightenment I received greater revelations of the GRACE of GOD the FATHER. Imagine if the Father did not pour out His grace upon His son to complete the journey to the cross of Calvary. Where would we as mere mortals be conditionally spiritually. We would still be physically alive but DEAD to everlasting life and fellowship with the Father and Jesus. Yet many Christians do not allow the cross of Christ to work within them to complete sanctification and holiness.

Matthew 16:24–26 (NKJV)

Revelation of Jesus’ Reward

Mark 8:34–37; Luke 9:23–25

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

Think of the parable of the vineyard and how when the SON came back to receive HIS inheritance they killed the Son so that they may obtain what was of the SON, Christ Jesus! Oh yes, many want the benefits but are not willing to pay the price of the cost to receive the inheritance! Today’s modern preaching speak of a cross but not the working and process of the CROSS of Christ. Jesus was upfront, plain without any possible other interpretation that we are to pick up our cross and deny ourselves. A man/woman is totally unable to die to “self” it takes the power of God through the Holy Spirit. Are you allowing this process by the grace and power of The Holy Spirit?

Matthew 21:33–46 (NKJV)

Parable of the Landowner

Mark 12:1–12; Luke 20:9–19

33 “Hear another parable: There was a certain landowner who planted a vineyard and set a hedge around it, dug a winepress in it and built a tower. And he leased it to vinedressers and went into a far country. 34 Now when vintage-time drew near, he sent his servants to the vinedressers, that they might receive its fruit. 35 And the vinedressers took his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another. 36 Again he sent other servants, more than the first, and they did likewise to them. 37 Then last of all he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ 38 But when the vinedressers saw the son, they said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.’ 39 So they took him and cast him out of the vineyard and killed him.

40 “Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vinedressers?”

41 They said to Him, “He will destroy those wicked men miserably, and lease his vineyard to other vinedressers who will render to him the fruits in their seasons.”

42 Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

‘The stone which the builders rejected

Has become the chief cornerstone.

This was the Lord’s doing,

And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken from you and given to a nation bearing the fruits of it. 44 And whoever falls on this stone will be broken; but on whomever it falls, it will grind him to powder.”

45 Now when the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they perceived that He was speaking of them. 46 But when they sought to lay hands on Him, they feared the multitudes, because they took Him for a prophet.

The last supper Jesus said we must partake in HIS BLOOD AND BODY in remembrance of Him. This is not merely a ceremony it is a call to your personal cross of dying to yourself! You are partaking by walking out the same process of the cross of Christ dying to yourself so that Christ may completely manifest within you. When you partake of the blood and body you are committing to your own dying to yourself through the atonement of Christ Jesus.

The garden of Gethsemane is more than a simple reading of history. It is the actual place that the Son of Man died before even being put on the cross! What is revealed by the statement of Jesus sweat blood was that the soul of the Son of Man the human side of Jesus had completed the willingness to die for the Father. It was the complete separation of the Human from the Divine! Every single one of us is called to this same experience by submitting to our journey in the garden of Gethsemane of our hearts!

Matthew 26:36–46 (NKJV)

Jesus’ Three Prayers

Mark 14:32–42; Luke 22:40–46

36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” 37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. 38 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”

39 He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”

40 Then He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “What! Could you not watch with Me one hour? 41 Watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

42 Again, a second time, He went away and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done.” 43 And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.

44 So He left them, went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words. 45 Then He came to His disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Rise, let us be going. See, My betrayer is at hand.”

Luke 22:39–46 (NKJV)

Christ Prays in Gethsemane

Matt. 26:36–46; Mark 14:32–42; John 18:1

39 Coming out, He went to the Mount of Olives, as He was accustomed, and His disciples also followed Him. 40 When He came to the place, He said to them, “Pray that you may not enter into temptation.”

41 And He was withdrawn from them about a stone’s throw, and He knelt down and prayed, 42 saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.” 43 Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him. 44 And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.

45 When He rose up from prayer, and had come to His disciples, He found them sleeping from sorrow. 46 Then He said to them, “Why do you sleep? Rise and pray, lest you enter into temptation.”

Notice being in agony He prayed more earnestly and sweat became like great drops of blood falling to the ground. The Holy Spirit is not of human blood! It was the Son of Man dying to “self” and it was separation from the human from the divine! The flesh had to be willing to die for the glory of the Father and for the redemption of humanity!

