Salt

We must NEVER forget that we are NOT fighting against flesh and blood i.e. people

 

Whosoever fight or hate people is NOT true Christian and have still dirt left to cleanse.
Maturity of TRUE LOVE is a measure of how spiritual and matured you are, and NOTHING ELSE.


====> Some Christians believe that we are to commune only with other Christians.

NO, NO, No that is wrong! They have miss interpreted tis Bible verse (2 Cor 6:14). I have been blocked by false Christians who did not like me speaking to Atheists or Muslims or others non Christians.

2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness?

====> We must understand that "To be yoked together" is NOT to AVOID or NOT to TALK to people. If you do that you will be in danger to stuck in some cult. That is typical behavior for cults, they exclude themselves.
Mark 9:50
Salt is good, but if the salt loses its flavor, how will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace with one another.”

Leviticus 2:13
And every offering of your grain offering you shall season with salt; you shall not allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your grain offering. With all your offerings you shall offer salt.

Matthew 5:15
Nor do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives light to all who are in the house.

2 Kings 2:21
Then he went out to the source of the water, and cast in the salt there, and said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘I have healed this water; from it there shall be no more death or barrenness.’”

Mark 9:49 (Tasteless Salt Is Worthless.)
“For EVERYONE will be seasoned with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.

====> Ignorance is NOT about knowledge BUT blindness in your heart, don´t harden your heart.

Ephesians 4:18
Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart

‎====> How can you silence the ignorance of foolish men? Is it by shouting or accusing them?

NO, NO, NO!! You will not succeed to silence them like that.

1 Peter 2:15
For this is the will of God, that by DOING GOOD you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men
Titus 2:8
.. sound speech that cannot be condemned, that one who is an opponent may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say of you.

1 Peter 1:14
.. as obedient children, not conforming yourselves to the former lusts, as in your ignorance

Hosea 11:4
I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love, and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

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Come out from addiction

PROPHETIC WORD...

The Spirit of the Lord said to me,

Some children of GOD ( Converted ) are trying to overcome the bad addictions for eg. Sexual immorality., Evil things., Pornography., Youthful Lusts., ugly desires & drug addicts and other sought of bad habits which they are maintaing as a secret habit. And they are trying from ages to overcome from the dark area's of their life which no one knows.. They are struggling and fighting with their full power and strength in their life to overcome the bad habits, but in vain. They could not survive out of it and failing to stand firm. They are unable to give up and also unable to share with other's about their secret habits. Ending with great disappointment and utterly dieing in soul and spirit without hope as they can't even share such secret failures with anyone at least..

But, The Lord of hosts says., Take Heed, Take Heed, I have overcome everything and through me you have Great Victory.. I Corinthians 15:57.
I have seen the thirst which wants deliverance and desperation which trying hard to break the yoke of bondage so STAND FIRM, I say, STAND FIRM, LET NOTHING MOVE YOU saith the Lord...

Woman of blood issue suffered 12 years. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse... And the Man near the Sheep Gate also suffered from 38 years said, “for I have no one to put me into the pool when the water bubbles up...
Dear friends, you may be thinking that there is no one to help me to get out of such situations and sorrowful conditions, Cheer up !!! When JESUS Almighty majesty touched the women suffered from blood issue, she got immediate deliverance and when JESUS told to the man at sheep gate “Stand up, pick up your mat, and walk!” instantly the man was healed... Hallelujah ...

Dear people, No matter from how many long years you are suffering, JESUS Help, Healing, Deliverance., Redemption and great Victory comes instantly when you STAND UP and Touch of his garment. You will be healed from every secret addiction, Bondage, Darkness, weakness & failures inside and outside for ever... Amen..

So The Spirit of the Lord said to me that JESUS is very near to such people who are in such conditions to bring you out from such areas and to Enthrone you as a King over your worst things of slavery ....

So my dear friends, All you have to do is just Repent., fast and pray, call upon the name of JESUS and declare your Mighty Victory through Christ.
Let the children of GOD shout Hallelujah say Amen !

But vow unto them who are loving & enjoying dark areas of their lives other-side of the Coin., saith the Lord GOD of Hosts..

Just come out of such life and Praise the Lord GOD of Israel.
By Chris Peter

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Drunkenness

Proverbs 23:29-33

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaints? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?

Those who linger long at the wine, Those who go in search of mixed wine.

Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it swirls around smoothly, At the last it bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper. Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things.

Proverbs 23:34 Yes, you will be like one who lies down in the midst of the sea, Or like one who lies at the top of the mast, saying:

"They have struck me, but I was not hurt; They have beaten me, but I did not feel it. When shall I awake, that I may seek another drink?"

Scripture verses should not be read or applied alone because there is danger of applying verses out of context. The Scripture verse from Proverbs 23:29-30 means that those who tarry long at the wine meaning they are hindered by it or have no self-control and have given themselves over entirely to it.


