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Immunity: You are what you eat. A Bird's Eye View of a Galaxy Collision
What appears as a bird's head, leaning over to snatch up a tasty meal, is a striking example of a galaxy collision in NGC 6745. This is large spiral galaxy, with its nucleus still intact, apparently peering at the smaller passing galaxy (nearly out of the field of view at lower right), while a bright blue beak and bright whitish-blue top feathers show the distinct path taken during the smaller galaxy's journey. These galaxies did not merely interact gravitationally as they passed one another, they actually collided. The Bird's Head galaxy, as it is called, is actually feeding off the elemental sustenance that resulted from the collision of one galaxy with another galaxy, and in so doing, new stars were reproduced each having its own gravitational sphere of influence. The depicted bright blue beak and feathery areas are where the hottest new births took place. In the law of returns, perhaps one of the morals is in the old adage, "You are what you eat". Let's continue to explore this saying, and draw from it another great mystery of life out of death. You are what you eat.Truly, Truly, of Absolute TRUTH, I Say unto you, unless you Eat the Flesh of the Son of Man/Adam, and Drink His Blood, you have No LIFE in you. Man does not live by (earthly) bread only, but by every Word that proceeds out of the Mouth of Yahweh God does man live. (See Deuteronomy 8 verse 1 thru 4, and Matthew 4 verse 3 thru 4.) But, -- has our Holy Yahweh God changed His mind, and the Power of His Word become as the grass of the field? Of course not! For I AM the LORD, I change not; therefore you sons of Jacob are not consumed. (Malachi 3 verse 6.) And the voice said, Cry. And he said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof (flesh) is as the flower of the field: The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows upon it: Surely the people is grass (flesh). The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God shall stand forever. (Isaiah 40 verse 6 thru 8.) Yes, it is we that are the perishing grass of the field that are swayed with the divisive winds of intellectual leaven that ferments out of the mouth of the prince of death. From the Garden to the present, it is the serpent and the destroyer of faith and souls, subtlety repeating the challenging and mocking question, "Did the Lord God really say -------?" And so the flesh of man is swayed back and forth by every wind of doctrine. Even Balaam understood the absolute righteousness of Yahweh God, for he prophesies: Yahweh God is not a man that He should lie; neither the Son of Man that He should repent: Has He (Yahweh God) said, and shall He not do it? Or has He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Behold, I have received commandment to bless: and He has blessed and I cannot reverse it. (Numbers 23 verse 19 thru 20.) The Holy Righteousness of the Eternal Yahweh God Almighty is not moved by the vacillating grass of the field. Please take notice of the distinctions in the green linked word for "Man", for in Hebrew it is "Adam".
Christ Jesus is the Genetic Son of Adam/Man through
Adam's wife
named
Ishshah, which means Woman. But, how is it that the wild grass that withers and fades away, has by man's edict and institutional dogma, annulled the Lord's Holy WORD of LIFE that Yahweh God provides to the believers IN the Body of Christ Jesus? The vital spiritual weapons of our warfare, are found IN the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and should be integral through out the One Body of Jesus Christ, to the pulling down of the strongholds of sin and death, but Man's unbelief has rendered our mighty weapons IN Yahweh God to be inert for so many. Within all of the church assemblies, we each love to have it our own way, and our way is the way of the flesh. And now Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace, witnessing the TRUTH of the WORD'S of His only Begotten Son Christ Jesus, are quenched, for the called prophets have wilted back into their seats of comfort, and the crier for repentance, is silenced. Contrary to the WORD of Yahweh GOD, the exclusive doctrines and traditions of men, have created stumbling blocks of iniquity that have diffused the power of the peoples' faith in the WORD of our GOD. Again, without the leading of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit with His Living Sword of TRUTH, then Faith in the WORD of GOD is darkened by the doctrines of disobedient men, taught by unbelieving pulpit teachers. Sin with its death never repents, but remains stubbornly affixed in the shadows of demonic deception, for willful sin hides itself from the healing Light and scalpel of the TRUTH of the WORD of Yahweh God Almighty. The Lord Christ Jesus is the Chief Physician of our souls, and He alone provides the antidote for our acknowledged sin through His LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's New Covenant. Unbelief walks in its own path that is the way of death; unless perchance the unbelieving fool stumbles over their own self corruption and into the speculative wonder of the why of it all! None of us humans are immune to sin's distorted and vain philosophies that can exist in any church. Sin's very nature of death separates the people of God into separatist institutions, and into religious sects of exclusive cultural doctrines that dictates, "Its my way or hit the highway." You don't have to think about it for very long, for no doubt Satan from the beginning, is the malignant originator of the methodology of divide and conquer. It is painfully evident, that we are not all of one mind and saying the same essential things that pertain to the one Perfect Faith in the Eternal Holy Yahweh God of creation. Yahweh God IN His Holy WORD of TRUTH, has given His Promised Gift of LIFE through His Spirit of Grace to the believers IN the Body Jesus Christ. Do You not know that You are already dead because of sin!
All who would hold to the TRUTH that is Jesus Christ, would become more than conquerors IN the risen Body of the Lord Christ Jesus. 's Holy Spirit of Grace is given to His Ecclesia through His only begotten Son, Yeshua haMashiach, too develop within our souls, a greater love and obedience to Father Yahweh God Almighty. Yahweh's Holiness can only be satisfied by the death of an innocence Son of Man. therefore Yeshua Emanuel, the Son of Adam gave Himself to Yahweh God for the sin and death of the first Man and his kind, and revealed that He had conquered man kind's sin for He bodily rose from sin's death, in the Power of the LIFE of His Holy Father Yahweh God. The Savior of Man kind, is Jesus Christ and He is the Only WAY, the Only TRUTH and the Only LIFE of men, Who leads His Body of believers through His Perfect Love and Obedience in to the Presence of His Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty, for Jesus/Yeshua is our only Mediator and our High Priest Who brings believer's through the veil of His Body into His Father's Throne Room of Grace. (See Luke 24 verse 49.) However, being justified in their religious eyes, the Roman and Orthodox Catholic Churches, through the inherited Roman traditions of human idolatry, are tap dancing around several all important issues of Salvation, and remain disobedient, without true repentance for their vain idolatrous traditions of the flesh. In elevated pride these sanctimonious churches remain defiant to the TRUTH that IS the Personage of the WORD of GOD, and now their un-repented rebellious sin has led them to more iniquity that festers in the flesh of their idolatrous followers. You shall have no other gods before Me. You shall not make for yourselves any graven image or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that which is in the earth beneath or in the waters of the earth. (See Deuteronomy 5 verse 1 thru 9 and Exodus 20, verse 3 thru 4.) Meanwhile the multi-fractionated Protestants attend their own individual dances, to the tunes of Calvin, for they are continually waltzing around predestination, and end their jig with an out of step once saved always saved (OSAS). Oops, sorry, but the fractionated (OSAS), have stepped on their own holy toes. Don't you know that according to the OSAS's doctrine that their one time confession is good forever? Witness how Paul speaks of his fellow worker, the man Demas as pertaining to his saving faith. (See Colossians 4 verse 14.) No doubt, Demas was once saved, but Paul declares in his second letter to Timothy of his disappointment in Demas and perhaps others: For Demas has forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia. The writings are not clear about the unsullied belief of the latter two, but Paul says that only Luke is with him. Paul continues in his writing to Timothy advising him of his first trial, that no one stood with me (Paul), but all men abandoned me (Paul): I pray to God that He does not lay it to their charge. (See 2nd Timothy 4 verse 10-11 and verse 16.) Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. (1st John 2 verse 15.) For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them to not have known The WAY of Righteousness that after they have known it, to turn from the Holy Commandment delivered unto them. (2nd Peter 2 verse 20 thru 22.) I don't have the means to speculate as to the end reward of Demas, but I would be pleased to hear from any of the spokes persons of the Once Saved Always Saved dictum. Who will provide sound Scriptural Doctrine that would substantiate their claims, and refute those in all of these writings. But, consider before hand, you that were once save, that your own sin will find you out, and then what do you do with your own revealed rebellion. The apostle Paul doesn't quibble about the power of the Law of Sin and Death, for he confirms the Word of God as TRUTH that reveals death by sin: Then do we make void the Law through Faith? [Yahweh] God forbid! Yea, we establish the Law. (See Romans 3 verse 29 thru 31.) If you are dead in your sin because of the Condemnation of the Good, Holy and Just Ten Commandments of Yahweh God, then in your ignorance of the Law of Sin and Death, how will you find Yahweh God's New Covenant LIFE IN Christ Jesus, the TRUTH? With their doctrinal position of the OSAS, the now dysfunctional administers of the multi-fractionated protestant churches, see no need for receiving Yahweh God's renewing Communion New Covenant Grace IN the LIFE Giving Blood of Christ Jesus. Out of their pompous idolatry, the one and done theology of the OSAS, have dismissed the need for God's Holy Spirit of Grace, for God's Spirit of TRUTH renews the core of God's saving Faith to those who live IN The WAY, The TRUTH, and The LIFE of God's Only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. So then because you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew you out of My Mouth. Perhaps the disputer was once IN the Body of Christ, but now what dried up pond are you floundering about, (See Revelation 3 verse 15 thru 20.) We all should be thankful for Yahweh God's Mercy IN His Messiah Yeshua, but His everlasting Mercy is directed toward the faithful that fear the Almighty Yahweh God and keep His Covenant WORD by remembering to honor His Commandments through His Spirit of Grace within His Only Begotten Son. Jesus the Messiah of Holy Yahweh God Almighty (See Psalm 103 verse 11 and 17 thru 18.) It is better to Trust IN the Lord, than to put confidence in man. (See Psalm 117 verse 8 thru 9.) Let Godly Wisdom Prevail, There is no life in mankind, accept IN the LIFE of Christ Jesus. The apostle Paul, in his 1st epistle to the Corinthian church, chapter 10, encapsulates Israel's struggles in the wilderness, where many were destroyed because of their lustful desires to participate in their evil choices. (Read 1st Corinthians 10 verse 1 thru 10.) Now all these things happened to many of Israel for our example, for they are written for our admonitions, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore let him that thinks he stands, take heed lest he fall. We are not of them that draw back into perdition. but of them that believe in the saving of the soul. For Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Wherefore, we fully believe in the unseen TRUTH of the WORD of GOD. Now, our fellowship with Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty is to be as joint members IN the One Body of Christ, through Yahweh God's unseen Holy Spirit of Grace. In our times of trouble, Almighty Yahweh God does not make 'a' way of escape, as in an enigmatic way of escape, but His WORD makes it clear in His New Covenant that the only WAY of escape is through the LIFE giving Blood of His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ, for He died for our sins of death. Christ Jesus says emphatically: "I AM The WAY, The TRUTH, and The LIFE of men. No one comes to the Father except by ME." The
Cup of Blessing, which we
bless, is it not the Communion of the Blood of
Jesus Christ? The Communion Blood of Jesus Christ is eternally efficacious, for His Holy Spirit of Grace provides the only WAY of escape from our sinful earthly entanglements. (Read with understanding 1st Corinthians 10 verse 13 thru 16.) Yahweh God's unseen Grace is in the LIFE Blood of Christ Jesus that was poured out of the Body of Christ for the remission of the sins of the flesh of true believers. My WORD shall not return to Me void, but (HE) shall accomplish that which I please. (See Isaiah 55 verse 10 thru 11.) By their fruits you shall know them. Not every one that says unto Me. Lord, Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: But those that do the Will of My Father, Who is in Heaven. Many will say to Me in that day: Lord, Lord, have we not done many wonderful works in Thy Name. And the Lord will declare unto them: Get away from Me, you who practice iniquity, for I never knew you! (See Matthew 7 verse 15 thru 23. Yashua haMashiach is Holiness Personified and in His Holiness it would be impossible for Him to intimidatly know of the iniquitous dead. You are the salt of the earth: But if the salt has lost his savor, how shall it be salted again? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. (Matthew 5 verse13.) To the lukewarm pew sitters, the Lord of Salvation Declares: I will vomit you out of My Mouth. Those that continue in their sinful ways while proclaiming that they are saved, produce an extremely disgusting taste in the Mouth of the TRUTH of Holy God Almighty. Those that think they are blessed of God because of their riches, are blinded by their possessions that are piled up behind the door of the world. The Comforter that is One IN the TRUTH of Yahweh God, further Declares: Those that I love, I rebuke and chasten. Therefore be zealous and repent: For Behold I stand at the door (of your heart) and knock: If any man hear My Voice and open the door (of his heart), (then) I will come in to him and will Sup with him and he with Me. To him that overcomes (the deceit of sin, I will grant to sit in My Throne, even as I also overcame and I AM sat down with MY Father IN His Throne. If you have ears to hear, then hear what the Spirit of Christ is saying. (See Revelation 3 verse 15 thru 22.) There are so many false prophets that lead their sitting people astray with their own misleading vanity. Those that eat of the pulpit prophet's pernicious delights will all fall into their same ditch of vanity. These fleshly prophets pick and choose their own scriptures to satisfy their own itching ears. Then in their pride, they boast of their own wisdom to those who have like itching ears, and call for justifying shouts of amen's and alleluias. Therefore, the directives of all the Scripture's 'there-fore's' that proceeded the preacher's singled out clause of exclusivity, are never brought to the attention of the people of the pews. The disciple is not above his Master nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the disciple that he be like his Master, and the servant like his Lord. Therefore, whosoever shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father Who is in heaven. But whosoever will deny Me (and MY Words) before men, him will I also deny before My Father, Who is IN Heaven. (See Matthew 10 verse 24 thru 33.) What is the extent of our denial? Have you not heard of the quasi idiom; "Actions speak louder than words"? For what does it profit a man if he boast of his faith and has no works to prove his faith. Can faith save him? Faith without works is dead, for it is alone, (wallowing in it's self). Yes a man may say, he has faith, but I have works: Show me your faith without the evidence of works, and I will show you my faith, by the evidence of my works. (See James 2 verse 17 thru 23.) But do you not know O vain man, that faith without works is dead? You are (to be) the Light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle and put it under a basket, but put it on a candlestick and it gives light to all that are in the house. So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father Who is in heaven. (Matthew 5 verse14 thru 16.) The truth of the matter resonates in our vacillating vanity, for 'words are cheap', and the all-knowing Eternal Holy Yahweh God is not mocked with empty words of human flesh. (See Galatians 6 verse 6 thru 8.) However, the Covenant WORD of the Lord Yeshua/Jesus Christ is followed with His Covenant Work on the cross of Calvary: For His Selfless action speak clearly that His Word is TRUTH. The sinless Christ died once for our sin and death, so that we would be free from our self-idolatry that speaks only for itself. The Eternal Yahweh God is not mocked with our vanity, for He knows all things in His creation that began with His creation of the fabric of time. The freewill actions of our flesh speaks