Now that I am writing this I see another profound revelation of this. Notice Jesus prayed three times. Could this be symbolic of the Trinity, three days in the tomb or resurrection on the third day? Nothing in God’s Word is coincidental!

Now let us reflect for a moment about what I said when I told you I was taken in the Spirit to the scourging of Christ Jesus. Imagine if we as Christians do not call on the Lord Jesus during our own personal walk of dying to “self” for more of HIS GRACE! The pride in us says we can do it on our own we don’t need the process of the cross. Our pride says we are okay and we don’t need the cross but we desire to obtain salvation, so we accept the knowledge of the cross but not the process of the cross! We accept the everlasting life believing we obtain it but omitting the cross of our own personal salvation and sanctification! How do you fulfill the Lord’s prayer to be delivered from the evil one if there is any darkness within you and you deny the working of the cross of Christ in you own life? While salvation is received by faith sanctification is an ongoing process. As long as we physically dwell on earth we are subject every day to the works of darkness. We must continually carry our cross dying to not only ourselves but to this world! If the love of this world is in you the love of the Father is not.

Matthew 6:8–15 (NKJV)

8 “Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him. 9 In this manner, therefore, pray:

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

13 And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.

14 “For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15 But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Matthew 6:23 (NKJV)

23 But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Imagine all of the writings of the Apostle Paul and in his writings Paul states that he should be considered worthy to partake in the resurrection! This is the same Paul that said he was crucified with Christ and that he himself no longer lived! Imagine Paul while reflecting on your own life and Paul stating that he was crucified to the world and even the world was crucified to him! Now evaluate your own spiritual growth and journey and honestly reflect if you could be so bold to make these statements.

Philippians 3:10–11 (NKJV)

10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death, 11 if, by any means, I may attain to the resurrection from the dead.

Galatians 2:20–21 (NKJV)

20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

Galatians 6:14–18 (NKJV)

14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

Blessing and a Plea

16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

17 From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

The Kingdom of Heaven and the Lord Jesus is NOT divided. You can not have one foot in the kingdom of darkness and one foot in the kingdom of heaven! Through the “born again” experience you were delivered from the kingdom of darkness but that does not mean you have been completely sanctified as sanctification is a process of dying daily to the cross you are called to bare.

1 Corinthians 15:31 (NKJV)

31 I affirm, by the boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die daily.

I pray you have been encouraged to call upon the Lord for His grace to endure your personal call to carry your cross dying to “self” to live in the image and likeness of Christ Jesus.

Acts 4:13 (NKJV)

The Name of Jesus Forbidden

13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men, they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus.

In parting let me refer to the following scripture as the end of the age is approaching rapidly.

Matthew 10:28 (NKJV)

28 And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

In closing I’d like to share the chapter of John 17 as it really is powerful on how Jesus reflected on the Father, the glory of the Lord Jesus and the Father as well as the sanctification of the saints! May you be blessed and inspired and may the Holy Spirit in you come alive with a Holy Desire to become the fullness of Christ Jesus to be a living witness and testimony for Christ Jesus!

Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

11 And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

John 17 (NKJV)

Christ Prays for Himself

17 Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was.

Christ Prays for His Disciples

6 “I have manifested Your name to the men whom You have given Me out of the world. They were Yours, You gave them to Me, and they have kept Your word. 7 Now they have known that all things which You have given Me are from You. 8 For I have given to them the words which You have given Me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came forth from You; and they have believed that You sent Me.

9 “I pray for them. I do not pray for the world but for those whom You have given Me, for they are Yours. 10 And all Mine are Yours, and Yours are Mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 Now I am no longer in the world, 12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in Your name. Those whom You gave Me I have kept; and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. but these are in the world, and I come to You. Holy Father, keep through Your name those whom You have given Me, that they may be one as We are.13 But now I come to You, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have My joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them Your word; and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 15 I do not pray that You should take them out of the world, but that You should keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth. 18 As You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they also may be sanctified by the truth.

Christ Prays for All Believers

20 “I do not pray for these alone, but also for those who will believe in Me through their word; 21 that they all may be one, as You, Father, are in Me, and I in You; that they also may be one in Us, that the world may believe that You sent Me. 22 And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: 23 I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me.

