A crown is a traditional symbolic form of head wear or hat, worn by a monarch or by a deity. Greetings. It has been said every man is King of his castle. Most people will agree with me that most men see themselves as a King even if his spouse does not. A lot of women like to see their daughters as little princesses but face it little princesses require a lot of work. Men naturally tries to rule over everything he sees. God's promises to give us a Spiritual crown if we can endure the temptation to rule over His words. James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to them that love Him. I like hats and I secretly imagine them to be my crown that adorn my skull, now it is no longer a secret. As a king I have my army and they follow me wherever I go; my thoughts represent my army and I have millions of them stationed in my valley or mind. Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. There is no physical place on this physical earth, where a valley of death exists: this valley deals with our thinking. Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. My carnal mind can only produce death when I read the Bible. Romans 8:6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Nothing in the Bible is physical, it is a book of correction of our thoughts about God. I will fear no evil thought my mind can produce: because I will accept the chastening rod from the Lord. Plasm 23: 4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. The carnal mind of men is a spiritual producing factory of evil thoughts concerning the interpretation of God's word. Proverbs 13:24 He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes. Was not the Prophet Job chasten? When God loves you, you will be chastened and we are not talking about anything physical. But there is shadows in this mental valley of death; strange thing about shadows: they do not abide long and are soon destroyed by light or total darkness. If we try and hide in a shadow a true light will come and we be exposed. 1 Chronicles 29:15 Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.If we prefer to abide in spiritual darkness, God will allow it and we will think we are dwelling in light. We are seeming the Bible in darkness and have an evil eye. Matthew 6:23But if thine eye be evil; thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! The Bible is not a book of correction against your spouse or the Government. It is a holy book, that is a correction of our vile thoughts against God and His word. So women can stop trying to correct your husband because some evil Pastor got you pumped-up before they left the Synagogue of Satan. I knew men that said, their wives would come home from Church and start argument with them over nothing. 2 Timothy 3:16All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. The Prophet Job saw Spiritually we are all born in darkness and he cursed his day. Job 3:5 Let the darkness and the shadow of stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; and let the blackness of the day terrify it. We have all seen the blackness of the day or our thoughts as we read the Bible, because there is no light in us. My darkness or thinking cannot comprehend the Bible. John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. Today as I set out on my daily task, it was very cloudy and in a city that has been destroyed by fire: it can be depressing. The Law in the Bible represent what the carnal man can see when we reads it. It is not the God's Spirit, only our the spirit of error. 1 John 4:6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God hearth not us. Hereby know we the Spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. We are in a spirit of error, because we all want to see the Bible our own way: the words are only seem in shadows until fully revealed. God compares Pastors without His wisdom as clouds without water. 2 Peter 2:17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever. Mist of darkness? Hebrews 10 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of. God word is perfect thus we must also be perfect in discerning it. The good things to come in the above verse is God revealed word. How could we have ever thought or imagined it was something physical: because we are evil. What the carnal mind can see is that which is temporal. 2 Corinthians 4:18While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. The carnal mind only sees the temporal and loves it; an image of himself and falls in love with that image. Since we are all wicked people that’s the only thing we could have imagined. Let’s examine the Bible story of a man that wanted to a king and do not we all? 1 Kings 1:5 Then Adonijah [the fourth son of King David] the son of Haggith exalted himself, saying, I will be king: and he prepared him chariots and horsemen, and fifty men to run before him. Note it states in the above verse: Haggith exalted himself. How does man exalt himself? By trying to rule over everything he think he sees in God’s word. Matthew 23:12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted. To sit down Spiritually with a king and dine on His word; you should consider what you are about to partake and from Who. Isaiah 37:23 Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. Would we blaspheme? And say our voice is the word of God? Millions of Pastors claim to speak for God and put themselves in God's place on any given Sunday. Strange that the Apostle Paul would call himself a blasphemer. 1 Timothy 1:13Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief. We all want to be a King, we put on quite a show in the flesh and so did Adonijah. 1 Kings 1:9 And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants. We call all our relatives and friend, to show off our: Pastor Ordination Card, because this day we will be crowned king over God’s word. Now other member of this wicked assembly will pray over you as we all kneel before the altar. But from this day on or spiritual night on: God word is going to kneel before us. Adonijah, did not wait to get the authority from his father King David, no he just did it. 1 Kings 1:11 Wherefore Nathan spake unto Bathsheba the mother of Solomon, saying, Hast thou not heard that Adonijah the son of Haggith doth reign, and David our lord knoweth it not? After the ordination service, you and all your friends can all go out to drink to your triumph: over God’s word. 1 Kings 1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat cattle and sheep in abundance, and hath called all the king’s sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they eat and drink before him, and say, GOD SAVE KING ADONIJAH. GOD SAVE KING MICHAEL. Sure, I used my name but you [ the reader] can put your name there too. As an King were does my wicked army dwell? In my heart or mind, these words are interchangeable in the Bible. At first, I do not know my thoughts are wicked and this very painful mentally to except the truth. Jeremiah 17:9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? My thoughts would march through the land, which represent God word and destroy everything thing in sight. Psalm 106:24Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word. Modern army’s in history have done this physically. A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy that aims to destroy anything that might be useful to the enemy while it is advancing through or withdrawing from a location. My army or wisdom will destroy the good word of God making it useless to me and I will not even realize it. I have invaded a Holy nation with my thoughts: a nation I know nothing about. God’s army or word will scatter you and you will die in battle or your sins. Zechariah 7:14But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus, the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. What a wicked king or ruler I have become; I have desolated every verse I saw. God’s wrath is against anybody who would desolate His word. 1 Kings 1:41 And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar? Adonijah and the men that were with him heard a trumpet. Do you hear a Spiritual trumpet? Hebrews 12:19 And the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; [ God’s word are his army and they’re marching against our carnal mind] which voice they that heard intreated that the [The carnal man does not want God words spoken to him] word should not be spoken to them anymore.When studying try reading scriptures with the same words in them; you are about to assembling a Spiritual army: to go war against your own thoughts. 1/24/2019 Michael Rudolph Hodges/ amended 2/1/2021/ 419/2022
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