The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the good news of salvation for all of mankind through the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ Jesus the Lord Jesus has made those in Christ alive in Christ to be partakers in Christ for all of eternity.

THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATIONS 11

/in , , , , , , , , , , /by

THE TWO WITNESSES OF REVELATIONS 11

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?”

ACCEPTING JESUS INTO YOUR HEART -FALSE WITNESSING – FALSE CONVERT

/in , , , , , , , , , /by

ACCEPTING JESUS INTO YOUR HEART – FALSE WITNESSING – FALSE CONVERT – ANOTHER JESUS – ANOTHER SPIRIT

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 6th 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.

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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

WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

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.

We tend to only embrace the thought of “sin” but we do not completely understand what really took place. How do we get better understanding? We use ALL of the Word of God as the New Testament testifies to the Old Testament and visa versa!

So let’s examine and expound on scripture. I will place my comments between lines of scripture so it’s easier for you to see what is going on here in the Spirit realm. I am sure there is much more than I will reveal but what I am going to focus on is just how subtle and cunning the serpent really was.

Genesis 3:1–24 (NKJV)

The Temptation and Fall of Man

3 Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?”

2 And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; 3 but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’ ”

4 Then the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die. 5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

The very first thing which is not stated is that even Adam and Eve needed faith to believe what they did not totally understand. How do we know this? Well what is death where there never was death before? Adam and Eve had NO first hand witness, personal knowledge or experience of what death was! This statement about death was something they had no knowledge of but that is what the serpent was presenting them! So the serpent attacked them from lack of knowledge. Please reflect on the once saved always saved as that is what the serpent implied by surely you will not die! The Lord tells us that His people perish because of lack of knowledge! This is why the Lord has me to tell people “have you asked the Lord”. With all of the false preaching saying that the Lord only speaks through the Written Word is a lie. How do we know that, the Word was God Breathed! It came from the mouth of God, all of creation was spoken into existence! Our Lord Jesus is ALIVE NOT DEAD and still speaks today! God is the same yesterday, today and forever more.

What was the flood where there was no rain or waters coming up from the ground? You see without faith it is impossible to please the Lord. Notice that is New Testament scripture. Now what is not obvious because of the cunning nature and forked tongue of the serpent deception was easy to be portrayed. What the serpent did was represent himself as God without them even knowing! You see who does Satan desire to be? Satan wants to be God and Satan was representing “self” that is why Jesus tells us to pick up our cross and die to “self” as Satan was representing himself and not the TRUE LIVING GOD. What eyes is the serpent speaking about? Surely Adam and Eve were not blind. The serpent was referring to the “eyes of your heart” as Paul states may the eyes of your heart be enlightened. That statement by Paul is referring to restoration of the TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST JESUS. These eyes are spititual! This means the knowledge of the True Living God was removed from Adam and Eve! Thus Satan has blinded the whole earth, new Testament Scripture! Okay, let’s continue. Notice the statement knowing good and evil! Why is good presented first? It is a lie masquerading and disguised as truth. We know from the scriptures that Satan calls good evil and evil good. So by presenting it as good it was actually evil! In addition the Lord Jesus tells us that a good tree can not bare bad fruit and a bad tree can not bare good fruit! Jesus is telling about what happened in the garden! When Jesus was up on the cross and the Father put all the sins of the world upon Jesus what did the cross represent? The cross represented the works from “the tree of the knowledge of good and evil”! Jesus was on that tree destroying the power of that tree! Holiness and righeousness overcame sin as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil represented the “likeness and image” of Satan! That is why Jesus said without holiness it is impossible to see the Lord. The power of that “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” was overpowered rendered ineffective to the Spirit of the Living God! That is why the Holy Spirit departed before the death of Jesus on the cross. Death did not have a hold or power over us any more! A born again child of God can only overcome by the COMPLETION of sanctification by the power of the Holy Spirit. What happened on that tree was absolutely incredible!

Acts 5:30 (NKJV)

30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom you murdered by hanging on a tree.

Hebrews 12:14 (NKJV)

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

Matthew 7:17–20 (NKJV)

17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

Now when you partake of “the tree” you partake in the “image and likeness” of that tree! So that is why Jesus came to restore us into HIS “image and likeness”. You are either a tree of righteousness or a tree of the image and likeness of the devil! That is why Adam and Eve were cast out of the Garden so they could not touch the tree of life. That is also why Jesus told Mary do not touch me I have not ascended.

John 20:17 (NKJV)

17 Jesus said to her, “Do not cling to Me, for I have not yet ascended to My Father; but go to My brethren and say to them, ‘I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.’ ”

1 Timothy 5:22 (NKJV)

22 Do not lay hands on anyone hastily, nor share in other people’s sins; keep yourself pure.

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.

How do we appear before the Lord according to the New Testament without being born again? In line 7 above it says their eyes were open means their hearts were opened and full of darkness rendering no SPIRITUAL knowledge of the TRUE LIVING GOD CHRIST JESUS. This is why Paul says may the eyes of your heart be enlightened meaning let the light and knowledge of Jesus into your heart. God is a spirit!

Ephesians 1:18 (ESV)

18 having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he has called you, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,

Hebrews 4:13 (NKJV)

13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

Genesis 3:7 (KJV 1900)

7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

I purposely added Genesis 3:7 KJV to make a vital point but I will not be expanding on that now. Why do Freemasons wear aprons! They worship Lucifer and the fallen nature of humanity! Why do I hear Christians say it is okay to be a Freemason and a Christian! What fellowship does a Christian have with the unfruitful works of darkness. Some of today’s worldwide ministries are Freemason’s claiming to be Christian organizations! They use outward works to appear fruitful by providing housing/shelter, food and emergency relief. Jesus revealed to the Pharisees that they cleaned the outside of the cup but NOT the inside of the cup! What do we know about a cup? How about the cup of sin, wrath, etc. These false Christians that are Freemason ministries even call for corporate prayer for global peace and repentance. The Lord laughs at this as they mock the Living God as the Lord closes His ears to their prayers! They are not in righteous standing with the Lord! If you are not in right standing with the Lord your prayers will not be answered. It is all a HEART MATTER WHICH IS NOT PREACHED!

Luke 18:9–14 (NKJV)

Parable of the Pharisee and the Tax Collector

9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Isaiah 59:1–2 (ESV)

Evil and Oppression

59 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save,

or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

2  but your iniquities have made a separation

between you and your God,

and your sins have hidden his face from you

so that he does not hear.

How does Isaiah 59 apply to today’s church! It must apply in significance as we do not truly see much power in the church today. Do not confuse signs and wonders performed by demonic spirits as true manifestations of the Lord Jesus. Pharaoh’s magicians performed signs and wonders.

James 5:16 (KJV 1900)

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

BACK TO GENESIS

8 And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.

Light penetrates darkness and people do not come to the light.

John 3:19–21 (NKJV)

19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

BACK TO GENESIS

9 Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?”

10 So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?”

You are not naked if you are clothed in robes of righteousness, but those are only provided and given by the Lord Jesus! The prodigal son story in Luke.

Hebrews 4:13 (ESV)

13 And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Luke 15:21–22 (NKJV)

21 And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet.

Isaiah 61 (NKJV)

The Good News of Salvation

61 “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,

Because the Lord has anointed Me

To preach good tidings to the poor;

He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,

To proclaim liberty to the captives,

And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,

And the day of vengeance of our God;

To comfort all who mourn,

3 To console those who mourn in Zion,

To give them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they may be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”

4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins,

They shall raise up the former desolations,

And they shall repair the ruined cities,

The desolations of many generations.

5 Strangers shall stand and feed your flocks,

And the sons of the foreigner

Shall be your plowmen and your vinedressers.

6 But you shall be named the priests of the Lord,

They shall call you the servants of our God.

You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles,

And in their glory you shall boast.

7 Instead of your shame you shall have double honor,

And instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion.

Therefore in their land they shall possess double;

Everlasting joy shall be theirs.

8 “For I, the Lord, love justice;

I hate robbery for burnt offering;

I will direct their work in truth,

And will make with them an everlasting covenant.

9 Their descendants shall be known among the Gentiles,

And their offspring among the people.

All who see them shall acknowledge them,

That they are the posterity whom the Lord has blessed.”