24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father! The world has not known You, but I have known You; and these have known that You sent Me. 26 And I have declared to them Your name, and will declare it, that the love with which You loved Me may be in them, and I in them.”

THE SPIRITUAL DAMNATION OF RELIGIOUS GOSSIP

/1 Comment/in , , , , , , , , /by

THE SPIRITUAL DAMNATION OF RELIGIOUS GOSSIP

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

Some time ago I had someone I was talking with about the Lord make the following statement to me: I really shouldn’t talk about this person/Christian because it is gossip. I replied that if the Holy Spirit spoke truth to you about that person, it was NOT gossip! What they received was Spirit and Truth! Gossip is very prevalent within the church and often happens in prayer groups as well as from the pulpit! We have more “PARROTS” than real pastors these days as they merely repeat what some man, woman, seminary, opinions of people or some organizational entity has spoken or taught them. They speak these things without seeking the Lord to inquire if what they are being told or taught is Spirit and Truth and preach or speak it anyhow and people will follow what is spoken without a Spiritual Witness from the Lord! Thus they also repeat the same gossip! That is NOT divine revelation and you don’t even know it is Spirit and Truth! You know what they say about “ASSUME” as it make an “_ss” of you and me!

Acts 17:11–12 (NKJV)

11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. 12 Therefore many of them believed, and also not a few of the Greeks, prominent women as well as men.

2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV)

15 Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

gos·sip

noun

  1. casual or unconstrained conversation or reports about other people, typically involving details that are not confirmed as being true.

    “he became the subject of much local gossip”

    Gossip is a form of lying because you have not verified it as Spirit and Truth! When someone preaches about Jesus it can be a form of gossip or blatant lying because of false teachings or beliefs.

    This is why I am not impressed when someone states the name of Jesus, God or Lord because I need to confirm who their Jesus, God or Lord truthfully is! I need a witness from the Living God within me!

Acts 19:15 (NKJV)

15 And the evil spirit answered and said, “Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are you?”

Galatians 1:6–8 (NKJV)

Only One Gospel

6 I marvel that you are turning away so soon from Him who called you in the grace of Christ, to a different gospel, 7 which is not another; but there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8 But even if we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel to you than what we have preached to you, let him be accursed.

2 Corinthians 11:1–4 (NKJV)

Concern for Their Faithfulness

11 Oh, that you would bear with me in a little folly—and indeed you do bear with me. 2 For I am jealous for you with godly jealousy. For I have betrothed you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 4 For if he who comes preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted—you may well put up with it!

This is why all preaching should be under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit just as the Word of God was inspired by the Holy Spirit! The word of God has NOTHING to do with the wisdom of men/women it is the wisdom of God! If you reflect on what the Pharisees did they spread gossip all around the community that Jesus was not the Son of God the incarnate Christ and said the Jesus committed blasphemy and should be crucified! It was not just the Pharisees that shouted crucify him it was also the followers of the Pharisees believing the gossip they had spoken! Gossip through human emotion shouted Crucify Him! Today in many churches with wolves in sheep’s clothing do the very same thing they use human emotional responses to perceive something is true because it appeals to the flesh, carnality and depravity of our fallen/worldly nature. If you are not being built up into a Spiritual House/Church/Temple you not being truly conformed into the image and likeness of Christ Jesus.

I remember when I worked out in Missouri while traveling in ministry for the Lord. I walked in my very first day and as I met my boss I asked him what his gifting and calling was from the Lord. His reply was certainly not words of knowledge. I told him that the Lord gave him words of knowledge all the time but he tried to rationalize those words with his own intellect thus blocking the revelation and application of those words of knowledge rendering those words of knowledge useless!

Matthew 16:1–28 (NKJV)

Debate Over a Sign from Heaven

Mark 8:11, 12

16 Then the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing Him asked that He would show them a sign from heaven. 2 He answered and said to them, “When it is evening you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red’; 3 and in the morning, ‘It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times. 4 A wicked and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no sign shall be given to it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.” And He left them and departed.

They did not discern that it was Christ Jesus which was the sign of the times! This is one reason there is little spiritual discernment in the body of Christ. That will be another post for another time.

Withdrawal of Jesus

Mark 8:13–21

5 Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. 6 Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.”