loudly in the Sight of the Almighty Yahweh God, for they either deny or confirm the TRUTH of the Salvation Word of Almighty Yahweh God. Yahweh God knows the weakness of our flesh, and His New Covenant is IN the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ that provides the Only Way for our escape from the entanglements of the sin that so easily entraps the unbeliever and the believer in death. "Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest". (See Matthew 11 verse 28 thru 30) Christ Jesus, Himself, as the expressed WORD of His Father Yahweh the Almighty God, declared at His Passover Table on the first day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread that His Communion Blood IS the Only LIFE giving Blood of Yahweh God's New Covenant given for the remission of the sins of repentant believers. The WORD of Yahweh God is One Spirit, and Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace is One with the Water and LIFE giving Covenant Blood of Christ Jesus that He shed on Calvary. The TRUTH of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty is constant with Christ's LIFE giving Blood that is received at His Table of Grace for the remission of mankind's fleshly sins of death that are confessed in true repentance by believers. Yahweh God's Promised Gift of His Spirit of Grace, brings with His Presence, the Messiah's Holy LIFE in His Fellowship Blood, even to the vain sins of those, who, in their hypocrisy, claim to adhere to Sola Scriptura. Yahweh God is not glorified in our confusions and hypocrisies that are rooted in the vanity of fallen flesh. The Resurrected WORD of Yahweh God sings out to believers: Preach of repentance with the remission of sin in Christ's Name of Salvation to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. (See Luke 24 verse 45 thru 48.) Yahweh God's Spirit of cleansing Grace through the LIFE Giving Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ relieves the conscience of repentant believers from our errors of the flesh. You can be sure that if we are not IN agreement with Yahweh God's Spirit of Communion LIFE IN Christ Jesus then we will continue to eat of our own confusions, as we keep on dancing in sin's way of death. If that, which is called by Almighty Yahweh God to be the One Ecclesia/church in the One Body of Christ, is splintered into thousands of separate sects that are squabbling over the essentials of faith, then where does that leave those without the church. Those in darkness, fail to see any light coming forth from the actions of sinners who say they are saved by faith alone. Yes, but is the substance of faith IN Christ Jesus On appearances, the multi-fractionated ideologies of all the churches seem to be lacking in the definition of the One Body of Christ. Sin, as always, separates, divides and kills within its fleshly nature of self will: And the Light of the world, the Lord Jesus Christ cried from the utmost darkness of the cross: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do". It is impossible for the Living Christ Jesus to be divided, and fractionated among the many religious Christian sects, and neither is Jesus exclusive to the larger institutions of mock superficial piety with their segmented superiority. For, there is One Body, and One Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, One God and Father of all, Who is above all, and through all and in you all. (Ephesians 4 verse 4 thru 6.) The One Yahweh God and Father of all is One Spirit and not two spirits. There is only one Everlasting Covenant, given by the One Everlasting Yahweh God, where by each and every member, within the One Body of Jesus Christ, would be, through their obedient faith, set apart from sin, by Yahweh God's Gift of His Holy Spirit that is One with the Sacrificial LIFE Blood of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Through faith, IN the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, we rebellious sinners have entered into Yahweh God's New Covenant of LIFE through baptism into His One Body, where by the Lord our Salvation would maintain each member's sanctity with the Holy Provisions of His Word of Grace. For this is My Blood of the New Covenant that is shed for many for the remission of sin. (Matthew 26 verse 27 thru 28.) If we say we have no sin, then we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not in us. (1st John 1 verse 8.) Our Holy Almighty Yahweh God has not changed, and His Spirit of Prophecy with the testimony of His Son Jesus Christ (Yeshua Messiah), remains the same yesterday, today and forever. (See Revelation 19 verse 9 thru 11.) The Constant Word of the Universe says: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My Words shall not pass away. For Truly I say unto you: Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the Law (TORAH), till all be fulfilled. (See Matthew 24 verse 35, and Matthew 5 verse 18.) The Spirit of Yahweh God's WORD is immutable and shall stand forever. Yahweh God's WORD remains active and alive today, even as when the Spirit of the Lord Jesus prophesied to the Seven Churches of Revelation. The Spirit of the Lord will bring correction, and His correction will speak strongly to our unfaithfulness, for His faithful Call is to those already marked for Salvation and for their return to our first Love. (See Revelation 2 verse 3.) The Everlasting Covenant is in the LIFE that is IN the Blood of Jesus Christ, which we have entered into by unadulterated faith in the WORD of Yahweh God. That faith is from Yahweh God of the Living WORD, and not with the gods of controversy that are born out of the pride of controlling sin that gives birth to death. If the flesh of man is arguing with the flesh of others, over that which is spiritually discerned, then man's faith in the Almighty Yahweh God is disrupted into the flesh's confusion. For the Spirit we have received is not the world’s spirit, but Yahweh God’s Spirit, helping us to recognize the gifts He has given to us. We speak of these, not in words of human wisdom, but in Words taught by Yahweh's Spirit, thus interpreting spiritual things in spiritual terms. (1st Corinthians 2 verse 13 thru 14. ) The True Light of Yahweh God's WORD forever shines, sending forth the rays of His Infinite TRUTH within the hearts of the faithful hearer of His WORD of TRUTH. 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My Words are Spirit and They are LIFE! Truly Truly, of Absolute TRUTH, I Say unto you, unless you Eat the Flesh of the Son of Man/Adam, and Drink His Blood, you have No LIFE in you. In the early morning of May 25, of the year 2000, I was asleep on my bed, when in a night vision I found myself standing in front of a man, who was about 30 feet from me and on the same floor level. The person, I was looking at was an ordinary, baldheaded man past middle age, and was clothed in priestly garments of a white robe with a green tunic. NOTE: The color of green universally speaks of new life, of budding and living vegetation; it inspires hope, with the renewal of life and energy. The color white represents light, purity, innocence, joy, triumph and glory. Besides the baldheaded man in priestly garments, I knew that other people were in that room with me. All of us were standing in a lineup in the forefront of that dimly lit room, however from my central position, I did not look around to see who was there. The only light that was in the room was directly over and surrounding that one priestly person standing in what would be the altar portion of the building. My fixation was on that solitary person and the chalice he was embracing with both hands held close to his chest. It was only a moment into the vision, when He extended both arms straight forward, while still holding the chalice with both of his hands; and then he opened his mouth proclaiming very boldly: “Behold the Living Sacrifice”. In the next moment, he turned to his right, to about 45 degrees and began to pan the room from his right to left with his outstretched arms while he continued to hold the chalice with both hands. On my far left I heard an "Ohhhhh", then an "ooh ooh" in quick succession. Momentarily, I thought to myself, surely the communicants were being blessed, but that was the only sounds I heard, as I watched the priest slowly turn in my direction. Just before he pointed the chalice towards me, I began to see a multicolored light emanating from the chalice and extending its reach all the way towards me. I was anticipating a blessing, with answers to questions concerning the Communion Blood of Jesus Christ. But, when the multicolored Light came upon me, my head was driven backwards, for I was pierced through the forehead by that beam of Light. Instantaneously there came a silent explosion of white light within my mind, and I grunted out "Oh ohhh": Then in less than a moment, I was stabbed in and through the abdomen and chest by that same piercing white Light, and I cried out “Oooh ooh”! Startled and gravely discomforted, I found myself fully awakened, in a seated position, clutching my belly as if severely wounded and pondering the experience with bewilderment. The dream lasted, I suppose, all of 15 or 20 seconds. However, after the awakening experience, I fell asleep quickly. When I awoke at the appropriate time and well rested, I immediately remembered the bold words, “Behold the Living Sacrifice!” From that day and afterwards, I began to understand the dreams relevancy to the Holy Word's of Jesus Christ and of the inestimable value that God's Living Covenant in the Communion Blood of Jesus provides for the Lord's Church Body: Fear not: I AM the First and the Last: I AM He that lives and was dead; and behold, I AM alive for evermore, Amen: And I have the keys of hell and of death. (Revelation 1 verse 17 thru 18.) Consequently He is able for all time to save those who draw near to God through Him, since He forever lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest, Holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens. (Hebrews 7 verse 25 thru 26.) I AM the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE of Men: No one comes to the Father except by Me! The following scriptural texts are significant to the vision's understanding. Others will follow. Seek you first the Kingdom of God and His Righteousness. Therefore, I beseech you, brethren by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable (logical) service. And be not conformed to this world: But be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect Will of God”. (Romans 12 verse 1 thru 2.) First we are to present our bodies as living sacrifices: For every sacrifice to God is salted. But if that which is salted shall loose its savor, how then is it to be salted? It is good for nothing and is to be cast out and to be trodden under the foot of men. (See Matthew 5 verse 13.) For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, according as God has dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office (praxis (more precisely, function or doing) derived from prasso): So then, we being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; (Romans 12 verse 1 thru 6. ) Unfortunately the King James Version of the Bible incorrectly uses an inflated interpretation of the Greek word "praxis" to mean office (of significance) rather than the more correct lowly meaning of function, which would be natural to the differentiated cellular members within the whole body.
Jesus said;
Verily, verily, I say unto
you: If a man
keep My Word, he shall never see death. The very Love of God constrains His people, so that in our self examination and repentance, we would not be condemned with this world of darkness. (See 1st Corinthians 11 verse 31-33.) The Grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Love of God, and the Communion of the Holy Ghost be with you all. Amen. (2nd Corinthians 13 verse 14.)
Standing in the darkness with a representative portion of the church, the sharpness of the Holy Spirit's Sword of piercing rebuke, made it abundantly clear to me that the contents of the cup, which the priest proclaimed "to be" the Living Sacrifice, absolutely contained the very Spirit and LIFE of the Word of Holy God that is One with the sacrificial Communion Blood of our Savior, Jesus Christ. (See John 6 verse 63.) The Holy Spirit of God, through His sharp two-edged Sword of Truth, very dramatically emphasized the two parts of my being that are influenced by the Spirit of the precious Blood of Jesus Christ. First, there was the head representing the mind with its conscience, or more precisely the spirit of man resonating in the confines of the heart, that being the core thoughts, emotions and intentions within the mind of man, whether for good or bad: And secondly, the essence being the soul with the essence of life within the man. (See The Soul and the LIFE.) For Scripture says; So take the helmet of salvation, and the Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God: (See Ephesians 6 verse 13 thru 18.) For the Word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to do. (Hebrews 4 verse 12 thru 13.) For "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve." (Jeremiah 17 verse 10.) For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted (chastened) for your faults (sins), you shall take it patiently? But if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you then take it patiently, this is acceptable with God. (See 1st Peter 2 verse 19 thru 21.) From the Song of Moses, we read: See now that I, even I AM He, and there is no god with Me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of My Hand. I will whet My glittering (My lighting) Sword, and My Hand shall take hold of judgment. (See Deuteronomy 32 verse 39 thru 42.) Did the I AM that I AM really Say? I kill and I make alive: I wound and I heal! In that moment of visionary time, I both witnessed and experienced extra-dimensionally, the Lightning of the Living Sword of the Spirit of Grace, pierce through the fleshly part of my mind with its self centered spirit, and then into the core of the body, where the very soul of my being would exist in the flowing blood within the heart. The experience left an indelibly deep impression within me, for, it was as if I had been slain with that multicolored Sword of Light, and yet, I awoke from the experience, to live. Yet not I, but Christ lives in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the Faith of the Son of God, Who Loved me, and gave Himself for me, (See Galatians 2 verse 20.) For even unto this were you called: Because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps, Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His Mouth: Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him (Yahweh God) that judges righteously: Who His Own Self bare our sins in His Own Body on the tree, that we, being dead to (because of) sins, should live unto righteousness: by Whose stripes you were healed, for you were as sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. (See 1st Peter 2 verse 21 thru 25.) For it was by the stripes applied to the flesh of Christ Jesus that we were initially healed from the power of sin and death, for in the past we were as sheep going astray, but now in His search and calling for us, we have heard His Voice and returned unto the care of our Shepherd and Bishop of our souls. (1st Peter 2 verse 25.) (Jesus says My Doctrine is not Mine, but His that sent Me) A Warning from Holy Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH: Nothing in the vanity of our human flesh wants to hear of the possibility of Holy Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH bringing correction to our straying unbelief in His Living WORD of TRUTH. So Yes, the Wisdom in Yahweh God's justice will allow for sin to administer stripes to any one of His wayward sheep. So then in the wounding repercussions of sin, correction can be made and there should be repentance from sin's strangle hold. Now the Physician of our souls would be able to heal those that return to His keeping.This generation, is like all past generation's of adulterating self exultation, for when left to ourselves, we will exchange the TRUTH of Yahweh God for a lie that accommodates our own self centered desires, leaving ourselves without accountability to the Almighty for our own illicit actions. Now the TRUTH of the WORD of Yahweh God is seen as foolishness, and made subject to philosophical debates among the many self absorbed scholars of philosophy, who, in their natural pride, will argue over what they think Yahweh God, might have meant, and yet in the flesh of their own idolatrous minds, they may never come to the knowledge of the TRUTH. When the Supreme Council of the Lord is dismissed as foolishness then every man will make his own way and do what is right in their own eyes that satisfies the desires of their calling flesh. Witness for yourselves: There are many religious leaders that have cultivated a mind of unbelief that profanes the unfailing WORD of Yahweh God, and now they breed their own unbelief within the itching ears of their followers. The cultivated unbelief of the naturally gifted mind of a charismatic leader creates stumbling blocks that naturally deviate from Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH. The naive may end up following a completely skewed perception that departs from the only TRUTH of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty. The TRUTH of Yahweh God can not be dismissed as innocuous, for Christ Jesus/Yeshua is the Personification of the TRUTH of Yahweh God, and is none other than the Righteous Judge of the whole earth. Jesus Christ, the very WORD of His Father Yahweh God, is One with the King of His created universe, where all things in His universe are held together with the Power of the Infinite WORD of the Almighty God. (See Ephesians 3 verse 9.)