R.I.P
Greetings. She walked into the store complete with the standard urban white tee-shirt on her body. Nothing unusual about the tee-shirt, except on the back it had the letters R.I.P and a picture of someone she knew who had died. The front part of the tee-shirt read: In loving remembrance of! I always thought it somewhat humorist that the spiritually dead would go around with a picture of the physical dead on their clothing. Matthew 8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.Without God’s Spirit abiding within us we are spiritually already dead and to be spiritually dead is also to be spiritually asleep. John 11:11 These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. When we can spiritually hear God's voice in His word, we have been spiritually awaken out of sleep. 12 Then said his disciples, Lord, if he sleep, he shall do well. We wrongfully imagine because we can quote a few scripture, without any having any Spiritual wisdom about them, we do well. 13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that that he had spoken of taking of rest in sleep. The disciples thought wrong and so do we: unless His words are revealed to us by God's Spirit. John 11:14 Then said Jesus unto plainly, Lazarus is dead. All scriptures in the Bible are proverbs, even a single word and we do not want to accept that. John 16:29 His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly. and no proverbs. Matthew 9:18 While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live. Physically we might conclude that this certain ruler had authority over people and spiritually we are all rulers too: ruling over all we think or imagine. Spiritually anything I imagine about God’s word and give spiritual birth to, that is not according to His word is dead. My spiritual rulers or thoughts are giving their interpretation on His words. Are my thoughts also a sacrifice or ransom for my soul? Have any of us ever heard such a thing? That something is holding my soul ransom. We will have the scriptures reveal this thing and many more wonderful things as we go on. We will first look at the word sacrifice and many might be familiar with the following scripture: Romans 12:1I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Now this word sacrifice is mentioned over three hundred times in the Bible and having a general knowledge of the scriptures: knowing that there are acceptable and unacceptable types of sacrifices. A so-called Church I once attended use the phrase in a song: we bring the sacrifices of praise into the house of the Lord. Of course, that Church never brought forth anything spiritually out of God’s word only the wisdom of man. We were just sacrificing to devils or ourselves; we cannot praise God until he has made Himself known unto us. John 4:23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. Now we have a true worshipper, so there must be a false worshipper also. Psalm 106:19They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped the molten image. The calf here represents something we can see and since God’s word is hidden from us; we create an image in our mind as to the character of God: that we will worship. When we read the Bible, we get an understanding of what the natural man can witness or see. 1 Corinthians 2:14But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. If we really loved God, we would be willing to sacrifice our time to seek out His truth. As one false worshipper proclaimed, he loved people and by loving people he was loving God. Such people love the praises of men and hate God, yet they want people to observe them pretending be loving. The old man of sin which that resides in all of us hates God and loves its worldly wisdom about the Bible. We have imagined devil worshippers as a group of people dressed in black robes and hoodies. No, most devil worshippers dress in their Sunday best and you can find them on any given Sunday praising a beast, themselves. James 3:15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. We have been spiritual rulers over our own darkness in the mind. Romans 8:5-6For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. I recall as a kid my mother would say ''boy you better mind me or do what you are told''. I never wanted to do what I was told; we love to mind or think on death which is our own carnal minded thinking. Romans 8:6For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Man has never wanted to serve God but just to rule over His word, it is just that simple. Now, we are made spiritually asleep by our own rejection of God’s word. Isaiah 29:10 For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the seers hath he covered. Now a hypnotist might tell a group of people they are getting sleepy and Pastors spiritually do the same thing on any given Sunday. What happen to Adam when God put him to sleep? Genesis 2:21 And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof.In the Bible a woman sometimes represent the law and the Supreme Court uses a statue of a woman to represent its nation. God has not given me revelation to what the rib represents in the above verse yet. I know from other scriptures with the same word in them: that the fifth rib was the favorite target for assassins. 2 Samuel 4:6