7 And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have taken no bread.”

8 But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? 9 Do you not yet understand, or remember the five loaves of the five thousand and how many baskets you took up? 10 Nor the seven loaves of the four thousand and how many large baskets you took up? 11 How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread?—but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.” 12 Then they understood that He did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

False doctrine is NOT Spirit and Truth and when you follow and repeat false doctrine you are damning the souls of people who listen and follow! This is why by the Grace and Mercy of our Lord Jesus that Jesus teaches us in Spirit and Truth. We must be willing to allow this process and chose this process as the Holy Spirit reveals ALL TRUTH! Too many people will deny this process and that is why they do not grow spiritually and walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. God will not empower lies and gossip!

John 14:26 (NKJV)

26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you.

Revelation of the Person of the King

Mark 8:27–30; Luke 9:18–21

13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

14 So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

15 He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

16 Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven.

Notice Jesus came directly against the “gossip” of what people said about Him and asked the disciples who He was to them! Professing Christians go around stating that we need a personal relationship with Christ and yet try to influence others to conform to their own belief/relationship with Christ verses that person conforming to Christ alone. We are to reveal Christ not ourselves! This can often be the blind leading the blind because they themselves are NOT BORN AGAIN! Sorry but it’s true! There is no shame when someone asks you about scriptures that you struggle to understand or process to say I don’t fully understand and seek the Lord in prayer and meditation about this matter. Humility is the foundation of growth in the Spirit of God! I have often given words to believers that they need to ask the Lord questions because it is essential for growth. Even the disciples asked questions but they asked of the Lord not of a human!

Revelation of the Church

18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it. 19 And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

20 Then He commanded His disciples that they should tell no one that He was Jesus the Christ.

Isn’t it interesting that Jesus would tell them not to tell anyone! Each and everyone of us needs our own revelation of Christ Jesus not merely submitting to someone who claims to know Christ Jesus. I remember a conversation with a friend as we were talking about scripture and I mentioned a few scriptures that are often used to manipulate the saints. I mentioned the scripture that faith comes by hearing the word of God and how that is often used in manipulation so people will follow the preacher and not the Lord Jesus. He seemed troubled and inquired so I expounded. I said faith comes by hearing the voice of God as Jesus said my sheep hear my voice and the Word of God is God breathed so it is from the voice/mouth of God! Is the Word of God speaking to you or are you merely reading the Word of God! In addition I said another form of manipulation is the scripture where two or more are gathered Jesus is present. He said I have always been taught this as we need to assemble together and have two or more. So I replied, how did that work with Abraham, Moses or the prophets. Were two or more gathered with them. When you go into your prayer closet are two or more gathered or are you getting alone with God? I said everywhere I walk as a born again Christian I have two or more as I have the Holy Spirit who is one with the Father and Jesus! This is why Jesus said there is ONE who bares witness of Jesus who is the Father as Jesus was ONE WITH THE FATHER! Immediately he looked up the scripture about faith comes by hearing the Word of God and he said in the Greek it was both past and present tense! Yes because the Written Word and the Living Word are ONE! John 1:1, so are you hearing the voice of God or trying to follow a manual or the voice of a false prophet?

Revelation of Jesus’ Death

Mark 8:31–33; Luke 9:22

21 From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third day.

22 Then Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, “Far be it from You, Lord; this shall not happen to You!”

23 But He turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are an offense to Me, for you are not mindful of the things of God, but the things of men.”

While line 22-23 is not about gossip I would like to take a moment to expound on this. Notice that it was the will of the Father that Jesus bare our sin and be crucified and Peter did not understand and spoke against the will of the Father so he was rebuked and read Jesus reply as it explains that the god of this world who is Satan is against the will of our Heavenly Father and Christ Jesus. Never underestimate this as when the Lord gives you instructions they are for you to fulfill and those who were not given these instructions from the Lord will often oppose you and deny that Jesus has given you those instructions. They may very well be people in your inner circle or fellowship. We are to follow Jesus not anyone else! See that no one Lord’s over you for you have one Father!