10 I will greatly rejoice in the Lord,

My soul shall be joyful in my God;

For He has clothed me with the garments of salvation,

He has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

As a bridegroom decks himself with ornaments,

And as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth brings forth its bud,

As the garden causes the things that are sown in it to spring forth,

So the Lord God will cause righteousness and praise to spring forth before all the nations.

GENESIS CONTINUED

12 Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.”

What do people do these days? They hold others accountable for their own faults, problems and hardships. There is no repentance in blaming others! There is no denying your own wickedness! There is no excuse for sin!

GENESIS CONTINUED

13 And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?”

The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

You will not be able to blame your pastor or anyone else for your own rebellion and itchy ears!

14 So the Lord God said to the serpent:

“Because you have done this,

You are cursed more than all cattle,

And more than every beast of the field;

On your belly you shall go,

And you shall eat dust

All the days of your life.

Notice Satan shall eat the dust of the earth. Did you know the devil is a spiritual carnivore? Adam was created from the dust of the earth and Satan shall eat the dust of the earth! How does Satan “feed” off from us and get power? He “feeds” and gets empowerment by the works of the flesh as in Galatians 5.

Galatians 5:16–26 (NKJV)

Walking in the Spirit

16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. 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.

19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit. 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Now when we walk in the Spirit, the Spirit is our Sabbath living in Christ Jesus and the works of the flesh have ceased! The Sabbath is not a day of the week under the New Covenant! Jesus is our Sabbath when we live and walk in the Spirit! “Go and sin no more”!

Matthew 12:1–8 (NKJV)

Controversy Over Sabbath-Labor

Mark 2:23–28; Luke 6:1–5

12 At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. And His disciples were hungry, and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. 2 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath!”

3 But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, he and those who were with him: 4 how he entered the house of God and ate the showbread which was not lawful for him to eat, nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests? 5 Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? 6 Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple. 7 But if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless. 8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

GENESIS CONTINUED

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.”

Enmity means warfare!

enmity

■ noun (plural enmities) the state of being an enemy; hostility.

GENESIS CONTINUED

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.”

1 Corinthians 11:3 (NKJV)

3 But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.

Ephesians 5:22–25 (NKJV)

Marriage—Christ and the Church

22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. 24 Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

1 Timothy 2:12–15 (NKJV)

12 And I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, but to be in silence. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression. 15 Nevertheless she will be saved in childbearing if they continue in faith, love, and holiness, with self-control.

GENESIS CONTINUED

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.”

20 And Adam called his wife’s name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

21 Also for Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them.

22 Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, to know good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever”—23 therefore the Lord God sent him out of the garden of Eden to till the ground from which he was taken. 24 So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

We read in line 19 that Adam was created from the dust and to the dust he would return. This is the results of the forbidden fruit. This has nothing to do with a natural death it is referring to a spiritual death. The spirit of the Lord had departed from dwelling within Adam and Eve. Hence the name Ichabod, the glory departed. Ichabod is the modern day church void of the true SPIRITUAL representation of Jesus! In line 17 the ground was cursed. I once saw a post of a “money exchanger” in Israel marketing a tour of Israel on YouTube and he pointed and said there is where David walked in the valley of the shadow of death. I rebuke him in his comments and I said you have no revelation of truth. That is not the valley of the shadow of death, the whole earth is the valley of the shadow of death! The whole earth was under the curse not just the land of Israel. A saint is surrounded by people who are physically alive but spiritually DEAD TO CHRIST JESUS, THEY MUST BE BORN AGAIN! So what is happening NOT only in the modern church as well across the whole earth all this evil is manifesting and calling itself good! That is a combination of the Great Apostasy with those who were never born again to begin with! Once saved always saved is from the pit of hell! Please read my three postings on the lies of the pre-tribulation rapture. It is from the Devil and the Babylonian doctrine of “I WILL ASCEND” which is of Lucifer!

1 Samuel 4:21–22 (NKJV)

21 Then she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”

Here is scripture that not only describes Adam spiritual state when he partook of the forbidden fruit being as Ichabod but it also refers to a “CHILD” and the glory has departed from Israel! In Isaiah 9:6 a child was born! I believe by referring to Israel as a child it is in direct correlation with either you as a PERSON are of Jesus redeemed by His blood and resurrected by His indwelling Holy Spirit or you are not of Jesus as the glory of God is not within you!

Isaiah 9:6 (NKJV)

6 For unto us a Child is born,

Unto us a Son is given;

And the government will be upon His shoulder.

And His name will be called

Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God,

Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.

Ephesians 3:14–21 (NKJV)

Appreciation of the Mystery

14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

2 Corinthians 3:18 (NKJV)

18 But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord.

These scriptures tell us the real Israel is not a physical land or state but a redeemed people in Christ Jesus who are born again! As I have written in my Jesus vs The Pharisees post Jesus turned the Pharisees over to the wickedness of their own hearts by calling them hypocrites seven times. Seven is the number of completion. Please read that post as Jesus told the Pharisees they would search out for one proselyte (convert) and make that convert twice a son of hell! You see there is a great commission for the devil! Then there is the commission of Apostles! There were two active commissions working at the same time in the state/nation of Israel when the incarnate Christ Jesus was in Israel. That is why even then there were many Antichrists. A moment ago we confirmed that Israel was a “child” and that “child” was Christ Jesus incarnation/birth so Israel is human and not a land, state, nation or province! What is a born again Christian called, A CHILD OF GOD! What is the world battling over now? The United States is a “kindred spirit” with the nation of Israel. Ask yourself and seek the Lord which “great commission” the USA is in allegiance with and if the USA is in allegiance with the commission of the Pharisees. What spirit is operating in our government and nation! We are NOT one nation under the true living God Christ Jesus. WHY DO THE NATIONS CONSPIRE AGAINST THE “ANOINTED ONE” CHRIST JESUS.

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.

Hypocrite—one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). “The hypocrite’s hope shall perish” (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered “hypocrite” rather means the “godless” or “profane,” as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.1

Psalm 2:1–8 (NKJV)

The Messiah’s Triumph and Kingdom

1 Why do the nations rage,

And the people plot a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth set themselves,

And the rulers take counsel together,

Against the Lord and against His Anointed, saying,

3 “Let us break Their bonds in pieces

And cast away Their cords from us.”

4 He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;

The Lord shall hold them in derision.

5 Then He shall speak to them in His wrath,

And distress them in His deep displeasure:

6 “Yet I have set My King

On My holy hill of Zion.”

7 “I will declare the decree:

The Lord has said to Me,

‘You are My Son,

Today I have begotten You.

8 Ask of Me, and I will give You

The nations for Your inheritance,

And the ends of the earth for Your possession.

GLOBAL JUDGMENT & JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

/in , , , , , , , , /by

GLOBAL JUDGMENT  & JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

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 am writing this brief posting to hopefully get each of us to think and pray about the times and seasons we are in. I don’t know about other people but I find it extremely difficult these days to find humble Christians who are open to Spirit and Truth of the Word of God and they will not conform to the Spirit and Truth of the Written Word and believe false doctrines of demons and wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Jeremiah 50:6–7 (NKJV)

6 “My people have been lost sheep.

Their shepherds have led them astray;

They have turned them away on the mountains.

They have gone from mountain to hill;

They have forgotten their resting place.

7 All who found them have devoured them;

And their adversaries said, ‘We have not offended,

Because they have sinned against the Lord, the habitation of justice,

The Lord, the hope of their fathers.’

They want to believe what they want to believe even if it’s not biblical truth. The Lord will NOT empower lies and your personal sword/false believed Word of God will not sustain you because the Lord only responds to HIS WORD IN POWER. I have been witnessing the great apostasy which the body of Christ denies will happen to them personally for many years in fact ever since my salvation. I also see first hand the “itchy ears” Paul mentions in his Epistles. It’s as if you are speaking to a wall.

2 Timothy 4:1–6 (NKJV)

Preach the Word

4 I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. 5 But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

Paul’s Valedictory

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand.

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.

They deny the evil spirits in people who attend their assemblies that are deliberately making spiritual war against the saints to their demise. It would be wise to remember you do not need to be physically killed or murdered to be “dead” to Christ! There is virtually no spiritual discernment and the saints are being killed spiritually. This is a form of martyrdom that people refuse to accept because of false doctrines they embrace! The Lord will hold each of us accountable for our own ignorance to His Truth and His righteous judgment is about to strike through great war allowed to be made upon us. This is the same principle from the Old Testament when Israel backslid the Lord used other nations to persecute them to bring repentance. If you don’t believe me just look at the life of Saul from Tarsus become Paul the Apostle. When a Christian gets “born again” they should grow in Spirit and Truth. If the letter of the law kills so does false doctrine. Please read my blog post: https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/03/the-spiritual-damnation-of-religious-gossip/ .

