Greetings. Where do we go from here? John 6:68Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.We must suffer to hear the hidden words of eternal life the way Jesus heard them from heaven. As God has revealed more of His words unto me, I realize I how much more is hidden from me. In seven years, I can look back and realize my spiritual growth. I also realize when I should have been bolder to speak His truths: regardless of the outcome. Acts 4:29 And now, Lord, behold their threatenings: and grant unto thy servants, that with all boldness they may speak thy word.It’s not that we fear physical violence, but fear of offending the person or persons we are talking to. Yet people have no fear in cursing us by proclaiming the greatness of their gods: sports heroes, politicians, and of course movie stars. 1 Samuel 17:43And the Philistine said unto David, Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves? And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. When you proclaim yourself a star, mentally people are supposed to look up to you. I recall some years ago when a man was proclaiming the greatness of his god, a basketball player and I showed no interest at all. He got offended as if he wanted to fight, and I assured him I would grant his request: he then backed down. God must grant us the boldness to offend, because the reveal words of God will offend people fleshly thinking. Unto now I never spiritually saw it, that it’s God that grants us this boldness. Matthew 11:6 And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me. Millions of us are not blessed spiritually because we refuse to speak God’s truth, and we ignorantly imagine we are blessed because of some physical possession. Matthew 11:15He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. Out of envy we want to hear the things of God’s word in our own wisdom, which is impossible without the Holy Ghost interpretation. Luke 18:27And he said, The things which are impossible with men are possible with God. We forget we are just mortal men and God’s Words are Spirits. Mark 4:12that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. We are only forgiven when we perceive what the Holy Ghost is saying in any word or verse. We do not receive the Holy Ghost by doing anything physical. Acts 5:32 And we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. What are these things we must witness to in the above verse? By the Spiritual hearing, the things or words that only the Holy Ghost teaches. 1 Corinthians 2:13Which things also we speak, not in the words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. Men will fill Churches with followers on any given Sunday by teaching man’s wisdom and nobody can discern the difference. These spiritual whore houses that call themselves Churches can never triumph in the things of God. The Holy Ghost will never be given to us when we obey our own wisdom or unrighteousness. Romans 2:8but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath. We all at first have a hidden hatred of anything greater than us, and God’s wisdom supersedes the folly or wisdom of man.

 

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John 8:38I speak that which I have seen with my Father: and ye do that which ye have seen with your father. Our father has been our own devilish thoughts against God’s words. Mentally we form or fathered these thoughts in our mind. We give birth to these evil thoughts when we speak them out. We are the Devil and if we are not, we are not a real person. The great dragon is not Communist China only the fire that comes from our mouths. Revelation 20:2 And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan. Jesus’s words are the exact words spoken in heaven and not of himself. Matthew 15:10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?  All of us have failed to spiritually see the deadly instrument of destruction would be our tongues. James 3:6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. We defile God’s words by seeing it in our own wisdom, thus making it unclean or defiled. In this next Bible parable or story, we see where a man takes a woman by forced, thereby making her unclean or defiled. God’s words are parables because there Spiritual true meaning is hidden unto us. We are to search for these hidden treasures: to the saving of our souls, which is a Spiritual understanding of the scriptures that comes from above. Genesis 34 And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. We as mortal men take great pleasure in taking things by force. Physical countries and nations do it all the time and we as individuals take God’s word by force and make it unclean. Luke 12:32Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom. My little flock of God thoughts fears my own devilish thoughts that would come against Gods thoughts. When we fear more our own thoughts as to the interpretation of his words, we make our thoughts His thoughts and take His words by force. Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. John the Baptist and other prophets, prophesize the good things to come when be when Christ comes to reveal His words. Up until John, men took God’s word by force and created their own kingdoms of darkness. The role of the Prophets was to show us that we were only seeing God’s words in darkness. The Prophets words were preparing our hearts to receive the words from Christ. Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. Prophecy has nothing to do with future physical events, but fore tells the coming of the Christ making His words known and we are commanded to wait. At first all we will spiritually see when reading God’s word is temporal or as flesh or grass. Isaiah 40:6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. Men prays a five-point sinner-prayer at a physical alter and right away thinks he’s good. Isaiah 40:7 the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. We are to be patiently waiting for the Spirit when reading God’s words. Many have heard the saying a man is ruler of his castle. Yet we are kings or princesses that rule over mental nations of thoughts. Instead as a wicked prince or ruler in our own minds or country; we take and defile the very pure words which can save us from ourselves. Titus 1:15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. In our defiled minds nothing is pure, and we reign supreme: it's our secret Kingdom of Darkness. Job 3:14 with kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves. Our counsellors have been our own wicked thoughts and we have built a desolate place in our minds: void of any Spiritual understanding. Genesis 34: 2 And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her. As spiritual Shechem’s we do not ask, for what we think we spiritually see: we take and defile. Genesis 34:3  And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel. Do we as Shechem love the Law we have taken? A woman in the Bible is symbolized by a law. When people say they love their Jesus, it’s only an image of a fleshly Jesus they have created in their mind. Our carnal mind is a very subtill enemy and seeks to destroy us. By taking God’s wisdom and making it our sinful thoughts: we make it sin. In our modern society you do not rape a woman and then desire her to be your wife. Genesis 34:31 And they said, Should he[Shechem] deal with our sister as with an harlot? On any given Sunday men spiritually rape and defile God’s words and make it their mental whore.

END OF PART 1  ​Michael Rudolph Hodges 6/5/2023