Matthew 7:13  Making the word of God of none effect through your traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such likes things do ye. The carnal thoughts I have delivered up to God concerning the Spiritually meaning of His word, has made them of none-effect. Greetings. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​It's amazing what the carnal mind[Roman 8:6 for to be carnally minded is death: but to be spiritually minded is life and peace] can bring fore or birth when reading the Bible and it can only product death.  Our own wisdom about the good commandments of Bible made the words spiritual death when we interpreted them by men wisdom. Romans 7:13  Was then that which is good made death unto me? Since nothing in the Bible is physical we will use the above movie as an illustration. When the Preacher in the movie tells the man to pluck out his eyes as told in: Matthew 5:29. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee:  for it is  profitable that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.  Jesus was not talking physically but Spiritually, as all scriptures in the Bible are hidden to the carnal mind understanding. Even as king Davis prayed in: 2 Samuel 22:29For thou are my lamp, O Lord and the Lord will lighten my darkness. Are we better than king David and feel our way or witness of the Bible is not our own darkness? Unless God reveals His word to me, I will only see it in darkness with my carnal mind every time. Job 17:12 They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness. I will see the scriptures through an evil eye of my interpretation, because I have hasten to be rich spiritually in the scriptures: We did not wait on the Lord to reveal His word to me. Proverbs 28: 22 He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him. What kind of poverty is the scriptures talking here is it physical poverty? You will be spiritually poor in your understanding of the scriptures because your refuse the Holy Ghost instruction. Proverbs 13:18  Proverty and shameshall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.  What is the meaning of shame in the verse above? Shame is no knowledge of God and you are spiritually asleep.1 Corinthians 15:34 Awake to righteous, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.Proverbs 20:13Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shall be satisfied with bread.  let God open our own spiritual eyes than we can eat of that Spiritually bread from heaven. Ephesians 1:18  The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling. But our carnal mind has deceive us to think: we are saved, sanctified and full of the Holy Ghost because we think it is the God's light.  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 thatdarkness.To see spiritually is to understand Spiritually things or we remain spiritually blind without understanding: because we claim to see. John 9:39  And Jesus said, for judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.  The Bible is God's judgment of what's in our hearts and we refuse to be judged; by judging it in our own wisdom.   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.  We all want to see the Bible with our blind eye of understanding even as the Galatians wanted Saint Paul see the scriptures their way and thought they were blessed.  Galatians 4:15  Where is then the blessed ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.                                  

Michael Rudolph  Hodges  2015 intell.      amended 5/4/2017  3/15/2021