Romans 8:14 (NKJV)

14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

Matthew 20:25–28 (NKJV)

25 But Jesus called them to Himself and said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and those who are great exercise authority over them. 26 Yet it shall not be so among you; but whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant. 27 And whoever desires to be first among you, let him be your slave—28 just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

1 Peter 5:1–4 (NKJV)

Shepherd the Flock

5 The elders who are among you I exhort, I who am a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that will be revealed: 2 Shepherd the flock of God which is among you, serving as overseers, not by compulsion but willingly, not for dishonest gain but eagerly; 3 nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock; 4 and when the Chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the crown of glory that does not fade away.

Revelation of Jesus’ Reward

Mark 8:34–37; Luke 9:23–25

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me. 25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. 26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?

The Prophecy of the Second Coming

Mark 8:38–9:1; Luke 9:26, 27

27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works. 28 Assuredly, I say to you, there are some standing here who shall not taste death till they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom.”

I pray that you get a better understanding that gossip is associated with lying because when received unverified as truth you live out the lies and speak the same lies to others. I suggest you read the Beatitudes in Matthew 5 as that will expound on being mocked, slandered, ridiculed, persecuted for the Lord’s namesake! Much of what is written in Matthew 5 is a form of gossip and accusation.

May you be blessed and strengthen in Spirit and Truth and receive revelations of Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth!

SAUL FROM TARSUS AND THE HARLOT CHURCH OF REVELATIONS

/3 Comments/in , , , , , , /by

SAUL FROM TARSUS AND THE HARLOT CHURCH OF REVELATIONS

As with any posting from anyone I do my best to try to communicate what is on my heart the best that I can. Please take all matters to the Lord in prayer. It is NOT my will that anyone be deceived. The enemy is after all of us, including me! I pray the Holy Spirit bears witness to all of you. If not then it could be for a different time in your walk with the Lord. DO NOT ACCEPT WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES NOT REVEAL BUT PRAY INTO IT. God bless the saints of the Lord and may the fullness of His love and spirit dwell and manifest richly within you.

I wrote a blog post back in June that I am expounding on as the Lord has been revealing more to me about this and many other spiritual truths and revelations. I want to expound on my post from June and you really should read that first so you get a greater understanding of this post. You can read it here: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

As I was spending time in contemplation and quietness with the Lord I was reflecting on Revelations and the Harlot Church and how it will will make war with the saints, overcome them and martyr many of the saints. The Holy Spirit brought back to me what I had written and showed me that Saul from Tarsus was in the Harlot Church system as he was delivering people to the high priest to be killed and murdered by the Harlot Church through the high priest. That is the same church system in the end of the age where the Harlot Church Beast System will make war with the saints as it is written. Saul was delivering the saints to be killed and that is the same thing that will happen in the end of the age.

Saul from Tarsus was a scholar’s scholar. Saul was highly educated and trained by the very best scholars and Rabbis. Saul head head knowledge without a “new heart” and “new spirit”. The Harlot church reflects the “heart and spirit” within a man. They might have all the knowledge but never have the heart of love within them for Spirit and Truth. So you have the those who represent the bride of Christ but do not have the heart and Spirit of Christ Jesus. Additionally you have those who’s hearts grow cold and fall away from one being in Christ Jesus. Notice Paul’s epistles on the mind of Christ and if he did all those things without the love of Christ he was nothing but a clanging symbol. Let’s continue.

Ezekiel 36:26–32 (NKJV)

26 I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. 27 I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. 28 Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. 29 I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses. I will call for the grain and multiply it, and bring no famine upon you. 30 And I will multiply the fruit of your trees and the increase of your fields, so that you need never again bear the reproach of famine among the nations. 31 Then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good; and you will loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities and your abominations. 32 Not for your sake do I do this,” says the Lord God, “let it be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel!”

Revelation 17:3–6 (NKJV)

3 So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. 5 And on her forehead a name was written:

MYSTERY,

BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH

6 I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.

I want to emphasis that you truly must read my original post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/ as it will bring all of this together as I will just touch on points but not expound as I did in that article to show how this comes together. After reading my post Jesus Vs. The Pharisees you will see the “synagogue of Satan”. In my earlier post which hopefully you read you will see that Jesus called the Pharisees hypocrites 7 times and turned them over to their own wicked hearts! This is the same foundational principle in Romans 1 with a reprobate mind! The word hypocrite is the Greek means “godless”.

