EVIL REPORT
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I find that God must first give us a desire to known him ever as we are known and if you think you’re find him in your physical local Church, you won’t. I spent twenty-five years traveling the country seeking and had no idea what I was ever seeking. If the Pastor or person of any Church cannot confirm what God’s words saying: God never called them, they called themselves. Deuteronomy 27:26Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. When we can only speak your own wisdom on God’s words we are cursed and if you are an elegant speaker, you can get other curse children to follow you. We easily get deceived or spiritually blinded by thinking just because a Church has a large following God spirit must be there. Matthew 15:14 Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” We deceive ourselves and cannot blame anybody else for errors in our thinking. In some ways people want to be deceived or lied to because they want to hear the opposite of the truth. John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.We spiritually have fathered evil thoughts in our minds about the meaning of the scriptures which are lies or a false witness; there in no truth in us and we lust to see the scriptures in our own way. Our own ways or wisdom will be an evil report on something that’s good or God’s word. Romans 7:13 Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful. When we see the Bible in our own wisdom it brings about Spiritual death followed then by physical death. On a personal note, I once knew a man who by the physical world standard was an excellent father. Yet he had sons who were always stealing from him and trying to outmaneuver him whenever possible. And yet they were always telling him how much they loved him, yet their works showed the hidden hatred. Once it had been revealed to him by God that he unknowingly hated God’s word; he understood a great mystery in his personal life. In Spiritual matters we are always unminding God’s wisdom for our own and this is persecution of Jesus. When we are persecuting, we mock the things of God, and this happens on any given Sunday. In spiritual things the persecution happens in the mind as our carnal mind’s glories in its own interpretation. God always at first trying to show us something about ourselves and will sometime use people or situations to get our attention. Numbers 13:17And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan. Spiritually did we find any good when we went to the Bible and did the spies find any good? Numbers 13: 27 And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it. Spies deals with covert operations or things that hidden such as God’s word and nobody knows what you find there but you and God. The milk symbolizes what anybody can see when they first read the Bible, yet most people are not sincere enough to even read it. 1 Peter 2:2 as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby. The Spiritual revealed words of God will become sweet if we can ever get by the milk. Physical raw honey Is very expensive and very sweet to the taste: I like it in my tea. The Spiritual honey found hidden in God’s word will enlighten us and open our spiritual eyes. Let's change gears for a moment from the spies and look at the Bible character Jonathan, David's friend. 1 Samuel 14:27 But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened. Jonathan’s father Saul [First King of Israel] had given an evil report that distressed the men of Israel concerning the honey that was in the woods. 1 Samuel 14:24 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies.So none of the people tasted any food.29 Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey.30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? The spiritual Saul in all of us want the glory because we can only see the Bible in our own wisdom and never be spiritually enlighten. Saul was said to have troubled the land and we trouble our own souls or spiritual understanding when we eat in darkness: Saul ordered the people to eat in the evening.
Michael Rudolph Hodges 9/2/2022
Greetings. The word evil is found almost six-hundred times in the Bible, and we should desire to find out what evil means to God. We are in a society were whoever wins a war gets to call the losing side evil. We want not to think of ourselves as being evil and yet to God we all are. When we try and judge spiritual things with our own wisdom God calls us evil and everybody at first thinks they can judge a spiritual book. James 2:4are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts? We judge our thoughts on God’s words and make God’s good thoughts into our evil interpretation. James 4:11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge. When we speak evil of the Law or God’s words, we become a judge and make God’s words into another Law that serves us. The above Bible verse is not talking a physical brother or evil person we proclaim as being evil based on our perception of what evil is. In a society where a rock group once called cities jungles, it not easy to speak good about any of us. Now who lives in concrete jungles, were two- legged beasts drive cars and talk or stare into electronic devices constantly? Man! Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. If God must manifest something to us, it’s because we don’t know it or will not except this Spiritual fact. Ever witness a hungry Lion devour his food or a two-legged beast reading the Bible: devouring the seed or precious word? 1 Peter 5:8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour. The devil just symbolized the wisdom of man, who seeks to devour anything Spiritual while reading or hearing God’s words. We hate to deny our own wisdom in the matter of Spiritual things and if we refuse to deny our own wisdom: the love of the father in not in us, we love the world. 1 John 2:15 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. We all have and didn’t discern or eat of anything spiritual from God words: we are the spiritual beast in the feast. 2 Peter 2:13and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you. Our spiritual spots are leprous: we are all unclean as we deceive ourselves thinking we understand the Bible. Psalm 73:22So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee. Jesus invites us to spiritually eat of his word to be part of his spiritual body: Him being the head. Jude 1:12These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots. When we read or feast on God’s words without charity or love we devour the living souls in the words, because we have no fear of God. Spiritually we thirst but the spiritual clouds that should give water do not, and the wind or doctrine are just man teaching his own wisdom. There are over 1600 major difference denominations formed from reading the Bible: they love their own doctrine and hate God. Matthew 26:26And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. The above has nothing to do with Manischewitz wine and crackers, but how we spiritually eat of God’s words. The evil in us has reduce the Spiritual body of Jesus to a physical happy meal and call it Holy Communion. One thing about those Catholics they use real wine, and the Protestants use grape juice; are they afraid of offending God?
When we read the Bible, we will come away with an evil report or something that flatters us: because we are evil. Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Our generation in the above verse deals with our physical life span and we cannot speak good things, unto it is revealed: that there is nothing good in us. The Bible is a spiritual strange land, and we are to spy it out and to possess it. But we come back with an evil report as to its meaning, which will be our own wisdom. Numbers 13:17 And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Get you up this way southward, and go up into the mountain: 18 and see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many; 19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it be good or bad; and what cities they be that they dwell in, whether in tents, or in strong holds; 20 and what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
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8/26/2022 Michael Rudolph Hodges