I would like to share some things that I have never personally heard preached. I’d like to reflect on the Father and Son relationship. The Spirit inspired revelations that are NOT written but better known when you reflect on the full counsel of the Word of God while meditating on scriptures. Often times the Lord will give me “a” scripture and I meditate on it for days or perhaps weeks and continue to get more revelations from the Holy Spirit.

First lets read Genesis 22 and I will put some things in bold type to reflect upon.

Genesis 22:1–19 (NKJV)

Abraham’s Faith Confirmed

22 Now it came to pass after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, “Abraham!”

And he said, “Here I am.”

² Then He said, “Take now your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.”

³ So Abraham rose early in the morning and saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and arose and went to the place of which God had told him. ⁴ Then on the third day Abraham lifted his eyes and saw the place afar off. ⁵ And Abraham said to his young men, “Stay here with the donkey; the lad and I will go yonder and worship, and we will come back to you.”

⁶ So Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife, and the two of them went together. ⁷ But Isaac spoke to Abraham his father and said, “My father!”

And he said, “Here I am, my son.”

Then he said, “Look, the fire and the wood, but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?”

⁸ And Abraham said, “My son, God will provide for Himself the lamb for a burnt offering.” So the two of them went together.

⁹ Then they came to the place of which God had told him. And Abraham built an altar there and placed the wood in order; and he bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar, upon the wood. ¹⁰ And Abraham stretched out his hand and took the knife to slay his son.

¹¹ But the Angel of the Lord called to him from heaven and said, “Abraham, Abraham!”

So he said, “Here I am.”

¹² And He said, “Do not lay your hand on the lad, or do anything to him; for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from Me.”

¹³ Then Abraham lifted his eyes and looked, and there behind him was a ram caught in a thicket by its horns. So Abraham went and took the ram, and offered it up for a burnt offering instead of his son. ¹⁴ And Abraham called the name of the place, The-Lord-Will-Provide; as it is said to this day, “In the Mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”

¹⁵ Then the Angel of the Lord called to Abraham a second time out of heaven, ¹⁶ and said: “By Myself I have sworn, says the Lord, because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son—¹⁷ blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven and as the sand which is on the seashore; and your descendants shall possess the gate of their enemies. ¹⁸ In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.” ¹⁹ So Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba; and Abraham dwelt at Beersheba.

Faith is always tested yet the testing is very seldom preached. You can not go from faith to great faith and glory to more glory without testing. Where much is given much is required!

Luke 12:48 (NKJV)

⁴⁸ But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

James 1:3 (ESV)

³ for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.

James 1:3–4 (AMP)

3 Be assured and understand that the trial and proving of your faith bring out endurance and steadfastness and patience.

4 But let endurance and steadfastness and patience have full play and do a thorough work, so that you may be [people] perfectly and fully developed [with no defects], lacking in nothing.

You can’t even have a true/solid/unshakable witness for the Lord without testing. Some tests are private while others are public. When they are public they are to witness the Kingdom of Heaven and the Glory of the Lord to those around you. This was a private test for Abraham. Even his wife was unaware of this testing as Abraham did not counsel with his wife. There were to be no chances of the doubts and unbelief of others to influence Abraham. What the Lord calls each of us to do are our own burdens and responsibilities and no one else’s.

It took 3 days for the journey which is three days of testing, self reflection, casting down doubt, lack of personal understanding and not truly knowing it was a testing! I have had many people come to me in asking for prayer or prophetic words to get them out of a test of the Lord and I can’t tell them they are being tested! If I tell you that you are being tested the test is no longer valid. It is YOUR CROSS TO BARE! All true genuine prayer is birthed in the will of God not personal desires so we need to seek the Lord on what HE wants to do for that person not what they ask or desire or even your own understanding. So the Lord revealed the test to me because I sought the Lord not the request of the requester. The 3 days is similar to Jesus death and resurrection as well as the 3 days Saul from Tarsus fasted and prayed before getting his vision back and be born again in the Holy Spirit.

Another revelation is that Isaac was without spot or blemish! The Lord will only accept a sacrifice without spot or blemish! Jesus is coming back for a bride without spot or blemish!

Now let’s look at the Father and son interaction between Abraham and Isaac. Abraham had faith in the Lord and Isaac had faith in his father Abraham! Even when Isaac did not have complete understanding he trusted his father! Just as Abraham trust our heavenly Father! I repeat Isaac was without spot or wrinkle. I have never heard this preached!

Leviticus 22:21 (NKJV)

²¹ And whoever offers a sacrifice of a peace offering to the Lord, to fulfill his vow, or a freewill offering from the cattle or the sheep, it must be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no defect in it.

Exodus 12:5 (NKJV)

⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Ephesians 5:27 (NKJV)

²⁷ that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

Notice the signs given in preparation as Abraham split the wood for the offering. It was a 3 day journey when Abraham saw the place to perform the sacrifice. Also Abraham told the two young men to stay behind thus no outside interference, distractions or opinions were allowed. God said it, Abraham believed and obeyed and so it was with Abraham! Those who say there is salvation without obedience are of the Antichrist. If Abraham is the father of faith Abraham’s obedience was tested before righteousness was imputed. The Holy Spirit will not dwell where self righteousness and idolatry exist! Repentance is denying self and following Jesus and the pursuit of 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

Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ Pursue peace with all people, and holiness, without which no one will see the Lord:

Matthew 5:8 (NKJV)

⁸ Blessed are the pure in heart,

For they shall see God.

Psalm 15:2 (NKJV)

² He who walks uprightly,

And works righteousness,

And speaks the truth in his heart;

Psalm 24:4 (NKJV)

⁴ He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

Who has not lifted up his soul to an idol,

Nor sworn deceitfully.

Abraham prepares Isaac to be the offering and while Isaac asks his Father questions he never tries to run, getaway or question what his father Abraham tells him. Isaac asks Abraham his father where is the lamb and Abraham tells his son God will provide.

So when the Pharisees told Jesus they were decedents of Abraham Jesus rebuked them.

John 8:39–47 (NKJV)

³⁹ They answered and said to Him, “Abraham is our father.”

Jesus said to them, “If you were Abraham’s children, you would do the works of Abraham. ⁴⁰ But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ You do the deeds of your father.”

Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; we have one Father—God.”

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. ⁴³ Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. ⁴⁴ You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. ⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. ⁴⁶ Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? ⁴⁷ He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

The same relationship Jesus had with the Father, Abraham had with Isaac. Not my will but your will be done in total faith, love and trust of the Father. Isaac was without spot or wrinkle! Jesus was without spot or wrinkle and we are called to prepare ourselves to be without spot or wrinkle as a living sacrifice to the Lord! The “seed” of Abraham was Christ Jesus! As I wrote in another blog post King David when he fought Goliath it was the “seed” of the Lion of The Tribe of Judah in David that killed Goliath! Christ Jesus in David! That is why David told Goliath the hosts of heaven would serve him the head of Goliath! That is why the stone hit the forehead of Goliath which is where the mark of the beast is located! Goliath was a beast who worship another god/deity!

Romans 12:1–2 (NKJV)

Living Sacrifices to God

12 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. ² And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

We all know that when Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac it was a foreshadow of Jesus life, death and resurrection. What I wanted to help you think about was the father and son relationship of Abraham and Isaac as well as Isaac NOT having any spot or wrinkle. Even when Isaac didn’t completely understand he still trusted his father Abraham and had faith in Abraham. If you go back to the fall in Genesis 3 Adam fell from unbelief that he was NOT to partake of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam allowed “outside” influence from Eve and desired Eve more than the Father. Today we find people who love “gifting” but don’t love the Father! We idolize gifts and put the gifts above the Father.

Abraham learned that seeking counseling from others including his own wife and those young men that went with him that they would try to “reason”, “politically debate” what was Spirit and Truth which would allow the “seeds” of unbelief to attempt to take “root”. What fellowship has a believer and follower of Christ Jesus with unbelievers?

2 Corinthians 6:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

Those who are born again in the Holy Spirit will not continue to sit under and fellowship with those who are rebellious to Spirit and Truth. The Lord resists the proud! Not everyone even including the church leadership is necessarily born again and regenerated in the Holy Spirit! In fact there are many Antichrist spirits in the leadership, pulpits and pews! Why do you not believe the great spiritual battle that was fought in heaven is not playing out on earth as well as inside the local assemblies? Why do you believe in the “end of the age” battle and yet are not engaged in the day to day battle even within the “false church”. The true church is not a nation, building or a temple made with human hands! The true temple is the human body. So you are either the temple of the Living God Christ Jesus or the temple of the adversary Satan. There is no “third temple” for sacrifices as Christ Jesus was the sacrifice for all of humanity.

I hope you now have greater insight and understanding of the father and son relationship of Abraham and Isaac as well as the son Isaac having true faith in his Father! The two were one in faith and truth. Isaac was trained in the ways of the Lord by Abraham who was obedient and faithful to the Lord. Do not lean upon your own understanding ALWAYS seek the Lord in Spirit and Truth and DO NOT lean upon the understanding, reasoning, influences, persuasion and pressures of any other human! We follow Jesus NOT men/women! We follow Jesus, NOT rulers of this world, principalities and powers or any other spirits.

When Israel gave praise to David before David was recognized as the Spiritual King of Israel as Samuel anointed David. What was displayed was idolatry worship to a man named David because they did not see the “seed of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah” in David! Jesus was in the bloodline of David and it was the “Lion of the Tribe of Judah” that killed Goliath! When you look to flesh you only receive earthly knowledge but when you seek and look to the Lord you get spiritual revelations of Spirit and Truth! If people are recognizing other people by earthly established positions of authority they are not getting spiritual revelations. I don’t care if you are the most educated human on earth you are nothing without Christ Jesus. King Saul wanted to be idolatrized as king and when the attention went to David even before he was publicly made king the spirit of jealousy which is a murdering spirit took root in Saul.

Another point of consideration and importance which is not directly implied but yet demonstrated is that it is the Father who Presents the Son! So this also means it is the man’s role only to present the Son of God in preaching and not the woman’s role to preach. A preacher who is anointed of the Lord Jesus does not just present the Written Word he must present the Living Word at the same time! This is why so many are deceived and have no spiritual discernment! You must have, listen and be obedient to the Holy Spirit to discern other spirits! You must know Jesus as the person of the Godhead and not just an author of His Word! Satan doesn’t care if you know the bible forwards and backwards as Satan does not want you to become TRULY BORN AGAIN! The flesh can not alone withstand the spirit of Satan it takes the Spirit of the Living God and the grace of the Living God to withstand Satan and destroy the words of darkness. This is why many of the unsaved people have a measure of the Lord’s grace upon them. Their consciences have not been seared and they have not been yet given over to their own hearts desires. The Lord will not always strive with humanity and the end of the age is rapidly approaching.

Romans 5:8 (AMP)

8 But God shows and clearly proves His [own] love for us by the fact that while we were still sinners, Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One) died for us.

Genesis 6:3 (NKJV)

³ And the Lord said, “My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.”

I hope this writing has helped you to see the greater picture of revelations as you take the full counsel of the Word of God and see how profound those revelations are. Isaac was without spot or wrinkle. Isaac had complete faith in his father Abraham even when he did not completely understand. When Isaac asked Abraham about the sacrifice Abraham spoke in faith that the Lord would provide!

I will share a short portion of personal testimony regarding offering my family as a sacrifice to the Lord in prayer. You see my family abandoned me many years ago falsely accusing and believing that I was the problem in their lives because they were/are blinded by the god of this world Satan. I had spent 3 days on a beach front on my knees alone worshipping the Lord in tears as I surrendered my family who abandoned me back to the Lord. I said Lord I refuse to allow the enemy of my soul to pervert the gift of my family in my heart as my family was a gift from you Lord. Lord the enemy of my soul is trying to “bind me up” and keep me from a deeper life in you Lord so I offer my family back to you in prayer as ONLY you can deliver them from the bondage of the devil and give them a new heart of flesh and a new spirit. I said Lord they were yours long before you gave them to me and I give them back to you Lord. I want to go deeper in you and desire the fullness of you in my life. I seek the abundant life ONLY found in Christ Jesus. I thank you Lord that you have healed my soul of these things and that I can walk in a greater awareness and fullness of your Spirit.

You see my family thinks they were delivered from me by rejecting me and that is the lie of Satan. But it was the Lord who delivered me from the bondage of my own family. This has been my life since I was 5 years old. Even my siblings, parents and relatives had/have abandoned me. I had only one “blood” aunt who never saw me as others declared me to be. She was a godly woman who lived a very sacrificial life caring for others and putting others before herself. She departed and I was there when the Lord took her home. I heard her repetative prayers that night as I was there to comfort her as she prayed over and over: “Father help me”, “Father help me” and the Lord took her home! Her own daughters were not present it was as if unbelievers were not allowed to be present. The Lord spoke to me about a week before her passing that I was to be with her the following Thursday. She came home Friday from the hospital and died that night calling out to the Lord, “Father help me”.

Galatians 4:6 (NKJV)

⁶ And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

Romans 8:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”

I hope you understand that each of us must walk according to the will of God for us and not what others think or believe is the will of God for us! Even in prayer we should seek the will of God and not rely on the requests of prayers from others. What is the will of God for that person at that particular time and season that God is “refining” them “purging” them and edifying them?

I hope you know understand that the incarnate Christ came with a sword dividing even family to fulfill the will of God in each of us as individuals yet “one body” in Christ Jesus.

Matthew 10:34–42 (NKJV)

³⁴ “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. ³⁵ For I have come to ‘set a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law’; ³⁶ and ‘a man’s enemies will be those of his own household.’ ³⁷ He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁸ And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me. ³⁹ He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

⁴⁰ “He who receives you receives Me, and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me. ⁴¹ He who receives a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward. And he who receives a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward. ⁴² And whoever gives one of these little ones only a cup of cold water in the name of a disciple, assuredly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

John 10:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Amen, the abundant life which is a life in the Holy Spirit abiding in Christ Jesus and the Father!

John 15:1–11 (NKJV)

The Relationship of Believers to Christ

15 “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. ² Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit. ³ You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. ⁴ Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing. ⁶ If anyone does not abide in Me, he is cast out as a branch and is withered; and they gather them and throw them into the fire, and they are burned. ⁷ If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you. ⁸ By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples.

⁹ “As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love. ¹⁰ If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love.