The word "long" comes from a primitive Hebrew root word "Achar", meaning to delay, hesitate, tarry, defer, remain behind, to delay, tarry (intensive) to cause one to delay, hinder, keep back, to delay, wait, stay behind (but not in hope). This is actually talking about drunkenness. Not literally drinking in moderation. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary has great insight into the meaning of these verses:

"Solomon warns against drunkenness. Those that would be kept from sin, must keep from all the beginnings of it, and fear coming within reach of its allurements. Foresee the punishment, what it will at last end in, if repentance prevent not. It makes men quarrel. Drunkards wilfully make woe and sorrow for themselves. It makes men impure and insolent.
The tongue grows unruly; the heart utters things contrary to reason, religion, and common civility. It stupifies and besots men. They are in danger of death, of damnation; as much exposed as if they slept upon the top of a mast, yet feel secure.
They fear no peril when the terrors of YHWH ("God") are before them; they feel no pain when the judgments of YHWH are actually upon them. So lost is a drunkard to virtue and honour, so wretchedly is his conscience seared, that he is not ashamed to say, I will seek it again. With good reason we were bid to stop before the beginning.
Who that has common sense would contract a habit, or sell himself to a sin, which tends to such guilt and misery, and exposes a man every day to the danger of dying insensible, and awaking in hell?
Wisdom seems in these chapters to take up the discourse as at the beginning of the book. They must be considered as the words of Yahushua Ha Maschiach ("Christ") to the sinner."

Proverbs 20:1 witnesses the same ideas from Proverbs 23:29-30 because to be deceived by them, which comes from the Hebrew word "Shagah," means to be overtaken and intoxicated by them from drunkenness. The intoxication causes people to see and understand or do things differently than if we were sober and who could deny that. I know that I have been in plenty of bar fights and party crashes that I would not have started or been in had I not given myself over to drunkenness or the atmosphere and people of immoral character that instigated it, including myself...which we are our own worst enemies....

‎"And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess (as opposed to moderation); but be filled with the Spirit;..." Ephesians 5:19

Many people take this verse out of context also. Here the key is not to get DRUNK on wine, which leads to debauchery (or wildness), but be filled with the Spirit. To be filled with the YHWH's Set Apart Spirit will allow us to have wisdom and self-control, etc. from becoming drunk on wine and doing sinful things that come from being drunk.

Being filled with the Spirit will also help us when "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to YHWH; Giving thanks always for all things unto YHWH the Father in the name of our Yahushua Ha Maschiach;" (Eph 5:19-20) and not in a bacchanalian way (riotous drinking party when meeting with the brethren or Ekklesia ("Church"). Being drunk does not honor or edify anyone in the Body of Ha Maschiach, especially YHWH.

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Be led by the Holy Spirit in everything you think, say, and do

Except your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees

By Dirk A Schnarr

Except your righteousness exceeds that of the Pharisees. . .  7/24/2011
Oh, how the modern church today lives in the very same realm as that of the Pharisee.  Does that offend you?  BUT, what if it were true?  Would you not want to know so that you might correct your life?  Or are you comfortable with your current walk?  If we are truly willing to get honest with ourselves and God, HE WILL show us HIS TRUTH!
July 24th.  DISPOSITION AND DEEDS

"Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven." Matthew 5:20

The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in motive because he has been made good by the super-natural grace of God. The only thing that exceeds right-doing is right-being. Jesus Christ came to put into any man who would let Him a new heredity which would exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees. Jesus says - If you are My disciple you must be right not only in your living, but in your motives, in your dreams, in the recesses of your mind. You must be so pure in your motives that God Almighty can see nothing to censure. Who can stand in the Eternal Light of God and have nothing for God to censure? Only the Son of God, and Jesus Christ claims that by His Redemption He can put into any man His own disposition, and make him as unsullied and as simple as a child. The purity which God demands is impossible unless I can be remade within, and that is what Jesus has undertaken to do by His Redemption.

No man can make himself pure by obeying laws. Jesus Christ does not give us rules and regulations; His teachings are truths that can only be interpreted by the disposition He puts in. The great marvel of Jesus Christ's salvation is that He alters heredity. He does not alter human nature; He alters its mainspring. From My Utmost For His Highest by Oswald Chambers.
Does our righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees?  This entry by Oswald Chamber tells us how we are to live in Christ Jesus.  No amount of conformity to the Laws of God, to the 10 Commandments, to any other written code will EVER alter us on the inside.  We will remain, as Paul says in Romans 7

Rom 7:15  For I do not understand my own actions [I am baffled, bewildered]. I do not practice or accomplish what I wish, but I do the very thing that I loathe [which my moral instinct condemns].

And that is where we remain UNLESS and UNTIL we come to the realization that Jesus Christ has made a way for us to have our very nature changed!