(Consider the challenges for today Romans 1 verse 21 thru 25.) Jesus Christ, the TRUTH of the WORD of His Father God, says: My sheep hear My Voice and I know them, and they follow Me. (See Mark 8 verse 38 and John 10 verse 26 thru 27.) David, the king of Israel, understood the correcting and yet comforting Voice of his Shepherd, for David wrote in Psalm 23: Thy Rod and Thy Staff they comfort me. Yes, Jesus the TRUTH of Yahweh God, knows all of His sheep, and in knowing them, He understands that they all can be distracted and led astray. There is a Rod in His Hand that He will use for correction, so that none of His sheep should be lost in the briars to be devoured by the wolves. Yahweh Father Yahweh God Almighty is ever faithful to His Covenant WORD of Salvation Grace IN His Son Christ Jesus, even though we are not ever faithful to Him. Therefore Yahweh God, through His Grace IN His Spirit of Holiness, will correct His Covenant people of our waywardness, for in His Righteous Judgment, He will allow our own retained sins of the flesh to find us out. Yahweh God allows the pains and sorrows of sin to afflict our flesh, so as to bring us to repentance, and then His Holy Spirit of Grace will set us on Yahweh God's path WAY of TRUTH that allows us to follow in the footsteps of the LIFE that is His Beloved Son, Jesus Christ. For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on Him, but also to suffer (that is to endure the pains of sin) for His sake; (Philippians 1 verse 29.) While this understanding is not popular in the fleshly, faith based ministries of name and claim it, nevertheless, Yahweh God, in the trying of our faith, gives unction to sin's administration of stripes of correction that are appropriate for the misdeeds and misconceptions of His wayward sheep. (See Luke 12 verse 42 thru 49.) The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, Thou will not despise. (Psalms 51 verse 17.) For if we would judge our selves, we should not be judged, but when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world. (See verses for Chastening) Wherefore, my brethren, when you come together to eat (of the Lord's Table Provisions for LIFE in Christ) wait one for another. (See 1st Corinthians 11 verse 26 thru 34.) The Body of Christ, in this world, is working far less than its fullest potential to glorify the Almighty Yahweh God, for its sitting members embrace the darkness of their own self centered sins, rather than being centered in an unadulterated Love of their Creator. (See 1st Corinthians 12 verse 4 thru 27.) The Table of the Lord Jesus Christ, is to be set with His Provisions of Faith that are ascribed in the WORD of God, so that Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace can lead all of the baptized members within the death of Christ, into the sanctified unity of the One Holy Body of the Lord Jesus Christ. The divisive sin's of our flesh shall not have dominion over the people of Yahweh God, for we are not to be led by the flesh of our fallen humanity, but by the leading of the One Holy Spirit of the Only Yahweh God of the Living, for the Almighty raised up our Savior the Man, Christ Jesus from the dead of mankind's sin. In Communion, when we acknowledge our failures to our merciful Savior, then Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace is faithful and just to cleanse and absolve us of our unrighteousness. No chastening of the Lord for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. (See Hebrew 12 verse 5 thru 11.) I AM the WAY, I AM the TRUTH, I AM the LIFE of man, No one comes to the Father except by Me. Now, if we that are the baptized faithful members within Jesus Christ and have willingly given the submission of our wills to that of Yahweh God's Covenant Will in the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, then are we made freed from any condemnation of our failures in the thoughts and actions of our corruptible flesh. With the acknowledgement of the present sins of the flesh, known and unknown, then with our worshipful unity with Yahweh God's Spirit of Holiness, then our collective prayers and petitions are not hindered by our motions in the flesh, so that now we may bring our righteous petitions into the Throne Room of Yahweh God's Holiness. Holy Yahweh Father God is pleased to honor our righteous petitions IN Christ that will glorify His Name in all the world. The Man Christ Jesus, is our High Priest, and is to be at the forefront of all of the individual members, so that He may raise up the saved into His stature within the One Man Christ Jesus. I AM the Light of the world. They that follow Me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the Light of LIFE. As living members in the Grace of Christ Jesus, we are called to walk IN His Light as the Light of the world, and as His representatives of Light, we are no longer to be a party to the darkness of this world. Through Yahweh God's Gift of His Spirit of abiding Faith IN Christ Jesus, the darkness of sin is no longer to continue to have dictating dominion over our souls and minds that are housed in the wretchedness of our fleshly being. For he that suffers in the flesh ceases from sin. Make no mistake; our own sins are a stench in the Nostrils of Yahweh God Almighty, and produces havoc on the sensitivities of our self centered flesh. Yahweh God will use our own sins and those of others, like a rod, to correct our unrighteous thoughts and judgmental behaviors against others. (See Psalm 139 verse 23 thru 24.) In the darkness of this world, we are yet subject to our own trials of unbelief, and also to the tribulations of the sins of others that are blinded in the darkness of this dying world. These things I have spoken unto you, that IN Me you might have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. (See John 8 verse 12, John 9 verse 5, Matthew 5 verse 14, John 16 verse 33.) Yahweh God's New Covenant of Grace, is within the Blood of Jesus Christ, and gives every one who lives by Yahweh God's Spirit of Faith within Christ Jesus, the assurance that Yahweh God's Spirit will faithfully be correcting the mistakes and curbing the passions of our flesh. The Spirit of Father God's Grace works within us with the Holy intent of increasing the virtues of Love's Righteousness that is within His Son Christ Jesus. (See 2nd Timothy 3 verse 16 thru 17.) Hereby we perceive the Love of God, because He (Jesus Christ, the Good Shepherd) laid down His LIFE for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. (1st John 3 verse 16.) Interestingly, the 1st Epistle of John Chapter 3 verse 16, numerically chimes together with John's Gospel, Chapter 3 verse 16, and so they do in TRUTH. Jesus, the Word of His Father God says: The Words I Speak to you are Spirit and They are LIFE. If we return to the above visionary dream, then we might see within the stunning outcry of the one person, along with mine, that Yahweh God's Holy Spirit was providing sufficient evidence that the vision was a true witness to the Eternal's Power IN Communion. Also, the One Spirit of Yahweh God was bearing witness, through the visionary dream, of the spiritual reality of sin's corrupting influence that remains in our physical body of flesh. For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the (condemnation of the) law, but under (God's) grace. (Romans 6 verse 14.) For Yahweh God's WORD of Promise, within His New Covenant in the Blood of Jesus Christ, is absolute TRUTH, for under His Grace in Christ Jesus, the Living Blood of Yahweh God Holy Spirit will cleanse and absolve His called people of their confessed sins of darkness. If we say we have no sin then we deceive ourselves and the TRUTH is not in us. But if we confess our sins, God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (See 1st John 1 verse 7 thru 10.) For the God of all Grace, Who has called us unto His Eternal Glory by Christ Jesus, that after you have suffered a while, make you perfect, established, strengthened and settle you. (See 1st Peter 5 verse 5 thru 11.) The piercing Light of Yahweh God's Sword of the Spirit, revealed the TRUTH of the Sanctifying Power of His unseen Spirit of the Holy Communion Blood of Jesus Christ. To be frank, I thought that all the others that were gathered in that room with me, would have responded to the Spirit of the Word of Yahweh God. However, only one other person with myself, had opened hearts to receive of the Lord's Provisions for renewing LIFE IN the Christ of God. Behold, I stand at the door and knock: If any man hear My Voice, and open the door, Then will I come into him, and will sup with him and he with Me. (See Revelation 2 verse 17 and chapter 3 verse 20.) In the dream, maybe there was only the two of us who continue to struggle with the unruliness of our own flesh. If the humility of a person's heart is not evident to Yahweh God, then the vanity of the flesh reigns in the communion rite designed by men, and not in the leading of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace and TRUTH. No man puts a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put on to fill the garment up, takes from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles (wine skins); else the bottles (wine skins) break, and the wine runs out, and the bottles (wine skins) perish: But they put new wine into new bottles, (wine skins) and both are preserved. (Matthew 9 verse 16 thru 17.) The True Provisions of LIFE are that which the Lord Alone Provides through Yahweh's Spirit of Grace. Tragically, so much of the churches, in their disunity, are dismissive of 1st John chapter 1 Verse 7 that speaks of the Communion/Fellowship that we are to have in the LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ. The darkness of our sins of the flesh, can be relieved with repentance, for they are to be put under the cleansing Blood of Jesus Christ, through Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace. In the cleansing of our spirits, then the Love of God is reign in the spirit of our minds, to the Glory of Yahweh God Almighty. Yahweh God is faithful to His Covenant Word that is sealed in the Sacrificial Blood of Jesus Christ, for the Grace that is in Christ's Blood will cleanse our yielded hearts and souls from the wants of sin that are insidious to our idolatrous flesh. For if we walk in the Light, as He is in the Light, we have fellowship one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ God's Son, cleanses us from [the weight of] all sin. Come unto Me, all you that labor and are heavy laden (with the guilt of sin), and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I AM meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light. (See Matthew 11 verse 25 thru 30.) These are the revealing WORDS of the Living Bread of LIFE Who came down from heaven to liberate man from their burden of guilt from sin. Prior to His call of Grace, the Lord Jesus had just rebuked the unbelieving in the Synagogue at Capernaum. (See Matthew 11 verse 22 thru 24.) Then you will find that the following Scripture is in concert with the same time as revealed in all of John's Gospel chapter 6; for it is a time for the Passover of Unleavened Bread. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank Thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because Thou has hid these things from the wise and prudent, and has revealed them unto babes. (See Matthew 11 verse 25 thru 27.) That which is hidden from natural eyes, is revealed to babes in the the Lord Jesus Christ as He says: Labor not for the food that perishes, but for the Food which endures unto everlasting LIFE, Which the Son of Man shall give unto you: For Him has Yahweh God the Father sealed [hid]. (See John 6 verse 26 thru 29.) Apparently, if the present unbelief and confusion continues in the churches' teaching on Holy Communion, then, there will be the absence of the TRUTH of the WORD of GOD, and those called to the TRUTH of Yahweh God will continue to languish in their pews. The desire of Yahweh God, is that the people heavily burdened in sin, would be given the opportunity to respond to Yahweh God's Sanctifying WORD of TRUTH IN His Holy Communion that removes the burden of confessed sin from the pew sitter's minds. (See James 1 verse 21 thru 24.) Holy Communion, by and through Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace, is intended to be only for Baptized believers, who are grieved in their sinfulness, and desire to follow the fullness of the TRUTH of the WORDS of their Chief Physician Christ Jesus. (See Matthew 9 verse 9 thru 13.) However, if the old clay vessels remain settled in their unbelief, then it would be very foolish to partake of Yahweh God's Holy Provisions of the Lamb of Yahweh God. The New Wine of the Spirit of Yahweh God is for the new created wine skins of True Faith born of the TRUTH of the Abiding Faith that is One with IN their Savior, Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah. The Infinite all-knowing Almighty Yahweh God knows from the beginning of His creation of time to its end, of those who belong to Him. Not one of us are justified in a perfunctory performance in Holy Communion. Holy Yahweh Lord God Almighty, has called us to humility and in His TRUTH we are to repent of our sins of the flesh, leaving the imprisoning chains of our sin and death, to dissolve under the Righteous Blood of God's Holy Son, Christ Jesus. Being One with the Spirit of Yahweh God, we will continue to trust in God Almighty's Faithful WORD, knowing that our souls and the spirit of our minds are IN His Holy Spirit's care. The prison doors are already opened, and His reproof through the covering Love of Yahweh God IN Christ Jesus will bring the redeemed into the perfection of His Love that passes all human understanding. Before this Communion visionary dream, and along with those visions in the chapter "Arise Shine", I initially saw Scripture in a singular perspective, relating only to the selfish sensitivities of my own person, and not to that which is necessary for the wholeness of all the members within the One Body of Jesus Christ. This visionary dream became a spiritual revelation or awakening of the spiritual heart of my mind's spirit and soul, and not applicable to the desires of one's own selfish flesh. Indeed, the blessing of the flesh that I might have desired or anticipated, did not take place, although this does not preclude Yahweh God from giving a healing to a condition within our physical bodies at His own wise discretion and purpose in glorifying His very own WORD, that is One IN Jesus Christ. Yahweh God is pleased to enlarge our Faith in Who He IS, and what He can do through His Spirit that resides within His obedient people of His Faith. That Faith IN Christ Jesus is not a faith that glories in the flesh of man that perishes along with its excesses. For the sons of Yahweh God are those that are led by the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God Almighty, and are crucifying the sinful will of the flesh. (See Galatians 5 verse 24 thru 25.) Without humility there is no repentance, without repentance there is no remission of sin, without the remission of sin there is no power of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit, for Yahweh God is Holy and not party to our sin. Believe thou not that I AM in the Father, and the Father in Me? The WORDS that I speak unto you I speak not of Myself: but The Father that dwells in Me; He [the Father] does the works. Believe Me; I AM in the Father, and the Father in Me: or else believe Me for the very works' sake. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believes in Me, the works that I do, shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto My Father. (John 14 verse 11 thru 12.) It is during the Lord's Passover Communion with Unleavened Bread, at His Table of New Covenant Grace that Jesus instructs His disciples in the WORD of His Father: The Father that dwells IN Me, He does the work. (first) If you live IN Me and (\second) My Words live within you, (third) Then you shall ask what you will (according to the sanctifying Word of God) and it shall be done for you. Yahweh God is glorified in a person's persistent Faith in His WORD. And then again Jesus/Yeshua say: Without Me you can do nothing! (John 15 verse 5.) When seeking the Grace of Yahweh God through a genuine Faith in the WORD of the Almighty God, then the members of the Body of Christ are to be strengthened together in their functioning charism gifts of the Spirit of Yahweh God within the One Holy Body of Jesus Christ. In the natural, there are also certain healings that can take place through the wisdom that people have received from Yahweh God, and that wisdom may grow from an understanding of the nature of this natural body in conjunction with Yahweh God's designed order of nature itself. Even the wisdom of faith in Yahweh God, does not allow for the continued abuse of His natural law. Perhaps the appetite of the flesh may need to be curbed or adjusted to bring about a natural change. All healing first takes place inwardly, and then Yahweh God's Grace may be manifested outwardly.For the called child of Yahweh God, obedience to the WORD of Yahweh God comes first, then comes Yahweh God's blessings, working within the living members of the Body of Jesus Christ. Even in the midst of the storms of this earthly life, Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE brings about a sense of well being within the spirits of His new creations in Christ Jesus. The Love of Yahweh God is manifested to the redeemed, first occurring within our souls and the spirit of our minds, and then that same Love of Yahweh God within us, is to be manifested in the Power of His Love to the lost souls of this perishing world. The charisma Grace of the abiding Spirit of Yahweh God within the souls of Faith, enables the manifestations of the Almighty's Power within and without of the sanctified members of the One Body of the Living Sacrifice, Jesus Christ. The Living Grace of Yahweh God's Spirit is given to His called people, for the Glorification of the only Almighty Yahweh God of the Living. (See 1st Corinthians 12 verse 4 thru 14.) Though the Holy Spirit of the Living Yahweh God Almighty nothing is impossible: Therefore the manifestations of the Faith of Christ Jesus working within the functioning members of His Body is not limited to natural wisdom. As we continue in the WAY of Jesus Christ, we will see there is dynamic “Power in the Blood of Christ”, with unseen dimensions of enabling LIFE in the Communion Covenant Blood of our Lord and Savior: For the Blood of Jesus Christ is One with the WORD of His Father of LIFE, and Christ's Blood is enabled, both to kill and make alive, and to wound and heal through the two edged Sword of the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Yahweh God Almighty. Greater emphasis on the Covenant Blood of Jesus and its spiritual affects on the soul and spirit of man will be presented in the following section 'The Crucible', but presently let us continue to always look to our Lord Jesus, the Living Sacrifice of Yahweh God. To proceed to the next chapter alone, please click on The Living Sacrifice. The Living Sacrifice.Having been conceived by the Holy Spirit of the Lord Yahweh God Almighty, then we understand that the WORD of GOD, Jesus Yeshua, was born the Son of Yahweh God in the true genetic flesh of Adam/Man from the genetic seed of Adam's wife Ishshah. Now, as the Incarnate Son of Man, Jesus Christ, the Last Adam Loved His Father perfectly and conquered sin's power of death with His perfect obedience to His Father in human flesh. His Father Yahweh God was well pleased with the Presentation Offering of Christ Jesus, so that through His Holy Spirit of LIFE, He raised the Son of Man from the dead in total victory over the sin and death of man kind. Jesus Christ, the Man, with His selfless victory over wickedness, satisfies the Holiness of His Father Yahweh God Almighty. With His total satisfaction, Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God Almighty declares Jesus the Christ to be after the order of Malchizedek, and forever the only High Priest and Mediator of the New Covenant between Holy Yahweh God Almighty and sinful mankind. Consequently He is able save to the utmost, those who draw near to Yahweh God through Him, (Jesus) since He (Jesus) forever lives to make intercession for them. For it was fitting that we should have such a High Priest, Holy, blameless, unstained, separated from sinners, exalted above the heavens. (Hebrews 7 verse 25 thru 26.) Jesus/Yeshua, the Innocent Son of Man/Adam, was raised from the dead in majestic victory over the sins of the world, and is seated in the Power of Yahweh's Spirit of Holiness at His Father's Right Hand. Our Lord Jesus, the Christ of Yahweh God, forever makes intercession, for those souls who come to Him IN Faith, for He is the Living Sacrifice and the Lord our High Priest of Righteousness. With the Eternal Power of His Father Yahweh God Almighty, Jesus is the ever Living Sacrifice that sanctifies the flesh of His saved believers, whereby they would witness to the world of the Grace and Wisdom of the Eternal Yahweh God. (See The Tree Roots Talking.) The Faith of Christ the Man and Son of God bears witness of Christ's own Selfless Offering of His LIFE that He presented to Yahweh God as a Son's LIFE Offering to set aside the sin of Elohim's created Son, Adam and that of genetic man-kind. If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not (practice) the TRUTH: [Jesus Christ is the TRUTH] But if we walk in the Light, as He is is the Light, [then] we have fellowship (koinonia) one with another, and the Blood of Jesus Christ, His Son cleanses us from all sin. (In full Context see 1st John 1 verse 5 thru 10.) For there are three that bear witness; The (Yahweh's) Spirit [of Grace], and the Water, and the Blood and these Three are One. Even though we think that we stand among the redeemed of the Lord Jesus Christ, we forget about the sinful nature of our very own flesh as if there were no problems for us to contend with at all. Our callous forgetfulness, allows us to further dismiss the absolute necessity for the denial of our self will, and the carrying of our daily cross in self denial. Ah, but we say, thank goodness for Jesus Christ for now we are free from the law and and its condemnation of sin and death, for all is done that can be done! Our self righteousness will white wash our conscience from the continuing offenses of our self idolatrous flesh, causing us to ignore our sin's spreading cancer of death. And so the evil of sin still abounds in the church people: Just look around, and see if you can see yourself in the eyes of others. Now the Lord said to them all, "If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me. For whosoever will save his life (for his own sake) shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for My sake, the same shall save it." (Luke 9 verse 23 thru 24.) If you have considered this WORD of the Lord, then what does this following WORD of the Lord mean to you? Whosoever commits sin is the slave of sin. And the slave [of sin] abides not in the house for ever but the Son remains forever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed. (John 8 verse 35 thru 36.) If we are set free within the Eternal TRUTH that is LIFE IN Jesus Christ, then we are bound together IN Him, for we are communing IN Christ's LIFE cleansing Blood provided by Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace IN Christ Jesus. For, if we are living disciples in following Christ Jesus, then we are called to walk within the narrow path of this new LIFE IN Christ, where the dead in the Body of Christ, have been birthed into the great expanse of Yahweh God's Perfect Way of Sacrificial Love IN Christ. However, when we are distracted with the cares of the world, and follow after the demands of the self centered sin that poses itself within our shallow minds of flesh, then we will stumble out of the WAY of the TRUTH, falling by the wayside in great distress. (Consider the dichotomy of suffering 2nd Peter 2 verse 19 thru 20.) Now, if in the midst of the suffering in our flesh for our own wrong choice, and we begin to hear the Voice of the Heart of Yahweh God reproving our flesh, then we should respond to Yahweh God's Spirit of Holiness calling us to return to Yahweh God's New Covenant Word of Grace IN Christ Jesus that Yahweh provides at His Table of Grace. The Holy cleansing Grace of Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE, is freely given IN Holy Communion, and is to be received within the TRUTH of Yahweh's Son Yeshua, through our Covenant Faith in the WORD of Yahweh God. Yahweh God's Sufficiency is IN His Eternal LIFE that is given through His Only begotten Son's Body and His poured out New Covenant Blood of LIFE. Because of our repentance that is born within our humility towards Yahweh God, we are identifying with the death of Jesus Christ for our sin when we partake of His sinless Body. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of Yahweh God says to the repentant sinner: Take and eat, for this is My Body given for you. When we eat of the Body of Jesus Christ then we are partaking of His innocent death for our sin. For our death, because of our sin, shall not have dominion over us for: Then Jesus took the cup, and gave thanks [to Yahweh His Father God], and gave it to them, saying: “Drink from it, all of you. For, this is My Blood of the New Covenant, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. (Matthew 26 verse 27 thru 28.) Blessed are they which are persecuted for Righteousness' sake: For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely for My sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: For great is your reward in heaven: For so persecuted they the prophets which were before you. (Matthew 5 verse 10 thru 12.) In Communion with Yahweh God, we remember that Holy Yahweh God, Himself, has given His Love Offering beyond human understanding. Yahweh God's Perfect Love was IN the LIFE within the Blood of Yahweh God's only begotten Son, Yeshua haMashiach made of the flesh of the first Man Adam. Christ Jesus the Man presented Himself as a perfect Chagigah offering to Yahweh God to make peace between Yahweh God and Man. Do you not know that the Unseen Spirit of Father Yahweh God was within the unseen Soul of Christ, and the Almighty also suffered with the unseen Spirit of the Son of Man? How unfathomable it has been for us to understand that IN the TRUTH of Yahweh God, that the Perfect Love of Yahweh God Almighty was within the Soul of His incarnated Son, Christ Jesus: For indeed, Yahweh God was IN Christ reconciling the world unto Himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them. (See 2nd Corinthians 5 verse 18 thru 19, and John 9 verse 29, with John 10 verse 38,and John 17 verse 21.) This is the Perfect Love that overcomes this world of sin and death, for in the fullness of Yahweh God's New Covenant IN the LIFE Blood of His Son, the Sacrificial Love of the Yahweh God exonerates the born again souls of repentant faith from their nature of sin and death. For whom the Son sets free, is free indeed to Love and serve the Lord Yahweh God Almighty with gladness and singleness of heart. We beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of Yahweh God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto (Yahweh) God, which is your reasonable (logical) service. And be not conformed to this world: But be you transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect Will of Yahweh God”. Our Living Sacrifice of Love comes from the Holy Spirit of the Eternal Yahweh God of the Living, and that Sanctifying Love continues in the Communal New Covenant LIFE Blood of Yahweh God's only begotten Son, Jesus Christ the Last Adam. The LIFE of the One Spirit of Christ and Yahweh God the Father is to flow freely within the members of the Body of Yahweh God's Living Sacrifice, Jesus Christ. We as members within the Body of Christ, of necessity are to partake of the Bread of LIFE, and drink in of Christ's LIFE giving Blood, whereby our conscience will become cleared of the encumbrances from the guilt of our now confessed sinfulness, and that same Love of Yahweh God will be a covering for our continuing weaknesses innate to our flesh. Praise Yahweh God, for the Perfect Love of Yahweh God is innate to the Sacrificial LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, for Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of LIFE is One with the LIFE that is in the Holy Blood of Yahweh God's only begotten Son Yeshua haMashiach. Now because of our High Priest's mediating Living Sacrifice given for mankind's sin, the Sovereign Yahweh God of the Universe has no desire to keep forgiven man chained to the guilt of our failures, nor does He keep an account of our confessed and forsaken sins that are being cleansed by the LIFE Blood of Yahweh God's Perfect Sacrifice within Christ Jesus. The guilt of those confessed sins of the day are obliterated in the LIFE giving Blood of Christ Jesus, so that in the freshness of our fellowship within the Body of Jesus Christ, selfish sin is denied its power, and the cross is once again lifted up, and the Lord once more is leading in the forefront of our daily lives. The believer, through the Living Faith of the Christ of Yahweh God, IN sequence with our Fellowship (Communion) with the Covenant Blood of Jesus Christ our Living Sacrifice, will continue to be empowered through Yahweh God's Spirit IN the New Covenant Blood, that enables Yahweh's Covenant people to walk in the LIFE of His Son's One Spirit. Through our Fellowship in the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, we remember that the Lord's LIFE, is a Gift of immeasurable LOVE, and has become our LIFE. And even though we may have grave weaknesses, we are made through Christ's Love, to be more than an over-comer in this world, and able to present our bodies in worshipful service as a living sacrifice that is acceptable to Yahweh God the Father. (See Romans 12 verse 1 thru 2.) "For they shall overcome the evil accuser by the BLOOD of the LAMB, and the Word of their testimony, for they loved not their life unto the death." (See Revelation 12 verse 10 thru 12.) For I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me: and that LIFE (the LIFE of Jesus Christ) which I now live in the flesh, I live in faith, the faith which is IN the Son of Yahweh God, Who Loved me, and gave Himself up for me. (Galatians 2 verse 20 (ASV.) Be you therefore followers of Yahweh God, as dear children; and walk in Love, as Christ also has [sacrificially] Loved us, and has given Himself for us, a (Chagigah-Presentation) offering and a sacrifice to Yahweh God for a sweet smelling savor. (Ephesians 5 verse 1 thru 2.) As ambassadors of Yahweh God, called IN Christ Jesus, then we as members of His Body, are to be Christ's living sacrifices, in presenting Yahweh God's gift of peace to a lost world that suffers in the corruption of sin. To proceed to the next chapter alone, please click on Who will believe our report. To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed? Yahweh God is the One Who calls a person to saving faith, and the one who receives the simplicity of that true faith in God's salvation, will undoubtedly be tried by fire. "For whom the Lord loves He chastens, and scourges every son whom He receives. If you endure chastening, God deals with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chastens not?" (Hebrews 12 verse 6 thru 8.) After Yahweh God's initial correction of His child, then it remains God's prerogative to set that child in the Body of His Son, according to the measure of the gift of Yahweh God's Grace applied to that person for the edification of Jesus' Body in Love. It was He Who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the Body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith, and in the knowledge of the Son of God, and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. (In full context Ephesians 4 verse 4 thru 13 NIV.) Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace revealed to me the revelation of the Ecclesia's Communion in the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, and Yahweh God's favor came through God's own direct initiative. (See Romans 12 verse 1 thru 5.) In the Body of Christ Jesus, we are each given a measure of faith, so that in the unity of Yahweh God's Spirit, our individual gifts would come together as One in the maturity of the One Body of Christ, and would allow His people to attain to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ Jesus. Without the fullness of Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace working His calling within the individual members of the Body of Christ Jesus then we individually would remain impotent on the whole. Each function in the Body of Jesus is dependant upon the other, with each member belonging to one another. If I speak the TRUTH by WAY of Yahweh's Holy Spirit of visionary revelation, and the TRUTH of Yahweh God always Glorifies His WORD IN Christ Jesus, then why is Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH resisted? Is the prophet Joel, wrong in his prophetic of revelation that speaks to old men, and young men and women, for Joel prophesies the WORD of Yahweh God Almighty: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions: And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out My Spirit. (Joel 2 verse 28 thru 29.) The Lord Jesus Christ says; But when the Comforter is come Whom I will send unto you, even the Spirit of Truth Who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of Me. (John 15 verse 26.) He will bring glory to Me, by taking from what is Mine, and making it known to you. All that belongs to the Father is Mine. That is why I said the Spirit will take from what is Mine, and make it known to you. (In full Context John 16 verse 14 thru 15 NIV.) Yahweh God's Holy Spirit delivers the TRUTH of the Lord's WORD to His people who hold fast to the TRUTH. It has been suggested more or less; that those who will not believe the TRUTH, are capable of believing everything, but the TRUTH. It should be obvious that if the TRUTH is forsaken, then error is substituted. If the absolute substance of Yahweh God's TRUTH cannot be explained to satisfy the natural senses of man, does that mean that the Substance of TRUTH does not exist? Intellectual human pride will prevent the reception of Yahweh God's Grace given through His Holy Spirit of Grace and TRUTH: For the Grace of Yahweh God is to be ministered into the heart of abiding faith, and the TRUTH of God's confirming revelation begins within the microcosm of His Faith, and is to be seen in the macrocosm of His creative Word in the Body of Christ. The TRUTH of the Word of Jesus Christ is be be received with believing faith and joy in the spirit of the substance of the individual mind. Faith IN the WORD of Yahweh God gives evidence of the substance of the unseen. As Yahweh God gave increase to my faith through His Holy Spirit of TRUTH, I came to a greater understanding of Yahweh God's Loving Grace within the new tabernacle of my heart, for Salvation came from the very heart of Yahweh God, Who is Love. The Soul and the Essence of Yahweh God's Perfect Love, came down from the unreachable heavens, and was made the flesh of the first Adam, and the last Adam of God was crucified to death for unloving man-kind. (See John 3 verse 16.) The Soul Essence of Yeshua was within His LIFE Blood, and His LIFE was poured out of His body on to the dust of the earth. "For it pleased