¹¹ “These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.

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THE MODERN TREE OF THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD & EVIL

Everything that is created has a spiritual origin and where your knowledge comes from determines which spiritual influence you adhere to and follow. It is truly saddening to live in a world where the pursuit of knowledge at all cost overrides and casts away the one’s basic ability to reason, decipher and obliterates moral principles and objectivity. Most of what we see is the “educated brainwashing” of conformity to this world and not to the Kingdom of Heaven. This includes what the world today calls or makes reference to much of the church.

Let me just ask for the sake of opening our minds and hearts to pursue and seek what is the true church verses the worldly, earthly, sensual church of our modern day. When Jesus told Pilate that His Kingdom was not of this world then ask yourself if the Kingdom is not of this World where is the TRUE CHURCH OF CHRIST JESUS? It also is NOT of this world! If the love of the world is in you the love of the Father is NOT in you.

I believe that artificial intelligence is the modern day “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” all the way back to the garden and the fall of Adam. I say this because it is forced upon us and not simply a choosing of free will. We have lost the ability to reason as individuals with our own self’s because the majority do not seek the Lord in Spirit and Truth. They rely on the “teachings of men”, doctrines of demons and their own pride of life assuming they know all things and “have arrived”.

2 Timothy 3:1–9 (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. ⁸ Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; ⁹ but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.

Hebrews 12:1–2 (NKJV)

The Race of Faith

12 Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

A cloud of witnesses refers to a “body of people” from above those who have finished their “race”. It is not an “earthly” body of people. They only looked unto Jesus the author and finisher of their faith! I have heard many people say they go to church to be fed but this is not necessarily correct. Jesus fed the multitudes spiritual bread but they only wanted “natural/earthly” bread and that is what Jesus told them when Jesus said you only follow me because I feed you. Hunger for their “bellies”/lust of the flesh and not their “souls”! It was the lust of the flesh and not the desires of Christ Jesus.

Isaiah 1:1–31 (NKJV)

1 The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.

The Wickedness of Judah

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth!

For the Lord has spoken:

“I have nourished and brought up children,

And they have rebelled against Me;

³ The ox knows its owner

And the donkey its master’s crib;

But Israel does not know,

My people do not consider.”

⁴ Alas, sinful nation,

A people laden with iniquity,

A brood of evildoers,

Children who are corrupters!

They have forsaken the Lord,

They have provoked to anger

The Holy One of Israel,

They have turned away backward.

⁵ Why should you be stricken again?

You will revolt more and more.

The whole head is sick,

And the whole heart faints.

⁶ From the sole of the foot even to the head,

There is no soundness in it,

But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores;

They have not been closed or bound up,

Or soothed with ointment.

⁷ Your country is desolate,

Your cities are burned with fire;

Strangers devour your land in your presence;

And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

⁸ So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard,

As a hut in a garden of cucumbers,

As a besieged city.

⁹ Unless the Lord of hosts

Had left to us a very small remnant,

We would have become like Sodom,

We would have been made like Gomorrah.

¹⁰ Hear the word of the Lord,

You rulers of Sodom;

Give ear to the law of our God,

You people of Gomorrah:

¹¹ “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?”

Says the Lord.

“I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams

And the fat of fed cattle.

I do not delight in the blood of bulls,

Or of lambs or goats.

¹² “When you come to appear before Me,

Who has required this from your hand,

To trample My courts?

¹³ Bring no more futile sacrifices;

Incense is an abomination to Me.

The New Moons, the Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—

I cannot endure iniquity and the sacred meeting.

¹⁴ Your New Moons and your appointed feasts

My soul hates;

They are a trouble to Me,

I am weary of bearing them.

¹⁵ When you spread out your hands,

I will hide My eyes from you;

Even though you make many prayers,

I will not hear.

Your hands are full of blood.

¹⁶ “Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;

Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.

Cease to do evil,

¹⁷ Learn to do good;

Seek justice,

Rebuke the oppressor;

Defend the fatherless,

Plead for the widow.

¹⁸ “Come now, and let us reason together,”

Says the Lord,

“Though your sins are like scarlet,

They shall be as white as snow;

Though they are red like crimson,

They shall be as wool.

¹⁹ If you are willing and obedient,

You shall eat the good of the land;

²⁰ But if you refuse and rebel,

You shall be devoured by the sword”;

For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

The Degenerate City

²¹ How the faithful city has become a harlot!

It was full of justice;

Righteousness lodged in it,

But now murderers.

²² Your silver has become dross,

Your wine mixed with water.

²³ Your princes are rebellious,

And companions of thieves;

Everyone loves bribes,

And follows after rewards.

They do not defend the fatherless,

Nor does the cause of the widow come before them.

²⁴ Therefore the Lord says,

The Lord of hosts, the Mighty One of Israel,

“Ah, I will rid Myself of My adversaries,

And take vengeance on My enemies.

²⁵ I will turn My hand against you,

And thoroughly purge away your dross,

And take away all your alloy.

²⁶ I will restore your judges as at the first,

And your counselors as at the beginning.

Afterward you shall be called the city of righteousness, the faithful city.”

²⁷ Zion shall be redeemed with justice,

And her penitents with righteousness.

²⁸ The destruction of transgressors and of sinners shall be together,

And those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.

²⁹ For they shall be ashamed of the terebinth trees

Which you have desired;

And you shall be embarrassed because of the gardens

Which you have chosen.

³⁰ For you shall be as a terebinth whose leaf fades,

And as a garden that has no water.

³¹ The strong shall be as tinder,

And the work of it as a spark;

Both will burn together,

And no one shall quench them.

Artificial intelligence is any knowledge that is NOT received from the Lord Jesus. We must seek and walk in revelations of Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth. Not by the teachings of men, doctrines of demons and wolves in sheep’s clothing.

As I stated in one of my previous postings regarding what happened in the garden. The serpent presented himself as god to Eve. Wolves in sheep’s clothing do the very same thing by the spirit of Antichrist. You can read more here: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/15/what-really-happened-in-the-garden-of-eden/

This is why we must seek the true abundant life that Jesus has made provision for us which is a spiritual life of Christ Jesus! With all of the people saying that we must fulfill the great commission and create disciples they lose revelations of truth about what the great commission truly is. We are not to make followers of us but followers of Christ Jesus. Mathew 28 does not replace the original creation of Man! Adam was not of flesh and blood but of Spirit. Be fruitful and multiply was not given AFTER THE FALL but BEFORE THE FALL! We are to be mature son’s of God fulfilling what Adam was called to do. I once met a professing Christian that could barely provide for his own family and when he told me about child number 5 to arrive. I said perhaps you should put your family above yourself as you can barely provide now. His reply was “be fruitful and multiply”! Carnality 101!

1 Timothy 5:8 (NKJV)

⁸ But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Genesis 1:22 (NKJV)

²² And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

Surely the Lord was not inferring to the fallen sinful nature as the “fall” had not happened yet!

Genesis 3:6–7 (NKJV)

⁶ So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree desirable to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate. She also gave to her husband with her, and he ate. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves coverings.

Genesis 1 precedes Genesis 3 and Matthew 28! It’s take Spirit to produce Spirit and being fruitful and multiply. It has nothing to do with “physical/earthly” it was to be spiritual!

Deuteronomy 6:4–9 (NKJV)

⁴ “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one! ⁵ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength.

⁶ “And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. ⁷ You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up. ⁸ You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes. ⁹ You shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Train up a child in the way he should go,

And when he is old he will not depart from it.

Ephesians 6:4 (NKJV)

⁴ And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

2 Timothy 3:14–17 (NKJV)

¹⁴ But you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, ¹⁵ and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

¹⁶ All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.

If you analyze and truly see what is going on around the whole world is artificial intelligence, world wide surveillance and world wide control you will see the schemes of the devil trying to be god. Only the True Living God is omnipresent. Jesus doesn’t need “mass surveillance”. Jesus doesn’t need artificial intelligence as Jesus is omniscient, all knowing! Jesus is all powerful, omnipotent! Just as Jesus does not need human intervention He does not need human reasoning or intellect!

Psalm 139

God’s Perfect Knowledge of Man

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

¹ O Lord, You have searched me and known me.

² You know my sitting down and my rising up;

You understand my thought afar off.

³ You comprehend my path and my lying down,

And are acquainted with all my ways.

⁴ For there is not a word on my tongue,

But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.

⁵ You have hedged me behind and before,

And laid Your hand upon me.

⁶ Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;

It is high, I cannot attain it.

⁷ Where can I go from Your Spirit?

Or where can I flee from Your presence?

⁸ If I ascend into heaven, You are there;

If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.

⁹ If I take the wings of the morning,

And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

¹⁰ Even there Your hand shall lead me,

And Your right hand shall hold me.

¹¹ If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall on me,”

Even the night shall be light about me;

¹² Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,

But the night shines as the day;

The darkness and the light are both alike to You.

¹³ For You formed my inward parts;

You covered me in my mother’s womb.

¹⁴ I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;

Marvelous are Your works,

And that my soul knows very well.

¹⁵ My frame was not hidden from You,

When I was made in secret,

And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

¹⁶ Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.

And in Your book they all were written,

The days fashioned for me,

When as yet there were none of them.

¹⁷ How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!

How great is the sum of them!

¹⁸ If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;

When I awake, I am still with You.

¹⁹ Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!

Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.

²⁰ For they speak against You wickedly;

Your enemies take Your name in vain.

²¹ Do I not hate them, O Lord, who hate You?

And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?

²² I hate them with perfect hatred;

I count them my enemies.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;

Try me, and know my anxieties;

²⁴ And see if there is any wicked way in me,

And lead me in the way everlasting.

In order for Satan to rule the world he would need people to become total “conformity” to himself. Those who refuse to conform to the adversary will be likely martyred for the Lord or sustained through this global persecution having made themselves ready for the Lord! Just as Jesus said “no man can take my life” is this not also possible for the mature “sons of god”. No person or the devil himself can take the life of another without the Lord allowing it.

I do not say this to make light of the importance or powers of the adversary but Satan serves the purposes of the Lord falsely believing that he is in power and control. Satan is a tool the Lord uses to refine the saints, grow them in spirit and truth and to come to the “END OF SELF”.

1 Corinthians 5:5 (NKJV)

⁵ deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

You only need to read the book of Job to know that Satan needed approval from the Lord and was given limitations and restrictions of what he was allowed to do!

James 1 (NKJV)

Greeting to the Twelve Tribes

1 James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad:

Greetings.

Profiting from Trials

² My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. ⁷ For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸ he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

The Perspective of Rich and Poor

⁹ Let the lowly brother glory in his exaltation, ¹⁰ but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away. ¹¹ For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

Loving God Under Trials

¹² Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. ¹³ Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God”; for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He Himself tempt anyone. ¹⁴ But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed. ¹⁵ Then, when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

¹⁶ Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren. ¹⁷ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. ¹⁸ Of His own will He brought us forth by the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures.

Qualities Needed in Trials

¹⁹ So then, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; ²⁰ for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

Doers—Not Hearers Only

²¹ Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. ²³ For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; ²⁴ for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. ²⁵ But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

²⁶ If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. ²⁷ Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

My intent of this post is to open your understanding of how rapid things are changing and shifting towards evil and how the true church must make “herself” ready for the Bridegroom! The Holy Spirit was a “dowry” given so that the “fiance’” could make herself ready to become the bride of Christ.

The mustard seed of faith must grow into maturity. That mustard seed is the Holy Spirit within us allowing the Lord to “prune” the branches so the “vine” will grow and mature. If you are unable to hear, apply and discern “spiritual meat” you will still be a “babe” who has not been weened and dependant upon others rather than totally dependent and submitted to Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth. Are you sanctified by the completion of the Word of Truth in your heart, mind and soul?

John 17:15–26 (NKJV)

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.”

Romans 8:14 (NKJV)

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

John 14:6 (NKJV)

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 10:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

There is NO TRUE LIFE without Christ Jesus, there is just mere existence. There is no true knowledge without revelations of Spirit and Truth in Christ Jesus. The blind lead the blind. While there is surely much more that can be written I believe my initial point about artificial intelligence has been conveyed. May you take it in prayer with the Lord and may you seek the Lord Jesus first, foremost and always.

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This morning while doing chores I was talking with the Lord as the burden and grieving in my spirit for those that sit in the congregations of leadership that are not born again and the spirit of antichrist is in leadership and the pulpits. Many of the paritioners that falsely believe they are saved/born again by following the teachings of men and doctrines of demons. Those that deny Christ, the Holy Spirit or gifts of the Spirit are of antichrist.

Matthew 15:7–9 (NKJV)

⁷ Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:

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.’ ”

A house divided can not stand and when you deny the gifts of the Holy Spirit you are denying Christ Jesus. A true born again believer will not continue to sit in the seats/pews listening to wolves in sheep’s clothing or people who are not born again in the Holy Spirit. In a very short time if they are truly seeking the Lord in Spirit and Truth they be inspired by the Holy Spirit to bring correction and/or leave under the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Quite often they are asked to leave after attempting to bring correction then they are slandered, mocked and persecuted by those who take scriptures out of context such as:

1 John 2:18–23 (NKJV)

Deceptions of the Last Hour

¹⁸ Little children, it is the last hour; and as you have heard that the Antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come, by which we know that it is the last hour. ¹⁹ They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.

²⁰ But you have an anointing from the Holy One, and you know all things. ²¹ I have not written to you because you do not know the truth, but because you know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

²² Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son. ²³ Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also.

Hebrews 10:24–25 (NKJV)

²⁴ And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, ²⁵ not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

They refuse to acknowledge that is the love of God that NO man/woman would be deceived and that all would come to the saving knowledge of Christ Jesus. So even when you bring correction in the love of Christ Jesus their pride and idolatry will not accept correction. They are lovers of self and not lovers of Christ Jesus.

See, you can take scriptures out of context to fool the undiscerning! I have had these scriptures used against me many times. The irony is that what they say is true, I AM NOT ONE OF THEM as I am in Christ Jesus. The spirit of antichrist uses these scriptures also just as Satan temped Jesus with Psalm 91 in the wilderness. I even had a Jezebel pastor mock me by name in front of the whole church saying that she didn’t need what I had which was the power of the Holy Spirit and Christ Jesus that she would get in on her own! “Let us kill the son so we can get the inheritance”! Jezebel kills the true prophets and prophetic voice of God Christ Jesus.