Eph 4:21  Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as [all] Truth is in Jesus [embodied and personified in Him], Eph 4:22  Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; Eph 4:23  And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude], Eph 4:24  ] in true righteousness and holiness. And put on the new nature (the regenerate self) created in God's image, [

Notice this clearly my friends, we are to put on this NEW NATURE that is actually created in God’s IMAGE, that has TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS and HOLINESS, not imputed righteousness and holiness, but the real stuff, JUST LIKE JESUS HAD!
In fact, what we are doing here, is by faith, allowing the very life of Christ Jesus to live through us on this earth.

Gal 2:20  I have been crucified with Christ [in Him I have shared His crucifixion]; it is no longer I who live, but Christ (the Messiah) lives in me; and the life I now live in the body I live by faith in (by adherence to and reliance on and complete trust in) the Son of God, Who loved me and gave Himself up for me. Gal 2:21  [Therefore, I do not treat God's gracious gift as something of minor importance and defeat its very purpose]; I do not set aside and invalidate and frustrate and nullify the grace (unmerited favor) of God. For if justification (righteousness, acquittal from guilt) comes through [observing the ritual of] the Law, then Christ (the Messiah) died groundlessly and to no purpose and in vain. [His death was then wholly superfluous.]

So you, brother or sister, who keep the Law because you believe that is the only way to remain free from sin, what is inside of you?  Do you live a perfect life, conformed to all the rules and regulations of God on the outside, yet what are your motives, what is going on inside of you?
Do you not see, this is exactly how the Pharisees lived?  Look at what Paul described as his own life as a Pharisee!

Php 3:4  Though for myself I have [at least grounds] to rely on the flesh. If any other man considers that he has or seems to have reason to rely on the flesh and his physical and outward advantages, I have still more!

Php 3:5  Circumcised when I was eight days old, of the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew [and the son] of Hebrews; as to the observance of the Law I was of [the party of] the Pharisees, Php 3:6  As to my zeal, I was a persecutor of the church, and by the Law's standard of righteousness (supposed justice, uprightness, and right standing with God) I was proven to be blameless and no fault was found with me. Php 3:7  But whatever former things I had that might have been gains to me, I have come to consider as [one combined] loss for Christ's sake. Php 3:8  Yes, furthermore, I count everything as loss compared to the possession of the priceless privilege (the overwhelming preciousness, the surpassing worth, and supreme advantage) of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord and of progressively becoming more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him [of perceiving and recognizing and understanding Him more fully and clearly]. For His sake I have lost everything and consider it all to be mere rubbish (refuse, dregs), in order that I may win (gain) Christ (the Anointed One), Php 3:9  And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law's demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith.

And it is this man, PAUL, who wrote Romans 7, referring to this life he describes for us here, that according to the LAW of Moses was PERFECT, yet on the inside was full of deceit and error, just like the Pharisees that Jesus spoke of.  (Remember, Paul was a Pharisee)

Mat 23:25  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence. Mat 23:26  You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may be clean also. Mat 23:27  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure. Mat 23:28  Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity. [Ps. 5:9.]

This is just a portion of the JUDGMENT of God against the Pharisees; and ALL who would live by adherence to the LAW!  Please understand, there is no way any human being can ever keep the Law in the manner that God demands, for God does NOT look at the outward actions, but rather what comes from the heart and the motivations that have brought about what we may think are correct actions.
God demands perfection on the INSIDE; in the HEART.  Can you do this?  Can we keep the Law in such a manner that our heart becomes JUST LIKE JESUS?  Do you honestly believe you can do this?  If so, you are better at it than Paul was!
Yet the reality that comes through Christ Jesus is completely different.

Rom 1:17  For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith. [Hab. 2:4.]

Is it?  Is this how we live?  OR do we say we believe in Christ Jesus and then conform our lives to what we think the Law says?  Have we honestly received righteousness, TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS by faith?  Or do we believe that God just looks on us as being righteous and we must conform our lives to His rules?
There is a very large difference!
Can we change our nature?  Can we make ourselves righteous?  Is that NOT why Jesus came in the first place because man could not be righteous on the inside, that even the great men of faith in the Old Testament still had a wrong heart inside?

Psa 51:6  Behold, You desire truth in the inner being; make me therefore to know wisdom in my inmost heart. Psa 51:7  Purify me with hyssop, and I shall be clean [ceremonially]; wash me, and I shall [in reality] be whiter than snow. Psa 51:8  Make me to hear joy and gladness and be satisfied; let the bones which You have broken rejoice. Psa 51:9  Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my guilt and iniquities. Psa 51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me. Psa 51:11  Cast me not away from Your presence and take not Your Holy Spirit from me. Psa 51:12  Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.