the Lord to bruise Him. He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shall make His Soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed". (Isaiah 53 verse 10.) The Soul Essence of the saving LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, as the Son of Man, was Sacrificial Love; for the Incarnate Son, as the Seed of Yahweh God, is of the same Essence of His Father's Love and Righteousness. Jesus Christ was and is the perfect representative of man kind, and the Soul and LIFE of the Son of Man was poured out upon the earth, through His Blood, for the reparation of the sins of earthly mankind. And the only Holy Lord Yahweh God Almighty accepted the Essence of Christ's Soul with His human Spirit, which was His Perfect Love for His Father, as an exchange offering for our souls that were held in sin and death, and totally lacking in that Perfect Love. Holy Yahweh God is LOVE and only the Holy LOVE of His Son will satisfy the price for the redemption of the unholy. For He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way and the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53 verse 5 thru 6.) St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was martyred in 107 AD, and certainly was not a Roman Catholic, wrote: "I have no taste for corruptible food, nor for the pleasures of this life. I desire the Bread of Yahweh God, which is the Flesh of Jesus Christ, Who was of the seed of David; and for drink, I desire His Blood, which is Love incorruptible". Mankind lacks the Perfect Love of God as demonstrated by His Son's Crucifixion death as the Son of Man living in the genetic flesh of the first Adam. As a result of of Adam's rebellion, then his self idolatry became our normal, and in our self corruption into sin and death, we love not Holy Father Yahweh God nor our fellow man even as our selves. In Holy Communion, we receive through Yahweh God's Holy Spirit that same Word of Power of Yahweh God's Love within the Soul and the LIFE of the Son of Man: For Jesus Christ is the Perfect Son and Loves His Father perfectly. "What is it" that mankind has lost and unknowingly seeks after? Jesus prayed: And I have declared unto them Thy Name, and will declare It: that the Love wherewith Thou hast Loved Me, may be in them, and I in them. (John 17 verse 26.) (See Hebrews 12 verse 22 thru 25.) The questioning of TRUTH in Yahweh God's WORD began in the Garden, and the challenge is always before us: "Did the Lord God really say, and mean what He said?" If Adam and his wife Ishshah/Eve could have seen the dimensional substance of evil in the fruit that would changed them in body, soul and spirit, would they have eaten from the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil? As it is, their soul broke faith with Elohim Yahweh God, and they desired to see and divine for themselves what they thought that Yahweh God had hidden from their view. May I say that the empirical evidence suggest that the unseen substance of evil and self rule was obviously present, and is made manifest today through all the divining hearts of Adam's offspring of unbelief and disobedience. Furthermore, the offspring of Adam without faith and humility, will never divine the real substance within the provisions on the Lord's Table of Grace. Again, "What is it" that is the substance that initiates saving faith? Our Holy Covenant with Holy Yahweh God Almighty is an unsurpassable Gift of Mercy, given in the Living Sacrifice of Yahweh God's only Begotten Son conceived as Man from Yahweh God's WORD. The Creator of all good things, sacrificed His Word of creation with the shedding of the Holy LIFE Blood of His incarnate Son, Christ Jesus, Who was fully the Son of Man. Only that One Holy LIFE, lived in Perfect Love of Yahweh God Almighty is sufficient to atone for the damnable sins of Adam and that of mankind. Only the sacrificial LIFE within the Blood of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, given in the Love of Yahweh God, could satisfy the demands of Yahweh God's Eternal Holiness, and Chrisr's LIFE is the only means of justification for all of mankind, who would believe in the sacrificial sufficiency of the LIFE of Jesus Christ. If Christ Jesus is not raised from the dead, then the sacrifice of His LIFE Blood is not sufficient for the life of mankind, and our New Communion Covenant is remembered in vain. But Christ is risen IN Power and Glory, and the Constancy of His WORD of TRUTH says: "This is My Blood of the New Covenant poured out for many for the remission of sins". The Sacrificial Love of Holy Yahweh God is the antithesis of sin, and the one who drinks in of that Sanctifying Blood of the New Covenant of Yahweh God, drinks in of Yahweh's Holy Spirit of the Sanctifying Love. Perhaps our essay is easy enough to understand for Yahweh God's people born of Yahweh God's Spirit of Grace; however, religious church leaders have a tendency to expound upon a profound matter in the spiritual realm of Yahweh God's Word that is impossible to be explained to everyone's satisfaction. Yahweh God is the only One Who knows the full Heart and Substance of His WORD of TRUTH. This quarreling over the spiritual dynamics of the WORD of Yahweh God is confusion, and this confusion is part and parcel with the will of sin, which imprisons mankind. The contentious Communion doctrines concerning the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, is seeded within the demagoguery of Eden's mystery of iniquity, which breaks faith with Yahweh God, and the church people with each other. The contrived devises and controlling edicts of man produces error, no matter how spiritual the contrivances may sound. Yahweh God's Holy Will and His New Covenant IN the Blood of Jesus Christ is simplified for mankind through our repentance from sin, and our simple faith with obedience to Yahweh God's Provision of His Word of Salvation and Sanctification that bring forth the Divine liberation that Yahweh God intends for His people of Faith IN His WORD. During the last supper discourse, the Lord Jesus said to His followers: "This is My Commandment that you Love one another, as I have Loved you. Greater Love has no man than this that he lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, if you do what so ever I command you". Within the WORD of Yahweh God is His Provision of LIFE that is given in Holy Communion to enliven the members of the Body of Christ through Yahweh God's Holy Spirit with His Grace that always speaks of unity and sacrificial Love IN the Living Body of Jesus Christ. If we are Baptized members IN the Body of Jesus Christ then when we eat of the Body of Jesus Christ then we are acknowledging that we are dead in Christ Body because of our sin, but in Drinking of Christ LIFE Blood we enabled with the Lord's LIFE through Yahweh God's Spirit of LIFE flowing through Christ's shed Blood of the New Covenant. The Living Blood of Jesus Christ gives LIFE to the dead IN His Body, for His death has taken away the sins and errors of the flesh of the Communion Collective believers, and certainly those of the individual, when we humble ourselves, and acknowledge our sinful struggles in our flesh. Sin's invasive division of the church is to cease, and the regeneration and reproduction of Yahweh God's Perfect Love is to be in within us, even as LIFE is renewed at the Lord's Table of Grace. No doubt, the church has not tarried in prayer before the Lord Jesus Christ, for He is the Mediator of the New Blood Covenant between Yahweh God and mankind. In our arrogance we have not sought His council within the Provisions and Providence of Yahweh God Almighty. Yahweh God, when called upon and when seeing the repentance of the people, will put to naught the foolishness of man, and man's ignorance of the HOLY. Indeed, there is a mysterious absence of the application of Yahweh God's New Blood Covenant of Jesus Christ within all the blemished churches, which are to form the Body of the Lord, and the unblemished Bride of His calling. We as the segmented church, are all individually right in our own eyes, and while we remain stubbornly blinded by our own iniquity, Yahweh God will not hear.
Jesus said unto them, "If you were blind, you
should have no sin: but now you say, we see; therefore your sin
remains".
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9 verse 41.)
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God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH. And the Spirit of the Lord Yahweh shall rest upon Him: The Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the Lord; And It [the Spirit of the Lord Yahweh] shall make Him of Quick Understanding in the Fear of the Lord: and He shall not judge after the sight of His Eyes, neither reprove (convict) after the hearing of His Ears: (See Isaiah 11 verse 1 thru 5.) Peace be unto you! Then again Jesus said to them (a second time): Peace be unto you! As the Father has sent Me, even so I send you! And Jesus Breathed on them, and said to them: Receive the Holy Ghost! John the apostle, is a Jew, and He writes first for the Jew, who have some knowledge of what was previously written in Scripture, and now John's Gospel of the TRUTH remains open to whosoever believes IN the TRUTH that is Christ Jesus. The highlighted word IN, is a small word, but we will see that IN Scripture, the small word 'IN' has infinite implications IN the Love of Almighty Yahweh God. In our flesh, we all stumble in the earth over the vague, the unseen and the unknown. Naturally, we have all stumbled over Yahweh God's Word of Grace, that is given by the Almighty's Holy Spirit of Grace that is One with the Creator of all things. Neither is Yahweh God's Holy Spirit seen by the natural eyes of man, nor is Yahweh God's unmerited favor comprehended in the natural mind of man. Behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. But beware of men; for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in the synagogues. But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what you shall speak: For it shall be given you in that same hour what you shall speak, for it is not you that shall speak, but the SPIRIT of your FATHER, which speaks IN you. (See Matthew 10 verse 16 thru 20.) Yahweh God is Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him IN Spirit and IN TRUTH. (John 4 verse 24.) FATHER YAHWEH GOD'S HOLY SPIRIT and the TRUTH of His WORD are ONE and the SAME. Even when Jesus Christ walked the face of the earth, those that were His own Jewish people, did not recognize Jesus/Yeshua to be the TRUTH and GRACE of Yahweh Almighty God. But as many as received Him, to them He gave Power to become the sons of God. For the Word of the Father was made the flesh of Adam, and we beheld Yeshua/Jesus, as the Glory of His Father Yahweh God, full of Grace and TRUTH. And of His fullness, we have all received, Grace for Grace: For the Grace in the Law (Torah) of God was given to Moses, so that God's Word of Grace and TRUTH would come IN the flesh of the Son of Man, Jesus/Yeshua the Messiah. (See John 1 verse 1 thru 18.) No one has seen Holy Yahweh God at any time, but God's Word of TRUTH has seen, and is One with His Holy Father God, Almighty: For Jesus/Yeshua, embodied in the genetic flesh of the first Man, would, with His death and resurrection, reveal a fuller extent of the TRUTH AND GRACE of Holy Yahweh God Almighty. Holy Yahweh God, within His Own Council of Wisdom, encompassed within His Eternal Understanding of all things of His creation, would give His WORD of TRUTH and GRACE to an unbelieving sinful world. Whosoever would believe IN the resurrected TRUTH of Jesus Christ, then the Lord would send the Almighty's Promised Gift of LIFE IN Christ Jesus, through Almighty God's unseen Holy Spirit of LIFE, Who is also called the Comforter! And when He is come, He will reprove (convict) the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. (John 15 verse 3.) John the Baptist says to the scoffers: I indeed baptize you with water; but One mightier than I comes, the latchet of Whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: He shall baptize you with, Yahweh God's Holy Spirit and with fire. Whose fan is in His Hand, and He will thoroughly purge His floor, and will gather the wheat into His garner, but (for) the chaff He will burn with fire unquenchable. (See Luke 3 verse 15 thru 17.) Paul quotes Proverbs: My son despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked by Him: For whom the Lord loves, He chastens and scourges every son whom He receives. If you endure chastening, then Yahweh God deals with you as with sons: For what son is he whom the father does not chasten. But if you are without chastisement whereof all (He receives) are partakers, then you are bastards, and not sons. (See Hebrews 12 verse 5 thru 8 and verse 29) For our Yahweh God is a consuming fire. The Justice of Holy, Holy, Holy Lord Yahweh God Almighty requires the death of all of the rebellious sinners of mankind. However, Yahweh God's Holiness was totally satisfied in the Peace Offering of the innocent Man Jesus Christ. For the Man Yeshua haMashiach totally satisfied Holy Yahweh God's requirement of holiness, with His Peace Offering of His sinless self. Jesus Christ as the representative of the first Man/Adam, then became the representative of all of mankind, for His crucifixion death, paid for the sins of all of mankind who would believe IN Him. For the innocent Man, Jesus Christ made Himself as a Chagigah Offering for the sin of the unbelieving world, Father forgive them for they do not know what they do. (Luke 23 verse 34.) Then in His death pains, the crucified Jesus cried out with a loud Voice; My God, My God, Why have You forsaken Me. When Jesus had cried out loud again. [a second time] (My God, My God: Why have You forsaken Me.) He gave up the Ghost. (See John 28 verse46 thru 50.) But Yahweh God had not forsaken the selfless Sacrifice of His Incarnate WORD, for the Just Almighty God was well pleased with the Perfect LOVE and Obedience of the Son of Man/Adam, and raised His Only Begotten Son, His Son of Righteousness - Christ Jesus from the dead. We have emphasized Yahweh God's WORD of TRUTH and GRACE, for Yahweh God's Holy One is full of merciful GRACE, and Yahweh God's GRACE needs to be fully seen IN the Light of the TRUTH. Those that believe IN the Righteous Love and Obedience of Christ Jesus the Son, are to have the Mind of Christ through the indwelling Holy Spirit of Yahweh God Almighty. The reproved believer, now being full of Yahweh God's GRACE and the TRUTH of Yahweh God's Spirit of the Living, would reveal to the lost world a sense of Yahweh God's GRACE and TRUTH abiding in His redeemed sons and daughters, who live IN the Faith of Christ. Yahweh God's saving TRUTH is to be with IN the soul of the believer, even through the flesh, in which we reside IN, tends to filter out the Word of Yahweh God, to accommodate the flesh's desire to find satisfaction in sin's will for the flesh. However if we desire to stay on the straight and narrow WAY of Christ, then we need to consider the full implications of what is written in Scripture. We will begin afresh, with the conditional statements that are written in the Word of Yahweh God, and bring Yahweh God's Light of understanding to minds that are being renewed by the GRACE and TRUTH of GOD'S Spirit of Holiness. The word [if] is the beginning of a conditional statement that is followed with an understood [then] that defines the end of the condition. Therefore if you live after the flesh, [then] you shall die: but if you through the Spirit (of Yahweh God) do mortify (put to death) the deeds of the body, [then] you shall live. The condition of Yahweh God's Grace is further amplified in the following Scripture: If the many, are led by the Spirit of Yahweh God [then] they are the sons of Yahweh God. (Understand Yahweh God's conditions in Romans 8 verse 7 thru 14.) The fallible mind of man is to be led by Yahweh God's Spirit of TRUTH that is One IN the Mind of Christ Jesus. Confusion reigns in the minds of many souls, and some of the confusion is because of various misconceptions in Paul's letter to the Romans. All men are liars, and I among them, for I am convicted by the TRUTH of the Word of Yahweh God. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, convincingly presents all men, circumcised or uncircumcised, as guilty before Almighty Yahweh God, because of their inability to truly comply to the Holy Standards of their Holy Creator. Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come? (Isaiah 42 verse 23.) The Torah was given by Yahweh God to Israel through Moses, and the 10 Commandments known in English as Law, were for a quarantining measure, to prevent the devastating results of sin that is terminal in the nature of mankind. The faith of Abraham, understood that through his genetic seed, and that of his family, would come forth the Savoir of mankind through the genetic seed of the first Woman of Yahweh God's creation of Man, male and female. The beginnings of Faith in Yahweh God preceded the Law of Commandments, but in the end, the stop signs of the Decalogue are all broken in the first Commandment: For thou shall not have any god's before ME. Therefore the law of Commandments concludes that all of mankind in their self idolatry as self made god's, are guilty of all sin in breaking the first Commandment, for all have fallen short of the glory and excellence of Yahweh God. We have all failed, in a perfect love and trusting obedience to our Holy Creator. Sin loves its self, and we all have living within us, the nature of sin and death through our inheritance from Adam. LIFE and GRACE *The Holy Spirit of Yahweh God is the Almighty's Spirit of LIFE and GRACE, for Jesus/Yeshua has come to lead men IN the WAY, of the TRUTH and the LIFE that brings the faithful members Who abide IN His Body of LIFE, into the Presence of His Holy Father Yahweh God Almighty For by [Yahweh's Spirit of] Grace are you saved thru Faith IN Christ and not of yourselves: It (faith) is the Gift of Yahweh God. (See Ephesians 2 verse 8.) The Gift of Yahweh God is through His Spirit of Grace Who instills in a person a New Born Faith IN Christ Jesus: For the Law of the Spirit of LIFE IN Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. (Romans 8 verse 2.) Thank goodness for the Almighty's Grace IN Christ Jesus, for with out His Spirit of Grace, we are all dead men. Even so, Yahweh God's Grace is nonchalantly shouted about by callous men, without remembering or even knowing that the beginning Source of Grace flows from Holy Yahweh God's Throne Room through His Spirit of Grace. Then He (the Angel) answered and spoke unto me, saying: This is the Word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel, saying: Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts. (See Zechariah 4 verse 5 thru 7.) We are yet learning through the unseen GRACE of Yahweh God, for as the Comforter, Yahweh brings corrections to our unruly flesh of our body. Through experience we have found that many errors can be made in the multitude of words, and so even with our best efforts, we may fail in our expressions of that which is good. Nevertheless, in spite of our short comings, we'll press on believing we have received good understanding through the Spirit of Yahweh God's Grace. TRUTH begins for those of us who Live IN Jesus Christ, for the Comforter is the beginning and end of Yahweh Gods' Grace and TRUTH. The TRUTH of Yahweh God's New Salvation Covenant of His Grace, is sealed in the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ, where the essence of the absolute TRUTH of Yahweh God, comes forth only through the leading of the Supreme Authority of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH and GRACE IN Christ Jesus. Now then, let us return to the evening of the 15th of Nisan, where the Lord Yeshua/Jesus presides over the first day of the Jewish Feast of Unleavened Bread. In the beginning of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Judas Iscariot was present, but at Christ's dismissal, Judas departed from the room to finish his betrayal of His Lord. Then the Lord Jesus Christ, the True Bread of Heaven, said to His remaining eleven disciples: A new Commandment I give unto you: That you Love one another, as I have Loved/Agapao you, so shall you Love/Agapao one another. By this shall all men know that you are My disciples, If you have Love one to another. (John 13 verse 33 verse 35.) The love that Jesus is describing is sacrificial and that Love is looking to the welfare of another person rather than to one's own self satisfaction. And the King of kings shall answer the righteous and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as you have done it unto one of the least of these My brethren, You have done it unto Me. (See Matthew 25 verse 38 thru 41.) Then Jesus told His disciples that He was going away, and they could not come with Him at that time, but they would follow Him afterward. The apostles were confused at His Words, and became dismayed within the realization that the comfort, that they had in Jesus, the Messiah of Yahweh God, would no longer be with them. Then Jesus Christ, the WAY, the TRUTH and the LIFE of men, attempts to reassure His disciples, as we read in John 14, for Jesus says to them: If you Love/Agape Me, [then] keep My Commandments, and I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever: Even the Spirit of TRUTH, Whom the world cannot receive, because the world sees Him not, neither knows Him: But you know Him; for He dwells with you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. (John 14 verses 15 thru 18.) He that has seen Me has seen the Father. (See John 14 verse 9.) While Jesus the Christ of Yahweh God was dwelling with His disciples, He protected all of them within the Holy Name of His Father (Yahweh). There was the one exception. Judas, the son of perdition, who would betray the TRUTH of GOD, and then would hang himself in his shame. (See John 17 verse 12.) Perhaps this is the time to consider thoughtfully Paul's warning to the called gentiles in Romans 11 verse 20 thru 22: For if Yahweh God spared not the natural branches (of Israel) take heed lest He also spare not thee. But there would soon be the time of Shavuot when the Spirit of Christ would come and breath the LIFE of Christ within the soul of each of His disciples. From that time forward, The Holy Spirit of the Holy One of Yahweh God would lead Yahweh God's redeemed people IN the TRUTH of His Holy Father Yahweh's exalted WORD. The TRUTH of Yahweh would be seen TO BE IN the Person of His only Begotten Son Yeshua/Jesus the Messiah. After His resurrection from the dead, Jesus gave instructions to His disciples, Saying: That repentance and remission of sins should be preached in Messiah's Name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. And behold I shall send the Promise of My Father upon you: But tarry in the city of Jerusalem until you be endued with Power from on High. (See Luke 24 verse 36 thru 49.) Does the reader have ears to hear what Yahweh God's Spirit is saying to the churches? On Yahweh God's High Holy Day of Shavuot, Yahweh God's Holy Spirit, the Comforter, would first come to Christ's Jewish followers gathered in the upper room. That beginning day for Christ's disciples, was Yahweh God's Holy Day of Shavuot - Pentecost the Feast of First Fruits when Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Living Power would descend upon Christ's disciples in the appearance of fire, for Yahweh God's Comforter filled all those that were waiting in the upper room with His Breath of LIFE, Ruach haKodesh haEmet. Subsequently, when hearing the Mighty Rushing Wind of Yahweh God's Spirit, a throng of people gathered outside the upper room, where Peter, with the disciples, would preach with conviction the Salvation Word of Yahweh God. Some of the people, upon hearing the WORD of TRUTH, were convicted in their enlightened hearts, and then asked the disciples; Men and brothers, what must we do? Then Peter said unto them: Repent and be Baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ, (Yeshua haMashiach) for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. (See Acts 2 verse 37 thru 39.) Thus the Holy Spirit of Promise, declared by the Lord at His last Passover Table, came in Power on Yahweh God's High Holy Day of First Fruits: I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. On that specified day of the new birth of the ecclesia/church, the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God would glorify the victorious risen Christ of Yahweh God, for He was the First Born Son of Yahweh God, born in the flesh of the first Adam. For the WORD was made flesh and dwelt among us! (See John 1 verse 14.) The One Special Day that Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of Grace gives Birth to Life On a specific High Holy Day of Yahweh God, called Shavuot, the Word of Yahweh God was born the Man, Jesus the Christ, the only begotten Son of Yahweh God, Who came in the flesh as the Son of Adam/Man: Then. 33 years later in the passing of time, it was on this very same day of Shavuot, known in Greek, as Pentecost, that the One Holy Spirit of Yahweh God gave to the Ecclesia of the repentant sinners, Yahweh God's new birth of the soul, who were known by Yahweh God. to be dead because of sin. Do you not believe that I AM IN the Father, and the Father IN Me? The Words that I speak unto you, I speak not of Myself, but the Father that dwells IN Me, He does the works. (John 14 verse 10.) At that day you shall know that I AM IN My Father, and you IN Me, and I IN you. (John 14 verse 20.) Again we hear the Lord Jesus speak of the conditions of Yahweh God's abiding Love. If a man Love/Agapao Me, [then] he will obey My Words, and My Father will Love/Agapao him, and We will come unto him, and make Our abode with him. (John 14 verse 23.) Many years ago, at about the same time that I had the first visionary dreams concerning the Communion Table of our Lord Jesus Christ, I was in prayer and received a marvelous revelation, The following will give incite to the above relational scriptures. My wife Rose and I, had come home after a Wednesday evening home fellowship. It was after 9:00 P.M. and Rose had gone to bed, and I went into the living room to kneel at a chair and began to pray to the Lord. I do not recall what melancholic need that prompted the following plea to the Lord, but, it was probably very similar to one of your calls to our Savior. In the midst of my prayer, I cried out softly to the Lord Jesus, “O Lord, ……, I sure wish I could see you right now.” What I heard in my being, came back so profoundly, so powerfully full of the TRUTH that I knew instantly, that the Lord Jesus by His Holy Spirit had spoken, and not the small mind of this man. The Holy Spirit of TRUTH said, “I have put My Spirit in Joseph, I have put My Spirit in Debbie, I have put My Spirit in Rose. Behold your Master!” The names were some of those Christians that I and my wife had met with earlier during the evening. We are all blind to the fact that the Lord Jesus Christ is present with us, dwelling within each of His believers. But to those that judge one another, whether in or out of the Body of Jesus Christ, you are deaf and blind to your own sins, and certainly to the Presence of the Lord Christ Jesus? In the Body of Jesus Christ, we are all members and servants of each other, so that by the Power of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit, IN the Body of Christ Jesus, we would come forward to glorify the Almighty Yahweh God, in serving one another IN the unity of Yahweh God's Love for us, but also wait in patience for a world of lost souls. Mankind's true Love of the Almighty Yahweh God, will manifest itself in one's obedience to Yahweh God's Good Will. This is My Commandment: That you love (agapao) one another, as I have Agapao all of you. Greater Love (Agape) has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. You are My friends, IF you do what I Command you. (John 15 verse 12 thru 14.) If a man love (agapao) Me, he will keep My Words: and My Father will Love (agapao) him, and We will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loves (agapao) Me not, keeps not My sayings, and the Word which you hear is not Mine, but the Father's Who sent Me. (See John 14 verse 23 thru 25.) The Love of Yahweh God comes first in the hearing within our hearts, and then with the renewed spirit of the mind, we follow with obedience in the footsteps of the Love of Christ Jesus. (See Romans 5 verse 6 thru 9.) With the TRUTH of Yahweh God, residing in the soul of the believer, the scriptures are declared through Paul: That you put off concerning the former conversation of the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that you put on the new man, which after Yahweh God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man TRUTH with his neighbor: For we are members one of another. Be angry, and sin not: Let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that has need. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good, to the use of edifying that it may minister (Yahweh God's) GRACE unto the hearers. (Ephesians 4 verse 22 thru 28.) The spirit of man, being at the core of our minds, is to be constantly washed and renewed in the Covenant Word of the Lord Yahweh God Almighty, so that the new man birthed IN Christ Jesus begins to show forth the Righteous Work of Yahweh God IN our bodies of flesh. We are saved into new LIFE by the Grace of Yahweh God thru Faith, and are each called to be the ambassadors of Yahweh God's GRACE IN Christ Jesus, so that this lost world would know of Yahweh God's Mercy, for all who call upon His Name shall know the TRUTH of Yahweh God's Christ. With the New Covenant Grace of Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH abounding within our souls, we should always endeavor to speak and act, IN the Almighty's behalf, with the Grace of His Salvation TRUTH. I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever: When He is come, even the Spirit of Truth, Whom the world cannot receive, because the world sees Him not; He will reprove the world (yes, we whom Yahweh God calls out) of sin, and of judgment, and of righteousness. Of sin, because they [including we] believed not on Me. [No man comes to My Father except by Me.] Of righteousness, because I go to the Father. [The Lord, He is our Righteousness.] Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. And when He, the Spirit of TRUTH, is come, He will guide you into all (of the) TRUTH: For He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear that shall He speak, and He will show you things to come. He shall Glorify Me; for He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it [the Glory of the TRUTH] unto you. (See John 14 verse 16 thru 17, and John 16 verse 7 thru 15.) The world does not receive naturally Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of TRUTH, for the natural world remains mired up to its eyes in its dark captivity of unbelief. Even so Yahweh God calls all sinners to repentance and to turn away from this world of death and corruption, and thereby receive the inward guidance of His Spirit of Grace. Yahweh God's Holy Spirit is like a mirror that reflects the forgetful mind of man back to the inward self of man. The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. (See Isaiah 2 verse10 thru 12.) And when He, the Spirit of TRUTH is come, He will come with the fire of Holiness that is None Other but Yahweh God, and He will correct His child of the sins of the flesh. For He will reprove our self righteousness, with the Righteousness of the Christ of Yahweh God. For His Holiness will correct our judgments with His righteous judgments, that will set at naught the prince of darkness that holds this dark world captive for he is already condemned, whose judgment will be finalized in the end. If the people that love the world do not repent, then they have already entered into Yahweh God's same judgment as that of their captor the devil. Sin is judged as death, and death has no part in Yahweh God's Kingdom of the Living. Jesus, the Messiah of Yahweh God, being the Jewish Host of Yahweh God's Passover Table, would conduct for His disciples the Torah's required High Sabbath meal on the beginning evening day of Nisan the 15th. Jesus, Yeshua haMashiach, at this specific Jewish Passover, would at Yahweh God's Feast of Unleavened Bread, end the old covenant in the sacrificial shed blood of animals and the eating of the animal's flesh. For we see that while His disciples were eating of the old Passover flesh of the slain animal, Jesus/Yeshua would now inaugurate Yahweh God's New Covenant, in the Blood of the Lamb of Yahweh God, Who was ordained to be slain even before the foundation of the world was set in the universe. After excusing the betrayer Judas from the Table, the Lamb of Yahweh God: Then took the unleavened Bread and after Blessing the Bread , He broke it and gave to His disciples and Said: "Take and eat for this is My Body". Note that the Body of Jesus was unleavened without sin. Then He took the cup of wine and gave thanks to His Father, and afterwards gave the wine to His disciples and Said: Drink all of you for this is My Blood of the New Covenant, Which is shed for many for the remission of sin. (See Matthew, Mark and Luke.) The beginning of LIFE is IN the Flesh of Christ's Passover Body that is sealed IN His Covenant LIFE Blood as the Son of Man. The LIFE giving Blood of Jesus Christ, was freely given with IN the Obedient Love of the Last Son of Adam, and completely covers our stain of sin and death. Yahweh God both gave and received the LIFE of His Only Begotten Son, to be a Sacrifice, as both a sin offering and a peace offering, between Yahweh God and His people who would receive in Covenant Faith, Yahweh God's Salvation Gift of Grace. The Righteousness of the crucified but innocent Jesus Christ supplanted the unrighteousness of dead mankind, for the Messiah of Yahweh God rose IN the Power of LIFE from the dead of the grave. In our Great Salvation Gift that frees us from sin and death, the priesthood of new born believers are all called to be partakers of Christ's Unleavened Bread of Heaven, and to drink of His Sanctifying Covenant Blood with grateful thanksgiving that separates us from our confessed faults, and covering them with Christ's Veil of Agape/Love. Everyone that names the Name of the Lord, must depart from wickedness. (See 2nd Timothy 2 verse 19, and Luke 13 verse 27.) Therefore, in all ongoing cases of defiling sin, small or great know that; Your glorying is not good. Know you not that a little yeast leavens the whole lump of dough? Purge out therefore the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you are to be unleavened. For indeed Christ our Passover is Sacrificed for us. (See 1st Corinthians 5 verse 6 thru 7.) Yeast is indicative of sin and a little yeast will leaven the whole dough. Sin is just like yeast in its uncontrolled spread of its self, and our sin remains in our flesh and continually spreads its uncontrolled corruption of self throughout the whole of humanity: But our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ of Yahweh God, having come down from heaven, was without sin within the total essence of His whole being of Body, Soul and Mind. Immunity to sin and death is encrusted in the whole of the Unleavened Bread of the Body of Jesus Christ. Those who Eat in Faith of the Body of Jesus Christ, shall pass from death to LIFE, and they shall live forever IN Him. To proceed to the next chapter, please click on, The Fountain of Living Water.