Are you “intellectually” born again believing in your “own” human wisdom and understanding, beliefs or interpretations of the Word of God or has the Holy Spirit of the Word of God revealed Christ Jesus to you?

Proverbs 3:5–8 (NKJV)

⁵ Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

And lean not on your own understanding;

⁶ In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He shall direct your paths.

⁷ Do not be wise in your own eyes;

Fear the Lord and depart from evil.

⁸ It will be health to your flesh,

And strength to your bones.

Saul from Tarsus was highly intellectual and was even “commissioned” by the Pharisee’s high priest to capture and bring TRUE Christians to the Pharisees for execution. If you recall the encounter Saul from Tarsus had on the road to Damascus Saul became blinded with scales on his eyes. Obviously when you are blinded you can not see, but Saul heard Jesus talk to him. That is the first part of salvation leading to being born again. Are you hearing the voice of God/Jesus as Jesus said His sheep hear his voice. Secondly you must OBEY the voice/Word of God only then after hearing and obeying will your eyes will be opened! You must hear AND obey before your spiritual eyes are opened as the Holy Spirit says, COME. Saul responded “who are you Lord”. That is recognition of the Spirit, Voice and Person of Christ Jesus, this preludes your spiritual eyes to being opened and being “born again”.

You must have ears to hear, obey what you hear then comes eyes to see by being “born again”! This is exactly what Abraham did. He communed with God, Hear the Voice of God and was obedient to offer his own son as a living sacrifice! Now think of this. The only sacrifice God will/would accept is without spot or blemish so Isaac was without spot or blemish just as Jesus was without spot or blemish and the bride of Christ is called to be without spot or blemish! Isaac had the “seed” of Christ Jesus in him because he was of his “father” who had the “seed”. That seed is Christ Jesus! Abraham heard the Word/Voice of God, obeyed the Word/Voice of God then “righteousness” was imputed to Abraham!

Abraham was led by the Voice and Spirit of the Living God Christ Jesus! Are you being led by the Voice and Spirit of the Living God Christ Jesus? Are you truly “born again”? Saul later to be the Apostle Paul was led by the Voice and Spirit of Jesus and obeyed the Voice and Spirit of Jesus to become “born again”!

Jesus was obedient unto death! The Son of Man was obedient unto death as the “Spirit” is eternal and will never die! The Garden of Gethsamene was where the division of the Son of Man and Son of God was seperated! The cross was picked up before Jesus was ever placed upon it! That is why to follow Jesus you must pick up your cross and die to “self”. If you are a decendant of Abraham you would hear the Voice of God, Obey the Voice of God and die to your own will and earthly desires by picking up your cross!

Head knowledge or intellectual knowledge is of the flesh and God is a Spirit! We know that flesh and blood can not inherit the Kingdom of God and that Apostle Paul stated having known Christ in the flesh we NO LONGER follow Christ by the flesh! Your human reasoning is of the flesh, your own understanding!

1 Corinthians 3:18–23 (NKJV)

Avoid Worldly Wisdom

¹⁸ Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. ¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, “He catches the wise in their own craftiness”; ²⁰ and again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are futile.” ²¹ Therefore let no one boast in men. For all things are yours: ²² whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. ²³ And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.

I have said this many times and I can not say it enough. The Apostle Paul is a living testimony of the NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH. Paul did NOT follow the incarnate Christ Jesus rather Paul encountered the resurrected Christ Jesus! If you study the life of Saul from Tarus through to the Apostle Paul from Tarsus you will see that the Apostel Paul came out from Mystery Babylon the church of the Pharisees! I am not going to expound on Saul being from Mystery Babylon but only mention that the Pharisees used the political powers/systems to crucify Christ Jesus. I suggest you seek the Lord on this for yourself as we all should. I have written/posted on this previously.

One of the main points I want to bring to your awareness is that Saul from Tarsus considered himself a Pharisee’s Pharisee intellectually speaking! You see “head knowledge” is NOT “heart knowledge”. I could name many well known preachers today as well as those that have perished/passed on who had a great multitude of followers that do/did not have heart knowledge and true spiritual revelations of Christ Jesus.

They had/have their own “earthly wisdom” of deceptions and taught the beliefs of men and/or “other spirits”. Some have written their own bible traslations and expositions yet were NOT born again. They had NO revelation of the Holy Spirit yet claimed to be inspired by the Holy Spirit. Remember, “head knowledge” is NOT HEART KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSFORMATION!

The Holy Spirit does not dwell or reside in our minds. We need a “NEW HEART” and have the Word of God written upon it! That is why the Apostle Paul said “have this mind in you Christ Jesus”. We need the “renewing” of our minds which is the Holy Spirit casting down all false doctrine, teachings and beliefs! That is why the Holy Spirit will cast down all false beliefs, deceptions and false teachings when you walk and submit to the Holy Spirit. Let’s see how the Apostle Paul describes himself.

Philippians 3:1–11 (NKJV)

All for Christ

3 Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. For me to write the same things to you is not tedious, but for you it is safe.

² Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilation! ³ For we are the circumcision, who worship God in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh, ⁴ though I also might have confidence in the flesh. If anyone else thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, I more so: ⁵ circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; concerning the law, a Pharisee; ⁶ concerning zeal, persecuting the church; concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.

⁷ But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. ⁸ Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ ⁹ and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; 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.

I want you to really reflect on what Paul is saying. Paul describes his personal achievements as a MAN being highly educated, pure of stock, obedient to the Law and yet Paul had to die daily to all of that to know Christ Jesus as the PERSON of the Godhead in the Spirit of the Lord. Notice Paul did not consider himself even while being an Apostle to be considered worthy of the resurrection! We have no worthiness of our own only a born again disciple of the Lord has imputed righteousness.

Many preachers today and many that have passed consistently preached and tought that the “gifts” of the Holy Spirit stopped during the time of the 12 Apostles. What they refuse to recognize is that is NOT TRUE. None of the disciples became Apostles until AFTER Christ’s resurrection! Jesus told the “disciples” it would be better that He would go so the Comforter could come and give them power from above.

John 20:19–22 (NKJV)

Christ Appears to the Disciples (Thomas Absent)

Mark 16:14; Luke 24:36–43

¹⁹ Then, the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be with you.” ²⁰ When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.

²¹ So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you.” ²² And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, “Receive the Holy Spirit.

Today people do not understand what it is to truly disciple people. What many are actually doing is teaching their “earthly intellect” and carnality and not spiritually building up a true disicple. Men following men verses truly following the Holy Spirit! Earthly intellect has NO spiritual revelations of Christ Jesus! That is why Paul said he gave them milk as unto babes because they could not handle Spiritual meat!

1 Corinthians 3:1–3 (NKJV)

Sectarianism is Carnal

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; ³ for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?

I have written this many times before. The Son of Man did NOT teach the disciples, the Son of God taught the disiciples! Here is a thought I want you to meditate and take to the Lord in prayer. Many people are worshipping the Son of Man (flesh) and not the Son of God Christ Jesus. Carnality follows carnality, Spirit follows Spirit!

John 4:21–24 (NKJV)

²¹ Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. ²² You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. ²⁴ God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Meditate on this thought. God is Holy and in God there is NO darkness. Jesus and the Father will only receive worship that is HOLY not carnal! The flesh and human intellect has NO holiness of it’s own! Worship is Spirit to Spirit! The Holy Spirit to a Holy Jesus and Father! The trinity is ONE and is NOT divided.

So when a preacher or anyone tells you that there are no more spiritual gifts they are not representing the Lord Jesus! A house divided will not stand! The disciples became Apostles AFTER THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST JESUS! Anyone that teaches the gifts have ceased is not led or following the Holy Spirit and NOT born again! It is the spirit of antichrist that denies the gifts of the Holy Spirit! The Holy Spirit and the Word of God are one together and will NEVER contridict one another! These people that teach there are no gifts are scholars, teachers, shepherds of their own making and idols to themselves and others! Let me also say that when the fullness of the gifts is represented the fullness of grace is empowered! There are five spiritual gifts and five is the number of grace! The fullness of Christ is represented! Christ incarnate was the fullness of the Father thus all five gifts were in Christ Jesus! A true mature Son of Christ Jesus and the Father can and will operate in all 5 gifts when lead by the Holy Spirit!

Revelation 2:2–3 (NKJV)

² “I know your works, your labor, your patience, and that you cannot bear those who are evil. And you have tested those who say they are apostles and are not, and have found them liars; ³ and you have persevered and have patience, and have labored for My name’s sake and have not become weary.

Ephesians 4:7–16 (NKJV)

Spiritual Gifts

⁷ But to each one of us grace was given according to the measure of Christ’s gift. ⁸ Therefore He says:

“When He ascended on high,

He led captivity captive,

And gave gifts to men.”

⁹ (Now this, “He ascended”—what does it mean but that He also first descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.)

¹¹ And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, ¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

2 Corinthians 5:16–17 (NKJV)

¹⁶ Therefore, from now on, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. ¹⁷ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.

Romans 8:1–17 (NKJV)

Free from Indwelling Sin

8 There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. ² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. ³ For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. ⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. ⁶ For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. ⁷ Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be. ⁸ So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. ¹⁰ And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. ¹¹ But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.

Sonship Through the Spirit

¹² Therefore, brethren, we are debtors—not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh. ¹³ For if you live according to the flesh you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live. ¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. ¹⁵ For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.” ¹⁶ The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, ¹⁷ and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.

As I mediated on what the Lord revealed to me the Holy Spirit spoke and said to me UNTIL people acknowledge the COMPLETE GOSPEL and truly believe in their heart (not the mind) in the life, death and the resurrection of Christ that NO OTHER REVELATION CAN BE RECEIVED FROM THE LORD. True salvation must come first! You may argue on this and say the disciples were not born again when they were discipled but they were disciples of the Son of God, not the Son of Man! It was given to them to have ears to hear and eyes to see. Given by whom? Jesus Himself!

How can you receive revelations of “newness of life” or being a “new creation in Christ” if you do not believe in your heart Jesus is resurrected! If you deny the gifts of the Holy Spirit you deny the resurrection of Christ Jesus! Plain and simple! The Holy Spirit was given by the resurrected Christ Jesus! If you are not receiving revelations of Christ all you have is HUMAN INTELLECT like Saul from Tarsus!

1 Corinthians 15:12–19 (NKJV)

The Risen Christ, Our Hope

¹² Now if Christ is preached that He has been raised from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? ¹³ But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. 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.

When Peter was asked by Jesus whom do YOU say I am, Peter replied you are the Christ! So then Peter and the other disciples were taught by the Son of God by the Holy Spirit and NOT by the Son of Man! This is why the parables were made known to the disciples because they were taught by the Spirit of God by the Son of God!

Like I said, the Apostle Paul is the living example of the NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH. Let’s see how Paul describes true belief!

Ephesians 1:15–23 (NKJV)

Prayer for Spiritual Wisdom

¹⁵ Therefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints, ¹⁶ do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers: ¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹ and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power ²⁰ which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹ far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.

²² And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, ²³ which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

Now let’s look at Romans for a moment to see where TRUE BELIEF is found within us.

Romans 10:1–13 (NKJV)

Israel Needs the Gospel

10 Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. ² For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. ³ For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God. ⁴ For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

⁵ For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, “The man who does those things shall live by them.” ⁶ But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way, “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ down from above) ⁷ or, “ ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ ” (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). ⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): ⁹ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” ¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. ¹³ For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

Now please reflect on what I said in the beginning of this posting. Human intellect is not HEART KNOWLEDGE. Think of the parable of sowing seed and the different types of ground/heart conditions!

The eyes of your heart enlightened is not carnal head knowledge it is spiritual revelations of Christ Jesus in and from the heart! Remember the two commandments Jesus gave the first is to love the Lord with all of your heart, all your soul and all of your mind. The order is specific and intentional. There is no other way!

Matthew 13:1–58 (NKJV)

Parable of the Soils

Mark 4:1–20; Luke 8:4–15

13 On the same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the sea. ² And great multitudes were gathered together to Him, so that He got into a boat and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

³ Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. ⁴ And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. ⁵ Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. ⁶ But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. ⁷ And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. ⁸ But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. ⁹ He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

¹⁰ And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”

¹¹ He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. ¹² For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him. ¹³ Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. ¹⁴ And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:

‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,

And seeing you will see and not perceive;

¹⁵ For the hearts of this people have grown dull.

Their ears are hard of hearing,

And their eyes they have closed,

Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,

Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,

So that I should heal them.’

¹⁶ But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; ¹⁷ for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it. (They were taught by the Spirit of God in Christ Jesus.) It takes the Holy Spirit to give revelations of Spirit and Truth!)

¹⁸ “Therefore hear the parable of the sower: ¹⁹ When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received seed by the wayside.

Let me just reflect on what is meant by received by the wayside.

Fall by the wayside: To be abandoned, neglected, or left behind because of failure, lack of interest, or inability to keep going (e.g., old habits fall by the wayside).

Have you let your heart take root of the seeds of the Spirit and Word of God? Have you “digested”/ “cultivated” the Word of God?

Revelation 10:9–11 (NKJV)

⁹ So I went to the angel and said to him, “Give me the little book.”

And he said to me, “Take and eat it; and it will make your stomach bitter, but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth.”

¹⁰ Then I took the little book out of the angel’s hand and ate it, and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth. But when I had eaten it, my stomach became bitter. ¹¹ And he said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.”

The Holy Spirit ONLY testifies of Christ Jesus! Now go back and see that the disciples were blessed because it was given to them to see and hear! Hear what, the Holy Spirit in Christ Jesus discipling them! This is why NO MAN can truly disiciple anyone! This is also why false pastors, teachers, etc. use scriptures out of context such as faith comes by hearing the Word of God. They use it to get people to submit to them as being Lord over them! Remember the Word of God is Living and Active as it is from the very MOUTH OF GOD, GOD breathed! Do you hear the Holy Spirit speaking to you, spirit to spirit? Jesus said my sheep hear MY VOICE! Remember the spirit of a man can not receive the things of the Holy Spirit! I wrote another post on a false witness creates a false convert! I also wrote a post on the “wind and breath” being spirit! SECOND HAND KNOWLEDGE IS NOT PERSONAL REVELATION OF CHRIST JESUS. Jesus exposed this to the disciples when Jesus asked “who do people say that I am”.

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.