The Psalm of David he wrote when his adultery with Bathsheba had been discovered.  A man, after God’s own heart and yet his insides, his very nature was not conformed to the ways of God.  He had a wrong heart; it was corrupt!  Here David, by the Holy Spirit is asking for the remedy WE ALL NEED!  A new heart, a new nature; one that does not even desire anything that God does not approve!

And this is what Jesus Christ offers to us!
But it does not come by our striving.  It does not happen because we wish it.  It does not become a reality by our conformity to outward rules and regulations, EVEN THOUGH those rules and regulations come directly from God.
Paul explains this in detail telling us that if it had been possible for TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS, the kind that Jesus lived from His heart, to come by our obeying the Law, then JESUS CHRIST WOULD NEVER HAVE HAD TO DIE IN THE FIRST PLACE!
No amount of desire, no amount of dedication, no amount of striving, no amount of any effort by man will ever make his inner being JUST LIKE JESUS!
And, please pay close attention, if we, by faith, receive this kind of righteousness, this new heart, this new nature that is created in God’s image and has TRUE Righteousness and Holiness, then ALL that we do will have those motives as their basis and NOTHING that kind of person does will ever violate God’s will!
Do you hear me?  Do you hear the Lord speaking?  If we have an inner nature that is JUST LIKE JESUS, then all that we do will be JUST LIKE JESUS!  We will never violate God’s Laws or Ways!
Why?  Because the only thing that we will desire is to do His will, just like Jesus.  We will TRULY be led by the Holy Spirit in everything we think, say, and do.  Will the Holy Spirit ever cause us to violate God’s will?  Will the Holy Spirit EVER lead us to break God’s TRUE LAW of the Heart?
If we think, we can be saved and then conform our lives to His Law and that will suffice, think again.  THAT is what Paul wrote to the Galatians about.  If you have truly received salvation, if the Holy Spirit has truly made you a part of the Church of God, did this happen by your adherence to rules, to laws, to regulations?  OR did it happen because you believe His absolute TRUTH and faith made it real?
In the same way, we are to receive Righteousness and Holiness; BY FAITH!  NOT by conforming our lives to what we THINK the Law says.  He will keep us from violating God’s Law if we will only deny ourselves, take up our crosses and follow in HIS FOOTSTEPS, in the same way of life Jesus lived on this earth.
As soon as we begin to follow anything except the Holy Spirit, we have left Christ Jesus and could very well remove ourselves from His Grace.  My friends, Grace is God’s power that WILL CHANGE YOU if we allow it to do its work.
Are we willing to abandon ourselves this far into the hands of God?  Are we truly willing to cease our works and receive by faith His life so that the Holy Spirit will then make us look and live JUST LIKE JESUS?
Or will we continue to make a great show, put on a façade that we know way down deep inside does not cut it in God’s sight, because we still have wrongful desires and motivations?
The choice is ours.  It is a simple choice, although it is not easy to make.  And if we do make this choice, we will find that there will be more and more that He will deal with and change by our believing He is able to change us into the very image of Christ Jesus.  The further we go in Him, the more we will see how much further we must go.  Yet, our desire will not be one of grudging acceptance.  NO!  It will be a joyful, although sometimes difficult choice of will, often with tears and much prayer because we recognize just how deeply the old man had us in his clutches.  But HE will ALWAYS lead us in TRIUMPH and VICTORY over the old life as long as we continue to submit, lay down our lives, give up our rights, our ways, our understandings, our ideas, our wants, our desires, our abilities and especially our desire to figure it out for ourselves so that we can DO IT!
You see, my friends, we just cannot do it, not at all.  He must do it all.  Everything.  We just receive His work by faith and HE makes it real, experiential in our lives so that by the way we think, say and do, He demonstrates the VERY LIFE of Jesus Christ to the WORLD!
Please, be willing to be wrong.  Please, do not condemn this just because it is different from what you currently know or have been taught.  Be willing to take it all to God.  Ask HIM what HE says, NOT what you think, not what you have been taught, NOT what your pastor has preached, but WHAT DOES GOD ACTUALLY SAY!  And I do not mean what you think the Bible says either.  I mean, what does God say with His own lips?
If we cannot hear Him speak, then can we even say we belong to Him, for His sheep hear His voice?
Brothers and sisters, I plead with you, I beg you, do not remain where you are.  If I could do this for you, I would.  But each of us must go to the Lord Himself to learn these things.  We cannot figure them out.  They MUST be revealed by the Holy Spirit and only if we our EMPTY ourselves of what we think is right and wrong, what we think is good and evil, can we EVER even begin to hear His Truth.

May we come to the place where we truly CEASE from our works, trying to make our lives look righteous and just, and receive this righteousness that ONLY comes by faith and is revealed in and through our lives by the Power of God ALONE!
A bondslave in Christ Jesus, Dirk

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All are equal before God

ALL religious ARE OUT OF GOD´S GRACE:

Luke 10:21
In that hour Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit and said, “I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your sight.