Revelation 2:9–11 (NKJV)

9 “I know your works, tribulation, and poverty (but you are rich); and I know the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. 10 Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life.

11 “He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” ’

Revelation 3:9 (NKJV)

9 Indeed I will make those of the synagogue of Satan, who say they are Jews and are not, but lie—indeed I will make them come and worship before your feet, and to know that I have loved you.

Now Saul from Tarsus was serving the high priest NOT the Lord Jesus and Saul had received “papers” from the high priest! Today we call those same “paper” ordination papers commissioned by a church system, denomination, seminary school, etc! These people with ordination papers mainly operate out of ORGANIZATIONAL AUTHORITY AND NOT SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT. This is why they despise and detest TRUE spiritual authority! How does this differ from the modern day educational system? Today modern day theological education has replaced true spiritual revelation and wisdom, spiritual calling and gifting. It would be wise to remember that Saul from Tarsus was a Pharisee’s Pharisee a highly educated man! This is also why we know Jesus did not establish denominations as God is a Spirit and is NOT DIVIDED. This is also why many denominations deny many of the spiritual gifts and the offices of ministry which Jesus established AFTER Pentacost. The twelve disciples were NOT apostles until Pentacost! They were disciples that is why Jesus makes the following bold and profound statements!

John 14:26–27 (NKJV)

26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. 27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

This implies what I have told others that when you receive revelations from the Holy Spirit they are eternal forever a part of your spiritual life in Christ Jesus. This also implies that without the Holy Spirit they would not have remembered the teachings/discipleship of Jesus!

John 16:7–16 (NKJV)

7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you. 8 And when He has come, He will convict the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: 9 of sin, because they do not believe in Me; 10 of righteousness, because I go to My Father and you see Me no more; 11 of judgment, because the ruler of this world is judged.

12 “I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. 13 However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify Me, for He will take of what is Mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are Mine. Therefore I said that He will take of Mine and declare it to you.

1 John 2:27 (NKJV)

27 But the anointing which you have received from Him abides in you, and you do not need that anyone teach you; but as the same anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is not a lie, and just as it has taught you, you will abide in Him.

The Prediction of Christ’s Death and Resurrection

16 “A little while, and you will not see Me; and again a little while, and you will see Me, because I go to the Father.”

Now having read my previous post Jesus Vs. The Pharisees along with this posting you will see in greater measure there are only two types of churches, the Church of Jesus Christ in Spirit and Truth and the Synagogue of Satan which were both in the land of Israel when the incarnate Christ Jesus was on the earth.

Now that we have established Saul from Tarsus affiliation with the Synagogue of Satan let us look at the “NEW CREATION IN CHRIST JESUS” the Apostle Paul!

Acts 9:1–2 (NKJV)

The Damascus Road: Saul Converted

9 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

Acts 22:5 (NKJV)

5 as also the high priest bears me witness, and all the council of the elders, from whom I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus to bring in chains even those who were there to Jerusalem to be punished.

As I mentioned in my post Jesus Vs. The Pharisees I believe Saul from Tarsus was deceived believing he was serving the Lord Jesus by and through the authority of the high priest which in today’s language we could call man’s church or synagogue NOT the TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS. Are you starting to see the modern day political church system created by the doctrines of men and demons? Let us look at Saul’s response during his encounter with THE RESURRECTED CHRIST JESUS.

I emphasis resurrected intentionally because I want you to think of Paul as the NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH when you read his Epistles! Look at his life transformation! See how Saul fasted THREE DAYS with his encounter and how he was obedient to follow what Jesus told him to do. Let us read this incredible spiritual transformation of Saul to Paul! What amazes me is that in a short time after Paul received the Holy Spirit that Paul was bringing correction to the church putting the church back on the foundation of Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth and how today there is little to no discernment of what is going on within the modern day church!

Acts 9 (NKJV)

The Damascus Road: Saul Converted

9 Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest 2 and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

(Letters of ordination! Remember what Jesus said to the Pharisees about seeking one proselyte and making them twice the child of hell in Matthew 23:15.)

3 As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. 4 Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?”

5 And he said, “Who are You, Lord?”

Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.”

6 So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?”

Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”

7 And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. 8 Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. 9 And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank. Saul fasted three days symbolic of Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. Also similar to Abraham’s three day journey to sacrifice his own son!