Matthew 13 continued:

²⁰ But he who received the seed on stony places, this is he who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy; ²¹ yet he has no root in himself, but endures only for a while. For when tribulation or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles. ²² Now he who received seed among the thorns is he who hears the word, and the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful. ²³ But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and produces: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.”

Parable of the Wheat and Tares

²⁴ Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; ²⁵ but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. ²⁶ But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. ²⁷ So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ ²⁸ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ ²⁹ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. ³⁰ Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.” ’ ”

Parable of the Mustard Seed

Mark 4:30–32; Luke 13:18, 19

³¹ Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field, ³² which indeed is the least of all the seeds; but when it is grown it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.”

Parable of the Leaven

Luke 13:20, 21

³³ Another parable He spoke to them: “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened.”

³⁴ All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; and without a parable He did not speak to them, ³⁵ that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying:

“I will open My mouth in parables;

I will utter things kept secret from the foundation of the world.”

Parable of the Tares Explained

³⁶ Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, “Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field.”

³⁷ He answered and said to them: “He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man. ³⁸ The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked one. ³⁹ The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels. ⁴⁰ Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. ⁴¹ The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, ⁴² and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. ⁴³ Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!

Parable of the Hidden Treasure

⁴⁴ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid; and for joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Parable of the Pearl of Great Price

⁴⁵ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls, ⁴⁶ who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Parable of the Dragnet

⁴⁷ “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet that was cast into the sea and gathered some of every kind, ⁴⁸ which, when it was full, they drew to shore; and they sat down and gathered the good into vessels, but threw the bad away. ⁴⁹ So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will come forth, separate the wicked from among the just, ⁵⁰ and cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.”

Parable of the Householder

⁵¹ Jesus said to them, “Have you understood all these things?”

They said to Him, “Yes, Lord.”

⁵² Then He said to them, “Therefore every scribe instructed concerning the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out of his treasure things new and old.”

⁵³ Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these parables, that He departed from there.

Rejection at Nazareth

Mark 6:1–6

⁵⁴ When He had come to His own country, He taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, “Where did this Man get this wisdom and these mighty works? ⁵⁵ Is this not the carpenter’s son? Is not His mother called Mary? And His brothers James, Joses, Simon, and Judas? ⁵⁶ And His sisters, are they not all with us? Where then did this Man get all these things?” ⁵⁷ So they were offended at Him.

But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house.” ⁵⁸ Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Because of unbelief in the gifts of the spirit there is a powerless and unregenerated church in the power of the Holy Spirit! You can’t deny the Holy Spirit on the “right hand of power” and expect the “left hand” of the body to have Holy Spirit Power! A house divided will NOT stand! This is why the true sons/daughters come out from the congregations of men, religion, antichrist and become separate to Christ Jesus. The longer you sit in these false churches the more you grieve the Holy Spirit and quench the Holy Spirit. Eventually the church environment/structure becomes your idol and god and not Christ Jesus. Just to make a point, beware of people who want to stand in close proximity of the anointing of Christ Jesus because they want to operate under YOUR anointing pretending to be godly in Christ Jesus. You may doubt this but I received it directly from the Lord and scripture tells us this is possible.

Acts 5:15–16 (NKJV)

¹⁵ so that they brought the sick out into the streets and laid them on beds and couches, that at least the shadow of Peter passing by might fall on some of them. ¹⁶ Also a multitude gathered from the surrounding cities to Jerusalem, bringing sick people and those who were tormented by unclean spirits, and they were all healed.

Acts 16:16–18 (NKJV)

Paul and Silas Imprisoned

¹⁶ Now it happened, as we went to prayer, that a certain slave girl possessed with a spirit of divination met us, who brought her masters much profit by fortune-telling. ¹⁷ This girl followed Paul and us, and cried out, saying, “These men are the servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us the way of salvation.” ¹⁸ And this she did for many days.

But Paul, greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, “I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.” And he came out that very hour.

I once had a Jezebel go to talk to a pastor whom I was to deliver a vision and Word of God and told the pastor before I met with him that the Lord said to her that I was to marry her and that I was not hearing from the Lord. When I met with the pastor he informed me of this and I said politely if the Lord has said this to her then the Lord will give her grace to wait because the Lord has not told me to marry her and I would be breaking covenant as I am still married in convenant to my wife who left me. I made a covenant with her for all of my life just as I have made and walk in covenant with my Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 6:14–7:1 (NKJV)

¹⁴ Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? ¹⁵ And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said:

“I will dwell in them

And walk among them.

I will be their God,

And they shall be My people.”

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.”

7 Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

Just as we are called to discern the spirits we are also called to judge all things by the Holy Spirit! True judgment is done by the Holy Spirit and judgment is NOT passing sentencing/penance but rather rendering a decision if it is Godly, the will of God or of the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 2:15–16 (NKJV)

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.

Note you can not have the mind of Christ without the Holy Spirit leading you and guiding you into ALL TRUTH! So how can a wolf in sheep’s clothing or a person not “born again” guide and lead people astray that are led by the Holy Spirit? It would be wise to remember Jesus said His sheep are led to the slaughter and the blind lead the blind into the ditch.

Now even if a person teaches an error if they are born again they will get a witness that something is not right. How can a well known preacher whether currently preaching or departed preach for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years still preach the same errors? The Holy Spirit leads us INTO all TRUTH!

Jesus said MANY WILL COME IN HIS NAME! DO NOT BE DECEIVED! I will say it again and again a “MAN” can not make spiritual disciples! Why do you think the bible warns us of the spirit of antichrist as “even now there are many antichrists”. That was thousands of years ago, how much more deception and antichrists are there now? Do you trust in the Lord with all of your heart? If you do, the Lord Jesus would be your source for all truth as you guard your heart with diligence.

In closing I’d like to reinterate if you eliminate any of the spiritual gifts you deny the Holy Spirit as a whole! The Holy Spirit and the Living/Written Word are ONE!

John 1:1–5 (NKJV)

The Deity of Christ

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ² He was in the beginning with God.

The Preincarnate Work of Christ

³ All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. ⁴ In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. ⁵ And the light shined in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.

Don’t confuse being physically alive with a spiritual life in Christ Jesus. A false disciple builds other false disciples. A false testimony of Christ Jesus can create other false testimonies to the undercerning.

Matthew 23:15 (NKJV)

¹⁵ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

If you have believed the lies that the gifts have ceased you have quenched the Holy Spirit and believed the lies of the antichrist spirit. Repent and seek the mercy, love and grace of the Lord Jesus NOW and ask the Lord Jesus to reveal to you in His Spirit of Truth where the lies of deception have taken root within you.

I do not write this in condemnation but in meekness and purity of heart that you may come to Christ Jesus and walk in ALL of His ways in Spirit and Truth. Do NOT be alarmed when you seek the Lord in Spirit and Truth truly desiring to know the person of Christ Jesus that others will mock you, discredit you and outcast you this is all a part of the journey and pilgramage home. Just as the Apostle Paul wrote about partaking the the body and blood that each of us should examine ourselves before partaking, we should examine ourselves in our devotions, worship and following of Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth.

1 Corinthians 11:28–32 (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.

Closing scripture:

John 17:6–19 (NKJV)

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, 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. 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. 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.

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As with any of my postings 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.

Accepting is not believing! You must know what you are accepting, lies or truth and even what spirit. True believing is when the mind and heart are ONE. Not separate! You are not accepting Jesus as you believe Him to be you are accepting Him AS LORD and Savior. You misrepresent the Lord by just presenting a Savior! Jesus is LORD before Savior. This is why John the Baptist said repent, why Jesus said repent and why Peter said repent. What is the 99.9% most used evangelical slogan/line of deception for saving a person? It is say this prayer and accept Jesus into you heart! Even if you don’t have them pray a prayer and just say accept Jesus into your heart is of deception of the devil. You have allowed the person their own interpretation and understanding of who ‘their” Jesus is to take root. It is as if remaining in sin and yet right standing with Jesus. This is why “unconditional love” is not true representation. Light has no fellowship with darkness. You have another gospel and another Jesus. People must come to Jesus on HIS terms not their own invitation! It is the Holy Spirit that convicts the heart and when you distort the Word of God you are not representing the Spirit of God. So you are not witnessing Jesus you are representing yourself as Jesus and a false identity of witness! You are NOT GOD. I have come against the heretical phrase “you must know your identity in Christ Jesus” hundreds of times and no one will listen. That is a prideful and boastful statement which damns your soul and the souls of others! There is “spirit” in every word we speak as live and death are in the tongue!

A true witness starts with spiritual conviction of the heart! Look at Saul from Tarsus and his encounter with Jesus! It was Jesus who convicted Saul of sin and it is supposed to be the Holy Spirit in us that convicts the people who have a heart to receive conviction. Some will not be ready or have been already turned over to the desires of their heart. They are required to repent and believe in both their mind and heart! Eve did not die physically she died Spiritually when she had partaken in the “seeds/words” of the serpent. It was because of her mind/thoughts heard what was spoken then took root in her heart which entered her soul. The deception went from the mind to the heart and entered her soul! She believed the lie and accepted it as truth into her heart affecting her soul. The Holy Spirit does not dwell in your heart. Don’t tell me they know what you mean by evangelizing this way as they are already likely deceived by the devil because of the fallen nature. We must speak spirit to spirit which resides in the soul! Flesh speaks to flesh!

Conviction comes from the soul not the heart. The Holy Spirit “pricks” the heart bearing witness to the soul! They are “accepting Jesus” from a person they do not know, so how would they know who they are accepting? They get convicted by the Holy Spirit. If you are not walking in the spirit there is no penetration of the soul. After all we can’t do nothing of ourselves! Without the Holy Spirit there is no spiritual witness to the soul and thus just a “mind and heart game” of false belief. How did Peter do it in Acts. People got baptized right there as water baptism is not required. When you get baptized in the Holy Spirit you are baptized in both water and spirit!

Acts 2:36–39 (NKJV)

³⁶ “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

³⁷ Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

³⁸ Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. ³⁹ For the promise is to you and to your children, and to all who are afar off, as many as the Lord our God will call.”

Here Peter is speaking to the “house of Israel” and Peter does not mention being baptized in water. The “house” is the people of Israel not the nation of Israel and this was 2000 plus years ago. It was never about the land, state or country. You can’t make a “land” a royal priesthood! The redeemed and born again are the new city of Jerusalem called Israel! It is a spiritual Jerusalem. The Rabbinical baptism is no longer necessary or a true sign of conversion being born again. It is a Rabbinical custom/tradition to wash away spirits! Why would a born again Christian after getting a false baptisms in water have to tarry for the Holy Spirit? If you are baptized in the Lord you are baptized in water and Spirit. Go back to Genesis and see how creation began. There were many waters and God created firmament and the waters were divided the heavens were above the water and the earth and creation were blow the firmament. Heaven is Water and Spirit as God is Water and Spirit. YOU WILL NEVER THIRST IF YOU DRINK FROM ME!

Now here is the punchline. Our Father of Faith Abraham was not a Jew.  Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldees but was considered Hebrew by faith.

How does a “woman” give birth, by water! When her water breaks it is time for the child to come and be “delivered”. So when someone is “born of the Holy Spirit” they are born of both water and Spirit. You miss an opportunity to get someone born again. Instead you ask them to church when you are supposed to be the church! Rabbinical water baptism was not about sin, it was the “removal” of spirits! A “self cleansing” of spirit just like the pigs going into water to remove the spirits of legion! A false sense of spiritual deliverance! That is one reason why Jesus did NOT need to get baptized by John the Baptist but Jesus said yes. Jesus had NO SIN, there was nothing of Satan in Jesus. It was a demonstration to the people of spiritual baptism in Christ Jesus that was to come. The dove was representative of the New Covenant with Noah which they had known. So the BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS DEMONSTRATED AS BOTH WATER AND SPIRIT IN ONE! When you get water baptism which is not required today it is a confession/testimony of what is supposed to have already happened within you by the Holy Spirit! It is not the “prelude” to receiving the Holy Spirit. You are not saved by the religious works of water baptism. So just know that it is not necessary and the devil uses this as a “false witness” as men can not cleanse themselves as the Rabbinical teachings of water baptism.

Acts 19:1–6 (NKJV)

Paul at Ephesus

19 And it happened, while Apollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through the upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples ² he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”

So they said to him, “We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”

³ And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”

So they said, “Into John’s baptism.”

⁴ Then Paul said, “John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”

⁵ When they heard this, they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. ⁶ And when Paul had laid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.

Satan often fools people by believing they are saved by water baptism! Notice exactly what Paul says DID YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN YOU BELIEVED! Do you see the deception. THE NEW TESTAMENT DOES NOT REQUIRE WATER BAPTISM. Paul is directly stating it is upon belief in Christ Jesus not an invitation of inviting Jesus into your heart! Repentance comes first! If you had to “dunk them in water” how could you continue to witness to the multitudes as you would spend all day baptizing in water. I got baptized in the Spirit in the middle of a field just me and the Lord. No sermon, no pastor, no one around.

Matthew 3:13–17 (NKJV)

Baptism of Jesus

Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–23

¹³ Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. ¹⁴ And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

¹⁵ But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

¹⁶ When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. ¹⁷ And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

Jesus allowed John but it was not necessary! Jesus was already “born of spirit” because He was conceived/born by The Holy Spirit. It was not necessary for Jesus to be water baptized. Jesus was demonstrating what the NEW baptism of the Holy Spirit truly was, water and Spirit combined as one. You might ask why? NO MAN OR WOMAN CAN DECEIVE WHAT THE HOLY SPIRIT DOES. So the old water baptism was a source of man trying to redeem man/himself which is total deception! A man must be born again!

Remember I told you the Rabbinical water baptism was symbolic of the removal of spirits! Now think about what the water baptism of Jesus. It did NOT remove the Holy Spirit from Jesus instead when the Dove came it bore witness to the Spirit already in Jesus already! Jesus did not get baptized in the Holy Spirit! Jesus was the incarnate fullness of the Father as the Son of God. It was a witness to the NEW COVENANT from the writings of Moses and Noah’s Arc. Jesus was the Christ and the NEW COVENANT. This is the same as Noah’s Arc and Noah releasing the white dove and it came back with a leaf from an olive tree! That is why John did not want to baptize Jesus and said YOU MUST baptize me. Later in the gospel Jesus confirms this to the Pharisees by saying there IS ONE WHO BEARS witness of me accept one! Jesus also told them they searched the scriptures of Moses and they said they followed Moses. Jesus spoke again if you followed Moses you would know me as Moses testified of Me (Jesus) who was to come!