===> This is something that most men have problem to understand.

God is not partial and he make no difference between:
Muslim, Hindu, men, women, tongue speaking Christian or me. The way is narrow and ALL must find it. There is no favor to anyone. ALL must be purified through the fire, there is NO OTHER WAY. And each one will be cleansed IF they make it, i.e. IF they overcome.  Now, there is ONLY one way to overcome and that is by the grace of Jesus Christ.

Those men Islamic, Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, Secular, Scientists and others  are talking and trying to convince each other just to keep their own way, but they don´t see that there is ONLY ONE WAY, ALL MUST through the fire individually and all will go through the fire individually. 

2 Timothy 2:16

But shun profane and idle babblings, for they will increase to more ungodliness.

===> While wise men are still babbling Jesus revealed Himself for the humble and simple.

Romans 10:4
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

===> Christ IS END of ALL religions.
 ALL who believe what Jesus IS, WAS and SAID will be saved to eternal life and will have HIS peace on earth.

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

===> ALL religions OR men who think and make ANY KIND of   
difference between men and women are religious.

Romans 3:9
What then? Are we better than they? Not at all. For we have previously charged both Jews and Greeks that they are all under sin.

===> All Have Sinned and NEED grace

Acts 10:28
Then he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to keep company with or go to one of another nation. But God has shown me that I should not call ANY MAN common or unclean.

===> Every religion or man who exclude them selves to be righteous or more righteous than others are OUT OF GRACE. Jesus IS NOT religion He is "THE WAY"

Acts 10:39-41
And we are witnesses of all things which He did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, whom they killed by hanging on a tree. 40 Him God raised up on the third day, and showed Him openly, 41 NOT TO ALL the people, but to WITNESSES chosen before by God, EVEN TO US who ATE AND DRANK WITH HIM AFTER HE AROSE FROM THE DEAD.

===> Do you see ??
 It does not matter what you think you can prove who Jesus was or was not, He just is "THE GRATE I AM" Jesus was not like the rest of us but He was still just a man while on the earth. How He is connected exactly with Father God in heaven NO ONE KNOWS while on earth, you can not fathom that with your brain or explain with your words, it is just a revelation in your spirit. He and Father are one.

By the spirit of persons being we can see if they KNOW Jesus truly or if they are just religious.

God is NOT religious or religion He is TRUTH and LOVE. Men are religious and that is why ONLY those who are lead by the Holy Spirit are "Sons of God" and not religious people.
EVEN those who claim that "speaking in tongues" is evidence of being baptized in spirit ARE RELIGIOUS but they do not know because they follow FALSE JESUS and belive it is "JESUS FROM NAZARETH".
This is why they are so pride.

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    John 17:22:
 "And the glory which You have given me I have given them, for they shall be one, as we are one"

How do you recognize if someone is your true brother? 

  When we repent and submit our lives to God and receive the free gift of the gospel, then we enter into the life of Christ ==> When we live in Christ then the Spirit of God is with us and in us ==> When we have Holy Spirit, we are God's children ==> When we are children of God, we are brothers and sisters in the faith ==> When we are brothers and sisters in the faith then we can have true Christian fellowship and only then we are one in the Spirit.

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Should we keep the Sabbath - NO!

THE WHOLE BIBLE IS TRUE, not just the parts you like; that includes the following>>>>

Gal 3: 10And all who depend on the Law [who are seeking to be justified by obedience to the Law of rituals] are under a curse and doomed to disappointment and destruction, for it is written in the Scriptures, Cursed (accursed, devoted to destruction, doomed to eternal punishment) be everyone who does not continue to abide (live and remain) by all the precepts and commands written in the Book of the Law and to practice them
11Now it is evident that no person is justified (declared righteous and brought into right standing with God) through the Law, for the Scripture says, The man in right standing with God [the just, the righteous] shall live by and out of faith and he who through and by faith is declared righteous and in right standing with God shall live.
12But the Law does not rest on faith [does not require faith, has nothing to do with faith], for it itself says, He who does them [the things prescribed by the Law] shall live by them [not by faith].
13Christ purchased our freedom [redeeming us] from the curse (doom) of the Law [and its condemnation] by [Himself] becoming a curse for us, for it is written [in the Scriptures], Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree (is crucified);

AND

Gal 3: 23Now before the faith came, we were perpetually guarded under the Law, kept in custody in preparation for the faith that was destined to be revealed (unveiled, disclosed),
24So that the Law served [to us Jews] as our trainer [our guardian, our guide to Christ, to lead us] until Christ [came], that we might be justified (declared righteous, put in right standing with God) by and through faith.
25But now that the faith has come, we are no longer under a trainer (the guardian of our childhood).
26For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God through faith.

