SECRET SOCIETIES

Greetings. Secret societies: an organization whose members are sworn to secrecy about its activities. Man has a basic need to belong to something bigger than himself, thus he joins a collective. God’s Kingdom is a secret kingdom, and few ever get to be a part of this Spiritual hidden body. 1 Peter 2:9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.Now I know extraordinarily little about secret societies having never been in one; but have been approached to join them. I always refuse such offers for reasons unknown to me at those times. Now I know God called me to be in a royal priesthood. We pray the Holy Ghost will reveal some of the secrets hidden in the above verse and other verses as He will. Most so-called secret societies are imitations of God secret kingdom. In men secret societies you might be asked to perform certain acts to be accepted. Luke 17:33 Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. Our life in the above verse represents what we think and nothing physical; you do not have to go out and fall on a live grenade or something. When we refuse to lose our earthly carnal wisdom about the Bible, we lose it. Men thinks just because he can get millions of others carnal minded people to follow them, they cannot be wrong. Romans 8:6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Nobody believes more about what I believe than myself. If I believe certain countries are governed by two political parties, but all evidence points to just one party, nothing can convince me otherwise. But this is not a political website, but hopefully can help you realize that God wants to reveal himself to us, by the Holy Ghost. John 12:25 He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. We all love our carnal interpretation of the Bible or our witness of it and cannot believe that there is a greater wisdom hidden in the words. No secret kingdom promises you eternal life because they have none. John 3:15  that whosever believeth in Him should not perish, but have eternal life. When we have all believed our own witness or interpretation about the Bible: this brings spiritually death. Romans 8:6  For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. You may get a better job by being a part of a secret organization or get away with physical murder. But no secret organization orders you to die to your beliefs and mortify the old man of sin that exists in all of us: this is called the cross. Romans 8:13For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live. When we live after the flesh: we believe every thought we receive from our own wisdom about the Bible.  No secret society asked you to become spiritually dead and spiritually blind to be able to join. John 9:1  Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, we see; there your sin remaineth. When we can all spiritually die to our carnal beliefs about the Bible then we can become precious in His sight. Psalm 116:15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. We must allow God's Spirit hidden in His word to destroy our carnal understanding about His character. God’s word or voice are rebuking our flesh or interpretation off them every time we read His word. This is the power of a king and His power is not in physical shaking or running around in Church. God's power is the power over sin or our mortal thinking. Ecclessiates 8:4 Where the word of a king is, there is power. For those smarty pants that do not bother to even read it; He is also chastening your wicked thoughts off His character as you think them. Psalm 7:11 God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day. It is how we perceive His voice through His word, and this is a secret operation. Job 23:8 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:9on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him. To be chosen to be apart of His secret kingdom you have perceive you know nothing and our pride secretly fights that thought.  Matthew 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias , which saith, by hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive.  Notice the scripture did not say you did not hear or see, we just see it or perceive our way.  This is not Burger King, you will have it your way and still please God. God's words are hidden from my mortal understanding and at the same time I try to hide myself from His judgment. I do not want to be judged, scourge, chasten by a voice hidden in a book and this is exactly what God will do to our fleshly thinking. Hebrews 12:6for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.Revelation 3:19As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent. Repent never had anything to do with anything physical, that you thought was wrong but deals with your thinking. Thus, we vainly imagine that His word is about getting a better job, or a spouse that can tolerate us or eat at the finest restaurants: that way people will know how blessed we are. God loves judgment and we hate it, thus we secretly hate God. Psalm 37:28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. We may be able to deceive ourselves and friends about how much we love God, but cannot deceive Him: in fact you could not even deceive me. Some secret societies might have you put on a blind fold, but none ask  to confess that we were born all spiritually blind.  John 9:39And 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. Millions claim to see spiritually and refuse to understand all they see is their our wisdom about the Bible. John 9:41  Jesus said unto them, if you were blind, ye should have no sin: but ye say, we see; therefore your sin remaineth. No secret society asks you to go out and preach the gospel to the poor. Mark 14:7For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always. This has nothing to do with the physical poor of somebody living in India or some other third world country. The United States is becoming a third world country, unless we turn from our wicked ways: of seeing the Bible: no political party can stop this from coming. God is angry at the so-called Christian of this physical nation, that take His name in vain.  Psalm 119:113  I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love. The spiritual poor have not had the gospel preached to them because we[so-called Christians] have made ourselves spiritually rich yet have nothing spiritual of God to give. Proverbs 13:7There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches. In God's secret Kingdom you are not just a member of an organization but a friend and a son. John 15:15Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong unto the Lord our God. We have never even asked what these secret things are, they are his words. Man secrets are hid in a wicked heart of deceit. Matthew 24:26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not. WHATS THIS SECRET CHAMBER? LET US ASK GOD’S SPIRIT TO GO WHERE THE CARNAL MIND CANNOT GO. End of part    1 /5/2021/ amended 1/27/2020  Michael Rudolph Hodges