Matthew 3:13–17 (NKJV)

Baptism of Jesus

Mark 1:9–11; Luke 3:21–23

¹³ Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan to be baptized by him. ¹⁴ And John tried to prevent Him, saying, “I need to be baptized by You, and are You coming to me?”

¹⁵ But Jesus answered and said to him, “Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.” Then he allowed Him.

¹⁶ When He had been baptized, Jesus came up immediately from the water; and behold, the heavens were opened to Him, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting upon Him. ¹⁷ And suddenly a voice came from heaven, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”

I hope you see the foolishness in the churches today that use religious beliefs that you must be water baptized and wait and pray for the Holy Spirit to come! When the Holy Spirit came it was both water and Spirit! You can baptize in the streets just as Paul evangelized! What do we do, we invite them to church to sit in a house/fellowship of deception. There is no spiritual growth in a house of deception so the Holy Spirit is not increasing and sanctifying you in Spirit and Truth because you “digest/eat” forbidden seeds of false doctrine and that works against the Holy Spirit in you!

Matthew 6:22–23 (NKJV)

²²  “The lamp of the body is the eye. If therefore your eye is good, your whole body will be full of light. 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!

Now think of this. Abraham our Father of Faith was not a Jew. Secondly, Abraham and his descendants did NOT GET WATER BAPTIZED. There is no record of it in the bible. At least I could not find it.

Every single denomination and nearly all professing Christian churches have mixtures of truth with lies and deception! You are partaking of forbidden “seeds” from the serpent. I don’t need to go into this I am saying that the ecumenism movement of all false denominations/churches is the combined one world religion. It is the serpent Satan himself that sows “seeds” and all the false beliefs, lies, deceptions, gospels, spirits and another Jesus that Paul warns of. All of this is being formed into the One World Religion of the HARLOT BEAST! It doesn’t matter what denomination of deception they are all deceived! So I am not singling out one in specific they are all wrong in one way or the other! Now this being said the Lord normally has a true witness within these denominations but only for a season not long lasting. They try to bring correction but are refused, slandered, mocked and ridiculed. The very people you are trying to help are the ones shouting “crucify him”. I wrote about 2 types of prodigal sons: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/16/two-types-of-prodigal-sons/

Revelation 18:1–8 (NKJV)

The Fall of Babylon the Great

18 After these things I saw another angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory. ² And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, “Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit, and a cage for every unclean and hated bird! ³ For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury.”

⁴ And I heard another voice from heaven saying, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues. ⁵ For her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. ⁶ Render to her just as she rendered to you, and repay her double according to her works; in the cup which she has mixed, mix double for her. ⁷ In the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, in the same measure give her torment and sorrow; for she says in her heart, ‘I sit as queen, and am no widow, and will not see sorrow.’ ⁸ Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and mourning and famine. And she will be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her.

John 15:5 (NKJV)

⁵ “I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.

The mind/thoughts and emotions/heart create the soul/will of a man or woman. The heart, mind and soul is the correct sequence given by the Lord! This has significant purpose and meaning. If you love the Lord with all of your heart you will not be easily deceived in your mind/thoughts even though you are under spiritual attack by deceptive and deceitful teachings of false prophets and brethren! LOVE can only be established by intimacy which is Spirit to Spirit. Why spirit to spirit because your soul is where the Holy Spirit dwells as a “mustard seed”. This is why Paul said he prayed without ceasing! Praying is sharing your heart and thoughts which is your soul with the Lord throughout the day! This is why David said he meditated on the WORD/LAWS. Jesus is the Word and the law is only fulfilled by and through Jesus.

Acts 2:36–38 (NKJV)

³⁶ “Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.”

³⁷ Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Men and brethren, what shall we do?”

³⁸ Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

A house of people as Peter is stating is the “people alive at that time were called” not the nation as a land, state or nation. Many are called but few are chosen. So today the true Israel is the redeemed in Christ Jesus not the Nation of Israel. If you believe the people from 2000 years ago are alive today then you are believing foolishness and lies of deception. Many were called but few were chosen at that time. Today MANY ARE called but FEW ARE CHOSEN!

That is why Jesus exposed the hearts because it is a reflection of the soul where spirit dwells. I wrote a blog post concerning pastors that say only the Lord knows the hearts of people and that is a lie! A partial truth is a lie! They speak this to deny spiritual discernment/judgment likely because they have secret sin or are not born again in Spirit and Truth and hearing the voice of God directly themselves. I always choose the later, no Spirit or Truth as that rises up the Holy Spirit in me to stand guard! The Holy Spirit does not lie or deceive. This puts up a wall/shield in my spirit against lies, deception and continued lies. Read that article: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/13/the-spiritual-lies-and-deception-of-only-the-lord-knows-the-heart/

Jesus never invited someone into His heart by accepting him. He said pick up your cross. That is “repentance before Lordship then unto salvation” to the ONE you will follow. The disciples never said invite Jesus into your heart! Do you know why? Jesus doesn’t dwell in your heart to begin with. That is right! Nope, never did and never will! This is why people are often deceived into false salvation, false converts, and believe you can’t lose your salvation! This is how real faith is perverted! It is a carnal man/woman trying to “save” another carnal man/woman! Where is the Holy Spirit in that?

This is how bondage remains and people begin to think that Jesus doesn’t love them because they don’t feel like they are making progress spiritually and walk away from faith if they ever had faith to begin with. This is why people believe you sin daily and we are all sinners! Lies, lies, lies and more lies! Those are statements of self justification in disguise of yourself being a sinner! You are not hungering for righteousness or pursuing holiness! You will never achieve it with that mindset by making excuses for sin. A born again saint will get convicted by the Holy Spirit out of love for the Lord and repent of their transgression and seek grace to overcome that transgression! If you deny this process by believing lies that upon receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit you were totally sanctified you open yourself up to more “seeds/words” of deception and lies! You deny the Holy Spirit directly by these statements so either you are NOT BORN AGAIN or have not made Jesus Lord of your life! You are your own lord to yourself which is exactly the nature of the serpent! The word sanctified in much of the scripture means “set apart” not holiness! You may fool those around you but the Lord will not be mocked or fooled. Why would you need to pursue holiness if you were completely sanctified upon being born again?

Romans 10:8–13 (NKJV)

⁸ But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): ⁹ that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. ¹⁰ For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ¹¹ For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” ¹² For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. ¹³ For “whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.”

If you don’t evangelize (sow) correctly you will not “reap” correctly! When you sow false seeds you reap a false harvest from those seeds! You create tares thinking you have created wheat! Which is likely how you were taught by false teachings/prophets as you are a disciple of the church and NOT a disciple of Christ Jesus. It is just like Jesus told the Pharisees that they search out for one convert and make them twice the child of hell that they are!

If/when the true saints believe the lies they start to fall away as every lie that is spoken and believed takes residence in your soul and WARS against the Holy Spirit. You put yourselves back into darkness and work against the Holy Spirit that leads you into ALL TRUTH! Those who walk in the Holy Spirit have love, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Lies rob you of love, peace and joy because lies are not of the Holy Spirit.

This is why all those football stadium revivals are a joke as people will say thousands got saved! There may be a few whose hearts earnestly desired the Lord and got saved but NOT from a false message of salvation! They got saved despite the false teaching/preaching because they were earnestly seeking beyond the false preaching seeking the person of Jesus. Faith is individually not corporately. Praise is individually not corporately. Worship is individually not corporately! Moses heard the Lord individually at the Red Sea while people were screaming and shouting at Moses. There is only one source of true corporate praise, worship and teaching. That is everyone in ONE ACCORD assembled unto the Lord Jesus.

The church is not a hospital for the sick, afflicted, spiritually wounded and the like. It is a sanctuary for the redeemed in one accord assembled to the Lord in Spirit and Truth. Read Jude! I tell you if we lived under the Old Testament Law there sure would be a lot of people dropping dead in the doorway of the sanctuary.

You will not get saved by putting faith in anyone other than Jesus. This means you are accountable for your own salvation and cannot blame your pastor, family, friends or brethren for losing your salvation at the Judgment Seat of Christ Jesus. So it is your choice to believe lies and become deceived. How do you know TRUTH from Error or LIES and deceit by The Holy Spirit. If you neglect intimacy with the Holy Spirit you are not growing in the love of God!

Godly sorrow and repentance come first not a foolish statement “wonderful plan for your life”. In fact you don’t even know what the plan of God is so you make a “blanket statement” leaving it up to the lost soul you are trying to make a false convert of. Jesus told Paul that he would suffer for His namesake. Suffering and brokenness is the foundation of true spiritual growth and that is why very few are willing to go through that process. You have free will and can walk away from faith or you can press in and grow in the Lord being more and more created in His image and likeness.

The point is that you “confess” which is a statement of verbal belief of their need for mercy, forgiveness, grace and redemption by the life, death and resurrection of Christ Jesus. Cleansed by His blood and saved by His grace! Believing in your heart means your statement of confessing with your mouth bears witness with your heart and soul! How do you witness without the gospel of salvation? If your gospel and personal witness is wrong the salvation will likely be wrong! Stop trying to create someone in your image and calling that the image of Christ Jesus.

We are to preach the gospel of reconciliation and save souls, not hearts! We are called to save souls! The holy Spirit dwells in your soul not your heart or mind! This is why people do not understand true spiritual warfare. What makes up the soul is the heart and mind combined as ONE. What is the Holy Spirit doing when you get a new heart and spirit. The holy spirit takes a position/residency upon your soul, not the complete soul. It is a mustard seed of the Holy Spirit! We are called to grow in Spirit and Truth which is the very person of Jesus.

John 14:6–7 (NKJV)

⁶ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

⁷ “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”

1 Corinthians 3:6–17 (NKJV)

⁶ I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. ⁷ So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase. ⁸ Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

⁹ For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. ¹⁰ According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. ¹¹ For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. ¹² Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, ¹³ each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. ¹⁴ If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. ¹⁵ If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

¹⁶ Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? ¹⁷ If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him. For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

There was a time when I really enjoyed going out and doing prophetic evangelism and witnessing to people. When they encountered the Lord they would ask what church I belonged to and I would tell them it is not about a church building. I would tell them Jesus just ministered to you here and now and you were not in a church building. It is an earthly mind statement to represent a church when you called to represent the Kingdom and Christ Jesus. I haven’t found a church that preaches sound doctrine since shortly after I got saved. I understand people in the pews having difficulties but when the leadership has another gospel and preaches things contrary to Spirit and Truth and won’t allow correction it’s time to leave.

When you get born again a “portion/measure” of the Holy Spirit is place within your soul. It is up to you to foster and grow that mustard seed. You are to fall deeper and deeper in love with the Lord! As the heart gives life to the body! Your mind does not give life to the body, it controls the body.

Proverbs 23:7 (NKJV)

⁷ For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.

“Eat and drink!” he says to you,

But his heart is not with you.

Where does thought begin, it begins in the mind. Where are those thoughts rooted, in the heart. So the end product is the heart, mind, and soul the three stand cord of faith and belief. You can also use this for love, trust and faith a 3 strand cord.

Ecclesiastes 4:12 (NKJV)

¹² Though one may be overpowered by another, two can withstand him.

And a threefold cord is not quickly broken.

Proverbs 18:24 (NKJV)

²⁴ A man who has friends must himself be friendly,

But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.

That is why Paul said have this mind in you which is Christ Jesus. That is why we all need to be washed by the Word in Spirit and Truth in our minds and hearts. When you love the Lord from your heart and soul/spirit you can more easily cast down “strongholds of your imagination” and lies and deceit. If someone called your friend bad names to you, would you go by what the person spoke about them or by your own personal relationship with that friend.

The renewing of your mind is a manifestation from the soul/spirit and heart together as ONE! Being a lover of Spirit and Truth sanctifies your mind! You must be lovers of the Truth! No one preaches on the true fear of the Lord because they do not understand or perhaps only confess the Lord with their lips! The fear of the Lord is in DIRECT EQUAL MEASURE with your love for the Lord. You fear eternal separation thus you fear LOSING salvation from the Lord! You fear doing anything against the Lord because you have tasted the heavenly gift of the Holy Spirit. This is the beginning of Wisdom which is the godly love and fear of the Lord. Your revelations of Christ are received in direct proportion for your love of God. Your love of God is tested over and over as you increase in the Lord. Where much is given much is required! Complete and absolute surrender to the Lord.

Hebrews 6:1–8 (NKJV)

The Peril of Not Progressing

6 Therefore, leaving the discussion of the elementary principles of Christ, let us go on to perfection, not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God, ² of the doctrine of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. ³ And this we will do if God permits.

⁴ For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted the heavenly gift, and have become partakers of the Holy Spirit, ⁵ and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come, ⁶ if they fall away, to renew them again to repentance, since they crucify again for themselves the Son of God, and put Him to an open shame.

⁷ For the earth which drinks in the rain that often comes upon it, and bears herbs useful for those by whom it is cultivated, receives blessing from God; ⁸ but if it bears thorns and briers, it is rejected and near to being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

How is love reciprocated to Jesus? Spirit to Spirit! Jesus will only receive Spirit and Truth Jesus will not empower a lie as that is the works of Satan. When the Holy Spirit comes into you as a born again Christian you received the “mustard seed” of Spirit placed in you. Why do I say the mustard seed is Spirit because you need the “foundation” of Christ Jesus established in you and the mustard seed is the Holy Spirit.

There is scripture to back this up when Paul said the church was not mature and they were like babes that need milk and not solid food. They had a mustard seed of the Holy Spirit but were not cultivating the mustard seed to grow!

1 Corinthians 3:1–4 (NKJV)

Sectarianism is Carnal

3 And I, brethren, could not speak to you as to spiritual people but as to carnal, as to babes in Christ. ² I fed you with milk and not with solid food; for until now you were not able to receive it, and even now you are still not able; ³ for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men? ⁴ For when one says, “I am of Paul,” and another, “I am of Apollos,” are you not carnal?

Jesus is Spirit and Truth. When you allow the mustard seed of the Holy Spirit to convict your soul from darkness which is “thoughts/beliefs, lies, deceit, false doctrine, etc.” that are in your soul that is the process of sanctification. You are getting a renewed mind and heart fortified by Spirit and Truth, not the preaching or teachings of men! Lies of darkness are being broken and Spirit and Truth are growing within you. What is amazing that “knowing” what is Spirit and Truth now begins to replace, fortify and strengthen faith because Spiritual Revelations are eternally a part of you now and dwell in your soul! So your heart and mind are being sanctified by Spirit and Truth. Every lie spoken to you that you believe reverses the process and wars against the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 22:37–38 (NKJV)

³⁷ Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment.

