The Holy God of all creation, is not the God of confusion, nor has He changed His mind, as some may think.  The God of the Bible is the same yesterday: “Holy, Holy, Holy, today; Holy, Holy, Holy and tomorrow; Holy, Holy, Holy; for His council and His Word remains constant.  God's good and gracious will, is that all men would live, and not die.  That all would repent, and turn away from the wide path of self destruction, and then fully accept and follow in humility, God Almighty's will for their Salvation into the Life of His Son, Jesus the Christ of God, (Yeshua haMachiach).  I have heard and seen in a vision, that God is the God of the living and not the god of the dead.  And yet men continue to choose the god of death, to justify themselves in the vanity and the philosophies of their own understandings, cultivated within the grey matter of their minds that is naturally centered on self.  Death always follows in their footsteps. 

They shall put you out of the synagogues: Yes, the time comes, that whosoever kills you will think that he does God service. And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor Me. ^{(John 16 verse 2 thru 4.  (NIV,).}

In this day, more than ever, the spirit of Anti-Christ is working his will, and deception through the Middle Eastern religion of Islam, and also in the false religions of self-deceit, even those that associate themselves with Christianity.  And the Mystery of Iniquity continues, married in worldly religion. That malignant spirit and architect of religious deception, is no less than the subtlety disguised serpent who was in the Garden of Eden, seeking to destroy God's authoritative Word, and then to be worshiped and exalted above God, the Almighty. 

"How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!  How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations!  For you have said in your heart: "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High.  Yet, you shall be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit. Those who see you will gaze at you, And consider you, saying: "Is this the man who made the earth tremble? Who shook kingdoms? Who made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed its cities? ^{(Isaiah 14 verse 12 thru  17.)} 

Now, we say we are Christians, but some things have not changed.  Unfortunately, the root of our carnality and confusion, from the Garden event, remains intertwined within the rooted substance of our minds.  In the early beginnings of the Church, the initial beauty and simplicity of a person's repentance from sin, and their belief of the Gospel of Salvation through faith in Jesus Christ, again became mired within the corruption and power of the will of sin centered in the spirit of the mind of self.  Thus Paul writes:  "Already the Mystery of Iniquity doth work", speaking of a chaste church becoming soiled with the deceptions of sin.

So in spite of Christianity, we can see through out the tragic course of human history, that God’s good will has not been favored in the earth, and the path of destruction remains wide. All of us, having been born of Adam (the first man) are by nature of the flesh, the children of wrath, and were dead in our sins and trespasses, while walking after the will of the spirit of perdition. Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. ^{(Ephesians 2 verse 3.)}

Satan’s idolatrous will of sin, always strives to give itself rooted preeminence, within the autonomous mind of man, appealing to the sensual desires of the flesh, seeking to increase the strength of its evil root in man, until man’s selfish demise.  The spiritual viral entity of sin, within mankind, continually seeks its own satisfaction and confused justification, and understandably does not possess the good fruit of humility, which would bring about a confession of fault for our sin induced conduct. The convoluted pride of man, does not like to recognize that we, in the preservation of our flesh, may become the will of sin to propagate itself, with the end reward of sin, being death.  True humility is born out of reverential fear of the Almighty God, with the soul and spirit of the person, yielding to the Spirit of Yahweh's Will. 

We say we give our hearts to God, but our will is tied to our hearts, and they are inseparable.  When our will moves away from God, so does the heart.  The two must be relinquished together, as one, crucified with Jesus Christ.  The spirit of a man is generated by the mind of the man.  If we would understand correctly, that when scriptures says that we have the mind of Christ, then we have the Spirit of Christ Jesus residing within the redeemed souls of our beings, to lead the spirit of our minds, in the loving and obedient ways of Christ, as the children of God.  Even daily, we are to deny our selfish disposition, and to take up the cross, and then follow our Savior down His narrow Way that leads to eternal Life within Him.  Those who follow after the Spirit of God, these are the sons of God!

As we dwell in Christ Jesus, God’s good will and saving grace, is expressed in His love for us, and His love, if not rejected, sustains the resurrected power of a new and abundant life, within the soul and spirit of our being,  

That I may win Christ,  And be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which is [supposed] of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:  That I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being made conformable unto His death; ^{(Philippians 3 verse 8 thru 11.)}

But less we forget, in crucifixion, there is death to our will, tied to the flesh of self.  When the seed of our Savior, Christ Jesus, enters our willful life, we are now immersed into the beginnings of the ongoing battle of wills, for the ground of our heart.  The question is, “Will the Will of sin and death, as the seed of Satan possess the heart, or will the gracious Will of the God of the living?"  Now, if we are the children of God, then we will walk after the will of the Father in Christ Jesus, thus abandoning our self will to the heart of God, Who enables us through His love, to become a witness in the earth, and a light to shine in darkness. Jesus prayed His priestly prayer to His Father: The glory which Thou gave to Me, I have given to them: that they may be one, even as We are One: I in them; and Thou in Me; that they may be made perfect in One: and that the world may know that Thou hast sent Me, and hast loved them, even as Thou hast loved Me.^{( (John 17 verse 23. )}

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