So here is what I would like to pose for everyone to personally reflect upon. Many people believe we are very near to the Antichrist being revealed and this is a sign of GLOBAL JUDGMENT as well as spiritual separation of the sheep from the goats. This GLOBAL JUDGMENT will hit the country of America as war from many nations simultaneously. Everything is in place even within our boundaries! It would be wise to remember that Satan was in the GARDEN and America is no garden at all! So if Satan was in the garden how much more can he be in America working through people.

So I pose to you if GLOBAL JUDGMENT and war is knocking on our doorsteps has the judgment of the church already happened? It’s a simple conclusion and it stares us in the face of reality if you chose to see it!

So why is it so difficult to bring real correction to false beliefs and doctrines within the professing body of Christ? The Lord has turned many over reprobate minds and to the spirit of delusion because they do not love the truth. I wrote about this back in 2020 and you can read it here: https://abidingbread.com/2020/08/29/reprobate-minds-spirit-of-delusion/ . If you don’t know the spiritual season how can you pray correctly as you will be praying against what the Lord is allowing! I have heard with intensity these false preachers talk about revival and because of the lack of real spiritual discernment they don’t understand that the revival they speak of is the rise of the Antichrist spirit. I am not diminishing the gospel and the power unto salvation I am stating they do not discern the spirits and times we live in! False teaching/preaching renders false conclusions and discernment. There is a season and time for all that is in Christ Jesus and not knowing the times is the same as Jesus told the Pharisees! Because you say you can see you are blind and because you say you can hear you are deaf! This is what I have been dealing with trying to speak Spirit and Truth to people who believe false doctrines, they are deaf and blind. If judgment has already happened in the house of the Lord 2 Chronicles 7:14 will not suffice as war in the form of judgment is inevitable. We are truly in the days of Noah as Jesus told us in Matthew 24. They didn’t believe the judgment of the flood but Noah was forewarned to prepare the Arc. Is your temple/arc prepared? Have you allowed the Lord to “build you into a Spiritual Temple” in the fullness of His image and likeness? Or are you a “spirtual half breed” as you have not allowed the Lord to crucify the love of this world within you. Can you actually proclaim Galatians 2:20 and Galatians 6:14? Is the world crucified unto you? https://abidingbread.com/2026/01/04/spiritual-half-breeds/

2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)

14 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

1 Peter 4:17–19 (NKJV)

17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now

“If the righteous one is scarcely saved,

Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?”

19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator.

Matthew 24:12–14 (NKJV)

12 And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. 13 But he who endures to the end shall be saved. 14 And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.

2 Thessalonians 2:11–12 (NKJV)

11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

2 Thessalonians 2:1–4 (NKJV)

The Great Apostasy

2 Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him, we ask you, 2 not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as though the day of Christ had come. 3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.

We are long past the time of people making statements such as “that’s your interpretation” instead of seeking the Lord in Spirit and Truth. We are long past being fed “milk” rather than solid food in Christ Jesus.

1 Corinthians 13:11 (NKJV)

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

So the end of the age is upon us and people will be waiting for their false rapture unable to stand in Spirit and Truth because they are not prepared Spiritually and did not submit to the process of pursuing holiness unto Christ Jesus. Without holiness no man shall see the Lord. Don’t confuse imparted righteousness with holiness as that is no different than what Jesus spoke to the Pharisees.

Matthew 23:25–26 (NKJV)

25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Matthew 23:27–28 (NKJV)

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

I suggest you read my blog post about Jesus interacting with the Pharisees. You will see that the Pharisees are filling their version of the great commission making twice the child of the devil as Jesus told them! You can read that post: https://abidingbread.com/2025/06/07/jesus-verses-the-pharisees/

It grieves me in the Spirit of the Lord to see His crucifixion be taken for granted by the professing saints. If you have never felt the burden of the Lord that is because you have not reached that level of intimacy with the Lord.

1 Samuel 8:5–7 (NKJV)

5 and said to him, “Look, you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” So Samuel prayed to the Lord. 7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.

SPIRITUAL HALF BREEDS

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

SPIRITUAL HALF BREEDS

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

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

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

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

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

Daniel 3:13–18 (NKJV)

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

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

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

Here is what Paul writes about partaking in communion.

1 Corinthians 11:28–34 (NKJV)

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

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

Matthew 15:8–9 (NKJV)

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

And honor Me with their lips,

But their heart is far from Me.

9 And in vain they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’ ”

2 Timothy 3:1–7 (NKJV)

Perilous Times and Perilous Men

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

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

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

Galatians 2:20–21 (NKJV)

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

Matthew 16:24–26 (NKJV)

Revelation of Jesus’ Reward

Mark 8:34–37; Luke 9:23–25

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

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

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

2 Corinthians 12:7–9 (NKJV)

The Thorn in the Flesh

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

Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV)

6 So he answered and said to me:

“This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:

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

Says the Lord of hosts.

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

Psalm 37:25 (NKJV)

25 I have been young, and now am old;

Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken,

Nor his descendants begging bread.

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

1 Corinthians 15:14–19 (NKJV)

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

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

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

Matthew 16:24–26 (NKJV)

Revelation of Jesus’ Reward

Mark 8:34–37; Luke 9:23–25

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

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

Matthew 21:33–46 (NKJV)

Parable of the Landowner

Mark 12:1–12; Luke 20:9–19

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

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

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

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

‘The stone which the builders rejected

Has become the chief cornerstone.

This was the Lord’s doing,

And it is marvelous in our eyes’?

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

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

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

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

Matthew 26:36–46 (NKJV)

Jesus’ Three Prayers

Mark 14:32–42; Luke 22:40–46

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

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

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

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

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

Luke 22:39–46 (NKJV)

Christ Prays in Gethsemane

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Matthew 6:8–15 (NKJV)

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

Our Father in heaven,

Hallowed be Your name.

10 Your kingdom come.

Your will be done

On earth as it is in heaven.

11 Give us this day our daily bread.

12 And forgive us our debts,

As we forgive our debtors.

13 And do not lead us into temptation,

But deliver us from the evil one.

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

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

Matthew 6:23 (NKJV)

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

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

Philippians 3:10–11 (NKJV)

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

Galatians 2:20–21 (NKJV)

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

Galatians 6:14–18 (NKJV)

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

Blessing and a Plea

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

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

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

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

1 Corinthians 15:31 (NKJV)

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

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

Acts 4:13 (NKJV)

The Name of Jesus Forbidden

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

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

Matthew 10:28 (NKJV)

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

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

Revelation 12:11 (NKJV)

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

John 17 (NKJV)

Christ Prays for Himself

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

Christ Prays for His Disciples

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

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

Christ Prays for All Believers

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

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

THE SPIRITUAL DAMNATION OF RELIGIOUS GOSSIP

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

THE SPIRITUAL DAMNATION OF RELIGIOUS GOSSIP

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

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

Acts 17:11–12 (NKJV)

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

2 Timothy 2:15 (NKJV)

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

gos·sip

noun

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

    “he became the subject of much local gossip”

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

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

Acts 19:15 (NKJV)

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

Galatians 1:6–8 (NKJV)

Only One Gospel

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

2 Corinthians 11:1–4 (NKJV)

Concern for Their Faithfulness

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

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

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

Matthew 16:1–28 (NKJV)

Debate Over a Sign from Heaven

Mark 8:11, 12

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

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

Withdrawal of Jesus

Mark 8:13–21

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

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

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

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

John 14:26 (NKJV)

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

Revelation of the Person of the King

Mark 8:27–30; Luke 9:18–21

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revelation of the Church

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

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

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

Revelation of Jesus’ Death

Mark 8:31–33; Luke 9:22

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

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

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

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

Romans 8:14 (NKJV)

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

Matthew 20:25–28 (NKJV)

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

1 Peter 5:1–4 (NKJV)

Shepherd the Flock

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

Revelation of Jesus’ Reward

Mark 8:34–37; Luke 9:23–25

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

The Prophecy of the Second Coming

Mark 8:38–9:1; Luke 9:26, 27

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

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

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

ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ADDICTION TO INCEASE

/in , , , , , , , , , , /by

WARNING FROM THE LORD

ALCOHOLISM & DRUG ADDICTION TO INCREASE

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.