This is why we need to return to our first love. This is why Jesus said the first commandment was to love the Lord with all your heart, soul and mind. If you have read my post on the mark of the beast you would know spiritually the number 6, 6, 6 is a number of a man which consists of your heart, mind and soul! Man was created on the sixth day and those three attributes of creation are the number of a man.

There is no regeneration of the heart and mind without the soul of a man! Faith is believing in your mind which takes “root” in your heart entering the soul of the man. Faith comes by hearing not by inviting Jesus into your heart.

Jeremiah 51:20 (NKJV)

²⁰ “You are My battle-ax and weapons of war:

For with you I will break the nation in pieces;

With you I will destroy kingdoms;

You have a prophet calling the Word of God his battle-ax! That is what the indwelling Holy Spirit does to your heart and soul. It seeks out darkness and deception and makes war against it until sanctification is completed within you. You reverse the process by believing lies and deception from false prophets and alleged brethren who are not of the Lord Jesus.

Colossians 2:6–10 (NKJV)

⁶ As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, ⁷ rooted and built up in Him and established in the faith, as you have been taught, abounding in it with thanksgiving.

⁸ Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ. ⁹ For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily; ¹⁰ and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

“He who dwells” is not just the heart or just the mind it is the combination of both in unison and fullness of the soul! Psalm 91 will not apply to you if you do not fulfill the very first line of the Psalm. They will be just words with no power to life. Do you see why faith is so critical and having understanding of manifesting (mind & heart combined) true faith from within your soul.

What should be easy such as witnessing/evangelizing has been complicated and distorted by “WORKS” of the flesh. It is like trying to persuade someone into believing rather than revealing Christ Jesus in the Spirit revealing/manifesting real spiritual fruit! If you walked in the spirit they would be convicted automatically and they would either repent when spoken to or walk away. When you walk in the Spirit you represent all of the virtues of Jesus so it is not only conviction but love, grace, mercy, righteousness, etc. So while the Spirit convicts reconciliation exists at the same time. You don’t do the work the Holy Spirit does. Spirit comes from your soul. As a man speaks so is his heart. Mind and heart as one coming from his soul. This is why spiritual warfare is so misunderstood.

Upon the born again experience you receive a NEW HEART and a NEW SPIRIT. They are uniquely different for a purpose. They are two that need to become one in your soul! When you crucify your “soul” unto Christ you are perfected in love and thought/mind. The mind and heart create the soul.

When Job’s friends accused Job of sin because of Job’s suffering they were fleshly/carnally evaluating Job’s heart by his sufferings! They had no revelation Job’s soul where the Spirit dwells! The flesh/body will not live without a heart or mind but the soul is eternal. So the soul determines your eternal fate which is the completion of the image and likeness of Christ Jesus formed within you.

We are saving souls. That is why when Paul says the heart of many will wax cold Paul is referring to the Spirit of God which is the soul of a man. The heart is a reflection of the soul! That is why I can honestly tell you that with the GREAT DECEPTION there are people in churches/assemblies that sing to the Devil their Lord believing they are worshiping Jesus! They are not! They confess Jesus with their lips but their heart and soul are far from Him. It is all about the soul.

1 Corinthians 2:15–16 (NKJV)

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.

The fruit of the spirit is the combined manifestation of the soul by the response of the heart and mind together!

This is why the spirit bears witness that we are children of God. It comes from the soul not the mind or heart. Spirit to spirit! A man must be born of Spirit. God is a spirit not a heart of human flesh. The mind and heart can “play tricks” on our thoughts and beliefs thus affecting our souls that are spirit!

You get a measure of the Spirit when you are born again and you must let that portion of the Holy Spirit grow by “crucifying” the remainder of your old nature in your soul. This is a very hard process and takes a continued path of Spirit and Grace unto complete sanctification. Your free will which is your soul is at total opposition to the Holy Spirit. THIS IS YOUR GREAT TRIBULATION which is why Jesus said even now there is great tribulation in the world. Tribulation is spiritual that manifest physical. What we seeon earth is what is happening in the heavenly realm. Just like Daniel with te prince of Persia! Jesus in NOT only referring to the natural world of creation but the things of this world in your soul. Adam through the fall was to toil as Adam would “eat” the dust of the earth where the serpent was to roam the earth on his belly consuming/eating the dust of the earth. Adam went back to how he was created WITHOUT the breath of life as Adam was created from the dust of the earth! Adam was physically alive but spiritually dead. Your tribulation is not my same tribulation but the process is one of the same. You will have to “die to self” by submitting to the Holy Spirit every day to obtain crucifixion of your soul. PAUL DIED DAILY! Paul is tell us the process he went through to obtain and boldly proclaim Galatians 2:20 & 6:14. That is what every born again person is to achieve before they become a “chaste virgin”. Your pastors and prophets speak nothing about this because they speak falsely that you do not need sanctification/holiness that you already have it by the Holy Spirit. That is a lie. Sanctification is taken out of context by these false prophets as sanctification means “set apart” in this world but no longer of this world. That does NOT mean your soul does not have the things of this world still in it.

Genesis 3:17–19 (NKJV)

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

What “bread” mean in line 19. Bread is “seeds/words” of the serpent. That is what is meant by Satan has blinded the whole world by his “seed/words”. Even now I see another scripture that reflects Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane. That is where the Son of Man and Son of God were completely separated as the soul of the man (Son of Man) was crucified before the cross of Calvary! NOT MY WILL. Jesus sweat blood! When Jesus sweat blood He was referring to the cup of wrath and sin. Jesus was called to die for our sin. The sweat was as the first Adam eating/partaking of “seeds/words of sin”. Whoever saves his life shall lose it but whoever loses his life shall gain it in everlasting life. The once saved always saved is total rebellion against the Holy Spirit which is supposed to complete the process of crucifixion. Once saved always saved is the vernacular of the serpent in the garden “surely you will not die”.

Galatians 5:17–18 (NKJV)

¹⁷ For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you do not do the things that you wish. ¹⁸ But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

I have written about Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and how it was the separation and “death” of the soul of a man the Son of Man so that the Son of God could fully rule and have complete dominion/power/authority over the soul. How do we know this is what happened and the significance of this event! Jesus sweat drops of blood and the Holy Spirit is NOT FLESH AND BLOOD. Even greater what were the disciples doing, sleeping! Many are sleeping/dying as the bible often refers to sleep as death! They were not paying attention to Jesus when Jesus asked them to stand guard! They were thus denying the affect of the work of the cross within them.

The disciples were not being diligent against the adversary who comes to kill, steal and destroy. They were asleep!

1 Peter 5:8 (NKJV)

⁸ Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

Matthew 10:16–25 (NKJV)

¹⁶ “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. ¹⁷ But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to councils and scourge you in their synagogues. ¹⁸ You will be brought before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. ¹⁹ But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak. For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak; ²⁰ for it is not you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father who speaks in you.

²¹ “Now brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against parents and cause them to be put to death. ²² And you will be hated by all for My name’s sake. But he who endures to the end will be saved. ²³ When they persecute you in this city, flee to another. For assuredly, I say to you, you will not have gone through the cities of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

²⁴ “A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master. ²⁵ It is enough for a disciple that he be like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more will they call those of his household!

In line 21 stop thinking about only your natural family but also a spiritual family. Brother against brother Judas against Jesus, Pastor/Father his child, children a fallen saint against spiritual parents. Do you see the effect of sitting in a synagogue of Satan which is the vast majority of the churches today with false prophets and “converts”/ “saints”.

Matthew 12:46–50 (NKJV)

Jesus and the True Brethren

Mark 3:31–35

⁴⁶ While He was still talking to the multitudes, behold, His mother and brothers stood outside, seeking to speak with Him. ⁴⁷ Then one said to Him, “Look, Your mother and Your brothers are standing outside, seeking to speak with You.”

⁴⁸ But He answered and said to the one who told Him, “Who is My mother and who are My brothers?” ⁴⁹ And He stretched out His hand toward His disciples and said, “Here are My mother and My brothers! ⁵⁰ For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”

The disciples did not “stand watch” when Jesus was in the Garden of Gethsemane. They did not obey the Lord, the spirit is willing but the flesh weak. They had not yet received the Holy Spirit which NEVER sleeps. This is what is not preached today as if you do not complete the death of your own soul by the power of the Holy Spirit you will be a foolish virgin. Why was there 5 wise and 5 foolish? Five is the number of grace and the foolish did not use the grace given them wisely! They still had the love of the world in their soul. That is why the five wise virgins said go out the market and purchase your oil. You can’t do that it comes from the LORD. Ask yourself if the Lord wishes no man would perish why is your false prophet not teaching you these things! Who is he representing, it is NOT the Lord Jesus!

Matthew 26:38–46 (NKJV)

³⁸ Then He said to them, “My soul (heart and mind) 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.”

I know you may think I am making accusations but I am talking Spirit and Truth just as Jesus did above. MY SOUL is exceedingly sorrowful watching the saints get spiritual marytered and dying in the churches of today. Yet the deception of once saved always saved has lulled them into sleep/death. They have not loved the truth and have been given over to a spirit of delusion making the lies to be believed as truth and will have no part in eternal life. Examine your own soul now! Repent and ask for mercy as the cross has become of no effect in their spiritual lives.

John 14:1 (NKJV)

Christ Comforts His Disciples

14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me.

James 1:2–8 (NKJV)

Profiting from Trials

² My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, ³ knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. ⁴ But let patience (heart manifestation) have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. ⁵ If any of you lacks wisdom, (mind/thoughts) let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. ⁶ But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. ⁷ For let not that man suppose that he will receive anything from the Lord; ⁸ he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

We receive a new heart to replace the heart of stone! When the 10 commandments were written on tablets of stone that is a reflection of a human heart of stone! When the Pharisees stoned people that was a reflection of their hearts which comes from the soul/spirit. They had hearts of stone. When Jesus wrote with His finger in the sand he was symbolically writing the law as He did on the tablets of stone for Moses. The Pharisees were legalistic as they followed Moses. The Pharisees representing the kingdom of this world and god of this world and Jesus’ side was the representation of the Kingdom of heaven in Jesus. Remember man was created from the dust of the earth! Old creation without the life of Christ Jesus. Jesus was telling them that they had NO PART in eternal life! They had crossed the line! Read my post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

The kingdom of the earth belonged to Satan and Jesus told the Pharisees they were of their father the devil. That is a kingdom! The Kingdom of Heaven was in Jesus! The line was the demarcation separating kingdoms and the Pharisees had crossed the line which was the point of no return. Scripture tells us this. Remember the Pharisees were about to stone the adulterous woman. There can be either “spiritual adultery” or “physical adultery” but it was spiritual adultery just as EVE committed spiritual adultery in the Garden. Sin is spiritual adultery! You have partaken in the “seeds/words” of the serpent as truth. That is what Jesus was addressing! The “woman” represents the church! Your false prophet in your pulpit is having you commit spiritual adultery, he is a prophet of Jezebel in Revelations 2! The adulterous woman!

1 John 1:8–10 (NKJV)

⁸ If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. ⁹ If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. ¹⁰ If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar, and His word is not in us.

The Pharisees were never going to be able to CROSSING OVER AND THROUGH THE VEIL WHICH IS THE PERSON CHRIST JESUS. No one can get to the Father except through the Son. They would eventually have Jesus crucified. We know they denied Jesus as the Christ/Messiah to His face and anyone who denies that Jesus came in the flesh is of Antichrist! Even then there were many Antichrists!

John 2:1–10 (NKJV)

Christ Changes Water to Wine

2 On the third day there was a wedding in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. ² Now both Jesus and His disciples were invited to the wedding. ³ And when they ran out of wine, the mother of Jesus said to Him, “They have no wine.”

⁴ Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does your concern have to do with Me? My hour has not yet come.”

⁵ His mother said to the servants, “Whatever He says to you, do it.” (total submission)

⁶ Now there were set there six waterpots of stone, according to the manner of purification of the Jews, containing twenty or thirty gallons apiece. ⁷ Jesus said to them, “Fill the waterpots with water.” And they filled them up to the brim.(which would be to come the fullness of the Holy Spirit by the blood covenant of marriage) ⁸ And He said to them, “Draw some out now, and take it to the master of the feast.” (Master is the Father in heaven. Are you your own master or is Christ Jesus your master/Lord) And they took it. ⁹ When the master of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and did not know where it came from (but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom. ¹⁰ And he said to him, “Every man at the beginning sets out the good wine, and when the guests have well drunk, then the inferior. You have kept the good wine until now!”

The third day represented the death and resurrection which is why Jesus said his time had not yet come. The six waterpots of stone is the number of man on the 6^th day of creation. So the water turning into wine was the new blood covenant of the Sacrificial Lamb Christ Jesus for the redemption/reconciliation of man. NOW PAY ATTENTION TO THE BRIDEGROOM! We (a saint/disciple) put out the best and get them drunk then put out the inferior or “cheap wine”. This refers to OUR relationship to Jesus after being born again. It is the backsliding nature of humanity of the fall. Having tasted and seen the heavenly gift and falling away from our love of Christ Jesus. You can fall away from salvation! If you have partaken in the NEW COVENANT you have been born again BUT you can still fall away.

The master is the Father in Heaven because Jesus is the bridegroom! Jesus and the Father are one but you can not get to the Father without Jesus. There is only one way to the Father, Christ Jesus.

Why does a person bleed when they are cut or wounded? Because the heart pumps blood! If your heart waxes cold it is solid like a candle as the fire of the Holy Spirit has gone out! That is what we read in Revelations! The seven candlesticks is referencing the HEART of men/women. Now where is the manifestation of power revealed of the Holy Spirit revealed and manifested? It is in the Blood! Your blood is where the LIGHT OF GOD is displayed in power and glorification. Blood goes through your whole body! Blood gives life to the flesh. Thus your lamp must be filled with oil or it will not radiate the fullness of the glory of God. We go from glory to glory which is an increase of the HOLINESS of God by the sanctification work of the Holy Spirit.

