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.

Revelation 11:1–14 (NKJV)

The Two Witnesses

11 Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood, saying, “Rise and measure the temple of God, the altar, and those who worship there. ² But leave out the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months. ³ And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth.”

⁴ These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. ⁵ And if anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner. ⁶ These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.

In line one it is referring to PEOPLE of Israel at the time of the incarnate Christ Jesus. Jesus said that He had come to judge and this is in reference to measuring the people that would follow Him or deny Him at that time. That was a part of Jesus ministry and we know that because people would not pick up their cross and follow Jesus. Secondly Jesus passed final judgment to the Pharisees at that time and told them they were of the devil. You need to read my blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

In line two we read the reference to the gentiles was not measured or judged because they had not received the Gospel at that time. Paul would become the Apostle to the gentiles.

In line three the two witnesses will prophesy 3 ½ years clothed in sackcloth. Jesus prophesied for 3 ½ years and told the Pharisees that He was the prophet Moses spoke of as the Pharisees “followed Moses”. Here we have our first and Primary Witness of the Kingdom of Heaven who is Jesus!

Now Jesus said that John the Baptist was the greatest of prophets. It was John the Baptist that witnessed Jesus and his ministry was of repentance! Let’s look at scripture to see this clearly.

Matthew 14:1–2 (NKJV)

Present Response to Jesus

Mark 6:14–16; Luke 9:7–9

14 At that time Herod the tetrarch heard the report about Jesus ² and said to his servants, “This is John the Baptist; he is risen from the dead, and therefore these powers are at work in him.”

Matthew 14:3–5 (NKJV)

Recount of the Murder of John the Baptist

Mark 6:17–29

³ For Herod had laid hold of John and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife. ⁴ Because John had said to him, “It is not lawful for you to have her.” ⁵ And although he wanted to put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

John 1:33–34 (NKJV)

³³ I did not know Him, but He who sent me to baptize with water said to me, ‘Upon whom you see the Spirit descending, and remaining on Him, this is He who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ ³⁴ And I have seen and testified that this is the Son of God.”

I need to make a critical point here. When John the Baptist says “I did not know Him” he was referring to the SON OF MAN. We know that John new Jesus by the spirit as the story of Elizabeth and Mary tell us.

Luke 1:41–43 (NKJV)

⁴¹ And it happened, when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, that the babe leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. ⁴² Then she spoke out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! ⁴³ But why is this granted to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

So I have just established that John the Baptist was the first witness. Now lets look at the Words of Jesus.

John 5:31–35 (NKJV)

Witness of John the Baptist

³¹ “If I bear witness of Myself, My witness is not true. ³² There is another who bears witness of Me, and I know that the witness which He witnesses of Me is true. ³³ You have sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴ Yet I do not receive testimony from man, but I say these things that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing for a time to rejoice in his light.

In line 32 Jesus is implying that the Father bears witness to the Son. Line 33 confirms John the Baptist bore witness to the truth. Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life.

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.”

So we have established the two witnesses from Revelations 11. So why are people waiting for a sign and wonder to come again when it has already been fulfilled. Satan has deceived people of the finished work of Christ as a living witness of the Kingdom and the Father. Both John the baptist had the same gospel of REPENTANCE. Jesus had not chosen His disciples yet. Here we have divine order established without the Holy Spirit you can not make disciples. This is why Pentecost is vital and a genuine “born again” new creation is essential. NO MAN can build a true disciple only Jesus by the Grace and Power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

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.

Many false converts will use this out of context because they are prideful. If they won’t receive correction from the Word of Truth by the Holy Spirit they are prideful. Pride reveals NO HOLY SPIRIT. Pride comes before the fall! They have fallen or never received the Holy Spirit.

Galatians 6:1–5 (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. ² Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. ³ For if anyone thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. ⁴ But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. ⁵ For each one shall bear his own load.

REVELATION 11 CONTINUED

The Witnesses Killed

⁷ When they finish their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them, and kill them. ⁸ And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified. ⁹ Then those from the peoples, tribes, tongues, and nations will see their dead bodies three-and-a-half days, and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves. ¹⁰ And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, and send gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

Let me see if I can break this down for you. The beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. Now hear me out. How did Satan enter Judas if Satan was bound in chains? It was not just a seducing spirit, deceitful spirit, prideful spirit that entered Judas. It was the fullness of Satan that is why Judas was called the son of perdition. Satan was no longer bound up. I will write another blog post about this soon.