The Lord Jesus spoke to me last evening about the increase of alcoholism and drug addiction and to write this message as a warning of events for the saints and non-saints/unbelievers.

John 14:27 (NKJV)

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.

There is no true denial that all of us have witnessed this “plague” of increased drug addiction and alcoholism in these past years but this is going to increase rapidly as we come to the fulfillment of end times prophecy in the book of Revelations. Peace is being removed from the earth and chaos is increasing rapidly so profoundly that the antichrist will come in the “name of peace” even as the false prince of peace which is a FALSE peace!

The Lord put in on my heart to make this aware to the body of Christ for greater understanding of the spiritual nature behind this increase. People with problems of substance abuse and addiction are good people trapped by the enemy of our souls. They try to “tune out” from the pains, sorrows and burdens of this world through substance abuse only to fall deeper into the hands of the devil. They seek an inner peace that only the Lord Jesus can fulfill, occupy and give us! These people need the PRINCE OF PEACE THE LORD JESUS as there is no peace in this world without/outside of true born again conversion of the Holy Spirit. Even when someone becomes born again by the Holy Spirit true peace comes by revelations of the love, mercy, grace and caring virtues of continual growth in Christ Jesus by overcoming the trials, tribulations and schemes of the devil by the power and total dependency of the Lord Jesus and the Holy Spirit! We can not overcome this world or the things of this world WITHOUT the Lord Jesus.

2 Corinthians 4:7–5:8 (NKJV)

Cast Down But Unconquered

7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us. 8 We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed—10 always carrying about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus’ sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. 12 So then death is working in us, but life in you.

13 And since we have the same spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I believed and therefore I spoke,” we also believe and therefore speak, 14 knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus, and will present us with you. 15 For all things are for your sakes, that grace, having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.

Seeing the Invisible

16 Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. 17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, 18 while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Assurance of the Resurrection

5 For we know that if our earthly house, this tent, is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed with our habitation which is from heaven, 3 if indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked. 4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who also has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.

6 So we are always confident, knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord. 7 For we walk by faith, not by sight. 8 We are confident, yes, well pleased rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.

Too many professing Christians are not walking in the power of God to set the captives free. They “coddle” people rather than “cuddle” people! See my posting: https://abidingbread.com/2017/03/17/coddling-vs-cuddling/

One of the major problems with the body of Christ is the lack of true spiritual progression and growth in Christ Jesus. Being “saved” is the focus and message but “being conformed” to the completeness of the image and likeness of Christ Jesus is not being preached nor appealing to the saints as it requires “we die daily” to the desires and influences of this world. I believe too many saints do not understand being born again in the Spirit of God that we occupy two realms, the earthly realm and the heavenly realm in Christ Jesus. This is what the incarnate Christ did also as he was both of “man” and of “GOD”. We must die to this world to live and reign with Christ!

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.

Colossians 3:1–4 (NKJV)

Not Carnality But Christ

3 If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. 3 For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

It is not my intent to write a long posting I will close with a few parting statements. Too many Christians are following the teachings of men and doctrines of demons and what you follow you worship! This statement would require much exposition so I ask you to seek the Lord about this and ask the Lord are you following Jesus in Spirit and Truth or the teachings of man and/or demons.

Let me ask you this question: Who taught the disciples? Why and how has that changed today when we are to be taught by the Holy Spirit which was sent from Jesus! It was better that Jesus should go so that the “Comforter” would be sent! I know many idolaters hate it when I bring this up because many idolize themselves as having “arrived” to completeness or follow a pastor above Christ Jesus. We must remember we are nothing without Christ Jesus as humility is the foundation of spiritual growth.

Philippians 3:12–21 (NKJV)

Pressing Toward the Goal

12 Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me. 13 Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended; but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

15 Therefore let us, as many as are mature, have this mind; and if in anything you think otherwise, God will reveal even this to you. 16 Nevertheless, to the degree that we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us be of the same mind.

Our Citizenship in Heaven

17 Brethren, join in following my example, and note those who so walk, as you have us for a pattern. 18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is destruction, whose god is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame—who set their mind on earthly things. 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which we also eagerly wait for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body that it may be conformed to His glorious body, according to the working by which He is able even to subdue all things to Himself.

John 14:16–31 (NKJV)

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. 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.”

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.

My intent was to reveal the spiritual nature behind addiction and substance abuse. It is not a disease which modern earthly knowledge and psychotherapy classify it as, it is SPIRITUAL thus must be dealt with in the wisdom, revelation and power in Spirit and Truth of the Holy Spirit.

UNEATEN BREAD

/in , , , , , , , , , , , , /by

UNEATEN BREAD

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.

The Lord is having me expand on some previous postings by describing in context of Spirit and Truth of the Word of God about uneaten bread. If you have read some of my postings I often mention that the devil attempts to remove the Spirit of God from the Word of God. The devil doesn’t care if you can recite the bible forwards or backwards, the devil doesn’t want you “born again” in Spirit and Truth or to grow in revelations of Spirit and Truth of God’s Word. Keep this principle in mind throughout this posting. Additionally keep in mind the scriptures of feeding the 5000 where Jesus preached to the multitude as this will conclude spiritual revelations which I will get to as we proceed. Pay attention to the emphasis of the bold words as those scriptures will come together with the feeding the 5000, the five foolish virgins, book of revelation and the body of Christ.

Ezekiel 3 (NKJV)

3 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.” 2 So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.

3 And He said to me, “Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you.” So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.

4 Then He said to me: “Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with My words to them. 5 For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, but to the house of Israel, 6 not to many people of unfamiliar speech and of hard language, whose words you cannot understand. Surely, had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you. 7 But the house of Israel will not listen to you, because they will not listen to Me; for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. 8 Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces, and your forehead strong against their foreheads. 9 Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead; do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.”

10 Moreover He said to me: “Son of man, receive into your heart all My words that I speak to you, and hear with your ears. 11 And go, get to the captives, to the children of your people, and speak to them and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord God,’ whether they hear, or whether they refuse.”

12 Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice: “Blessed is the glory of the Lord from His place!” 13 I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another, and the noise of the wheels beside them, and a great thunderous noise. 14 So the Spirit lifted me up and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. 15 Then I came to the captives at Tel Abib, who dwelt by the River Chebar; and I sat where they sat, and remained there astonished among them seven days.

Let me make some comments here and then we can continue with Ezekiel. The very first line the prophet is called the Son of man and we are to be Son’s of God. Eating the scroll is direct reference to the Word of God and speaking to Israel was God’s chosen people which represents the church or corporate body as the gentiles are included. When your heart desires the fullness of the Word of God the Word of God is like honey and sweetness to your heart/soul. Ezekiel was sent to “his own people” but Israel would not listen because they are impudent and hard-hearted. The Spirit of God fortified Ezekiel because Israel was a rebellious house. Now we look at line 10 and scripture clearly tells us that Ezekiel was to receive ALL of the Word of the Lord by eating/consuming the Word of the Lord. We are to speak Spirit and Truth regardless if people hear or refuse to hear the Word of God. The Holy Spirit lifted/took Ezekiel in bitterness in the heat of his spirit but the Lord was strong upon him. The bitterness and heat was not negative but positive as the bitterness was the “strong face and strong forehead” the Lord had given him to stand firm against the opposition of a “rebellious house”. There is a form of godly stubbornness rooted in the righteousness of Christ. How else would you “stand firm” in Ephesians six? Okay now lets continue with the remainder of Ezekiel.

Ezekiel is a Watchman

16 Now it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 17 “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore hear a word from My mouth, and give them warning from Me: 18 When I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand. 19 Yet, if you warn the wicked, and he does not turn from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

20 “Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand. 21 Nevertheless if you warn the righteous man that the righteous should not sin, and he does not sin, he shall surely live because he took warning; also you will have delivered your soul.”

22 Then the hand of the Lord was upon me there, and He said to me, “Arise, go out into the plain, and there I shall talk with you.”

23 So I arose and went out into the plain, and behold, the glory of the Lord stood there, like the glory which I saw by the River Chebar; and I fell on my face. 24 Then the Spirit entered me and set me on my feet, and spoke with me and said to me: “Go, shut yourself inside your house. 25 And you, O son of man, surely they will put ropes on you and bind you with them, so that you cannot go out among them. 26 I will make your tongue cling to the roof of your mouth, so that you shall be mute and not be one to rebuke them, for they are a rebellious house. 27 But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.