The human blood is made from light or the absence of light which is darkness. When you cut yourself and bleed your blood changes color. The blood is exposed to the “earth/air” who is the prince and power of the air? This brings us back to the virgin birth of Jesus. There was no male sperm so no X,Y chromosomes. So how was Jesus born a man? By the Spirit and Light of the Father! The light of God is in the blood! Think of the mount of transfiguration! Jesus had not yet died and resurrected or ascended to heaven yet. Jesus revealed what a Son of God truly is! FULL OF LIGHT AND GLORY. Stop waiting for your heavenly body as you can have a body full of the Glory of God now, IT WILL COST YOU YOUR LIFE DYING TO YOURSELF!

Knowing that the blood is the “source of life” and you could “bleed to death” why are there vaccines, viruses, cancer, etc. It is the works of the devil through humanity that do this. Satan is trying to kill the saints through alterations of the human body against the Father’s original created state of being. The Covid vaccine is killing people because of DNA altering. It is a slow process but many people have died or gotten so sick they can no longer take personal care of themselves. Why have all the foods been subjected to GMO and altered so they no longer “have seeds” to create a harvest.

My point goes back to the very beginning a false witness has a different gospel and a different Jesus so it produces a false convert! Instead of revealing Christ by the Holy Spirit they present the image of themselves which is of the Devil! That is what Jesus told the Pharisees when He told them they search for on “convert” and make them twice the child of the devil that they are! YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW! IF YOU SO SATAN YOU REAP SATAN. IF YOU SO FALSE DOCTRINES OF DEMONS YOU CREATE FOLLOWERS OF DOCTRINES OF DEMONS.

If the Pharisees were doing this it was a “form of legalistic witnessing” which is works of the flesh! Works of the flesh is the manifestation of the Devil through the fallen nature! You are of your father the devil.

How did the serpent present the “seeds/fruit” to the WOMAN. YES IT WAS THE WOMAN WHO WAS TO BEAR HER OFFSPRING THE CHILDREN OF GOD!

Genesis 3:4–6 (KJV 1900)

⁴ And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: ⁵ For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. ⁶ And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.

This is what the false prophets do also. They present evil “seeds/words” masquerading as spirit and truth. Even when they use their own intellect which is what they learned in seminary, churches, false brethren, etc. it is NOT INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT.

1 Corinthians 3:19–23 (KJV 1900)

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. ²⁰ And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. ²¹ Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours; ²² Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; ²³ And ye are Christ’s; and Christ is God’s.

We are witnessing the Great Apostasy in such profoundness that saints that did not the FULLNESS OF SPIRIT AND TRUTH have already been given over to a spirit of delusion which renders a reprobate and not means of reconcilation with the Lord. The spiritual battle has never changed from the days of the Incarnate Christ Jesus the battle is a truly false saints/converts verses true saints/converts. This is the battle within the assembly and throughout the world.

If what you have read bears witness to you about the false prophet in your church. GET OUT FROM AMONG THEM AND BE SEPARATE. Revelation 18 is speaking to the church who are/were the redeemed!

Revelation 18:1–8 (KJV 1900)

And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. ² And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying,

Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,

And is become the habitation of devils,

And the hold of every foul spirit,

And a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

³  For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,

And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,

And the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

⁴  And I heard another voice from heaven, saying,

Come out of her, my people,

That ye be not partakers of her sins,

And that ye receive not of her plagues.

⁵  For her sins have reached unto heaven,

And God hath remembered her iniquities.

⁶  Reward her even as she rewarded you,

And double unto her double according to her works:

In the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.

⁷  How much she hath glorified herself, and lived deliciously,

So much torment and sorrow give her:

For she saith in her heart, I sit a queen,

And am no widow, and shall see no sorrow.

⁸  Therefore shall her plagues come in one day,

Death, and mourning, and famine;

And she shall be utterly burned with fire:

For strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

I realize that at times I kept reciting the same scriptures but I felt that to be necessary as the Holy Spirit lead me to do that. I hope this posting has witnessed to the remnant that you must leave Mystery Babylon the Harlot church. When you come out do not look or turn back or you may become a pillar of salt!

1 Corinthians 2:1–5 (KJV 1900)

And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. ² For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. ³ And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. ⁴ And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: ⁵ That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

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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 would like to tell you that while writing this article I was under great spiritual attack and the powers of a principality hit me so hard the other day that I barely new my first name. I have spent 6 days writing and rewriting struggling to convey what the Lord put on my heart under constant spiritual opposition. I got to the point the Word of God got so confusing that I left my property and drove off to meditate. When I reached the town line my confusion lifted and the Lord spoke I am not the author of confusion and the scriptures I was wanting to write came back to me as I became aware of the witchcraft creating the confusion. The lack of sleep likely contributed as I have averaged 12 or more hours of writing for each post and numerous hours of meditating on Scriptures. I have only been getting 1.5 – 2 hours sleep per night and the Lord has kept me alert during the process of sleep deprivation. I know the lack of sleep is the Lord keeping me from the darkness that is attacking me. The Holy Spirit does not sleep and it is the Holy Spirit that is keeping me awake. Somehow by the grace of the Lord I am not physically tired the way I should be with such lack of sleep.

With only a few hours to do daily chores I meditate while doing my chores and receive more to write. As I proof read the Lord give me more to write and I add it as He speaks to me so I it is fresh in the Spirit and immediately write it on the post. This post might not flow as smoothly as I desire but the principles and thoughts are provided. May the Holy Spirit bear witness what the Lord desires you to receive and may you walk in increased revelations of Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth. My computer kept freezing up, my mind and thoughts were under attack so I had to leave to get out from under the spiritual attack. There will be many times you may not think as clearly as you like even though your heart is set on the Lord. This is an attack. Unlike Daniel who was fasting the Lord did not call me to a fast when I started so I may have been more susceptible to an attack. This is not the first time I have been attacked by principalities as I have been hospitalized from many of them. Job went through the same thing and other saints also. I have left many demonic places that I was sent and had to fast to break off the attacks through prayer and fasting. I have written and rewritten this post about 6 times so I am going to publish this knowing the enemy of my soul did not want this to be published. The victory is the Lord’s. So those things being said I gave it my best and the rest is in the Lord’s hands.

Now let’s begin with the spot on the bridal gown.

Ephesians 5:26–27 (NKJV)

²⁶ that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word, ²⁷ that He might present her to Himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish.

You have to go back to the Garden of Eden to understand what the Lord said about the woman as Adam was a man, and Eve was the woman that would produce the Children of God! Every single word has to be taken exactly as it is written as the “I AM” spoke it for all of creation.

Adam was created in the image and likeness of the Father! Adam was a Son of God! Jesus came as the “second Adam” a Son of God! Adam being in the image and likeness was true representation of the Father in the fullness of Spirit and Truth!

An angel is a messenger or carrier of the WORD OF GOD. Lucifer was a messenger that was “Above the Fiery Stones of God” which were the thoughts and words of the Father to be released by Lucifer in heaven. So it was Lucifer who was a “high ranking angel” that spoke on behalf of God the Father throughout heaven relaying the thoughts/word of God!

So when you or an angel is believing the “messenger” that once spoke truth and now speaks a lie you easily believe it as truth! A lie becomes your truth because of the messenger! You did not question the source of truth you believed the messenger! Before Lucifer fell the angels were of their original state/abode as they were created by spirit. When Lucifer fell Lucifer “started his political campaign/conspiracy” to over through the Father’s government of divine order. So when Lucifer ran for his political carrier to over take and rule the government of the Father he spoke lies of deception to the angels in heaven. Now you know the origin of politics and why truth today is called conspiracy theory. Lucifer could not establish his rule in heaven wanting be as god the Father decided that if he ruled the son Adam he could establish his governing authority anyhow and create his kingdom on the earth. Some of the angels who believed Lucifer’s lies because of Lucifer’s “CALLING”/ Position. Lucifer was created and called/appointed! Jesus told us many are called but few are chosen! So it is upon the earth! Many are called to be TRUE messengers of Jesus but there are false prophets speaking with “forked tongues” which are not sanctified tongues but speaking a mixture of lies and truth to deceive! We know that true testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy as it is written in Revelations. Let us see how the Prophet Isaiah had his ministry established.

Revelation 19:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰ And I fell at his feet to worship him. But he said to me, “See that you do not do that! I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.”

Isaiah 6:1–13 (NKJV)

Isaiah Called to Be a Prophet

6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. ² Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. ³ And one cried to another and said:

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;

The whole earth is full of His glory!”

⁴ And the posts of the door were shaken by the voice of him who cried out, and the house was filled with smoke.

⁵ So I said:

“Woe is me, for I am undone!

Because I am a man of unclean lips,

And I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips;

For my eyes have seen the King,

The Lord of hosts.”

⁶ Then one of the seraphim flew to me, having in his hand a live coal which he had taken with the tongs from the altar. ⁷ And he touched my mouth with it, and said:

“Behold, this has touched your lips;

Your iniquity is taken away,

And your sin purged.”

⁸ Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying:

“Whom shall I send,

And who will go for Us?”

Then I said, “Here am I! Send me.”

⁹ And He said, “Go, and tell this people:

‘Keep on hearing, but do not understand;

Keep on seeing, but do not perceive.’

¹⁰ “Make the heart of this people dull,

And their ears heavy,

And shut their eyes;

Lest they see with their eyes,

And hear with their ears,

And understand with their heart,

And return and be healed.”

¹¹ Then I said, “Lord, how long?”

And He answered:

“Until the cities are laid waste and without inhabitant,

The houses are without a man,

The land is utterly desolate,

¹² The Lord has removed men far away,

And the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.

¹³ But yet a tenth will be in it,

And will return and be for consuming,

As a terebinth tree or as an oak,

Whose stump remains when it is cut down.

So the holy seed shall be its stump.”

Here we see the gospel way back here in Elijah as repentance came first and his sin was purged, I am a man of unclean lips among a people of unclean lips. This is before the incarnate Christ Jesus so the heavens opened and the he saw Lord/Jesus on the Throne! Isaiah then tells us about the house was shaken and filled with smoke! That is the foundation of the house Isaiah was in and a new foundation established in Christ Jesus.

Who establishes the foundation of the new church built upon the Chief Cornerstone Christ Jesus, the Apostles and the Prophets! The house which is a place of worship was shaken and sanctified and establish on the foundation of the Lord! The house is supposed to be today’s assembly of the saints with sanctified lips of holiness, spirit and truth on the foundation of Christ Jesus. The whole house was filled with smoke! The smoke is the anger of the Lord as a prophetic judgment.

Notice the command to go. Go to the people who are not established in the house because the house is only for those who are established in the fullness of spirit and truth! It is not designed to be a “hospital for the sick, weary, broken people of the earth. The church is for the equipping of the saints! To be a saint you must be born again. It’s very clearly written saints are the body of Christ. If you are not of the body you should not be in the church assembly. I am sharing what is written. The great commission was to go out into the world and the church has brought the world into the church! Totally backwards and the saints are not being matured because no on can discern the spirits that are in the church! The church has brought leaven into the church along with people in spiritual bondage and demons into the church who like to play “leap frog or piggy back” on the saints! The “church temple” is not holy in righteousness as it should be. Spiritual adultery is happening unaware within the church assembly. Not everyone there is your brethren! In the Old Testament these people brought into the sanctuary/holy place would have been destroyed! Let the dead bury the dead! It might sound cruel but those words are of the Lord.

Matthew 8:21–22 (NKJV)

²¹ Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

Jude (NKJV)

Jude

Greeting to the Called

¹ Jude, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James,

To those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ:

² Mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you.

Contend for the Faith

³ Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. ⁴ For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Old and New Apostates

⁵ But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe. ⁶ And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day; ⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

⁸ Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, (note: real spiritual authority) and speak evil of dignitaries. ⁹ Yet Michael the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” ¹⁰ But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. ¹¹ Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

Apostates Depraved and Doomed

¹² These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots; ¹³ raging waves of the sea, foaming up their own shame; wandering stars for whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.

¹⁴ Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men also, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of His saints, ¹⁵ to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”

Apostates Predicted

¹⁶ These are grumblers, complainers, walking according to their own lusts; and they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage. ¹⁷ But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ: ¹⁸ how they told you that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk according to their own ungodly lusts. ¹⁹ These are sensual persons, who cause divisions, not having the Spirit.

Maintain Your Life with God

²⁰ But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, ²¹ keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

²² And on some have compassion, making a distinction; ²³ but others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment defiled by the flesh.

Glory to God

²⁴ Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling,

And to present you faultless

Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy,

²⁵ To God our Savior,

Who alone is wise,

Be glory and majesty,

Dominion and power,

Both now and forever.

Amen.

Ephesians 4:11–16 (NKJV)

¹¹ And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, ¹² for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, ¹³ till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; ¹⁴ that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, ¹⁵ but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—¹⁶ from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

If it were so why would would we need to be a living witness to the world? The sanctuary is supposed to represent a holy place set apart not a spiritual buffet of spirits! If the love of the world is in you the love of the father is not. THE TRUE CHURCH IS TO GO OUT INTO THE WORLD REVEALING CHRIST NOT THE WORLD ASSEMBLED IN THE CHURCH!

Isaiah was sent to the people of Israel to blind their eyes, deafen their ears, dull their hearts, etc. We no longer need to go out and do this because it is assembled among the congregation! It also says only a tenth of Israel would be a remnant. This states that Spiritual Israel is the redeemed and not the nation or state of Israel. Notice the tree being cut down but leaving a stump which would be for growth of the people of the 10^th that would be the remnant.

Isaiah had to go through sanctification to be a man of clean lips which means only the Word of God was spoken and manifest among the people of Israel by the prophet Isaiah. This is how Isaiah could make such a bold proclamation because HE knew the will and Word of God! YES we are called to know both the WILL AND FULLNESS OF HIS WORD. How did Isaiah do this, by the Spirit of the Living God!

Isaiah 55:11 (NKJV)

¹¹ So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth;

It shall not return to Me void,

But it shall accomplish what I please,

And it shall prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

Notice the word “My” is upper case which reflects the Lord. Isaiah is stating COMPLETE faith of what he hears from the Lord and total trust and belief in fulfillment of the Word of God spoken to him AND through him! You can not call down fire without hearing, discerning and believing what the Lord is speaking and doing with unbelief? Here is another misconception no man can commission you as you must be sent by the Lord. Isaiah was sent to go and come against the prophets of Baal of Jezebel and Ahab.