And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him under the fifth rib: and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped. We will return to the above verses later in this letter, God does not always reveal His thought in a verse right away: it could be days, months, or minutes even years. Often while in deep sleep God reveals the meaning of scriptures to me, but if you never take time to read His word nothing can never be reveal. The next two verses are especially important, knowing spiritually what happens in our mind. Genesis 2:22 and the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. The woman represents the law or the Bible, when we read God’s word in our own wisdom: we are forming another spiritual law in our mind. Romans 7:23 but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.Years ago, I found it very troubling the King David was always warring against his physical enemies, our enemies or thoughts are always warring against God’s word. I never realized as I read the Bible years ago the carnal mind was creating the law of sin and death. King David saw another law or woman that almost cost Him his kingdom. 2 Samuel 11: 1And it came pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem. 2 And it came to pass in an eveningtide, that David arose from off his bed, and walked upon the roof of the king’s house: and from the roof he saw a woman washing herself; and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. The woman in the above verse represent another law, which was not God’s Law. The Law we first witness when we first read the Bible will be very beautiful to look upon. Years ago, while searching a dating site [even while physically married] I saw a woman who very beautiful to look upon. Spiritually I was out of my house and so was King David. Noticed it states that King David walked upon the roof of his house at eveningtide, all words are important in the Bible no matter how big or little. Isaiah 17:14And behold at eveningtide trouble. When we walk in our own wisdom about the Bible we walk in Spiritual darkness and our own heart has made us a fool. Proverbs 28:26 He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he, shall be delivered. God wisdom delivers us from Spiritual death. I personally walked in my own carnal wisdom about the Bible for over twenty-five years, but I did it in unbelief: I never knew that God had a greater wisdom that was hid. Psalm 81:12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels. Since God put the world in our heart from the beginning, we desire our own worldly wisdom about the Bible, and we lust after that wisdom which represents a beautiful woman. Ecclesiastes 3:11He hath made everything beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. If I love my own wisdom about the Bible, I can never understand the works of God or His character. I will use myself as an example not to bring any glory to myself, but to show how God had to humble me to spiritually began to hear His word. Psalm 10:17 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear. If we believe we are sanctified and full of the Holy Ghost just because we quit doing something physical, we are deceived by our own wicked heart. Then, how might we receive the Holy Ghost. 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. Witness what things? We must witness or hear the same interpretation that God has about His word: perfect Spiritual understanding anything else is sin. If you claim you are a JEHOVAH’S WITNESS and are witnessing your own wisdom about the Bible: you are a false witness. 2 Samuel 11:3 And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? The above verse is a rebuke against David by one of his subjects, but it comes as a question. Years ago, as I talked to my younger brother about having seen the new Batman movie with my new girlfriend, he did not rebuke me. But later he told my other brother ''has Michael lost his mind he is married''. As a couple my married life appeared like a perfect 22-minute sitcom or the perfect Christian family with two sons minus the dog. A co-worker once called me Ward, referring to the father figure on the sitcom, leave it to Beaver. The perfect self-righteous Christian family, while having the praise of men, but not that of God. Isaiah 64:6But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. Noticed it said all our righteousness and nothing about God’s righteousness; we were ignorant of God’s righteousness and so are millions of other so-called Christians. Romans 10:3For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. Men have established their own form of righteousness and have never submitted to God’s righteousness and it is easy to look righteous to other carnally minded individuals. Now it is extremely easy for me to spot other self-righteous wolves having been the leader of the pack myself. Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
In Isaiah 64:6 it mentioned we do fade as a leaf, what’s that all about? We just cannot skim over words, just due to time restriction or mental laziness. Of course, our mental laziness is just a disguise of unbelief, we will not waste time in things we do not believe. When a physical leaf is dying while still attached to the branches it turns colors falls and dies. Jeremiah 17:8For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit. Each scripture or words leads to deeper and more Spiritual depth that draws you closer into more of The Revelation of Jesus Christ. I sometime change the subject because all the verses are connected and are beautiful things to behold. And will return to the subject matter I started out with by allowing the Holy Ghost to bring these beautiful things all together. We must not rush through these beautiful things or His words. And we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. My iniquities are just my sin or thoughts that I persist and hold onto. While the wind represents a doctrine or teaching that has taken us away from God’s truth. Watch as God hides what a wind is, in this next verse. Ephesians 4:14that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
TO BE CONTINUED amended 5/22/2021 amended 7/27/2022