Let’s finish up with Ezekiel. Notice “seven days” and remember the number seven signifies divine perfection and completeness. Ezekiel stayed for seven days before releasing the Word of God. This is imperative for every one of us. Even though we “know” we must wait upon the Lord to speak by the power and unction of His Spirit. Once the Word became perfected in Ezekiel he would be commissioned to speak the Word of the Lord. Knowledge without Wisdom is destructive. We must have Wisdom and Revelation together so the application will be of the Lord and not of ourselves. Notice it is the Lord who opens and shuts the mouth of His prophets speaking ONLY the Word of the Lord and NOTHING of himself. This is why you hear me often say to walk with the Lord and prophecy or minister for the Lord we MUST surrender the outcome to the Lord. If you can’t surrender the outcome it is the “pride of life” in you which seeks glory and notoriety just as the devil. You have made everything about you and not of the Lord. Jesus is the Alpha and Omega we are not. Now we can go to the book of Revelations and how John eats the book.

Revelation 10 (NKJV)

The Mighty Angel with the Little Book

10 I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. 2 He had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3 and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars. When he cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices. 4 Now when the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered, and do not write them.”

5 The angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised up his hand to heaven 6 and swore by Him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and the things that are in it, the earth and the things that are in it, and the sea and the things that are in it, that there should be delay no longer, 7 but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel, when he is about to sound, the mystery of God would be finished, as He declared to His servants the prophets.

John Eats the Little Book

8 Then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said, “Go, take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth.”

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.”

John eats the book given to him by the Lord Jesus we get both bitter in the stomach and yet sweet as honey in your mouth. Just because the Word of God may be “bitter in your stomach” doesn’t mean it should be rejected, despised or not spoken. Think of it this way the Word was like honey in taste going in, but bitter towards it’s outcome. Doesn’t this sound like the Israelites complaining to Moses about “bitter water” in the wilderness. The bitterness was a reflection of their own heart and water represents the Word of God! What I wanted to emphasis so far is how we receive the Word of God is a reflection of “what is in us” that is not of the Lord Jesus. The Word and Spirit are one, so the Holy Spirit in us would and should not have a problem with the Word of God. The Apostle John did not have a personal problem with bitterness himself what he was to speak was the consequences of bitterness he was about to speak to the Israelites. Now let’s broaden our scope of understanding by going to Jesus feeding the five thousand. I have touched on this before in regards to the disciples becoming Apostles but now I want to reflect on the meaning and implications of the “body of Christ”. When you read the scriptures below reflect on the church/body of Christ. I will expound after you read the scriptures.

Matthew 14:13–21 (NKJV)

Jesus Feeds 5,000

Mark 6:31–44; Luke 9:11–17; John 6:1–13

13 When Jesus heard it, He departed from there by boat to a deserted place by Himself. But when the multitudes heard it, they followed Him on foot from the cities. 14 And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick. 15 When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.”

16 But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

17 And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”

18 He said, “Bring them here to Me.” 19 Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. 20 So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. 21 Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Now things get more interesting as I expound on the scriptures above. When Jesus went out He went alone but when the multitude heard of this they followed Him. Jesus did NOT ask or command people to follow Him so why did they pursue Him? Let’s reflect on scripture of who these people represent by referring to more scripture.

John 6:44–45 (NKJV)

44 No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, ‘And they shall all be taught by God.’ Therefore everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to Me.

We must make this connection that it was the Father who drew the multitude to “come to Jesus”. It was Jesus preaching the Word of God to the multitude because the Father drew them. No one goes to the Father except through Christ Jesus! This is symbolic of the church/body of Christ as Israel was a chosen people.

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.”

What is the significance of Jesus giving a COMMANDMENT to sit on the grass! The grass thus has an imperative meaning. The grass is a “feeding place” of provision and Jesus wasn’t feeding them regular bread. Jesus was feeding them the Word of God the very Bread of Life! Here is another point to mention concerning the bread. Jesus lifted the bread toward heaven which reflects it was the Father who drew them to Jesus to be fed with the Word of God. It was the Father who multiplied the bread. Everything Jesus did was to reveal the Father and the kingdom of God.

John 6:35 (NKJV)

35 And Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

Now let us consider the uneaten Bread, which is the Word of God. I mentioned in an earlier posting that the twelve disciples picked up the twelve full baskets of the Bread/Word of God that was NOT eaten. The disciples were to be the Apostles full of the Bread of Life which is the Word of God.

So let us address the uneaten bread. If you reflect on the Ezekiel and the Apostle John when told to “eat” the Word of God some was sweet to the mouth while some was bitter to the stomach. The uneaten bread was a reflection of their HEART CONDITION TOWARDS THE WORD OF GOD. Do we not see this today in the body of Christ? Picking and choosing what we desire or don’t desire from the Word of God! This is carnality and the “pride of life” from uncrucified flesh/soul. LET ME SAY THIS BOLDLY AS I HAVE SAID MANY TIMES THE “WORD & SPIRIT OF GOD” ARE ONE! What you refuse in the Word you refuse in the Spirit! So whatever you refuse in the Written Word you will not grow in the Spirit of God! The Lord is coming back for a mature bride and not merely a virgin. You must be filled with the Word of God which is also the Spirit of God. So now lets go back to the parable of sowing seed in soil which is a “heart condition”. Notice the multitudes again which reflects the body of Christ as the Father drew the people to the Son/Jesus. I will add my comments between the scriptures below so you won’t have to scroll the page and hopefully make it easier for you.

Matthew 13:1–23 (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.

Remember the multitude was drawn by the Father. Also take notice the Jesus was in the boat which was on Water which Water and Word are one of the same. The multitude was on dry land.

Psalm 63:1 (NKJV)

1 O God, You are my God;

Early will I seek You;

My soul thirsts for You;

My flesh longs for You

In a dry and thirsty land

Where there is no water.

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!”

Stony places is in direct reference to the human heart. Scripture tells us that we have a heart of stone and need a heart of flesh. This is why the ten commandments was written on tablets of stone, it symbolized the condition of the human heart! Jesus said in the gospels that He would write His Word upon our hearts! When the sun is mentioned the seed withered away because the Word of God did not take root, it was superficial and NOT DIGESTED as Ezekiel and John had eaten and digested the Word of God. The thorns refers to disobedience, sin, hardship or in essence “false Christians/brethren” as the wheat and tares (good and evil) are sown together until the “harvest”. The false preachers and Christians/brethren can choke the Word of God within the assembling of the saints and thus Jesus says come out from among them. Mystery Babylon is the Harlot Church. This may sound contrary to what is preached today but take it back to Pentecost and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit as they were assembled in ONE ACCORD. This is why we must not be deceived. Judas was among the other disciples just as there are many who are not of the Lord in the house of the Lord. It’s bad enough there are wolves in sheep’s clothing in the pulpits but there are also thorns and thistles, wheat and tares in the pews.

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:

When you read line thirteen reflect on what Jesus spoke to the Pharisees that because they said they see their sin remained! Later Jesus would warn the disciples to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees.

‘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.’

Closed eyes and ears will NOT be healed!

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.

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. 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.”

We have established that the Word and Spirit of God are ONE so we can now continue to the story of the ten virgins. I had posted on this a few years ago but now I want to you see how UNEATEN BREAD was the problem with the foolish virgins as BREAD/WORD AND SPIRIT ARE ONE!

I have heard much foolishness about the five foolish virgins not being born again and this is totally untrue. How would they be virgins without being born again and secondly how would they come to the wedding ceremony if the Father didn’t draw them to the Son. The Holy Spirit is the invitation and you must be born again to attend the wedding ceremony. You must be filled with the Word, Spirit and love of God to be the bride.

Matthew 25:1–13 (NKJV)

Parable of the Ten Virgins

25 “Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. 2 Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3 Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

6 “And at midnight a cry was heard: ‘Behold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!’ 7 Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘No, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.

11 “Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ 12 But he answered and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.’

13 “Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

Notice that the foolish had no oil which is the Holy Spirit while the wise took oil in their VESSELS with their lamps. Also notice what the wise virgins answered to go to “those who sell”. This reflects “worldliness” as the Holy Spirit can not be marketed or purchased! The foolish even went out to purchase oil.