The Witnesses Resurrected

¹¹ Now after the three-and-a-half days the breath of life from God entered them, and they stood on their feet, and great fear fell on those who saw them. ¹² And they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, “Come up here.” And they ascended to heaven in a cloud, and their enemies saw them. ¹³ In the same hour there was a great earthquake, and a tenth of the city fell. In the earthquake seven thousand people were killed, and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven.

¹⁴ The second woe is past. Behold, the third woe is coming quickly.

In line 12 we must remember that the Holy Spirit departed and Jesus surrendered His Spirit to the Father on the cross just before His death.

Luke 23:46 (NKJV)

⁴⁶ And when Jesus had cried out with a loud voice, He said, “Father, ‘into Your hands I commit My spirit.’ ” Having said this, He breathed His last.

Revelation 22:17 (NKJV)

¹⁷ And the Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” And let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

Matthew 27:51–53 (NKJV)

Signs Accompanying Jesus’ Death

Mark 15:38–41; Luke 23:45, 47–49

⁵¹ Then, behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, ⁵² and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised; ⁵³ and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

Let us read John 14 as Jesus again reveals/witnessed to the disciples the Father who bears witness of Jesus.

John 14:1–31 (NKJV)

Christ Comforts His Disciples

14 “Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. ² In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. ³ And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. ⁴ And where I go you know, and the way you know.”

Christ Answers Thomas

⁵ Thomas said to Him, “Lord, we do not know where You are going, and how can we know the way?”

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.”

Christ Answers Philip

⁸ Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”

⁹ Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? ¹⁰ Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. ¹¹ Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.

Notice the “words I speak I do not speak on my OWN authority. Here a distinguishing foundation of true verses false prophets in the pulpits. They are of their own authority under the authority of Satan, there are many Antichrists.

¹² “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do he will do also; and greater works than these he will do, because I go to My Father. ¹³ And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. ¹⁴ If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.

Here is the foundational problem. False prophets, false witnesses, false disciples false brethren use the name of Jesus. What is in the name of Jesus. How would you know without the Holy Spirit and GROWING in the Spirit by loving the Lord in Spirit and Truth.

¹⁵ “If you love Me, keep My commandments. ¹⁶ And I will pray the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—¹⁷ the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you.

You must pay attention to DIVINE ORDER! THE LAW OF FIRST MENTION APPLIES.

First is the love of the commandments/WORD of GOD, Then comes the HELPER/HOLY SPIRIT

which is the Spirit of Truth whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees HIM OR KNOWS HIM CHRIST JESUS. The Holy Spirit dwells within you. Jesus is also is stating judgment AT THAT TIME AND FOREVER MORE. The Pharisees denied the incarnate Christ Jesus and were turned over to their wicked hearts with NO POSSIBILITY OF SALVATION. Read my blog post on Jesus versed The Pharisees. https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

¹⁸ I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.

¹⁹ “A little while longer and the world will see Me no more, but you will see Me. Because I live, you will live also. ²⁰ At that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you in Me, and I in you. ²¹ He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”

When I first got saved I read the book of John as suggested but AFTER reading John I was IMMEDIATELY DRAWN WITH FASCINATION OF PAUL’S EPISTLES! I HAD ENCOUNTERED THE RESURRECTION WHEN I GOT SAVED JUST AS PAUL DID. I WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF A FIELD WANTED TO KILL MYSELF AND LOOKED UP AND CALLED ON THE LORD TO ANSWER ME A QUESTION. I said Lord I have loved everyone the best of my ability so if you are real answer me these question. I have always believed in you BUT NEVER REALLY KNEW YOU. Going to church is NOT knowing Jesus personally. I said Lord please tell my why I am unworthy to be loved. My mother said she wished she never had me since I was 3 years old. My father left me when I was 3 years old. I was a punching bag for my siblings anger as they would take their pain and verbally and physically put that on me. My wife has committed adultery and turned my children against me I have no one. Why am I unworthy of love. I had an encounter immediately in that Field with Jesus. He spoke to me, I have loved you before the foundation of the world, it is my love you need and none other! I fell to my knees in tears as the Holy Spirit entered me and began to “comfort” me with love. Just as Jesus said he would do for HIS disciples that He would manifest Himself to them. POST RESURRECTION Jesus appeared to everyone that was HIS. Why are professing Christians not encountering Jesus or at the least falling in love with Jesus by HIS SPIRIT. You can be saved/born again without seeing the Resurrected Christ Jesus but the HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU IS THE RESURRECTED CHRIST. Jesus told His disciples it was better that He went so the comforter would come and bring ALL OF HIS TEACHINGS BACK TO THEIR REMEMBRANCE AND EVEN THEN HE WISHED TO TELL THEM MORE BUT THEY WERE NOT PREPARED TO RECEIVE IT AT THAT TIME.