My people have
committed two evils: Many do not know that there is a controversy, in what is called the Johannine Comma. After reading the Wikipedia link, then the reader will understand why the following verses in the Epistle of 1st John chapter 5, would stand as correct: For there are Three Witnesses, the Spirit and the Water and the Blood, and They are One. (1st John 5 verse 7 thru 8.) In spite of the perceived manuscript problems, the above interpretation would be a more correct rendering of the previous scripture verse, without the inserted word "agree" or "agreement". We note for you that the Greek translation for the word "agree" is symphōneō, Strong's G4856. This Greek word, symphōneō, was erroneously translated in English to, "agree", is recorded seven times in six separate verses in the Greek concordance for the KJV bible, but symphōneō is not found in the Greek transcript of 1st John 5 verses 7 thru 8. The Greek script reads as "οι τρεις εις το εν εισιν", which has the translated meaning of "the Three are in the One". The isolated Greek Word in this portion of the script is actually "eisi - εισιν" which means "are" one, and makes the script to be of the same exact connotation as "the Three are One". 6 This houtos is eimi the ho one who came erchomai by dia water hydōr and kai blood haima— Jesus Iēsous Christ Christos; not ou by en the ho water hydōr only monon but alla by en the ho water hydōr and kai the ho blood haima. And kai the ho Spirit pneuma is eimi the ho One Who testifies martyreō, because hoti the ho Spirit pneuma is eimi the ho Truth alētheia. 7 For hoti there are eimi three treis that ho testify martyreō: 8 The ho Spirit pneuma and kai the ho Water hydōr and kai the ho Blood haima; and kai the ho three treis are eimi in eis the ho one heis. Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament provides the meaning of heis as One. εἱς (heis)Strong: G1520, G3391 GK: G1651 numeral one, Mt. 10:29, freq.; only, Mk. 12:6 one virtually by union, Mt. 19:5-6, John 10:30 one and the same, Luke 12:52; Rom. 3:30 Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary of the New Testament edited by William D. Mounce. Copyright ©2011 by William D. Mounce. All rights reserved. Free Greek dictionary. Christ Jesus was incarnately conceived as the Word of His Father Yahweh God. The LIFE of Jesus/Yeshua was in the genetic flesh of the first Man/Adam, and the Last Man Christ Jesus is conceived as One with the Spirit within the Will of His Holy Father Yahweh God, the Almighty. Yahweh God's Holy Spirit is not divided, nor can the Spirit of Yahweh God the Father be separated as distinct from the Water and the Blood that flowed from the Body of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man: For the Spirit of Yahweh God is of One Essence with His Word made the flesh of Man, and the One Holy Life/Soul/Nephesh of the Son of Man was poured out upon the earth for the Salvation of sinful mankind. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy Hands I commend My Spirit: and having said thus, He gave up the ghost. (Luke 23 verse 46.) As an obedient and loving Son, and having accomplished the Will of His Father God Almighty, the crucified Jesus Christ, released His Spirit within His flesh as the Son of Man/Adam, into the keeping of the Spiritual Will of His Father Yahweh God Almighty. Christ's offering of Himself. as the Son of Man and the last Adam, was received by Yahweh God as a perfect presentation offering, Chagigah, given for the treachery of the first Man and the sins of all of mankind. The Spirit of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, reveals in His resurrection from the dead, that He is indeed of One Essence with His Father Yahweh God Almighty's One Holy Spirit of LIFE. So then, let us conclude that the spiritual significant of the witness, of the One Spirit of the Water and of the Blood, is of One Essence (homooúsios), and goes beyond mere conversational agreement created in the doctrines of men. The WORD of GOD speaks of the singularly, of the Spiritual Essence of the WORD of GOD that was given for the Salvation and the Sanctification of the lost souls of the unbelieving world. Father Yahweh God's One Holy Spirit is One with IN His Only Begotten Son Yeshua, and as the resurrected Son of Man, Yeshua, One with His Father is the Spiritual Fountain of Living Water, being poured out upon earthen vessels that are seeking the LIFE giving Source that is Holy Yahweh God's Spirit Who Alone gives LIFE The Spirit of Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh Lord God, the Almighty is the Source of Living Water, for the Lord Yahweh God with His Word of TRUTH IN Yeshua haMashiach is the Only Fountain of LIFE. (See Jeremiah 2 verse 13 and 17 verse 13 thru 14.) Yahweh God's Holy Spirit of LIFE, Being One with the Water and the Blood of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, is both the Baptizer, as well as the Eternal Fountain from which the Serum Water Water of Christ is poured out upon repentant believers: For this Water is Yahweh God's cleansing New Covenant LIFE Blood flowing from the Fountain of LIFE within Yahweh God's risen Son, Christ Jesus. In Communion with His people, the One Holy Spirit of Yahweh God is One with His Living Word IN the Man Jesus Christ, and Jesus as the Son of Man and our High Priest, mediates the LIFE within His Spirit of Grace through His New Covenant Blood that sanctifies the repentant sinners within His Body of submitted believers. So then, the witness of Yahweh's Spirit of LIFE in the Fountain of Living Water, began with our initial Baptism into the cleansing Serum Water of the LIFE of Jesus Christ, and continues with a person's submission to Yahweh's Spirit IN the Water and the Blood of His Son in Holy Communion. Perhaps when Yahweh God's called out ones begin to humble themselves under the Witness of the WORD of GOD Almighty, and honor His New Blood Covenant among themselves, then the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God, will pour out upon the parched earthen vessels, His refreshing Waters from His Well Spring that never runs dry. If the writer's thoughts are presented well enough to be understood, then let us continue to reason together. Perhaps when considering that The Almighty is the Fountain of Living Water, then some of the philosophical speculations surrounding the following scriptures might come to an end. For there are Three Witnesses, the Spirit and the Water and the Blood, and They are One. (1st John 5 verse 7 thru 8.) In Communion with the Spirit of Holy God, wine is God's preferred medium to be for the Living Grace of His Holy Spirit that is one with the Blood of Jesus Christ. The wine of the Lord was from grapes that were naturally fermented without the addition of yeast. However, if the Spirit of Yahweh God is One with the Water as He is with the LIFE Blood of Jesus then if wine is unavailable or a congregation is poor and cannot afford the fermented wine, as may be the case in Africa, then natural water would be the appropriate medium that would become the LIFE Blood of Jesus Christ. We note that at the wedding at Cana of Galilee, the Lord Jesus changed the available water into wine. (John 2 verse 7 and 9 thru 10 .) Also, when encountering the Samaritan woman at the well, the Lord Jesus answers her, saying: If thou knew the Gift of God, and Who it is that says to you: Give Me to drink. You would have asked of Him, and He would have given to you, Living Water. Whosoever drinks of the Water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; for the Water that I shall give him, shall be in him a Well of Water springing up into ever-lasting LIFE. (John 4 verse 10 and 14.) Jesus answered, Verily, Amen, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of Water of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. (John 3 verse 5.) For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto Living Fountains of Waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. (Revelation 7 verse 17) "Ho! Everyone who thirsts, come to the Waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat. Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend money for what is not bread, And your wages for what does not satisfy? ( See Isaiah 55 verse 1 thru 5.)
In the last day, that great day of the feast [of Tabernacles or Booths], Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believes on Me, as the scripture has said: (See Deuteronomy 18 verse 15 thru 19.) Then out of his belly shall flow rivers of Living Water. (John 7 verse 37.) My Flesh is meat (food) indeed, and My Blood is drink indeed. (See John 6 verse 53 thru 57.) In the religious confusion of so many, the Water of Baptism, as well as Communion IN the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, may be seen to be symbolic, but contrary wise, Baptism, as well as Holy Communion, is of the Holy Spirit of Yahweh God, for the Spirit of Yahweh God is One with the Water and the Blood that flowed from the side of the Incarnate Man, His Only begotten Son Jesus Christ. The Spirit of Holy Father God Almighty with His Incarnate WORD of TRUTH, Jesus Christ, administers to repentant sinners of God's Grace in the Cleansing and Sanctifying Water and LIFE giving Blood of the risen Son of Man. With the beginnings of reconciling faith, the believing sinner was immersed into the Serum Water of Baptism and was cleansed of the past sins of the old man through the crucifixion death, and burial of Jesus Christ, and as Christ Jesus was resurrected from the dead into LIFE so is the believer raised to a new beginning of Life in Christ Jesus. Even as the Eternal Father Yahweh God is Spirit, and Light, and Love within His Infinite Holiness, so then is the unlimited dimensions of His Holy Spirit, for they are One and the Same Spirit, and not two individual spirits. (See John 4 verse 24.) Finite man is ignorant of the fullness of Yahweh God Almighty, and makes reference of HIS HOLY SPIRIT as the Holy Spirit. Neither is Yahweh God's Holy Spirit symbolic, or some kind of enigmatic force as some teach in heresy, but because of the Holy Blood of His Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, Yahweh God's Holy Spirit is Yahweh's Holy Presence, manifesting His Grace in the submitted lives of the faithful. For there is One Body, and One Spirit, even as you are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, One faith, One baptism, One God and Father of all, Who is above all and through all, and in you all. (Ephesians 4 verse 4 thru 6.) Infinite Yahweh God Almighty, having set about the beginnings of the germination of His Gift of Faith within the heart of a repentant person, will initiate His Baptism of fire through His Holy Spirit, by first cleansing the forgiven soul with the Serum Water of Baptism from the poured out LIFE giving Blood of His WORD Jesus Christ. For by One Spirit are we all baptized into One Body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; for we have been all made to drink into [Yahweh God's] One Spirit. (1st Corinthians 12 verse 13.)
If you have heard Jesus Christ and are being taught by the
TRUTH that is Jesus. then put off the former conversation of the old man, which
is corrupt because of the deceitfulness of lust. Therefore,
henceforth be renewed in the spirit of your mind, by putting on the new man,
which Yahweh God created to be in the order of true Righteousness and true
Holiness. Do not give any place for the devil. Do not be like those who have lost all feelings of righteousness and given themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness, because of their greed . (Ephesians 4 verse 21 thru 27and 19.) Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believeth on Me, as the scripture has said, [Then] Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (John 7 verse 37.) The conditional statement is to be understood that if a man believes on Jesus Christ, then the man will drink of the One Spirit of Yahweh God IN Christ Jesus, Then out of his belly shall flow rivers of Living Water from the Fountain of LIFE. So then, this is the Word of Faith that we preach, for when received from Yahweh God, the substance of His Gift of Faith, then we believe we have the LIFE of Christ Jesus resonating within the heart of our being, where the mind is to be focused IN the Eternal TRUTH of the WORD of GOD Himself. The One Spirit of the Father and the Son, is the Fountain of LIFE, wherein springs of Living Water flow forth, to nourish the dry souls of earthen vessels. For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour My Spirit upon your seed, and My blessing upon your offspring: And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses. (Isaiah 44 verse 3 thru 4.) Holy, Holy, Holy Yahweh God Almighty has not changed, and His WORD is immutable; for The grass withers, the flower fades: but the Word of our God shall stand for ever. (Please see Isaiah 40 verse 3 thru 10.) In this instance, it makes no difference whether Yahweh God Almighty is speaking to Israel, or to all those who seek to enter into His New Covenant with IN Him. Yahweh God is Constant in His creation, and the Light of His Word, holds all things together; therefore His Word of Salvation is the only Source of Light and Life that holds us together, as One in Him. To proceed to the next chapter alone, please click on Except a man be born of Water and the Spirit.
Except a man be born of Water and of the Spirit.
My people have committed two
evils: Let us continue to flow with the Spirit of the Word of God, so that we might arrive together, in the Way and the Truth of Christ through His Fountain of Living Water. As we have already previously laid the ground work, we again remember that John testifies in his gospel, of seeing the Blood and Water, flowing from the side of the crucified Jesus Christ, and later in his 1st epistle, he states: This is He that came by Water and Blood, even Jesus Christ; not by Water only, but by Water and Blood. For there are three witnesses, the Spirit and the Water and the Blood, and they are One. In John's Gospel chapter 3, Jesus answered and said unto Nicodemus: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus said unto Him: How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Amen, Amen, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of Water [and (?)] of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. (John 3 verse 3 thru 6.) The Finale Word of God, the Amen has spoken the absolute Truth, for Christ Jesus is the TRUTH. Except the soul of a man be born again of the Water of the Spirit of God, then he will in no wise enter the Kingdom of God. For there are Three Witnesses, the Spirit and the Water and the Blood, and They are One. (1st John 5 verse 7 thru 8.) When we read the whole of the Messianic Psalm 22, we would understand that the very Life of the crucified Christ of God, was being drained from His crucified body, even as prophesied: I AM poured out like water. The Lord of Life, came in the flesh of Man/Adam, to die as an eternal sacrifice for the sins of the world. In Christ's crucifixion death, His Holy Life giving Blood was poured out upon the earth as God's Perfect Sacrifice, for the Word of Life was given by God for the redemption for the souls of lost humanity. In John 3 verse 5, we note that within this portion of the scripture, "born of Water and of the Spirit" is an all-inclusive statement, no matter how you would read it. If the Water and the Spirit are necessary for the new birth, then God's Spirit with the Water is definitely One, can not be separated, as exclusive from one another. The English conjunction, "and", is transliterated from the Greek word, "kai", Strong's G2532, and that Greek word "kai", has several additional interconnecting meanings, such as; also, but, even, indeed. If we insert either the word, "even", or the word, "indeed", for the English conjunction word, "and", then the scripture would be made clearer in its definitive expression. Witness the following transliteration with the Greek word, "kai": "born of Water, indeed of the Spirit", or "born of Water, even of the Spirit". The very Soul and the Life of Jesus Christ, was pouring out of His Body, inclusive with the Water and Blood that sustained the Life and Soul of the Son of Man. We conclude that the Water of the Word of God, is of the cleansing Serum Water that had separated from the Life Blood of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the Fountain of Living Water, and the Living Water that flowed out from the side of the Son of Man, is inextricably One, with God's Holy Spirit of Life. The natural man, whether Jew or gentile are all born of selfish flesh, and will look to their own self centered cares, a natural fact. But if a person answers the call of God's Spirit, then the soul of the person will be immersed into the poured out Serum Water of the Life that flowed from the pierced side of Jesus Christ. We, of the faith of Christ Jesus, are baptized into the initiating cleansing Water of Life that is of the Spirit of the Word of God, and the promised Salvation Seed of God. Again we note that the Apostle John testifies that the Spirit and the Water and the Blood are One. For a little clarification, the Three are of the One and Same Essence of the Eternal Word of God Almighty. If the Holy Spirit of God is One with the Water and Blood of Jesus Christ, then the Holy Spirit of Life is also the same source of Living Water, as with the Son of Man, and that Essence of Life is One with YHWH God Almighty. Thus, we are to understand in our God given faith that: That which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. God is Spirit and His Spirit bears evidence to us of God's Eternal Truth, which Evidence is not yet seen, even as His gift of faith, is the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things that are not revealed to the eyes. You can not see the Blood and Water of our Salvation, even as you can not see the Holy Spirit of God. Neither can you see the soul of the natural man, nor the new birth of the soul that is redeemed, and then sealed by the Blood of Jesus Christ through God's unseen Holy Spirit. Witness again as Jesus, the WORD of GOD, speaks: In the last day, that great day of the feast, [High Sabbath the 8th day of the Feast of Tabernacles] Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto Me, and drink. He that believes on Me, as the scripture has said. Out of his belly shall flow rivers of Living Water. These Rivers of Living Waters will flow from God's Holy Spirit, Who is the Life of the Baptized follower of Jesus Christ. And the Scriptures continues to witness to this same Truth: By this He meant the Spirit, Whom those who believed in Him [that is Christ Jesus] were later to receive. Up to that time the Spirit had not been given, since Jesus had not yet been glorified. (John 7 verse 37 thru 39.) The old wineskins of our dry and hardened hearts, are like broken cisterns that can not hold this flowing Water of God's Spirit of Grace. But now, through God's Gift of justification, born of His Love, we have been given a new pliable heart of an understanding mind, from which the Love of God may flow freely to others that are empty of the Life giving Love of God. Through our obedient faith, the Fountain of Living Waters of God's Spirit, can begin to spring forth, into the new wineskins of our hearts, and overflow