Now if you reflect on this posting from beginning to end and realize that the Word of God and Spirit of God are ONE you will understand that uneaten bread will not get you to everlasting life. You must be filled with the Word and Spirit of the Lord Jesus. This is why I repeatedly state the devil doesn’t care if you can recite the Word of God forward and backwards. The devil doesn’t want you born again and being filled with the Word of God. Whatever you refuse from what is “WRITTEN” you eliminate in your life in the Holy Spirit.

Taking this back to the garden of Eden and the fall of Adam let’s reflect on a couple of points from a previous posting of mine. Adam was told NOT to partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil or he would die. So, “what is death where there was no death” and “what is a flood where there is no rain”. The problem is that you must have faith and belief in ALL OF THE WORD OF GOD. When you refuse to believe the truth of ALL of God’s Word you are not conforming to Spirit and Truth. When you believe the lies of wolves in sheep’s clothing you are not conforming to Christ Jesus and worshiping in Spirit and Truth. It only took ONE lie for humanity to fall and when you listen to lies perceived as truth without a witness from the Holy Spirit you have already fallen into deception. Jesus warned over and over do NOT be deceived.

I hope you have received spiritual revelations and will be enlightened and understand that when anyone twist, distorts or outwardly denies the Word of God do NOT listen or follow them. There is only ONE source of Spirit and Truth, Christ 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.”

In closing I want to remind you that Water and Word are the same and rivers of living Water in you is the Word and Spirit of God. What the wise virgins had was rivers of Living Water which is the Word and Spirit of God. I also want you to reflect on the warning in Revelations about adding or subtracting from the Word of God. What you refuse to “eat/digest” and let take root is subtracting from the Word of God! How is it people claim to have faith unto salvation but at the same time do not have faith to believe that all of the Word of God is true? This the same principle when Adam stopped having faith and belief in the Word of God and believed Eve who was deceived. What/who you follow you worship! This is why Jesus said the day has come that His people will worship Him in Spirit and Truth as this needed to be restored through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Adam did not know what “death” really was but he needed to believe that EVERY WORD OF GOD IS TRUE! This is exactly what Jesus stated to Satan in the wilderness!

Matthew 4:4 (NKJV)

4 But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’ ”

Revelation 22:18–19 (NKJV)

A Warning

18 For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book; 19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.

When you add any false scripture/beliefs or lies you add the plagues that are Written in the Word of God upon you. When you take away from the Word of God your name will be taken out of the book of life. These are serious warnings and Truth.

When you believe and support a pre-tribulation rapture you condemn yourself to the plagues of the Written Word! This is what I call a “spiritual paradox” just as Satan telling Eve she surely would not die. The pre-tribulation is a lie and deceives you into thinking you are saving your life when you will lose your life suffering the plagues because you added to the Word of God. You are not preparing yourself spiritually to overcome without spot or wrinkle.

Don’t be deceived believing that when corruption puts on incorruption, and mortal puts on immortality that you receive more of the Holy Spirit. You should have already been fully prepared and filled with the Holy Spirit. NOWHERE in those verses does it mention more of the Holy Spirit. It relates to a heavenly body because flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 15:50–54 (NKJV)

Our Final Victory

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. 53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”

Salvation is all or nothing just as Jesus is Lord of all of your life or none of your life. If you discard the Bread of Life you will be discarded from the Father. If you deny Jesus which is the WORD IN FULLNESS Jesus will deny you before the Father.

Colossians 2:1–10 (NKJV)

Not Philosophy But Christ

2 For I want you to know what a great conflict I have for you and those in Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh, 2 that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, and attaining to all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the knowledge of the mystery of God, both of the Father and of Christ, 3 in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

4 Now this I say lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words. 5 For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.

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.

CARRIERS OF COVENANT AND THE WORD OF GOD

/in , , , , , , , , , , , , /by

CARRIES OF COVENANT AND THE WORD OF GOD

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.

Let us start at the beginning of creation so we can set the foundation of truth. It is imperative that you pay attention to the sequence of creation because in line two you might think the earth was already created and it was not. Also in line number two “the deep” refers to Water and Word because everything was created by the Word of God. You will see later that “Water, Word and Spirit” are ONE in Christ Jesus. Okay lets get started by reading Genesis 1:1-10.

Genesis 1:1–10 (NKJV)

The History of Creation

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

3 Then God said, “Let there be light”; and there was light. 4 And God saw the light, that it was good; and God divided the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. So the evening and the morning were the first day.

6 Then God said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.” 7 Thus God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament; and it was so. 8 And God called the firmament Heaven. So the evening and the morning were the second day.

9 Then God said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. 10 And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters He called Seas. And God saw that it was good.

In line six we see that God created a firmament in the midst of the waters (deep) and it divided waters from the waters. Also notice that “were” is italicized in your bible as I italicized all of scripture to make it stand out from my writings. God separated the Water/Word by firmament and created Heaven. When we read line nine we see that the waters under heaven gathered into one place and “dry land” appeared God called the dry land Earth. Okay, so now that we have established this we can see that the waters above as well as below the firmament are the Water and Word of God.

Proverbs 18:4 (NKJV)

4 The words of a man’s mouth are deep waters;

The wellspring of wisdom is a flowing brook.

So let us now reflect on Noah’s Arc and what the Arc represents and who the person of Noah reflects. We know that Noah was a preacher of righteousness which is the Word of God. We know that God told Noah to build the Ark so it was God who created the Ark by the hands of Noah. God was about to destroy the earth by the flood and Noah was the carrier of the Word of God in the Ark of the Covenant! The Ark represents the Covenant as we know God told Noah when you see the rainbow it is the NEW Covenant.

Genesis 9:12–17 (NKJV)

12 And God said: “This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13 I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. 14 It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud; 15 and I will remember My covenant which is between Me and you and every living creature of all flesh; the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. 16 The rainbow shall be in the cloud, and I will look on it to remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.” 17 And God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant which I have established between Me and all flesh that is on the earth.”

Now remember the correlation between Noah and Covenant by means of the Ark. Now we can look into the person of Moses.

We know Moses as an infant was to be killed by order of Pharaoh. However Moses mother created an “Ark of bulrushes” for him and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. Notice “ark of bulrushes” as this is similar to Noah’s Ark carrying the Word of God and the Covenant of God!

Exodus 1:22–2:10 (NKJV)

22 So Pharaoh commanded all his people, saying, “Every son who is born you shall cast into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive.”

Moses is Born

2 And a man of the house of Levi went and took as wife a daughter of Levi. 2 So the woman conceived and bore a son. And when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him three months. 3 But when she could no longer hide him, she took an ark of bulrushes for him, daubed it with asphalt and pitch, put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river’s bank. 4 And his sister stood afar off, to know what would be done to him.

5 Then the daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe at the river. And her maidens walked along the riverside; and when she saw the ark among the reeds, she sent her maid to get it. 6 And when she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the baby wept. So she had compassion on him, and said, “This is one of the Hebrews’ children.”

7 Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?”

8 And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Go.” So the maiden went and called the child’s mother. 9 Then Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child away and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him. 10 And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. So she called his name Moses, saying, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

We must notice in line one of chapter two the bloodline of Levi of Moses parents which is the royal priesthood. The “Ark of bulrushes” is what carried Moses and Moses was to be the person carrying the Word and Covenant of God. Moses would prophecy of  the “ONE TO COME” which would be the Lord Jesus. So now you see that Noah’s Ark and the Ark of Bulrushes” are one of the same as carries of the Word and Covenant ABOVE THE WATERS OF THE EARTH. This is an essential point of mention, above the waters of the earth as in Genesis mentioned earlier as the Water and Word are one of the Same, Christ Jesus.

Now let’s look at King David who was a carrier of the Covenant and Word of God which was the presence of God. Through David the Lord made a Covenant.

2 Samuel 6:1–23 (NKJV)

The Ark Brought to Jerusalem

6 Again David gathered all the choice men of Israel, thirty thousand. 2 And David arose and went with all the people who were with him from Baale Judah to bring up from there the ark of God, whose name is called by the Name, the Lord of Hosts, who dwells between the cherubim. 3 So they set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill; and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, drove the new cart. 4 And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill, accompanying the ark of God; and Ahio went before the ark. 5 Then David and all the house of Israel played music before the Lord on all kinds of instruments of fir wood, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on sistrums, and on cymbals.