Galatians 5: 1IN [this] freedom Christ has made us free [and completely liberated us]; stand fast then, and do not be hampered and held ensnared and submit again to a yoke of slavery [which you have once put off]. 2Notice, it is I, Paul, who tells you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will be of no profit (advantage, avail) to you [for if you distrust Him, you can gain nothing from Him]. 3I once more protest and testify to every man who receives circumcision that he is under obligation and bound to practice the whole of the Law and its ordinances. 4If you seek to be justified and declared righteous and to be given a right standing with God through the Law, you are brought to nothing and so separated (severed) from Christ. You have fallen away from grace (from God's gracious favor and unmerited blessing). 5For we, [not relying on the Law but] through the [Holy] Spirit's [help], by faith anticipate and wait for the blessing and good for which our righteousness and right standing with God [our conformity to His will in purpose, thought, and action, causes us] to hope. 6For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love.

That SHOULD be sufficient to teach us ALL that keeping the Law separates us from Christ Jesus. Of course, you will no doubt cite some other obscure verse that has no bearing on this or just totally ignore what the scriptures actually say. How sad for you!

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Demons -Your Lovers

The demons in you

Jeremiah 4 - And you, O desolate one, what will you do?
Although you dress in scarlet,
Although you decorate yourself with ornaments of gold,
Although you enlarge your eyes with paint,
In vain you make yourself beautiful.
Your lovers despise you;
They seek your life.

The demons become our lovers, we love them so and get worldly things and satisfy the lusts of the flesh through them. 
Yet they seek our life.  
The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy

LAMENTATIONS 1:9 I called to my LOVERS, but they deceived me; My priests and my elders perished in the city
While they sought food to restore their strength themselves

Ezec 23:22 - thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Behold I will arouse your LOVERS against you, from whom you were alienated, and I will bring them against you from every side. Babylon is surrounded on every side. Their lovers have become their enemies. This is why God told Israel to enter into and cleanse the land, clearing it, destroying everything leaving nothing from the past. Many enter into faith but do not cleanse the land and these things defile the temples of God and are the abomination that causes desolation.

Demon possession - there is no such a thing in the...

Demons - From the Bible (Swedish)

DEMONS AND DELIVERANCE

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PRIDE - and Reprobates

Reprobates cannot repent, nor do they desire to do so.
Since God turns them over to a reprobate mind, it is a state of denial of the truth that caused the reprobate condition.
Reprobates love their deceptions where a person who is deceived may desire the truth.

Bitterness, unforgiveness and pride are not the errors or mistakes that produce jewels.
Nor is being unteachable. These things are the root of pride and pride goes before a fall.

Pride produces embarrassment that leads to denial.

Brokenness is key.

Since God resists the proud, when one admits "I could have been wrong," then brokenness can begin.



(By Pamela Shepherd)

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VEIL

"Unveiling" the Sons of God
When Romans 8:19 speaks of the "manifestation" or "revealing" of the sons of God, the Greek word used is apokalupsin, from which we get our word "apocalypse." This is also the title of the Book of Revelation, called The Apocalypse. The literal meaning of the word is UNVEILING. According to Strong's Concordance, the root word, apocalupto, means "to take off the cover, i.e., disclose."

This concept of unveiling is largely hidden when we translate the word "manifestation" or "revealing," because the VEIL carries much meaning throughout the Bible.

Veils were used to hide a woman's face (Gen. 24:65).
There was a veil in the tabernacle and the temple to separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place (Ex. 26:33), as well as to hide the glory of God from the people. 
When the glory of God came down upon Mount Sinai, a cloud veiled His glory as well (Ex. 24:15).

In the New Testament, we find that Jesus' flesh was a veil that hid the glory of God, for Heb. 10:19, 20 says,

" (19) Since therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the holy place by the blood of Jesus, (20) by a new and living way which He inaugurated for us through the veil, that is, His flesh..

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Baptism

THE BRAZEN LAVER




he word Laver means wash basin. The English derivative of this word is lavatory which carries the meaning of place of washing in addition to wash basin.

The BRAZEN LAVER, or basin made of brass, is positioned between the altar and the Holy Place. The brass was taken from the mirrors of the women. A mirror or looking glass represents vanity, and it was an act of great sacrifice to self for the women to surrender their highly polished brass mirrors for the construction of the Laver.

Incidentally, the law of the Tabernacle forbade the woman to go any further than that point in the Tabernacle. The symbolic meaning of this is that Soul in the Bible is always described as feminine and Spirit as masculine. In the Holy Place, all the activities represent the works of the Spirit. When, therefore, we are in Christ, we do not operate in our own soul power. The Church is described in Scripture as the feminine and Christ as the masculine, thus the bride or wife does not act in her own name, but in the name of her husband. This is the symbolism of the women's looking glass being destroyed to create the Brazen Laver.