its former bounds, and giving life to the dry and parched earthen vessels of mankind. Our new born life from the Father, should begin to glorify the Son of God, to the Glory of His Father God Almighty. The Spirit of God the Father and His incarnate Son, is the Spirit of Truth, and God's Spirit bears witness with the spirit of our minds that we are the new born children of God. (See Romans 8 verse 15 thru 17.) It is God Elohim, the Fountain of Living Water, Who baptizes the repentant believer into His abundant mercy and pardon, through the poured out Life of His Perfect Son, and our Lord Christ Jesus. In the new beginning of Life, all past offenses are adjudicated, within God's perfect sacrifice of the Life of His Son, Jesus Christ, and the guilt and shame of the past life of the repentant person, is washed away in their emersion into the Living Waters of the Spirit that floods the dry earthly souls of God's redeemed. When a person is born anew, through a regenerative Faith in God and His Christ, then through God's Holy Spirit that person was immersed into God's New Covenant within the cleansing separated serum Water, that is One with Christ's Life giving Blood that is One with God's Holy Spirit of Life. We are separated from our sins of the past, which held us in death, and we are released to follow new Life in Christ Jesus. Although, we can not see the moment of true faith in the soul of a man, that same emerging faith, is a Gift from the Spirit of God, and begins to witness in our hearts of our conception into new life that is centered in Christ Jesus. The new beginning birth has indeed taken place in the soul of that person through the Word of God, and that person would seek to be Baptized into the confirming separating serum water of the Holy Spirit, and into the death, burial and now resurrected Life of Jesus Christ. The traditional Water baptism is two fold. First, by unseen faith, we are born of the cleansing Water of the Spirit of God, and that substance of faith, is a gift of the Holy Spirit, Who is One with the Fountain of Living Water in Christ Jesus. Secondly, it is a statement of faith, publicly witnessed by others, and is a needful outward sign of confirmation, that boldly proclaims what has already taken place within the new born soul of faith. Now through God's Holy Spirit, the emersion Water of Baptism is the very same Serum Water that separated from the whole Blood of Jesus, and flowed together into the earth from the pierced side of Jesus Christ the Crucified. For there are three that bear witness: The Spirit and the Water and the Blood, and they are One: And God, the Fountain of Living Water, is the Justifier of those that return to Him, trusting in the Great Salvation of His Son. (See God's Amnesty Program.) The Only Infinite God, is Holy Love: But make no foolish mistake in human judgment; for the Love of God is a consuming fire and the perfection of that Love is the antithesis of sin, and will begin to obliterate sin, at its open source within the corrupted flesh of man. However, the person of continuing sin, breaks the New Covenant agreement with God, and can not abide in the Presence of Holy, Holy, Holy, Yahweh Lord God Almighty, for indeed, the Almighty is an Eternal Holy Fire, where it is impossible for the idolatrous nature of sin to abide. The Apostle Peter addressed the crowd at Pentecost, and said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2 verse 38.) Now, when the truly repentant disciple of Jesus Christ is Baptized into Water, that person is Baptized by God's Holy Spirit, the very Fountain of Living Water, into the very same New Covenant separating Serum Water that flowed from the New Covenant whole Blood of Christ Jesus, the Son of Man and the only begotten Son of GOD. The Creator's baptismal fire against sin's corruption in the flesh will be a continual process of cleansing to those who submit themselves to the Holy Lord's faithfulness. When Paul came to Ephesus, he found certain disciples, along with Apollos, who were baptized in John's water baptism, and who had not even so much as heard of the Holy Spirit. When we review the Book of Acts - Chapter 19, we see that the water baptism of the disciples of John the Baptist, apparently was not the sufficient end all. Christ Jesus is God's End All: For the new person, of Faith in Jesus Christ Jesus, is amerced into the pure cleansing Serum Water of Life that flowed from the pierce side of God's Salvation Son. The water that rains down from above and flows like rivers of floods upon the earth cleanses the earth so that in its refreshing it might bring forth the life of earthly vegetation; while the Serum Water of Life in Christ Jesus cleanses the earthly soul from its earthly corruption of sin and death, so that God's Holy Spirit may bring forth in that soul, the abundance of the Life of Holy God's Spirit in Christ Jesus. Jesus says to His disciples: Nevertheless I tell you the truth: It is expedient for you that I go away: For if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send Him unto you. And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment: Of sin, because they believe not on Me: Of righteousness, because I go to My Father, and you see Me no more: Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. I have yet many things to say unto you, but you cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide you into all Truth: for He shall not speak of Himself; but whatsoever He shall hear, that shall He speak: and He will show you things to come. He shall glorify Me: For He shall receive of Mine, and shall show it unto you. All things that the Father has are Mine: therefore said I, that He shall take of Mine, and shall show it unto you. (John 16 verse 7 thru 15.) The Holy Word of God humbled Himself, and was born into this world in Adam's humanity, with the spirit and will of a Man that is natural to the genealogy of the first Adam. But Jesus Christ, the Last Man, always followed after the will of the Spirit of His Father, and the Lord's Spirit was always obedient to His Father, because of His Love for His Father, even unto the violence of death. The Spirit of Jesus Christ, the Son of Man, even in His death, was One with the Holy Spirit of His Father God Almighty. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy Hands, I commit My Spirit: and having said thus, He gave up the Ghost. The first Adam failed in his love of his Creator, but the last Adam, in union with the Love of His Father, is a quickening Spirit of Life, and gives His True Life to whosoever calls upon His Name in Truth. John came, in the Spirit of Elijah, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord, proclaiming: I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance - but He that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear! He shall baptize with the HOLY GHOST, and with Fire. (See Matthew 3 verse 10 thru 12.) Although the disciples of John the Baptist were men seeking renewal of faith with God, they were baptized by John, only in the natural water of the earth, symbolic of repentance; and not as a living member, vested into the Body of Jesus Christ, and being enabled into Life by Jesus/Yeshua's Holy Spirit of Salvation Grace. Their original water baptism of repentance took place, before the Covenant Water and Blood of Christ Jesus, flowed into the earth from His pierced Body. When these disciples understood Paul's teaching, they were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spoke with tongues, and prophesied. ( See Acts 19 verse 1 thru 7.) Again, we are emphasizing that there is a vast difference between John's external water baptism, signifying ones outward repentance of the flesh, when compared to the New Covenant Baptism that plunges the repentant soul, into the cleansing separated Serum Water of the Lord's Blood, that is one with the Holy Spirit of the Living God. So then, we, the Ecclesia of Christ, need to begin to see with spiritual understanding that in one's Baptism in Water, that this Water is now, the separating cleansing Serum Water from the Blood of Jesus Christ, the perfect Incarnate Son of Man. The Spirit of Life that is One with the Water and the Blood, separates us from the old life of the flesh of the old Adam, into the New active Life of the risen Christ, Who was the last Adam and the first born Man from the dead. Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him: And when Thou shall make His Soul and offering for sin, He [Jesus] shall see His Seed. (See Isaiah 53 verse 10.) The Holy Spirit, of the Living Christ, is One with the New Covenant Water and Blood of our Lord, and this Baptism, through the Holy Spirit, separates a person from their sins of the past, as if they had never happened. This regeneration of the soul of a person, began with their repentance from sin and their obedient faith in God's New Covenant manifested in the whole Life giving Blood of Jesus Christ, that was shed for the remission sin committed in their flesh. (See God's Amnesty Program.) In this Baptism through God's Holy Spirit, the bill of indictment for a person's past sins is consumed away by fire in the Lord's sacrificial death and burial. Now, we holding to the faith of Jesus Christ's death, burial and resurrection, are made free in the Love of God, where the old things of sin and death are passed away, and behold all things are made new within the new birth of the soul of God's creation of the new man of faith in God's Christ. The risen Jesus Christ, speaking to His disciples, commands them to stay in Jerusalem, and wait for the Promise of the Father, Which, said He, you have heard of Me. verse 5, For John truly baptized with water; but you shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence. verse 8, You shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: And you shall be witnesses unto Me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth. (See Acts 1 verse 1 thru 8.) Even as in the past, today the Lord may manifest Himself to the believer both with signs and wonders, and with various miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to His own will. (See Hebrew 2 verse 1 thru 4.) That witness, of God's good will, could be a corporate or singular manifestation of God's Presence, as His Wisdom so chooses to manifest within His time and method of approach. In conjunction, the presbyters laying on of hands upon the called out people, can be seen as the impartation of the special gifts and callings of God's Holy Spirit, and is generally called the Baptism of the Holy Spirit. Paul, writing to the infantile church at Corinth writes: Now you are the Body of Christ, and members of it. We are to understand that all of God's called out ones, are all baptized into the Body of Christ, and God has set us members together, to function as One in Christ's Body. If we are in Christ Jesus, then we are already gifted by God's Spirit, and are to simultaneously function together according to the needs of the One Body of Christ. (See 1st Corinthians 12 verse17-18, 27.) The Human Body is profoundly magnificent in God's earthly creation of Man, for the body is endowed with all of its intertwining cellular functions that support the whole being, but because of sin and its corruption, death is infused within all of the cells of the body. However, the Body of Christ, with its called out members functioning as One with the Spirit of God, is infinitely superior to the earthly functions that enable the flesh of humanity, for the Body of Christ is infused with Holy God's Spirit of Eternal Life. For He shall baptize with the HOLY GHOST, and with Fire. (See Matthew 3 verse 10 thru 12.) The Fire from the Holy Spirit of God will consume the dross of sin in the flesh of man, for if you are without chastening then you are illegitimate and not a living member within the Body of Christ. The Baptismal Fire of God is stoked by sin, and no chastening is pleasant when the fire remains fueled by willful disobedience: Nevertheless, afterwards the chastening yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who are exercised by it. (See Hebrews 12 verse 9 thru 15.) God is a consuming Fire and if you endure the fiery chastening of God's Holy Spirit then God treats you as one of His sons. So then, my enlightened experience in this holy moment of the Gifting Presence of Holy God, is one of unspeakable joy in the Power of the Love of God that glorifies His Righteous Son Jesus Christ. The impartation, of that Perfect Love of God, is a consoling witness within the redeemed soul that experiences God's Presence. For after the initiating power of God's cleansing Love in Christ Jesus, God's Spirit will ultimately lead a person in their appointed service within the Body of Jesus Christ and this lost world of sin and death. The strength of all the gifts of God's Spirit are relative to the needs of the Body of Christ, and are determined through the Wisdom of God alone. The Love of God through the Holy Spirit of God, will be the motivating factor in the witness of a saved person. That motivating Love of God's Spirit within the Body of Christ Jesus will direct the saved persons into the worshipful service of Holy Father God Almighty, through His Holy Spirit of Truth in Christ Jesus. (See Romans 1 verse 2 and 1st Corinthians 12.) It is the Supreme Holiness within the Sacrificial Blood of Jesus Christ, that allows God's Holy Spirit, to dwell with the redeemed soul of earthen vessels of flesh. Those souls of true faith are to be in agreement with God's New Covenant in the Blood of His Holy Son Jesus Christ for the Holy Spirit of God is One with the Blood and the flowing Water of Jesus Christ. The Word of God, is One Spirit, and if dwelling within our souls, God's Spirit of Holiness is faithful to cleanse us earthen vessels from our self acknowledged sins within our flesh, that are submitted to Him in our true sorrow and repentance towards Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty. It is the unseen Life Blood of Jesus Christ that makes atonement for sin, for God's Holy Spirit, Who is One with the Blood and Serum Water of Christ, administers the Sanctifying Life Blood of God's New Covenant, bringing about the little by little obliteration of confessed sins of selfish unbelieving flesh. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the Truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, (because of the Blood Covenant) and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness, (because of the Water and the Blood of our Salvation) and we will have fellowship one with another in the Body of Christ. (See in full order of context 1st John 1 verse 5 thru 10.) How much more shall the Blood of Christ, Who through the Eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God? And for this cause Christ is the Mediator of the New Testament. (See Hebrews 9 verse 11 thru 16.) When we come together, as the Ecclesia, it is to worship God in the Spirit and Truth within His New Covenant Blood, that refreshes each member of the Body of Christ with the Communion Life Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, administered by God's Holy Spirit of Living Grace. Because of the unchangeable holiness of God, and for this reason alone, it is impossible for the Holy Spirit of God to dwell with earthly man. Man must be born again of Holy God's Spirit of Live, for without one's faith in God's Covenant in the Mediating Holy Blood of Jesus Christ, his soul is left dead because of sin. YHWH God, the Infinite Father of Life, gave the Life and Soul contained within the Blood of the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, as a sacrifice of redeeming holiness for mankind's sin's that separate us from Holy, Holy, Holy God Almighty. Please understand this additional point of contention, for we wish to clear up this misunderstanding: The Holy Spirit of God does not indwell the corruptible flesh of man, for the flesh is at enmity with God, and God with it. But the tabernacle, of the Holy Spirit, becomes the regenerated soul of the yielded person of faith, who is washed in the separated Serum Water, that is One with the redeeming whole Blood of Jesus Christ. It is the fire and holy jealousy of God's Holy Spirit, that Baptizes a soul into the redeeming poured out Blood of God's Son. The Spirit of God indwells the soul of a person of faith, only because of the redemptive price of Jesus' Blood that God's Holy Spirit is One with in infinite essence. God is Love, and the Holy Spirit of God covers the souls of His faithful people with the Holy Blood of His Son, for the Holy Spirit is One with the Holy Blood of Jesus Christ, and Jesus Christ is the WORD of GOD, given in Father God's Love. Now, some might argue that the Apostles, who were water baptized unto repentance, were not baptized into that Serum Water of Jesus Christ, but indeed they were baptized as such, even as you will see! Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and said unto them: Peace be unto you. And when He had so said, He showed unto them His hands and His side. Then were the disciples glad, when they saw the LORD. Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be unto you! As My Father has sent Me, even so send I you. And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive you the Holy Ghost: Whosoever sins you remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosoever sins you retain, they are retained. (John 20 verse 19 thru 23.) We see in this scripture within Jewish time that on the same day of the evening, now being the first day of the week, the WORD of GOD, the resurrected Jesus Christ stood in the midst of His disciples and said unto them: Peace be unto you. And after the disciples had seen the inflicted wounds of death upon their risen Lord, they rejoiced, and no doubt their faith supremely increased in the Lord, Who in His humanity with holiness to His Father, bodily conquered death. The Lord, seeing the disciples unquestioned faith in His death, burial and His resurrection from the dead, now breathes upon them the Spirit of His Word, baptizing them in the Serum Water and the regenerating Blood Covenant of the WORD of GOD. For remember that in the earth, the Spirit and the Water and the Blood are One, and the Three are One with the WORD of GOD, Who through His Father gives the Holy Spirit of Life, to all who believe and call upon Him in Truth. We see another occasion of God's astounding grace, in the house of Cornelius, found in Chapter 10 of Acts. After having a vision, then Peter preaches the Word of God to the gentile household and friends of Cornelius, and behold, while Peter was yet speaking, the Holy Spirit fell upon all of them, who heard the Word of God. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost. For they heard them speak with tongues, and magnify God. Then answered Peter, Can any man forbid water, that these should not be baptized, which have received the Holy Ghost as well as we? And he commanded them to be baptized in the Name of the Lord. (Acts 10 verse 44 thru 48.) The beginnings of faith, exonerates the new believer of past sins, and the Holy Spirit Who is one with the Serum Water and the Blood of Jesus Christ, sets God's abiding seal on the heart of the new person born of faith. To proceed to the next section and chapters, please click on The Crucible - Take and Drink:
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