6 And when they came to Nachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put out his hand to the ark of God and took hold of it, for the oxen stumbled. 7 Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against Uzzah, and God struck him there for his error; and he died there by the ark of God. 8 And David became angry because of the Lord’s outbreak against Uzzah; and he called the name of the place Perez Uzzah to this day.

9 David was afraid of the Lord that day; and he said, “How can the ark of the Lord come to me?” 10 So David would not move the ark of the Lord with him into the City of David; but David took it aside into the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite. 11 The ark of the Lord remained in the house of Obed-Edom the Gittite three months. And the Lord blessed Obed-Edom and all his household.

12 Now it was told King David, saying, “The Lord has blessed the house of Obed-Edom and all that belongs to him, because of the ark of God.” So David went and brought up the ark of God from the house of Obed-Edom to the City of David with gladness. 13 And so it was, when those bearing the ark of the Lord had gone six paces, that he sacrificed oxen and fatted sheep. 14 Then David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing a linen ephod. 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.

16 Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart. 17 So they brought the ark of the Lord, and set it in its place in the midst of the tabernacle that David had erected for it. Then David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord. 18 And when David had finished offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts. 19 Then he distributed among all the people, among the whole multitude of Israel, both the women and the men, to everyone a loaf of bread, a piece of meat, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed, everyone to his house.

20 Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, “How glorious was the king of Israel today, uncovering himself today in the eyes of the maids of his servants, as one of the base fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!”

21 So David said to Michal, “It was before the Lord, who chose me instead of your father and all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people of the Lord, over Israel. Therefore I will play music before the Lord. 22 And I will be even more undignified than this, and will be humble in my own sight. But as for the maidservants of whom you have spoken, by them I will be held in honor.”

23 Therefore Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

I did a posting earlier about walking on water and now I’d like to bring more to that posting. Notice the name Moses means “out of the water”! Okay, now lets go to Jesus walking on water again.

Matthew 14:25–33 (NKJV)

25 Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking on the sea. 26 And when the disciples saw Him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, “It is a ghost!” And they cried out for fear.

27 But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying, “Be of good cheer! It is I; do not be afraid.”

28 And Peter answered Him and said, “Lord, if it is You, command me to come to You on the water.”

29 So He said, “Come.” And when Peter had come down out of the boat, he walked on the water to go to Jesus. 30 But when he saw that the wind was boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink he cried out, saying, “Lord, save me!”

31 And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him, and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” 32 And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

33 Then those who were in the boat came and worshiped Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God.”

Now from what I have spoken about Genesis and the “deep” waters being separated by firmament and the Waters and Word are ONE you can see how Noah, Moses, David and Jesus were carriers of Covenant and Word as well as Jesus being the incarnate Word in Flesh. You can also see how Jesus sustained their mortal lives through floods, pestilence, plagues and rulers. Jesus walking on water was symbolic of Jesus’ baptism by John the baptist. Jesus came up out of the “Water which was the Word of God” thus Jesus walked on water. Jesus rose above the firmament which separated the “deep” waters in Genesis. Above the firmament was heaven below the firmament was the earth yet both were “Water and Word”. This is how Jesus makes a bold statement He was not of this World and us being born again come up out of the Water & Word raised above the firmament into the Kingdom of Heaven no longer in the kingdom of darkness!

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.”

This is what happens through true repentance and Water and Spirit baptism we emerge from Water and Word which is Christ Jesus. We emerge with an open heaven! We have access to the Father through Christ Jesus! Jesus was demonstrating what was awaiting those who are baptized with Water and Spirit to the disciples. Remember initially Peter did walk on water but when Peter took his focus off Jesus and focused on the storm it inhibited Peter from continuing walking on the water. When Christ Jesus was pierced with the spear on the cross Water & Blood came out of Him. Water and Word are One in Christ Jesus. Jesus told the woman at the well that He could give her LIVING WATER.

Philippians 4:6–7 (NKJV)

6 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; 7 and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

So if we focus on Philippians 4:6-7 we see that “peace” was challenged and when peace is challenged it is from one to three sources. One being our adversary the devil attacking our peace in Christ by spiritual conflict, secondly relying on our own abilities, worries or concerns and third an attack on our faith/belief! We must have unwavering faith in Spirit and Truth according to the Word of God and Spirit of God that conquerors the enemy and helps us trust fully in Jesus.

In 2 Samuel 8 we know that the Lord made a covenant with David and that the incarnate Christ Jesus would come from the bloodline of David. I hope you see who Noah on Water, Moses on Water, David with the Ark and Jesus walking on water all represent “Covenant & Word” as Jesus came to be our blood covenant as the sacrificial Lamb. Noah’s Ark, Moses Ark of Bulrushes, David with the Ark of the Lord and Jesus walking on Water as Jesus was the Water and Word made flesh and was the NEW COVENANT being the “Blood Covenant” of the sacrificial Lamb.

I have provided some more scriptures to support the “Water, Word and Spirit” as being ONE. I will continue after you read a few scriptures.

John 3:5 (NKJV)

5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

John 7:37–38 (NKJV)

Christ Reveals the “Living Water”

37 On the last day, that great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. 38 He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.”

John 19:34 (NKJV)

34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.

Ephesians 5:26 (NKJV)

26 that He might sanctify and cleanse her with the washing of water by the word,

So we have gone from Genesis to Noah, Moses, David and Jesus. Now let’s go from Jesus to the disciples to finish this part of the post. Let’s read about Jesus feeding the 5000 and the 12 disciples roles in this. It is important to see the final stages of the fulfillment of Jesus being the Blood Covenant and the fulfillment of His death, burial, resurrection and ascension. Pay attention to the words in bold type.

Matthew 14:14–21 (NKJV)

14 And when Jesus went out He saw a great multitude; and He was moved with compassion for them, and healed their sick. 15 When it was evening, His disciples came to Him, saying, “This is a deserted place, and the hour is already late. Send the multitudes away, that they may go into the villages and buy themselves food.”

16 But Jesus said to them, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

17 And they said to Him, “We have here only five loaves and two fish.”

18 He said, “Bring them here to Me.” 19 Then He commanded the multitudes to sit down on the grass. And He took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven, He blessed and broke and gave the loaves to the disciples; and the disciples gave to the multitudes. 20 So they all ate and were filled, and they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments that remained. 21 Now those who had eaten were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

I highlighted line 14 because I wanted to emphasis that Jesus was moved with compassion. Consider John 3:16 and Christ slain before the foundation of the world. Additionally these were “unsaved” not born again people and Jesus had compassion and care for them. So how much more at the end of the age will Jesus provide for His church/bride! Those that are TRULY His.

In line 16 Jesus gives the disciples instruction to give them something to eat. Isn’t this the same as Jesus telling Peter “feed my sheep” when Jesus restored Peter in love! Line 17 states there were 5 loaves of bread and bread being the Word of God from the Bread of Life Christ Jesus because Jesus multiplied the bread so it was divine bread! Five is the number of GRACE and the bread was the Word of God. The disciples were each told to pick up 12 FULL baskets of fragments. Notice the word FULL. This represented the grace of God with each of the disciples FULL OF THE WORD OF GOD. This would be the great commission of Matthew 28 and once Pentecost came they were filled with the Holy Spirit and everything the Lord had taught them the Holy Spirit would bring back to their remembrance. This is why I tell people when you receive revelations from the Holy Spirit they are eternal and NOT subject to your soul which would be your mind but the mind of Christ being built within you by the Holy Spirit. The disciples were to become Apostles carriers of the gospel of Christ Jesus the blood covenant of reconciliation with the Father through “Christ Crucified”. I mentioned in an early posting about needing 12 witnesses to fulfill “legal” requirements of baring witness. The 12 disciples fulfilled that requirement and became Apostles when the Lord breathed The Holy Spirit on them.

John 14:26–27 (NKJV)

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

Now I will begin to conclude this post as I hope you can see the “carriers of covenant” and the “Ark of Covenant” all the way to the Incarnate Christ who came to be our sacrificial lamb for the Blood Covenant.