This is what the wrinkle in the garment is stating. You have not gone through the fullness of the refiners fire and you have a wrinkle. The sanctification process is not complete and it is because of a lack of true heart desire as all thing are possible for those who believe!

If you do not believe every single Word of God the mustard seed has not grown into maturity because the sanctification process was not completed.

This is why having ENCOUNTERED the Lord as the heaven opened is so profound! One of the most profound and disturbing thoughts is how can people call themselves a Christian without KNOWING the resurrection! Jesus revealed himself to everyone that was His after His resurrection. Paul who was not there with the original 12 disciples to witness the Lord’s resurrection yet encountered the resurrection! Why are professing Christians not encountering the resurrection like Paul? Paul is a living example of a life in Christ post resurrection who came out of the Harlot church of the Pharisees and never went back after his encounter with the Lord. How is Paul continued to receive revelations and today the only testimony most people have is the day they allegedly got saved? If you are not growing in Christ then you are not born again. I’ve had people rebuke me and tell me they have been a Christian for 40 years and I tell them I am glad they are impressed with them self and remind them there is no age discrimination, race discrimination or ethnicity discrimination in heaven and I walk away.

Where is the true living witness of the church experiences of encounters with the resurrected Christ Jesus as Paul encountered Jesus? Surely the Lord is the same yesterday today and forever more. Why is this? Why is there last testimony that they got saved years ago if they indeed got born again? What is the Lord doing today? When you have to watch the false prophets, sit under false prophets you are not building your own testimony of continued growth. You are living under a false testimony of others. The church has become a system of “welfare” not an independent life in Christ solely dependent and reliant on Christ Jesus as like the great commission was stated. They say you need a “relationship” but deny true relationship by false doctrine and false belief! Judas had a relationship but Judas did not want Lordship submitted to Jesus. Jesus had more direct talks with demons that people proclaiming to be saints have today. Why are people not hearing the voice of God directly from the Holy Spirit?

Matthew 23:13 (NKJV)

Jesus Condemns the Pharisees

¹³ “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Read my article on Jesus vs. The Pharisees: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

Genesis 3:15–19 (NKJV)

¹⁵ And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her Seed;

He shall bruise your head,

And you shall bruise His heel.”

Let me just make a quick point on the characteristics of a serpent. The bible tells us about cunning nature of allurement and deception but it does not mention physiology! Adam new physiology as Adam named all the creatures of the Earth. When a serpent/snake consumes it food it swallows it whole head first. Who is the head of the church and Lord of the saints? Who is the head of the woman a man? That means it attacks the Holy Spirit as the devils version of a mustard seed is planted within you! That is the spot on your wedding gown. Once the seed of the serpent has been digested you start to allow it to strip away the Holy Spirit. Don’t try to quote 1 John 4:1 that will not work because you can’t apply it when you are deceived and willfully took the seed of the serpent. When you partake of lies and deception is sows seeds of unbelief and attacks your “spirit man” the Holy Spirit and just as a mustard seed the Lord gives so does the devil! The seed/word(s) of the devil is enmity with the seed/words of the woman/church/bride NOT EVE. Yes it is written woman NOT EVE. This means that all of their offspring that was called to be the church as the body of Christ is call “woman”. The church/woman/bride which should be the true saints of the Lord is being devoured by the enemy of our souls even after being born again! You can loose your salvation! You have allowed the same seed from the garden to take root that was of the serpent which lies and deceit of false prophets!

You are damning you souls from unbelief of the truth of the Word of God by believing the lies/seeds being sown into you. You trade truth for error and the mustard seed of the devil grows and the mustard seed of the Lord diminishes. We know that one lie is built upon more lies. So just how bad has the devil got you deceived. The devil even has a phony version of spirit that masquerades as the Holy Spirit and people do not discern the difference. Lies infers the Antichrist spirit is within a person who lies. There is no such thing as that is your understanding or interpretation it is either TRUTH OR A LIE. If you catch one lie by discernment there likely more that you have already believed and more to come. This is what is meant by the wrinkle as you have not been completely sanctified by the Word of God.

If you take your own soul for granted you place NO value on the souls of others! Paul preached the Gospel with tongues because it was the voice of God through Paul! Remember Isaiah with the HOT COAL TO HIS TONGUE, this is what Paul was referring about speaking in tongues! THE TRUTH OF GOD SPOKEN THROUGH HIM A SANCTIFIED TEMPLE OF TRUTH AND POWER. There are two types of tongues one is forked and of the devil which speaks a mixture of lies and truth for deception and unbelief. The Holy Spirit knows the difference.

Hypocrisy is asking God to be faithful and true to HIS word when you yourself are NOT. If you are a hypocrite which means “of the devil” then you are about to be a reprobate mind. If you continue to mock the Lord he turns people over to a reprobate mind. I have had to deliver that word to someone in person and I hope I never have to do it again. Believing lies about Jesus is not faithfulness or reverence towards Jesus it is making a mockery of the blood of Jesus! Why do I say that is because you have no seriousness of your own soul the price paid to redeem your soul and don’t don’t value other people’s souls. is why “you must be born again”.

When you were a new born you depended on your parents for everything. Then you crawled on the floor until you could stand. Once you stood you learned to walk. It is the same once you get born again. You need to grow in you journey with the Lord to completion.

A disciple just means a follower. What you follow and who you follow is your Lord! Only Jesus can disciple anyone just as Jesus did on the earth so it is with the Holy Spirit. Do you see why no man can disciple you! You must receive divine revelations of Truth by the Holy Spirit. When you listen to men you may well be listening to truth mixed with error. So dependency on seminary, church, brethren, TV prophets, other books, etc. is the pathway to deception! Unverified gossip received as UNTESTED and VERIFIED TRUTH. If there is ONLY one name by which all men shall be saved then there is only one name that can teach/disciple you.

Psalm 12:1–8 (ESV)

1 Save, O LORD, for the godly one is gone;

for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man.

2 Everyone utters lies to his neighbor;

with flattering lips and a double heart they speak.

3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips,

the tongue that makes great boasts,

4 those who say, “With our tongue we will prevail,

our lips are with us; who is master over us?”

5 “Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan,

I will now arise,” says the LORD;

“I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”

6 The words of the LORD are pure words,

like silver refined in a furnace on the ground,

purified seven times.

7 You, O LORD, will keep them;

you will guard us from this generation forever.

8 On every side the wicked prowl,

as vileness is exalted among the children of man.

Romans 3:4 (NKJV)

⁴ Certainly not! Indeed, let God be true but every man a liar. As it is written:

“That You may be justified in Your words,

And may overcome when You are judged.”

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.”

What is the evidence of being crucified with Christ and what is the end results. Paul reveals this in Galatians 6.

Galatians 6:14–15 (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.

When I mentioned earlier that the “church” was for only the saints I gave you several scriptures backing that claim. The great commission was go out into the world and NOT bring the world into the church. Well there you have it in Galatians 6. How will the saints be edified and strengthened with fellowship with the world siting in the sanctuary? I know there are some “hot heads” about what I am writing but your pastor will receive his measure of judgment for every soul he leads astray and so will you for spreading Gossip which is unverified truth by the Holy Spirit. I say the Holy Spirit because it comes directly from Jesus and NOT your interpretation of scriptures!

Paul is telling us how to become Sons of God restored back to the image and likeness of the Son of God who is Christ Jesus as the Second Adam! If the world is crucified to you, the god of this world is crucified unto you. You will be the fullness of Son’s of God once you get your new heavenly body! Not before this, so you are still subjected to all of the evil of this world until you get your heavenly body. This is the completion of what Jesus died for. You see the Apostle Paul said that he prayed he would be considered worthy to partake of the resurrection that implies until you get your heavenly body you need to contend for the faith as Jude warns us.

The closer you walk with the Lord the more of a “target” you are by false brethren as well as Satan and his cohorts. You are also a target of slander, mockery, persecution and abandonment from people you love and care about. Truth is not to be debated it is to be preached! Eve debated truth and the longer you debate truth the more lies you will hear! Do you know that people repeat curses they have over you? Do you not know this is possible? Probably not because it only discerned spiritually. I was on a fast interceding for a church in Florida during my travels. I stopped and Jezebel and Ahab were in the front row of the church and Jezebel was manifesting to appear spiritual. So I fasted and prayed to see what the Lord wanted me to do. Toward the end of my fast my cousin was talking on the phone when I walked into the kitchen. I immediately said MUTE THE PHONE and she looked at me like I was nuts! I said louder MUTE THE PHONE so she did. I said that woman on the telephone is repeating curses over you that were assigned to her! She is repeating every assignment over you by telling you about what she is going through and that is a “probing spirit” looking for access to your soul. If you have experienced any of these things and have bitterness or un-forgiveness you will be hooked spiritually. I could not hear the actual conversation but I felt it in the spirit. Spirits create “atmosphere” that is why ungodly people that want to appear spiritual will attempt to get close enough under the “umbrella” covering of the anointed one! You must discern these matters. This is a two way street the devil tries this also. Even worse lays hands on you by one of his own.

Galatians 6:1 (NKJV)

Bear and Share the Burdens

6 Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

Jesus is the WORD and the fullness of the WORD! That is what Paul is telling us. Paul was filled with the Word and Spirit of God! The fullness of Spirit and Truth was in Paul there was NO UNBELIEF in Paul. I wrote about Saul from Tarsus on my website. Feel free to read it. https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/02/saul-from-tarsus-and-the-harlot-church-of-revelations/

With unbelief you can not even be born again! It is impossible to please the Lord with unbelief. Jesus said when he “returned” would he find the faith which is the fullness of Truth of God’s Word established rooted and grounded in a people! If Jesus had not shortened the days no man would be alive. The carnal man and intellect believes this is “physical/natural” death but it is a “spiritual” death falling away from the Father!

Your tunic/skin was never meant to be of you as it is the representation of the serpent! If you read my post on what really happened in the garden you would understand this better. How do you kill the serpent by manifesting the fullness of Jesus within you! The glory comes from within you lighting up your body which passes through your skin as a light unto the world. The works of the flesh have been crucified by the fullness of Christ Jesus manifested in you. Jesus demonstrated that on the Mount of Transfiguration and told Peter not to tell anyone until after His resurrection! We need to submit and allow the Holy Spirit to complete that “work of sanctification” within us by the grace of God! Where sin abounds grace abounds MORE! I am NOT stating sin is okay, I am merely stating the same grace for salvation is all sufficient unto sanctification and holiness. If you need more grace and your heart motive is right call on the Lord for increased grace! Jesus desires all of you in His image and likeness. YOU MUST believe His grace is sufficient or you have unbelief!

What is the true Sabbath, it is Jesus as in Matthew 11:28-29. which is Christ Jesus. It is not a day of the week it is the full restoration of Christ Jesus in you living and dwelling in his SPIRIT AND TRUTH! Galatians 5 talks about the works of the flesh and the works of the Spirit! You find rest in Jesus and only in Jesus he is our Sabbath. In our lives real rest comes with the crucifixion in us is completed. That is when Jesus said IT IS FINISHED was when the price was paid in full for the wages of sin. So it is for us, true rest comes when the flesh/soul has been crucified with Christ and the fullness of Christ lives in you. You have no will of your own and have the mind of Christ which Paul preached. As long as there is a spot or wrinkle there is work to be done! We must seek, desire and submit to the inner working of the Holy Spirit. Worshiping Saturday is fine and not a problem until you make it legalistic and a requirement. I have actually been condemned by people who say I am not born again because I do not acknowledge Saturday as the Sabbath. Jesus is my Sabbath.

Romans 14:5–6 (NKJV)

⁵ One person esteems one day above another; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully convinced in his own mind. ⁶ He who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks; and he who does not eat, to the Lord he does not eat, and gives God thanks.

Matthew 11:28–30 (NKJV)

²⁸ Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”

So the “seed” of unbelief of the serpent is the “spot” on the bridal gown. You still have unbelief of the fullness of Truth which CAN ONLY COME FROM JESUS! NOT A FALSE PROPHET!

The bridal gown is the representation of the “chaste” virgin Paul was diligently trying so hard to create within us so that we would be without spot or wrinkle. On the mount of transfiguration Jesus revealed and displayed what the first Adam was. Pure light in the image of the Father.

¹⁶ To the woman He said:

“I will greatly multiply your sorrow and your conception;

In pain you shall bring forth children;

Your desire shall be for your husband,

And he shall rule over you.”

Again ever word is very specific and if you change one word you remove the power of god from the Word of God! The devil knows this and the devil changes the words thus stripping the Spirit and power of restoration to becoming a fully developed and restored Son of God. The woman mentioned above is NOT EVE! The woman represents the church and is NOT gender specific! Every true child of God will experience great sorrow, pain and tribulation on earth. The conception is being BORN AGAIN! So the born again person will suffer for the Lord this is not your best life now! Paul bared the marks of Christ!

Matthew 22:30 (NKJV)

³⁰ For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.

¹⁷ Then to Adam He said, “Because you have heeded the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’:

“Cursed is the ground for your sake;

In toil you shall eat of it

All the days of your life.

Notice once again the Father did not say EVE he said wife! A wife is someone you have consummated relationship with. The two become ONE! Adam and EVE in their original state were not corrupted by unbelief from deceit and lies of the serpent. Holiness was joined with Holiness! Adam committed spiritual adultery when he partook of the “seed” of the serpent. Adam was of the spirit of God and Eve was no longer of the spirit of God. They became “kindred spirits” this is also method of discernment “who hangs out with who”.

So what fellowship has light with darkness. If light fellowships with darkness you have spiritual adultery with another god. I have news for you there are many false gods! Lucifer is the head of these other gods knows as princes of principalities! Daniel with the prince of Persia.

¹⁸ Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you,

And you shall eat the herb of the field.

¹⁹ In the sweat of your face you shall eat bread

Till you return to the ground,

For out of it you were taken;

For dust you are,

And to dust you shall return.”

This is why the world is full of false prophets! Satan masquerades as an angel of light and HIS preachers/ministers masquerade as ministers of righteousness. Have you ever wondered why the term minister is even used?

Hebrews 1:14 (NKJV)

¹⁴ Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation?

You must discern which are of the kingdom of heaven or of the devil! Do not be deceived was the words Jesus spoke in Matthew 24.

I think we have covered enough about the spot on the wedding garment. Now lets move on to the wrinkle.