Word 7/13/08

Hebrews 5:14 But strong meat belongs to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

Because of iniquity the love of many will grow cold. Guard your heart. Do not let your liberty be an occasion to sin. Do not let your anger bring destruction on yourself, being not in control of your earthen vessel. Let My word be your limit and bound, My rod and My staff comfort. Yet, for anxiousness can you go past My cover? (Out from under God’s wing or from behind His shield, protection.) Be strong in Me and the power of My might, not your arm of strength.

What more shall I do? The pride of the Pharisee has risen in the heart of the religious. Though they name Me as their Lord, their heart takes My word and builds a bridge that goes to prison. They build a house that becomes a jail, without the key. (Luke 11:52 Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in you hindered.) They take captive the young and pliable/impressionable and make My seed like unto themselves. Who can escape? Who can know truth? Who can be taught to love truth and the touch of My hand, My Spirit? Who will know their light is darkness? They have come to love the collar of a servant. They have no desire to be free, to walk in the light of sons and daughters.

Worship in Spirit, worship in truth. In the Spirit, those (we) who are joined to God (by the Holy Spirit) are of one Spirit, all truth is yours (ours). (By hearing the voice of God, through the Holy Spirit, by receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, we hear truth. By faith we act upon that truth beyond the discipline of the flesh. Hence, doing the will of God, not obeying accepted norm behavior, but serving from the heart) Without the Spirit (In truth/fact, even though they say and think that they are, do not “bear witness” in truth.) they are fleshly (earthly), limited by man. The blind cannot see the difference, the deaf cannot hear the call to come higher. John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. Mark 3:35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother. Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity. Ephesians 5:17 Wherefore be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. 1 Corinthians 14:21 In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.

No one can say Jesus was accursed by the Spirit of God. (1 Corinthians 12:3 Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God called Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost.) On having once tasted (the Holy Spirit), to turn back is (be to) accursed (certain eternal death). (Hebrews 6:4 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, 5And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 6If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. But, conditionally: Luke 5:39 No man also having drunk old wine straightway desires new: for he says, The old is better.) But I say to you, those who never actually tasted and pass judgment are blind and deaf (and dead already, for they deny truth and keep others from it). Being faithful in the very little (so they think and say, but not doing the will of God) with no opportunity to grow (themselves, because of unbelief, in Spirit or in truth), they deny truth. (Denying the truth of God and putting education or works for the truth of God, which is life in the Holy Spirit by receiving the Baptism of the Holy Spirit, and God Himself teaching us by the Holy Spirit, literally/actually.)

Those who deny truth ride on the back of Satan, the Dragon. (Revelation 17:…and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. 4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her…) They have persecuted the true saints of God, for they (the true saints) have not been a majority since the apostles (time). Revealed now, in these last days (since the out pouring of the Holy Spirit, i.e. Azusa Street); so God can and will show Himself strong in all the earth, (Proving His will) by those who make their calling and election sure, by following after the Spirit of God with their whole heart no matter were He lead, including personal change, dying to ourselves/to who we are in the natural/flesh so that Christ/the Anointing can live and be seen by others.

Obnoxious behavior is not acceptable. The apostles are not your example (as good as they were), be like Jesus, meek and mild in Spirit.

L,J,P&HG
Dave