Ananias Baptizes Saul

10 Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus named Ananias; and to him the Lord said in a vision, “Ananias.”

And he said, “Here I am, Lord.”

11 So the Lord said to him, “Arise and go to the street called Straight, and inquire at the house of Judas for one called Saul of Tarsus, for behold, he is praying. 12 And in a vision he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hand on him, so that he might receive his sight.”

13 Then Ananias answered, “Lord, I have heard from many about this man, how much harm he has done to Your saints in Jerusalem. 14 And here he has authority from the chief priests to bind all who call on Your name.”

(Letters of ordination and designated authority similar to today’s modern day church structure created by man.)

15 But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel. 16 For I will show him how many things he must suffer for My name’s sake.”

17 And Ananias went his way and entered the house; and laying his hands on him he said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road as you came, has sent me that you may receive your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”

Please notice that WITHOUT THE HOLY SPIRIT SAUL WAS NOT OF THE BRETHREN/BODY OF CHRIST JESUS! Even Jesus speaks of the brethren of the synagogue of Satan! Just because someone calls you brother do not be deceived as there are two kingdoms, two spiritual churches and two totally different “brethren”! You should really study on the topic of “kindred spirits” as they fellowship together and why a true spirit filled Christian will NOT fellowship with darkness or partake/sit under in the preaching, works or assembly of darkness, doctrines of men or demons! Amazing that Ananias called Saul BROTHER! Praise the Lord! Once again please think of the events of Saul being transformed/born again into Paul as a living example of the NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH! Paul never went back to the Pharisees but wished and prayed none would perish and all come to the light and truth of Christ Jesus.

18 Immediately there fell from his eyes something like scales, and he received his sight at once; and he arose and was baptized.

19 So when he had received food, he was strengthened. Then Saul spent some days with the disciples at Damascus.

Saul Preaches Christ

20 Immediately he preached the Christ in the synagogues, that He is the Son of God.

21 Then all who heard were amazed, and said, “Is this not he who destroyed those who called on this name in Jerusalem, and has come here for that purpose, so that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?”

22 But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who dwelt in Damascus, proving that this Jesus is the Christ.

Saul Escapes Death

23 Now after many days were past, the Jews plotted to kill him. 24 But their plot became known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night, to kill him. 25 Then the disciples took him by night and let him down through the wall in a large basket.

Here we see that the Jews plotted to kill Paul because he preached Christ Jesus, they wanted to kill Paul just as they did Jesus! As I showed in my post Jesus Vs. The Pharisees they denied the living incarnate Christ in the flesh standing before them as being the Christ! That means they were of the Antichrist!

1 John 1:6–7 (NKJV)

6 If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. 7 But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 4:3–6 (NKJV)

3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.

4 You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5 They are of the world. Therefore they speak as of the world, and the world hears them. 6 We are of God. He who knows God hears us; he who is not of God does not hear us. By this we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error.

BACK TO ACTS 9:

Saul at Jerusalem

26 And when Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, and did not believe that he was a disciple. 27 But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles. And he declared to them how he had seen the Lord on the road, and that He had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus. 28 So he was with them at Jerusalem, coming in and going out. 29 And he spoke boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus and disputed against the Hellenists/Grecians but they attempted to kill him. 30 When the brethren found out, they brought him down to Caesarea and sent him out to Tarsus.

The Church Prospers

31 Then the churches throughout all Judea, Galilee, and Samaria had peace and were edified. And walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, they were multiplied.

Aeneas Healed

32 Now it came to pass, as Peter went through all parts of the country, that he also came down to the saints who dwelt in Lydda. 33 There he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden eight years and was paralyzed. 34 And Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Arise and make your bed.” Then he arose immediately. 35 So all who dwelt at Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

Dorcas Restored to Life

36 At Joppa there was a certain disciple named Tabitha, which is translated Dorcas. This woman was full of good works and charitable deeds which she did. 37 But it happened in those days that she became sick and died. When they had washed her, they laid her in an upper room. 38 And since Lydda was near Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent two men to him, imploring him not to delay in coming to them. 39 Then Peter arose and went with them. When he had come, they brought him to the upper room. And all the widows stood by him weeping, showing the tunics and garments which Dorcas had made while she was with them. 40 But Peter put them all out, and knelt down and prayed. And turning to the body he said, “Tabitha, arise.” And she opened her eyes, and when she saw Peter she sat up. 41 Then he gave her his hand and lifted her up; and when he had called the saints and widows, he presented her alive. 42 And it became known throughout all Joppa, and many believed on the Lord. 43 So it was that he stayed many days in Joppa with Simon, a tanner.