Now I hope you see greater revelations of truth and how the Lord’s Word is faithful and true. I’d like you to consider what I have revealed and shared above and now apply it to the coming of the Lord and the pestilence, plagues and fire that will come upon the earth before the return of the Lord Jesus. With this in mind focus on the flood and Noah, the plagues of Egypt not affecting Moses and David conquering kingdoms for the Lord. The end of the age to come is with pestilence, plagues, fire and kingdoms against the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus. Think back and remember the three Hebrew men in the fiery furnace who were not burned neither smelled of smoke and apply this knowledge to the end of the age and being able to stand in the fire to come. All those who have been taught and believe the false doctrine of the per-tribulation rapture are NOT being prepared spiritually to overcome what is developing and to come upon the earth. Their faith is based in a lie and the Lord will not empower a lie as the Lord only empowers His Spirit and Truth. They embrace an illusion of living their best life now and embrace this world and the teachings of this world. They do not seek revelations of Truth from the Lord. The blind leading the blind. Meditate on the scriptures below and see how the Lord will sustain those that are completely His who have prepared themselves spiritually to overcome. I pray you receive revelations of Truth and repent for believing lies and following wolves in sheep’s clothing or leaning on your own understanding. You are following your own “pride of life” and not the truth of scripture.

Isaiah 43:2 (NKJV)

2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you;

And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you.

When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned,

Nor shall the flame scorch you.

Psalm 66:12 (NKJV)

12 You have caused men to ride over our heads;

We went through fire and through water;

But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.

Psalm 23 (NKJV)

Psalm 23

The Lord The Shepherd of His People

A Psalm of David.

1 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures;

He leads me beside the still waters.

3 He restores my soul;

He leads me in the paths of righteousness

For His name’s sake.

4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

I will fear no evil;

For You are with me;

Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;

You anoint my head with oil;

My cup runs over.

6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

All the days of my life;

And I will dwell in the house of the Lord

Forever.

Psalm 91 (NKJV)

Psalm 91

Safety of Abiding in the Presence of God

1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High

Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress;

My God, in Him I will trust.”

3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler

And from the perilous pestilence.

4 He shall cover you with His feathers,

And under His wings you shall take refuge;

His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,

Nor of the arrow that flies by day,

6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,

Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side,

And ten thousand at your right hand;

But it shall not come near you.

8 Only with your eyes shall you look,

And see the reward of the wicked.

9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge,

Even the Most High, your dwelling place,

10 No evil shall befall you,

Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling;

11 For He shall give His angels charge over you,

To keep you in all your ways.

12 In their hands they shall bear you up,

Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra,

The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot.

14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him;

I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him;

I will be with him in trouble;

I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With long life I will satisfy him,

And show him My salvation.”

Zechariah 2 (NKJV)

Vision of the Measuring Line

2 Then I raised my eyes and looked, and behold, a man with a measuring line in his hand. 2 So I said, “Where are you going?”

And he said to me, “To measure Jerusalem, to see what is its width and what is its length.”

3 And there was the angel who talked with me, going out; and another angel was coming out to meet him, 4 who said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying: ‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it. 5 For I,’ says the Lord, ‘will be a wall of fire all around her, and I will be the glory in her midst.’ ”

Future Joy of Zion and Many Nations

6 “Up, up! Flee from the land of the north,” says the Lord; “for I have spread you abroad like the four winds of heaven,” says the Lord. 7 “Up, Zion! Escape, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon.”

8 For thus says the Lord of hosts: “He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye. 9 For surely I will shake My hand against them, and they shall become spoil for their servants. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me.

10 “Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst,” says the Lord. 11 “Many nations shall be joined to the Lord in that day, and they shall become My people. And I will dwell in your midst. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. 12 And the Lord will take possession of Judah as His inheritance in the Holy Land, and will again choose Jerusalem. 13 Be silent, all flesh, before the Lord, for He is aroused from His holy habitation!”

In my time with the Lord today the revelation of Moses Ark of bulrushes was given to me and it brought me all the way back to genesis to revelations as “Jesus is our Ark” or “Dwelling Place” and those that dwell in Him shall be protected from the pestilence, plagues, fires and destruction to come.

It was the Lord that “shut Noah in the Ark”, it was the Lord that delivered Moses from the death of Pharaoh as an infant, it was the Lord who slew the giants and kings for David and it is the Lord who will keep us from the onslaught of our enemies and the coming destruction.

I hope you have been enlightened, encouraged and edified to “stand firm” in Spirit and Truth and witness the hand of the Lord in your life and redemption.

Isaiah 66:14–24 (NKJV)

The Reign and Indignation of God

14 When you see this, your heart shall rejoice,

And your bones shall flourish like grass;

The hand of the Lord shall be known to His servants,

And His indignation to His enemies.

15 For behold, the Lord will come with fire

And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,

To render His anger with fury,

And His rebuke with flames of fire.

16 For by fire and by His sword

The Lord will judge all flesh;

And the slain of the Lord shall be many.

17 “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,

To go to the gardens

After an idol in the midst,

Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse,

Shall be consumed together,” says the Lord.

18 “For I know their works and their thoughts. It shall be that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. 19 I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 And I will also take some of them for priests and Levites,” says the Lord.

22 “For as the new heavens and the new earth

Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,

“So shall your descendants and your name remain.

23 And it shall come to pass

That from one New Moon to another,

And from one Sabbath to another,

All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.

24 “And they shall go forth and look

Upon the corpses of the men

Who have transgressed against Me.

For their worm does not die,

And their fire is not quenched.

They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”

METHODOLOGY AND TRADITIONS

/in , , , , , , /by

METHODOLOGY AND TRADITIONS

Methodology and traditions are absent of the Holy Spirit because it is the Holy Spirit that has the power and inspiration to do or perform a certain thing or act and not a method or tradition. The seven sons of Sceva copied a method and we know how that turned out for them. The devil and those who are his like to teach methods or formulas because it doesn’t require being led and empowered by the Lord. The sons of God are led and empowered by the Spirit of God. Isn’t the “sinners prayer” a method also? Preaching the gospel in Spirit and Truth reveals and demonstrates the POWER OF GOD unto salvation there was no “sinners prayer”. In the book of Acts it was the Holy Spirit that added to the church. There was no mention of a sinner’s prayer it was Godly Spiritual Conviction of the heart that rendered repentance and admittance of our fallen nature and the absolute need for the Lord’s forgiveness and Lordship leading us in the ways of HIS righteousness and truth.

It’s as if Catholicism has entered the church of Christ Jesus and the method of repentance is going to a “confessional” and doing what a priest tells you to do and praying prayers for forgiveness. The priest cannot forgive your sins! So ask yourself who is being empowered by the sinner’s prayer, it is likely the pastor is being exalted because you are doing and following your pastor. The pastor then under the inspiration of the devil receives the glory by a prideful spirit as if his prayer got you saved. Jesus is omitted and circumvented. The sinners prayer does not convict you of sin it is the Holy Spirit. Where in Acts 2 does Peter say repeat this prayer? Peter is giving them the Gospel in Spirit and Truth just as Paul said that he preached Christ Crucified!

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.”

Romans 8:14 (NKJV)

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

Acts 19:11–16 (NKJV)

Miracles Glorify Christ

11 Now God worked unusual miracles by the hands of Paul, 12 so that even handkerchiefs or aprons were brought from his body to the sick, and the diseases left them and the evil spirits went out of them. 13 Then some of the itinerant Jewish exorcists took it upon themselves to call the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, “We exorcise you by the Jesus whom Paul preaches.” 14 Also there were seven sons of Sceva, a Jewish chief priest, who did so.

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

16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of that house naked and wounded.

Romans 1:16–17 (NKJV)

The Just Live by Faith

16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”

Much of what people consider the assembly referenced as the church of Christ Jesus is nothing more than a Hollywood presentation appealing to your emotions, itchy ears and fallen nature because the Spirit of God does not exalt any human. The Spirit of God only testifies of Christ Jesus and exalts Christ Jesus in Spirit and Truth. It’s no wonder food and drink are allowed in sanctuaries these days as church today resembles a movie theater and void of the desire and preaching of Spirit and Truth and the gospel on holiness!

When you preach in Spirit and Truth and the gospel of holiness you are preaching Christ Jesus so people will follow and desire Christ Jesus this is why sin is not address and holiness is not preached so you will follow a wolf in sheep’s clothing and NOT the Living God Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 6:11–7:1 (NKJV)

Be Holy

11 O Corinthians! We have spoken openly to you, our heart is wide open. 12 You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections. 13 Now in return for the same (I speak as to children), you also be open.

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.