RICH MEN PART 2

Mark 7:32And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him. Greetings. Spiritually we are all born deaf because we want to hear the scriptures our way and cannot order our speech because of sin. Job 37:19Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness. Our minds are darken or blinded to the things of God because we make ourselves gods of this world. 2 Corinthians 4:4  in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. God liken all of us to a dumb beast that cannot understand spiritual things. Certain beasts can Imitate human speech along with ravens, crows, jays, and magpies, are among the most intelligent birds. Men have imitated God’s speech and dare we say man has a fowl spirit? When we quote scriptures without any spiritual understanding, the power hidden in the scriptures cannot come fore. Job_33:3 My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart: and my lips shall utter knowledge clearly.  We are making an uncertain sound with our lips and the scriptures are held in spiritual bondage and will not come fore to battle the carnal mind. 1 Corinthians 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself to the battle? Some Churches have purchased physical ram horns; thinking horns in the Bible are physical. This next verse connects horns with our mouths. Psalm 76:5Lift not up your horn on high, speak not with a stiff neck. God’s word is truth and when they are held in my wicked interpretation they are in bondage. By our own way of seeing the scriptures we have become extraordinarily rich in our worldly wisdom: we have gained a world of unrighteousness.Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Men have only profited in the things he knows as a natural man; to prophesy is to speak God’s words as He sees them. What will a man give for exchange for His soul? Our riches or possession which we falsely believe, and we refuse to give them up, this sounds easy, but it is not: our hearts are hard. Matthew 19:22But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions. Have we ever heard of somebody being sorrowful for what they have believed falsely? We cannot profit spiritually or even worship God when He is an image of our own making. Jeremiah_23:32  Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD. I desire or pray to be taught how to profit in the things of the Lord, which would make me spiritually rich. But first I must become spiritually poor when it is revealed I never had anything of God. When we can give up our own righteous, which is self-righteousness or iniquity then we can hope in God. Job 5:16So the poor hath, andiniquity stopped her mouth.Matthew 11:5 the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.  But I must sell or exchange what I thought I possess spiritually and follow His ways about the scriptures. God has been incredibly good to me because He is making His glory known unto me. Psalm 65:4  Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. Spiritually we must be a part of God’s house and Him being the head. People will proclaim in their billion-dollar home that God is good yet if He is not revealing His words to them, they have no idea what God’s goodness is. Isaiah_48:17  Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.The way we should go is His way or His thoughts about His character or ways. There was once a false Prophet that preached and taught God wants you to profit in the stock market: not long after that he died of a Heart attack. His heart was not right with God and neither has any of our heart been.

 6/30/2021/ amended 8/6/2022  Michael Rudolph Hodges