The teaching, doctrines, methods, beliefs, and traditions of men will not produce TRUE disciples of Christ as ONLY Christ Jesus can disciple HIS people!

1 Corinthians 2:6–16 (NKJV)

Spiritual Wisdom

6 However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, 8 which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

9 But as it is written:

“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard,

Nor have entered into the heart of man

The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.”

10 But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God. 11 For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. 12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us by God.

13 These things we also speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For “who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?” But we have the mind of Christ.

Let us see how Paul established the church. When Paul commissioned Timothy Paul did not give Timothy “papers” he laid hands on Timothy and “stirred up” the gifting and calling that the Lord had within Timothy! This is similar to the Lord telling Jeremiah I knew you before I formed you and called you to be a prophet!

1 Timothy 4:14 (NKJV)

14 Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the eldership.

2 Timothy 1:6–11 (NKJV)

6 Therefore I remind you to stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands. 7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Not Ashamed of the Gospel

8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God, 9 who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began, 10 but has now been revealed by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who has abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel, 11 to which I was appointed a preacher, an apostle, and a teacher of the Gentiles.

Here is an example of how church appointments were made:

Acts 6:1–7 (NKJV)

Seven Chosen to Serve

6 Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a complaint against the Hebrews by the Hellenists, because their widows were neglected in the daily distribution. 2 Then the twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not desirable that we should leave the word of God and serve tables. 3 Therefore, brethren, seek out from among you seven men of good reputation, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business; 4 but we will give ourselves continually to prayer and to the ministry of the word.”

5 And the saying pleased the whole multitude. And they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolas, a proselyte from Antioch, 6 whom they set before the apostles; and when they had prayed, they laid hands on them.

7 Then the word of God spread, and the number of the disciples multiplied greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were obedient to the faith.

Now let us bring this home to the events playing out around the world. All the accusations, slander, mockery, etc. that is going on about Israel and antisemitism. We must understand that there are only two kingdoms, light and truth by the Holy Spirit vs. darkness and deceptions by the spirit of Antichrist. Two overall spirits and kingdoms, The Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus and the Antichrist Spirit! (there are many demonic spirits comprised and working for the Antichrist!) All of this was plainly written and establish in the original land of Israel through the Living and Written Word of God as you have read.

We must also remember that Abraham was NOT a Jew and that Abraham’s son Jacob was renamed Israel because the TRUE ISRAEL IS THE BORN AGAIN AND REDEEMED IN CHRIST JESUS and is NOT A PHYSICAL NATION ON EARTH. Jesus chose people, not land as the whole earth will be consumed by fire and the land of Israel will burn with the rest of the world! There will be a new heaven and a new earth.

Romans 2:28–29 (NKJV)

28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; 29 but he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the Spirit, not in the letter; whose praise is not from men but from God.

In closing I ask that you seek the Lord on what has been revealed to you so that you yourselves may receive revelation from the Lord Jesus. The end of the age is drawing near and we must come out of Babylon or suffer our own demise. Paul not only writes from divine revelations from the Holy Spirit he writes from personal experience of his own life and the life he know lived for Christ when Paul writes the following:

2 Corinthians 6:17–18 (NKJV)

17 Therefore

“Come out from among them

And be separate, says the Lord.

Do not touch what is unclean,

And I will receive you.”

18  “I will be a Father to you,

and you shall be My sons and daughters,

says the Lord Almighty.”

Paul came out from the false church and never went back so Paul is not only writing from the Holy Spirit he is also reflecting on what was required of him personally.

Galatians 2:20–21 (NKJV)

20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me. 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.”

Galatians 6:14–18 (NKJV)

14 But God forbid that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. 15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but a new creation.

Blessing and a Plea

16 And as many as walk according to this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

17 From now on let no one trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

18 Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Numbers 6:24–26 (NKJV)

24 “The Lord bless you and keep you;

25 The Lord make His face shine upon you,

And be gracious to you;

26 The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,

And give you peace.” ’