John 20:29 (NKJV)

²⁹ Jesus said to him, “Thomas, because you have seen Me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”

Blessed are those who believe the Written Word OF GOD IN SPIRIT AND TRUTH, THEY ARE BLESSED.

John 16:7–15 (NKJV)

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

Judgment from UNBELIEF is equivalent to THE RULER OF THIS WORLD. Unbelief is sin. That was the original sin of EVE she did not believe the Word of God about the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve talked with the Lord each day which meant they were filled with Word each day! Yet unbelief KILLED the Word within them. JESUS IS THE WORD. This is why you can quote scripture and believe you are saved and you are not. When people tell you that you need to read the word each day that is a form of truth and error combined. IT IS NO proof of salvation and being born again! Satan used scriptures against Jesus in the wilderness and your false prophets/pastors do the same thing but manipulate scriptures just as Satan did to Jesus. IT IS THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT DISCERNS ALL THING OF TRUTH it is much more than word/seeds.

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

Christ Answers Judas

²² Judas (not Iscariot) said to Him, “Lord, how is it that You will manifest Yourself to us, and not to the world?”

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. ²⁴ He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father’s who sent Me.

²⁵ “These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. ²⁶ But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. ²⁷ Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. ²⁸ You have heard Me say to you, ‘I am going away and coming back to you.’ If you loved Me, you would rejoice because I said, ‘I am going to the Father,’ for My Father is greater than I.

²⁹ “And now I have told you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe. ³⁰ I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me. ³¹ But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father gave Me commandment, so I do. Arise, let us go from here.

Many people including myself were taught that there would be to witnesses coming such as two prophets that had gone to be with the Lord. Some believe the choices to be Moses, Elijah, Enoch or perhaps others. There will not be this event happening in the future because it already has happened.  Let us look at scripture.

Matthew 17:1–13 (NKJV)

The Transfiguration

Mark 9:2–13; Luke 9:28–36; 2 Pet. 1:17, 18

17 Now after six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John his brother, led them up on a high mountain by themselves; ² and He was transfigured before them. His face shone like the sun, and His clothes became as white as the light. ³ And behold, Moses and Elijah appeared to them, talking with Him. ⁴ Then Peter answered and said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here; if You wish, let us make here three tabernacles: one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

⁵ While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them; and suddenly a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear Him!” ⁶ And when the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were greatly afraid. ⁷ But Jesus came and touched them and said, “Arise, and do not be afraid.” ⁸ When they had lifted up their eyes, they saw no one but Jesus only.

⁹ Now as they came down from the mountain, Jesus commanded them, saying, “Tell the vision to no one until the Son of Man is risen from the dead.”

¹⁰ And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Why then do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”

¹¹ Jesus answered and said to them, “Indeed, Elijah is coming first and will restore all things. ¹² But I say to you that Elijah has come already, and they did not know him but did to him whatever they wished. Likewise the Son of Man is also about to suffer at their hands.” ¹³ Then the disciples understood that He spoke to them of John the Baptist.

So the false doctrines of the two witnesses that ARE YET TO COME is of the devil and lies and deceit! It has a foolish and idolatrous generation looking for a “sign and wonder”.

So I pray you bear witness by the Holy Spirit that the two witnesses came over 2000 years ago. There are no two witnesses to come today as the false prophets speak in vein. They are still seeking a “sign and wonder” and not seeking or preaching the true gospel. Please read my post about a false witness/false convert/ another Jesus. https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/26/accepting-jesus-into-your-heart-false-witnessing-false-convert/

CLOSING SCRIPTURES

John 5:39–47 (NKJV)

Witness of the Scriptures

³⁹ You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; and these are they which testify of Me. ⁴⁰ But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.

⁴¹ “I do not receive honor from men. ⁴² But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in you. ⁴³ I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, who receive honor from one another, and do not seek the honor that comes from the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I shall accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you—Moses, in whom you trust. ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me; for he wrote about Me. ⁴⁷ But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?”

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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 on 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 not 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 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 was not a Jew and was never water baptized and neither were his descendants.

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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