The Laver also represents three changes, and they speak of DEATH. The whole realm of the Outer Court is a realm of death; the death which precedes life.

DEATH TO SELF is the message of the brazen laver. The three changes are:

1) Sanctification - depicted by the washing

2) Consecration

3) Baptism

At the Brazen Altar, the blood of the animal was taken and mixed with hyssop, which must eventually go into the Holiest of All and be sprinkled before the Lord. Now the priest must wash his hands of the stains of the Brazen Altar. This depicts the work of sanctification - the removing of the very stains of sin which yet remained from the acceptance of the death principle. While there is the possibility of sin, sanctification will continue.

The wash basin being of brass, here again, shows that it represents judgment. This time it is JUDGMENT AGAINST SELF. Because the soul has returned to God to participate in His DIVINE ORDER, he must GIVE UP SELF LIFE before he can enter into the CHRIST LIFE. The Holy Place represents Christ Life. Again, here we see that the washing cannot make one perfect, though it is necessary in our walk towards perfection. Sin was an alien nature thrust upon us by the error of our forefather, and on the whole, even from a human point of view, is UNDESIRABLE. BUT the second death is not so. It demands death for that which we desire to live - SELF.

SELF DIES HARD

When the priest washes at the Laver, in effect, he puts the death of the cross behind him as a work completed, and turns to the next step on his journey through the Tabernacle, which is Sanctification and Consecration. CONSECRATION is the putting aside of that which was cleansed for the work of the Lord only. The thought behind this act has its counterpart in the act of King Belteshazzar of Babylon, who took the consecrated vessels of the Lord and drank from them, whereupon God wrote with his own hand on the wall, and the king was slain that same night. The people who bear the name of the Lord must be clean and are not permitted worldliness. The word "church" means a called-out people. Called out of what? The world is the answer. Too many Christians are part of the SIN SYSTEM of the world. They were called out, but they did not come out.

Paul dealt with this subject conclusively in his letter to the Corinthians.

2nd Corinthians 6:14-18, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty."

CONSECRATION IS THE MESSAGE THAT WILL TAKE US OUT OF BABYLON. The word Babylon, as used here, means the whole world of rebellion against God's DIVINE ORDER. Man is resisting God spiritually, politically, and economically, and this is the main cause of our failure in all these areas.

The Spirit of God is now calling all men to separation unto Himself. This is the message of consecration.

THE BRAZEN LAVER REPRESENTS BAPTISM

The Brazen Laver represents baptism. This is the second church-realm experience, which also is the second church age into which God leads man in his walk unto perfection. Baptism, therefore, is death. It is death to SELF, and all things pertaining to one's own personal ambitions, aspirations, desires, will, thoughts, emotions, and emulations.

WATER BAPTISM - A COVENANT

Water Baptism is an act of Covenant, just as a Marriage Ceremony. When we accepted Jesus Christ as our Saviour, there was no cost accrual to us. Our salvation was bought and paid for by The Blood of Jesus Christ. Now that we are Christians, God is asking us to reciprocate. If we want to be a part of the Body of Christ, our first act would be to make a covenant with the Body of Christ, or in other words, declare our loyalty and love by some act of our will. We, therefore, must renounce the former things, and declare our stand for Christ, thus becoming dead to sin and alive unto God.

Natural - Matthew 3:11
Baptism in water
Baptizer is man

Spirit - Matthew 3:11
Baptism in Holy Ghost
Baptizer is Jesus

Fullness - 1st Corinthians 12:13
Baptism into Christ
Baptizer is Holy Ghost
As the chart shows, let us look at the three dimensions which God has ordained for us to operate.

(1) NATURAL - The first dimension is always the natural. Every principle of God is first given to us in the natural. If we allow our understanding to remain in the natural, then it has no real meaning, since the natural will pass away, and at best is temporary. THE NATURAL BAPTISM, THEN, IS IN WATER, AND PERFORMED BY A HUMAN PERSON.

(2) SPIRITUAL - The Second dimension is always spiritual. The spiritual, therefore, is the real purpose for the natural, and it is upon a higher plane. The spiritual baptism is called the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. This is the entering in of the Holy Spirit into the spirit of the individual. In this baptism, instead of being covered over with water, one is covered over with the Holy Spirit, inside and outside. The pattern, however, was laid by the water baptism. Just as the water covered the believer, so also the Holy Spirit covers him, and the Baptizer is Christ Himself.

(3) FULLNESS - The Third dimension is the absolute fulfillment of both natural and spiritual. If we then understand the water baptism, then we will easily understand what the fullness of baptism will be. In this baptism, we are immersed into Christ by the Holy Spirit. Hebrews 6:2 speaks of "baptisms," while Ephesians 4:5 tells us that there is only "one baptism." These are reconciled when we understand that in the one there are three. Matthew 3:11 tells us that John the Baptist baptized with water, but Jesus would baptize with the Holy Ghost and fire. That gives us the scripture for the first two. The third is found in 1st Corinthians 12:13, where it states that the Holy Spirit baptizes us into Christ.

