​  PRIDE OF MAN

​​Greetings. Be it man or woman we can never hear from God, who is in Heaven, until his or her pride is broken. And even when God is speaking to us we  cannot distinguish His voice from our own internal voice or spirit or error.  Leviticus 26:19  And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven [this isn't talking physical]as iron, and your earth as brass.  But man in his pride thinks he knows what a verse means just because he can read. Ecclesiastes 5:2  But not rash with thy mouth and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.  Thus, why should our words be few? Proverbs 17:28 Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. We have all played the fool: mouthing off about scriptures in which have no idea as to their meaning to God, neither have cared. Often growing up as a kid in Detroit, I would hear my mother say ''I might be poor  but I still got my pride.'' No knowing quite what to make of such a statement and if out of hidden pride I still refuse to eat that chicken neck on my plate, my older sister would do me honors. If we could see we are spiritually poor then God could make us spiritually rich when He reveals His word unto us. But we have not desired that but only physical riches and wrongly thought God was blessing us. Proverbs 13:7 There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing:there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. Point being our own pride is hidden from us, yet we can clearly observe it in others. Even Saint Paul had a problem with pride. Act 9:18 ​And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales.But what do scales symbolize in the bible? Pride. Job 41:15his scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.Paul was in a very bad place because he was spiritually blind and so are we when we only see GOD'S word through a carnal understanding or man's understanding. Job 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?But most modern day Christians claim they see, but are spiritually blind when they read God's word. John 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind ye should have no sin;  but now ye say, We see; therefore your your sin remaineth. Psalms 59:12 for the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak. Cursing has never been what man thought it to be, God's word become a curse unto us when speak them and cannot bring fore their Spiritual meaning meaning: we are insufficient. 2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think anything as if ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God. The truth of the matter is man hates God and His word but his heart deceived him and makes him think he loves God: people loves themself and out of pride thinks everybody else should love them. Jeremiah 49:16Thy terribleness hath deceived thine heart. Do you want to know why man's kills physically? Man thinks he a God's and has no problem, killing , raping , stealing and lying; celebrities love to be called stars and want to be looked up too.  As the love of my life once said'' killing just a good time for some'' and preaching spiritual death is even a greater time for foolish Preachers. Psalms 82:6I have say, Ye are GOD'S; and all of you are children of the most High. 7 but ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes.As I was debating two people recently they finally confessed that if the things thatSHIBBOLETH MINISTRIES  and other like us teach: the revealed word of God or also called the revelation of Jesus Christ.  Then they would have to reject all those carnal thoughts they had put on God's word all those years and they couldn't believe[their pride which is hide to them] they had been wrong all that time. If the Apostle Paul counted it all lost, who do you think we are god?Philippians 3:8Yea douthless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. For whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count then but dung, that I may win Christ. Do you know what dung is and that it represent spiritually all our own thinking? Job 20:7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung. Psalms 10:4 the wicked, throught the pride of his countenance, will not seek after GOD: GOD is not in all his thoughts.How could God be in any of my thoughts that I put on His word when my carnal thoughts are sin?Proverbs 24:9the thought of foolishness is sin. Man's pride is so hidden from him that he has to be stripped of his self-righteousness: his pride.Job 33:17that he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from from man.Job 19:9he hath stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.I look around at a most of the Churches in Detroit [SYNAGOGUES OF SATAN] that GOD has stripped  them of hundreds of members down to a hand full. These spiritual whore houses that continue to preach man's wisdom and knowledge against Spiritual wisdom and knowledge of God. Who continue to feed their members the milk of the word and the member turn around and spit that back up. 1 Corinthians 3:2 Ihave fed you with milk., and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it , neither yet are now are ye able. A physical baby cannot eat a steak dinner but out of pride and appetite man thinks he can understand spiritual things. Proverbs 23:2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.  Michael Rudolph Hodges 10/5/2015 /amended 5/9/2021  amended 1/29/2022 / amended 7/13/2022