Greetings. The prophet Job ask the following question of God and many more: Job 10:8Thine hand have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me. A comedian once said that he felt God created him to make people laugh; If that was his only excuse for being alive, he had missed God. The self-righteous would say they were created to praise God, but if you ask them what that means most would not have an answer that’s except-able to God: God only excepts the answer he gives. John 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father whichhath sent me. God’s will in the above verse has to do as how Jesus saw the scriptures; but man will is how he sees or interpret the Bible. Man, ways or thought becomes his works, and he doesn’t even know it. Proverbs 14:12There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Our works has nothing to do with anything physical, but what we think concerning the scriptures. When we are interpreting the scriptures in our own wisdom, we have no faith. Jesus didn't seek his own way about the scriptures, yet he could have because he was God. Jesus could speak the Spiritual meaning of the scriptures because He was in the beginning. Men speak their own will concerning the scriptures because it makes them look good; they are seeking their own glory and will receive it from other men. John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him. You can fill a football stadium full of men that came to hear and glorify the wisdom of unrighteousness of men. When the Holy Ghost can instruct us to speak the wisdom from above people will be offended. God sent His words to offend us on purpose to show us the wickedness in our hearts. Matthew 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. God's blessings have nothing to do with the physical such as: having a $350,000 home, hitting the lottery, and finding incredible markdowns at your neighborhood Walmart. When I hear people talking about being blessed physically in the marketplace, I can discern they do not know God. Yet they know the God of this evil world themselves.

 

 

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​​​Ecclesiastes 1:18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. The generation deals with an person physical time lived and if we never have birthed anything spiritual from His word, God is grieved with us. Greetings. Unknown to millions of professing Christians, the Bible demands we Spiritually crucify the carnal man or mind. Millions think this is done merely by repeating a verse out of the Bible that they have not a clue to the Spiritual meaning of it. Have you ever been given a legal document to sign and if you are honest you had no idea what you were signing? Sometimes the document was created with the intention to have you signed something you knew nothing or very little about. The Bible is a Spiritual law book created with the intention of showing man he is a liar and a fool. Romans 3:4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. What makes us all liars is that we justified our own wisdom; if other words we say we understand and do not! Liars! Justifying our own wisdom and refusing to let God’s wisdom be true. This angers God and millions do not know this. Romans 1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. Now, we can only become an overcomers when we allow God to judge our own thoughts and our thoughts are sin. Proverbs 24:9 The thought of foolishness is sin.  1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith. The above verse speaks about what’s going on in our heart or world, which isn’t a physical place. We must all overcome our devilish thinking or worldly thinking concerning the Bible. Men do not want to do this because it brings grief to our own thinking. What if your physical son or daughter was a knucklehead? Those knucklehead would have the power to grieve your thinking and only if you allow it to be thus so. Genesis 26:34And Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite: 35 which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah. What Esau did in the above verse grieved his parents mind. Ecclesiastes 1:18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. All that wisdom mention in the above verse deals with all our earthly wisdom and it causes grief to have to depart from it. We remain in darkness thinking we are walking in God’s light only to be walking in our own wisdom about the Bible. Our spiritual light is pitiful and barely a spark, in fact our light is darkness. Isaiah 50:11Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled.This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow. God gives you what you want, and we spiritually lie down in sorrow. I very recently lost someone who I considered to be the: love of my life. But, what grieves my mind the most is I can no longer communicate with that person. But, I have consolation in this: that I’m surrounded by a cloud of heavenly witnesses. Spiritually I am never alone! Hebrew 12:1Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. When God is not showing you His revealed word: you should be troubled and grieved. You are in hell and cannot get a witness; the only witness you have is your own thoughts or ways about the Bible. Exodus 23:1  Thou shalt not raise a false report. Sadly, millions are not grieved because they love their own thoughts or ways about the Bible. Isaiah 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. Isaiah 55:9For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Who do you think God’s talking to in the above verse? All of us! As a dead pop-star once sang: ''I’m talking to the man in the mirror, I am telling him to change his ways.'' Proverbs 9:6  Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Isaiah 53:3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. We secretly despise God’s word and esteem our thoughts or ways of our own wisdom more than God. Our own ways or thoughts grieves God’s Spirit. Hebrews 3:10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, they do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. Generation: in the above verse is talking about a person’s time while he’s living. Millions believe they know God, based on a false image; they have created in their mind. If the old testament Prophet Job, thought he knew God and later to be proven wrong by God. Who do we think we are? Yet, we claim we are walking with the Lord, yet we have never walked in the word the way He speaks. Psalm 37:23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in His way. Does this verse order us to do something Spiritual?  Ask millions of Christian to tell you something Spiritual and they have no idea what you are talking about. Now listen with God’s Spirit as Job, tries to find God: Job 23:8Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:9 on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. God word is hiding from the carnal mind of man; we cannot perceive it. So man goes forward  to a physical altar call. They lay hands on him and he falls backward, and he still cannot perceive the Spiritual hidden word. Man looks on God’s word and cannot spiritually see or behold God’s glory. But there’s hope! Psalm 39:7And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee. If God has corrected your heart you are waiting on him to make His glory known which are His words. If we could Spiritually see His word, there would be no need to hope. Romans 8:24For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? I waited for twenty-five years, not knowing what I was hoping for was not anything physical. Romans 8:25But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Of course tribulation shall come as we wait on God words to be made known to you. But, to millions unknowingly that spiritual tribulation never comes from our own minds because we never once resisted our our wisdom. Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil. Our wisdom concerning God's word is the devil!! The next verse used to always trouble me, as David, asked the Lord the following question: 1 Samuel 23:11 Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? Will Saul come down, as thy servant hath heard? O Lord God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the Lord said, He will come down. I used to ask my own spirit and not God’s Spirit why God did not just deliver David from Saul. About a week ago as I was listening to the Bible on my MP3 player: I had the answer from above later that week. King Saul represents the carnal mind that comes to afflict you, so you will not receive anything Spiritually from God. David’s affliction came from without, ours will come from within. Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. Again, afflictions shall come to prove every man a liar. You will be rebuked by God’s Spirit: that Spiritually you never saw his glory. This wound and grieves the carnal man and it suffers loss. God’s word is liken unto a fire. Isaiah 48:10 Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.    7/15/2018  / amended 2/13/2021  Michael Rudolph Hodges/  amended 6/30/2021












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