An example would be in order at this point. There was a natural man named Israel, and he produced a people named Israel. If this was the end of the story, then it would be a sad one indeed, but the natural Israel produced a man named Jesus Christ, who became the Saviour and Lord of a spiritual nation, and then some of the promises which it was impossible for natural Israel to walk in, the spiritual Israel are walking in. However, this spiritual Israel is just as unsatisfactory before God as the natural Israel. God, therefore, must bring another Israel to be made out of both, which He calls Zion (The Body of Christ), which will be the perfection of Beauty.

THE TRUE MEANING OF BAPTISM

The first thoughts of baptism came to us from Genesis 7, where God baptized the whole world in the waters of tribulation, and only those who had faith in God survived. All others died. Baptism by water, therefore, typifies death; therefore a baptism without a RESURRECTION would be negative and without life. BUT "buried with Him in baptism - rise in newness of life." Romans 6:4. The two go together like peas in a pod. The experience is the last before the priest goes through the veil into the Holy Place. Thus before the individual enters into the LIFE OF CHRIST, he must first get rid of SIN AND SELF. THE CEREMONY WITHOUT THE WORK HAVING BEEN DONE IS ONLY "tomfoolery!" The baptism is a dying from within, and the ceremony is a TESTIMONY for those without. The next question which is appropriate is, "Can we do away with water baptism, since it is the work within that matters?" The answer is EMPHATICALLY NO! If we could, then we could do away with the marriage ceremony. "I take this man! I take this woman!" This is absolutely necessary to be performed before witnesses. I will tell you a story.

DOING AWAY WITH THE CEREMONY

There was a church organization in Jamaica which did away with the legal marriage, and insisted that they were above the law, so they would take unto themselves wives without any legal papers being signed by an authorized person. FOR A WHILE it worked well, when everybody was spiritual, and men and women kept their obligation without being bound by any natural human law. BUT THEY WERE TEMPTING THE DEVIL. So it happened after some time, the BISHOP of this church was taken by lust, and he saw a young girl which he wanted to marry and so he did. When the people rebuked him, his reply was that he was never really married to his wife, with whom he lived for many years and had raised children, because there was no legal marriage and no legal papers.

DIPPING MANY TIMES

Many persons are taking several trips to baptismal pools, hoping that by these several baptisms, they may obtain something they did not have before. Some are being baptized in different names, hoping that if the name of Jesus or some other name is called over them, then they will be OK this time. BUT NO CALLING OF NAMES OR REPETITIONS OF BAPTISM CAN SUBSTITUTE FOR THE "answer of a true conscience before God." 1st Peter 3:21.

BAPTISM IN THE NAME OF JESUS

Someone who reads this book is asking right here,"Then what name must we be baptized in?" I will put it simply. The word "name" in the Bible does not just refer to the calling of a word, but it definitely speaks of NATURE. Thus we find the names of the twelve tribes of Israel refer to twelve natures within man through which God will work His glory (further explained in another chapter on twelve loaves).

NAME IS NATURE

To be baptized in a name, therefore, is to be immersed in the nature of the name. Thus, when men enter from the Outer Court to the Holy Place, we enter into the NATURE OF CHRIST, THUS WE ARE BAPTIZED IN CHRIST. Therefore, when I say you should be baptized in the NAME OF CHRIST, I mean into His nature. The Christ nature should cover and supersede your own nature, and the CHRIST SHOULD BE THE PREDOMINANT factor in your being.

A WET SINNER

If one, therefore, who does not give up his own name (nature), yet takes baptism, then he would go in as a dry sinner and come up as a wet one. That was the only difference in his going down and his coming up again. THUS THE WHOLE CEREMONY HAS BECOME AN INNOCENT LIE. "They know not what they worship." The preaching that there is a certain magic in being baptized in the name of Jesus is twisted by misunderstanding, particularly by the ministers. Some say, "If you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, I will baptize you," even though you live in adultery and all manner of uncleanness. Water baptism can only be in its proper place when the work is done within, or when the candidate firmly submits to OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST, who is the AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF his faith, and enters into a Covenant relationship with Him. One is therefore BAPTIZED OUT OF SELF, losing your name, and by Covenant agrees to go all the way with Christ, receiving a new name, even Christ. Remember name means nature. Baptism means IMMERSION, "being covered over with;" therefore, to be baptized into the name of Christ means being covered over with His nature.


Best matches for brass represent judgment
The wash basin being of brass, here again, shows that it represents judgment.
This time it is JUDGMENT AGAINST SELF.
Because the soul has returned to God 


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